Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-29
GLOBELETS.

country 100000 marks.
A negro child was born in Georgia re-
Gently with full set of teeth.
One month more closes the present con-
gress with six months of unfinished work
on hand.
Nihilists are opposed to everything, and
are opposed to personal labor more than
anything else.
A bill to prohibit the sale of liquors in
the state, is before the Texas legislature,
and is likely to pass.
Iowa's prohibitory amendment is an
abortion. 1t is that kind of prohibition
that does not prohibit.
The city of Rooh in Hungary has been
abandoned by its 10000 inhabitants on
account of serious foundations.
The most extensive malster in the Uni
ted States, has been elected mayor of
Buffalo, in place Of Governor Cleveland
elected governor.
st. Louis has Round Table devoted to
everybody's business except it own. Near
ly or quite every city is ornamented with
such an institution.
DR.. Samuel A. Mudd, who dressed the
broken leg of John Wilkes Booth, after his
assassination of President Lincoln, died
at Baltimore recently.
Senator Frye insists that the forests of
Maine need protection as much as the su-
gar Of Louisiana; but the clam men of
Cape Cod have not yet been heard from.
Strawberries shipped from Charleston to
Northern markets in 1872 sold for 81 cents
per quart; in 1874, 50 cents; in 1876, q
cents; in 1879, IA cents; and in 1880, 121l
cents.
England in 1880 and 1881, under an
adulteration act, refused to permit $4,000
packages of tea to beIanded. Most of it
was shipped to this country, hence ''gift"
tea stores.
Several years ago, Whitelaw Reid, the
successor of Horace Greeley, in the New
York Tribune, was the editor of a lite
newspaper in Xenia, o. That was before
the war of the rebellion.
Oscar Wilde is convinced that the Lon
don press is rapidly becoming American
lied. We trust that Mr.. Wilde means by
this that the London papers are making
some effort to print the news, instead of
ancient history.
In answer to question of the identity
of a certain coin the editor of the ST. Louis
PoSt-DispGtch refers the inquirer to his
readers, remarking truthfully, 'sWe know
very little about money" cynic added
''or anything else."
A bill is before congress to stop the i'm
portation and sale of adulterated tea in
the American market. Since Great Brit
ain passed law prohibiting the importa-
ton of adulterated tea the chief market
for the vile article has been in the United
States.
Senator Hoar regards his reelection as
an approval of his course. But half the
votes cast for him were from men who in
sisted that he wouldn't do so any more,
and already the honeymoon has ended
with fair prospect for the usual cat and
dog fight.
The actress who has never been robbed
of diamonds, or Rugged by lunatic, or
divorced from two Or three husbands, or
followed around the country by smash
En-" doesn't amount to much nowadays;
but the game is getting to be understood.
and new one is needed.
While the elephant is the largest beast
known to the world, its size has been great
~ exaggerated. Ten feet is good height
for one of the brutes, and twelve-foot
elephant is big one. Jumbo, the notori-
Gus, is about seventeen feet high, and
''still growing" These quadrupeds reach
between seventy and eighty years of age
before they die, but there are instances of
elephants living for over 200 years.
A London paper tells story of a GER
tain Colonel Marteras who, in 1869. had
come to the surface and was about to be
proclaimed president of Uruguay, when he
was arrested and condemned to be shot.
He was shot and the soldiers marched
away, leaving him on the ground. He re-
covered of his wounds, and apparently of
his ambition, for he is now waiter in a
Paris restaurant.
The n. Y. Commercial Advertiser says
intellectual giants are not in demand in
New Jersey" If they were they would
have to go out of the state to find them.
Intellectual giants, if they exist there, do
not seem to have the ready intellect handy.
They may be like Artemas Ward, who COM
menced lecture to an English audience
with the remark: II have got gigantic
intellect, but haven't got it with me.'
Prescott Williams, of Williamsburg
Mass, who has given quarter of CEN
fury to apple culture, and now has twenty
acres-about 400 trees in all-had one of
the largest crops last year the orchard
ever produced. He gathered about 500
barrels, and his trees are expected to
reach bearing capacity of 1000 barrels.
In the next ten years the income from the
twenty acres is estimated at $4,000 per
year.
General William n. Pendleton died in
Lexington, Virginia, on Monday night.
The rector of Grace church, in Lexington.
before the war, he left the pulpit to COM
mand battery in the confederate service.
From '-Stonewalr' Jacksons command he