Daily globe., 1879-06-07
GLOBELETS.

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,r child.
New York has wooden-leg champion of
The world and Canada"
sturdy girl, at Logan, Ia, planted eighty
acres of corn in four days.
On the hills of Vermont and New Hampshire
there is still plenty of snow.
The Baltimore l. Ohio roai are laying steel
rails between Newark and Bel,ire, O.
Mr. Reuben R. Springer. of Cincinnati, il
said to be the wealthiest Catholic in America.
Castle garden statistics show that the Grant
enigrant movements boom
ing.
Miss Mary Anderson has finished her dra-
matte season, and is resting from her labors at
Long Branch.
The skeleton of a child was recently found
in chimney in London, wrapped in papers
dated three years ago.
Miss Dods has determined to start q school of
cookery in this country, and thinks of locating
in Philadelphia.
Mr.. Price, who was going to marry Fanny
Davenport, vii! doubtless develop into the boss
Price fighter of the country.
Some very rich prospects of gold and silver
have lately been found in tho lava beds west
of Adm, Modoc county, Cal.
Whisky ia now made of leather, and this may
perhaps explain why so many persons who
drink it are always strapped.
The court house in fernando county, Flori-
ida, was burned by incendiaries, and the county
Judge has been assassinated.
A n.~,. 80. - -
riage. No wonder about one-tenth of our en-
tire population are old maids.
Up in Vermont the potato fields are covered
with beetles, who stand guard on every hill,
waiting for the vines to come up.
Shreveport papers are trying to encourage
immigration by calling attention to the fact
that their city has no brass band.
A second term of Hayes would be calamity.
1t might establish crab.apple cider as the
national beverage of our country.
s Mr.. Joseph Milmore, the sculptor, Is going to
London to see his statue of Lord Dufferin set
up in Hyde Park next September. @
The orchards in northern Pennsylvania, which
is the great fruit raising region of the State,
never looked more promising than now.
There is rejoicing all over Kentucky at the
crop prospects. The latest reports are all good
as to wheat, corn, oats, hemp and tobacco.
The great diminution in the number of bank
ruptcies throughout the country causes Peter
Cooper to take very gloomy view of affairs.
Gen. Butler has gone to Maine for . few
days fishing. He must wear goggles, or the
monsters of the deep will be scared to death.
William Gale. of Cardiff, has just completed
at Bradford, England, the unexampled feat of
walking $500 miles in 1000 consecutive hours.
South Africa must be very disaggreeable
country to live in. Even if one escaped tie
| boars he couldn't keep out of the way of the
beers.
If Grant was beaten when Taft was defeated
| in the Cincinnati convention. what will become
Of Sherman when Foster is laid out at the polls
next October?
| William r. Cushing, Of Mattapoisett, Mass,
has had his grave dug, boarded up inside and
covered over, in preparation for his death when
ever it occurs.
There are six shoe factories in San Francisco
owned and run by whites, and over thirty
owned and operated by Mongolians, with ap-
proved machinery.
Since 1851, says the Detroit Free Press,
twelve American husbands have been killed by
blows from broomsticks The broomstick is
mightier than the dust pan.
On the 1st of July Mrs. John Russell Young,
wife of the journalist, and her sister, Mrs.
Bright, are expected in Washington. They have
been travelling in Europe for two years.
A bequest of $4,000 to the Harvard
Medical school has been declined by the
university overseer, because q condition was
that the school should be opened to women.
Oliver johnson, one of the few surviving
apostles of the anti-slavery cause, went to
Brooklyn on Sunday to hear Henry Ward
Beecher's sermon on William Lloyd Garrison.
Brother Moody has for several weeks been
laboring with sinners who could not escape
from him. for they are convicts in the Balti-
more penitentiary. Converts are numerous
among them.
at last one Chicago miner has made great
success in Leadville. In five weeks, ending
May 8, he took out Sig, 240 with no other min
ing implements than pack of advantage cards
and Derringer pistol.
Mrs. Hill, tho sister of Mr.. W. ". Corcoran,
who has just died, was in her youth known ~
one Of .'The Three Graces' of Georgetown. The
other two were daughter of Commodore
Jones and daughter of General Platter.
Paris is about to try the experiment of paw
ing the streets with wood. The system now in
! use IN Oxford street, London, where more than
$4,000 square yards are laid down. is to be ap-
piled to portion of the Rue Montmarte.
Those who have never seen Senator Thurman
may like to know that he has massive frame
large well-shaped head, covered with gray
hair; bright humorous eyes, and large mouth.
His manner of speaking is eminently business
like.
There is a live sensation among the colored
; people in Collin county, Texas They see night
athwart the sky, the black one presaging death
and the white ones offering transportation to
the land of the angels.
Signor Francisco Grimaldi is remarkable
Italian orator. He is said, during his speeches,
, to utter from 176 to 200 words per minute, and
in the recent railway debate in Monte Citorio
he made speech containing enough words to
make volume of GOO pages.
Mr.. Keith johnson, the chief of the English
expedition to Eastern Africa, has taken into
service Chuma, the old companion of DR.. Liv-
ingstone, and man who without doubt will
carry the explorer over many difficulties which
. would otherwise perhaps be unsurmountable.
4 William Trippett, an Englishman, arrived q,
Castle garden, New York, on Thursday, from
!, Liverpool suffering with melancholia. In tn,
: barber's shop, after one side of his face hat