Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-02
GLOBELETs.
Tweed had $4,000 life insurance.
McLin doesn't seem to "hold the fort"


Pope Leo's first blessing at public audience
was given to Protestant.
The paragraphers' association will please give
Modjeska's yellow dog rest.
Flour is 1915 per hundred at Deadwood and
$40 per hundred at Rapid City.
Short of miracle war is inevitable" is a
saying just now attributed to Bismarck.
The Yankton Herald thinks that the next
delegate to Congress from Dakota will be a
Democrat.
Hayes has been having his home at Fremont
fixed up. Can this be sign of a quickened
conscience
How they squirm since the Florida boys
made clean breasts of it. But then it's 'of o
consequence you know.
A London correspondent writes that Mr.
Ruskin' S physicians fear that his men tai facul-
ties permanently eclipsed.
The Canadian House of Commons on Satur-
day last refused to impose duty of IS cents
per ton on imported coal. The vote was ~ to
| 1876.
| The Chinese readily adopt the habits of the
worst class of American criminals. The Chi
namen in Hartford have formed baseball
| nine.
London is full of talk about Lord Derby's
eccentricities Louis J. Jennings writes to the
World that Derby's intellect is becoming dis
ordered.
| Since MIR. Hayes returned to Washington
from Philadelphia he is wrestling with the
problem of what office the three-eyed baby in
| Ohio is best fitted for.
| no H..
cred that with government land at $3.50 an
acre, and whisky at 50 bottle, there are msn
who prefer whisky to land.
The Miss Benjamin who recently made her
debut at the Fifth Avenue theatre, New York,
Is not niece of Don Hamilton Fish. She is
| the sister of his son-in-law.
Douglas county, Wisconsin, has the heaviest
debt of any county in the State the amount
being S472,00 of which all but about $4,000
is railroad bond indebtedness.
Now then. girls; sell all the old mans winter
clothes, save your chewing-gum money, and
lay in stock of fal-lals. The Crown Prince of
Austria is coming to America next fall
Geo. l.. Smith, whom Hayes has appointed
to be collector of New Orleans, is as deep in ths
mire Wells or Anderson. The only differ.
ence is that Smiths notoriety is not so wide.
MIR. Ross, lost Charley's father, is lecturing,
and seems to have much difficulty in finding
an audience as i'll discovering his son. He
spoke to only twenty persons in Bridgeport,
Conn.
1t took less than three weeks for $50 women
who went from New York to San Francisco in
search of occupation to get married. There are
fine openings on the Pacific slope for young
, women in the marrying trade.
Some of the laws in Kentu cky are singularly
cruel. recent one enacts that if a man beat
his wife he can be made to work on the streets
for sixty days, and the usual wages for such
labor paid to the wife. Poor fellow.
The Detroit Free Press Office was set on f re
, by an explosion that occurred while pressman
was looking for a leak of gas and carrying an
unguarded light. Here's fine opportunity for
. the funny man of the Free Press to let himself
out.
Robert w. johnson is talked of in Arkansas
t as Dorsey's successor in the United States
i Senate. Col. johnson served in the Senate be-
fore the war; and at that time was the most
influential public man in Arkansas. He was
also confederate Senator.
1dnkee CLOCKS are famous, but the lanklest
clock of them all is an old one in Woodstock.
Vermont. No tinkering will induce it to run:
e but at every annual gathering of the family it
: starts of itself and keeps ticking and strik-
e ing the hours until the visitors have departed
Congressman Blackburn says he opposes
+ Montgomery Blair's bill because he would rs
S soon institute suit in hell against the devil,
$ with Bselzebub as presiding judge as to refer
the question to the supreme court it is now
: constituted" Does Beelzebub spell his first
( name with Joe?
John B. Titus, of Middleton, Ohio who late
ly became noted by the charge of Miss Dickey
, that he is the father of her child, has filed
petition in bankruptcy. His total liabilities
e are placed at S1s,250. The largest creditor is
Miss Nancy A. Dickey, whose unsecured claim
is set down at $685.
q The photographers association have adopted
the art-o'-joke for their patron vegetable
cincinnati Commercial. But it is to be feared
that some members are inclined to cabbage
e their jokes, whenever good ones turn up. They
r should have their celery cut down, and be ex-
. PEELED from the association as beats. Lettuce
have pease.
Hon. Mr.. Mills, Canadian Minister of the
1 interior, lately said in the House Of Commons
that the Indians of British Columbia had made
a an alliance with their brethren of Washington
Territory; and, had it not been for the action
OF the United States troops in dispensing Chief
Joseph's band, considerable difficulties might
have resulted.
The English people, except the court circles
have received with signs of the utmost OPPOSE
. ton the hints thrown ont that the OueeD do
i. sires and intends to restore Baker Pasha to his
!, rank in the British army. correspondent
: writes that he lately heard man of vide rela-
lions and good judgment say that Baker could
not be put back in the army without a revou-
ton.
Y Tony Pastor s variety company had fun in
Baltimore with young fellow who wanted to
!; become Il performer. They put him through
0 a great variety of rough antics in pretended
n rehearsal. Afterward the young fellow had
. about as much fun with the company. He
e frightened them into very humble apologies
y by sending false deputy sheriffa behind the
o scenes to arrest them on false warrants.
e few days ago tramp was put off train on
a the st. Louis, Kansas City and Northern road
= Walking along the track, he discovered broken
f rail. 1t was on high, dangerous curve in the
4 road and, taking in the situation, the tramp
e remained to flag the first train, which proved
= to be passenger train bound for st. Joseph
0 He tagged it in time and the train and its load
of human freight saved. The tramp was
0 taken aboard. and large purse of money made
J up for him.
Edison is still making discoveries He has
. found that the carbon used in the telephone