Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-07
GLOBELETS.


rage in England.
It Is said that milk will effectually disguise
the taste of quinine
British pigs slaughtered after twenty
four hours OF fasting.
A new bird of Paradise has been found ON the
west coast of New Guinea.
Eleven million white fish eggs are stacked
away in Michigan's State hatchery.
English counterfeiters have of late turned
their attention to Russian bank notes.
Harden county, Ohio, farmer, otherwise
well, has been struck deaf and dumb
The export of prepared caviare from this
| country is now considerable, end is fast grow
ing.
Lacrosse has had brilliant introduction at
Baltimore under the auspices of the Athletic
club.
Secretary McCreary's eldest daughter will
make her debut in Washington society this
winter.
A story comes from Paris that King Alfonso
will ask the hand of the sister of his late wife
| in marriage.
Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia will
| she'll ont thirteen hundred thousand bushels of
peanuts, next crop
Alexander Haynes, of Bardstown, KY, has
been sold to John Fulton for one year for
$l150 for vagrancy.
OF the 1000, 0O0,0 900 of cigars now annually
consumed in this country, about 80 per cent
| are of home manufacture
Nearly 100,0 600 Parisians and provincials have
| visited the exposition grounds since the show
| closed not knowing but that it was still open
The French government will re-establish O
| consulate at Chicago, for which purpose an APP
preparation of $500 figures in this years
budget.
Heiser, the boy billiardist of Boston, has
given the world eye-opener, by making run
| of 6l6-and yet the youngest player in the pro-
fession.
hospitable farmer at Jewell City, Kansas,
| gave an orphan boy supper and nights lodg-
ing and charged the traveller his only shirt
therefor.
| The Emperor William likes to go to the
| theatre, sometimes going; it is said, nearly
| every evening for two weeks. He only cares
for short laughable pieces.
A lady received the gold medal at the recent
| examination in the faculty of law in McGill
| college, Montreal. There is one lady student
in the law school of Boston University.
London, Ont, has an inspector Of anatomy.
whose business 1t is to take charge of unclaimed
corpses and, if necessary. appropriate them
| for the advancement of medical science.
! In New Zealand trout fishing is now estab-
lshed as regular recreation. The fish were
originally brought from the river Severn, Isl
England, and have increased wonderfully.
| tramp claims to have been robbed in tn G
Memphis Jail of s197.65, diamond pin, and
his mothers picture. He says he is only an
amateur tramp, taking the road for his health.
Two colored men have applied to the sheriff
at Hampton, Va, for the privilege of hanging
John Bird, also colored, on the 9th prox Each
wants the refusal of the job, which he offers to
perform free.
The despotic king of Dahomey, on the west
| coast OF Africa, has recommended his barbarous
| Grand Custom" of human sacrifices. having
| slaughtered 500 victims in the month before
the latest dates.
| The aggregate length of the street car tracks
in Philadelphia is 279 miles. Dnring last year
| s6,5S6,370 passengers were carried over them,
l
| for single fare.
| During last year 1874 ,6I0 1853 tons of coal were
mined in Great Britain, an increase of about
three-quarters of million tons; l6. 500. 8O2
| tons of iron were mined or nearly $50, coo tons
| less than the previous year.
| English spectators have sold about fifteen
| tons of stone by the ounce, as specimens of
Cleopatra Needle, which still remains whole
and unbrokan. What if this fraud had been
perpetrated by Yankee sharpers
The postoffice department now provides tin
envelopes for sending by mail needles or any
| other pointed and sharp articles, which would
be likely to protrude through paper envelopes
and thus in ure other mail matter
| There is no truth in the rumors that tho edi-
tor of the London Times has resigned, or is
about to do so, and the reasons which havo
been frequently put forward in explanation of
| his supposed resignation taking place are pure
| ly imaginary.
| Capt. Kershaw, at the age of 20, married n
| girl of ID. They lived together unhappiIy Il
few months, agreed that they had welded too
young, and separated. After the lapse of ten
years they recently met in Texas, and began
matrimony over again.
| town father in English municipality
having worried the other members of the
council past all endurance to get them to an
point town crier, to be furnished with red
gown and a bell, the exasperated rulers of the
| bucgh unanimously elected him to the DO
| sition
| During the last war 594, 900 Russian soldiers
| poured down through Roumania into Turkey.
Of these, $500 were sent back by rail wound
ed, and 62,15C i'll, $1,000 sick went home to
Odessa by sea, 49, 600 are still in hospital. 81.
| 900 laid their bones in Roumania, and 80 600
persisted in Bulgaria.
| An official contradiction has been published
| in Berlin of statement made in some French
papers, that the German government has taken
| possession of the Samoan Islands, and proposes
| to convert them into q German colony Ger
many. 1t is stated, has intention of acuuir-
| ing or founding any transatlantic colonies.
A man OF 80, dressed in sheep skins trimmed
with red flannel and bearing an enormous
blackboard inscribed 81 am the prophet Elias
recently appeared in the streets of Rye, Eng
| land, dsclaring that he was one of the tribe Of
Levi and must journey from town to town
fulfilling his mission and saving the human
| race.
The sale of the effects of Charles Dickens at
Gadshill place. did not include his library,
which has been purchased in It's entirety by
Messrs Sotheran, of Piccadilly Accompany
ing the books is the interesting series of framed
Hogarth engravings, named in Mr. Forster's
Life Of Dickens as hanging in his he'd
room.