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

Springfield, Mass.
The clubs Of the New York police should be
muzzled Turing the warm weather.
The announcement comes from Washington
that Grant paper is to be established there.
A cotton factory is soon to be built in Sum-
NIT, Miss, which will be the tenth in that
State.
Mr.. Tennyson is urged to write an inaugural
ode for the Australian International exhi-
bition.
An Indianapolis man has been arrested for
violating Indiana law by marrying his step
daughter.
Napoleon the Great, Napoleon Ill, and the
Prince Imperial all wrote and left their wills
on British soil.
The dangerous illness from which Mrs. James
Russell Lowell is recovering in Spain is an at
tack Of typhus fever.
De La Matyr is in Florida and some young
and needless alligator may get sick at the
stomach by swallowing him.
Senator Zach Chandler is stopping in Bos-
ton, on the way to visit his daughter, the wife
OF the Hon. Eugene Hale, of Maine.
The people of Dorset, VT. celebrated Isaac
Farwells Tooth birthday with songs, adj
dresses dancing, and a dinner in grove
In spite of the fact that the National Board
OF Health issues yellow fever circular every
day or two, that lively disease is spreading.
The British lord chamberlain has refused to
license play which purported to represent the
private lives of several noted London actresses.
There is no harm, but, on the contrary,
plenty OF money, in lotteries, says the Rev.
Mr.. May, Of Washington, who has just won
$4,000 in a lottery.
new ferryboat at San Francisco is 424 feet
feet long and ll6 wide, has four rudders at
each end, and eight b. iIers and will carry
twenty-fou railroad cars at time.
President Hayes has sent to Prof. Gueist of
the law faculty of Berlin, collection of vol
umes on the history of Jurisprudence, in rec
ognition Of distinguished services.
M. Gounod has sold the score of his new:
opera '"Tribnt de Zamora,' for 100000. It
IS TO be brought out at the Grand Opera, in
Paris, at the commencement of the next season.
Ihe English assizes show extraordinary light
CRIMINAL calendars, at some places only ono
prisoner, at others none, the fact being that
hard times shut of the mother of crime drink.
L { * "a. . Is p.
Sitting Bull was so named, according to
joaquin Miller, because, being shot through
the legs IN battle. he sat upright and continued
to hight with the ferceness of wounded buff
falo bull.
The cries of man were heard coming from
swamp at Tewksbury, Mass, and he was
found with only his head protruding above the
surface of a quagmire, into which he had in
advertantly stepped.
Archers in England have for centuries been
supplied with bows of English make. Two
years ago the manufacture was begun in this
country, and American bows are now largely
exported TO England.
News from the south of Russia reports the
general appearance of the crops as exception
ally good, Indian corn being particularly
| promising, although in isolated districts I'M
| mense damage has been done both by locusts
ard by hail.
Land in London is beginning to show a fall
| in value. On June piece of free hold land,
Il, 400 feet in area, brought a bid of only $3.50
the square foot, against $l2. so for the adjoin-
ing piece six years ago. The property was
withdrawn, the upset price being $40 foot
The French chamber has been lately called
upon to consider the question of the abolition
OF an old law passed more than sixty years ago,
and now entirely unobserved, obliging all work
to be suspended and all shops shut on Sunday,
To the mass the existance of such law was
unknown.
The British revenue returns reflect thetimes
Unmanufactured tobacco fell off nearly 2, O00,-
OOO pounds; tea increased by $500, 900 pounds;
wine decreased l,50o, 1000 gallons; brandy, nearly
$4,000, 600 gallons. The consumption of tea
and cocoa has largely and steadily increased of
| late years.
The Rev. DR.. Leonard Bacon says, of the
fresh controversy between old and new school
Presby terianism: HAS it broken out again
that old conflict between the gospel of free
| salvation offered to all men, and the petrifed
foundation of Calvinism as it was shaped by
Calvin's successors?"
Women's fashions in Paris are said to be in
state of chaos. Worth's new designs arc
marked by great simplicity; but of late Worth
has been successfully rivalled by other men
dressmakers, and some of these have gone to
the other extreme, so that fashionable women
hardly know what to wear.
Napoleon Bonaparte, the negro murderer,
who was hanged at Sardis, Miss, last week,
| told reporter that his proper name was
Wiley Watson, but that after reading the life
of Napoleon Bonaparte he became SO inn
pressed with his character that he assumed the
name of the Corsican conquerer.
Plejudices against Jews in England, accord
ing to the Saturday Review, ''are gradually
fading away, and will, perhaps, some day
wholly disappear, though it must he owned
that they still exist, and are not altogether
without such justification rs is afforded by the
appearance and character of Jews of the lower
class"
Two women were caught in mems clothes
stealing rare plants from conservatory at
Pittsfied NJ ass. and visit by officers to their
home, few miles from the town, revealed the
fact that 1T was filled with stolen flowers. IN
able to honestly crafty their love of the beau
tiful they had put on trousers and become
thieves to do So
boy was driving to Boston with load of
meat It was dark night, and he was singing
loudly as he entered suburb of the city. A
policeman, Intending simply to stop the noise,
sprang out from the shadow of tree. grabbed
the horse by the head, and cried out ssStop.''
The boy thought that the policeman was
highwayman, and shot him, putting out one of
his eyes.
Mr.. Calvin, q Cincinnati German, wooed a
Jewess in vain, and inferred, from what she
said, that if he was Jew she would marry
him. So he went through with all rites re-
quired of Gentiles who embrace the Jewish re-
ligion, and, after this ordeal: again presented
himself as sritor. But the maiden still de-