St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-10
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.
Cardinal Manning is eighty-tliree.
There are ] .1OO. coo people in Iberia

There are 100000 people in Liberia.
Chicago will erect Hugo monument.
General Dix is to have monument
for saying, IF any man attempts to
haul down the American flag shoot him
on the spot"
The limited mail on the Pennsylvania
line between Columbus, o., and Indian
apolis is said to be the fastest railroad
train in America.
The Scottish Mission to the Jews can
boast of having last year converted six
Jews into Presbyterians at the easy
rate of about 9975 each.
An experienced caterer says that
where the guests at gathering are well
acquainted they eat at least 20 per cent
more than they otherwise wonld.
In The animal market at Hamburg, in
Germany, giraffeS sell at $1,000 pair;
chimpanzees go at $500 apiece, and Sc
lect lots of Sumatra monkeys at 81 900.
Montana is larger than the empire OF
Turkey. Texas is larger than the whole
Austrian empire by $4,000 square miles,
and New Mexico is larger than Great
Britain and Ireland together
The great seal of the United States
affixed to nothing but treaties, procla
nations, commissions, pardonS and
passports. The government has had
hut two seals in the 100 years since its
foundation.
The Oldest eX-Senat0rs of the United
States now living are James w. Brad
bury, of Maine, and AlpheuS Fetch, of
Michigan. who entered the senate in
December, 1h47. Hannibal Hamlin took
his seat in the senate i'll June, 1S4S.
NJ. de Lesseps is a very sick and fee
bic old man, and his physicians are
doubtful if he has the vitality needed to
enable him to pull through. He is
eighty-seYen years old.
Earl Spencer is the most Sanguine
man in England. He not only says that
home rule is not dead. but he insists
upon it that it is ready to kick anybody
who might try to undertake it.
Miss KlutfkuffSkya is before a court
in Brooklyn on the charge of alternating
the affections of another girls affianced.
The changing of name like that should
be some sort of eXtenuatiOn.
Gladstone is fond of having Longfel-
low read to him, but he doesn't let the
ringing rhythm of the poets song close
his ears to anything that Lord Salisbury
may be jingling over on the cushioned
benches of the peers refuge.
The Hon. Thomas S. Bocock, who is
reported critically i'll at his home in APP
pOmattoX county, Virginia, is seventy
six years of age. He was representa-
tive in Congress from 1917 to 1861. and
during the war was member OF the
Confederate congress.
Mrs. Leland Stanford's truSt-deed,
giving $4,000 to endow five kindergar-
tens in San Francisco, has just been
filed. AS the income will be five per
cent, each school will get $1,000 a year
These schools are said to have already
had an appreciable effect in reducing
the number of "hoodlums'' who infest
the streets of San Francisco, and in bet
tering the condition of the tenement
house districts.
Mademba. king Of Segon, Africa, who
was elevated to his present position by
Col. Archinard, was formerly in the
French telegraph services in Africa.
Mademba is native of the country,
but was formerly controller of tele-
graphs at Senegal. Before accepting
his regal state he made it condition
that his name should continue to be in
scribed on the list of telegraph serYitorS,
and that his situation of king should be
considered as subSeryient to that OF his
original employment.