Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-21

GLOBELETS.
The Alhambra in Granada is being
whitewashed and renovated inside.
Prof. Swing, of Chicago, calls the Saliva
ton Army bric-a-brac in religion.
Emory Storrs, of Chicago, thinks Gen.
Sheridan would be a successful candidate
in 1884.
Ex-senator Morrill,, of Maine, is slowly
passing away. He is very anxious to live
to see his daughter who is ON her way from
Europe.
| Unfermented wine is now used at the
communion services in all the Methodist
and Baptist churches, and in all but two of
Congregational churches in Chicago.
The room in a Philadelphia house where
Jefferson is popularity supposed to have
written the Declaration of Independence is
occupied by shoe store.
Ex-senator Conkling effects jaunty air
and youthful style of dress and frequents
the theaters, but the gossips say he looks
ten years older since his defeat for re-elec-
| ton.
Three thousand one hundred head of
game, including 1000 pheasants, fell to
seven guns in five days shooting on an es-
tate near Llangsful, in the west of Eng
land, recently.
The Right Rev. Alfred Oilivant, D. D.,
the Oldest bishop on the English bench, is
dead. He was born in 1898, and since
1949 has been bishop of LANDAU. He has
published number of English books.
rooster recently deserted his native
barnyard, near Warrenton, Va, to live in
the woods with flock of wild turkeys. He
crows as usual every morning, locating the
| flock for his late owner, who has roast wild
turkey as often as he wants it.
The news from Washington that ex-Sen
ator Simon Cameron is busy 'healing the
breaches of the Republican party"
prompts Mr.. John Kelly to wonder in the
columns of his paper, the New York Star,
whether he spanked his son Don to lend
| impressiveness to the ceremony
| The deer on Boston common have been
one of the sights of the city for years.
Now the fence enclosing them has decayed
and the city council has decided to dis
| pose of the deer rather than rebuild the
fence. The common will be thrown open,
except small space reserved for flower
beds.
The New York sCode" does not secure
Sabbath observance in the city. Practi-
cally it is a dead letter. Saloons, stores
and places of business open as usual, and
the elevated railroad is in full operation.
But few arrests are made, and no convic-
tons secured. A law not in accordance
with general public sentiment is dead
imperative.
The Arabs in the country districts of
Egypt have story among them that soon
after the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, hen be-
longing to shiek's daughter laid an egg,
on which was inscribed: sArabi has lost
the battle because he mutilated the corpses
of the enemy. Allah has punished him,
but he will restore the victory to him if he
will keep his commandments in future
This was the first news they had of Arabs
defeat.
A fireman at the Low Moor iron works,
near Manchester, Eng, fell in love with
the daughter of his foreman, and being
rudely refused by her father, turned away,
walked up the long figh: of steps to the
top of the blast furnace, took off his boots
and jumped into tbs furnace. The blast
was stopped and search made at once with
long shovels and rakes, but nothing of the
body but one piece of charred bone was
recovered.
A monstrosity is reported running wild
in the woods sixty miles west of Oukapa-
ringe, Australia. The trunk of his body is
like that of human being in shape, but
terminates in one leg, more than twice as
thick as the leg of an ordinary man. The
foot is broad and fiat and of unusual
length, the heel projecting five or six inches
behind the ankle. 1t is said the creature
gets over the ground with great speed in
series of hops, sometimes covering fifteen
feet at leap.
A blunt Georgia editor says: "Nins
tenths of the unhappy marriages are the
result of green human calves being al
lowed to run at large in the society pas
lures without any yoke on them. They
marry and have children before they have
mustaches; they are fathers of twins
before they are proprietors of two pairs of
pants, and the little girls they marry are
old women before they are twenty years
old. Occasionally one of these gosling
marriages turns out all right, but it is
| clear case of luck.''
The big hog stories are coming in pretty
we'll. A native black "canoe snout' up in
Lawrence county, after bringing forth
litter Of seventeen pigs and eating six of
them was killed and dressed 637 pounds.
A Mercer county farmer reports two that
cleaned $40 and 10 pounds respectively.
Right here in Allegheny county one has
been butchered that turned out 8O3 pounds,
clean meat. And an Altoona man recently
ate twenty-pound turkey and loaf of
bread in ffty-fve minutes. The question
now is which was the bigger hog, the man
that ate the turkey or the pigs above de-