Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-11
GLOBELETS.

Twenty-Five Cents. One three-cent stamp
will carry twenty-five cent silver coin In
GLOBELETs.
And now even Spain talks seriously of an in.
ternational exhibition.
Frances Hodgson Burnett lives in three
story brown stone front in Washington.
Capt. James B. Eads, who is now in Europe,
will 90 to Egypt to study the Suez canal.
Rev. Spurgeon's church in London has eighty
-colporteurs. They visit rs, 900 families every
month.
The marriage Of Miss Betty Evarts, daughter
of the secretary of state, will take place during
the holidays.
Mrs. CORVALLIS West, one of London's pro-
fessional beauties, is the mother of three chill
dren.
Thomas J. Griffith of Utica, N. Y, owns the
first greenback issued by the government, and
has refused 800 for it. ..
Mr.. Whistlers quaint dwelling at Chelsea.
London, built from his own designs at an ex-
pense of $500, has been sold.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes is to have a
complimentary dinner given to him by the
publishers of a certain magazine.
Hindoo baker in Calcutta, proud of the
English he has acquired, displays the sigh,
Eur opean Loafer'' over his door.
Since the reduction of the tobacco tax the
internal revenue from that source is said to be
$4,000 month less than last year.
Ranvalona, Queen of Madagascar, has issued
fn hor a11hio
them to send their children to school,
It is said that if you strap a man tightly to
a large cannon and fire it off the conclusion
will kill him and death will be painless.
There are still nearly 5000 women and girls
employed about the coal mines of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
General Shermans favorite daughter, who is
soon to be married, is such good horsewoman
that she frequently out-ides her male escorts.
At the solicitation of DR.. Kennedy the Itch
borne claimant has consented to contest the
representation of Nottingham at the next
election.
George Washington is the name of one of
the Ute chiefs now seeking to thrash the coun-
try of which his illustrious namesake was the
father. s
While looking at the big trees in the Yose-
mite valley. few days ago. Senator Morgan,
of Alabama, fell from boulder and broke his
collar-bone. iii - asr-
Eighteen new Austrian peers have Just been
gazetted, but only few of them are known
outside of Washington. The title of one is
Baron Max Washington.
Recent income tax returns show that ninety
persons in Great Britain, exercising trades and
professions, have incomes over $780, 900, 994
between loco and $25O,OOO.
DR.. J. B. Wood, long the night editor Of the
New York San, and known throughout the
country as the Great American Condenser, is
going to San Francisco to manage the Chronicle.
At La Grange Texas, saloon keeper evadas
a Sunday law by assembling drinkers in his sa-
| loon, when chapter or two of the bible is read
| and discussed between copious libations of
beer.
M. Magnet is now giving lectures on divorce
in Paris. lady, being asked her opinion,
answers through Figaro: ''Divorce is all very
we'll in its way; but prefer widowhood; it is
more certain ~ =
| A visitor to Hampstead church Englant),
| where circulation of the Blood Harvey lies
| buried, found his tomb decaying, and writes
| that his family is extinct in the male line, as
is usual with great men. -s''-..'
The late Lady Wialdegrave is said to have
kept diary in which almost every event of her
life was carefully recorded. There is a twitter
about it in English society, and, if published,
it will have an enormous sale.
Gortschakoff is 81 years old. He is the
bitter enemy of modern liberalism, and is sure
that he shall never Russian parliament.
He won the portfolio Of chancellor by an anonv-
nous competitive examination.
The Providence aldermen have voted down
resolution to give up their quarterly BANG uc.s
at the city poorhouse. One of the argu ments
set forth against the resolution was that it wos
mot right to disturb time-honored CUSTOM
The Ataene,na says of MIR. J. s. G. Abbot,'s
Life of Washington:" 'The book is not worth
much but it will do English readers g,o; IL
read an. account of matters which does cot rep
resent that Providence is always on the side of
the British
The area of British India, exclusive OF native
States, is 899, 341 square miles, the number of
| inhabited houses 87,043, 524, and the popula-
ton l9l ,096, 600. The area of the native States
is stated at SD, 1855 square miles, ard the pop
ulation at 49, l61 $40:
Moltke's sister married On Englishm an
| named Burt, whose daughter, by former
| wife, became the marshals wife. She was l6
he 80. It was thorough love match. Moltke
| has fine estate in Silesia, to which he is
| greatly attached.
Albrecht, the great photographer of Munich
has succeeded in securing an excellent repro
duction in colors of Pilotys famous frescoes,
just completed in the main hall. The portion
photographed is that illustration of the famous
men of all ages.
Lyfaght Finnegan, the new Home-Rule mem
| Der of the British Parliament for Ennis, served
| in the ranks of the Papal zouaves at the battle
of Patay, in the Franco-German war of 1870.
| He has since been like Justin MCCARTHY, re-
turned for Longford.
The London Truth speaks with indignation
of the abominable falsehood concerning Mrs.
Langtry and the Prince of Wales, which, after
being invented in London, made the tour of
| sensational journals in the United States, and
| now turns up in Paris.
/ The Paris Univers asserts that the emperor
and crown prince of Germany have seeded
sistance to an inspection into their archives by
DR.. Schiffmann, whom the crown prince wished
to inquire into the origin and secret tendencies
of Masonry. f
Mr.. Thomas Littleton Holt the English jour