Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-24
GLOBELETs.

GLOBELETS.
Eight per cent Of the habitable houses in
Glasgow are empty.
An Excelsior, Ga, child fell through crack
IN the parlor floor recently.
The strength of an elephant il calculated to
De equal to that of l59 men.
The Fort Wayne Bridge company have orders
aheao Tor about one mile of bridges.
nigh agricultural authority estimates the
loss on English crops at 1925, 100000.
The window panes of Des Moines are to be
Jeopardlzed by an archery tournament.
Fire underwriters lowering premiums,
while hres are said to be on the increase.
Work on the new pulp mill site at South Ho-
lyoke, Mass, is being pushed vigorously.
Divorce is a leading subject of discussion in
Paris. Alfred Naquet and Dumas favor it.
Mile. Aimee sailed Wednesday for Franc e.
never to return for another last farewell en-
gagement
Warren J. Woodward. a Judge of the Penn
sylvania supreme court, is lying dangerously
i'll at Hampton, N. Y.
The Countess of Tankerville and her eldest
son, Lord Bennett, are among the latest con-
verts to the Church of Rome.
A subscription has been started at Ottawa.
Ont, among the officers and militia for me-
mento to the late prince imperial.
The Methodist conference of southern ILL
nols refused to admit woman as member,
although she was pastor of a church.
The Presidential campaign is rapidly rolling
down upon US, and the machine is already
being creased by little Presidential turn
oil.
The old, house in Islington, near London.
from which Dickens took his description of
Bleak House, was destroyed by fire three weeks
ago.
Monclar, an eminent French Agricultural.
proposes to feed cattle, sheep and pigs on prov
ender containing savory herbs, to give flavor to
the flesh.
There has been a great decline in the adul
teratlon of food in England since the employ
ment of public analysts. Nearly every county
now has one.
A Dunedin, Kew Zealand, paper records the
death of yet another Glasgow bank victim,
jeweler, who, failing for $34O, 1000, emierated
from Edinburgh.
'Ole Bull is going to give another series of
farewells'' is the statement made in one of the
musical publications. Isn't this the play of
''Much Adieu About Nothing set to music.
Sir Evelyn Wood. after all the adventure and
hardships through which he passed scatheless
in Africa, was so severely wounded in game
at lawn-tennis that he is confined to the sofa.
It is said that "Pinafore'' has been intro
duced among the Indians. This will explain
why number of Indians have left their reser-
vations. The nearest rivers should be dragged
for their bodies.
Cetewayo, as be saw Maj. Marter approach
ing the kraal, quietly remarked, I'm not the
first king to suffer Marter-doom," and if it had
not been for the prompt arrival of the British,
his own soldiers wonld have killed him.
Hard times are in one respect special provi-
dence for Glasgow In the week ending Sept
there were only 285 charges of drunkenness
against 5S4 in the corresponding week of 1878
The diminution has been going on for months.
Without making a bet, and in days when the
value of stakes was insignificant as compared
with the mighty aggregate of Lord Falmouth: 8
winnings during the last three years, Admiral
Harcourt retired from the turf with clear
gain of S125,0O0.
Sir Rowland Hills tomb in Westminster Alb
hey is in the north aisle of the channcel in St.
Paurs chapel, just to the west of the grave of
James Watt the inventor of the steam engine.
No interment has taken place in St. Paurs
chapel in modern times.
The Rev. J. s. Andereon's immortality re.
suited in his expulsion from a passionate at
Charles City, Iowa. He then opened an office
as physician, but the people would not tolerate
him in any professional capacity, and masked
mob drove him out of town.
An inquiry set on foot by the French budget
committee, has brought to light the fact that a
large number of officials have the right of
sending kilograms free of charge, and that the
number go sent reaches the rather high figure
of 1000, or, on an average, over 20 words each
per month-2O000 words per day.
Elisha Grimes said in PRAYER meeting at
Little York, Ind, that he was wholly prepared
to die. George Jones called him out of SIS
a few minutes afterward, and killed him with
a knife. 1t is coniectured that Jones thought
Grimes, protesting readiness, might we'll die
at once, for no other motive has been dis
covered.
Marshal Serrano being in England to give
his son an English education, and, it is said to
place him at Elton, Truth maliciously observed
that the aforesaid son is very like the present
| King of Spain, As is well known, bears a strong
likeness to the Marshal. Marshal Serrano is
kinsman of Miss Yznaga, of New York, now
Viscou nteSs MandaviI1e
OF Lord Lyons, so long the English minister
at Washington, and now the English ambassa-
dor at Paris, Truth writes that his excellercy
having nothing else to torment him has for
sworn not only wine but tea and coffee also,
permitting himself the one beverage, and no
other, of milk and soda water. Also, he
smokes like chimney.
Bishop, the son of an English clergyman,
who was sentenced by the German government
to Imprisonment for bribing an officer to show
him some military documents, is among the
unfortunates to whom pardon was refused on
the occasion of the emperor's golden wedding.
The authorities hold that he got off with very
| light sentence, and that he is an old conspira-
tor.
John, second Duke of Montagu, directed hi 6
| tenants and dependents not to work or kill
their disabled horses. but to send them to bis
fine park at Broughton where anecdotes of
his l~ip1necc orc utiI told He had F,,1