Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-08
GLOBELETs.

~ As peins maze Inc custom In Mlcnigan 10
shoot ACCORDION serenaders on the spot.
The last time man goes into graveyard,
he does not laugh at the style of the tomb
stones.
Lord Qucensbury thinks that if he had
daughters who died he would bury them in his
garden.
The Bishop of Manchester is about to lead to
the hymental altar an agreeable and accom-.
plished young lady.
The New Haven Register says that the house,
hold that keeps a baby can afford to sell its
alarm clock very cheap.
family of emigrants was recently found
occupying tomb in a cemetery near Provi-
dence, r. l., that had been left open.
DR.. Glenn, the California wheat grower, is
said to have $4,000 acres planted in wheat this
year. His crop wasrsO0, OU0 bushels.
An English duchess who did not wish to sit
with her footman, bought him ticket for a
seat among other first class passengers.
Cardinal Manning it is reported, is going to
Rome to stay some time, coadjutor being ap.
pointed to perform his duties in England.
There are now fifty qirls among tho students
of Cornell university, and thirteen Of them are
freshmen. Michigan university has 1872 women
students.
The New York Commercial believes that the
man .who really enjoys Thanksgiving and
Christmas most is the doctor-the day after, at
all events.
Before his departure from Japan Prof. Nor
denskjold received from the Toxic geographic
cal society handsome gold medal in honor OF
his achievement.
to the value of $5, 1872 increase of $751;, 52a
over last year. There are only four who are
worth over $4,000.
In the education Of the blind at Boston, an
excellent step has been taken. They are now
taught to tune pianos, and are extremely sue.
cessful in their work.
Boston girls walk great deal, wear short
walking dresses, carry large shopping bags and
have plenty of circulating libraries, which they
abundantly patlonize.
Electricity as an instrument for capital pun
ishment is now advocated by the savants, in
place of the present barbarous and unscienti6c
methods of ending life.
At the Oneida and Wallingford communities
sixteen marriages have taken place since their
change from promiscuous marriage to having
one husband and one vito.
DR.. Freeman J. Bumstead, one of New York q
most eminent physicians and surgeons, is
dead. He was born in Boston in 1891. His
9TH &c a 90 ,f
Fern.
A Russian officer has invented an ingenious
system on night signals on vessels by lighting,
by means of refectors, the smoke Of chimneys.
A code explains the meaning Of the divers
colors.
two bridal chambers in the City of Alexandria
during their voyage to the West Indies and
Mexico. They will leave New Xork on the
9th instant.
Postmaster General Key says be can remem-
Der when Andrew johnson used to stop at his
fathers, who was Tennessee farmer, and
young Key always had the job of polishing off
Johnson's horse.
The duke of Cleveland has lately evicted
from their homes On bis Devonshire estates, in
England, about 160 families. They and their
ancestors have occupied their houses since the
Norman conquest.
Mr.. G. W. Observation-Disclosures, a scion of
the most ari-tocratic house in England, is en-
gagged to Miss Livingston, a member Of the
family long identified with Livingston
Manor on the Hudson.
Bath, the city of Beau Nash and Michael An
gelo Bantam, protests against street railroads
rs "uncalled for, injurious and calculated to
injure her," The population consists chiefly
of superannuated persons.
The subsldence of the water in Lake Tulare,
California, has uncovered o prehistoric settle
ment, stone buildings, terraces of canals once
bordered with planted trees, and other evil
dences of former occupation.
DR.. ]. n. Browne, whose sudden death while
hunting, near Bellefontaine, Ohio, was an
last week, still lies unburied, as his
appearances is life-like, and it is thought by his
friends that he may only be in trance.
Sir Charles Dixie, it is reported, is about to
marry second wife, daughter of the house
of Rothschild. The first Lady Dixie died sew
eral years ago, and her remains underwent
at her own request in Germany.
There is man in Kentucky whose first child
was girl. He wanted boy SO bad that for
two years he wouldn't acknowledge the sex of
the child. Ho made prominent man Of the
county believe that it was boy and named for
him.
The car was terribly enraged when he heard
of the defeat at deok Tepe, and threatened to
cashier Gen. Lornakin for his unskillfulncss
ton with such an Insignificant number of
troops.
Pennsylvania threw himself into river,
intending to commit suicide. When he was
hauled ashore bottle Of whisky was found in
his pocket. Being asked what he took it with
him for, he replied that his rescuer might want
something to revive him with.
It has been ascertained in Scotland that mar
rage is productive of longevity. Out of 10O,-
900 married persons, 625 die In the course of
each year; while out Of similar number of
unmarried persons between the same ages, no
less than 1921 die in each year.
Mr. Sergeant Cox, who lately died in Eng
land, was about the fifth largest newspaper
proprietor in London. He owned tho Field,
which is immensely valuable; the Queen, also a
splendid property; he also owned the Ez-
change, which has an Immense circulation
among people who wish to barter things of
use; and lsw journal which has. large circu-
lation. s..-..
The supreme recorders report Of the A. o.
q. W. for the month of October. shows total
receipts on assessments Nos. 10, II, IL, IL, IA
and Is of &c. 1927, and disbursements IN benef-
cial warrants Nos. 2l4, 2l5, PIG, 217, 2l8 and
2l9 OF $4,000. The receipts on yellow fever
relief fund for the same period amounted to
$3, $3.50; disbursements, $2,620.6s. During
September the beneficiary fund receipts of the
entire order footed up 1854, 367.53; disburse-
ments, S64 ,356.s3. The total membership Oct.
l was 70, 303.
GOVERNOR HENDRICKS.
10 Prosns.11ates Some Condensed Political
Opinions.
Washington Post.