Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-19

the public will look upon it - another at
tempt to blackmail.
The British Royal Geographical society il
urging the establishment of chairs of geogra.
ply at Oxford and Cambridge.
Mr.. Christiancy, ex-senator from Michigan.
and now minister to Peru, passed through
Panama April 2, en- route for Lima.
John P. Phair left statement asserting hia
innocence, but they believed in Vermont that
naught but the grave deserve the Phair.
Mile. Sara, Emily Soldene's high-kicker, has
retired to private life. ami good many old
bald-heads would like to retire there too.
It takes the price of twenty bushels of wheat
to pay for the transportation of one carload
over the Union Pacific railway bridge at Omaha.
letter addressed ito any true Christian in
Chicago, and none other" has been lying for
weeks in the postofice there. No one calls
for it.
Modjeska says that Wilhelmj is terrible
hirt. and is more renowned in Warsaw for his
gallantries than Tor his musical accomplish
ments.
A Keokuk, Ia, picking establishment adver-
tises for 200, 600 heads Of cabbage The New
London Telegram says: eco west, young man,
go westr'
Things get curiously mixed on the other side
of the water. A French paper refers to Presi-
dent Hayes as "the best judge of champagne
in America"
The performance of Petroleum V. Nasby's
play at Providence is said to have brought
handsome profit to Mr.. Nasty and to Mr.. Bur-
CESS, the leading actor.
q Io,1, <l,.A
he won't work for more than nine or ten hours
/ day, they trim his ears down and sell him to
Chicago man for carriage horse.
Boston has new theatre. the Park, which
opened very successfully on Monday evening.
under the management of Henry E. Abbey, of
New York, and with Lolita in LA Cigale.'
For his poem, 1.-THE Defence of Lucknow"
and its prelude, addressed to the memory of
the Princess Alice, making altogether 127 lines,
Mr.. Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, received
esoO.
The laws of Germany are stern. For speak
ing unexpectedly of the crown prince in a
public place of entertainment a teacher of lam
guages has been sentenced to four months i'm
prisonment.
Two California sharps were playing . game
of cards. 1T is very singular" observed one.
'that I haven seen king yet" mot at all,
replied the other; 'you have one in your sleeve
and have the other three in my boot"
The London Examiner learns from q reliable
source that every year of Marshal MacMahon's
presidency cost him 800. 600 out of his private
MEANS His estates which in 1873 were quite
free from debt, are now heavily mortgaged.
Mr.. Johnston, an American, has taken the
first science scholarship at Trinity college,
Dublin, the authorities having decided that he
has right to hold it, as, although he was born
, in America, his father was British subject.
Bishop Ames is again ill. He lies at his
! residence, in Baltimore, in what his physician.
! pronounce to be serious condition. Since
March 9Th he has presided at two conferences,
and the work was too much for him in his
feeble state.
, Father Newman will go to Rome to receive
the cardinalate which will be conferred toward
: the end of May and be preceded by allocu-
ton. in which Leo XIII. will speak his mind
on the relations between the church and civil
t governments.
8 The society formed in Dublin two years ago
to cultivate the Irish language has numerous
: members. Schools for instruction in it have
: been established in Berlin, Leipsic and in Co.
b penhagen. and in Paris lectures have been late
n ~ given upon its grammar.
The Stewart property at Garden City. Long
= Island, which was once thought to be worth 8lQ
an acre for farming purposes, yielded last year
a. $3.50 bushels of oats, II $50 of corn, APO Of
buckwheat, 1876 of grass seed, 3,4O0 of carrots
- 400 of sugar beets, 2, 400 of turnips and 727
ia tons of hay.
=, William F. Green. Baltimore tailor, who's,
+ estate was worth $50, 900, wrote his will Will
re his own hand the fy-leaf of q copy o.
u Heine's poems in German In little while b,
= died. A Joseph Green q brother, finds him
self left out in the cold, he contests the will OF
"a the ground that it was not properly executed
i'd Nine years ago Emerson Stetson, the son of .
ID Chesterfield, Mass, farmer, went on q business
errand to Northampton, and never returned
On Monday two negroes, who were driving
along road near Northampton, felt the eartl
cave in beneath their buggy wheels, and look
-. ing down saw the bones of human body stick
:. ing from an old refrigerator. Investigation
- showed the body to be that of stetson.
Nepotism, or favoritism, or familyism in tn
public Offices of Russia is often manifested t.
fe strange degree and IN peculiar ways. A Who'll
90 province or district is often in the hands of
:. few families. Thus it has just been shown tha
in the Jsman district all the offices are in tn
hands of four persons belonging to two fam
No ilies viz: d. Blank has seven Offices; B. Blank
- seven Offices; J. Andruff, six Offices; N. Andruf
of eight Offices.
n. Twelve graduates of the American or Robe,
,r- college, near Constantinople, are, according
n = correspondent of the Philadelphia Pres
o. members of the new Bulgarian assembly. tt
ed twelve are said to be the best educated of th
ny delegates, and to be we'll versed in the istor
10 of American institutions. 1t will be interes
" ing to observe the influence these men will Q,
ercise in framing constitution for the ne
ef State of Bulgaria.
~ Peter Dyer, who is known to Gotham rs tt
ay reformed drnnkard and Gospel missionary. hi
ch disappeared from his mission house, his vii
W and his children, leaving his particular con
es, munity very much upside down. The simult
~ neous departure of Mrs. John Melville. q VI
~ man with both husband and children and
- member o! Peters flock, leads to the belief th'
~, the two have busted Kansas exodus,
imitation Of the Louisiana colored brethren.
Cornelius J. Vanderbilt will wing himsel
or. and his million over to Europe as soon as 3
lal can get ready. He was in Chicago the oths
~. day and tossed some empty figures and an d.
= wanna to areporter. He declared that all b
=. debts did not stretch beyond $l10, 09O, befo
kI,aSv, hn 80 nbarss