Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-09
GLOBELETS.

At the Cincinnati musical festival the ladies
will be required to take off their hats and
bonnets.
| The Queen of the Bclgian5 handles the rib
bons over pony four-in-hand with great ex-
pertness.
The manufacture of paper and cloth from the
| California cactus is likely to become an I'M
portant industry.
Paper chimney pots are made in Bresau.
The pulp is treated with chemicals and so ZEN
dered non-infiam mable
The fruit crop for the United States of 1877
amounted in value to 5i4O,O DOC. COO. or about
one-half of the outcome from cereals.
He that hath yaws to yaw, let him yaw.'
Is, according to Truth, the pronunc!ation
OF rltnalistic Clergyman in London
Horse thieves are becoming so bold in the
neighboThood of Fort Fetterman Wyomiro
Territory, that vigilance committee is pro-
posed.
Twins born recently in Peoria. H.. hare been
named James Blaine and Robert Ingersoll. The
parents to have been disguised with their
offspring.
Bishop McCoskry has withdrawn his rcsigna-
ton of his episcopate, and has retained Alfred
Russell. of Detroit counsel in the event of 3
trial by a court of bishops
The Moffett bell-punch has been introduced
IN Louisiana. The tariff or every drink is Il
, quarter OF cent. 1t is expected to yield .
revenue of $500, 000annuallv.
lhe United States of America Will know no
peace TIL the government plants LIE Dac-Chi-
e"9o 1"ees. But suppose there should be an
other crop of him. Horrible thought.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines is nominated by the
, Knoxville, Tenn, Tribune for the vacant iud-e
ship of the court of claims. Certainly Mrs.
Gaines knows something about claims.
jackson: the Massachusetts member of last
year international rife team, has recently
made twenty consecutive bull's-eyes and oIS
OUT OF possible 20 at SOC, SEQ and coo yards
MIR. Whitelaw Reid has purchased s2s. GOO
J., house on Lexington avenue in New York.
boston Post And now ali the girls in Vassar
college lie awake of nights, bordering the ques-
g tion Can it be ne:''
Senator Francis Herman, of New York is said
to aspire to the next Democratic nomination
1of N4ce-President, on a ticket headed by Hem
bricks The anti-Tiiden party in New York
, are reported to favor Herman
1 The cashier OF the Credit Foncior bank Of St.
d Petersburg has been arrested for lnisapprouri-
ating 81, 375000 of the reserve capital and sDc-
, Gle. And now all the bank cashiers in America
are dying in despair OF ever being able t.
l rival the operations of the Russian financier.
+ Pittsburgh company offers to light the
g streets of that city with powerful rejecting
g lanterns placed OH adjacent hills. The COM
b pany ask no pay other than what can be de
e rived from the use of the discarded lamp posts
o as standards for revolving advertising drums
e farmer in New York has discovered that
u potatoes may be kept from three to five wears
: by buryins them in the earth from three to six
, feet. He says they good the third year
i as when first put III the ground, and thinks
o. | they could be saved five years without diff
q Guilty.
# Peter Cooper has been sued by Wallace p
Groom for $4,000 for Islander. The case is TO o
e tired IN Brooklyn. Groom claims that Mr.
4 Cooper published a letter setting forth that he
II gave Mr.. Groom 81, 900 to be used for election
t purposes, and that Mr.. Groom did rot use tho
money for that purpose.
!. The female anaconda in the London ZooIor-
i zeal gardens taken thithcr from Africa in
o. 1876 Since then she has eaten nothing until
e YOUR duck. A convention of American
e clearinghouse keepers have resolved 10 adopt
e the anaconda as their emblem.
y The great Penobscot gold mine near Helena
= :, Montana was sold by its discoverer for $500
0OO. He had refused an offer of $500 600, and
- was hesitating over the larger sum, when his
II wife SAID, Take it, Nathan; it is much more
J., than we shall ever want Nathan. whose other
o name is Vestal, took it. Sensible woman. Mrs. Y.
d Your standing in this Office is that of an hon
e est capable and efficient officer Thus writes
l. the commissioner of internal revenue to IIol
10 den. collector of internal revenue in the sixth
Kentucky district, Mt the game time su1nmariIv
dlsmissing Holden to make room for a friend
"a of Judge Harlan. Lo9g live civil service re-
s form.
l. Mrs. Phoebe Robertson has obtaincda verdict
n for 900 damages i'll libel suit againsc the
h HcJuN, the Objectionable matter being an adj
n vertisement follows: THE blacknailing
q crowd in West Twenty-ffth street had better
n be cautious. 81 and So at the houses thus
u numbered Mrs. Robertson keeps 4 boarding.
= mouse. A trial has been granted on a
technical point.
! A duke of Saxe-1Neimar visited this country
/ III loAo. anu "rOt2 DOCK aDOut his travels.
t In describing the journey from New Orleans TO
= st. Louis he says 'We accom- plished Il distance
1t of $50 miles in less than thirteen DAYS against
u the current which before the introduction of
the steamboat required at least three months,
= a new testimony Of the Importance Of this
noble discovery. so honorable to the human in
. tellect." The duke lived to see the time when
the rate of travel which pleased him so greatly
would have been thought aboninably slow
Mark Hopkins, the late San Francisco mil
g lionaire, is said to have died from the result of
agitation. on a night when Kearney made an
e exceedingly infamnatory speech to an audience
whose yells reached Mr. Hopkins'5 ears. Hop
kins was building house that was to cost sew
eral mill ions of dollars. The next morning he
stopped the work, as he could not feel justified
,, IN going on with expensive house which
might be burned down by mob before the
q finishing touches were put upon il. That reso-
l., luton caused 200 mechanics to be thrown out
O of work. The house has been untouched to
l. this day.
" There seems to have been some little mac
II curacy about the statement, published some
n time ago. that Char. es Robert O'Keefe died
L in February, 1876 in Victoria street, Alahabad
l. and that Messrs. Darlington 6 Whiglev, attor-
neys at law, at Calcutta. were advertising for
:. heirs to his estate, which was estimated as
= amounting to s24 ,0O00G0 The American con-
= sui at Calcutta, having received many letters in
q reference thereto, made an investigation. with
: the following result: No man of the name OF
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