Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-15
GLOBELETS.

1t IS SAID the Egyptians are an INFERIOR
poorly muscled race and not to be com
pared even with the Algerian Arabs.
Willie Dubose, grandson Of Gen. Toombs,
of Georgia, was fatally injured, and three
other students seriously, while coasting at
Troy, N. Y.
A Canadian paper says the Jews are
the longest lived people of any
other race. The mortality among their
children is much less than among any other
people.
The first issue of the Cincinnati con
solidated paper, the Commercial Gazette,
is in general appearance like an enlarged
copy of the old Commercial, but the con-
solidated journal contains the best
features of both of the old papers.
The late Edward Stern, of New York,
leaves by his will TO his widow an annuity
of $4,000 during her life, on condition that
she does not marry again and does not go
upon the stage. He leaves an estate Of
$1,O0O,OO0 to his children and their heirs.
In the case of VIM. Ballard against the
city of Pittsburg, Pa, to recover damages
for an alleged infringement of a patent
for a wedge-shaped pavement, the master
in chancery appointed by the United
States circuit court has awarded plaintiff
1888, 145 damages.
Adolphe Belot, the author of several IA
nous novels is creole. His style is said
to be wonderful in point of grace and
color, but that his books are not fit to be
read by young ladies. Then they are not
fit to be read by anybody, and ought to be
prescribed.
George @. Cannon, the old Mormon.
polygamist congressional delegate from
Utah, who was expelled from congress last
session for his polygamous SINS, is hover
ing about Washington with one of his.
wives, the rest of the gang being consider
ately left in Salt Lake City.
Prof Sargent of 81 award has been in
vestigating the timber resources of the
country, and is deeply impressed with the
| necessity of taking immediate steps for
the preservation of our forests. In a re-
cent address he warned the people against
the dire results certain to follow the.
destruction of the woodlands.
A party of young loafers entered a
Methodist church at Waseca, Wis, and be-
gan nights carouse with whisky and
cards. AS there was no police force that
could be called in, the pastor wrapped him
self in sheet, emerged from behind the
pulpit, and spoke in such ghostly fashion
that the intruders fled in dismay.
The whole archipelago of the Society
Islands, affording the most enchanting So
journ under the sun, was ceded to France
in 1881 by King Pomare ", on condition
that France should pay off all the private
debts of the king and pay pension to ALI
the royal family of Tahiti. Thus the para
disc of the world was sold for some $27,-
400.
For eighteen years druggist of Detroit
has been tireless in his efforts to secure a,
pardon for a man sentenced to the peni-
! Tertiary for life for murder. The druggist
| did not believe him guilty and petitioned
the governor for pardon. Through the
different gubernatorial administrations of
the past eighteen years he has persisted in
his endeavors. He has at last been sue
cessful at the hands of Gov Begole.
1t is said of jim Keene, the millionaire,
who once edited a weekly newspaper in
California, that so greatly did the petty
annoyances of an editorial room impress,
themselves upon his memory that years,
after, in the wild clamor OF the stock
board, when fortunes were being made and
lost in a minute, Keene has said frequently
that above all that din he could yet hear
| his old foreman's howl for ''copy."
Selling glacier, especially famous
one, is a somewhat novel commercial
undertaking. Wen, the great glacier
called the Fonor Svartisen. in Norway,
the most northern OF any III Europe, is to
be sawn up in blocks and sold for general
summer consumption. It's extent is esti-
mated at upward OF 100 square miles;
and it is situated only two miles from the
sea. great number of vessels have been
prepared for this commerce.
Waterman in one of the Nevada mines
having no watch, borrowed one for night,
and on returning it next day said that he
had made tinekeeper of his own. He IN
rolled strip of paper, on which he had
marked as they arose above the horizon,
all the fixed stars within narrow belt, and
opposite to each was the time of its ap-
pearing. The slip ran on two small rollers
in box, with sliding lid of glass. As
the night wears away and the stars pass
over he can turn crank of his watch and
look at the time marked.
While driving recently from Godollo to
hunting meet, near the Hungarian vii
lage of Magoroyd, the empress of Austria
saw an old woman almost on the edge of
high bank overhanging rapid stream.
Without uttering a word to any one her
majesty sprang out of the carriage and ran
to the poor creature, whom she overlook
just in time to save her from falling into
the river. 1t turned out that the old wom-
an was blind, and the mere child who act
ed as her guide Jagged behind. When the
little girl came up the empress gave her
scolding, and the old woman a handsome
gratuity.
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