Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-24
GLOBELETS.

The people of kalamazoo dislike to be called
| Kalamazuus.
Since his late arrival Gen. Grant has made
| eighteen speeches.
George Wright, the famous base ball PLAYER.
! gives up the bat for business.
Fifteen thousand dollars have been collected
! for the children of the late Gen. Hood.
Inc hrst Protestant church in the Tyrol was
consecrated on November I'd, at Innsbruck.
The impression that Franklin drew his light
| nlng from New Jersey is wrong, quite wrong,
Pine tree cones. containing the seed, are Tow
being exported in large quantities from this
country to Europe.
The Duke and Duchess of Connaupht it 10
stated, contemplate making prolonged stay
IN Ireland in the spring.
John Dunn, who will be Cetywayo's chief
! Successor in Zululand, is worth about 5000, goo,
| and has numerous wives
Londoners spend $4,000 every day of the
year IN cab fares. George Augustus Sala saws
he uses 1900 cabs year.
Col. John Buzzard was married latelv at
Statesville, N. O., to Miss Eleanor Grow and
| Rev. DR.. Robin tied the knot.
On certain day in March, l849, $4,000
| copies Of the London Times were printed, and
| 1t was talked Of as marvellous feat.
Senator Hannibal Hamlin never puts on
gloves IN the winter time, but saves them to
| protect his hands from the sun in summer.
recent account of civil engineering saws
| that as distinct profession, it first arose in
| Holland, where dyke and canal maxim. created
| it.
The bulk of Prussian prisoners arc employed
| at cigar making, because the work takes little
| space, and is SO readily learnt by young and
| old alike.
Horse breeding is increasing in England, and
! imports into that country declined from 80, 900
in 1877 aud 10000 in 1878, to |, SIS than Is, OCO
! in 1879.
dambetta took official possession of the
faials Bourbon a fortnight ago. Invitations
lad been sent to the deputies to attend the
ceremony.
young married couple at Chenoa, ILL.,, on
going home from an enter tainment the other
day, forgot that theyihad left their baby at q
| neighbours.
Professor Sargent of Harvard college is to
conduct an investigation into the forest area
| and the forest wealth of the United States f,
the tenth census.
1t will cost at least $3.50, OOO to furnish the
manned confederate soldiers of Georgia with
artificial limbs, as contemplated by an act Of
the last legislature.
Count Telfener is reputed to be the richest
man in Italy. His second wife is the sister-in
law Of MIR. Mackey, the American millionaire,
| who tides in Paris.
The minimum height of English infantry re-
crults has been raised from feet inches to 5
feet luches-which means that the supply is
now in excess of the demand
1t is said that there are thirteen Jews in
Shoreditch, London, who are worth over a mil
lion sterling each. One of theae is an old clo'
| peddler, who follows his vocation
| Switzerland makes handsome profit out of
Its mountain peaks and glaciers. Tourists
put into the pockets of the Swiss an aggregate
OF $l5, 100000 during the season just passed.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch will
soon celebrate their golden wedding. He is
the premier Duke of Scotland, and is lord of
4oO,COO acres, with rental of Sl,l5O, 600 per
lyear.
I
day. New Orleans newspaper is now receiy-
ing deposits, paying interest at the rate of tivo
per cent. per annum and exercising all the
functions Of a savings bank
James Williams, state auditor of Ohio, has
been in chat Office in one or other capacity for
twenty-four years. Charles j. Wetmore, of the
land department.. has been IN that branch of
the auditors office for the same length of time
Sultan Abdul Hamid has $4,000 every
twenty-four hours. But he never pays his
debts. The car has $25,0O0, the emperor of
Austria about $4,000, Kaiser Wilhelm still
less, while the king of the Belgians has only
$1,000 a day.
| Mr.. Rossett the London painter, is even
more loath than was the late Mr.. W. NJ. Hunt
to exhibit his pictures in public. He let's his
friends and patrons see them, and occasionally
friendly critic. By this method he keeps his
temper sweet.
Fifty per cent. of the Mississippi cotton
crop OF this year is reported to have been pro.
duced by white labor. The cotton crop of the
whole country is announced as the largest on
record. In msny districts it will not paw for
picking, and is left in the fields.
Mr.. Edward Whymper, the Swiss mountain
climber, has just left England for South Amer
| lea, with view to attempting the ascent of
some of the great Andes. He has with him
two of the guides the Carrells, who accom-
panied him in his ascent of the Matterhorn.
The choir burst into two sections on the first
stanza of the opening hymn, and came to q
dead halt. Then the suspense was broken by
the apologize voice of the choirester: "Just
let's score for another start, and we'll come I'M
der the wire neck and neck" The hymn went
, on.
One day lately Governors Talbot of Massa-
! chusetts, Brown of Tennessee, Robinson of
New York, Van Zandt of Rhode Island, ex-
Governors Rice of Massachusetts, Curtin of
Pennsylvania and Lippitt of Rhode Island, all
met together by accident in the vestibule of
New York hotel.
Senator Bayard is described by correspond
ent as broad shouldered, gray haired, clean
shaven, muscular and fresh in color. He is
exceedingly athletic, being famous in Whining
ton as pedestrian and boxer. His manners
are frank and kindly, and his ways of speech
quick and earnest.
The king of Holland has the largest private
conservatory in the world. 1t contains two
immense palm trees, the smaller of which
: weighs two and a half tons, besides a wonder
} full collection of tropical plants. The glass
dome of this huge greenhouse is ninety feet
high and one hundred and eighty feet in diam
eter.
The Pope is in most things exclusively ecc.
nomical but his charities act as a constant
| drain on his resOurces. When he ordorod o.