Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-05
GLOBELETS.

1t is no longer fashionable for ladies to wear
muslin dresses but quite proper to wear mons
selaine.
play called THE Man from America" Is
being enacted in Australia. The title character
Is q hte-Ake imitation of George Francis Train.
Deadwood has formidable Chinese settle
ment, with several opium-s smoking dens, fire.
quented by many women of the town, some
actresses and not few merchants.
A Milwaukee insurance company has lust had
S3l0.5S sent to it from conscience-stricken
poGcy-h who says he got it wrongtully.
1t is probable the man is insane.
Since the late boat regatta at OHaso lake,
| where the Gornells made "a clean sweep of 1t,
| the Ithaca girls have worn small brooms in
their bonnets in honor of their boys.
| Superstitious folks recall that the congress of
| Berlin began its work on the 18th of June and
| finished it on the 18th of July, and conse-
quently indulge in gloomy prognostics.
They had no keys to give up to the Saah of
Persia when he took rebel city, but he com.
promised the matter and accepted as token Of
victory thirty pounds weight of citizens eyes.
| CHAINS idea of the Paris exposition
| awards in the fine arts department is shown in
a caricatrre representing the Jurors drawn up
in Gree, each handing a gold medal to his
neighbor.
Butler has victualled his yacht America for
long cruise. He will float around il luxurious
ease, and lay plans for the "squrlehiug" of
rich men who drive coaches for pleasure and do
not sail yachts.
The loose talk of d drunkard in Portsmouth,
N. h., has led to the arrest of several men for
participation in murder committed eighteen
years ago. Moral Keep your mouth shut
when you drunk.
The first section of railroad between
Algiers and Tunis was recently completed, and
on June 23d the event was celebrated by French
and Iunlsian officials. second section is to
be finished in November.
The Japan Nal says that any attempt on
the part of Japan to vie with America or Aus
traia in the production either of wool or NUT
ton, must result in disappointment. IL regards
silk as Japan's most valuable product
In recognition of his minister's successful
efforts to secure pacific issue to the congress-
I The German emperor has presented his Efe-size
portrait to Prince Bismarck. The portrait is
famous work of art by Herr Winterhalter.
y Maurice Jolly, Paris politician, prominent
i in the days of the Commune, shot himself
= lately because his name had been erased from
: the list of lawyers He thought it would be
II folly to be an angel if he couldn't be lawyer.
man stricken with yellow fever at Gin
}. cinnati was treated by his family physician at
l. New Orleans, and recovered. Perhaps if the
same distance between patients and physicians
e always existed there would be fewer cases of
I fatal illness.
). Workmen, in digging in the swamp for
, the foundation of the New York approach to
;. the Brooklyn bridge continue to find large
= stumps and logs in almost perfect state of
), preservation at depth of from fifteen to
y twenty feet.
rs The Bank of England has announced that
70 hereafter its published rate will not be the
maximum rate for discount-that is, in order
to keep its best customers, the bank will per-
II maps, discount their paper low the Joint
II st. ok or private bankers will.
y The nomenclature of the Congressional roster
~ would become very picturesque if some of the
= hitherto obscure and unknown Greenback can
!. didates had a hope of enrolling their names.
70 Here, for example, is the Third district of
p Texas presenting the name of j. X. Bumpass.
1t is nice to belong to a seaboard county
is court Says the Atlantic City Rspieac: Judge
Us Reed assembled his court of chambers on Sat
n, 10 urday morning in the grove of the United
- States hotel, his honor occupying a tilt-back
"a chair and the officers and lawyers surrounding
:, him.
The Episcopallans, from being the leading
e, Christian denomination, have less than ii 900
to commandments in the entire State of Virginia
Ia | ,,h;Ia t,a nnn.
y of Richmoud alone. One out of seven of the
IN entire population is commandment in some
Baptist church
IN Paris green used by a farmer in his potato
field came near destroying picnic party near
id Ottawa. They had their luncheon spread on a
i'd grassy plot in adjoining field, and the wind
IN blew quantity of the poison the eatables.
G. At one time it was thought that not one of the
party would recover.
n, People do not generally associate wealth with
nv British colonial bishoprics but there are ex-
Fl, captions to every rule. Bishop TyreIl, of New
castle. New South Wales. announces that he has
S. bequeathed 600 for various purposes in
by Guiding endowment of 5000 for tho
clergy, in that diocese.
10 The Bergen Reformed Dutch church which
ou recently celebrated its golden wedding" dates
. from 1860. For ninety-seven years the society
,ar was supplied by ministers FROM othe, churches
A., but in 1857 it called pastor to itself Includ
ue ing that one the church has had but three pas
Mt tors covering period of l2l years.
Of "Betsey and Are Out had an illustration
nut at Middletown, Ind. Wednesday of this
Ill week. Silas Connell. an old and well to-dc
ro- farmer, and his estimable lady, who were mar
ried fifty years ago, divided their property al
separated. The sequel in this case does not, a,
J. in Carletons poem however, pro- ide for joy
. full reunion this side the shores of time
Thomas Carlyle has written letter protest
ing against the destruction of old Londor
the churches. He thinks it sinful piece of bar
To, barism not religiously to preserve thes
-. churches as precious heir-looms, and says man
NV of them are specimens of noble architecture
to the like of which they have no prospect of eve
ota being able to produce in England again.
emit There more than 200, 600 Mennonite
in the United States, distributed through per
TAI b bps dozen States. They are people o
''o thrift and energy, and by their good condue
ca ca commend themselves to those among whom
~ they live. Their religious beliefs approach
M more nearly to those of the Quakers than an,
r. others. They refuse the Old Testament, an
mo deny that there is any original sin.
be- new Grand Lama, the Buddhist Pope, ha
ter lust been found and crowned .t Ib.sr.
tYTI.