Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-18
GLOBELETs.

nation for president.
was deposited for coinage at the San Francisco
mint one day last week.
A deposit of iron sufficient to run half a
dozen big furnaces thousand years, has been
discovered near Williamson, Va.
Detroit Free Press: Guiteau thinks plea |
of insanity will be weak in his case. On this |
point, at least, he agrees with the masses.
Australia, too, is sending gold to America. |
A vessel arrived at San Francisco from Sgd |
ney last week with $1,000 of the precious
coin.
IA Christian" writes to the New York Sun, |
demanding for Guiteau a hell heated ten |
thousand times hotter than it is wont to be |
heated.
Gen. Daniel Pratt says: "There are great
many words used injudiciously and unguard- |
edly." Wonder if the general has been calling
anybody liar.
A Chicago man had streak of awful hard
luck. His wife eloped and his dog got licked
in fight the same afternoon. He swears
he'll STAY the dog that whipped his canine.
The Boston home for incorporate women
is doing good work. During the last three
years 374 women have entered the home,
most of whom are now leading sober indus
trious and respectable lives.
A young man of San Antonio, Tex, frac-
tured his jawbone SO completely the other day
| that his attending physicians drilled holes
through the bones and bound them back into
place by means of thread wire.
The supervisors of Rockbridge county, vir-
ginia, have requested the distillers to suspend
operations, in order that the short crop of
grain in the country may be used for food in
stead OF being turned into whisky.
Some men always look on the bright side of
things. Gallagher came in the other day
chuckling over having made $3.50. He had
Just lost $3.50 playing faro, but his friends as
sured him the experience was worth $500.
Who shall succeed Dr. Holland as editor of
the Century Magazine is an interesting ques-
ton. If purely literary man is to be chosen,
probably no one better sdapted for the position
than B. G. Stedman could be found in New
York.
Base ball circles are now agitating the ques-
ton of ten men and ten innings. 1t is
thought that with ten innings game can be
prolonged until after dark, and thus give the
umpire chance to escape. Philadelphia
News.
O'Donovan Rosa, speaking of Faye,
charged with betraying the fenian cause, says:
"There are Pontius Pilates in every little band
of apostles" Rosa knows nearly enough
about the scriptures to be tried for heresy in
Chicago.
The Milwaukee tug captains are accused OF
allowing vessel to be wrecked and the crew
drowned off the bay of Milwaukee, when
they might have saved her by little trouble
and no great danger. The matter will likely
be investigated.
The Boston Advertiser makes the excellent
suggestion that it would be a good thing for
somebody to establish professorship of phys
ical culture at one of the colleges for young
women. Nothing could be better for the
mothers of the future, and consequently for
the prospects of the American race.
The shearing of the 81, 900 head of sheep on
the Callaghan ranch, in La Sale county, Tex
as, has been delayed by the mortality among
the Mexican shearers. Seventeen men died in
few days and the remainder stampeded. The
cause of death is said to have been the too free
use of mutton, the hands not being accus
toned to it.
Philadelphia people are great sticklers fol
etiquette and propriety and are very particular
as to whom they associate with. And wher
Philadelphia lady was asked by clergyman
if she wanted to go to heaven she said
"Well, don't quite now. is it considered
the correct thing? Will there be good So
ciety THEREOF
A sad case of bereavement occurred in At
lanta, Ga. A daughter of widow lady died
and was taken to Augusta for interment
While absent another of her children died
This one was also taken to the same place for
burial by the grandmother, and ere she re.
turned third child was stricken down and
died in few. hours.
Editor Watterson gives this unique deflni-
ton of stalwartism: It is not, except in title,
an exclusive Republican possession. There
are stalwarts in every party. Some are honest
and some are not, but all are intolerant, in
consistent, illogical and perverse, obstructing
the march of ideas and corrupting the foun-
tains of popular thought.
Item from Gunnison, COL: "sArizona
jack one Of the type of dime novel heroes
that are entirely too common out west, at
tempted to run the town. and is now rum
ming small lot in the cemetery" That's
just the way with some communities. They'll
buck right against man and thwart him
in his endeavors to become famous.
Two covered wagon loads of movers arrived
at San Antonio, Texas, the other day. The
occupants were two Irish widows with their
children. They had come all their way from
Des Moines, Ia, and had been on the way six
months. One of the widows naively gave her
reason for moving to Texas as because she
wanted to get her sons away from the wicked.
| ness and corruptions of the great cities.
Some Of the railroad companies are awaking
to the fact that better lighting of their
coaches at night is in order. Some of the
new cars on the Boston & Maine are finely
lighted, and on the Boston & Albany from
eightto ten brilliant lights are the rule. Hun
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