Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-03
GLOBELETs.

ueer OF the Laps this summer, and nearly all
the young ones
Miss Wheat, down in Indiana, was thrashed
tne other day by lover whose Wheat heart she
had ceased to be-
The citadel of Quebec is at once to be sun-
piled with Armstrong breech-loadina rifles Of
the largest calibre.
a woman IN Brockton Mass, purchased a lack
knife as Christmas present for her bow. who
is seven months old.
Cincinnati has raised $15O,OOO for per
manent exposition building. Louisville has
had one for six years that cost about that sum.
The latest matter of dispute between the
ST. Louis and Chicago papers is which city
affords the better market for the sale of pecan
nuts.
Bridgeport, Conn.,, has produced five sisters
whose total weight is $50 pounds. The city
forblds them to cross any of its bridges faster
than walk
The palace of the Khedive of Egypt was par
TALLY destroyed by fire on a recent SATURDAY.
night. The Khedive saved the baked beans at
great personal risk.
A young girl In Baltimore has been wearing
IVY SAcCA1uS duu mdhlug love Co her girl
friends. and has lately shot one of them for re-
jecting her attentions.
Several mill girls in Birmingham, Conn.
were made very i'll Thursday by eating ssmotto
lozengers." physician pronounced it a case
OF arsenical poisoning.
Scarlet fever has for more than month mast
been gaining such foothold in New York that
1t has become epidemic. All classes of families
are equally affected by it.
A case originally involving $50, but which
has swallowed up the estates of both litigants,
besides costing the country large sum, has
been settled ''amicably" at Bath, Me.
According to Continental newspaper. occu-
patton Is when you take possession of some
thing without asking the proprietor's leave,
and annexation is continuing not to ask it.
So much black silk has been ordered by deal
ers in England for the mourning for the late
Princess Alice that appreciable improve
ment in the trade In the south of France is
felt.
The Little Rock Gazette says that one railway
has spent over $4,000 within the past three
years to promote immigration into Arkansas
and that it is just beginning to reap the fruit
of its labors.
lady in Dumfresshire, Scotland, went into
the kitchen, when the boiler in the range ex-
ploded, lnJurlng her seriously. This would be
be lesson to mistresses if at the same time
the cook hadn't been killed.
Solitaire diamonds are still in high favor for
engagement rings. That's what makes an old
married man smile often and SO pityingly
as he gazes at the young men who come to take
his seven daughters to the sociable.
Louis Blanc is quoted by Mr. Yates as saving
that the coming federation of the world" in
the universal republic, two languages alone
would remaln-French, as the language of lit
erature; and English, as the language of COM
merce.
Prot Torini is experimenting the erection
OF funeral pyre on a site belonging to the
Cremation society, near London. The pyre is
on the system which has been approved in nu-
merous cremations at Milan and other places
in Italy.
French Canadian M. P. elect has published
letter in which he says that he believes his
earthly career is about drawing to a close asks
forgiveness from those he has unintentionally
"ronged IN any manner and forgives all his
enemies.
On recent trip the steamship City of Sgd
ney made the fastest steaming time on record
between Sydney and San Francisco. She was
just 62o hours en- route. including stoppages,
and landed the mails two and a half DAYS
ahead of time.
At midnight, in his downy bed, John Turk,
OF Iowa, was dreaming of how he had locked
MS TWO daughters IN a room up stairs. At the
same hour they lowered themselves to the
ground, eloped with their lovers, and were next
heard of in Chicago.
school teacher in Pulaski, XIV. declined to
treat the children at Christmas, when the lit
tle-or, to speak more accurately, the big ones
tied him hand and foot, carried him to a
pond, and gave him five minutes to decide
whether to treat or drown
rude, black marble slab, with the simple
words, Queen Catharine,'' on a small brass
plate, is all that marks in Peterborough Ca
thedral the resting place of Catherine of Ar
ragon A subscription is being raised in Eng
land to erect monument
An American egg preserving company has
been established at Shanghai for some time.
The object is to preserve eggs in such manner
that they will be useful for cooking at anv
time and in any climate The business is en-
tirely export chiefly to England.
Muskrat farming is rural industry in Iowa.
good pond or marsh well stocked is said to
yield profitable return after two wears, the
trapping being done in winter, when there is
plenty of leisure, and affording much amuse-
ment to the younger members of the family.
Ihe New York Times complains that none of
the Astors, REinelanders, Goelets, Lorillards.
Schermerhorns or Lenoxes, and other million
aires OF the metropolis, who represent the real
estate aggregating not less than $3.50, .OOO
take any concern whatever in municipal af
fairs
Two strange visitors are expected in Paris in
lew days-Mlle. Vera Sassoulitch and Gen.
Irepoff, who is recovering from the revolver
OF the fair Nihllist. The general is engaged IN
studying the question of Socialism, with the
assistance Of the French and German police
authorities.
Boston fireman put on a substitute Christ
mas night, and promised him 81 for every cal,
he answered. The substitute got in his work
by giving three false alarms during the niobt
and thought he had made a good thing of =
But the trick was discovered and he was fined
300 and costs.
A deputy sheriff at Richmond, KY, being
unable to collect taxes from a resident, got a
thlrd party to admire the residents false
.eeSh and ask to be shown them, then darting
seized them. After living on soup for
a lew Gays the resident paid his taxes and re-
deemed his property.
me- James A. Whistler, the London artist, is
a son Of G. w. Whistler, once an engineer con-