Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-08
GLOBELETS.

WIDOWS over 50 cannot marry again in Por-
tugal. In this country widows never get
over so.
Queen Emma of the Sandwich islands. rides
horseback man-fashion. What kind of a sand
witch is that?
Lord Coleridge has been, in memory of his
parents and his wife, restoring the church of
Ottery st. Mary
Cinnamon employed to set up pins in
basl alley said he would prefer to roll the balls
if it was Galley samey.'
Mary Anderson, though proud of her ward.
robe, admits that clothes can't act" Has she
never seen clothes press?
Capt. Henry Allen, of Salem, Mass. has in
MS yard pear tree 239 years old, which bore
several bushels of fruit this wear
Ii Is said that Soldene has lost her wardrobe.
detectives are hunting for it high and low with
the most powerful microscopes to be had.
The Washington Post says that Don
Cameron isn't as popular with the bows, sc
the old gentleman used to be-nor the girls.
either"
Mr.. Wiley TunstalI of Hale county. Ala.
has ordered 1000 English sparrows which bs
hopes will prove an effectual cotton-uorr do
stroyer.
Mr. I. Robertson, the son of the writer of
charming comedy, is about to organize a the
atrlcai company, which will give his fathers
plays in the British provinces.
Capt. Britten, of the Clarence Bicycle club
RODE from London to Bath and back, 212 miles
IN twenty-three hours and ffty-fve minutes
including halts for refreshment.
Among the dead of Grenada was Miss Kate
Coffman, well known as 1.-THE belle of Grenada -
and the most beautiful " oman in the Soutb ,
Her father and mother also died.
Russian officers have taken soundisgs in the
great Siberian lake Baikal, which show depth
| OF z 940 metres, whereas the deepest sounding
| In the Mediterranean is only 2,15S
The county attorney of San Saba county.
Texas, was recently shot at night by con-
cealed assassin. With his dying breath he de-
| clared that the sheriff of the county was his
murderer.
Jesse w. Fell, of hardwood, Iowa, fell into
a well last week. neighbor fshed Mr.. Fell
| out OF the well, and found he had sustained
put lew injuries. At last accounts Mr.. Fell
was doing we'll.
/ >~' A-NiAj Va I'oNllIlS ILL, starting
| long journey, hired Mr.. Newcomb to watch
MRS Hazen' as to whom he was jealous. When
Mr. Hazen returned, MIR. Newcomb and Mrs.
Hazen had eloped together
destitute old man, desiring to die, but re-
| solved not to kill himself went into a lonely
| WOOD near London, Ont, and lay down to
starVe. he was found almost dead, having lain
there i've days without food.
man was recently literally cooked in n
| steam-bath In San Francisco, into which he
| went without the knowledge of the attendants.
he turned the steam on ignorantly and was
first suffocated and then boiled
| The widow O'Gorman, of Goss-Allen nr;ze.
fight notoriety, has been fined $500 in the
Boone circuit court, Kentucky, for keeping a
tipping house, and has gone to Chicago to
marry "a retired sporting man.
Forty-fve millions of pairs of sewed shoes
and 90, 100000 pairs of pegged shoes were made
and sold by the manufacturers of the United
| States IN 1877, and IS per cent. of the work
done on these shoes was done by machinery.
| Portland business man declares that dur
ing single week he has seen carried by his
office ia barrels, At half barrels and kegs of
beer liquid which, according to the tenn
perance men, Is not consumed in the State.
Lines on Pumpkin" dedicated ssTo nv
dear friend, LeDuc,' by W. K. Rogers, are re-
ported 10 have been misinterpreted by the
beneficiary of the intended honor, and now
there Is great chasm of GOODNESS between
| them.
| Cotton mills are becoming numerous in India
more particularly in Bombay and it seems
probable that with improved machinery cbeap
labor, and the saving on freight, they will be
able to compete successfully with ENGLISH
goods.
/ U. s. Grant Jr., son of Gen. Grant called
on Mayor Ely, of New York, last week. and
said he had received instructions from his
father to hand the mayor check for s5lO for
the yellow fever sufferers, which direction he
then fulfilled.
/ North Beaver township, Pa, has scovered
tree climbing snakes. dozen of them have
been killed, the longest of which measured
seven feet They have fat heads, greenish
! spots on the skin, and emit Kissing sound
like that Of goose.
| Virginia woman wants to sell her husband
at auction and apply the proceeds to the liqui-
datlon of the State debt. Such devotion tn
ones country is very rare; but perhaps if the
lady would put up COW or sheep she would
get more money for it.
| William E. johnson was clerk in the Bank
| of Saline, Mo. He went to Scotland, where he
spent all his money, and wrote the banks
cashier for help to get back. Money was sent
him. One of his first acts on his return was to
steal So, 900 from the bank. He has fed.
| The common notion that bishops have an
easy life Is not confirmed by Bishop Littleiohn.
| protestant Episcopal,) of Long Island. He
says that on one Sunday he put on and took off
his Episcopal robes seven times for as MANY
| services, and that this days work was only an
| average one.
Joe Emmett, the actor, takes about the coun-
try the donkey that acts with him in stFritz.n
| In Springfield the stubborn beast, unwilling to
| be led, was being roughly dragged to the de-
pot behind the wagon having the rest of the
goods, when Emmett happened to see the per-
| formance, and raised a tremendous row.
| A lady told her minister that she did not MISC
his beautiful sermons half as much as one
might suppose, during an illness, because her
| servant sat at window every Sunday morn
ing and told her who went to church and what
they had on. All of which reminds US of a
lady who said she always wanted back seat in
church, SO she could see the bonnets.
According to the Paris Uni,ers, when the last
pilgrimage set out for Lourdes, half of the 400
pilgrims had to be carried SO v eak were thew
or suffering from disease. On leaving Lourdes
only 5O required assistance of that sort. the
other lou being cured of every imaginable ill
goltres' tumors, lameness, blindness and the
like.