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

IL Is Sdlu, Ouiy HIIcCH FlOAuo,
TheeLondon Times makes this state
ment of the progress of Great Britain
and Ireland in the last ten years:
Population has increa sed. ....... II per cen 3
revenue. -. ............'...'' 90 &C 6,
Public wealth. ...-.... oo
commerce .-,-................. 10 a.
Shipping OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 10 .
textile manufactures. ..........
R RneTals traffic Is
Postomce ........-...............a 20 =. =.
SCHOOLS. ............lE. .
Public morality Observation-Disclosures. Ii
welfare of the poor.............. ID
A Connecticut couple were legally
married, few days ago, in strict con-
formity with the township map. They
procured marriage license from the
Ledyard town clerk, and in the evening
called upon minister in neighboring
town to perform the ceremony. As the
rite could only be performed in Led
yard, the clergyman and contracting
parties with the witnesses, took lanterns
and walked through the woods just
across the town boundary line, where
the marriage was performed.
A Bremen newspaper says that the
North German Lloyds have engaged to
convey three thousand Roumanian
Jews to New York. The emigrants are
sick of their own country, and have
been enabled to seek fresh homes across
the Atlantic by the fberality of their
coreligionists in France and Germany.
The North German Lloyds have under
taken to find orthodox food for the
emigrants during the passage. The
patrons provide funds not only for the
passage, but also for the purchase of
homes and farms in America.
Miss Gardner, who has achieved dis
tinction by having evicted good
many of her tenants in Ireland, lives in
house defended by iron bars, chains,
and by several policemen. She has
been shot at through window of the
building, and she carries revolver in
in the pocket of her shooting jacket.
Her only companion is a lady named
Miss Pringle. 1t is related that the
poorer peasants speak of her sa malev-
olent fiend, an ''extherminathor," a
tyrant striving to make the lives of the
poor so wretched as to drive them off
her estate. "a strange lady is she,
SOFT" cried one of the tenants. "Och,
she's devil of woman entoirely.
All she wants is to hunt the poor off the
face of the wor-r-rold.'
A rather curious phenomenon has
been observed lately at Sparks & Co, s
Touring mill at Alton. In passing
through room in the second story in
comparative darkness, it was noticed
that the rapidly running belts were
aglow with what Appealed like phos-
phorescent light. Atfrst this was as
cribed to the reflection from the lamps
on the copper rivets with which the
belts are constructed. After all the
lights were taken away, however, the
belts presented clearly defined illumin-
ated outlines, and when the hand of a
spectator was held close to them, bright
little globules attached themselves to
the palm and fingers, being especially
noticeable on the thumb nail. No heat
was felt, and il is more than probable
that the light was of electrical origin, be-
ing unusually bright on account Of some
peculiar state of the atmosphere.
The minister of the United States at
st, Petersburg, in a dispatch to the
department of state, draws gloomy
picture of the present economic and
social condition of Russia. The grain
crop of the past season, he says, has
proved failure, and American wheat
is imported now even at St. Petersburg.
It is also entering at Odessa and other
Russian ports. But large market for
this American cereal cannot be predict
ed, as very little bread made from
wheat is used in Russia; the mass of the
people must have cheaper and coars-
er article, such as rye or Indian corn.
The scarcity of grain in the empire is
SO great that it was currently reported
and generally believed that the imperial
government was considering the pro-
priety of prohibiting the expectation OF
rye. There will be much suffering
among the poor classes. Minister
Foster quotes from The Golos of St.
Petersburg as follows: ''From all sides
comes news of this harvest being below
the average, of want and hunger, from
which will spring disease and very
likely death. Beetles, worms and To-
Gusts are eating up the corn; the dimin-
uitiion of cattle surpasses all belief;
diphtheria is taking off the coming
generation; bread-stuffs have already
reached five kopeks per pound. Every
one feels that Russia does not subsist
by the produce of its own land, but is
wasting its capital in cutting wood,
selling surplus cattle, pulling straw
from its matched roofs and depriving
itself Of its fancy clothes and shoes"
A California inventor has made a
machine for pressing and drying pota-
toes so that they will keep for years,
yet preserve their natural flavor. No
chemicals are used in the operation of
curing, everything being done by a
simple machine capable of pressing
600 bushels Of potatoes in twenty-four
hours. The machine not only presses
the potatoes, but lays them on tray in
concave form with the hollow side
down. After the pressure they are put
into the drying apparatus, where they
remain for two hours, then they are
ground into coarse meal resembling
cracked rice. The first shipment OF
these preserved potatoes to Liverpool,
last year, brought a large profit. The
ovora ra ,,,.ice If pOtatoeS in San Fran