Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-12
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Office in Arizona.
They have an inspector of elections in Bur-
lington, VT, named Shortsleeves.
A country editor says his almanac predicts
''squally weather on st. Patrick's day.
Earl Beaconsfeld is again in good health and
| making his accustomed rounds in London.
The ladies of Toronto have not yet adopted
the fashion of carrying cane, like Princess
| Louise.
The man who is waiting for something to turn
| up, generally finds it when he steps on bar
| rel-hoop.
The Idaho Statesman says: "The frogs were
heard last evening tuning their harps for the
summer jubilee
Munkasy's picture of Milton and his daugh-
tiers, which figured at the Paris exposition, has
been sold at Vienna.
Mr.. Lawrence Oliphant recently left Paris
| for the East in the interest of his scheme for
colonizing Palestine.
If the Chinese must go, as ks the st. Louis
Post, can they take the small boy who plies the
bean-shooter with them.
The legislature of Texas has appropriated
100000 for public school buildings, and it is
thought the governor will veto the BILL
One hundred and seven scholarships are now
available at Harvard, the sum of 1926, 900 being
| annually distributed among their holders.
There is bill before the Nevada legislature
providing for the election of United States SEN
ators by the direct vote of the people.
The alleged outbreak of leprosy in the Span
| ish province of Alicante, is said to consist of
hereditary cases, and to be not contagious.
Two ieutenants. called Beningno Moreno
and Ruperto Cisneros, were executed in Toluca
last week for conspiring against the govern
| ment.
The merchants of Louisville, KY, are be-
sought to awake to the immediate necessity of
| organizing board of trade or chamber of COM
MERGE.
Geneva (Switzerland) letter says that
American anthracite coal is rapidly coming into
| use in that city, both in private houses and
| factories,
| A Montreal dispatch says The Governor
General and the Princess Louise have present.
ed the McGill university with $500 in aid of it's
faculty Of applied science.
Judge Cadwalader died not having completed
| the life of James Buchanan, and the Lancaste
intelligence, suggests that Judge jeremiah s.
Black is the proper person to undertake it,
grandmother of Patrick Henry, living in
Paris, KY, has edited cook book, which is APP
proved by Senator Gordoq's wife, Senator
Buffers wife, Mrs. Evarts, Mrs. Alice Kew
Pendleton, Mrs. G. n. Mcclellan, and by Mrs.
Hayes.
According to medical authorities, kissing is
dangerous. And never more 80 than when
| the old man pops into the parlor and detects
an obnoxious young man and his daughter in
| the act.
1t is stated that Gen. G. T. Beauregard has
been selected to succeed Hon. Alex. Stephens.
of Georgia, in the supreme grand command
Of the grand Consistory of the Sons of Malta in
America.
Senator Hannibal Hamlin, it is said, is popu-
lsrly supposed, in Maine, to be immortal he
has been veteran politician SO long that hard
ly anybody can remember when he began his
public life.
family in Paterson enjoyed four Mondays
last week-the washday, enjoyed by all, and
the triplets presented by happy mother to
! still happier father, the name of the family be-
| ing Monday.
An American company is playing "Uncle
Toms Cabin" in Vienna, and announces as
one of the attractions of the performance. trap
exc performances by ar Indian girl called
miss zenobia.''
The cooks in Paris are going over to the re-
public it it be true, as is reported that the
Duchesse de Noaille's cook has deserted to M.
Gambetta, and Baron Gustave Rothschild's
cook to President Grevy.
The tomb of Charles Louis Napoleon AcbiI1e
Murat, nephew of Napoleon I. stands in the
city cemetery at Tallahassee, Fla. The BODY
of his wife, Virginian lady of great excellence
of character, is entombed by his side.
Madame Grevy, wife of the President of the
French republic, possesses, according to a IL re-
ports, wide variety IF Accomplishment ts She
can ride steeplechase paint q landscape, COM
pose poem and play the piano like an angel
| In Amite county, Mississippi, three negro
| boys recently took another negro boy, and
while t NO of their number held him the third
blazed away at him with pistol the ball pass.
ing through his ear and lodging in his tenn
pie.
Atlanta Constitution. The amusing attacks
OF such men as Blaine and Hoar must have a
very depressing effect upon Mr.. Davis. And
yet his health is said to be improving. We
rebels ought not to be so irritating to the ma
triot.
Ihere has been remarkable case of con.
stancy IN England. Aman who separated from
MS wife thlrty-hve years ago has just returned
and offered to "kiss and make up" A few
days prior to the offer the wife had inherited a
large estate.
An Alabama darby, for wager, recent " ex-
posed bis head to the furious assaults of a
train ed goat. His confidence was rewarded by
his winning the money, for, after half an
hours vigorous butting, the goat drew off, ut
terly discouraged,
The ceremony of baptism by immersion was
celebrated IN Western Texas the other day, and
when the fourteenth candidate walked down to
the water fifteen revolvers were deposited on
the bank of the stream, that of the preacher
making the fifteenth.
The number of fires that took place in Pari,
during the past year was 2, 744. Twenty of them
were caused by accident, 1880 by imprudence
or negligence, and 200 by defects of buildings.
The approximate damage done by these fires is
estimated at about 1856, 600.
The medical faculty of the University of Zu-
Eich have conferred the degree of doctor on
Fraulien Draya sjccie, a young lady from Ser
via, and Countess Wilma Hogonai of Hungary.
both of whom passed successful examinations
and delivered inaugural dissertations of excep.
tional merit