Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-26
GLOBELETS.

GLOBELETs.
Why don't the devil skate7-Boston Post.
Who the devils Kate7
About fifty scientists are now in Colorado
awaiting the eclipse of the sun.
Miss Sweetapple is the last heiress to arriv.
at Saratoga. Petite and pretty, and az sneet
her name.
Next to the dinner horn, the most popular
horn nowadays is that which is taken lust be-
fore breakfast.
The weather is frequently too warm for work,
but 1t IS never too hot for boat-race base
ball or rifle match
The Washington authorities it is said threat
en- to suppress the sale of DR.. Mary Walkers
new book, "Unmasked"
Sergeant-at-Arms Thompson hints that Con-
gresham Sayler will handle the gavel in the
House at the next session.
Miss Fanny Davenport, the actress returned
from London in the steamship England, which
| arrived at New York on Monday.
The negroes in Barnwel county, s. c., have
increased Il per cent. in ten years. They do not
seem much troubled by fears of extinction.
Miss Ada Dyas will probably be one of the
new company now in process of organization
by Miss Kate Claxton at the Lyceum. New
| York.
A Florida negro mistook mule for a ghost.
and poked it with stick. The verdict recited
that ne came to his death by using too short a
stick.
| Agnes Booth. one of the best leading ladies'
Lon hos fo will Ill
mer season at her husbands hotel. in Mancbes
ter, Mass.
| smoker in Portsmouth, N. H., finding that
his cigar wouldn't draw, cut it open, and dis
covered cartridge, with the bullet toward the
| mouth end.
/ woman recently died in California aged
143. As she never claimed to have danced or
tiirted with George Washington she was proba-
bly, an impostor.
Mrs. Barney Williams, it is said is arranging
to go on the stage more, and will repro
duce the pieces that have been made famous
by her deceased husband.
The dowager-queen Caroline Amalia of
Denmark, who has just completed her eighty
second year, is the Oldest living member of any
of the royal families of Europe.
Gold has been discovered in Patagonia but
as the women in that country said to be the
ugliest in the world, the rush to the new dig
gings doesn't promise to be great.
praying band, three churches, and young
mems association have combined in Oberlin,
Ohio, against the first billiard room opened in
that place but at last accounts the billiard
room ahead.
the stock spectators of San Francisco They
are said to be more eager and reckless than
! men, and pocket their gains and repudiate their
losses with the utmost sang frOid.
Dan Rice, the Snowman was Frustrated with
| the heat last week while travelling between
Sioux City and Ponca Neb., but recovered. AS
an indication of the severity of the shock, it
f may be said he couldn't make joke about it.
! society gossip writing from New York of
Miss Benefits engagement adds by way of
POSTSCRIPT; 1T appears that we shall also have
to chronicle, at distant date the nuptials
of MIR. James Gordon Bennett and Miss Carrie
May
The prefecture of the Seine has just termin-
t ated a census of the house property in Paris.
The total number of buildings is rs, 526, and
! is derived from trades, and SEC, 1872 42O from
habitations.
Sportsmen who have been watching the pros
poets for the coming say that there is
promise of better shooting of quail, squirrel,
!. prairie chickens, and nearly all kinds of game
}, than there has been in any season for the last
twelve years.
n celebrated composer wrote to friend, re-
s quested the pleasure of his company ito
luncheon; Key of g." His friend, thorough
. musician, interpreted the invitation rightly,
8 and came to the composers house Cor a lunch
e con at one sharp.
Persons who have had the yellow fever do
not seem to think that the common fear of it
e is we'll founded. A New Yorker who was twice
II attacked by the disease at Havana says: Il
|, would rather at any time have it than severe
= cold in the head
If Mrs. Senator Dorsey has been called the
o handsomest woman in Washington. Her birth
place Oberlin, Ohio, and her father is to
this day known Old Wack. He is still a
tavernkeeper, fat-footed old curn udgeon, as
honest as the day is long.
1t Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is now on visit tc
~ Florence, after having spent the winter in
Rome. She receives the most distinguished at
tenuion, her dignifed department and many
"a sided genius being greatly admired. Hel
RS daughter, Miss Maud Howe is greatly admired
Of by the Florentines.
n The North German Gazette of Berlin says
le that the Englishman, Mr.. Bishop who re
e. Gently condemned to two and half years i'm
ce prisonment for the bribery OF officials, is nov
O. said to have drawn considerable sums of none,
O. from the intelligence department of foreign
le government in 1876 and 1877.
=, The Duke of Portland is tall slender ant
10 | pale, and he likes cattle. He fattens his dee
10 on Spanish cbestnuts, but he never fires shot
w He farms 1000 acres, and yearly raises 0,00
TT trout. He lives almost alone, stunning friend
Mt more than he shuns workingmen. He is re
1T garded eccentric and misanthrope.
Ut 1t was 1902 degrees in the shade when Georg
10 Washington Childs A. NJ, struck his Tyre an,
~ sang:
"a Put away the broken pieces
bo Of our lost thermometer;
re Tears of perspiraton shed We
ma Der the fate befallen her.
" Cone but not forgotten, is she;
be Write above her little grave
op Write in language simple: Busted
1t By an isothermal wave
d,