Daily globe., 1879-04-23
GLOBELETs.
wagner Is DO.
John B. Cough is 62.

Oftentime scaly-The weighs of the world.
Boat races should come off in regular row.
tation.
It's called the Grant furore, because few
roar for Grant.
Modern cigars are like lottery tickets-one in
a thousand draws.
A babe born at Middletown N. Y, weighed
but one pound at birth.
The Bolivans have had to surrender Calame.
This is a great Calamaty.
While man has been sitting perfectly still,
we have seen his sidewalk
gold coin bearing the date of 1920 has late
ly been found in Normandy.
Never hurrah until your mother-in-law has
hauled you out Of the woods.
A company is organized to light the city of
San Francieco with electricity.
Trichinosis has appeared for the first time in
ITALY at Brescia and Piacenza.
New York tiremen must be five feet seven,
lean and lively, and not over 80.
An old lady in Georgia has carried brass
pin in her mouth for twenty years.
New York prisoner, being asked if he spoke
English, REPLIED 'Not word, SIR
The tax on armorial bearings in England reali-
zes half million dollars annually.
The man with strawberry mark on his arm
can now sell himself for short cake
Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth is now at
work on her sixtieth novel. Whoa, Emma!
A classical chemist describes his stern and
Juno-like lady love as 'ox-eyed Of iron."
An exchange says that Lydia Thompson can
kick like an Indian. Talk about her being a
kicker-pooh!
Mrs. Christiancy, wife of the minister to
Peru, is very i'll at the home of her parents in
Washington.
Alexander Stephens is chairman of the COM
| mittee on weights and measures. Comment is
unnecessary.
| John M. Morton, Senator Mortons son, will
leave San Francisco, this week, for his consul
| ate at Honolulu.
| The N. Fl. Palladium says Key stands up for
the dignity of his Office. That is not all. he
draws his pay regularly.
Scientists have discovered that the num-
mied bull in the Egyptian museum, London, is
a species Of our common OK.
A petroleum spring in Pechelbroun, lower
Alsace, has flooded the bitumen mine there to
the extent of 1,75O cubic metres.
1t is said that of 10000 Cinnamon employed
on public works in California only six have
been discharged for misbehavior.
The late frost had bad effect on the trees
in Texas. Several men were fcrrd dead,
hanging to the trees, the next morning.
An ingenius instrument has been invented
by the of which the action of the pulse is
accurately measured and photographed.
The late Nine. Bonaparte never adopted gas,
but always used candles. and would not allow
q carpet to be laid upon her bed-r JON floor.
Il Mr.. Hendricks says he will not have the second
place on the Democratic Presidential ticket in
1880. He will be head of the ticket or moth
ing.
Edward 8. Stokes, the slayer of Fiske, has
taken up his abode in San Francisco. He is
now the chief owner of valuable Nevada
mine.
A native of Kentucky initiates thecrowing of
a cock remarkably well that the sun upon
several occasions has risen two hours earlier
by mistake.
A man who went to Texas said he would
shake the dust of that State off his feet. In
, about five minutes he was hanging from q
cottonwood tree.
} ''Grandfather's Clock' continues to run $500
3 a month into the pocketbook of Henry G.
3 Work. It was great day for him when ''the
old man died."
A Boston girl caused a lull in the conversation
! by referring TO certain being Every
negroardly," It is strongly suspected that she
Q meant ''niggardly."
Simplicity of attire is now the rule among
great men. Cetewayo wears an old spotted
Q blanket and the sublime Mosby refuses to as
), sumo gaudy attire.
New Jersey has invented paper
stocking, intended to be worn over the cotton
4 or woolen stocking, thereby excluding cold and
+ dampness from the feet.
Y John Letcher, Virginia's "war Governor"
! has just recovered from long sickness, caused
. by fall on the ice. Oh, Governor, why didn' t
. you Letcher-self down easy?
Zach. Chandler-not Henry Clay-says he
would sooner be tight than President Ez-
q change.] ZACH must be glad that he isn't
l. President the most of the time.
When Grant shall have completed his obser-
:. vations at ''India's coral strand" he proposes
- next year, to take trip to "Greenland's icy
- - mountains by way of Salt river.
" street car motor to be run by quicksilver,
or is being made at Aurora, III. Eight hundred
s: pounds of quicksilver required to furnish
It an equivalent of three horsepower.
ia young man employed in store in the vii
Z lage of Aurora, n Y, recently handed over to
b his employers the SUM of $500, which he had
t. taken from the till during a long service.
5s Two respectfully connected youths lately
d cut fourteen telegraph wires for fun in Eng
land, thus interrupting Liverpoops commune
g. cation with London, Dablin and the United
kt States.
i'll A young lady ate half wedding cake ant
r. then tried to dream Of her future husband
Now she says that she would rather die thar
t.. marry the man she saw in that dream.-E1
V. change.
- Lovers of cysters r-ter eat all they can this
10 10 month"; says the Syracuse Herald. there
won't be another with in it until Septem
on ber unless they prefer to spell the preceding
e. month Orgust.
TX Private Dalzells town and township, both
N hitherto Democratic, went Republican Mon
10 day.-Cancinnati Gazette. Well, you'd natu
10 rally expect community 80 afflicted to d.
- - something desperate.
ts Hamilton Fish offered resolution in tn
he New York Assembly the other day, that wherea
and whereas and whereas and all that, a com
mittee be appointed to tender General Gran