Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-25
GLoBELEys.

paper.
The tart left alone with the small boy is a
lost tart
Miss Ada Cavendish has gone to Bermuda
for her health
Many persons fearing the return of the fever
are quitting Memphis.
Budd Doble, the horseman, and wife are So
journing in Atlanta, GA.
Almost the only purchasers of South African
diamonds are Americans.
In Scotland John B. Cough will 20 no fur
Their north than Aberdeen
Fights between white and colored lads are
frequent in Wilmington.
A convinct in Georgia penitentiary has died
of swallowing tobacco juice.
A French count once said, mo fruit ripens
in England but a baked apple"
A meteor lasting fifteen seconds has trailed
across the Hamburg, Pa, zenith
Gen. Rosencrans is not i'll as reported, but is
in San Francisco in perfect health.
Among the Northerners now at jackson Vile,
Fla, is the wife Of inventor Edison.
A Kentucky paper has at the head Of it's col.
umns-'For 1880, Pork, and Beans.''
Herbert Spencer and Wilkie Collins are both
recovering from severe attacks of illness.
Senator Jones has given up his lease of Gen
eral Buffers corner house at Washington.
The revenue Of the English postoffce from
Christmas cards was last year some 100000
Seventy tons of chewing gum were required
to keep American jaws moving during the
year.
Question for debate: How old must widow
like Ben Butler become before she requires pro-
lection?
Hon. David Clopton, of Montgomery, speaker
OF the house of representatives of Alabama, is
visiting in Boston.
DR.. Loring, who made flying trip to Florida
between sessions, returned to Washington much
improved in health.
The Empress of Austria is called "the I'm
perial Diana by the Irish people with whom
| she goes fox-hunting
John NJ. Morton, who has Just been nomi-
mated for consul at Honolulu, is son of the
late Indiana Senator
Prague, Austria, chemist has invented
mirror which reveals the contents of wine casks
without removing the heads.
The Rev. Edward Eggleston, the novel-writing
minister, is said to be the best-Sunday school
superintendent in Brooklyn
A man in Toledo ls now under arrest, charged
with being the husband of seven wives-a sort
of latter day saint, as it were.
On the last day of Carnival at Rome no news
papers were published, journalists and printers
having voted to take a holiday.
st. PauIs Cathedral, London, is to be sur
rounded with ornamental grounds instead OF
the great paved court around it now.
Mrs. Gen. Gordon Granger, who was married
to Capt. Blair, the alleged bigamist, has re-
turned to her old home at Lancaster, KY.
Miss Fanny, daughter of the late John G.
Breckenridge, has lately married John A. Steele,
of Woodford county, KY, ''a widower not over
pretty"
Sherman (Texas) grave-digger buried man
named Button, and brought in the following
bill to his widow: To making one Button
hole, S."
King Alphonso of Spain is not, according to
the late London dispatches, betrothed Prira-
cess Marie, aged IA, but such an event is not
improbable.
Daniel Pratt has coalesced with Kearney. He
says: "We can't have Confucius coming here
with all his superstitions." Let the Chinese
take warning and git
Mr.. Justice Hunt, of the United States SUI
preme court, who was stricken with paralysis
early in January, as was reported at the time,
| shows remarkable improvement.
| Among the various species of oranges now
| raised in Florida is the small, thin-skinned,
| delicate mandorino, from the Island of Malta.
SO highly priced on European tables. .,
James Freeman Clark says that Byron, in
| two qualities, surpasses every English poet but
the ''myriad-minded Shakespeare''-in poetic
| imagination and in lordship of language.
According to census just taken, the city of
Genoa has $4,000 inha bitants, Indicating
slow, but steady, annual increase in the popu-
lation since the beginning of the present CEN
fury.
Mrs. Nellie Grant-Sartoris is living very
quietly in England. She hopes next summer
| to persuade her father-in-law to bring his wife
| to this country to see her sister, Fanny Kemble
Butler, who lives in Western Massachusetts,.
New Orleans newspaper men are all out on a
hunt for NJ. Renard, the French communist,
who is said to be r:fugee in that city. Rem
ard is the man who has just been awarded the
grand prize for poetry by the French Acad-
envy.
A letter in the Salem (Mass.) Observer from
Prof. Farrar, of the Torpedo Station at New.
port, R. l., shows that as early as 1850 he had
succeeded in dividing the electric current
and lighting his house successfully by cleo
tricity.
All the papers are trying to account for the
Lehlgh valley sulphur shower. The Louisville
Courier-Journal strikes out in this way: THE
widow Oliver opened on old Simon Cameron
yesterday. No wonder it rained sulphur in
Pennsylvania.
President McCosh declares that he does not
approve the English university system of or
ganizing small classes, each man pursuing
special subject. He holds that it is wrong for
a student to make speciality of any one sub.
ject before he has had thorough education.
che lawyers who defended the Louisiana re-
turning board in the prosecutions for chang
ing the vote of Vernon parish have sued Wells
and Anderson and the other members for their
fees, amounting to $4,000. 1t will now be
good time to let loose of the facts n the
case.
The English and American cOonists in Rome
have been putting stone with an inscription
upon the house in which Keats died 1t was
unveiled the other day with speeches by Sir
Augustus Paget and the Rev. DR.. Nevin, and
the solemn ceremonies as we read, were closed
with three cheers