Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-30
GLOBELETS,

ton OF maple sugar this season.
The Western Union Telegraph Corl2anv
use million blanks in three DAYS.
Gold coinage has just been resumed in
the English mint after two years suspen-.
sion.
North Carolina has had hailstor1n
with hail as large as partridge eggs and a
foot deep.
1t is ascertained that Nebratka's crop
of corn this year will amount to 100000
600 bushels.
Among Atlanta's latest industries are.
two large knitting factories, both of which
are doing we'll.
The range of estimates of all of the
Penobscot river lumber cut is 100000
to 100000 feet.
Tallahassee belle it is said recently
@tteHded party with live spiders in her
hair. Apocryphal.
| One of the Catskill mountain hotels will
make us own gas, do its own printing, and
Issue daily paper the coming season.
The last census of India shows that there
are there 100000, widows. This is
due to the fact that no widow is allowed to
renarry.
Augusta, Ga, levies tax of So per day
on drummers, Savannah $25 per year, and
other smaller towns in the state also have
such tariff.
floating fish cannery las been
launched at Victoria, British Columbia.
It will follow the run of the salmon from
river to river.
The grange cooperative store at Meri-
dan, Mississippi, which started business in
1879, with capital of $50, sold last month
$500 worth of goods.
Rosa Bonheur, the great French artist.
wears trousers, with short kilt over them.
like bathing suit. They are more COM
Portable for her profession, she says.
1t is expected that a portion of one Of
the British regiments stationed in Canada
will be present at the military encamp-
ment to be held in Indianapolis in August.
Heard in the suburbs. 'Are you going to
keep your brickyard running this season ?''
mo, think I'll put in bay-window in
the kiln, and advertise for summer
| boarders."
Mr.. jeff Rice, of Bath county, Kentucky,
|
Confederate service from the beginning to,
the close of the war, and is still a pretty
good horse.
A letter mailed at Denver to young lady
IN Auburn, no state mentioned, has been
gong around for ten years, and hasn't
been to all the Auburns yet. If it did but
contain 81 bill it would have found rest
long ago.
When young man attempts to court
fair damsel, and she tells him that she has
a supreme contempt for him, should she
be arrested for contempt of court?''
Question reserved for decision by the full
bench!
Lawrence Barrett's two daughters are
now in Germany completing their educa-
ton at Stuttgart. The eldest will be mar
ried next fail to Baron Won Heidel, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Barrett will be present at the
wedding.
Boston ladies have banished bangs, and
now comb their beautiful hair straight
back over their ears, and twist it around
and fasten it somehow, but just how is IN
known, but anyway Bostonians are glad
to bid goodbye to bangs.
The rag and junk dealers complain of
hard times. They say wood pulp and jute
| butts have knocked down the price cn.
rags. Tailors' clipping have fallen in a
| few weeks from fourteen to eight cents; so
large dealer in Washington says.
New York's new capitol at Albany has
already cost $14, 223, 900, or nearly as much,
as the Brooklyn bridge, and even on the
architects estimate $4,731, 900 more will be.
| required, of which $4,000 will go into
staircases, $4,000 for stained glass, $780,
900 for bas-reliefs, 100000 for porches,
$4,000 for carving, $4,000 for tower
and $1,2OO,OOO for terrace.
A citizen of Lincoln, Nebraska, has for
money consideration, promised the hand
of his daughter to a wealthy Chinaman,
also resident of Lincoln. The girl is
only thirteen years old, ard she seems to,
be.greatly smitten with the Celestial. This
selling of daughter is something new IN
American traffic and merchandise, but
may be in accordance with the ideas of
the Celestial realm.
Probably the neatest form ever seen of
saying man has the delirium tremens, is
the following from the Rolla, No., Herald,
farmer named John Flndleman, living
three and quarter miles northwest of Sa-
lem, in blowing for corn the other day,
came across little black jug. Uncorking
it he found it to contain fourty-se
snakes of different species. varying in
length from four to seven inches.
The largest mandatory of ball bats is
at Hastings, Mich, where 100 men are en-,
ployed. Half million bats are supposed
to be the demand for the present year.
Ash is the staple bat wood. proportion
of fancy, and necessarily high-priced bats
are made of cherry. Including the differ
emit woods and sizes, there are twenty-five
styles of bats made for the trade, ranging
in price at retail from ten cents for a ju-
venile article up to $3.50 for an aesthetic
cherry bat. The Hastings factory will use
in the neighborhood of $4,000 feet of ash,
100000 feet of Eastwood, and $4,000 feet
of cherry lumber this season, which means
about $500 GROSS or thirty carloads nf