Daily globe., 1883-08-04
GLOBELETS.

| low fever IN Havana last week.
England still has 100000 paupers not
withstanding her recent exports to Ame-
RIGA.
a sick person by making great din, and
the same noisy remedy for disease is found
in Africa.
Prof. S. D. Aughly, of the state univer-
sity of Lincoln, Nebraska, has been arrest
ed for forgery.
st. Louis is making large demand for
more water. The Big Muddy is a mighty
uncertain stream.
Prairie chickens will be ripe in Iowa
August Is. The crop is said to be good.
The same in Minnesota.
The president of Mexico has sent pow.
er of attorney to London house to .sette
with the British bondholders.
Miss Amelia B. Edwards furnished the
article on Memory" for the ext volume
of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
The Chinese use fire crackers to frighten
away evil spirits. The Indian medicine man
also, think to exercise the evil spirit from
Miss Susan B. Anthony and Mrs. Eliza
beth Cady Stanton are pronounced very
able speakers in England, where they are
lionized as they go.
This is large country, and it takes
many floods, cyclones, potato bugs and
army worms to make short crop, taking
the country in its entirety.
Since March 1 to the last week in July
Chicago packers have slaughtered 1884,
| OO0 hogs, against 1,192,00O for the CORE
spending period in 1882.
If the Republicans can possibly hire
Mr.. Dorsey to keep his mouth shat for a
year or two, they will find it for their ad-
vantage to do so at any price.
Mr.. Edwin Arnold has finished another
Indian poem, which will be published in
October. It contains five pages from
the Sanskirst of the Mahahharata.
The queen of Portugaps eldest son,
Prince of Braganza, is a water color
painter of much promise and a member
of the club in Rome. He is blonde.
Samuel Francis Smith, D. D., the author
of our national hymn, ''My Country, tits of
Thee," now resides at the age of seventy
four in Newton Center, Massachusetts,.
There is now no living member of the
group pictured by Carpenters celebrated
painting of the "Signing of the Procla-
nation" Montgomery Blair was the eighth
and last.
A lady at Long Branch is the possessor
of $4,000 worth of diamonds, therefore
she is tolerated in "good society,"" notwith-
standing her little eccentricity of eating
with her knife.
There are 1900 dentists in the United
States, and they every year put over ST.
100000 worth of gold in the teeth. A
thousand years from now it will pay to
mine old grave yards.
young graduate of the Massachusetts
institute of technology, and son of prom
1nent manufacturer in Massachusetts,, has
been learning the .woolen manufacturing
bnsines, and mas been promoted from the
wool-room to the carding-room in one of
the Lewiston's woolen mills.
Rev. (?) Isaac S. Kalloch has thrown up
the ecclesiastical sponge in San Francisco
and gone to Washington territory. The
place deserves public sympathy. Ike may
not be so bad visitation as the cholera,
but he is considerably worse than camp
of Apaches or a gang of cattle runners.
Queen Victoria has fine chance to do
the handsome thing by the Oldest boy of
King Cetewayo, the only one of the family
left alive. He Is clever young savage IF
dozen years, and just the right age for
royal adoption. He might amuse her, and
would be picturesque addition to her es-
tablishment.
The dredging of South Carolina rivers
for phosphates is new industry of con-
siderable Importance to the territory sur
rounding Charleston. Some of the crude |
rock is shipped to Europe, but most of it
is ground at home before it goes to mar
ket. At the present time the demand is |
great, and all the companies are working |
on full time.
Maryland promises plenty of good
peaches this year. The heavy shipments |
will begin this week. 1t is estimated that |
100000 baskets will be shipped over the
Delaware railroad. The growers are con-
fident the crop will prove one of the most
profitable as we'll as extensive ever grown
in the state. There is scarcity in yellow
fruit, except the smock, in several loca-
tions, but all other kinds are prolific.
After all there is some compensation in
taking a vacation by installments. One
does not get tanned to the complexion of
sole leather, nor acquire an unmitigated
disgust for rural life, nor contract eternal
enmity to watering place fare, nor look on
every hotel man as the brother-in-law of q
shark. Besides, there is comfort in having
ones days diversified, and life's linked
sweetness long drawn out.
Connecticut is having trouble of an un-
expected sort. Her law requires the pris-
on directors to advertise for bids in con-
tracting for prison labor in all places of
over 10000 inhabitants. They lately ad-
| vertised for bids for forty men. The ad-
vertising bills amount to about S175, but
not single bid was received. The prison
labor in that state has evidently become
undesirable. A few more such investiga-
l. A.