St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-20

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The assessable value of the city of
| London, which in 1910 was the respecta-
! bic sum of Esq, 539, is this year ga, 845,,
| 995.
1t costs an average student at Oxford
or Cambridge close on 9300 in fees,
| board, lodging and expenses before he
takes his B. A. degree.
Sir Walter Scott's novels yielde him
e150,000. The best price he ever res
ceiyed (e1S.00O) was paid for the "Lifs
of Napoleon"
The Kansas farmers have coined
new phrase. They call man who has
had piece of property sold by the shep
iff to satisfy mortgage "a whereas"
Passengers and freight are carried for
| one-third less on American railways
:han on those of England, although
American wages are double those of the
mother country.
A new government tax of mark on
all cats kept as house pets has been i'm
posed at Dresden. Thousands of the
animals have been destroyed by owners
DESTROYS of avoiding the ''cat tax"
The late Stephen ChriSty, the famous
halter. of Highield, Bramhall, Cheshire,
left by will 92S3, 900, besides valuable
property. He was the inventor of the
patent ventilator hats.
The proportion of insane to sane per-
sons in the United States is one in every
1862; in Scotland it is one in every 574;
in the agricultural districts of England
it is one in $40; in London the proper
ton is one in 400.
Four boys of Beardseye, Ind. found
an old coat near the railroad and began /
tossing it about and batting each other
with il. A bank note slipped from be-
meath one of the patches. The boys
ripped the coat TO pieces and it PANIED
out S1,7l1.
An English inventor has constructed
a novel device to do away with the
enormous pressure of water against the
bows of ocean steamers. 1t consists OF
one or more screws OH each side of the
bow, which throws the water aside and
creates dry we'll in front of the vessel,
Carl SchurZ has great, gaunt hands,
but they are very artistic in perform
ance and more delicate than the touch
of a woman when they wander over the
ivory keys of piano. There is probas
bly, no amateur pianist in the country
equally gifted with the German college
professor; who, after only few years
in this country, became member of
presidents cabinet.
The nationality of the nearly $500
vessels that use the Suez canal annually
is thus given: English, 2,6ll; German,
1874; French. 1853; Dutch, TAG; Italian,
1903; Austro-Hungarian "a; Norwegian.
49; Spanish, SO; Russian, %; Turkish,
%; Egyptian. s; American, 5; Japanese,
g.; Portuguese, l; Belgian l.; Chinese, *
Danish, 3.
Mark Twain's tobacco account must
be large one, for he consumes over
5000 cigars in a year. He is said 10
allow himself 300 cigars month; that
he cannot work we'll without continu-
Gus smoking, and that when at the age
of thirty-foUr he made a det&mined
effort and left off the habit for year
and a half, he realized that ga weedlesS
life would not be worth living"
The large organ for the Rev. Mr.. Tai
mage's new tabernacle at Brooklyn
contains four manuals of five Octaves
each. and pedal of 219 octaves, GO pipe
stops Cor 10 stops with pedals, couplers.
etc., including one 81 feet. IL of 10
Der of pipes is 4,44S. Among the more
novel effect are Chinese gong, Il chime
of bells. and three drums dong roll,
. base drum and drum check
Robert Packard and wife. OF New
Hartford, To-, are the father and mother
of twenty-nine living children. The
first of the offspring, man now forty
nine years of age, is married and lives
OH a farm adjoining his parents The
other tWenty-eIght are single and live
under one roof. There is only one girl
among the number. The first child was
born alone. The next five births were
trIpietS, and the remainder are sets Of
twins.
The recent improvements In phOt0g-
raphy and its use in astronomy has
proved most valuable to the study Of
that science. A dry plate can be ex-
posed for suitable length of time in
the telescope, and the image thus OBJ
tanned will contain the details of ne
bulae. even where the amount of light
would be imperceptible to the naked
eye, thus producing an image far more
useful and accurate than could ever be
obtained by a drawing.
Mrs. Baeyertz is the name of a He
brew lady evangelist who is conducting
a mission devoted to her faith in Tor.
onto.
Mrs. Elizabeth Faucher. who died in
Carrollton. Ark, last Sunday, at the
age of ninety-ive, claimed TO be lineal
descendant of that daring Revolutionary
soldier, Mad Anthony Wayne.
Charles Davenport, of Cambridge,
Mass, who is said to have built the first
railroad car in the United States, has
just started for tour of Europe. He is
over so years of age and "as sound as a
NUT
Johann Most can scarcely complain of
any interference with his freedom of
speech, for he is permitted to send out
from his cell to his fellow revolution
lists" in New York incendiary letters
that should bring him within prison
walls if he were not there already.
(udTIeS u. hODGTISOll, lIlb seaman
who saved many lives by throwing
Kissing Confederate shell overheard
from the gun-deck of the Hartford in
April, 1863, now lives in BaltomoTe.
For this act of bravery Admiral Far
ragut made special mention of him in
his report. and congress voted him
medal. The medal is the size of $50
gold piece. and Mr.. Robertson is proud
of it.
From inquiries which have been made
at Paris, it appears that last year there
were 1,O7I foreign students there, and
this is represented as fair average.
The Germans amounted to only 10,
while the AustrainS amounted to one
less. There were l54 British students =
and 29G Russians and Poles. The Bal
kan Peninsula sent the large contingent
of 315-Greeks, Turks, RoumanlanS.
Servians and Bulgarians being included
in this category. The schools of medi-
zinc oDd lou, rod Inv 70 ba