Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-24
GLOBELETS.

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| spirits in the city
Inc milwaukee house of correction made
! 1000 chairs last month.
The grandson of the lawyer who defended
Louis XVI. has just died in Paris.
| There are 1000 workmen employed in Toxic,
japan, in making safety matches alone.
| There are in New York and Brooklyn 1900
young white women married to negroes.
hr. Tilden wonders why Edison will fool
with SO dangerous thing as electricity.
The Duke of Devonshire lately cleared near
100000 by the sale of thirty short horns.
Victor Hugo is going to pay Garibaldi visit.
Caprera Island will just about hold them.
Annie Lonise Cary's Russian tea set i one
of the attractions of the Cleveland Loan ex-
hibition.
The Boston Post says that Gath is Meth
odist. We shall not believe this until Gath
denies it.
1t is estimated that annually in the United
States z, 900 persons are killed and wounded
with coal oil.
Blanche Davenport, the youngest sister of
Fanny, is going to st. Petersburg, where she
will sing in opera.
grand niece of President MacMahon is
shortly to be married from the executive pal
ace with considerable pomp.
Chicago Times: The happy medium" fire.
quentiy mentioned was doubtless the one who
received the big fees from Vanderbilt.
The fertile soil and genial climate of the
United States induced 50, 60 Canadians to emf
CRATE during the year ending jane 3D. 1878.
1t has been officially announced in Washing
| ton that the king of Holland is betrothed TO
the Princess Waldect Pyrmont, of Germany
The late King of Belgium said of Louis Ma
| poleon when Emperor: Nothing apparently
can effect him injuriously il he will only keep
quiet"
| Mr.. Sartoris, Nellie Grants husband, is said
to have grown aldermanic in size, and now
| bears striking resemblance to the Prince of
Wales.
| Gen. Tom Thumb and his associate, Commo-
dore Mutt have gone to Europe again to
| give few grand farewell entertain
| ments."
Sothern is doing an immense business in
Scotland. In Glasgow the audience crowded
| the musicians until they were baaished behind
| the curtains.
| 1t was 50 dry in some parts of Japan last
| month, that one of the Governors knelt "a
whole hour in prayer for rain-and yet failed
to break the drought
workman employed in repairing the vaults
| in London church lately. improved his oppor-
tunity by Stealing large quantity of name
| plates from the collins
| The Japanese government has agreed to grant
a loan OF 81 ,5OO, 600 for the purpose of working
some OF the coal fields which spread over an
immense area in the island of Yezo.
Twenty-four years ago Augustus Schell, Tam
many's present candidate for mayor of New
York, declined the Democratic nomination for
the same office. He WAS then AZ years of age
The Thirteenth United States Infantry that
were removed from Jackson barracks to Holly
Springs, were driven thence by the fever to
Chattanooga, and now they are driven to At
| anta
Bob lngersoll thinks, if Genesis be true that
| the Creator made several bad bunders in con-
STRUGGLING the universe. Owing to the absence
OF l.gersoll, we suppose. blunders were un-
avoidable.
Edward Bromham is trying to push the case
| against his brother William who attempted the
unnatural Long Island Sound murder Mem
bers of the family are, however, doing all they
can to hush up the case.
The United States attorney general has COM
muted the death sentence of Michael Tobn
the soldier who shot AIbers at West ONT for
| criminal Intimacy with Tobin's wife to I'M
| prisonment for five years.
Dean Stanley likes the American people, but
does not know what to make of American
newspapers. They publish so much and such
entertaining news, that he seems to fear the
events described are all imaginary,
The striking articles which appear from time
to time in the Whitehall EeDeoO, signed Peter
the Hermit" are understood to be from the
pen OF 'Ouida." The articles on Italy in gen.
eral, and Florence in particular may also be-
safely attributed to the same pen.
The government of India offers a premium
OF oUO rupees for the hest English sanitary
primer of not more than twenty-four pages
The prize work VIII be the property of the gov
ernment who will be at liberty to translate it
INTO different vernacolar languages.
Two physicians in Ohio are quarrelling in
print as to their skill. They accuse each
other of killing patients, and give the names of
the alleged victims, with criticisms of the
| treatment and other information of a character
highly interesting to the relatives of the de-
eased persons.
Ely Goddard, aged 90, is the nobbiest man in
the Vermont legislature. He was educated in
Farce, drives fourth hand, and is fond of
| style. When he rides out the members from
the rural deestricts" stand back in wide
mouthed establishment. Down with Washburn
and the swindling brass kettles.
Ans, Ii Merritt advertises as follows in Trove
| Kansas: Whereas, when | am intoxicated T
am not competent to make contracts: and
whereas have been taken advantage of on
several occasions recently, in such contracts. I
notify all persons that l shall not hereafter
fulnil any contracts made by me when drunk"
at political gathering in Buffalo the other
| Gay, where large number of smokers were to-
| gether, one gentleman remarked that it was no
! pleasure to him to smoke in the dark: and The
discussion spreading, it was discovered that
nobody had ever been heard of who did eniov
pipe or cigar when he couldn't see the smoke.
Is this universal experience?
The Chinese population of San It; ancisco han
been lately reported 80, coo. including 1000
| servants. Of cigar-makers there are 50CtO. of
| tailors, 5000; of boot and shoemakers . e0o
| iaundryrnen, l,500; merchants and professional
men, looo; professional gamblers, l,4OO; ped
dlers 1850, while the rest are fishermen
laborers, and miscellaneous. There are coo
women.
San francisco is holding It's breath in ankle
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