Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-10
Items Of Interest.
The rod is often used in a school of.fsh

Items Of Interest.
The rod is often used in school of. fish.
Chinese never eat oysters in their fresh
state.
Il The train that beats electricity The
train Of thought
There are 1876 tribes of Indians left in
the United States.
Draughts which are never cashed
Those of drunkard.
Oats that will grow in winter as thrifty
as in summer. Wild oats.
The tax on amorial bearings in Eng
land realizes 100000 annually.
Exclusive of Cuba and Porto Rico,
Spain has population Of 16,600, 900.
IF you wish to learn how to compose
yourself, learn the art Of type-setting.
Love levels all ranks, but you can't
love an onion enough to level its rank
The axe was an ancient weapon used
in the most remote periods in warfare
There are more than five hundred sep
crate nerves and blood vessels in the
human body.
II fear that you do not qnite apprehend
me-" as the jail-bird said to his baffled
pursuers
"Will village COW pay?'' asks an ag-
ricultural exchange. We can't say as to
their paying anything themselves but we
have often seen them dun.
Michigan University boasts 1912 stu
dents while Harvard has 1882. Harvard
leads in the number of instructors, hav-
ing 534 to Michigan sixty three.
"Seth Splcer'' aftirms that if man
blows his nose in public nowadays he is
likely, within twenty four hours, to re-
ceive two dozen sure cures for catarrh.
We are all ov us apt to pirate about our
independence of character, and vet the
motifs Of a CRATE man efekts most folks,
just as pat on the he'd duz puppy.
The laws Of Germany are stern. For
speaking disrespectfully Of the Crown
Prince in a public place Of entertainment,
teacher of languages has been sentenc-
ed to four months imprisonment.
The amount of capital employed in cot
ton manufacture in the United States in
1860 was 100000, yielding return
OF eight per cent; IN 1870, $141, 100000,
yielding return of seven per cent; in
1878, estimated at $2Os, 1000, 900, yielding
five per cent. return.
Perhaps the funniest object is the man
who spends his first day in a newspaper
Office. He tries to appear as if he had
Deen in newspaper Office all his life,
but somehow he doesn't seem to feel easy.
There seem to be too many bones in his
shad.
The peanut crop this year is estimated
at 100000 bushels. Will some one of
our readers, who is good at mathematics
estimate for us no. long it would take
the young men of this country to exhaust
this crop if they were to carry pint Of
peanuts IN their pockets every time they
went to see their girls?
Prof. Benjamin Pierce, of Harvard Col
lege, says the whole number of comets
which are capable of being seen from the
earth, and which are contained in our suns
sphere, may be fairly estimated at 5000,
100000. Considering the hardness Of
the times we SHOULD say that the suns
sphere was pretty we'll fixed as regards to
comets.
D1ptheria is prevailing to a remarkable
extent all over the world. In this coun-
try it has exhibited itself as malignant
from north, south, east, and west. It has
shown itself in nearly every country Of
Europe, and IN Russia its ravages have
been more fatal even than plague. This
disease, which rarely occurs except as ep
idemic, has only been known in thi.
country within the last twenty five years
except in the way of occasional sporadic
cases.
To find out whether garden has beer
planted or not, an exchange gives th,
following rule: eff one forgets whethe
beds are planted or not, a way to tell i
to turn a stray cat into the garden. Il
the beds are planted, the cat will proceed
to race round and dig intolt EN- and &C
as if it had relatives in China it was anxiou
to get at, while, if they are not, it vii
sit down calmly in the path and seem t
be meditating on the progress Of the mis-
siOnary work in Africa. A cats instinc
seldom dccelves in this matter"