Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-14
GLUBELETS.

MIA.
The hymn of the Irish revolutionist in
America: ''We are going home to dy-na-
mite"
Floods on the Mississippi are doing
great damage, and the high water mark of
1874 has been exceeded.
Dynamiters, if caught in England, get
life long servitude. The O'Donovan has
gone out of the business.
The erection Of monument to Peter
Cooper is under discussion. The work Will
doubtless be soon accomplished.
Postmaster General Gresham was friend
ly to Grant, but eagrely supported Gar
field when the latter was nominated.
A metallic coffin was found floating down
the river at Lexington. KY. It contained
the body of a boy some fifteen years Of
age.
The Italian government makes $4,000
year by charging admission to all its
art galleries. Such admissions used to be
free.
It is said that in London every
fourth person receives gratuitous medical
attendance, which Is doubtless an exagger-
alton.
Leading politicians in the Black hills
country are anxious to have that region
detached from Dakota and annexed to
Wyoming territory.
The Canadian papers are discussing
commercial independence of England.
That secured political and civil lndepen-
dence will be apt to follow.
The marriage of Prince George of Wales
to a Belgian princess has long been fore
Swallowed. Through her mother, an Aus
trian, she would bring an infusion of new
blood.
A New York paper says it is too bad that
Carl Schurz should have gone back on the
dynamitoids, for there were days when
Carl talked revolution and ''be-lud" as loud
as the most rabid of them.
New street station, Birmingham, Eng
land, is about to be converted into the
largest railway depot in the world. The
area covered will be over eleven acres, and
the cost is estimated at $1,25O,O00.
Duke of Atlantis would be a musical
title for Jay Gould to purchase from Count
Sarvielli. Mr.. Vanderbilt will bid high for
patent as Duke of Manhattan, and Mr..
Bennett, Jr,, would appropriately shine as
Earl OF Plum Gut.
II is reported that the empress of Aus
tria fences two hours daily to keep down
an accumulation of superduous flesh, to
make herself light weight for the saddle.
Cannot even a royal lady put herself to
more rational use than this.
Lyman Potter, the wheelbarrow fend
and ex-six day pedestrian, was run down
and killed by the cars in Mississippi re-
Gently. At the time of his death he was
engaged in the attempt to trundle wheel
barrow from New York to New Orleans
Potter won momentary fame some ten
years ago by pushing barrow from San
Francisco to Albany.
During the eighty two years that have
elapsed since the union, it is computed
that Ireland has been drained of $780,,
100000 in the shape of absentee rents,
most of which would have been spent at
home to fructify trade and commerce, if
the island possessed legislature of its
own. From this fact we can perceive that
the demand for parliament in College
Green is based on very substantial rea-
sons.
1t takes an Irishman to turn com pill
ment. When he saw Jones, after having
met the latter with Mrs. j., Pat MoFlaher-
ty said: Eye are mooch younger than your
wife, sur" Presently he met the wife and
remarked: ''The idea of such young wo-
man marrying MIsther Jonesv The next
day he met them both together, but he
wasn't at loss for blarney. "Och," he ex-
claimed, ''ye are both of yez too young for
aich other
According to LaLiberatad, of Mexico,
Don Nicholas hungary Miranda of that
city has invented an apparatus that it is
claimed will give notice, several days in ad-
vance, of the coming Of an earthquake.
Its indications, Senior hungary affirms, are
SO accurate that it will mark not only the
day, but even the exact hour when the dis
tur5ance is to occur, and show what the
degree of intensity of subterranean com
motion will be.
The Russian authorities appear to be
trying game of bluff. While the prepa-
rations for the cars coronation are going
n,the great trials of the nihilists are being
begun at st. Petersburg. This may scare
the nihilists,and it may simply add zest to
their preparations for sending the autocrat
OF al the Russias to Siberia or somewhere
eIee by the through air line, dynamite
bridges, gun-cotton at every station, and
no change of cars.
Some fortnight ago Mrs. Gladstone re-
ceived a letter from Sir Henry Ponsonby
the queens secretary, written by her di-
rection, advising her to urge her husband
20 accept peerage. The queen has o
late frequently publicly expressed her wisl
to visitors that he should accept peerage
which, while lessening his labors, woult
enable him to continue prime minister
He prefers to remain in the house of com
mons, but retire from Office.
The Chicago Herald says rents are no
likely to be advanced this year in that city