Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-22

carry up and down a daily average of
10000 people, while several thousand per
diem is not an unusual number for large
stores and hotels in our great cities.
An Illinois legislator, "Dave" Rankin By
name, entered Kennedy's, in Springfield,
the other day and asked for a business
consultation, which was granted. How
much do you charge for dinner?" "Oh,
about a 81, 1 guess" How much for
breakfast You could get a breakfast
for fifty cents" "Then bring me a break
fast for my dinner"
Governor Butler thinks the present is no
worse than the former generation. He
says: ''There is undoubtedly a greater
glare of corruption and wrong-doing be-
fore the public gaze, but there is no more
wrong-doing in proportion to the size of
the country now than there was a hundred
years ago. People see more and hear
more than they did then. They live at a
faster gait and keep pace with passing
events, thanks to the newspaper press"
1t n turns out that ex-Gov. S~prague's
bride is the divorced wife of a Mr.. Calvert,
a well known Cincinnati travelling sales
man. The marriage of Calvert took place
about seven years ago at Barboursville, W.
Va. The union of the young couple
proved an unhappy one, and the wife, af-
ter several temporary separations from her
husband, returned to the home of her
father. The divorce was only granted a
short time since. 1t is supposed that the
meeting with Gov. Sprague must have
taken place at Greenbr1er White Sulphur
Springs.
I have never yet, said an old hangman,
seen a man condemned to be hung who
did not sleep soundly the last night of his
life and eat a hearty breakfast before
mounting the scaffold. A terrible mental
strain kept up for days and weeks has a
tendency to blunt the sensibilities. Con-
demned murderers suffer a~cutely, or so
much, rather, that they cannot suffer any
more. Hence, as the hour of death ap-
proaches, they live in a kind of a dream;
the animal in their nature performances,
and they eat and sleep in apparent disre-
gard of the shadow of death that is upon
them.
A young mar living near Peoria thought
that by turning out all the lights and max
ing suspicious noises in the house he could
scare his sisters, who were coming home in
a wagon from a neighbours. Instead of
entering the house the girls drove on to the
nearest friends place and got one of the
men folks to return with them. The rep
resentative of the said men folks took
along a double-barreled shotgun, and lost
no time in emptying its contents into the
body of the supposed burglar, who proved
to be the brother of the damsels. He will
live to know that the fate of the practical
joker is not always a happy one.
After living in America from childhood
up, a japanese woman returned to her ma
tive land. She writes back that she quick
ly regained facility with chopsticks, and is
convinced that skill with them is heredi-
tary. She found the men of Japan more
polite, as a rule, than Americans. She be-
came perfectly familiar with the Japanese
language within a month, though she sup
posed she had entirely forgotten it. She
has resumed the native dress, and considers
it very pretty and graceful; but she posi-
lively annot bring herself to arrange her
hair in the true japanese fashion, which is
beautiful in appearance, but requires SO
much pomatum that the thought of it is
repulsive to one accustomed to the Ameri-
can couture.