Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-10
GLOBRLKTS.

| congress was more creditable than the
| first.
The new senator from Michigan, Mr.
Palmer, is written down in biographical
| sketches very respectable man, but it is
nowhere stated whether he can play poker.
There is great revival of religion in New
Haven. TheIhopejis expressed that it may
include Yale college where unripe hood
lums do greatly abound.
There are sixty-seven daily political
| papers published in Paris, but their aggre-
gate circulation does not equal that of the
two most widely read London journals.
There is st. Louis woman who sleeps
only two hours at night. Her husband te-
longs to all the secret organizations in the
city.
Mr. Samuel D. Goodwin and wife, of
Bloomfield, Hartford county, Conn, cele-
brated their golden wedding Feb. 81. They
have children and grandchildren, and no
death has occurred in their family since
| their marriage, half century ago.
Many of the quail which 60 east are from
Indian territory where the Indians are poi
soning the birds with grain soaked in a
solution of strychnine. Perhaps some gen.
tleman is hanging,aroundt to make match
that he can eat sixty quail in thirty days.
man at Stockton, Cal, who had been
sent to the chain-gang for stealing, refused
to work the other day, and was chained to
a post with one arm elevated at full length
L. L = 1 H. E
an hour and half.
word on easter, which falls on the
25th of March this year. The last time it
fell thus early was in 1742. In 1863, 1864,
and 1871 it also fell on this date, and the
next will be 1894, 1851, 2O35, 2O46, 2O57,
2113, 2114, 1926, 2196, and so on.
The terrible story of starvation in lie
land would bring the blush of shame to
any country but England. But that coun-
try reserves its bushes for outrages Russia
permitted in Bulgaria. England, which is
the Mrs. Jellyby of nations, has sympa-
thetic heart.
Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Island, married
widow in West Virginia the other day.
His ex-wife, Kate, resides in the city of
New York, where distinguished ex-sena-
tor also resides in full legal practice. Ca
nonchet, at last, has mistress who does
not need the protection of shotgun.
There is a charming frankness about the
reply made by New York boy to police
Justice before whom he had been ar
raigned. ''When did you last wash your
face?" asked the judge. "Day before yes
terday,'' promptly replied the boy. His
honesty secured his discharge.
In common with tambourines, guitars
and spinnets, ancient harps are being
carefully unearthed in the auction-rooms
and brought home to decorate the much
crowded modern interior. Men who can
manufacture harps a hundred years old
are making a good thing of it.
Anew secret society has been started in
New York under the name of 'Order of
the Iron Tie" The order of ''The Steal
Overcoat'' operated extensively in
this vicinity during the winter,
but was suppressed by the ''Cast Iron Col
lars" otherwise known as policemen.
A negro IN Mobile, Ala, created a sensa-
ton and caused himself to be suspected of
murder by making false grave and put
| ting near it a corn sack saturated with
blood. His object was to ''hoodo" the
witches who protected supposed buried
treasure of which the negro was in search.
A Battle Greek Mich savapt supposed
he had discovered a wholly new and rare
insect. He sent it to the agricultural col
! lege for examination, and the learned pro-
fessor wrote back that it was an ordinary
cockroach. That wise man has never been
in the composing room of a well regulated
newspaper.
Not less than 5000 marks on Cincinnati
houses stand as records of the deluge OF
the Ohio river in the third week in Febru-
airy, 1888. The owners and occupants
point to them with pride, and it is said
that n spirit of rivalry leads to frequent
raising of these lines, until the historical
accuracy of them all is doubted.
A statement that, on the near extinction
of the dukedom of Wellington, a property
in Belgium, of the value of 100000 francs
bestowed on the Iron Duke in 1915, with
thejtitle of prince of Waterloo, by King
William L, of the Netherlands, would re-
vert to the Belgian state, appears in the
Belgian and French papers.
The last census showed that the value of
the manufactured products of the United
States was $500, 100000, while those OF
England were estimated at $4,0O0,000,000
England however, with about thre-
ffths of our population, exports millions
worth of manufactured goods where we
send thousands abroad.
The English are getting lots Of oul
splendid sheep and handsome girls
in these days, and IN return are Civ
ing US a few Sergeant Ballantines
and whole RATS of detectives hunting
for stray Irishmen. A fair exchange
is no robbery, but this seems to be
a sort of unfair exchange.
The body of handsome young girl has
been found on the railroad track near the
city of Taganrog, in the department Of
Jekaterinoslaw, in southern Russia. Be-
side the body lay paper on which was
| written that the girl had been a member OF