Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-12
BRIEF MISCELLANY.

NoW 1oIh OAAuS oAo PdSJ biA luOAtuS
was LII, 900, exceeding by $4,000 that
for the corresponding period of 1872,
which was the year Of the largest ar
rivals. .ieI
JOHN GELS was buried at Rochester in
a coffin which he had kept in his house
eighteen years for daily contemplation.
His family had threatened to have it re-
moved, but his threat to haunt them af-
ter death deferred them.
A LITTLE while ago it was said that the
day for soldier candidates for the Presi-
dency had gone by. 1t hardly looks SO
when there are more of them in nominal
ton now thsn ever before in the history
of the country; in fact, there are no
candidates who are not soldiers. The
Democracy have nominated Gen. Han
cock the Republicans, Gen. Garfield;
the Greenbackers, Gen. J.. B. Weaver;
the Prohibitionists, Gen. Neal Dow.
WHEN the Princess Louise was shop
ping in Chicago another feminine shop
per approached herand said I: "There
is lady present who was born within
the dominion Of your mother, and she
would Like to speak to you" The Prin-
cess Immediately shook hands with the
difident Englishwoman and said she
was glad to see her. After a short
but kindly conversation the good Louise
turned to go, saying How lonely
you must be to stay away from your
own country SO long"
Texas JACK got his nickname by
feat in cattle speculation. During the
war Texas was shut off from the other
Southern States, and consequently there
was no supply Of beef from that source.
Jack, who was then known by his real
name, John Omohundro, invested all
his money in drove Of cattle, organized
a strong guard Of herders, and fought
his way to Tennessee, where the people
eagerly bought his beef and set him UP
for hero. At an enthusiastic public
meeting he was introduced as Texas
Jack, and the title adhered to him.
PROBABLY the youngest widow on rec
ord in this country lives in Albany. She
was discovered by a census enumerator.
She gave her age as 25. The inquiries
Of the enumerator afterward revealed
the fact that her husband died in the
war, about seventeen years ago, so that
the poor creature was left widow at
the early age Of 8 years. She carried
on the statistical conversation with the
enumeration in apparently blissful I'M
consciousness Of any extraordinary de
auctions being made from the figures
and facts she had given.
The results of soundings over the bed
Of the Atlantic lave made clear, it is be-
lieved, the existence through the middle
Of the ocean, extending from north to
south, Of sunEen ridge, often less than
1000 fathoms from the surface, whileon
either side the water has depth of from
5000 to more than $3.50 fathoms so
that the elevation Of the oceans bottom
required to MAXI these depths dry land
would bring up between them mount
ain range from 5000 to 1900 feet in
height. The higher points Of this
sumken ridge now form the islands of the
Azores.
FORESTRY, so neglected in this coun-
try, now receives very careful attention
in France as well as Germany. One Of
the French Under Secretaries of State
is Director Of Forests, and has a large
staff. An eminent French scientist, who
complains that meteorologists too often
neglect observations on animal or vege-
table physiology, recommends that the
dates Of the arrival and departure of
migratory birds, the leafng and flower
ing of plants and the ripening of corn
shall be noted in each district. Notes,
too, are to be made by foresters of such
natural history phenomena as fall with
in their notice.
An art movement on the Sthmus is
impending, in the removal Of the bronze
statue of Columbus from Colon, where it
now is, to pedestal near the supposed
entrance to the Chagres canal. A Pa
mama newspaper thinks this movement
premature, because for the present
this pearl of European art would be as
signed to the damp obscurity Of ma
larious mangrove swamp, where it would
never be visited except by the gallinazos,
congreios, culebras, and other denizens
Of the jungle" There can certainly be
no great danger that the canal will be
cut between the two oceans before
chance is afforded to remove this pearl
of art to another site.
SHERRARD CLEMENS, who died in a
st. Louis hospital o few days ago, was
notable figure in the politics of twenty
years ago. He represented a Virginia
district in the Thirty fifth apd Thirty
sixth Congresses, and was one Of the
most promising orators of his day. In
1856 he fought duel with O. Jennings
,O;co cor, IF Harry Wise ,.acoivinor