Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-25
GLOBELETS.

Mckee Rankin, the actor, is to build thsarer-
in New York, to cost 100000.
In England q barrel of oysters is very COM
mon Christmas present to country friend.
VIM. II. Vanderbilt's profits from operations
in the stock market this year are said to be
s2O,0O0,000.
Fortress Monroe is said to be the largest
single fertilization in the world and to have
already cost the national government $4,000, 900.
A crazy man created sensation in Montreal
church by undressing himself in the pew. When
taken out he was in state of nudity and fought
like demon.
A city letter was dropped into the Rochester,
N. Y, postoffice on Monday with this address in
a child's hand: can den lieben Water i'm Him.
mel''-to the beloved Father in heaven.
When somebody asked ''Ben'' Wade how he
liked II. W. Beecher, he said: D. Beecher; he
has knocked hell out of religion, and religion:
without hell is better than pork without salt''
While the schoolmasters are grooming over
the statistics of iliteracy, it is comfort to
slider that the secretary Of the Brooklyn board
of education, who is defaulter to the amount
of $3.50, COO can read and write.
One of the four drunken Yale students, arrest
ed few evenings since, is said to be one of the
richest youths in the college. His foud parents
allow him s6,00Oa year for pocket money For
the boys rowdiness the parents are very largely
responsible.
There are three dishes, it is said, which, if put
upon the bill of fare in London club, are de-
vOured before all else; SO that at or s o'clock,
when most members dine, there is nothing left
of them. These dishes are Irish stew, tripe and
onions and liver and bacon.
Bret Harte once wrote poem for soap man
ufacturer, for which he was paid an enormous
sum, but though his name signed to it, no
one believed that he wrote it, he got the
money and the soap man was Only laughed at
when he paraded the authorship.
There is a general opinion that Dickens pop
ularity is waning. 1t may be, but within the
twelve years that have passed since his death,
about 4, 239, 800 of his works have been sold IN
England alone. ''Hckwick'' heads the list, and
''The Tale of Two Cities'' is lowest.
The noted American beauty Miss Chamber
lain, of Cleveland, o., who has attracted SO
| much attention in Europe, is said to have cap
| tivated Sir Henry Massey Tompson, parvenu,
with an incnme of ego, 900 Il year. Langtry took
| an American parvenu with nearly as much.
bad man will be sure to find himself sooner
or later in quandary. He resembles the fat
man who sent to the stage coach office for two
seats as one was not enough, and found to his
dismay that he was booked for two seats indeed,
but the one was outside and the other inside.
A journalist contemporary with the late Thur
low Weed writes: ''The contrast between Weeds
private benevolence and public ferocity is very
striking. The exhibits the savage
partizanship Of an undisciplined barbarian, the
other the human characteristics of superior
man.
The latest dog story comes from the suite of
the king of Greece. splendid dog fell over
board from steamer. The captain refused to
stop for anything short Of drowning nlan--
''You will stop for me, of COURSE" said the gen.
tleman, who leaped overheard, Of course mas
ter and dog were saved.
Chicago having introduced the cable car, is to
introduce another novelty in the shape of
street railway propelled by electricity. Mr.. Ell
mef A. Sperry, a. well known electrician, is to-
introduce the system, for which he claims that
economy is a marked feature. Each car will be-
provided with an electric headlight.
The prince of Wales wins golden opinions by
his entire impartiality in politics. Some time
ago, when Mr.. Gladstone had received a marked
slight at Windsor, the prince went out of his way
to give him an exceptional proof of his respect,
and lately Mr.. Chamberlain radical ex-mayor
of Birmingham has, with Sir c. Dixie, been on.
visit = Sandringham.
"On Wednesday my wife took it into her
head to run away with niger; on Thursday my
father-in-law died and left me fortune. which
IS happiness enough to me,'' remarked James
Waltenbaugh, of Newcastle, Ohio. 1t was in
deed true, and moreover the father-in-law had
drawn his will i'll Waltenbaugh's favor at the
suggestion Of the runaway wife.
prizein Kentucky lottery was won by a
woman at Pennington. N. H., and she sent a
nelghbor to collect it. He went away in good
clothes, with 500 for expenses, but returned in
rags and penniless. He had spent all the priz..
Being tried on charge of embezzlemeut, he was
found guilty and sentenced to state prison; BIZ,
the governor, on account of the nature Of Ase,
errand on which the woman had sent hir., h..
granted pardon.
A young man rode home with his s.erc~theart.
near Patterson's mills Pa, and ~hi,e he was
warming his feet at the kitche FIRE her m;s-
chevous brother transferred ae saddle and bri-
die from his horse to their mil and hitched the
animal where the horse mad been. When the
young man came ont to. mount. his new CHARGER
did not greet him With friendly eye. and he,
nad 10 eau upon ne young lady for help before,
ne could reno, g his accouterments.
. L - II, Pend, the Worcester forger, who
mas now served six years of his fifteen years.
sen 'enoe. appears to have great many friends,
"a Massachusetts who are very anxious for.
his pardon. Among them is Charles B. Pratt.
e1-maycr of Worcester, one of the greatest
losers. by Pond, who thinks the SHORTCOMINGS
errors OF the heart rather than the head. and,
wants to give the unfortunate man anathan-
chance. Pardons in such cases, however, are
for the most part bad presidents.
An American lady travelling in Europe was so
shocked by the. sight of the corpses in the GEM
terry building at Munich that she has been i'll for
some weeks. European travellers will remember
the custom OF allowing the dead to remain.
twenty or thirty in one room, in a raised posi-
ton, with a bell attached to their wrists, that
the slightest movement may cause an alarm.
This is to prevent any one from being buried
alive. These corpses had on caps and other arti-
cles Of Dress which only added to the ghastliness
of their appearance.
Senator David Davis is fond of ENCOURAGING
worthy and aspiring yonng men, but towarss
idlers and fortune-hunters he turns the ehilliest