Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-12
GLOBELETS.

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GLOBELErs.
There is q water famine in Suez
Harvard university has established veter-
mary departments.
The aged and venerable, and noted liii-
CANT, Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, has be-
come an active champion Of woman suif-
rage.
Paris cook has discovered how to
.'bake ice When he discovers how 10
boil ice cream without melting the stuff
he will be ripe enough to die.
The Portland argus states that the ship
yards Of that port are overlooking with
work, and that there is a great demand for
skilled labor in ship building.
| There are q number Of political aspi-
rants around about at this time, who after
election, won't care continental how soon
| that comet strikes the earth, or smashes
up the sun.
Queen Victoria, to whom Gounod's Gre
denption" is dedicated, has accepted
copy. which is splendidly bound and
printed on large handmade papers direct
iy from the plates.
A subscriber writes to an editor in the
| west, Il don't want your paper any longer
To which the editor replied, Il would rot
make it any longer, even if you did; its
present length just suits me-"
In view of the probability that Henry
Ward Beecher will vote the entire Demo-
! cratic ticket the Cincinnati Enquirer adj
vises the Democrats to stand firm, as they
| have met and overcome misfortanes be-
| fore.
The present refined. asthetic mode of
advertising for boarders is to invite the
presence of a few ''remunerative guests"
! to tarry for longer Or shorter period. To
advertise. aat-footed, for boarders is decid-
eddy vulgar.
Secretary of the Navy Chandler isspend-
ing his time in New Hampshire endeayor-
ing to build senatorial fences, but his sal
airy as secretary goes on all the same.
Here is another sample of stalwart civil
service reform"
national subscription is about to be
opened in Portugal and Brazil for the pur-
pose of erecting monument to Pedro Al
varez Cabral, the discoverer of Brazil in
the year 1900, and who now lies buried at
Santarem, in Portugal.
Spinks went home the other night af-
ficted with double vision. He sat for
some time with his sleepy gaze riveted on
Mrs. s., and then complacentIy remarked,
We'll, declare, + you two gals don't look
'nough like to be twins"
It is said that President Arthur. about
whose heart sensational report was sent
forth, has been greatly benefited by his
late visit to Widow Victoria's realm.
Significant isn't it? Alexandria Bay is a
great healer of susceptible widowers!
England has blind pcstmaster.e general,
who fills the post with remarkable and I'M
precedented success. THIS country had a
blind postmaster-general during the hey
day of the star route gang, but nobody
ever accused his administration OF success.
The New Hampshire supreme court has
ruled that whenever adultery shall have
been cause for a successful divorce suit IL
shall be the duty Of the court officers to
criminailF prosecute the offending parties.
1t is hoped that the officers will do their
duty.
Secretary Folger does not resign. nor
does be return TO Washington, but contin-
ues, serenely, TO draw his salary, while run
ming for governor of New York This is
another salient sample of sscivil service re-
form,'' as interpreted by Republican sa-
vons.
This slang does raise tie very mischief. |
When handsome young wife went to q |
hardware store TO get one of those wooden /
contrivances to mash potatoes, and said (
Il want nasher," every man in the shop,
from the boss to the ofice-boy started to I
wait on her.
Mr.. Robert Browning and his sister have
been staying at the village of st. Pierre,
nigh up among the peaks of the Yosges,
lpder the shadow of the monastery of the
irand Chartreuse. Thence they 90 to
and then to Italy, to spend a
month at Ischia.
A marble cenotaph, with inscription and
'ortrait-bust. has just been placed in Dun
ermline abbey, as a memorial of Lady
Locker, sister of the late earl of
agin and wife of Mr.. Frederick Locker.
he poet. 1t was executed by NJ ISIS Mary
irant of London.
Roscoe Conkiing was suggested as can
idate for cor,gresslnan at-iarge in place
t NJ Hepburn. declined. The Hals-