Daily globe., 1880-01-01
GLOBLETS,

New York correspondent Of the Hartford
Ecenjmg Post says that Jay Gould is G5 years
old.
Mr.. Augustus Schell, who has been i'll re-
Gently, is MI uch better, and is going to Florida
in few days.
AtAonassin, prominent Grecian, died lately
at Athens in his 13Oth year. He enjoyed good
health until lately.
During the year now closing" says the
Miners Journal, American mines have pro-
dueed $50, ,OOO. .OOo.''
The duke of Edinburgh is home body. He
is never Jolly in boisterous way, but he is al
ways pleasant and cheerful.
Appleton / Co., who announce their retire
ment from the retail business have spent S5,-
900, 900 on the American Encyclopaedia.
Most of the Pittsburgh factories, account
of the press of orders, concluded not to shut
down for more than enc day during the holi-
days.
The price of iron has recently advanced
about thirty per cent, and another advance is
predicted before the contracts for next year are
made.
On Xmas Robert Mitchell { wealthy Cinoin-
natl furniture man, had family reunion. at
which he divided equally 100000 as Xmas
presents.
In rural Germany very small men are in
special request as servants because their mill
tary services would not be demanded in special
emergency.
Air. Oliver Ames gave one -tbousaad-dollar
railroad bond to each of the employees in the
Boston Office of the Union Pacific Railroad
company on Christmas.
Mile. Rosa Bonheur has just bought for sl,-
600 magnificent lion frJm the Geological gar
den at Marseilles, and she intends TO paint its
portrait for next years salon.
Gen. Chag. C.. Ewing. the Republican
brother of Democratic Gen. Ewing, an Ohio
man. by the way, has been selected by Presi-
dent Hayes to be Governor of Utah.
Six generals served rs p.ll-bearerb at ths
funeral of Gen. Charles z. Klngsbury, in
| Brooklyn. Saturday. They were Gene.
| Hancock S!scum, Casey, Newton, Mitchell and
McKeevtr.
Contrary to general expectation, the French
| cable will not he open for public use on the LIST
| says the opening probably viii not take place
| for some time yet
| The French assembly has voted 59,0j0,0O0
| francs, ,000, QUO more than asked-for eGuca-
tion against &C. 900, coo in 1870, and l6,0JC, 600
| in 1851. The grant includes $4,000 travelling
expenses for explorers.
firm in Westphalia, Connecticut, short
| 20 n4u
| making machine, by means of which one hun
dred thousand needles can be stamped and
| bored in Z day Of ten hours.
| Gen. Josiah Newhaii died at Lynnfeld.
! Mass, on Friday, aged SIS years He served In
the American army during the war OF lol",
! and since then has been prominent az mill
| tary man and holder of civil offices.
The Prince Won Reuss, who recently married
a circus-rider, Nile. Clotilde Loissei, has CON
seated to drop his title and content himself
with the simple style of baron in considel-
alton of liberal allowance from his family.
KingIake, the historian, ID lawyer Gs we'll
rs the heir to large property. He has all hii
| life long studied plans of battles in war, and
| he rode beside Raglan i'll the Crimea. He Is
| very SLOW, conscientious aad patient il his
| work.
An emigrat ion of farm lsborefs from Alsaco-
Lorraine to the United States has set in duriD.
the past few weeks, and the people of that
German imperial province are very much e1-
cited over the proportions it will probably as
| sumo.
| The Gothard tunnel is nov within less than
FIVE hundred metres of completion; but the
difficulties encountered during the past few
| weeks, owing to fault III the strata and an
influx OF water, will retard by month the
junction of the Two galleries.
The prince OF Wales income will probably
be diminished some s1O0,000 year by the
hard times, while they make difference TO
his mother whose 5000 a day comes in quar-
| terly in hard cash. This does not include
large revenues from other sources.
Prof Nordensjoid thinks that a voyage
| along the northern coast of Siberia, from the
Atlantic to tho Pacific, might often be made
by steamer specially fitted out, and manned
by au experienced cIew, end that suoh voJ-
age would occupy only L ie" weeks.
Nothing go clearly indicates the great re vivsl
in trade as the increased work ut tool factories
| and wool mills is made. trm at Lisbon. N.
e., have used 1000 cords OF white birch tliA
| wear in the manufacture of bobbins and spools.
Gea. Roger A. Pryor, now New York lawyer,
has received from Virginia friend a curious
| relic of the war. 1t consists Of two bullets
that evidently met in the air over some battle
field, and, happening to strike each other On
their conicsl points, were firmly welded to-
gether.
IL Armand Baschet has discovered and Will
| shortly publish manuscript OF Cardiaal
| Richelieu, said to be of the greateat
| interest and the earliest of his writings
known. 1t dates from 1863, and is enti-
tied .Maxims that 1 Have Adopted For hly
| Conduct at Court"
An Erie postal clerk, the other day, found
| letter in his hands addressed 10 West ot
Mosques, Pa There is no postotiice In Penn
sylvania Of that name. but by reading the d.
rection aloud he knew instantly that 1t WAS
meant Tor West Damascus" which ID post
Office opposite Cochecton.
| In Bavaria l342 out of every hundred births