Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-07
GLOBELETs.

oouu nelly duuOuHceS LilaI ne Will not reLlTe
from politics.
The whole number of students in all the de-
partments of Dartmouth college is 426.
Ex-senator Flelinghuysen, of New Jersey,
| lost $500, 900 by the failure of the Newark
| bank.
The other day Joseph Mayer was arrested in
Snyder county, Pa, for numbering peddler
| fifteen years ago.
An ap2reciative contemporary remarks
| mo frst-class editor can afford to fool away
| his time in congress-
The late Stephen Whitney Phoenix, of New
York, left nearly 81 ,OOo, 900 in value to Column
bia college, of that city.
| The first Napoleon declared himself man
of destiny. So does Guiteau, the active
court gymnast at Washington.
The Meridian, Miss, Mercury takes strong
| ground in favor of an agitation for the "wip-
ing out" of the 18th amendment.
The story of Giteau's life has been given in
the court room; and now the people are in a
| hurry to read the story of his death.
Detroit has bitter beer war in which all
III.
Three or five cents glass is the issue.
Our navy still lives and acts. A naval lieut.
enant was recently court martialled because
he did not pay his tai!or's bill. This is en-
couraging.
The Boston Post advises Victoria c. Wood
hull, who has just returned from England, to
make herself popular by marrying Guiteau,
I'M IF ar;n fba loo Aa1d
The Boston Pilot says: The next s'crank''
who fires at Guiteau, and misses, should be
hanged on the spot. Somehow the devil seems
to monopolize the good marksmen.
The latest devices for superseding the cash
boy in large eastern retail stores is system
of troughs, along which roll hollow balls
carrying money and change to and from the
cashier.
There are 100000 voters in Massachusetts,,
and the state constitution has just been
amended by the votes of 30,241 of them. The
Yankees do not seem to value their electoral
privileges.
A paper called Common Sense has been is
sued in Washington. Democratic and Repub-
lican congressman, in the exchange of per-
sonal civilities advised each other to subscribe
for it. Good advice
The sum of 81 600 damages has just been
| awarded by Western court to a man who
| caught cold while riding in an emigrant car,
when, as he claimed, lie was entitled by his
ticket to a seat in parlor car.
Mrs. Woodruff, of odorous memory, has
arrived in New York once more. For several
years she has been publishing a sort of
weekly paper in London-an organ of free love,
free trade and free everything.
A Kentucky man is to be hauled up in court
for stealing the heart of the girl he loved.
he was a medical man, the girl died, and he
stole the heart at the post-mortem examina-
ton and carried itaway in his overcoat pocket
Rev. A. D. Mayo reports that the young
women of "refined families" down South are
eager to teach school, and that they are "the
best material for teachers in the world.'
What do our Yankee school-ma ANS think of
| that?
"Here, hold my shawl!' said st. Louis
| woman to her husband when a misguided
young man smoked in her face in a street car.
Then she knocked the young mans cigar out
of his mouth, and then she knocked the young
| man himself down, and then she took the
| shawl again.
The old Grant machine is working again,
| and one of its latest operations is an attempt
| to have Gen. Babcock made superintendent of
public buildings and grounds, position he
held under his old chief. Arthur is said to
be favorably disposed toward this suggestion
'Let no guilty man escape"
The New York World says the tariff con-
| vention recently held in that city, does not
seem to have made favorable impression on
| the public. 1t has not made favorable i'm
preston even on its wn.members. OF course
| every delegate who read paper was favorably
| impressed with the merits of his own paper,
but there his appreciation, as result, ended
Some 25 years ago Boston had twice as
many daily papers as now-consolidation did
| the work Of reduction. The same process of
consolidation IS going on in other cities. In
New Orleans the Times and Democrat are to
be consolidated, when that city will be reduced
to three dailies, one of which will be the ven
kerable Picayune and the other the old French
Bee.
Six little girls who picked up autumn leaves
in the New York Central park may be very
thankful for getting off without having their
heads dubbed. They were dragged off by the
stalwart policeman who arrested them, and
taken before one of the justices. Having
thoroughly scared them, this functionary de-
| livered them scathing lecture on the sin of
violating law Of whose existence they had
not known. Then he discharged them and
they ran like gazelles.
The Augusta, Ga, Constitutionalist in
commenting on Secretary Blaine's announce
ment that he shall run for no office, says: "He
will retire from the cabinet to devote himself
| to private business for the present. And then
but we will not cross the bridge until we
come to it, Some believe that the great pres
| idential pontoon will reach from Maine to
Georgia, ana thai
| The country, free from storm and wreck,
Savannahll call to Kennebec,
Augusta to Augusta"
When Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Mackay were
staying at hotel at The Hague not long ago,
the landlord asked Mr.. Mackay's servanti If his
master were not king in his own country.
He was assured that kings and queens were
uot known in America, but was not to be con-
WINGED. Exulting over his wealthy guests, he
next day sent to one of the city journals an
account of the arrival his hotel of "the
King and Queen of the Bonanza Mountains Of
California"
Guiteau has established precedent in Judge
Cox's remarkable court which permits every
murderep.on trial for his life not only TO con-
duct his own trial but to blackguard every
witness who is to appear against him, and
every man, witness or otherwise, who pre-
sumes to speak unfavorably of him. The
Judge did not even threaten when it was estab
lshed on Saturday. "Mr. Prisoner" seems to
have both the court and the counsel for the