Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-23
BITS OF INFORMATION.

THE largest school in the world is in
Egypt.
AS LATE as the time of James I. the
disposal of the hand of q young orphan
heiress lay with the King.
THE salary of the President of the
Republic of France is fixed at 600. 600
francs, with an additional allowance of
100000 francs for household expenses.
The first baseball club was the
Knickerbocker, of New York, that is.
the first one to sustain q permanent ex-
istence in the United States. It was
started in the year of 1916, and has con-
tinued its existence, We believe, ever
since. The game, however, did not be-
come the national one until many years
afterward.
The first meteoric shower which at
tracted attention in modern times was
that witnessed by the Moravian nilsson
aries, in Greenland, in 1890. This phe-
nomenon was observed over a wide ex-
tent of territory. Humboldt, then travel
ing In South America, said: "Toward
the morning of Nov. Ii, most extraor-
binary scene of shooting stars was seen.
Thousands of bodies and falling stars
succeeded each other during four hours.
Their direction was very regular, from
north to south; from the beginning of
the shower there was not space ia the
armament equal in extent to three diam
eters of the moon which was not filed
every instant with bodies of falling stars.
All the meteors left luminous traces or
phosphorescent bands behind them.
which lasted seven or eight seconds.
THE origin of the expression go to
Halifax is as follows: The evil repute
of Halifax implied in this old usage
came to it by inheritance from Halifax.
in Yorkshire, England, and is not a
thing to be ashamed of. Halifax law,
as may be gathered from a letter of
Lord Leicester's, quoted by Motley in
his History of the United Neither
lands" was that criminals should be
condemned first and inquired upon
after" in which it resembled "Jedburg
justice" Halifax lay within the forest
of Hardwick, the customary law of
which was that if felon were taken
with 49, pence worth of goods, stolen
within that liberty, he should be tried
by four firth burghers from four of the
precinct towns, and, if condemned by
them, hanged the next market day. Al
ter which the case might be sent to
jury Halifax also had the credit of in
venting the rude guillotine of Manuaye,
which the Regent, Earl of Morton, in
troduced into Scotland, only to have his
own head chopped off with it. Natur-
ally, Halifax was place of terror to
rogues.
To DIR. EDWARD JENNER is due the
credit of discovering and introducing
vaccination into general practice. He
was seven years in the service of a sur
geon at Sudbury, near Bristol, England,
or from the time he was IA till he was
81 years old, and while there his atten-
ton was directed to the subject of
preventive of smallpox. While in his
masters surgery one day he heard
young countrywoman say that she could
not take smallpox because she had
already had the cow-pox, mild dis
order of the eruptive kind appearing on
the udder of the animal, and commune
Gated in similar form to their hands
that it had never been known to prove
fatal when thus communicated and
that the belief was common among the
agricultural classes that whoever had
taken the disease was secure against the
infection Of smallpox. He continued
to investigate the cause, and SO conf
dent was he, finally, that several expert
ments were made upon his son, a boy
under years of age. It was not, how
ever, until over twenty-five years of
observations and experiment that his
views were adopted, and then the senti-
ment was as much in favor of his plan
as it had been against it before.