Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Drunkenness is spreading so much i'm
Germany that new measure for it's
punishment and prevention is being
prepared for presentation to the Impe-
rial Parliament.
A San Francisco merchant says that
he picks up from six to a dozen pistol
bullets on his fiat roof every year, a
striking illustration of the number OF
chance shots fired in the city.
The Due d'Aumale is receiving sue
cession of large parties at the Chateau
of Chantilly. The Countess de Paris
and the Duchess de Chartress act as
hostess, turn and turn about.
A bill against dueling, introduced in
to the South Carolina Legislature, pro-
vides the death penalty for the survivor
and Imprisonment and fines for whoever
carries the challenge and sees the fight.
The price which England is to be
called upon to pay out of the pockets Of
the English, Scotch, and Welsh taxpay-
ers, in order to settle forever the dis
quoting Irish land question, is, accord
ing to the Statist, the very modest
amount of 81, 500, 100000.
The fires of last spring in the swamps
of southern New Jersey had the effect
of producing the biggest cranberry crop
ever known. Growers bewailed their
certain ruin, but the fires so enriched
the ground that the plants have pro-
duced treble in quantity and quality.
The committee of the Spinners' asso-
citation of Fall River, offer a reward of
$25 to any minor or woman who will
give testimony that will convict any
corporation of violation of the ten-hour
law. They claim that violation of the
law is quite general with the manufac-
turers, while the latter deny it.
There is nothing in the world equal
to fashionable enterprise, says the New
York Mail. A well known and very
ambitious lady of Murray Hill has sent
to China for a certain rare kind of tea
which she proposes to serve at kettle
drum.
A New York florist recently charted
a car to send piece of decorative work
to Cleveland wedding. TWAS bow
er of matched straw, fifteen feet high,
and studded with roses and trimmed
with wreaths.
A curious new club is about to be es-
tablished in Albert terrace, Knights
bridge, London. 1t is to be founded by
bachelors, who are to be allowed to in
vite ladies to dinner. When a member
marries he is to be permitted to retain
his membership OF payment Of fine Of
25 guineas.
For St. Paul's cathedral, London, o
bell weighing ten Or twelve tons is
wanted. The largest bell hanging
there at present weighs only five tons,
and the dean and chapter say that this
is intolerable. They have already col
lected $3.50 for new bell, and they
wish to double the amount.
The Cape Cod Canal company, which
has been reorganized at Boston, will
make a practical survey Of the line soon.
Before beginning work it must reim-
burse the old company for its expendi-
lures, assume the responsibility for land
damages, and must have bona fide sub
scriptions of 100000 worth of stock, of
which 100000 shall be paid in.
The Rev. DR.. Voolfolk, a Baptist min
lister at Versailles, KY, thinks that he
has discovered the location of the infer
nal regions. He says that every star is
a burning world. Our SIT is one of the
smaller Of these stars, and is far ad-
vanced in the process of combustion.
The white stars have still more in
tense combustion, and he believes that
some such world will be the future
abode of the lost.
John Chinaman loves the flavor of the
agile octopus. Several Celestials while
fishing off Angel island, on the Pacific
coast, caught a huge devil-fsh in their
nets. As it came slowly to view on the
surface of the water its arms grasped
the side of the boat. With a sharp ak
they succeeded in chopping off the huge
feelers, and thus freed their craft. Fl
nally the whole body was got into the
boat and the prize conveyed to China
town, where it was cut into pieces and
sold to various restaurants.