Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-06
GLOBELETs.

senator Sharon pays $4,000 taxes in Saa
Francisco.
Bob Ingersoll received 1920 for lecture
in San Francisco.
The personal estate of the late Prince Louis
Napoleon has been sworn under 100000.
The Ro.hschilds of Pari. have given $50 600
to charitable objects within the past two
months.
Ex-senator Pomeroy, Of Kansas, is clearing a
dollars per week from North Caro-
lima gold mine.
Winter street in Boston is bleak thorough
fare in cold weather, but there is Blocker
street in New York.
Joe Coburn, the pardoned prize-fghter, setv-
ed as valet to penitentiary officers while at
hard labor" in Auburn.
Pretty girls are very thick in Morocco Thu
Moors don't consider a girl pretty until she
weighs over two hundred.
Secretary Sherman dresses plainly and al
ways IN dark colors, and looks more like col
lege professor than politician.
The small boy who reached up the chimney
tor another Christmas present, said be found
oOAAAOehihS Gucfe Gudt bOOLcQ MIN.
Princess Louise is having clearing made in
the woods of Rideau Hall and veritable back
woods shanty constructed upon it.
The great Roman houses, which had kept
sulklng IN consequence of the events of 1870
are reopening their reception rooms
One female cook in Wisconsin lumber
camp has already caused two suicides, one
stabbing affray and tifty-tbree fights
Georgia Is spending quarter of m iIlion
dollars this year to buy artificial arms and legs
for manned confederate soldiers living in it.
The Star club Of Boston has been broken ur
by the police. and thirteen of the members
lined "a each. Their effense was playing poker
on Sunday.
The king of Siam has directed the investi-
ture of Queen Victoria and the Prince of
Wales with the distinguished order of the
White Elephant.
Miss Eckhardt, farmers daughter of State
Center, Iowa, pitched eighty acres of wheat
from wagon to stack" and was married few
hours afterward
Mrs. Thomas Hioks-Lord. who has been
abroad fer several months, is expected home in
few weeks. and rumor has it that she intends
to re-enter society.
Several ithographic-stone mines have been
discovered in Kentucky. The material has
therefore been obtained principally from Solen-
haufen, in Bavaria.
AT Idaho Town man committed suicide with
$500 in his pocket. On the fact that he had
this money the coroner's jury based its verdict
that the man was insane.
widow at Galveston Texas, after marrvinn
very quietly. was serenaded by large number
of tin-panolists of her own sex. They had +,
be dispersed by the police.
Cornelius Walford. the eminent English in
surance and financial author, says the library Of
the supreme court at Washington is the most
complete law library in the world.
correspondent describes Hot Springs, AK
as city of doctors shops, drug stores, bath
houses and boarding houses, with few stores
and churches thrown in to fl up the chinks.
London Truth says that nervous apprehen
sion and hard times press severely on the
| lady hood of Moscow and st. Petersburg IN
| foreign parts and cause a dangerous state of
tension.
Of the discoveries and conquerors of the New
World. Columbus died broken hearted, Roldin
and Bobadilla were drowned, Balboa was be-
headed, Cortez was dishonored and Pizarro was
murdered.
The marriage of Lieutenant James G.. Bush
| with Miss EeanOre, a daughter of E. III Stan
ton, Lincoln's famous war secretary, will take
place at the Church of the Epiphany, Wash
ington, on the 9Th instant
Baron Gustave de Rothschild, of Paris, ha.
splendid mansion on the west side of Avenue
Baron purchased a neighbours house for s4G0,
600, and had it torn down TO give his own man
sion larger lawn.
Nlr. Sala, the English journalist lost his way
in Philadelphia the other day, so that he failed
to attend the grand reception. He was for
nearly four hours in the midst of the crowd.
and he says ''the American mob is the be-;
natured in the world"
On New Years day, by order of the Spanish
govern ment, emancipation will begin in ,i;~
colony of Cuba. The plan of emancipation
gradual and will require ten years for its fall
contamination. At the end of that time theirs
will be no slaves in all the Spanish dominions
Gu.tave Dore is at present engaged in illus
trating Shakespeare. he is so completely ali
sorbed in the study of the great poet that he
can think and talk of nothing else but Shakes
peare, and lie putting forth his whole artistic
power in the endesvor to interpret him in a
worthy manner.
An artisan named Conrad Meyer gave him
self up to the police at Zurich, Switzerland.
the other day, saying that he bad murdered
DR.. Schneider, who bad taken legal proceed
ings against him. 1t turned out, however,
that Dr. Schneider had received only six or
seven slight wounds in the back and arm.
The calabocse at Silver Cliff was fired last
Wednesday night by one Of the prisoners and
himself and another persisted in the flames.
The man had been gambling heavily and lost
all bis money; and, when put in the calaboose
about half an hour before the casualty, he de-
clared his intention to fire the premises and
burn himself to death.
The Manchester, Eng, E1aminer and Times,
having spoken of 'the late P. T. Barnum," be
sends it a note assuring the journal of his con-
tinued existence, and saying: My highest
ambition professionally at present ia to nav