Daily globe., 1879-04-10
GLOBELErs.

Bismarck is 65, and the French think that
he's old enough.
Stanley Matthews is in Washington again on
professional business.
General Sherman now visits the Congress
sional galleries every day.
Miss Mcdowell, of Chicago, a cousin of Mrs.
Hayes, is visiting at the White House.
The frost is out of the ground, and farmers
and grave-robbers can go to work again.
The Legislature of Delaware divorced thirty
four married couples at its recent session.
No Intoxicating or malt liquors have been
sold in the town of Salisbury, Mass, since
1881.
Florence has lately named one of its prin-
cipal squares after it's famous martyr, savon-
arola.
William Cunard, one Of the proprietors of
the well-known steamship line, has arrived in
Halifax.
San Francisco ladies who engage Chinese ser
wants cut off their queues and use them for
switches.
Ii whisky were as cheap in Texas as human
life, the Texan could desire nothing more in
this world.
Porte Crayon goes to Mexico as consul-gen-
eraI, where his duties will be to draw sketches
and salary.
Whitelaw Reid should have accepted the Ger
man mission if he honestly wanted to show his
love of journalism.
An exchange says that Georgia rye grows seven
feet tall, and comm thro the rye down there
must be hard work.
DR.. Newman was i'll before being made car
dinal, but since his promotion he has regained
| his health completely.
The electoral bill now before the parliament
at Rome increases the number of voters in the
kingdom by 100000.
Daniel OLeary intends to start a training
school for the education of American pedes-
| trians in the art of running.
Mr.. Tennyson will contribute 10 the April
number of The Nineteenth Century dedica-
tory poem to the Princess Alice.
Barnum says there are more fools now than
when he started in business. His success
doubtless encouraged the others.
Miss Haidee Heller (sister of the late Mr..
Bobert Heller, magician, is singing Little But
tercup in 'Pinafore" in the West.
Sixteen Thousand persons in the prisons of
the United States are unemployed; but all of
them are willing to go out and look for job.
John B. Cough was born at Sandgate. Ky..
and the Sandgate citizens are erecting 'tcof-
fee tavern" on the site of the old Cough resi-
dence.
Prof. Frank 81. Bradley, a noted mineralo-
gist. was killed at the Nachoochee gold mine,
} Georgia, few days ago, by the caving in Of
earth.
Northampton, Mass, claims to to have the
oldest fireman in active service in the Union
, in William Knapp, who joined the department
in 1888.
; The father of Professor Sumner of Yale was
an English mechanic, who, it is said, could
neither read nor write when he came to this
country.
> Laura Joyce the actress, has petitioned for
/ the custody of her second child and for an in
4. crease of alimony against Taylor, her former
g husband.
There is bill before the Pennsylvania leg
islature which makes it punishable ofense to
! keep spitz dog in that State. 1t will not,
probably, pass.
| been sentenced to two years imprisonment for
: stealing a suit of clothes in which to conduct
: Sunday services.
Henry Bergh, we learn, is going to prevent
7 acts Of cruelty to the rats of New York; and il
!, is believed that he is working in the interest O.
;, the heather Chinee.
The scaffold has been erected in the jail q
Chambersburg, Pa, upon which the murder
ers of Shaffer and Swingler have been con
demned to hang.
One of the features of the Woodruff scien
~ tifc expedition will be the publication on boar
ship of weekly newspaper. to be calle,
Around the World.
N The campus at Cornell university is iilumi
mated every night with electric lights at the e1
pense of cent an hour leaving no chance 10
y mischief IN the dark.
. Prof. Baird has sent one of his assistants t
~ Cape Cod to make cast of small humr
as backed whale that went ashore there for th
II, Smithsonian Institute.
ne Webb Hayes seems to be singularly scare
o. these days. Has the imprudent boy any reaso
Id to believe that the Widow Oliver intends to su
re him for breach of promise?
n James Freeman Clarke wants the poll tax t
~ =. vary like the rest of the tax levy, thus maxim
~ =. poll-tax voters share the burden which the
-, may place on the community.
%. Prof. Daniel Vaughn, who we'll know
ey throughout the United States as an astronome
;" inguist and mathem atician, died at the hosp
ed tai in Cincinnati, aged So years.
6O Mr.. Charles A. Wetmore we'll know
en Washington correspOudent has welded Mi
%, Anna D. Smith Of Brooklyn. The weddir
eo tour will extend to San Francisco.
ha More than l0O, 900 tons of Algerian and Spa
as ish iron ore will be imported into the Unite
be States this year. The iron will be used
It Pennsylvania, in competition with Lake Sup
no rior ore.
'ar By order of the Italian ministry of agric,
no ture, eucalyptus trees are to be thickly plant
in spots throughout the Campagna in order
~ give the sanitary properties of the foliage
~, fair trial.
no While two Russian artillery men were
he moving from among the ruins of Sebastopo]
lat bomb, which had lain thero for nearly
as quarter of century, it exploded and bad
n, wounded both.
~ "a Col. Edward G. Bailey, of Massachusetts,,
~ about to retire from journalism and polit
He and take up his residence in Stowe, VT, whe
ad he has large property interests, including
ey popular summer hotel.
of The widow of Lieut.. Hiram 81. Benner,
n yellow fever hero, has been presented with
I'D cosy house at Elgin, Ill. Enough money
'u' been invested in government bonds for her bs
~, eft to give her an annual income Of 5000.