Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-11
GLOBELETs.

Hon. A. 8. Hewitt, of New York, has gone
to Europe for six weeks.
A monetary panic is threatened in Germany.
Paper currency is talked Of.
A thousand men are at work constructing
new street railroad in Chicago.
Berlin has vegetarian restaurant, in which
no aulmal food nor spirituous drink can be
had.
The perennial sea serpent and big snake
jackasses have got to work in the Eastern
press.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is in very poor
health. She will visit Canada in hopes of i'm
provement.
Mrs. Livermore told the people of the hub
the other day that there were twoplaces where
temperance is unpopular-Hell and Boston.
A Chicago Times reporter processes to have
''sauntered around among the nice folks" He
doesn't tell what sort of disguise he assumed.
"Every man is the architect of his own for
tune" quotes the Chicago Times, and adds,
"but mighty few of them ever learn the
trade"
1t was very ungallant in the old bachelor
who was told that certain lady chad one foot
in the grave" to ask if there wasn't room for
both feet.
Gov. Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, refuses to char
ter any more of what he calls ''death rattle
insurance companies based on mutual
assessments.
General j. C. Abbott, e1-U. s. Senator from
81 o.
entered the federal army from New Hamp-
shire, and settled in the south after the war
The latest pet in dogs is the Spanish dog.
1t is roly-poly thing that looks like tan
gled spool of light brown silk, out of which
the black, shiny eyes peer curiously at you.
The worlds Methodist council in London
condemned travel by ministers on Sundays,
holding that they should travel on the Satur-
days, and stay over night where they desired
to be on the next day.
The Illinois town of Streater has been
tiught the lesson that a man who says he il
an English lord, and has the speech and man
ners to suit the character, may commit big
amy, larceny and perjury.
Various municipal legislatures which sent
official delegations to Cleveland are now fig
uring up the cost of the whisky and cham-
payne that was required to drown the grief at
the Garfield burial.
Edward Law, a Philadelphia lawyer and poll
| tician, was an expert Oarsman and swimmer,
| and was elected president of the University
Barge club because of his devoting to rowing;
yet when his shell capsized he was drowned.
In case in which the street railways Of
Chicago seek to escape the payment of a Ii
| cense fee of $50 per car, Judge Drummond OF
the United States court has given the city a
judgment for arrears, which are estimated at
S250,000.
Me Too Platt's amour with the unknown
woman at the Delavan house has earned him
very kindly and complimentary notice in
| the French papers. The French papers are
not at all slow in recognizing American states
manship.
A law of the Michigan State Normal school
forbids the lodging of male and female stu
dents in the same building. Three couples
got married lately, and sent the faculty pc
tition to make an exception in their cases.
The faculty said no.
There is great deal in q name sometimes,
| On Saturday last the stock of the Manhattan
Elevated railroad company, of New York,
opened at seventeen, and closed at twenty
eight on the discovery that Gould and his
associates own half the property.
| Disagreement about the closing of theaters
on the evening after GarfeId's death and the
evening of his funeral are being made public
Ia various cities. Many of the managers de-
Quoted two days. pay from the salaries of the
| actors, and in other cases the trouble arises
over the adjustment of the loss between the
theaters and the travelling companies.
Rev. Mr.. Willis, of Brownsville, Neb., in his
| funeral sermon ON Garfield's death declared
that "by the decree of God Guiteau had shot
| Garfield to punish the nation, and that God
would not answer the prayer of the people and
| let Garfield live, because the nations sin was
so terrible" The presumption is that Mr..
Willis sustains peculiarly intimate relations
with the Lord, and is entirely in his conf.
dence.
The President of Amherst college has offer
ed to the students the privilege of electing
representatives in whose hal ds will be left Ger.
tain matters of college administration now
undertaken by the faculty. This body will
probably be composed of four seniors, three
juniors, two sophomores and one freshman,
with member Of the faculty as presiding
officer, if the classes accept the proposal,
which seems doubtful.
| Prof. Dawson, of the Dominion Geological
survey, reports that the forests of Columbia
are of vast Importance. Many frst-class mills
| have been established, and the total annua
| product is about Q O,OOO,O 900 feet. Dawso.
estimates that timber covers 10000, 900 acres,
or two-thlrds of the whole province Tht
Douglas fir or Oregon pine is the most valu
| able commercial tree. 1t frequently exceeds
eight feet IN diameter, and rises to a height oil
| from 200 to 300 feet, forming great and dark
| forests.
DR.. de Plongeon of Mexico has made some
interesting excavations in the ruins of Uxmal
| near Nerds, Yucatan. He has found a we'll
preserved bust of the God Cay, with an in
scriptIon IN the Mayo language stating that
the god is Isaa-i. E., necessary revealer, or
Messiah. Near the bust was an altar with
cabalstical signs Other articles in tho rups