Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-13
GLOBELETS.

The latest Partisan beauty bears the Gu
phonious and poetic name of Guntherot.
Ex-Gov. Coburn. of Maine, is about to
give $4,000 building to a classical in
stitute in that state.
A California paper thinks il. is migrate
full for girls to commit suicide, it costs SO
much to raise them.
Justics Miller. of the supreme court,
says the best feature of the Republican de-
feat is that it is the death of bossism.
The Prince and Princess of Wales and
Duke and Duchess of Connaught will visit
Berlin in January to assist at the celebra-
ton of the silver wedding of the Crown
Prince of Germany.
Mr.. Labouchere, NJ. p. and editor of the
London Truth. thinks that pure wine is
calculated to promote temperance and So
briefly: that the juice of all fruits has that
effect. and that the best fruit for the pur-
pose is the orange.
The Boston Globe reports that lightning
struck a contribution plate in western
church just as the deacon was passing il
dAOuA0s Ills 10 LILO AISG eAuAO any GhAd6
has struck this plate for the last three
MONTHS said the deacon, thoughtfully.
Recent storms have proved very de-
structive to oyster buoys' on Long Island
sound, and large number have been
swept away. Off Milford and Stratford
many haYe been lost. Nearly all of the
oysters on 500 acres near the breakwater
have been ruined.
The London Times, in an editorial, says
it believes a compromise has been offered,
or it is about to be offered, the British
government, the purport of which is that
Arab Pasha be allowed to expatriate him
self and live in exile. The proposal, how
ever, is not acceptable.
In q conversation on general topics yes
terday Attorney General Brewster remark
ed, in response to question about the re-
cent comments upon his political e1pecta-
tions, that he had reached the height of his
ambition; that he was growing old, and
that he had no higher political aspira-
tons.
At an alleged tournament" held in
Drayton hall, in England, the other day,
presided over by Lady Jane Taylour, all
went well, we are told, saving little con-
lady fell from her steed, and remained in
vertical position on her head for some
moments.
In Old times. when people travelled by
diligence in France, one traveller was killed
in every $4,000, and one wounded in every
10000. Now, when they travel by rail,
one is killed per 5,179, 490. and one wound
ed per 560,44O. Railway travelling is,
therefore. nearly twenty times as safe as
travelling by diligence.
The duke of Connaught will unveil a
monumental statue which has been erected
to the memory of the late Prince Louis
Napoleon at Woolwich by a public sub
scription throughout the army. The monu-
ment stands IL a conspicuous position in
front of the Royal Military academy, at
which institution the duke of Connaught
aud the late prince were both cadets.
A pistol manufacturer of Springfield,
Mass, has a daily income of $4,000 from
his business and investments, and though
he began life poor man, expects to leave
each Of his four children millionaire.
No house nowadays, is regarded properly
furnished without due proportion of
pistols. This gives impetus to the trade,
and enrichss the manufacturer.
Pigeon races are so popular in Belgi I'M
thai N thp .,f ,iaro oil
carrier pigeons we're sent by rail in March.
362,250 III April, 3S2, 800 in May, 269, 800
in June, and $4,000 during the first three
weeks in July, making a total of more
than 100000 Tor less than five months.
More than thousand railway vans were
required to carry them to their destination.
1t is curious to see how tragically many
of the marriages of celebrated cantatrices
have turned out, remarks the London
World. That of Patti and the Marquis de
Caux ended in a scandal and a separation;
Nilsson's husband, M. Rouzaud, died in
lunstic asylum; Marietta Alboni's first
husband, Achille Pepoli, likewise died mad;
SO died Engalli's husband, M. Alexeiff.
Ginulia Crisis marriage with M. Gerard
de Melcy ended in a separation, after
duel between Melcy and the nephew of
Lord Castlereagb.
frog fell into pail of milk in Con-
necticut town one night recently, and in
the morning was found sitting upon roll
of fresh butter. A local paper says that
the sole explanation is, that, in trying to
extricate himself, he had, by diligent and
continuous strokes of his long legs
churned the milk into butter. Georgia
paper, copying this, says that COW in its
locality gives milk so rich that the process
of milking her turns the fluid into butter
as soon as it falls into the pail.
The Philadelphia Record says: ''Now a
New Orleans man has invented an electric
igh+ which combines the mild, incandes-
cent beam with the dazzling arc, using
either light in the same system of wires.
Electricians have apparently but just be-
gun to develop the possibilities Of this
form of illumination If our friends of
the Record will just step down to No. 1908
Chestnut street, they will see the Leavitt