St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-11

women, and there is but one who car
rieS "MrS." before her name. The same
rule holds good with the house, ma
jority of the clerks being ladies.
John Mclaughlin, of Crescent City,
was walking along the bush few days
ago when he picked up piece Of quartz
at the roots of small tree. 1t was so
rich with gold that he took it home and
extracted So.
DAT a recent great ball at the Russian
court all the ladies appeared in white.
without any other ornament than dia-
monds, pearls and their own beauty.
The empress herself was present and
danced in nearly every dance.
Prince Albert of Monaco is said to in
tend to devote the $3.50, 900 per year that
he gets from the gamblers to the COM
pletion Of the cathedral and other pub
lie improvements. He is very wealthy
himself and has an enormously rich
wife.
A widow in New York has, it is said,
brought a suit for damages against a
we'll known neurologist for taking her
husbands brain, and also for violating
an alleged contract to give her 1000
for using her husband as medical OBJ
ject lesson.
The Watsessing On. J.) Woman's
Christian Temperance union has de-
cided to boycott all grocers and butch
erS who sell cider. The question of
making mince pies without cider was
also discussed. Many of the members
said they could not make good pies I'M
less they used cider, but this was con-
tradicted by the conservative members
of the body. The final action of the
union is regarded with great anxiety by
all lovers of old-fashioned mince pies.
The application of cayeat to stop
marriage is something new. 1t is stated
that member of the Maryland legisla-
ture had contracted marriage with
lady, and journeyed to the county seat
to procure license, when he made the
painful discovery that his rival had
filed caveat against the issue, and be-
fore he can get it the case will have to
postponed, but the old man is fighter,
and won't give up easily.
The most comical miShap that ever
befell fire engine occurred recently at
Toledo. The noise of an approaching
fire apparatus startled a siXty-five-year-
old eountryman and his wife as they
were making their way along the side
walk. To crap his wife's green um-
brella and rush into the middle of the
street directly in the path of the
oncoming steedS was the work
of a moment for the excited farmer.
His gyrations and shouting brought the
horse to sudden stop. The fire laddies
drove off swearing, but the crowd
cheered the old fellow as he returned to
the sidewalk muttering: "Tarnation
fools! let 'em run away if they want to.
I'll never risk my life to save their
necks again."
Jupiter, Fla, can boast of the most
intelligent mule on record. The animal
is twenty-one years old. Every night
he proceeds to the life-saying station.
1t is customary for the man on watch to
discharge his coston signal "a red
light when vessels come too
near the beach. The mule has
''caught on'' to what this signal
means. So every night at o'clock the
sailors four-legged friend proceeds to
walk the beach, and if vessel comes
too near the shore the mule, instead of
coston signal. sends forth neigh
that makes night hideous. Port or
Starboard your helm" is the order on
the ship, and away sail the jolly tars in
perfect safety and with grateful heart
to the fOur-legged patrOlman.