Daily globe., 1880-08-22
FACTS AND FANCIES

VUAHlEh VI ID pOtdO IS JUST rs GOou
as whole one for planting.
NATURE is mighty. Art is mighty.
Artifce is weak.
EYES are not eyes when cigar moske
makes them water.
THE total Canadian lumber cut for the
season is placed at 1 ,O64, 900, 900 feet.
THE English sparrows have built over
100 nests in the passenger depot at Ma
con. Ga.
LIVERPOOL has been created a city.
Her new Bishop, Mr.. Ryle, is decided
Low Churchman.
AN English paper says that Lord Bea
consfeld is now giving much of his at
tention to farming.
O'CoNNER POWER and Power O'Con-
ner are two member of the English
House of Commons.
AS THE freely only shines when on the
wing, so it is with the human mind
when at rest it darkens.
1T is not merely the individual, but So
ciety that suffers by every idle, every
TIE rails used by companies within a
radius of six miles from Charing Cross,
London, would form single line of $50
miles.
AN exchange speaks Of the "high
price of hops" Yes S. ticket, espe-
cially when they are for charity, is too
high.
TIE wife of wealthy and retired gro
Ger to her artistic dressmaker ''Dress
me in such manner that my vulgari-
ties will pass for medieval affectations."
A CRITIC, in noticing a discourse on
"The Sayings and Doings of Great
Men," remarks: 1T is sad to observe
how much they said and how little they
did"
AN Iowa clergyman preached against
the sin Of shayiug on Sunday, and next
Sabbath the sexton refused to split
kindlings to start fire, and the congTe-
CATION dispersed
ANNIE, is it proper to say tins ere,
that air7" "Why, Kate, of course
not" "Wel, I don't know whether it
is proper or not, but feel cold in this
ear from that air.
A BENEVOLENT Detroit dentist an
nounced that ON certain day he would
pull teeth free for poor persons and pro-
vide laughing gas. He used 700 gallons
of gas and extracted 721 teeth,
GEN. J. W. PHELPS believes that
tornadoes are electrical, and might be,
in measure, arrested by exploiting
small magazines Of powder. or making a
high fame. But would they have time
to try it?
A PREACHER, being requested to pei
form the last sad Office for young
woman at the point of death, pressed
her to believe that flesh and blood could
not enter the kingdom Of heaven. "1
am safe, " said she; .'Iam nothing but
skin and bones"
"WHo was Ezekiel ?" asked Sunday
school teacher of an intellgent.looking
little girl in one of our city churches.
The answer was Ezekiel was one Of
the minor prophets, and the son of Dan
iel Webster" This answer was accepted
without controversy.
MIR. OLEoXARaE says that the report
that "large figures are going out of
style in dress" is a campaign slander.
The bill Of his wife's new spring dress
was sent him yesterday, and he says the
"fgures" are larger than they were
last year.
THAT was thoroughly-characteristic
and sincere reply which q surprised sa-
loon-keeper is reported as making the
other day to a religious worker, who
visited him in his place of business, and
asked him whether he expected to go to
heaven. ITO pc sure,' he replied;
"zum time bime-by. Wy vudn't ~"
In Webster parish, La, negro mur-
dered his wife, and was arrested for the
crime the next day. In an attempt to
escape he severely wounded two Of his
guards, when a number Of citizens took
him from the officers and killed him by
firing more than twenty bullets into his
body. The names of none Of the parties
are known.
TIE wife Of Franklin Brockway, of
Collinsville, Ct, put her two young
est children to bed, leaving a largo kero-
sene lamp burning on stand, and went
below to entertain some company. An
hour later she went up stairs, and found
that the lamp had exploded, scattering
the oil and glass all over the room, with
out setting anything on fire or waking
the children.
In France at the beginning of year
policeman calls at each persons house,
and politely asks how many dogs are
kept there. He notes it down and in
few days blank is received from the
tax collector, in which the number OF
dogs is to be filed. This is signed and
taken to the collectors office, and If the
number agrees with that reported by
the policeman. the tax is paid and re-