Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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make fifty miles an hour.
A whale seventy-fve feet long has bean
seen of st. Mary's Lighthouse, Alabams.
APersian will establish at Durham, N. g.,
factory for the manufacture of silk.
Female convicts in the Kentucky peni-
Tertiary are required to dress in pantaloona.
1t is established beyond question that thu
coffee plant can be successfully cultivated
in Southern Florida.
There are three million unmarried man
in the country. This is understood not to
include the divorced
Over in England, when anybody has q
complaint which puzzles the doctors, they
lay it to American beef
1t is proposed to change the name OF
Central Park, n Y, to Irving Park, In
honor of Washington Irving.
Detroit has restaurant where cup Of
coffee and roll of bread can be obtained
for two cents, or cent piece.
There are nineteen bachelor farmers IN
Walnut township, Pike county, Iowa, who
are farming and doing their own cooking.
In the Iowa Agricultural College every
girl in the junior class has to know how to
make light bread before she can rise to tina
seniors.
The st. Louis police searched all day for
a baby whose mother said it had beeu
stolen, but which was found under The bed.
were it had fallen.
In order to enlarge a church In Dover,
England, yew tree, 1000 years old, has
been removed. The earth and tree weighed
fifty tons.
An artesian well at Davenport, Iowa, has
been sunk to the depth of $50 feet, and
400 gallons of water minute few from it.
rising twenty-five feet above the surface OF
the ground.
A man, woman and child, who have been
begging for some weeks In Watsonvills,
Cal, have been found to have $65, 900 IN
vested in San Francisco, have four SONS
engaged in profitable business, and 5000
in gold was found In the possession of ths
man.
The Superintendent of the Pittsburgh
pa schools highly commends the use OF
the daily paper as text book, as the lively
interest the pupils take in the geography
and history of affairs connected with daily
events would serve to impress both studies
deeply upon their minds.
The grain crop In Syria has proved so
poor that, instead of exporting, as Northern
Syria did three years ago, she is importing
wheat from Egypt and corn from America.
Camels are carrying American "Indian
corn" from Tripoi to Klamath, one of tho
granaries of the East.
The first ingredient in conversations y
truth, the next good sense, the third good
humor, and the fourth wit.
There is German Evangelical Church
in Jerusalem of 14O members, German
school, a hospital and an orphan asylum, all
in iourishing condition and literally sus-
tanned by Christian charity. In Bethlehem
a German missionary labors successfully.
He has school of 100 pupils and an or
phan house.
A German newspaper mentions that GER
tain druggists of Leipsic offer for sale col
ored inks for writing labels on glass, porce-
lain, ivory, marble and metal. The writing
is done with a goose-quill, and when dry
adheres SO closely that it cannot be remov-
ed by any liquid. Black, white, red and
blue inks of this kind are made.
Madame Adelina Patti, writing of her ex-
perience in singing, says that when her
name is on the poster for appearance, she In
all the morning preoccupied, nervous and
agitated; as the hour of the representation
approaches, she grows more and moro fe-
yered, and at the last moment, when leaving
her dressing room for the stage, one feeling
dominates her-a terrible fear.
The Oldest house in New England is that
now owned and occupied by Alfred Poor,
just beyond the Old Town Bridge, in New
bury, Mass. The Poors came to ESSEX
county in 1886, and built their house I'm
1913, and the first child born in that house
was named John Poor, and the last one
christened the same. The Poor family have
occupied this house through eight genera
tions, and now it is stated it is to be torn
down and q new dwelling erected upon tn
SITE
An Italian newspaper says that young
female slave has escaped from the harem
of the ex-Khedive at Resina, and taken
refuge in an opposite house, in which lives
young man who has fallen in love with
her from seeing her at the window, and
with whom she has managed to carry ON q
pantomime wooing. The young man in