Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-06
Miscellaneous Items.


THE post of the Grand Army of the
Republic at Waterbury, Conn.,, viii
endeayor to raise 100000 to erect q
soldiers monument there.
THE census is said to show an
excess of 008. 298 males in this country,
there being only 96,519 females to
every 100000 males, against 97,S01 in
1870.
THE Kansas state aid committee
has adjourned after having distributed
among $4,000 sufferers, from the short
harvests of 1879 and 1880, 214,170
pounds of -four, 297, los pounds ofmeal
and $2,4l9 in money.
A GENTLEMAN in Athens, Ga,
claims to be the owner of the whistle
about which Robert Burns wrote a
ballad. It's history dates back to the
time when Anne of Denmark went to
Scotland with James VI.
1T is reported that grocer in Salem,
Mass, is to be sued for damages by a
citizen Of Wenham whose son was
badly injured by an explosion of kero-
sene oil sold by the grocer and below
the fire test of Ito degrees.
JAMES FRANKLIN old printing
press, at which his brother Benjamin
worked as an apprentice, is on exhibit
ton at the Old South Church, Boston.
1t is now the property Of the Massach-
usetts Charitable Mechanic Associa-
ton.
ATLANTA, GA, was named no longer
ago than 1S4o, by J. Edgar Thompson,
the well-knoWn president of the Penn
sylvania Railroad company. Thirty
five years have just passed and there
are now eleven Atlantis in the United
States.
A GREAT reduction has been made
in the expenses of the New Y DIRK legis-
lature since 1871. In that year there
were 323 clerks and attendants; now
there are only 65. In 1871 the annual
payroll amounted to ss121, 1893 now it
is $4S,S2S.
A LIVELY war is being waged On
New York lottery and policy dealers,
one of them getting six. months and
1000 fine for selling tickets. This
will be hard on the charitable and
literary institutions of New Orleans
and Louisville.
EVEN Asia has not escaped an eXcep-
tionally severe winter. In Japan there
have been snow storms the like of
which are not remembered to have
occurred in forty years. The snow is
ten feet deep in the fields and fifteen
feet on the hills.
SOME Rhode Island militia, in camp
last summer at Warnock, destroyed
the nest and eggs of sitting hen.
The owner had counted great deal
on the unmatched chickens. and he.
has presented to the legislature
claim for 5000.
In the last twenty years the Com
stock lode has yielded 6,500,000 tons
of ore, which averaged $3.50 per ton,
making the total value of the ore
tracted $323,671, COS. Of this ore the
gold formed 48 per cent. in value and
the silver IS per cent.
A HARTFORD Conn., man has
invented a continuance for announcing
the stations ON railroad trains, which
can be worked by steam from the
engine, or by electricity, and a COM
pany has been formed with a capital
of 100000 to manufacture it.
A SAN FRANCISCO man had sued a
street railroad company there for
1926, 900 for the death of his son. The
company pleads that the boy was steal
ing a ride when he met with the acci-
dent, and the plaintiff at the time
accepted $50 and gave the company a
written agreement exempting it from
all liability caused by the death.
CONSIDERABLE feeling has been
elected in Connecticut ON the subject
of biennial elections. The friends of
this change have been trying to pro-
cure the passage of a constitutional
amendment through the legislature
preparatory to submitting it to the
people for their vote. The press of
the state is almost unanimously in it's
favor, and there is very general de-
sire among the people that the change
should be made.