Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-27
GLOBELETS,
Herbert Spencer has been poor all his life.

GLoBELErs.
Herbert Spencer has been poor all his life.
Bishop Potter has confirmed 72, 900 persons.
The Tichborne claimant has seven years yet
to serve.
VI the many clubs in Paris very few or, said
to be repu table.
Johu Russell Young has again taken up bis
residence in London
'Day-after, tomorrow is the name of a
Cherokee Indian chief.
The surgeon general on Governor Cornell's
staff is = homeopathic
When you purchase fish by the pound tho
scales are always thrown in.
Gen. Langdon, of Gov. Cornelrs staff. ia
Mark Twain's brother-in-law.
A visitor to Queen Victoria ha. to be an
nounced by five different persons.
A Denver grocer advertises green apples un-
der the title of "fancy groceries,"
The snowfall in Paris fortnight .go was tho
heaviest known there for many years.
Beer il the appropriate name of An Ohio
State senator. Wonder if be takes suthin.
W. 8. Eldridge, the long distance rider, pro.
poses to ride fifty miles in 215 hours, at At
lanta.
"None O. your business is Senator Hamlin's
opinion on current topics a expressed to all
interviewers.
Colonel Mcdaniel, the veteran rurfman, i.
lying very i'll with pneumonia at his residence
in Princeton, N. J.
milk for Babies is what the New York
Herald 10 crying for. It does not say anything
about its food for men.
Mr.. Leatham Bright, son of tho English
orator, was in Boston last week. He has been
hunting on the Pacific slope.
Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Briggs, of West Milan,
N. H., have recently celebrated the sixtieth an
niversary of their wedding day.
Astor owns three thousand four hundred
dwelling houses in New York city. This is be-
sides stores and other buildings.
Mr.. Dillon. who accompanies Parnell to this
country, is prominent Dublin barrister and
son of John B. Dillon, the patriot of l64s.
Mrs. Nellie Grant sartoris wears a miniature
of Queen Victoria set in precious stones, gifs
from the royal dame at their first meeting.
Miss Reese, great niece of General Sherman.
| and who was abroad with Mira. John Sherman,
marries in January Mr.. Baker of the navy.
The late Peter Coelet, the millionaire bache-
| lor, of New York. always gave as reason for
not marrying that he was too poor. He left
1926, 600, 600.
Wisconsin wants the record of the oldest
families kept. They are only now beginning
| to die and most of them were born in the
Eastern States.
Mrs. James. the widow of G.. P. r. James,
| the novelist. is living at Eau Claire. Wis. She
is now woman Of eighty years, and is cared
for by her sons.
Ex-Governor Seymour has in his study at
Deerfeld ssp!endid library. distinctive fea-
ture of which is a collection of biographies of
American statesmen.
David Swing, the pulpit celebrity, is awk-
| ward in gesture and port and has disagreeabls
voice. It is only when he becomes warmed up
that he satisfies.
Mrs. Sprague's Providence lawyer says he has
no knowledge whatever of any movement on
Mrs. Sprague's part toward obtaining a divorce
from her husband.
The Detroit Free Press says that out of fifty
| strictly honest men only twenty-five VIII re-
turn a borrowed book, and only three will
bring your umbrella home.
Cornelius J. Vanderbilt has been sued bv
Zachariah E. Simmons for $500, 900, alleged to
have been advanced during the contest over
| the will of the late Commodore.
The estate of the late William s. O'Brien.
the California millionaire, shows balance.
after paying all claims. of $7,7l4, $50. SO. in
Guiding ss,5ooooo in United States bonds.
The Prince Napoleon memorial craze in Eug
land has quickly exhausted itself. The ma
tional memorial project is abandoned and the
Westminster Abbey statue is also relina uished
The grave of Colonel William s. Hamilton.
son of Alexander Hamilton, has just now, after
lying unmarked for twenty-nine years under
| the Sacramento sky, been headed by a erau,te
slab.
A Paris dispatch says that Mr.. Philprast,
since his disappearance, has been in Roumania,
negotiating for reception for constructing
railway and telegraph lines in Roumauia and
| Rou1nelia.
The Rev. William Gever, a superannua.e ed
German Methodist minister, and eight of bis
sons went to the polls together, in Portsmouth,,
Ohio, at the late election, and al voted the Re-
publican ticket.
London, Ontario, is one of the most enter.
prising towns in the Dominion, and has Just
begun to introduce the Holly system of steam
heating. They will find it a good thing for
| Canadian winter.
A Cleveland baker made 80 profit by selling
pound loaves of bread which weighed only
fourteen ounces, and when he had put $l2 With
it to pay his ine he began to think the market
had broken on him.
The Union Pacific railroad company is to
erect monument to the memory of the late
Cakes Ames. 1t is to be placed at the highest
point on the line of the road, and the spot has
already been surveyed.
Dean SANKEY'S eldest sister, Miss Mary
Stanley, died in London, in her Goth year, q
few days ago. Miss Stanley devoted her life to
tho care of the helpless, and won an enviable
| fame as the originator of Flower Missions
Gerge Stewart, 5r-, the author of = work o.
the Earl of Dufferin's administration, has
been elected member of the international
Literary Society of Paris, of which Victor Hugo
is president. Mr.. Stewart is tho first Canadian
to erjoy this honor. .[
Roman gossip says that the retreat of Queen
Marguerite to the balny shores of the Bordi-
EhierA had its original cause in domestic diff
culties that seem to point to the fact that the
present king is in moro than one respect tho
true son of his father.
Six car loads of silkworm eggs lately came
across the continent, having been shipped this