Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-12
GLoBELErs.

GLOBELETS.
Mercury will be in conjunction with Mars to-
day. -''
China imported s44, OOo,o 600 worth of opium
in 1877. A'
sermontville, Mich, man is arrested for
sowing tares on his step-sons wheat
hock of blackbirds a mile in length nassed
over West Chester Pa, on Friday night.
At Vienna theatres, if you go out ..to see .
man you have to buy a ticket to get back
again.
Ihe Cheyennes and Red Clouds are at :.
again. And Sheridan seven or eight hundred
miles away.
Marie Bates begins her performance in
Iopsy by turning topsey turvey. You naughty
Marie Bates!
Iramps who refuse to work in Erie are locked
up and kept on starvation diet until they con-
sent to earn what they eat.
Count Joanne has sued New Jersey paper
for libel. The count says he won't take anv
more sass from hanybody.
The marriage notice of S. Rillburn. age %
and Matte ]. Lawson, aged a. is printed in
the Gainesville, (Ga.) Eagle.
| On Berks county farm there is chestnut
tree that measures twenty-five feet and five and
a half inches around the stump.
| The first sentence Of Mr.. Eyarts' letter On tha
Halifax award has ,,esn sent to ENGLAND TIL.
steamship carried no other sreight.
It is announced that the first number ~
Progress, Colonel Forney's new paper, will be-
gin story, donna Quixote," written ex-
pressly for it by Justin Mccarthy.
The owners of the steamer Marseilles. n1vino
between Hew Haven and Dieppe. have
been fined 1872 for carrying 49S passengers.
where she was only licensed for 43O.
once wealthy merchant of New York now
lives IN that city on 90 week; 125 of that
amount goes for his roon IS cents for his
meals, and the balance for washing.
Fournler, the eminent botanist, finds in Mex
leo 658 varieties of grasses, 376 of which occu
! in no other land. Of the rest, 80 are found in
this country. All Others are Fourniers.
Since his recent successes in discovering
stolen money by the "mind-readine" process.
Mr.. u. y. Spencer, of Bloomington Indiana, is
overrun with applications for his services.
| G.. l.. Holm. the artist of Frank Leslie.
Weekly. Cd. Frank Bond, and three Indian
guides, accomplished the feat of running La
chine rapids in small boot IN Saturday.
In various cities of Germany boys under 16
are prohibited, under penalty of fine and i'm
prisonment, from smoking in public places.
But there are lots of private places around.
Poor Carlotta, Maximillan's widow, con-
tinues to reside at Teroueren, near Brussels.
None see her without the queens permits
sion, as a strange face produces serious excite
| ment.
Small game. such as rabbits, cartridges and
squirrels, haven't been thick in years as they
are this season. The reason is that last winter
was unusually mild. Very cold weather kills
them off.
Dr. Parini, the most promising young sur
geon in Italy, has shot himself No reason can
be given for the act. His father committed
suicide in the same way and without any an
parent cause.
Dean Arthur Penrhyn Stanly is the original
Arthur who the heart of Tom Brown at
Rugby by kneeling down at his little bed in
the presence of rough crowd of boys and saw
ing his prayers before retiring.
The Railroad Gazette says that few wears
ago 10000 pounds was the maximum for car
load, but now many companies permit 600
pounds to be put upon car, and very few ac-
cidents due to overlooking are on record.
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., is at San Fran.
cisco as the head man among the board of gov
eminent directors of the Union Pacific railroad.
He. with his party, will visit Yosemite, the big
trees, the geysers and otherwise frisk around.
General Fremont and his family G. M. K.
| PaulisOn A limit
rived at Prescott, Arizona Monday afternoon.
Inc general met with warm reception from
the people, and has already been installed az
Governor.
Marfied-At Springfield Ill.,, Mr.. Ephraim
Horton. son of the chief of the gypsies of the
Indian nation, and Miss Merrilla Joles, daueb-
ter of the chief of the gypsies of England.
They are now encamped north of the city, en-
! joying the honeymoon.
| The intense anxiety felt by several leading
Democratic statesmen for the recovery of Sem
| ator Thurman is relieved. Dr. Garrett.
the Senator's physician, says that he really
never came across man with such solid con-
stitution, fol his age, as his patient has.
A beautiful Parisienne, whose husband is a
leader OF the imperialists. fell n,adly in love
with-Gambetta who is almost as ugly as was
that other great Frenchman Mirabeau, wrote a
letter to him passionately avowing her fame,
and-left it on her table, where her husband
found it.
Miss Nellie Thurston, who has made more
than one hundred ascensions in Central and
| Northern New York in the last six wears with
out an accident, assembled from Oneida on Fri
day in gale. In sixty minutes she was safely
landed in Buddington Flats, Otsego county.
sixty-fve miles away.
The head of the international Secret Service
has been arrested in Buffalo as a sw:ndler.
he mad sent out great number of circulars
asking men and boys to become amateur de-
tectives, promising plenty of employment at
high wages, but demanding se in advance as
embership fee" from each.
The vestrymen of Richmond have had live
~ squabble over pauper, who, having entered
himself as Protestant, confessed to tie Cath
Ole priest that visits the union. Finally thew
q Uncovered that the panper, DESTROYS of getting
all the religion be could at the expense of the
parish. was attending the ministrations of both
chaplain and priest.
Lord Dufferin, who gained great repnte FIR
his admirable extemporaneous speeches. realIv
prepares them in advance with great care, and
commits them to memory. After writing.
copying, revising and re. TRANSPORTING three.
four or even five times, he reads and repeats
his periods over slowly, walking up and down
and reciting paragraph by parapranh