Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-07
GLOBELETS,

The kings of Europe can find employ
nent with any frst-class American circus
What Europe needs to settle the dyna'
mite difficulty is an electoral commission
Photographers taking Dorsey and
Brady as Raphaers cherubs shouldn't Tor
get the wings.
The civil service reform system has
been condemned in advance. 1t at least
deserves trial.
King Alfonso has conferred the order Of
the Golden Fleece upon the Crown Prince
Frederick William.
We are getting too many millionaires at
one end of our American life and too many
tramps ct the other.
One of the steps that ought to be taken
in civil service reform is an honest en-
forcement of the laws regulating the pur-
chase of supplies.
The widow of the late Capt. De Long, of
Arctic fame, is twenty-eight years old, Pc
tite, has light brown hair, hazel eyes, and
is a very pretty woman.
Spain has one general to every 518 men,
or three times the number of any other
country. The cortes is anxious to dis
pense with some Of them.
John S. Treat, the new mayor Of Ports
mouth, n. H, was confederate soldier
during the war, serving as private in an
Alabama artillery company.
The severest snow storm of the season
ragged at fredericksburg, Va, Saturday,
March 81. Vegetation has not sufficiently
advanced to sustain material injury.
Canary colored diamonds are much
sought after at present, as, indeed, are all
curiously colored stones. Pink diamonds
are another OF the fashions of the moment.
Chief Justice Waite has announced that
the United States supreme court will dis
continue the hearing of arguments April
81, and will adjourn for the term May u.
Louis T. DERRICK, of Baltimore, the
buyer Of Montpelier, President Madison's
home, is repairing the house for the pur-
pose Of occupying it as a summer resi-
dence,
A Russian princess at a recent ball Civ
en- in Nice wore q dress made entirely of
Peacocks' feathers. Heads of the birds,
with eyes made of garnets, were used in
the looping.
The most dignifed statesman in Nilsson
ri is McGinnis, who is six feet four inches
high when he stands erect on his feet and
four feet six inches high when he stands
on his dignity.
Emperor Francis Joseph has for months
suffered from q painful internal malady,
and it is said he will spend the summer at
Carlsbad for the purpose of trying its
healing waters.
The Rev. Henry Ferguson, of New
Hampshire, becomes professor of political
science at Trinity college, Hartford, and
the Rev. F. S. Luther, of Kenyon college,
Ohio. is the new professor Of mathematics.
One hundred and fifty persons have left
the Island of Achille, county of Mayo, on
the west coast OF Ireland, and sailed for
America On the steamer HISTORIAN. They
wsre driven from their homes by famine.
The only dangerous classes" in this
country. according to Dr.. Crosby, are
chose who are engaged in amassing
colossal fortunes-the giants who tread
ordinary men under their heel, and care
not how much the people suffer-"
French mails have increased in inclos-
ures, ETC.. sent from 665,000,000 in 1877 to
1,34OO00,00O in 1881; French telegraphs
from 8d74,00O dispatches in 1876 to 49,,
100000 IL 1881; French money orders from
$L341,O00 in 1879, when they were estab
lished, to $9,775.C0 in 1881.
AnAuburn sportsman is said to have
captured an immense owl of the Arctic
species while hunting in Broome county,
N Y. It is nearly white and a huge look
ing fowl, being SO completely enveloped in.
feathers that the long, sharp claws and
hooked beak are hardly visible.
Mention is made of new kind of horse
shoe, composed of three thicknesses of
cowhide compressed into a steel mould
and subjected to chemical preparation.
It is SAID to last longer than the common
shoe, weighs only one-fourth as much, re-
quires no cork, and is very classic.
COW living near Syracuse was run over
by a railway train and uninjured, except
that one of her legs was cut off below the
knee. Her owner, skillful surgeon, am
putated the limb at the knee joint and
healed the wound, and now the COW stumps
along comfortably on a wooden leg.
The season in Scotland has been no more
favorable to agriculture there than it has in
England. The wheat acreage will certainly
show 90 per cent. reduction, perhaps
more. A little hope may be derived from
potato-planting, with which some progress
is being made. The price Of potatoes is
very high.
Mr.. Howells has written a sequel to
E'Their Wedding Journey" 1t is called
"'Niagra Revisited.'' Such thing as a
married couple having enough money left
to revisit Niagara, after their wedding
journey, was never known-outside of
novel. Almost any improbable thing can
be worked up into fiction.
It is estimated that the daily sale of
natural flowers in Paris realizes some
$4,000, gardenias are the most fashionable
flower, and sen at 81 each; next comes
lilies of the valley, at 81 a pot, roses du
roi and purple roses, violets and carna-