Daily globe., 1879-01-23
GLOBELETS,

Caleb Gushing was never ON confidential
terms with anybody.
North Carolina papers are waging war on the
high salaries paid by the State
The iron trade for 1878 was prosperous; and
1879 holds even brighter promise.
Henry Vincent, the well known English lec-
! turer, died lately, at the age of 81.
The Spanish military authorities have re-
solved on the use of carrier-pigeons
There is no chance for an umbrella factory
IN Peru, South America. It never rains there.
Eugene Van Debogart has just died at Avoca,
Iowa, OF poisoning from type held in the
mouth.
| Prof. Billroth, of Vienna, has founded q So
ciety for the education of nurses for wounded
| soldiers.
Baba Kemsing Bymanji Jamasji Mounzon
| has been made champion of the order of the
Indian Empire.
Baltimore sold $14,O0O,OO worth of shoes
last year. That's why Baltimoreans are called
| old leather-heads.
ballet dancer in London earns Sc OF S8 per
week, while if she goes to the provinces she gets
as much $40 week.
France has put her foot down on commun-
ism. Four hundred leaders of the movement.
are in the laws clutches.
Cincinnati engineer has signed contract
with French capitalists to build railroad in.
Palestine from Jerusalem to Jaffa.
Virginia wedding had to be postponed be-
cause the bridal trousseau had been seized for
differentiation at the custom house.
American cranberry and blackberry bushes are
now shipped to Europe for transplanting as
| are also a number of varieties of hardy vines,
Tired of life; good bye, al,'' wrote Calvin
Bouch, of Waterloo, Ia, boy of fifteen, on a.
slip of paper, and went out and drowned him
self.
The sofa upon which the sixth President.
John Quincy Adams, died. is now the we'll
preserved property of gentleman in George
| town.
There are1n Georgia IS, $50 persons between
the ages Of 10 and 18 years who can neither
read nor write: while in 1874 there were
1856, ,244,
Henry Morrlssey, who fought on the Victory
at Trafalgar, saw Nelson fall, and subsequently
had his own leg broken by shot, has Just died
at Halifax, aged 81.
MIR. joaquin Miller has completed another
play, which he calls ''The Miners of '49.'' and
considers it the best thing in the dramatic line
he has yet produced.
Five hundred millions of oranges Florida
hopes to export this year, and in four years her
orange crop will, it IS estimated exceed in
value her cotton crop.
s: NJ. Willis, whose home was in Farming
county, Texas, has recently escaped from CAP
tlvlty Of four years in band of Comanche
Indians on the Texas border
The failures officially reported in the United
Kingdom last year were Is, ,O59 in number of
which 2,643 We're in the financial, wholesale
and manufacturing branches Of trade.
Dr. D. ). Mcbride, once famous throughout
the country as the 'sKing of Pain;' died of
consumption, in Chicago, recently, after ff-
teen months confinement to his room.
r. New York corresponds ent says Peter Coop
er's mother, who died at rs, perfectly remem-
bered when c1euaac de trise was erected at
Chambers street to keep off the Indians.
MIR. Beechers farm, at Peekskill, is said to
| be model OF perfection, and is fast becoming
an object of attraction. Strangers in Peekskill
are sure to II quire about it, and many visit
MIR. Justice Miller severely criticises the rule
OF law which makes courts spend weeks in find
| ing Juryman SO ignorant that he has never
heard or formed an opinion of case that has
attracted public intention
Having fined tavern-keeper for selling
liquor without a license, two magistrates near
| Toronto rya6 To
Come boys, let's have drink and led the
way to the identical tavern.
A man at Vandalia, ILL.,, has taken out a writ
to repleVln his arm, which is in the possession
OF the doctor who ampatated it. He desires to
introduce it in evidence in an action to recover
damages for alleged malpractice
The mayor Of Rockford, Ill, furnishes the
young men with pleasant and comfortable
resort where they can engage in chess, check
ers, cards and smaller amusements, free from,
temptation and evil associations
Cincinnati grocers advertise for sale in the
Sunday papers, under exasperating cartoons.
the bills of their delinquent customers, giving
the debtors name, occupation and residence,
and the amount of the little bill,
The army and navy civil service stores in
| 'AoooAi' eoleet dohuon. LOOK IN SiU,UUU a day
during the fortnight before Christmas. Among
the Items of sales were thirteen tons of turkeys
and poultry and eight tons of sausases.
Ihe purest soap. with glycerine and pure
water added, according to Professor Dewar's
lecture before the Royal Institution at London.
makes the best soap bubbles. He advises
children to get soap obtained from fluid fat.
The king Of Holland sent Dr. Bevnen TO
arolsen to give the queen-elect a three-months'
| course OF instruction in Dutch and Queen
Emma's father was so pleased at his daughters
! progress that he gave her preceptor a decors-
| tion.
lady SO years old was ou t coasting with
| her grand-daughters and the rest of the girls.
IN Burlington. Iowa, evening last week
She said she didn't used to do it in Old V;r-
gina when she was young, but it was grand
sport.
| Iexas ranks third among the wool-produci
States, having s,674,0 sheep, and SO treading
closely on the heels of Ohio. California leads.
OF course Nueces county, Texas, has more
sheep In its limits than any other county in the
Union-656 900.
Last year 5,s14 books were published in En-
gland, l,5S4 being new editions. Fiction leads.
with sly volumes; theology comes next, with
I39 volumes, and education third, with $50.
Nearly all the novels republished while
hardly third of the other books go to a sec
ond edition.
Two members of the Ontario legislature
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