Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-04


other Spanish and Italian literary works
of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
The Spanish government is urged to buy
the collection, valued at 100000.
The people of Binghamton, N. Y, are
very much troubled by the unnecessary
blowing and screeching of locomotive
whistles as the trains enter the town, these
sounds being used by the engineers as a
means of signaling to their wives, sweet
hearts or chums. One man blows his
whistle as he draws near the city that his
wife may know that he will be ready for
his supper in twenty minutes, at which
time he is usually found seated at the ia
BILE.
When Judge Taft last summer left Gin
cinnati for his post in Vienna he did not
understand word of German. He now
delights his German friends in Cincinnati
by corresponding with them in their own
language. Minister Sargent also went to
Berlin with no great acquaintance with the
language. A literary friend recently sent
to him for chapter in reconcile Ger
man book, and received from the minister's
own hand a graceful translation with COM
ments.
A Lordon expert blindfolds himself, and
four different kinds of sherry are poured
into the same glass. He takes mouth full
and declares the component parts of the
mixture, usually without mistake. Then
he experiments with port, and is wonder
fully successful. He identifies numerous
champagnes, even to the year Of vintage.
When a glass of Chicago whisky was
given him he tore off the bandage and
wanted to be shown the whelp who had
tried to kill him.
An old man in Milwaukee wishing to in
duce young married woman to elope
with him, made use of the following argu-
ments: "My dear child" said he to her, eff
you go with me you and your children
shall have plenty while 1 live, and when 1
get too old 1 will get you young man.
We will start q store and will get you
sewing machine. During the summer I
can earn eighteen shillings a day as
mason, AID when I get too old I'll be a
father to YOU The cheeky proposition,
aside from its inanity, was very properly
declined.
Ia the London Times and other metro
politan papers the CALLING phrase recurs
frequently at the end of tempting ad-
yertisement: "No Irish or Catholics need
apply" Another still more obnoxious ad-
vertisement, repeated many tiAes in every
paper, is, Required, wet nurse, single
and respectable" The ju1taposition of
the two adjectives is in itself bitter sa-
tire. Perhaps the maid. who applied for a
situation as wet nurse might answer. When
asked her qualifications for the position,
she confessed her ignorance, but said, Il
am aisy to tachv'
Canon Wherefore has been passionate
ly defending himself at Plymouth against
the two clergymen who presumed to call
him heret1oal for saying that anything
created by God was curse. Give him,
he exclaimed, one drop of fermented wine
made by God, and he would drink it on
the spot. The canon's eloquence has
caused 1900 persons to join the blue rib
bon ranks within week. The Baptists
contemplate at the next May meetings to
bring in motion calling on all members
who hold excise licenses to throw them up
and abandon the liquor traffic without de-
lay.
The London Graphic is moved to re-
mark: american women IN Paris are also
interesting to notice. When very pretty
and well dressed they excite the envy of
the ladies and call for the admiration of
gentlemen of France. To their discr edit
be it said, however, French writers-Octave
Feuillett among them-are ungallant
enough to sheer at American women. But
this is done to curry favor with the fair of
their own land; for two things which a
French woman will not coucede to an An
glaise' are the attributes of beauty and the
art of dressing. The grandeur of France
may be dimmed, but the glory of Partisan
millinery and the grace of Partisan CO.
Guetry are forever"
1t was a very ingenious young man who
was going to call on young lady whose
father kept a bulldog. He had endured
several alterations with the dog, and had
resolved that if the canine tasted of the
back of his trousers that night, it would
wish it hadn't. So he put a coil of barbed
wire inside the garment to tear the ami
mails jaws. He went up to the house chuck
ling over his ingenuity, but the dog didn't
trouble him further than to snuff at his
heels. He was shown into the presence of
the ladies in the parlor and asked to take a
seat. That was contingency he hadn't
prepared for. He thoughtlessly sat down,
but instantly arose in manner so excited
! that the ladies knew something was wrong,
and asked what was the matter. He thought
best not to tell, but the haste with which he
left the house and fed into the darkness
convinced them that something was wrong,
and when in the shelter OF friendly clump
of bushes he removed the wire, he con-
oluded that it would have been far bett er
to have been bitten by the dog.
Prison Pets.
Boston Herald
1t is somewhat surprising to what an
| extent men confined in prison will succeed