Daily globe., 1882-10-07
GLOBELETs.

united, forming one body.
The net funded debt of the city of New
York, Sept. 80, was S97,ss0,941.2a.
Mr.. Mac1ey, the San Fra ncisco mil
lionare, lately paid $4,000 for four Cali
fornia colts.
The board of trade of Providence, R. L,
have refused to admit ex- Governor Sprague
to membership.
son of Secretary Folger is said to be
dangerously i'll in Minnesota. At what
point is not stated.
Bancroft, the historian. was eighty-three
years old October 8. He celebrated the
event at Newport, R. I. 5as1 -
The exports for Guelph, Canada, to the
United States for the month of September
were valued at $75,359.7s.
A young virginian has invented ma
chine called the ''lung destroyer" 1t turns
out $50 cigarettes minute.
The exports for Hamilton, Canada, to the
United States, during the month of Septem-
Der, were to the value of $7O,515, of which
S1,297 was for sewing machines.
Lieutenant Danenhower, one of the arc
tic survivors of the ill-fated Jeanette, is
giving public lectures, recounting the
perils, sufferings, and deaths of the mem
bers of the ll-advised expedition.
A Norwegian missionary in Rutland re-
ports that he has baptized twenty adult
Zulus since the war, and that thirty others
are in a hopeful condition. Day and
night schools are in full operation.
The late Signor Pasquale Farale, of Ma
Piles, left 10000 francs to the city of Lon
don, to form fund from which marriage
portions of 800 francs each are to be paid
to girls between the ages of 16 and 25.
Swinburne has decided to give readings
i'll the principal cities of this country.
probably in the latter part of next winter;
and Prof. Huxley is said to be considering
an offer, of $500 apiece for lectures here
during 1883 and 1884.
Women are permitted to vote in Utah.
If the Gentle women ''vote to a man,
they will out-match the Mormon women at
the polls. Thus the interesting fact will
be developed that women hold the balance
of power in Utah, politically speaking.
The Montreal Gazette figures out that
the export trade of Canada in the fiscal
year ending June Both last, was the largest
on record. The total amount is given at
$1oO,21O,421 against S9s, ,29O,S 1928 in 1S8O-S1,
OR an increase of S1,919,59S for the last
fiscal year.
Before leaving Europe for Central Asia
General Tohernaieff made pilgrimage to
the tomb of Skobeleff, and placed above it
superb image of st. Michael, the dead
chieftain's patron saint. In life the two
generals were rivals, but withal, great ad-
mirers of each other.
A prisoner in the Jail at Fonda, N. Y,
set the ceiling of his cell on fire, thinking
to escape in the confusion. He became
frightened and gave the alarm, in which
other prisoners joined. They were all res
cued and shackled, but the jail and sher-
ifs residence were all destroyed, entailing
a loss Of $3.5OO.
DR.. William Il. Trowbridge, one of the
Oldest physicians of Stamford, Conn.,, on
Monday morning, October 3, about 4
o'clock, ,ascended to the top of new build
step and fell distance of about seventy
five feet. He remained undiscovered un-
til about o'clock, and died shortly after
wards.
The London Standard wakes eloquent in
descanting upon the probability of the
success of arboriculture in the most crowd
ed parts of the English metropolis. Of
eighty four trees planted in Tooley street,
it reports that only twelve have died, and
it is thought that if trees will grow in the
most unlikely part of Bermondsey, no part
of the great city need be despaired of.
M. Bartholdi's colossal statue of Glib
erty" may go to Boston instead of New
York. The latter city virtually accepted
the gift in1876, but has not provided the
pedestal, which would cost about 100000.
The lukewarm way in which the New York
people have treated the French givers has
led the French committe having the mat
ter in hand to offer the statue to Boston.
The statue is nearly completed and will
arrive in Boston in 1883.
The London Figaro says that Adelina
Pa til is reported to have accepted an en-
gagement for South America during the
season of 1884 at so high rate that,
should she economize her salary during her
1923 season in the United States, and
her South American fees, her fortune will
be large enough to enable her to ''reject
with scorn the paltry few hundred guineas
night she is likely to be promised else
where
The melancholy sequels of the ill-fated
Jeanette expedition seem to find no end.
The af1iction of the wife of DR.. Long and
of the friends and kin of his lost comrades
was followed by Melville's painful domes-
tic experience, and now the betrothed of
Lieut.. Chipp has died of an illness brought
on by distress at his fate. It is to be hoped
at least that recriminations of the survi-
vors, during the Investigation of the con,
duct of the expedition, will be spared.
King Milan created great surprise among
the people at Ischl by going about very
much like any other mortal, and neither
using his sceptre for a walking stick mol
his crown for travelling cap. One day
he was chatting familiarly with a amaster