Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-25
GL0BELErs.


Mckee Rankin, the actor, is to build theater
in New York, to cost 100000.
In England barrel of oysters is a very COM
mon Christmas present to cou.try friend.
VIM. H. vanderbilt's profits from operations.
in the stock market this year are said to be,
$40, 000,C0
Fortress Monroe is said to be the largest
single fertilization in the world and to have
already cost the national government s.. OCO 900.
A crazy man created sensation in Montreal
church by undressing himself in the pew. When
taken out he was In state of nudity and fought
like demon.
A city letter was dropped into the Rochester,,
N. Y, postoffice ON Monday with this address in
child's hand: Gan den ieben Water i'm Him.
mel'-to the beloved Father in heaven.
When somebody asked ''Ben'' Wade how he
liked H. W. Beecher, he said: D. Beecher; he
has knocked hell out Of religion, and religion
without hell is no better than pork without salt"
While the schoo.masters grooming over
the statistics of illiteracy, it is comfort to
slider that the secretary of the Brooklyn board
of education, who is defaulter to the amount
of $250,000 can read and write.
One of the four drunken Yale students, arrest
ed few evenings since. is said to be one of the
richest youths in the college. His fond parents
allow him sc, 900 year for pocket money. For
the boys rowdiness the parents are very largely
responsible.
There are three dishes, it is said, which, if put
upon the bill OF fare in London club, are de-
voured before all else; so that at Z or o'clock,
when most members dine, there is nothing left
of them. These dishes are Irish stew, tripe and
onions and liver and bacon.
Bret Harte once wrote poem for soap man
ufacturer, for which he was paid an enormous
sum, but though his name was signed to it, no
one believed that he wrote it, so he got the
money and the soap man YVES only Laughed at
when ne paraded the authorship.
There is general opinion that Dickens pop
ularity is waning. 1t may be, but within the
twelve years that have passed since his death,
about 4, 239, 900 of his works have been sold in.
England alone. ''Pickwick'' heads the list and
''The Tale of Two Cities'' is lowest
The noted American beauty, Miss Chamber
lain, of Cleveland, O., who has attracted so
much attention in Europe, is said to have cap
tivated Sir Henry Massey Tompson, parvenu,
with an incnme of 920,0 900 year. Langtry took
an American parvenu with nearly as much.
A bad man will be sure to find himself sooner
or later in a Quandary. He resembles the fat
man who sent to the stage coach Office for two
seats as one was not enough, and found to his
dismay that he was booked for two seats indeed,
but the one was outside and the other inside
Journalist contemporary with the late Thur
low Weed writes: 'The contrast between Weeds
private benevolence and public ferocity is very
striking. The exhibits the savage
partizanship of an undisciplined barbarian, the
other the human characteristics of superior
man.
The latest dog story comes from the suite OF
the king of Greece. A splendid dog fell over
board from steamer. The captain refused to-
stop for anything short of drowning man.
''You will stop for me, of course,' said the gen.
tleman, who leaped overheard OF course mas
ter and deg were saved.
Chicago having introduced the cable car, is to,
introduce another novelty in the shape of a,
street railway propelled by electricity. Mr. Ell
mer A. Sperry, a we'll known electrician, is to,
introduce the system, for which he claims that
economy is marked feature. Each car will be
provided with an electric headlight.
The prince of Wales wins golden opinions by
his entire impartiality in politics. Some time
ago, when Mr.. Gladstone had received marked
slight at Windsor, the prince went out of his way
to give him an exceptional proof of his respect
and lately Mr.. Chamberlain (Radioal ex-mayor.
of Birmingham has, with Sir c. Dixie, been ON.
q visit to Sandringham.
On Wednesday my wife took ii into her
head to run away with niger; on Thursday my
father-in-law died and left me fortune which
Is happiness enough to me,'' remarked James
Waltenbaugh, Of Newcastle, Ohio. 1t was in
deed true. and moreover the father-in-law bad
drawn his will In Waltenbaughs favor at the
suggestion Of the runaway wife.
A prize in Kentucky lottery was won by
woman at Pennington, N. H., and she sent a
neighbor to collect it. Hewent away in good
clothes, with 800 for expenses, but returned in
rags and penniless. He had spent all the prize.
Being tried on a charge of embezzlement, he was.
found guilty and sentenced to state prison; but
the governor, on account of the nature of the.
errand On which the woman had sent him. has
granted q pardon.
young man rode home with his sweetheart,
near Patterson's mills Pa, and while he was
warming his feet at the kitchen fire her mis-
calevous brother transferred the saddle and bri--
die from his horse to their bull and hitched the
animal where the horse had been. When the
young man came out to mount, his new charger
did not greet him with friendly eye, and he,
had to call upon the young Lady for help before,
he could remove his acoouterments.
+. Lucius W. Pond, the Worcester forger, who :.
has now served six years OF his fifteen years.
sentence, appears to have great many friends
in Massachusetts, who are very anxious for
his pardon. Among them is Charles B. Pratt.
ex-mayor of Worcester, one of the greaaest
losers by Pond, who thinks the SHORTCOMINGS.
errors of the heart rather than the head, and
wants to give the unfortunate man another
chance. Pardons in such cases, however, are,
for the most part bad precedents.
An American lady travelling in Europe was so.
shocked by the sight of the corpses in the GEM
terry building at Munich that she has been i'll for
some weeks. European travellers will remember
the custom Of allowing the dead to remain,
twenty or thirty in one room, in a raised posi-
ton, with'a bell attached to their wrists, that
the slightest movement may cause an alarm.
Tins is to prevent any one from being buried
alive. These corpses had on caps ans other arti-
cles of Dress which OILY added to the ghastliness
OF their appearance.
Senator David Dayis is fond OF encouraging
worthy and aspiring young men, but toward
idlers and fortune-hunters he turns the ehilliest