Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-12
GLOBELETs.

81 might just as well not have danced with
that Lynch girl. "-W. ". Astor.
Three hundred converts to Mormonism in
the southeastern states will soon migrate to
Utah.
Separation from Great Britain is becoming
topic OF common discussion In the Canadian
journals.
Leavenworth is about to have new hotel.
Leavenworth needs new hotel as badly as
either Peoria or Omaha.
81 now understand the full force Of that ex-
preston about biting off more than you can
chew. "-Thomas Murphy.
Capt. George Lessard, one of the first Ma
poleon's officers in the Peninsula war, is still
wing in Montreal, at the age of 104 years.
Barnum's circus train was ditched at Chap
pei Hill, Tex, the other day. Fourteen cages
were badly broken up and the mammoth OK
killed
A man was made in an instant bald headed
forever, in Mobile, by the explosion of fire.
cracker in his hat 1t was the work OF his
playful son.
DOD OuTuettt cOultoSS5 " oAAAA6 " w
cashier of Newark bank for about fifteen
minutes. Whether this is a yearning for
riches or for Jail Mr. Burdette neglects to ex-
plain.
Alexander WE'LL has started q paper in Paris,
which, according to the editor, will "appear
each time that have falsehood to reveal"
Eli Perkins would be kept pretty busy run.
ming paper like this.
Mr. Wendell Phillips recently wrote to
friend in Iowa: ST do not forget that Presi-
dent Arthur was one of our New York counsel
the fugitive slave case, and predict that he
will make a good president"
Mime. Hortense Schneider, whose name is
inseparably connected with the Offenbachian
music stage, has entered the holy bonds OF
matrimony, having on October Is married the
Comte de Bionne, nobleman who resides
principallyin Italy.
A Washington dispatch says that "the navy
is worried over the report of the Advisory
board" This is good news, because it shows
that the navy is still in active existence. Most
people thought it had been put out in the
woodshed for the winter.
The Philadelphia Times finds drawbacks in
the employment of young women of vivacious
prejudlces as teachers in public schools, and 1t
mentions cases where young women teachers
are criminally discouraging sensitive young
natures by prejudice and Partially.
Baron Tauchnitz has now issued 2,GOO vol
umes of English literature. Bonn paper
compliments him on the services he has rem
the liberallty he has shown to authors, especi-
ally to Americans, who have no copyright
treaties.
Last years returns show that the number OF
persons killed throughout India by wild beasts
or snakes has gradually increased from 1928
in 1876 to 81 $3.50 in 1880. The largest number
of deaths occurred in Bengal, where lO,064
persons died from snake bites and $50 were
killed by tigers.
A veteran matchmaker at Vouvry, Switzer-
land, claims to have invented a process by
which watches will run for years without
winding up. A sealed box containing two
watches, intrusted to the municipal authori-
ties on Jan. 10, 1879, has just been opened, and
the watches were found going.
On the eve of the expiration OF his term of
office Collector Smith says he would not re-
tain the collectorship of Chicago if he could.
The telegraph is silent as to any effort on Pres
ident Arthur's part to force Mr.. Smith against
his will. Some men are born modest, some
achieve modesty, and some have modesty
thrust upon them.
The price of board has been raised at the
only hotel near the Indianapolis stock yards.
The boarders paid the new rate without word.
but secretly took pledge OF total abstinence
from strong drink. A week of prosperity in
the dining room was more than Offset by
cessation of business in the bar-room, and the
landlord was glad to restore the old figures.
The New York Tribune charges that be-
cause the firemen of Hoboke had got into a
quarrel with the mayor Of that city on the
subject of supplies, the said firemen permitted
a confagration to rage unchecked until it had
DESTROYED about half million of dollars worth
of property. Firemen were imported from
Jersey City to stop the destruction of prop
erty.
The immense Sprague estate in Rhode Is
land, one of the largest in private hands in the
country, had an Indebtedness of $40, 900 900 in
1878, and eight years Of litigation have left
practically nothing for the original owners
and very little for the original creditors. A
singular circumstance In its management is
that no settlement was ever made after the
death of any partner of the firm.
The fact is daily coming nearer and nearer to
the light that an immense number of persons
draw pensions to which they are not honestly
entitled. The Boston Traveller suggests that
the posts of the Grand Army of the Republic
might become detective agencies for reporting
the "luckY dogs" known to every community
as drawing pensions while they have not even
the honor of having fought for their country.
The famous spring of boiling water in the
middle basin of Hell's Half Acre, in the Vel.
lowstone region, has lately become still more
wonderful as geyser. Four or five times
every twenty -four hours it discharges great
column of water, freighted with stones and
obscured by dense volume of steam. The
hollow formation for hundreds of yards