Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-01
GLOBELETs.

GLOBELETS.
Florida ships 6,OOO head of cattle to Cubs
monthly.
The negro exodus movement is again sgitated
in Amite and Wilkinson counties. Mississippi.
A judicial opinion has been given in Florida
that young orange treas are liable to taxation.
The little to~n Of Astoria, Oregon. spends
$51 900 month for the liquors which it con-
sumes.
The Atlanta, Ga, ice factory, Of Senator
Jones, Of Nevada, produces $500 pounds
Of ice daily.
Lady Burdett-Uoutts after yachting in the
North Sea, has landed at YEuyden, Holland,
and gone to Amsterdam.
The Earl of Caithness and his son Lord Ber-
riedale, of Scotland, will sail from New York
for Liverpool on Saturday.
About 100000 square feet of glass and IS
tons of putty have been sold in Boston to re-
pair damages by the recent storm.
man in Utica, N. Y, cut off his wife's hair
close to the scalp, because she had trimmed her
little girls hair short for hot weather.
Little George Dobble playfully set fire to
heap of brushwood close to q powder magazine.
at Marquette. Mich, and the explosion killed
him.
A believer in fortune telling has dug =
trench 200 feet long and fifteen feet deep, at
Salt Creek, ILL.,, and expects to find the treas
ure soon.
Signor CARROLL, the italian premier, has paid
long visit to Garibaldi. It is believed that
he obtained promise of his support to the
present government.
eff the New York Jew is more vulgar ami
NAL than the New York politician," says the
Boston Herald, "we,don't wonder at discrimi-
nation against them:''''
Mr.. Vanderbilt is now located at Saratoga
for the season, and directs his railroad business
from that place with no more apparent friction
than when he is in New York.
Henry Ward Beecher preached on Sunday in
Highland Lake grove. q few miles out of Bos-
ton, and had large audience an excursion
train of ten cars going out from Boston.
Mr.. Darwin has translated from the German
the sketch of the life of his grandfather, DR..
Erasmus Darwin, written by DR.. Krause, and
proposes to prefix preliminary notice.
In remaining number of streets which have
borne names associated with the Napoleonic
dynasty, the Paris municipal council has re-
solved to rechrlstian orr in memory of Presi-
dent Lincoln.
Five young men were playing poker at Ashe-
vile. N. G.. One was detected hiding an extra
card in his breast pocket. The dirk of another
was instantly driven through the card and into
the cheats heart. Is
One-third Of the voting population of Ken
| lucky cannot read the ticket they vote, and
10000 children in the State are growing up in
| ignorance of the mere elements of the English
language" says the Louisville (Ky.) Courier
journal.
common way of imposing upon ignorant
prospectors in the mining regions of Nevada is
to shoot gold filings into the ground from
gun. Even brass is made to serve the purpose,
and by this means many worthless claim is
sold at high price.
The Boston Herald says: In recent letter
to an old friend, Grant says he shall go direct
~ from San Francisco to Galena, Ill, where he
still has a house. and that he shall not take
part in any demonstration calculated to make
part of the "boom.''
The importation of American leather into
Europe has increased over 100 per cent. since
1878. In that year Europe received CSC, 912
hides, and to judge by the exports from the
United States thus far this year it will receive
at the close over 900, 1000.
! Nothing is lost in France. The orange bios
SONS and grass in the public gardens of Paris
are sold to the highest bidder, and at country
railroad station visitor lately saw sale of
the grass on the entertainments. The pur-
chasers were peasants wives.
grasshopper over four inches in length was
brought to the Silver City (Nev.) Times Office
the other day. It was entirely green in color,
with the exception of the wings. which were
spotted with white. 1t looked more like bird
than an insect, and was sleek and fat.
It is denied that Princess Beatrice was en-
gagged to be married to the ex-Empress' un-
fortunate son. That the illustrious young
lady sincerely and unaffectedly mourns the
poor prince" says foreign journal, ''is per-
fectly true; we all lament the loss of dear
friend"
It is a remarkable evidence of the liberal in
fuences predominant in the university of Wen
ma, that, although it is Catholic institution,
the new rector, President Burcke, is a Protest.
ant, and Professor Grunhut, who has Just been
chosen dean of the faculty of jurispruden ce, is
Hebrew.
Quite controversy is going on in Paris as to
the last words of ex-President Theirs. The
original version credited the statesman with
remarking: These beans are done too much y
The maitre d'hotel, Annoying, perhaps, that this
was reflection upon his cuisine, contends that
what M. Theirs really did say was, '.These
beans are excellent"
Jack Singleton, colored, was arraigned in
Charleston, y. c., on the charge of beating his
wife. 1t being proven to the satisfaction of
the court that Jacob had exercised his author
ity with no indication of malice or i'll will,
Justice Chisholm dismissed the case, holding
that husband had the right to chastise his
wife for her correction.
There is an old soldier employed at the Royal
Military academy, Woolwich, who was present
at the funeral of Napoleon l., at st. Helena.
IN 1921. he was also at the funeral of Napo-
leon III. at Chiselhurst, in 1873, and on Sat-
urday, July IL, with the gentlemen cadets, he
attended the funeral of the emperors only
son. he was in the Royal artillery, and his
name is Henry Weathers.
In Russia. as we'll as in Germany, Austria,
and one or two minor northern realms, q noble
mans title is inherited by all his sons, who
transmit it to their male offspring, and 80 on
| ad infnitu'n. Needy mobiles necessarily
abound. TheN are forty or fifty Count Zichys
in Hungary, three or four of whom are wealthy