Daily globe., 1883-07-11

one which was occupied by Lord Beacons-
field, and the queen has positively refused |
t. nave that filled.
J.. D. Sc gtrd. of S.. Louis, recently
sprung law point i'll the criminal court |
OF correction in that city. which, if sus-
famed, will invalida'e all saloon licenses. |
The point is that the collector has no !
right TO lscre licenses, that power being |
vested in the mayor and city council.
One Of the most Interesting features of |
agriculture in California is olive growing
1t is thought that thu state could easily |
raise crop as large as that of Italy, which
sells yearly for $50,000,000. Ooe ranch |
owner at Santa Barbara has derived |
profit of $4,000 an acre from his plan
tation.
0ne OF the Chimes models in the London
fisheries exhibition represents foot
boat" clever cJdtriva1c9 for conveying
single pis-euger. Tue b)atmau carries
under his arm d paddle f,c steering pur-
poses. whde vita his fee5 ne works wide
bladed oar. In this N amer "he often
rows from eighteen to twenty hours at a
stretch
A peach grower at Palmetto, Ga, keeps
clear of the worms which so often destroy
| peach orchards BY keeping colony of
| blue birds, which eat nothing but bugs and
worms. For about five years he has, been
raising and protecting these birds, and now
has 500 of them. They do their work ef-
! fectively.
| The visitors OF the British museum gen
eral collections last year numbered 767, ,4O2
| persons. The reading room, print room,
map room and galleries OF sculpture in
! creased the number by 1876, 1867, making
! together total of 963 $50. Ia addition to
! These, 27S,021 persous visited the natural
! history collections, making grand total
! of !, 1,24I,S ,S76.
/; The Philadelphia Press says, e1ultiugly,
that while properly deploring tie inaig
niicance of our shipping interest, we find
a morsel of comfort i'll the tact that the
American railroads are worth almost twice
as much as Great Britain; railroads aud
shipping combined. Tne British ship
ping is valued at 00,000,000, British
railroads at So. 100000 900, American rail-
roads al So 3J0,OOG,0 900.
The late d. ru-o iore e lSo1 WAS, If no
the oldest, Que Of the two or three Oldest
| Episcopal citre. yineit III a!nerica. He was
OF tne sd ne age VITA Glte vene able presid-
ing btshoP, BIS ,op Smith, who has just
Reached has nInodiegl Year. B,shop POtter +
of New York, is only few years his junior.
He founded ST. Anne's Church, Lowell,
about 1920, and was in that one parish 60
years.
Stephen Fl. Tying, Jr's, resignation of
the Equitable Life Insurance Company's
| agency at Paris, is said to have been due
! TO the dissatisfaction of the company
which sent over Henry B. Hyde to advise
Mr.. Tying. The latter tried to order Hyde
cut of his Office, but Hyde in turn demand
ed his resignation. Tying demanded $2O,-
600 as the price of his resignation and Mr.
Hyde gave him his check for that sum.
Mr.. Beecher said to a reporter on Satur-
day: Il am well. l don't know that there
is an organ ailing in my body. In other
words, so far as l know, my brain is sound,
my heart is sound, my stomach and diges-
ton are sound, 1 am not weakened with
the old mans trouble of bladder or kid
neys; am as regular as clockwork and
all right in every physical respect, butt
weigh go pounds, as against $50, 20 years
ago.
Mr.. Henri Burkhardt, of Vienna, has
brought from the colony of Victoria thirty
kangaroos for the purpose of royal hunt.
The Prater is the locality selected, and
dogs and horsemen will be engaged in the
sport. Some of the kangaroos are of great
height and proportionate strength, and
will give the Austrian hounds that may be
be courageous enough to tackle them con-
siderable trouble. The hunt is to come off
i'll the course of a month.
Mrs. Catherine W Bcashear died in
Akron, OHIO, Sunday. When the war broke
out Dr. Brashear, her husband, enlisted in
the Nineteenth Ohio regiment, and his
wife accompanied him and remained with
it during its ninety days of service. The
regiment was reorganized, and DR.. Bra
shear became a member of the Sixteenth
Ohio. Mrs. Brashear again went with him
to the field aud was with the resimenG
during It's three years Of service.
Herr V0llmar, the champion OF the So
ciai Democrats in the German Reich5Cag,
is by birth, rs he was long by sympathy, d
full ulOo ed ar .stocrat. Going TO Rome to
offer his sword to the Pope, he fell sick.
During his tedious convalescence he stLd-
led the Socialist theories which the Pope
had anathematlzsd, with a view to confut-
ing them. Bat instead they converted
him. lie had lain down upon his sick bed
Il passionate monarchist, ari> Socrat, papist
he arose from 1t an equally passionate So
cial Democrat and free thinker.
Aa old medal was Plowed up il Law
renee county. Ind, the other day, which
belonged to the hard-cider era of 1910
when Gen. William Henry Harrison was
elected President. 1t bears on one size Il
representation of log cabin, and a barrel
of cider placed under an adjoining tree.
On the reverse are the inscriptions: The
peoples choice, the hero of Tippacanoe-
Major Gen. ". H. Harrison, born February
1TTOS will bo fn bo Ho,,