Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-25
GLOBELETS.

SILObELExS vs.
Empress Eagenie's household at Camden
Place is broken up.
They are praying for rain in Northern and
Northwestern Texas.
Mr.. Tsnnyson, with his eldest son, is about
to make tour in Italy
Potatoes weighing four and quarter pounds
are common in Georgia.
Taka-ha she kitcbitaro Japanese, has Just
been naturalized in Carlisle.
Not a newspaper man in Houston, Tex,
drinks any thing stronger than water.
Spurgeon gave twenty-four volumes of his
sermons to John B. Cough as farewell offer.
ing.
Wild tea grows in abundance in Arkansas
county Ark, and the people will discard the
Chinese article.
Cardinal McCloskey confirmed 900 men and
women at the Redemptorists' church, New
York, Sunday.
The rice crop of South Carlina for the syear
is estimated at 1000 tierces and that Of
Georgia at $4,000 tierces.
Hon. Eugene Hale is not suffering from hem
orrhage of the lungs, as was reported but
from an attack of maiarial fever.
The fremont house, Boston's oldest hotel,
has just celebrated its semi centennial having
been first opened to the public in 1929.
Western Pennsylvania raftsmen say that
they do not expect rise in the Allegheny
and Susquehanna before the latter part of No.
vember.
Pxy fpf
of Pittsburgh coal yields 40 cubic feet to the
pound, while the best Wheeling coal Yields
only AZ.
In the single district of Waldai in the gov
eminent of Novgorod, 425 horses, 31S oaws.
| and upward Of 3, 400 other cattle were devour-
| ed by wolves
United States Minister Foster is making
journey through Mexico. At Guadalaiara he
was received with marked attention from the
public and private citizens.
Hon. Richard s. Walker, one of the three re-
Gently appointed judges of the new Court Of
Errors in Texas, was born in Kentucky in 1924,
and has lived in Texas since 1916.
Louisville Courier-Journaz /: Rev. Beecher
might say to DR.. Lorimer "Plagiarize if you
will. but it is safer to plagiarize other peoples
wives than other peoples writings
Texas owes $5.200O00, of which 100000 be-
longs to the school fund, and is in bonds held
in the State Treasury. The interest on the
public debt amounts to $400, 600 year.
That her lover was blind and poor was o
impeachment to marriage, in the opinion of rich
Miss Hood of Granville, N. c., though her
parents forbade the match, and she eloped
| with him.
Esquire Martin. of Minden, La, has held the
Office of justice of the peace there for thirty
four years, and has never had an appeal taken
from decision made by him. He is, in fact.
a notable pub. func.
Wilkesbarre family were compelled to
| leave their house on account of "queer noises
which they thought were ghosts, which proved
to be the air whistling and moving through
the empty water and gas pipes.
| The largest block of granite ever quarried in
New England has been taken out at Woodbury.,
Vt. It was 230 feet long, Ii to IS feet deep, Is
. feet wide, we ghed 1850 tons, and required 73
wedges. with fifty pounds of powder, to start
it.
Grace Greenwood's daughter Annie, who
went abroad with her mother to cultivate her
voice for the oneratic stage, has renowned that
project for the present and begun dramatic
career under the auspices of MISS Genevieve
Ward.
The new Queen of Spain is to be married in
silver cloth, embroidered in garlands, with
sparkling white jet. One of her costumes is
of blue embossed velvet and opal-colored satin
trimmed with fringes of small pearls inter-
mingled with silver lace.
The three Harvard students, Nathan E1a +
thews. Jr., Alden Sampson and George c. Cut.
Ter, who, In a birch-bark canoe, navigated
many of the rivers of Great Britain and the
continent of Europe last summer, will prob
ably publish book of their adventures.
The Paraguayan government has imposed
tax of S5 year upon all single men between
the ages of rs and SO. Women are moi taxc.
on the assumption, no doubt that many ct
them would get married if they could, and are,
therefore, not to blame for not becoming
! wives.
DR.. Ray Y. Pierce representative in Congress
from Buffalo, is said to be worth million of
dollars. In 1866 he went to Buffalo peauiiess
vender of patent medicines of his own maui
l
ing throughout the country, and his business
| has been enormous.
Mr.. Robert P. Crockett, the only surviving
son of "Davy' Crockett, has farm near Gran
! bury, Texas, and is the keeper of the bridge
across the Brazos river al that place. Ashley
Crockett, one of Robert Crockett's sons, is one
of the two editors and proprietors of flourish
| ing newspaper of that region.
4 A peculiar process has been invented in Ger
many by which labels printed on bottles
by simple operation, neither paper nor muoi-
lage being required. The process is an actual
labels can be scraped off with knife, though
they are not affected by water.
| The College of Music of Cincinnati has lust
entered upon its second year with very bright
| prospects of success. One year ago it had not
| single pupil. now it opens with an enroll
ment of nearly 400. who represent seventeen
States, and with prospects for twice that num-
Der during the term now begun.
The ''ruling passion was strong with
CHAM" the French caricaturist, during his
last illness. Only a few weeks before hi.
death he wrote to friend: 1.-THE doctor assuies
vessel burst. My case should therefore be
classed among the list of disasters at sea-
Seventy-four pupils are educated at the Sam.
Houston Normal school at Huntsville, Texas,
| free of charge, to become teachers in the pub
lie schools. The legislature has appropriated
i Of fha