Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-28
GLoBELETs.

e french crown jewels at the Paris expo
sitlon are valued at $3.50, 100000
Ralph Waldo Emerson and his daughter at.
tended the Unitarian Conference at SARATOGA
Mrs. LlVermore has just recovered $4,000
worth of diamonds, which she recently lost in
fire.
Sunburned sea moss fashionable color
quite usurps the place of elephants breath
and mad rooster.
Maud Granger says she was not engaged to
Mr.. Montague, and that Mr.. Montague was not
engaged to any one.
Colonel lngerson is in Washington, preparing
ms lecture on Burns. Thought he didn't be-
leve IN the place of burns.
Five oil wells opened near Los Angeles Weld
at the rate of eighty barrels daily California
Is certainly wonderfully rich State,
Pains-taking Washington journalist writes
that Mrs. Hayes fayorite rose-geraniums and
ferns are hourishing, even in her absence
Burchard Hayes, the Presidents son, has fin
ished his legal studies, and is about to enter
upon the practice of his profession at Toledo,
Ohio.
Mrs. Julia c. r. Dorr, of Rutland, VT, has
received the personal thanks of King Alfonso
OF Spain, for sonnet on the late Queen Mer-
cedes.
General Butler viii have exactly attained
his three-score years on the fifth of next No
vember, election day. He's growing old like
sixty.
Nine. Ristori, now the Marchesa del Grille.
has resolved on formir troupe and max
ing the round of Europe, beginning with
Paris.
firm in Sheffield, England, has ordered
100000 American hay rakes this season. We
could better afford to spare that number of
married rakes.
The hereditary prince of the Netherlands.
lie Prince Citron,' as he is called in Paris,
mixes with the common people. He also
mixes his drinks.
The annual average consumption of meat in
France is forty four and a half pounds a per
son; Belgium, ninety-two and half, and in
England, $50 pounds.
young lady at Harwinton, Conn.,, received
an admirer the other evening. He sat down in
a newly vanished chair and damaged his cloth
ing to the extent of $3.50.
Boutwell, says he shall be greatly disappont-
ed il Gen. Butler is not defeated in Massachu-
sets by 25,OOO majority. Boutwell, is getting
used to disappointments, however.
"a ppg-nosed eel, new to science, has Just
been sent to Professor nd.-NeW York
World. You probably mean an eel whose nasal
protuberance is slightly retrousee.
Mr.. j. c. Alves de Lima, the well-known
Brazilian, formerly editor of the A,tr0,a Bro
zilei,u, is shortly to wed Miss Ella Barber, of
Syracuse, N. Y. She didn't want to be Alyes a
barber
Kansas raised only 80 600, 600 bushels of wheat
and 100, 100000 bushels of corn this year. taking
the second place in the gran-producing States
of the country. California holding the first
position.
The health of the British troops stationed on
the Island of Cyprus is in deplorable cond-
ton. There have been frequent outbreaks of
fever among the men, and many lives have
| been lost
The highest rate of taxation of the twenty
eight largest cities of the United States is that
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lowest is that of Detroit, Mich, l.24 per
centum.
The people of Springfield, KY, voted a tax
of 10 cents on the hundred dollars for the con
struction of 3d. GAO school house. and subse-
quently discovered that this would yield pre-.
ciscly 1854.
Rear Admiral Worden of Observation-Disclosures
celebrity, and lately superintendent of the
Naval Academy, has been sued by Prof. Bernard
Maurice for alleged defamation The damages
assessed at $50 600.
Prof. Hall, of the naval observatory, who
/ has devoted much study to the moons Of Mas
which he discovered year ago. has published
pamphlet called, observations and Orbits of
the Satellites of Mars
memorial to Thomas Clarkson the advo-
! cate of the abolition of slavery, has been
placed in Playford church, Ipswich, England.
1t consists of a marble medallion portrait with
an appropriate inscription.
The Grand Duke Nicholas Copstantinovitch
the cars nephew has been dismissed from the
army, and the Eighty fourth regiment of in
fantry, of which he was the honorary chief, has
been forbidden To bear his name.
At Bowling Green, KY, recently, two men
secured 3.576 chimney swallows in one evening,
to be used at shooting match. Nodus oDc,-
anil: Put an empty bed-ticl the top of
the chimney and start a fire below.
The standing committee of the diocese of
Michigan has decided not to call special con-
vention for the election of bishop in the
place of the deposed Bishop McCoskry This
leaves the matter open until next June.
Miss Harriet Hosmer and Miss Anne Brew
ster are described as going donkev-rlding to-
gether over the Alban Hills when Rome grows
dull. We hadn't heard that Eli Perkins had
gone to Rome to engage in the transportation
| business. :
There is said to be a possibility of another
marriage of dwarfs, the midgets, Gen. Mite
and Lucia Zarate, now acting the part of de-
voted lovers. The little lady, however, does
most of the wooing. 1t promises to be mitey
small affair
Near F'rt Osborne. Manitoba, is dwell
ing house sheeted and rooted with tin obtained
from old oyster and fruit cans All the
Joints are perfect, and the house is waterproof.
How much better than to tie the cans to canine
caudle appendages
Chicken thieves at Pensacola, Fla, serenade
the family they intend to rob, and while the
inmates of the house are listening at the front
windows to the musicians the working mem
bers of the association clean out the coops in
the backyard. They call this coop 'etat.
Garibaldi is not yet satisfied to give up his
warfare with Austria. He says in recent pri-
vate letter: Let us prepare Italy for the
mortal war which she will have to wage against
Austria, the issue of which will determine her
to be or not to be- for some centuries to come. "