Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-25
GLOBELETs.
The father of Mutual Friend Moulton died II
Now York last week

The father of Mutual Friend Moulton died IL
New York last week.
Caterpillars by the million are devastating
the woodlands and orchards of Tennesee
1t IL now the mode in England to be buried
in an open wicker-work coffin filed with flowers.
Yank Adams the expert billiard player,
amused himself, while waiting for train in
Midway. Mass, by the old trick of pretending
to be novice, and then beating the champion
of the village.
A German has devised Bank Note Album"
with leaves of Asbestos paper. Papers placed
betwi1t the leaves will, it ia said, be legibls
even after exposure to fire which reduces
them to cinders.
In the province of Nassau, Prussia the COM
mon nettle has been treated like hemp, and is
found to yield fibre quite as durable and as fine
as silk. Factories have consequently been
| started for its manufacture.
Thomas Lawler, a boy of GAINESVILLE, Wis, and
said to have been one of the best boys of tho
village, was drowned last Friday evening with
B. NJ. Clements, 60 years old, whom be tried to
| save, and SO lost his own life.
Pope Leo XIII recently received in private
| audience committee of American ladies' head
ed by the authoress Mrs. Turner, and with her
as spokeswoman, his Holiness conversed very
Denevolently in regard to the United States.
The exploring expedition sent out by the
geographical society of Rome have reported
back to headquarters their rapid progress into
the heart of Central Africa. The exnedition
aims to go over ground left untouched by
Stanley.
In consequence of Mr.. Darwin's theories. n
| learned rabbi has arrived at the conclusion that
oysters are plants. and may therefore be eaten
by jews. An English paper reports that
the problem will be submitted to grand
council.
Sun-stroke Blaine and little Eugene Hale are
SAID to have joined hands Tor the purpose of
crowding grandfather Harnlin out of Maine
politics, but Hamlin will take great deal of
crowding before little Eugene squeezes himself
into the Senatorship.
"Love sees what no eye SEES Yes; when 8
man fumb les about the lock for half an hour,
and falls three times in going up one fight Of
| stairs. Love, in the upper chamber, with her
eyes tight closed sees at once what is the mat
ter, and softly murmurs, 'just you wait till
the morning"
Edwin Booth played Hamlet" in the Pitts.
burgh Opera House, under the glare of two
locomotive headlights. The manager had not
paid his gas bill, and the meter had been re-
moved. In this dilemma the auditorium wa7
lighted with kerosene lamps, and the stage in
the way indicated.
Acentury ago the state of the clergy in the
Lake District of England was odd indeed The
curate was usually the village publican, and it
was not an uncommon sight to see the reverend
host playing cards and drinking beer ON Sun
day morning with his customers until the
, church bell tolled.
The New York syndicate has sent $4,000. 900
OF four and half per cent. government bonds
: to London to be sold there by the Rothschilds.
Members of the syndicate say that up to Friday
night over S3,000,0OO had been sold in New
York under their late contract, and they expect
to place the whole of the $50 900, 900 offered bv
, Secretary Sherman before September. Thi,
new movement renews the expectation of gov
eminent bonds.
1t has been discovered that there are local
differences in the composition of air. Samples
of air have also been collected with the design
!. of transmitting them to the chemists of cen.
fury hence, for the purpose of enabling the
scientists of the future to decide whether there
+ are causes in operation to produce slow change
In the composition of our atmosphere. When
the bottles are opened the GLOBE will give to
its readers the details of the result.
MIR. sharon's private business being mos,
through. he proposes to spend brief vacation
IN the Senate at Washington, if he can get any
one to identify him, and to secure his seat
which is covered with thirteen-ply cobwebs
, An ingenious man with plenty of cheek might
have achieved fame and fortune during thu
Kellogg -Eustis-Butler controversy by walking
, in and pretending that he was the rosy
, Sharon and the Billy of the valley-the Hum.
boldt valley.