Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-15
Miscellaneous Paragraphs.


was maid before.
RouHEFoRT is lucky man only in
degree. He has fought eight duels and
still lives, though he has been wounded
every time.
A SPECIES Of sun perch has been found
in Tulare. lake, California, that gives
birth to its young instead Of spawning as
fish commonly do. 6--
A RUSSIAN inventor and engineer
claims to have found substitute for the
wheel and screw Of steamers the motion
is to be transmitted through compressible
blades.
THE roses Of pleasure seldom last
long enough to adorn the brow of him
that plucks them, and they are the only
roses which do not retain their sweetness
after they have lost their beauty.
No longer by the river do we wander
as Of yore, to listen to the surging Of the
ripples on the shore. Gone are those
days of gladness, Of pleasure and of
peace-she's been, and gone, and mar
ried a sergeant Of police.
The library Of the late DIR. Kenealey,
which was one of the richest private col
lections in England, and included many
rare and valuable works in the classic
and in Oriental literature, has been d-
vided between the British Museum and
st. Johns College, Dublin.
A GREAT deal Of trouble is being ex-
perienced with the rags which have re-
Gently reached this country from Europe.
A great portion of them are reported to
be almost worthless. Out of one lot of
400 bales, which recently arrived at New
York, only 100 bales were fit for use for
paper making.
"Do YOU say I've been hard drinker
all my life?" said an old topper to an ac-
quaintance. eyes, Ido." "Well, there's
where you're mistaken. At one period
didn't toucn a drop for two years-in
fact I drank nothing but milk" In
deed! What two years was that?"
=" NV first two."
A FAITH home has been established In
Springfield, Mass. All persons afflicted
in body or mind who have faith enough
to believe that they can receive physical
or spiritual help are welcome there, and
the healing issecured through the prayer
of faith, the laying-on Of hands, and
sometimes amounting with oil.
AN Illinois woman went into the show
business Oh small scale with bogus
| petrifed baby, which she wheeled from
town to town in perambulator, telling
! a story of its sickness, death, and final
| transformation into stone. The figure
had been we'll made as to its head and
arms, but plain marks of the chisel were
found elsewhere.
JOHN MEADOWS parents consented to
his marrying Miss Pinard, at Memphis,
and all the preparations were made for
a fine wedding. Two days before the
wedding, however, they found out that
her golden hair had been made SO by
bleaching. Regarding that as decep-
ton, they forbade the banns, and the
son obediently broke his engagement.
The Rev. DR.. Childs, of Hartford, de-
sired to bury the body Of a colored girl,
who had been servant In his family, in
a Cedar Hill Cemetery lot, of which he
was part owner. The Secretary refused
permission, and the interment was made
elsewhere. DR.. Childs says that the ex-
clusion was on account of color. The
Secretary makes the excuse that the per-
mission of the other owners of the lot had
not been obtained.
IT was lean little spring chicken,
worth about 80 cents, that strayed from
the Hammersmiths' yard at Madison,
Ind, into the Smiths yard. Mrs. Ham
1nersmith went to get the fowl, and
Smith would not let her have it. Ham
mersmith attempted to whip Smith, who
| retreated into the house. Hammer
smith and his wife then threw stones at
| the house, and Smith fred out with
gun, killing the husband.
In China the names OF children are
given according to circumstances asso-
ciated with the time of their birth. IF q
child is born at midnight, its name may
be Midnight; if birth occurs on the
birthday of some relative, that relatives
age may be the name Of the new born,
and so there are names Of Thirty, Five,
Fifty, One, and other numbers. But
there are even more curious names. If
the parents desired q boy, and girl is
born, her name maybe Ought-to-be-a-
Boy.
RUSSIA and Germany are complaining
of o rag famine. The ST. Petersburg
Herald states that during the Turco-
Russian war, and since then in conse-
quence OF the plague, rag-pioking has
been very much diminished in Russia !;
that the many fires have destroyed large
quantities Of rags, and that, as gem
eral thing, the wearing Of cotton fabrics