Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Sam Mace, the once Well-knOWn Eng
fish pugilist, is keeping large hotel in
Melbourne. He is said to have become
"model moral man. and is, more
over, making money fast.
Capt. Stone arrived at Moundville, W.
Va, thirty-fve years ago, settled there
and planted two seeds, remarking to
his family that he would like to raise
his own coffin. One of these seeds died
but the other fOurished and grew.
From shoot it became a sapling and
finally q fine tree. About eighteen
months ago it was blown down in Sc
we're wind-storm. He had it cut into
lumber and sent to a Pittsburg, Pa,
firm. In a short time it was returned
to him in the shape of beautiful coffin,
in which he was recently buried.
At the Winter Palace in st. Peters,
burg there is rGbm full of diamonds,
pearls, and other precious stones. An
Empress of Russia is allowed to borrow
from this room after giving receipt
for what she takes, and generally the
Grand Duchesses are allowed to borrow
from it also. 81 remember" says M.
Labouchere, ''once going into the room
with a French diplomatic lady. She
beat a hasty retreat after one glance
around, for she felt that, if she stayed,
her principles would succumb to her
admiration, and that she would try to
steal some of the contents
At Harvard college, students consume
a great deal of milk and of bread, with
much oatmeal and cracked wheat for
breakfast. There is comparatively lit
tie coffee used. Oyster soup is great
favorite for dinner, requiring fourteen
gallons of oysters for seventy-five gal
Ions of soup. Celery, too, is favorite
at dinner, nearly three hundred punches
being used daily. The boys also like a.
plenty of ice-cream and very many ap-:
Piles and grapes, Beef-steak is largely
consumed at breakfast and roast beef at
dinner. Scrambled eggs disappear rap
idly at breakfast time.
There was considerable circumstan-
tial evidence that John Snufelt murder
ed his wife at North Egromont, Mass.
She disappeared very mysteriously, af-
ter living very unhappily with him. A
track was found that looked as though
it had been made by dragging body
from the house to lake near by; an
old boat was discovered concealed in
some bushes, and it was believed that
Shufelt had sunk the remains in the
water. The lake was persistently drag
ged, but the woman was not produced,
and the husband was necessarily dis
charged from custody. Suspicion chung
to him, however, only to be dispelled
by the positive proof that Mrs. Shufelt
cloped, and is still living.
The census of Vermont, complete,
shows the population to be 332, 266,
which is less by 2, 1876 than was reported
some months ago. This takes away
more than half the supposed increase
in ten years. It now appears that the
gain from census to census was only
half of 1 per cent. The number of
males has increased more than twice as
much as the number of females, the
sexes being very evenly divided, as
there are 991 females to every 1000
males. The native population has in
creased, and the foreign-born residents
have decreased. There are now less
than Al, 600 foreigners in Vermont, or
only little more than II per cent. The
colored people number but 1,043, of
whom eleven only are Indians and half
breeds.
A curious incident occurred in Paris
in the course of the recent proceedings
against the religious orders. AS the
commissary of police was about to put
the seals on the doors of the Dominic
ans chapel, the superior, Father Jouin,
remarked to him that there were al
ready some seals ON the doors. II beg
of you," he said, monsieur lie Commits
sairs. not to destroy those seals. They
are historical, being those which were
affixed by the men of the commune in
1871. We have carefully preserved
them as souvenir of those trying times.
/ should be obliged if you would not de-
stroy them and place yours on the side
of them" M. DUlac acceded to the de-
sire, and the two seals are now side by
side.