Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-25
GLOBELETS.

4H1SI -OCOUN, 10 oSIASAo4g
Wilkie Collins is down with the govt,
which affects one OF his eyes.
Pere Hyacinthe's stepson is clerk in
the treasury department. at Washington.
Mrs. Thomas, the widow of Gen. George
q. Thomas, intends to make her home in
Washington.
| In his forthcoming message the Presl-
dent should give congressman g pointer on
bass fishing.
| Washington Post: The present admin
istratien is bound to 60 into history as the
! era of good tailoring.
Millais, the great English painter, is a
frank, robust, fresh-looking man, above
the medium height and sturdy Of build.
| General Mcclellan and family will win
ter in Washington. It is presumed the
General will break little timber for the
old ticket Of 1868.
| James Russell Lowell, United States
Minister, will be nominated rs csndi-
date for the rectorship of the Scotch Uni
versity of st. Andrews.
Matthew Arnolds first lecture in Ameri-
CO this season will be delivered in New
York on the 3Oth instant, the title CT his
address being Numbers"
| Brigandage in Sicily is not looked upon
with SO mush of favor as formerly, twelve
outlaws having just been sentenced to
death and others TO the galleys.
Cincinnati Enquirer: After the detec,
tives get after murderer ne IS never
found oat, unless he confesses. Old man
Melting did not seem to understand this.
Mgr. Capel has discovered thaS if you
! take q lamp into the dark is only makes
the dark more intense. The gas company
| in which he has taken stock is not men
toned.
Cholera mas reappearea in an Egyptian
village. 1t is attributed to the drinking
victims os the summers plsgue had been
buried
Emma Bond, the Illinois sohool-teacher
who was brutally outraged several months
ago, is slowly recovering her health. Two
hundred witnesses have been summoned
for the trial
Chief-Justice Coleridge, of England, re-
ceives salary Of $4,000 year. A dry
goods drummer in Chicago receives the
same. To put this in legal shape it is a
case of brains VS.. gall.
It is said that Mr.. Beecher made $21 600
during his recent lecture trip to California
and Texas. but this is said by one of his
admirers, who is generally allowed so per
cent of on his statements.
Mr.. Beecher says he does not believe the
story Of the fall OF Adam. If Mr.. Adam
were alive now he would have a chance to
reciprocate by saying he didn't believe the
story of the fall of Beeche-.
During the year ending June 80, 1888,
the Chicago Post office handled 49,, 000,00e
pieces Of mail matter, an amount only ex-
ceeded by the output Of The offices at
New York and Philadelphia.
By the way, for what does Lily Langt1y
bring her mother along? Who wants to
look at the old lady? II the Lily got safe
ly through last season she can pull through
this; if she did not, where's the use OF the
cid lady?
Secretary Blaine has rented the
Marcy mansion, Lafayette square, Wash
ington, and will spend the winter on his
book. An entrance through she back door
will be furnished gentlemen desiring to
talk ABOUT the Presidency.
Secretary Folger says it is TOO early to
Al ! l. l,,,4
that the customs receipts are still quite
large, and that it may De possible that
another bond call may be necessary be-
fore the end of the fiscal year.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Greene, whose husband
was the son and namesake Of the famous
Gen. Nathaniel Greene, will celebrate her
one hundreth birthday anniversary on
Nov 8. She is the mother Of the late Prof
Greene, Mr.. Longfellow's intimate friend.
Col. Tom Ochiltree says that he has an
order from the Empress Of Austria for
two Kentucky saddle horses. He speaks
highly or the Empress as horsewoman.
His admiration for the lady is almost
enough to excite the jealousy of F. Josef
Germany mas built its great bronze
statue of Germania, with all the figures
grouped about it, for $245, zoo, Or about
the appropriation Congress has had TO
make to run up few feet higher the
meaningless Washington monument on
the Potomac fats.
The New York MaSi and EGpress has an
article on 1.-The Value of Man." The
truth is, it depends on his politics. If he
is stout hearted Republican and really
patriotic, his value on election day is
about seventy-fve cents, including g
sandwich and glass Of beer.
"Mahone, of Virginia" has changed
very much in appearance lately. He has
aged considerably: he is getting somewhat
bald, and his hair and beard haYe whiten-
ed. He begins to dress out of his usual
custom, wearing q black frock-coat and
displaying an immaculate white vest
At the close of the fiscal year, June 80,
1888, there were sos,e5s pensioners, draw
ing in the aggregate $32,A5,192 an
nually, but there are still left 962, 1901
living soldiers and sailors and 63,34o
reasonable relatives who have not for
xarded their applications for assistance.
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