Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-10
GLOBELETs.


The Mikado of Japan has bought an Ameri.
can piano.
Blondes are out of fashion in Pari. and
dark brunettes are the rage.
VI the 6S6 soldiers sent out by Baltimore to
the Mexican war, but Is survive.
washingtonians say that Gen. Horace Porter
MAKES the best after-dinner speech.
Ihe kothschilds have lately paid in ENGLAND
Slso'ooo probate, and $40, 900 legacy duty.
Alss Leech is another American lady who is
70 marry nobleman. Her bridegroom i.
Prince Galitzin.
hlng Alfonso is much given Ito sweets inst
now and has ordered from an American honse
1oo pounds of chocolate caramels.
MRS. Parnell, mother of the Irish apitator- il
generally regarded, says the New York Sun. a,
the leading lady operator in Wall street.
Inc recent statement in London Truth that
Lord Derby has s600, 600 year is untrue, Hi.
income is not half that. but is very large.
A statistician computes that $500. 600
watches and 100000 clocks are annually
turned out In different parts of the world.
The famous artist Dore WAS horn IN Al..,a
and is 48 years of age. He is q brunette
oark-eyed' olack-haired-and is bachelor.
The University of Leipsic ha, an incom. n,
1000, and its expenses are 1915, 600. The
difference is paid from the national treasurv If
Saxony.
The London World reiterates that the reason
OF the Princess Louise's visit to England ia tho
gratifying prospect of an heir being born to
tho Marquis Of Lorne.
The death is announced in late English pa
pers OF Mr.. Henry Crawshay, only SURVIVING
orother OF Mr. Robert Crawshay, the great iron
king of Cyfarthfa, South Wales.
German newspapers in the United States ara
one-tn'rd more numerous than in the Father
land, where Bisnarck's censorship keeps them
IN perpetual fear of fine and suspension.
goat took possession of the entrance to tbe
Baptist church in Port Byron,: N. Y, on Sun.
day, and, rearing its hind legs, butted at all
corners 80 vigorously "a to dispense the cone,a-
cation.
Leo XIII. has placed 5000 francs at the dis.
| posal OF the president of the Circolo St, Peter
with view to establishing economic kitchen.
Tor the poorer classes in Rome during the an
| preaching winter.
Madame Ling-Tang-Pao. the wife of the
Chlnese minister to Germany, is now on her
way to join her husband at Berlin. She will ha
| the hrst Asiatic lady who has been presented at
| the German court.
| In his message to the South Carolina ley;s,a-
| ture, dov. simpson recommends that the con-
Wet labor be employed and utilized outside tho
penitentiary walls in the development of the
resources of the State.
George II. Baker is far from well. His let
Ter OF regret that he could not go to the Holme,
breakfast speaks of his miserable condition
ana the increased suffering he endures when
ever he attempts to travel.'
Land and Water asserts that Sir Cressv
Cresswell. late divorce judge, observed that the
feminine petitioners in his court nearly always
were blueeyed while the naughty respondents
almost always were light gray or black-eyed.
The tablet erected to the memory of the late
commodore Vanderbilt, in the Church Of the
| Strangers, Rev. DR.. Deems, in Mercer street.
near WaVerley place, was unveiled Sunday. at 2
P. NJ, in the presence of company of invited
guests.
Rudolk Falk, the explorer, has written from
San Francisco to German friends to inform
them that a monument in Bolivia, much more
ancient than the times of the Incas, has given
him clue to the origin and developement of
| speech and writing.
certain English general being on the point
of death, opened his eyes, and seeing q con-
sultation of four physicians, who were stand
ing close by his bedside, exclaimed: '.Gentle-
| men, if you IRE by platoons it's all over with
me!' and instantly expired.
A London paper, in recording the death Of
John Grant, for twenty-five years head game
| keeper at Balmoral, says that the queen fire.
quently visited him prior to his death, and de-
! layed her departure from Balmoral four days
to pay him last tribute of friendship.
The new queen of Spain will never take the
| place of Queen Mercedes in the affection of tla
Spanish people. First of all, they object that
| she is foreigner; then that she is to receive
| an allowance of about half a million francs T.
year; and, finally, her retinue will consist If
| Austrians.
Nellie johnson, of st. Louis, is diminutivs
| woman who weighs only fifty pounds. Never
| theless,- being insulted by young man in tie
street the other day, she whipped out pocket
knife and plunged the blade into his breast
he escaped with his life only because the blade
was q small one.
1t is now proposed to substitute Tor the dis
patch of letters miniature railroads, with
trains run by electricity, in place of pneumatic
tubes. Satisfactory experiments have been
! made. The pneumatic plan has long been in
&I,o
seem to have found favor in France.
A special school of diplomacy is to be es-
tablished at the vatican. Its object will be to
make known to ecclesiastical students the his
tory of pontifcal diplomacy from tho origiua!
documents preserved in the archives of the
vatican, and it will thus be intimately con.
nected with the vatican library, which is under
the charge of Cardinal Hergenrother.
The brother of the king of Italy was lately
in Paris, and found his quarters very o,m-
Portable at the Grand Hotel, in the Boulevards
des Cspucines. He expressed his satisfaction
to his brother Humbert when he recrossed the
Alps, who Immediately sent the diploma and
insignia of Knight of the crown of Italy to NJ.
Vanhynbeck, the manager of the Grand Ho-
tel.
A stolen turkey crowned tho Thanksgiving
table of negro who lived or the De Yampert
plantation, near Uniontowp, Ala. The mother
of the family was carving, whensher husband
gibed at her for he- awkwardness. She
clenched the handle of tho fork in her left
hand and stabbed at her husbands breast.
Both prongs Of the fork made holes through
the mans heart. II.
Mr.. Herbert Spencer has gone to Egypt Al