Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-27
TIMELY TOPICS.

REV. o. B. FRoTHINaHAM, the eminent free
nying and wait for more light" He is sup
posed to be watching Edison's experiments
with electricity.
A FEARFUL torpedo boat has just been built
in England for the Danish government. She
carries four torpedoes, each charged with
eighty pounds of gun-cotton, and revolving
Hotchkiss gun. She travels eleven knots an
hour.
THERE is no squeamishness about the exc
cution of the criminal laws in England. A
girl of IA has just been sentenced to be hanged
for the murder of baby whose nurse she was.
A boy of s years was once hanged in that de-
lightful country, for burning barn, and one
of 10 years for killing bedfellow.
CHINESE cheap labor is played out in the
Chinese shoe shops of San Francisco. The
big firms, such as Hop Kee & Co., Hop Wo
& Co. and Hue Kai, are paying their skilled
workmen higher wages than some of the
American firms are paying. In one Chinese
factory the superintendent, an American, is
paid Sc, 900 year, and an instance is mention
ed of man who had only received S35 per
week in an American factory going to a
Chinese house and receiving $50.
THE town of Lexington, in Somerset coun-
ty, is sorely afflicted. With population of
less than $50 souls and only so polls, she has
debt of about $4,000. The debt was not
voted as other debts have been, but was in
herited. The town was incorporated in 1888
and then had large number of paupers.
This number has never decreased, but rather
multiplied. A short time ago the town was
supporting sixty paupers, and the number is
not much less now. One family that the
town has had to support since it's incorpora-
ton has cost them the immense sum of 49,
600, and another $1,000. Who wonders the
town Is in debt.
IN France pearl costing sixteen dollars is
now initiated for fifty cents or a dollar, and so
successfully as to be sold at the price of the
genuine article to anyone not veritable ex-
pert, and even the latter class are often puz-
zled. The artificial pearl. however, is simply
glass bead or globe which is first coated on
the inside with glue made of parchment,
then treated with a peculiar so-called ''es-
sence," after which it is filled with wax. The
essence is the chief pearly ingredient, and is
obtained by rubbing together white fish, SO as
to remove the scales; the whole is then
strained through linen and left to deposit its
sediment, which is the essence in question. It
requires about 1900 fish to produce pound
of the pearly essence.
The wife of Deacon McMicken, OF Bards-
town, Mo-, is an amiable Christian matron,
active to good works, and highly esteemed in
the community. She was when quite young
the wife of a confederate soldier, and served
with him in the army, wearing male clothes
and arousing no suspicion as to her sex. Her
husband was killed, and she next married
George Shepherd, highwayman, and became
notorious through cleverly and boldly releas-
ing him from custody on several occasions. At
last he was sent to prison for ten years, and
she repented of her evil ways, got divorce,
and became deacon's wife. Shepherd being
lately released, paid her visit, and urged her
to rejoin him, but she refused. She draws
upon her ample experience to make her religi-
GUS exhortations interesting, and is success
full revivalist in modest way.
TIE duke of Sutherland has just placed him
self at the head of a company for the purchase
of sixty square miles OF land on the line of
railroad to Omaha, for the purpose of forming
colony of Scotchmen. This step is supposed
to be taken in icipation Of some great
change about to take place in the administra-
ton of the dukes estate in Scotland, conse-
quent on his observations made on his recent
visit over here. Some years ago the world
land, from his grandmother's estate, of a
whole clan, with its young chief at its head,
leaving the land, untitled and untenanted, to
be used for shooting moors. The young chief
has returned an aged man, but the children
will remain settled in the land of plenty to
which they were driven, and in which they
have formed new ties.
GEoPGE LAW, who recently died in New
York worth several millions, was indeed a
self made man. He left his fathers farm, in
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and struck out for himself. His first job was
carrying hod, at Troy. He learned the trade
of stone mason, and built a lock on the Erie
canal. Then he got contracts on the Penn
sylvania and Dismal Swamp canals. After
wards he took railroad contracts, became rich
and built several steamships for the California
trade. He built two sections of the Croton
aqueduct, and part of the Panama railroad.
Although Mr.. Law sprung from the people,
he seems to have had very little sympathy
for the masses. For many years preceding
death he was very wealthy, but his name does
not appear in connection with any of the nu-
merous charitable and benevolent enterprises
that abound in New York.
MOSES THOMPSON became 100 years old a
few days ago. He is a negro, and for half a
century has been preacher, most of the
time in Arkansas. His people regarded him
as an inspired prophet, and he ruled them in
religious matters like an autocract. He said
that he was exempt from death, but on his
hundreth birthday would ascend bodily and
resplendently to heaven. A large crowd as
sembled at Lonoke in an an open field in ex-
pectation of a supernatural spectacle.
Thompson wore white robe and was very
ecstatic, singing, praying and exhorting by