Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-02
PITH AND POINT.

A FINANCIAL crash cannot be worked
up into towels.
IT'S game of bluff when you try to
scale a precipice.
JONAH is reported to have been the
man who struck oil.
A PAIR of ears that so on head of
Observation-Disclosures and frontiers.
Ii a poiceman's club were red,
what city would it represent? Baton
Rouge.
A MAN who declared himself to be in
toxicated with music was considered
alright.
The latest fgurative expression upon
seeing man bored is, "Throw him a
rope" In other words, Hang the fell
low"
No MATTER how handsome family
monument man may have in the GEM
etery, he never wants to lie on his back
and look up at it. ...
A FAITHFUL brother in q Fairfield
(Ct.) church recently prayed for the alb
sent members 'who were PROSTATE on
beds of sickness and chairs of wellness."
THE bell-punch is generally supposed
to be modern invention, but it was
evidently in use in Macbeth's time,
from the fact that he says, $50 bid thy
mistress, when my drink is ready, she
strike upon the bell"
II WOULD rather" says the editor of
the Okolona States, "be living ass
than a dead lion" Nature having
gratifed him in that particular, what in
the world is he growing about?-
Buffalo Egpress.
"MA," said little girl, edo men
want to get married as much as women
do?" "Pshaw! what are you talking
about?" "Why, ma, the ladies who
come here are always talking about
getting married; the men don't"
If the sun we're not boiling, and the
sand didn't get into the salad, and the
rocks were soft and smooth, and there
were no hornets or mosquitoes, and one
hadn't to go three-quarters of mile for
water, what tame affair a picnic would
be.
SOME folks wonder why it is that a
man worth a quarter of million will
step off the sidewalk into the mud to
pick up lost cent. The reason is plain
enough. He does it to prevent man
worth half million from getting hold
of the cash.-Det'oit Free Press.
)" Now, Mr.. ROBINSON" said fair
young city visitor to the kind-hearted
farmer, won't you show us your water
melon orchard?" Il haven't a water
melon tree on the place this year,
maam; they were all winter-killed;
and his questioner wondered why he
smiled SO pleasantly as he answered.
1--WE new thing-a big thing!" he
said; I'm going to get up a matri.
monial agency" "The scheme is ven
erable," said a cold-hearted bystander.
Not on my plant" was his proud re-
ply. "'All goods not satisfactory
cheerfqlly and promptly exchanged
--PaAck-
The deaths from violence MUIR
der, accident, etc.-are four times
greater in England than in Italy, al
though the latter has larger popula-
ton. This is due to the number killed
in mines in England
JOHNNY" said fond mother to her
boy, (which would you rather do, speak
French or Spanish ?" II would rather"
said Johnny, rubbing his waistband and
looking expressively at the table, II
would rather talk Turkey"
"YoU made fool of me-" said an ir-
10 10 IL
way you got me to marry you" my
love" sweetly responded the wife, "you
do yourself an injustice. Call you rseH
fool, If you please, but remember that
you are in all respects a self-made
man."
The Widow Cohn, of Rapid Greek,
Mo-. received an offer of marriage from a
wealthy but old and ugly man. She
wrote back to him that within week
she would choose between becoming
his wife and another disposition OF her
self that she had in view. A little later
he heard that she had attempted to
commit suicide.
A wELL-KNowN Bostonian was trying
horse one day, in company with the
owner, professional Jockey" Hav-
ing driven him mile or two, the gen.
tleman, who noticed that he pulled
pretty hard and showed good deal of
spirit, requiring constant watching and
steady rein, said: "Do you think
that is just the horse for woman to
drive?"| "Wel, sir" answered the
jockey, Il must say that I shouldn't
want to marry the woman that could
drive that horse"
SOME railway memoranda lately pub
ished in Germany give the highest
points yet reached by existing rail-
ways passing over mountain ranges or
through mountain passes. The Apen-
nine line reaches height of 1924 feet,
the Black Forest line, 2,789; the Sem
mering, 1920; the Caucasian line, g.
1913; the st. Gothard tunnel, 1886; the
Bremen, 4,475; Mont Gems tunnel,
1890; the North Pacific, 5, 42O; the Gen.
trail Pacific, 1921; the Union Pacific,
1878; while railway over the Andes
climbs 1856 feet.
The Jacqueline" bell, of Paris, cast
in 1900, weighed $4,000 pounds; an
other, cast IN l412, weighed $4,000
pounds. The famous bell of Rouen,
cast in 1901, weighed 36,364 pounds.
One at Toulouse weighs $4,000 pounds.
The largest bell in the world is the
great bell of Moscow, about 10 feet in
height, and weighing 448,OOO pounds.
It was cast in 1874, but fell during a
fire in 1877, was injured, and remained
till 1887, when it was raised, and now
forms the dome of chapel. Another
Moscow bell, cast in 1919, weighs 80
tons. The great bell at Pekin, IA feet
high, weighs 534 tons.
TIE Paris Petit .ToaLYaa III oriuoa on in.