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

built at Niagara Falls.
Hotels in Canada are being named after the
Marquis of Lorne and Princess Iopise
prejudice exists in Boston. aecord;ng to
an expert, against ed-haired servant eirls.
English reporters are no longer admitted to
see garroters logged and murderers hanged.
The subscription price of the Casey Gowa)
indicator is ten bushels of corn per annum.
Carl Schurz believes that the only way to
civilize the Indian is to feed him literally with
sauer kraut.
Croizette, the French actress, performing in
the Sphinx" wears sealskin Jacket which
cost $4,000.
Eighty thousand head of cattle was the pres
emit Texan cattle king gave to his daughter ON
her marriage.
Her great-grandchildren were at the wedding
Of a Burlington, Iowa, woman of 60 with q
young man of 25.
A tun of Johannisberger has just been sold
at Cologne for $1,000 forms, or at the rate OF
about S16 bottle.
The total value of the prizes to be offered at
the forthcoming agricultural show in London.
amounts to $4,000.
All the Turkish prisoners of war. to the nnn,.
Der of $4,000 men, who were sent to Russia.
have been returned to Turkey.
man at Leominster. Mass, has been killed
by lnhaling the sulphur from friction matches
| to cure an attack of diphtheria
| Though she was young, handsome, respected
rich and widow, Mrs. Julia A. Tyner, of Rush.
vile, Ind, tried to poison herself.
! Miss Nancy Bonham, of Chatham Canada
stands six feet eight and half inches in her
hosea big-boned Nancy, as it were.
The most considerate sick Chinaman who has
yet come to San Francisco brought his coffin
along with him, and he was sent back in it bv
the last steamer.
spirit merchant in Dublin announces in an
irish paper that ht. has still small quantity of
the whisky on hand which was drunk by George
Nv when in Dublin
Russia is accommodating vast quantities of
medical stores in Bulgaria One thousand
pounds of quinine We're lately sent from Eng
| land in one shipment.
| Sculptor Mcdonald is in Washington. He
| seeks to induce Congress to vote the necessary
| cannon to erect monument to General George
| A. Custer at West Point.
| The people of Dexter, Me-, have raised So
| 500 towards erecting a church in memorial of
Barron, the murdered bank cashier: but how
are the widow and orphans?
| Treasury girls focked around old General
Spinner, whose pot-hooks are so sadly unfa-
mlllar nowadays, when he visited his old quar-.
tiers in Washington on Tuesday
| Mrs. Griswold, OF Colerainc, Mass. and Mrs
| Noyes. OF Stonington, Conn, sisters who were
married on the same day in 1928, have just
celebrated their golden weddings.
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Williams, of Southing.
ton, Conn.,. have just celebrated their golden
wedding on the same day that their son and
daughter-in-law celebrated their silver one.
The ex-manager of home for fallen women
at Ottawa has come in for severe criticism,
among the offenses charged against her being
the starving to death of several of the inmates
| One Nickel has been sentenced to fen years
! imprisonment at Paris for stabbing man,
though the doctors tried to prove that he was
irresponsible, not being in possession of his
five centses
The marriage of San Francisco widower to
his step-daughter so displeased his neighbors
that they stuck tar and feathers on his door as
a hint of what they would do if he did not
move away.
The inhabitants of Madagascar are dying to.
get hold of an American ship captain who sold
them 10000 quart cans of tomatoes as a new
kind of gunpowder. Their old blun6erbueses
couldn't go off.
| Miss Noilcon's rronoenI torr 3, an, r,,,,,4,.,
is postponed until next autumn. She will APP
pear at the Adelphi theatre in London, In Feb
ruary, next in new romantic drama on a his.
torical subject.
The first appearance of Adelina Patti in Ber-
lin fixed for the 23d of last month. She
chose 'Ia Traviata'' for the opening night of
her engagement. Great excitement prevailed
to hear the famous diva.
fox pursued by the Northumberland
hounds recently jumped-not over the parsons
gate, but through shepherds window The
shepherd chevied him out gave a view-hallo
and received his panes for his labor.
colored woman at Newport is believed TO
be the best linguist in that vicinity. She has
a passion for the study OF languages, and after
years of close application has acquired good
knowledge of six languages besides the Eng
fish.
Washington is on the tiptoe of expectation
over the coming trial of the widow divers suit
against the venerable ex-senator Simon Came
ron for $40, 900 for breach of promise of mar
riage. 1t will be reached on the calendar in
| about two weeks.
man at work upon soop just off the port
of Boulogne fell into the water and was sink
ing FAST but Mile. Pay, daughter of local
wine merchant, who happened to be on the
shore, jumped into the waves, and, swimming
to the drowning man, rescued him.
There are no fewer than forty-six varieties OF
the date tree, tsenty-six OF which are exhibited
at the English conservatory of Kew Gardens.
The date was once abundant in the holy land
but is now disappearing there. Itfourishes in
the Desert of Sahara wherever water exists.
G. d. FISH of Sunderland Mass, while dig
| ging up an old apple tree lately, found eight
arrow heads together about foot below the
surface of the ground The lot was occupied
soon after the s. ttlement of the town, and il IS
thought the arrow heads are at least 200 wears
| old
| A Salt Lake telegram says that Libby ].
Young third wife of John W. Young present.
ed herself in an 81 800 dress at a ball given by
the Knights Templar in that city on Thanks
giving eve, but was refused admission on the
ground that polygamous women are improper
| persons.
DR.. Brown sequard, in late letter TO the
French Biological society states that milk
| moderately warmed, if injected slowly into
human artery, will revive a dying patient as
| much as injections of blood. He cites num-
Der of cases in which he has successfully tried
l. Iaoo