Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


person to die house.
Artificial eyes have been found in some
of the Egyptian mummies.
A New York Ioafer has been fined $500
for giving Central park giraffe a chew of
tobacco.
Victor Hugo is said to be the only man
in France who still kisses a lady's hand in
stead of shaking it.
Queen Victoria has attended theater
only twice since the death of her husband,
the prince consort.
The cowboys of Texas are on a strike.
1t is said there is disposition on the part
of the employers to accede to their de-
marGs.
It's said the polygamistS of Utah are
now bolder than ever in threatening the
lives and property of the ''gentiles" of
that territory.
The latest mathematical question runs
as follows: Two girls met three other
girls and all kissed. How many kisses
were exchanged?
class of Italians have belief that if
any one touches the body of man who is
killed instantly the person so touching will
meet with violent death inside of year.
Temperance fanatics in England think
they have discovered that there is just
little alcohol in ginger ale. Later they
will probably claim that air is intoxicat-
ing.
pretty school marin in Dakota has
sued three young men for breach of prom
Use, two school trustees for her salary, and
threatens to sue a newspaper for libel. A
lively school marin is that
NJ. Beeeher's warm fellowship for the
Madagascar ENJOYS is accounted for from
the fact that they are not Pagans, but Pres
byterians. The queen of Madagascar is the
only Presbyterian potentate n the world.
One of the great elms for which West
Springfield, Mass, is famous, was recently
voted unsafe in March winds and cut
down. 1t took two good choppers two
days to fell the tree, and it yielded ten
cords OF wood when cut up.
Hrs. Margaret NJ. Bagdony, alleged to
be the most beautiful girl in Hungary,who
and by Count Bismarck, son of Prince
Bismarck, died suddenly recently. She
was affianced to Count Bismarck.
The president of the Bootmakers' Insti-
tute Of Vienna has brought to light the
fact that the inventor of blacking was one
Urban of Budweis, Bohemia, (now associ-
ated in the American mind with beer.) He
is now to have monument. Let 10 in
ventor despair.
Sensible ladies will now sell their fat,
stupid pugs, and buy noble st. Bernard
dogs, since Lady Dixie was rescued from
robbers by her big, brave canine. Fancy
a pug dragging OF two assassins and saw
ing lady's life. And yet the great st. Ber-
nard dog did it.
rather tough lot of lads were engaged
in Montreal for the prison scene in the
'Black Flag" During the rehearsal of the
lock-step, the stage manager was rather
astcnished by about a dozen voices ex-
claiming: "Oh, hi; that's not right"
The boys had tried the genuine.
A half starved cat in New York, on be-
ing placed before generous meal, ate a
little, went away from the bowl, sat down,
washed herself, waited for digestion to set
IN and do its perfect work, then ate little
more, retired, did the same thing over
again, and so occupied a couple of hours.
Z manufacturer of cements in Buffalo
has examined the obelisk in Central park,
New York, and declares that 1t is manu-
featured from concrete and bits of granite,
and offers to duplicate it for $4,000. A
number of scientists and newspapers CO.
incide in calling him fool! ConpIi-
mentary!
A New York surgeon has resuscitated
man who was almost suffocated by gas es-
Gaping in his room at hotel by means of
TRANSMISSION OF blood. The blood was
pumped from the arm Of healthy negro
into that of the almost smothered man.
The result is regarded as valuable to medi-
cal science
When Uniontown, a suburb Of Washing
ton, D. c., was laid out twenty-five years
ago, it is said the owner issued orders that
no lot should ever be allowed to become
the property Of negro. That mans own
former home, in the center of the town
from which the oolored race was to be ex-
cluded, is now owned and occupied by
Frederick Douglass.
The London Daily NewS, in an article on
dresses at the court drawing room, says:
"Brocade remains in the ascendant as the
favo-ite material for the linked sweetness,
long drawn OUT Of trains for court dress
es. Shot satins come next in order of
favor, though they stand first in order of
merit, by reason of the artistic softness of
their changing hues.'
Mr.. Jefferson, the actor, went into bank
in New York recently to get check cashed.
The cautious clerk refused to pay out the
money, saying that Mr.. Jefferson must be
identified, whereupon the actor leaned back
against post, with that peculiar
forsaken air of the returned sleeper, and
said, sadly, in the words of Rip: eff my
tog Schneider vas here he would know me-"
The check was paid.
The following notes was posted in New
Harbor, Me-: straight Green Back eau