Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-12
FACTS AND FANCIES


THE richest gold mine known in the
United States, before the acquisition of
California. was in Rowin county, North
Carolina, which in 1840 yielded $500 to
the bushel Of earth, or S., 000, 900 in all,
when the mine became flooded. In
1899 a nugget found in Cabarus county
weighed seventy-eight pounds. For
wears number Of gold veins and
blazers or gravel deposits were extern
siyely worked over large territory on
both sides of the Blue Ridge.
THE European sportsman, mighty
hunter though he be, is completely up
to the blush when comparing his meager
account of days shooting with the re-
gal bags made by the Indian Rajahs and
Princes, or even by the Feringhees, in
British India. There may be less phys
ical exerton, and consequently less
physical Improvement, in the monster
battues of the East than In our more
homely and vigorous sports, but the to-
tai is something very magnificent In
deed. Six tigers, thirty-six buffaloes,
14O pigs and 5000 deer is the sum OF
Hindoo gentleman's shooting.
Mrs. Wilkins Of Oxford, N. c., had
three children of her own and was
stepmether to a boy. The latter an
noyed her by stealing eatables from
the pantry, and she tried in vain to
prevent his depredations. She locked
the daintiest of the food in chest,
and he opened it with skeleton key.
Finally, she poisoned some cake, put 1t
in closet, and went away for q days
visit. On her return, instead of find
ing that the boy was dead, she saw
the remains of two Of her children
who had been killed by the poison.
The great influx Ofg Europeans into
this country, while gratifying in the
main, is not without disagreeable fea-
lures. The discovery has been made
in New York that not only are many
of the immigrants destitute, but some
of them paupers within the legal
meaning Of the term, and that those
paupers are being sent here at the eX-
pense of the authorities Of their native
country. The Government OF, Bavaria
it appears from Investigations made by
the New York Emigration Commits
sioners, has been guilty of this dis
graceful practice. A party Of eighty
adults and large number of children
arrived at Castle Garden recently,
their passage having been provided
for by the Bavarian Government by
contract with shipping agent at AS
chaffenberg. These people were a bur-
den on the State and were sent to
America that the State might be re-
lievcd of the expense Of providing for
them. From the statements OF the
paupers it appears that the Bavarian
Government contemplates Kidding it.
self Of others Of. its helpless citizens in
| the Same manner.
Mrs. Scott-Siddons was reading to
fashionable audience at Columbia, S.
G.. In the midst Of a selection from
'sKing john" at the point where the
Prince is sentenced to be blinded, she
stopped abruptly, said it was impos-
sible to proceed, and walked off the
stage. The people thought that she
was overcome by emotion, aroused by
the passage which she was reading,
and so they applauded her for the sup
posed display of womanly feeling.
But they were mistaken. A party
of young men in q box had annoyed
her by conversation and inattention,
and she returned to explain that unless
they behaved better she would read no
more. They were quiet thereafter.
Various statements more or less er-
roneous, have been current recently
respecting the Pope's health. The
truth is that, though no notable mala-
dy exists, the Holy Fathers medical
advisers are not satisfied with his con-
dition. Every cause of moral trouble
| that arises throws him into state of
nervous prostration. OVcrwork and
want of exercise and salubrious air to
which he has been accustomed, are
telling upon him disastrously, and
| those who are around him assert that
his health is failing visibly. His med
ical advisers are very anxious that he
should have change ofair, but it seems
| that the threats and pressure brought
to bear upon him by those who would
fain chain him to the stake, have hith-
erto availed to prevent him from TAX
ING any such decision.
On Good Friday morning at the
Church of All Hallows, Lombard
street, London, according to a custom
which has been observed for the last
2S7 years, sixty of the younger boys
from Christ's Hospital attended the
service, after which, iii accordance
with the will of Peter Symonds, made
in 1898, they each receivedat the hands
of the church warden new penny and
packet of raisins. Another very an
cient custom was observed at st. Bar
tholomew the Great, Smithfield, where
at the conclusion of the service an old
tomb in the churchyard was visited,
when the Rev. j. Morgan laid twenty
one sixpences ON the tomb, which were
picked up by twenty-onc elderly fe-
males of the parish. 1t is said that an
old lady left this benefaction, and that
she lies buried in the churchyard, but
the exact spot cannot be pointed out.
OF the action instituted in Rome by
the Countess Lambertini for q share
OF the property left by the late Car
dinal Antonelli, it has in some quar-
tiers been supposed that the last had
been heard. Such, if the Countess can
help it, is not to be the case. In the
former suit the Court had refused to
allow her to offer evidence in support
OF the allegation that she was the Car
dinaPs daughter, on the ground that
baptismal certificate had been put in
showing that she. was the legitimate
offspring of "a respectable married cou-
pie. The Countess is now coming for