Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-01
GLOBELETS.


he must register before going to the pole.
Weston, desiring to register one more failure
against his name, has again challenged
O'Leary.
BY the death of Alderman Shannon, of
Brooklyn, the council of that city becomes a
tie on political questions.
Invitations will be extended st. Paul. Mil
waukee and Chicago aquatic clubs to unite in
q contest at Madison, Wis, in June
Ex-Attorney General Alphonso P. Taft, has
been nominated by the Republican convention
OF ONO for judge of the supreme court.
Alexander Stephens. says an exchange, fell
down sherry cobbler straw the other day, and
was rescued only after considerable difficulty
The Chicago Times remarks that it is some
what curious coincident that the same State
produced the bell punch and Beverly Doug
las.
The peach growers of Maryland and Della
ware claim that the recent cold snap will cause
a very light crop of peaches this fall, if not a
total failure.
When Haverly's Ministries were in Piqua, O.,
the other day, they visited the cemetery, and
the band played dirge over the grave of the
comedian, Billy Manning.
Thirteen thousand persons signed the Muir
ply pledge in Washington city, but sad to re-
late, there was not Congressman in the num-
Der, and but few drunkards.
Louise Pomeroy has taken new husband.
What with Pomeroy, Claxton and others, roam
ing about the country seeking VICTIM man
never knows when he is safe.
Only one revolutionary chief of any promi-
nence remains in arms in the eastern depart
ment of Cuba, it is said. His followers num-
Der about four hundred, and are mostly blacks.
Jim Howe bore the failure of his speech
against Hayes with becoming fortitude but
now that the rhymster of the Chicago Tribune
has gone to work upon his name he is as one
without hope.
''Spuds" and 'Sprats" are the pet names by
which the future king of England and his
brother, the sons of the Prince of Wales, are
called by their irreverent shipmates on the
training-ship.
Mrs. Electra B. Smith, the plucky little post
mistress at Sterling, ILL.,, it is announced from
Washington, has succeeded in getting Hayes
promise to withdraw the name of j. NJ Patter-
son, nominated to the Office and retain her
Gen. Butler was asked lately by newspaper
man if he had heard the news. What news?"
said he. Il suppose you refer to Senator
Howe's speech, do you? Well, there is nothing
new in that: it is only u batch of id stale
facts well stated
An officer of the United States navy has in
vented new internal machine of the torpedo
order, which has SO recommended itself to Sec
rotary Thompson, that he has induced the
House naval committee to agree to report bill
giving the inventor $50, 600 for the sole use of
his patent.
Senator Dorsey, of Arkansas, is just now in
the anxious seat regarding an affair of many
contractors bonds said to have been signed in
blank, in violation of law, through his instru-
mentality. Like Blaine, however, he has u con-
Venlent brother upon whom he is attempting
to saddle the wrong doing.
When Miss Sherman becomes the wife of Don
Cameron she will also become the step-mother
OF seven little Dons and Donnas. The eldest
hopeful that she will thus acquire is Young
lady two years older than her prospective NAM
ma. That house will soon be rendezvous for
Wi makers.
fayorlte hymn at meetings held in the in
terest Of colored emigration to Liberia is the
following:
. wants to go!
/ wants to go!
| wants to go dere, too!
wants to go to the blessed land above
Whar won't hab nothin' to do"
Judge Mann, of Milwaukee, has just rendered
decision of interest to wheat option dealers
and spectators. suit was brought on a note
gwen tor Margins and payment resisted on the
ground that it was gambling But the court
held that the note was good in the hands of a
third party and must be paid. An appeal is to
be taken to the supreme court.
Sergeant Bates is not the biggest fool this
country has produced. Mr.. Elan Potter dis
counts Bates in this respect. On the Sd of
April Potter Is announced to start with wheel
barrow from Albany for pedestrian trip to
California. The trip is long one, however,
ana tramps will be very numerous about
that time and-fatal accidents do sometimes
| occur when these gentry around.
Mr.. Gladstone has regretfully declined the
invitation of the Alumni of Yale to deliver an
| address before the graduates at the next COM
mencement, not because of the pressure of bus
mess, nor yet because he is in ill-health, nor
yet because of the perils of the sea Though he
is very bad sailor, but because he does not
think himself equal to the effort of visiting
America and of encountering its busy and pre-
eminently sympathizing life.
The story is told of the present Pope, when
| legate to Brussels, that thinking marquis
| had the audacltY at one time to call his atten-
ton to shockingly immodest Venus which was
| painted in the maruuis' snuff hoy with the
purpose of disconcerting the clerical dignitary.
Mgr. Pecci examined critically, without any APP
| parent suspicion of its indecency, and handed
1t back to the marquis, remarking quietly:
Beautiful very beautiful. The marchioness,
Isuppose?''
| 1t is probable that the aforementioned but
never individual, the oldest inhabitant,
has at last been found. The scientists of New
Grenada in South America, are excited over
| the discovery of lf-breed, Miguel Soils, who
Is SAID to have attained the age of $50 years.
Gray-headed men have borne testimony to the
! TACT that Miguel was reputed centenarian
when they were boys. The name of Miguel
Soils appears in list still preserved of the
ciscan monastery founded in 1712, and the Abb
| bot is positive it is the same man.
1t is probable that at the Paris exposition
there Will be the largest representation of ma
| tlonalltIes ever assembled since the dispersion
| from Babel. The latest arrival hrs been that
| OF an embassy fiom the Annamites, nation
occupying the territory between Siam and the
China sea. AMMAN is $50 miles in length and
Is an absolute monarchy. Their costume is de-
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