Daily globe., 1881-10-27
GLOBELETs.

SUt6tkOUs
There is going to be race between sewing
machine workers in New York.
Yellow fever is playing sad havoc with De
Lessep's canal workmen at Panama.
According to London Life Walt Whitman
expects to visit England next spring.
Col. Won Steuben, Of the visiting German
delegation, will be made general next jan
nary.
Father Ryan, the poet-priest, has decided to
pass the rest OF his days at Biloxi, Missis-
sippi.
John w. Garrett, OF Baltimore, has just
imported 100000 worth OF paintings from
Europe.
Stanley, the singer, has given $25, 900 to a
diocesan seminary under the patronage of
Cardinal Manning. ~
There are $4,000 methodists in Iowa and in
that state they build churches at the rate of
one every two weeks.
The network of German subterranean cable
is completed. 1t connects 22l towns, and has
cost about 81 900, 900.
General Frederick Knefer, a leading citizen
of Indianapolis, has been divorced from the
mother of his grown-up children.
The Iowa Methodist conference severely
reprimanded minister for going to circus,
and made him promise never to do it again.
Cross suits for damages have been instituted
in Grand Rapids by a woman because dog
bit her, and by the owner because she shot
the dog.
The London Economist estimates the i'm
portation of food into Great Britain at pres
ent as 40 per cent. of the total imports of the
country.
A miller at Peru, Ind, is convinced that a
long beard is dangerous in his business, and
no longer wears one. A revolving shaft
pulled out every hair of it.
Senator Morrill,, of Vermont, II years of
the youngest is Senator Aldrich, of Rhode
Island, now 40 years of age.
According to the last census the outlay for
building and repairing farm fences during
1879 in eleven Southern and Southwestern
States aggregated $1S,565, ,746.
Me-Too Platt is sojourning in Washington
anticipating crumps from the stalwart table.
He puts dark blind over his transom and has
all the step ladders carried away.
All that Chicago woman has to do to get
divorce is to swear to the discovery, after
marriage, that her husband is st. Louis man,
and the courts give it to her at once.
The Boston Herald deplores the large per-
centage of new members of congress because
many questions of Importance are to come
before the winter session. The new members
will have to learn.
Robert Bloskie, who has just died in Wa
basha, Ind, had for nine years lived chiefly on
dog meat, which he declared to be wholesome
and palatable. His family relished the same
food, and propose to continue its use.
The New York Mail states that .'Mr. Will
liam H. Vanderbilt on Wednesday went from
New York to Albany in his special far in
three hours and twenty-five minutes, or at the
rate of about eighty-three miles an hour"
DR.. James Graham, who is SO years of
age and a member of Governor Blackburn s
staff, took part in the Yorktown parade. At
the age of 80 DR.. Graham led to the altar a
blooming bride of 49, He now has a son II
years old.
Ex-Gov. Washburn, of Wisconsin. will
leave South Hampton 5or New York on the
North German steamer Elbe on next Thurs
day, 9th inst. It is understood the Cover
nor's health has not been improved by this
trip abroad.
The Boston and Maine Railroad company
allows each station agent $40 year with
which to buy flower seeds, plants and trees
for ornamenting the grounds about his station
house, and offers prizes to the agents who
make their places most attractive
The Irish Times states that company is
being formed, with capital of about $15,-
OO0, 900, at the head of which will be men,
Der of the royal family, for the purpose of
purchasing waste lands in ireland, to be re-
claimed and let or sold to tenants for cilltiva-
ton on easy terms.
A mob at Mendoza, ILL.,, put moose around
burglar neck, and then gave him his choice
between hanging and promising to plead gull
ty when arraigned in court. He promised, of
course, and the lynchers, having thus sue
ceeded in preventing fair trial, dispersed
without numbering the criminal.
Mrs. Garfield, with her children, has been
visiting James Mason, in Cleveland. She has
rented the residence of Col. W. II. Harris, on
Euclid avenue, in that city, and will remain
there during the winter. Miss Mollie will re-
sumo her studies at private school and the
boys will attend the public schools.
One of the present Yale Freshmen went to
New Haven twenty years ago and passed the
examination but did not enter. He went into
business, married and prospered, until now,
when he has arranged his business SO that he
can leave it for four years, he has taken his
family to New Haven and entered college.
A Massachusetts church has introduced an
open fireplace as means of ventilation. 1t
has been tried long enough to prove its entire
acceptability. While it promotes the circula-
ton of pure air, it adds to the homelike and
cosy appearance of the church. Though more
troublesome to manage than furnace in the
cellar, it pays for the additional trouble.
Bishop Woolley, one of the prominent Nor
mon saints, is dead He was born at West
Chester in 1907. At the age of 90 years he left
Pennsylvania to follow Prophet Smith, but
returned as missionary to Northumberland
county in 1S41. He met with no success and
again joined the polygamis.s at Nauvoo. The
Salt Lake papers fail to give the number of
his wives.
The London Globe saws: sIt is to be hope d
a word newly in vogue will not get into the
dictionary. When a man is in straitened cir
cumstances he is now said by society to be
'impy,' i. e., impecunious. Swift opposed the
word mob contraction of mobile vulgus;
but the sneer Of the great dean did not pre-
vent its general acceptance. 'Impy' has less
to recommend it than 'mob.''