Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Boston man has invented a process for
playing organs by electricity.
1t Is alleged that no American cat can
make so hideous a noise as Chinese tom
tom.
There are now established and doing a
successful business more than twenty eellu-
loid companies in this country.
Queen Victoria's income is Sc, 800 a day.
The Car has more than any other Euro
pean sovereign-$25, 600 day.
Thomas Mackellar, type founder, of
Philadelphia, has written some of the
sweetest poems in American literature.
Manchester, England, has a society of
women painters, to which the other sex is
not admitted, not even at the yearly exhibit
tons.
A horse in Paris saw his master getting
the worst of it in a fight, when he pulled
the other man off three times with his teeth,
stopping the battle.
There are SO many idle doctors in Lon
don that one of the busy ones who recently
advertised for an assistant, offering only
about $500 year, received between 400
and 500 answers.
Sick-headache can often be greatly re-
ieved, and sometimes entirely cured, by
the application of a mustard plaster at the
base of the neck. The plaster should not
be kept en- more than quarter of an hour
The longest drought that ever occurred
In America was in the summer of 1862.
No rain fell from the first of May to the LIST
of September, making 123 days without
rain. Many Of the inhabitants sent to Eng
land for hay and grain.
Rub little oil or butter on burns and
cover with soda. This is for slight burns,
which many are always getting in the kitch-
en-. If the air is kept from burns and cuts,
they viii heal rapidly, for this reason burns
are often covered with glue
young German, employed in bakery,
III Pittsburg, has had two unexpected wind
falls. One of Els former sweethearts in
Vienna has died. leaving him a bequest of
$500, 600, and an uncle has also made him
an heir to an estate worth fully as much.
Joseph Brandt the famous chief of the
Mohawks, the haf-breed savage who led
the Six Nations as British allies in the
Revolutionary War, is to have monument,
costing 5000 erected to his memory in
Brantford, Canada, where he died in 1917
An Italian priest and philologist has dis
covered in the binding of Greek manu-
script from the ancient library of ST. Am
brose on Mount Athos, two fragments of
st. Pauls Epistles in the Greek text Sim
liar fragments at Paris have long been
highly valued.
Young japanese children scarcely ever cry,
because great care is taken to keep out of
their way every possible cause of irritation.
1t is probably in consequence of this that
the Japs are as a race, almost exasper-
atingly good humored, SO that servant
severely scolded will often merely reply by
a beaming smile.
The ascent of Mount Hecla was made by
Miss Tn. Petursson, daughter of the Bishop
of Reykjavik, for the purpose of geological
investigation. Her report of the condition
of the larger craters indicated that an erup-
ton on grand scale was impending.
In most quarrels there is fault on both
sides. A quarrel may be compared to
spark, which cannot be produced without
flint as well as steel
The vanity Of loving fine clothes and new
fashions, and valuing ourselves by them is
one of the most childish pieces of folly that
can be.-jSG II. Hale.
When the st. Gothard Tunnel was COM
pleted, medal was presented to all the
men engaged in the work. The medal,
which was struck at Geneva, had onone side
the arms Of Germania, Italia and Helvetia,
with the motto Vtri6us Unitus, and on the
other side an inscription in German and
Italian ''To the men of the Gothard Tun-
nell"
Doctor Pruden walked into q PRAYER
meeting at Benton, Mimi, with an open
Bible in one hand and a cooked pistol in the
other. He said there had been all together
too much controversy over the meaning of
a certain Scriptural passage, and that he
meant to kill anybody who differed with
him on the subject He was hurried off to
an insane asylum.
Miss Rosebeny wanted to marry Mr..
Deputy, at Seymour, Ind, but her father
commanded her to marry Mr.. Bowers, and
fixed the day for the wedding. On the
evening before she secretly became Mrs
Deputy. She was ON hand for the other
ceremony, however, and it proceeded
smoothly as far as the question whether any
body objected, when Mr.. Deputy remarked
that he had an OBJECTION trihing one,
which he felt some reluctance about men
tioning-the lady was his wife.