Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Abont one hundred thousand watches
are sold every month in the United
States.
Two old Texas rangers, who had just
helped to bury neighbor, were talking
about religion, and one asked how
pious it was for a man to get in this
world, if he was in real earnest.
ssWa'al said the other, refiectively, 81
think eff man gets so at he can swope
steers OF trade horses 'thout lynn he'd
better pull out for the better land afore
he has a relapse"
Lord Ellenborough's "diary," which
is to be published by Mr.. Bentley, con-
,tains great many details of the lives
of George w., and William w., anec-
dotical matter referring to the Russo
Turkish war of 1929, Catholic eman-
cipation, and the French revolution OF
1880, besides illustrations of character
of the chief public men engaged in af-
fairs in the later years OF the fourth
George and the earlier of the fourth
William.
Dr. Graham, citizen Of Louisville,
who is in his 9th year, has just started
for the mountains on his ''last hunt. !"
He is the only living fort-born native of
Kentucky. When he came into the
world his parents were lodging arrows
and tomahawks, and his youth was
spent with rifle in his hand. He says
that he can not die in peace until he
shall once more have eaten venison OF
his own killing and cooking.
Chrisman hall, the new college for
colored youths at Atlanta, has been
opened, and is already nearly filled
with pupils. It has president and
five teachers, who are paid by the
Freedman's Aid Society, and the price
of tuition is very small. Mrs. Chrisman
of Topeka, gave $4,000 for the estab-
lishment of the college, and the rest of
the $40, 1000 which it cost came from the
Freedman's Aid society and from Bish-
OPP Ravens efforts to get private sub
scriptions.
A belief in the evil eye is very pre-
valent in Italy. The late Mgr. Pros
peri-Buzi, a relative of Leo KILL, was
reputed to possess that unenviable
quality of brin cling misfortune on those
upon whom his glance fell. 1t has been
lately asserted that the son of Cola di
Rienzi took the name of Prospect, and
that the true representatives of the fam
Gus tribune are to be found in the fam
lily of which Mgr. Prospect was mem
Der. Consequently the liberal tenden-
cies of the present pontiff may be at
tributed to his connection with the
Rienzi family.
At the meeting of the British Social
Science Congress, held in Edinburgh,
Scotland, a paper by Dr.. Alfred Car
penter, was read, in which he said that
the fogs peculiar to large towns were
not due to mist, but to unconsumed car
bon in the atmosphere, and he recon-
mended the adoption of gas as much as
possible for cooking and. other pur-
poses, to reduce smoke. To abate the
smoke excess he went so far as to advo-
cate tax on CRATES not consuming
their own smoke and upon chimney
stacks, the purchase of gas works by
local authorities, and the rigid enforc-
ing of existing laws relating to chin
neys which discharge large volumes OF
smoke.
The steamer City of Pekin left San
Francisco recently carrying eight hun
dred and fifty returning Cinnamon.
The sailing hour was fixed at 2 O'Clock
in the afternoon, and each of the eight
hundred and fifty did his best to be first
at the gate of the wharf. To accom-
plish this, hundreds of them spent the
previous night on the vacant lots in the
vicinity and on or under the wagons
loaded with their baggage. At sunrise
the gates of the wharf were opened ano
the crowd, encountered with bundles Of
every conceivable size and shape, tum'
bled in pen-mell, those in the rear fall
ing over those who had lost their bag
gage and their balance, until nearly
the whole mass was piled together or
the floor in bowling struggling heap
The officers soon restored order, anC
ranged the Cinnamon along the side O
the wharf, where they stood for eigh'
hours patiently waiting to be allowed
to board the vessel. When the sigma
to board was given the scenes of the
morning were repeated, and bundles
bedding, trunks, and no end of hat
went overheard as the crowd rushed VI
the narrow gang-plank.