Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-17
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to be brought out in London. It ia founded On
the story of Andrea" and to be called "a
Brave Wolf
The Countess of Rosebury had wedding
cake three stories high and weighing over a
hundred pounds. The new spring bonnet has
been named after her.
Rrhe Chinese residents of the Hawaiian island.
have contributed 1000 for the relief of their
starving countrymen at home. Thi. is not
illiberal for the ''heathen.''
sailing car is used for pleasure on the Kan
sas Pacific railroad. It is sloop-rieped, haa
four wheels, and will run forty miles an hour
when the wind is favorable.
The demand from China and the East Indies
for silver was light last month, and the treasure
exports from San Francisco in consequence
amounted only to s2,G75,ss6.
A Muscatine, Iowa, man, who has had no
tidings of his father for thirty-seven years,
found him last week occupying a responsible
government clerkship at Washington.
The Partisan Spiritualists have te,n ce!e-
bratlng the ninth anniversary of the death of
their founder, Allan Kardec. Their distinctive
tenet Is belief IN tic t1s ns migration Of souls.
In Colorado Springs, where the English elc-
ment Is strong enough to influence habit and
custom, the newspapers announce "hirths''
| with the deaths and marriages, as is good usage
| in England.
Bismarck has obtained permission from the
Riechstag to prosecute Herr Won Ludwig
parliamentary eccentricity, for having said in
committee that 1.-THE house now and then has q
| lucid interval
The hrst exhibitor at the Paris exposition,
| hr. Adams, OF the English section having got
hls goods all ready to expose to public view was
comrllmented by the authorities with bou-
quet and banquet.
| The number of employees of the Wisconsin
legislature, at the late session, was l53, twenty
! mare than the whole number Of members, and
the amount OF money expended in the pay
ment of the same was S25, S74S7
Crop reports from eli parts of the Northwe est
tell but one story regarding the outlook for
winter and spring wheat bigger acreage and
a finer show above ground than ever before
| known at this season of the year.
The retirement Of Rear-Adiniral Morrar, in
! the course of the present month, makes va
cancy in that grade for Commodore r. II.
| Wyman, who mag be designated the founder Of
the photographic Office in Washington.
The public schools Of Frederick city and
county, Maryland have been closed until Sep.
TENDER next, owing to a lack of funds. Up
wards of 1900 children will thus be deprived
of educational facilities for five months.
The iron bridge which spans the Des Moines
river at Lehigh Iowa. which has been built at
great expense to the county, has been declared
unsafe to cross upon, owing to the giving-away
of the abutInents, which rest upon sandy
soil.
| pair of pet white rats in Saginaw Mich,
are the happy parents of three filters within
nine weeks. Five weeks after the first five
were born seven more appeared and four weeks
later an addition OF nine applied for rations
Twenty in all,
Joseph Jefferson has patented the Sleast OBJ
jectionable form of n theatrical advertisement:
He has found an old blind fisherman in Lou
isiana bayou, become interested in him, and
sent him to New Orleans to be treated BY q
leading occnlist.
Tie Rev. Mr.. Mackonochie, the London
rituaist, threatens to disregard the DEGREES of
the courts with respect to services at st. Al
bans, HoLborn, aud has been notified that if he
carries out his threat he will be sent to tho
house of correction.
or the -, i34, 1872 Of exports from Philadel-
, phia to foreign countries during the month of
March, So, 153, 57i was carried in foreign bot
toms, and only s99O,558 in Americana pro-
tective tariff having pretty nearly swept Amer
lean vessels from the Atlantic ocean.
III.
Papa Zach Chandler gave him 100000 for q
) wedding present; and at the advent of every
grandchild check for $4,000 ia forthcoming
to be placed to the credit Of the child as the
nucleus of its future fortune. Babies are
never univ elcome in that household.
. 4 correspondent of the 4nacrtca,s Architec
found that tie reason some ceaspools near his
!, house were no annoyance, although not emptied
l for four years, was that large tulip tree and
two very fiourishing NAPLES had stuck their
roots into them and were deriving all the bene
fit.
An Austrian military paper lately gave the
resalt Of careful analysis Of a sample OF
/ bread supplied to the Russian troops in Bull
= garia. 1t revealed 10 per cent. of sagvdust and
IA per cent of sand. Our army contractors
used clay, ground kaoin and other articles
finer than sawdust and less gritty than sand.
jacob, Ela who was the fifth auditor of thu
treasury. and went into the New Hampshire
, canvas, III despite OF executive order No. /, ha.
: been made TO feel sensibly how weighty anc
grievous thing disohedience of orders m.,
9 become. He has been removed from bis po
sition of fifth auditor and promoted to tina
c of frat.
4 The largest obclisis in this country ia to b,
e placed over the grave of Gen. Wool, in Oak
p wood cemetery, Troy, N. Z. It will weigh 15C
! tons, and be so feet in height. It Will be car
: RED to Troy from Maine in barge, and moved
by means Of rollers and capstans from tn
. river to the cemetery, distance of about
= mile. The general left $4,000 to pay fo:
q monument.
y The eccentric Sir Wilfrid Lawson has eroivet
e the following: If the Duke of Edinbure
Q were to shoot his father-in-law now he wou!,
I be handed down to posterity in iniquity; bu
! if war were declared and the Duke shot tn
. Gar, he would receive vote of thanks pro
. posed by Lord ACKNOWLEDGEMENT by Lor
J, of Canterbury
8 Washington was surveyor and farmer
It Franklin printer: Tom Paine a stay-maker
|. Greene blacksmith; Warren
: physician; Sumter a shepherd; Ros
er Sherman shoemaker; Marion a farmer, a
. were also Putnam, Ethan Allen, and Stark
. Hancock shipping merchant; Trumbull a,
I artist; and Arnold. who, though traitor, wa
v good general, a druggist and bookseller.
0ur old friend he pr;,o.., C,1,, C.l-.