Daily globe., 1883-07-11

one which was occupied by Lord Beacons
field, and the queen has positively refused |
to nave that filled.
L. D. S5eRtrd, of S.. Louis, recently
sprung law point in the criminal court
OF correction in that city, which, if sus
tanned, will invalida+e all saloon licenses.
The point is that the collector has no
right 10 lscue licenses, that power being
vested in the mayor and city council.
One of the most Interesting features of
agriculture in California is olive growing
1t is thought that the state could easily
raise crop as large as that of Italy, which
sells yearly for $50,OO0000. One ranch
owner at Santa Barbara has derived
profit of $4,000 an acre from his plan
tation
One OF ths Chimes models in the London
fisheries exhibition represents 'fott
boat clever cJl5rivaac9 for conveying
single passenger. rds boatman carries
under his arm paddle fJr steering pur-
poses. whde VITA his fee5 ne works wide
bIaded oar. In this N amer The often
rows from eighteen to twenty hours at a
stretch" :"
A peach grower at Palmetto, Ga, keeps
clear of the worms which so often destroy
peach orchards by keeping colony of
blue birds, which eat nothing but bugs and
worms. For about five years he has. been
raising and protecting these birds, and now
has 500 of them. They do their work ef-
fectively.
The visitors of the British museum gen
| eral collections last year numbered 767 ,4O2
persons. The reading room, print room,
map room and galleries of sculpture in
creased the number by 1876, 1867, making
| tcgether total of 963 $50. In addition to
! these, 27S,021 persous visited the natural
| history collections, making grand total
of 1,241, $40.
| The Philadelphia Press says, e1ultingly,
! that while properly deploring tie in5ig
nifcance of our shipping interest, we find
! a morsel of com fort III the tact that the
; American railroads are worth almost twice
, as much as Great Btitain'i railroads aud
; shipping combined. The British ship
ping is valued at $1,000 100000, British
,
! roads AT So 3)0,00G, ,002.
4! The late d.. ru4o lore e lsoI was, if no
the oldest, Que of the two or three Oldest
| Episcopal citrsy meu III america. He was
OF tue sa,ue age with the vene able presid-
ing btshop, BIS rop Smith, who has just
f; reached has nln6tIo5l Year. Bishop Potte
of New York, is only a few years his junior.
He founded St. Anne's Church, Lowell
about 1920, and was in that one parish &C
years.
Stephen Fl. Tying, Jr's, resignation OF
the Equitable Life Insurance Company's
agency at Paris, is said to have been due
TO the dissatisfaction of the company
which sent over Henry B. Hyde to advist
Mr.. Tying. The latter tried to order Hyde
out of his Office, but Hyde in turn demand,
ed his resignation. Tying demanded $2O,-
900 as the price of his resignation and Mr.
Hyde gave him his check for that sum.
Mr.. Beecher said to a reporter on Satur
day: Il am we'll. I don't know that therq
is an organ ailing in my body. In other
words, so far as l know, my brain is sound
my heart is sound, my stomach and diges
ton are sound, 1 am not weakened with
the old mans trouble of bladder or kid
| neys; l am as regular as clockwork anC
all right in every physical respect, but
weigh go pounds, as against $50, 20 year!
ago."
Mr.. Henri Burkhardt, of Vienna, has
brought from the colony of Victoria thirt,
kangaroos for the purpose of royal hunt
The Prater is the locality selected, anC
dogs and horsemen will be engaged in the
sport. Some of the kangaroos are of grea
height and proportionate strength, ant
will give the Austrian hounds that may bt
be courageous enough to tackle them con
siderable trouble. The hunt is to come of
i'll the course of a month.
Mrs. Catherine W Bcashear died il
Akron, Ohio, Sunday. When the war brok,
out DR.. Brashear, her husband, enlisted il
the Nineteenth Ohio regiment, and hi:
wife accompanied him and remained will
it during its ninety days of service. Th,
) regiment WAS reorganized, and DR.. Bra
shear became member of the Sixteenth
Ohio. Mrs. Brashear again went with hin
to the field, aud was with the regimen
during its three years Of service.
Herr VOllmar the champion OF the So
cial Democrats in the German Reichstag
is by birth, IS he was long by sym pathy,
full -bloo ed ar.stocrat. Going to Rome t.
offer his sword to the Pope, he fell sick
During his tedious convalescence he stLd
| led the Socialist theories which the Pop,
had mathematical, with a view to cOnfut
/. ing them. But instead they converted
him. lie had lain down upon his sick bee
| Il passionate monarchist, arissocrat, papist
he arose from it an equally passionate So
cial Democrat and free thinker.
An old medal was Plowed up ia Law
renee county, Ind, the other day, whiUI
, belonged to the hard cider era of 184(
when Gen. William Henry Harrison wa
elected President. 1t bears on one SIDE
representation of a log cabin, and barre
of cider placed under an adjoining tree
On the reverse are the inscriptions: 9Th
peoples choice, the hero of Tippacanoe-
Major Gen. W. H. Harrison, born February
8, 1772." It will be presented to the Hon