Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-23
GLOBELETs.

GLOBELETs. ~
Mark Twain is to be the leading spirit of q
new paper to be published in Hartford.
Wendell Phillips is now in his 6Sth yerr, and
the Bostonians call him "Uncle WENDELL
George Alfred Townsend is the regular week.
ly correspondent of eight different papers.
The Oswego Recorder says that the only
original feature in Sitting Bull is the aborig-
inal.
Senator Blaine and General Beauregard sat
for portraits at the Lydian art studies, in
Chicago, Wednesday. , ...-..... -
Mr.. Bret Harte is said to have suffered much
in health from the climate of his consular
post, Crefeld, in Rhenish Prussia; he is, how
ever, able to write.
Bodenstedt, the German translator Of
Shakespeare, has sailed for New York from
Hamburg. He is accompanied by Neville
Moritz, the tragedian.
Canon Sanford, of Edinburg cathedral who
has been on pleasure trip to this country,
| sailed for Europe on the American line steam.
ship British Empire Saturday
Mr.. Walt Whitman has been ill in st. Louis
for two weeks but is recovering. He still in
tends To Lecture the coming winter, and give
public readings of his own poems.
Russia has more sheep than any other conn
try in Europe, but of late the number has de-
'lined, as more land is beirg put under grain
crops, and hence decline in wool export,
The company being made up at Waco, Tex.
for the Sierra Moiada silver mines, is to consist
| OF one hundred men, each to contribute 800
to common fund, to be deposited at Mata-
| maros.
Mr.. Fairman Rogers, of Philadelphia, has
purchased through NJ. CASTOR Fenardent, four
| Tanagra hgurines of great beauty, which he
has presented the Pennsylvania Academy of
| fine arts.
Here Ia the superscription of letter from
France, which found its way to Gov. Jarvis, of
North Carolina. "His Excellency, Monsieur,
the President of North Carolina, Raleigh.
America. -
1t is rare thing to be sunstruck in October,
yet that is what happened to Fred. Hamilton.
a tank builder, at Tarport. Mexican county. Pa.
last week. His condition was alarming, but he
will recover.
1t is becoming the fashion for prime dome
to marry their directors. Thus Mile. Gerster
took for her husband the impresario Gardini.
Mile. Albini became Mrs. Gye, and Nine.
Marie Roze Mrs. Mapleson
The Sandemanians are peculiar religious
people of Danbury, Connecticut. They have no
pastor or sermons; but in their church is
circular table around which they sit on Sun
days and discuss Scriptural texts.
A Miss Whitten now at Damariscetta, Me-.
has probably the longest hair of any woman in
the world. 1t is eight feet long, and when
dressed IN French twist it passes six times
around her head. The growth is perfectly nat
ural.
man in Baltimore is holding baby as
security for a debt Of s15, and as the ch1ld's
mother is dead, the prospects are that he will
continue to hold it until he is ready to give
SIS to have it taken off his hands.-Butfalo Ex-
lpreSs.
Mr.. Whittier wrote in response to an invita-
ton to attend a recent meeting of sympathy
with teaant farmers in Ireland: II do not
understand fully the condition of the Irish
tenant farmers at the present time, but my
sympathies are with the laboring poor''
The Poughkeepsie Eagle laments that if a
student at Vassar has friend call upon her
and she invites her to lunch, she has to pav
seventy-fve cents for the same; but on the con-
trary, if student is away from the college
three or four days, they allow nothing for the
time.
Lady Hardy and her daughter, the former
we'll known in literary circles in England, Wis.,
tied the public schools in New York Wednes-
day, and, in little address to the pupils, said
"Brlton az am, have no hesitation in saying
that your schools far surpass those of the old
world.''
Mrs. Lorne is expected to return from Eng
land in time for the opening of the dominion
parliament. 1t will be busy season around
!, the house then, and what with wash DAYS. and
| Mr. Lorne being obliged to have boiled shirt
every day, etc., it would hardly do for Louise
to be away.
Prof. Mivart says: ''All living creatures be-
. gin life IN the small, rounded mass of proto-
plasm.' Mr.. Jules Ferry says: 'Universal
suffrage has become the law of the world, and
the MIST solid foundation of social order.''
Carter H. Harrison says-but never mind
about Carter; he's always saying something.
Alawyer's clerk named George Steed, ma
tive of Southampton, entered the cathedral and
other churches in Hereford recently, and, going
up to the altar with red cap on, said he was
John the Baptist. that he had been to the
North Pole, and having smoked his pipe there
had come back to tell Hereford people what he
had seen in heaven.
MIR. Worth, the man milliner, is described by
Miss Brewster in the Telegraph, of Philadel-
phla, as STOPPING, simply dressed man of
middle height, with round, good natured face,
with homely, simple, straightforward manners.
His son, 20 years old, is employed with his
father. and is said to be even cleverer than
Worth in designing gowns.
recent report to the British board of trade
goes to show that between July 10, 1875, and
Aug. H. 1873, no fewer than fifty-two ships
laden with coal disappeared, forty-one suffered
more or less by reason of spontaneous oombus-
ton, and twenty-four from explosion. The
hfty-two ships which disappeared represented
q value of about $l,500,00o, and were manned
by 463 men. who went down with them.
One of the retired warriors from Zululand
tells a good story. He was at Rorke's Drift.
and was witness to one of the following moi
dents clergyman in clerical attire was hard
at'work handing out cartridges to the men,
and he did it with a will. A private near was
taking shots at the Zulus and cursing the while
IN the most ingenious manner. Don't swear,
man, shouted the clergyman; Don't swear
| at them; shoot thenr'
Like the surface gold diggings of California,
tho island guano deposits of the Pacific are
giving out: The American Guano company"
which for the last twenty and more years have