Daily globe., 1879-05-31
GLoBELETs.

Strikers are popular In no busaness but basea
bali:
The tendterest and Il most eloquent language Of
love is silence.
Jumping down rope is what they call
hanging in Nevada
.sPendulous SuffocatIon'' is the latest head
line for hanging bee.
Wendell Phillips says that Emerson always
wears suspicion of a smile.
The women of America eat more candy than
all the rest of the world combined. This is a
candied fact:
Tohawahda has a brand of cigars called
.Bullfrogs." as soon as a man smokes one be
jumps the town.
Mile. Aimee has entered suit agasnst another
actress, Miss Gabrielle DuS Saul, to recover on i
note for $780,
First Impressions are lasting, as the school
master said when he introduced himself to the
new: school by fogging all hands.
Kit Carson, a son of the famous scout, and
very witty and intelligent person, it is reported
is making temperance speeches.
2. Chandler cannot go picnicking, When
he does the revenue spies track him through
the woods as though he was fugitive dis
tiller.
His holiness the Pope has conferred the
Grand Cross of the Order of st. Gregory the
Great on Mr.. Daniel Thomas Murphy, of Cali
f1rria.
The State of Maine boasts of young rooster
that lays an egg regularly every morning.
Well, now, here is surely something new under
the sun.
When Miss Nelson was told by her London
physician that she must rest from the stage for
| a season, she was told that she could either do
SO or die.
London paper thinks that by residing in
Europe an American girl can gradually "get
rid of her war-whoop." American eirls don't
war hoops now:
:, TIE wonderful lbibliographical collection oi
Mr.. Huth, great London merchant, is now to
be brought to the hammer. It is estimated to
have cost over 100000.
4 The centennial association of Valley Forge.
Pa, will dedicate the Washington headquar-
ters June TO- Senator Bayard has accepted an
invitation to deliver the oration.
William Hemphill Jones, to whom General
Dix addressed his famous ''Shoot him on thu
spot, y dispatch, is now a clerk Of the Congress
sional committee on ways and means.
Bret Harte has Just given lecture in Brigh.
ton, England. At its conclusion he was pes
sehted with an illuminated address from the
principal members of the local press.
The Boston Courier man was in florists
store Saturday. when Rusticus took up sprig
, of green from the counter 'Isn't that beau
tiful?" said he; sit looks natural en- ,ugh to be
artificial
Quoth the Chicago Times: ''st. Louis one
hundredth season as summer resort is about
to open. Her proud position as champion sun.
stroke region Of the United States will be
fully maintained. -
Menoninee has the Oldest married couple III
Wisconsin. Mi. and Mrs. Francis Bancroft Of
that town have lived together as man and wife
for seventy-one years. The anniversary of their
! wedding occurred 1st of May.
> The dandy lions are blooming at the street
4 corners in the bright sunshine, and the tende +
, spring beauties nod their bnshfui heads be-
heath the loveiicst Japanese parasois and BON
nets. Hail! gentle spring!
: Miss G. Il. Wolfe of New York, thirty-five e
: years old, the richest single woman in the
b United States, has arrived at Newport, r. L:
f She is worth over sl00Q00O and has just re-
d turned from a two years'visit to Europe
! Count Beust is said to be the wittiest am
! bassador in Europe. He has that great charm
= of the humorist, grave demeanor-for he was
originally intended for the pulpit-and his
conversation is full OF brilliancy.
Bishop Forat of Jerusalem. has just died
I, The patronage of the bishopric rests alternate
= ly with Queen Victoria and the Emperor o
"a Germany. The Queen will fill the presen
rs vacancy. The episcopal salary amounts t,
et $4,000 year.
n Madame Breton was a lady Of 95, who ha4
8. just died in Paris. She was devoted servito
- Of the Bourbons, was one of the twelve ladies
= present at the baptism Of Due de Bordeaux
y and passed through all the sanguinary struggle
Of the Reign of Terror.
band of gypsies have pitched their tent
4. on the lands near the hotel at Sunnyside, Lon
Z Island and Sunday they were visited by man
=. "city folks' who had come to buy horses, cowi
= or chickens, or have their fortunes told.
IS The party numbers twenty or more.
% Gov. Bishop, of Ohio. when riding up to the
In State house at Columbus last week heard
ed woman cry ont that her pocket book had beer
q stolen, and, jumping out, pursued and over
=. !. hauled the thief and gave him into custody
~ ~ distancing all the others that joined in th
- chase.
n. A Montreal dispatch says an agent is ther
making elaborate preparations for the recer
: tion of Sothern, the actor, who will be accom-
panied by the Duke of Beaufort Sir John Reit
o. and others upon a fishing excursion to til
It Natashquan They will leave Montreal o.
~ June 5.
ls- A correspondent Of the London Times, wri
On ing from Madrid, Spain, May IL, says: "Princ,
n Rudolph of Austria, and Prince Leopold, o
at Bavaria. were present to-day nj the grand bull
DE- fight. One of the Toreadp-s was attacked by
as bull, but escaped without sustaining any seri
,,a' GUS injury
H. Mr.. Owen and Mis-, Sandford; Of Milburr
ify KY, were frustrated in several attempts to g
ed married. At length they decided to elope. ST
Iry bravely jumped out of window and brol
ne one of the small bones near the ankle, but
ls, got away with her, and she was held on h'
ge feet while the marriage ceremony was performe
srs by sympathizing cl ergyman.
.ce Provisions coming into Paris pay dut.
est The minister of foreign affairs lately tran
in mitted to the municipal council request tn:
~. barrel of ham and four barrels of pork, ii
Ids tended for his household use. should be az
Tas mitted free. Several representatives of otht
MS countries had previously obtained sl ia
bu. on this occasion the council refused, COZ
sidering that such demands were unreasonabl
Maud Miller, the 14-year-old daughter of IL