Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-28
GLOBELETS.

The Philadelphia state house bell
weighs $4,000 pounds.
An immense amount of building is in
progress in Washington.
1t is easier to write a snappy editorial
than sensible love letter.
cat brooding nine chickens is one OF
the curiosities of Salt Lake.
A beaver weighing twenty-five pounds
has been killed at Roanoke, Va.
There are 10000 square miles OF I'M
broken forests IN North Carolina.
Leprosy caused sixteen deaths in the
United States in the census year.
Nazareth has just had telegraph office,
the first opened in the Holy Land.
One OF the most expert billiard players
in San Francisco is a boy eleven years of
age.
1t is the quality of the kernal that consti-
tutes the virtue of the pea, not the size of
the pod.
The rate of interest in the open market
of Mexico is 10 per cent. and on mortgages
from 10 to u.
Canadian credit stands higher on the
English money market than any other
B irish colony.
The Turkish government licenses lot
teries on the payment of a tax of 10 per
cent on the receipts.
The Democrats are in a minority in
the Illinois Legislature, but they manage to
control it all the same.
The Boston Transcript informs an
''Anxious Inquirer that rusty pork and
pig iron are not identical.
Mr.. James G. Flood, OF bonanza fame,
will build a one-million-dolIar house on
the highest San Francisco hill.
Oreas Island, in Washington Territory,
has a thriving community 1t has 600 in
habitants, three schools and three post
offices.
A Sasans port, Pa, doctor has found a
man whose opium consumption rose to a
pound per day, his doses beginning with
an ounce.
To add one mile an hour to an ocean
steamship you must about double your
consumption of coal, says an cid Cunard
commander.
1t is too early TO say what style of para
sol will be fashionable, but as usual they
will be carried just high enough to knock
out a mans eye.
The persons arrested in Moscow on sus-
picion of plots to dynamite the Kremlin
during the coronation of May 81 number
more than 1000.
The government OF India causes sani-
tary primer to be issued in the schools.
100000 copies have been circulated in
fourteen different venaculars.
The diet Of the British tramps or "casu-
ais" when locked up over Sunday, is TWEEN
ty-four ounces of bread and one of cheese.
They pass the day in swearing.
Tha time has come when small states
that breed great men should not be elbow
ed out of presidential conventions by big
states to make way for commonplace men.
The Texas meteor canard, alleged to
cover an acre of ground, is believed by the
Philadelphia Press TO be true after all, be-
cause Tom OchiItree, the prince of liars,
denies it.
President Arthur had very narrow es-
cape. Shrimp salad is one of the most
arbitrary and unreasonable connections
that ever got into an argument with the
human stomach.
Old-fashioned fiint-lock shot guns are still
manufactured at Birmingham, England,
for use in remote places, where, should the
ammunition for patent guns give out, the
hunter would be helpless.
Charles ClewelI, of Cattawissa, Pa, upon
cleaning up the old granary upon the
premises lately occupied by his father,
found 800 in gold and silver coins, hidden
in barrel of screenings.
Stilson Hutchins, the well known Mis-
souri, editor, now of the Washington Post,
has bought an island for $4,000 in Lake
WinnipIscogee. He has recently been
married, and probably wants to live in re-
tirement for awhile.
An enterprising American has discover
ed that the fiat bean" of China will make
cheese that cannot be distinguished from
the best Goshen or Limburger. He pro-
poses shipping it to this country in large
quantities. to help the COWS out.
Two Cleveland girls of fifteen years and
two young men about three years their
seniors, were caught in the act of clipping.
The girls thought it would be SO nice to go
to Chicago, get married and create sem
sation at home by telegraphing for pater-
nal blessings, They all belonged to the
higher social circles.
Mr.. Henry E. Abbey states that the total
amount received for the twenty -four weeks
of Mrs. Langtry's tour amounted to $685.
663.58. The largest receipts were those
of the first weeks performances in New
York, which reached SIS, 1850, and the
smallest weeks earnings were S5,957,
taken at Cincinnati during the flood.
As usual the wheat, after being utterly
ruined by the professional croakers. turns
out to be in an excellent condition. It
should be remembered that croaking down
the crops is regular business now. days
with those who deal on margins, and PLAY
in the bucket shops. The present outlook
is for year of abundance.
From January first to March IL, seventy
six days, there we're $50 shipwrecks, or an
increase of 90 rs ,u;4L