Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-06
GLOBELErs.

Aoe'"l caros now almost universal started
in Austria in 1866.
There were over 600 carriages at the funer.,
Of the Countess de Montiio.
81 Gen. and Mrs. Grant are to snend oh-;s+u
with Gen. Beale and his wife in WASHINGTON.
:. Nearly all the leading liberals excent G,.d-
stone have been visiting Lord Derby at Kuows-
ley.
The Leadville Chronicle says that most of
those most prominent In business there .ro
Jews.
d new professor of Greek, to take the place
of the late Professor J. O. Proctor, will be ap-
pointed at Dartmouth college at the beginning
of the next term.
. terrarcotta cylinder of Cyrus has reached
England. 1t describes his genealogy and en-
trance into Babylon.
The king of the Sandwich islands has a
daughter named Observation-Disclosures
Lunalilo-K Observation-Disclosures, and yet she is
only four years old.
vessel from Victoria, the chief seaport of
British Columbia, lately carried to London 49,
600 cases of canned salmon,
Sergeant Alexander Salmond, Sevepty-second
Highlanders, who was the best shot in the Brit
ish army for tho year lS77-7s, has been award
ed E20 and silver medal
One of the most curious of the inconsi,ten-
cles of Wall street is that when the rates for
money went down stocks also went down.
Fowler Brothers contemplate the erection of
mammoth packing-house at Kansas Citv
with killing capacity of 1000 hogs and 1000
beeves per day.
The town of Bodie contains 1000 inhsbi-
tants, living in about 1000 houses. The ma
jority of the inhabitants consist of Irish and
Cornish miners.
Mrs. Newton. the widow of Gilbert Stuart
Newton, the painter, is a resident of New York
city. She is lady of venerable age, for New
ton died in 1882.
Henry Lava Selwyn, a full FLOODED Sioux
indian, and son of leading chief of the
Yankton tribe, has been ordained pastor Of the
church at Yankton
Frascuelo, the darling of Spain, reported
killed by bull, was we'll enough on the 9th
inst. to sit in box with bis arm in a sling
and see bull killed.
The monument to be erected to the late Gen.
eral Cotton of California, is to cost s46, 900.
and is to be small chapel in marble and gran
ite, exquisitely carved.
To saw and split wood, carry water, coal. and
wood, plough, harrow, and thresh, and in cities
sweep the Streets are, says the Berlin Taq,cacht.
among the avocations of German woman.
Ex-Secretary Gorham, of tho United States
Senate, will hereafter send from Washington
70 the San Francisco Chronicle telegraphic dis
10tches, for which he will receive 5000 year.
The new Pullman palace cars are very luxu-
rious, costing each $4,000. Ordinary pas
senger cars cost $4,000; drawing-room cars,
$4,000; mail and baggage cars, $4,000; box cars.
$4oO.
Dr. Glenn, the California wheat-grower, is
said to have had $4,000 acres of wheat this
year; his crop was 500, 600 bushels For work
ing his enormous rancho he has 400 double
| teams.
Belgians still protesting against the
| eternal ringing Of convent bells. In some
| cases the municipal authorities have taken up
| the question and gone to law against the con-
| vents with success.
| The distance between Paris and Marseilles is
| QUO miles, which, by an improvement in the
| timetable, is run in fifteen hours at a speed
| of forty miles an hour. This is the quickest
time on any French railway.
Fifty years ago only one citizen of New York
city, John Jacob Astor, was worth more than
81, 900 900. Now it is asserted that there are
over 500 men in the metropolis whose wealth is
estimated at 81, COO, 600 and over.
Mrs. W. Bright Morris, granddaughter of
| Leigh Hunt, died on the 30th ult. at Highgate,
at the early age of twenty-five years. Mrs.
| Morris was writer of promise, and had con-
tributed stories to the magazines..
| At st. Louis, after January next. all gras.
| seeds in seamless cotton sacks will be sold
| with an extralcharge for the sacks, which has
not been the past custom there. The new
| method conforms to usages elsewhere.
The Indianapolis Journal says: 1.-THE week
just closed has been one Of the busiest ever
known among the pork-packing houses of this
| city, the number of hogs killed since cool
weather probably nggregating 500 per day
Mrs. Lincoln writes that abe expects to .
/ at Washington the coming winter, but it is
| stated that her son Robert now in Chicago.
will not permit it on account of the shock it
would be to her mental health, which is still
| none of the strongest.
According to the Providence Journal Boston
| now has its own Worth in tho person Of Mr..
| Parcher, formerly clerk in dry goods house.
During visit to Paris he became acquainted
| with the great man milliner. who suggested
that he would do wisely to start similar trade
| in Boston.
Prince Bismarck gets low and says that not
all his great doinRs have made himself and 9th
ems any tho happier; and Sarah. duchess of
Marlborough, who is gorged with gold and
weighted down with honors, recently wrote of
herself to Lady Mary Wortley Montague IS q
| most miserable being.
Denis Kearney threatened to break up q
meeting in San Francisco if he had to wade
knee deep in blood to do it; but when arrested
by . very small policeman for disorderly con-
duct, he submitted with lamb-like meekness.
and would not permit his followers to raise
finger in his behalf.
The San Francisco Courier says that 10000
acres in that State are under grapes. A great
deal of California wine is mixed with French
vim ordinaire and sold as French wine in New
York. 1t is said to be perfectly wholesome,
palatable and cheap, being sold at second-claas
French restaurants at Is cents per pint.
1t is now proposed in Paris to substitute for
the dispatch of letters miniature railroads. with
| trains run by erectricity, in place of pneumat
| ic tubes. Satisfactory experiments have been
made The pneumatic plan has long been
in use by the London postoffice, but does not
seem to have found favor in this country
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