Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-05
GLOBELETS.

starving to death.
Pugwash is the name of place Of some con-
sequence in Nova Scotia.
The eyesight of Robert Toombs, of Georgia,
is said to be rapidly failing.
sparrows fight dues in Williamsport, both
combatants killing themselves.
An 1rlshman, Heber by name, was designer
and builder of the White House.
ramps die now and then, but they hide
their bodies from medical colleges.
Spiders webs makes very pretty dress. but
1t takes IL 500 spiders to make one yard.
John Mccullough. it is reported, made
$25,O 600 out of mining stocks few weeks ago.
There are six hundred and seventeen post
offices in New jersey and not an Ohio man in
one af them.
The largest wheat farm on the globe is the
Grandin farm, Fargo, Dakota It en-
braces 10000 acres.
Senator Conkling stopped during his speech
to inquire after Gen. Sherman's health as he
passed him to seat.
If the best employment of woman is to
make home happy the best work of a man
is to make her happy.
The people of Glasgow. Scotland, on their
half yearly fast day abstained from everything
save and except whisky.
An Elmira man wants Il cook-stove in the
public schools in place of Latin and Greek.
| He doesn't like to eat his roots raw.
Bicycles are u.ed to such an extent in Lon
don that it has been found necessary to adopt
stringent rules t., regulate this pastime
| Hr;r n
years Of age, is said to be excelled in horse
manship by no except professional circus
rider=.
Counterfeit $40 greenbacks are ahoat; no
poor young man that has girl that loves ice
cream can afford to take more than dozen in
one week.
The Germans, French and Italians are pre-
pairing for extensive exhibits at the Mexican
exposition of 1880, with view to checking the
inroads of American trade
Prof. Lewis Swift, of Rochester, has been
elected a Fellow Of the Royal Astronomical
Society of England as token of appreciation
of his astronomical discoveries.
) The lives of European sogereigns must be
| very pleasant just now, when it is estimated
! that there are 10000 upon the roll of sworn as
sassins, who are drawn by lot.
Cinnamon are now manufacturing ready
made clothing in San Francisco, and there are
predictions that within few years we shall be
importing such goods from China.
Philadelphia firm is shipping street
cars to England, Germany and Australia. Most
of them are ''double-deckers," and are calcu-
= lated to carry ninety persons each.
s The Campaign County, ILL.,, Gazette quotes
the phrase, 1.-THE Lord tempers the wind to
the shorn lamb" as passage of Scripture.
: That office must have very peculiar Bible.
Miss Townsend, of Nyack. who married her
3 coachman, had four ladies in her confidence,
0 and proposed to keep the marriage secret for
y some time to come; but somehow the WIS got
e ont.
0 rich New Yorker is SO fearful that his
y daughter may marry coachman That he has
~ taken her and started for China. But he
e must remember that there is a Cochin China,
too.
An old bachelor, who particularly tied lit
q erary women, asked an authoress if she could
throw any light kissing. Il could" said
l she looking archly at him, shut think it's
4 better in the dark
v In recent return to the registrar general of
marriage solemniz ed in the North of England,
the clergyman states that the woman married.
10 aged 10, is the thirty-scventh child of her
70 father by his fifth wife.
1t is always we'll to study boys bent of
10 mind and train him accordingly. If he is dcs-
tined to be tramp he should be well ground
Il ed in geography, and have his muscles and
~ digestive apparatus well developed.
TloH or
33 to the State constitution looking to change in
- the time of holding the State election from
% October to November. Ohio is now the only
leading State that votes in October.
90 A most interesting sight to see is that of a
young lady, with clips like rubies,," and with
% 'teeth of pearly whitencss, and with checks
OS that have stolen the '.deep carnatlon of the
w deathless rose" with her mouth full of ginger
nc bread!
my schoolmaster." says Carlyle, was good
of Latin scholar, and of the human mind he knew
nd this much, that it had faculty called memory
~ which might be reached through the muscular
20 integu mcnt by the application of bircher
&C. rods"
eI A New York correspondent says of the
brightest visions of male and female levcliness
he ever saw was the beautiful Mrs. RousbJ
(who died a few days ago) leaning the arm
;, of the late lamented Montague, the actor, a
W. an Academy ball.
~ Vassar is soon to have a gum chewln,
match. Princeton has a man who can hop o,
o'' one leg a mile in sixteen minutes. Ann Arbo
:. has the champion sleeper, and Yale has maj
-. who wants to run 100 yards on his hands TO
,st the college championship.
at The Bridgeport Conn.,, st. Georges society
Ter all Englishmen, have subscribed $50 toward
monument for Nathan Hale, the young Anne,
lean who was hanged by the British during
NJ the revolution. This is in view of the erectio
AZ of a monument to Major Andre.
be- Yellow Blul, one of the Indians who, will
lea Chief Joseph, figured prominently in Whit
of House reception recently, is said to be th
Z. murderer of Mrs. Manuel and child, near tn
I've mouth of White Bird creek, Idaho,on juno IL
pc- 1877. He is known in Idaho as Chotlin Mo
nd NIox.
me Sac. Osterman, aged 104, died in Chicag
~ last week. He one of Napo!e"n
,he soldiers in the Russian and Spanish camps,e ne
for He afterwards drafted prisoner il
en-. to the Prussian army. His son ia pom liner
j., Chicago detective, and has verified his fat her
&c. age and record thoroughly.
ne. Senator Conklings daughter Miss Bcssi,
VI was married in Utica last week to Superinte,
ME dent Oakman, of the Delaware, Lackan anr
ID. and Western railroad. Many bridal pre- sen
md have hean eent hu noted ooEt;c;o,, ,,,d Co.