Daily globe., 1881-11-29
aLoBELETs.

Sam Ward says q dinner should cost ten
dollars.
Twelve American defaulters have taken
$s,S20,OO0.
The Yale-P Princeton college football game
was tie, and until it is played off New Eng
land will not be able to sleep soundly.
Captain Ericsson's torpedo boat, the De-
stroyer, is pronounced success. 1t is pre-
dicted the little craft will revOlutionize mod
ern naval wa-fare.
How habits cling to people! A New York
milkman, during the recent water famine, has
been paying seven cents quart for water to
put in milk which he sells for six cents.
The late Stephen Whitney Phoenix, OF New
York, has left half million dollars TO Colum-
bia college, and his large library. He left no
instructions as to the applications Of the
money.
The New York News man strongly con-
demns personality in journalism" We have
observed that he has been getting the worst
of two or three little scrimmages of thatsort,
lately.
Boston Post: Senator's Logan and Malone
and ex-senator COnkling have been stopping
at the same hotel in New York. We would
say to all three: GA man is known by the
company he keeps"
In Leadville the other day can of dynamite
exploded in a gin mill where seven men were
seated, but did no damage. In fact, as it killed
the men and wrecked the mill, it was regarded
as benefit to the town.
The Philadelphia Nea0s think: "Nast might
employ his pencil poking fun at the people
who get trapped by bogus silver mines. He
has lost $4,000 himself" But you see Mast
doesn't see anything funny in it.
Certain of the ministers of Chicago have
signed an agreement that they will in no case
perform the marriage ceremony for divorced
persons. They may as we'll begin to prepare
for gloomy winter and no fees, at once.
Mr.. Labouchere says that the irish lawy ers
bless Gladstone daily, and that visit o the
land court in Aerrion street might be recon-
mended to any philosopher desirous of wit
Messing the practical dispensing of the greatest
amount of happiness to the greatest number.
Miss Annie Louise Cary is mentioned as the
charming voice Among her treasures is one
of the most perfect emeralds in the world: it
weighs twenty-three carats, and is valued at
$4,000. 1t ives bought at the sale of Queen
Isabella's jewels in Paris.
country member-elect to the legislature
studying up on speech-making, put a wasp
down his neck to see if it would excite him to
NH 10 for, of {ho ipf0
that if he repeats his gesticulations of that
occasion in the legislature, the state house
will have to be enlarged.
Man-who-wants- -to-be-respectable: Is there
any disgrace in standing round to witness
misunderstanding between two dogs? Ger
tainly there is. If we find that any such disa-
greement is in progress, we always hasten to
the scene to advise any of our friends who
may be there to come away.
The graveyard insurance business in Pen n
sylvania Is on the increase, and on Wednesday
last thirty representatives OF mutual assess
ment met at Uniontown, in that state, for the
purpose Of devising plans to get rid of the
most radical evils of the system. The attor-
ney general of the state proposes to break up
the evil.
A burglar who got into boarding house in
Syracuse, stole mince pie which had been on
the dinner table eighteen times. The court
will probably let him off easy, if there's any
thing left of him to try, after the doctors get
through with him, and the boarders of that
house have made I'D purse and presented 1t
to him.
quartet of English athletes have arrived
in New York from London. Three Of the
party are champion bicyclists and the fourth
is an amateur walker. The latter comes to
this country principally in the interest of
sporting journalism. The party will compete
in any races which may be oIganized within
the next two months.
tits announced that the Society of tho Gin.
cinnati will erect q monument on the site Of
the famous spot near Newburgh where Wash.
ington crushed the movement, originated by
the discontented officers of the revolutionary
army, to march on congress and obtain its
demands at the point of the bayonet, and
make him protector or king.
The Charleston Ne,cs begs Commissioner
Loring not to abandon the summerville, s. c.,
tea farm experiment without personal in-
vestigation, since, in its opinion, the officer
who was sent to inspect the farm would not
have been satisfied if crop Of cups and
saucers already filled with the tea had been In
full bloom when he arrived there.
The late Governor Briggs. of Massachu-
setts, was demonstrating with q man for
drinking liquor when he could do without it.
"WelI, yon wear a collar when you can do
without it,' was the retort. Thereupon the
governor agreed never to wear a collar so long
as the man refrained from drinking, and never
collar did the governor wear after that.
Some of Beaconsfeld's claims to remem-
brance and more of the Marquis of Exeter's
vanity are perpetuated in the mural tablet:
s'To the memory of the Rt. Hon. Benjamin
Dsraeli, Earl of Beaconsfeld, Z. g., late prime
minister of England, for many years the in
trepid leader of the Conservative party, the
patriotic servant of his country, and true
and valued friend at Burghley House."
The late Napoleon Bertrand, the only son Of
the marshal who accompanied the first Napo-
leon into exile, forgot to destroy will he
made more than thirty years ago in favor OF a