Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-21
ALL SORTS.


The iron horse has but one ear-the
engineer.
ENDEAvoR to be what you would ap-
pear to be.
HE beehive is the poorest thing In
the world to fall back on.
BOSTON has GA Society for the En-
couragement OF Study at Home"
The richest ribbons represent Gobelin
tapestry or the genuine old cloth of
gold.
1T will take a pretty heavy frost to
Kill this speech crop that is ripening
now.
WHEN does a horse enjoy his food
most? When he hasn't a bit in his
mouth.
JOHN CALVIN is the good old orthodox
name OF Texas desperate who is in jail
for murder.
A MOOSE was killed near Moosehead
lake, In Maine, recently, that weighed
$40 pounds.
The population of the world. accord
ing to DR.. Benin and Prof. Wagner, is
], 455, 923, 500.
THERE was a marriage recently in
Bristol, Vt, III which the bride was only
IL and the groom 35.
JOHN ROACH is building three large
iron vessels at Chester, Pa, for the New
York and Savannah line.
The conscience money sent to the
Chancellor of the English Exchequer
last year amounted to over $4,000.
The dealer in salt must have pre-
carious time of it. The salt-cellar, you
know, is always getting overturned.
In England the church is said to be
the only profession that can supply a
living to more young men than are anx-
ious to enter it.
In Dodge county, Ga, Mrs. Wright
has made twenty yards of silk, having
herself raised the trees, attended to the
worms, and woven the silk into cloth.
The Hungarian state railways. are
in all ], 119R miles in length, and they
yield an income of about Ii per cent.
per annum on the capital invested in
them.
DIR. LOUIS KNOX, of Putnam county,
N. Y, has two pet pigs which he has
taught to play euehre, SO that they can
vanquish the best players in the neigh.
borhood.
A COUPLE of years ago, when wool was
so low, farmer near Statewide, Miss,
put his wool clip into mattresses. This
season he ripped open the mattresses and
sold the wool in them for $3.50.
The famous Thomas orchestra, which
was disbanded, after nearly twenty-five
years of existence, when its leader went
to Cincinnati, is to be formed anew and
placed under his direction.
IT is curious fact that Anna Dickin-
son has never seen her own play, can
American Girl, yet she lives within one
block Of the theater IL which it is being
performed. Talk about the curiosity of
women.
STILL another use for corn: At re-
cent brewers exhibition in England.
good beer was shown brewed from maize
and rice. The probability of American
maize supplanting English barley is
suggested.
ANOTHER wing is in course of erection
to the Aston Library, New York, in ac-
cordance with the will of VIM. B. Astor.
When completed it will have frontage
of about $50 feet and a capacity for 400,
| 900 volumes.
IT is anticipated that the new light
housed at Eddystone, on the English coast.
| will be completedin the autumn of 1882.
work was begun. The tower Will be ITO
feet high.
Social CIRCLE is the name of town
in Georgia where member of social
circle Of drinkers stood at bar and
drank seven full tumblers of whisky
without stopping. Two physicians could
hardly save his life.
A YOUNG Englishman wrote home
from New York to his mother: ''This
is dreadful country. At this moment,
from my window, [ can see wild buffalo
of the prairie careering down the street,
and large body of citizens in full chase.
I'm coming 'ome."
THERE are at present many opium
eaters in literary and artistic circles in
Paris, and the practice is said to be
gaining ground. In the English literary
world there are to-day none. De
Quincy remains the champion opium
eater of literary England.
"CAN you tell me where to buy a
white shirt?" said gawky fellow to a
man at Lexington, Ga. The informa-
ton was given, and the inquirer-who
was accompanied by blushing girl
said to the merchant while buying the
shirt: "Can you tell me where to get
marriage license ?" OF the license clerk
he asked: "Who's the best minister to
tie the knot?" Thus the couple eau
tiously proceeded toward matrimony.