Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-14
GLOBELETS.

York.
The one-hundreth anniversary of the death Of
Voltaire is to be celebrated in Paris on the 30th
of this month.
Motto for a beautiful woman asleep-Hand-
some is as handsome doze.-Enchange Which
means, don't snore.
Several well known photographers are so dis
gusted at their inability to pun on the word
Goorkha that they have become Sikh.
The Dallas, Texas, Herald encourages imrni-
grafton to that State by saying that 1000 muir
derers running around loose within its boz
ders.
Russian 'ssecret agents" are carrying on a
terribly destructive warfare against British
commerce-in the columns of the New York
Herald.
Pope Leo has instructed the French
bishops to give their support to the French Re-
public the only governme Mt possible to-
day in France.
a bill has been introduced in the New York
Assembly to instruct Senators Conklin and
Herman to vote in favor of the Blair bill now
before the United States Senate.
Senator Withers, of Virginia, recently had
particle of diseased matter cut from the pupil
of the eye. He refused to take ar anesthetic,
and bore the operation without wincing.
| Here's richness. Beecher is to be the orator
of the reunion of the army of the Potomac at
Springfield, Mass. As Hayes is also to be pres
ent the two frauds can fraternize to their hearts
| content.
| Rev. John Jasper, of Virginia, who holds
that "de sun do move" has been challenged to
debate that momentous question by Rev. John
| D. Baywell. of nowhere in particular that we
| know of.
Since the British Parliament forbid the
shooting of sea-birds during four months in
the year, the herring fisheries of Scotland have
been seriously injured. Parliament is to be
asked to repeal the bill.
In England, as we'll as in Russia the p=oposi-
ton is made to attack iron-clad ships by throw
ing jets of crude petroleum on their decks. Tie
apparatus has been already designed, and will
throw jet, with accuracy, some 800 feet.
An Iowa minister has invented churn which
ls operated by working to and fro in cush-
Toned arm chair Parents who have to get up
IN the night to compose their babies, can thus
combine business with pleasure.
During the month of April eighteen firms in
Chicago were Shermanized otherwise went into
bankruptcy the liabilities accounting to s5l7.-
$50, as against S2l6 .623 for the same month
last year. when the failures numbered thirty.
The latest device by which fashionable
women outrage taste, and taste involves COM
fort as we'll as appearances, is the fastening of
heavy weights OF fat pieces of lead to the
''cuirass bodices' in order to secure tighness
of fit.
Thirty eight families bibles were showed up
at New York pawn-shop last month. If the
owners of these volumes would follow the
biblical injunction to go to the ant instead
OF going to their uncle they might feel happier
in the end.
with Russian agents reported in Eastern pa
pers, the coming questions is neither what shall
we do with the Chinese nor what what shall wo
do with the tramps, but what shall we do with
the Tartar hordes.
There are over 1000 entries for the bench
show of dogs that opens in New York to-day
A very large number of dogs are valued at
Sl,0OO eacs and over, up to fl 900 for many
Others. Even for puppies, $780, 5000, 800,
and $500 each is asked
Jane Grey Swisshelin says There is nothing
! so much dread as an attachment of any mas
culine biped larger than rooster All right,
Jennie; but you're rather too ancient fowl
for any rooster of taste to attach himself to.
and then how you do cackle
company to insure husbands and wives
against the clopement of their matrimonial
''pards' is the latest Chicago idea. We think
we know some persons, sex not necessary to be
specified, whose premium on insurance would
not require an enormous bank account.
) ODonovan Rossa's skirmishing fund has
reached 100000. The receipts now average
$500 week. As Rosa states that the sum he
: has in view is million dollars, it looks as il
the Russo-English war, if it come will be over
before the deadly blow at England will be
struck.
The Reformed Episcopal council at Newark.
N. j., passed resolutions condemnatory Of
theatrical exhibitions, dancing and gambling,
but the opposition to the resolution was lively
enough to show that, regards theatres and
dancing, the members would do pretty m UGH as
each thought fit.
Mr.. Willis James, of New York, has ordered
for presentation to the city exceedingly fine
bronze drinking fountain, that will probably
be placed in Union square. There will be
figures on the fountain representing a mother
} bringing two children to drink. The model is
making at Stuttgart.
1t will take generation two to civilizo
the South.-I'hi1adelphtu Press. Civilization,
according to the ideas of the Press, means o
nation OF negro voters led on by carpet-baggers
and scallawags. 1t will take considerable moro
than generation or two to bring the South
back to that State of civilization.
Col. Forney describes the Duke of Cam
bridge, commander-in-chief of the British
forces, as heavy, stolid man, with an apo
pleptic face, who makes an apopleptic speech,
and the Duke of Wellington, of the great
duke, as little man with big nose, who
makes very poor and little speech.
The London Medical E1anaigae7- states that q
man named Hicks, recently suffering from hy-
dophobia in the Chelmsford infirmary. has
been discharged thence. The disease had ap-
parently left him, though he was still in Il
weakened state. The dog which bit boy at
Stockport, in England, is alive and we'll, though
the boy died of hydrophobia.
The eighty-ninth session of the General AS
sembly of the Presbyterian Church will be hold
at Pittsburgh, beginning on Thursday of next
week. The General Assembly is almost exact
ly as old as our Federal government. The frat
Congress met in New York March 4, 1859. and
on May ~ little more than two months later,
the General Assent bly, was organized in Phila-
delphia.
The Woman Suffrage society has risen in