Daily globe., 1878-12-30
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hair and double chin.
Sweet cider, even if just from the press, i.
condemned by the Massachusetts Total Abb
stinence society.
The English government has decided to try
the electric light on a large scale at the London
general postofice.
Boston physician of very large practice
says that he has never known it to be so sickly
in that city as now.
In the house. of the English mobiles tIord
Of misrule" was appointed in former times to
ouperintend the revels.
barman sentenced lately to fine of
S100 In England for obtaining situation by
means of false character.
Funeral obsequies' ia a vi1lainous phrase
Disraeh used it in that famous first speech
which the commons refused to hear.
1t is said that si1ty-two Russian officers
among them two eenerals-are engaged in
strengthening the defenses of Cabul.
George Washington will be hanged at Louis
vile on the 2lst of February, which will here
after be known Washington's deathday.
went into store OF Lincoln, Neb-,
and twisted the ear of a cat. but was promptly
kicked into the street by an extemporized s. P.
G. A.
1t took just seven months and one day for
certain letter to go by mail from Springfield.
Mo-, to Boston. 1t contained valuable remit
tances.
Miss Elizabeth Lewis has Just died at Ham
burg, N. j., after continued illness of thirty
years, caused by accidental poisoning with
arsenic.
Disturbances are feared in Venezuela and
the various consuls have requested their gov
ernmentsto send ships of war to protect their
subjects.
1t is proposed in Chicago to appoint an ele-
vator inspector, whose duty it shall be to see
that the elevators in use throughout the city
in safe condition.
Times are hard in Egypt and a good many
people out of work, consequently the khedive
has consented TO cut down his family allow
ance to 81 500, 600 year.
There are now ,4S7 kilometres of subterran-
telegraph lines in Germany. The longest
lire is that from Strasburg to Kiel, distance
of 1878 Kilometres say 76O miles.
The young men of Fourmies, France, have
formed a club where it is not permitted to
sp ak French, but all conversation must be
ca ried on in English German.
The remains of the grandmother of De Witt
Clinton are buried in neglected graveyard
| nes Napanoch, Ulster county, N. Y. Several
81 yes near it were washed out by the recent
food.
The Mississippi State board of health has
as led the Governor to call a special session of
til legislature but the vicksbure. Herald pro
te is against it, saying that one scourge sea-
sol is enough.
st Portland. Me-, the other night. the police
de cended on bar room and found two colored
wo men, raked to the waist, fighting according
to the P. r. rules, in the presence of a large
audience of men.
BY the LIST of February the day will lengthen
to ten hours and eight minutes and the change
will then be noticeable. 1t is an old saying
that ''when the days begin to lengthen the
col begins to strengthen"
Miss Catharine Wiggin, spinster, of Queen
Anne's mansions Westminster" adye rtises
that hereafter she will adopt the name of Sum
ner, that being the surname of her great uncle,
General William Sumner, of Boston, o. s. a
Charles Ross, of East Lansing, N. Y, put
couple of small cartridges in his tobacco box
for safe keeping, and, forgetting them, filled
his pipe from the box. He now wears a plas-
ter over his right eye to cover bullet mark.
At st. Andrews church, at Montreal, on Sun
day, a strong woman carried, in Il birch basket
lined with silk, Mrs. William McNuty's trip
let's, dressed in red, white and blue forward to
the communion table, at which they were bap-
tized Louise, Lorne and Victor.
fIrs. Hamilton, of Portsmouth, N. H., died
one day last week of diphtheria, and two hours
afterwards, while the undertaken was laying
her out, in the same room her little child died
of the same disease, suffering fearful agony by
suffocation, his hair actually standing on end.
A gas clock has been placed on exhibition in
England. The motive power is hydrogen gas
produced by the action of sulphurlc acid and
water in zinc globe. AS the gas is generated
it raises glass bell cover, which as it rises
moves a lever that controls the hands of the
clock.
The irrepressible conflict between the school
mistress and the big boy has broken out for
the season of 1888 at Stanbridge, Quebec,
where he attacked her with q clasp knife and
she had to fly for her life. The school mistress
at Walden, VT, practices revolver shooting at
recess.
They boast up in New Hampshire of an ex-
teacher a lady who is good English, French.
and Latin scholar, who is now engaged in tree
culture. She was recently seen telling trees
and chopping them up into four foot lengths.
In all of her operations she refuses the help Of
tue robuster sex"
An interesting trophy has just been presented
to museum at Berne, consisting of a cam
paign alarm clock, which once belonged to the
Duke of Cumberland, and was captured on
the field of Fontenoy by officer of the Swiss
Guard, in whose family it was kept until quite
recently as an heirloom
Mr.. Cranston, of Floyd county, Ga, mar
ried in 1872, deserted his wife in 1874 and 60
ing to Tennessee married another woman, and
was killed in railroad accident. His second
wife sued the company for damages, and, his
history having come out, the question is raised
whether she the wife deserted in Georgia
should conduct the suit.
'Just to see him kick was the excuse given
for his crime by Arkansas murderer, who.
however, outdone in GOODNESS by H. De-
boffe, of lie Pas-de-Calais, France, who cut
woman into fifteen pieces, and when the iuae
dinst,uction confronted him with the CHASTITY
remains said, That's the woman, but find
her a good deal changed
A San Francisco paper suggests that the
people on the Pacific coast shall break down
the Pacific Mail and overland railroad monopo.
lies by encouraging shipments to New York by
way of Magellan straits. The time, it says,
will not exceed sixty days. which is not more