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

college 81 200. and the faculty stole his BODY.
Lord Rosebery made brilliant speech on the
opening OF a new school of science and arts in
Scotland.
Paris has $4,000 house, London 400. 900
more than Paris, Berlin, Vienna and New York
combined.
The English FIRE brigades carry jumping
sheets for the use of persons jumping from
burning houses
Mr.. James Eaker, of Mayfeld Ky, is the
father OF thirty-fye children, twenty-eight of
whom are alive.
A man In New York has been sent to prison
Tor selling his wife's wooden leg. 1t was an
u-ieg-itimate transaction.
Florence Davenport, the YOUNGEST danob.er
OF the late E. L.. Davenport will soon make
her debut on the stage.
The proprietor of the Monument cheese fac
tory recently shipped 20. 600 pounds of Colorado
cheese to Cardiff, Wales.
Queen Victoria has appointed the king of Siam
an honorary knight grand cross of the colonial
order OF st. Michael and st. George.
Three hundred kegs of bad beer thrown into
pond at lnsterburg, Conn, proved that an
1ASSA
Inc new bonanza in Nevada is right on line
with an old lode that was once very rich. Thus
do great mines run in the same channel
Dr. Babcock, who invented the fire extin-
gulsher, Is drunken outcast in California.
1t was fire-water that extinguished him.
Billiards and pool have been introduced into
Jerusalem. They are talking of introducing
soap and water if the billiard rooms do we'll.
a drunken man in New York, when he came
to his senses the other night, found that some
woman had bequeathed him baby to take
care of.
The Countess Bismarck, only daughter of
the Prince, is engaged to Count Rautzan. of
the ancient Schleswig- Holstein family of the
same name.
a company has been formed for building a
narrow gauge railroad from Jacksonville, Ore,
to the ocean. Capital $4,000, 600; length of
road 100 miles,
London publisher spent 80, 500 in adver-
Using new magazine before the first number
was printed, of which loo, 600 copies were con-
sequently sold
Musical festivals, the Detroit Free Press
thinks, are well enough for such towns rs never
have elopements and incendiary fires. They
encourage such things.
tomato weighing two pounds and measur-
ing eighteen inches in circumference grown by
w. A. q. Edwards, near San Jose, CAL, is the
latest vegetable wonder.
In Mesnll-Sevin France resides an old man
IN whose house it has been the custom for the
past thirty years, for all couples married in the
village to pass their wedding night.
Bernard Donohue, of Yonkers N. Y, who
has made $4,000 by the recent rise in Sierra
Nevada silver mining stocks, once worked in a
buckle shop in Waterbury, Conn.,
Homer Griffin, who died in Lodi, Ohio last
week, aged LUG years, was total abstainer-
during the last four years of his life The bar
tender wouldn't put it a piece of ice."
The mob that tarred and feathered w. J.
Jones in Truckee, CAL, used hot coal tar which
was not only poured over his body, but into
his eyes. His sight was entirely destroyed.
An Austrian resident of Bangkok, Siam,
named Eyer, formerly Roman Catholic in
rellglon has publicly renounced his faith and
been formally received into the Buddhist priest
hood.
Madame Keller, Lady of the Sacred Heart
order at Manhattanville, New York, died in
that city on Saturday. She was well known
and much beloved.
Raphael Maurice Suegne de Morales. the
Spaniard who, when invited guest of Prin-
cess Rattazzi, OF Paris, slipped into her bed
room and stole some jewels, has been sentenced
to one years imprisonment. =
Over l32OOO persons are employed on the
East India railroads. The greater number are
natives. In fact, the working of the lines is
practically Ill their hands-in some cases net
even under European supervision.
Diamonds do not often come to one anony-
mously, but Miss Clara Louise Kellogg received
one IN that manner from an opera-struck Chi
cagoan the other day. The donna very sensibly
turned the jewel into food for the destitute of
Memphis.
The most important piece of Roman sculp-
lure ever found IN London was lately exca-
waited. 1t is believed to have formed part of a
mausoleum. London was large city, with a
mint and other metropolitan institutions even
In Roman days.
large ape which was chained 30 tree in
the grounds of one of the Estahazy family.
lately descended ON the countess while she was
driving, and tore her dress and arm Her hus-
band arrived in time to shoot the beast before
serious harm was done.
A San Francisco paper says that the convicts
IN the State prison have contributed more to
the relief of the yellow fever sufferers than the
State officers at Sacrarnento; the newsboys
more than the railway Offices, and the theatres
more than the churches.
Lancaster man drank two quarts and a
pint of water in minute and fifteen sec
onds, keg OF beer being wagered that he could
not do it III two minutes. But he drank all
the beer shortly afterwards in order to neutral
ize the effect OF the water.
Among Stanley's competitors in the field of
African travel is elderly schoolmaster of
Steghtz, Germany. On the principle of doing
at Rome as Rome does, he left home thaving
started secretly with one shirt, one pair of
stockings and old overcoat
Professor Watson, whose salary was recently
reduced, has left Ann Arbor and gone to Madi-
son, Wis.,, to take charge of the Observatory OF
the Wisconsin university, which he endowed
and is now IN course of construction. He Will
be rendered the chair of astronomy.
Senator Bayard is accredited with saying that
in his opinion there viii be three Presidential
candidates in the field in 1sS0-the Republican,
Democratic and Greenback candidates. It is
possible, too, that the House of Representa-
tives may be called upon to elect the next
President.
In West Gardiner, Me-, lad saw an eagle.
evidently fatigued, dragging heavy trap and
three feet of chain. The boy seized the bird
by the neck, and after struggle captured it.
II was of unusual size, and had it not been