Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

1ne GIT OF Inc late Judge FOrDeS 10
Northampton, Mass, 1925, ZOO, for
town library, does not seem to be very
judicious one, as the town has already
well-established library in fine build
ing.
The Council of Baltimore allows
burial in unconsecrated ground when
the families are part Catholic and part
Protestant, or when lots had been
bought in the cemeteries before the de-
cree
The recent decline in coffee, OF which
this country uses more than any other
nation in the world, and five times as
much as Great Britain, will probably be
permanent, as it is due, not to the cas-
ual over-supply, but to change in the
manner of conducting the trade. Rail-
roads recently constructed from Rio
Janeiro, bring the coffee more speedily
from the plantations, and steamers,
which have supplanted sailing vessels,
have greatly shortened the trip from
Brazil, to this country. The trade in
coffee, in other words, has gone through
the same secular change as the trade in
tea The day for great firms buying
by the ship-load and carrying great
stocks has gone by. Orders by cable,
shipments BY steam and purchases by
job lots have taken the place Of the
slow but princely methods of few
years back.
Captain j. H. Siddons, in some in
teresting personal "reminiscences in the
Washington Republic, records that the
fofh ~ fhn 1ofo 0,1tyo IF hT.Id yn
had habit of thinking aloud, and par
ticularly manifested this singularity
during the performance of divine service
in the Protestant Episcopal Church. In
the preliminary phrase from the pulpit,
"Let US pray" he would add mutter-
ingly and unconsciously, "by all means,
very proper He would respond to the
commandment, Thou shalt not steal"
''certainly-very wrong to steal,' and
Remember that thou keep holy the
Sabbath day." received a commenda-
tory response assuredly very right"
tits recorded that on one occasion when
s'prayers for RAIN were about to be Of
fered up, he exclaimed, '.No use-no
use-the winds easterly."
Is picture work of art or piece
of furniture? Such was the question
which the heirs and executors of the
late Lord Londesborough asked the
English Vice Chancellor to decide for
them the other day. Lord Ohio Fitz-
gerald, Lady Londesborough's second
husband, appeared as one of the parties
to the suit. By the terms of the will in
dispute, the testator left to his widow
absolutely all the articles of virtu in
his house, but he only gave her life
interest in the furniture and other
property. The lady claimed that the
oil paintings passed to her as a portion
of the articles of virtu, whereas the
heirs disputed this Interpretation of the
law. Since the paintings were valued
at $4,000, there was q multitude of
good reasons for the difference of opin-
ion. The Vice Chancellor held that
virtu referred to small articles and pet
ty knick-knacks, not to expensive oil
paintings.
A s.blizzard' is described by the
Cheyenne Leader as follows: There
was blizzard abroad in Cheyenne the
other day. There is no clearly stated
definition of the word ''blizzard," as it
is not found in the dictionaries. 1t is
purely Western invention. Billiards.
came out since the dictionaries were
built. But then blizzard is an I'M
speakably mean thing. Oh! it is so
mean. No one ever thinks of blizzard
without apologizing mentally for touch
ing upon so base subject. What the
cayote is to the hunter, the blizzard is
to tthe average citizen. The blizzard
ranks about as high in meteorology as
does the skunk in Zoology. And then
blizzard is the only thing known to
history or science that will blow thir-
teen ways at once. You turn from
al direct ine-to the lee way-of tho
fierce wind in order to catch a good
square breath, ard the blizzard is there
too. 1t catches you on the point of ex-
halation, just as your lungs are On I'M
mense vacuum. Your mouth is open,
of course, and the blizzard suddenly
fills you so full of wind that nothing but
heavy conscience prevents you from
soaring aloft at once like balloon.
You feel miserable and tighter'n base
drum. You want to swear, but you
haven't time. Your only relief is to
strain the blizzard through your fingers.
Strange stories are current in the
Austro-H Hungarian papers respecting the
psychological phenomena generated by
the terrible earthquakes in Croatia. 1t
is stated that when the first great shock
took place, the Minister of State, Bede-
kovich, was visiting the Cardinal Arch
bishop of Agram in his drawing-room,
where these exalted personages and the
Bishop of Segna were engaged in con-
versation, all unconscious of the inn
pending danger Suddenly the palace
began to heave and rock from roof to
basement; huge, full-length oil-paint-
ing fell from its place above the room
door with terrible crash, blocking up
the entrance, and the Archbishop's SER
wants, fastening to their venerable
masters aid, experienced considerable
difficulty in forcing their way Ito his
private apartments. As they burst in
to the drawing-room second shock
made itself felt, whereupon the bishop
exclaimed: "This is really past joker
'.Its no joke at all, your eminence,"
shouted Bedekovich, in whom conster-
nation had completely overpowered for
the moment all sense of the bureaucrat-
ic properties: s'the house is tumbling