Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-09
GLORELETS.

selHou Willie visiting the capital.
An Ohio halter advertises the "Hayes cha
peau." He finds no sale for it. however.
Vermont man. who used benzine to light
the kitchen fire, has not benzine alive since.
The English mayor of the city of Larnaca.
Cyprus has emancipated all the slaves there.
The New York Times is publishing a snanisb
edition for circulation in Spain. Cuba and
Mexico.
Princess Annunciota, niece of the king of
Italy, is the last mentioned prospective queen
of Spain.
Don Giuseppe Pecci, brother of the Pope, has
been raised to the prelacy, and is already in a
Pecci trouble.
The Eurydice, which went down off the Isle
of Wight, engulfng hundreds. last spring. is to
be broken up.
1t is believed that the receipts from frst-class
railway passeng RS have been declining in Ger
many as well as England.
Gounod's son, aged %, is an artist in Pari
and promises to become celebrated in paint
ing as his father is in music.
The Marquis of Lorne has made his farewell
! address to his constituents in England, and is
about ready to embark for Canada
There is man living in Cook county, Texas,
who boasts of set of furniture made from
tree on which his father was hung ten wears
! ago.
AS the Paris exposition draws to a close the
number of daily visitors increases. The aver
age is above one hundred thousand per
day.
1t IS estimated that $50 publications, more
or less, concerning Danta have been issued
within the seven years dating from July, 1870,
to July, 1877.
The Swiss army of 10000 men performed
| its usual autumn maneuvres during Septem-
Der, attended by the military envoys of all the
great powers.
! Scotland is so much the fashion nowadays
| that the other day six out of the thirteen cab
met ministers were ruralizing there. One was
with the queen.
The last car festival at Juggernauth was Is
miserable failure. There were no large contri-
buttons by devotees, and the RAM (mother of
] the banished Rajah of Huri) had to bear all the
| expenses.
Gen. skobeeff has openly declared, in the
presence of the representatives of various Eu-
ropean powers, that the Gear will keep 100000
men in Bulgaria, and IS, 900 in Roumela, des-
pite the Berlin treaty.
Zurich (Switzerland) has magnificent chem
ical laboratory, presided over by Prof. Victor
Meyer, whe, although but So attracts students
of all nations, and is reckoned one of the very
ablest men in his craft.
The seven cotton and wooden mills of law
renee, Mass, have capital of 81 $50, 900, en-
ploy over $1,000 hands, and run 339, 900 spin
dies and 9,057 looms which produce every
week 2, 301, 654 yards of cloth
Father A. j. Ryan, the poet priest is not
Dead says the Louisville Couie1.-Jouluol. Tho
Father Ryan who fell at Chattanooga was of
the Nashville diocese and altogether differ
ent, though just as heroic, man.
The appointment of Count Ladislas Hovos
(the present Austro-H Hungarian envoy extraor-
binary and minister plenipotentiary at Wash
| ington) to be Austrian minister to Roumania,
is officially announced from Vienna
Mr.. Charles Dickens has undertaken to write
life of the late Charles Mathews, based upon
material supplied by the executrix, including,
for the early years of his life an autobiography
prepared for publication by Mr.. Mathews.
1t is reported from Goa, the capital of Portu-
guese India, that in consequence of the I'M
healthlness of that place, the Portuguese gov
ernment have decided to remove the seat of
government. Well why don't they Goa head?
William Fl. Gwin, familarly known as
Duke Gwin," once prominent politician
and Southerner of the old school, and now liv
ing In California, has just passed his 73d year.
He Is nearly as vigorous and self-possessed as
ever.
| The corner stone of the monument to be
erected in Puebla, Mexico to the memory of
Pope Plus TX has not been laid because Jealous
liberals maintain that such a ceremony would
necessarily be religious, and as such forbidden
| by the laws of reform.
1t is stated in Roman clerical circles that
even without establishing official relations with
England the Vatican has decided to send an
Apostolic delegate or Charge d'Affaires to
London, and that proposal to this effect will
shortly be submitted tothe British government
Lizards are very useful for the destruction
of vermin in the tropics, and when house in
Manila is hired an agreement is always made
that the proprietor shall stock it with lizards
if not already stocked. In some houses lizards
will remain, much to the annoyance of the
tenants.
The people of Alex Stephens town, Craw-
louisville, Ga, are thus classified: Those who
own new top-buggies belong to the frst-cIass:
those who own buggies without tops belong to
the second class; those who sport good watches
are OF the third class, and those who own none
of these recommendations are fuII-bIooded
| plebeians.
An advertisement of "May Fisk's Troupe of
English Blondes is headed with the lines:
The devil fisheth best or souls of men
When his hook is baited with lovely limb:
and at the bottom is the following: Wanted
for the above company, two burlesque actresses.
None need apply unless they are thoroughly
respectable"
Col. lngersoll in his lecture on Burns saws:
''That Burns was drunkard deny. He drank
NO more than an average clergyman or average
nopleman of his day. Show me man who
| drinks all his life without getting full, and I
have no use for him. He is no good.'' IngerscIl
has drank all his life, and consequently has
been s'full'' once in while.
MIR. Will Stuart, the well known dramatic
critic of the Graphic and correspondent of the
Baltimore Ege,y Saturday, was slapped in the
face in front of Booths Theatre New York a
few days ago by Eben Plympton, an actor Mr..
Stuart says that Eben assaulted him in order to
draw a crowd-something that he had never
| been able to do on the stage.
/ A constable in Fulton, N. Y, has distin
guished himself. He observed that Frances
Earl, girl employed in mill, was somewhat
masculine In appearance. She wore her hair
| short, had large hands and feet, and was yery