Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-09
GLOBELETS.


States March 1 was $1,954,S 95,75O.
1t is said ''mush- and milk" has been the
rage in Dakota territory this winter.
An electric light at Sidney, New South
Wales, has over 100000 candle power.
In Stocton, Col, the young bloods have a
gambling den in the steeple of church.
The report that winter wheat throughout
central Illinois has been killed is denied.
The revenue collected in Victoria,
Australia, last year amounted to $5,6OOOOO
Charity is said to prevail to an extraor-
binary degree among all classes in Rus
STA.
The Cossacks now serving in the Rus
sian army number 3O5,OOO; their officers,
1912.
A bridge went down the Ohio river dur
ing the recent food at the rate of $50
miles.
1t is said London spends $1O,OOO,OOO
annually on its poor, and yet starvation is
q common occurrence in the great over
crowded city.
The Brazilian navy is being strength
ened by the construction of gun boats and
torpedo boats.
A company is forming in Dublin, with a
capital of 100000, for developing Irish
manufactures.
1t costs the Chinese $154, 900 every
year for ceremonies to quiet the spirits of
their ancestors.
Justice Field, OF the United States su-
preme court, resident of San Francisco,
will visit Japan the coming summer.
A house in Cairo, ILL.,, was set on fire by
an injudicious English sparrow, which
carried a lighted cigar stub to the tenement
of straw under the caves.
The man who dances has no right to
speak of arother's lack of dignity. I'm
agine solid citizen hopping about like a
dancing Dervish, will you?
A sleeping car porter who travelled $50
miles with ten passengers worth over So
100000 each, says that his perquisites
amounted to only fifty cents.
Son what were given the commandments
to Moses?" the Sunday school teacher
asked. "On two marble-top tables" the
intelligent small boy answered.
The Philadelphia Press dominates Sena-
tor Edmuds, of Vermont, for president in
1884. Doubtless Western, not New Eng
land, men will be the next presidential
candidates.
1t is reported that King Humbert, of
Italy, is ready to resign the crown and will
do so as soon as he can find worthy sue
devoted to him.
The Philadelphia Press naughtily says
the Forty-seventh congress died of paraly-
sis of brain and conscience, while naughtler
people still express a doubt if they ever
had existance.
The emigration of negroes from North
Carolina to Arkansas has grown to such
proportions that the legislature of the
former state has been urged to apply rem
edial measures.
One of the students at Yale is allowed
$4,000 per year as pocket money, and the
hardest lesson he has to learn is that he
doesn't own the whole outfit and hasn't a
mortgage on the professors.
London Truth says that the Briton al
ways shuts the windows against winter
outside and then boiIs himself in stuffy
room, afterward going out into the icy
yellow fog to find bronchitis.
Elsie Ryland, a convicted forgeress of
New York. now out on bail, has disap-
peared at bad time. Her husband has
just learned that legacy of 100000 was
left him by an English relative
The Paris omnibusses employ 1900
horses at a daily expense of $4,000 for
food. In 1881 these omnibusses carried
194,000,000 passengers. The horses cost
100000, and the conveyances and har-
nesses $2,5OO,OOO.
L. j. Jennings, the London correspond
ent of the New York World. writes that
emigration from Great Britain to the
United States will be greater the ensuing
season than has been any time since the
discovery of gold in California.
A rooster recently deserted his native
barnyard near Warrenton, Va, to live in
the woods with flock of wild turkeys. He
crows as usual every morning, locating
the flock for his late owner, who has roast
wild turkey as often as he wants it.
Verchojansk, in Siberia, enjoys the fame
of being the coldess town in the world.
The mean temperature during January was
- degrees below zero, in February 56 de-
grees, and in March 81 degrees. Once the
thermometer fell to 81 degrees below.
The EngliSe Li6re, French Protestant
journal, referred in a recent issue to the
statement that N. Gambetta had burned
tapers on the anniversary of his mothers
death, and pointed out that no such ami
versary has yet occurred, since Nine. Gam
beta died Oh the 22d of July last.
During the last thirty years the Califor-
MIA quicksilver mines have produced 1OO,-
222,267 pounds, of which g., 1897 800 pounds
were exported. California produces one
half of all the quicksilver in use through
out the world. The Rothschilds control
the Austrian and Spanish mines.
1t was discovered by Bloomington ply
stefan, the other day, that the internal Or
gans of Samuel Fuchs, aged twenty,
who soupht treatment for lung troubles