Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-12
GMOBELETs.

year, the teliers get Z,W0.
Mining superintendents in Colorado receive
from $4,000 to $4,000 year
Railroad superintendent in the West ere
drawing about 81 GOO month.
The University of Brussels has for the first
time admitted lady science student.
case Of leprasy has been discovered in tie
Chinese quarter in Mott street, New YORK.
A liberal Michigan man has forwarded 900
copies of cookery book to the sufferers in
Ireland.
The mayor of st. Louis pockets an annual
salary of $4,000, and the governor of Missouri
the same.
Prairie dogs are table delicacy in sonc parts
| Of Texas, where they are esteemed a yery ga
worry dish.
Canada has Roman Catholic population of
l,846, 800, with "a bishops. 1859 priests and
1,6l7 churches.
The city of Rome, Ga, counts upon having
100000 worth of buildings erected within its
limits this year.
There is great suffering in northern Scotland,
but the Scotch like the Ulster Irish, try to con-
ceal their woe.
The Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Boston, has &C.
! ciined the offer Of the proycstship Of the Penn
| sylvania university.
Geo. Hilton, the postmaster at South Parsou-
held' Me-, is 81 years old, and has occupied
that position since $780,
| The negro physicians of Tennessee have or
gained State medical society, of which DR..
j. N. Sameson is president.
boston Is running short of boys. A gentle
man advertised for an Office boy the other day
and got but single response.
Italy is now importing foreign cereals at the
rate OF S'o'oCo tons per year, its own agrical-
turai products being insufficient.
home has abandoned the scheme of its pro-
posed VOL Is fair for 1882, as Milan proposes
holding great national fair the same year.
America imported from Europe last year o.
| ofz,336 gallons of wine, an increase over the
Importation of 1878 of nearly Is, OOO, 200 gal
Ions.
The London Graphic has commissioned most
OF the leading artists of the day 10 paint a
head fulfilling the painters ideal of fema,e
beauty.
| drunken man at Fort Worth, Texas. en-.
tered circus and patted the big lion on the
head. The arm he has left will do to turn a
hand organ.
AS there Is prospect that Theodore Thomas
may return to New York, the papers of that city
tell him complacently that they can get along
very we'll without him.
David Burns is the Oldest living boatmau on
the kentucky river having been born in 1901,
he has walked from New Orleans to Frankfort
500 miles-six times,
The judges of the supreme court in Now York
city are paid $11, 500, and those of the superior
court OF common pleas, much lower in grade
receive $4,000 year each.
Mayor Cooper, of New York city. draws n
salary of $4,000 year. while the commission
er OF jurors, whose duties are not much more
than those of clerk, draws 5000.
genuine fur seal, weighing about eighty
pounds, was caught in York river, near
Gloucester Point, Va, q few days ago. Such a
capture was never before known there.
manager Stetson, of the Grand Trunk rail.
way, imported six thoroughbred mares in the
steamer Quebec. When the steamer arrived at
Portland, the other day. every mare was dead.
Census takers will be paid 81 per day. This
ID poor compensation for being called ga iiar.
blackguard and n villain" by every other
woman IN the block when her age is guessed at,
Boston man claims to have discovered :,
method OF making paper boxes directly from
| the pulp whereby he can turn out 10000 a
day at onc-third of the cost of tho usual meth
cd.
| There
army. They are known as sharp clever, clean
soldiers who generally keep out of trouble and
know how to feather their own nests in their
| regiments.
| Owing to the difficulty in obtaining loan.
the Russian government is contem plating n re-
duction Of pensions, and stipulation that for
ty years service r.ust be siyen before a pen
sion can be granted.
| Preparations are making for series of Shaks-
pearean performances in April in the Memorial
| building at Strafford-on-Avon. The perform
ances will continue for three weeks, and most
of the principal English actors will take part
The new Marquis of Anglesey is chiefly
known to fame as the man who in 1875, on the
| occasion of an attorneys clerk going to serve
writ on him, first threw the minion of the
| laws hat into the street. and then the minion
| after it.
The military bill which has just passed tho
Senate of Iowa provides for the organization of
State national guard contest of nine repi.
ments of infantry, one regiment of cavalry and
one OF artillery, to be recruited by voluntary
enlistment.
The Victoria, Australia, year book for 1859
shows that in 1866 Victoria produced 2, 1856, 7s5
ounces of gold; in 1866, 1,47S,2sO ounces, and
in 1878 only 775,27O ounces In 1856 there
we're only 1883 acres of land in cultivation.
while in 1875 there were l,GO9,27S. The popu-
lation is only 100000.
During the week which is referred to in the
last return of the registrar general for the Lon
don district, the number of persons who died
was nearly double the average; in fact, l,7CO
persons died f'om the effects of log; bronchitis
killed over 200, and congestion of the lungs
and other diseases Of the respiratory organs
made up the total.
During 1879 the births in Rome Numbered
1887, of which 1880 were among the resident
population. The deaths among residents were