St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-01
ALL AROUND.

Brooklyn has 8O,0j6 school children.
There ale 10000 women in the English
liberal association.
A well-known lawyer Of San Diego, CAL,
while in a BARRIERS chair urned suddenly TO
speak to a friend, and piece of his nose was
sliced Off.
Ohio's new vinegar law, prohibiting the
sale of an imitation of the real article. dis
closed the fact that nine-tenths of the stuff
on the market was bogus.
Sloyd is the new word which looks like
slang, but is not. Sloydites, according to the
Toronto Globe, are persons interested in in
Producing manual training into the public
schools.
Tramps confined in the Jail at Creston, To-,
pounded hole through the walls of the cell
into an adjoining cell, and drank nearly all
of a case and half of condemned beer
which had been placed there for safe keep
ing.
The practice Of concentrating the ami
yersary of deaths by an advertisement in the
newspapers is growing very fashionable in
England. A notice appeared in Liverpool
paper the other day reminding the world of
the death of fonr-month- old child who be.
came an angel thirty-six years ago. This
seems like carrying things to extremes.
piano-tuner who says that pianos fire.
quenlly deteriorate because they are allowed
to become too dry. prescribes this remedy:
Keep growing plant in the room. and so
long as your plant thrives your piano ought
to, or else there is something WRONG with it.
Just try it, and see how much more water
you will have to put in the flower-pot in the
room where your piano is than in any other
room Some people keep hugh vase or
urn, with a sopping-wet sponge in ii, near or
under the piano, and keep it moistened just
as cigar dealer keeps his stock. They keep
this up all the time the fires are on
A Methodist church in New Haven is hay-
ing a good deal of trouble with a too en-
thusiastic member. For years he has been in
the habit of getting up in the service and
yelling like Salvation Army shouter,. only
louder Every effort has been made to in
duee him to stop, but in vain, as he says
that he is special apostle of the Almighty.
But as his outbreaks have seriously dinlin-
ished the attendance of the church, the pas
tor has at last decided that either he or the
church must shut up.
The new notes which the Bank of France
is about to Issue will be in two colors-blue
and pink-and so blended as to produce
general tint approaching violet. 1t is believed
that these notes are inimitable, except at an
expenditure of time and money that would
effectually check enterprise in that direction.
The new fifty and hundred franc notes are
now being printed, ana those of five hundred
and thousand francs will soon leave the
engraver's hands The new notes have been
produced in twentieth part of the time
spent on those now to be generally with
drawn from circulation. M. Barre was three
years engaged upon the model of the present
thousand franc note. and that of the hun
dred-franc note was five years in the artists
hands.
A Boston poet and novelist tells this story:
connected with Western college isastrong
Republican, whose wife is strong Democrat.
On tbs eve of election day the lady was sit.
ing along. thinking of the political situation,
when the old method of diyination by the
Bible came into her mind. Taking the FAM
ily Bible, she closed her eyes and opened the
book, placing her finger atrandom upon the
page When she opened her eyes she saw
that her fingers rested ION the twenty seventh
verse OF the forty-ninth chapter of Genesis:
benjamin shall rayin as wolf; in the