St. Paul daily globe., 1891-02-08
CURIOUS CULLINGS.

A sCaIskin coat or robe has been
''built" and lined with salite for the
duchess of Portland aG a cost of 1000
guineaS.
Charley johnson. of Amber township,
Mason county, Mich, is only sixteen
years old and yet he weighs 80 pounds.
London affords for the use of its
100000 of inhabitants nineteen free
public and twenty-five commercial bath
ing establishments.
Thousands of barrels of apples are
packed away in cellars and warerooms
in AtchiSon, and great many are be-
ing shipped daily to other points.
Mississippi has girls industrial col
lege. Columbus, Ga, has lald the cor
ner stone of building to be devoted to
the same purpose, and now Alabama IS
agitating the subject.
The British authorities have been adj
vised of renewed activity in the ranks
of the dynamite party in America,
which is said to be actively preparing to
resume operations.
The frosty weather has been telling
heavily on the accident assurance COM
panieS. One company i'll London is
said to have had 226 claims for broken
legs within seven days.
A carnival has been in progress at
Augusta. Ca. during the week, during
which industrial scenes have been de-
picted. Thousands of strangers have
been attracted to the city.
Terrific snow storms have prevailed
recently throughout the southeastern
portions of Russia, and whole villages
and numbers of isolated houses have
been almost buried in snow,
The season thus far has been very
favorable for transportation by the
lakes. and an unusually large amount
of freight is being carried by the boats
between Milwaukee and Grand Haven.
A ton of cOntrabrand opium is stored
in the custom house at Port Townsend.
Wash. 1t was seized from SmugglerS
who operated between that place and
Victoria, b. {. Its market value is
5000.
An English bacteriologist. who is
notable as the diScoverer of taXalbu-
mems and who is now studying the
Koch method at the hygienlc institute,
Berlin, announces that he has discOv-
cred a remedy for anthrax.
Two hundred thousand dollars year
are spent by the London school board
| in enforcing the attendance of children.
| IuCf S.iO duNioOu W lII biiO
plan of getting children to school by
| good lunches.
The San Diego Cali Sun tells of a
monster black bass taken with hook
and line recently near that port. 1t
weighed 31S pounds and the catcher
was forty-two minutes in getting the
fish alongside the steamer.
Shorthand impairS the intellect by
superinducing, in some occult way, q
sort of atrOphy of the memory. Con-
sequentiy shorthand has never been
Systematically cultivated by American
newspaper reporters.
New York is ahead of all the other
cities, if individual riches running up
into seven or more figures is meant. 1t
is said that New York has over 1000
millionaires, while London has 600, Ber-
lin 200 and Vienna 100.
A printer put penny in the slot of a
machine which was intended to prove a
mans striking power. He then punched
the pad which was presented to receive
the blow, but the spring didn't work,
his wrist was broken and the jury gave
him $50.
A sensation has been caused in the
German foreign Office by a suit brought
by broker named Jacobsohn against
barrister named NeuerU for 1000 marks
commission for securing Neuern pO-
sition in the service. Neuern has been
dismissed on account of the scandal.