Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-09
GLOBELETS.


rope.
Marie Geistenger paid $4,000 for a
farm near Des MONIES.
Laura Don has been offered the position
of leading lady at the Boston museum.
At the recent election in Rutland, VT,
Miss Isabella NJ. Brown was elected town
clerk.
A piece entitled "Gambetta's First Love"
is now being played at the Amsterdam
theater.
A bale of cotton was sent fromC Charlotte,
n. c., a few days since which weighed
1858 pounds.
Miss Rich and Miss Poor, and Mr.. Night
and Mr.. Day, were guests the other night
at tea party in Maryland.
According to recent speech in the
cortes, the Spanish army is greatly over
generated, having one general to every SIS
men.
Theodore Thomas, with an orchestra and
a chorus of 600 voices, has arranged to
give series of concerts in Denver, COL,
in June.
Generals do greatly abound in European
armies. In France the proportion is one
to 1866 men; in England one to 1,759, and
in Germany one to 1914.
The coach in which Lafayette rode
through the streets of New York in 1924
has, until lately, been owned by John D.
Yates, of Chittenango.
At church in New Haven, recently near
~ sixteen hundred men pledged themselves
in one evening not to enter drinking sa-
loon for whole year.
A hospital of Mussulman women, pre-
sided over exclusively by Russian female
doctors, has been established by Gen.
Tehernoeff off Tashkend.
The rich widows of st. Louis are stated
as, Mrs. Julia Moffit, worth $3,000,0OO; Mrs.
Thomas Allen, 100000, and Mrs. Mary
Tyler, $1,0O0,00O and over.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says the Stand
ard Oil company has $1,000,O00 invested
in newspapers, which it employs to mis-
lead and defraud the public.
The town of Gall, in Switzerland, with
a population of about 1900, contributed
about $4,000 to the New York RernLd food
fund for the sufferers in the West.
Gov. Boynton, of Georgia, used to be
president of base ball club; so did Sena-
tor Edmunds of Vermont; so did Gov.
Pattison of Pennsylvania. There. is yet
hope in the line of ''the bat and ball.
The famous old chestnut tree in the Tuil-
cries gardens, known IS ''March 90" be-
cause it generally blossomed on that date,
started out month in advance this year,
and all Paris reioiced in the prospect of
an early spring.
Miss Thursby and Mrs. Annie Norton,
(Hartdegen), have signed contracts with
Theodore Thomas, on his Western trip
beginning the latter part of April. A
third prima donna is to be selected, and
hereafter named.
Bishop Gilmore, of Cleveland, O.,
brought home from his recent visit to
Rome a number of fine mosaics. One of
them is q copy of the painting, ''Our Lady
CT Perpetual Help" the authorship of
which tradition ascribes to st. Luke.
There has been a great deal said about
a man marrying his deceased wife's sister,
but the lady in question has not yet been
consulted in regard to the matter. As
rule she is too well acquainted with her
brother-in-law to want to marry him.
The Rev. Lawrence Walsh, OF Waterbury,
Conn, recently sent $6,G19 to Ireland for
tine relief of the distress there. He raised
the amount in one week. Bishop Logue,
of Donegal, says the substantial aid sent
from America is the only thing between
the people and starvation.
''No," ne said, ''I would not accept the
position Of deacon when it was rendered
me-. IF had I never could tave tradsd
horses without being accused OF swinlding,
and every time went to the city people
would suspect me OF going to burlesque
shows and raising old Nick.
The average rate Of charge on the Amer
lean railways per ton of passengers for
mile is 1926; the average per mile of a
ton of freight is $1.29 per ton per mile.
The profit made out of carrying a
ton of passengers a mile is S6.8 cents;
the profit oct of carrying ton of freight
a mile is So cents.
In a recent lecture in London, Mr..
Pfounder, who lived fourteen years in ia
pan, denounced large portion of Japa
nese art manufactured for foreign mar
kets as ''meretricious rubbish" He further
said that the decoration of native houses
always showed a distinctive character, &C.
cording TO the taste of the owner.
A London paper says; at is understood
that the present Earl of Stamford (the
Rev. Harry Grey married himself to the
Hottentot lady who at present enjoys his
undivided affections, and as she has pre-
scented him with son and heir, the ques-
ton whether 2 clergyman can marry him
self is naturally causing considerable con-
trcversy in certain quarters.
A Baltimore girl named "Jeannette Mar
celline JONES'" has been making snug
income in the obituary poetry business.
She made a patchwork poem by selecting
stanzas from different standard authors,
and was finally caught by Offering the same
poem to two friends, who had both lately