Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-27
GLOBELETs.

The Cardinal Archbishop of Bordeaux il
dead.
1t is estimated that about 10000 bas'
balls are made in this country each year
According to the annual report of tn,
public printer, the government printing
cost $2,635, 1868 last year.
Bancroft, the historian, has founded
scholarship in Worcester, Mass, to perpet
uate the memory of his parents.
Gambetta's wound has entirely healed
and his PLY sicians say, in answer to {
telegraphlc inquiry from the Prince O
Wales, that the condition of the patient i
satisfactory.
Forty thieves raided the town of Ala
macattan Peublo, Mexico, captured tn
mayor, Judge and aldermen, and carried
them off to the hills, where they hold then
for ransom.
80 Lord, thou has. seen by the morning
papers how the last Sabbath was desc
Grated" was the way an Ohio preacher be
gan his prayer.
Oscar Wilde says New York is ga ver,
good place for one to stop for dinner OF
his way to Yokohama" That is supposed
to be an aesthetic remark.
1t is alleged that the Republican factions
in Pennsylvania are arranging for a basis
on which to kiss and be friends" And YET
signs of insincerity in arranging the basis
are cropping out.
Harold G. Sankey, brother of Ira D.
Sankey, junior member of the evangelizing
company of Moody and Sarkey, has just
died at West New Castle, Pennsylvania.
aged thirty years.
The Cleveland Leader thinks Senate,
Pendleton will soon want to borrow spy.
glass to catch glimpse of his party as he
looks back along the road he has Travelled
to civil service reform.
A man slipped on some ice on the side.
walk on Grand street, New York, fell and
broke one of his legs. This was last win.
ter. He brought suit against the city and
has just been awarded 1000 damages.
The lunatics in the asylum on Wards
island, New York, it is said, are going to
publish a newspaper called ''The Moor"
Will it be what the eccentric Rev. DR.. Cox
once described as ga semi-lunar bardel ?''
The czar of Russia has postponed his tour
of Russia until next fall, when he hopes to
be able to present himself at the different
courts as crowned head. The coronation
has been set for some time early in the
summer.
The Shenango Valley Ne,os declares that
''The people are boss of the bosses, and the
peoples party is coming as certainly as
Christmas is or the Fourth of July.
1t will come Of its own inherent force
spontaneously. Let the. Independents
stand still.
Lord Derby, the late addition to the
British cabinet, has surplus income of
100000 q year. He is childless,
and has only one brother and
one sister, who recently married a
man quite poor. Lady Derby has $4,000
year of her own besides.
Bob Ingersoll struggled hard to be funny
in his opening star route speech, and al
m 1st succeeded at times. But Bob never
seems to be quite comfortable except
when he is telling how Jacob played
Yankee tricks on Esau, OF relating the
story of Jonah and the whale.
Gustave Dore, the artist is forty-fve years
old. He looks like German, smokes like q
Spaniard, has high cheek bones like an
Indian, wears his mustache like French
man and works like Turk. He has ten
times as many orders as he can fill, and
makes from $4,000 to $4,000 year.
The american Reformer, a new weekly
whose publication has just begun in New,
York, comes before the public very mod
estly, but its purpose is to assist reform
in the fields of temperance, politics, re-
ligion health and home" How it pur-
poses to reform religion it does not state.
Speaking of Rev. DR.. Talmage's indig-
nation at the other ministers who steal
his sermons, the New York Graphic re-
marks that it would be useless for them
to do so unless they can at the same time
purloin his arms and legs, which give
the sermons their chief beauty and pro-
fundity.
Aneat the suggestion that the time has
come to reorganize the Republican party,
the Cleveland Plain Dealer is reminded OF
the man out West who, when asked to re-
pair house that had been struck by cy-
clone, replied: STRANGER, it can't be did
There amt nothin' of it left but tho hole
where the cellar was.''
Speaking of the applicants for the po'
sition of postmaster of Fort Worth, Tex.
the Republican, of that place, calls him "a
little goggle-eyed, sleek, Shiny, slippery
sneak, who has allowed his wife's furniture
to be pawned to buy bread, while he was
strutting around Washington city, wearing
gold trimmed eyeglasses, and talking big
about his anticipations."
The president has just accepted the in
voluntary resignation of Tin other words
his remoyaD Henry E. Knox, marshal OF
the Seventh district of New York, and has
appointed New York stalwart politician
in his place. Mr.. Knox was classmate OF
President Garfield. It is still clear that
the personal friends of President Garfield
are to receive no favors in the house of this
assassin-appointed administration.
A tenant on a fruit farm near Los An
geles, Cal, had a disagreement with his