Daily globe., 1883-05-26
GLOBELETS,

Hd0o prom VI pIUO On an acre of straw
berries.
In Vienna married men are forbidden to
go up in balloon without the consent of
their wives and children.
Evansville, Ind, is after the lives of the
sparrow to the extent of bounty of a
cent head, for all dead sparrows.
Is that Italian bridge, ''the bridge of
sighs" prototype of the Brooklyn bridge
which is now called "the bridge of size?''
Zululand is to have the gospel in its own
tongue. 1000 copies of the New Testa-
ment translated Zulu have just been
printed.
In Chihuahua the advent of American
enterprises has increased the rate of
wages 100 per cent. and the price of land
400 per cent.
The greatest female land owner in her
own right, in England is the Baroness
Willoughby d'Evesby. Her yearly income
from her landed estates is $25O,OOO.
The Key West (FIa.) sponge fleet, num-
bering seventy vessels and six hundred
men Is now out on a cruise. A large
catch of sponge brings about 100000
into that city.
Gov. Cleveland is making far better
official record than some of the New York
papers are willing to admit. He has
sagacity and nerve. He has just nipped a
100000 steal by his veto.
It is said that female education is ad-
vancing in India in manner which few
could have anticipated ten years ago.
Young lady university graduates in Cal
cutta take the B. A. degree.
Londoners consider U. S. Minister Low
ell to be great success as an after dinner
orator. Dinner eating and after dinner
speaking seem to be about the most con-
spicuous action of this erudite poetic
official.
The following is a vigorous if not touch
ing editorial valedictory: II lay down the
Faber, shove back the paste-pot, and hang
the yard-stick. From now on will be found
in the store or on the farm"
1t is asserted that few tradesmen on the
south side of West Fourteenth street, New
York, says the Sun, can expect to make
money at the present rents. Bassford, who
has just failed, paid $4,000. Bloom, in
the next block, who killed himself, paid
nearly as much.
A Spanish Countess is going to appear
at the Russian court in a dress of vivid
yellow gold. The materials are tulIe and
satin. The tulle is embroidered on the
edge and laid in large box plaits down
the front. the satin train is edged with
tulle, and the garniture is yellow crocuses.
piece of poetry which has been float
ing abouG, purporting to have been writ
ten by President Arthur in his younger
days, was in reality written-so a CORES
pondent of the Boston Journal states-by
Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris of Dorches-
ter for Edward Everett, when small boy.
In farmhouse, near Boone, Iowa, lives
Mother Spence, aged sc. In the same
house lives her daughter, aged 64, her
granddaughter, aged 40, her gr9at-grand-
daughter, aged 81, and her great-great-
granddaughter, aged 2. This is believed
to be the only house in the country shell
tering fivei generations.
Real estate is booming in Florida. Pine
lands which people were glad to sell at 81
or less two years ago now bring $25 an
acre, and canno5 be found to meet the de-
mand even at that price. And how the
opposition did howl because the Democrats
insisted on getting Florida at any price
little over sixty years ago.
The population of Berlin, according to
the Statistical Imperial Almanac, is l.
122,330-a number equal to and even
slightly exceeding the aggregate of the
four next largest German cities, namely,
Hamburg 2S9,859; BresIau, 272,9I2; Nun
| ich, 23O,023; Dresden, 22O,818 and Dantzic,
with 1885 inhabitants, thrown in.
Queen Victoria has ordered large brass,
bearing eulogistic inscription in memo
ry of John Brown, which is to be placed
on the walls of the Prince Consort's Mau-
soleum, at FrogmOre. A bust and statue
are also in preparation, and at Crathie an
elaborate monument is to be placed over
the grave, and 'cairn'' on one of the ad-
jacent hills.
The ministers of Chicago discussed the
moral quality of the daily newspapers of
that wicked city. They came to the con-
clusion that the quality was by no means
as moral as it ought to be, but that it
tended largely to immortality. Thereupon
| they appointed committee to reason with
the newspaper men and ask them to be
more moral.
"There's something about your daugh-
ter,' Mr.. Wanghop said, refectively-
"there's something about your daughter"
'Yes," said old Mr.. Thistlepod, 'there is;
I had noticed it myself. 1t comes every
night at 8 o'clock, and it doesn't get away,
usually till about IL o'clock. And some of
these evenings I am going to lift it all the
way from the front parlor to the side gate
and see what there's in it."
Five ordinances are proposed for the
regulation of groggeries in Copenhagen.
The number of public houses is to be re-
duced from 1850 to 800. Girls are not to
be allowed to stand behina bars. Liquor
is not to be sold to persons under IS. No
liquor is to be sold to persons already Wis
IDLY intoxicated. A drunken person is to