Daily globe., 1879-02-11
GLOBELErS.
Matt Carpenter weighs 200.


South Australia.
The Chinese say there is well of wisdom at
the root OF every gray hair.
little boy in New Jersey wants to know
what Adams second name was.
Sign near Central Park-'Fresh eggs for sale.
laid every day by Mrs. Cooley"
A brute of man says you can tell woman
su1fragist by the size of her foot.
The Atlanta Constitution thinks there are no
subdued tints about Jim Redpath's lies.
Secretary of War McCrary never drinks
". Y. Herald. Does he ever eat anvthinp,
Western woman has lost two husbands bv
lightning. She ought to marry conductor.
And now Minnesota girl offers to grind
2'7oo quarters of wheat in 1900 quarter hours.
There has been many Jonah in the United
States Senate, but Louisiana sen DIS the frs
Jonas.
Between Grant and Bayard. ALWAYS for
Bayard! st. Louis Wvestziche Post (Scburz's
paper) Jan. 81.
hard times in England, small pox in Ireland,
plague IN Russia, rinderpest in Prussia, and
prosperity in France.
Each member of the United States supreme
court gives two or three dinners to his COL
leagues during the winter.
At Exeter, N. H., last Tuesday, Ambrose
caro- was divorced from Mary A. Gard. No
more cards.-Sonaerville Journal.
Hayes to the Senate-s'I speak to YOU like a
father, mildly and calmly, IN the coolest man.
| ner possible. Arthur must CO."
Yellow fever has done the business for Mem
PMS and for Memphis creditors. Pestilence is
more deadly than war in that section.
The father of his country is to be duly re-
membered on the 22d of this month. Luckily
Lent doesn't begin until four days after.
There is superstition prevalent in York
shire, England, that mint will not grow in the
garden of house in which the husband is hen
pecked.
The Providence Press notes the alleged fact
that Little Rhody is the model State in fisher
les. Yes and in fish stories she won't he dis.
tanced.
Mr. Hoar, III seems, has signed the report in
! favor OF giving women the right to vote. We
| believe he was always in favor of :srespectfui
consideration
MacMahon ought to come to this country and
travel until 1856. By that time the movement
would be booming, and he might Jump right
into Grevy's shoes.
The Detroit Free Press SO far forgets itself as
to speak angrily of ''the red-headed thief of
tne Boston Courier" Such language is not ey-
idence Of ''culchaw.''
Ihe Baltimore Gazette wants Col. Susan B.
Anthony placed on the retired list. We had an
idea that Susan would run good many wears
yet without -tiring.
A man writes US that :.if that air critter
Kate Cobb, is guilty she ought to be suffocat-
ed.' We didn't suppose any man would suffer
Kate to die such a horrible death.
So it appears that Chief Joseph and his fol-
lowers are to be bloated bondholders. We
hope the government will not think it necess-
ary to repudiate its own bonds in order to be
consistent.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton has been de-
Hshted by the discovery that the State of In
diana exempts widows and spinsters possess
ing LOCO worth of property from taxation on
one-half that sum.
The centennial of Georgia Methodism will
DE celebrated in 1886. In 17S6 conference.
held in North Carolina, decided to send two
preachers to Georgia. This was the beginning
of Methodism in that State.
Inc ten ladies' who are county school SUPER
lntendents in Illinois have managed the finan.
clal part OF their business so we'll that not one
cent of the large sums over which they had
supervision has ever been lost
At Bay Side, N. j., number of oyster boats
are frozen In. Their crews hold prayer meet
lngs nearly every evening. Some of the OYSTER
men are elders and deacons, and they open the
services as we'll as they open oysters.
The English Church Union claims a MEM
bership Of l7,750, including ten bishops, $500
clergymen, the remainder being laymen.
Durlng the past ten years the union has spent
nearly 100000 in defensive litigation.
Miss Susan B. Anthony had hearing before
the Judiciary committee of the New York As
sembly last Wednesday evening, when she
urged the passage of a bill conferring the right
of suffrage upon the women of the State.
Postmaster-General Key says that a great
number OF women have been appointed to
small post offices in the past four years, that
they do the business in frst-class style. and
take more pride in it, in fact, than men.
There wasn't any yellow fever while Butler
was in New Orleans, anyway" said friend of
the general who had been hotly pressed in dis
cussing the merits of the man. ''True," said
his companion" he cleaned 'em out of every-
thing
Formerly it was the Ohio county treasurer
who did the defaulting for the State. That
line of industry having been pretty thoroughly
exhausted the Ohio sheriff is trying what he
can do in the way of embezzling the funds of
his office.
Miss Lee, the eldest daughter of the late Gen.
Robert E. Lee, is said to be an energetic
traveller. She was, not long ago, entertained
by Lord and Lady Napier, at Gibralter and a
few weeks before was within the Russian lines
in Turkey.
Rev. Alfred Newton, d. d., of Norfolk Ohio:
Rev. r. N. Brinsmade, D. d., of Newark. N. j.:
keV. Henry Smith, D. D., LII. D.. professor of
sacred rhetoric in Lane Theological Seminary:
and Rev. James Carnahan, one of the pioneer
of Indiana, are among the Presbyter
ian divines whose deaths were announced last
week.
Lewis P. Clover father of the Rev. Lewis P,
Glover, Of Milton, N. j., and of Judge Henry
Clove, IF st. Louis, No., died recently in
Brooklyn, N. Y. When this century was young,
be was the companion of actors and artists,
and he is credited with having induced William |
Dunlap to publish his History of the Ameri-
can Stage" sailor in our navy in the war of |
1872, he was captured, and between the prison |
ship Hector and the Dartmoor prison, England. |
be was in confinement three years.