Daily globe., 1879-06-17
GLOBELETs.

Aue Luxe OF bedfOrd mas RENTED an entire
half-years rent to his agricultural tenants
1t is proposed to initiate the New York ele-
vAted railway system along the Liverpool
docks.
There is an old lady, 107, in Boston who never
uses spectacles. and whose sight is Is good as
ever 1t was. She was born blind:
Coffee growing has proved successful with
few planters in southern Florida, and It's oulti-
sation there promises to be extended. r.
Eighty Thousand pounds Of eggs were .sntl
from Omaha to San Francisco last month.
81 This indicates lively lecture season in pros
peet. - -. g. ~ g. e E.1.at
Philadelphia has the champion marvel. Il
is coroner who tried to save . mans life.
when the decease of the individual would giye
him case. 't 81 asgt
a Marshalltown colored girl took dose OF 9
laudsnum, Saturday, because her lover had
gone back on her. A stomach pump brought
her through. s fs5s seyfaz 6a5
Troy, which has $4,000 inhabitants, makes
3,290,OO0 dozons Of cuffs and 1SS. 600 dozens Of
shirts in year; but yon wouldn't think it., to-
see . Troy man. sssshfa ~ Esaes,lz sils Is Il
. The Roman Curia has secretly granted 4 di- :
AGO. The decree is gsaid to have been pro-
nounced Wednesday, May %.
Erasmus Hobart Of Ttusville, aged H. il
quite a musical genius, and plays the piano,
organ, violin, cornet, flutc and other instru-
ments. learning without teacher.
Mr.. Frank Marshall, who wrote False
Shame. :" is at work q plsy to be called
Robert Emmett" J" in which Irving and Miss
Ellen Terry will play the principle parts. "a.
Dubuque man beat his.wife terribly with
club, and then poured boiling water over the
| wounds, all because she refused to sign deed
of some property he wished to dispose of.
The Sioux City Journal says We could stand
the tramps, and the grasshoppers, and never
complain, but four book agents in town all at
once causeth our cup Of suffering to bubble q
over the brim.
| Two of the COMPANIONS of Connt Antinori
in the italian African expedition, have been
taken prisoners BY . tribe hostile to the king
lot shoa. Though in great dsnger, they still
Shoa bold front. tg re..
Artificial ice, said to be superior to nature's
product, is manufactured in the South at .
cost of only 70 cents per ton, It il turned ont
in blocks two and . half feet long by ten
inches in thickene.
Mr.. Whistlers arrangement in black and
gold, . which was the cause of his action
against Mr.. Ruskin, has found home at STRAIT
ford-on-Avon, having been purchased by Mayor
Flower of that town.
After Tom Sauders Of Decatur, Ala, had :
dreamed three nights in succession that hs
could subsist 40 days and nights without food,
hp do1 To Ioor, fho foa h,,kf fn:l
end of 38 days. when he died. tss
Truth intimates that eighty four black balls
were dropped into the box at the Atheneum
club to show that the members preferred the
room of Mr.. Charley, NJ. p, common sergeant
: of the city of London, to his company.
Mr.. St. Leger Hubert, who was on Lord Duff
FERNS staff in Canada, and has been until now
secretary to the high commissioner and clerk
of the Legislative council in Cyprus, will be
: Sir Garnet Wolseleys secretary in South Az
RIGA.
The Queen Of England presented to the King
of Siam last year the Order of st. Michael and
the Cross of st. George. An embassy 10 now
on the way to England to invest the queen with
the Order Of the White Elephant in return for
her compliment.
He was q cold misanthropical man alone in
the world, loved by none, loving none fierce
hater of humanity. And when he died he left
! his large fortune to be devoted to the purchase
of brass horns and accordcons for young mon
j too poor to obtain them.
Prof. Paschal Plant, of Baltimore, is re-
9 ported to have invented a machine for separat-
ing gold from earth or gravel without tho use
of water. This has been desideratum to gold
miners for many years. Several of his ma
, chimes have been shipped to California.
! The Baptists in Great Britain have 3,45l
chapels, with 1,028 900 sittings, The number
4 oftchurch members is 76,348-an increase for
q 1873 o. 1912. There are 1879 pastors and
/ $50 lay preachers. The increase of church ac-
o commodations in the year was 10000. For
home mission work the sum raised was sl6, 1856.
young man from Keokuk visited Sgourney
y few days ago, wearing low quarter shoes on .
4 small foot, and red stockings. He was sus-
picioned, and retiring early o'clock P. NJ, tho
inhabitants were sure he was woman, because
It good-looking young man could not be pre-
9 vailed on to go to bed that early. he was ar
L rested for being woman, but was soon dis
: charged.
Steubenville Herald: When you see girl
!. flying around q dry goods counter, and bother
q ing the ladyike young man clerk almost to
: death, to show her this piece of lace and that
g piece Of ruching, and this and that piece of
= white dress goods, you needn't think she's
T. going to get married-her mind is on greater
things intent ;.she will graduate next week, or
J. the week after.
y At . meeting of the Paris municipality few
days ago attention was called to Catholic edi-
- ton of Uncle Toms Cabin, copies of which
q had been distributed rs prizes even in aseculaz
school, containing notes, according to which
slavery is not contrary to natural order, and
some laborers would be happier If slaves. An
4 assurance was given that such works would be
70 expunged from the prize catalogue.
3 Pope Leo XIII. is tall and spare, with pa.
y trician air. He has . fine head, crowned with
Is white hair, strongly marked features, the g.
pect Of an ascetic, with something marble-likl
le in the general appearance of the figure. HI.
=. face is lighted by piercing look, and his
70 smile is very winning. His voice is sonorous,
y not SO mellow as Pope Pius's, but more power
:, full. Though he is moderate in his opinions,
n he does not lack frmness.
If man in San Francisco or in Oregon drops
a in the postofice letter misdirected or without
Of . stamp Is sometimes happens even with care
X full correspondents, two weeks must elapse be.
l. fore be hears nything of it, for it cannot b,
in opened short of the dead letter Office in Wash.
i, ington. whittier it is sent. It is now proposed
u to get over this difficulty by establishing branch
y dead letter Offices in different parts Of the
country, common-sense plan that is in prac.