Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-07-16

Inere are Gnlfteen SCHOOLS IN Lexington,
Mo-, population $1,000 and the city
license is $500 year.
A Buffalo minister said in. SER
mon that Buffalo is the drunkenest city
in the United States.
1t is estimated that the melon crop this
year in Georgia will reach 100000 melons
and sell for $1,5OO,OOO.
A calculation made at the postoffice de-
partment shows only one registered letter
in every $4,000 is lost.
How can we ever be on good terms with
Mexico? Between US and Mexico there is
a great gulf.
Senator Voorhees, does not take snuff
and the Democratic party would not
sneeze if he did.
1t is said that the growth of timber in
Kansas is yearly increasing beyond the
consumption.
Chattanooga has on its roll of popula-
ton, of the school going age, 2,1O9; aver
age attendance, SO.
Richland. a little village in Onslow
county, South Carolina, of 100 inhabitants,
has four churches.
The tombs of the English Plantagenet
kings,in the abbey Fontsnrault, France, are
now part of mems prison.
The japanese are teaching about 2,OCO,-
600 in their public schools on American
and English systems.
The British government gives G3OO,493
to the Scottish universities, and allows
e1O8,757 for new works.
A boy says in his composition that
onions are vegetables that make you sick
when you don't eat them yourself.
The total stealings of the San Francisco
harbor committee ring, according to the ex-
perts reports, amount to $87,24S. 10.
1t is stated that one ruby found in Rob-
inson county, Georgia, is worth over $4,000,
and is the largest ever found on the Amer
lean continent.
1t is estimated that the miners and mer-
chants of Butte, Montana Territory, have
| on deposit at the three banks of that city
about 100000.
Of 4,392,920 Prussian children 2,723,911
go to Evangelical, and 1,4O5,987 to Catho-
lie schools, making total of 4,129,9O0 in
Christian schools.
Capt. John Ericsson, the inventor of the
monitor, is still hale and hearty, though
eighty years old. He looks to be about
seventy, and works like sixty.
Judge Field, of the United States su-
preme court, favors such Improvements
along the Mississippi as will make the
oyerfows from floods impossible.
A gang of women removed the shanty of
man who had jumped widows claim
at Huron, Dakota, one night, leaving him
roo1ess in bed. Served him right.
The New York World, Democratic, says
that Tilden ''would sweep the. country like
sorocco," and explains in foot note
that ''the siroeco is very hot and un-
wholesome zephyr"
A. s. Abel, proprietor of the Baltimore
Sun, is estimated to be worth $4,000, 900.
He always collected his subscriptions and
had no non-productive, consuming dead
heads on his list.
It is significant fact that while Maine
and Missouri were admittedIinto the Union
in the same year, Maine, with seven rep
resentatives in congress, in Missouri not /,
Maine now has four members, and Mis-
souri, fourteen.
A man 100 years old recently filed a
claim at a Huron, Dakota, land office. He
said he had just heard of Greeleys advice
and considered it worth trying, and he
had come "west to grow up with the coun-
try" or perish in the attempt!
There are now ninety three police and
three roundsmen on the Brooklyn bridge
force. Twelve of these are ex officers
from the New York and Brooklyn forces.
Fifty of the men are over six feet in height.
Seventy are now provided with uniforms
and all are furnished with clubs.
It is said that certain gray haired old
beggar in New York is a lady who was
engaged to be married to Chief Justice
Salmon P. Chase, and who became insane
years ago, after the engagement was
broken. Her name, it is asserted, is Lucy
Maclem, who was once a very beautiful
woman.
The bar of a Fall River rumseller was
actually closed in unlawful hours, but the
suspicious officers observed that he had
numerous visitors in his residence. The
house was searched several times without
finding the whisky, which, it was clear, the
company was getting; but at length, on
turning gas burner, the beverage ran
from the pipe. which had been connected
with barrel in the groggery cellar.
The Montezuma (Ga.) Record says that
dnring the war an immense fag-pole W at
hoisted in Oglethorpe, near the public well
In the year 1867 or 1868 the pole was taken
down and small sprig of magnolia
planted in the hole. The tree now is
twenty-five feet high. During the month
of May it was loaded down with flowers
magnolia branch of peace now takes the
place of the flagstaff of war.
Death of Noted Horticu1turist.