Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Great Britain sports 1000 Yachts.

An ani-spaStering slop jar has Just been
patented
Chicago makes $15,OOO,OOO worth of
cloth year.
A fuI-blooded Seneca Indian is fireman
on the Erie Railroad, and good one, too.
A blind mendicant in Paris wears this in
scription around his neck: "Don't be
ashamed to give only sou. can't see."
Sober sense, self possession, intelligent
sef-control, are the safeguards of head and
heart, and make beautiful temple for the
soul.
Cremation is increasing in favor in
Northern Italy. Within the last four years
fifty cases have occurred at Milan and ten at
Lodi.
An eccentric old Georgian, William VIII
son, of Newton County, recently died, leav-
ing his estate, worth $1,000 to his former
slaves
a man captured devil fish at Los An
gelos, Cal, recently, whose tentacles, eight
in number, measured eighteen inches in
length.
A young man at Canton, Ohio, has sued
his own mother for $4,000 for Islander.
She circulated report that he was drunken
and theiyish
A California paper says that it is now
considered wel-settled point that the pro-
duction of raisins in that State will be
made profitable.
Two hundred and fifteen children, grand
children and great grandchildren attended
a recent birthday celebration of Mrs. Sin
darilla Lee, of AppIng County, Ga.
Naples and Genoa are said to furnish the
most artistic work in coral, of which pale,
pinl1ish shade is very fashionable. The
processes Of manufacturing it are performed
by women.
Hunt Marvin, of Battle Greek, Mich, has
face as beardless as that of woman.
There never has been hair on his face,
though he is sixty years old and the head of
large family.
In indianapolis, Ind, lately four Chinese
joined the Presbyterian Church, and one
has taken out naturalization papers. There
are some twenty-five other Cinnamon in a
Presbyterian Sunday school there.
A woman living near the foot of the Blue
Ridge Mountains, in Georgia, caught four
wild turkeys in a trap recently, and when
she tried to get them out they attacked her
SO fercely as to break one of her arms.
The exports of butter from this country
are only four per cent. of the production;
those of cheese forty-one per cent. English
people eat far more cheese than butter It
is staple food among laboring men in
England.
Lieutenant Fl. L. Smith, of Boston, is
fortunate man, and as brave as fortunate.
In 1876 he saved from death by drowning
two children of Maryland gentleman, and
the grateful father, who lately died, be-
queathed $27,0 to the young man.
Newton Ransom, an Excise Commission.
er of the town of Lloyd, New York, opposed
the granting Of liquor licences. to several
dealers. One night recently thousand
dollars worth of apple trees in his orchard
were stripped of bark, thus killing them.
The editor of Mt. Sterling (Ky) paper
the other night had a call from two hundred
masked men, who requested him to publish
their warning against the horse thieves of
the county. He said it was against his rules
to publish anonymous communications but
he thought he could make an exception
in this instance.
A few weeks ago twenty members of the
Scottish Food Reform Society sat down to
repast consisting of six courses, namely,
lentil and barley soup, haricot bean pies,
haricot-bean omelettes, with sauce, hominy
pudding, pearl-meal pudding and tapioco
and apples, all which, exclusive of cooking,
cost at the rate Of SD. & cents per head.
A Lowell CMass.) man was telling tree
by the roadside, when he saw a man and
woman passing in sleigh right under the
falling tree. It was too late for assistance
and the tree fell, coming square down be-
tween the horse and the occupants of the
sleigh. The forward part of the sleigh was
smashed, but neither the horse nor the man
or woman was hurt.
A new industry has been started in
Flushing, L. l., that of constructing houses
In sections which can readily be put togeth-
er with movable pins. No plaster is used,
and the buildings are neatly finished inside,
the boards and beams being beaded and
polished. The houses range from $500
upward, and are chiefly shipped to the
West Indies.
A young man in Salem, N. j., tried to