Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-10
GLOBELETS.

warm WedIner ana heaVy rams continue
to increase the floods on the Rhine, Danube
and Saone.
Chill has offered to make peace with
Peru upon much more moderate terms
than were at first proposed.
Potter Palmer is in Paris making exsen-
sive purchases of fucniture, pictures, ETC.,
for his new residence in Chicago.
1t is stated that $4,000 have alre adv
been paid by the government In fees to
special counsel in the star route trials.
A Pittsburg pawnbroker states that
SO per cent. of the money he
loans is spent for intoxicating liquors.
1t is estimated that the emigrants who
arrived in Winnipeg last year brought
with them cash capital of $1O,OO0,OOO.
An exchange sharply says there is real
need of the large corps of paymasters in
the army-they are needed to pay one an
other.
A Georgia paper says, "We begin the
new year in Georgia with an outlook of
great elasticity" What stimulates the
elasticity is not shown.
Congressional apportionment bills are to
be passed this winter by the legislatures of
Arkansas, Maine, Kansas, New York, North
Carolina and Pennsylvania.
The dying woman in Mt. Vernon, Ohio,
who confessed to three murders, has now
confessed to two more. She had better
die. She has confessed enough.
The Pail Mall Gazette publishes rumor
that the Germans of London have received
notice to be in readiness to return home to
fulfill their term of military service.
Most, the foreign peripatetic "red-
handed communist" does not succeed in
enthusing the socialistic element in the
cities visited by him to any great degree.
The toy pistol kills the old fools as well
as the young. A man in Dallas, Texas,
eighty years old, recently died of lockjaw
caused by a wound from toy pistol, with
which he was fooling.
The prohibition issue which disrupted
the Republican party in several states last
fall, it is found, cannot be taken out of pol
itics, as Republicans desire, and it is be-
the party in 1884.
An English writer fears that the electric
light with the pitiless glare must eventual
ly carry the day, but declares that for true
comfort "there is no light that equals that
of pure wax candle" Daylight is good
enough for Us.
Nearly 100000 pensioners are on the
rolls and there are quarter of million
more applicants, so the secretary of the in
terror SAYS. They have cost nearly $780,
00O,0O0,OO0 so far, and there are estimated
to be over $2OO,OO0,OOO arrears.
The statute of limitations has acted to
deprive Philadelphia lawyer of fee of
$4,000. He had for many years been le-
gal adviser to man of immense wealth,
and had not asked for compensation until
long after his wealthy clients demise.
Germantown has person who can eat
pound of soap, half pound of candles and
drink pint of lard oil at single meal.
His name is William Manuel and at one
time he filed regular engagement at
saloon, giving exhibitions of his ostrich
like appetite.
Here is a Welsh song. The American
who would sing it must first take an emet-
ic, a pinch of cayenne pepper in his nose
and breathe the sulphur fumes of few
matches. Then it comes natural enough:
''Chwychi ach ochi oche achau-o chowch
Ach uwch achychan
Iachewch eich och ewoh ich iachau
ZACH wychach ewch och achau."
The latest statistics show that there are
in the whole of London 10000 children
between three and fourteen years requiring
elementary education, and the number in
creases yearly at the rate of about $4,000.
The actual number of children attending
the schools is more than 100000 less, being
$4,000. Of these, 100000 attend the
''board" schools and 100000 the ''volun-
tary'' schools.
The Rev. R. W. Hill, who has been to
Alaska, draws gloomy picture of the in
temperance among the natives. "The In
dams will give away wife and children"
he says, ''to obtain liquor, and their
carousals are so fierce and reckless that
murders and suicides are frequent results"
He believes that if the progress of ruin is
not stayed the end Of the Alaska Indian is
not far off.
Wild goats roam the mountains around
Harper's Ferry, Va. When the war broke
out large numbers oftame animals, fright
ened by the firing, took refuge on the
Maryland heights and have never returned.
They are frequently killed by hunters. but
they persistently refuse to descend, and
the sense of danger experienced by the
goats of 1861 and 1862 seems to have been
transmitted to their posterity.
The Bannock Indians always destroy
whatever causes or is connected with death.
If a horse kicks man to death it is killed;
if an Indian dies in wigwam it is burned.
So, when an Indian boy was crushed in the
machinery of Touring mill the other day,
the Indians burned it down the same night,
causing loss to the government of $1,000
or $4,000 ON the building and to them
selves of $4,000 to $4,000 on wheat and
flour. 1t was an expensive revenge.
A California man has acquired fortune