Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

One per cent. of Chicago school teachers
marry during year.
Palmetto paper manufacturing in Florida
is pronounced perfect success.
A horse recently died in Utica at the age,
it is believed, of fifty nine years.
The association for the promotion of
woman's knowledge of law is active In Lon
don.
A Western sleeping car was recently en-
tertained with the sight of man beating
his WIFE, ~
A Russian countess parades the streets of
Nice escorted by three large bloodhounds of
quarelsome disposition.
The aggregate weight of six obese Ten
nesseans Presidents of Hamblin County, is
seventeen hundred and seventy pounds
an average of nearly three hundred.
man in Binghamton has invented
lamp which uses wire gauze between the
fame and the oil to prevent explosion, upon
the principle discovered by Sir Humphrey
Davy in 1916, and used in his safety lamp
for miners.
In Paris, lately, a lady visiting friend
wished, on leaving, to pat pet bulldog
which was chained up. The dog, from
some inexphcable cause was thrown into an
excess of fury; by tremendous effort he
broke his chain and flew at her, actually
tearing away the whole of her nose.
An interesting discovery has just been
made at Wells, England, of upwards of a
| thousand original documents, some of
| which date back to the thirteenth century.
Many of the seals are in beautiful state of
preservation. They were found In an old
oaken press in the almshouse.
| A life prisoner IN the State Prison at
| Thomaston, Me-, has made, with nothing
| but two knives, calendar clock, which
keeps accurate time, has rooster which
crows every hour, and 242 moving figures.
among them companies of infantry and
cavalry, which go through the full manual
of arms.
The Athens (Ga.) Banner says that
workmen engaged in boring well near that
place, the other day, took out from the
middle of as hard blue granite rock as
| they had ever encountered, forty-six feet
under the ground, a complete iron wedge,
such as is generally used in splitting rails of
wood.
DR.. J. Milton Bowers, San Francisco
physician of high repute, desiring to pos
sess the six volumes of an expensive medi-
cal work, is accused of trying to get them
by theft. He carried off two of the books
and then two more, but the third attempt
was seen through q gimlet hole by q clerk,
| and the doctor was arrested.
The average width of the streets of Can
| ton, China, is about four feet. They are
| paved with long, narrow iron slabs, and
have no sidewalks. The names are pecu-
liar. One street is called Peace, another
! Benevolence, and a third is Early Bestowed
Blessing street. Mythology has contribu-
ted largely to the nomenclature of streets
A man, while opening oysters at knauer-
town, a few days ago, ON forcing open the
shells of an unusually large bivalve, found a
fish nearly four inches long, with one con-
tinuous fin extending from the head to the
| tail Otherwise the fish was formed, and
resembled IN many respects an ordinary
brook trout. The fish showed no signs Of
life until placed in pail of water, when ii
| was resuscitated.
A nineteen year-old young woman who
recently mysteriously disappeared from her
ST. Louis home, where she was living In
ease and comfort, has been found after a
fortnight's search working out as q seam
stress She proved herself an amiable and
useful member of the family she had found
shelter with, formed an attachment for her
mistress, and refused to return to her rela-
tives, who resigned her to her within.
Nelson Lockwood aged twelve, of Co
hoes, N. Y, talked impudently and def
antly to his mother one night last week and
then left the house. His sister, aged nine
teen, followed him into the yard and at
tempted to reason with him, when he
seized a club, knocked her down, beat her
and left her insensible, in which condition
she was afterwards found. Some months
ago he became enraged at his mother and
stabbed her. but not seriously, because the
knife was dull.
One of the features connected with the
Russian railway system is that the COM
panies are bound to maintain at each sta
ton, at their own cost, mounted Cossack
gendarme, who is armed with Berdan and
revolver, and forms part of the very power
full railway police force" of Russia. Re
Gently the companies have had to maintain
from three to six of these gendarmes at their
principal stations, and the total cost of the
force, falling upon the shareholders of the
Russian railway companies, now amounts to
$50, 900 roubles, or over 100000 per an
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