Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-03
CLIO BELETS,

to their other capital
Stripped of her titles Queen Victoria is
simply plain Mrs. Victim.
Beer is finding its way into France AMI
has many admirers and lovers.
London consumes 30,00O,OOG quarts of
milk canned, only 10 per cent. of which is
pure milk.
In South America the quinine crop is
reported light, but the crop of earthquakes
is about the average.
Jay Gould says this year will be more
prosperous one than the last, and he is
rich enough to know.
Tipperary is now one of the quietest
counties IN Ireland, while Galway has be-
come about the worst.
The European branch lof the Saliva
ton army is torn all to pieces by Daudet'S
new book, "REvangeliste"
There is report ''out West" that Jesse
James is yet alive, and many believe it.
If ne is, ne is doing duty in hades.
The Duchess of Sutherland is said to
have signed the pledge, bat mono too soon,
for drink was fast growing upon her.
There have been twenty business fail
ures IN Oregon during the last three
months, liabilities aggregating $115,743.
An Indianapolis preacher has challenged
an editor to fight duel. Reserved seats,
the anxious Seats" will be at a premium.
The eastern papers call the revival of
the Iilden boom the wonderful "Indian
Summer" of calm strength and statesman
ship.
Prominent Republicans have no hope of
harmonizing the factions of that party in
New York, and hence concede a Demo-
cratic president in 1884.
There is but little change of note in
strawberry box fashions this season. The
sides will slant downwards little more
sharply and the bottom little higher up
out of the mud.
There is good in everything. On late
freezing night the frigid temperature ''set
back" the Jersey mosquito crop at least
one month, SO the old farmers say, but
they can stand it.
The maple sugar crop is dead failure
in Vermont, and the farmers are out
hundreds of thousands of dollars, with not
even enough of the sweet syrup or cakes to
supply their own needs.
The Cincinnati NeacS is daily pitching
into ex-President Hayes, with violent per-
sonal Vltuperations. Why kick a dead
dog? Is the Ne,Os afraid he will be resur-
rected as candidate for governor?
Charles L. Williams, postmaster at Ma
cooche, Ca, was appointed to the Office
which he now holds in 1880. He boasts
that he has, with his one hand, made out
every quarterly return from 1880 up to
March 81, 1881.
Phil. Thompson, a Kentucky congress
man, killed man the other day for seduc-
ing his wife-shot him in the head. It is
said he has previously killed several men
by shooting them in the head. Is this Ken
lucky civilization?
DR.. Black of Savannah, who doctored
President Arthur during his late sharp,
acute and short attack Of illness, with No
poetry in his soul, plainly avows he had
executive, an eater of shrimps!
John Bright estimates that since the
beginning of the century Great Britain has
spent over twenty-five thousand millions
OF dollars for war, and only five thousand
i've hundred millions of dollars for civil
government and improvement.
The last surviving grandfather of Thorn
as Jefferson is living at Georgetown, D. c.,
at an advanced age, and in a destitute con-
dition. The New York Commercial Aduer-
tiSer suggests that this is a fine occasion
for the Democratic party to exhibit its
'Jeffersonian principles"
On the Portrush railway to the Giants
Causeway, in Ireland, tram car driven by
electricity ran ten miles an hour steadily,
and but that the speed is limited by act of
parliament, could easily do twenty five
miles an hour. Sixty tons were taken sup
an incline of one in thirty-fve."
In the Binghampton Inebriate asylum
there were at one time eighteen cases of
persons whose condition was directly
traceable to Black Friday. Political fail
N~OS Wv oA0O aSOOuAIdUl0 1OI u4duJ CdS0S.
Political campaigns always send con-
siderable contribution to the asYlums.
During the fifteen years ending with
1882, no fewer than thirty seven British
peerages, nearly one-tenth of the entire
number, became extinct or dormant The
number of deaths of peers during the same
time was 500, and of peeresses, 234. The
baronetcies which became extinct or dor
mant during the fifteen years number
sixty.
The fact about the cost of the New York
elevated roads seems to be that they cost
less than $23,OOO,OOO, as found by the rail
road commissioners. The corporations
themselves claim to have expended some
what over $30,OOOOOO, and the nominal
capital on which the public are asked to
pay dividends is 7,OOO,OOO-more than
double the actual cost.
They are making great outcry in New
York over a Chinese deputy sheriff, who
has been getting weekly stipend from
the Chinese gambling houses as price for
not closing them up. Of course it is very
atrocious for Heather Chinee to be in