Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-10
GLOBELETS.

Washington IN dog days.
Lord Dufferin is having beautiful Ameri-
can yacht built in Rhode Island.
Prof. Fisher of Linder, Wis. offers to 'whs-
tie any man in tho United States"
Charleston is shipping daily by express
1880 quarts of Strawberries to New York.
It costs eleven hundred dollars per year to
take care of the poor of Henry county, ILL.,
The horses in Eau Claire county, Wisconsin,
are terribly afflicted with new horse disease.
Mrs ex-President Polk is sprightly and we'll
preserved dame, and resides in jefferson, Ind.
The Boston policemen are to wear broad
brimmed, low-crowned straw hats this sum-
mer.
In the twelve years ending with 1875 Lou
isiana paid 1851 ,095 as interest on its public
debt.
The prince imperiaIs experiences in South
Africa will be published in London and in
Paris.
Ex-Minister Pierrepont Is the guest of his
father-in-law, Colonel =. A. Willoughby, at
Saratoga.
It is said that half mile below the Summit
house on Mount Mansfield, the snow is fifteen
feet deep.
Boston papers say that nearly 10000 plants
will be set out this season in the Public garden
in that city.
It has been calculated by Prof. Bache that
the waves of the sea travel at the rate of six
and half miles in a minute.
This tilne according to the Adventists, the
| world will end July IL. The ice dealers will
thus lose portion of their crop.
The emperor of China is to have a coach in
stead of a palanquin. 1t is to be coach in
China; and that's the kind of rooster he is.
The fact that there were more boys than
girls born in Ohio last year, would indicate that
they intend to keep up the supply of Office
holders.
| 1t is now discovered agriculturally that the
surest way to get rid of the weeds is to marry
the widow. This is very agreeable kind of
husbandry.
Sing Sing prison has more working
upon stove plates at 40 cents day than there
are employed in the same business in the whole
State of Ohio.
Salvini is once more playing to crowded
audiences at the Argentine theatre in Rome
for like Ristori, he finds it hard to abandon the
stage for good.
An Erie pig was badly damaged the other day
and was taken to the Buffalo machine shops,
where it received a general overhauling. The
pig was engine.
Want of water is the greatest source of
trouble along the Southern Pacific railroad in
California. It has to be carried on freight
trains to the tanks.
Almost all the places of amusement in Bos-
ton, city of about 100000 inhabitants are
I | w cIrc nf1 10 Ia
, more than 100 yards.
: During the war an old bachelor named Nc
, Kissick was killed near Waco, Texas, and the
e other day, while tearing down his shanty,
negro found $s,O65 in gold.
i Prof. Guyot, of Princeton college, has ascer-
e tanned that the highest point IN New Jersey is
on the Blue Ridge in Montague township, Sus-
), sex county, which is over ZOO feet above the
e level of the sea.
! lady engaged to be married, and getting
sick of her bargain, applied to friend to help
her unite the knot before it was too late. ooh,
: certainly, she replied, cit is very easy to un
/, tie it now while it is only a beau knot.
n The German singing societies of Paterson
sang choruses on Carrot Rock on Sunday morn
: ing last to the glory of the rising sun, as has
10 been their custom on the first Sunday in May
J. for many years. 1t is estimated that between
n 5000 and 1000 persons were present.
= Her royal highness the Princess Louise has
sent from Canada telegram to the Ninety-trst
IS Highlanders in Zululand expressive Of her in
l. terest in the corps that bears her NAME A cap
/ tain of the regiment, who was her equerry, left
y Canada for South Africa on notice of twelve
y hours.
The word coolie is not of Chinese origin. 1t
- is the name of hill tribe in India, whose able
|. bodied men were accustomed to descend into
the plains for harvest work, and these were the
It men who, after the negro emancipation in
IS 1884, and the demand for laborers in the West
- Indias and the Mauritius, went thithCr as
y such, under British protection.
Is As set off to the secession of the Dukes of
Norfolk and Sutherland from the liberal party
t. the Earls Of Derby and Carnarvon have now
/, regularly seeded from Lord Beaconsfeld's
standard. The Stanleys, father and son, were
.. in opposite camps at Bosworth, 80 it is not
Is strange that Lord Derby and his brother, Bea-
10 consfe!ds secretary at war, should be 80 now.
: The Darien ship canal scheme is to be con-
- sidered at conference in Paris next summer.
TT 1t seems likely that a company will be formed,
IL with De Lesseps, the protector of the Suez
10 canal as president. John Hawkshaw, of Eng
= land, who was a conspicuous advocate of the
Suez enterprise, is understood to be interested.
ay A route will probably be chosen if nothing
more.
A figure we'll known to the gourmets of
Paris has just disappeared from the scene.
- Magny, the keeper of the celebrated restau.
rant in he Quarter Latin, died the other day
\ at the age of u. 1t was at his place that the
!. famous free thinking dinners of Sainte Beuve
d, were given on Fridays. During his long career
to Magny saw most of tie leading celebrities in
art, science, and literature at his tables. OF
- late years, however, his restaurant had gone GU
IT. of vogue.
There off the coast of Kerry, Ireland
TIC little Islands called the Baskets inhabited by
70 a very poor and primitive population, whose
nearest church is on the shore of the main
q land. On stormy Sundays they cannot cross
to 'hear mass but they kneel by their rocky
coast bareheaded, in the open air; the progress
10. of the ceremony is made known to them by
". flags, and their prayers accompany those of the
priest
no 1t is curious fact that the least maritime
at of the more important European countries
should possess the greatest port the CONT
nent, equally important in military and com
mercial sense. According to the statistics re
loo Gently compiled by Col Weaver, United State,
vi. consul at Antwerp, the maritime movement.
of that port are inferior only to those Of Lon
80. - don and Liverpool. Next in importance com.
1s successfully Marseilles, Hamburg, Havre,-Hull
AZ Amsterdam, Bremen, SOUTHAMPTON, Bordeaux
-43 and Glasgow.