Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-06
GLOBELETs.


hand. She was evidently designed by naturs
for savings bank cashier.
The London World declares that ames Cor
don Bennett intends to go out in the Pandora
and discover the north pole himself.
The New York Sun devotes corner TO record
ing what it calls positive facts Did this
Sun ever hear of a fact that was not positives
Henry 5. Fcote, the veteran Southern poll
tcian, is seventy-eight years old, but still hale
and hearty, and as full of hatred of jefferson
Davis as ever.
The Greenback party will hold convention
at Grand Rapids, Wis, June 9th, to nominate
candidate for member of Congress for the
Eight district.
The Springfield (m.) Journal has succumbed
1t was supported for twenty-five years by tho
State pap, and as that has been withdrawn it
has languished and died
notwithstanding many viciss.tudss in tina
succession of the crown, the average reign of
sovereigns of Russia for two centuries and
half has been fifteen Years
The vicar who solemnized the marriage Of
Earl Roseberry and Miss Rothschild is receir
ing hauling over the Goals for uniting two
persons of different faith.
difference in the catch: Says the Jefferson
tlowa) Gazette: Mrs. Hayes is catching fish in
northern New York, while her fraudulent hus-
band Is catching HI in Washington
A female writer in the New York Sun dor.
matically asserts that Women outnumber
men three to one in heaven, and in the sauna
proportion men outnumber women in HE'LL
King Kalakaua has recommended to the
Hawaiian Legislature that they take into corr
sideration the subject of the construction of
narrow guage railroads on the larger islands of
the group.
Holtum, Dane, is exhibiting marvellous
fcats of strength in London. He can pick up
two weights, of two hundred and fifty pounds
each, and Holtum out at arms length saws an
incorrigiblc punster.
George Eliot is represented to be so very
sensitive that her husband, George Henry
Lewis never allows her to see any criticism of
her writings. She doesn't know, therefore,
whether she is appreciated or not
Soap has declined to three cents pound,
says the New York Herald. This probably &C
counts for the fact that Herald reporter was
discovered the other day with clean shirt on.
He invested his weeks salary in a bar of SOAP.
There is considerable commotion at Yale B.
o., on account of the discovery of the diggings
on Siwash creek two and half miles above
the town. OH the Fraser. Two miners report
that the dirt prospects fifteen cents to the pan.
The circuit court of Talbot county, Nd has
| decided that an insolvent husband may assign
an iper IN h 70 tn VIII
| survives him she shall be entitled to the sum
insured, free. clear and discharged of her hus-
| band s creditors.
| Akron, Ohio, that has had to struggle along for
| years with no other eminence than that of be-
ing in Summit county and making a very fair
quality of hay-rake, has something to crafty
her ambition and pride at length. She has
found a Cardiff giant.
! census has been taken in Madras, British
| India to determine the loss of life occasioned
| by. the famine. The conclusion reached by
the authorities is that little more than half a
million persons have persisted from starvation
out of population of two millions.
Hayes is not much of President" saws a
Chicago opponent of investigation" and An
| derson did not deserve much reward for max
ing him. It's the same old excuse made by
| the young woman who became mother before
becoming wife-"1ts only little one"
''Oh that mine enemy would write book
| He knew that if he did he would get his enemy
| where his hair short. In these latter days,
however, letter-writing has entirely superseded
book-writing as a means of self-destruction.
Texan paper says that the oldest couple in
that State, perhaps in the country, are Mr.
and Mrs. Robinson, of Mountain City. He is
reputed to be lO3 and she l02 years old and
they were married in Kentucky 50 years ago
Recently they were presented with com fort
able house by generous ncighhor.
At a recent wedding the "bcst man" handed
the clergyman at the CLOSE of the service q
counterfeit S5 note instead OF the ten gold
eagles that had been placed in a richly kni
silk purse by the groom, and left in his friend
keeping. Had the note been genuine the fraut
never would have been discovered.
Ex-Secretary Robson regards his admins
tration Of the American navy amply vindicated
by the disaster to the Grosser Kurfurst. L
the German iron-clad were now laid up quietl,
in the stocks, the American iron clads
the inference is irresistible that she couldn
be at the bottom Of the British channel.
The excessive mortality of negroes as com
pared with whites in most Southern cities i
nowhere more striking than at Chattanooga
where there We're $50 colored deaths last year L
74S white. though the colored population is bu
3,947 to 7,541 understanding the death rat
among the negroes four times as large az tina
among the whites.
One George Foy. young man from Bor
deaux, threw himself from the top Of the Ar
de Triomphe in Paris. His fancy to die il
state of nature, and consequently he divestc,
himself Of his clothing before jumping. II
had for some time been a subject to religion
ecstasies. and as he jumped he shouted. Go
calls me; l am here They found him there
at the foot Of the arch.
The Washington Post gets two back-hande
compliments into single paragraph, thus
sit must be remembered that Townsend wa
the party who interviewed Mr.. Hayes at Gettys
burg Thursday, the essential portions of who's
work we republish in this mornings Pos
When Townsend is the interlocutor it is Away
difficult to determine where the Intervene
begins or the interviewed ends. Still there
an aroma of sious fraud and religious men
dacity about the thing which smacks strongl
of Hayes. We inclined to think at least
third of it is genuine.
Are all our idols to be thus ruthles5ly shat
tered? A witness has come forward to spo
Bret Harris hero, John Burns of Gettys
burg, who ''stood there needless Of jeer an
scott. calmly picking the rebels off, a Gettys
burg woman says that SO far from Burns play
ing the hero on the day in question, he wen