Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-03
GLOBELETS.


five years.
Russians never walk unless they are COM
PEELED to do 30.
DR.. Calling. the gun man, is a native of
North Carolina.
The Southern Illinois fruit orchards are
spangled with buds.
Pneumonia is sweeping off blooded horses in
the Blue Grass region.
Uncle Sam has ninety eight thousand ser
wants in his employ.
Henry Clay bred Son who has turned out
to be horse breeder.
Chief Justice Noah Davis ohews five OUNCES
of fnecut every day.
An Iowa editor suicided by holding his head
in bucket of water.
The ribon dance has been introduced at chill
drens parties in Paris.
A Stamford, KY, baby seventeen months
old weighs 100 pounds.
The Duchess of Edinburgh has muff made
of feathers of the bluejay.
1t is estimated that 5000 men are employed
in the new mines in Maine.
One New York firm pays detective 8, 0OOa
year to watch foS shoplifters.
The daily average output of ore at Leadville,
at last accounts, was 60715 tons.
The ladies of Chicago have three clubs de-.
voted to literature and philosophy.
The Queen of the Belgians cultivates roses
and carnations with her own hand.
The empress of Russia received a dress from
Paris the cost of which was S. 1000.
Gladstone has made declaration against the
English parliamentary gagging bill.
The Chinese population of New York has In
creased from 157in 1874 to 5000 in 1879.
Parke Goodwin eats regularly two pounds Of
Malaga grapes before dressing in the morning.
In New England alone there are now over
2,OO0 freight cars being built for various roads,
Prince Oscar, second son of the King of
Sweden, will make an educational tour CT
Italy.
lady parades the streets of Nice escorted
by three bloodhounds of quarrelsome DISPOSE
ton.
Dog shows arc not considered lentcn enter
talnment. Too much whine about them. per-
haps.
Cardinal McClosky has more warm friends
and admirers at the vatican than any other
prelate.
The Japanese live on fish and rice, have sips
of tea and whiffs of tobacco, and yet do very
hard work.
A Spanish count, an English earl and Rus
sian of some title are conspicuous upon Muir
Hill, N. Y.
In Kentucky, widows with children have
been allowed to vote for school trustees these
sixteen years.
ton that it be kept loan fund for work
ingmen's societies.
A critic says that while the number of crimes
is decreasing the ferocity of those that are
committed increases.
George William Curtis takes pride in the
thought that he is now one of the few public
men without boom"
Prof Alexander Agassiz pays from his own
pocket most of the expenses of the Harvard
museum of comparative zoology.
A feeling of intense uneasiness prevails at
San Francisco for fear that violent measures
will be taken against the Chinese.
The fall of snow in South Carolina is be-
lieved to have killed the Hessian fly, which had
begun to damage the wheat crop.
The New Orleans Picayune says that foreign
BARRIERS make the most successful bogus counts.
They have such an aristocratic air about them
fashion journal says the first bluebird is
always followed by the appearance of the
young lady with handsome spring parasoI.
The Philadelphia Chronicle Herald thinks
that every well-regulated household should
keep dog for the head of the family to swear
at.
Col Alexander Mcclure, of the Philadelphia
Times, is said to be in the midst of an interest
ing private correspondence with Samuel j.
Tilden.
The New York Commercial says that oleo-
margarine diamonds, however bright, will
never be appreciated like the real, natural
twinklers.
EKearney claims that there is a plot on foot
to assassinate him. He has probably heard
that the authorities are preparing to abate all
nuisances.
At the skating rink at Brighton, England, re-
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plays at o'clock, and Mrs. Langtry will be
present"
The governor of Michigan ia paid $1,000 q
year, but is allowed to step up to the bar when
invited, and by special statute he may go fish
ing on Sunday.
A Pittsburg man recently made two unsuc-
cessfuI attempts to hang himself. The Oil
City Derrick thinks he must have been a sheriff
in his life time.
There are five Chinese students in the Nor
gan school at Clinton, Conn.,. and one of these,
Wing Ho, at the December examination stood
at the head of his class.
The coinage at the Philadelphia mint the
present month was three million, eight hun
dred and elghty-fve Thousand and twenty
pieces. Value IS, l29,969.
The Rev. 10 hn Hayes Grier, the oldest MEM
Der of the Northumberland presbytery, died
recently at Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania having
lived to be more than ninety years old.
Valentines day was almost entirely unob
served in Richmond, Va, while in the other
principal postoffices in the South the mails