Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-14
GLOBELETS.

Nearly 100000 persons are employed on Brit
ish and Irish railroads
heavy crop of grasshopper. has been
Matched out in Hood county. Tenn.
The Partisan authorities estimate the damage
done by the floating ice in the Poris district
alone at 800, 600.
. An enterprising Yankee ia making HonHlU-
Ia directory, and for the frat time the houses
are to be numbered.
The Young Daughters of Enoch" is the
name of q secret C. lored benevolent society
chartered in Virginia.
If club were properly organized aud mat
aged in Philadelphia, and could get into the
league 1t would be well patronized.
Verdi has con- posed Paternoster and Ave
Heria to words of Dantes, which are to be Pc
formed in the Scala theatre, Milan, at the Gloss
of the carnival. on behalf of needy musicians.
Columbia, s. c., has seven printing offices.
giving employment to forty-two journeymen
printers, besides the usual number of appren-
tlces. There is also book-bindery in tn. city.
A number Of ladies' owning sections in the
cemetery at Augusta, Ga, have presented to
Fec Wilson, the Waterman. a handsome gold
headed cane for his efficient services as watch
map.
At the Turner house, in Nashville little
girl fourteen mouths old, named Laura Myers.
was seriously injured by snow ball. thrown
by boy on the street, that she died Dext
morning.
Miss Clinch knocked the Rev. Mr Broad
way of his knees with a club in a prayer
meeting at Brantford, Ont. She had become
insane, and thought he had broken promise
to marry her.
& horse belonging to the New Orleans fire
department died last week at the age of 81
years. The fire company paid 1915 for him,
and he did active work as an engine-horse for
fourteen years.
| man in Shreveport, La, bought what he
thought was buckwheat -four and his wife
made it into cakes and get them on the table
| before the grocer's boy came around to say that
| it was plaster of paris.
woman in Little Rock, Ark. ia said to 5e
living with her fourteenth husband. She has
preserved the last hats worn by the previous
ones, and they are suspended from thirteen
pegs diven into the wall.
E1-Gov. Stanford, of California, is arrang-
| ing magnificent arboretum, which is to
occupy three hundred acres of his farm. He
intends to open it to the public as soon as its
growth justifes that action.
| George Macdonald, the novelist. is 55 years
old, and he was educated at the university of
Aberdeen. He parts bis hair in the middle and
wears very long, full beard, notwithstanding
which he looks little soft.
Edison is hard at work at Menlo Park get
ting his lamps ready for the electric light with
which he proposes to illuminate Paris. He
says that it will be the mist eloquent answer
he can give to his French critics.
The competition that was held lately at Paris
for allegcrical bust of the republic pro-
duoed such unsatisfactory results that no
prize was awarded. Toe municipal council
will probably open fresh competition.
Edgefeld, the beautiful suburban village re-
Gently annexed to Nashville. will probably be
known as East Nashville in future. Edge6eld
had separate existence of thirty-seven years,
and now includes property worth So, O00,000.
Atiidavits have been sworn out charging the
daily newspapers of Wheeling, West Virginia.
with Sabbath dissertation by employing work
men on Sunday. in violation of the State laws.
The law and order party say they will fight to
the bitter end, and have employed detectives.
A tramp found woman alone in Virginia
farm house and threatened 10 kill her ii she
did not give him FIVE cents. well, here it is, )"
she said, showing the coin, ''but l guess Ill
shoot it to you" and she dropped 1t into the
barrel of shotgun. The FELLOW did not Sait
to take it.
Queen Victoria ia the owner of silver gilt
casket in which are lockets containing locks OF
hair of thirteen sfficers who fell at Isandula
Each locket is engraved with an I'm Memo
riam" and the name Of the officer, together
with the date of his death. The souvenir was
ordered by the queen.
Professor Doremus' bill for services in the
Cobb-Bishop poisoning case ct Norwich, Conn.,,
was 81 ,300 ana the State attorney, with view
to economy, employed Professor johnson, OF
Yale College, in the Rid lie case, estimating the
cost at less than $1,000. Professor Johnson's
bill is, however, 81, $50, and it is understood
that the State will dispute it,
Some years ago the father of Harvard grad
uate who had been living abroad after taking
his degree and spending freely, cut off his
supplies. The son. intensely indignant, OPEN
ed vein, addressed his father letter full Of
reproaches, written in his own blood, and then
allowed himself to bleed to death.
We'd Conner was chairman OF the floor com :
mttee at Colorado ball, and avowed his in
teption of excluding negroes, if he had to ehocs
them. 1t was deemed good joke to blacken
the face of burly white desperate and send
him to force an entrance; but We'd carried out
his promise by shooting the intruder.
After five trials, Miss NJ. Louise Mclaughlin,
of Cincinnati, has at last succeeded In COM
pletng the largest vase ever nodded in this
country. 1t is called the Ali Baba Ease, and
measures 81 inches in height and II inches in
diameter. The vase in the wet clay measured
A inches in height and 10 inches in diameter.
In consequence of the frequent discovery of
| excavations and fssures in the number of
houses in Odessa, causing damage to the gas
and water pipes, it is believed that the city is
undermined and threatened with serious dan
| GER A commission has consequently been