Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-17

bottom than the top. When prisoner is
wanted rope is dropped dowa and the
man is drawn up.
The health conrsittee OF Wheeling had
two bills before it; one for fifty cents for
tobacco and cigars for small pox patient,
and the other for fifteen cents for candy
for sick baby. After a heated discussion
of nearly two hours.it was decided that the
candy was all right, but a smallpox
patient was not entitled, under the act of
the assembly, to Injuries.
4 Cecil county (Md.) couple, who had
been living unhappily together lately,
adopted q novel and simple method of ob-
tanning a divorce. They piled their house
hold goods on three wagons. The wife
third. Then they drove to Texas. At
crossroads in shat state the wife drove one
way. tn husband the other.
The G icago Neaes says Gen. Cleveland
has, ia'r~ abort time ne has governed New
York. aide sach strides toward the presi-
dency, t'.;st he has been roundIy denounced
by wing of the labor union in New York,
for his acts. He neees now only to be re-
solved against by the temperance party
and few church organizations to make
first rate Democratic candidate.
The impossibility of two trains passing
each other on the same track was again
demonstrated yesterday at Knoxville,
Tenn, and Cd two lines having their ter
minus in Boston, but with the probable
loss of a single life in the former accident
How such startling accidents can ever hap
pen without more loss of life is an enigma
to whoever has chance to look over the
wrecks and the results to wood and iron.
In the waters of the Northern Pacific
swims what might be called ''the olive of
the sea-" 1t is the latest of all fishes, and
from it the oil actually drips-an oleagi-
nous fluid as sweet and limpid as that of
the olive. Some day this fsh-which is
nothing else than the rice or reed birti fish
will be caught and squeezed until the
oil is all out of him. The oil win be sent
to Italy, and shipped back in bottles as the
best olive oil for salad dressing.
The Count de Chambord still claims to
be king of France. He is one of the race
of Bourbon princes that the old Napoleon
said "never forget anything and never
| learned anything" The Countess de Bardi,
! a niece OF Chambord, having urged her
| uncle 10 re-enter Paris on horseback sur
rounded by legitjmist cavaliers and wear,
| ing the white plume of Henry ~, "My
niece ne said, you speak like heroine;
but II would never do for the king of
France to be arrested bya policeman and
taken 10 the lookup"
A curious order connected with the mill
tary service has been issued by the police
master of st. Petersburg, complaining of
officers in the reserve continuing to wear
| their uniforms, in contravention of law,
and commanding the inspectors Of police
to report all persons thus wearing the
whole of their uniform, or parts of it, at
the Office of the military commandant.
The fact is that very large number of
officers who have quilted active service are
SO miserably poor that they positively can
not afford to buy respectable civilian at
tire. To prevent such men from wearing
their old military overcoats, or forage caps,
is privation that only those who know
what the poverty engendered by the mill
| tary system in Russia is can at all appre-
ciate