Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-01
GLuBELETs.

GLuBELETs.
1he sultan of Zanzibar has a cocosnut pianta-
ton OF $4,000 trees, all bearing.
Boys in Alaska do not 90 barefooted after the
first of November. 1t ia the cu,tom of tba
country.
The climate of England and the exposure to
salt water have caused Cleoptra's needle to
show disposition to crumble
Speaker Randall and family will occupy
their residence on Capitol hill. Washington.
about the middle of next month.
Commodore Garrison and his young bride
are preparing to give series of sat homes at
their Park avenue. New York. residence.
Little Mac addressed 25.O1O Democrats in
Philadelphia Saturday night. Thought the
Democratic party dead.
MIR. J. Cheever Goodwin author of "Eyanre-
line" and other popular musical exsravsganzs.,
was married last week to Mias Ida B. briggs, of
Boston.
society and subscription lat have been
started in London to encourage the planting of
the salubrious plane tree in all the suburbs of
the city.
In some English coal-pits it is found neces-
sary to force down $50, 900 cubic feee of fresh
| air every minute to supply the needs of the
workmen.
Boston Post: The French government want
to make the Rhone navigahle from Geneva to
the seq. We don't believe it can be did. But
| then. that's their Rhone business
The royal court of Jersey has decided that
Lord Lyndhurst's law, making illegal marriage
with a deceased wife's sister, not having
been registered in the island. is of no effect
there.
May-day in Paris cores on the sth of Oc-
t"ber; that liz the day selected by small tenants
for moving. Within the limits this year there
were OH that day 7l47 removals and 5,7s2
movings in.
woman at Burlington, VT. recently tied
the hands of her little son behind his back
and chained him to the hit ching post before
the house for an hour or more because of some
petty fault.
Robert Bronson owned property worth half
| million twelve years ago. Lately he was buried
| in the potter's field OF Terre Haute, Ind. Dis
astrous speculation led him to poverty and
| dependency.
New Orleans boy was flying his kite. Tho
tail got entansled in q telegraph wire The
| telegraph wire pulled down part of chimney
One of the bricks struck Mrs. Arbo. Mrs.
| Arbo may die.
The Emperor of Russia and the Ameer of
Cabul are DESTROYS of pooling issues. The only
| trouble bruin is that the tail wants to wag the
| bear, which the latter considers piece of bear
faced impudencc.
Being unable to make their wedding cake 20
around tit stood four feet above Its pedestal)
Mr.. and Mrs Isaac Bell, Jr., had it pho.o-
graphed before they went to Europe and sent
copies to their friends.
| The alcaide Of Salto, in the Argentine re-
| public, recently seized tie village BARRIERS
| scissor's for debt, and the unhappy man had to
scrape along with his razor only for some days
| till the shears restored to him.
| On Nov. IA the French academy will elect
successor to NJ, de Lomenie. The two candi-
dates with any chance of success are NJ. Taine,
well known for his works on England, and tho
Due dAudiffret-Pasquier, president of the
| Senate.
| few months ago the city of Cera, Vene-
zuela, was destroyed by earthquake. 1t is
now about to be rebuilt, but upon an entirely
new site in the plain below, where several vii
| lagos escaped unscathed, while every town on
! the hillside overthrow.
Monsignor Dupanloup's death brings the
number of vacant seats in the French Senate
| up to ten. OF these eight belonged to repre-
sentatives of departments and two to life Sen
ators. Within three years the upper chamber
has lost thirty of it's members.
/ L.
GAINESVILLE, Wis, to marry Miss Foster, but he
CHANGED TO meet Miss Cobbe. whom he had
once known aud loved, and straightway mar
ried her, leaving Miss Foster and her wedding
guests TO wait in vain for his coming
Twelve years ago Deacon Benson, of Fort
| Wayne Ind, man of 4S, worth 100000.
| He speculated, lost money, became passenger
conductor, then a saloon-keeper, then {. street
car driver, then pauper. Last week he died
in the hospital and was buried in potters
! field.
| young woman in Leon, Texas, was engaged
| to be married That did not deter her from
clipping with second lover; but she was speed
| lily overtaken by the frat lover, with whom she
| went obediently to clergyman and was joined
| in wedlock, the second lover returning homo
| "ifele,s.
In August the National wave struck Mem
| phis, and Radical Workingman-independ
| Greenback ticket was elected. All the new
oficisls-sheriff, judge of the criminal court,
and chancellor-diel of the yellow fever, and
the vacancies have been filed by the appoint
| ment of Democrats
| Georgia boasts of a citizen who has never
| taken drink of liuuor nor had sncIl of sick
ness, never smoked a cigar nor taken chew of
tobacco, never ate an animal that could climb
Il tree, nor anything that could live in the wa
| ter or bnrrow in the ground, nor anything that
was cooked by negro.
The yellow fever pestilence has afforded per-
sons who desire to do so chance to be thought
lead, for it was easy to get their names on the
death roll. Many fugitives from justice are
known to have endeavored in that way to stop
pursuit One of these was the defauiteng
| treasurer of Bloomington, ILL.,
| Among the scanty recommendations of Cy-
| prus il the quality of its 10000 mules which
| are considered the finest bred in the levant, and
have been much used of late in the Eastern war
| operations. There are $1,000 asses in tie
island. and only about 4 600 horses, i'll looking,
| hardy little ponies. Horned cattle are few but
| sheep abound.
! The late e1-Un;ted States Senator John s.
| Garlic, of West Virginia, Independent
! Republican. He served in the Virginia State
Senate from lS47 to 1854 and was member of
| the constitute nal convention in 1850. He was
elected to the national House in 1855, opposed
secession and in the Senate from West Vir-
/ RI fha