Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-16
GLOBELETS.

GLoBELETs
Nearly 1900 actors in England are said to BIS
out OF employment.
our cranberry crop is prolific enough to fur
nish tarts for the world.
hundreds of New York sportsmen are killing
deer in the Michigan woods.
Nine-mile strolls have become the favor;te
pastime at Shellbyville, Ind.
Modjeska designs her own dresses, and Mary
Walker designs her own pants.
The Marchioness de Montholon, formerly we'll
known in Washington society circles, has lust
died at Rouen
Sweet cider, even if just from the press, is
condemned by the Massachusetts, Total Absti-
nence society.
THE American Velvet Plant" delights the
horticulturists of England. Here it is known
the mullen.
Daniel McGonigle, of Jacksonville, Ind.
aged IS, challenges any man in the county to
wrestle with him.
negro boy in Walton county, Ga, ate at
one sitting, recently, twelve pounds of oysters
and three of crackers
Mr. Hepworth Dixon is recovering rapidly
from ms accident, and has started ON a VOYAGE
round Cyprus in an iron-clad,
Swearing is not considered ladylike at yassar
college, but the girls manage to whisper .sbuy
gum, at exasperating moments.
Nebraska has 1890 school districts. against
2,496 last year. There are l05,737 school
children in the State, against 81, ISL in 1877.
A magnificent portrait of Cromwell. nv
Cuyp, presented by the protector to Queen
Christine of Sweden, has been discovered at
Paris.
a wealthy German of New York has Just pur
chased Slo,OOO clock. He wants to see if it
Will have run ninety years when the old man
died"
The Washington Star says Emma Abbott sis
not cold-blooded musical prodigy, but warm
blooded, impusive, and full of childish aban
DON"
Marble busts of the late Senator Crittenden.
of Kentucky, and of Chief Justice Taney have
been placed in the Corccran gallery at Wash
ington.
She asked him if her new dress wasn't as
sweet as spring rose, and the brute said it
was, even to the minor attraction of having a
little due it.
VI the SUI students at Eton one is MARQUIS,
one an earl, one a viscount, two are counts
(forelgn), thirteen are lords, thirty-eight are
honOrables and three baronets
Mr.. Q. S. Grant, Jr., has contracted for the
erection Of cottage on lot recently bought
by him at Asbury, N. j. The structure is to be
finished for occupation next summer
Capt. Mckenzie, the distinguished chess
player, will soon visit Syracuse, Auburn, Roch-
ester, Buffalo, Cleveland and Detroit and per-
haps Chicago, Cincinnati and st. Louis.
1t puzzles man beyond all expression to
bend over trade dollar and gaze into the dis
sembling face, and wonder and wonder and
wonder where that missing ten cents got out
and where it has gone.
we are told that party is forming for pro-
curing the taxation of drinkers according to
their capacity, and it is said that MIR. Edison
is inventing barometer, or gauge, in CON
formity with the idea.
1t is said that the object of the Crown Prince
OF Sweden, who is now touring" in Europe. is
to secure the hand in marriage of the Young
Princess of Baden, who is grand daughter Of
the Emperor of Germany.
number of fatal accidents from the use of
firearms have recently occurred in Rhode Isl
and. The men and boys of that State should
know enough to step into Massachusetts
or Connecticut when they wish to fire gun or
pistol.
of ba
Orleans. He went into a tobacconist's store.
bought two cigars and said courteously to the
proprietor, ''If you do not object to the smell
of tobacco, will smoke one of these cigars
here
very careful Bridgeport man always car
ries a bottle of whisky in his pocket aa an an
tidore for rattlesnake bites. He is now over 81
years old, and has never died of rattle
snake bite; and he attributes MS escape to the
antidote.
French paper reports murder trial in
which witness testified that he heard two
pistol shots on the staircase and sent his wife
to see what was the matter. ''You did not go
up stairs YOURSELF" mo, sir; was afraid of
the revolver
Leon Melier, Paris coachman, has been
publicly commended for returning to the
owner pocket-book containing sixty-tivc
francs and securities representing a million
and half which had been left in his coach bv
the careless owner.
Welsh coroner's jury has found the signal
man who caused the Pontypridd disaster and
killed twelve men, guilty of manslaughter; the
jurors further express "a good deal of sympa.
thy for the unfortunate man and hope that
he will be retained in the service of the rail-
way company.
By his will Bishop Dupanloup leaves 40 .OOO
francs to his godson. He also orders that his
heart shall be given to the parish of San Felix.
where he was born. and his body TO the Cathe-
drai of Orleans. He expresses formal desire
in his will that no funeral grafton shall be pro-
nounced over him.
A Mohometan named Herman jacobson, was
recently sworn in Toronto court. He took
the Koran in his right hand, and holding If
from him. with his left hand on his heart. bent
down until his forehead touched the book. re-
manned in this position for moment and
then uttered one word Sworn
The judge at the central criminal court of
London recently remarked that he disagreed in
toto from the verdict jury had Just handed
IN. The foreman brought in a document, in
which the jurors protested strongly against the
reflection thus cast upon twelve. presumably
honest men Of probably average intelligence
but the judge declined to receive it,
No stilton cheese is now made at stiIton.
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