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

has been concluded.
In Switzerland $1,000 workmen are en-
gagged in the Matchmaking industry.
An insurance company to indemnify BIZ
cycle riders has been established in London.
A 10000 spindle cotton MILL to employ
500 hands, is about being completed in Sell
ma, Alabama.
The Dominion government has vetoed the
bill prohibiting Chinese emigration into
British Columbia
The Quebec Legislature contains but twelve
English speaking members out of the sixty
five who compose it,
The Massachusetts supreme court has de-
cided that the taxation of money invested in
real estate mortgages is Illegal.
In nineteen private galleries in New York
are pictures worth Sc, 100000. Vanderbilt's
is the most costly single collection.
Berry Ragwell, well known citizen of
Raleigh, n. c., now in his ninetieth year,
claims that he has 225 descendants.
1t is reported that a Chinese bank, with
capital of 800, 900, will shortly be opened at
Victoria, British Columbia, by Hong Kong
firm
An official dispatch received at Modivia,
from Cuba, reports that band of forty-two
insurgents who intended joining Aguero
were attacked by the troops and thirty-eight
killed
The raising of sugar beets in Denmark
proves now to be an undisputed success. In
late years many factories are established
chiefly by the monopolzing company Anal
gamated Danish Sugar factories.
According to a despatch received in Lon
don from Paris the belief in the existence of
a group of foreign anarchists including Ger
mans, connected with the dynamiters in Eng
land and Ireland, has been confirmed.
Mr.. Lewis Ishell, of Lexington, Kentucky
has something more than a patriotic interest
in most of our holidays. In the first place he
was born on Washington's birthday, and his
wife on Valentines day, while of his four
children one was born on the Fourth of July,
and the other on Christmas day
General Mlot, commanding the French
forces in Tonquin, telegraphs to Paris as fol-
lows: con the 9th inst. Hong-hoa was bonn
barded for six hours. The Chinese offered
no resistance, but evacuated after setting fire
to the town, which is now in flames. Part of
the Chinese fled to Phulang and part to
Donvang and Thanhoa.n
A Council Bluffs editor made arrange
ments to hear an Italian opera by telephone,
and was delighted with the evenings per-
Torrance. He was not 90 well pleased, how
ever, to read in a rival paper next morning
that the people in the telephone Office ''set up
a job' and entertained him with their own
local gymnastics and execution on mouth
organ.
The "interesting incidents'' accompany
ing the recent heavy winds are beginning to
come in A North Carolina man, whose
house was demolished, afterwards found his
watch hanging ON small limb of tree that
had blown down in the yard, the chain
wrapped several times around the limb. 1t
was ticking away as if nothing had hap
pened.
William Washington figures in the cen
cyclopedical Dictionary of the Spanish Ian
guage," recently published in Madrid, as
''the founder of the Republic of the United
States and the first president" Pennsyl-
vania, as the same volume declares, ''has a
population of one and a half millions, the
greater portion being Germans. German is
the prevailing language of the state.''
Dennis Hennelly, who shot Kate Mcdonald,
a nursemaid at No. 315 East Fifty-seventh
street, New York, on February "a, because
she declined to marry him, was committed
by Justice Murray yesterday to await the ac-
ton of the grand jury. His victim has suf-
ficiently recovered to leave the hospital, and
it is supposed that she is keeping out of the
way in order to avoid making complaint
against him.
The partisans of the redoubtable Rev az
DR.. John P. Newman, in the Madison Con-
gregational church, New York, attended in
large numbers the Sunday Easter service
The proceedings were interrupted by a fe-
male lunatic, who insisted that her soul was
on fire and that she had telegram for New
man direct from Heaven-she probably
meant from the other place. A young woman
was baptized who did not remove her fash
ionable Easter bonnet during the ceremony
The Peruvian government of General lyle
sias has been formally recognized by those of
Ecuador, Bolivia, Chill (of course), Hayti
Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, the Swiss
confederation, Denmark, Sweden, and by
the pope. Don Francisco Garcia Calderon
has been released by Chill from his obligatory
residence at Rancagua, near Santiago, and
although not allowed to return to his own
country, has the privilege of fixing his dwell
ing place in any portion of Chill that he may
select,
From 1876 to 1882 the population in Nor
way increased 104, 900. There were 100000
more births than deaths, but "a, 900 indiFid-
uals emigrated during that period. Up to
1880 the average increase was %, 200; but
in that year it only reached 5000, while it
is calculated that, in 1881, it will amount to
nothing and that the year of 1882 will show
a decrease of 1000. 1t is the first time since
1914 that the population of Norway has been
decreasing. This is caused by the increas-
ing emigration, almost entirely to the
United States, amounting, in 1880, to % 900
in 1881, to 26, 1000, and in 1882, to 2S, 900.
The panyrus collection recently purchased
by Archduke Reinier is now being examined
under the direction of Herr Karabaczeh at
the Vienna Museum. About 1,500 papyri
have been examined, and one-half of them
are in an excellent state of preservation.
Among them are two papyri dating from the
beginning of our era, and also fragment of
Thucydides, written about the end of the
third century after Christ, and therefore of
great value, as the oldest manuscripts of
| Thucydides are of the eleventh century.
There is also Latin papyrus of the fifth or
sixth century, fragments of Greek gospels of
the fourth century, and large number of