St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-27

The loss by the recent fire at Rangoon was
Sc, 900, 900.
Hampton, Va, boasts Of the Oldest church
in the country, st. Johns, which was built
in 1874.
Presidents Porter of Yale, Eliot of Harvard,
and McCoSh of Princeton are in favor OF
compulsory education.
A Maine girl, who is a graduate of Vassar
College, has built aporch and reshingled heI
fathers house just Tor the fun of it.
The question has been asked, "How long
does woman remain bride?" In Chicago
the answer is, "Till she gets divorce"
Oberlin (Ohio) college has lately received
two requests, one of IS, 900 from Hartford,
Conn, and the other of $4,000 from the
late j. F. Clark, of Cleveland, Ohio.
In Chicago there are 3,777 saloons, or one
to every 80 families; 313 bakeries, or one tc
470 families; ZIG butchers or one to every
POI families and 1903 grocers, or one to ev-
cry 81 families.
A negro woman at Helena, Arkansas, be-
came excited and commenced shouting,
continuing without intermission. Efforts
were made to quiet without avail, and she
died In few minutes.
The graded license plan in Chicago is
hardly working the desired result, If reports
are true, which still up to the present date
out of $50 saloon licenses SIG are for wine
and whisky and but 70 for beer alone.
Richard A. Proctor calls attention to the
fact, that the late professor Draper succeeded
in producing Photographic plates showing
stars that cannot be seen through the tele
scope by which these photographs were taken
Dispatches from Quebec and Montreal rep
resent that the emigration of Canadians tc
the States is ''becoming alarming" Nearly
one hundred leave daily and the majority are
men with families. We fail to see anything
s'alarming'' in this. The Canadians make
good citizens and they are welcome to the
States.
The Canadian Government has shown It's
good sense by vetoing measure recently
passed by the British Columbia Legislature
prohibiting Chinese immigration. On the
announcement of this action by the Domin-
ion Parliament the Premier of Columbia
telegraphed to his provincial secretary to al
low the five hundred Chinese who had been
kept on board their ship at Victoria to land
This country makes one-ffth of the iron
and one-fourth of the steel in the world, and
one half of the gold and one-half the silver
of thetworld's supply. Taking all the min
ing industries of the world the United States
represent SO; Great Britain, 33, and all
other nations 81 percent of the total. Anglo
Saxondom therefore, represents SO per cent
of the mining industry of the earth.
Cat breeding is being taken up actively in
England, not only for the comfortable cloak
lining its fnr affords, but as an article Of
food, the fecundity, quick growth, and really
palatable properties of our familiar hearth
rug friend pointing out a staple resource.
The remembrance of this and the present
activity in the cat market are suggestive. Il
has long been suspected that among the mil
lions of rabbits imported from Ostend, few
straw ones have known in their time how tt
make night hideous.
Mr. W. c. Cochran, the postmaster a
! Huntsville, Paulding county, Ca, has gen
uine maidstone. It was taken from the NAV
of an old doe in Dawson county, about for
ty-fye or fifty years ago, by Mr.. Cochran
grandfather, and carefully kept by him dur
ing his life. After his grandfather's death
Mr.. Cochran came in possession of it. TIL,
stone is oval in shape, aud nearly the size o
a small guinea egg.
The excitement among the miners at Pc
cahontas, Pa, over the failure to recover TIN
bodies of the victims from the burning min
continues. Superintendent Lathrop think
the mine, which has been sealed, may b.
opened on Tuesday. The women are not 81
easily quoted as the men, and, yesterda,