Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-09
GLOBELETS.

GLOBELETs.
Edwin Smith, of Fairfield, Mich, has at
beard seven feet six inches long.
Senator Bayard's second daughter, Miss
Mabel, will soon be married, it is said.
Speaker Randall is down in the bills to take
the stump in California soon as Congress
adjourns.
No Boston man can claim to have reached
street-car named for him.
Ihe Philadelphia police would not permit
competitive exhibition of sheep-slaughtering
on the stage of variety theater.
paper reckless of it's reputation for truth
oololy asserts that there is a town in Texas
winch boasts of a temperance society
Inere are now only two vacancies in the
frencn chamber, which consists of 1856 repub-
ncans' % bonapartists, and GO monarchists.
Old satan's Visit to Brooklyn is thea title
OF poem recently published by the Brooklyn
Ea9Ie He must have wanted day of rest.
monthly periodical entitled La Lum;.re
EteetriQue has appeared in Paris devoted as ita
name implies to the interests of lighting by
electricity.
Bishop Raess, of Strasburg, who is now at
Rome has just completed work of fifteen
volumes on all the conversions from Protest.
antism to Romanism.
James Gordon Bennett has broken up his
hunting establishment at Melton Mowbray, and
sold his twenty-five hunters. Next winter he
is going to India to hunt tigers.
Gen. De Fligely, director of the military
geographical department, has just died at Vien-
ma. He was considered as one of the most
learned officers in the Austian army.
Alexander Maclagan, Scottish poet whose
most familiar production is the song, '.Dinna
ye hear Il? relating to the relief of Lucknow,
died recently at Edinburgh at the age of 81.
According to the European papers King Al
fonso is to marry dozen different women. and
the Chicago Tribune says it would not be sur
| prised it he should settle at last on Widow
Oliver.
Mark Twain, who is staying in Paris, engag-
ed on new book, attended club dinner at
the Continental hotel and took three-auarters
of an hour to give his reasons for not being
able to say anything.
The Mikado of Japan is sensible man. He
recently gave dinner to his ministers, at
| which he made speech censuring their ex-
travagance and luxury. He has reduced his
own household expenses.
The total number of men that will be called
out this year to do military service in France ia
796, l4O, thus distributed over the three branch
es of the service: The active army, 479. 100:
reserve, l4457O; territorial army, $4,000
No one in st. Petersburg is allowed to be out
after o'clock at night, and as shortly before
that hour the old man hears the door slam be-
hind his daughters lover. and considers the
saving in the gas he hopes the Nihilis is will
keep the racket going
The Pope's brother, Monsiguor Thomas Pecci,
is to be created cardinal at the consistory
after Easter. He is distinguished for his mas
terry OF st. Thomas Aquinas, whose doctrines
the Pope, in an impending encyclical, will urge
: the bishops to disseminate
s The H'unAJurter Zeitueg is again to be pros
ecuted for insulting Prince Bismarck. This
4 time its oftense consists in having published a
y shorthand report of the last trial, in which,
: along with the address of the prosecutor fig
ured the speeches for the defense.
Baron Albert Grant has squared matters with
;, his creditors by agreement to devote one
\ tenth of his future earnings to the payment of
!, their claims. The proceedings in bankruptcy
s have been dropped, and the estate is to be
settled by liquidation of the voluntary SORT
It Tells chapel by the Lake of Luce1ne has
> been demolished, the frescoes having been re-
moved with tolerable success, and the new
+ building will be begun. The bell bears the
. date 1880, and has on it figures of the three
J, confederates swearing with raised right hands.
J. The population of Spain and the adjacent
islands is l6,625, $50, including 4O741 foreign
d ers. This is an increase of 952,324 since 1860,
II II civil war and emigration having prevented a
II larger increase. Ninety-four thousand Span
70 iards inhabit Algeria, and $4,000 other coun
L tries.
h Under new law, the Massachusetts State
in prisons under the control of two men and
re woman, called supervisors, who are to receive
no pay except for expenses. Their power if
unrestricted as to regulating discipline choos.
ing officials, aud the general government of the
institutions.
LII Edmond About in the London Athen9u,,.,
" condemns the ''Assommoir" and all the other
h novels of Emile lola foul trash, reaping q
III pecuniary harvest through the debased taste
=, of the hour; by their side, he says Paul d.
o Rocks novels entitle him to monument SOC
81 feet high.
The statue of Lord Brougham, which was un
~ yelled at the celebration of the centenary OF
- his birth at Cannes on the Goth of April repre-
sents him in standing posture, wearing (
* lawyers robe. One side of the pedestal show
the British lion, and another bears twelv,
verses by NJ. Liegeard.
20 Passanante was conveyed, like small Napo
leon, to the island of Elba in a ship of war
on arriving at the galleys at Porto Ferrajo, h
40 was specially treated to cigars, wine and dainty
80 fare, then rowed ashore in the captains gil
90 with all the honors and kept as distinguished
10 State prisoner until turned over to harbor la
81 Dor.
~ John Rafferty, was on his knees in from
"a room of his residence, in Boston, Mass, sayin
20 his morning prayer and the noise of childre
2 playing in the street disturbed HE devotions
.oo He arose, got revolver, opened window, AM
200 fred five shots into the juvenile gathering
- Maggie Murphy was hit in the leg, and probs
;aI bly, famed for life.
N. Bishop Nester who is the new head of tn
1t: Russian-Greek church in Alaska, will start TO
Der San Francisco on the way to his bishoprc tc
MS. morrow evening. He was monk priest a
Pau, for twenty-eight years, and was conse
oo7 Grated about three months ago. His age is G