Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-27
GLOBELETs.

bloodhound for pet.
Five hundred Welsh immigrants have lately
arrived in Scranton, Pa.
The forests of Muhlenberg, KY, arc swarm
ing with emigrant squirrels.
sunbury is supplied with water from the
river by means of a syphon.
In Michigan they put pantaloons, on their
horses legs to prevent ay bites.
Pat, the avenger," of Pittsburgh rio. fame,
has been jagged for beating his wife.
Kitty Dec was married in Hartford at in
the afternoon and at was locked up drunk.
Grants speech. when he arrived, was made
up of thirty-nine words. He is improving.
A clairvOyant In Canada has discovered that
at least one of the Siamese twins is in heaven.
| Mrs. Woodruff. having failed a. a lecturer
in London, is coming back to the United
States.
Ralph Waldo Emerson never was robust
man. and yet he has survived nearly all Of hia
contemporaries.
tits expected that nobby folks will this win
ter boil their eggs in champagne. The idea
originsted in Boston.
The young lady who will shortly DO tho
Queen of Spain has just commenced to study
the Spanish language.
The pay of the fremen and brakemen on
freight trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company is to be increased.
Nine. Modjeska, now in England, has been
i'll and it is said will not be able to return to
the stage for several months.
IT. will ho a hord ,n,;ntor e., 0.A.~
all the clergymen report great physical benefit
from the summers vacation. 4.
The sheriff of Blair county advertisea a grave
yard for sale in his list of real estate to be
disposed Of at a judicial outcry.
starved tramp said he was SO thin that
when he had pain he couldn't tell whether it
was stomach ache or back ache. -
All the signers of the declaration of inde-
pendence signed their names with a quill, ex-
cept one-he signed his Wltherspoon.
1t is said by a contemporary that Sarah, Bern
hardt experienced good deal of difficulty in
finding enough of heraelf upon which TO put a
corset. -a. mi, ..a... .s.... h..
A negro lady in Washington measures six
feet around the waist. She never wore corsets,
| and her case offers q fine argument against
lacing.
There has been grown ut Pulaski, Kv,.
| ripe watermelon three inches long, An inch
and a-half in diameter and containing five
seeds.
When Theirs was forced to leave Versailles
and his Paris hotel burned, people asked,
''Where will he live now?' I'm history" said
| Cham, the caricaturist. @
The Rochester Express tells of a person who
was born, married and buried on the same
day." We never heard OF any person being
married as young as that.
| The communists shipped back from Caledo-
MIA to Paris complain bitterly of the treatment
inflicted on them by the MacMahon authorities.
They were ill-fed, overworked and constantly
exposed to the burning sun.
Cedar Falls has woman who writes for
three papers, does all her own work, saws and
splits her own wood, and who recently wlaled
. tramp within an inch of his life, because be
said she ought to get married.
Arthur Sullivan won at the age of II the
Mendelssohn scholarship of the Royal Academy
of Music by an original composition, over
twenty-three other competitors, and was thus
enabled to study his art in Germany.
According to the Monituer Uniuersel, the cool
ness which has lately arisen between Germany
and Russia has been partly caused by the dis
covery of carefully-prepared Plan for the in
vasion of Russia by the German 1smy.
A French lady, having lost her husband, mar
ried his brother. She kept the portrait of the
first in the dining room and when guest asked
If it was picture of one of her relations, she
replied, Eyes. my poor brother-in-law."
| recent visitor to the Tiohborns claim
ant in prison says that he is reduced in size.
and really looks fine and fairly-proportioned
man, but that it would be difficult to gaze up
on more swarthy, sinister face among the con-
victs. ..s..s.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company ba.
leased q large number of box cars from he
Reading Railroad company. the pressure on it's
rolling stock, by increased Western freights,
being such as to demand this additiodal supply
| of cars. SO .ea-E4 II .-r,'t Is. .--...
The blunt verdict of London Truth ia that
Talmage was in ENGLAND "a dead failure, es he
deserved to be, for his lectures were wretchei.
and generally in very bad taste" But some
of the London religious journals print and
praise his language. na
General Cingman was on the point of pro-
posing to young Washington lady last winter
| when q colleage interrupted him and he be-
came so interested in his friends talk that he
forgot the young lady and never had courage
to renew his suit. ~ 81.
! Mr.. George Clark, who killed himself at tho
Kennard House in Cleveland, the other day,
al. -. -. 4
bear to face his acquaintance after the details
of scandal in which he was concerned had ap-
peafed in the newspapers, .s+fass -rr
Mrs. Abbott, q Smyrna, Del, widow, IS
years old, has during her life borne successive
~ the names of Miss Williams, Mrs. Truax,
Mrs. Riggs, Mrs. Farrow, Mrs. Wallace, Mrs.
Berry, Mrs. Pratt and Mrs. Abbott. Her sev-
enth husband has just died.
Partisan mounted to the imperiale of An
omnibus fortnight ago, and turning to the
passengers. cried "Have you ever seen man
crushed?" He then threw himself head fore
most into the road. His skull was fractured
by the shock, and his legs cut off by the wheels
of the We hicle.
Mrs, Daniel Martin is going to school in
Bellefonte Ala, TO her grand daughter. This
may seem a tall story, but it isn't. Mrs. Martin
is only sixteen years of age, and recently mar
ried the very old, but very! vivacious grand
father Of Miss Martin, the Bellefonte public
school teacher. #
The old tavern in which Daniel shays Matched
the plans for his rebellion near the close Of
the last century still stands in the valley near
the west branch Of the Swift river, which forms