Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-22
GLOBELETS.

VI cnO - III iAoa., i1UUOO ounces OF Sill
yer were purchased for the New Orleans
mint.
An armless woman is upon exhibition in
New York, who plays the piano very Of
fectively with her feet.
The rumor that Secretary Lincoln would
recommend in his report that no river and
harbor bill be passed during the coming
session of congress is denied.
The number of suits began during the
last fiscal year under the direction of the
solicitor of the treasury was 3,941 and the
amount involved, $1,625, 1921.
The attorney general of the state of New
York has decided that the law exempting
clergymen from taxation does not apply to
parsonages owned by church trustees or
corporations.
| The auction sale of the celebrated JumeI
estate IN the city of New York was con-
cluded On Saturday last, the 18th inst. The
aggregated amount realized is estimated
at $1,1OO,OOO.
Inc Canadian independence of parlia-
ment" act will probably be shortly amend
ed so as to permit members of the Cana
olan Pacific directory and syndicnte to sit
| IN the senate or house of commons.
MI. Henry Bergh, The New York friend
OF animals cruelty treated, declares that it
would be as easy for the governor of New
YORK to stop comet in the heavens as for
phiianthropist to stop'a dog fight.
Mr.. Chas. Gordon Greene, Jr., eldest
son OF Col. Greene, formerly of the Boston
Post, died IN Paris on Monday last. after a.
or1ef illness. He was connected with the
banking house of Greene & Co., of Paris.
many years ago, and had lived abroad for
twenty years.
The London correspondent of the New
York World in his cable letter, says that
the 1eelng among army officers with re-
gard to the absurdily demonstrative re-
ception given the troops who have spent a
summer holiday in Egypt is one of SUI
preme disgust.
Inc Maryland club of Baltimore employ
colored man at salary of $4,000 year.
whose sole duty it is to cook terrapin in
their season. No one can equal him in
this. When terrapin are not in season he
acts as sort of assistant to the chief, bat
does very little culinary labor.
The New York World says: The tot al
number of arrests made during the last
fiscal year by secret service agents was 3S5,
the majority being for !. countfeireting
money. The total fines assessed amounted
to $10,6S4 and the total amount of coun-
terfeit coin captured $3.50. I24.51.
The widest gauge railway yet reported
Is IN Washington territory. 1t is an
elght-foot gauge road used for logging,
and runs back into the country from
Skaglt river. The rails are of wood, eight
by eight inches, and the cars run on twelve
wheels of nine inches face, with double
hanges.
An attempt by the Chenango Valley
railway to prevent the carrying OF the
lines of the New York, West Shore and
Buffalo railroad across it's track at SYRIA
cuse has proved abortive. Twenty
thousand men are at work on the West
Shore road, which it is expected will be-
completed by August next
The Chinese ambassador while in Paris
acclimatized the following mode of baking
ice creams: ''Make your ice very firm, roll
out some Light paste thin, and cut it into
small squares; place spoonful of ice in
the center of each piece of paste and fold
1t up carefully, so that no air may get in,
and bake. The paste will be cooked before
the ice can melt.''
Governor elect Pattison, of Pennsylva-
MIA, will not be thirty-two years of age
until December next, and hence stands in
no danger of being struck by presidential
lightning, as he will not have reached
thirty live years of age, the constitutional
requisite, in 1884. He bears his new hon
ors with becoming modesty, and believes
that Tuesdays result was an uprising of
the people for peoples government, and
means the overthrow of boss rule"
A movement is on foot among the lead
ing Democrats of Dallas, Texas, to forward
the Texas Democratic challenge banner to
New York on account of her big majority,
although it was originally intended that it
should only be contested for in presiden-
tial elections and be presented to the state
giving the largest majority. Georgia won
it in 1876 and kept it three years. Texas
won it in 1880, and 1t is now in ,ssession
OF j. B. Simpson, of Dallas. It will doubt
less be sent to New York.
| Every member of congress. in New Jer-
| sey, who voted for the river and harbor bill.
two Democrats and one Republican, has
been defeated. Mr.. Page, of California,
the author of the bill, has been left at home.
| Messers. Butterworth and Young, of Ohio.
its especial champions, have been retired.
The only Democratic congressman in New
York, who voted for it. was beaten in the
nominating convention, on account of it.
Wherever an issue was made on a member.
because of his support of that measure, the
member turns up among the missing.
| The Edmunds law does not give promise
of satisfactorily settling the Mormon cues
ton after all. The first trial of a polyga-
mist under its provisions has just tumbIed
| to pieces at Salt Lake. A man named
Hintze had two wives. sought to take a
| third and WAS arrested Thara xroo No .or+