Daily globe., 1880-06-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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The latest fashion in London is to have
music during dinner.
| 1t is estimated that gnats recently have
done 100000 damage in the parish Of
Ouachita, La.
Two pounds two ounces was the weight
of perfectly formed child born il
Auburn, Me-, few days ago.
In deep pocket, in the ulster of shop.
LITTER, who was arrested in Boston recently,
were found four silk umbrellas.
HeEotrope is the new color, and is ex
actly the lovely pinkish purple of the newly
blown flower from which it takes its name.
| One of the features of an entertainment
given in Chicago recently was the invita-
tons, which were printed iHplain place on
straw paper.
The Reno (Nev.) Gazette claims that
there is petrifed tree lying near Lovelock
Station, that State, 600 feet in length and
two feet thick.
A rich manufacturer at CLANS, Switzer-
land, solemnizes the anniversary of his wife's
death by distributing Is, 900 francs among
his workmen
There is Swede living in Henderson
Co., Tenn, who claims to be lat years old.
He has iVd in that county for forty years,
and until the last two has made his own
living.
Newburyport, Mass, sends the only
American vessels now engaged in Goldfish
ing on the Labrador coast. The Labrador
fisheries commenced at Newburyport in
1879, and have been kept up to the present
time.
A conductor living in Whitehall, N. Y,
having causully mentioned that his house
was infested with rats, and that he wished
he could get a good cat, twenty-five of the
latter were left at his door by thoughtful
friends.
The towns of Danbury, Bethel, Norwalk
and Bridgeport, Conn, contain forty-six
hat factories, representing an invested
capital of 81, 45O, 900, and employing $500
hands, whose annual wages amounts to
81, $50, 900.
The Shakers of Enfield make printed
label on paper, framed with sheet brass and
glazed with mica, for marking the names of
trees and plants. 1t is about the size of o
silver dollar and is pierced with hole for
string or wire.
Some few years ago the poor Russian
gardeners slept in the garden under mat,
having their feet exposed to the weather. SO
that as soon as the frost attacked their toes
they were warned that it was likely to be
attacking their plants also.
At Waterbury, VT, Matthew McCafrey
refused to feed his cattle for three days, and
put tar upon his children, saying that he
feared the spotted fever. Neighbors inter-
fered, found him hopelessly insane, and
took him to the asylum at Brattleborough.
A Connecticut farmer hid steel trap In
barrel of meal in the barn to catch rats.
Early the next morning he heard a tremen-
dous racket in the barn, and on investiga-
ing found that his a1orse had broken loose
and gone smelling around in the barn and
had caught his nose in the steel trap.
A strange old man, who died near Troy,
N. Y, requested that his remains should be
kept in the house for three weeks that one
of his sons make his coffin, and that his
four sons dig the grave and inter the body,
lowering it into the grave as the sun should
be setting behind the mountains near his
house.
A Texas woman dreamed to some pur-
pose She had visions on six consecutive
nights of buried treasure, which set her
husband and others to digging. And the
result was the unearthing of vessel con-
tanning $2,4 The good luck didn't
strike her husband, however, for another
man found the money.
A dog is one of the most useful members
of boarding school establishment near
London. He takes twenty pair of boots and
distributes them at the doors of the proper
owners. When new boy comes the dog
leaves the strange boots till he has distri-
buted all the rest, and then takes the pair
to the dormitory door where there are no
boots.
Five newspaper men got into an elevator
in Rochester, N. Y, recently, and allowed
the rope to be cut when they were at the
fourth story. The car fell like lightning to
the cellar of the building, where it was re-
ceived by patent air cushion, and SO skill
fully checked that eggs on it were not bro
ken nor water spilled from glasses standing
on the floor of the car.
The st. Joseph Gazette says "a new
and interesting game has been started for
evening parties. The ladies write their
names ON slip of paper wrap it up In q
ball Of yarn, twine or rags, and, when they