Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-06
NEWS BREvITIES.

The jury of the international hir at
Melbourne, Australia, consists of 424
members, twenty-one Of whom repre-
sent the United States.
California vine-growers say that the
wines produced in that state will ere
long drive French wines out of the mar
ket in the Eastern states.
English sporting papers are full of
advertisements from gentlemen giving
up game preserving who are anxious to
find places for their gamekeepers.
A cotton fair is to be held in Atlanta.
Ca, next October, at which the raw
material and the various machines used
in its cultivation and manufacture will
be exhibited.
A school for teaching chambermaids
and other house servants has been es-
tablished at Milan; SO far it has worked
very smoothly, and Milanese house,
keepers have high hopes of the future.
Canada is determined to keep prize
fighters from crossing the line to have
out their .'mills,' and the Ottawa house
of commons has erected 800 fine and
imprisonment as barrier.
A Paris manufacturer claims to have
discovered process for substituting the
leaves of the eucalyptus tree, which in
burning emit delicious perfume, for
tobacco leaves in making cigars.
An English authority says that reform
is much needed in the American rail-
way system as respects safety, speed,
and punctuality, Strengthening the
lines and building them better, he
thinks, would yield the desired results.
One of the most celebrated authors of
Paris is thus viewed by his barber:
'.He comes here nearly every day. He
likes to look well, but as for brains,
Judge for yourself. He might enjoy
my conversation: he prefers to read
the paper"
Some of the citizens of Boston are
complaining that certain non-residents
are trying to secure charter for an
elevated railroad in that city, not in
the interests of the city, but wholly in
the expectation of large pecuniary
gains to themselves.
An Italian offered to bet German in
St. Louis $40 that the latter could not
drink ten schooners of beer without
stopping. The bet was accepted and
the beer duly drank, but half an hour
later the fatherland had lost one of its
children.
A heartless Montreal landlord turned
a man, his wife, and seven children
sv,f< fbo CT. of xr,1o ofo
was Is degrees below zero. The victim
was recently arrived Englishman,
unable to get place and robbed of his
usual income by the failure of a creditor
in England.
The Colorado (Tex.) Citizen has dis
covered another of the signers of the
Texas declaration of independence-W.
B. Scates, nearly 80 years old, and still
able to do light work on his farm. Mr..
Scates thinks that besides DR.. c. B.
Stewart, another still lives in the per-
son of John w. Blunt, of San Angus
tine.
Frost seems to have no effect on Paris
duellists, Paul de Braulien and Viscount
Maiden settling difficulty with swords
recently when the centigrade Their
mometer registered - degrees below
zero. They fought in their shirt sleeves,
too, and Maiden got hit in his right
shoulder before their ''honah'' was sat
isfied.
Lord Campbell fell in love for the
first time at Al, and though rejected,
wrote to friend: Il can only say, with
Gibbon, that feel dearer to myself for
having been capable of this elegant and
refined passion" How much more
should the Baroness Burdett-Cout be
pleased with her romantic self, asks the
Toronto Globe.
The North Carolina legislature has
passed bill providing for the publica-
ton of roll of the North Carolina
troops in the late war. The duty of
collecting the names has been delegat-
ed to Major Moore, the historian. In
addition to this work he will add other
facts descriptive of the movements Of
each regiment during the war.
Rugby, Tenn, has q present popula.
ton Of two hundred, of whom fifty are
English and the rest Americans. ''Tom
Browns company has already spent
some $4,000 on the place, $14,500 Of
which went to build good road to the
Cincinnati Southern depot. There are
only eight or ten houses yet finished,
however, as the solitary saw-mill is
months behind its orders, compelling
several families to live in canvas tents.