Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-02
GLOBELETS.

GLoBELETs.
A hmburger factory i. appetiziug the Des
Moines atmosphere.
A Jersey City dame is on trial for binding
neighbor with vitriol.
In Broadway, N. Y, store is q set of Roman
furniture 400 years old.
The New York postoffice orders about OOO.-
0O0 postage stamps a fortnight.
South Africa is highly recommended "a /.
place for consumptives to spend the winter.
Count Schimmeipenninck is the name of the
grand chamberlain of the king of Holland.
MISS Sadie Sykes, by vote Of 2Ol to 1Os,
has been declared the prettiest girl at Reno,
New.
Three stones placed over the grave of Thomas
Jefferson have been, one by one, DESTROYED bv
relic hunters.
Gen. Bourbaki, of the French army. ride, 40
hard at reviews that none of his staff eyon pre.
tend to accompany him.
Human milk is used as a medicine for con-
sumptives and for old people. 1t costs eight
cents pint in Shanghai.
III. Sankey, accompanied by his family, has
arrived IN liverpool aud contemplates making
religious tour of England.
The Rev. j. V. Douglass of LYNN. Mass
under bail for several offenses, has ran avav
and left his bondsmen to pay.
a Marietta (Ga.) woman of an unnonndsd
stomach Tor quail has eaten thirty of those
agreeable birds in thirty consecutive daya.
at Sheffield. England, recently, a game of
foot ball was played at night. four electric
lights being used to illuminate the grounds.
Marquis Antonio Mantilla, now Snan;sb
minister to Washington, will probably be-
transferred to Conatautinople at an early date.
Lord Bray brooke, who owns the magnificent
fifteenth century mansion of Audley End in
Cambrldgeshire, has the finest aviary in En-
rope.
Two young women in Carthage, Mo-, the
local calls them "ladies'') cowhided their uncle
In the street because he criticised their con-
duct.
A woman was offered 81, 600 if she would re-
MAN silent Tor two hours. At the end of fifteen
minutes she asked: isn't the time nearly
up?" She lost.
Inc temperance managers of the Oakland
county (slich.) fair refused to permit cider to
be made on the grounds, but offered premiums
for the best wine.
When the late Gen. Whitney, of Boston. was
interviewed he would dictate both the ones
lions and answers to the astounded but de-
lighted reporter.
Connecticut man weighing 200 pounds
convinced the jury that he was drawn around
the yard by the hair, by his wife, who weighs
eighty-seven pounds
Mr. j. II. Williams, who writes the fnnnv
paragraphs in the Norristown Herald, Ia said to
have fallen heir to $4,000, left to him by o.
good old uncle in Holland
The Scientific -4nerican says that if a mans
arm were long enough to let him reach to the
sun, 1t would be over three years before he
would eel that his fingers were burnt.
The Catholics of the ecclesiastical pror;nca
of Quebec nave been ordered to pray for the
success OF the movement for the Qualification
of Mgr. Laval, the first bishop of Canada.
An honest farmer sent some handsome game
and black Spanish fowls to the Kingston (O.)
exhibition. The judges washed the birds and
1t came out that the former were painted and
that the latter had had their legs blackleaded
Jones, the man who was recently tarred and
feathered in Reno, CAL. spends most of his
time reading the hotel register in San Francisco.
He carries two loaded revolvers, and will talk
with nobody. It is surmised that he is in
sane.
at Des Moines a kitten had caught and vas
playing with mouse, when the frightened
captive sprang into pussy's open mouth and ran
down her throat. The kitten went into spasms.
which did not subside till the mouse had been
suffocated.
The Holly system of heating houses with
steam sent through street mains has lust been
established in Springfield, Mass. where a gas
company has bought the right Springfield is
the second city to try it. Lockport, N. Y, hay
ing been the first.
Russia is compelled to econon1ize in manv
quarters, as result Of the late war. Among
other retreachments the funds annually allot-
ted for the construction of the University of
Siberia, and for the repair Of Siberian post
roads withheld.
son of ex-Mayor Stevens, of Cambridge
was engaged to marry one of the bellies of that
city, but on the day appointed for the wedding.
after extensive preparations had been made.
and many guests had already arrived, he de-
clared that he had changed his mind
Miss Bancoft, granddaughter of George
Bancroft the historian, fell down stairs on
Monday at the Perry house, Newport, dislo-
eating her arm and receiving other injuries.
This is the third accident which has occurred
in the family within short space of time.
Bismarck $ big dog Sultan, having tried to
devour Prince Gortschskoff and having snapped
at his mistress, recently made at an intimate
friend of the chanccllor's who had called to
offer congratulations on the approaching we'd
ding, with such business-like aspect that the
guest vanished.
miner riding up on an elevator in a
Nevada shaft. One of his hands caught in the
framework Of the side, and he was left dang
ling 1000 feet from the bottom His plight
was not discovered until the elevator reached
the surface without i'm. He was 80 weak, af-
ter being rescued, that he could not stand.
little girl at Heeley Falls, Ont, while
straying around her fathers farm, came across
young bear. and, mistaking it for dog. tied
string around its neck and logged it home
At Stoneham, Quebec, large she-bear was
caught in a trap, and her affectionate cubs
nearly hayed her alive by plucking at her with
their teeth in their endeavora to get her away.
Well-dressed and semi-inebriated man goe,
into shop of Ypsilanti druggist and sticks his
elbow through glass case. Druggist collars
him and demands So. Man says: 'Thash
allri," and refuses to understand what is want
ed of him. Druggist searches mans noel-o4