Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-04
GLOBELETS,

GLOBELETS.
Sitting Bull has settled down to choppinp
cordwood.
Train-wreckers continue their nefarious work
in Connecticut.
Millionaire Fair reached San Francisco by wav
of Panama on Monday.
Wade Hampton received eleven wounds dur
ing the war, one of them saber-thrust
When Chicago paper recently spoke Of ''the
black halcyon of human ferocity,'' it meant a
murderer.
A call is out for an Interstate convention of
sugar-cane growers of the Northwest in St,
Louis, Jan. 8.
negro man has been appointed on the Bos-
ton police force. He is to act as messenger for
the commissioners
Colonel John D. Washburn' s illness is said to
be directly attributable to certain unjust CEN
sure Of the newspapers.
The Philadelphians have used during the
year 19,3S7,077,569 gallons of fresh water
mostly in washing pavements.
General Grants tittle-tattle corps hint that
he will hunt in the West next summer, after
Wishing California and Oregon.
Mrs. Corners, the Fall River Mass, woman
who was bitten three weeks ago by mad cat,
has just died from hydrophobia.
Forty young ladies lost their wardrobes in
the lire that destroyed Millersburg Female col
lege' at Paris, KY, on Saturday.
Nathan Ives, one Of the crew of the Kear
sarge when she sunk the rebel pirate Alabama,
died recently at Norwalk, Conn.
negro lunatic in the Danville (va.) Jail
claims to be George Washington, to be 1000
years old, and to be worth $2,OOO,OOO
Minister Jehu Baker will return to Illinois
| from Venezuela in February. Mrs. Bakers i'll
health makes this Northern trip necessary.
Judge Alphonso Taft celebrated the twenty
fifth anniversary of his second marriage. at
his home in Cincinnati, on Tuesday evening
last.
Under the general law of Missouri, Jurors
must be able to read. In st. Louis this dis
qualified over 80 per cent. of the colored resi-
dents.
Ex-Governor Hendricks has not vet left In
dianapolis for Washington He spends most of
his time in the court rooms nowadays looking
up lucre.
General Sherman says that he has seen all
the royal ladies at the European courts. but
never one who could discharge her social duties
as gracefully as Mrs. Hayes.
Scientific Boston now sings its hymns at
prayer meetings, not out of hymn books, but
from hymn screens, whereupon they are pro-
Jected by means of stereopticon.
Eopor ,ro, , fuau.l.l
yer This Eager thought to make money by
starting liquor saloon, and though he didn't
go near the saloon he has been disbarred.
One OF those astonishing New York CORE
spondents of country papers has discovered and
announces that New Workers, as a rule, are sim
pie eaters, ''but the carriage and the theatre
| lay up the salvage
The Little Rock Gazette says that one rail-
way has spent over $4,000 within the past
| three years to promote immigration into
| Arkansas, and that it is just beginning to reap
the fruit of its labors.
The Archduke Rudolf, crown prince of Aus
| tria, accidentally shot himself few DAYS ago
IN the LETT hand with a saloon pistol The
charge passed through the heshy part between
the thumb and first finger.
When Reuben Springer, wealthy resident
OF Cincinnati, heard of the financial shoals
into which i'll winds had blown the honored
prelate of the Catholic church in Cincinnati,
ne proffered the Archbishop a check for s4O,-
600.
Certain members of the Logan Society of
Williams College, Mass, are developing strong
affinity for fire and birthstone as this cues
ton recently proposed shows Resolved, that
the devil is black man, with barb on his
tail painted red
little girl in Groton, n Y, put a lot of
popcorn, which she had carried in her pocket.
in some milk and ate portion of it. She be-
came violently ill soon after, and examination
showed small cake of paint among the corn
IN the bottom of the bowl.
writer in the Boston transcript compares
Gen. Butter to Lord Beaconsield Butler
would be snob in England" says the writer,
just as Beaconsfeld would become demoeogue
III America, for demogogism is the democratic
| substitute for snobbishness.
Robert Downing, od-chopper living near
Dallas, Texas, got Christmas present of SILL
43O. His grandfather, New York merchant.
had willed that sum to Downing and the attor
ney happened to forward the money so that it
| reached Dallas on Christmas day.
MT. A. Il. Pealce, colored man, is cand-
date for the clerkship in Washington county,
Miss, vacancy having been caused bv the
death of Albert Shadd, also negro, He an
hounces himself as heartily in accord with
the Democratic party of the State and
county,"
Owing to the total lack of boating interest
at Williams College, Mass. it is suggested that
the boats be sold, and the boat house be torn
oo"n. Ihe money appropriated by Cyrus W.
FIELD, Tor the improvement of the course, is
oelng expended on the village street, and the
300 paid for annual repairs on the lot where
the boat house is, is money thrown away.
The citizens of Halifax, Nova Scotia are
termea Hellgonlans; why, no one seems to
KNOW. just at present the Heligonians are in
herce wrath because correspondent of the
London Times has said that the Halifax neonle
are chiefly Africans and Micmacks: tina. the
ladies are all splay footed, and that at fashion
able dinners the chief dish is pork and beans.
Attention is being directed to Prof. Sotbeer,s
accounts OF the amount OF gold recently omar.
red and washed in Russia. According to this
German scholar, the average value of the gold
found in that country has risen to s2s, $50, 600
year. This being about half the sum re-
CURED Tor payment of interest abroad. it must
IN time improve the financial position of the
country. Prof. sotbeer is Justly regarded as
one OF the most trustworthy authorities on
finance.
A concession for Illuminating Teheran bv pas
has been given to a Frenchman NJ Foh;n.
Boital, who has lately gone into mint - 10