Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-22
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pool.
Ex-senator Thurman is spoken of for
the Democratic nomination for governor
of Ohio.
Cheap whisky made from potatoes is
said to be causing an alarming increase of
drunkenness in Switzerland.
Patti will never transact business on
Friday. She gives all the superstitions of
that unlucky day free course.
An accident policy agent issued policies
amounting to 100000 on a single wedding
party going from Denver to Chicago.
An Arkansas editor says that the stingi-
est man IN his town talks through his nose
to save the wear and tear on his false
teeth.
The Rev. ex-Mayor Kalloch of San
Francisco has settled down on a cattle
ranch at Santa Cruz. What a bIighted
life is his?
A young lady in New York has just re-
covered $4,000 in a breach of promise
case, and another in San Francisco has re-
covered $4,000.
A law has been passed in Kansas, pro-
hibiting all judicial officers from being
candidates for Office, during the continu-
ance of their iudgeships.
Senator Cullom, of Illinois, is a Metho-
dist. He was burnt in efigy by the Nor
mons in 1868 for his attempt to secure the
abolition of Mormonism.
Since the reduction of letter postage to
two cents, there is a very general and
proper demand that the postage on city
letters be reduced to one cent.
The crown gets $4,000 which was dis
covered in the howell of an old blacksmith
found dead in his bed, just outside Of the
village of Well, Yorkshire, England.
An image of the human head has been
found los feet below the surface, in a coal
mine in Dallas county, Iowa. 1t is re-
garded as the work of a prehistoric man.
The Louisiana supreme court has decid-
ed that hotels are responsible for valuables
stolen from guests, and thai warning no
tees do not relieve them of the response
bility.
Mrs. Mary Car, grandmother of Mrs.
Col. Fred. Grant, and of Mrs. Potter Pal
mer, of Chicago, died recently at her
residence in Louisville, KY, aged eighty
years.
1t is alleged that high living and wine
bibbing have seriously injured the health
of President Arthur. A bibulous glutton
in the executive chair of the nation is a
sorry spectacle.
The government of India causes a sani-
tary primer to be used in the schools. One
hundred thousand copies of the publica-
ton have been circulated in fourteen diff
ferent vernaculars.
The forty-seventh congress is called the
rich mans congress, 30 flush was it scat
tering money drawn from Uncle Sans
pocket, and in addition, SO many of its
members having fortunes running up into
the millions.
The serious charge is made against GER
tain Chicago doctors that they nave been
detected in sharing with druggists the
profits of prescriptions, and of using a
cipher to inform the druggists wnen to
make e1orbitant charges.
A queer and an easy method of shoe
making is practiced by the jewellers on
the Island of st. Helena. 1t consists of
wrapping around the feet the soft, warm
skin of the pot-fsh. which, in drying, re-
tains the shape of the foot.
! Maine alone made and sold 9O,OOO,O 200
sticks of gum last year, and at least seven
eighths of it was chewed by women. The
Detroit Free Press says that a cotton rag
with a little peppermint essence on it
tastes better, lasts longer and is far cheap
er.
Oyster parks are rapidly increasing in
France. There are now over 10000 of
them, with an average size of half an acre.
Oysters sell at 5 or 6 cents a dozen, and
retail in Paris or Lyons at % to 10 cents,
thus leaving a handsome margin for
profit.
And now the reported desperate illness
of Samuel J.TiIden is denied. An inquiry
at Yonkers, N. Y, elected the statement
that he is in perfect health, and that any
rumors to the contrary are false. Why
not give the old gentleman a rest if he is
worth $1O,OOO,OOO.
a Cleveland young man came to grief
when he attempted a Irritation in a street
car with the wife of a fireman. The
woman was accompanied by her husband,
who noticed the impudent attempt and
resented the insult by thrashing the heart
crusher then and there.
The latest mineral discovery in Cali
fornia is a soap mine. The soap" is a
deposit of white fuller's earth, free from
grit, and i~mpregnated with potash. It is
easily sliced into bars, and for cleaning
purposes is said to be a good substitute
for manufactured soap.
After having been pronounced dead, an
old man of Louisiana, Mo-, arose, dressed
himself, ate a hearty meal, conversed
cheerfully, and shortly thereafter returned
to bed. In q few minutes he was again
pronounced dead, and this time the pro-
nunciation was correct.
Gen. Bob Toombs, of Georgia, who dis
inherited a granddaughter because she mar
ried a man of her own choice and not his,
has relented, and now accepts the situa-
ton. The reconciliation was made at the
funeral of the granddaughter father, Gen.