Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-21
GLOBELETs.

GLOBELETS.
Senator Zach Chandler has engaged rooms at
Newport.
Edward King, the brilliant letter writer, is
about to publish book of poems.
Hon. Edwards Pierrepont, late minister to
England, is visiting among his friends in Paris
Prof. Conkling goes home when all the other
places are shut. Prof Conkling needs domes-
ticating.
Senator Ben Hill of Georgia, is at present
too busy with law business to deliver political
speeches.
Manton Marble has just arrived in Paris with
lis bride. and Charles A. Dana is expected in
day or two
An Indian on the frontier is called "Bhort
Bull" 1t is believed that he has been specu-
lating in wheat
Pensacola has a snail that has abandoned its
shell and taken up it's abode in the broken Ter
of china doll.
The Memphis Appeal says that every block Of
the Nicolson pavement must be destroyed after
the fever is over.
Rev. James Spurgeon, brother of the great
spurgeon, is coming to this country for
couple of months.
Francis Murphy feels that there is work
enough for him to do so long as the present
snake stories prevail.
NJ. Vancourbeil, the new director of the Paris
Grand Opera, psonounces Madame Christine
Nilsson the first artist in the world
The success of the watermelon and sspos-
Lar NM. IN, fIn
| temporarily check the colored exodus.
The ex-khedive's mother has charge of his
harem. She is 70 years old and enjoys the rep
utation OF having been very beautiful.
The suicide OF plumber is reported from
Boston. 1t is doubtless one of the sad results
OF Prof. Tees prediction of mild winter
DR.. Henri d. Aquin. noted physician of
New Orleans has just died from the effects of
overwork in last years yellow fever epidemic.
The Rev. Dewitt Talmage moves that his
leave of absence be extended for another
month. Carried unanimously, and glad of it.
Colonel Wellesley, son of Lord Charles
Wellesley, has made social uproar in London
by slcping with an actress of that city, Miss
| Vaughan.
Professor Tyndall. who is spending the sum-
mer in Switzerland. says it has been most
dreary season. 1t has showed hard at intervals
| all summer.
young lady from Little Rock, while travel
ing through Logan county, Ark, was taken
sick, deserted by the inhabitants in panic,
and suffered to die.
A lady in Wilmington, N. c., won bet of
ten dollars by rolling in wheelbarrow her first
baby down town to her husbands store, dis
lance of four blocks.
John J. Wester6eld, veteran of the New
Orleans PRESS was found dead in his bed Satur-
day morning. He was "A years of age, and his
death resulted from heart disease.
The Cochrane (Ga.) Enterprise tells of a man
at that place who never had hair on his head,
nor tooth in his mouth. Nevertheless he has
a large family, of which he takes good care.
! An old Philadelphia plasterer writes to the
Memphis Auazanche that he knows one table
spoonful of ime-water, drank three times
day, to be sure preventive of yellow fever.
Bishop Haven is attracting considerable at
tention on the Pacific coast where he has gone
to attend to official duties. He will preside
over several conferences before his return in
October.
/ George Macdonald, whose dramatic repre-
sentatlon Of Bunyan's ''Pilgrim's Progress
has attracted much attention. has been preach
ing frequently of late, and in churches of many
denominations.
Mrs. Martha Rogers of Middletown, Connec-
ticut, who. gave bells to four of the churches
in the place and contributed twenty-five thou
sand dollars to religious objects, has just died,
aged seventy-six.
The Fredericksburg (Va.) Ne,ps claims that
the first American cremationist was Freder-
icksburger, Hon. John Dawson, who, in his
will, executed in 1874 directed that his body
should be burned.
Sara Bernhardt sat thirty-eight times for her
portrait by M. Lepage, which is SO highly COM
! mended by critics. The artist would begin the
; sitting at o'clock and continue until noon
The canvas is 12xl5 inches.
The Munich iron foundry has cast colossa
) equestrian statue of Prince Obrenowitsch t,
adorn the chief square of Belgrade The mon
ument is over twenty-five feet in height and
J weighs more than 1900 TONS The model was
by Pazzi, of Florence.
Jerusalem is becoming daily more and more
German, and that language is very generally
spoken there. The German settlers are both
Jew and Christian; and recently magazine,
/ to appear once in three months, has been
started, giving an account of all that is inter-
esting.
The Denison (Texas> Herald says that there
are rich fields of surface copper ore in Archer
county. Several parties have already hauled
WAGON loads of it To Whifosbor., .,,d SL....-
from which point it has been shipped to St.
Louis and sold at figures that will pay freight
and labor.
Sir John Steele, R. A., whose statue of Sir
Walter Scott adorns the Mall in Central Park
has almost completed his statue of Robert
Burns, which was ordered Of him by some pub
lie minded Scotchman of New York, and which
when completed will be set up in the Central
Park opposite the statue of 1.-The Wizard of the
NORTH
Professor j. T. Rothrock of the university
of Pennsylvania has with party of students
spent about three weeks on schooner oruis-
ing about the Chesapeake Bay and It's estuaries
in search of specimens for the ornithologicai
and geological departments of the university
and have numerous collection to bring hack
with them.
The Horace Greeley estate has had another
windfall. A lot of wild land in West Virginia
bought by MIR. Greeley for $4,000 lis now worth
900, that sum in cash having been offered
fl it and declined. The estate and the unex-
pected repayment of the loan to Cornelius
Vanderbilt Jr., will provide comfortably for
Mr.. Greeley's children.
i The American singer, whose. maiden name
was Miss Blanche Tucker, and who has lately
won quite genuine success on the stage. has