Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-12
GLOBELETS.

from Mexico.
The judges of the Iowa supreme court ara
accused of charging mileage, while they ride
on the railroads as deadheads.
Two hundred families of Philadelphia Qua
kers will form colony in Minnesota, ON the
Northern Pacific railroad, next spring.
Dan Rice, having miserably failed az tenn
perance lecturer, can hire himself out as hor-
rible example, if any more needed.
sale by auction of tract of land fifty
one by thirty eight miles in area, in Kansas
is to be made to satisfy mortgage of $780,
200.
On January Goth male wolf, weighing
seventy-six pounds, and three or four years
old, shot close so Kreuzwale in Lor-
| raine.
visiting clergyman was Just rising from
prayer, in st. Paul church, when an usher
strobe up the centre aisle and handed him a
big bouquet, just as they do in the theaters.
Miss Clinch Knocked the Rev. Mr.. Broadway
off his knees with club in prayer meeting
at Brentforn Ont. She had become insane,
aud thought he had broken promise to
marry her.
At Kolomna, Russia, they have just cele.
brated the completion, in the machine shops of
that place, of their five hundredth locomotive
and ten thousandth railroad car The FIRST
engine was built there in 1868, and is still in
| active use.
There is talk of establishing in Massachu-
sets State board of arbitration to settle
all disputes between employers and employed.
Next let them set up State board of arbitra-
ton to determine what is proper to pay for
| Goldfish, or for coal or -four.
| Joseph Bailey, of Lancaster, Wis, advised
his son to break his engagement with Jennie
Farrell and marry her prettier sister. Jenni
resentfully set fire to the old mans barn and
has gone to State prison, while her sister. has
| become young Bailey's wife.
| Thomas Sloven. who has during his lifetime
| saved eighteen lives most of them in the har-
| Dor of st. John, N. B., and who was badly
hurt in one rescue, was, on Saturday, presented
with purse Of $2O7. He was given the free
dom of the city of st. John some years ago.
| A peculiar velocipede is used on railroad
tracks in Kansas by telegraph repairera. It
has two wheels, like bicycle, which run on
one track, and over which the rider sits, VIII lie
a smaller wheel, for steadying rests the
other track. Twenty miles an hour is practca.
| BILE with it.
| Some years ago the father of Harvard grad
uate who had been living abroad after taking
his degree, and spending freely, cut off his sup
plies. The son. intensely indignant, opened q
vein, addressed his father letter full of re-
proaches, written in his own blood, and then
allowed himself to bleed to death.
In consequence of the frequent discovery of
excavations and assures in number of houses
in Odessa, causing damage to the gas and water
pipes, it is believed that the city Is under.
mined and threatened with serious danger.
commission has consequently been formed to
conduct Investigations underneath the town.
Houses tumble down here sometimes before
| they are 900 hours old. which is wholly mex
cusable but house which lately tumbled down
at Belper. England, had at least the name of
being 900 years old. 1t was occupied up to
last month, and four hundred years ago was
the only inn in Belper. 1t was one stored,
with matched roof.
The favorite amusement of all Spaniards,
bull fighting is threatened with suppression
|
Animals established in the capital of the Aus
trian empire, has addressed circulars to kin
dred institutions throughout the world re-
| questing their cooperation in putting down
| this barbarous sport.
| MIR. Gladstones sister, who recently died, re-
tanned to the full the remarkable affection of
her distinguished brother after she became
Roman Catholic. She used often to visit Rome,
and was special favorite with Pho Mono. The
| good old man would often question Miss Glad
stone about her distinguished brother and the
| other lay leaders of the old Oxford Anglican
party.
Coming events are casting omiuous shadows
before in England, in the shape Of designations
by old Tory oificeholders who have earned their
pensions, so that Tories may be appointed in
| their stead. Tho latest is that Of Mr.. Barlow,
a master in lnnacy, appointed by Lord Lynd-
hurst, whose secretary he had been some forty
years ago. The salary of this office is $4,000
n year.
| The Paris newspapers are beginning to de-
mand the reopening of diplomatic relations
between France and Mexico, which were brok-
en- off at the fall of the empire of Macmillan,
and have never since been restored. The pro-
lection of the interests of French citizens re-
siding in Mexico has been left meanwhile to
the good offices of the representatives of tho
United States.
| The Shanghai Courier says that marriages in
China between persons of the same surname
are not only null and void, but render the con-
tracing parties, as we'll as the go-between who
| arranged the match, liable to punishment of
sixty blows. The marriage presents are, more
over, forfeited to the state. MIR. Brown in
fact, may not marry Miss Brown. nor Miss
Jones be led to the altar by MIR. Jones.
The sheriff of Middlesex county, Mass, died
recently, and the controversy as to which of
the deputies as the senior in office, should act
as sheriff ad Interim has been taken into
court. The odd thing about the fight is that
the contestants are not struggling for the posi-
ton, but against it.; for 1t will yield no ad-
ditional profit and whoever gets it will be
compelled to act as executioner next Friday.
The London Athenaeun, says that the Duke
of Somerset, having some years ago abolished