Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-12
GLOBELETs.

Nilsson is to pay another visit to America.
There is some doubts as to Oapoul visiting us
in the fall.
Three New York companies sell gas at so
per 1000 feet.
Mr.. w. b. Vanderbilt has bought landseet
for 900 guineas.
Some California sportsmen use bats instead
of pigeons as targets.
Good brandy, made of ripe bananas was an
oddly of the Paris show.
The roads and inns is Spain sre as bad az thew
have been for centuriso.
Water containing refuse from woolea mill
has killed five New Albany COWS.
An Inflated railway bridge in rem
county, Ind. has killed sixteen men.
A Buffalonian bought $4,000 pounds of but
ter at Charlotte. Mich, last week.
Russian physicians cure hydrophobia by caus-
ing the victim to inhale oxygen.
California man travelled under neighbours
well and stole the bottom and all the water.
James T. Fields is recovering from his illness
at MS summer residence at Manchester Mass.
Mr.. Worth Rollins, a young gentleman,
whose residence is in New York, is travelling on
bicycle from New York to Saratoga.
Mr. Henry Smart, who wrote the hymn
From Greenland's Icy Mountains" has re-
ceived pension of :e5OO from the British gov
eminent.
Only six per cent of the Harvard graduates
now enter the ministry as profession. Phy
slcal culture may have something to do with
the decrease.1
lady OF Scotchtown has pet cat which
taxes It's meals at a table. It sits up at the
table with bib pinned around it. and is fed
with silver spoon.
President McCosh, of Princeton college, re-
sides IN the most elegant mansion of any col
lege president in the United States, the gift of
the Philadelphia Stuarts.
The movement in Boston for memorial TO
William Lloyd Garrison starts off with ST.
" subscription. 1t is proposed to erect
bronze statue costing $4,000
The friends of Porter, the murdered actor.
have raised fund of $4, 100 to prosecute Cur
RE, but Currie's friends in Texas are said to
have subscribed 1928, 900 for his defense.
just as the neighbors had gathered around
the body of Mrs. Weir, in Memphis, and begun
to talk about the good qualities of the dead old
lady, she sat up and joined in the conversation.
| new Ionic porch has been discovered at
Olympia. The head of one of the tympenum
statues has also been found and metope rep
resenting the struggle of Hercules with the
Amazons.
The new st. Louis museum of art is to be
built in the Florentine style. There will be
four galleries on the lower and five on the
upper floor. Each story will be twenty feet
in heig bit.
Millais' famous picture-it has been epgrav-
ed and is very Common-.'The Hugnenot Low
ers,' is almost faithful portrait Of the ar
lists wife, the beautiful lady who was formerly
Mrs. Ruskiu
MIR. l.. A. Gobright, who was so long con-
nected with the Associated Press as its Wash
lngton agent, finally retired from the assoeia-
ton on the first inst, to engages in other bust
ness pursuits.
| Boston's official dog killer lassoes his victims
with the skill of a frontiersman, having taken
lessons of Texas Jack during the winter. He
puts little white powder on their tongues, and
they die in few seconds.
Recorder Hackett Chief Justice Curtis, of
the superior court, Judge Sanford, of the
same court, and Noah Davis, of the supreme
court of New York, all disqualified bv ill
ness for the performance of judicial duties.
Anecdotes of the Prince Imperial are crop
ping up. When the news of the burning of
the Tuileries reached the imperial family in
| their English exile his exclamation was "Quel
n"atheur! I wonder what they did with my
| bicycle"
Alexander Beavers is the editor of the Grun-
dy (Va.) Vadette. He would not appear when
called as witness few days ago, and SO
Judge Rivers sent him to prison. The next
issue of the Vidette contained the following
brief but emphatic editorial: Dam old Rivesr'
1t is announced in Washington, says the
Jersey City Journal that DR.. Mary Walker
will make her appearance directly IN knee
breeches. The portion below the knee being
so slender as to be invisible, will give the doc
tor the impressive appearance of an angel
floating in the air.
Martin F. Conway, the first repr sentative to
congress from Kansas, Is still in lunatic asy-
lum at Washington. He was a man of intellec-
|
His misfortunes impaired his mental health,
and once he was SO violent as to attempt to
shoot Senator Pomeroy on the street.
The daughter of Professor Molescholt, the
German naturalist, recently committed suicide
under painful circumstances. While walking
with two ladies. she asked whether anybody
could be drowned in a shallow pond they passed.
On their replying in the negative. she drew a
revolver from her pocket and shot herself.
She was only II years of age.
Lawrence Barrett appears to have won the
hearts of the Oregonians completely in his trip
to that corner Of the country. At his benefit
in Portland the other night Judge Deadly, in
| the presence of many citizens of note, read an
original poem. MIR. Barrett was extolled in
heroic verse as the man who "purifes, refines,
exalts'' The drama"
MIR. Thomas A. Scott, in private letter dated
| at Wildbad, in Wurtemburg, June 16, says:
Il shall remain at Wildbad nearly u month,
where Ind am growing stronger and better
every day, and Their wend my way to Switzer-
| land, France, England and expect to reach
| Philadelphia by the middle of September pre-
| pared to take a share in the work that may
| come before me-
Lord Edmund Talbot, brother ard heir pre-
sumptive of the Duke of Norfolk, i, about to
be married to Lady Mary BERTHE, eldest daugh-
ter of Lord Norreys and gran daughter of the
Earl of Abingdon. Lady Mary is a niece Of
the wife of Lord o Hogan, Lord Chancellor of
Ireland. She is remarkably beautiful and
Just 10. Cardinal Manning will perform the
ceremony.