Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-28
GLOBEEETS.

A Boston school girl describes statue
as a bust with two legs under it.
The new Governor Robbie, of MAINE, as
tonishss the natives" by the splendor of
his entertainments.
William E. Dodge owned vast tracts of
land in the county of Dodge, i'll Georgia,
which county was named after him.
The estimated damage done to the sew
eral railroads centering i'll Cincinnati, by
the late floods, is nearly half million
| dollars.
There is to be no st. Patrick's day par
ade in Philadelphia, and the money set
aside for that purpose will be devoted to
charity.
The American Legion of Honor which
was started four years ago with ten NOM
bers, has now 1,100 councils located all
over the United States, with over $4,000
members.
The New York Herald is authority for
the statement that the public revenues of
that city, by the fraudulent evasion of
taxation are decreased to the amount of
$6,OOO,OOo.
An English paper says that it costs as
much to carry q bushsl Of wheat twelve
miles on turnpike in England as across
5000 miles of ocean from an Amer
lean seaport.
The Rev. DR.. Richter, who was recently
appointed bishop of the new Catholic do
cese of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was born
in Germany, and completed his education
at the Propaganda, in Rome.
Mrs. Matthilda Pontidzeh. professional
singer, has recovered $4,000 damages
from the New York Central Railroad COM
pany, for injuries caused by an accident
which necessitatsd the amputation of 8
foot.
A shopkeeper in Hazelhurst, Miss, re-
Gently sent for $50 worth of pennies, hop
ing to be able to introduce them into cir
culation. But his towns people did not
take kindly to them, and he was forced to
send them back.
By the will of a Boston lady, lately de-
ceased, Miss Susan 3. Anthony and Mrs,
Lucy Stone Blackwell receive $4,000 each
as the representative women suffragists,
and it is said they will use the money in ad-
vancing the cause.
During the twenty years passionate of the
Rev. Howard Crosby at the Fourth Avenue
Presbyterian church, New York, 1000 per-
sons have united with the church on con-
fession of faith, and many more by letters
from other churches.
There seems to be bat little doubt that
Captain Howgste has never left the United
States. Ono report places him in Flor
ida, and it is asserted shat he can be found
there whenever wanted. The question
then is: Why isn't he wanted at once?
The Brooklyn Eagle announces that all
existing difficulties between the stockhold-
ers and its editor, Thomas Kinsella, having
been amicably adjusted, that gentleman
will remain in charge of the paper instead
of transferring his fortunes to the Union
Argus.
VanderbiIts home on Fifth avenue ha s
no number on it, but in Berlin, which has
LILO SdDlO law dOOUb SbIO0O db
New York, the authorities put namber on
the palace of Prince Charles on the
Wilhelmstrasse, in the face of his strenuous
protest.
The report of the Jeanette board OF
inquiry says that the condition of the yes
sci at starting was satisfactory, and up
holds De Longs Judgment in trying to
reach Wrengel land to winter, and com
mends the conduct and management OF
officers aud crew.
a saloon keeper of Williamsburg judges
of the capacity of his customers to carry
more liquor by taking them to the door OF
the saloon and asking them whether they
are able to distinguish in the distance the
difference between star and the light IL
the fre-alarm bell tower.
One of the professors in Cornell univer-
versity, lecturing on the effect OF the wind
in some Western forests, remarked: SIN
travelling along the road, even found the
logs bound and twisted together to such an
extent that mule couldn't climb over
them, so went round"
There is no nonsense about Nine. Nils
son, and no affectation. She came of a
peasant family, and refers to the fact with
pride. She is the youngest of seven
children, and the only one of the mum Der
who had the benefit of complete educa-
ton.
Miss Ada Leigh writes the London Times
that in the past four years 1913 French
boys and forty French girls have taken
their own lives. Of these 200
wsrs twelve years of age, twenty ore
between twelve and ten, four over ten
years, six below nine and one only seven.
Some Bostonians commented with bitter
ness upon the fact that Governor Benjamin
F. Butler was advertised to preside on the
occasion of John Kelly's lesture for the
benefit of Catholic charities in their city
and refused recently thus to recognize a
charitable organization under Protestant
auspices.
Miss Lille Rapp, a great beauty OF
Youngstown, Ohio, whose portrait appeared
in the New York Grophic's collection o:
types of American beauties, it has just
been discovered, was married secretly last