Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-09
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The Peruvian army gets along without ambu.
lances.
Ole Bull thinks Mozart the greatest composax
that ever lived
Tennessee cattle are dying off. The disease
is hollow horn.
The rise in tin has hurt the five cont counters
in Indianapolis
Anna Louise Cary has been ill and threatened
with pneumonia.
Columbus, O., has chicken that il furred
instead of feathered.
4 a flying bit of wood Clipped an ear clean off
3 Whitewater, Wis.,, man. .s
The paper napkins, in general use in Boston,
are said to be economical.
. Orange County, Ind, has regulators who fog
men with bad regulations.
Jersey City is to have competitive match
for pair of silver quoits.
? A Cincinnati paper thinks all Chioagoans
"suffer from braggadocio.''
g One hundred and five pounds is the WEIGHT
of champion Florida watermelon.
Evangelist Moody's new female seminary At
Northfeld, Mass, is nearly completed
A Montgomery. Ala, maiden wears confeo-
tlonery ornaments in stead of breast pins.
The tax on commercial travellers in Texas has
already brought $44, 900 to the State treasury.
l. New York city had twenty-eight failures in
September; liabilities, 1916, 100; assets, $1l9.-
639.
All the bathing houses at Long Branch have
been taken down and slowed away for tbs
winter.
+ 1t is proposed to erect in Paris a statue of
Fermentier, who introduced the potato into
France.
The first ice of the Fall in the vicinity of
Morristown, N. J., was found on Friday morn
ing last.
i Bour hundred and eighty-ive tons of Ala
bama coal were dumped in New Orleans in one
recent day.
An eight-foot vein of bitumi1ous coal of OK
cellent quality has been discovered near Lewis
ton, Idaho.
OLeary says he will challenge Roweu This
will be good chance for Bowel to make some
more money. f-
tises sale of tombstones at auction, ito make
room for new styles
The Chicago type of girl has a nonparei,
head on q BREWER body and long primer feet
geographically speaking.
When he is 81 the boy is supposed to have
outgrown theswitch but that is just the age
when the girl begins to need one.
The first patent ever issued in this country
to colored man was granted few weeks ago
for 3 new and improved fire ladder.
DR.. Potter, of Union college, may not be q
great admirer Of bric-a-brac, but he keeps
Chinese idol at the rear of his house.
Five hands on the plantation of Feagin 4,
Grimes, in Stewart county, Ga, picked 2,006
pounds Of cotton in one day, recently.
George Irvine, Of Ottawa, Ont, is matched
to run a half-mile race against White Eagle,
the Canadian Indian runner, for $4,000.
Professor Proctor, the astronomer, has picked
out 1924, 900 stars. He will soon have as many
as the average travelling minstrel troupe.
A deaf man recently walked thirty-six miles
on the railroad track, and when he turned of
into the highway was run over by velocipede.
The Cunard Steamship company are going to
sue the Pail Mall Gazette for it's recent asser-
lions about the steerage department of that
line.
Massachusetts patron of literature offered
prize for the best essay on "tHonesty." The
article that took the prize was found to have
been stolen entire.
This is about the time that young ladies in
vest their shekels in blue worsted to work owls
and roses into slippers to be presented at
Christmas to the minister.
Among the MSS that George Eliot is unable.
owing to the state of her health, to finish, is
an essay on Mr.. Herbert Spencer, her early il
teliectual Obligations to whom are we'll known.
The Algerines now levy an additional tax of
four per cent. on all foreign vessels arriving at
their sea ports which shows that American IN
huences are penetrating even to the African
coast.
The city of Paris will shortly open conpe-
tition, as in 1877, among French musicians, for
the composition of popular symphony and
chorus. The first prize is to be of the value of
$4,000. .ssa
inherited her fathers genius, and paints ex-
quisitely on china. She uses his studio, which
still holds it's pictures and fittings, rs in his
lifetime.
N. CASTOR Blanchet, the French engineer
and Pedro J. Sosa, who represented Colombia
at the Canal Congress in Paris, have arrived at
Panama to study the route of the proposed
tide-level canal.
This has been very diversified year for
clown circusses. One has been killed, four
overhauled by deserted wives, two fallen heir
to heaps of money and one left on the bottom
OF the Ohio river. III,
member of London ladies' club was re-
quested to resign for kissing her brother in the
dining room. This is right When a man il
in the dining room he has something ele for
his mouth to do besides kissing.
The Japanese government has in its service
eighty Englishmen, thirty Americans, thir-
ty Frenchmen, eighteen Germans, seven Dutch
men, four Italians, three SWISS three Chinese.
two Austrisns, two Portuguese, and one Bus
sian, making ISL foreigners.
Prof. Knapp, of Brunswick, Gesmany, has
invented a new process of tanning or tawing.
by which hides are converted into leather with
out the use of bark, within seventy-two hours,
and by the application Of very simple and
cheap chemicals, consisting chiefly of s'basic
iron Salts
About two months ago tramp, who gave
his name rs David Stewart, died at the Balti-
more city hospital and was buried in the Pot
ter's field. It has been ascertained that he was
a son Of the late John Stewart Fraser, wealthy
resident of Glasgow. The dead man was 20
years old, musician and artist, but his habits