Daily globe., 1883-05-04
CLIO BElETS,


double the price of gas in New York.
The lands in Texas capable of producing
sugor are estimated at 100000 acres.
A Virginia woman has named her baby
Malone because its alleged father re-
pudiates it.
The statement is floating about in the
newspapers that w. H. Vanderbilt's cook
gets $4,000 year.
A Boston cigar dealer says his largest
trade in cigarettes is with girls in the high
and normal schools.
Recently eighteen nihilists were con-
Victed in st. Petersburg, and six of them
were sentenced to death.
A Cincinnati paper says, speaking about
hre escapes, none of the editors seem to
have thought about heaven.
Fred Douglass, the eminent coIored
orator, owns an eighteen-room house near
Washington, and is worth not far from
100000.
Chlcago Is working up scandal about
the burial of its paupers. The county un-
dertaker is said to make $4,000 year by
the sale of bodies.
The first Jewish marriage that has taken
place IN Madrid since the expulsion of the
Jews from Spain two centuries ago was
celebrated few weeks since.
A brewer in London confesses that the
salvation army has diminished his receipts
over $4,000 in one year through their
work among the lower classes.
An indignant landlord writes that he
adopted coils of fire escape ropes in his
bedrooms, and that three guests success
fully escaped, though there was no fire.
They left unpaid bills.
Cant man use tobacco and be a
Chrlstianw asked some one of Mr.. MOODY.
Yes" answered the brusque evangelist, ''a
nasty one." This ought to be entirely sat-
ls1actory to all the tobacco-using saints.
The car in which Kavaaagh swore he
drove the murderers of Cavendish and
Burke to the park is now the star attrac-
tlon of Nine. Tussand's exhibition, but the
horse and harnss are retained by the DO
lice.
Two experienced French gentlemen are
perfecting arrangements to establish an
ostrich farm in Medina county, Tex.
They will pay literally for tacks, tin cans,
scrap-iron and other provender of the
same sort.
The late Laura A. Clifford left the bulk
OF her estate to the Tyringham, Massa-
chusetts, Baptist church. If the Tyripg
ham church does not support minister.
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named in the will.
HOW many races are there" was asked
by "a Kentucky school ma'am? Up sprang
shock-headed youngster, with yard wide
smile upon his face, and exclaimed, ''there
are three, the spring meeting, mid-sum-
mer speeding, and the fall fairs"
When sinners have supposed themselves
to be dying and professed to be converted.
IN most cases they have lived as they did
before. religious Journal saws, this is
the general opinion of pastors who have
seen these supposed death-bed CONVEX
sions.
At st. John, N. B., the other day, when
sly women acted as pall-bearers at a funer-
al, they were arrayed in black dresses, the
monotOny of which was relieved by white
gloves and wells. They carried the coffin
successfully in and out of the church and
lowered it into the grave.
In Sweden, during the recent display Of
aurora borealis, the extent, vividness
and magnitude of which, it is reported,
has not been observed in that country for
years, the big clouds which from time to
time passed below the aurora boreaIis did
not effect in the slightest degree the phe-
nomena.
A Mr.. Muth, of Paris, in Kentucky, has
violin made in 1856, which has been in
the Muth family for over two centuries
and has furnished music for royalty in the
old world. Violins of that period are said
to be worth from $4,000 to $4,000, but that
amount would not purchase the one in
question.
B. Wardwell, the great prison reform
er says: That in one year sixteen men
have been driven to incurable insanity by
torture i'll the prisons of Massachusetts:
Taking this and other facts, supplemented
by the Tewksbury barbaritY how has Puri-
tan Massachusetts degenerated into the
basest criminality.
In Cyprus the most severe shock of
earthquake experienced there for many
years occurred on the morning of March
9TH at 7:30, lasting about fifty or sixty
seconds. 1t was impossible for foot psssen-
gers in the streets to keep their balance
without assistance, while horses and mules
staggered about as though in fits.
The first so that Peter Cooper earned
he invested in lottery tickets, and as they
all drew blanks, ne was early impressed,
says the chronicler, with the folly of gam
bling. Had he drawn prize, ever SO small,
it doubtless would have given direction
TO the current of his life which would have
prevented him from being a millionaire
and philanthrophist.
A writer on etiquette says of hand shak-
ing that it is an indicative of charac-
ter, and classifes hand shakers as aggres-
sive, supercilious, Emphatic, imperative,
suspicious and emotional. A gentleman
must not take lady's hand unless she Of