St. Paul daily globe., 1889-10-23
ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE.

Ten cents was the reward given a
POttstoWn. Pa. man who found stray
s., 900 team, and spent al hour In find
ing the owner.
The town council of MorgantoWn, Pa,
has passed an ordinance prohibiting
citizens from putting shingle roofs Oh
their residences.
In the recent autumn maReuvers In
Germany the fortifying of an intrenched
position with barbed wire fencing was
found to be very efficaciOuS.
A superStitiOus quarry boss at Potts
town. Pa, spent the whole night re-
volving wagon wheel. thinking the
operation would bring back the thief
that stole his powder.
A wealthy Nevada man bequeathed
his divorced wife one cent as a token
of the esteem in which he held her.
His will also states that the amount is
greatly in excess of the consideration
she deserved.
A breach of promise case. in which
the plaintiff was a man, has been de-
cided in his favor by a Sandhurst
who had refused to marry the plaintiff
was ordered to pay one shilling damages
and costs.
The Russian clergy have set up a
massive clock to commemorate the
Borki railway accident, in which the
car and his family narrowly escaped
death. The clock faces the scene of the
accident, and once year, at the exact
hour, a heavy silver bell tolls for five
minutes.
A submarine bridge is proposed be-
tween Elsinore and Helsingborg, to be
encased in double tube, having the
outer skin iron and the inner one steel.
the space between the shells to be
filed with cement. 1t is proposed to
Submerge the bridge sufficiently deep to
allow ships to pass over it.
During this year the shipments of
gold from this country have aggregated
about $40. 600. 900, and the gold in the
Bank Of France has increased SG3 3,000,-
900. The $4,000 Americans who at
tended the Paris exposition are credited
with effecting the greater part Of this
undesirable exchange.
The recent official return on the con-
dition of the London cemeteries is I'M
savory reading enough. In Brolnpton
cemetery, with an area of 2S34 acres,
there have been buried within less than
80 years 155,064 bodies, while in the
Tower Hamlets cemetery, with IL acres
less, in about the same time the number
is 247,000.
In 1876 we had but a couple of Gramme
machines and few lamps of a very
crude and unsatisfactory construction
and wonderfully low efficiency at the
Philadelphia centennial. There are
$500. 100000 to-day invested in the cleo
trio business, with over 339,017 arc and
2,7O4, 76S glow lamps, and the 100 rail-
ways, with nearly 500 miles of track and
1,090 motor cars in daily service.
MOntana's output of gold and silver
in 1888 was S24 4,6ls,OOO. That gave her
first place by S2O00.000. And when the
copper product was added her contribu-
ton to these three items of the wealth
of the country reached $40, 500 900. This
year, if the remaining two months sus-
tain the record of the past ten. the new |
state will show yield of $50,000,0 900 in |
gold. silver and copper.
The director of the mint has prepared |
statement of the gold and silver coin |
in the United States at present, which |
shows in round numbers $617. 900, 600 in |
gold coin, $40, 900 in silver dollars, |
and S76.000,000 in subsidiary silver coin, |
besides sS4 900, 900 of gold bullion held |
in the Golfers of the treasury as security |
for its equivalent in paper certificates. |
The gold dollars, though twice as great |
in number and value as the silver, can |
be piled in one-tenth the space re- |
Quired for the latter.