Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-03
GLoBELETs.

AdSG VI n HIlls
A goat can be relied upon in court as
evidence in rebuttal.
Forgers believe in adding good names
to their other capital.
Stripped of her titles Queen Victoria is
simply plain Mrs. Wsttin.
Beer is finding its way into France and
has many admirers and lovers.
London consumes 100000 quarts of
milk canned, only 10 per cent. of which is
pure milk.
In South America the quinine crop is
reported light, but the crop of earthquakes
is about the average.
Jay Gould says this year will be more
prosperous one than the last, and he is
rich enough to know.
Tipperary is now one of the quietest
counties in Ireland, while Galway has be-
come about the worst.
The European branch Iof the Saliva
ton army is torn all to pieces by Daudet's
new book, ''LEvangeliste."
There is a report "out Vest that Jesse
James is yet alive, sne many believe it.
If he is, he is doing duty in hades.
The Duchess of Sutherland is said to
have signed the pledge, bat none too soon,
for drink was fast growing upon her.
There have been twenty business fail
ures in Oregon during the last three
months, liabilities aggregatiRg $115,743.
An Indianapolis preacher has challenged
en- editor to fight duel. Reserved seats,
the anxious seats" will be at premium.
The eastern papers call the revival of
the Tilden boom the wonderful ''Indian
Summer" of calm strength and statesman
ship.
Prominent Republicans have no hope of
harmonizing the factions of that party in
Now York, and hence concede a Demo
cratic president in 1884.
There is but little change of note in
strawberry box fashions this season. The
sides will slant downwards little more
sharply and the bottom little higher up
cut of the mud.
There is good in everything. On late
freezing night the frigid temperature ''set
back'' the Jersey mosquito crop at least
one month, SO the old farmers say, but
they can stand it.
The maple sugar crop is dead failure
in Vermont, and the farmers are out
hundreds of thousands of dollars, with not
even enough of ths sweet syrup or cakes to
supply their own needs.
The Cincinnati NelOS is daily pitching
into ex-President Hayes, with violent per
sonal vituperations. Why kick a dead
dog? Is the NeaOs afraid he will be resur-
Eected as candidate for governor?
Charles L. Williams, postmaster at Ma
cooche, Ga, was appointed to the Office
which he now holds in 1880. He boasts
that he has, with his one hand, made out
every quarterly return from 1880 up to
, March 81, 1881.
Phil. Thompson, a Kentucky congress
man, killed man the other day for seduc-
ing his wife-shot him in the head. It is
said he has previously killed several men
by shooting them in the head. Is this Ken
lucky civilization?
DR.. Black of Savannah, who doetorsd
President Arthur during his late sharp
acute and short attack Of illness, with No
poetry in his soul, plainly avows he had
the y aohe-colic. And he national
executive, an eater of shrimps!
John Bright estimates that since the
beginning of the century Great Britain has
spent over twenty-five thousand millions
J of dollars for war, and only i've thousand
five hundred millions of dollars for civil
government and improvement.
The last surviving grandfather of Thorn
: as Jefferson is living at Georgetown, D. @.
at an advanced age, and in a destitute con
f 5itian. The New York Commercial AdUer
] tiser suggests that this is a fine occasion
Tor the Democratic party to exhibit it,
"Jefersonian principles"
On the POrtrush railway to the Giant:
Causeway, in Ireland, tram car driven BY
: electricity ran ten miles an hour steadily
+; and but that the speed is limited by act 0.
parliament, could easily do twenty-five
!. miles an hour. Sixty tons were taken ''uI
n an incline of one i'll thirty five"
IL the Binghampton Inebriate asylum
there we're at one time eighteen cases o.
persons whose condition was directly
traceable to Black Friday. Political fail
= ures are also accountable for many cases
Political campaigns always send con
siderable contribution to the asYlums.
During the fifteen years ending with
d 1882. no fewer than thirty British
peerages, nearly one-tenth of the entire
T number, became extinct or dormant. The
number of deaths of peers during the SANE
q time was 800, and of peeresses, 234. The
baronetcies which became extinct or dor
: mant during the fifteen years number
sixty.
The fact about the cost of the New Yorl
. elevated roads seems to be that they COS
less than $23,00O,OOO, as found by the rail
road commissioners. The corporations
themselves claim to have expended some
what over $30,OOO,OO0, and the nomina
Il capital on which the public are asked tC
u pay dividends is O0O,O00-more thar
double the actual cost.
: They are making great outcry in New