Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-08
CURRENT ITEMS.

Delight.
The total number of postofRces in the
United Srates is 42,677.
The population of Scotland is consid-
erably behind that of the London postal
district
LET he who regrets the loss of time
make proper use of that which is to
come in the future.
/ WHY does rain diminish the size OF
the statue in the park? Because it be-
comes statuette (statue wet).
A LOCOMOTIVE "went wild" and
dashed through the depot, at Nashville,
at the rate of fifty miles an hour. a
Two little Illinois girls raised chickens
and sold eggs enough to purchase a
monument for their grandmother
grave.
WHAT is the difference between good
soldier and fashionable lady? One
faces the powder, and the other powders
the face
IT is not pleasant to see everyone
around you bigger person than yourself.
Yet this is slight that many do see who
are not dwarfs in stature.
The Massachusetts, Historical Society
has given 500 towafd the erection Of a
monument in London over the unmarked
grave Of Sir Walter Raleigh.
The register of Mailman Tarn Church,
England, lately restored, contains the
record of a marriage solemnized by
Oliver Cromwell as a magistrate.
Or European sovereigns Victoria is
the only widow; Alexander, of Russia,
the only widower; William, of Ger
many, the oldest; and Alfonso, of Spain,
the youngest.
The census enumerators have ascer-
tanned that for the last ten years the
mortality in New Orleans has been
twelve in 1000 per annum, an exceed
ingly low death-rate.
The New York Star says that, in view
OF some recent fatalities, physicians
when vaccinating children should in
struct the parents or nurses how best to
prevent irritation of the punct,red limb,
and thus guard against a possible devel-
opment of erysipelas.
PATRICK KEARNET, the Oregon pic
neer, who in 1862 threw into the sea a
bag OF gold, the hard earnings of many
years, to rescue little girl from drown
ing, is now at the Skagit mines, still
hard at work. He says that he does not
regret the loss of the gold.
MATTHEW ROBINSON, OF Lafayette,
Ind, is $50 years Of age. He says he
took the first boat through the Lock
port IN. " locks; that he went to sea
at 80 years Of age, and followed that vo
cation fifty years, and for forty three
years ran on the Erie canal. He never
wore spectacles, never carried cane,
and never was sick.
PAUL KUNKEL, who died d natural
death at York, Pa, few days ago,
came dangerously near being hanged in
1854. A stranger begged q lodging at
his house, and departed in the morning,
leaving behind an umbrella and pair
of slippers. These We're identified as
belonging to woman who had been
robbed and murdered. Krnkel was in
dicted as the murderer, and his guilt
was foregone conclusion with most per-
sons, nobody believing his story Of the
ledger. But in the nick of time the
real criminal was discovered.
SIAMEsE twins have been born In q
small fishing village in North Devon,
England The wife of a thatcher named
Gaydon recently gave birth to two chill
dren incorporated or grown together
from the breasts down to the abdomen.
They are perfect in every other respect,
having head each, and two hands, two
legs, and, it is believed, separate ex-
istence.
TaE census shows that several Massa-
chusetts cities beside Boston have
made rapid gains in population. Lowell,
which in 1870 had 41,OOO, now has
about 10000 Lawrence has advanced
in ten years from %, 1921 to So, 500, and
Lynn from %, 233 to nearly 10000. Bos-
ton shows an increase of 13O, 900. The in
crease in the cities and manufacturing
towns has not been made at the expense
Of the country towns and villages, which
seem to hold their own.
The following list gives the names and
ages Of the Presidents at the time of
their entering Office:
Washington. .5;j Harrison ......... SO
j. Adams. .62i Polk. so
Jefferson. So Taylor. .65
Madison. -oSl flerce. ~
Monroe. .............. SO Buchanan ........ &c
j. @. Adams .58 Lincoln. ............... so
jackson. ............ 81 Grant Observation-Disclosures
Van Buren,. 50 Hayes. "a
This list does not include John Tyler,
Willard Fillmore and Andrew johnson,