Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-20
Miscellaneous Items.


Mr.. PARNELL is described by a
Viennese correspondent as charming
cavalier, with pale, Gnely-cut face,
fine brown, and thoughtful, but cheer
full eyes.
SECRETARY of War Ramsey has
promised to return the records of the
Louisiana courts, seized at New
Orleans during the war and carried to
Washington.
A CONVENTION of California farm
ers has resolved to form wheat
growers association, for protection
against middlemen, and establish an
agency at Liverpool
The coolest exploit Cleveland (O.)
has known was that of the burglars
who recently entered house in the
family's absence and openly moved the
furniture on drays.
SENATOR HANNIBAL HAMLIN, who
is spoken of for collector of customs
either at Portland or Boston, was born
in 1909. He began his service to the
federal government in l848.
A MISS Of Is, in Newark, N. j., lay
in q trance for five weeks, but a
physician succeeded in proving that
she knew what was going on around
her. He said "She is very pretty
girl and significant blush spread
over her face.
Mr.. TENNYsON is said to be so near
sighted that he reads and writes with
great difficulty. That he is good
courtier may be inferred from his de-
claring that the nightingales have not
sung at Farringford, in the Isle of
Wight, since the prince consort died.
''You dirty boy is the advertising
catch7phrase of soap manufacturer in
England. For permission to print the
phrase on the backs of the paper,
stamps, ETC.. to be used IN taking the
English census, the soap manufacturer
will pay all the expenses Of taking the,
census, which will be about 100000.
The present winter is the first one in
the history of the Connecticut valley
tobacco trade in which there has not
been damp time, in which the tobac-
CO could be taken from the poles. The
delay is expected to reduce prices
somewhat, though but few sales have
been made yet. The demand this year
is for the dark-leaf tobacco.
TENNESSEE has some 1850 convicts,
about half of the number being in the
penitentiary and the remainder in
branch prisons. The branch prison at
Battle Greek coal mines and at Sc.
vance are wooden structures inclosed
by wooden palisades, and it is said that
they have proved superior in comfort,
security and healthfulness to the peni-
Tertiary itself.
SPEAKING of our great wheat crops
| The american Miller remarks that
few people in our own country realize
how ineXhauStible our resources are
for wheat-growing. The total area
of lands available for wheat culture
in the United States is not less than
470,000,000 acres. Our entire wheat
crop of the past year would not supply
seed enough to sow so vast an area of
wheat land.
A SINGULAR circumstance is re-
ported from hot, dry valley in New
South Wales. Last year the drought
there was of long duration. and the
denizens of the apiaries suffered much
from it. This year the bees have
made provision against a similar emer-
gency. They have filled a large num-
Der of the external cells in every hive
with pure water instead of honey. 1t
is thought that the instinct of the little
creatures leads them to anticipate
hot summer.
Miss VIOLET BROWN, the thirteen
year-old daughter Of ex-Gov. Gratz
Brown, of Missouri, was in the upper
story of a public school at st. Louis
the other day when the building took
fire. While the teachers were SUBJ
DUNG the panic and trying to take the
children out in safety, the girl step
ped to the window, opened it, and
jumped down upon the roof of an ex-
tension building, distance of eight
feet, caught hold of the lightning-rod
and slid down to the ground.