Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-26
GLOBELETS.


vada newspaper.
1t is dangerous business 10 write a life of
Goethe. George Henry Lewes wrote one, and
is now dead. Bayard Taylor is another vic
tim.
Mr. Wheeler says that the ..yice-President i.
a mere cipher. That Is certainly what they
used to say of him when he was running for
office.
Edwin NJ. Stantons only sister Mrs VOL
colt, the widow of Gen. WolcotI, formerly at
torney general of Ohio. is to have a clerkship
in the war department.
AS the Hebrews have declined to receive Mrs.
Stewards $3.50, the best thing she can do with
that money now IS TO give it to some young
man who will take it and start amorning news
paper in Minneapolis.
The horse on which Gen. Sheridan made his
famous ride from Winchester, and which died
short time ago, has been skillfully prepared
by a taxidermist, and is now on Governors
island, where it will be kept
The Louisiana legislature will elect sue
cessor to Senator Eustis Jan. Is, as his term
expires March 4. As Mr.. Eustis has done much
good work IN the Senate, and is very popular,
his reelection is probable.
1t is understood that Grant has been observ-
ing the workings of the American tariff very
closely during his stay abroad, and that he has
found one very Objectionable feature of the
systematic export duty whisky.
Mr.. Gladstone has daughter who is famil-
lar with the place of every work in his library
and the run of its contents. When he desiresa
reference, she instantly fetches the book need
ed, and points TO the passage required.
The time will come when you won't have to-
leave the theatre between the acts to go out and
see man Edison is experimenting on
waves of light sent through the telephone, and
says that 'before year will make you see .
thousand miles away
One man got his money out of tho t. busted
Cincinnati bank. Says the Covington COM
,nonlreat3h: John Schroll, circuit clerk of
Campbell county, deposited $1,000 In Adae's
bank some time age Yesterday he went to
the bank and demanded his money, at the sans
| time presenting pistol at the cashiers head
He got the money.
The appropriation of 5450,000 to meet a &C.
feienoy for postai-car service was due to the
extravaganza of the postoffice department and
its unlawful extension of the postal mail SER
vice not less than As per cent. The House al
lowed $3.50 600 extra last winter for this SER
vice. which would have been ample for the
| necessary increase of lines under iudicioug
management.
A new species of scandal haze turned up In
England. lady of rank in London undertook
to pay u bridesmaids bill by presenting his
wife at court, honor of which she was most
ambitious. At the last moment the chamber
lain found out who she was and refused to re-
oeive her. The lady says she performed her
part of the condition. Tho tradesman has
sued for his bill
Funeral services were in progress over the
remains of a young woman in Pittsburgh, and
among the persons present was the physician
who had attended her. Suddenly his wife
dashed into the house, approached the cofiin
excitedly declared that her husband had loved
the dead woman, and threatened to scratch his
eyes out if he dared go near the body She was
forcibly elected.
The large increase of population in the South
and West, during the last ten years, will give
those sections much larger representation in
resentatives in 1882 will be 1886, instead of 2O2.
The New England States have suffered quite D
decrease of population. The South and West
may, really, have to cut down New England
representation in few years.
Miss Callahan, who WAS prosperous miIIiner
in Boston, married Patrick Cain, who was a,
lazy loafer. The match was not liked by the
young woman's family, and her brother John,
who was passionately fond of her, brooded
over the matter until his hatred of Cain be-
came mania. AT last he went into the coup
les bedroom at night, shot Cain Eour times az
he lay asleep and then killed himself Cain Ia
recovering.
The recent brutal outrage and murder of Il.
little girl at st. Gall and the murder of two,
ladies in their own house by Il burglar at Often,
arc increasing the agitation in Switzerland for
the restoration Of capital punishment. Several
papers of German Switzerland threaten that.
unless the federal constitution be modified in
this sense, the people will take the punishment
Of murderers into their own hands,
There has long been mystery thrown around
the early antecedents of Miss Mary Ann Evans,
better known by her pseudonyme Of George
Our Native Land in Mr.. ". Andrews Hull
(England) lHtsceIlany, that she is the daughter
of the late Mr.. Robert Evans, bailiff to Lord
Howe and to Sir Roger Newdegate. at Cotow,
near Nuneaton, Warwickshire. and sister t" Mr..
Isaac 2. Evans, who now holds the same posi- =
ton.
1t is charged that Mr.. Blaine has on hand q
scheme to destroy Grants chances for the Re
publican nominate in 1880. II is to recon-
slider the vote of last session placing Gen.
Grant the retired list The motion to re-
consider entered in time by Mr.. Teller, at
the request of Mr.. Blaine and Don Cameron.
1t can be taken up at any time. and Blaine de-
sires to do it when majority can be obtained
for the measure. He has to be cautious, for it
is not desirable to make martyr of Grant.
An order has been issued by the commits
sioner of patents directing that all patents
shall be dated on the day on which they
are delivered from the office, instead of two
weeks previous, as heretofore. 1t has been
customary to date letters patent on the Tues
day following the Friday on which the final
fee is paid although two weeks elapse before
they issue, during which time the papers are
printed. There will be no patents issued from
December Gath to January LIST.
A letter has just been put in evidence n
court in Boston, written when James Buchan-
an was President, which probably tells how
near "Old Jeems'' ever came to making love to
woman. The writer was lady who kept a
select school in Washington in those sleepy
days before the Wiz, and went to the President
to solicit his influence in getting pupils. Blu
chanan promised to aid her, walked vii her
to the door, and kissed his hand to her as she