Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-09
GLOBLETS.

burg II hungary.
It is proposed to eudow chair of base
ball in the University of Michigan.
Ex-Gov. Fenton, OF New York, is ex-
pected to come out against Folger.
The great comet of 1858 was called
Donatis comet, after the name of the dis
coverer.
Mr.. Rutherford B. Hayes is talked of as
successor of Mr.. Pendleton, of Ohio, in the
United States senate.
A juror in New York city the other day
sent request to the court to be excused
from attendance, as he was sick with the
smallpox. He was excused.
One of the employees of the Brush Elec-
trict Light company, was recently killed in
New York city, while adjusting wires on
new poles, by an electric current.
B. Gratz Brown, ex-governor of Nilsson
ri, who was Democratic candidate for
vice president in 1872, is now stumping In
diana in opposition to the Democratic
ticket.
The other day thief in New York city
robbed man of $500. In nineteen hours
after the robbery he was convicted of the
robbery and sentenced to the penitentiary
for two and half years.
There is man out west who has such a
keen appetite that he doesn't have to carry
a watch, but tells the time by his stomach.
When it says that It is dinner time the ca
thedral chimes tell that it is noon.-Puck.
A California panther was satisfied to
gobble up poodle dog, when he could
just as well have carried Off three young
and juicy school girls. 1t probably thought
its mission in this life was TO do good, not
evil.
Harvard students are accused of engag-
ing themselves to too many girls at the
same time. The accusation was probably
started by some Harvard man to give the
impression that the boys are terrible
Washers.
The other day New York policeman
arrested another member of the force on
the charge of being suspicious charac-
ter. It looks as though the New York po-
licemen were getting to have some COM
mon sense and good Judgment.
Philadelphia has discovered that she
has been drinking 80 per cent. of
water in her beer for the last year or two.
Men who have been getting drunk as
boiled owls on ten glasses of it could now
drink a barrel of it and never feel it.
Gov. Cornell will return to New York
after Jan. 1, and make his home there.
He is a rich man, and an architect is pre-
pairing plans for handsome residence for
the ex-governor in the neigh5orhood of
Madison avenue and Ninty- fifth street.
The will Of the late Mary Sullivan of
Boston contains bequest of $500 to Rev.
William H. Duncan, pastor of the church
of st. Mary of the Sacred Heart, in Endi-
colt street, to aid in paying the church
debt, or for whatever purpose he may deem
best.
Scotch duke on his deathbed called his
son to his side and said: ''When ye haze
nothing else to do, plant tree; it'll be
growing while ye Sleep" Sage admon-
ition, that. Tree planting has been too
much neglected. But the practice is grow
ing.
Of 122 members of the national house
who voted for the river and harbor grab
bill, sixty-seven have been already re-
nominated, of whom thirty-eight are Re-
publicans and twenty-nine Democrats.
The curtain will be run up for the last act
on the 7th of November.
1t is alleged that United States Attorney
General Brewster is hard drinker, and
often gets on 'high old spree" How is
that for cabinet officer Of the ':grand old
party of moral idees?" Arthur himself
| is known to keep, or rather to use, and
furnish to his guests the choicest fluids.
1t was not known that forged proxies
had been used in the Saratoga Republican
convention, till after Folger had been
nominated and the convention adjourned
Had the forgery been known. he could not
have been nominated. And yet he accepts.
Is he the very correct and upright man he
has been claimed to be?
Two weeks ago. William II. Cope, OF
Philadelphia, was taken ill, but improved
rapidly, under the care of a physician, IN
| til few days later he was married to Miss
| Mary O'Neill. A few hours after the mar
rage, Mr.. Cope was taken violently ill,and
the next day he died. The marriage and
death notices appeared in the same news
paper on the same day.
Parson Bescher has no intention of leav-
ing the Republican party, according to the
Albany Journal. He only proposes to
turn the hose on it from the outside and
make it habi,sble for self-respecting peo-
ple.'' But is Parson Beecher just the right
kind of man to turn on the hose? For
tunately he is not the only man who is go
ing to wet down the grand old party"
A great deal is being said in the papers,
in the praise of Judge Folger's Roman
virtue and untarnished reputation; but
which ought to stand best with the public.
Hepburn, who declines, because Of the
fraud and trickery which contributed to
his nomination, or Folgsr, who accepts,
acknowledging that there was some fraud,
and knowing that large portion of his
constituents believe there was a great
deal?