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

DeTnnarOC, on DelnS Missed at Amlens, re
marked, 81 am not accustomed to play to
geese"
Alexander Il. Stephens is in good health,
and his voice will 3e heard in congress during
the winter.
The Rev. Mr.. Talmage says he believes in
miracles. Probably his milkman cleft him
some real milk.
The flag of the rebel pirate Alabama is on
exhibition in Boston. It's possessor says that
he values it at $4,000.
The army retired list is limited to 400.
There are at present only seven vacancies,
while fifty officers are eligible to retirement.
A Pekin, ILL.,, mans wife has given birth to
boy every Fourth of July for four years.
Methods of celebrating are matter of taste.
| Officer Nugent, OF the New York police,
shot and killed hOodum who tried to kill
him with big stone. Nugent was exonerated.
| The widow of John Cretzer, who served in
the war of 1912, is believed to be Uncle Sans
| Oldest pensioner. She is 1903, and was married
! in 1901.
The Federal Council of Switzerland has ex-
pressed its regret to the municipal authorities
OF Fribourg that a Jesuit recently preached at
that place.
The Atlanta (Ga..) cotton fair, which began
its sessions on Wednesday last, is the most
important and successful event of the kind in
the South since the war.
Franklin j. Moses, the ex-carpet-bag gov
ernor of South Carolina. who is under arrest
in New York for swindling, is wanted in New
ark, N. j., for similar offenses.
There is always a plague in Russia, Just
now it is the "Siberian pest" an inflammation
of the spleen. 1t is carrying off large mum.
bers of people and domestic animals.
The Ohio liquor dealers have organized a
union with which to contend against the
temperance people. Temperance is quite g
factor in the politicsl campaign there.
Boulogne has lately been honoring Freder.
lex Savage, who. it asserts, invented the
screw propeller. Other people say that he was
but the adapter of somebody else's invention.
Congressman Cox writes to the Sun from
Constantinople: "Every year the Turkish
empire is winnowed for the handsomest young
lady to adorn the Sultan's palace as new
WIFE"
The Denver Tribune is having lots of fur
with Deacon John Evans, who caused the ar
rest of one of its editors on charge o
criminal libel for writing of him as "a nic'
old rooster"
Senator Harris, of Tennessee, who has beer
mentioned as a candidate for the temporary
presidency of the senate, says that Mr.. Bayart
ought to be and probably will be chosen to fill
that place.
The honest newspaper reporters of Wash
ington are hunting for rascally member o.
their fraternity who stole the original manu-.
script of valuable report on file in the navy
department.
A London paper says, as to the term OF
cornering: "We are greatly indebted to oul
American cousins for supplying us will
terms which express in one word the mean
| ing of half dozen sentences"
| Germany has the most accommodating Of
| postoffices. 1t daily transmits birds, beasts
| and fishes, if of harmless sort. A goose
unintelligibly directed, was lately put up fo
| auction sale, when $875 was found under it,
left PHI ion. The sender has not been dis
covered.
| The portrait of Mrs. Hay es, presented b,
| the Temperance association to the White
house, and having hung in the East room fo
some time after President Garfeld's Inaugural
ton, is expected 70 be returned there this
month, it having been sent to Paris that steel
engrayings might be made from it.
| On some of the Southern railroads negroes
are still excluded from parlor cars. A fash
ionably dressed mulatto woman and her chile
insisted on occupying seats for which she hat
bought tickets at Nashville, upon which tn,
transferred to it those passengers who disliket
to ride in the other.
| Senator Don Cameron's new house at Wash.
ington has, like the White house, large
ports cocherc, or covered entrance, so that
visitors arriving in carriages can enter with
cut being exposed to the sun and rain. It il
little remarkable that no New York million
aire, since Col. Herman Thorn, has thought il
worth while to adopt this useful device.
The brother of the Col. Wildman who
bought Newstead from Byron died three weeks
ago. He was brother-in-law of the archbishop
of Canterbury. Newstead, immensely i'm.
proved from the miserably decayed place 1t
was when the poet knew it, is once more in
the market, and 1T seems pity that the young
Lord Byron cannot recover it for the family
rumor comes from Venice that Baccelli
the minister of instruction, has ordered that
the pictures lying rolled up and uncAred for
in the Ducal palace and the Academy Of Belle
Arti shall be brought to light and that there
have been discovered among them Carpaccios,
Tintorettos, Giorgiones, Giovanni Bellinis,
Palma Giovanes and Vivarinis-many of them
in excellent preservation and unknown to
fame.
Incendiary fires in the western departments
of Russia have caused the destruction of an
immense amount of property this year. Up
to the end of June sixteen towns and Villages
had been burned to the ground, including
Whitebsk, with $4,000 population; Bobsinsk,
%, 900; Slomin, 10000, and Mobileff, $4,000.
But the greatest CONGREGATIONS have occurred
in Korez and Minsk In Korez 900 houses
and shops were destroyed, including eleven
prayer houses and the synagogue. Thirty
nine lives were lost and the bulk of the sur
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