Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-04
GLOBLETs.

The recent Farmers Congress at St
Louis denounce the tariff.
The new comet is visible to the naked
eye in the early morning hours.
The state committee of the National
Greenback Labor Party of New York de-
nounce the anti-monopoly party as a dis
honorable organization.
The monument over the grave of the
daughter of ex-president Tyler in Holly
wood cemetery, Baltimore, has been ma
Hciously defaced by some unknown human
fend
4 Washington telegram says the illustri-
Gus Dorsey contemplates'a trip abroad. He
does not seem to have lost his carpet-bag
popularity in Arkansas, for he has just
been reelected chairman of the Republi-
can committee of that state.
Oscar Wilde, the aesthetic, is still lectur-
ing. The summer resorts being deserted,
where he has been dawdling, he lately ap-
peared in Lynn, Mass, where he exhibited
his knee breeches and calves. and lectured
to 500 people.
Recently kerosene lamp exploded in a
hotel i'll Watango county, N. c. Two cir
Gus performers we've asleep in the room at
the time. One of them was severely burn
edabout the body and the eyes of the other
were destroyed. The hotel was burned.
Recently in Wadesboro, N. c., David
Pratt and Charles Willoughby had dis
pute On a road near that place. Pratt
struck Nilloughby on the back of the neck
with a scythe which he carried, and severed
his head from his body. Pratt has not
since been seen.
A few days ago several boys were search
ground Of Antietam and reaped harvest
of relics i'll the shape of musket-balls.
Two bullets were discovered with their
points welded together, showing that they
had met in midair.
A Fort Worth telegram says, at Muddy
Brook while Mr.. William Boutwell's daugh-
ter, aged six years, was driving COW along
a road through some thickiy wooded land,
she was attacked by a cougar, killed and
partially devoured. Some neighbors who
heard her shrek when the cougar sprang
upon her, pursued and shot him.
Among the well-known Americans who
were recently assembled at Mr.. Osgood's
dinner party in London, Bret Harte was,
according to M. D. Conway, the only one
who looked at al English. All the others
bore an impress of nationality, making a
strong contrast between them and any sim
liar gathering of Englishmen.
The number of emigrants that have ar
rived at Castle Garden, New York, during
the past month of September was 32,S43,
which shows falling off compared with
the corresponding month last year, which
were 36,377. The total arrivals so far
this year are 376,361, which, compared
with the 1866 Immigrants that arrived
last year during similar period, shows
an increase of 2O,5O6.
Victor Hugo says France, Italy, and
Spain are destined to be the representa-
tives of civilization. The Turks are to be
driven out of Europe. The twentieth CEN
fury will see all Africa civilized by means
of the Mediterranean powers, including
England, owing to her possessions in Glib
raltar. AS for the English campaign in
Egypt, that is ''only transitory incident,
a repugnant episode of modern history
An astronomical observatory has lately
been erected by the Italian government on
Mount Etna, above Catanta, which is the
highest inhabited building in Europe, as
it beats the st. Bernard Hospice by over
1000 feet 1t has two stories with spa
cious balconies, and has been built on,
cone near the summit of the mountain.
The observatory will not be touched by
any eruptions, as the lava always flows
down on the further side of the volcano.
A young Tucson, Arizona, lady when
disrobing a few evenings since became
painfully aware by a wriggling under her
corset strings, that there was an intruder
of some kind to be got rid of, SO hastily
striking light she discovered an impris-
oned scorpion, about two and one-half
inches long, which had borne her company
the day through. Fortunately, it had be-
come so fastened as to be unable to do her
injury.
It has been learned from a trustworthy
source that Mrs. Sarah Hendrickson, of
Hampstead, L. l., has not partaken of food
of any kind in other than liquid form for
thirty two days. She cannot retain any solid
food upon her stomach, being sufferer
from dyspepsia in its worst form. Her
physicians say she is slowing dying of
starvation. Mrs. Hendrickson is fifty years
old. Her weight used to be 145 pounds, at
present 1t is So.
Mr.. Cuppia, a cigarette manufacturer in
New York City, in answering the question.
''What do you call assorted tobacco?" said
~'sThe stamps, butts and other miscellany
picked up in the streets by the Italian and
Bohemian collectors. Those industrious
aliens gather fragments of tobacco all over
the city and make them into cigarettes
They have no process for extracting the
concentrated nicotine in the butts, an6
their wares are put upon the market in al
their native strength and impurity. Mos
of these products of Bohemian and Italian
enterprise are sold out of town.
The San Francisco Chronicle says: 4
typhoon passed over North Formosa OF
tho 21St of Iulv At Keelunp little or n,