Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-25
GLOBELETS,

Maiden, N. Y, had rose in full bloom out
Oh doors on Thanksgiving day, 18th ult.
a decfee has been promulgated in Japan reg
uiating the purchase and sale of opium.
Ladies VINO wear bracelets of anc;ent coins
are accused of buying them at the brokers
In Boston there 5000 cyprians. Their
average life is four years, 1000 DIVING .nnna11v
The period of the free import of cattle has
been prolonged for year by the Brazilian gov
eminent.
The infant of the Czarowitch has already
been baptized by the name of Michael Ale1an-
drowitch.
Tramps viii be likely to give Maiden, Mass.
| a VIDE berth. In that town it is work or the
workhouse
The Howard association of vicksburg receiv-
ed during the recent epidemic of yellow fever
s1ss, 1873.
Mayor Wilkins, of Columbus, Ga, has de-
oilned to accept an increase of pay voted him by
the aldermen.
The Swiss customs revenue continue tn shovv
considerable falling off as compared with
that of last year.
When man marries for money it is not the
honey moon that he looks forward to 40 much
as the harvest season.
fish peddler was last week elected an alder
man OF Hudson, and he will no doubt see that
the scales of justice duly adjusted
The Spanish ministry have at present under
consideration project for laying down sub
marine cable between Hong Kong and Manila.
Because she thought he used too much to-
bacco woman of Melrose, Mass. locked her
husband up in hen house and horsewhipped
him.
Lord Beaconsfeld scouts the idea, in CONVEX
sation With us intimate friends, that England
Will ever be bankrupt in either blood or
money.
1t IL cited as singular circumstance that the
best scholar in the Irish language now living is
German, DR.. thinner, professor in the Uni
versity of Berlin.
DENNIS hearney, in emulation of Talmage
has made a tour of inspection through China
town IN San Francisco. accompanied by two or
three policemen
Jonathan Jennings, the first governor of In
diana, and for long time the sole Representa-
tive in Congress from that State, has not even
maidstone to mark his grave
memorial to the late DIR. LIVINGSTONE is
about to be erected in Westminster Abbey.
With the consent of Dean Stanley it Will take
the form of a stained glass window.
1t is said that the japanese girls in yassar
college battle four times day, and tho stew
ardess has been obliged TO raise the water rates
for these young ladies' apartments
Wiley Holmes and Ben Talbert, brothers-in-
law, OF keoche, La, quarreled, fought duel
with shotguns and killed each other on the.
spot-an occurrence of Wednesday,
Of the 9O7 students of Elton, England, one is
marquis, one an earl one viscount, two are
counts (foreign), thirteen are lords. thirty
eight are honorables and three baronets.
During the coming winter 120 Krupp guns
OF heavy caliber will be forwarded from Essen
to Cronstadt and Sveaborg, to be mounted on
the batteries recently constructed there.
Nine. Patti and Signor Nicolini received s12-.
600 for six representations at the Monnaie,
Brussels. They are now engaged at the KrolI
theatre, Berlin, at the rate of $4,000 night.
The Liberian courts hold that to be "a gen.
teman of color" one must contain sixty-two
per cent. of niger blood If man doesn't
| show that percentage upon analysis, he cannot
vote.
decree has been issued by the government
or Brazil dividing the state lottery tickets in
! Rio Janeiro The government intends 10 nro-
pose the abolition of lotteries throughout the
empire.
Ninety per cent of the colored men of ST
Louis Will be disqualified from serving on
juries through decision that under the
general law of Missouri, jurors must be able
to read.
The people of Utica propose introducing the
Lockport steam-heating system, and to that
end will probably form company with a CAPT
tai of 100000, and erect works near tho
Mohawk river.
The Pittl palace, at Florence has 300 rooms.
l4l of them were fitted up as bedrooms for the
royal snite on their recent memorable visit to
the city. The seven sIeepers might take Iodg
lngs in that palace.
Moniteau county, Mo-, has a novel set of
body snatchers at work, in brace of hyenas.
which escaped from a travelling menagerie, and
are now digging up corpses in the graveyards
to satisfy their hunger.
Three parlor concerts, for sweet charitv,s
sake, were recently given In Chicago The per-
formers were members of the opera companies
visiting Chicago and the audience ''the wealth
and culture of the CITY,
The sixty-ninth birthday of Mr.. Gladstone
will occur On the Doth inst, and some of his
admirers propose to contribute a shilling each
and present him with axe, as symbol of
his useful ard vigorous life.
confectioner at Reading, Pa exhibits a
candy elephant IL feet long 5 feet high and
21a feet wide, weighing 800 pounds. 1t is COM
posed Of nut candy, except the tusks. which
are of solid, clear candy, and the tongue, which
is of pink sugar.
Father Hyacinth" has settled down at
Neuilly. just outside of Paris, and will give re-
ligious lectures, if allowed to do SO by the gov
eminent. He has declined the offer of English
friends to build him chapel or establish for
him a newspaper.
The Important question of the precedence of
judges OF the Canadian supreme court has
been decided; they are TO come next after the
speaker of the Senate. Retired Judges of
Whatever courts are to take precedence next af
ter the present judges of their respective
courts.
The three children of James Ho ward of
Ocracoke Island, N. c., become totally blind
each day Immediately after sunset, recovering
their sight as completely and singularly next
day at sunrise. The youngest child is and
the oldest 10; two are boys, and they are all of
light complexion, with light blue eyes,
The fool at Westfeld, Mass, carried the
house of Frank Ash, a large double tenement
distance of quarter of mile and landed il
hiyh and dry In