Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-29
BITS OF INFORMATION.

THERE are So, 900 blind people in
Britain.
TARRINa and feathering is a European
invention. 1t was one of Richard Cnur
de Lions ordinances for seamen in pun
lshment for theft.
EDWARD the Confessor was the first
monarch of England who used q seal in
his charters. This is the origin of the
broad seal of England.
BETWEEN the years of 1888 and 1857
SIX great earthquakes took place at
Naples, which lost thereby 1, 500 inhabit-
ants per year of that period.
ORANGE trees are cultivated from seed
A tree requires fifteen years to reach
maturity, but produces both flowers and
fruit IN the fourth Or fifth year.
CANAL locks were known in Upper
Egypt from the most ancient times
known to history. They were intro
duced into England from Flanders in
1862.
A SCIENTIST says that few people know
that In bad seasons honey is apt to be
poisonous that is, where flowers are
scarce, the bees are obliged to gather it
from poisonous flowers.
en-. QUAD" is the pseudonym of
Chas. B Lewis of the Detroit Free Press.
He was born at Liverpool, Ohio. He
served in the Union army and was in Gen.
Clusters brigade.
HE origin of the term "eating crow"
Is as follows It is a story of a summer
clearinghouse keeper on the Hudson
and OF an indignant patron. Whenever
the latter ventured to suggest that the
spring chicken was rather tough, or that
the roast beef must have been cut from
between the cows horns, he was directly
informed that he was entirely sstoo per-
tickeler,'' and that the autocrat of
the table and the house could eat any
thing, even a crow. This settled the
matter for the time being, but the board
er, convinced against his will, WIS of
the same opinion still, at all events in
regard to the quality OF the edibles
placed before him. So often was the re-
mark, 81 kin eat anything kin eat a
crow" brought down on his devoted
head, that he finally resolved to try the
old man. He went out cunning one day,
and succeeded in bagging very fine.
fat, old black crow. He went into the
kitchen and by dint Of soft words and
filthy lucre induced the cook to prepare
it for the table. He boiled it nicely. and
it wasn't such bad-looking dish, after
all. His heart misgave him; the finty
old cuss would eat it after all. The cook
was a Scotch woman, and used snuff.
He borrowed all she had and sprinkled
it literally over the crow gave her an.
other simmer. and then, taking it on a
salver, brought it before his host, saying.
as he set it down, "Now, my dear sir,
you have said thousand times, if you
said it once, that you can eat crow.
Here is one very carefully cooked" cit
is" said the old man. He turned pale
for moment, but braced himself against
the back of his chair, and with, 81 kin
eat crow" he began cutting a good
mouthful. He swallowed it, and then,
preparing for a second onslaught, he
looked his boarder straight in the eye,
while he calculated: "fve eaten crow 4"
and took his second portion. He lifted
his hands mechanically, as if for third
onslaughter, but dropped them quickly
over the region of his stomach, and, ris-
ing hurriedly and unsteadily, retreated
for the door, muttering as he went,
"but dang me if banker after it.