Daily globe., 1878-07-20
GLOBELETs.

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Boston, has just stolen 800, 600 from railway
company.
Schuyler Colfax smilingly declines to be-
come the Greenback candidate for Congress in
his district.
Senator Eaton says that the New York re.
moyals Wild be regular administration of
boomerang.
California expects an increase of $4,000 0on
from her wheat crop this year. Better than
her gold miues
1t is hoped that the right reverend bishop of
Georgia will become crack shot. He has ioin-
ed the Atlanta life team.
Chicago is advocating the buildine of re-.
tormatory for high-toned female drunkards of
whom there are large number in that wicked
city.
The Princess of Wales and her brother. the
heir to the throne of Denmark are hard of
nearing. They can turn deaf ear to any ap-
peals.
Buchu Helmbold's petition for release from
the Philadelphia lunatic asylum has been de-
MED, the judge holding that he was liable TO
sudden freaks of insanity
Chace, the Fall River defaulter is peeine no-
tatoes IN the Massachusetts, penitentiarv. and
oy that means he manages 10 chase the glowing
hours with flying scullery knife.
The empress of Germany sent an autooranh
letter to Gen. Grant, expressing the emperor's
regret that he had been unable to receive the
ex-President during his stay at Berlin.
The educational institutions of New Zealand
are magnifcently endowed with lands which
ultimately make them very wealthy. Fully
600,00j acres are altogether set aside for this
purpose.
Miss May Fower, of Edinburgh Ind. lost
her speech several months ago, and has lust
| recovered 1t through the accidental swallowing
OF piece of ice. She is now making up for
lost time.
The Shah of Persia during his late residence
IN Paris received 540O letters asking sums of
from hfty to three millions francs, either as
gifts or loans. The money aggregated fifty
| million francs.
Three Chinese students had applied for ad-
mission to Harvard. but since the defeat of ths
eight-oared crew by Cornell they have with
drawn their application. They demand a
| higher grade of scholarship.
| Professor Agassiz, of Harvard college. has
built large laboratory on the very verge of
the ocean at Newport. Here he will have sew
eral pupils, who will pursue regular course
of scientific study through the summer
| months
/ Washington's will is kept in "a glass case in
the office of the clerk of Fairfax county. Va.
The writing has almost faded away, and the
paper is so frail that it will not bear handling
Frail woman's WILL however. is so strong that
nothing can break it.
Bars of pure gold, weighing twenty ounces
each have been plowed up at or near Lexiug
ton, n c., to the value of some $4,000 IT
| is supposed to be the proceeds of a stage rob-
| berry committed some forty-fve wears ago.
| when the thieves hid the metal
Napoleon's ex-ministero Of finance, NJ. Pierre
Magne (who did not die month ago, though
the cable said he did, is dangerously i'll, his
disease being aggravated by the death of his
son in June, and three weeks later that of that
sons daughter, beautiful girl of nineteen.
The Governor of the province of Brabant. on
! opening the provincial council, few days ago
deplored the increase of drunkenness conse-
quent upon the increase of public houses
Their number was in 1877 Is, ,i90, or one for
every sixty-two inhabitants of all ages in the
| province.
The newspapers all speaking about s'tho
hot spell" There only four letters in it,
| A Taunton mill hand lost his hand in the
machinery, and friend, while going about
with Inscription paper in his behalf had his
arm crushed off. rather un-handsome way
of doing things.
The Sultan lately gave reception to n corps
of Sisters of Charity sent to his army by tho
Queen of Saxony, on which occasion he
thanked them for their courage and devotion,
and presented each with medal. Coffee and
sherbet we're served, and Osman Pasha pre-
sented each with $3.50.
Letters from st. Petersburg state that there
are at least $4,000 sick soldiers in the Russian
armies OF Europe and Asia. Typhoid, small
pox and dysentery are the principal maladies.
Surgeons are very scarce. Sixty-two are re-
ported lately as having died, and one hundred
have reached home broken in health
1t was thirteen years ago that Dennison
| Crandall was left for dead by robbers in Brook
field, n Y, and his wife killed. but he re-
membered the faces of his murderers so well
tha', recently, he identified one of them on
sight. The man had hoped that, after SO many
years, he nightly safely return to that part of
the country.
belong to the Episcopal church, and never
took dollar without vowing on my knees never
| to do SO again. Then. at length, when | could
not Withstand the temptation any longer, |
would VOW to do it once more, and then quit.
| l never went to bed without saying my prayers
and the same when [ arose. Confession of the
thieving assistant postmaster of La Porte, Ind.
The golden marriage of Duke Maximillian of
Bavaria and Duchess Ludovica father and
mother of the empress of Austria and of the
ex-queen of Naples, viii be celebrated on the
9th of September. In 1879 the golden mar
riage of the emperor of Germany will be cele-
brated on the 11th of June and the silver
marriage of Marshal de MacMabon on the 14th
of March.
During the past year, the experimental de-
partment of agriculture at Washington. dis
tributed over 10000 tea plants grown in the
greenhouse of the department. Three hundred
pounds of the seed of this plant have been
lately sown, with view to extensive distribu-
ton in the Southern States. It's cultivation
will afford field for the EN- mployment of Chi
nese cheap labor.
Two prisoners in the Jail at Newcastle, Ind.
worked together in digging through the wall of
their cell. One was lean and the other was fat.
The hole was made large enough for the lean
man to squeeze through and then, as the labor
was hard and slow, he refused to remain and
enlarge the opening, but escaped at once. The
fat man was detected and secured. Moral:
If You re fat, never take lean partner.
The age marches on. On Saturday, Ramp-
ton, Virginia, courthouse saw Constable VIII
liams, a full-blooded ex slave, lash with the