Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-01
GLOBELETS,

Dlonoln, now Do years OF age, gave . perfor
nance at Vienna recently
Havana has suffered less from yellow fever
than Memphis this season.
Eneaand is brought to face tho prospective
loss OF her hook and eye trade.
A Hollidaysburg man deserted his wife be-
cause she gave birth to twins.
Not single fatal case of trichinosis ba,
ever been reported in England.
karoli, tanner of animals, has been choked by
performing snake at Madrid.
Some landlords in Ireland are increasin. in
stead OF decreasing their rents
Senator Platt, of Connecticut, is prscticipe
Law during the Congressional interval.
The English penny postage stamp is to be
changed. 1t has been used for forty years.
Two pretty American girls have been driven
rom Hamburg by the ATTENTIONS of loafer.
A Cleveland boy of seventeen years is six
feet nine and a quarter inches high in his
stockings. s.
The New Zealand government has decided tn
puta stop to all assisted emigration, except for
single women.
Queen Victoria doesn't approve of HANGED
hair or high-heeled shoes, and neither doe.
Jane Grey swisshelm.
In the past year there were sixty-eipht sui
cides in the ranks of the Italian army, said to
have been caused by ennu; from military life.
Western editor says that water has tasted
strong of sinners ever since the deluge. aud
that's the reason why he takes whisky in
his'n. Il 10
Mr.. Charles M. Carroll has been appointed
professor of music in Lafayette college, the
study of music having recently been added to
the curriculum.
Maggie Marley is the name of young woman
eighteen years of age. who with two accom-
plices, is under arrest in Johnstown, Pa, for
series of burglaries.
The house in which Milton vas horn WA
burned in the great London tire of 1866 but its
exact counterpart was built on the site, and is
occupied as a lace factory.
Mrs. Mary Gerhart died recently in Decatur
township, Centre county, at the age of 80 years.
She partook of nothing but wine and water for
forty days preceding her death.
In Rowelrs 1929 mile he was ACCOMPANIED
around the course by a tall young gentleman
in long ulster and high stovepips. he was
the brother of the Duke of Beaufort.
A packet containing $27, 1000 was stolen from
the French ministry of finance by = stranger
who entered the inner Office of the chief cash
Ter in his absence and asked to see him.
Miss Jennie Gear, who has been teaching
school in Altoona, is about to 20 to Japan as
missionary. Her destination is Nagasaki.
where there is already missionary station.
One hundred acres of wheat. cut with 3
reaper, keeping six binders going was the work
of Scotch lassie of Lexington, Ind. She used
three pairs of horses in relays, but tired them
all out. .--.........0
The canal between the Caspian and the Sea
OF Azoft, survey of which is being made for
Russia, is estimated to cost s2O, 900 900. Two
rivers and chain of lakes would facilitate the
work.
The Emperor Alexander is described a. look
ing so much aged that at his recent meeting
with his imperial uncle he looked almost the
elder. His figure. however, is still powerful
and fairly erect.
Pedestrianism in Berlin took this form.
young man made a bet that he would run on
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lance of two or three miles, and won in q heavy
rain, in two hours.
Elder Alpheus Peters, of Mainsburg, Pa, is
70 years old, and has been totally blind tor
over SIX years. The other day he suddenly
discovered that he could see. Since then his
sight has gradually strengthened.
When the old gentleman comes home and
fnds his daughters have got his slippers and
the easy chair and the evening papers ready
for him, he realizes that it is the season for a
fall opening of his pocket book.
When Emperor William of Germany was .
young man hA INDUCED in habit of sleeping
all booted and spurred, On cannon, to exhibi,
| his fondness for military life; in his W hoe ,e-
| reer he has always worn uniform and sword.
In Honolulu, John Chinaman, who is wicked,
| has built theatre, which, after a series of
performances, he intends to turn into JOSS
| house, There are in Honolulu other Cinnamon
who are Christians, and they are building a
church.
A cable dispatch from New leland announc-
es the death there of John Holmes, ex-mem-
Der of Parliament for Carleton county, Ont. Mr..
Holmes recently came into possession of prop
erty valued at s2,O00,00O, left him by his
brother.
There have been in Rome four Engishmen
| who are making tour of the world for a most
| important purpose. They have run over France,
Germany, Russia, Sweden, Norway, America,
Turkey, Egypt, China, and Japan. They are
collecting butterflies.
At funeral at Delhi, N. Y, all the mourn
ers were dressed in white, in obedience to the
request of the dead man. He had abhorred
black, as being expensive and significant of
anything but happy ending of this life, a.
well as lost hopes for the future.
1t seems that it was to the Canadian premier,
Sir John Macdonald, who had been staying
| with him at Hughenden Manor, that Lord
Beoconsfeld was indebted for the information
that our Western farmers were preparing to
abandon their homes and settle in the wilder
ness of Canada.
Siamese embassy is in London to open up
| new line of connection between India and
China which will shorten the voyage by 800,
| and, it is hoped, increase the commerce. The
digging of a canal to connect the two rivers
which traverse tue Malayan peninsula is their
! special object.
1t was proposed in Paris to raise by public
| subscription the funds with which to erect
monument to "Cham," the famous caricatur.
| list, but his widow, the Countess de Noe, has
written letter thanking thse who lead in the
movement, but requesting that the subscrip-
ton be stopped.
Of late wild beasts have appeared in unusual
| numbers in Russia. In one month ten bears