Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-01
GLOBELETS.

Peach trees were in full bloom last week
at Charleston, S. G.
Ohio is on another rise, but not much
damage is anticipated.
South Africa exports six million dollars
worth of peaches every year.
Strawberries have made their appear
ance in tho Cincinnati market at 81 a
quart.
The estimated cost of the tunnel under
the British channel is half raillion dol
lars per mile.
The Mississippi river below the ice belt,
is on bender and crevasses are opening
in the levees.
Half a million people in the East end of
London have single burying ground COW
ering about twenty-six acres.
The Belgium government recently gave
Sheffield firm an order for steel rails at
a fraction less than $29 ton.
The New York Sun does not believe the
land league had anything to do with the
assassinations in Phoenix park.
An autograph letter of Ignatius Loyola,
the first of the Jesuits, recently sold at
Paris auction for 800 francs.
Gen. Weaver, the head-center of the
Greenback party, is trying to consolidate
his faction with the Prohibitionists.
The legislature at Albany is condemned
for not doing anything, and the governor
vetoes almost everything that it does.
Belgium has taken away the revolver
trade from Birmingham and is laying its
hands on the cheap machine-made shotgun
trade.
The Buddhist priests in Japan have com
menced an agitation against the obligation
both of celibacy and of an exclusive vege-
tartan diet.
The United States signal service bureau
costs over $1,OOO,OOO year, and with its
present incompetent head Is of no value
to the country.
The late M. Gambetta's father has kept
every letter that his son ever wrote to him,
even in childhood, and he contemplates
publishing the collection.
General Wolssley spent two months in
selecting coat of arms. Had he hesitated
that long in Egypt, he would have had 10
occasion to choose a coat of arms.
The late city census of Cleveland, Ohio,
gives her a population of over $4,000,
gain of 5000 the last year. Cleveland is
likely to rival Cincinnati in population.
The president, cashier and bookkeeper
of the City bank of Jersey City we're SEN
fenced to the penitentiary within six
weeks after the forgeries were discovered.
The new telescope comet is fast ap-
preaching and will be soon visible to the
naked eye. 1t is anticipated that it will
be of great brilliancy before the spring is
over.
An article in the Nelc Jerusalem Maya
zine is devoted to proving that the church
has lost the power of healing the sick in
consequence of the adoption of the Athan-
asian creed.
There was a pipe smoking contest in
Chicago recently. John Anderson reflled
his pipe thirty times in twelve hours, and
won, his competitor giving up on twenty
SIX pipefuls, with his tongue and mouth
badly blistered.
Hard times in England forced over
1000 persons in the West end of London
to put down their carriages on which q !
special tax is paid, and few or none with
an income under $4,000 year keep car
riages.
A colony of franciscan monks and nuns
is about to settle at Clevedon, in England.
The largest hotel in the place has been
bought for the new monastery, and villa
with extensive grounds has been secured
for the nunnery.
Verchojansk, in Siberia, enjoys the fame
of being the coolest town in the world.
The mean temperature during January
was 10 degrees below zero, in February
Sc degrees and in March 81 degrees.
Once the the thermometer fell to 81 de-
grees below.
Philadelphia's policeman most notorious
as q clubber struck disorderly stranger q
single blow, and was promptly knocked
down, kicked, dragged over the pavement