Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-23
GLOBELETs.

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Mr.. Carlyle's income from his books is said
to be about 81, 900.
Many Nashville (Tenn.) beaux and bellies
practice archery daily.
Many of the muscular bellies of Pottstown.
Pa, are expert at rowing.
''Tom" Hughes son is in South Africa,
where he has been fighting the Zulus.
Ahedge-cutting machine has proved perfectly
successful and valuable labor saver in Eng
land.
Miss Nelson will sail for New York on board
Of the Gallia, leaving Liverpool on the 9th Of
September.
The Empress of Austria, it is said, intends
paying visit to Austria again for the ensuing
hunting season.
Miss Estelle CavaDzell, beautiful and pop
ular young lady of Norfolk Va. has been lying
in trance for nine weeks.
Sir Bartle Frere makes public life pay. He
| is in receipt of pensions and salaries amount
ing to upward of $4,000 year.
| General John Pope, United States army, will
visit New Mexico, in company with several
ladies and gentlemen from Ohio and Kansas.
Mr.. Alma Tadema, the Anglo-Dutch artist
has introduced the custom of having the wood
work of pianofortes inlaid in exquisite designs.
The emperor of Germanys eldest grandson
received an enthusiastic ovation from Bonn
students last month on finishing his education
| there
There are said to be four hundred marriage
able maidens in Seneca Falls, N. Y, who favor
the formation of an association for promoting
marriage.
Flooded partridge nests will make the En-
glish shooting poor this year. Shooting won't
be general until Michaelmas (Sept 2O), instead
of Sept. l.
Mrs. Williams the wife of Grants attorney
general, is back in Washington, where she
once almost ruled society. She has long been
in Europe.
John Bent, an employe in the Springfield
Qll.) rolling mills, has received word from
Scotland that he has fallen heir to an estate
valued at 100000.
Maclise's great picture, s'The Marriage of
strongbow, has been purchased by dis
tinguished amateur. and presented to the Ma
tional Gallery of Ireland
An English critic mentions Mrs. Rebecca
Harding Davis as the strongest and most dis
tinctively American novelist of the feminine
novelists of this country.
willow tree. which has grown from slip
taken from Napoleon's grave at St. Helena,
stands in front Of Theodore Parker's old resi-
dence in Essex place at Boston.
General Pleasonton once said of Zachary
Taylor that when once thoroughly aroused he
Waq 70 mad fnst no
the crown of his hat to the soles of his boots.
The London papers tell of belle who paid
$25 to have the initials of her lovers name tat
tooed on her arm, and later, having quarrelled
with him. was Offering $500 for a means Of OBJ
liberation.
Boucicault thinks Fechter overrated as an
artistic. HE was good Boulevard actor, but
an avowed imitator of Frederic LeMaitre who
was to the Theatre Franchise what Fechter
might have been to the Porte st. Martini
just before the French chambers rose a COM
mittee recommended that M. Raspails pro-
posal to sell the crown jewels should be taken
into consideration, on the ground that they
, are useless, costly to keep, and encourage
dreams of monarchial restoration.
Bob McCorkle, lately hanged at Taylorville,
n G., was of the few murderers who did
not feel sure of going from the scaffold direct
to heaven. Kind friends" were his last words,
, remember me in your prayers tonight, for
don't know where I'll be-
a new thing in London shows is bull fight
by circus performer and a trained bull. The
) beast plays his part wonderfully well. making
pretense of furious rage, tossing the man,
3 and trampling on him, but does it all SO care
fully that no injury is done.
The six marble statues of his ancestors.
which, under the late Duke of Brunswick
will! We're to be mounted on red granite pedes-
tails around his tomb; have been erected, and
the splendid mausolem in the Place DIES Alpes,
Geneva is to be completed next month.
r Garibaldi's daughter, 3 girl of 10 ears of
7 ago, was taking bath the other day at
, Civita Vecchia, when a young man who could
not swim got out beyond his depth, and at his
l cry for help the girl swan toward him, caught
l him as he was sinking and brought him safe 10
, land
Mr.. Mitchell. a brother Of xix Marvel" has
, exercised his esthetic yearnings after pure art
) on an old farm house at New Loudon by paint
ing it and the fences and outbuildings in india
red, and having yellow lattice-work llons the
piazza. A row of sunfowers adorns the river
! bank.
Jesse Pomeroy, the Boston boy murderer,
continues to bother the Charlestown prison Of
hclals. In the arm Of a chair in his cell a.
large knife was lately found. He had dug out
a hiding place for the weapon. and filed the
aperture with hoap, stained so as to match the
color of the wood.
Michael Lynch, who was until recently a
waiter in San Francisco family, has been sued
for breach of promise by girl who was cook
in the same house. She estimates the damages
at $40, 700, which sum would have been pre-
| posterous not long ago, but Michael has lately
got wealthy in mining speculations.
MILE Sara Bernhardt has signed contract
for an American tour with Mr. Henry G. Jar
rett, of London-not the American manager
but his English namesake. The dates, how
ever, have not yet been fixed. It is certain
that the tour will not begin until next spring,
and, probably. it will not begin until next
autumn.
} train was stopped on the Muskegan Valley
(Ohio) railroad just in time to save it from
being wrecked on timber that had been tied
on the track. search was made for the plot
ter, and he was caught hiding behind e bush
near by. Asked as to his motive, he said /:
We'll, it's so damned dull out here in the
country that l thought I'd have some fun,
somehow
Detroit turned out a big crowd the other day
to celebrate the 2O0th anniversary of La Sales
christening of Lake st. Claire. La Salle's yes