Daily globe., 1878-10-11
GLOBELETs.

Alaia, La, has 5 year old girl who weighs
| 100 pounds.
| New York city reduced in debt over s5, ,OOO, ,OoO
in the last year.
| Lumber mills employ IS per cent. more labor
| than -four mills.
About 81, SOC, 900 is invested in manufactures
in Lewiston, Me.
| Marshalltown, Ia, has 500 more scholars than
its schools can accommodate.
| The best article we ever saw on that noblest
| of animals the horse, was covered side-sad-
die.
| President Garrett, of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad, will arrive from Europe on the 18th
| instant.
Ihe subscriptions lately raised for Mario
| will secure to him an annuity of about $50
| per week.
Many beautiful ladies, when walking out, are
angry if they gazed at, and indignant if
| they not
| When woman makes an effort to whistle,
| the great glory of her mouth is seen without
| being heard much.
Fifty years ago 40 per cent. of college g.adu-
ates in the United States became clergymen:
| now the per centage is only IT.
| Five hundred and sixteen deaths, 4S9 births
and l25 marriages were reported to have oc-
CURED in New York, last week
| Boston firm has British order for !, 600
reams Of sand paper. Somebody over there is
going to take bath, apparently.
| Henderson, KY, has hermaphrodite pig
| with blue eyes, the jaw of child, and a snout
| and ears like those of an elephant.
Brother Potter is said to be enjoying domes-
tic ease preparatory to another move upon
| fraud after the November elections
| 1t has been decided at last that it is the lady
| mosquito that does the biting. 1t is the gen
| tleman mosquito that makes the racket around
your ears.
The Germans of Shreveport, La, who sent an
| address of sympathy to the emperor when he
| was shot by Nobiling, have received cordial
| letter of thanks.
| The Chinese at home never 'sgo visiting
When one wants to see his relatives he journeys
| to their abode, puts up at a hotel, and sends
for them to come over and shake hands.
| In the midst of the deep gloom that over
| spreads the South, reports show that the cotton
crop was never more promising. There is now
PAesAiAo
| When a Chinaman makes love to white girl
he doesn't rave about how his heart pants for
her, etc. No. he simply tells her he loves her
| better than he does rats, and she believes him.
George Gorham, secretary of the Republican
| Congressional campaign committee, is quite
| seriously sick with some kind of kidney com
plant. The election returns have nothing to
do with it.
'Here am for you,' were the last words of
Mehemit Ali as he rushed out from the burn
ing tower at Jachova into the midst of his as
sasins. He was ruthlessly cut down with 200
! attendants.
| The talk in St. Louis, Mich, is about Ste
| phen Dodge, exhorter, and one of the pio-
neers OF Gratiot county, who has abandoned
his wife and children, and has eloped with an
| inmate Of the poorhouse.
| Mr.. John Parker, of Louisville, whose father
| died recently in Paterson, n j., leaving him
| $4,000, has written a letter to the executor,
''relinquishing all right to his inheritence, COM
| ing as it did from a man who voted for Lin
| coln.'
| He was getting certificate from the clerk,
and in reply to the usual question, first or
second marriage?" he said: Its my second
| marriage, L III sorry to say, but my wife re-
| quested me to marry again and I'm going to
| do it,
In Michigan town not long ago the busi-
ness affairs of who had suffered loss
through q thieving clerk were put into the
hands of receiver. Now, in this case, it
can't be said that 'the receiver is as bad as the
| thief
| Red-shirted darkeys and even colored women
| In red tippets-the frier the better-salute
| Wade Hampton in crowds as he passes in his
campaigning through South Carolina. An au-
dience of five thousand, all colored people,
greeted him at Donneau's on Thursday night of
| last week.
In Brazil all males over 81, be they white or
black, and all civilized Indians who have ar
rived at the majority, are allowed the right of
suffrage. traveller reports that elections are
conducted with seeming fairness and without
| any evidences of excitement or Of partisan
| bitterness.
The jealous woman in New Jersey who con-
splred with an over-compiiant postoffice clerk
| to intercept and open her husbands letters,
has put him and herself into the clutches of
| the law. Both have been convcted-and the
WolhiI5 ID " OLe women VINO 6uS-
pect their 'sworser' halves Of improper goings-
The late Colonel Kinioch Falconer, secretary
OF State for Mississippi, went from Jackson to
Holly Springs, his native town, to help his
friends and family in their hour of trouble.
His father died. and then his brother and then
he himself was stricken. He served in the
confederate army on the staff of General Jo-
seph +. Johnston.
John Brougham has suffered severe bereave-
ment. His wonderful parrot which for many
years has been his companion and friend, sue
| cumbed on Thursday to Illness and when his
master returned from meeting of the mem
bers of the Dramatic Fund, he found him stiff
and stark at the bottom of his cage. The old
actors attachment for the bird is well-known.
nj. d. Conway writes from London that Mr..
Edward Trueiove, imprisoned four months for
selling Malthusian pamphlet by Robert Dale
Owen, had welcome on his release from prison
which will not have failed to make its impress
| sion. 1ir. Trueloye is one of the most yenera-
BILE booksellers in London. He is a man of not
only unblemished character, but of singularly
modest manners and unaggressive temper.
Mrs. q. u. Deihm, the New York lady who
owns the Centennial safe,'' "a wonderful
repository, which, being shut and sealed on
the I'D of next February, Washington's birth
day, will be kept closed for exactly one hundred
years. has been in Washington to pay her re-
spects to Mrs. Hayes. The Presidents wife
will contribute the inkstand and pen for the
safe-with which the eight to seven commits
sion signed their verdict.
What are called the Princess Mary's Village