Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
ALL SORTS.

SAMUEL BUFFERS 12-year-old son,
Fred, at Pittsford, VT, tried the exper-
iment of hanging himself the other day,
to see if he could extricate himself
while suspended, and was strangled to
death.
MRS. MONTAGUE once said to Sir
William Pepys, on seeing very awk-
ward man come into the room: There
is man who would give one of his
hands to know what to do with the
other"
A POOR man, few years ago, pur-
chased piece of ground at South Am
boy, N. j., and commenced selling the
clay that hes under it's surface. BE has
dug great shafts and tunnels, and is
said to have earned fortune of $780,
900.
S1BERIA's first university 49, that of
Tomsk-will be opened during the pres
ent year, the Russian Crown Prince
taking part in the ceremonies. The
university will probably be filed by the
great numbers of students recently ex-
lied.
A PAMPHLET has been published in
Amsterdam pointing out that Holland
really has no claim to continue to exist
as an independent state. 1t urges that
the manifest destiny" of the nation is
to be annexed by Germany, and that the
time is favorable for considering that
arrangement.
The suicide of Pennet, at Atlantic,
N. c., was accomplished by laying him
self at full length on high bridge,with
his head protruding over the edge, ty-
ing one end of a long rope around his
neck and the other to heavy stone,
and then dropping the stone, so that it's
jerk broke his neck.
us THERE an opening here for an
intellectual writer? asked a seedy, red
nosed individual of an editor. Eyes,
my friend" replied the man of quilts;
* a considerate carpenter, foreseeing
your visit, left an opening for you; turn
the knob to the right"
LIVERPOOL papers print the story of
one William James Mayor, respectable
citizen, who passed several years in
penal servitude for burglary and an at
tempt to murder, of which he has been
proved to be entirely guiltless. It was
a case of mistaken identity, and no re-
dress for the injustice has ever been
deceived.
VICTORIA, Australia, produced in the
FIRST quarter of 1879 2,123 ounces more
gold than in the same quarter of last
year. OF the miners in the first quar-
ter of this year over one-fourth were
Chinese.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY, the new Home
Rule member, is Parliamentary leader
writer on the London Daily News.
He was born in 1880, in Cork, and
began newspaper life as reporter on
the Cork Examiner under Mr.. Mcguire
The percentage of university stu
dents to the population is larger in
Scotland than elsewhere, being one in
800. In the German empire the pro-
portion of university students to popu-
lation is one in 1900; in England, one
t9 about $500.
A. n. DONALDSON, of Baltimore, who
has only one arm, swan from Norfolk
Va, to Old Point, Va, distance of
fifteen miles, in six hours. Mr.. Don
ALLISON is q brother of Donaldson, the
aeronaut, who persisted in balloon as
cension from Chicago.
"WHAT is your name?" asked q
teacher Of boy. my name is Jule,"
was the reply; whereupon the teacher
impressively said, you should have
said, Julius, sir And now, my lad,"
turning to another boy, what is your
name?" Bilious, sir.''
A WRITER in the August Ge71tlemG21'S
Magazine says that it is true of nations
as of individuals that sneer is almost
as unpleasant to- bear as blow, and
that he is not sure that Dickens Amer
lean Notes did not do moreto estrange
for time the two countries than the
Alabama difficulty.
A NEGRO lay on his back asleep at
Salem, Ga, with his bare feet up
lifted on log. A hunter made q wager
with q companion that he could, at
twenty PAGES, put bullet through one
of the sleeper's big toes. He shot, and
won; but the negro has sued for dam
ages.
Mr.. GLADsToNE's writings must Weld
a considerable sum of money, whereas
speechmaking brings nothing. He has
very large family, and is not wealthy,
though his wife has large property,
SO that money does not come amiss to
hum. His only married daughter is
wife Of the Master Of Wilmington Col
ego.
A GENTLEMAN travelling on train of
cars recently said to the conductor:
Suppose the brakes should give wav.
where would we go to?" The conduct
or remarked that it was impossible for
them to give way. But the gentleman
again asked the same question. when
the conductor replied: ut is all owing
to what your past life has BEEN"
YESTERDAY a policeman saw young
man sitting on dry goods box with his
head tied up and one arm in a sling.
Some OF his ear was gone, and his nose
needed sending to repair-shop. did
loaded wagon run over you? asked
the policeman. "No; we were onlv
celebrating my birthday last night. We
had glorious old time. You ought to
have been there" The policeman
merely said that, Judging by the looks
of the celebrant, the whole force oupht
to have been there.-Ga1vestoqa Neavs.
AS FOOD, eggs are exceedingly nutri-
tious. They are easy of digestion, and,
when the shell is included, they may be
said to contain in themselves all that is
required for the construction of the
body. It has been claimed for them
that they may be served in about 900
ways, although it is generally found
that the more simply they are prepared
the more they are approved. Although
other eggs than those of birds are eaten
for instance, turtles eggs-it is GEN
orally conceded that the eggs of the
common fowl and cf tho ,,lo1zo- ,,......