Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-04
GLOBELETs.

GLOBELETs.
There is drought and famine in several
districts in Morocco.
On June Esd, all the troops in Paris will be
reviewed by President MacMahon.
The Shah of Persia will sport his paste dia-
monds and play his dirty tricks in Paris before
long.
The Russo-Turkish war lasted just 313 days.
from the declaration of war to the signing of
the peace treaty.
DR.. Helmbold has gone mad again. This timo
it is whisky craze and he is expected to be
all right in few days.
Gen. Ign atieff's wife is talented and hand
some. She aids the Russian diplomat greatly
in putting up his little jobs.
The present Earl of Leitrim has offered a re-
ward of s1Oo00 for information which vii!
lead to the arrest of the men who killed his
uncle.
Young man, when you put out the light and
begin to tell her that she is the only one you
ever loved. be sure that you are not talking in
to a phongraph.
Republican Congressman requested to
step up to the captains Office of the Congress
sional committee and contribute $50 each for
campaign expenses.
The Columbus, Ga, Sun says that Senator
Gordon is a Christian. We are glad to learn SO,
as we had thought that the General was a
Hayes Democrat
Miss Minnie Stevens, daughter of the late
wealthy hotel owner, Paran Stevens, is reported
to have accepted an offer of marriage from tho
millionaire English brewer Bass.
Genin, the New York halter recently deceased
won great notoriety when Jenny Lind came to
America in 1850 by paying 1925 for the first
choice of seat ~ a concert given in Castle
Garden.
French cutler sends to the exposition a box
OF the size OF a cherry -stonc containing ono
hundred knives. They have lockwood handles,
open and shut in the ordinary manner, and yet
weigh only seven grains.
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern rail-
road has settled with the families of SO out Of
the 81 persons killed by the Ashtsbula disaster.
OF the 81 wounded, 56 have been settled for.
The amount paid SO far is s453, 800.
One OF old John Robinson's elephants has
killed two persons already, and as suits havo
been commenced for $4,000 damages in either
instance, old John thinks he will have to strike
some other line of advertising.
twas reported that Senator Nipple Mitcheli's
fifteen year old daughter had cloped, but tho
Senator and the priest who had performed tho
ceremony, publish statements that the mar
rage took place with the consent and in the
presence of the brides parents
Can it be that since the Grant family have
escaped the watchful eye of Parson Newman
they have gone over to Rome?" Here is Mrs.
Grant, who has been asking the Pope to bless
silver cross that was given to her by the Gener-
al. We fear that Sister Grant is as much of
ck.slider as Sister Hayes.
most remarkable case of suspended con-
seriousness is narrated by the Plymouth, Wis,
Reporter. 1t is that of Miss Lydia Lindsey,
daughter of Mr.. Alexander Lindsey, who, on
Wednesday of last week, was thrown iuto1
state of unconsciousness while undergoing
vaccination, in which condition she has since
remained, despite the most skillful treatment
Political conventions in Nav: Nationals of
Pennsylvania at Philadelphia on the 9Th; Ro-
publicans of same State at Harrisburg on tho
18th; Democrats of Iowa at Cedar Rapids en-
the 18th; Indiana Greenbackers at Indianupo-
lis, Pennsylvania Democrats at Pittsburg, and
Prohibitionists at Altoona, on the 22d; Ala
bama Democrats at III ntgomery on the 29th
The Purifiers are a new sect of the Greek
church. Their main new doctrine is that all
must marry on coming of age, and. that tho
wife is head of the family, the husband being
required to confess his sins to his wife once a
week. In this country there is no necessity for
a mans confessing to his wife. She tells him
all about his sins with the regularity and con-
tinuity of clock-work.
Apropos Of Lord Leitrim's murder. tho
Daily Aears Iondon) remaks: '.It is curious
that almost all the more violent crimes which
mark Irish society are perpretrated in districts
in which there is strong infusion of English
and Scotch blood. Tipperary, where the SOL
diery of Cromwell were settled, has been the
centre ard headquarters of the most brutal
outrages. Kerry, which is almost purely Gel
tic, is as peaceful Kent or Wiltshire-per-
haps more So Ulster, where the Scotch and
English settlers abound, is the most violent
and turbulent of the provinces. The mixture
of the Saxon and Celtic blood seems to produce
a violent and imfammable compound, possessing
dangerous qualities from which the separate
elements are free"