Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-08
GLOBELETS,


ing 1885, arrived at New York on Friday.
A little 9-year-old girl in lewiston Me-, has
already succeeded in breaking one of her arms
three times.
Boston family, consisting Of father
mother and three children, are undergoing
treatment for cataract.
woman in Indiana has broken down three
different bridges while walking across, and now
the authorities make her wade the streams.
A country exchange, in speaking Of an acct
dent to a valuable horse, says that the owner
was obliged to ''shoot her to save her life.''
There is believed to be more snow on the
Alps in Switzerland at present than has ever
before been known at this time of the year.
Mary Cosgrove, aged IS, was hired to instruct
James N. Warren, aged II, in music and French,
| IN New Orleans. After six lessons they eloped.
An attempt will be made this summer to nav
igate the Delaware river above Underwater, a
scheme which is thought to be perfectly feas-
ible.
Immigrants from the cotton manufacturing
districts of England are beginning to arrive in
Fall River. They find the labor market there
already greatly over supplied.
OoACu, Uue NOlWcS1au sLOW-SuOeI, Is making
pair Of shoes with which he expects to walk
in the waters of the st. Lawrence river from
| shore to shore in midsummer.
lady at Wilmington, Ohio, has engaged to
hold her tongue ten minutes in each quarter of
an hour for l., l13 consecutive quarter hours, on
a wager Of $40 spring bonnet.
Boys seldom follow the footsteps of their
| fathers. Jim Mace has two sons who are
preachers. If he had been minister his boys
would have turned out prize-fghters.
Adelina Patti begins her nineteenth season
at Covent Garden, in London, this pear. Patti
and Nicolini have been singing in Brussels in
Italian, the other ar lists singing in French.
Most people probably unaw are that there
is In Pennsylvania thriving town named
Perkasie which is big enough to have a good
newspaper printed half in English and half in
German.
One hundred and twenty German and Asa
ton emigrants left Havre recently for
America and around Basic considerable ex-
odus is going on, especially of peasants and
| lace-makers.
Makart's gorgeous picture, 'The Entry of
| Charles V. into Antwerp to which Anthony
Comstock, the informer, objected is at present.
being exhibited in Berlin where it attracts
crowds daily.
The bill for legalizing marriage with de-
ceased wife's sister has been introduced by
Lord Houghton into the British house of lords,
as well as by Sir Thomas Chambers into the
house of commons
The people of Des Moines, Iowa, voted in
favor of liquor license by over SEQ majority on
the LIST inst. It is significant, however, that
the women cast 480 votes, and only three of
them were for license.
Lieutenant Charles W. Rowell, adjutant of
the Second infantry, U. S. A., was married at
Portland, Oregon, on Thursday night, to Miss
f Sallie Wheaton, daughter of General Frank
Wheaton, of the army.
The Gazette des Fenl,nes gives a list of French
women who have obtained academical degrees.
There are five doctors of medicine, three icen-
I tiates, and twenty Bachelors of Letters. These
: degrees have been conferred since 1866.
8 An Indiana paper has this interesting per-
/ sonal item concerning versatile young lady:
8 Miss Zoe Moore is the happy possessor of
fine new piano. She now divides her time be-
L tween the piano, the store, and geology
Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen who sailed for
| 1uLOpe Lew utLyS ago. WALL represent UulS
country in a con ference relative to the pro-
posed Panama ship canal The conference
y will be held in Paris and will open on the 18th
Q inst.
Two of the foremost men of Athol Mass,
J afforded amusement to the village bya street
Il fight on horseback. It was like a knightly COM
y bat, except that the weapons were riding whips
d and there were helmets to protect their
it heads.
Z. Senator Saunders telegraphs to the Omaha
8 (Neb.) Bee that the assertion of the Democratic
paper in that city that he contracted to sup
- port the Union Pacific company condition
~ that its friends supported him for the Senate
If is u falsehood.
q bill appointing Gen. Shields State agent OF
9r Mi ssouri for the prosecution Of claims against
To the United States, which had been defeated in
~ the Senate, was reconsidered the next day, anc
passed by a vote OF twenty to five, with the
= emergency clause.
10 Now that the tramp law is in operation in
D. Connecticut, every ingenious tramp carries with
le him evidences of an occupation. Some have a
d, bundle Of umbrella sticks, and others tool
j. box that gives them the caste of clock-maker
OF or travelling tinker.
~ Lienard's statue of Lord Brougham has been
10 placed on it's pedestal at Cannes France. Il
T. represents him in standing posture, wearing
- lawyers robe. One side of the pedestal shows
the British lion, and another bears lively,
K verses by NJ. Liegeard.
or The locomotives of the principa
as Fren ch railways are provided with small clocks
Gu placed in front at the bottom of the smoke
* stack. They are not affected by the vibration
~ and they tell the station-masters the exact tim
- of the arrival of trains.
va The old apostle of temperance, Sir Waite
X Trevelyan, has left his fine cellar of wines
x worth 500, 900, to DR.. B. W. Richardson, T. r
nd S., for scientific purposes 1t is rumore,
'as that the wines will be sold and model hos
Y, pital built with the proceeds.
-! Widow Mary Oliver is much cast down. He
~ engagements to lecture in Pottsville, Pa, an
=, in Cumberland, Md, have been Cancelled by th
~ parties who contracted with her. She is $
ire to retire to private life altogether.
The The king and queen Of Holland made recent
IL ly public entry into Amsterdam. Their re
IN cepti. n, a Standard telegram says, polit
o1 but cold. In the evening superb suit o
" jewels was presented to Queen Emma by th
o. burgomasters Of all the Dutch towns.
,ao The Louisville Democrat tells Of a Kentucl
len ian who, being criticised by a friend for ba
playing at cards, turned and said quietly: "a
lew old gentleman by the name of Ross had tw
ro sono Robert and W;lli,n ,,,h, o..L ...l.