Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-08
GLOBELETs.

The Garrison memorial fund now amounts to
81 1850.
An Ohio editor has been fined one cent for
calling man ssscalawag.''
horse in the town of Prescott, Mass, has
long mustache of black hair on it's upper lip.
The Order of the Barbary Apes, founded by
Lady Florence Dixie, is patronized by the
Prince Of Wales.
The New York Herald thinks there would be
good deal more fishing if they would only
bring the ponds into town.
There are 5000 men on the Paris police force,
and under one head. Their wages are about
$500 year and a 800 overcoat.
A Wilcox county (Ga.) girl, a Miss Owens,
sheared thirty sheep in 80 minutes and SIS
seconds by the watch, the other day.
There have been fewer marriages throughout
the Southern States in the six months lust
past than in any corresponding time since the
war.
school house recently erected in southwest
Georgia is in three counties. It is placed CEN
trally over the corner of Marion. Schley and
Taylor counties.
handsome sweetly- dressed, refined, and al
together captivating young man, who has been
dancing with half the bellies of New Orleans,
turns out to be a cook
On one occasion there happened to be three
clergymen In a Connecticut pulpit whose names
were Ketchem, Gorham and Killem, and yet
they were harmless set.
In spiritual'st meeting at Wilimantic,
Conn.,, man sat between two of his wives, and
third was just behind him. There seemed to
be no enmity in the party
James Gordon Bennett has received over 500
applications from females who are anxious to
join his polar expedition as cooks chamber
maids, walking ladies, old women, etc.
The Dodge family will meet at Salem, Mass,
July 10th, it being the 250tn anniversary of
the arrival of the first Dodge in America
Robert Dodge, ESQ.,, Of New York city, will de-
liver the address.
At New Windsor below Newburg, resides the
family Of Smith Cromwell, an aged pensioner
OF the war of 1872 now in his SD year. who
can trace their genealogy directly from the
English Protector.
NJ. Larkin J. Mead has received from Gin
clnnati and San Francisco orders for large
plaster casts Of his design, ''rhe Surrender of
Corvallis intended for the Lincoln monu-
ment at Springfeld, Ill.
Senator Sharon is making great preparations
tor reception which he will give to Gen.
Grant (prebably at Belmont, the old Ralston
seat). The reception is expected to be grand
social affair. The rabble will not be admitted.
The importation Of crockery has decreased
by about one-half in the last ten years. English
manufacturers have concluded that the Ameri-
can market is closing to them, and En-. lish
capital Is being employ ed in the establishment
OF new factories in this country.
MIR. kuhra is a clever and scholarly japanese
gentleman. who is about to come to this coun-
try for the purpose of postgraduate study at
Johns Hopkins University. He is graduate
or the Imperial University at Toxic, and has
translated many English works into Japanese.
The Golden Gate is the name of a boat eight
cen feet long, in which two venturesome mar
| lrers will leave South Boston for Melbourne
on the b inst. The craft is five feet four
inches wide and two and half feet deep, and
is the smallest that has ever attem pied an
|
Roxbury, Litchfeld county, Conn, has an
eccentric tramp, who lives in cave during the
winter and spends the summer in making
begging excursions to neignboring towns. He
never says word, and his dress consists en-
tlrely OF old bootlegs fastened together with
leather strings.
Preparations for the celebration of Gen,
NJ7 me- -.
York are progressing very favorably in the
localities on the line of his march, These
celebrations will revive interesting historical
events which connect this part of the State
with the revolutionary struggle.
An eccentric gentleman in Bath, England.
styles himself Father Christus wears no hat.
| Is dressed IN a rossack and alb declares him
self to be Jesus Christ and announces his mis-
sion as the imperial one of turning the world
upside down. He has plenty Of money appar-
emily and carries with him certain number
of reserved tickets for the Happy land'
Ivan Tourgeneff, the Russian novelist. is a
man of imposing figure. His tall form is
signify bent, his hair is si;very, his manners
are de'lghtful. 1t is stated that he has been
Obliged to naturalize himself a Frenchman to
escape the vindictiveness of his own Govern
ment, which objects to his ,raphic novels.
Recent statistics show that there are now ten
thousand eight hundred and eighty-two wells
producing oil in the State of Pc nsylvania.
and they pour out altogether about fifty thou
sand barrels of oil daily. The product this
spring has been IS per cent. greater than last
year, and about three times as great as the
yield three years ago.
Bismarck is said to have told Prince Alexan.
der at Berlin that the division of Bulgaria was
"Kunstilches werk' of Beaconsfeld and An
drassy-an artificial makeshift. Bulgaria
and East Roumella, he declared, ':are united bv
nature, and sooner or later they are as certainly
fated to come together as were Berlin and
Strasburg, or Rome and Florence"
An observing New York correspondent of 2
Western paper notices the increase of vn1o.r-
lty among the wealthy women OF that city. On
the last grand fashionable day in Central mark
before those who spend the entire season awav
from home had left the city. he counted 21s
dogs and puppies that were driving with ladies
IN rich carriage costumes, and but SO little
children.
during the SIX months ending June 80 see
failures We're reported in New York city, with
total liabilities Of 81 5S2 G56, and total assets
OF So,93O,546 In the corresponding six
months OF 1878 There We're 5l4 failures, with
liabilities OF $39 03j, eG5 and assets of $Il. Ol2
o6S The failures this year have been mainly
confined to the small traders, but several large
and old firms were forced to suspend.
NeD Orleans Times: In some of the Sontb-
ern States the crime Of murder was regarded
with less horror than the crime of horse.steo1-
Ing, and it was next to impossible to secure the
conviction OF murderer. The newspapers
have brought about a revolution in nrh,;o
sentiment, and he practice Of carving con-
cealed weapona is beinr ahandanaa