Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-26
GLoBELETs.
Mr.. Kickhau i, on the 6.

iniiA Win only 211a per cent. of water,
u minnesota woman has lost two husbands
oy lightning. She ought to marry con.
ductor. con-
Last years revenue of the German centr.,
exchequer falls short by 5000 marts - 49,
estimate. u 'n7
The new Pope is said to be an enthusiastic
amateur of music, end is able to sin,, 49,.
with fine eff ect.
ureat preparations making in Cincinn..;
TOT the reception of General James Shields who
will shortly lecture
Inc beioochlstans think so much of thetele-
graph that they steal several hundred feet of
the wire every night.
Queen Victoria has sent $50 nm - o,,o..
with which to build the Kent Ga+eu - 49,
memory of her father
Edison has been in the Yosemite Valley. and
ne Is Wiling to admit that he can't invent a
better valley than that.
The Hungarian ladies have abandoned tho
picturesque national costume and now annea-
IN pullbacks of Worth
fashion item says I'm arigold" is now
popular shade of yellow. The ladies alwavs
We're partial to marry-gold.
The independence Belge's American CORE
spondent speaks of the well known Southern
statesman, M. jefferson David,
The Iramway company of Edinburp n,ys
dividend of So per cent. Street railways il
ena' city have been very successful
Professor Darwin has been elected CORE
spending member of the French insti ,ute nv
20 votes out OF total number of 43.
Inc Anti-Murphyites ia the West have christ
enea new drink the Red Ribbon" They
wear the coors on the end OF the nose.
The London World has a rumor thar Tho
| Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia has fal,e,,
| INTO disgrace because of official necnIa+;o,
| The Prince of Wales has accented an bo,,,r
| e.s membership IN the Boston Ancient and
| honorable Artillery. He is regarded as it's
biggest gun.
ne olrth rate of the thirty millions of tho
Madras presidency has decreased to less tba,
one half of what it was before the famine !,
india began.
Mr. Marble calls McLin IAN ague-smitten
farlah. hearney doesn't know what that
means but he will treasure it mp to fling at the
! bondholders
''''H'
conn. Alter five hours, and when he seemed
oeao, nc snapped OFT a finger that was stuck
! into his mouth
Ven Lafayette once stopped over night in
blddetord and the people are so proud of il
| that they show you eleven different b,,sos
where he slept.
| The real issue in Indiana this fall ;s NOT ,,,.
| OF huance. but turns on the question as 10
whether or not certain candidates wear ON
oroldered night-gowns.
DR.. Brown-Sequard has been presented NV
the French Academy of Science us a candidate
Tor the chair of medicine made vacant by the
death of Clande Berdard
| Two branches of trade are brisk lust now at
Harls-fans at four sous each and muzzlaa IN
prevent dogs from going mad, or to make them
SO, according to some people.
| salisbury. we are informed wears his garter
on his breast AT first glance this looks pecu
mar; put perhaps Salisbury's extend further up
ohah those OF the ordinary plebean
The schooner that was taking Dom pedro,s
car to Brazil got seasick and was abandoned by
hef GREY" The old man will have to make his
| bicycle do the work while longer.
| VIC unfortunate witness IN the Potter
investigation, was driven crazy by attempting
10 discover whether Ben Butler was looking at
hlm or at a grocery store around the corner.
Another recent aristocratic marriage in Enc
land Is that of Lord Ralph Drury Kerr, son of
the late Marquis of Lothian to Lady Anne
fltzaler Howard, daughter of the late Duke of
Norfolk
Miss Beatrice STAFFORD, the actress. has
Drought suit against Thomas p. Wight New
York broker, for breach of PROMISE Mr.. Wight
advertised for wife and Miss STAFFORD re-
sponded.
The marquis of Londonderry. with the Mar
chloness his wife, and his son, Lord Castle
feash' and the latter's wife, lately gave a dim
ner to mere than 600 of his tenants on his
Irish estates.
An active volcano has put in an appearance
IN Humboldt county, CAL and is throwing nm
stones and fire. This is in harmony with the
periodical earthquake shocks experienced ON
| the Pacific coast.
France, SO fortunate in it's wine-yield since
the war, Is now heavy sufferer. The phvIlox-
era has already appeared in thirty four de-
partments, and done damage computed at
300 900. Burgundy has escaped as vet.
Portugal has but one university Coimbra
founded IN lZ9o. 1t has seventy instructors
and l, 100 students. There are g. $50 elementary
schools, and parents whose children cannot
read and write by Is lose their political rights.
man was fined lately in London for insist
ing on riding on the platform Of :. street car,
instead of going inside, but no instance has
been recorded of the fning of the company for
providing no adequate accommodation inside
Eight Hartford girls hired house at Old
Hadly, Conn.,, in which to spend their vacation
by themselves. They cooked their own meals
drove their own horses, fshed in their own
boats and permitted no man to enter the bnild-
ing.
new rope-making material has been fonnd
: IN the fibrous leaves of a New Zealand aloe.
The long, tough threads are said to exceed iron
wire OF the same thickness in tenacitv and
they are not affected by immersion in salt
water.
The citizens of Munich have good lager
beer, and are great drinkers of it. There is a
popular resort called the Chinese Tower where
between and OF Sunday morning G,OOO
glasses are emptied. But there is no drunken
ness, notwithstanding.
Inc Russians. in the race with England for
the trade of Northern India, are first at Cabal
the capital of Afghanstan. The caravans be-
, tween Persia and India pass through Cabal,
AID the city is the centre of trade which the
Russians desire to control.
A Baptist church at Lagos, in Africa. ba.
sent within a year 300 to the foreign mission
hoard of he n,