Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-15
GLOBELErs.

NoyS, III OOuLu africa.
A pastor at Austin, Texas. preached on "a
Tight Squeeze; or, the Round Dance"
The hotel porter whose business ia to wake
people for the early trains has arousing time.
In Portugal the camellia japonica is plant
ed out doors for ornament. 1t grows as big as
an apple tree.
The fashionable jockey. Archer, received
25, 600 francs for winning the French Derby on
Beauminet by head.
A man thrust his arm into hollow log to
catch rabbit, at Americus, Ga, and was IA
tally bitten by rattlesnake
Father Hyacinthe will soon deliver in London
course Of four lectures on Positive Christi
anity," under the sanction of the Archbishop
of Canterbury.
The late John Lothrop Motley left property
OF which an official appraisement has just been
made. 1t was all invested in real estate, and Ia
valued at $l35,949.
Colonel Delaney Kane, the coaching celebri-
ty. has sold his Twenty-Five tally-ho horses for
S6,252. The purchasers are members of the
New York sporting clubs.
Three girls in New England paper mill
caught the smallpox by asserting material, the
high prices of stock having caused collectors to
seek for any kind of rags.
Alexandra Dumas, Jr., during the last six
years has received from the Theatre Franchise
royalties to the amount of $44SOO. Victor
Hugo has received $4,000.
General Burnside gave the members of the
Rhode Island legislature reception at Newport
on Tuesday evening, in honor of his re election
to the United States Senate.
Coquelin, the French comedian, has made
up with the managers of the Theatre Fran
caise. He has withdrawn his resignation aud
will 90 to London to fill his engagements.
Colonel Pashkoff, the leader of the new evan
gelical movement in Russia, has been ordered
to quit the Czar's territory at once. The order
was made at the instance of the holy synod.
When Philadelphia is deprived of the privi-
lege of turning out quack doctors at from
$3.50 to $25 turn, she loses her most power
full claim on the consideration of mankind.
Notice will be given in the house Of COM
mons shortly of motion condemnatory of the
proposed monument. in Westminster Abbey,
to the late Prince Imperial Eugene Louis
Napoleon.
The advocates for marriage with deceased
| wife's sister in England are very actively or
ganizing their ensuing campaign. They be-
leve that the new parliament will give the
desired relief.
Archaeological researches in a mound near
Sandeford. Norway, nave brought to light a
boat sixty feet long. 1t is believed to be a
Vikings ship, used for piratical expeditions a
thousand years ago.
During the past year thirty divers in the
pearl fishery of the Persian Calf, lost their
lives, most of them by sharks. The value of
the pearls taken in the Persian Gulf In 1879, is
estimated at $l.50O,00O.
The father of the late jim Fisk is travel
ing through the West in golden chariot with
which he exhibits his patent hAr-
ness by day; and at night he pitches big
tent, in which he holds revival meetings.
An Auburn inventor has patented car that
runs on skates instead of wheels, and Is es-
pecially intended for elevated railroads. II
runs on grooved rails, and, it is claimed,
with less friction than that of the journals now
in use.
On the arrival of the British army in CabuI
city, after the massacre of the British embassy
| there, one of the first discoveries was that of
Sir Lewis Cavagnari's pug dog. Altogether
adrift and unnoticed. his pet had safely escaped
the turbulent Afghans.
Columbia College, at the coming commence
ment will confer the honorary degree of Mus.
Doc" upon DR.. Leopold Damrosch, the con-
ductor of the Philharmonic and Oratorio socie-
ties. The doctorate which gives him his pres
emit title is in medicine.
The last connecting link in the route across
| Australia from east to westh as lately been COM
pleted by a traveller from the side of Queens
| land. During the journey some very good
country was discovered, which will be more
fully explored before long.
Little D'Albert, who played before the queen
SO that when he was giving Liszt's "Rhspsodie
Hongroise." she rose from her seat perfectly
astonished" and stood graciously behind his
| chair, is described as true, unaffected child,
| without any nonsense about him.
Gen. Chester a. Arthur has relations in the
South with several distinguished Virginia
families, with whom he was connected by his
marriage with Miss Herndon, of Fredericks-
burg. She was the daughter of Lieutenant
Herndon, of the navy, the commander of the
Central America.
President Chadbourne recently promised
the students of Williams College, who wero
bitterly opposed to Grant, to give them holt
day should Garfield be nominated. According
lY the students were out loose from their books
and blackboards that day, passing the day in
jollifcation. Garfield is an alumnus of Will.
Jams.
A Philadelphia private detective was en-
ployed by jealous wife to watch her husband,
butceuld discover nothing wrong In his conduct.
Such q report however, would have ended the
job sooner than the detective desired, and SO he
gave accounts of imaginary misconduct, thus
leading the wife to apply for divorce. He is
now under arrest.
Nadal was a revivalist of whom nobody in
Des Moines had ever heard /; but he was so
modest in conversation, and so powerful in ex-
hortation, that several churches were opened to
him. He got a revival under way, and for