Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-26
GLOBELETs.
Farm horses are in active demand in Chicago
Governor Cobb, Of Alabama, used to fiddle

! Governor Cobb, Of Alabama, used to fiddle.
Queen Victoria will spend three weeks in Ger
| many.
Harvard college is to have Chinese profess
| sorship.
Plum trees are in bloom all over the State of
| Georgia.
Bostons exports last week were valued at
81, 1860.
A lump of sugar saturated with vinegar
| stops hiccup.
Faber, the pencil man. is dead, but
lett more marks behind him.
Gen. Thomas W. Sherman died on the ami
| versary of the death of his father
One Kentucky family reports nine cases Of
| measles in active operation simultaneously.
Mr.. Tilden has decided that if he ever mar
ries ne will find lady without any nephews.
recent census shows that Portland, Oregon,
has 1925 inhabitants, and that 1882 are Chi
nese.
Writers of dime novels are growing quite ex-
cited over the approaching Chicago carnival OF
authors.
DR.. Won Dollinger, the celebrated leader Of
the Old Catholics, has reached his eightiet q
birthday.
1t is stated that "a, 900, 600 is annually spent
| by people of the United States in educating
their children.
Woman's mass meeting in support of the
new constitution for California is suggested ia
San Francisco.
The different street-car lines in Washington
xui11 H.
and after April l.
Some of the London barmaids have emuIated
the example set by those above them, and dress
| in Greek costumes.
The town of Bristol, R. l., is preparing to
celebrate in tie fall the two hundredth ami
versary of it's settlement.
Miss Rabbit, relative of the soap man, has
$2S0,000 worth of diamonds. She goes into the
| first Washing ton society.
Jefferson Davis is in such pecuniary circunn-
stances that he does not need pension. He il
quietly working on his book.
Green peas have appeared in Florida, and the
tramps will remain while longer. They will
| come North in strawberry time
The girls are rapidly coming to the front in
| Maine. There are now 5000 Of them teaching
| in the public schools of that State.
The Baltimore Gazette says it isn't safe to
blow lunch horn anywhere in the neighbor-
hood of Cincinnati newspaper man.
A Brooklyn young man boasts that he has
kissed his girl $50 times in six hours and three
laps, and thinks he has won the match.
man out West hanged himself the other
day because he wanted to be an angel. 4 sim
pier way would have been to steal $4,000.
The Philadelphia North american suggests
| that each State be allowed an additional
United States Senator for every million of pop
! ulation.
If Tom Scott had only visited the HOLY
Land few centuries sooner the wise men of
| the east might have travelled by the night ex
press.
The Des Moines Qowa) school board has for
hidden the children to skip rope in the school,
house grounds, which is as far as their authority
extends.
| Lucretia Graham a colored woman, con-
victed of theft was punished with thirtv-niue
lashes on Monday, in Norfolk, Va, by sentence
of the mayor.
1t man who will 60 into bsrber shop on
Saturday night or Sunday morning and have
his hair cut hasn't any enemies, he certainly
ought to have.
Hon. Alexander Mitchell has become sole
owner of the chamber of commerce propertv
in Milwaukee, Wis, and Will erect new build
ing for the exchange.
The students of the University of Georgis
have invited ex-Gov. Tilden to deliver the an
nual address before the literary societies at
the coming convention.
MIR. Daniel Hurlbutt, much respected citi-
zen of Gilbertsville, Otsego county, died in his
carriage while riding with his family to church.
on Sunday morning last.
A Nashville mule driven by a boy wa. FRIGHT
ened by dead hog in the street, ran away. and
threw the boy, and the boys father is suing
the city for SIS, 900 damages.
Gov. Phelps, of Missouri. has demanded of
| the State treasurer quarterly statement of
his receipts and expenditures, az required bv
the constitution of the State.
! Two young men in Wisconsin have dons a
| profitable business by buying wolf scalps in
Chicago and presenting them to the Wisconsin
State authorities for the bounty.
| The Providence Journal says that bad man.
agement was the cause Of the disappearance of
the cooperative stores, of which there were SO
many in Rhode Island at one date.
When the poll-tax bill was under considera-
ton in the Texas house of representatives. one
member asserted that at the last election LOCO
Mesicans crossed over the line and voted in
Texas.
The editor of the Portsmouth On. H. Week1u
says that he once knew a lad of years who
could read very well in the Bible, who did not
know the alphabet, but learned to read bv
words.
Sothern, the actor, will spend the summer
among Canadian salmon fisheries. Next Sep
TENDER he will start on professional tour in
| this country. where he remains until the spring
of 1880.
| The official investigation into the recent
ferry-boat collision at San Francisco has result
ed In the complete exoneration of the officers
! of both boats. There are presidents for such
a finding.
| The Republicans of Sacramento, CAL, ran
straight ticket at the municipal election on
the 18th inst, and swept the city. The Work
ingmens vote came next, and the Democrats
brought up the rear.
! Texas papers declare that it is folly to catch
murderers in Texas and go to the expense of
| trying them, because they are almost invariably
turned loose by the jurors. But horse-thief
is 1y nched on the spot.
far seeing editor says young men send
ing spring poetry to this Office will please en-
close name and address-not for publication,
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