Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
PHILADELPHIA has a cookery club.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Philadelphia has cookery club.
Canada has a three by two inch news
paper.
There are five thousand Germans in
Leadville
A ton of gold makes fraction over a
half-million of dollars
The game of cricket has been diversion
for more than 500 years.
Nearly 300, 600 persons are employed on
British and Irish railroads.
Cats, says recent traveller, are fattened
and much esteemed for food in Bolivia.
A Philadelphia woman owns the largest
colored diamond ever brought to America.
The apple tree is very tenacious of life;
many are known to bear fruit at the age of
two hundred years.
A high-soaring eagle in Hampton county,
South Carolina, was struck by lightning in
the clouds, the other day, and fell dead to
the earth.
New Jersey oysters are now being ship
ped to England, France, Holland and other
points of Europe. The demand is con-
stantly increasing
Suits of white ash furniture, carved al
most to wooden lace, are much admired,
and employ the talents of decorative wood
carvers to profitable extent
The electric light has been tried in ball
rooms abroad and found delightful, giving
shadowless, bright light, without heat, so
that the rooms are delightfully."- cool all night.
Special bouquets prepared for the decora
tons at recent wooden dinner party were
little baskets inscribed with the dates of the
wedding and the celebration, and filed with
roses.
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healthy child may, perhaps, safely enter the
primary school at seven years of age, but,
if nervous or inclined to talk or be restless
In sleep, better wait another wear.
The ex-Empress Eugene has ordered of
the sculptor Boehin a marble group of life
size representing the Prince Imperial lying
dead on the ground, partly wrapped in his
cloak, while an angel is crowning him.
A proud man who failed in business and
found his assets would pay only fifteen
cents on the dollar, insisted, for the looks of
the thing, on paying twenty-five cents,
even if he had to make up the difference
out of his own pocket.
In 1856 the Mississippi River steamboat
Ellie Alton ran against the Davenport,
Iowa, bridge and went to the bottom. Re-
Gently an iron safe, containing several
thousand dollars was raked up from the
bare bones of the wreck.
McKeehen was compelled, while loaded
pistol was levelled at him, to marry Miss
Moore at Leavenworth, Kan. He contested
the legality of the marriage and the courts
declared it null and void. Then he yolun.
tarily had the ceremony repeated
The darkness of death is like the evening
twilight; it makes all objects appear more
lovely to the dying.
"a consuming device" has been
made successful by David Sinton, of Gin
cinnati. Three arches placed under the
boiler arrest the smoke, which, before it
passes the third and lowest arch, becomes
incandescent. There is saving of twenty
per cent. of the fuel
A tramp found woman alone in a
Vermont farm house, and threatened to
kill her if she did not give him five cents
''Well, here it is" she said, showing the
coin, ''but guess I'll shoot it to you, and
she dropped it into the barrel of shotgun.
The fellow did not wait to take it.
At recent performance in London, of a
play wherein a mother has terrific combat
with two rufians for the possession of her
child, large Newfoundland dog, which had
been taken into the pit by its owner, a
steamboat engineer, leaped over the orches-
ira, and, landing upon the stage, seized one
of the fellows, and was with great difficulty
removed. The dog had been companion
of children.
There have been graduated at Yale Col
lege four signers of the Declaration of In
dependence, A United States Senators and
40 Representatives, Is foreign ambassa-
doris and 16 Cabinet officers one Chief JUS
tice of the United States (Judge Waite) 20
State Governors and 10 Lieutenant Govern
ors, IS Presidents of colleges and $50 pro-
fessors, together with four Presidents of
theological seminaries. The photographers,