Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-13
GLOBELETS.

GLObEL ELS.
Butler squints so much that his outlook ia
not very good.
One thousand hands are employed in an At
lanta cotton factory.
1t costs England 940.0CO per day to keep up
the Zulu festivities.
son of Luis Kossuth is the chief engineer
of one of Italys greatest railroads.
Ex-Governor Underwood, of Vermont, has
left the insane asylum, restored to mental
health.
1t is said that DR.. Holland and Lillian Duer.
the murderess, are collaborating on five-act
tragedy.
1t is proposed to convert Manchester, Eng
land, into seaport for the largest steamers, at
acost of $16,0OO,O00.
Cambridge and Boston are to figure in new
novel by Rev. Robert T. 8. Lowell, brother of
James Russell Lowell.
William Inman, the. founder, of the trans
atlantic steamship line that bears his name, is
now visiting this country.
The Denver Tribune publishes an editorial on
the vision of sim" The editor has probably
just returned from Chicago.
Pera has found way to protect her money
from being counterfeited. She has made it
worth less than the blank paper.
When you leave your umbrella at home it is
generally pretty sure to pour, and when you
bring it along same one steals it.
Cinnamon are flowing into San Francisco
more thickly than ever. 1t is to be hoped that
they won't flow any further East.
A memorial window is to be placed in Har-
ward college by the class of 1860, in memory of
their classmates who fell in the war.
Arthur Sullivan is too sick to work, so We
shan't have another Pinafore before we've had
time to recuperate from the recent fever
Shelly shot at Dougherty, at Rye Ind, and
hit a dog. Then. with like Workmanship
Dougherty shot at Shelly and hit horse.
The various Irish societies of Pittsburgh
will unite to-day in giving public reception
to Edward O'Meagher Condor, the Irish pa
triot.
President Grevy' is as fond of sport as Nc
Mahon, and intends to rent part of Hamhou-
illet forest. His daughter is his sporting COM
panion.
The ground known as the Custer field on the
Little Big Horn river, Montana Territory, is
announced as a national cemetery of the
fourth class.
Western paper says of the loss of vessel:
The captain swan ashore, SO did tho cham
bermaid; she was insured for $4,000, and
loaded with iron.'
In Maine the natives eat salt mutton. if
old Zach went up there to stump and got some
of it. it would take all the gin in the State
to keep him alive.
good general always stations brass bands
in the rear of his line and the music inspires
the men to fight like tends to force passage
in the opposite direction.
series of improvements have been begun
in the White Mountains by the Appalachian
Mountain club to bring dangerous places within
the reach IF tourists generally.
1t is the Waterloo Observer which rises to re-
mark, that three years without revolution
is breaking the faith of the Mexicans in re-
publican form Of government"
The girls base ball club Is making a lively
tour of New England. The spectators tease
them numerically, sometimes trip them up az
they run, and even seize and kiss them.
Women somehow get over childish notions
that men never outgrow. Some men celebrate
| every birthday as long as they live. while wo-
| men quit doing so almost as soon as they grow
| up.
Polish peasant woman at Mankowe, young,
| handsome, and with a fine voice, has established
a new sect and chosen twelve apostles to
preach abstinence from wine meat and mar
riage.
Gen. Walker, the census superintendent
says the returns of next year will certainly
show population of AZ, 600. O0O-the largest
increase being in the Western States and Ter
ritories.
Dennis Kearney is in luck. Charles S.
Davies, the person who assaulted the great
man of profanity, has been sentenced to one
| hundred days imprisonment in the San Fran
cisco Jail.
The man who pushed wheelbarrow across
the continent, was in the Indian country for
five months, and was not attacked by them
This proves the bitter hostility of the red man
for the white race.
The Southern Historical society are to hold
| special meeting at the Greenbrlar White Sui
phur Springs on the 18th inst. Gen. Chalmers
will deliver his address ON Forrest and His
Campaigns
A hole cut in the boot of an Iowa farmer
made it fit easier, but it also gave an oppor-
tunity to copperhead snake that he stepped
upon in his barn. He was bitten upon the ex-
posed spot and killed.
Gen. Mcleod, who recently died at Cleve-
land. was personal friend of Lord Byron, and
a mourner at the famous burial of Sir John
Moore. BE fought at Lundy's Lane in 1918,
and afterward at Waterloo
General Ben Butler appears to be short of
cash. Two pieces of property owned by him
in Lowell. opposite his residence, were sold by
the city treasurer the other day for non-pay-
ment of sidewalk assessment.
Some men have way of Disgusting their ac-
tons. They will come home from an all day
fishing tramp and have nothing about them to
indicate it except fishpole cane, which they
appear to be using for walking stick.
| part of the consumptive hospital at Bromp.
ton, London, is called the Nightingale Wing,
having been built from the proceeds of con.
cert by Jenny Lind. A new wing has Just been
added on the site of Tom Moore's old home.
OF the three greatest heiresses in England of
late years. Baroness Coutts is unmarried, and
the others-Vlscountess Holmesdale, beiress OF
the last Lord CORVALLIS, and the Hon. Mrs.
Lloyd-Lindsay, only child of Lord Overstone-
are childless.
The Palmcrautz mitrailleuse, or machine
gun, with which long series of experiment,
have recently been carried out in England with
very satisfactory results, has also been adopted