Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-12
GEOBLETS.

OmdII CLOCKS are attached to the princi-
pal lamp posts in Amsterdam.
There are six telephone factories in the
United States, all doing prosperous bust
ness.
1t is estimated that 1000 Chicago fami
lies changed their places of residence,
May1.
Berlin is about as dry city as Phila-
delphla, but the paupers cost twice as
much.
The French governor general of Domi-
nique, has begun inviting colored ladies to
his balls.
The people of Bristol, N. H., have enjoy
ed sleighing this season for 142 days, end
ing April u.
There are native Mexicans who still wor-
ship Montezuma as a god, and pray for his
return in his golden chariot.
The famous chestnut tree on Mount
Etna, is 210 feet at its base. IH age is
believed to be at least 800 years.
Three factories in the United States use
nearly two million of eggs year in max
ing peculiar kind of paper used by pho
tographers.
A recent whirlwind caused waterspout
fifteen feet high on the Piscataqua
river near the Portsmouth bridge in New
Hampshire.
Referring to a miser's money, young
man asked a friend, "What will he do with
it when he dies?" ''Give it up" was the
prompt reply.
A man in Westfeld, Massachusetts, Of
fered to pay $4,000 for license to sell
liquor at wholesale for five years, but the
authorities refused.
Cambridge university students drink tea
and coffee instead of old Port, and tutor
in one of the colleges writes to the news
papers regretting it.
The widowed Baroness Rothschild is
said to have set aside 100000 for the es-
Enlistment of home at Versailles for
aged and destitute authors and journalists.
An English correspondent at Gibraltar,
telegraphs that slaves are sold publicly in
the streets few yards from the English
Legation at Tangier, for from $22 to $40.
The Hon. Frederick o., Prince of Bos-
ton, wants the next Democratic national
nominating convention held in that city
alleging that henceforth Boston will be
reliable Democratic city.
New York exports thousands of baby car
riages to Europe; and American manufac-
turers make carriages for the future
crowned heads, now peacefully trundled
about like any other babies.
6anv Of oordc Of xubiel-v
found in the woods near the Congers,
Georgia, on a recent morning after a
storm. The pond near by was dragged to
find the owner of the property.
Delaware has increased the salary of her
governor to the sum of $4,000 year. At
the same price per square mile for govern
ing, the executive of Texas would have an
annual salary of about $25O,OOO.
The keeper of the English ''crown jew
els" lives in the tower, and gets $500 a
year for doing n othing. The place is much
sought after when vacancy occurs. There
are but few such sinecures in England.
The French government is building eight
new irorclads, two of which will carry
eighty-ton guns-heavy enough to sink
the English naval Jumbo, Infexible. The
cost of these vessels will be $2,2OO,OOO
each.
The English are to-day the nation whose
dress controls the habits of the civilized
world, Just as the French were $50 years
ago, the Italians 200 years ago, the Span
ish 800 years ago and, little earlier,
Venice.
Miss Dorothea Lynde Dix, a working
philanthrophist, whose fame is continental,
is dangerously i'll at her home in Boston.
She began charitable work when a young
girl, and has continued it through all her
eighty years of life.
Of the candidates for admission to the
Calcutta university only 1,458 out of 5000
were successful, 1900 passing the examin-
alton of "First Arts" SO out of 120 taking
the degree of bachelor of laws and 10 out
of so that of bachelor of medicine.
New Orleans has the best fish market in
the country, San Francisco the best fruit
market, meat is the cheapest in Chicago,
and the best general market N the world
is on the Delaware and Chesapeake Bay,
shared by Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Chicago has twenty miles of cable rail
road, with ia cars, and the steam engines
do the work of 1870 horses. The running
time between the court house and city linn
its, distance of four miles, is twenty five
minutes less than when horses were used
There are in Ohio $4,000 drinking sa-
looms that have hitherto paid $25 license
each year to the United States, but not a
cent to the state. By a recently enacted
law they will be compelled to pay state
license, the net product of which will be
$2,OOO,OOU.
1t is of W. W. Story, poet and sculptor
that Roman newspaper says: ''The frigid
indifference ofithe American public has
forced him to live abroad, and, by long in
tercourse with foreigners, he has come to
pronounce his pative language with de-
cided foreign accent
An article in Chicago paper is headed,
F'Kissed by Her Husband This caused a
great sensation in the city. The next