Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-30
NEWS BREvTTIEs.

The performance of Lobahofrs trans
lation of "Le Roi Amuse'' in st. Peters,
burg has been stopped. 1t was thought
by the authorities that posters at the
street corners announcing that ''the
king was amusing himself would lead
to belief that he thought there was
something humorous about the vain
plots of the nihilist.
A Philadelphia reporter has been
looking into the porfts made by ven
ders who sell the coal to poor people
by the pail. He carefully measured a
ton of coal and found it contains 1853
pailfuls. The dealer charges eight
cents pail, and the poor buyer thus
pays $13 A for ton, which can be-
bought for $5.
German colonists on the banks Of the,
Volga, in Russia, are in extreme des-
titution, and St. Petersburg journal.
publishes pitiful account of their sui
ferings. Tie number of the destitute
is stated at 200, 900, and there are very:
few we'll enough off to furnish even the
most meagre aid to their impoverished
neighbors. The Russian authorities do
nothing for their relief.
Antonio Ashley was found dead in his
bed in Oswego, and the physician who
made the post-mortem testified that his
feet had been poisoned by wearing cloth.
slippers. He had been employed on a
steamer in the west, and wore cloth,
slippers. His feet were often wet, and
the poison by which the carpets were,
colored soaked in through the cloth,
and poisoned his feet.
In California the males formerly out
numbered the females very largely, but
this disproportion has been gradually
decreasing, and now the disparity is
comparatively small. According to the
last census, the population of the state,
exclusive of Chinese, who are nearly
all men, is 7S9,686, of which number
443,271 are males and 346,4 females.
London Worzd:. sMr. Edwin Booth
performed graceful tribute to the
memory of the late Mr.. Sothern. Des-
pite snow, wind and matters very
apt to affect him seriously in his profess
sional work-he left his hotel at six
o'clock in the morning, travelled to
Southampton, attended Mr.. Sothern's
funeral, and was back again in London
in time to play at the Princess Theatre"
The Oregon system of liquor licenses
is being urged for trial in Boston. I'm
der tthe buyer not the seller, is obliged
to procure license. Objection is made
to the plan on account of the great
number of licenses that would have to
be issued and looked after. while friends
of the measure think it would debar
from the saloons many chronic drinkers
who have not the money and respectable
ity to secure license.
Pail Mall Gazette: cit appears that
the halftime system is to be tried in the
communal schools of Paris. The first
experiment will be made this year in
certain schools, sum of $50, 000f. hay
ing been voted by the municipal coun-
Gil for the purpose of opening work.
shops. Fifty OF sixty will be opened to
begin with, and if the experiment sue
ceeds, the system will be adopted by
every municipal school of the capital"
In Florida the value per acre of clear
ed land is Sc 48, and of timbered land
SO O3. In louisiana cleared land is
worth $14 Sc, and timbered land So So.
In Texas cleared land is worth So SO,
and timbered land 81. In Arkansas
cleared land is valued at 81 rs, and
timbered land at $348. In Oregon
cleared land is worth S21 II, and tim
bered 81 so. But in Nebraska cleared
is worth So go, and timbered land S25 IS
per acre.
The Reno (Nev.) Gazette is respon-
sible for the following statement: ''The
earth has cracked open near Murphy's
salt marsh, making long fissure four
feet wide and of depth unknown. With
a view to exploration, man was the
other day lowered into it by a rope a
distance of fifty feet perpendicularly,
where the crevice began to dip at an
angle of about 40 degrees. The man
could see no bottom, and thought he
had gone far enough. and was hauled
back to the surface"