St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-23
ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE.

Ten cents was the reward given a
POttstoWn. Pa. man who found stray
IS, 900 team, and spent an 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 maneuyers 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-
volying 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 man, has been de-.
cided in his favor by Sandhurst
(Australia) jury. The fair defendant
who had refused to marry the plaintiff
was ordered to pay one shilling damages
and costs.
nc huSoidH GlcISy nave oct up
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, aud once year, at the exact
hour, heavy silver bell tolls for five
minutes.
A submarine bridge is proposed be-
tween Elsinore and Helsingborg, to be
eneased 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 S70,000.000, and the gold in the
Bank of France has increased s63,000,-
900. The $4,000 Americans who at
tended the Paris exposition are credited
with etfecting the greater part Of this
undesirable exchange.
The recent official return on the con-
dition of the London cemeteries is UNI
savory reading enough. In Bro1npton
cemetery, with an area of 2Ssl acres,
there have been buried within less than
50 years 155,064 bodies, while in the
Tower Hamlets cemetery, with IL acres
less, in about the same time the number
is 1000.
In 1876 we had but q couple of Gramme
machines and a few lamps of very
crude and unsatisfactory construction
and wonderfully low efficiency at the
Philadelphia centennial. There are
5000, 100000 to-day invested in the cleo
trio business, with over 539,017 arc and
2,704, 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 1914 900. That gave her
first place by s2,000.0O0. And when the
copper product was added her contribu-
ton to these three items of the wealth
of the country reached $40, SOC, 900. This
year, If the remaining two months sus-
tain the record of the past ten, the new |
state will show yield of $50, 00O,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. 200, 600 in |
gold coin, $340. 900, 900 in silver dollars, |
and $4,000, 900 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.