Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-23
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

! LIS NEW 1OrR sun eutoSlLeS On6ster A.
Arthur as "a good man, weighing ESQ
pounds
| 1t is said French officers are pressing for
service in Tonquin.
Congressman and other officials are leav-
ing Washington to spend the holidays.
The striking union moulders have at
tackled the non union mouiders in Troy, N.
Y. Brute force is one of the b auties of
the striking system.
| Dillman, wife murderer, will be hung
| at Easton, Pa, Feb. IL.
| Two train robbers have been captured in
Arizona.
The mail system has been perfected on
| the Northern Pacific railroad.
| The issue of silver dollars for the week
ending Dec. Is was $378,494.
| The strike of the weavers caused the
New Bedford cotton mills to shut down.
! The strikers will have to chew the cud of
! lost wages.
Many entertain an idea that the pros
! poets are favorable for the passage of a
bankrupt law by the present congress.
The stage carpenter who tried to fire the
Casino in New York, has been indicted for
! arson in the first degree.
Two thousand coal miners have been
thrown out of employment by suspension
! of work in the mines On the Moogahela.
1t is thought the iron moulders at Pitts
. burg will accept ten per cent reduction
of wages, 60 take place January L.
Senator Sabin has appointed O. b. Plat
chairman of the committee to take charge
; of the Republican campaign.
The president has appointed board
of officers of the army and navy to con-
slider the question of relief of Lieut.. Gree
ley.
| The convention of iron and steel work
ers at Joliet agreed to accept 10 per cent.
reduction of wages in North Chicago roll
ling mills. 1t was rot known whether the
mills would concur.
A Professor Wood says the cookroach
has 300 teeth. He knows.
Christiana, the capital of Norway, is re-
ported to have lost 1924 IN population
the present year by emigration.
Cremation is said to be compulsory in
| Portuguese.
Eastport, Maine, rejects the new stand
| ard time, and adheres to old time.
In Canade all necessaries of life cost 80
per cent. more than in England. Wages
are lower, and the supply of workmen is in
excess of the demand.
Japanese used to have such high sort
If honor that they would commit suicide
If caught in any bad business Now they
fee lawyer and plead mot gailty."
A Californian who has returned from
Walla Walla county, Washington territory,
says that in five months ne had only about
ten days of sunshine. In tie summer the
smoke from the unnumbered forest fires
obscured the sun, and the winter rains,
which onenched the flames, yelled the sky
in clouds.
There's many slip 'twixt the cup and
the lip" is one of the truest of our pro-
verbs. The marriage between Miss For
tescue, sometime OF the Savoy theatre and
! Lord CAIRNS eldest son, which was to have
taken place this month, is "off," and q
heavy check, they say, has been drawn or
F.! Is promised, III order to prevent the diff
ficuities that have arisen being discussed
in the law courts.
Southern legislation has so limited the
control OF railroads in certain states that
it seems likely to limit their growth. The
| stockholders of the Wilmington & Weldon
railroad recently resolved, at Wilmington,
| S. c., not to build projected branch, be-
| cause they had been practically deprived
Of the management of their own rail-
| roads,"
In response to the invitation Of the
Bombay merchants, who formed COM
OF inducing one Or more first class female
physicians from England to establish
| themselves in that city, DR.. Edith Pechey
sailed for Bombay fortnight ago.
Mr.. Thomas Hughes is the leader in a
movement to establish at Rugby, Tenn, a
school on the lines of the English public
| schools, to be called the "Arnold School"
| in memory of DR.. Thomas Arnold. a
board of trustees will consist of four
Americans, four Englishmen, and four
| Rugbeians of either nationality.
| Ono of the fruits of Lord Coleridge's
visit to this country has appeared in the
plan to form q system of district courts
Throughout England after the model of
the district courts of he United States. So
| fayoraby has the suggestion been receiv-
ee that bill for this purpose has been
prepared by Coleridge and accepted by
| the cabinet.
| The summary of the season on the
| Great Lakes, which is now complete,
shows very disastrous results. One hund-
red craft of all descriptions have proved
total losses, involving a loss of nearly ECO
lives and 100000.
| Bill Arp lives in an honest neighbor-
hood. He says: 81 have been living in
Georgia seven years and have had but one
visit from beggar. have never locked
my front door at night. My family some
times go from home on visit to a neigh
boris and stay all day and leave the house
unlocked, and nothing has ever been stolen
that we know Of"
Madame Sturzenger has received gold
medal from The Italian government as a
memorial of her cool courage and skill in
struggling with and causing the arrest of
the notorious highwaymsn, Cecchini, who