Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-24
GLOBELETS.

grass in Kentucky.
Sixteen hundred colored people in Arkansas
are enrolled for Liberia.
Seventeen American bishops are expected ut
the Pan-Anglician conference in London.
Gov. Carpenter is a candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for Congress in the ninth
Iowa district.
There is Sunday school superintendent in
Plymouth, Jefferson county, Iowa, who las
mania for eating fried rattlesnakes.
Dion Boucicault has ordered steam yacht
that will cost 100000, and be the largest and
finest on this side of the Atlantic.
Bell PLANE air is thick with quoits.-Siour
City Journal. Well, is there any harm in playin'
quoits? Isn't that qu(o)ite plain?
Milwaukee machinist has invented steam
road wagon, for which the inventor claims
speed Of twenty miles an hour on smooth
road.
A clairvoyant has foretold that Greenville,
Mich, is to be burned three years from next
August. And there are greenies in that vile
who believe it.
Hardin county, Ia, woman, whose husband
took his exercise in beating her, gave him a
span of horses on condition that he would
drive off. And he drove.
They are agitating for elevated railways in
Chicago. The rapid transit with which Chica-
go is best acquainted is that the broad and
easy road to bankruptcy.
There are over eighty million bushels of corn
in Illinois in producers hands Only to think
how much comfort there would be if all this
was reduced to aliquid form!
When girl in Tuscola, ILL.,, is expecting a
lover to call she places blue ribbon and
mitten on the table, and says, CHOOSE" And
the young man chews and the maiden chews-
gum.
Chicago has been giving concert for the
benefit of the newsboys. The price of tickets
was judiciously placed at the exceedingly low
price of $l.5O so that no newsboy need remain
absent.
Jennie June's'' daughter, by her husband,
Mr.. D. G. Croly, managing editor of the
Graphic, is about to take to the stage as pro-
fession.-Chicago Tribune. Who would Mrs.
"Junes' daughter be by but by her husband.
Henry Clay once remarked: II would rather
be right than President" and it is generally
thought that Henry wanted the Presidency
pretty badly. The motto of Fraud Hayes,
however, seems to be, II will be President;
d-n the right.
Gen. Grant, according to Mr.. Forney, is as
rosy as a Newtown pippln and happy as
sailor after long cruise. Grant, as is well
known, is often happy after a long cruise, but
the rosy he prefers to have it filled with is not
of the pippin kind.
Conspicuously on a column in the American
department Of the Paris show is shield with
the MOTTO ''In God We Trust It is just as
well that there is somebody else besides Dick
Mccormick to trust in for respectable
American exhibition.
According to the Des Moines Leader, Hon.
David Secors marriage to Miss Jennie Lyon
was the first instance in Iowa of State officer
wedding while in Office. This is probably be-
cause no decent woman would hitch herself to
an Iowa State officer.
There is weeping and wailing and gnashing
of teeth at st. Louis over the fact that the
railroads discriminate in rates in favor of Chi
cago and against st. Louis. The difference is
only the usual percentage given to wholesale
purchasers as against retail buyers.
The sensation-loving Mr.. Anthony Comstock
has received check in New York The grand
jury has refused to indict DR.. Sara B. Chase,
whom he arrested dealer in unlawful in
struments, and the Governor has pardoned out
a man whose conviction ComstOck had secured
on a charge of dealing in indecent pictures.
Lady Physician writing to the N. Y.
Sun in defense of mems boards, says: 'tNo
ol,o l.
soft whiskers of a lover, on whose lips have
been laid the moustache of one she loves, will
ever permit "a fellow without baird" to come
fooling about her, The l.. P. evidently
knows how it is herself.
The most powerful argument in favor of Gre
nation yet advanced: Rev. Herman Snow has
written a description-under spirit control, he
avers-of the release of spirit long impris-
oned in a stone casket. He says that it is dan
gerous to bury bodies in air tight collins of
stone or metal, because in that way spirits are
often confined for ages.
Mr. Pace, of London, Ont, had sick child,
and at o'clock on Monday morning it seem
ingly died. The child was laid out, and two
medical men pronounced it dead. Not sus-
picion that the case was otherwise entered the
minds of any one and ut 10 o'clock the body
was placed in the coffin. Less than an hour
elapsed before the child awoke and spoke, and
it is alive and well.
Manhattan market in New York, an immense
structure covering four acres and that cost
million dollars, has now only half dozen of
it's stalls occupied. The sparrows have taken
possession of it for the last two or three years,
and built their nests and Matched their young
in the trusses that suppurt the arched roof over
head. Three Intellectual attempts have been
made to drive the sparrows out Of the building,
but they are now more numerous than ever.s,
Lieut.. Baldwin, Of the Fifth infantry, writes
from Fort Keogh, Montana, that the traders
along the British border have been in the habit
of selling ammunition to the Indians, permis-
given by the Canadian authorities. He says
that the unrestricted sale of ammunition to
hostile redskins is a fact well known to all In
dams on the American side Of the line And
these same Indians complain bitterly of not
being able to buy ammunition at home. when
hostiles across the line are permitted the ut
most freedom in purchasing.
Not E1actly De,c From Heaven.
Duluth Minncsotian Herald
The Democrats of this district seem to
favor the nomination of Hon. Henry M.
Rice for Congress. Mr.. Rice pitted against
Gen. W. D. Washburn, or the dark horse
from Duluth, would make an interesting
campaign. Notwithstanding the great pop
ularity of MIR. Rice, the general or the dark