Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-29
FACTS AND FANCIES

eternally sprlng1ng.
IT IS estimated that seventy years and
81, 100000 will be required to complete
the excavations at Pompeii.
A FAcETrous old lady, describing the
rambling sermons Of her minister, said:
"H the text had been smallpox, his
sermon would never catch it.
ONE Of the saddest and most vexatious
trials that comes to girl when she mar
ries is that she has to discharge her
mother and depend upon servant girl.
EARL CowpER, the new Viceroy of
Iceland, is the lneal descendant and
leir-general Of one of the ablest Lord
Lieutenants Ireland ever had-James,
Duke Of Ormonde, the Cavalier states
man and commander.
GEN. JOSEPH r. HAwLEY offers as an
excuse for declining to deliver an agrI-
cultural ADDRESS at the Berkshire County
Fair (the job previously declined by Mr..
SEYMOUR that his political friends OBJ
ject to his making any engagements for
September or October.
The new census of Oswego, N. T.,
shows 20, 622 population, against 20, 910
in 1870 and 2O,42s in 1876. Oswego
people are surprised, but citizens Of
Binghamton, N. Y, are in agony be-
cause the census enumerators counted
16, 900 noses in that city when they e1-
pected some 10000.
FLIES ON GILT FRAMES. house
cleaning this spring I applied onion wa
ter to all Of my picture frames. This is,
I believe, sure preventive against flies
injuring them. Boil three onions in a
pint of water strain and use when cold.
1t in no way harms the gilding.-Mrs.
q. L. A., in Rural Neao Yorker.
VIENNA celebrated, few days since,
the unwilling of the statue of Beethoven.
Vienna, which the great composer
called his second home, has thus paid
its debt of gratitude to the man whose
works still reign supreme in the capital
of Austria. Tho monument was initiated
and executed by private subscription.
In speech before the Alumni Asso-
citation of Yale, President Hayes dwelt
at some length on the benefits which
the country had derived from that insti-
tuition, and stated, among other things,
that at the beginning Of his admins
tration he wrote to President Woolsey
for advice, and that the conciliatory
Southern policy was the result.
NET aud Pet Woods, Of Marion, Ohio,
warned their father that if he took a
second wife they would externinate her.
He disobeyed. The girls armed them
selves with revolvers on the night Of
the marriage, broke open the door ct
the bridal chamber, and fred several
shots into the darkness. They missed
their stepmother, however, and slightly
wounded their father.
IdOSE WIZ WILL tfbhC tAO EJctAAlo w VA
anime horses foot will find it set Of
elliptical springs separated from each
other by spongy substance, and the
frog cushion to rest the foot upon-the
whole being admirably constructed for
heavy body to resist jars-from which
the, natural inference that cutting and
pairing the hoof and frog is not only use
less but positively injurious.
REcroR's wife" How do you do, Mr..
Wiggles? We have not seen you at
church lately. Have you been away?"
Mr.. Wiggles-"Yes, mum I've been
a-visitin' my old 'aunts at Duckstown,
num-" Rector's wife" Reallyi I
hope you found the old ladies quite
well" Mr.. Wiggles-"I didn't say my
harnts, mum I said N. old 'aunts-re-
visitin' the 'aunts O my youth, you
know, mum"
We have found it quite serviceable 70
go over grain infested with the army
worm and knock the pests off. The
slightest touch dislodges them. A rope,
as clothes line. may be drawn over
belts twenty feet in width by men, each
taking hold Of an end. Thus thrown to
the ground they begin their travels In
stead Of at once returning to feast upon
the grain or stalks about them. Ii
trenches are dug about such fields, vast
numbers may be captured and destroyed
in this manner.-Rural New Yorker.
"MR. PIERCE asked if potatoes can be
grown number Of years on the same
piece without diminution in yield, il
well supplied with barn-yard maitdre.
Mr.. Laing said that he heard a gentle
man say that he had grown potatoes on
the same spot thirty years, and the last
crop was the best Had used barn
yard manure only. Mr.. Ross said that
his father planted the same spot in the
garden twenty-five years without DIM
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