Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-08
GLOBELETs.

GLOBELETs.
II is said that Hon. Schuyler Colfax has
cleared 90, 600 in four years as lecturer.
The 7O0th anniversary of the Bavsrian
dynasty is to be celebrated at Munich Sept. 16,
1880.
Two duels in . fortnight have been fought
about Sarah Bernhardt. Result-Nobody
killed.
Fine cotton picking weather prevails all over
The South, and the crop is being rapidly
gathered.
MIR. Gladstone's temporary unpopulsrity is
said to be the result of iniudicious snubbing
of the press.
Mr.. Dalzell has been turned loose in Ohio,
and cry goes up from the rural districts for
protection.
Prof. Conkling has been suffering from ma
larial fever contracted in Rhode Island, but il
improving.
Tom Moore traced his descent from the ark.
as follows: Noah had three sons-Shem. Ham
and one more.
An eagle, measuring seven feet from tip to
tip and weighing seventeen pounds. has been
killed near Rogersville. Tenn.
An advertisement in the Independunt dez
BASES. Pyre7'ees offers for sale title possessed
by noble family for 400 years.
Attorney General Hardin, of Kentucky. h..
son VINO on his 18th birthday measured six
IN height and weighed 1921 pounds.
Mr.. Herbert Spencer is said to have lately
almost suddenly recovered health, and is bet
Ter than ne has been for fifteen years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Langtry, instead of going into
the divorce court, are visiting Mr.. Millais. the
painter, in the neighborhood of Dunkeld.
Mr.. James Caird gave Beaconsfeld his infor-
nation concerning the agricultural resources
of Canada. He could not have Card much for
the truth. --s
There is report in San Francisco that
Ulysses s. Grant, Jr., is afianced to a daughter
of Col. James @. Flood, the daughter of the
bonanza millionaire.
The Avalanche complains that the people OF
Tennessee have contributed to the people of
Memphis during the epidemics of this and last
year little else than advice.
Miss Cheeseman, daughter of DR.. T. N,
Cheeseman, of New York city, is soon to wed
Mr.. George W. Riggs, Jr., nephew of the WASH
| ington banker of the same name
Gambetta is not going to England to STAY
with Biz Charles Dixie, but Sir Charles Dixie
Is to be very shortly guest at Les Jardies, II.
Gambetta's country house in France.
What feeling of relief comes over a woman
as she enters church and discovers that her
neighbor's wife has the same feather on her
summer hat that she wore all last season.
1t is suggested that if the supreme court of
Tennessee decide that Memphis must paw the
i've millions of past-due debt, the business men
purchase Fort Pickering and move their bust
| ness houses there
Mr.. Chun Shen Yin, of the Chinese embassy
AZ washington, IS soon to take the position of
chinese consul at Havana. He is an accom-
pllshed man, and speaks che English language
easily and gracefully.
The Philadelphia Chronicle Herald is respon.
sible for the allegation that Baltimore has thir-
ty-hve thousand school children, and quite
number OF them can chew slate pencils and
throw spitballs in two languages.
Boston officer possesses two canary birds
and half dozen crickets over the hearth, Of
late the BIRDS have been attempting to initiate
the song of the crickets and succeed admirably.
seldom returning to their old mode of singing.
| The duchess of Marlborough, who has been
liberal patrOness of'Irish art and manufacture
since her arrival in Dublin, has written SEN
sible and feeling letter to the Dublin Weavers'
association, promising help to the poplin max
| ers. ....r5. a.r....
The Pacca edict, by which tax of twenty
per cent. is levied on all antiquities taken out
OF Italy for foreign countries, has again been
put in force by the minister of public instruc-
ton, whose aim it is to restrict the traffic that
goes on in this kind of works.
Propagating sponges by cutting the live ones
| into small pieces, attaching them to lumrs of
rock and sinking them to proper depths in
suitable places is proposed by Prof. Schmidt.
de thinks in three years they will be market
able and yield handsome Profit.
During the Emperor Williams stay at Gas
| tein, an itinerant conjurer was introduced one
| evening to amuse the kaiser and his suite. and
brought down the distinguished house by his
exordium to trick: "Now, if any one hap
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Some caverns of prehistoric times have been
discovered near Stramberg, in MoraviS. The
objects which they contained are said to prove,
beyond a doubt that these caverns were in
habited by man in the most remote ages. eon-
temporaneously with the mammoth and cave
bear.
At Cliff Seat, his summer house at Lake
George, Joseph Cook has an ootagonal study
set in the woods, study with doors in four Of
its sides, and furnished with sofa, few
chairs. a desk, and some books. Here he sits.
with his wife beside him, working through the
summer days. 81.
A94N carat diamond, found recently at
Mekerk's Bush, in the south African diamond
fields, was sold on the spot for $35, 900. The
same digger" to whose lot this rare find fell
unearthed about the same time fine stone of
70 carats, and another of 1917 carats, besides
several smaller gems.
Miss Lille Aver. daughter of tho dead pill
maker, is reported to be engaged to the impe-
cunlous grandson of Dom Pedro of Brazil.
Prince Philippe Louis Marie de Bourbon. She
will furnish 100000 capital for the new
hrm. If the story is true it is in spite of the
fact that Eli Perkins tells it.
rule of the Illinois Central railroad pro-
vldea that dogs shall not ride in passenger
car, but big and ferocious bull dog walked
into car at Chicago, appropriated q whole
seat, and rode 300 miles unmolested. "He had
such meaning smile," was the conductor 5
apology for not ejecting him.
Gen. w. W. Metealf, who served in the con-
federate army during the late war. and lost all
his property during the conflict has recently