Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-30
GLOBELETs

| The game Of cricket has been a healthy out
door diversion for more than 500 years.
Five prisoners broke Jail at Spartanburg.
s. O., cutting through two feet of solid rock
wah.
| Boots and shoes for dolls are turned out by
| one London house at the rate of 1000 pairs
week.
| The cotton receipts of Memphis are still
ahead of those of last year by nearly 1000
| bales.
Cohoes, N. Y, has population of 10000
and only two persons are colored. They are
| lonely.
Boston newspaper derives the word plum
ber," from of the def nitions of "a plum
which, 1t asserts, is El00, COO.
| An OK in Chesterfield, N. H., is nineteen
feet long, over six feet high, with nine feet of
girth, and weighs 2,840 pounds.
| A newspaper in Porkopolis vouches for the
assertion that it is meet and drink that is de.
priving many family of food.
] Vice President Wheeler has sent the Presby-
terian church at Malone, New York, of which
he is member, check for $1,000.
The Turner'S Falls Reporter thinks that zone
of the most profitable columns to newspaper
is the editors solid spinal column"
There are ffty-six justices of the peace in
New Haven, owing to the fact that new ones are
made at every election and old ones continue
in office.
| In England there are nearly 800, 600 persons,
oat of population of 26,000,000 absolutely
dependant upon the rates and taxes for chart
table support.
| The admonition, ''Smoke not cheap CIGARS"
amounts to total prohibition in railroad towns
and districts where the revenue collectors can
not penetrate.
| Mr.. E. L. Stordy, president of the Blair
county banking company, at Tyrone, promi-
nent and well known business man, died sud
denly last week.
The Widow Maffot. of Ripley, O., died last
account Of rheumatism. She had not been out
of her chair for two years.
| TIE Rev. Ebenezer P. Clifford, Of Wslling-
| ford, Connecticut, eked out his salary last year
by selling the skins of forty-eight muskrats
and twelve skunks which he killed.
| The Cologne GaSstte, in a recent article,
deemed inspired observes that nobody can
be- On good terms With the German empire who
cultivates a political intimacy with Russia"
| Charlotte IN. c. Observer: Almost every
farmer who comes to the city reports that his
wheat crop is being badly injured by the fly.
Cold weather and snow are very badly needed.
4 toast drunk with Highland honors involves
throwing the wine giesse, over the left shout
| der, the idea being that the glasses should
never be degraded by use for any other pur
pose.
| Some of the papers are passing it current
that ''the heirs of the late Peter GoeIet have
presented the physician of the deceased with
go, OUO in recognition of his professional ser
vices"
| 1t is announced in army circles that Boston
| baked beans, in csns, are now issued as part of
the army ration TO troops i'm the field. This
may operate favorabIy on the recruiting Str
| vice in Massachusetts.
| The State superintendent of education of
South Carolina is endeavoring to put in opera
ton plan by which the public schools can be
| kept open for q longer period each year than
| they have been heretofore.
Charles Drummond, of Accomao county,
| Va, is Is years old, seven feet high, weighs
2l5 pounds; each foot is sixteen inches long;
| his skin is al black rs coal and he eats five
pounds OF meat every day.
The provincial council of Venice will shortly
sanction the engineer Buffo's scheme for
bridge, three miles long, from Venice to the
mainland, to serve for a tramway, as we'll as
| for pedestrians and vehicles.
Gen. Grant has written to Admiral Ammen
that after a brief soiourn in Mexico he will 70
| to Denver and Lcadville for the purpose of ex
aiming the silver field of Colorado. He ez-
poets to reach Galena by the middle of April.
| General Lucius Fairchild, the retiring Amer
lean consul at Paris, is being dined and wined
because of his promotion to be minister Ia
Spain. The Cradle club which is composed of
American writers and artists, gave dinner iii
his honor and the Stanley club will do tho
same thing.
| The number of suicides at Vienna and It's
suburbs last year attained the considerable
figure of 297, of which &c were of women. In
| most cases reverse of fortune, misery or WAIT
of work was the disposing cause, and the ma
| jority Of the unfortunates belonged to the
| poorer Glasses.
The Springfield Republican says that "Gen.
Charles u. Norton, of Philadelphia, who has
been in Springfield for several months at work
on q new history Of firearms, which promises
| to be a remarkably interesting book by the
way. i, confined to his room at the Evans
house Ivy sickness"
Eugene Schuyler is said to receive $4,000 for
the right of serial publication in Scribners
| Monthly of his Life of Peter the Great re-
| serving all rights to publish in book form on
| its completion in the magazine. The value of
the copyright of such standard work can
scarcely be estimated, as the sale continues for
many years.
Owing to the disease of the vine, the area of
the whey ards in France has decreased by about
four hundred thousand acres since the year
1874; though great portion of the soil in
which the vine formerly fourished is unfit for
any other culture. The area of vineyards in
| the country is at present about five million
acBtS.
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