St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-28
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The breaking of leyee near Stockton,
California, destroyed $4,000 acres of wheat
The Canadian Parliament is investigating
case of attempted bribery Of members.
The Swiss Federal Council have decided to
extradite anarchists whenever called upon
A new pool on Central Iowa business, to
run two years has been formed in Chicago
of the commune were marked with violent
revolutionary speeches.
By the new fast mail service Portland
Oregon, will receive Eastern mails % hours
earlier than formerly.
The brig Screamer with her load of Cuban
cutter Dexter.
Andrew Peterson, ex-delegate to congress,
is on trial at Salt Lake under the Edmunds
! anti-polygamy law.
The British government has ordered, the
detention of Chinese vessel found in the
Tyne loading with Armstrong guns.
The New York legislature has passed bill
requiring cities of 20, 600 inhabitants to adopt
the civil service rules and system of examin-
atoms.
Mac Fadden the man implicated with Til
Ter in the express robbery, at st. Louis has
attempted suicide by swallowing broken
glass. He will probably die.
Gen. John B. Gordon has invited ex-
| confederates to New York to conference
with view of establishing home for dis
abled confederate soldiers.
In order to ferret out the dynamite
schemes 80 special detectives have been ap-
pointed in London. The list includes men
of II nationalities.
Harper 81 Brothers have brought action
against the proprietors of a Swedish paper in
Chicago for publishing translation of ''The
Breadwinners" in their paper.
Secretary Chandler has submitted to the
senate committee a long list of appropria-
tons which he declares increased beyond
the amount allowed by the House.
There are eleven states in which women
vote for school directors. Kentucky is one
of the eleven.
The public clocks Of Bangor, Me-, were
few days ago changed from standard to 10
cal, or Goods time" in accordance with
the expression of the citizens at the recent
election. Four hundred and six voted for
standard and 1890 for local time
1t is stated that while it costs the elevated
railway companies in New York $50, 600 per
mile annually to maintain their roads where
the track is straight, the expense on curves
is 100000 per mile. The new routes now
being made will be SO laid out over the pri-
vate property as to avoid curves.
Alice Stone Blackwell, now in Boston, ad
mits that men mean well enough by women
and make such laws as they consider for
their good, but she wants to know who'gave
men the sole right to decide what is good for
wOmena She concludes that if women had
absolute legal power over men, however
well they might treat them, the men would
rebel.
Whales were eaten by persons of the up
per classes in Europe as late at least as the
latter part of the thirteenth century. The
tail and tongue dressed with peas or roasted
were priced as choice delicacies. The prin-
cess Eleanor de Monfort paid in 1866 the
sum of twenty-four shillings for 400 pieces
| of whale'' to be used as food in her house
hold.
Hugo Schenck, the Viennese wholesale
murderer of servant girls, relates his mon
strous.crimes with well modulated voice, in
| neat phrases, and with constant SMILE
One of his intended victims testified in his
defense and then staggered to the dock to
kiss his hand. He seeks to catch the eyes
of the many ladies in the court, believing
himself irresistible, and complains that he is
not allowed to write his memoirs in prison
for the purpose of enabling his wife to pay
his debts.
| A rat tanner says: ssTake the most fero-
cious rat, throw it into a pail of water, and
leave it there until it becomes exhausted and
| is about to drown. Then take it out, roll it
in wadding, and put it in warm place.
deepest gratitude. 1t will lick your hands
and follow you about the house like dog,
and can be taught a number of tricks"
Lord Morpeth used totell of Scotch friend
of his who, to the remark that some people
could not feel jest unless it was fired at
them with cannon, replied, "Weel, but hoo
can ye fire jest out of cannon, mona"
A lady once put conundrum to her rheu-
matte old nurse asking her, "Why are you
like a church window, Sally?" and gave the
answer, "Because you are full of pains"
Whereupon the old woman pityingly replied,
! "Oh, dear! somebody's been a foolin' of We,
honey. Them's anuder sort o. panes
| They,s been foolin' We child"
The Rev. R. E. Lee Camp No. 1, Confed-
crate Veterans at Richmond, Va, hold fair
in that city at the armory on the 1st of May.
They have appealed for help, "to their COM
rade veterans of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, who haye responded with a noble will
lingness and fraterna sentiment wor-
thy Of their heroic record"
''Stll it is large and the need
for further aid is urgent They therefore ap-
| peal ''to the banks and bankers, capitalists,
insurance and other corporations, manufac-
terers and merchants for such contributions
in cash or merchandise as can be easily
spared"
Mr.. Labouchere of the London Truth, says
Of cremation: price, the Welsh Druid, has
just experienced very striking proof of the
shifting character of the popularis aura. He
cremated his child, as it appears he had a
perfect right to do, and was very nearly
| lynched by an Infatuated and idiotic mob
| When, however, he was tried for the offense
OF the Cardiff Assizes, he was promptly &C
quilted, and on leaving the court, was ire
mendously cheered by large crowd. What
objection can be made to cremation is more
than 1 or should hope that any sensible per-
son. can comprehend. lam very glad that
this prosecution has failed, and hope that
before long the man who cremates corpse