Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-22
GLOBULEs.

Secretary Sherman is the guest of Fletcher U.
Harper at Long Beach.
The Victoria, Australia, Irish relief fupd
amounted altogether to sI5S,370
Chief Justice Waite is spending the summer
at his boyhood home, Lyme, Conn.
Burdette, the Darlington Ha,ekeye man. has
gone to live permanently ct Nantucket, Mass.
Rev. George Ell. Hepwo expects to return
to the United States some time in the autumn.
Enormous natural caverns, one GOO feet long,
lave lately been found near Wells, Somerset,
England.
Senator Blaine is said to be opposed, in his
Maine campaign, to Eugene Hale as possible
Senatorial colleague.
The New Haven police quickly quelled a
street fight by throwing water On the combat
ants with a fire engine.
A provincial deputationiss to Parliament can
make three visits year, fare sumptuously
every day and make 81 500 year.
The discovery that the chief of tribe OF
Canadian Indians was really q woman, has
created aquaw-king among the red men.
The Empress Eugenie, at the end of this
month, will visit the Queen at Osborne, ard
then go to spend the autumn in Switzerland.
This years yield of tea in India is estimated
at 100000 pounds. nearly double that Of
1878. Ten years ago it was under Il, 600, 600.
Mr.iNathaniel Thayer. Jr., of Boston, has
been elected governor of the Newport Casino
in place of Mr.. Royal Phelps, of New York. re-
signed.
= Mr.. Yoshida Ojir9, the japanese Secretary of
Legation and Charge d'Affaires, after
service of six years. has left Washington for
Japan.
San Francisco is not yet done with women
pedestrian matches. Race after race, with
much the same party or contestants. draws
crowds.
1t is claimed that General Grant has promised
that upon his return from the far West he and
Mrs. Grant will visit General Garfield at Men
tor, Ohio.
The London Home Hospitals association for
paying patients has opened its first establish
ment. Every patient will be attended by his
own doctor.
A Philadelphia census taker says he is sur-
prised at the large number of full grown idiots
| hO AouHo. AS cfICtHliy uc8 huoH uuCu
about Philadelphia.
| 1t is claimed that new Swedish gun adopt
ed by the Russian navy is even mere deadly
| than the Gatling gun. 1t can be carried up in
to the maintop if necessary.
Z. O. Stedman, who is summering st Swamp
scott, is at work upon critical essay on Wsl5
Whitmau's poems. This essay will be pub
lished early in the autumn in Scri5ner.
APeoria girl had the lockjaw and couldn't
open her mouth till some one said she had
| false teeth, and then she contriysd to open it
enough to show that it was no such thing.
Crowds of e1cursionists go up nightly by
the railway to see Vesuvius illuminated by
electric light. The traffic at night is greater
than in the day time, and there are not enough
cars to meet the demand.
A personal friend of General Grants in
Washington says that the ex-President will
never allow his name to 60 before another
Presidential convention, and will never again
take an active part in politics.
A Methodist missionary cent from Chicago
to Virginia City, reports as follows: II made
canvass of the town, and find everybody crazy
for gold, but 1 was unable to find Christian,
though the saloons were numerous"
The total number of psupers in London, ex-
elusive of lunatics in asylums and 1856 Migrants,
on the last day of the second week of June
was 85,049, of whom 1878 we're in work.
houses and 3S,256 receiving outdoor relief.
The effect of the expulsion of the Jesuits
from France is likely to promote their infiu-
e1ce, and inasmuch as it will so widely distri-
bate them. Scarcely day passes but we read
that a detachment of them has settled in some
new field.
There are said to be no fewer than eighteen
members of the Vanderbilt family now sta, il G
at the Hotel Bristol. Paris and wen the suit .
of apartments usually reserved for the Prince
of Wales has been given up TO the American
millionaire.
A Colorado man can take his rife md put e
bullet into an old straw hat 1000 yards away
every time; but he doesn't get down on the
ground and taugle himself all up to do it, SO
he isn't considered a good rifeman by the
average amateur.
The Princess Dora DIstria is the guest of
her friends, DR.. and Mrs. Olivier, at Swamp
scott, Massachusetts,. She stopped at Hart
ford, but found that Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe, whom she intended to surprise with a
visit, was absent from homr.
At the recent examinations of the Univer-
sity of Bologna, young lady received her
diploma of Doctress, SURPRISING the students
of the other sex in anatomy, philosophy and
chemistry. At the University of Turin fair
girl graduate obtained similar degree of sue
cess in law.
Jose Maria Salazar saw young girl in en-
Arizona mining camp, fell madly in love with
her, aHd within three hours asked her to marry
him. She declined and he killed her on the
spot. Retribution speedy as his court
ship had been, for he was at once hanged by
the mintrs.
The house of lords threw on. the deceased
wife's sister bill by iOl to 80. Several wings
Lord Selborne, the Duke of Argyll, and Lord
Coleridge, who spoke at leng;h-opposed such
marriages, while several tories voted for them.
The Prince of Wales and Duke Of Edinburg
and Connaught voted in favor.
In 1869 London bad thirteen gas companies
employing an aggregate capital of f7.s SIS, S44.
Now there are but four companies, but their
Il capital is $12.6s1, SIS. The gas sold per ton