Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-16
GLOBELETS.

'Ou EloLOW, Lie CpeIdtlc composer. HAS
become blind from cataract of tie eye.
Four more battalions of English troops
are soon to return to England from Cairo.
The receipts at the Pennsylvania
treasury last year reached $706s. 529.66,
and the expenditures $5,024, 766.41.
The wholesale body -snatching carried
on in Philadelphia, is driving many people
to think that cremation may be best after
all.
Major Strait has beaten them all. He
has prepared a civil service reform bill
which at the first blush seems to have
modicum of practical common sense in it.
Pope Leo XIII. will celebrate the ffti-
eth anniversary of his ordination as a
priest on Dec. %. A mass for his holi-
ness will be said throughout Europe on
that day.
Nineteen members of the present con-
gress were born on the other side Of the
water. The largest proportion of the for
eign born members claim Ireland as their
fatherland.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett has resigned
the position long held by him of Master of
the ground that he thinks of passing some
time in the United States.
Miss Harriet Eaton Stanton, youngest
daughter Of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
was married lately to Mr.. William Henry
Batch, Jr., of Basingstoke, Eng. The we'd
ding took place in Rossiyn chapel, London.
The mother gave the bride away.
Al the passenger and express trains on
the Texas and Pacific road. between Fort
Worth and FL Paso. have been provided
with a strong force q state rangers. This
step has been taken On account OF the re-
cent boldness exhibited by train robbers
III thai section.
The mementoes of Garibaldi IN the pos
session of Signor bluecci, in the old Carl
baldi house, at Clifton, Staten Island, have
been presented by their owner TO the Ma
tionai museum at Rome. They consist Of
medals and stiletti given TO the famous
italian by the South American govern
nlents in whose service he fought, and
pipes and canes of his own handiwork.
Ripon Lakana is the mama of q great
Japanese lord who is travelling through
Europe like Gautier's ''Fortunio." When
he was at Vienna he chartered hotel and
attend masked ball, at which no was The
only person of the masculine sex present.
He made them dance and eat and drink:
and when they sat down TO supper, each
found superb bracelet hidden in her
apkin. The Parisians expect that he will
amuse them with similar fantasticalities.
A fair critic IN Boston went TO see Mrs.
Langiry. Whether or not she was salts
fed with the beauty of the Lily does not
appear, but something inspired her to re-
We lady theater-goers want an Adonis OF
the stage" While this may possibly serve
some enterprising theatrical manager as a
sufficient hint for the arranging of con-
test for masculine beauties, it is to be
hoped that the two personages will never
he exhibited together.
Victor Hugo was once declaiming on the
| unity of race and the equality OF man
with that pardonable exaggeration that is
so characteristic uf him, when one of his
hearers thought 10 confuse him by asking
| him how he would like 10 hold a Inulatto
graudchiid on his knee. II should not like
it, he replied. '-i}ut i would not pTeven;
i q marriage between a daughter Of mine
and a negro; ard ! should reflect, if such
a marriage took place, that in the third
generation a touch of the tar-brush is 9
beauty
| Nine. Christine Nilsson Rouzsand tell:
how she once brought Oscar Wilde to his
senses. He was taking her down to Dime,
| at a party IN London, and began talking
nonsense and posing, as usual. The
plain-speaking songst ress said: Look
here, Mr.. Wilde; Nine. Christine Nilsson
will put up with no such stuff. This is al
put on, and the re is nothing in 1t but non
sense. Mr.. Wilde replied: THANK you.
You are the first sensible woman and true
| friend / have metz And after that he act
ed like man and talked sensibly enough
she says.
Edward D. Cooley was only thirty five
years old when he died at West Spring
| field, Mass, and yet he lived alone in SC
poor a hovel that it was assessed for taxa
ton at only $25, while bank books dis
covered since his death show that he had
| about $4,000 at interest. Ee was a grad
uate of Amherst college, and it is said that
a love affair first made him reciuse. Hi;
life was very solitary and his nearest
neighbors had no acquaintance with hin
A few books and a gun were his compan
| ions, and he was contented to live in rags
/ and squalor.
Pere Hyacinthe was driven from the
chapel in which he made his debut, altel
casting Of bis religious habit, with deb
! of < coo francs. which his English friends
subscribed 20 cay, and he is now IN Lon
don TO get them to come ogain to the res
cue and Subscribe for an allowance OF
$4,000 year for the support OF his new
| church. For the present ne is very poorly
lodged in the rue d'Assas, and the French
papers say that the cares of matrimony
begin to tell on his temper, and that the