Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-11
GLOBELEn.

Upward of ,442 persons in the British en-
pire enjoy hereditary titles
The kingdom of siam is to be connected with
the telegraphic system of the world
| In Dude and the northwest provinces of
| India 40l $50 persons died Of fever last Octo-
| Der.
| Eight little Sisters of the Poor have been
| sent from Rennes, in France to establish a
branch in Brooklyn.
We can't all be saints. although none Of US
| are so thoroughly demoralized that We can't
| close the door behind US.
Boston will be $50 years old in September
next. Her culture is growth of thousand
years-and perfection is not reached yet.
| Minister White is popular among the sixty
young students now in Berlin because he in
sists that they shall make his house their home.
Peter Faneuil, who gave Boston its first Fan
euil hall. was born in New Rochelle, N. Y {, in
l7O0. The Bostonians pronounce it Funnel
| hall.
Shortly after daybreak, lately, q coast-guard
at Teynmouth, England, found lady sitting
on the bench in the water. She is a somnam.
bulist
No class of offenders in England defy tho law
| like the clergy. The courts illuminate against
hackonochie, the ritualist, but he simply ig.
nores them.
The Bey of Tunis has given that city . rail-
road and waterworks, but cannot yet afford
gas. The town is, however. very safe and or
derly ut night.
| Two spirituAlistio mediums did not do all
they had promised. at seance at South Abing-
ton, Mass, and the crowd threw them violently
into the street.
A French chemist asserts that if tea be
ground like coffee, Immediately before hot
water is poured upon it, its e1hilarsting quail
| ties will be doubled.
Horses are greatly in demand - we'll q.
mules. Buyers in st. Louis represent Canada
England, Germany, France and Mexico. In
January Is, 600 were sold there.
Iowa has ninety-fve lakes. covering an area
of sixty-two Thousand acres. Should these
lakes dry up, as some of them are doing the
land will belong to the government.
There is report that Joaquin Miller will DO
married shortly to DR.. Kate Stanton, who
stumped New York State for Horace Greeley
during the Presidential campaign of 1872.
The Hawaiian Legislature has appropriated
$4,000 to build palace for the king, whose
palace has hitherto consisted of number of
wooden cottages inclosed by high stone wall.
Ge csc are raised for their feathers in Texas
One goose ranch in western Texas has 500
geese. whose feathers are plucked every two
months, each one averaging pound and half
a year.
A Mr.. Harris, formerly Of Preston, England,
purposes, and $500, 900 to what is known as the
Queen Ann-'s bounty fund for aiding poor
clergy.
The German papers complain that An euor-
nous amount of tobacco has been smuggled
across the German frontier by an organized
band, the members of which are principally
Dutchmen.
Eureka, New, boasts of a one-armed man
who makes living by chopping wood. The
fellow is good chopper and Yields his az
with as much dexterity as the best woodmsn in
the country.
The new Geographical society IF Japan has
just published, on a large scale, . map Of the
city of Yeddo The names Of districts, streets
and the like are inserted both in Japanese and
Latin characters.
The London Standard proposes q lottery, un.
der the sanction of the lord mayor and corpo-
ration of Dublin. for the relief of Irish dis
tress. The proposition meets with favor from
several other quarters.
Boston clergyman supposed he was get
ting S5 for performing marriage service for .
compile of strangers, but he was really losing
$45, for he gave that amount of money in ex
change for bad $50 bill.
The consumption of writing paper in the
United States is one and three-quarter tons
per day for each 100000 inhabitants,
which would make the aggregate daily con-
sumption about eighty-fve tons.
Experience has shown at the Petroleum Iron
works, Titusville, Pa, that barrel of petro-
leum will generate heat sufficient for making
| . ton of iron, while ton and .a.quarter of coal
would be required for the same result.
son and two nephews of Tom Hughes, the
English author, have been for several years
engaged in cattle raising in Texas. His SON
| LAD obt ihSuC t0C yoohiJ onAo HUM lid uClO1
clearing 80 per cent. on the capital invested.
E1-A.sociate Justice Logan 4. Beckley, Of
the Georgia supreme court, has resigned his Of
foe for the reason that he does not consider
himself sufficiently learned in the law for the
position. What il moro modest than modssty
| in lawyer?
Miss Butler, of Pittsburgh, Pa, had looked
for man under hsr bed every night for many
years, and at last she found not one there but
four. They wore black masks, and left hsr
bound and gagged when they went off with the
family plate and jewslry.
| Tho German traveller, DR.. Naumann, has in
formed the Berlin Geographical society that
the Japanese minister of public works has re-
quested him to carry out geological and as
Economical survey of Japan, and to examine
the soil for copper and coal.
Curates seem to be much better paid In
England than formerly. Tho advertisements
for them in no case offer less than $500. and