Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-01
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President Grevy, of France, il IN accom-.
plished billiard player.
Edmond About says that Baron Taylor wss
the most generous pauper he ever knew.
foreign advertisement offers for sale title
possessed by noble family for four hundred
years.
Galveston notes the receipt Of fourteen hum
dred bales of cotton in one lot from Fort Worth
as something extraordinary
Rome, Italy, has been startled BY bicycle
race between two ladies who belong to tho best
society and are celebrated for their beauty.
Emigration to America from tho neiehbor.
hood of Genoa is going on. On Oct 8 about
l,OOO persons embarked at that port, and on
Oct. 5, 1900. --
Mr.. Longfellow and Mr.. w. B. Howells are.
it is reported, writing together for Mr.. Law
renee Barrett play upon the story of Captain
Miles Standish. a.g
John Carroll Proctor, A. NJ, professor of
Greek language and literature in Dartmouth
college, died last evening of typhoid pneumonia
at the age of 80.
William Habron, who came near. being
hanged for murder committed by the notori-
GUS Peace, has just been awarded S5, 600 by the
British government.
All English churchmen have their foibles--
Archdeacon Denison's is railway novels; of
bishop of Bath and Wells, tennis; the bishop
of Gloucester's billiards.
Mr.. George Jacob Holyoake, the English rad
ical now visiting this country, says; 1.-THE
beauty OF the women and comeliness of tho
men have astonished me-"
Excepting Lytton Bulwer, not single Eng
lish writer of eminence can be credited with
wholesome original play. Charles Dickens,
Thackery, Tennyson all failed.
The Masonic brotherhood at Mem phis have
lost, since the epidemic began, sixteen Master
Masons, including Judge J. E. B. Ray; of whom
thirteen died from yellow fever.
The trial of copyright lawsuit in Washing
ton brings out tho fact that one printer has,
within a year. furnished thousands of counter
feits of foreign champagne labels to put on
American wine.
Gambetta's motive in veering about in favor
of general amnesty is ascribed by his enemies
| to jealousy of Clemenceau, whose popularity is
| increasing in Paris and the main Republican
centres of population.
The enterprising man who starts q steam
brewery in Texas will soon accumulate large
| fortune from the sale of beer. The import of
lager from st. Louis and elsewhere into Texas
| is assuming large proportions. s.. 7.-
Iraac Mills, of Pottersville, N. Y, owns a
camp cup, made of cocoanut bound with iron,
which James II. dropped from his carriage at
the battle of the Boyne in 1890, when ono Of
Mr.. Mills ancestors picked it up.
Rice growers along the banks of the Missis-
sippi often had to put up with small crops for
lack of irrigation by the river. This year
pumps have been largely used when tho water
was too low for the necessary overflow.
New Jersey at present contains population
Of little over million. Fifty incorporated
towns contain over GOO. 900 Inhabitants. About
onethird the inhabitants of the State arc COL
leoted within an area of seventy miles.
The Russian navy now consists of 2s IRON
c'ads, frigates, IL corvettes IS clippers, 81
steamers, % gunboats. Ill torpedo boats. ~
sohooners, and III sailing vessels. This arma-
ment is manned by 3,lS7 officers and 28,920
men.
leading journal of St. Petersburg ha. gone
so far in its animosity to Germany as to hint
that the Emperor William visited the car IS .
spy, as he was only DESTROYS of judging for
himself as to the condition of the Russian
army.
The Saturday Reute,o says of Cetywayo: Tho
capture is embarrassing. If strict personal
justice were consistent with the public interest
the prisoner might perhaps be entitled to an
ample apology with full compensation for his
| losses. +"
Prince Bismarck will spend tho next three
months between Varzin and his estate in
Lauenberg. He will not return to Berlin till
January, end it is most unlikely that any in
terview will take place between him and Prince
Gortschakoff
An italian paper AYERS that the ex-kipg ce
Naples has called on the Italian government To-
restore his mothers dowry of 600, O0Of., assign
ed her by Charles Albert, and now lying in the
bank of Naples; bat his application is M.
likely to be acceded to.
The novel engineering feat of building
bridge on shore and then showing it across the
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The structure is sl4 feet long, weighs over 200
tons, and was projected into its place with
twelve strong windlasses.
1t is fact not generally known that tho
Bank Of England supports rife corps of its
own, which in time. it is intended, shall do
away with the necessity of drafting force
every night from one of the Household ree1 =
ments to guard the national money chest.
The Queenslander published at Brisbane,
Australia, recently contained the following ad-
vertisement: II, Fanny Harris, have not
heard OF my husband, George Harris, for seven
years. and if don't hear from him previously
intend to get married again in two months"
party of forty -seven persons, among whom
there are twelve married couples and fourteen
children, have lately sailed from Bergen Nor.
way, to COLOMBO the uninhabited Aldabra is-
land, in the Indian ocean, three hundred miles
north of Madagascar, which il said to be admir-
4 ably adapted to agricultural industry.
An aristocratic Chinawoman has arrived IN
Winnemucca from Idaho, accompanied by her
son, and attended by Tartar woman Tho
lady has regular features and fair complexion,
but the great distinction between her and tho
Tartar woman is in the size of her feet, which
were no larger than those of an ordinary f.
i year-old child.
The Danish people have sent, Is Wedding
present 10 the Princess Thyra Duchess Of
Cumberland, beautiful oak bookcase four.
teen feet long and eighteen feet high, in the
Gothic style, richly ornamented with Sou e.
lures of the old Danish authors and poets. 1t