Daily globe., 1879-02-10
GLOHELETS,
Sitting Bull is suspected of being Grant

Sitting Bull is suspected of being Grant
man.
The late Princess Alice was buried wrapped
in the folds of an English flag.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is educating a
daughter to succeed her on the lecture plat
form.
Grevy is the fgurehead of the good ship La
Republique Franchise. Gambetta is the man
at the wheel.
The first women clerks employed in the ma
tlonal treasury were appointed in 1862 There
are now over l,3O0
Mrs. Mary Ss Barefoot, of Bedford county.
Pa, is 88 years old, weighs 240 pounds, and has
24S living descendants.
The wife of Speaker Randall has just attend
ed in Washington, for the first time in her life
large dancing party.
Senator Hill, Of Georgia, is distinguished by
that rare and beautiful possession familiarly
known as ''horse sense''
A composition who is always whining for
something fat isn't consistent when he uses
bottle of anti-fat every week.
Jay Gould holds the Wall street tiller with a
hrm grip. Any sympathy for him at this stage
OF the game would be premature
The girls are rapidly coming to the front in
Maine. There are now 5000 of them teaching
IN the public schools of that State.
The readers of the Tribune are grateful for
the understanding that that journal will now
quiet down. on the subject of 'Moses."
1t is peculiar fact that nobody knows who
| will be the next Democratic candidate for the
Presidency except select circle of Repubi-
| can editors.
Senator Conkling is about to head great
philanthropic movement. The Cincinnati En-
Quarer says he will see that John Sherman never
| reaches the White House.
MIR. Bragg, of Wisconsin, is being ssboosted'
up the ladder of fame. We feel authorized to
add that he can do his own climbing. He does
| not covet Republican aid.
Pelton protests that he is not the Jonah
| aboard the bark Of Mr.. Tildens political for
tunes, and his efforts to resist being cast into
the sea may prove interesting.
The rumor that Col. Mosby is to be trans
| ferred to the Berlin mission, and that Dennis
Kearney will succeed him at Shanghai cannot
be traced to any authoritative source.
Mr.: Hayes message to the Senate on the
subject OF the New York custom-house ap-
pointments reads like that of man who had
narrowly escaped being born an angel.
Elizabeth, New Jersey, is bankrupt. As
| Elizabeth at one time was said to be worth
$14, 600, we cannot understand what has
| become of her money-unless she has had some
| dentistry done.
| The Maine legislature won't cut down the
salaries of members, but they talk of reducing
| supreme judges salaries to $4,000 year.
| Great Jehosaphat! That won't pay their car
fare freight trains.
correspondent in eastern Maine writes that
the Republicans will carry the State next Sep
tember, and that they are already at work.
Boston Journal. That piece of news must
have cost you something.
couple of canvasback ducks flew into the
editors sanctunl in the Baltimore Gazette build
| ing, lighted on a bust of Palla,, and died there
| from indignation. They had been eating bakers
! bread made in Chicago.
The Virginia Senate has refused, by very
decided maj jority, to repeal the whipping-post
law, taking the ground that a great saving of
expense has accrued and there has been nota-
BILE decrease of petty thefts
| Years and years ago your fashionable lady
never saw a seal skin sacque. Why! there was
Mrs. Adam, who only had one bare skin sacque
for summer and winter. But times were tight,
| and her husband was out of work.
While the unusual depression in England is
| to be deplored, the lack Of former enterprise
and prosperity has checked the outflow of gold
| from this country which otherwise would have
embarrassed the process Of resumption
The report that Hon. Reuben Davis. National,
| had abandoned the contest of the seat of Hon.
Henry L. Muldrow, from the First district Of
Mississippi, is contradicted. The parties have
! served upon each other notice and reply.
Jerry Black is reported to have said that
Senator Conkling is an ADLER man than was
either Clay, Calhoun or Webster. The fact is
that he never said so. What he did say was
| that Conkling was more indefatigable poll
tioian.
When the Marchioness of Lorne invaded the
United States the other day she paid tribute to
the starry banner by cheering it. When she
| saw the ice formations she exclaimed in phrase
for which young ladies will love her, 20! isn't
| it just gloriousv'
The Augusta National Democrat says that a
representative to the legislature from the back
towns region happened to be in Augusta last
| summer, and seeing for the first time street
sprinkler, hailed the driver and excitedly in
| formed him that his wagon was leaking.
Actual occurrence in Chicago street car:
Stylish lady, holding lapdog, is about ready
| to leave the car. Dog man1fests inpatience.
| Lady says, in her sweetest tones, ''Wait dar-
ling, till mamma puts on her Gloves Passen-
| gers roar with laughter.-lKil1uauheeS San.
More failures among the shoe dealers of Bos-
ton. Come West, gentlemen, and prosper
chicago Commercial Ad,ertiser. The trouble is
that too many Boston gentlemen's goods went
West, and have come back in the shape of cred
itors' dividends.-Boston Journal of Commerce,
Schuyler Colfax is said to be renewing his
| age.-Boston Herald. Colfax? Colfax? o
yes, we remember him now-once Vice-Presi-
dent.-Ne,p6urypoW Herald. That's it.
Used to trade with fellow named Grant
Grant & Colfax; we remember 'em-Er-
change.
President Tilden, it is reported, will address
the students Of the Southern Trinity College at
their next commencement. Mr.. Thurman is
to be the orator next June at the university at
Chapel Hill, N. c., and Mr. Bayard, it is sug-
gested, may speak to the students of the uni
versity Of Virginia, where his son is stu
dent.
An enterprising Manchester reporter discov-
cred that at recent assembly in that village