Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-13
NEWS BREVTTIEs.

decoration of the Golden Flower of Siam
upon the Hon. Thaddeus Fairbanks, in
ventcr of the Fairbanks scales.
King Louis. of Bavaria, is building a
$4,000, 900 palace on an island in Lake
Herrensheim, and is to add theater in
which the actors viii live as well as
play.
A son of the late Chief Justice John
Marshall of the United States Supreme
Court, is q clerk in the Pension Bureau
at Washington. He is lively youth of
over eighty Summers,
A French author is getting up roll
of honor of hundred of the world S
greatest men. He allows only three to
the United States, and these are Wash
ington, Franklin and Jefferson.
Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott, the late
Lord Mayor of London, entertained
10000 visitors during his years of Of
flee, ct breakfasts. luncheons and din
ners, and 5000 others at receptions,
conversaziones and the like.
A silly adventurer, who has more
cheek than brains, named Frederick
Gregory Forsyth name that has q
very aristocratic air about it's report
ed to be organizing the Order of Ar
yam Americans in this country, for the
purpose of establishing nobility.
1t is proposed to erect memorial
to William Caxton, England's firstprin-
ter, in the shape of a stained-glass win
dow in the Church of st. Margaret,
Westminster. The spot is appropriate,
for it is close by where Caxton set up
his printing press.
The appointment of constable at the
Tower of London, vacant by the death
of Field Marshal Sir Charles Yorke,
dates from the time of the Norman con-
quest, the first constable, Geoffrey de
Vaudeville, having been appointed by
William the Conqueror.
The sum of 41,5OO was offered to.
and refused by, the owner of ram ex-
hibited at the sheep show of the Austria
liam Sheep-Breeder's association, held
at Melbourne, where many other valu-
able stud merinos were exhibited, the
aggregate worth of which amounted to
several thousand pounds. The animal
in question was bred by Mr.. W. Cum
ming, who paid f9OO for its sire.
In the grand mosque at Algiers, the
Cadi Ben Turquala, when about to take
his seat, was rushed upon by dis
charged native soldier, against whom he
had decided a lawsuit, and received
two blows in the face with knife. Ben
Turquala made his escape into another
part of the building, pursued by his as
sailant, who struck a second cadi but
was Immediately arrested.
One morning recently splendid
seven-antlered stag was seen to walk
down from the duke of Hamilton's for-
est in Arran to the sea-shore. He then
walked into the water, and swan di-
rect for Holy island, distance of near
ly two miles. Although the sea was
somewhat rough, he succeeded in reach
ing his destination, in spite of the eff
forts of some men in a four-oared boat,
who failed to oyertake him.
There lived in Auburn Me-, says The
Lewiston Journal, two brothers, whose
parents reside in Casco. They have
fourteen children, and, as soon as one
leaves the old roof-tree, they pick up
some homeless boy to keep the number
good, SO that every year the family
consumes twenty barrels of -four. When
the consumption of flour fall off, the
good folks call in reinforcements from
the neglected juvenile world.
Two young ladies, Mile, de Thanh
berg and Mile. de la Chevardiere, went
with friends to Paris theatre, and it
was arranged that Mile. de Thannberg
should sleep at the house of Nine. de la
Chevardiere, instead of going to her
own home. A stove had been lighted
in the room of one of the young ladies,
which opened into that which her friend
was to occupy. They retired in good
health and spirits, but the next MORN
ing when the maid entered their room
with their chocolate they were found
in their beds dead. They had been
asphyxiated by the carbonie acid gas
from the stove.
Considerable amazement has been
occasioned at Piqua, o., by the convic-
ton of j. Manford Kerr, a prominent
young lawyer, politician, author, and
recently an editor, of penitentiary Of
tense. Mr.. Kerr has been doing real
estate business for several years past,
and he was indicted and convicted on
the charge of selling land without a
title. A few months ago he married an
accomplished young lady, daughter of
a prominent business man in Troy.
Kerr, himself an accomplished scholar,
moved in the best society, and was en-
tirely free from the petty vices to which
young men are usually addicted. 1t is
but Just to Mr.. Kerr to state that he
claimed to have contract for the land,
but the paper had become lost. This
fact was also testified to by Kerr's broth
er and another witness, but the jury at
tached no faith to the evidence of the
contract. Public opinion is somewhat
divided. with the preponderance against
Kerr. Rumors are rife of other dishon-
est transactions perpetrated by Kerr,
but so skillfully that he did not come
within the pale of the law.
An Old Ringster Released.
New YORK, Nov. 12.-Henry W. Geaet was
released from the penitentiary, at Blackw ell'l
Island, to which he was sentenced eight
months ago, after conviction on Indictment OIL
obtaining money from the city illegally in the