Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1878.
One of the biggest bonanzas of the
day is the little toy marine railway
extending from Manhattan to Brigh-
ton Beach.
Hanson cabs have made their ap-
pearance at Newport, and are extern
siveIy patronized by that class of
Young men who, at home and abroad,
are known as sWells.
a Boston business man, impressed
by the Narragansett disaster, offers to
teach, without charge, class of boys
from the public schools to swim.
The main staircase in John Peabody
Wetmore's house, at Newport, cost
$4,000. The wood was imported and
is carved i'll the Florentine style.
A woman at Newport bathes in a
suit of oiled silk, worn under the usual
flannel suit. She says she enjoys the
surf, but can't bear the touch of salt
water.
A Philadelphian made fruitless
effort to sell worthless bars at the
mint, for pure gold. The profit. if he
had succeeded, would have been So
900.
The postal business of Macon, Ca,
is greater than that of any city (At-
lanta eXceptedD in North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, or
Alabama.
The sod for the lawn in front of the
new Oriental hotel on Manhattan
Beach cost nearly $1,000. Six acres
back of Sheepshead bay were denuded
of grass.
lie TRAIT d Union, of Mexico, saws
that the parish priest of Tepedii del
Rio imprisons bachelors who refuse
to marry and nevertheless frequent
places of i'll repute.
Letter found Oh California sui
eide: "In this sheltered nook | Law me
down to die. When a man outliyes
his usefulness, think he ought to re-
tire. have done so. Adiea."
The large increase in the foreign
commerce done through Boston is
shown in custom-house receipts of
$50, 574, S91 for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1880, as against $13,4SO, 557
for the preceding year.
The strip Of earth between the Mis-
sissippi River and Lake Concordia.
above Natchez. is fast caving, and il
now appears to be matter of very
short time before the lake will drain
itself into the river.
The worst enemy of the Chilean
soldier at the seat of war is fever and
ague. No less than nine hundred sick
men were sent from lilo to the south in
the Loa, which arrived in Valparaiso
during the first days of May.
Camden, N. J., has population of
Al ,I4l, an increase of 49, 32 over 1870.
The addition of Newton township. in
1871, constitutes the Seventh and
Eighth wards. The population of the
city before this annexation was: In
1850, 9,479; 1860, 1865; 1870, 2O,O45.
The population of San Antonio. Tex
is reported at $500, and of the coun.
~ of Bexar $4,000. In 1860 Bexar
county had population of 14,454. la
1870 it was only 1908, and that of
the city 1928, leaving out 1896 for
the county. The county contains an
area Of l ,456 square miles.
The golden oriole devours the pota.
to beetle with relish. A pair of these
beautiful birds had charge of potato
patch near Rochester, n. Y, and ken,
it tree from beetles. The young ori-
oles that was raised in the nest in the
e4m tree near the patch grew fat on
this tender food.
Among the relics recently found in
Mitchell county, Georgia, are speci-
mems OF coral, sponge, masses of bar
nacIes, oyster shells, and many singu-
Isx raseses Of shells, all united by the
aotion OF limo In tic soil into solid
rock In addition are specimens OF
p0+ritled wood, such as cedar, etc., of
later formation, most likely, than the
marine growth.
jerry Buckler, Ietter-carrler .n
Nashville has walked fourteen miles
every day, except on Sunday, 1or louf-
teen years.
Lie DEOfluCG VA OuCnOo ANo
counts 81 100000 sheep, Of which 49,
100000 belong to Irish settlers within
days ride of the city. The flocks
will suffice, if necessary, to feed the
National Government army for many
wears, without counting 100000
cows, which belong mostly to natives.
It is said that the Bank of Montreal
is the largest bank on this continent,
having capital of twelve millions, a
reserve of five millions, and about sew
cnteen millions of deposits. It's total
assetts amount to over thirty-five mil
lions of dollars. Compared with the
banks even of New York city, these
are stupendous figures.
The Cologne Gazette, the oldest ex-
isting German newspaper, noted for
it. enterprise in slow-going Germany,
before the electric telegraph, employed
carrier pigeons to obtain early news
from Paris. One relay of birds car
ried the messages from Paris to Brus-
sells, another from Brussels to Aix-la-
Chapelle, whence the messages were
forwarded by railway to Cologne,
where they arrived sixteen hours in
advance of the ordinary post.
DIR. BIyden, himself pure African
of high attainments, says the mission
ary societies have made mistake in
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