Daily globe., 1883-01-20
GLOBELETS.

tleman as compared with Herr Most.
An organization for the preservation of
Niagara Falls has been formed in New
York city.
The foreign missionary socie ties of the
world gained over 100000 communicates
in the past year.
A block of buildings in Philadelphia is
insured for S27, 100000, or at the rate OF
$51,O0OOO0 per acre.
In South Australia in 1S8O-S1, there
were 1887 acres of vines, producing over
100000 gallons of wine.
Gov. Cornell, Of New York, during his
term Of Office vetoed 401 bills, and in every
instance his veto was sustained.
The native Christians of Madagascar
during the last ten years have given ST.
100000 towards the spread of the gospel.
A very serious encounter, arising out of
a SNOWFALL light, lately took place be-
tween two regiments at Canterbury, Eng
land.
It is said that cattle, valued at
S13,500,00O are now grazing in what was
six years ago territory occupied by In
dians.
The smallest church in England, is in
PiIham. Lincoln county. 1t is 26 by II
feet The population of the place is nine
ty-one.
prominent minister recently remarked
that he did not consider the laws of Moses
any more inspired than the laws of Massa-
chu5etts.
The Rev. Ting g-sing-ki, of Hok-ning-foo,
is discouraging the opium smoking habit
in and about Fun-chaw-ku-cheng and
Slom-chia.
Thirty japanese in the city of New York
have formed a social organization for mu-
tual improvement and protection. The
Japs are being rapidly Yankeeized.
Willie Gulley, fourteen-year old boy,
living at Russell, Va, shot bullet into his
leg, and rather than alarm his mother kept
the wound a secret for nearly two days.
English hotel proprietors write to the
London Daily NelUS that their efforts to
prevent guests thinking it necessary to
give fees to servants prove utterly un-
availing.
Over half a million dollars were earned
by the penitentiary convicts in the state
of New York last year, but to support the
institutions cost $4,000 more than the
earnings.
Tommy Harrison, the reverend boy,
has captured 200 souls at Decatur, Ill"
is the way a western paper tells the fact
that the Rev. Mr.. Harrison has saved 200
converts.
The Cincinnati Gazette says, in defend
ing the memory of President Garfield, that
Blaine was the 'evil genius" of the cabinet
who had led him into breaking with the
strong men in New York.
The emperor of Austria recently told
delegation OF Jews from Pressburg that he
should never cease to protect them and
their co-religiouists against their enemies,
from whatever quarter they may rise.
An old law in Holland, and an inhuman
one, condemned criminals to be wholly
deprived of salt as the severest punishment
in that moist country. The result was
they were a prey to internal parasites.
Il now go to meet my Maker, or some
one else,'' said Thomas Kerr, at Pioneer,
A. T., and in moment more thel rope,
manned by as many hands as could find
"a holding place, hoisted him fror2 earth
into eternity"
An Egyptian travellers statement to the
effect that Arabis wife is Philadelphia
leads the Boston Star to the surmise that
the said traveller must have seen Mrs. Bey
on her knees in front of the palace scrub
bing the pavement.
Aldermen in Chicago have introduced
into the city council ordinances to compel
high buildings, hotels, factories, etc., to be
provided with rope ladders, balconies on
every story above the first, all the way
around, and other measures to prevent the
loss of life by fire.
An old couple, aged respectively seven
ty-two and sixty eight years, started to at
tend a funeral in New Jersey last week,
twenty miles away, when their horse,
proving to be balky, they abandoned the
vehicle and walked the entire distance, ar
irving in time for the ceremony.
The hairPin is used to button shoes and
gloves, fasten garments, and in some
nelgnoorhoOuS supplies Ine place VI Ine
missing toothpiek. The hairpin's latest
use has been to obtain divorce, New
York wife having made affidavit that she
had found a strange hairpin upon her hus-
bands pillow.
E. W. Schneu, of Brooklyn, \. Y, has
sued Frederick Blohm, his uncle, for
criminal intercourse with his wife, laying
his damages at $4,000. Blohm is wild
over with eight children, four of them be-
ing of age. The old reprobate ought to be
made to respond in the full amount of
damages claimed.
It is fact not generally known that
steam is kept up in the halls and corridors
of the Grand Union hotel, Saratoga, all
winter and the mammoth hotel aired daily.
This is done for the preservation of the
furniture and to prevent the formation of
those odors which are ineradicable when
once they find lodgment in hotel.
plan is on foot to establish in this
country Catholic university-an estab-
Iishment equal to Yale and Harvard, in
.enuiDment finish and ranCa of studieS