Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-19
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of London society. He is overwhelmed
with invitations.
Why is Zulu belle like prophet Of
old? Because she has not much on'er
in her own country.
OLD PoKEBURY, Blood Sucker, Grand
Turk, Scud, Old Hat, and Squeduhk are
names of mines in Arizona.
The census returns show the popula-
ton of Brooklyn, N. Y, to be 555, 900,
an increase of 1900 in five years.
ABOUT 10000 railway cars were built
in the United States last year, and there
will be about $4,000 built this year.
SINCERITY is an openness Of heart; tbs
found in very few people, and that
which we commonly see is not it, but
subtle discrimination to gain the conf
dence of others.
The health of Thomas A. Scott has
improved decidedly since he gave up the
Presidency Of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company and went to his country
home, Lansdowne, near Philadelphia.
Mrs. URSULA HJMPHREv11LE, of
Northfeld, Ct, now more than 100
Years old, recently rode to an adjoining
town, distant four miles, sat four times
for her photograph, made some calls,
and returned home very little wearied.
JOSEPH BARNARD, Hopkinton, N. H.,
says that the English white potato has
been raised on his place from fifty to
seventy-fve years, and upward of a
hundred years on the farm above, and is
the only variety that has not gradually
run out.
IT is well known to persons who have
visited the dirty cities Of hot climates
that when soaking shower is followed
by bright sun while no wind is stirring
great numbers Of people suddenly fall
sick, and physicians are utterly unable
to respond to all calls.
A DEMURE, diminutive girl, aged Is,
is under arrest in Philadelphia for biga-
my. She has three living husbands, all
of whom she has married within two
years. When asked why she had done
this, she said: "They were all good fell
lows, and they coaxed me so
THE new census OF Oswego, N. Y,
shows 2O,622 population, against 20,91O
in 1870, and 2O,42S in 1875. Oswego
people are surprised but citizens Of
Binghamton, N. Y, are in agony be-
cause the census enumerators counted
$1,000 noses in that city, when they
expected 10000.
A CENTENARIAN ex-soldier, who re-
Gently died in a Russian village, con-
tinued his business of tailor till death,
though he had been blind for forty
years. His sense Of touch was so acute
that he could distinguish different bank
notes. He used to thread his needle by
means of his tongue.
AMAN who firmly believes that second
flood will come next November to cover
the whole face of the earth is building
an ark at Helena, Tex. The craft will
hold fifty persons, with food for forty
days and forty nights, and he will take
passengers at $500 each. Every other
vessel, he explains. will be wrecked.
TIE death of James A. Bayard calls
public attention to one of the most re-
markable families in the political his
tory of this country. No other family
has had so many Of it's members in the
Senate of the United States, or had
them there through so long stretch Of
years.
In certain parts Of Palestine farming
is profitable. At Jaffa orange groves
are said to pay per cent. net. The
converts succeed well in the culture of
the olive, and the manufacture Of oil.
Arab villages raise grain enough to sup
ply their own wants, and now and then
have surplus for expectation.
SNTY-FoUR years ago occurred the
year without summer. May II, 1916,
the snow fell eight inches deep on level
in Hartford. July 5, that year, Indian
corn was so frozen that the greater part
was cut down and dried for fodder in
Connecticut. There was frost every
month of the year in the Northern States.
HE Austrian press with great unan-
unity urge the deposition of the Sultan,
and the partition Of his dominions
among the neighboring European pow
ers. In case this recommendation
should be carried out, Austria would
probably come in for small slice of the
territory in question, which probably
accounts for the press recommendation.
The population Of Montreal, if the
corporation official statements are cor
rect, is less by 1000 than it was short
time ago. There are many hundreds
of houses unoccupied to-day in Mont
real, where five or six years ago it was
almost impossible to find house wait