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

of perforating Gen. Coey's body with bullet
and then burving his cold corpse in the bot
tom of the bay. The reassuring epistle gently
limited that San Francisco's postmaster leagued
with numerous bloated railroad bondholders
to rob poor men of their money, but that one
poor man, at least, did not propose to permit
such nonsense. A "P. So denied that the
writer was the assassin of President Garfield,
but stated that, feeling in bad humOr, he
might and probably should be compelled to
relieve his feelings by shooting President
Arthur. The police were put on the track of
the "crank," and he was arrested and incarce-
rated in the insane asylum.
GEN. GRANTS present quarrel with the
New York Tribune borrows much of its bit
terness from the past. At one time the Trib-
une assayed the independent role, and from
that high moral plane insinuated that Grant,
who was then president, ought to be assasi-
mated, The following are the Tribume's
words on Jan. 9, 1875: "Now that Kellogg
proposes to decide who shall belong to the
Louisiana legislature, and is backed by the
United States army, might not President
Grant better decide who shall belong to the
next congress, and enforce his decision by five
or six regiments of United States troops, COM
manded by that truthful and just man, Gen.
Sheridan, and remove all regularly elected
members to make place for the Caseys and
Dents? If he insists on fighting it out on
this line some one will play BrlItus to his
Caesar without fail, which, by the way, would
be great blessing to the country The gen.
eral keeps this fiattering puff" pasted in his
hat and often refers to it.
The Corwin during her voyage to Alaska
landed on st. Lawrence Island, having orders
to investigate the wholesale starvation of the
natives. At the first village at which they
landed all were dead; SO also at The second,
where fifty.four dead bodies were counted,
nearly all full-grown males. At another place
$50 persons-men, women and children-were
dead. At the next settlement twelve dead
bodies, and at the following thirty we're found.
All the inhabitants on the north side of the
island, where whisky traders sold liquor, are
dead-not one escaping. The general starvation
occurred two years ago last winter. Since then
the presence of the Corwin in the Arctic has
broken up this inhuman whisky trading. The
empty whisky kegs are seen strewn all about.
The total number of dead bodies found ON st.
Lawrence Island was over 600. The survivors
say that white traders from Honolulu sold
whisky, which the natives bought, and got
drunk, remaining so during the season for
laying in their winter supply of walrus and
seal.
he manufacture of teeth is a large indus
try. There are now twelve manufactures of
artificial te-tn, that produce every year 10,-
GOO, 900 teeth, or one to every five persons in
the United States. Half this number is made
by one firm, founded in 1874 The total sales
of teeth amount to 81, 100000 annually. The
materials used are feldspar, kaolin, and rock
crystal. The coloring is platinum, titanlum
and gold. The feldspar and chrystal are SUBJ
mitted to red heat and thrown into cold water.
They are then ground in water until fine
enough to float. Combined with the coloring,
they are subjected to intense furnace heat in
molds of brass, which are in two pieces, each
molding one half of the tooth.
The process is delicate, and has many inter-
esting details. In the earli9r history of the
art dentists carved the teeth which their Gus
toners demanded, and apprentices were often
made useful in that way. The amount OF
gold used annually in filing teeth is s5O0,OOO.
Lead was used from TITS to 1883. There are
dentists in New York who give, or say they
give, diamond filings, and in Paris they ad.
verfise to use diamond piVOtS and emerald
plugs. The filing of teeth is aided greatly by
labor-saving machinery and cunningly
wrought tools. This country makes dental
instruments for the world where dentistry is
known. An ordinary outfit of instruments
cost $500.