Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-05

side into boat. The little fellow
held back, and said his sister must 90
first, then he would follow. The lit
tie girl was carefully lowered into the
boat, and the manly little fellow fol-
lowed.
London Truth: 81 had noticed in
an opposite box lady in cream color
ed satin and superb ornaments who
appeared to be more than half asleep.
AS | was coming out | encountered
her. A gentleman in faultlesS even
ing dress was addressing her i'll q low
voice. | heard him say, Stand as
straight as you can. The carriage will
be here in moment. You must stand
straightr A kind of desperate look
was on his face. His companion was
intoXicateIi 4 few moments later
he almost lifted her into the carriage
which rolled away to one of the state
licst 'homes OF England if home it
can be called where the master shunS
the eye of his servants, knowing that
they are aware OF his wxe's disgrace"
In Russia the railways are SO h;anA
aaHag:,te threa lines, 40 net Work be-
~ lonncd. Thus two lines are M
s.ancc which run parallel to c&ca
either for nearly 800 miles and have 10
cou..cclion. The result is that to gel
from one town to another almost y
tic same latitude long journey north
las to be made, and then return 70
The south; the two sides OF the triah'
ole between Tzaritsyn, on the V0lga,
and Kharkoff, via Orel, measures some
$50 miles, while as the crow flies the
distance between the two towns is not
more than $50 miles.
Professor Marks, of Philadelphia
stated at a recent meeting OF the
Franklin Institute that he had made
some calculations of the maximum
speed at which locomotives could be
driven before the centrifugal force on
the tires Of the driving wheels would
become so great as to cause them to
burst. These calculations, which were
approximate only, showed that the
limit of speed was in the neighbor-
hood of $50 miles an hour.
Louisiana planters have great hOrcs
of q recent invention by which bag
asse, the refuse canestalks left over
from the process of manufacturing
crndc sugar, can be made into panr:
fibre Of good quality and that bleacics
we'll. These stalks have been used t
heat the evaporating pans in Wiicl
the sugar is boiled, but they viii yicl
2 ton Of fibre to every hogshead 0.
sugar.
The marquis of Bute's colonization
scheme has been very successful. Il
Introduced q small colony Of beaver
into an isolated pine wood near Roth
csay, Isle of Butte. The place wa
vailed round, so that they could ~
escape, and through what is known q
Beavers park there runs a roarin.
mountain stream. This they 500,
d~mmcd up, altering the appearance
Of the place. The duke Of Portland i.
about to make similar experimeni
CT one Of his Scotch estates.
Certain Dutch naturalists are test
ing the ability of the domestic cat u
act as postman. Selecting LUX foi
ihcir headquarters, they thence dis
patch number Of cats, securely ticd
up in wooden bags, to the neighboring
villages, where they are freed fro.;
confinement and turned loose, with
neat packets of letters firmly strapped
TO their backs. At once their domcs-
tic instincts come into full play, with
answering directness OF thirty
seven cats thus constrained to serve
their country, not one has hitherto
JAILED to fulfill its postal functions
with excellent punctuality.
Tie report of the French Minister
Of Justice for 1879 shows that the
number OF judicial separations decreed
iii that year was greater than ever be-
fore, 3,277 cases having been before the
tribunals. In 1892 cases the demand
for separation, is made by wives. With
regard to the causes Of separation, in
nearly 5000 cases the motive alleged
was cruelty or neglect, there being
only 169 charges of adultery against
the wife by the husband, and 90
against the husband by the wife.
In recently published work, Count
d'Ursel asserts that in Bolivia, Peru
ana other South American countries,
he has met with an insect which, after
its death, is transformed into plant.
lie describes and figures this creature
as thick, hard grub, with distinct
articulations. When about to die it
buries itself in the earth, and there
gradually increases in circumference
until it presents all appearance some
what similar to that OF a potato. A
stem is then put forth, which in the
spring months bears crop of blue
flowers.
A New York fisherman had hand
to-hand fight with school Of sharks.
lie had been out with two friends in
his sailing boat, drifting about the
Narrows, and at o'clock in the after
noon had just tackled for the Bay
Ridge shore, when his attention be-
came attracted to q dark spot in the
water of the upper bay. lie said that
The black object expanded rapidly
while it moved toward the Long Is
land shore, irritating the water mean
while ard tossing it into miniature
bits Of foam that hecked an acre Of
(hc waters surface. He sailed rapidly
!5ward the spot, and almost the in
.tant that he saw that the disturbance
vas caused by sharks his skiff ran into
hc school. The sharks snapped an