Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-29
GLOBELETS.

enough to vote.
The President has appointed J. W. Chapman
commissioner of deeds in Massachusetts for 1he
District of Columbia.
An English traveller says that the secret of
cutting and dressing steaks is a monopoly of
one or two London taverns.
At Logan, Utah, the other night, q Limbur-
ger cheese factory was struck by lightning, and
all the people moved out of town.
The report that Robert Bonner had agreed to
take two OF his fast hor. es to the National fair
al washington Is denied on the authority of
Mr.. Bonner.
The present Charles Dickens has all tho 40.
clal qualities of his famous father, and inherits
his skill as post prandial talker.
George Pyle, Wilmington, DEL, machini.t.
claims to have invented machine which will
turn out two horse-shoes in a second.
MI. Arthur Sullivan's brother. Frederick
Sullivan, is stated to have died from overwork
IN playing the part of the Judge" in the
Trial by jury
IL Is SAID that Horace Greeley's daughters
have an offer Of $4,000 for land in Virpini.
once supposed to be almost worthless. for
which he paid $4,000.
A.baseball authority says that generally little
pitchers are more skillful than big ones which
Is probably owing to the adage that little
pitchers have big ears.
The Statue of Liberty, by Bartholdi intend
ed to be the chief ornament Of New York har.
DOR, IS making progress in Paris. The colossal
head is nearly completed.
Thomas NJ. Blodgett, who has been appointed
collector at s.. Mary's, Ga, vice Sheppard, is
son of Foster Blodgett. prominent in Georgia
politics for few years after the war.
The entrails of sheep are now used in Cali.
tornia for machine betting, in place of hemp.
which is said to be much less durable. A
three-fourth-inch rope made from it will bear
strain of seven tons.
Child stealing is said to be not uncommon
crime in New York. On Tuesday child named
Mamie Cavanagh was by mere accident found
IN the possession of woman tramp and was
restored to her parents.
The tombs of Beethoven, Mozart, Gluck and
Haydn in the Vienna Friedhof are to be GOV.
cred with flowers throughout the year at tho
expense Of the city, and kept in repair as long
as Vienna is in existence.
Married persons in France are not SO often
criminals as are unmarried persons, Out of
every lI0,00O unmarried persons thirty three
are criminals, but out of every 100, 600 married
persons only eleven ere criminals.
The tax on armorial bearings in ENGLAND.
last year, brought over $4O) 100 to the revenue.
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hamentary grants to the Prince and Princess
OF Wales, Duke of Edinburgh, and Prince Leo
pold.
The plat of ground at Schrylerville, N.Y.,
upon which the base of tie Saratoga battle
monument stands, was sold, on Friday, to salts
fly claim of Thomas Toohey for 800. The
day was The lO2d anniversary of Burgoyne's
surrender.
The Rev. William Mckay, after reading sew
eral notices from hi pulpit in the Methodist
church at Geneva, Ind, said there was another
matter as to which he desired to inform his
congregation. His wife had eloped with Mr,
Hatton, a neighbor.
Over three hundred thousand roubles in sill
yer money, supposed to be contaminated with
the plague poison, were burnt in the Russian
city of Tzaritzin on the 18th of last month.
This money was collected in the districts
stricken by the plague.
An English weekly says that the fall in pap er
makes difference of $4,000 year to tho
Daily Telegraph, and that the New York Herald
is IN treaty with Lancashire firm for a supply
at cost SO moderate az I, cover carriage and
get besides handsome margin.
According to an offici,l report 100 Turkish
mosques and holy schools were DESTROYED in
Roumelia and Bulgaria during the Russian CO.
cupation of these provinces, and about the
same number of mosques and schools have been
destroyed since the Russians left.
Alfred Bentley, of Hardinsville KY, refused
to pay the rent of the farm on which he lived,
and declared that he would submit to no re-
monstrance about it. James Blight, the LAND
lord, rode to tho place to confer on the subject
and the tenant shot him on sight with a rife.
killing him.
Reynolds use to court Miss Lancaster at JEFF
fersonville, Ind, but finally transferred his
attentions to Miss Brown. That enraged Miss
Lancaster, and she has twice shot Reynolds as
he passed her house on his way to visit Miss
Brown. who has thus far been able to nurae
him through his injuries.
Mr.. Ko, the Chinese professor at Harvard.
has hired and furnished neat house near the
college, and Is comfortably settled therein with
his wife, five children and two servants. Mr..
Ko is described as clever refined and digni-
fed person. The professor and his family still
wear their rich national dress,
A new and singular means of incendiarism
is reported to the Golos. In village of Po-
land cat was saturated with kerosene by an
unknown party, and set on fire; the unhappy
animal rushed furiously to and fro, spreading
hre oil around, till it persisted in flames, to-
gether with number of buildings.
Prof. Charles Grobe, music teacher of con-
siderable reputation, tell dead Wednesday
afternoon in front of the Burnett house in
Stroudsburg Pa. He was born in Saxonv. and
lived in Wilmington, DEL, several years. Dur
ing his lifetime Prof. Grobe com posed and ar
ranged. nearly 1000 pieces of music.
OF the total of s, 43l sets of &oollen machi-
merry IN the United States, 1,4l8 are in Mas
sachusetts 80 in Maine, sos in New Hamp-
shire, It's in Vermont, 469 in Rhode Island, and
669 IN Connecticut total for the New Eng
land States of more than 43 per cent. of the
'voollen machinery 10 the entire country.
A velocpede race was run on Sunday, Oct.
9Th. round the Lake of Geneva. The distance.
LOG miles, was done by the winner in ten hours,
forty-one minutes which, considering the hilly
character of great part of the road. and that
a strong north wind was blowing at the time
is regarded as a very creditable achievement.
manuf acturer in Sheffield, England, lately
showed number of his workmen an a.sort-
ment of American goods, and, holding up a