Daily globe., 1879-05-21
GLOBELETs.

promenade concerts.
Flinging cur off bridge cost Lockport,
Y, man 800 fine.
John Mccullough rode from Buffalo to Syra-
cuse in locomotive cab.
If young lady wants home of her own
she will not man. n.shun,
Lightning fused telephone wire at Water
bury o., the other night.
What the wild waves will be saying: &3a
day for cubb-hole room.
Manchester, Eng, ate large increase of
American mutton last year.
The Chinese merchants of Augusta, Ga, pay
taxes with rare promptness.
The return of the croquet season suggests
that this is a wicked world.
Warrenton, Ga. hen killed a hawk that
flew at her spring chickens.
Montgomery. N. Y, man sold his half of a
Nevada bonanza for $26O, O,OOO
Georgia grand jury indicted youth for
carrying a concealed corkscrew.
Michigan has had to get along this spring
with one poor little thunder storm.
A hunting xpedition-hunting for straw
berries in hotel-made short-cake.
A stone ak, possibly 1900 years old, has been
found mislaid under Nerwalk, Conn.
indianapolis workmen cleaning out a cellar
found bag of spurious Mexican coin.
Boston girls take their knitting work to
mornin. lectures. It's crotchet they have.
The State of Georgia proposes to support
public schools by taxing beer, whisky and dogs.
Ezekiel Hayes, great grandfather of the Pres
ident, was a successful mechanic in Connect
icut.
Four-of-a-Kind is an Indian chief An Indian
always takes the name of something he ad-
mires.
There is rumor that Queen Victoria may
visit the Dominion of Canada during the COM
ing season.
Now that paper called the Eye-O Opener has
been started, we may expect another called the
Night-Cap.
Mr.. Dwyer, the hard hitter and successful
| prize-fghter, denies that he was trained by De-
Witt Talmage.
The Canadian government has offered $4,000
for ten years. on certain conditions, to the first
sugar factory.
What will become of Carl Schurz and several
thousand Indian agents if Judge Dundy's de-
cision is not vetoed?
Somebody says Cetewayo's pride is broken.
Has some disgusting coachman been running
away with his daughter?
The cotton mills at Wilkinsonville, Mass,
have been compelled to stop some of their
looms for want of help.
Detroit doctor says that people who pack
off on excursions run more risk of death and
disease than soldier in the army.
The President has signed the bill authoriz-
ing the secretary of the navy to enlist annual
ly $50 boys, and for other purposes.
By and by somebody will learn that cars
loaded with nitro -glycerine can't be banged
about like canal boats loaded with salt.
The price of kiss feloniously abstracted
from married woman in Franklin, Indiana
has advanced to $40; children half peice.
This country has now ffty-two Senators who
are practicing lawyers, six who merch ants,
twelve who are farmers and six ex-editors.
The Chinese initiative race Here is
Moy Jln-Kee, of New York, who becomes COR
verted to Christianity, and then takes to steal
ing.
"Corneer' Vanderbilt has started for Europe.
'Corneel," who is trying to pay his debts, is,
we suppose, in search of the rest of his ored-
itors.
One of the South Carolina emigrants to Lii
IBERIA has retured. He says nearly one-half of
, those who went out are dead, and the rest are
/ anxious to get back.
Georgia comes into the market with the first
,, new -four. barrel of it was received in New
York last Tuesday. The wheat was cut on
May I'd and tbreshed the day after.
The Afghanistan war is over, and the vice.
4 roy of India may resume his airtations with
the pretty female circus rider, the interruption
? of which was the saddest feature Of the entire
war.
The Adventists have fixed July IL as posi-
lively the last appearance of the world. This
really will put us very much about as We had
: planned a little fishing excursion about that
time.
Q Many of the Massachusetts woolen manu-
r facturers have contracted for large amount Of
goods months ahead. The Middlesex, Wash
ington and Manchester mills are working up 10
their full capacity.
Although not in Congress- General B. F. But
ler intends to spend his winters in Washington
n He will occupy his mansion on Capitol hill
which has been rented for some years to Sena
- tor Jones, of Nevada.
In the race for the 1000 guineas at Newman
1s ket, in which Uncas was engaged, hare was
started, and instead of making for the heath
10 got in among the running horses and raced
III with them for a good squirt.
Brazil sells about three-fourths of her coffe,
g. crop, or, in 1877 1,SOOO 900 bags, to the Unitee
~ States, for which we pay chiefly in gold, tn
gold balance paid in 1877 for Brazilian pro
y ducts amounting to $45, 10000 600.
In North Worcestershire, England, snow fel
al on May l, and the Client hills were covered will
ne the fall Vegetation is very backward, owinl
lit to the continuance of cold weather, and tn,
season is several weeks behind the average.
as Homestead entries at the rate of twenty-fv,
e, day are now made at Prairie City land Office
n on the Little Saskatchewan, on the Canadia
o Northwestern railway. The settlers nearl
all farmers from the eastern provinces, ant
oU express themselves we'll pleased with tn
country.
ia The writer of letter in the London Time
points ont that an ounce of bread wasted dali,
al in each household in England and Wales mean
,;a about 25, ,000, 900 quartern loaves the produc
or of sc, 600 acres of wheat in a year; while Al
tn ounce a week of meat wasted amounts to som
lis 800 1000 sheep.
Elias Hampton was 80 particular in buyings
le, revolver in . Buffalo store that the clerk il
e quired for what purpose he wanted it, Il ar
ut going to shoot my father-in-law and brothe,
~ ~ in-law,' he replied. The clerk thought he ",
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