Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-23
GLO8ELETS.

In New York city seventeen dealers
handle 10000 horses annually.
Montreal, is experimenting on tba rso
of electricity on its horss cars.
Cole, the New York Circus ma, i 90
ears old and is said to be worth $4,000
600.
Eight out of 81 governors that Massa-
chusetts has had during this century were
graduates of Harvard college.
Over $4,000 head of buffalo have been
killed east of the Yellowstone river, in
Montana territory this season.
Nitro-glyoerine was first used as meli-
cine in New York city. Twenty five years
later it came into use as an explosive.
It is alleged that foreigners spend $780,
100000 year in Italy. What world
that is in historical antiquity and remin-
iscences.
One kind of human slaughter is admissi-
bic. 1t is perfectly right for a man to
Kill OF his enemies by converting them in
to friends.
Among the depositors in a savings bank
IN Connecticut there are 5000 who have
made no inquiry about their money for 20
years or more.
Inc season, says contemporary, has
been hard on Presidential booms. Not
one of them has grown particle since the
snow went off.
The Duke of Edinburgh is responsible
for the latest English craze-nule-riding
He introduced the fashion by himself rid
ing one of the particularly fine mules
which he obtained in Egypt
At breakfast the other morning in New
York dude declined piece of shad. He
had been told that fish food made brain,
and he didn't want to unfit himself for the
position he occupied in society.
There are Indian girls in the Indian
Territory university who are studying
German, French, Latin and Greek, geology,
moral philosophy, political economy, and
other branches of the college course.
The six hundredth anniversary of the
completion of the Cathedral at Marburg
was celebrated with due festivities May 1.
This building is said to be the most per-
feet specimen of the old Gothic architec-
ture in Europe.
Shortly after Pilot, the bad elephant,
was killed in New York, it became neces-
sary to get rid of a monstrously big one
in the Imperial Menagerie, in Vienna.
He was given fifty grammes of prussic
acid, which laid him out in eight minutes.
The Chinese government forbids the in
PRODUCTION of the electric light into the
Empire, under penalty of fine and impris-
onment, and yet by its orders the ironclad
now being built in Germany is to be sup
piled with all the latest improvements in
this line.
| Nicholas Bernardini, of Lecco, Italy, is
engaged in the hercplean task of compil-
ing a universal dictionary of the news
papers of the world, with full details as to
each paper, and historical sketches of the
most prominent editors and journalists.
He hopes to receive a sample copy of every
| newspaper published.
The colored people ere preparing to
hold several conventions IL 1.-E-rent To-
calities, with view OF secI-.2- greater
equality of political rights. Frederick.
Douglass fayors the movement s--i says,
conventions are the safety valves OF the
republic" and that There is no use for
dynamite where the people can freely as
semble to state their grievances"
| Boston Transcript: ''Pinafore' was
never played at Ogdensburg, N. Y, till last
week. The pianos have begun to play
Pm called little Buttercup''; and the streets
are resonant with ''What, never-hardly
ever" A days sojourn in Ogdenburg, in
short, seems like long forgotten memory
of the past suddenly aroused Now that
| Ogdensburg is fixed, ':Pinafore," like the
British drum beat, may be heard round the
world.
Brooklyn Eagle: ''Mr. Sam Randall
is Democratic impossi-" bility," says the
Louisville Courier-Jounal If this means
that he will not be elected Speaker of the
House at the ensuing session of Congress
it is probably true. If it means that he
will not be the next Democratic candidate
for the Presidency it is probably true, but
| if it means that the party will refuse to
| recognize Mr.. Randall as a Democrat be-
cause of his personal views upon the tariff
| question it IS very far from being true.
Although the Scotch are greater smokers
than the English, yet less tobacco is smoked
in Scotland in proportion than England.
This is due, according to the London Truth,
to the canny character of Scotchmen.
Owing to the large quantity of water in
the ordinary tobacco sold, a pipe goes out
before the tobacco in it is smoked. The
Englishman throws away this damp to-
bacco; the Scotchman carefully extracts it
from his pipe and then wAen it h as dried
puts it back.
An interesting discovery has recently
been made in the Marburg archives in the
shape of thirty large parchment volumes
containing the official documents relating
to the employment of Hessian troops BY
the British Government, and to their par.
ticipation in the American Revolutionary
War. These volumes not only contain the
entire diplomatic negotiations between the.
Landgrave of Hesse and Great Britain, but
also the complete correspondence of this
Prince with his Generals ia America. with
excellent sketches and maps of the locaIi-
ties of the HessIan headouarters