Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-28

sideration, for the Roman nUMeral can
mean nothing but cents.
Immediately after the Adjournment Of
congress Senator Edmunds will join his
wife and daughter in the South, where they
have been visiting for some time. They
will then go together to the Pacific coast
by way of New Mexico. The summer Will
be spent in Oregon, and they will come
home in the fall by the Northern Pacific
route.
The Truckss river in Colorado is frozen
to the bottom. In passing over the CLASSY
surface of the stream whole schools of
trout are seen firmly fixed just whore the
cold wave struck them. The raAchmen
living along the river now 60 fishing with
axes, and in some places chop out dozen
of the 'speckled beauties in bunch.
Gov. Butler, of Massachusetts, reiterates
his belief that the fourteenth amendment
of the United States constitution fully
covers the right of women to vote, and be-
lieyes the supreme court will so decide
whenever case is presented to them.
Why does not some one get up test case
to secure a decision of the highest court in
the Union?
Beyond the Mississippi river there are
100000 square miles not settled by white
men, and of shis area 100000 square miles
embracing much of the best land, are
included within Indian reservations,
while much of the remainder consists of
mountainous tracts, lands inaccessible or
sterile, and arid regions which car not
DE irrigated.
Illinois has tho acting vice president,
she secretary of war, the assistant sec
rotary of the interior, the commissioner of
Internal, revenue, the director OF the mint,
she public printer and the chief examiner
of patents, and if any Ohio man steps out
a good, qualified sucker can be found to
take his place. There is nothing mean
about Illinois.
When Cavendish, the great chemist, per-
ceiVed that his end drew near, he ordered
his attendant to retire, and notreturn until
certain hour. The servant came back at
the appointed time, to find his master
dead. He had chosen to breathe out his
soul in solitude and silence, and would not
be disturbed by the presence Of man, since
vain was his help.
A Boston philanthropist, riding in
horse-car the other day, saw that poor
working woman next him was about to
pay her fare with six cents. He immedi
ately offered her fve-cent ticket, saying
that she might as well have the profit as
the railroad company 1t is supposed
that he put the one cent which he gained IN
the missionary box.
The mother of Josh Billings still lives,
and has reached the great age of ninety
two years. She was the wife of the Hon.
Henry Sloan, who, soma sixty years ago,
was member of congress from the Berk-
shire county, Massachusetts,, district.
While her husband was member of con-
gress, Mrs Sloan was noted in Washington
society for her intelligence and accom-
plishment.
Professor Burt G. Wilder, now lecturing
at Bowdoin college, advertises that he
wishes to obtain ''cats, and occasionally
Kittens" for dissection or experiment, and
that twenty cents will be paid for a full
grown cat. The cats, he explains, are
killed with chloroform, or while under it's
influence, and never suffer any pain, MAX.
ing this merciful way of disposing of
superfuous animals.
Senator Hoar grows stouter as he be-
comes older. His manner, like his rhet-
ORIG, lacks somewhat in robustness; and
when one is beginning to admire MIN for
sauvity and learning he defeats ones lik-
ing by the betrayal of something fnicaI.
His temper is bad and he frequently loses
control of it, and on such an occasion he
displays, not righteous indignation, bat
frilled and starched peevishness.
There is in Illinois family named
Hiskey, whose aggregate weight is 1857
pounds. The father weighs 48O, the
mother 38e the Oldest daughter 3o7, the
next 275, the third $50, the Oldest son 220,
the second 2o2, the third 260, and the
fourth TT. The pater familias has two
sisters who tip the scale at 80 and 270
pounds respectively. Sach family carry
great weight in any community.
The brand of every stock-owner in the
territory of Montana is registered at Hell
ena, and there is legal way of canceling
brand when stock is transferred, but a
thief can cancel brand and establish his
own as well as purchaser, and where men
see their cattle but once year, and own
large numbers of them, if they were in the
habit of selling 10 neighboring purchasers
and of having their brands cancelled, it
would make thieving easy and conviction
difficult.
CTATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF RAMSEY
Us. District Court. Second Judicial District.