Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-24
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.

Mrs. Langtry is forty years old.
The public debt of Pennsylvania is $780,
225,O83.
A female Nihilist lately banished to Sibe-
ria killed the governor of the territory.
Large deposits of iron and lead have
been found in jackson county, Wisconsin
Anthony Trollope, the English novelist,
recently deceased, was si1ty-seven years
| old.
There are over !, 400 prisoners in the Jol-
lei, ILL.,, penitentiary, of whom twenty-five
are women.
The money order business of the United
States for the last fiscal year amounted to
$12O,OOO,OOO.
The generous fall of snow this winter
makes glad the hearts of lumbermen in all
the logging camps in the Northwest.
This winter for the first time within liv-
ing memory the Potomac has been solidly
frozen over from Washington to the Virgin
ia shore.
An English clergyman is attempting to
substitute popular mineral water in place
of wine at the communion. What weak
folly nextf
New Orleans Picay,lne:: "Girls should
take supply of parched coffee along with
them to the theater to keep the young men
from going out for it between the acts"
Faith makes the heart firm, love makes
it soft, hope expands it. Faith hangs On
| the word of promise, love on that God
who gives hope in tho promised inheri-
lance.
Mary Clemmer: It is one of the heavi-
est penalties Of wrong thinking and Of
wrong living that they blu., if they do not
obliterate, the very perception of good
| and evil.
The extensive emigration from the
mountain districts of Hungary to America
has caused the Hungarian government to
request Austria to stop emigrants not pro-
vided with passports.
John B. Cough estimates that in the
course of his S,48O lectures he has spoken
to $500, 900 persons, and travelled $4,000
miles. Yet even now a man who drinks
can now and then be met with.
One Chester A. Arthur is one of tho mana
gers of the Novelty ball to be given in tho
New York Academy of Music. He is CAV
and festive youth, and is said to be regard
ed as good "catch" by unmarried ladies.
John Steele, better known as "Coal Oil
Johnny" the fame of whose magnificent
fortune and reckless extravaganza still
lives, is now engaged in manual labor at
Williamsport, Pa, and receives $3.50 a
day for his services.
When Gen. Sherman goes on to the re-
tired army list, he will live in st. Louis
and will have pension of $4,000 year.
That is just what the greedy Gen. Grant
wants. Uncle Sam is fat old goose that
the army lads love to pluck.
| Arab Pasha has penned note of thanks
for the interposition of England in his be-
half. He expresses a desire to live in
Damascus or London, and says his misfor-
tune has secured for his country the liber-
ty and prosperity it deserves.
General Neal Dow, the famousP Prohibition
leader in Maine, is now about seventy eight
years old, but is so we'll preserved that he
does not look to be over sixty. He is of
medium height, rather stout, and wears
heavy side-whiskers,w which, like his hair. are
silvered with age.
Out of the soil In which aeciduous leaves
are buried, the young tree shoots vigorous
ly, and strikes its root deep down into the
realms of decay and death. Upon the life
of the vegetable world, the myriad forms
of higher life sustain themselves the
same law, the sacrifice of life for life.
man once took piece of white cloth
to dyer, to have it dyed black. He was
SO pleased with the result that after time
he went back to the dyer with piece OF
black cloth, and asked to have it dyed
white. But the dyer answered, "a piece OF
cloth is like mans reputation; it can be
dyed black, but it cannot be dyed white
again."
The champion postmaster lives at La
Sale, Ill. His name is Corhees, and when
the Democratic newspaper of the state
pitched into him the other day he prompt.
ly destroyed the whole mail edition on the
ground that it was 'obscene literature.'
1t probably had an obscene subject to deal
with, and of that he, himself, ought to be
the best judge.
Henry Ward Beecher's church has 2,54e
members, according to the report present
ed at the annual meeting last week, a net
increase of fourteen during the past year
The collections during the past year ag.
gregated $9,5S2.23 and the pew rents $685.
600. There are 1856 children in the Sab.
bath school, including the Bethel and May
flower Mission schools.
Corken was Congregational preache,
at Salisbury Point, Mass. He was rapidly
making reputation as an orator when a
village paper reported one of his sermons,
and it was found to be identical with an
old discourse by Canon Wilberforce. Then
he left the pulpit and became physician
in Lynn, but with no better luck, for he is
now under arrest for malpractice.
A somewhat remarkable case of absence
of mind occurred last week to a Boston
lady who was shopping. She had visited
three book stores and unconsciously car
ried off a book, and on reaching the cor
ner of fremont and Boylston streets
| found she was in possession of book, and