Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-11

Dlon Boucicault is about to try tho San
Francisco stage
monument is to be erected at Nice, in
nonor OF Garlbaldi, her illustrious son,
A Marseilles almanac predicts for 1870 tho
death OF Bismarck, Gortschakoff and Beaeons.
field.
The king of Denmark has conferred the
Order of the Elephant on the Duke of Cumber-
land, his future son-in-Iaw
Nearly $1,000, 0G0 have already been spent by
tina authorities of the Paris lottery in provid-
ing prizes for the IL, coo, 600 subscribers.
Id. Benazet son of the proprietor of the
gambling tables at Baden-Baden, has been
elected member of the French legislature.
Rochefort is Strengthened pecuniarily, OWING
to the failure of his pamphlet publications,
which have all fallen still-born since Napoleon
Ills death.
Jewelry is made in Germany from the pure
blood OF the OK. The blood is dried, reduced
to powder, and then moulded and polished.
What next?
Columbus, the capital city of Ohio, is like a
crab progressing backwards. The council have
ordered the streets to be lighted with kerosene
instead of gas.
Inc SUIT OF Mrs. Eleneora Ferguson to re-
cover on policy for $4,000 on the death of
her husband, Israel Ferguson, who committed
suicide, IS Low going on in New York.
E1-Confederate Gen. Hood. who is mimi.
one leg, has just returned from Texas with his
children, three pair Of twins, TO New Orleans,
where ne proposes to settle permanently.
Cohen, the Washington labor agitator. is back
at the capital, and will call upon Congress to
state whether or not man has right to free
speech-wlthout reference TO the size of the
mouth
In 1877 there were 9, l40 males and 500 fe-
males drowned in inland waters in England
and Wales, l,42e lives being lost in rivers and
running waters, 637 in cabals and 6o1 in lakes
or ponds.
The crown prince of Sweden has been in
speeding the birthplace and early SURROUNDINGS
| OF his great grandfather Bernadotte None of
Bernadostes descendants had previously psid
Pau a visit.
Mormon women, who are accorded the right
of suffrage, Invariably vote on the side of
polygamy, lest change in the fundamental
institutions of Utah set them adrf5 TO contend
With the worlds contempt
The second largest diamond ever found in
South Africa has lately been discovered in the
Dutoltspan fields. The stone weighs 9i4 carats
The spalding diamond, which was found some
years since, weighs 2SS15 carats.
Wisconsin, bounty of S5 for every wolf
scalp cost the State SIG, 600 last year, and is
growing bill Of expense. The wolves, also. are
increasing, and 1t is inferred that some people
are finding the raising of wolves profitable
business.
| The Paris correspondent of the London DniIl
| Ne'os says ''In the United States court there
are fewer disappointed exhibitors than in any
| other. Out of 2,000 500 have carried off prizes
The Americans sent very little trash to the
| Champ de Mars"
The Lexington (Ky.) Gazette says: "a few
| applications of the halter would be equal to
s25 per acre to our best farming lands, and
| every white man hung thereafter for murder
would add dollar to the value of every acre of
| good land in the State'
The new sheriff of New Castle county, Del.
| never having seen q public whipping in his
life, and having to officiate on certain convicts
tied up one of his deputies, at whom he aimed
mimic blows till he had successfully acouired
the position and range.
Most of the Paterson silk mills are runnino
to their fullest capacity and making two or
three hours overtime every night. There is the
greatest demand for ribbons and scarfs. From
5000 to 10000 hands, it ia estimated, are now
employed in the mills.
During the last three years about az 100 no0
! have been collected for charitable purposes bv
| the af london Tn
realized was about $4,000; in 1877, the Indian
famine fund helped to swell the total to nearly
S2,475,000; this year the figures are about
1926, 600.
Kit Carsons rifle ID treasured relic in the
keeping Of Montezuma Lodge, A. f. & A. NJ.
at Santa Fe, N. H., to which he belonged and
| to which he bequeathsd the shooting iron.
which is one of the "OId Sam Hawkins" rifles,
! much priced in the West ere breech-Ioaders
came into vogue.
When Andrew Jackson was President some
body gave him curious old iron clock. Tho
old clock hung in the court yard at the rear of
the white house until 1862. 1t was found in
lot OF rubbish at the treasury department on
Wednesday and sold to Washinetonian named
Benson for $40.
Dutch tradesmen are especially pleased at the
kings marriage. The palaces are being refur-
n1shed and lots of money spent. The palace at
the Hague Is very second-rate affair, but ssphe
House in the Wood" about mile from the
capital, is splendid. 1t was there that the late
queen always resided.
One of the funniest facts of the age is tn,
DIR. Mary Walker, notorious for being crazy on
the subject OF breaches, viii some time write
book on Charlie Ross DR.. Mary's theory ia
that the boy was not stolen at ALL but that tho
hue and cry raised in order to enable per-
sons to make money.
piece of Anne of Austria's skin will soon
be in the market. Her body was burnt in a
church she founded, and the piece of skin is
said TO have been taken from her arm in 1900
by physician, and preserved in her family
until now. 1t is eleven inches by four, and re-
sembles gants de .Suede.
herder shot by robber in Little River
county, Ark. Although mortally wounded. be
got on a horse and spurred tho beast thirty
| miles to Fort Smith, in order to expose the
murderer before death conld hide the evidence.
He was barely able to give meagre account of
the crime before his death.
The electric light is seen to the utmost ad.
vantage in the Paris Hippodrome. Five burn.
ers irradiate company of 10000. The dresses
Of the troupe are specially selected with view
to the effect of the light on coloring, and a
phalanx OF cavalry girls riding astride) has a
dazzlingly splendid appearance
Mayor DeForest of Bridgeport, Conn, is not
popular with the city council, and when he
offended them the other day with veto thew