Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-24
GLoBELErs.

GLOBELETs.
Carlyle has grim, wrinkled, strong gloomy
face.
heavy Christmas stocking makes a light
pocketbook.
A Chicago wedding coach is trimmed in
pearl satin.
Senator David Davis wears number 111f con.
gress CATERS.
This country eat. ouethird Of the Turkish
opium crop.
The wife Of the Prince of Wales, Alexandria
is thirty-dve.
Montgomery Blair is called "the lone fsher-
man of politics.
Mrs. A. T.. Stewart pays a tax on s5oo mn
personal property.
Mr.. George Augustus Sala gets $4,000 for
his work on America. --.-
One OF the quaint scarf pins ID toad carry
ing . toadsteol umbrella.
Evangelist Moody has rented hons. and
settled down in st. Louis.
North Carolina hogs are fatteninp on IN. bes.
chestnut crop ever known.
Thurlow Weed saw the first steambo.. and
rode on the first railway car.
Tilton inscribes his book of poems 70 hi.
daughters alice and Florence,
Epes Sargent is recovering from his iIlnaa.
He is at his home in Boston,
a II Ve-cent store for wedding p,ftx." Is
thrifty enterprise at Saginaw. -
An Indiana druggist says there has been verv
little remunerative sickness thi. year.
Ida Lewis, the Newport heroine, came within
one OF dying of diphtheria last week
At the international dairy fair now opsn in
New York there is herd of nine jersey NOVA
worth 81, 800 each. and bull worth $4,000.
DIR. McCosh, president Princeton Colleae
has written a new work on 1.-THE Emotions.
panther nine feet from tip of nose to tin ~
tail, was killed recently in Orange county
Florida.
Robert e. Lees daughter, Mildred. ha. i,st
reached home after long Journey around
the world. .--~
The three States which pay most revenue +o
the postal service are Pennsylvania: Illinois and
New York.
The Duke of Argyll has begun TO give the
Brit ng public his First impressions
of America" 49,.
General Sherman ia said to be the most
persistent theater goer of all the public men
in Washinston.
Inc Mexican minister, Senior Zamaoona. il,
building skating rink at the back of his
Washington residence.
The remains of Knight of Pythias have
been denied burial in a Roman Catholic eema.
terry at Winsted, Conn.
The 65, 600 dogs of St. Petersburg bring T.,
the city treasury $4,000 per year. q BEING
the tax upon each dog.
Springfield and Hartford now talk familia~,r
with each other by telephone; houses in Troy
are hea ted from street mains.
A son of the first Congressman sent bv Ken
lucky to Washington is now in thecountv poor-
house at Lexington in that State.
Bishop Heudricken. of Rhode Island. saws
he can always tell when a poor family is hav
ing a funeral by the long line of hired hacks.
Miss Elizabeth Peabody the chief promoter
OF kindergartens In this country is dangerous
ly i'll at the house Of her brother, in Concord.
Mass. r. a.-t
The Mexican veterans of Florida will hold d.
convention on OH istmas day at Cedar Kevs
for the purpose of taking steps to procure the
pensions due them.
An English tiger-tamer died recently at Bsr-
lin from blood poisoning caused by the bite of
a fierce female tiger. His body was covered
with scars acquired in his business.
During the last day of General Jeff @. Davis
life his mind wandered occasionally, during
which time he seemed to be fighting over with
General Anderson the battle at Fort Sumter.
The Duke of Argyll who is writing about
America in Frazer's Magazine, says that he
thinks the decay of the North American In
dams had begun long before they came in con-
tact with Europeans.
A billiard-player at Kansas City was made
insane by the excitement of series of match
games. On losing, he turned savagely upon
two unoffending spectators and beat them wiz,
the butt Of cue until they were dangerously
hurt.
Down at Townsville, Georgia, one day las.
week, Turner e. Carter saw his dog chasing
wildcat, which was q quarter Of a mile distant.
He raised hi" gun, and, firing while the animal
was bounding from rock to rock, broke his
neck with the ball. Ia g..
Signora Dial Gin, who is famous In Northern
Italy as practitioner of surgery, ia now in
this country as the guest of Gen. Woodford, of
Brooklyn. Her mother was bonc-setter among
the peasantry, and the signora was trained to
her profession from early childhood.
From the time of leaving Liverpool, the
large saloon of the City of Berlin" and also
the steerage of the vessel have been brilliantly
lighted, whenever necessary, by the electric
light, this being the first attempt to utilize the
new invention for purpose of Atlantic ocean
voyaging. -.,--
The will of Christian r. French, senior MEM
Der of we'll known Newt York. ship broking firm
was admitted to probate on Wednesday. In
it he directs that his body shall be cremated
| in the most approved scientific manner. 1t
is stated that the body will shortly be
taken to the Milan, Italy, crematory.
A man fell from bridge at Bocca, New, and
broke his thigh. It was lonely place. and
the weather was very cold. He could not stand.
in consequence of his hurt, and therefore
slowly froze to death. There were Indications
that he tried hard, by rolling about, to keep
warm, but death could not be fought off.
Victor Hugo is said to know little or nothing
of America. Although for ten years resident
of tho island of Guernsey, in the British Chan
mel, he understands hardly word of English.
When the name Of Ralph Waldo Emerson wa.
mentioned to him he looked puzzled .sa1r
Emerson" said he, giving French accent 10
the name. "Who is he? I never heard ~