Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-06
GLOBELETA.

Jim Fisk's widow lives at South Deerield.
Mass.
Jay Gould is said to be worth SOS 600. Oo0
and more coming.
Postal cards, now almost universal, started
in Austria in 1866.
There were over 600 carriages At tho funeral
OF the Countess de Montijo.
Gen. and Mrs. Grant are to spend Christmas.
with Gen. Beale and his wife in Washington.
Nearly all the leading liberals excent Glad.
stone have been visiting Lord Derby At KNOWN
ley. s,5 -s s.. ,... .-.
The Leadville Chronicle says that most Of
those most prominent IN business tbero ars
Jews. 49, ;EF X sEasss..-z s..s... ~5
A new professor Of Greek, to take the place
OF the late Professor j. O. Proctor, will be ap-
pointed at Dartmouth college at the beginning
of the next term .-......-s z-...
A terrarcotta cylinder of Cyrus has reached
England. 1t describes his genealoay and en-
trance into Babylon.
The king of the Sandwich islands ha. a
daughter named Victoria awekiu-Kaiula
Lunalilo-K Observation-Disclosures and yet she ia
only four years old. --.-
A vessel from Victoria, the chief seaport of
British Columbia, lately carried to London 10, .
0O0 cases of canned salmon. sas:.
Sergeant Alexander Salmond, Sevepty.second
Highlanders, who was the best shot in the Brit
ish army for the year l877-7S has been award
ed f20 and q silver medal.
One of the most curious of the inconsistent
cies of Wall street is that when the rates for
money went down stocks also went down.
Fowler Brothers contemplate the erection Of
mammoth packing-house at Kansas Oitv.
with killing capacity of 1900 hogs and 1000
beeves per day. -
| The town of Bodie contains 1000 inhabi
tants, living in about 1000 houses. The ma.
jority Of the inhabitants consist of Irish and
Cornish miners. g-e ....
Mrs Newton. the widow of Gilbert Stuart
Newton, the painter. is resident of New York
city. She is lady of venerable age, for New
ton died in 1882. s5--.--. -
Henry Lava Selwyn, a full FLOODED Sioux
Indian, and son of leading chief of the
Yankton tribe, has been ordained pastor Of the
church at Yankton.
Frascuelo, the darling of Spain, reported
killed by a bull, was we'll enough on the 9Th
inst. to sit in box, with his arm in sling.
and see bull killed.
The monument to be erected to the late Gen.
eral Cotton of California, is to cost SAG, Oo0
and is to be a small chapel in marble and gran
lite, exquisitely carved.
To saw and split wood carry water, coal. and
wood, plough, harrow, and thresh, and in cities
sweep the streets, are, says the Berlin Taguacht.
among the avocations of a German woman.
E1-secretary Gorham, of the United States
Senate, will hereafter send from Washington
to the San Francisco Chronicle telegraphic dis
patches, for which he will reeive $1,000 wear.
Tho new Pullman palace cars are very luxu-
rious, costing each $4,000. Ordinary pas
senger cars cost $4,000; drawing-room cars.
$4,000; mail and baggage cars, s., 000 box cars.
$500. -.-ss
DIR. Glenn, the California wheat-grower, is
said to have had $4,000 acres of wheat this
year; his crop was 500: 600 bushels. For work.
ing his enormous rancho he has 400 double
teams.
Belgians are still protesting against the
| cases the municipal authorities have taken up
the question and gone to law against the con-
| vents with success.
The distance between Paris and Marseilles in
| 600 miles, which, by an improvement in the
| TIMETABLE. is run in fifteen hours, at speed
| of forty miles an hour. This is the quickest
| time on any French railway.
Fifty years ago only one citizen of New York
city. John Jacsb Astor, was worth more than
81, 900, 900. Now it is asserted that there are
| over 500 men in the metropolis whose wealth Il
estimated at 81, 00o, 600 and over.
Mrs. W. Bright Morris, granddaughter of
Leigh Hunt, died on the 30th ult. at Highgate,
at the early age of twenty-five years. MIS-
Morris WAS q writesof promise, and had COLI
| tributed stories to the magaziness.
At St. Louis. after January next. all gras.
! seeds in seamless cotton sacks will be sold
with an extra.charEe for the sacks, which has
| not been tho past custom there. The new
method conforms to usages elsewhere.
The Indianapolis Journal says: 1.-THE week
just closed has been one of the busiest ever
known among the pork-packing houses of this
city, the number of hogs killed since cool
weather probably nggregating $500 per day
/ Mrs. Lincoln writes that she expects to b q
at Washington tho coming winter, but it ia
stated that her son Robert, now in Chicago.
| will not permit it on account of the shock it
would be to her mental health, which is stIl
none of the strongest. .e.elr
According to the Providence Journal Boston
| now has its own Worth in the person of Mr..
Parcher, formerly clerk in dry goods house.
During . visit to Paris he became acquainted
with the great man milliner. who suggested
that he would do wisely to start similar trade
| in Boston.
Prince Bismarck gets low and says that not
! all his great doings have made himself and 9TH
ers any the happier; and Sarah, duchess Of
Marlborough, who is goreed with gold and
weighted down with honors, recently wrote of
herself to Lady Mary Wortley Montague as q
most miserable being. m.
Denis Kearney threatened to break up
meeting in San Francisco if he had to wade
knee deep in blood to do it; but when arrested
by very small policeman for disorderly con-
duct, he submitted with lamb-like meekness,
and would not permit his followers to raise a
finger in his behalf.
Tho San Francisco Courier says that $4,000
acres in that State are under grapes. great
deal of California wine is mixed with French
vim ordinaire and sold as French wine in New
York. It is said to be perfectly wholesome,
palatable and cheap, being sold at second-class
French restaurants ut Is cents per pint.
It is now proposed in Paris to substitute for
the dispatch of letters miniature railroads, With
trains run by erectricity, in place of pneumat.
| - tuho. Satisfactory eYnerinnenfs h.v. ho.,,