Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-21
GLOBELETS.

Elko, Nevada, produces TWO tons or mineral
soap day.
Mosquitoes are as plentiful in Louisiana now
as In spring time.
The population of Memphis is now 40. 1877.
Last year it was 43, 497.
Mr.. Donald g. Mitchell ok Marver), who
has been in poor health. is now recovering rap
idly.
The King of Portugal has followed his trans
lation of Hamlet by one of the Merchant of
Venice.
A pistol is we'll enough, thinks the Buffalo
Courier, but there is always fool at one end or
the other of it.
Carl Schnrz would again consent to act with
the Democrats if they would allow him to die
tate platforms.
Temple Bar, London, which has been taken
down within the past year, is to be regretted
in Epping Forest.
Ohio is capable of anything. One family of
seven boasts that they ate l,165 pies in 1879,
and all survived it.
A st. Louis paper says that Tilton neve
smiles except with his eyes. This will be good
news to the blue-ribbon societies.
steamer recently arrived at Havre from
South America with 10000 slaughtered sheep,
preserved by the frigori6c process.
The North British railway has applied to
Parliament for power to rebuild the Tay
bridge, substantially on the old plan.
snowballing is hardly the word for the sport
at Stockton, Cal, where the balls are frequent
In hmm rs of ico tod NIT
Lady Thornton, wife of the British minister,
gives elegant dinner parties in Washington, but
does not want them noticed in the papers.
Gov. Roberts, of Texas, is more than 70 years
of age, yet at a recent leap-year ball he danced,
dressed in homespun, with seven young ladies.
The Omaha Herald no longer gives reports
of the debates in the city council, the reason
being that much of the language is unfit for
publication
An effort is making in San Francisco to erect
some fitting memorial over the grave of Col. E {.
D. Baker, who fell at Balls Bluff during the
early days of the war.
Wolves have made their appearance on both
sides of the Pyrenees. Near Bayonne. where
they had not been since 1880, several sheep
have fallen prey TO the INVADERS.
The Swiss exports to the United States in
1879 show an increase of 100000 francs on
those of 1878. the chief items of increase being
cotton goods, watches and embroidery.
King John of Abyssnia has converted over
10l, 600 Moslems to the Christian religion. His
method of conversion is to pour boiling tallow
into the eyes and ears of the subject until he
repents.
In Nevada it is punishable offense for q
white man to sell enough liquor to an Indian
to make him drunk, but the more drunken
white men he makes the better citizen he is
considered.
Poindexter. who killed Curtis at Richmond.
because he spoke insultingly to Miss Cottrell
about her pretty foot, and is now serving a
term in prison, has taken out q license to mar
ry the young lady.
The prospect of rioting in Maine drew large
number of tramps to that State, their hope
being that the disorder would give them oppor-
tunities for plumber. They are now devoting
their attention to henroosts.
The exports of butter from this country are
only four per cent. of the production; those of
cheese forty-one per cent. English people eat
far more cheese than butter. 1t is a staple food
among laboring men in England.
French advice: Beware of women who wear
high-necked dresses and always keep their eyes
cast down. They are full of pride and jeal-
ousy-natures of iron and passions of FIRE.
When these are welded they are dangerous"
The Anglers France) students arrested on the
charge of causing the death of a freshman by
practical joking have been released, his inter-
nal injuries having been traced to a prior date,
and found to have been sustained during play.
DR.. Lewis Swift, of Rochester, received on
last Saturday a gold medal of the Imperial
Academy of Sciences in Vienna for the discov-
cry of comet in 1878. Another medal will be
sent him for comet which he found last sum-
mer.
The population of South Australia Capital
Adelaide) is 803, 800; of Queenland, 210,510
seven per cent of which are Chinese. The area
of Queenland equals that of the British Islands,
France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Switzer-
land.
The Royal Institution of Great Britain has
extended to Mr.. John Fiske an invitation to
come over and give course of lectures on
American Political Ideas" Mr.. Fiske has &c
cepted the invitation, and will sail for England
shortly.
Claims to lots in Leadville are 30 unstable
that the holders are extremely suspicious.
James Langdon looked out of his window at
night, saw a man innocently crossing his
ground, conjectured that he had some sinister
design, and shot him dead.
The Prussian minister of commerce lately
told the chamber that the government does not
intend to buy up more railroads. 1t wants first
to see whether those owned by the State will
be financial success. The State is already in
possession of all lines of strategic importance.
Russell Sage, the whilom partner of Samuel
j. Tilden in the great Terre Haute sharp prac-
tlce which cost each a fund of Sl00, 900, owns
pew in, and is q regular attendant at a fashion
able uptown church. 1t also cost Mr.. Sage
900 to settle his st. Paul railroad troubles.
In the Swiss cantons bordering on Germany
there is much complaint Of the influx of Ger
man beggars, who, even when conducted across
the frontier, speedily return. Africans and Ia
borers also CROSS over. though in Switzerland
meetings have been held to petition for public
works tn relieve the mem plOyed