Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-16
GLOBELETS,


niers for gentlemen in New York.
Five thousand dead bodies are sent to
The morgue i'll New York every year.
Won Flotow, the operate composer, has
become blind from cataract of the eye.
-Four more battalions of English troops
are soon to return to England from Cairo.
The receipts at the Pennsylvania
treasury last year rea ched $7,06S, 1886,
and the expenditures S5.O24,7 66.41.
The wholesale body-snatching carried
on in Philadelphia, is driving many people
to think that cremation may be best after
all.
Major Strait has beaten them all. he
has prepared a civil service reform bill
which at the first blush seems to have a
modicum of practical common sense in it.
Pope Leo Kill will celebrate the fifth
eth anniversary of his ordination as
priest on Dec. %. A mass for his hoii-
ness will be said throughout Europe on
that day.
Nineteen members Of the present con-
gress were born On the other side of the
water. The largest proportion of the for
eign born members claim Ireland as their
fatherland.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett has resigned
the position long held by him of Master of
the Foxhounds at Pau, in the Pyrenees, on
the ground that he thinks of passing some
time in the United States.
Miss Harriet Eaton Stanton, youngest
daughter Of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
was married lately to Mr.. William Henry
B!atch, Jr., Of Basingstoke, Eng. The wed
ding took place in Rosslyn chapel, London.
The mother gave the bride away.
All the passenger and express trains on
the Texas and Pacific road, between Fort
Worth and e. Pasc. have been provided
with strong force Of state rangers. This
step has been taken on account of the re-
cent boldness exhibited By train robbers
in that section.
The mementoes of Garibaldi in the pos
session OF Signor Muecci, in the old Carl
balai house, at Clifton, Staten Island, have
been presented by their owner to the Ma
tional museum at Rome. They consist of
medals and stiletti given to the famous
Italian by the South American govern
ments in whose service he fought, and
pipes and canes of his own handiwork.
Ripon Lakana is the name of a great
japanese lord who is travelling through
Europe like Gautier's ''Fortunio." When
he was at Vienna he chartered hotel and
sent invitations to 200 women to
attend a masked ball, at which he was the
only person of the masculine sex present.
He made them dance and eat and drink;
and when they sat down to supper, each
found a superb bracelet hidden in her
napkin. The Parisians expect that he will
am use them with similar fantasticaiities.
A fair critic in Boston went to see Mrs.
Langtry. Whether or not she was salts
fed with the beauty of the Lily does not
appear, but something inspired her to re-
| mark: ''Now that the men have a Venus,
we lady theater-goers want an Adonis on
the STAGE" While this may possibly serve
some enterprising theatrical manager as a
sufficient hint for the arranging of con-
test for masculine beauties, it is to be
hoped that the two personages will never
be exhibited together.
Victor Hugo was once declaiming on the
| unity of race and the equality of man
| with that pardonable exaggeration that is
| SO characteristic OF him, when one of his
! hearers thought TO confuse him by asking
| him how he would like to hold a mulatto
grandchiid on his knee. 81 should not like
| it, he replied. But 1 would not prevent
| a marriage between daughter of mine
! and negro; and I should reflect, if such
marriage took place, that in the third
generation touch of the tar-brush is a
| beauty
Nine. Christine Nilsson Rouzeand tells
how she once brought Oscar Wilde to his
senses. He was taking her down to dinner
at party in London, and began talking
nonsense and posing, as usual, The
plain-speaking. son gstress said: 'Look
| here, Mr.. Wilde; Nine. Christine Nilsson
will put UP with no such stuff. This is all
put on, and there is nothing in it but non
sense. Mr.. Wilde replied: "Thank you.
| You are the first sensible woman and true
friend l have met" And after that he act
ed like a man and talked sensibly enough,
| she says.
Edward d. Cooley was only thirty-fi
years old when he died at West Spring
field, Mass, and yet he lived alone in so
| poor howell that it was assessed for taxa
ton at only $25, while bank books dis
| covered since his death show that he had
about $4,000 at interest. He was a grad
uate of Amherst college, and it is said that
| a love affair frat made him recluse His
life was very solitary and his nearest
neighbocs had no acquaintance with him
| A few books and gun were his compan-
| ions, ana ne was contented to live in rags
| AM squaicr.>
Pere Hyacinthe was driven from the
| chapel i'll which he made his debut, after
| casting Of his religious habit, with q debt
| of 44.00n francs, which his English friends
subscribet. 10 pay, and he is now in Lon
don to get them 10 come ogain to the res
cue and subscribe for an allowance of
| $4,000 a year for the support of his new