St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-15
CURRENT CURIOSITIES.

Two conyicts have died in the Con.
cord, Mass, reformatOry from drinking
alcoholine, a preparation used in tho
shoe shop.
Betting OH the rainfall has been car
Tied to such an extent in India that the
Bombay government has passed an act
forbidding 1t.
1t is said that in Paris twice as many
crimes are committed by persons be-
tween the ages of fifteen and twenty az
by those between twenty and forty.
High play in country houses" has
become a subject of discussion in Eng
land, though the houses where high
stakes are the rule are said TO be very
few.
Henry Kramer, lineman, recently
received an electric shock at Louisville,
KY, and has become hopelesSly insane,
believing he is pursued by an electric
ghost.
An attempt is being made in London
to form huge ring for the control of
the calico printing business. Many of
the largest houses are already pledged
to the syndicate.
The greater quantity of hair from
which wigs are made for England's
judges, lawyers and clergymen comes
from China, where it is cut from the
heads of beggarS, criminals and tho
dead.
An Old colonial statute was recently
unearthed at Atlanta, Ga. which re-
quireS every minister to "read from his
pulpit at least four times year, the
public laws, so that the public may un-
derstand them"
1t is fact not generally known that
Missouri furnishes better cavalry horses
than any other state i'll the Union the
Missouri horse is sturdy and short
backed, and Is now much in demand by
cavalry officers.
a Boston wigmaker says that The bulk
of the hair used in this country for wigs
and switches is imported from France
and Germany. This hair is less brittle
and lasts longer than the hair of New
England women.
An indianapolis church member who
subscribed to a church building fund
attempted to wriggle out of it by claim
ing that the contract was Illegal as it
was made on Sunday, but the court has
decided that he must pay up.
A wise provision for escape from fire
is obligatory in all Russian hotels.
Every corridor must have a staircase at
each end, and, if of extra length, sew
eral others at stated intervals, or else
iron ladders must be placed outside the
house.
A flock Of twenty-one fine geese be-
longing to Asher WertS, Of CrawfOrdS-
vile, Ind, spent last Thursday night on
his fish pond. 1t frOZe during the night,
and next morning the birds were found
fast in the ice, every one of them dead.
The spot in Rome where Nero COM
mitted suicide is said to have been dis
covered. 1t is Oh the PincIan hill, and
was identified by the discovery of "a
stone with an inscription fixing the To-
cation of the villa where it is known
the deed was done.
Jumping claims in Idaho is danger,
Gus business. A man at Wallace,
named Harris found three men putting
up a cabin on a lot owned by him.
They refused to leave. WhGreupOn he
got his gun, Shot two of them dead and
dangerously wounded the third.
1t has been calculated that the elec-
tro-mOtiye force of a bolt of lightning is
! about 3,500.000 volts, the current about.
| 100000 amperes and the time to be
one-tWenty thOusandth part of a sec
| Ond. In such bolt there is an energy
| OF 2,450, 900 watts, or 3,3S4, lS2 II. p.
1t is authoritatiyely stated that theI
electrical underground railway in Lon
don has proved that speed of twenty
| four miles an hour is practicable. Therei
are bills before the house of commons
from many otner British cities for rapid
transit railways on the same plan.