Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-21
GLOBELErs.

rive nunQreQ InOuSauu dAiSaIoIs were
'~put to one side' in Florida during the
past year.
French Canadian children, as a class, il
is said, excel other pupils in wiring and
drawing at the public schools.
A panther is engaged at present in stir.
ring up the sluggish blood of the Nimrods
in Chenango county, New York.
Mrs. Robert Stuart has given Princeton
College $150,O00 for the new mental gym
nasium-or department Of philosophy.
Fort Smith, Ark, wants the United
States to erect suitable buildings for a
jail, United States court rooms, and other
Offices.
Freckles, odd as they may seem, are
fashionable because the Princess Louise
has them, and now they are produced ar
tiicially.
A genial exchange tells us that Boston
girls never giggle. They merely express
their delight by dreamy, far-away north
pole smile.
Newbern, Tenn, has law that imposes
q fine of not less than $25 nor more than
$50 on any person who goes into saloon
on Sunday.
A woman's exchange is to be opened in
Washington, and efforts will be made to
interest several prominent society ladies
ia its success.
Senator Sab =, of Minnesota has rented
handsome fu. shed home on NJ street
next door to Judg Wylie's. Senator Sabin
has taken the hou>e for nine months.
A South Carolina correspondent says
that the state treasury has received $780,
600 mors taxes to date than for the same
period last year, Notwithstanding the hard
times and short crops.
A woman, of Norwich, n. Y, ate burnt
bread one day last week and soon after
died, on account Of the perforation of her
stomach by the charred bread, SO it is
claimed by physicians.
A Boston paper relates that an old gen
tIeman from the country who visited that
city the other day and had never been in
large town before, remarked after making
a tour Of the business section: 81 don't
like this Boston. There isn't enough out
of-doors to it."
The tide in the Hudson river is said to
be precedsntedly low, and at Kingston,
n. Y, recently the Oldest inhabitants saw
more of the river bottom than ever before.
Vessels were lying around at all points,
aud very few could move until the tide
came to their relief.
The Fandyck portrait of Charles l., after
which Mr.. Irving makes up for the char
acter, is at Windsor. The portrait of
Charles's children, after which they are
made up in the play, and which is finer
than any Vandyck at Windsor, is in the
Royal Palace at Turin
"A Philadelphia scientist can tell, on ex-
amining a hair-pin, tho color of the own
sr's hair" And Philadelphia woman,
on examining a hair found on the shout
der of her husbands coat, can tell whether
he has lied or not-and she 10 not scien-
fist, either.-Norristown Herald.
A society has been formed and incorpe-
rated under the laws Of Georgia for the
purchasing and preserving of the historic
home Of the late Alexander 81. Stephens,
known as "Liberty Hail." ut Crawfords-
vile. The house and premises will be
changed in no particular from their pres
ent condition. The consideration 10
$4,000.
The first flock of migratory cranes no
Gced for many years, passed over Perry
Ga, going in southerly direction, one
might last week, and one night last week,
and, as was at once predicted, their pass
age was followed by the recent cold snap.
1t is said that when these birds are OBJ
served to seek warmer ATTITUDES a severe
winter invariably follows.
Moses, the lamented fat woman's hus-
band seems to be possessed with mania
for marrying monstrosities. During his
visits TO Baltimore he divided his time be-
tween mourning over his dead wife and
ooquettiug with an armless woman on OK
hibition in the Monumental city, and the
two are to be welded shortly.
One of the most interesting medical
theories yet preached is the theory that
scarlet fever originated with the horse,
and that incubation from this animal
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the dreadful disease in the human being.
A noted doctor of New York city, who has
prosecuted careful studies into this subject
Ia thoroughly convinced that he is right in
this hypothesis, aud he believes that it
will be possible to reduce the equine virus
by cultivation, so that healthy children
may be iuoculated against tbs disease.
A lady in New York whose success in
raising house-plants has been matter OF
comment gives her mode of treatment to
reporter. The soil is, she says, about
two thirds good garden soil, and the rest is
sand. 1t is kept light and loose about the
roots; they are watered as they appear to
need it, and not according to any partic-
ular rule; but the chief reason for their
wonderful growth and bloom is this
when any of the leaves wither and fall,
instead of picking them up and throwing
them away, L make little rolls of them
and tuck them down in the earth, and LEI
them decay; and this is the only fertilizer
have ever used. This" she added mod
sstly, "seems to be natures way. And tn,
plants that have the afternoon sun only