Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-25
Miscellaneous Items.

The gross earnings of the Suez ship
canal for the present year will be 49,
O66,65O, while the disbursements, in
GLIDING S. per share, have been only
e5,7S5, 665, leaving for distribution
among the shareholders $3.50, 9S5 as
the profits of the year.
In Great Britain, as appears from a
Treasury return published short time
ago, the receipts of the Patent Office
during the twelve years, 1868 to 1870,
were f1,779,S92, and the expenditure
only f504,S2 leaving a net gain to
the public exchequer- of Fl, 275,57O.
Mary Ellen Chase is authority for the
statement that women outnumber men
three to one in heaven. Will she dis
pei the agonizing doubts in puzzled
brain by coming forward and explain
ing how, under those circumstances
heaven could be beaverton the men.
Before the year 1900 the Spaniards
commenced to import African slaves
into the West Indies, and some were
landed on the Spanish portion of what
is now the territory of the United States.
The first slaves landed upon the terri
tory of the original states were 20 sold
from Dutch vessel at jamestown,
Virginia, in 1919. The earlier slave
trade, after New England was settled,
was chiefly in the hands of Massachu-
sets and other New England shipown-
ers, who not only brought negroes to
their own ports, but sold them wher-
ever they could find market. Slavery
in Massachusetts was ended by the
adoption of the constitution of 1850,
but Vermont had abolished it three
years before.
The English newspapers refer humor-
ously to ian alliance of beer and BIZ
bles, bricks and mortar" There is a
great brewer at Warrington, Sir Gilbert
Greenal, who, upon one side of one Of
his public houses has built school and
on the other side church. Somebody
quotes as apropos of this queer contig-
uity the old couplet: Wherever God
erects house of prayer, the devil
builds a chapel there" This Tory
brewer, they say, has taken a contract
for both. But this is not so good as the
ancient quatrain written upon church
the vaults of which were let for the
storage of strong drink. Upon the
door of this miscellaneous edifce some
wag wrote: There's spirit above and
a spirit below; A spirit of JOY and a
spirit of woe; The spirit above is the
spirit divine, And the spirit below is
the spirit of wine.'' =.
A singular sort of compliment was
once paid to Tom Playside in New Or
leans. At the end of much-applauded
scene, when .bravos" rent the air and
flowers were falling thick around him,
a carpenters broad chisel sped whizz-
ing from the ..fat'' few inches from
his head. The offender was speedily
discovered and brought before the in
dignant actor. s.What have / ever
done to you,'' he said, s'that you should
attempt my life?'' Attempt your life,
Mr.. Playside,' cried the honest fellow
with tears in his eyes, II never dreafnt
of such a thing. But they was all q
throwin' you things, Mr.. Playside, and
I hadn't nothin' but my old chisel to
show how / liked We, Mr.. Playside, and
so throwed yer that" "All right,''
said the actor, laughing, "here's your
chisel, but next time let me take your
liking for granted. Hour. .sr.al
The majority of the people do not
have any opinions. They have simply
notions, impressions, sentiments, feel
ings; they have prejudices, desire to
see this thing prevail, or that But
how many men are there that, concern
ing any great problems of the world,
have earned the right to say that they
have an opinion? How many men are
there that have studied the question.
that have weighed opposing claims and
probabilities and testimony, so that
their opinion is worth the breath it
takes to utter itp There are thousands,
of people who are like looking glasses;
they have o shadow Of whatever hap
pens to Be standing before them. They
have an opinion so long as they are
talking with some positive person who
believes something, but let that person
go away, and it IS ready for another
track.-IS1v0oe.