Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-06
GLOBELETS.

Dubuque lad of does astounding sums
in mental arithmetic.
Great crowds are returning North from win
ter resorts in the South.
A pinafore performance in Boston the other
night drew 1000 people.
Cuthbert Ga, will have foot race between
boys of not over six years.
The ore yield for California for the month Of
March aggregates $461.34s.
Barnum has pasted quarter of an acre Of
show bills on New Bedford.
With one or two exceptions the hotels at Cape
Nay are being rapidly built.
streator. Ill. doctor chloroformed horse.
and cut worm from his eye
Florence Italy, is to have an Academy of
Design exclusively for women.
An immense muskrat harvest has begun on
the Winnebago, Wis, marshes.
lot of preachers have been arrested at Ca
milus, N. y, for taking trout.
1t is said that DR.. Russell, of the London
Times will be knighted shortly.
Maine guide estimates that trout caught
by tourists cost about So pound.
During Lent in some parts of France the
butchers close their shops entirely.
man who swallows his false teeth while
asleep is apt to injure his digestion.
Tom Griffin. 63-year-old darkey, living in
Boston, is the father of sixty-three children
Rev. Joseph Cook was never ordained
pastor though he once licensed to preach
No Intoxicating or malt liquors have been
sold in the town of Salisbury, Mass since 1851
Congressman Frost, Of St. Louis, is %, and
Congressman Taylor, of Tennessee, is the same
| age.
Florida negroes emigrating to Louisiana
to take the places Of the victims of the Kansas
fever.
Steubenv1llc woman calls her COW
Wedge because she always has to drive
her in.
At a masquerade in New Hartford the other
night, the most taking costume was worn by
burglar.
Niagara hackmen are preparing for the ill.,
fux Of newly married people who never protest
charges.
Quantities of lively potato bugs have been
found under Ponton, VT, snow drifts eight
feet high.
man convicted Of perjury in Alabama was
| pardoned because of his wife's services in vel
low fever.
Il young lady's prayer book is So heavy now
that it takes young man to carry it home
from church.
grand ecumenical council of women who
believe in womans rights, is to be held in st.
Louis in May.
Gen. John Pope has been selected to deliver
the annual address to the corps of caets at
| West Point in June.
, In his new book the late Gen. Taylor hints
that England and France boldly lied to the
Southern confederacy.
!. 1t is said that Mrs. Scott-Siddons owes her
beauty to her dcsceut from Hindoo prince
one of the kings of Delhi.
Garibaldi en- phatically denies the stereo-
typed press report that he still wears his old
red shirt. 1t is d new one
An Atlanta darkey who tried to send one of
his children through the postofflce was arrested
for an attempt at blackmailing.
Kansas boy of fifteen has been detected
: making arrangements to away with a wo-
man fifty years old, and live on an island in
= the Pacific
8 Miss Sarah Frost, of Northampton county,
7. weighs 300 pounds. Unless she dies or moves
l. away, Northampton may anticipate a heavy
J. Frost in August.
VIM. Simpson: Of New York. pawnbrnker,
u died worth $3,0O0,0O0. 1t il better to have
y such an "uncle" than dozens Of SISTERS cous-
ms and aunts.''
The GEAR of Russia will go to Berlin to at
n tend the emperor's golden wedding direct from
. / r. IT,
"a the 18th Of June.
n Mrs. Plumner Benjamin, of Montpelier. Vt
10 who has been dumb for about two years cough
IL ed up something the other day: and can talk a.
we'll as ever now.
=, London letter says that Gerald Massey has
"a been so unwell that he has not been able to 20
re- on with his new work, 1.-THE Myths ard Mys.
IN teries Interpreted by Men,
Of The japanese government is making arrange.
ID ments to receive General Grant With unusual
g. popp and splendor. The general has already
reached Hong Kong. China.
- Miss Ellen Jane Harper, daughter Of Mr.
h Joseph W. Harper, ST., Of Harper Brothers,
Or has been married to Mr.. Theodore Haight, son
a. of Mr.. Edward Haight, of New York.
re damsel applied for place behind coun-
IS ter. What clerical experience have you?''
US asked the man of dry goods. Every little, -
10 she said with blush, "for I only joined the
church last week.
Al The car lives very simply and mOnOtonous]y
ut Lvadia. He walks cut in the morning after
nj biscuit and cup of coffee, which he drink,
for the sake of his nerves. shattered by the hare
be work of the past few years.
EN- Having heard of Cyrus W. Fields intention
a to erect monument to Major Andre tn
~ Bridgeport, Conn, st. Georges Society, al
Englishmen, have subscribed $50 toward q
'e- monument for Nathan Hale.
be- A party of treasure seekers have been digging
ed on Little Island. off Westport, Conn.,. recently
se for the valuables that Capt. Kidd, the re
To- nowned pirate, is believed to have buried there
en- Several Bridgeport men are in the party
- 10 nautical adventurer of Bordeaux. France
has built a whaleboat, appropriately chrst.ned
- IEpreuve, which is six yards long and IN,
yards wide, and has one sail, in which he pro
IA poses to cross from Arcachon to Dover alone.
as MIR. Charles Dickens is compiling for ubli
he cation this season, Dictionary of Lonaon.
he which aims at presenting in concise, convent
ad emit and economical form an intelligent epitom
ed of every kind of practical information abou
re London.
X. :,
New York correspondent saws one of tn
ho brightest visions of male and female I,yelines
an he ever saw was the beautiful Mrs. Rousb
se. (who died few days ago., leaning on the arr
as OF the late lamented Montague, the actor, at a