Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-16
GLOBELETS.

france maze nearly lO0,OOO,O00 gallons
OF wine last year from raisins alone.
bill is before the NewYork Legislature
for abolishing Imprisonment for debt.
Chilli is the only South American gov
eminent, it is alleged, which is firmly es
tablished.
! The American line of steamships plying
between Philadelphia and Europe lost
$115,OOO last year.
The numerous revolutions in Ecuador
have paralyzed business and almost entie-
ly disorganized society.
There are enough beer shops in Lon
don if their fronts were placed side by
side to extend distance of over seventy
miles.
In the heart of Buckshot, Maine, oak a
woodchopper found a diamond pin with
twenty-four brilliants. The tree was sup
posed to be 120 years old.
On and after May 1, the internal tax on
snuff and smoking and manufactured to-
bacco will be eight cents per pound, and
not eighty cents, as reported is several
newspapers.
A recent snow storm in Rome, the etern-
al city, was as much an astonisher as was
snow storm the past winter in San Fran
cisco. Snow is very seldom seen on the
banks of the Tiber.
The mongooses, to which the farmers of
New Zealand look with hope and more or
less confidence as the means of extermin-
ating their plague of rabbits, have arrived
in the colony, after a comfortable voyage
from Calcutta.
| Georgia claims to have contributed the
word bogus to the American vocabulary.
the adjective having its. origin in land
lottery conducted by William A. Bogus,
who succeeded in swindling nearly every
body in Augusta before he decamped to
Arkansas.
A Georgia judge has abolished the prac-
tice of kissing the Bible when taking an
oath. He says it is merely meaningless
form which takes up time to no purpose,
and that the oath is just as binding, "either
with or without laying hands on the holy
evangelist of Almighty God" as with it.
The Chinese papers state that Li-Fu-Yea,
wife of the ex-yiceroy of the province of
Chili-le, being seriously i'll, her husband
had sent for miss DR.. Howard" 1t is
added that this lady, who appears to be
established in Pekin, is gathering a good
practice among the titled ladies of China.
weather prophecy: The weather during
this month will be very changeable. Very
likely one day will be pleasant while the
| mill no nj T.
not probable that any one will be pleased
with it except the undertakers. Ten to one
that neither Virgins nor Vennor can do
any better.
A Taunton, Mass, woman relates that
she recently sat beside another woman, a
stranger to her, in an Old Colony car. AS
the train passed Quincy the stranger
pointed to the crowded burial place near
the track and remarked in a complacent
tone: "Pve got three of the best husbands
layin' there that ever woman had"
| Fear of assassination does not exist
among the high officials of Russia alone.
Even IN England, Gladstone and other high
magistrates are guarded by special detec-
tives, some of the detectives even
living in the houses of the as
sumed to be Endangered lords. All this
since the assassination of Lord Cavendish.
NJ. Doniol, new French historian, says
that the compt de Bgoglie aspired to the
command of the American army in 1875,
and that if he had not been persuaded to
the contrary, would probably have become
king in 1889, instead of Washington presi-
dent 1t would be curious TO speculate
now on the difference it might have made,
| both to American and French history.
The Russian newspaper the GoIos says
that the Jewish destllleries and liquor
dealers of the Moscovite empire are re-
CURED to pay special tax, while the
Christians who are engaged in the same
business are untaxed. The consequence is
that the Christian liquor dealers and
manufacturers have increased 81 per cent.
since 1871, while the Jews have fallen off
8 per. cent.
The way Michiganders are rejoicing
over the immense quantity of pine lumber
produced in that state last year, and which
forms large part of their business, re-
minds one of the fable of the goose that
laid the golden egg. At the rate at which
their forests are being cut away, there will
soon be none left, and Michigan, without
timber, will be as dreary spot as the sun
ever shown upon.
One day last week husband in Cley-
land, Ohio, shot his wife and then himself
through TIE brain and died instantly. The
woman will recover. On the evening of
the same day, in Springfield, Ohio, hus-
band shot his wife, failing to kill her, and
then shot himself, dying instantly. A re-
markable coincidence this, even for Ohio.
But then Ohio is nothing, if not little
ahead in every thing.
A famer in Galway, Saratoga county.
New York, dug well last fall to get water
for his stock. The cattle refusing to drink
the water, it was examined and found to
contain an oily substance, which smelIed
and burned like kerosene. sample was
sent to Sararoga to be tested, and pro
nounced to be petroleum. The we'll is
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