Daily globe., 1879-05-01
GLOBELETS.

Abigny has the mumps.
The railroad and other dividends payable in
Boston in May aggregate So, ATS, S45.
Mr.. Gladstone has been staying with the Earl
and Countess of Rosebery at Mentmore.
Gustav Freytag, author of ''Debit and Cred
it, etc., has lately made his housekeeper Mrs.
G.. F.
The police commissioners of Boston have
suspended street car conductor for three days
for stopping his car upon crossing.
statue is to be raised at Chalon-sur-Saone,
France, to Niepce, the discoverer of the prip-
ciple Of photography and a native of that
town.
Houston Tex, has voted to place herself un-
der the control of the Galveston board of
health, SO far as matters of quarantine are con-
cerned.
The manufacture of beet sugar is to be tried
in earnest at Northampton, Mass factory is
to be built and 49O acres of beets planted this
season.
The new Moffett punch bell goes into opera
tion in Virginia on the 1st of May; it has been
greatly improved and is expected to yield a
| large revenue.
In the hollow of a tree, sixty feet from the
ground, P. w. White, of Fenner, N. Y, found
| in a thriving condition gooseberry bnsh.
| about a foot high.
David P Smith, of Newmarket, N. H., has
kept diary for forty-thre years without miss
ing day, writing over 2OlS pages of large
sized foolscap paper.
| temperance coffee.house established since
January, In Berlin, though cheap, commodious
and we'll supplied with current periodicals.
finds comparatively few patrons.
The St. Louis Republican reports that resi-
dent of Rockford, Ill. "who fell over an en-
bankment and lost his sense of SMELL has
sued the city for $4,000 damages
Biologists say that in 25, 900 wears more New
York will be POO feet beneath the sea. The
only real estate that is still rising Gin price, is
the high ground around Central park
The estate of the late Matthew Baird, loco
motive builder, of Philadelphia, which he be-
queathed to his widow, ten children and two
grandchildren amounted to 80, 156, 900.
John Brown, Queen Victoria's Scotch foot
man, approves of Italy: ''Both Brown and his
queen have" according to the Italian newspa
pers "found Lake Maggiore beautiful"
James E. Baldwin, of Newton, N. j., shot
very handsome blue heron at Swartswood lake
lately, which measured about five feet in
! height, and six feet from tip to tip of the
wings.
The New Orleans Picayune says that the Pho
. neer Grant club of that city, which was organ
lied in 1868, is still in existence and is about
to commence active operations for the next
. campaign.
}, The sister of the sultan of Zanzibar is now
t | giving Arabic lessons in Berlin. She became
It Christian and married Hamburg merchant,
s now dead. Her majestic brother has dropped
her acquaintance.
Judge David E. Harbaugh was committed to
the insane asylum in Detroit on Friday He
e will be remembered as his honor who achieved
u wide reputation through the writings of Nj.
Quad, of the Detroit Free Press.
An Illinois man sleeps every night on a spot
:. OF ground left bare for the purpose in his
house, and has on attendant shovel clean earth
t, over him, to take the place Of bedclothes. He
believes that in this way he guards against dis
It ease.
d Bushranging is once more active in Australia.
gang recently captured the police at Jeril-
u derie, a small town of New South Wales, and
: held the town for two days, taking $4,000
10 from the bank. A reward of $40 900 is offered
v for their capture
It 80 hard are the socialists hunted down by
is the police of Berlin that, in despair Of being
f. allowed to meet in any room, they gathered on
r the roof of of the double-decked street
ID cars. on recent Sunday, and there had
as their talk undisturbed.
=, David Ordway, the eccentric Proctorsville
~ VT, man who had his funeral sermon preached
n last summer, has now procured his shroud and
~ coffin, having the latter trimmed at his drec-
10 tion, and had them taken to his house. He is
e, "a years old and quite unwell.
1e Simon Gould and his wife, who were mar
o. ried nearly seventy-three years ago, are living
N with their son, who is 20 years old, Mont
- pelier, Vt. The husband is in his Goth year,
's' and his wife in her Goth. They have lived upon
81 the same farm all their married life.
i'll Paris correspondent writes to London that
I'd at the Madeleine on Good Friday and on
I'd Easter Sunday, there was to be seen probably
lie the largest floral cross ever made. It must
OF have been something like fifteen feet long, and
en was made of red and white camellias roses and
Ill other bright hued blossoms.
10 The people of Jefferson City, Mo-, are agi-
:e tated over the passage of a resolution in the
- State House of Representatives submitting a
~ constitutional amendment to the people in
,a 1850, providing for the removal of the capital
he to Sedalia. 1t is asserted that twenty-five of
rt the thirty-four Senators pledged to support
Mt the measure.
OF General Schenck labored not in vain. Truth
now admits that the game of ''poker" has
taken official rank among the amusements that
follow fashionable dinner parties in London.
as and English society is divided between ''pock-
ists'' and ''spoutists," these latter being the
people who recite verses in drawing-rooms
~ after dinner.
,ly The monument to be erected near Trajan n's
il, wall, in Bulgaria, by the Russian government
&c to commemorate the deeds of the Russ IAN sol
100 diers who fell in the upon Turkey
he is already prepared in st. Petersburg, and con
tes sists of several huge granite blocks. On
he weighs twenty four thousand pounds, and 9th
de ers nearly much.
~, On April l., the we'll known Rubattino steam
'!2 ship company of Genoa, line that has done
20 so much for Italy's prosperity in the Mediter
~ ranean, was compelled to suspend its trips t.
H. Egypt and the East. The loss is greatly de
tha plored by the press of the peninsula, and al
hat usual an extra amou Mt Of blame Is laid on tn
Id shoulders of the government.
Int The st. Georges society Of Bridgeport
Conn.,. at their recent annual dinner, voted t.
yer offer $50 toward a fund for the erection of