Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-06
GLOBELETS,
President Grevy is &c.
President TiIden is 65,

President Grevy is &c.
President Tilden is 65.
Ex-President MacMahon is II.
There is lady in the Virginia Legislature.
President Tilden to President Grevy-Shake.
Eally gardening has commenced in Memphis,
| Tenn.
Brigham .Young's grave is guarded still, night
and day.
Mrs. Jameson calls Lady Byron 1.-THE sphinx
woman
Robson, Old Zach, Logan-whew What
tandem
Naval officers can take their girls to ride in
revenue cutters.
Now watch the fur fly in Washinrton.-N.
Y. Exp Will he bite?
er, has signed the pledge
The revival Of the 'Black Crook at Niblos
promises to cut into Talmage.
Ladies are admitted as members to the Gin
cinnati Natural History society.
Fashionable lady skaters have banished muffs
and substituted seal skin mittens.
Singing has been added to the Harvard Col
lege curriculum, and an instructor engaged
| Miss Beddenger was elected engrossing clerk
ct the Arkansas assembly by vote of AZ to Is.
Thomas Jefferson is to have monument. thu
money for which has already been subscribed.
Grant has got bill Of sale of Rutherford
Hay Jayes. Most everything is booming now.
The hair of the buffalo is now largely en-
ployed in making overcoats, which are all wool.
The tea season at Hong Kong closed on Jan.
4; the total exports for the year were 157, O0O,-
600 lbs.
The Katirs have bestowed a name on Sir
Bartle Frere which signifies ''the dog that bites
before he barks.''
Senior Castelar,, the Spanish liberal. will lec
ture before Oxford university next summer on
Spanish literature
The Pittsburgh Dispatch claimed the speak
ership Tor Pennsylvania on the ground that that
State borders on Ohio.
| The wife Of President Porter of Yale College
has been elected president of the Connecticut
training school for nurses.
The origin of the name Oriel as applied to
the famous college in Oxford is, curious to say,
mere matter of conjecture.
!
Cooke is just in from Salt Lake CITY, and Jaw
Gould has just sped thither.
No. no; the "a. Gu in Senator Thurman's
name does not stand for candy Gackson.''
they don't spell it that way any more.
| Gov. Marks of Tennessee gives point to his
message on the reduction of State expenses by
rellnquishing $1,000 of his own salary.
| Tho I, II
monotonous life at Chiselhurst. One DAVIS
dolngs forms an exact model of the next.
| Mr.. Lacy was fined SIS by justice in Pekin
Iexas iii toss cent to see whether YOU
make it $40 or nothing he said. Lacy Won
Gonzales, Texas, couple have twelve chill
dren, the mother having distinguished herself
by bringing forth two at birth on six separate
occasions.
Mrs. Brown, who was for many years the in
separable companion of Baroness Burdett-
Coutts and who possessed much influence over
her. is dead.
| Olive Logan says in letter to the Cincinnati
Enquirer that Gen. Grant told her that be is
not to be candidate for the next Presidency
of the United States.
The women of Illinois are about to petition
the legislature Of that State for the privilege of
voting at elections affecting the sale of liquors
in municipal corporations.
1t is suggested by the Louisville Courier
Journal that Gen. Grant should accompany
Stanley in the new exploration about to be
made in Equatorial Africa.
The ladies' who bang their hair have encour-
agement from an unexpected quarter. Chief
Joseph wears his coal black hair banged on his
forehead and braided behind.
The citizens of Cincinnati appear to have got
SO hard up that they are running off with
church funds. That ought to be regarded az
little worse than bank robbery.
The Society of Friends in England is re-
1narkable for the longevity of its members
There were but ISL deaths last year among the
1900 Quakers in Great Britain and Ireland.
In New Caledonia, eleven baskets filed with
human remains dressed in the native fashion
len pal)il'ote) and probably meant as present
FOR the chiefs, have been found by the French
soldiers.
There is a superstition prevalent in York
shire, England, that mint will not grow in the
garden of house in which the husband is hen
pecked. That's why mint is SO scarce in Min
neapolis gardens.
| Many eggs now sent to London from con-
tinental countries iu cheap collins, instead of
boxes or barrels. The collins sell for more
than cost, and the shippers make money on the
packages we'll as the goods.
The law officers of the crown have advised
the foreign secretary that the parties who adj
vertised in England tbs sale of French lottery
| tickets are liable to be sued for penalties in
the exchequer at the suit of the attorney gen.
eral.
Whitelaw Reid, of the Tribune, could not
even enlighten the Potter committee on the
meaning of cipher. But he was as free as
water with "reminiscences of a conversation
with Mr.. Tilden. Founded by Horace Gree
ley.''
One-half the poll tax in Louisiana goes to
the Charity hospital one-fourth to the school
fund, and one-fourth to the State university.
Out of $180,0O0 that should have been raised
last year from this source, only SO, 147 were re-
| turned.
The Marquis of Lorne and Princess Louise
ing, half an hour in the morning and quarter
of an hour at noon. The marquis reads from
| tho Church of England service, and the prin-
cess responds.
Charles Schmidt the fashionable tailor in
New Orleans in the good old days before the
war, bequeathed nearly $25. 600 to charitable
institutions of that city, including Protestant,