Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-28
GLOBELETS.

penitentiary for horse stealing,
Petitions are being signed in Belgium for the
revival of gaming tables at Spa, which is anxi-
GUS to recover its prosperity.
lady in Greenvile, Ala, has jar that has
been in use for sixty years. and set OF china
that is nearly q hundred years old.
Standing Bear is having soft time in Bos-
ton taking part in banquets. At last accounts
| he was getting ready to sit down.
meeting of married ladies was held in
Nashville Thursday evening, at which neither
gentlemen or misses were admitted.
The commissioners to erect court house for
| Grant county, Ind, report that seven out of
fifteen bidders for the contract offered brides.
Mr.. Darwin's eldest son was married recently
| to Miss Emma Farrer. and the old gentleman
declares that it was of natural selection
The Princess Louise contributed number
of paintings, mostly Canadian scenes, to the
recent exhibition of the London Water Color
| society.
Statistics show that Is, 100000 paper collars
were manufactured and sold in this country
| last year, one man in st. Leuis disposing of no
| less than six.
The tomb of Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Bea-
consfeld's grandfather, in the Spanish ccmc-
terry, Mile End Road, East London, has lately
| been restored.
1.-THE net earnings ofsthe Wooden Mills CON-
pany at Charlottesville. Va, for the past year
| show return of over fourteen per cent upon
| the capital stock.
| Turkeys territorial loss is estimated by
| German authority as a territory almost as
| large Prussia proper, with population of
| eleven millions.
| Sultan Abdul-Aziz eats eleven meal day,
and thinks of visiting Europe next summer.
The hotel on which he confers his disastrous
patronage is to be pitied.
| Public meetings are held at Oberlin, Ohio.
| for the purpose of driving the t. bscco dealers
out of town. Liquor sellers and billiard saloon
| keepers have already been expelled.
| Last month the Premier, ex-Premier and
Primate of England became respectively IS, 70
and 6S, the two latter Oh the same day. Chief
Justice Cockburn also attained his 18th Birth
| day.
| In Atlanta mulatto girl of ii years has been
arrested for being common thief, and S175
worth of jewelry and other goods stolen from
ladies of her acquaintance was found in her
possession.
| 1t is now definitely arranged that the mar
| rage of the Bishop of Manchester, England, to
| Miss Duncan of Bath, to whom he has been en-
gagged for twenty-five years, shall take place
| Immediately.
| The usefulness of Major WhittIe, the revi-
valist, was impaired at Rochester, Mimi, by
| the discovery that his musical aid was the man
who had sung songs III that place from patent
medicine wagon.
| One of the most important and also one of
| the most difficult questions before the Missis-
sippi legislature is what shall be done with the
penitentiary, and whether the leasing system
| shall be continued.
The Desden,ona in Springfield performance
of "Othello' coolIy elbow, turned
| over her pillow, thumped it two or three times,
tucked under one corner, and com posed herself
to die comfortably.
The American Tract society is out with an
| appeal for aid in its work in Texas. Owing to
the necessity of providing each agent with a
shotgun, it takes more money to do the same
| amount OF Notwithstanding.
| John Tompkins, reduced from wealth to
poverty, at Newport, Il. L., sat down in chair
with the intention of staying there until he
| starved to death. He had been without food
| seven days when discovered.
Quite society event occurred at Winham.
Ia, one day last week, Horace Means, ayoung
lawyer of that town, being arrested for forgery
just as his marriage to a beautiful young lady
was about to be soiemnized.
| schoolmaster at Sutton, Vt, was bound and
put into coffin by six boys who intended to
draw him triumphantly through the village on
a sled, but rescuer in the stalwart person of a
woodchopper arrived just in time.
| a wealthy man of Augusta. Ga, carried
great deal of money in a very old pocket-book,
and is glad he did SO, because the pickpockct
got only the worthless wallet, while the roll of
bills slipped out and remained behind.
| Before fight between two factions of st.
Louis school boys began, the coubatants were
all searched by Joint committee to see that
nobody carried weapon; but one boy effectu-
ally secreted pistol and shot all opponent
with it.
| The registration of Col Mcdonald as pro-
| fessor at the Virginia Military Institute has
| been handed to the Board of Visitors of that
| institution. Col. Mcdonald contemplates &C.
cepting position in the United States Fish
Commission.
! SO many the impecunious availed them !.
selves of the liberality of the Casino at Monaco
in paying their passage home when cleaned
| out, that in future no one will be thus ac-
commodated who has omitted to place 500
caution money with Messrs. Blanc before try
| ing his luck.
The practical jaking too common in French
| institutions on the admission of a ncopbyte has
led to painful incident at Anglers. youth
! named Guyot, on entering the Ecole DIES Arts ct
Meters, was SO squeezed against table, or be
tween two tables, that he was taken home hope
lessly Ill, and died in four days.
Leopold 1. of Belgium had an affective way
of meeting discomfort. He intimatcd ON moro
than one occasion that Ringing it was a matter
Of very small nom eut to him, and that duo
notice being given he was quite ready to go at
any time, if the people, through their repre-