Daily globe., 1883-08-25

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fence of Paris was unveiled Aug. Is, at
the French capital.
The emperor Of Austria and the king of
Servia will have an interview in Hun
gary in September.
Several American artists have been
awarded second-cIass medals at the Mu
mich art exhibition.
A firm Of vinegar makers in London en-
tertained one hundred men at dinner in
their $4,000 gallon vat,
The chief prelates of the Roman catholic
churcn in Europe and America will meet
IN Rome in November.
Mayor White and six ex-tire commits
sioners of Baltimore have been indicted
for mal-feasance in Office.
A beet sugar refinery in Portland has
failed because it could not get beets even
from $3.50 and Sc ton.
Sirius which has been 1eceding from the
sun at the rate Of twenty miles second.
is now moving towards it.
Gold mines in the famous Wilderness,
Spottsylvania county, Virginia are being
worked, 1t IS stated with profit.
The export of ostrich feathers from the
Cape last year was Dprecedentedly large.
The prices obtained we're enormous.
man failed to commit suicide at
Mansfield, Massachusetts, and the next day
q railroad train ran over him accidentally.
A half dozen members of the British
parliament are coming TO attend the
opening of the Northern Pacific railroad.
1t turns ont that tne greater part Of the
Duchess of Edinburgh's trousseau was sold
a few years ago as ''the property Of a lady
of rank
Oanoucbet is still held by
Gov. Sprague, though he does not live
there. All the household goods have been
moved, and the house is vacant.
A sagacious newspaper Knight of the
lead pencil, thinks it great mista Ike not
to lave discovered Noah's Ark somewhere
near an American summer resort.
In Krupp's great gun manufactory at
Essex, com pressed carbonic acid is used
for the manufacture of what ice and selt-
ger water may be required by the work
men.
The Freedmen's aid socIety M. E.
church last year made the sum of $17S,O00.
is down for another marriage. The bride
to be is the daughter of Prof. Dare, a Lon
don expert in telegraphing.
There is an Oxford graduate in the
~ nd no
gives what is called "a very eloquent and
critical lecture on English poetry, making
judicieus selections and showing wonder
| ful knowledge"
| A neA edition of the works of William
H. Seward will soon be published in five
volums. The first four volumes will be
reprint of the earlier edition, bat the fifth
will be new matter, containing the almost
unknown diplomatic History of the War;"
This will be Invaluable, and startling in
many of its revelations.
The Egyptian census has just been COM
pleted The total population is given as
| G,79S,23O OF whom 3.3S3,918 are males,
and 3,4O4,3l2 females. Cairo has 368, ,1O8
| inhabitants; Alexandria, with its suburbs.
208,77 Port Said, 1850; Suez, 1913;
Tantah 3,725: Damietta, S4,046; Rosetta,
1861; Mensurah. 26, ,674: Zagazig, 1905.
The police of Bridgeport resigned to get
around the law which prevented their pay
being increased while il ofice as the com
nissioners had voted. Then dummies
were appointed and resigned, and the old
board were reappointed at the new salary.
They find now that no man over forty-fve
is eligible, and so number lose their
places.
Miss Fuller is school teacher in Grand
Marais. northern Michigan. She is also
an admirable shot with the rife, and, after
school hours, goes hunting in the neigh
boring woods. The family with whom
she boards are kept we'll supplied with
game, large and small. She is the admi-
ration Of the country, and all the young
men are in love with her.
The falling of in the amount Of wine
consumed in England is remarkable if
placed in contrast With a steady increase,
year after year, up to the year Of grace
1875, when the consumption reached its
highest total of about IS. 900 gallons
high vine mark that deserves to be marked
upon the door posts of the treasury cham
bers, as exceptionally high tides are
marked On river piers and bridges. From
that date a gradual decrease has set in,
with the result of IN the past year con-
sumption of only some 100000 gallons.
Petrotatum, or petroleum jelly, has
been eonfscated in Rio de Janeiro by the
custom house officials for dynamite. The
agent Of the Pennsylvania oil company
was compelled to pay heavy fine, al
though he protested that the goods were
; not explosive. He applied to the custom
house inspector, and offered to prove that
the article was purely medicinal prepa-
ration, but the inspector declined to re-
turn the goods. The agent has been in
structed to appeal TO the emperor for re
dress.
] Canada is to have standing army OF
: 1880 men, by enlarging her two field bat