Daily globe., 1878-05-21
GLOBELETs.
3ankey is getting


Theodore says that his conscience i. nst
quickened this time.
1t is thought in Washington that Congress
viii adjourn by the end of June.
And now it is Theodore who says that Eliza
beth Is innocent OF the great transgression
Charles Dickens was never so happy as when
brewing luscious sips of claret cup or punch.
Wilkie Collins delights in making presents to
every one-a pleasant weakness for his friends.
The enormous sum of ssO5, ,00O. 600 has been
spent on the United States navy since the close
of the war.
oregon cherries are two or three times larger
than those grown in the East They are also
OF very vivid Cronin-nose color
A Roman newspaper says that France has
opened negotiations with the Bey of Tunis for
the annexation of that country to Algiers.
The wrappers which come off the New York
Herald's exchanges make several bushels every
day. And yet Jim does not seem to be always
happy.
Gold mining is being practically developed
In Georgia. The State has twenty-six active
mines operating 200 stamps, which average 800
per stamp.
2 Don Cameron didn't invite his dad to the
wedding, because it wouldn't look well to have
guest over whose head a suit for breach of
promise, with its etceteras, was hanging.
Ben Buffers highest ambition is to be GOV
efnor OF Massachusetts, but this year he will
again run Tor Congress, waiting for the gov
ernorship until it is little ripper for him.
Mrs Jane Grew S1r;seb,1,,
Pennsylvania property and will remove to
Chicago. Now, what has Chicago been doing
this time that calls for Providential chas,ise
ment?
The English jingoes have new song, which
begins, II never could love Muscovy Miss"
and ends with mo hypocrite Russian for ne"
These complimentary terms are of course
aimed at the Duchess of Edinburg.
Our dealers in wheat options will be inter-
ested to learn, on the authority of the Paterson
IN. ~ Press that the wonderful tendency that
ladies' have to gros grain the present season, is
not expected to affect the price of breadstuffs.
The Sultan Of Turkey gave Grant horse,
which leads the Baltimore Gazette to remarl,
that if the Sultan had sent along years feed
for the horse he would have made himself yerv
popular with "the greatest of living Ameri-
cans"
The yacht Mohawk, which capsized off Stat
en- Island and in which Commodore Garner and
others were drowned, lies at BROOKLYN dock.
1t is reported that she is haunted, and also that
| she has been sold to the Russians Ghost
stories.
The Duke of Athole has been sued for a half
penny by person who, to bring test suit.
| crossed Dunkeld bridge, paid toll under pro-
test, and sued to recover the money, which, he
| argues, the Duke should have collected in
| person.
The telephone has been tried successfully
under the straits of Dover, the ordinary cable
wires being employed. So successful was the
experiment that the Spanish Telegraph COM
pany proposed to lay acoustic cable be-
tween England and Spain.
Gustave Wahle, formerly postmaster of Gin
| cinnati, has instituted suit against the
Gazette company to recover $50, 600 damages for
| libel published of him by tie Gazette concern
ing his action in holding issues of the Gazette
sent out for canvassing purposes.
Mile. Lablanc. the French actress, wears
| is escorted to and from the theatcr by two
policemen, who keep watch over her dressing
room during the performance. She has also
for protector an enormous bulldog.
A singular discovery has been made on board
vessel recently arrived in England from Peru.
1he body OF woman was found imbedded in
the cargo, which consisted Of nitrate of soda
Tue body is In good state of preservation and
| Is supposed to be that Of victim of an earth
quake which occurred many years ago in Peru.
Louis Roederer, the great champagne mer-
| chant of Reims, France will not again under
take such large wine business as when he
promised to buy up all the wine in the
Champagne country if he were returned to tho
bly,. That body has unseated him for
the reason of his making such bid for votes.
The wi of the late Commodore John HODGES
Graham, United States navy, WAS proved be-
fore the surrogate of Orange county, New Jer-
sey, on Thursday last. 1t disposes of an estate
Of about $500, 900. principally New York city
property. One-half of all the property is given
to the widow, and the rest to charitable mr.
poses.
Two years ago there were fifty liquor shops
IN hey West, Florida. Now there are but two
Then coffee was seldom drank, except bv the
Cubans; now there more than seventy-fve
coffee shops, and most Of them are we'll patron
lied by all classes of people. The consumption
OF coffee Is enormous. One establishment
alone roasts 400 pounds per week.
Gen. Grant writes letter declining an in
vitation to attend n soldiers reunion, and
takes occasion to say: II trust the veterans of
Ohio may have most auspicious reunion on
the coming occasion, and that none of them
will ever feel disposition to apologize for the
part they took in the late struggle for national
existence, nor for the cause for which thew
fought
The state of affairs in Cincinnati may be
judged by the following item from the Indian
apolis Journal: 1t is said that the hotel wait
ers in Cincinnati wrangle with each other over
the respective merits of the classics and the
music of the future, and the bootblacks warble
difficult passages from the old masters as they
cheerfully hand over their last nickel for ad-
mission to the festival.
Sir W. thompson soundings of the Allan.
tic, by means of the apparatus on board the
Challenger, showed that the great ocean has
three immense basins, viz, one extending from
Ireland to the upper North American coast,
with average depth of 5000 fathoms, one
dividing Europe and Central America with an
average depth of 5000 fathoms; and one run
ming from South Africa to South America with
an average depth of 800 fathoms.
The Dramatic Ne,rs goes for the Aimee in
this style: Robbed of youth beauty and
novelty, painfully pulling her bedraggled skirts
through the slough of maturity, vice is unat-
tractive. Eight years ago. when Mile. Aimee
first came she might have stood for a sculn