Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-27
GLOBELErs.

GLOBELErs.
Texas youth, aged 49, has married his
mothers aunt, aged So.
An Iowa City bootblock took in S1.75 the
other day at five cents shine.
Justice Miller, of the supreme court, was
once physician in Kentucky.
Victor Hugo is said to hold that only himself
and one lady speak French correctly.
A st. Louis undertaken advertises that he has
the "most comfortable hearse in the country.
The census it is said, embraces seventy
million women. Who wouldn't be seen
sus?"
Mr.. Potter Palmer says that Chicago is pay
ing off many of the mortgages held in the
East
&. A. Philips, an American residing in st.
Thomas. W. l., has been appointed Venezuelan
consul at New York.
The fourth centenary Of the creation of the
University Of Copenhagen is to be celebrated
during the month of May.
For President, Agnes D. jerks of New Or
leans. For Vice-President Mary Oliver Of
Washln ton Close up the ranks!
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts has inherited
nearly Etc., 1000 from her companion for many
years. the late Mrs Hannah Brown
joaquin Miller's former wife writes to him
saying that their daughter, Maud, has gone
from necessity upon the ballet stage.
1t is believed by tbs Syracuse Herald that if
Anna Dickinson would get somebody to steal
her diamonds she might succeed better.
Major Butler, the author of 1.-The Great Lone
Land and "Akimfoo or the History Of Fail
ure, has gone to Zululand on the staff
A tramp offers to bet the beer that he can
take 3,100 drinks in 800 consecutive quarter
hours-the other man to furnish the drinks.
1t is claimed that Senator Chaffee is about
disposing of his Leadville (Colorado) mining
property to the bonanza firm for $5,O0O.OOO.
London boy wanted to play soldier with
the servant girl. He thought the pistol
wouldn't go off, but it did and killed the girl.
Wives are wanted out West-that is women
who want to be wives can find husbands
where the sun eliminates the occidental hori-
zon.
Prince Louis Napoleon, they say in London.
having had his ''baptism of fire" at Saarbruck,
is about to seek his confirmation in blood'' i'm
Zululand.
M. Henry Wyzinski, an able writer for the
Paris Journal DIES Debats, recently drowned
himself in the Seine while under the influence
of melancholia.
NJ. Coggia is said to have discovered new
planet Of twelfth magnitude at Marseilles.
How 1t happened to get loose at Marseilles We
are not informed.
The shah of Persia has written another
book. He has notified the reviewers that adj
verse criticisms will subject the writer's t.,
imprisonment for life.
The Marquis of Lornes brother, Lord Walter
Campbell, will, it is said contest Buteshire in
the liberal interest against the conservative
member, Mr.. Dalrymple
The private secretary of the ex-senator
Christiancy, minister to Peru, is his son, bow
OF Is. The secretary" receives no compensa-
ton from the government.
Capt. Bassett, who was placed on the roll of
the Senate page at the request of Danies
Webster, and who has seen nearly forty wears
of service, is to be retained.
girl II years of age is in prison at Cahors.
France, awaiting trial for burning her little
2-year old brotF;r alive. because sit annoyed
her to be obliged to nurse him.
Mrs. Mary Oliver, of the treasury department.,
Washington, is continually being mistaken for
Widow Oliver" and this has so preyed on her
mind that her hair is turning gray
London art publisher, who paid e16, 900
for the copyright Of Frith's great painting,
1.-The Railway Station" has prosecuted a
Brighton man for photographing it.
Among the various species of oranges now
raised in Florida is the small, thia-skinned,
delicious manderine, from the island Of Malta,
SO highly priced on European tables.
| That story about John E. Skinner, a New
Haven printer, having s75O,OOO left him by
West Indian, in remem brance of kindness
shown the latter long ago, was hoax.
At Freemasons' hall, in London on the 9TH
instant, Liuetenant-Co Colonel Creation was elect
ed grand treasurer by very large majority
| over the Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild.
The Countess of Hohenau, morganatic wife
of Prince Albert of Prussia, died at Dres-
den on the 9th of March. Prince Albert is
J
An Albany man being charged with the muir
der of resident of Bellefontaine, Ohio, writes
to the Elmira Gazette that he has been ''too
busy to go to Bellefontaine to kill a man.
Chicago man in the first stages of insanity
killed his roommate for making faces in his
sleep. He annoyed me terribly" the homi-
eide explained, land I couldn't stand it any
longer
The biography of Gen. B. F. Butler is
adorned by fine portrait of the doughty war
rior. Judging from appearances we should say
| the picture was taken on the day after the last
| State election.
| young Lowell woman, formerly school
| teacher, and of highly respectable family
| forged her fathers name to check in order to
get money to crafty her inordinate love of
fashionable clothes.
New Orleans newspaper men are all out on a.
hunt for M. Rcnard, the French communist.
who is said to be a refugee in that city. Re-
nard is the man who has just been awarded
the grand prize for poetry by the French acad-
envy.
No frst-class reporter will ever forget to
add, at the end of an unsuccessful burglary
item, that the fellows overlooked box con-
tanning one Thousand dollars in cash. This
always makes the burglars mad enough to
shoot themselves.
| Ex-Governor Burchard, of Honduras, in a
public lecture, says that the Catholic clergy of
that country charge SO much for marriage fees
that marriage is greatly prevented and vice is
encouraged. And he says that the same is true
| A
London Truth expresses its suspicion that