Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-31
GLOBELETs.

The young queen of Spain wears the fashion
able idiot fringe.
Mr. Faircbild, the new minister to Spain, is
now IS years old.
single property in California is half the
| size of Rhode Island
Asplder's web was found stretched across the
Housatonic river, 400 feet.
House servants are wanted in Montana and
Nevada; wages 1926 to $40 month.
MIR. Gladstone inherited great wealth, but
has lost much of it in unfortunate mine shares.
Zola's writings are said to be too real even
for Paris, and be is losing his popularity there
Mr.. Marsh, the American minister at Rome.
has an art collection which is valued at slOO.-
900.
John Cantrell. Texas stage robber, has Just
been sentenced to ninety-nine years i'm prison.
ment.
Miss Kruse reproved man who jostled her,
in Galena, Iowa, by throwing pepper into his
eyes.
The Goldsmith's company of London now
give prizes, open to competition, for designs in
plate.
The daily life of Jay Gould is extremely reg
ular, every moment being occupied with ex-
hausting labor.
Peach trees down in Delaware are yielding
to the siren advances of January's hot house
sun, and show signs of budd ing.
Mgr. Czacki, the new Papal nuncio, has one
of the finest equipages in Paris, throwing Lord
Lyons elegant carriage into the shade.
The mysterious person who has been haunt
ing the halls of Congress for several weeks has
been finally identified as Senator Sharon.
An Ypsilanti brother and sister desire to mar.
ry, and their parents have joined in asking for
license; but the law of the State forbids such
a union.
Howard l.. Smith, Boston negro, finds him
self rewarded by bequest of S27, 900 from
Baltimore,man, whose sons he once saved from
drowning.
Prince Napoleon's son, Prince Victor. is as
tall as his father, and it is said he dares not
speak in his fathers presence unless he is
spoken to-
North Carolina has six newspapers edited by
negroes, Louisiana three, Tennessee and Texas
two each and Virginia, Alabama and Missis-
sippi one each.
Mrs. Williams, aged Is, has applied for d.
vorce at Kansas City from man whom she
married when she was IL. She intends to go
into wedlock again as soon as she gets free.
Ten thousand persons are said to have visited
the remains of Emperor Norton" prior to
burial, in San Francisco. His brain weighed
fifty-one ounces, and showed no Sings of in.
sanity,
young girl, at Sandy HILL N. Y, ran into
the office of staid old lawyer, kissed him, and
said that she accepted his offer of marriage
though he hadn't made any. She had gore
crazy.
An Indian at San Diego, CAL, was told that
a voice through the telephone was that of the
Great Spirit, and when it said, "Give up those
stolen horses" he Immediately confessed that
he was thief.
| The prophet Zadkiel has taken us in hand for
| 1880. ''There will be feverish excitement in
New York in May, and the marshalling of
troops will rouse the martial instinct of the
American people"
| The first balloon ascension in the United
States was made Jan. s. 1898, by Mr..
large crowd of spectators, among whom
Gen. Washington.
| The Presbyterian union, of Cleveland, has
voted that Christian can consistently read
| Sunday newspapers, but has expressed no
| opinion on Monday morning newspapers, which
| are made on Sunday.
Henry Clay is postmaster at Jamestown, Va,
III
| Letters have been delivered there in some form
or other for 2S5 years, and yet the salary is
| only $5l per annum.
professional nurse of Norwalk, Conn,
| swallowed forty-fve grains of morphine, say
| ing that that was her regular dose. 1t was
enough to kill fifteen ordinary persons. 1t had
no apparent effect on her.
| Two miles of railroad have been built the
| ice, crossing the st. Lawrence river at Montrc-
al The tics and stringers are laid fiat, ard
| then water is pumped between them to freeze,
| thus making solid bed.
The first iron works in America were erected
| in 1919, at place called Falling Creek,
| branch of the James river, not far from
| jamestown, the first settlement of the Virginia
colony, thirty-two miles from the sea.
Twin brothers at Evergreen, Ala, were not
| only alike in looks, but equal in strength
that wrestling match was arranged as test.
This did not settle the question, however, for
one was thrown on his head and killed at the
beginning of the contest.
The orange crop of Southern California is
Stunning large proportions. One of the most
successful growers in that State is Mr.. Bris-
walter, who sold his last years crop of fruit at
the rate of $l5 per tree. aggregating 1922 500.
His crop of grapes he sold for $4,000.
The Charlottesville (Ga.) Democrat has this
| to say in its local columns: Gardening is go
ing on right ahead here. Grain crops are very
| forward in this section. A gentleman in town
has wild honeysuckles in bloom in his yard
Red Reynolds has corn four inches high. Corn
| in Garmiett is reported to be knee high.
At the sound of pistol shot In fight at a
| ball. in Les Vegas, New Mexico, the janitor
turned off the gas. believing that darkness
would stop the row. But he was mistaken.
| Pistols continued to go off without aim, but
so damagingly that one man was killed by