Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-20
GLOBELETS.

GLOBELETs.
Spun-glass napkins costing 500 doz-
en- are recent addition to the supply Of
luxuries.
The Bishop of Winchester has declined
the archbishopric of Canterbury, owing to
advanced age.
In Paris, Illinois, an illinois and Texas
Cattle company has been incorporated,
with capital stock of S1,OOO,00o.
Australia is sending ship loads of corned
beef to England, and those who have gone
into the trade have made good financial
hit.
1t is said at a Boston theater it is as
common to seestwo women come in to-
gether as it is to see gentleman and
lady.
One hundred Ohio editors went on an ex-
cursion recently to Florida, and plucked
and ate oranges to their hearts content in
the orange groves near Jackson, and thus
enjoyed a new sensation.
The agricultural, horticultural. mineral
and manufacturing products of Georgia
will be represented at the Boston e1posi-
ton in 1883.
The most remarkable case on record is
that OF Yankee soap man, who, in vio-
lent storm at sea, saved himself from
death by taking cake of his own soap and
washing himself ashore.
A prominent citizen of Hawkinsville.
da., has COW which he claims is ninety
seven years old and still giving milk. She
has belonged to his father, his grandfather
and widowed grandaunt.
John B. Cough has so far recovered his
health as to be able to take the lecture
platform again. The other night he was
greeted with an enthusiastic audience of
between 1000 and 5000 in Cincinnati
Chinaman put upon the witness stard
in Philadelphia court took the Bible,
| when it was offered him to kiss. and crowd
cd 1t half way into his mouth before the
cle-k could interfere and explain that it
was for external application only.
An article in the London Standard dis
cussing the results of some experiments
recently made by the Italian naval author
ties at Spe2Aia credits them with The dis
covery OF al armor for war vessels capable
of resisting any known projectile.
My fa'''est child, he se no song 20 give YOU;
| No lark cou,d pice TO sizes so dpil ard grew:
Yet, ere we part, one lesson can leave YOU
For every dry.
be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
DO noble thirgs, not dream trem al day long.
And so make life, death, and that vast fore,er
| One grand, sweet song.
The man is still living who built the first
Roman Catholic church in Chicago, in
1888. At that time there were only three
frame houses where the city now stands.
The few others were log. THE first mass
was celebrated in the presence OF a con-
gregation of converted Indians.
A judge of the Nantwich county court
(England) has decided that an editor NAV
alter an advertisement to avoid libel. The
Warrington Guardian had sued for small
account, payment of which was refused
because the editor had changed "machina-
tions" to "doings'' in an advertisement.
Sheriff Pinneo, of Wild county, Colora-
do, father of Miss Pinneo, the eques-
trienne, says his daughter has not commit
ted suicide, as was reported. Quite the
contrary. She was married about a year
ago, and has temporarily retired from the
ring to take care of baby lately arrived.
One of Mrs. Labouchere's trunks was
stolen from the express wagon on it's way
to the steamer. It contained fourteen hats
and bonnets and some two or three dresses,
| the whole valued at about $500. Another
of her trunks in the same load lad valua-
bles in it worth $4,000. The stolen trunk
has been recovered. empty.
| The skeleton of a Dinosaurian reptile.
thirty-fi feet long, has been unearthed in
the Bad Lands of Dakota. Tho creature
is supposed to have stood twenty-five feet
high. The weight of the skull is 694
pounds, and of the whole skeleton 1900
pounds. The bones will be placed in the
Academy of Natural Science at Philadel-
| phia.
| It is said that Hannibal Hamlin has held
every Office in the gift of his own state,
and nearly every one in the country at
large, except that of president, and if
| AO hoA OO"A VOAbAuu Ou VIC0 Dr0S1Q0nC
under Lincoln, instead of the wretched
choice of Andy johnson, the country
would have had very different post-bel-
lum history.
The finest apartments in the Arlington
hotel, at Washington, have been engaged
for Prince Ausc gawa, uncle to the emperor
of japan, who arrived in New York the
other day by the Scythia from Liverpool.
He is grand councillor of the empire and
general of the Japanese army. His visit
| has no political significance. He has
| heard of the Forty seventh congress and
comes over to see it.
Talking of theatrical properties, quizzi-
cal Bill Nye, of Laramie, says of the stage
beard: Gas a rule, it is rather dizzy. 1t
looks as much like beard that grew there
as cows tail would if tied to the bronze
dog on the front porch. When you tie a
heavy black beard on young actor whose
whole soul would be churned up if he
smoked a full-fedged ciger, he looks about