Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-15

NoW LUX uOesu ueeu any ponce force. Inc
fact that the present one is not exterminated |
is proof enough that New York is a peaceable |
and law abiding city.
William Jenkins, sexton of the Methodist |
Episcopal church of Walnut Hill, Ohio, is said |
to have fallen heir to third of an English |
estate valued at $7,OOO, 600.
Mr.. George Bancroft, the historian, continues
his daily exercise in the open air at Washing
ton. He seems in perfect health but says that
Mrs. Bancroft has not been we'll since January.
The death is announced of Count Samuel
VASE, who was one of the two delegates of
kossuth at Constantinople; the other was
Count Andrassy, the present Austro Hungarian
premier.
A handsome new post and telegraph office has
just been completed in Rome. New public
buildings In the Italian capital are slowly but
steadily replacing the old structures used un-
der the Popes.
The father and mother of United States Sen
ator Withers of Virginia, are living in that
State. They are both more than so years of
age, have been married more than sixty years
and are in excel ent health
A Boston woman with son in college,
alarmed by some startling reports of the cold
weather at Williamstown the past winter, &C
tually wrote to President Chadbourne to see if
something couldn't be done about it,
Florence is reduced to very great financial
straits, being unable to pay interest or en-
ployees' wages Accordingly bill is now be-
fore the italian parliament to grant as an in
demnity to the late capitol, $4,000, 50:
Boston telegraph clerk smiled when he
gave man this message from his wife: ''Unto
US child is born, nine feet long by two feet
wide;" but the man understood it meant that
he should buy an illuminated Easter text.
A settlement Of fanatics who practise polyg-
amy is forming the Little Colorado River, in
the most fertile section of Arizona, and is
gradually spreading to other parts of the Ter
ritory. cry is going up that they must be
| oustcd.
| made the following strange utterance in de-
Tending client: ssThe low towards who franz
ed our State constitution dared not give man
liberty to viudicate himself upon the field of
honor"
Gen. Lee asked straggler one day, whom he
found eating green perslmmons, if he did not
| know they were unfit for food. s'I'm not eat
ing them for food, general" replied the man,
''pm eating them to draw my stomach up to tit
my rations."
The French home minister invited the pro-
prietors of the Paris journals and their editors
to his receptions. Some of the journals re-
piled that few of their principal ontributors
were in exile and could not attend without
being amnestied.
There is quite strong emigration move
ment in Boston, Lynn, Haverhill and other
eastern Massachusetts cities and towns, the
fever being generally confined to mechanics
and laborers, who wish to seek their fortunes
in Kansas and Colorado.
King Cetywayo is described as black head
ringed man, resembling his father, the late
King Panda, and firm in flesh. He is large,
but his body is firm, not habby, like the bodies
of other large men among the Zulus His
favorite attire is spotted blanket.
Andrew Jones, of Chester, Pa, argued with
Lizzie Welsh from 6 P. II. to midnight in a vain
endeavor to convince her that it woul.l be well
to marry him. Then he committed suicide
and the girl says that if she had known he was
SO deeply in earnest she would have accepted
him.
Says the Sioux City Journal: "'Too much
shirt-collar and too little young man is The
girls verdict on the average beau of thu
PERIOD" Retorts the Omaha Neaus: 'sTot
little collar and 100 much young woman is the
young mans verdict on the average belle of tn,
period"
Here said farmer in Syracuse as he ex
hibited broken jar to the manufacturer, ssl
packed this jar full of butter and the jar spill
from the top to bottom. Perhaps you can ex
plain the phenomenon" 30, yes, CAM wa
t the ready reply, ''the butter was stronger thar
the jar"
Leo Kill, accidentally learning that all til.
valuable forced vegetables in the Vatican gar
den were appropriated by the cardinals, de
sired that the lettuces, artichokes, etc., be sen
to the market, where all could purchase then
, who desired, and that the proceeds be kept TO
, the poor.
/ According to Archbishop Trench more thai
80 per cent. of the words used by our bes
. writer's are derived from the classics Most o
. these aliens retain their primitive sense. Thei
meaning may be modified by English usage
but they cannot be applied with critical pro
priety unless known in the original.
T Until within a few years, there prevailed il
I Italy prejudice against German music bu
during last month Beethoven's symphonic
were for the first time performed in the Sal
) Dante at Rome, by excellent Roman musicians
: and enthusiastically applauded by throngs o
' the most cultivated people in the city.
! The following extraordinary inscription ap
' pears on a tombstone in the English grayeyar,
!, at Peshawur: Sacred to the memory of tn
. Rev. Blank Blank, A. NJ. who spent seventeen
: years as missionary among the Afghans, an,
), translated the holy writ into their language
s He was shot by his attendant. Well done
d thou good and faithful servant.'
;. An impromptu mock auction sale of wome
!, was amusing and profitable at first in Racine
8 (Wis.) church fair. The young men bid libe1
ally for the attractive girls and it was all yer
well until an ugly but influential sister wa
= put up. The auctioneer was compelled t
:; knock her down at Is cents, and she was s
angry that she put on her things and wen
home.