Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-22
SUNDAY GLoBELErs.

There are $4,000 locomotives in tn,
world.
A Frenchman has offered prize o.
$4,000 for cure for diphtheria.I
In Boston show window is bridge
made of 100000 miles of spool silk.
A trade paper called the Corset is talked
of. 1t will no doubt, "come to stay"
1t does not give the land good govern
ment to hang the victims of bad govern
ment.
| The promise of the sugar crop in
Louisiana is said to be the best in ten
years.
Canada people complain of the potency
| of the railway influence in Dominion
| legislation.
Far into April the ice in Lake Winnipi-
siogee, New Ham pshire, was thirty-two
inches thick.
The two-cent stamps to be used for let
ter postage after October will bear the pro-
file of Washington.
Philadelphia promises to put no more
wires in the air and put the old ones un-
der ground in two years.
The Salt Lake Tribune says there never
was time when so many young girls were
going into polygamy as ow.
The diamond mines of Brazil were first
opened in 1927 and since that time have
produced two tons of diamonds.
Murderers in France, if they have money,
are compelled under the new law to pay
large sum to the family of their victim.
A Paris paper gives up the chrome bust
ness and offers an accident policy to each
subscriber. Thus Johnny Grape has got
ahead of Brother Jonathan"
An Illinois man boxed his wife's ears for
investing 81 in lottery ticket.
She went to her fathers home and her
ticket soon after drew $4,000.
Illinois has a revival in the draining of
swamp land started. The state was given
by government 3,267 900 acres of this land
in 1850, and over 100000 are yet I'M
drained.
New Orleans is happy because her ex-
ports during the first three months of the
present year were $33,OOO,O0O against
$24,OO0,OOO, in 1882 in the corresponding
months.
Ex-Governor st. John of Kansas was a
candidate for mayor of Leavenworth and
was defeated, as he was for reelection for
governor. So much for temperance IA
naticism.
Lucy Hooper says that a great many
Americans, who want to "see Naples and
die" do see Naples and die, the Italian
malarial fever carrying them off with as
tonishing promptness.
Negroes employed as porters and mes
sengers in the departments at Washington
held meeting the other night and talked
and resolved against doing servants
work for the officials at their houses.
The colony of Russian refugee Jews
founded at Waterview, Va, last October, is
doing well. There are a dozen families, with
farm of 800 acres. They are working in
dustriously, and establishing comfortable
homes.
The London Lancet thinks that If
children would wear flannel next to their
skin or wear longer clothing, suspending
it from the shoulders, they would enjoy
more robust health ald we should hear
less of backaches and pains.
The Texas legislature is booming ON the
subject of education. 1t has given another
million acres of land for universities, and
another million for common schools, and
voted to submit a constitutional amend
ment granting local school taxation.
Buffalo, N. Y, talks about school re-
form in the way of reducing the number
putting an end to ''cramming" system,
which is the bane and curse of our
modern superficial union schools. Sensible
The Chinese authorities are greatly en-
ragged at the action of the British govern
ment in respect to telegraph stations,
which the latter are trying to land at
Shanghai. The Chinese oppose it, and the
British consul has received instructions
from home to make the landing by force if
necessary.
The Bell Telephone company is at log
gerheads with the government. The life
saving service uses an instrument invented
by man in the force, and the Bell COM
pany claims that the thing infringes on
its patents. Government offers to pay q
royalty on the offending parts, but the
company is bumptious and there is talk of
a lawsuit.
tennessee has Dukes case. Because
Bunch Hopkins and John and Henry Hoop
er were acquitted of charge of murder
ing DR.. John w. Nuekols, of Springfield, a
mass meeting expressed the community's
Indignation by denouncing the jurors by
name and declaring that they ''are and
ever will be unwelcome guests among our
people"
Florida newspapers are talking over the
old plan for dividing the state. part o f
it naturally belonged to Georgia and Ala
bama, but it was owned by Spain when
those states were created and now the At
lantic and Northeastern part pulls one way,
the Gulf and Southwestern the other, and
it is said there never can be unity or har-
mony on this question.
An .inveterate smoker, who for some
time past has found his pipe was begin