Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-05
GLOBELETs.


GLOBELETs.
True vulgarity resolves itself into that CEN
trail peint of evil-seldshness.
Funds are being collected in Boston for
erecting statue of Theodore Parker.
The government has paid in pensions from
the first $500, 0Oo, 900, OF which 5000 0,oOo
were paid the rebellion.
"Old Guesser's SOM in Indiana, guesses
that Dan VOORHEES, is going in for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination in 1884.
Asking questions private and personal is
which no one cares to hear, is another.
It is said the orthodox preachers in Georgia
and Tennessee are alarmed at the success of
Mormon missionaries in those states, in max
ing converts.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is picturesquely
mentioned as laughing merrily and Shaking
her pretty head when questioned about the
report of her intended marriage"
The Philadelphia Bulletin hopes the dividing
issue in national politics for while to come,
will be free trade against protection. 1t is
confident the protectionists will be able to
hold their own.
It is rumored that David Davis, president of
the senate, is soon to marry Massachusetts,
lady. His former wife was q Massachusetts,
lady, daughter Of Judge William P. Walker,
of Lennox, Berkshire county.
President Arthur, it is repor ted, will give
no permanent hostess to the White House
but will upon occasions of formal entertain
ment, invite the assistance of the wives and
daughters of the members of the cabinet.
Russian Nihilists are to be hunted out by
the members OF an order somewhat similar to
their own-the Holy League. The association
is a secret one, and includes in its membership
persons belonging to all classes Of Russian 80
ciety.
The late great storms in England caused the
destruction Of thousands of the fine old trees
which made the parks attractive. Olden oaks,
which had done successful battle with the
storms of centuries, were laid prone upon the
ground.
A terrible tale Of suffering Gomez from Col
orado. -Four italian laborers attempted to
walk from Pitkin to Gunnison City, and were
overtaken BY q binding snow storm. They
lost the road and became separated. Only one
was saved.
Trelawney wished that his body should be
burned. II. was accordingly taken to Gotha,
where, after cremation, the ashes were put in
to an urn. They were transported to Rome,
and are now placed beside those Of Keats and
Shelley.
Daniel Webster was born ia Hanover, N. H.,
January Is, 1852. The one hund1edth anniver.
sary of his birth will be celebrated in his birth
place next January. The governors of all the
New England States, and other distinguished
persons are to be invited.
The project of the Boston's Worlds Fair has
not been abandoned as has been thought. The
executive committee are still at work, and are
receiving encouragement. The probabilities
of tia scheme will probably be definitely de-
cided upon by February next.
Ohio is again to the front. Keller has swept
the field for the speakership. John Sherman
may now think he has another chance, but
Ohio has not momentum enough to carry him
into the presidency, nor to secure for him a
nomination for that position.
Mr.. Wilfrid Blunt, the husband of Lady
Anne Blunt, Byron's granddaughter and a
writer herself, is the author of 1.-THE Love
Poems of Proteus," the little look so enthusi-
astically praised by Lord Lytton, in the cur
rent number of The Nineteemth Csutury.
It is said some 16, 600 tickets for New Eng
land were sold at the New York railroad sta.
tons the day before Thanksgiving. All the
trains were crowded to their utm ost capacity.
This shows the attachment of the sons of
New England to the institutions and tradi-
tions Of their fathers.
There is curious old Roman superstition
that three cardinals always die nearly together.
So now that Cardinals Catarini and Gianelli
have gone within u few days OF each other,
Roman society," confidently expecting the de-
parture of one of three other cardinals who
are dangerously i'll.
It is avowed that Senator Pendleton is turn
ing an earnest gaze upon the presidency. He
may count upon Ohio's prestige in the role
of the great men to give him strength in that
direction, and he may even win, unless that
better, ADLER and more accomplished states
man, Allen g. Thurman, steps in and sweeps
the board.
OF the $2O0,0 Garfield monument fund,
$65, 900 have already been raised, citi-
zens of Cleveland, Ohio, contributing
thereto $44,500. COMMITTEES have
been appointed in all the counties in
Ohio, to solicit contributions, and funds are
flowing in, in larger or smaller amounts from
all quarters in and out of the state. The gen.
eral committee having charge of the enter
prise, are confident that the whole amount re.
quired will be soon realized.
On recent evening in Philadelphia the
spirit Of Thomas Paine, it is alleged, "revisited
the glimpses of the moon," ano through
woman medium addressed an audience of sew
eral hundred people. After the adj