Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-01
GLOBULETS.

A coop of prairie hens has been forward
ed to Queen Victoria at Windsor.
Bureaus of associated charities now exist
III 259 of the largest cities of the Union.
The old building in which the Boston
Gazette was first published in 1719 is about
to be pulled down.
The czar of all the Russias has fixed
upon May 9th for his coronation in utter
disregard of nihilistic threats.
Rubbing warts night and morning with
wet piece of muriate of ammonia is said to
cause their disappearance without pain or
scar.
Statistics of crime in seven of the larg-
est cities in the United States show that
San Francisco leads in the number of hom-
icides.
The queen Of Italy has a Neopolitan
physician who sits at her table to prevent
her majesty from eating unwholesome
food.
The green three-cent stamp will have
been in use thirteen years, when the new
two-cent postage rate goes into effect next
October.
Recently, at Rochester, Mass, four girls
and boy, all children of G. H. F. French,
were drowned by the capsizlng of boat
on pond.
Coal mining in Austria cost in 1881
1877 lives, and 2O4 men were seriously in
jured. Twothirds of the deaths were
caused by falling rock.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves orange
orchard in Florida has yielded SO we'll of
late that she is building a church near
Jacksonville at her own expense.
party of Cincinnatians recently pur-
chased 5000 acres of land in Florida
known as the Apopka mountains, and con-
template erecting 100000 hotel.
Queen Victoria's royal stud at Hampton
court has greatly run down of late years
The yearlings are stigmatized as ''royal
rats" and bring poor prices"
The ladies object to having the houses
connected with the church by telephone.
They may hear the preacher hut how can
they see the new bonnets by telephone.
Cornelius, street masher, was tarred
and feathered at Nashville, Ill.," is the brief
record which the Chicago Times gives of a
great social reform just begun in the West
Miss Hope Glenn, who sang with Chris.
tine Nilsson during her recent tour, mourns
the loss of $500, the amount of q
draft which rogue succeeded in collect.
ing.
81 was drunk when 7 married her.
pleaded the defendant TO the court. 'Most
men are who marry pretty wiyes," returned
the judge. "Beauty is always intoxicat
ing"
The "lady of rank" who wrote scandalous
society news to the London World, Ed.
mund Yates paper, has been dropped from
the list of company at Buckingham pal
ace.
There only two Irish dukes, but the race
will not probably soon become extinct
for one of them, Abercorn, has fifty sever
grandchildren and five great grandchil
dren.
Mr.. A. A. Common, the English astrono
mer, believes it to be possible to photo
graph stars not visible to the eye in the
telescope with which the photographs are
| taken.
Two we'll developed and healthy looking
frogs alarmed Montgomery, Ala, negro
by hopping out of solid log three feet
thick when it was opened by sharp blow
of an axe.
If telegraph wires are never put under
ground it will not be for the lack of inven
lions showing how it may be done. No less
than $50 devices in this direction have beer
already patented.
Sheep killing dogs in Virginia are unus-
ually busy. The poor man can always
afford to keep dogs so long as his rich
neighbor can afford to keep sheep.-Neu
| Orleans PicayAne.
The house on Narragansett avenue, New
port, belonging to the estate of the late
Gov. Morgan, was sold the other day tc
Gen. R. L. Wilson, of New York, for $780,.
600, including the furniture.
The small pox, which has chung danger
ously to New Orleans through the winter
and threatened to be summer disease, is
diminishing, and hopes are now enter
tanned of its entire dislodgement.
member of the Massachusetts house of
representatives, physician, too, has dis
covered that smallpox is sent by the Al
mighty as Judgment upon land monop-
oily, money monopoly and transportation
monopoly.
The authorities of Cincinnati think of
notifying Germany that if she won't take
American pork Cincinnati will stop play
ing Wagner's music, says a veracious ex-
change, for the purpose of advertising
Wagner.
Mrs. Fletcher Webster, who has been
very seriously i'll for many weeks at hotel
in Boston, has been removed to her home
in Mansfield, Mass. Her illness was par
tial paralysis, attributed to exposure to a
draughti in railroad car.
Mr.. Gould's principal holdings now are
Western Union, $30,000,O0O; Missouri Pa.
cifc, $10,OOO,OOO; Wabashaw Pacific.
$1O,000,000; Denver and Rio Grande, So
100000 tbs balance of his 100000, 600
being invested in bonds and real estate.
WooIav, r,;II.