Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-30
GLOBELETs.

In one week lately LondOn nrm impol'0o
forty-five tons of rabbits.
Ex-senator Howe, of Wisconsin, who VIII
90 into the cabinet, is old, inarm and troubled
with asthma.
Lord Congleton, head OF Mr. Parnelis lam
ily, is mysterious being, whom society never
sees nor hears of.
Thomas Tiffin, merchant OF Montreal
who died last week, left s6o'ooo 10 hoinan
Catholic charities.
Chicago is always equal to the emergency
She furnished lawyer to help Scovllle wnen
all other towns had failed
The Indians on the Nebraska reservations
are being corrupted by civilization, and are
said to be fast degonerating.
Warwick castle has been holding high fes-
tiyal, on the occasion of the heir and his bride
arriving there. Lady Warwick was lat home
to 1000 people.
An American journalist who has worked
some years at Honolulu, says the morals OF
the Sandwich Islanders are deterioratlng, par
ticularly those of the women.
The fox-hunting expenditure of Ireland is
reckoned as amounting in the aggregate to
about S2,5G0,000 year. This Mr.. Parnell
has now stopped, so far as he can.
At worlds fair meeting in Boston, the
president of the Old Colony railroad promised
$500, 900 from the steam roads, and the Furni-
ture Exchange agreed to take $50, 900 IN stock.
General Francis A. Walker will accept the
presidency.
1t is charged that General Tyner's hunting
trips are made with the postmaster OF Laramie,
Wyoming, to whom he allowed salary OF
s2,1OO per annum and 81 200 for clerk hire,
The Office paid less than s4O0l yearly in box
rents and commissions.
The trial of Julius Hoebel proceeded with
great smoothness and celebrity at Evansville,
Ind, until the clerk said, s'Prisoner, stand up
and hear the verdict Then it was found
that there was no prisoner, for he had quietly
slipped out an hour before.
A single vineyard near Dixon, Solano county,
CAL, has just yielded $50, 900 boxes of raisins,
worth 100000. Vine planting is increasing
greatly throughout the state, 1900 acres OF
new vines being about to be set IN the neigh
borhood of Cloverdale alone.
that among the town population in Ireland
there is bitter complaint that, by the Land
League movement, everything has been done
for the farmers and nothing for them. The
tradesmen find their occupation gone.
On an onion farm in Gentry county, MO-,
there was this year raised on twelve acres
5000 bushels of onions and 1855 barrels of sets.
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bushel, the handsome sum of S4,3l2.5O which
would leave a net profit of at least $500,
after deductirg all necessary cost for mar
keting.
Presidents of the Royal Academy of Eng
land have rarely died rich. Reynolds, the
first, left a considerable fortune. Benjamin
West, believed to have had more commissions
from royalty than any other painter, left less
than 81, 500: Sir Thomas Lawrence, S225, 900;
Sir NJ. A. Shee less than nothing; Sir Charles
Eastlake, 5000, 900, and Sir F. Grant, 100000.
Louise Montague, who has been figuring in
the street procession of a circus as the most
beautiful woman in America, having been
awarded, it is asserted, prize of $4,000, was
injured lately in an accident on the Louisville
$4,000. She alleges that her neck is perma-
nently disfgured. Miss Montague was for
merly singer in the Bowery variety shows.
A Northwestern freight train which passed
through Sterling, ILL.,, early on Tuesday morn
ing took on five passengers. When some
miles out they drew a revolver on the con-
ductor and demanded his watch and valuahles.
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up their hands. A brakeman then disarmed
them, and three of The party were jailed at
Morrison, two escaping.
Referring to the efforts of palace sleeping
car company of this country to introduce
their sleepers upon the large English and Eu-
ropean roads, DR.. Morris, of Kentucky, states
that in 1879 he made two trips from Edin-
burgh to London, and was the only occupant
of Pullman sleeper. The trains were very
long and crowded, but he was the only passen-
ger willing to spend So extra for comfort
able ride of 400 miles.
A newspaper lady, writing about the open
ing of the United States supreme court for
the new term, was principally struck by the
number of new gowns worn by the justices,
and passed the further criticism of that dis
tinguished body of juris.s that Chief Justice
Waite's gown is of satin de chine, while those
of the associate justices are only satin de
Lyon. This is a fair Offset for those writers,
who, in order to describe how woman lee
lures, mainly report what she wears. And,
after all, the clothes question is often an in
teresting one, whether it concerns thu bench
or the ballet.
After the experience that many American
cities have had with wooden pavements, it is
curious to notice the adoption of the material
in the streets of London. Pickadilly has been
paved its entire length with the blocks of
wood. "There is JOY in Victoria street"
where the work is nearly finished, and Bennett
street rents have gone up since traffic was
opened On wood. A society paper also says
that "it seems thousand pities that, while
the wood pavement is thus being adopted in
the West End, the city authorities are busy
extending the use of asphalt east of Temple
Bar
Women are coming to the front as Ameri-
can dramatists. Mrs. Francis Hodgson Bur.
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