Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-17
GLOBELETs.

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Spanish lace is said to be going out of
fashion.
A sporadic case of ariatic cholera is reported
at Bloomington, III.
Sixteen men in the Illinois penitentiary are
related to each other.
Boston will have worlds fair if $5.0O0,oOO
can be got in subscriptions.
The Boston Post says that ladies who play
"Mazeppa" try to represent STRIPPING.
1t will cost $4,000 hereafter to become a
member of the New York Cotton exchange.
Minister Angel will leave Shanghai Octo-
Der 10 for Italy, whence he will come home.
A lady of Pekin, ILL.,. has given birth to a
boy on every Fourth of July during the last
| four years.
French capitalists propose to dig tunnel
under the St. Lawrence river at Montreal at
a cost of $2O,OOO.OOO.
Valuable hint to the girls: Chamber s
Journal says high-heeled shoes make the calf
of the leg dwinde away.
The Texas and Pacific railroad is being
built at the rate of two miles day. 1t will
reach Ell Paso by January l.
The Garfield monument in the Cleveland
cemetery is expected to cost 100000. There
will be no finer Monument in the country.
Senator David Davis says he was elected to
do as he pleased, but expects no reelection, as
no man Is ever elected twice on that platform.
Chicago Times: Me Too Platt appears to
have strutted his brief hour and gone off the
political stage forever. SIC transom gloria
mundi.
Justice Harlan of the supreme court, ap-
pointed by Hayes, has got two sons in the
Treasury department, and is looking after the
interests of the rest of the family.
Deacon William Hawkins, of Philadelphia,
who is worth $4,000, has been sued by a
maiden of 80 years for breach of promise.
She wants about one-third of the deacon's es-
tate as balm for her bleeding heart.
The empress of Austria has simple tastes
but when she goes cunning it makes hole in
her pin-money. Her last hunting trip to Eng
land cost 100000. The empress rises at a,
m. to practice gymnastics, and after breakfast
smokes cigaretts.
Nearly all the ladies about the English court
are well on In years. Some of the maids OF
honor are deep in the forties. When they gel
venerable they are turned into "women of the
bedchamber," who are eligible for that office
even when centenarians.
A damphool named McCarty has sued fol-
az Injunction to restrain the publisher of a
Philadelphia paper from running his presses
at night, because McCarty's repose is dis.
turbed thereby. Mr.. McCarty was born
couple of hundrld years too late.
The Delaware Del.) Enquirer remarks that
marriages in Sussex county do not keep pace
with the increasing population" This is
strange, but localities, we hear it said, are
troubled with the same complaint The dis
order prevails to some extent in Minneapolis
for examples.
Mrs. Staples was boastful of her crime
when put into Jail for the murder, of her hus
band at Colwell, New Mexico; but during hel
first night in cell, as she believed, the deai
man came to her, cursed her for what sht
had done, and commanded her to hang her
self, which she did on the following day.
Whether Buffalo Bill ever had any perilous
adventures on the plains or not, he certainly
has been endangered of late as mock hero O.
the theaters. Soon after being murderously
assailed with tomahawk in Chicago by on,
of the Indians VINO figure in his play, he wal
fired upon three times in Council Bluffs by
lunatic.
| Louisville Courier-Journal: Mr.. Halstea(
is right, He is only trifle in advance. TIL,
president is a stalwart tome of the most re.
nowned species, and, for all their scratching
and screeching, there are plenty of half-breet
pussies who, though they curl their tails, will
not slip down the chimney when he comes
over the roof.
Mrs. O'Brien publishes a card, at Rocl
Island, ILL.,, to say that Methodism is fail
ure. She has been brought to that way o.
thinking by the conduct of the Rev. Mr.
Meredith, who converted her, induced her tc
elope from her husband, and finally deserted
her. She has humbly returned to the Roman
Catholic church.
The help already given 10 the Michigan suf
ferers, together with the promise of more
has saved many farm to its owner. Imme-
diately after the fire, Spectators hurried into
the burned-over district with cash, expecting
to be able to buy the land at trifing prices
but the farmers, encouraged by the prompt
assistance, have declined to sell.
| WidOwers will be in the ascendency IN
Washington this season, as the president is a
widower, the new British minister is also, and
so is Mr.. Allen, the Hawaiian minister, now
the dean of the diplomatic corps. There ale
also several widowers in each house of con-
gress. Among the senatorial widowers are
Anthony, David Davis and Jones, of Florida.
Senator Ferry is bachelor.
The brutal punishment of the lash still pre-
L lie inc fh..rrd 10 L.