Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-28

To supply New York city's demand
10000 horses are needed every year.
A new town in Kansas is called Pra;r:r
Dog Jim. Esthete folks congregate over
there.
The postofice department holds more
than S1,00o,0oo in unclaimed money
| orders.
A paper in the Club" says the cultured
no longer call it hash. Mosaic uutriment
| is the correct form.
An exchange says it looks suspicious to
see man always take Glove before an
swering a telephone.
The signal service claims to have saved
$5,000,O00 of marine property by its pre-
diction of the late cyclone.
An exchange says the Damn-a-niora
policy of ante-rebellion days is Iapa;n
called to the front in South Carolina.
The channel of the st. Lawrence river is
to be SO improved as to afford depth of
twenty-seveu and half feet to Quebec.
Last week Edward Jones, brother of
George Jones, of the New York Times
died at his residence in the city of Rocb-
ester.
The recent arctic experience of the Jear.
nette explorers has proved that the most
comfortable footwear in winter consists of
cotton and wooden socks worn together.
Gov. Cleveland Of New York has resigned
his position as mayor of the city of Buff
falo. Aspecial election to fill the vacancy
will take place Jan. 9.
Owing to the prevalence of diphtheria
and other contagious diseases. public
funerals are forbidden for the present by
the Boston board of health.
A Chicago dispatch says: Since the
shipment East of beef in refrigerator cars
was begun few weeks ago the trade in
canned beef has almost entirely ceased.
The suit against the Standard Oil COM
pany, of Ohio, brought by the state of
Pennsylvania concerning taxes and penal
ties. in which over 100000 was claimed by
the commonwealth. has been gained by tho
| company.
James II. Young, wealthy bachelor of
Mount Sterling, Ky, was found dead in
bed on Monday last, with an empty chloro
form bottle on the table by his side. He
had used chloroform for years, but used it
once too often.
The best informed politicians in Illinois
seem to think that the coming senatorial
| contest will be between Gov. CulIom and
Lieut.. Gov. Hamilton. The followers of
Green 3. Raum are said not to be among
t'ie most influential Republicans in the
state.
Thos. Leman, thirteen years of age. a
cash boy il Boston establishment with
his sister and brother have, by the death
of their uncle, Michael Lsman. broker
in Melbourne, Australia, Just fallen
heir to his entire fortune, amounting to
$2,COo,CO0.
prominent citizen of a Vermont town
went and plugged the lock on the hand
englHe house, SO the next time there was q
fire IN the town it took the firemen so long
to get the engine out that they didn't ar
rive at the scene Of conflagration in time
to do any damage.
One hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars in mortgages and bonds and $4,000
III certificates. which were stolen by five
masked men Aug. 16, from the residence
OF Alexander J. and Thomas Gilchrist. in
Saratoga county. N. Y, have been recov-
cred at New York city, through negotia.
tinns.
Hr Ta''nace having denounced the play
"f Rip Van Winkle'' AZ portrayed by Zoe
jefferson rs having al immoral tendency.
the Rev. Eff. Beecher attended the matinee
on Saturday. He was seen to weep during
the affecting portions Of the play, and al
together it was q pretty good advertise
ment Cor Jefferson
The official returns in Indiana give the
Republican candidate for secretary of
state 2l0.1e3 votes, the Democratic 22O,97s,
and the Creenback candidate 1929.
Democratic plurality iO,SO9. Republican
anu Greenback vote over Democratic 1920.
In 1850 the Republican vote was 232. 164.
the Democratic 225, 528, the Greenback r.
$50.
The Cou,ter-Jourraal thinks that enc
Donald and Cleveland" or Cleveland and
Mcdonald would suit the Democrats in
in 1884. Mr.. Watrerson pulls down the
curtain and shuts out the past, as he writes:
In this connection we ought to say that
while, as a rule, We abhor sensational pref
udices and disdain geographical distinc-
Lions. we rather think the head of the tick
ct should This time come from the West
We are not at all superstitious. but it does
look as though we have been in bad luck
with our Eastern candidates.
ANOIED BUT UNTITLED WOMAM
From the Boston GboSel