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

England IS said to have had the coolest
March in thirty eight years.
The arrests in Ireland continue. and the
crop of informers increases.
The smokers of France paid last year
for cigars alone $12,0oo,000.
The existence of secret alliance between
Sweden and Germany is denied.
Only twelve members of the Texas leg
islature are natives of the state.
Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee, is be-
ieved to have the finest library in the
west.
Horse thieves are plying their trade
briskly, at and around Jefferson City, Mis-
souri,.
France is alleged to have consumed to-
bacco last year to the amount of $72,-
100000.
1t is reported that Gen. Grant recently
made $4,000 by the rise of Louisville &
Nashville.
The London morning dailies, the Times
and the Standard, are about to issue even
ing editions.
The late Irish convention in Philadel-
phia is receiving great praise for its con-
sentative spirit.
Wagons are being constructed in Milan
to convey italian grapes to the wine fac
tories of France.
few seals are still caught IN Long
Island sound. In colonial days they were
quite numerous.
Mr.. Bell, the Hartford publisher, ex-
poets to make 100000 by the publication
of Mr.. Blaine's book.
The National debt reduction for April is
stated at $3,S00,6O0. The pension pay
roll was some $10,O0O,000.
Lady Wilde says sit is not impossible
that new dialect will be rapidly formed,
which may be called Americanese.'
Illinois is so we'll pleased with its exper-
iment of biennial sessions of the legisla-
ture, that there is some talk Of irving tri-
ennial.
The Austrian government has forbidden
the circulation of paper which was the
medium of disseminating anti-Jewish
songs.
The late Irish convention in Philadel-
phia demonstrated that there is more of
Ireland in the United States than in Great
Britain.
street car conductor in Liverpool has
discovered that he is found next of kin to
West India planter, who has left $780,
100000.
There will presently be large pilgrim
age of English Roman Catholic grandees
to Lourdes, on a scale similar to one ten
years ago.
Hindoo marriages at ten years old or
thereabouts are the cause of such evils that
;he Anglo-Indian press is demanding their
prohibition by law.
In reply to 81 don't want your paper
any longer" the editor wrote: 81 would
not make it SO if you did-it would in
volve a new press"
Military reports show that about one
soldier in every five on the frontier be-
comes a deserter, and nearly one man in
six of the army as whole.
Rents have reached the limits of their
upward advance in New York city, and
have begun to fall-the sure sign that the
end of an era of speculation is near.
It is reported that Porter Palmer, the
Chicago millionaire, after spending $780,
900 on palace, does not like its appear
ance, and orders it to be demolished.
Montreal and other large Canadian
cities complain of the diversion of capital
to Winnipeg, and will view ''bust up"
should one occur, with patient resignation.
In England in the year 1882 there were
203,9O5 marriages, S8s,94O births, and &c.,
1888 deaths. In London there were 35,414
marriages, 133,2Oo births, and s2,9O5
deaths.
Says an authority: If children wore
flannel next to them and longer clothing
suspended from the shoulders, we should
have more of robust health and less of
backaches.
At Winchester, England, recently, big
stone was thrown at Baron Huddleston,
Judge of assizes, while walking with his
wife in the grounds adjoining the judges
lodgings.
There were more marriages in Victoria,
Australia, in 1882 than in any previous
year, viz, 1886. Women have ceased to
be scarce in the colony, and now out
ngmber the men by 108 ty 100.
The 'Mysteries of New York" is the title
of the latest sensational piece, in four acts
and eight tableux, with song and dance.
performed at the Berlin National theater
since Easter Monday, to GRO wded houses.
A very significant proof of the reduction
in coal waste resulting from the efforts of
the Anti-smoke association is seen in the
fact that in 1882 there was decrease of
1873, 173 tons in the coal brought into Lon
don.
The Kansas City Journal says that,
owing to the great number of unoccupied
dwelling houses, rents will not be advanced
in New York. It would be interesting to
many, says the Sun, to learn whereabouts
these houses are.
Many of the farmers who spend harvest
time on the pra1ries of the Northwest are
residents of other states. They attend to
business at their homes winter and sum-
mer, and at seeding and harvest visit their