Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-06
GLOBELETs.
Beecher makes hay fever fashiona


France has l,SOO, 900 manageable girls.
Rochester street car horses have the cpl
zootic.
Wild game is still hunted on Mount Desert
island, Me.
Cincinnati's well-to-do mechanics have a
Home Circle club.
There will be national archery convention
in Chicago August 18th to 18th.
A meteor that burst like rattle of artillery
scared Plymouth, Indiana, week ago.
Two bald eagles have been causing the dis
appearance of young pigs at Auburn, N. J.
Twelve lakes, and extending fifteen miles,
are to be dredged into one at Quincy, Michigan.
It is expected that the Emperor William will
be in Metz on the Oath of September to attend
the review of the troops.
Mr.. Bancroft is very fond of young peo-
ple's company at Newport, and takes special
delight in entertaining them.
The President has recognized joaquin Gar
| cia Condo as consul of the United States of
| Mexico at San Francisco, Cal.
| The people of Dorset, VT, celebrated Isaac
Farwells Tooth birthday with songs, addresses,
/ NNAAOAAS
Since July, 1878, no gold has been coined at
the London mint. This is due to contraction
of trade and influx of gold from Australia.
If aman undertakes to travel on the line be-
tween truth and dishonesty, says Josh Billings,
| he IL sure to stumble, and we all kno on which
side the line he will fall
| P. E. Sindebaker, of South Bend, has started
a subscription to erect stone above the grave
of Lincon's mother, at Lincoln, ten miles from
Rockport, Ind. He gives $50.
New London, Conn.,, people will have a CEN
tennial celebration September 9th, 1851, that
day being the anniversary of the burning of
the town and the massacre at Fort Griswold.
The Duke Of Beaufort and party will shortly
visit Toronto and Niagara Falls. They will 90
thence to New York for two OF three weeks of
yachting, after which they will return to En-
gland.
Mr.. Henry Watterson, who has been staying
for short time at Block Island, has left his
family there and gone to Yonkers to meet Mr.
Tilden, who will return to the former place
with him.
Prophesying is a dangerous game in Burmah
Just now. Theebau, in rage with a fraud
who had foretold him victory, has crucified
him and fined the governor of Minhla, who had
sent him, ST, 500.
Archers in England have for centuries been
supplied with bows of English make. Two
years ago the manufacture was begun in this
country, and American bows are now largely
exported to England.
Nine. Dillingham; is in Augusta, Me-, and
| - IL
She conducted for a number of years the Cony
Female academy, and is now ninety-two years
old, but in vigorous health.
/ 1t is said that Courtney, the oarsman, al
though not a rich man, gave every cent of the
S5OO which he Won in the contest with Riley to
Mrs. Trip, the widow of a. man who was killed
in his sawmill few months ago.
The l5Oth anniversary of the celebration of
the town of Bedford, Mass, will occur Aug 81.
Rev. Jonathan F. Stearns, D. D., of New Jer-
/ sey, has been invited to be the orator of the
day, and has accepted the invitation.
Notwithstanding the example of Chastine
/ Cox, negro entered Mrs. Kellys house at
i Evansville, Ind. gathered some plumber in her
room, and then thinking that she was about to
awake, killed her with big stone which he
had carried in for weapon.
At Whitby, Canada, the other week, a curious
phenomenon was witnessed in the shape of
four rain bows appearing in the heavens at the
same time. There were two pairs Of tbem
each pair springing from the same base, and
the bases were acre or SO apart
Some of the women in the Methodist congre
CATION at Laconia, Ind, volunteered to clean
the church, and on an appointed day gathered
for the purpose. Two of them essayed to direct
the Job, and the division of authority brought
on quarrel, which was followed by fight, in
which brooms, mops and pals of water were
freely used.
Grace Greenwood entertains cordial dislike
for Mr.. Beecher, mainly. it is said, because of
the refusal of the eminent divine to answer
the annoying letters he receives daily askin q
him for his autograph, but at the same tim e
retaining the postage stamps enclosed by the
writer's. She says Beecher never has to buy
postage stamps.
When some years ago an eminent Australian
was inspecting in that country lunatic asy-
lum, miserably defective in construction and
appointment, he asked what was the specia1
feature In the lunacy of a certain patient. ssHe
thinks he is in hell, sir, was the reply. eff
that's all his delusion," was the reioinder. 81
think he has a very substantial basis for it,
Jacob Clough, one of the successful politi-
clans of Newport, R. l., has resided there 81
years with wife and family. Recently a sick
~ but determined woman arrived with proofs
that she was his wife, and that he had deserted
her long ago in England. Her neighbors sub-
Il ScrihoH mr. be%, !.
him and she traced him out. He is to be tried
for bigamy.
i The health commissioner in charge of the
st. Louis quarantine tried to brighten off q
grand jury, which had come in a boat to in
vestigate the place, by telling them that he had
i've cases of yellow fever at the hospital.
They persisted in landing, and not only found
that there was no fever there but that the
Encouragement justified an Indictment of the
| commissioner.
Thackeray's nose through an early accident
was mlsshapen, being broad at the bridge and
stubby at the end. He was near-sighted: his
hair at 40 was gray, but massey and abundant;
bis keen and kindly eyes twinkled, sometimes
through and sometimes over his spectacles A
friend said of his face that its predominant ex-
preston was courage-a readiness to face the
world on its own terms.
There was to be entertainment in the
Christian church at Columbus, Ind. it'll a tab
leau as one of the features. One of the figures
in the picture to be copied in this tableau was
fairy in short skirts. A committee WAS a D.
pointed to consider the question of propriety
presented, and it was voted that unless the
representative of the fairy was under 10 wears