Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The value of the fresh mushrooms
sold daily in Paris is $4OO.
Gold has been found on James Bed.
ford's farm at Holland. VT.
1t is suggested in New York to Gre
mate its dirt-not By burning the town
down, but by erecting great furnaces
in the suburbs.
Jefferson Davis old plantation IL
now leased to his former slaves. who
pay small rental and earn a scanty
living from it.
The Business Mems Moderation soci-
ETY. of New York city has succeeded in
getting 100000 to sign the pledge not
to treat, but to drink on the quiet il
they want to.
Fort Benton, Montana, built over
thirty-five years ago, is almost a COM
plete wreck. The winds and storms Of
nearly half century have warped and
eaten into the adobes.
The Saratogtan says that there will
be a greater number of New York
brokers in Saratoga this year than ever
before. Seven firms have already
rented offices.
Paschal Haney, of Morehead, KY.
formerly magistrate, who struck and
killed man on election day, has simp-
Iy been found guilty of assault and bat
terry and fined 50.
Since January last, seventy-eight
ships with an aggregate OF 1lS, 600 tons,
have been launched in England, and on
April 1 there were 100000 tons in
course of construction.
The members of the bar of Maryland
are taking steps to erect monument
over the remains of the late Chief JUS
tice John Buchanan, of that state, who
died in November, 1874.
Philosophical Bostonians most Bos-
tonians are public-spirited) are signing
protests against a proposed removal of
the old state house, an honored memo
rial of the revolutionary period.
The descendants of Tristram Coffin
will gather at Nantucket on Aug. 16.
II, and Is, to do honor to the two hum
dredth anniversary of the landing of the
chief of the clan on that island.
A Montreal man who was locked up
for the night for asking policeman's
number was discharged in the morning,
but the magistrate cautioned him not to
be too inquisitive in the future.
Six sisters and brother reside near
each other in eastern Massachusetts,
whose united ages are $40 years and
months, and there has been no death
in their generation of their family for
eighty years.
A counterfeit S. gold piece is in cir-
culation in San Francisco, 1t bears the
date of 1869, and has good ring, butts
gold-plated on white metal somewhat
harder than silver. When new it is
likely to deceive.
Capt. Bogardus' feat of breaking five
hundred glass balls in twenty-five min
utes and fifteen seconds has been ex-
celled by John G. Haskell, of Lynn.
Mass, who broke the same number IN
twenty-four minutes and two seconds.
I It is urged against the theory that the
white house is very unhealthy place
that only two presidents Harrison and
Taylor) out of nineteen who have lived
therein have died within its walls, and
neither of these deaths has ever been
attributed to local causes.
Mr.. Job Terry, of Fall River, Mass,
died in 1861, and left an estate of $685.
$3.50, which, by his will, was not to
be divided until 1881. Now that it is
time for the division, it foots up $780,
396.25. ;
The work of the Southern Pacific
railroad machine shops in Los Angeles
embraces all locomotive repairs pertain
ing to the Yuma, Los Angeles, Santa
Monica, Wilmington. and Santa Ans
division.
The London Economist estimates the
average immigrant, in capital or CAPT
tal-producing force, at $1,000, an esti
mate which agrees with the opinions OF
political economists generally. Looked
at in this light the United States is be-
ing enriched at present to the amount
of $4,000, 900 to S., ZOO, 900 daily.