Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-15
GLOBELETs.

GLOBELETS.
Evarts is accused of having made Joke in
recent speech. ---..
The two Misses Longfellow are among tho
lady students at Harvard.
Hon. 8. 8. Cox has started for two veeks'
lecture tour in New England.
The Boston Globe believes Butler will try il
again. 1t is very likely he will.
Mr.. Fagdon Fussie, an English scientist, !.
lecturlng on the chemistry of fools.
The Detroit Press says George Eliot borders
on profanity because she lives at Godalming.
A new we'll at Houston, Georgia, is said to
emit current of gas SO strong that two mill.
are run by it.
The Picoyu''e is of the opinion that Clara
Louise Kellogg will never marry unless she
loses her voice.
Oetewayo has 10000 wives and is not bald
headed Susan B. Anthony mentions this in
all her speeches. rE
Every day almost Col. Ingersol receives an
ungrammatical challenge to discuss religion
with some country minister,
kentucky has produced 157 pound pump
kin, and the owner has requested Mr.. HAYES to
veto the growing of one any larger.
Mr. William E. Chandler will not be able 70
leave Salt Lake City for some time, as his son,
though better, is improving very slowly.
A beer contest was feature of charitable
fair at Fort Wayne, Ind, each purchaser of q
glass OF beer voting for his favorite brewer.
The Massachusetts supre ne court decide,
that woman is competent to testify a. to her
own age. But it doesn't tell how to make
them do it.
It is said that Canon Farrar is to be made
the Dean of Worcester, with an income of
$4,000 year and a handsome residence near
the cathedral.
negro at Little Rock bias had two hundred
and torty-two vens or warts cut from his body
by the surgeons and is now lighter by about
| eleven pounds.
Mrs.. Downing. of Quincy, Illinois, recently
got divorce. regaiued her maiden name miss
Lowery), and married man named Herring.
| all in one afternoon.
| Out IN Texas when prisoner gets out of ja;I
| apparently through the instrumentality of
| one outside, he Is often found tangled to a tree
somewhere near, but they call it a Jail delivery,
all the same.
| The explosion of large gasoline lamp coy
cred the water with fame around two Illinois
hshermen's boat. They only saved their lives
by diving through the FIRE and coming to the
surface at q safe distance.
Darius Perrin, of Rochester, transferred
$500, 600 worth of property to his nephew to
| protect 1t IN business emergency and nov
/ In hoo
nounces his inteat;on of keeping it.
| man at Bloomington, Ind, has for several
years believed be was dog. The people did
not object. as long as he confined his Demon
STATIONS to barking at those who passed bis
house, but when he began to bite them. thew
locked him up.
Signor Dario Mazzei, atenographer to the
Italian senate, has invented machine which
claims to reproduce speech in the ordinary
printed characters as rapidly as it is spoken, 3
word of several syllables being recorded BY
single touch of the keys.
On his passage through Saumur few DAYS
ago, Don Carlos visited the famous cavalry
school. and was received with regal honors By
the commandant and the officers under his
orders. The incident has produced great ex-
element among the Republican organs.
Brigandage is thriving in Sicily. A signor
schermi has had to pay 1O2, O0Of. for his re-
lease; Signor Tucci has paid rs O0Of, and moth
ing is known of the fate of three other land
owners recently carried off, their families re-
fusing to meet the demands of the captors.
Norfolk, Va, did an export business las t
year of $40 DOC, 900, and with her cotton returns
now ranks as the second cotton exporting port
IN the United States. It is the first peanut
port in the world, receiving the entire crop of
Virginia. which is much larger than the growth.
OF Tennessee and North Carolina
A gentleman from the Black Hills reports
that the keeper of the ranch at the Sidney
crossing of the south fork of the Cheyenne has
q unique collection of fossils. Among them
arc great sections of trees turned into solid
stone. petrifed shells and pieces of. fish. tina
scales of which yet retain all the hues of the
rainbow.
Two young women were to travel, without
male escort. from Aurelius, N. T., to San
Francisco. Fearful of annoyance they though.
1t would be safeguard if one had her hair
cropped and wore mems clothes. This plan
| was carried out; but the deception was i'm
perfect, and in Chicago they were arrested
suspicious characters.
Trouble has frequently grown out of the
laundry combat between Gervaise and yirqinie
in the play s'LAssommoir," usually by reason
of too realistic throwing of water. But the
matter was carried further at the National
theater, Philadelphia, where Gervaise, after
being uncomfortably drenched, struck Virginie
lard blow on the head with q wash paddle, 40
disabling her that she could not 20 on With her
part.
Witch burning is not recognized as crime
In Russia although this is the nineteenth cen
tury and the age of holy missions. Seventeen
peasants of Nijno-Oovgorod met the other day,
and solemnly cremated an elderly female resi-
dent in their neighborhood, who was suspected
| of black cat and brooomstlck tendencies. The
| court acquitted them all, but directed three of
them to make their peace, by penances, with
| the Church.
| The eruption from which the sun was lstelv
| reported to be suffering would appear to be
| contagious, for the astronomers now announce
that Jupiter is now afflicted by pimple. 1t
| Is as large as the continent of Europe, and of a
splendid vermilion color. 1t is situated on his
"uppermost extremity" ~ deferentisl mode,
probably, of saying the top of his majesty's
head. and is of an oval form, appearing at
| tached to the planet ITSELF"
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