Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-07
GLOBELETS.


inere were $3,652.7l raised last wear for
boating alone at Yale college.
METZ which at the census of 1871 had II 300
INHABITANTS has now only 1000.
barber at Texarkana wears s3 nG, worth of
oianonos' he Is probably deaf mute
CARDINAL Manning says the Catholic body IN
England is about million mum ericallv.
Ihree-horse buses are in vogue now in Paris
Ihls kind OF team is called taur naeuaae.
AT charade party at st. Matthews. s. G.. =
mad dog rushed in and bit three young women.
A resident OF Washington, d. c., was escorted
to the almshouse by his sixteen (l6) faithful
dogs.
The faculty of Harvard are considering the
question of having an elective course in Chi.
nese.
The shah of Persia has presented the Persian
pavilion at the exhibition to the municin,l;,v
of Paris.
During the week Of prayer it has been de-
clded to pray for the members Of the press on
| Friday next.
Queen Victoria, though overwhelmed with
sorrow by the death of Princess Alice, has not
suffered in health.
While on his way to Marion, Ky., one dav
last week, young man killed with one stone
not two birds but seven rabbits.
a st. Louis belle who slipped on the banks
OF the Mississippi and submerged her feet is
said to have damned the river
TIE French government is about to annoint
a consul to the city of Metz, which was taken
from the French in the late war.
The Girls Latin school, organized in Boston
last feoruary, has now seventy EIGHT pupils,
and Is extremely successful in its work.
The total debt of Tennessee, with the ac-
cunnulated interest for July l, 1875, will
amount on January l, 1879, to 1924, 274O17.
Brunswick (Ga.) rat whipped two cats and
terrier in quadruple combat, and fox ST
Weathersfeld, Vt, killed and carried off rot
The Soldiers Home at Bath, NY. will he
formally opened Jan. %, 1879. The annual
encampment of the Grand Army of the Re-
public has been ordered to be held at the same
time and place.
Inc houmanlan charges for supporting the
turkish prisoners up to the LIST of November
amount to S2S4, 900. This amount with sub-
sequent expenses, is to be paid in fourteen
seml-annual installments,
Inc most Important parsonage in the Turkish
| ministry is now Osman Pasha. :sthe lion of
rie'na' he Is marshal of the palace, COM
mandant of the guard chief of the eenera1
staff, and minister of war.
Young people in Lima, N. Y, disturb re-
hglous meetings by loud whispering, writing
olllets and passing them, folding handker-
chiefs IN the shape of rabbits and other animals
laughter and general bad conduct.
jew directs the public affairs of Protestant
hnsisno; the most Important departments of
the government OF Catholic France are admin
lstereo by Protestants, and the sultan's minis
ter OF foreign affairs is Christian.
A man at Manners, Ont. was arrested for
stealing So vest, and after he had been in
jail for twenty-one days the grand iury HAVING
peen instructed by $31 worth of officials and
heard s44 worth of evidence, brought in a ono
| bill''
ihere has been no such fall of snow in Swift
zeriand Tor many years as during the last
montn. Iraff1c is greatly impeded. the omni-
buses are running in sledges. and from the
Jura to the Alps there is one almost unbroken
mass Of SNOW
Inc Hartford library begins this week to
ueilVer BOOKS to members by messengers, at a
cos0 OF I'VE cents for each volume, the subscrib-
CTS senolng their orders by postal-card Good
boys out OF work are employed as messengers
and given the fees
Nil. George R. Blanchard, vice president sf
the Erie railroad, announces that the LAYING of
tne third rail, to reduce the gauge of the road
TO the same width as that of its western con-
nectlon, will be completed from Buffalo to Jer
sey City about the LIST of January.
| A Philadelphia dry goods merchant has
s'oueo chllorens room to his store, where
mothers may leave their children 70 he
amused with rocking horses, pictures and TOYS
while they do their shopping. Babes in arms
not admitted, lest they should not be called for
again.
1t is said that salt well has been struck in
the town of York. about six miles northwest
from Geneseo, that throws continuous stream
OF brine eleven feet high through a four-iucb
pipe. The water is very strongly impregnat-
ed, containing about four pounds of salt tn the
gallon.
ceaar haplds, La, has telegraphed abroad
remuneration OF report that diphtheria was
very prevalent there. 1T is gross exaegera-
tion, says the official card; ''there have been
but l7O deaths here all told, since April |, and
only about 100 of these were from aiptberia.''
Only about 100" is good.
The jacksonville (Ky.) Times SAYS that
the lnslnuation or assertion that the Times is
on Its last legs is dirty contemptibIe lie. and
us author, no matter who he may be, ma
hclous, unmitigated liar and slanderer. The
wish Is father to the thought with the dirty.
lying tramp who uttered it,
little girl in Mount Morris. N. Y. WAS
caught stealing goods in store, and upon ex.
animation it was discovered that she h.d sto1o,
goods from several of tue stores, She was
only II years old, and was not arrested. She 10
echpsed by a boy in Canandaisua only @ wears
oid. who last week stole from store there.
DIR. Blanche, the famous French exnert IN
cases OF insanity, paid left-handed commit
ment to the jurors in case recently tried at
Paris. SIN the prisoners drunken moods h.
would grow sad and remorseful and blame
himself for maltreating his wife. as drunkards
! often do, gentlemen, as without doubt von
yourselves know
Between 100000 and $500, 600 acts are an.
nually passed before the notaries public If
France There were 10000 notaries there ha-
fore the revolution, but many of them were
the secretaries and clerks of seignorial iust,ces
Ever since the restoration the number has
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