Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-26
Miscellaneous Paragraphs.

Ireland nave tnlfty-tnroo yacht clubs
and more than 800 yachts.
IT is on record in the United States
Court in New Orleans that negro in
Grant parish tasted sixty days.
DowNEY, the poet delegate to Con-
gress from Wyoming, says that his
poem in the Reco, d has made him the
most popular man in the country.
Act one, they meet as in pleasant dream;
Act two, he'll treat to soda and ice-cream;
Act three, his cash. alas is nearly played;
Act four, his girl grows cold, sedate and staid;
Act five, just as his love is ripe and yellow
His girl is porting with another fellow.
SEVEN doctors gathered around man
who fell on the walk. Four called it
case ofsunstroke and the other three said
it was a fit. Along came a small boy
and proved it was banana peel.
WHEN inviting guests to dinner the
number should be limited in accordance
with the quantity Of dinner that can be
served. Thirteen at the table is unlucky
when there is dinner enough for only
ten.
THREE men were about to cut water
melon in saloon at Athens, Ga, when
it exploded with loud noise, sending
fragments flying all over the room. One
Of the men had an eye destroyed by the
explosion.
PRoF. NEwcoMB, of the Washing
ton observatory, has run his celestial
tape-line out and finds that light travels
1874, 800 miles second-a little slowe,
than has been generally suspected by
astronomers heretofore.
D. L. MOODY has written to Gen. j.
s. Berry, of Baltimore, that, contrary to
expectation, he will not be in Baltimore
the coming winter, as he goes to San
Francisco in October, and will remain
there for an indefinite period.
JAMES O'NEnL, an actor, has been
photographed in San Francisco in the
character of our Savior, which he as
sumed in the "Passion Play" Both
actor and photographer are severely
censured by the clergy of that city.
The man who wrote the song "My
Country, tbs of Thee" was the Rev. S.
F. Smith, and he still lives at Newton,
Mass. It was written one day while the
author was theologue at Andover Sem.
mary, and he never expected it to be
famous.
HoMBURe, ten years ago noted for its
Of the suppression of its games by the
German Government. This year it has
been gay, owing to the influx of wealthy
and fashionable English and American
visitors.
A TENNESSEE sutton wrote to his
sweetheart as follows: Your father
kicked me last night, and forbid me the
house. If I whipped him, would it les
sen your love for me?" She replied
that it wouldn't, and the parent was
soundly thrashed.
A KANSAS CRY reporter records the
fact that the defeated candidate "took
his way to the train, wrapped in gloom
and store clothes. The gloom was an
elegant fit, but the store clothes were
too short in the legs and very baggy
about the shoulders"
The small stones which fill ND the
crevices have almost as much to do with
the making the fair and firm wall as the
great rocks ; so the right and wise use of
spare moments contributes not little
to the building up, in proportion with
strength, mans mind.
IT is claimed for the organ now being
placed in the Stewart cathedral at Gar
den City, L. l., that it will be the most
perfect, the most expensive, and, in
many respects, the most wonderful in
strument in the world. It is the largest
in existence, and has lis stops and
1905 pipes.
"PRoBABLY few persons" says the
London Truth, have had SO many pro-
posals of marriage as Lady Burdette-
Coutts. I was talking day or two ago
with an eminent widower. 4, myself,
he said, 'have proposed to her, for I re-
gard this as duty that every man owes
to his family"
IT was colored preacher VINO said to
his flock: "We have a collection to
make this morning, and, for de glory OBJ
heaben, whichever of youstole Mr.. Jones
turkeys, don't put anything on the
plate" One who was there says, every
blessed niggah in church came down
with the rocks.
WHEN you are travelling always take
some stranger into your confidence, tell
him how much money you have with
you, where you keep it, and what you
are going to do with it. If he doesn't
relieve you Of what you possess you'll
have the satisfaction of knowing that
you have at last met an honest man.
Ina British peerage list appear 49S
names, of which five date from the thir-
teenth century, five from the fourteenth
century, eleven from the fifteenth cent
ury, twenty from the sixteenth century,
sixty-seven from the seventeenth
century, 10 from the eighteenth cent
ury and 271 from the nineteenth century.
J. P. BENJAMIN has arrived in New
York city, after riding on horseback
from Fort Worth, Texas, distance of
2, 400 miles. He resides in New York,
went to Texas on business, and made
the trip home on horseback in order to
see the country. He started on the 10th of
May, and made the journey in ITO days.
The German psychologist, Leo Bait
zer, who has been carrying on excava-
tons in the neighborhood of Nordhaus-
en-, has discovered, at depth of about
six feet below the surface Of the valley,
the entire skeleton of an antediluvian
rhinoceros. The height of this beast
can scarcely have been less than that of
the average African elephant.
AMONG the many Heidelberg tradi-