Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-01
BITS OF IMPORTATION.

HE Farsialls we're the first to bear
the eagle IS a standard.
Henry III. was tho first English
King who wore spurs with rowels.
TEa first altar mentioned in Scripture
was erected by Noah after the food.
ARcHIMEDEs invented q screw for IA
cilitating ir1igation in Egypt, B. G. $50.
The fashion of wearing artificial
flowers for personal adornment was in
troduced by the the wife of Edwar3 ILL.,
OF England.
VIOLIN strings are the twisted mus
cular coat OF the intestines Of cattle and
sheep. They are largely imported from
Lyons and Italy.
In Japan, in honor of q deity having
the head of a dog, the different streets OF
each town contribute to the maintenance
of certain number of dogs; they have
their lodgings, and persons are specially
appointed to take care of them when
sick.
ACCORDING to several writer's, Charles
V. ordered rehearsal Of his obsequies.
His domestics marched with black
tapers. Charles, folded in his shroud,
was laid in his coffin, and the service for
the dead was chanted The farce was
followed in few days by the real
tragedy.
ACCORDING to German economist,
the income OF the world is SIS, $40, 000,-
600; debt, $40, 1926, coo, 900; taxes, g.
OO2, 900, 900; capital, 1886, 612, 900, 600.
Sweden has the smallestdebt, or $50, co.,
600; France the largest, or 50, 40, 000,-
00). The United States has the largest
income, and England the most capital.
Italy is the heaviest taxed, paying 35
per cent Of its income for taxes to the
average IS per cent. OF o.her nations.
A WORK on Americanisms says that
the name Judge Lynch was derived from
man named Lynch who lived in what
is now Piedmont district of Virginia,
at the time when the district was the
western frontier Of the State, and when,
on account OF the distance from the
courts Of law, it was customary to refer
the adjustment OF disputes to men of
known character and Judgment in the
neighborhood. This man became prom
inent for the wisdom and impartiality
of his decisions and was soon known
throughout the country as Judge Lynch.
TIE expression, 1.-THE last ditch, "
which was heard during the late war,
originated with the Prince of Orange, in
the seventeenth century. In that year,
Charles IL, King of England, entered
into secret treaty with Louis XIV. of
France, in which he agreed not only to
cooperate with the French King in the
reduction Of the Low Countries and the
destruction of Holland, but to aim at
the establishment of the Roman Catholic
religion in England, and was publicly to
declare himself convert to that reli-
gion. After a short career of invasion,
in which they had scattered consterna-
ton everywhere, and were meditating a
speedy and universal conquest, William,
Prince of Orange, succeeded in arousing
the Dutch to resistance. Finding this
new esprit " in the Dutch, the confed-
crate Kings at once strove to corrupt the
Prince of Orange. But all their pro-
posals were Indignantly rejected. And
when asked III naughty tone if ne did
not see that his country was already
ruined, he firmly replied: "There is
one way by which can be certain never
to see the ruin of my country, and that
is to die in disputing the last ditch"