Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-19
GLOBELETS.

deputy Sl6flu III NEW 4Orh.
Japanese merchants in Yokohama have
sent to New York 2O,OOO,OOO silk
worms, for gratuitous distribution.
The waltham Watch company made its
2,OOO,O0Oth watch the other day, and the
thirty foremen in the works had big
dinner.
According to Vermont editor, charity
not only begins at home, but begins IN
sitting ashes on the sidewalk IN front OF
your house.
A Nebraska man took dose of Paris
green because he had lost $50, but imme-
diateIy after started for doctor and offered
him $1,000 to save his life.
Paul Duboison, who was hanged at Que
bee last week, followed customs handed
down to him bY his ancestors. His father
and grandfather died on the gallows.
The legislatures of twenty-seven states
will be in session before the expiration of
January. What profusion of profound
craftsmanship will be brought into action.
Mrs. Garnet Preston. the widow of Wal
ter Preston, one of Yirginia's most noted
ante-bellum lawyers, has been elected
matron of the Blacksburg Agricultural col
iege.
At a recent banquet at Edinburgh the
daughter of Scotch earl refused to rise
during the singing of "GOd Save the
Queen" saying that she didn't care much
about the queen anyway.
For SONS reason unexplained by the
narrators, the daughter Of the late Henry
Rush, of West Union, ILL.,, has sold her
right in her fathers 100000 estate for
$3.50 and her youngest brother took
$1,000 for his.
Colonel Willowby Williams, of Nash
vile. Tenn. owed about 100000 at the
close of the rebellion. Though then over
sixty years of age, he went to work, and
at the time of his death, two weeks ago,
had cleared all but $500.
Mr. Dingley, of Maine, in his recent
speech on shipping, said that 'if we should
90 on ten years more in the way we have
been going for twenty-five years past, the
American merchant marine and the Ameri-
can flag will have faded from the ocean"
The fire losses in 1882, the world over,
were S4OO,OOO,OOO, of which this country
furnished $115,O 100000; Canada, $780, 100000;
Russia, S1O5, 100000, and Great Britain,
Germany and France, $92,OO0,OOO. In
generation these fire losses would pay off
the national debts.
WI. Ledgerwood, the newly-elected
Democratic speaker of the Tennessee
house of representatives, comes from Par
son BrownIow's Republican county of
Knox, and was a captain in the federal
army during the war between the states.
He is thirty nine years Of age.
One of the most hopeful signs for the
South is the steady and large augmenta-
ton of her manufacturing interests. It IS
stated that in South Carolina nine new
cotton factories have been chartered
with an aggregate capital of $1,725,5oo
the last year.
The Brush Electric Light company Is to
enter into q competitive exhibition in
Louisville Kentucky with the United States
company at an early date. The losers are
to pay $1,000 toward the expenses of the
exhibition, and donate $4,000 to the Poly
technic society of Kentucky.
A rich Brooklyn corporation employs
man to light the street larcps in front of
the factory and allows him one match to
a lamp. If he is extravagant enough to
increase the allowance they charge him
with the extra lucifers. Economy is the
basis of wealth and the company are evil
IDENTITY laying good foundation.
Sam Fang, aged twenty-seven years,
took out naturalization papers in
Rochester, y. Y, the other day, and
announced his intention to become vo-
ter. Fang came from China twenty
years ago. He speaks and writes the
English language very fairly, and is a
member of the Episcopal church.
In 1870 the assessed valuation of the
real estate of New York city was $742, 103,-
O75; this year it is $1,O8O,879,4OS, an in
crease in thirteen years of 1888, 776,328, or
As per cent.An average annual increase over
of S5O,0OOOOO on the taxable valuation of
city real estate means the addition of ST.
125,O0O year to the proceeds of taxes.
By reporting his income at $4,000 per
annum, young man of New York state
was enabled to obtain accident insurance
that represented an income, in case of dis
abl1ng accident, of $3.50 per week. He
was hurt and partially paralized few
days ago, and is now really enjoying his
financial health, though half his body is
senseless.
A Pittsburg man, whose age is indicated
by his membership in the Old Residents
association, is authority for the statement
that Jane Gray Swisshelm is eleven years
older than she claims to be. No one here
abouts mas exact data concerning Lady
James pedigree, but it is thought, from
her writings, that she must have been on
earth when Adam was lonesome.
Winnipeg, in 1882, rose from 10000
population to 10000, its assessment in
creased $4,000, rising to $3O,OOOOOO,and
will reach S4O,OOO,OOO this year; eight
square miles were added to its area, TWEEN
ty-nine and half miles of sidewalks and
27O street crossings we're laid, $50 culverts
were constructed and nearly thirty miles of