Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-28
GLOBELETS.

GLOBELETS
San Francisco thinks she has outgrown earth
quakes.
Moses Taylor says man is never too old to
remain idle.
America begins to feed vegetables to all the
world in cans.
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6fSlly tosVhe poor!
August Belmont, Jr., inherits his fathers
love for good horsefesh.
A furnace for baking painted crockery has
been built at Grand Rapids.
Col. Gilmore. so long on the staff of Gen.
@. A. Gilmore, is not related to bis chief
Count Won Moltke says that every war, even
though victorious is a national misfortune.
The king of Portugal has followed his trans
lation of Hamlet by one of the Merchant of
Venice.
At New Orleans, recently. it is claimed that
O'Leary covered five miles in twenty-nine
minutes.
Louisville is recovering from its disgust, and
once more inclines toward professional base
ball club.
House property in towns finds market in
Ireland now. There is sale for country
property.
boy of fourteen has married woman aged
sixty-eight in Delaware. He is never jealous
of his wife.
st. Louis fortune teller says that Profess
sor Wise is alive, and living on an island in
Hudson bay.
Gents have begun to appear ia San Francisco.
Hitherto five cent pieces have been the least
coin received.
Cyrus W. Field has received more decora-
ticns from foreign potentates than any other
| living American.
An old lady now living in London is said to
have been Millais's first teacher in the art of
painting flowers.
The expenses incurred by the city of Paris
for the removal of snow have been 8, 1880 0
francs, or $644,720.
At Madrid sentries exposed to the death
breath" blowing from the Guadarama noun
| tains, are changed every half hour.
Cardinal McCloskey speaks Italian so fluent
taken for native of that country.
There are rumors that Kelley, the motor
man, has turned his attention to machine for
sticking pins through starched collar.
The bent form of Thurlow Weed may be
seen on Wall street every few days as he gather 8
in his shekels from keen spectators.
The idea of rebuilding the Sorbonne at Paris
Ioc &c &c
opinion between the state and municipal coun-
Gill;
tramp protected himself from the cold at
La Harpe, ILL.,, by buildings complete circle of
fire and going to sleep in the inclosure; but he
| was burned to death.
Tennessee man can perfectly initiate
the sounds made by two dogs engaged in fight
| ing, that he can call a Memphis eongregatio n
out of church in three minutes.
| All the Greenback members of Congress now
| take their luncheon together in the paste room,
which by consent of Speaker Randall has been
| set apart for their accommodation.
| MIR. E. Remington, the gun manufacturer,
has built house at Cairo, Egypt at a cost of
100000. He still has pending claim against
the khedive's government for 100000.
Mont Blanc is not the highest eminence in
Europe. According to the latest measure
ments, the Elbsrz, mountsin of the Cauca-
sian chain, exceeds it by more than 2, 800 feet.
The Irish stew missionaries are found to have
wonderful power in drawing crowds in the
East End of London. They gather their cold
and hungry Hocks to feed them thrice week.
Mrs. John W. Mackay is solemnly reported
to have engaged the exclusive services of one
of the most celebrated Partisan dressmakera, so
that there might be no duplicates of her
gowns.
The school trustees of Missouri district
made rule that no pupil should attend school
on the day after spending night at ball.
The legality of this measure is to be tested in
the courts.
The Roman Catholic missionaries give pain
full picture of the famine in Mesopotamia and
Kurdistan, caused by two bad harvests and
drouths. Christians, Jews and Mohammedans
are all suffering.
The Russian paper, WiedomOsti, suppressed
for three months for abusing the Germans,
stigmatized German women, when they be-
anne animated, as ''prancing COWS crowned
with rose wreaths."
recent visitor to Jefferson Davis, on his
farm ut Beauvoir, says that he is hard at work
on his memoirs, his cotton crop for next season
will reach 1000 bales, and his wife and nephew,
Gen. Joseph Davis, are with him.
Atchison and other Kansas cities propose to
celebrate the acquittal of Senator Ingalls,.
Seven hundred dollars worth of Roman candles
and red-ire already has been bought by the
citizens of the former place, and will be used
upon the occasion.
1t appears that the million signatures ap-
pended to the famous protest presented to the
French parliament by the opponents of the ed
ucation bill are not all genuine. committee
is investigating the matter, and startling reve-
lations are an ticipated.
In the Bernese Overland, Switzerland, the
ground is frozen so hard that before grave can
be dug great fires have to be made in the
churchyards, and in some instances, when this
expedient proved unavailing, the gravediggers
were compelled to use dynamite.
An anchor belonging to the ship in which