Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-30
GLOBELETS.

GLOBELETs.
Charles Reade admires the sea- but is afraid
of eearsickness.
The poet Browning does not wait for m in
SEPARATION, but works
Bishop Beckwith, of Georgia, dimes on roast
ducks of his own shooting.
Victor Hugo is very gallant and kisses the
hand of every lady to whom he is introduced.
s Spurgeon is at Mentone, very depressed in
spirits, und his condition excites some anx-
iety.
Ex-senators Hendricks, Matthews and Scott
are engaged as counsel in great Ohio railroad
case.
The Rev. A. jackson Thomas, of St. Louis.
has been convicted of dealing in counterfeit
coin. -s
King John. of Abyssinia, rises every morn
ing at o'clock and reads the Palms of David
for two hours.
MIR. Frederick Seward and his wife will
spend the winter in travelling for the benefit of
Mrs. Stewards health.
Mr.. Tennyson, while he greatly aLmires la
dies. has an invincible repngnancs to hearing
them recite his poetry.
A sohoolmsster at johnson, Iowa, has been
fined for whipping girl pupil because she
corrected his mispronunciation of word.
Grace Greenwood's daughter Annie who
went abroad with her mother to cultivate her
voice for the stage, has renowned that project.
The venerable General W. 8. Harvey, now in
his 8Oth year, is on his annual visit to New
Orleans, where cordial reception greeted him.
The Rev. DR.. Westwood, of Rock Island has
received call to the Central Presbyterian
Church at Denver, but his people are 10th to
let him 60.
Thomas A. Scott, in reference to reports now
lessly i'll. says he he has never enjoyed better
health than now.
From yield of 100000 in bullion in
1866, the Georgia gold fields have advanced to
81. OOO, 900 per annum, with a promise of large
returns next year.
John B. Clay is the only child of Henry
Clay now living. He has . comfortable hsme
at Lexington, owning 2OO Of the paternal acres
and many beautiful horses.
The Reformed Episcopal church seems to be
| making satisfactory Roadway in England.
During the present year 5000 members have
been gathered into the fold.
The late William Mckee owned three-ffths
of the st. Louis Globe. Democrat, which last
year paid q net income of $4,000. His whole
| estate is estimated at $3.50, 600.
Mrs. Gladstone and Lady Roseberry attended
all the Gladstone gatherings at Edinburgh, and
sat in front of tho platform listening atten-
lively to every word, occasionally noddiug an
assent.
A contortionist was performing in New
Haven variety show, when the police made a
raid. He leaped over ON officer and from q
window twenty-five feet to the ground, finally
escaping.
A woman at Ulysses, Neb., wrapped her baby
in q sheet and left in the warm ashes by the
fireplace while she went to visit neighbor,
and when she returned the infant was burned
to q crisp.
The st. Georges society of Philadelphia has
sent word to England warning metal workers
against emigratlng to this country without
the means of subsistence or the certainty of
employment.
General Sheridan's ailment is an affection of
the lungs, which has been greatly aggravated
by the bitter winter weather of Chicago, and,
it is thought, will force him to 20 to some
Southern station
A wake was in progress at San Fernando, Cal.
The remains were quietly put aside, and a live
man got under sheet. When an old woman
entered he sat up and shouted. The joke was
so successful that the woman went into real
convulsions.
OF all the poets who do not look like poets,
Robert Browning may be said to look least like
q master Of verse. He is stout, c. mfortable,
prosaic, fine looking in figure and face; he
looks, in short, exactly like country squire Of
moderate means.
The term of Office of Gov. Simpson, of South
Carolina, as chief justice, will begin August l..
1880, until which time he will continue to fill
the Office of governor. Senator Jeter, the presi-
dent pro tenn. of the senate, will then become
governor for the unexpired tenn.
John Levi aroused the people of Hawesville.
KY, by running from the hotel into the street
and shouting, ''Help. help, they've got my
wife," He had eloped with and married the
daughter of a farmer. who had come into the
village with party of farm hands and cap
tured the bride.
King Alfonso 10 fond of sitting in his study,
where he receives visitors and reads the papers.
There is a bit of sentiment about him, for close
to his writing table hangs a water-color draw
! ing representing the small, simply-furnished
apartment in which his earliest Lessons we're
learned when child.
| A Harvard student was going from Boston TO
Newport, but he bought ticket to New York,
because it was only 81, while the fare to New
port was $l.60. At Newport, however, the
steamboat officials would not let him got off
until he had paid the extra 60 cents. He sued
the company and lost the case.
might suggest to my friends in America"
writes the duke of Argyll, in Fraser, 'tthe Pc.
sibility of limiting the nuisance of advertise-
ments on the lovely banks Of the Hudson. To
such an extent is this nuisance carried that it
seems to me to in lerfere with the beauty of
one of the most beautiful rivers in the world -
A drunken woman swallowed poison in st.
Louis, and physician was called. He said
that he would leave prescription at drug
store near by, and if her companions cared to
save her life they could 60 there for the anti
dote. He took little interest in the case, they
! did not get the medicine, and the woman died
1t 10 stated that the mystery attending Mil