Daily globe., 1879-05-20
GLOBELETs.
Umbrellas are now made of par

-Four watches were found recently in the
stomach of Florida alligator.
Mrs. Laura Lair is to lecture in New Orleans
Tor the benefit of the poor of the city.
Reuben B. Springer of Cincinnati is said to
De the wealthiest Catholic in America.
In the Mississippi penitentiary there are er
zoo convlcts who are imprisoned for life.
Mrs bonaparte, wife of Colonel Bonaparte
arrived IN New York from France on Tuesday.
Mr.. Scott Lord received, it is said. a fee of
@AOOOOo for his services in the Vanderbilt will
case.
Prof Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe and
their two daughters, have returned home from
Savannah.
The soudan railway, one of Egypt's magnif-
cent enterprises, has been abandoned as unre.
munerative.
Naomi was married when she was $50 vears
old, yet Susan B. Anthony alIudes to her a.
giddy young thing.
Brorsen's comet has not put in an anne.r-
ance, and it is believed to be afraid of Ben Hill
and Joe Blackburn
Thieves broke into Gen. Buffers house at
Lowell drank freely of his best wine, and car
ried of his silverware.
Ex-Secretary of the Senate Gorham has as
sumed the management of San Franciscos new
daily, the Morning Herald.
Mayor Stokeley, Of Philadelphia, has under
taken to prevent the running of Ire wagons in
that city on Sunday mornings.
Congressman Tucker who was operated on
for cataract of the eye in Baltimore one week
ago. can now see as well as ever.
MIR. keeley's motor can easily raise 1900
pounds. But what the country needs is
motor that can always raise $5.
certain Memphis mule is so extraordinarily
vicious that he is constantly kept placarded
with the warning: Beware his heels. -
England at last has hit on the right plan for
subduing the Zulus. She is about to dispatch
a "Pinafore' company to South Africa.
Mr. Talmage calls Van Dyke caterpillar
He doubtless means to refer to him as one of
the pillars-the caterpiilars-of the church.
Pistols were drawn in Little Rock court
the other day, but the active judge seized the
beligerents and forced them into their seats.
Missouri has new law forbidding men to
meet for military drill unless legally orga-
nized This is aimed at the St. Louis social
lists.
Two pupils in Sunday school at Nodaway,
Mo-, quarrelled in church, and went out to-
gether to field near by, where one killed the
other.
Her majesty the day before leaving Baveno
planted cedar and laurel tree in the garden
| OF the Villa Clara as mementoes of her sojourn
| there.
Rev. Lawrence 8. MacMahon. the new bishop
OF the Hartford, Conn.,. diocese, is said to be
first cousin to ex-President MacMahon of
France.
The United States steamer Plymouth at
| Portsmouth is pronounced infected with
yellow fever germs, and unfit for service till it
| is rebuilt.
Nine Thousand dollars have been subscribed
IN Rochester for an observatory for Prof.
Lewis Swift, and the building will soon be
commenced.
An exhibition of art, science and industry
connected with the education and training of
children, is to be held at Dresden during the
coming summer.
Colonel jerome Bonaparte will occupy cot
tage at Newport next summer. Baron Mayr,
the new Austrian minister, and Admiral Wor-
den have also rented cottages.
Mile. Nevada is the name of new American
star who has been achieving success at Vienna
in salons of Madame Marchesi. She is from
the 'sfar West," and her real name is Wixom
Jim Elliott, the prize fighter, is said by the
Wilkesbarre Plaindcalcr to be really Jim Nun
roe, who recently emerged from Pennsylvania
State prison after serving eight years for shoot
ing policeman.
Queen Victoria is great grandmother, the
new arrival being daughter of the Princess
} Bernhard Of Sax-Meiningen, daughter of the
crown prince of Germany, and granddaughter
of England's queen.
Alexander of Battenberg, the newly elected
, Prince OF Bulgaria, is just twenty-five years
old. He is an extremely handsome and win
, ming youth, accomplished and amiable, a good
{ rider, good dancer and good talker.
Lord Carlisle says of Samuel Wilberforce,
Bishop of Oxford and afterward Of Winchester,
that in his eloquence he combined the quail
ties of his father, Macaulay, and Ezekiel. His
pictures of the neglect of religion in England
we're tremendous in effect
t free use of spring fruits being recommend
D ed by physicians, very many people have thus
s early adopted the suggestion. They may be
found at any hour standing at counter taking
Q their strawberries and piece of pineapple on
. the top of glass of punch.
y George H. Stuart, of Philadelphia, after ten
!; years of suspension from the Reformed Presby-
terian church tor communing with other de.
. nominations and singing hymns, has been re-
Q stored to membership by an order Of the
9 Pennsylvania supreme court.
The poet laureate's brother, Charles Tcnnyson
~ Turner (the name of Turner was assumed by
!" y royal icense), has just died in England. He
= was clergyman and poet also; and he will
- long be remembered as the writer of one of the
loveliest sonnets in the English tongue, Lefty
4 Globe.'
s A boy was recently sent to prison in Canter-
It bury, England, for cruelty to horse, and de
. vieed a peculiarly ingenious mode of torture
he tied one end of the rope around the horse
= = tougue, and the other end to his hind leg
- Then he irritated the animal and made him
a kick, nearly tearing his tongue out.
# The daily circulation of the most popular
d newspaper in the City of Mexico with popu
g lation Of 200, Geo. does not exceed 1900 copies
All the newspapers in the republic aggregate ;
J consumption of only about 300 reams month
y aquantity that many single mills in the Unitet
T. States could supply, and yet not run a fourtl
: of the time.
n The late earl Of Leitrim, whose estate is val
e ned at $4,000 year, willed it away from hi
o heir. the present earl, to his kinsman. Col
d Clements The new earl took steps for disput
70 ing the will, but, according to the The Free
o mans journal, an amicable arrangement ha