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Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1231, 13 February 1878, Page 3

M .Jules Verne contributes a biography of Christoph r Columbus to a n w weekly illustrated napcr entitled "The Journal of Travels/' The "New York World" states that Queen Victoria and the Princess Beatrice have been making lint at Balmoral for the wounded of the Eastern war, and the occupation has, in fashionable circles, driven out fancy work. " Women graduates." says a Philadelphia paper, "aie knocking at the doors of the Massachusetts Medical Society." Bully for the Maschjsus wimm, Out in this countiy it is the | oor husband who has to up an dusl at midnignt's holy hour and pound bedlam out of the doctor's door with a brick, after he has pulled the bell knob out by the roots. A lady teacher in a neighboring village submits the following '"excuse" recently written by a mother who rather prides herself on associating only witi "intellectable" people :—" Miss please Excuse minnie for She was helping me She is a grate help 10 me thou Small she may be I w- uld mi-s hur if the lord shuld Call hur at any time & oblue Mrs B ." As to Cleopatra's Needle. Don't spend your money for an Egyptian obelisk to give to your girl for a Christmas present. Cleopatra's needles will be much cheaper a year hence. It is icported-and no doubt truthfully—thatseveral en erprising Yankees are about sailing for the land of the Khedive to manufactme six-thousand-year old obelisks covered with hieroglyphics as natural as life and twice as difficult to decipher. " Get the cheapest and best.." It is estimated that in Russia there are 16,160 000 horses; in Germany, 3,352,231; Great Britain, 2,790,850; France, 2,742,738; Austria Hungary, 3,569,434 (of which 2.179,811 belong to Hungary) ; Italy, 657,544; Norway and 5weden,656,456; Spain,3B2,ooo; Denmark, 216 570; Belgium, 282,163; Holland, 260,056; Switzerland, 100,934; Greece, 98,938 ; Portugal, 79,716 (Turkey omitted); making a total in the countries above mentioned of 31,350,640. In the United States the estimated number of horses is 9,504,200. In the mule census Spain takes precedence of every other country in Europe, the number being estimated at 6,665,472. It is evident, however, the donkey population is included m this number. The largest plough ever manufactured in this city is now being made at the shops of Matteson and Williamson, to the order of H. Harnhart. The plough is designed for work in the tules, and is a formidable-looking implement. It will cut a furrow 38in. wide. The mould board is Bft. long from the point to the end, sweeping upward with a curve of about 4ft. radius. At the end it stands 2ft. above the ground. The land side is 7ft. long. At the rear a horizontal cutting-plate is arranged to cut under the soil on the land side a distance of lOin. The furrow will be cut as shallow as possible, not exceeding 3in. or 4in. The plough will be attached to a sulky, and will require a team of twelve stout animals to pull it. Mr Harnhart's theory in regard to tule-ploughing is that the furrows should be as wide as possible, and it would be better if the whole sod could be turned over without making a furrow. It is with this end in view that he has ordered the mammoth plough. "Stockton Independent "(California).