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

ENGLISH scientists who have been watch
| ing experiments very closely, believe the sub
stitution of steel for iron in ship-building is
| only question of a little time. The steel has
proved to be not only the best but the cheap
| est.
| THE Porter Rhodes diamondrecently found in
South Africa is said to eclipse Queen Vlctoria's
| famous Koh-i-noor. The weight of the new
stone is $50 carats. The owner has been of
fered $500, 900 for the gem but wants million
| and a half.
DR.. BoNwILL, of Philadelphia, has invented
marvellous machine for use in surgical oper-
ations. 1t will cut of leg in thirty seconds
and shave down bone in two minutes. Its
little circular saw make $4,000 revolutions per
minute. The machine is so handy that the
inventor thinks every family will want one.
IT is said by the quid nuncs that James
Gordon Bennett, unable to secure social recog-
milton among the best families in New York,
is determined to sell all of his property in the
metropolis and move to Newport. 1t is even
| said the Herald will go with the rest if good
price can be obtained for it. The gossips are
probably wide of the mark in their attempts
| to fathom Mr. Benefits designs.
A PENSACOLA paper gives an account of the
shocking death of sailor in Florida harbor
from Injuries made upon him by shark. He
was bathing near the wharf when his compan-
ions noticed signs of distress. Aid was extend
ed in tug and he was delivered from the
monster, but his head and one arm and leg
were gone. A short time before this occur
renee the mate of vessel was knocked over
board and seized by shark and carried down
while his companions looked on in horror.
| AN Arkansas man took his family over 100
miles to see circus. His boy, aged Is, and
girl II, went off with the company, the girl
concealing her sex and passing as boy. They
went to Texas and after seeing decidedly
varied experience brought up at New Orleans,
sick and out of money. Some sisters of
charity hearing their pitiful story took them
in, cared for them and finally started them
home. The parents for year have been
almost distracted, not knowing what had be-
come of their children. The young roman
GERS have had enough circus and will hereafter
stay at home.
| CONNIsEUERs in building art in New York
are in eXtacies over the row of palaces now
building by the Vanderbilts along Fifth ave-
nue.. These are five in number. One is for
William II. Vanderbilt. On either side of this
are houses for his married daughters, and the
three are ingeniously connected. Another of
these palaces belongs to Cornelius Vanderbilt
and the fifth to William K. Vanderbilt. The
buildings are different in design, but largely
composed of the same materials. Carved mar
BILE is the favorite stone. The flag stone in
front of one of the entrances is 22x15 feet.
These buildings are among the finest in New
York and will cost several millions.
THERE seems to be nothing in the reported
engagement of President Arthur and Mrs.
Roberts. A Washington paper gives the fol-
lowing account of the origin of the story:
Last spring, at one of Gen. Garfeld's recep-
tions, the wife of a justice of the supreme
court TESTED with Gen. Arthur about the ru-
NOR that he was to marry Mrs. Marshall o.
Roberts. He answered good humoredly, but
emphatically denied the report, saying: 81
have no more idea of marrying Mrs. Roberts
than of marrying YOU" The report was first
started as good joke during the last presi
Dental campaign by some of the would-be
wits of the of the New York Union League
club, who at the same time started the rumor
that Mrs. A. T. Stewart was to marry young
Episcopal minister.
THERE are many ways of making money
besides honestly earning it. One of the latest
tricks is what Is called the 'insurance racket ,,
A notable instance of this swindle has been
unearthed in the death at Lancaster, Pa, of a
disreputable old negro named Henry Stewart,
whose worthless life was insured for $l25, 900
| by certain sharks who knew he was near his
end, being so, and Mho assisted nature in hast
ening his dissolution by supplying him liber-
ally with vile whisky, which he was at liberty
| to indulge in to the fullest possible extent
Several of those who held policies on his life
are said to have given the liquor vendors or
ders to give him ell the liquor he wanted and
charge it to them. The rum is all the old man
received for allowing himself to be insured,
and was probably all he wanted. The rascally
| pOllcy -uOlucIs, uOWcNtT, Will uOt StI tuelT
money without contest, and most likely will
not get it at all.
An agent of the American Geographical So
ciety has just returned from a tour of Iceland.
He says the game, dogs, ponies and sheep
there have died in great numbers from lack of
verdure. OF the people he reports as follows:
''The population of Iceland is being constantly
crowded out toward the coast. You cannot
find hut thirty miles from the coast IN any
direction. 1t is safe to say from present ap-
pearances that within fifty years the entire
island will be depopulated. They are starving
out. A curious feature of the depopulation
is the taking of the Icelandic girls to Utah.
l convinced many of them that they would
soon regret their coming to America to be-
come Mormans. The bishops of that sect
are using great influence to bear upon the
women, and succeed in getting many to emf
| CRATE"
FEARS are expressed in conservative quar-
tiers that the growing mania for speculation
in France may prove the ruin of that country,
An interesting account is going the rounds of
a comparatively new institution of Paris
called the Union Generate, bank or rather
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