Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-30
GLOBELETS.


newspaper in the world.
A statue to Charles Sumner was recently
unveiled at Lewiston, Maine.
During the past year forty-three rail-
roads filed articles of association in Flor
ida.
Each of the three leading dailies in Rich
mond lost its editor-in-chief during the
last year.
Since the death of Charles Dickens
thirteen years ago, it is said 4,239,0 900 vol
umes of his works have been sold.
Since the settlement of WATERFOWL,
Mass, in 1880, no murder had been perpe-
trated in the town till Sunday, March %,
of the present year.
The first piano was made at Padua, in
Italy, in I'LL. The first one seen in Eng
land was made by monk, and very few
were made prior to 1850.
There are good many ex-honorables in
the world, but an exquisite aesthetic jour
nal caps the climax by saying 'Ex-Horse
Railroad Conductor Barnes"
Work is soon to be resumed on the Hud-
son river tunnel. One million dollars have
already been spent, and it will require
three millions more to complete it.
Lieut.. G. Dale, American agent of the
Inman line of Atlantic steamers for the
last thirty years, is dead. He died sudden
ly of apoplexy, in the city of New York.
II 1882 there we're 172 boiler explosions
in the United States, fifty of which were
in saw mills; two hundred and seventy one
persons were killed and $50 were injured.
Harvey Dibble has been killed by a
band of Indians in Arizona. The Indians
are raiding throughout the country, and
numerous settlers and miners have been
killed by them.
The car of Russia having ordered an
investigation into the affairs of the inte-
rior department of his government, has
found frauds in the postal service amount
ing to 100000 rubles.
Superfuous: Philanthropic passenger
to Irish emigrant, with small bundle
"Where's your trunk, Pat?" 'Phwhat 'ud
OF do wild thrunk?" "Put your clothes
in it." ''An' me go naked?"
If Mrs. Garter, of Bellair, Ohio, had not
applied for a divorce no one would have
suspected that her husband compelled her
to swallow spools and buttons to punish
her for smiling at railroad man.
The German war Office has decided to
arm the entire infantry of the empire with
the magazine rifle. Thirty thousand rifles
of this description have already been de-
ivered, and 10000 more will be ready be-
fore the end of the year.
A Turkish pasta has shown his appre-
citation of the work of our mission schools
in his country by the following remark:
''When girl comes back from the Ameri-
can mission school, you should not say a
girl, but a school has come"
A California ostrich farmer went to
Africa to buy stock, and while admiring
some fine blooded specimens one of them
kicked at him, but missed and hit a horse
and broke its neck. He says they kick
with as much grace as woman throws
a stone.
The Chicago Ne,vs says there IS only one
Issue in this springs election in that city.
There is no politics in il, neither Demo
cratic nor Republican. The issue compre-
bends no more and no less than the en-
torcement of the laws, the existing laws
against the law-breakers.
The Savannah Nelrs, a Democratic jour
nal, not very Loyalty says: We are not
nation with big M save for the purpose
of the common defense, the affair at APP
pOmattox to the contrary Notwithstanding,
and the supreme court on square issue
will SO decide, packed as it is with Repub-
lican judges.
a high medical authority gives the
amount of sleep necessary in twenty-four
hours as follows: Infants, from fifteen to
twenty hours; from the age OF five to
twelve, twelve hours; between twelve and
sixteen, ten hours; from sixteen to twenty
four, nine hours; afterwards, from seven
to eight hours are sufficient.
On Friday last Mrs. Francisco, of Mem
phis, who was subject to cataleptic fits,
fell into swoon. A doctor, who was hur-
riedly summoned, pronounced her dead,
and preparations were being made for her
1OAOldA mu0n SHo sde up III USu duu dShou
for drink of water. In the evening,
however, she died beyond peradventure.
fire was discovered, few days ago, in
a new dirt bank of the Kohinoor colliery,
near Shenandoah, Pa. The fire is believed
to have been started over three years ago
by the burning of q shanty. If this belief
is well founded, it will be impossible, on
account of their extent, to extinguish the
flames, and great trouble and expense
will be required to protect the adjacent
property.
A story of an extraordinary health cure
comes from California. 4 young lady of
Gilroy, whose health had been impaired
by too much devotion to the piano and tile
painting, was induced by her mother to
engage in squirrel hunting, the reward Of
fered being ten cents a scalp. In one
week she killed eighty-fve squirrels, and
the outdoor exercise required is fast re-
storing her health.
Messrs. Hoe & Co. say the recent state
ment that they paid Mr.. Scott 100000 for
his patents for the Webb perfectinp press