Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-21
GLOBELETS.

man lately applied at a 'buther's shop
for silver pad.''
A school of pharmacy for women has
been opened in Louisville.
A strike of the operatives has caused the
Arlington cotton mills at Wilmington, Del,
to be closed.
Texas man has scheme for corraling
10000 antelope and shipping them alive
to st. Louis.
Russia is indicating a disposition to
stretch forth her hand to grasp more Chi
nese territory.
Two fights with Apaches in Chihuahua
are reported. The indians were defeated
by the militia.
The distress in Ireland for want Of food
is said to prevail mainly in Mayo, Done
gal, Clare, and Sligo.
John Jacob Aston has just paid $1,000
600 cash for the Guaranty building on
Broadway and Exchange Place, New York.
Two very prominent foreigners have
died in the past six months, whose deaths
are involved in mystery-Skobelef and
Gambetta.
During the excitement over a lynching
at Paola, Kansas, bank forger who kept
perfectly cool negotiated a spurious check
on the bank.
Prince (Plon-Plon) Napoleon has gone
to England to visit the ex-Empress Eu-
genie, who is at present making visit to
Queen Victoria.
Roman Catholic priest has returned a
watch to its owner at Vincennes, Indiana.
1t came into his hands from the thief in
the confessional.
Trevellyn considers the publication of
articles attacking Irish judges and jurors
as much part of murder machiner as
the pistol or knife.
Near Salem, Ill, young man named
Boggs was shot down in cold blood by Ed.
White who took to the woods with the
neighborhood in pursuit.
Recently burglar shot Thomas Nc
Gregor, of Westfeld Corners, ILL.,, aged
eighty five years, and his daughter, aged
fourteen years, and robbed the house of
$50 and fed.
A public speaker at Hamilton Depot, O.,
displeased his audience, and they pelted
him with eggs and other missiles. The
consistent police dragged him off to the
lookup, but did nothing to the rioters.
The lower house of the Illinois legis-
lature, after a heated discussion, passed a
resolution asking congress to pension the
veterans of the Texan and Black Hawk
war, with the exception of JEFF Davis.
Caroline Island, little rock in the Paci-
fic, will have a larger population of
astronomers next April than Herguellen
had in 1874, because it is the only spot
from where total eclipse of the sun can
be seen.
Whittier recently received from Chi
oago woman 200 OF her visiting cards, with
request to write his name on each, as she
was TO give reception, and desired to
present her guests with some memento of
the event.
Who will now believe in Virgins pre-
diction that tremendous tempest is go
ing to descend like bosom of destruction
upon North America on March II? Per-
haps Virgins own faith will be shaken
after his complete failure of Feb. 9th.
While saving veneer from a Walnut knot
an Indianian discovered in the twisted
flores of the wood a perfect picture of
spaniels head. The lines are as accurate
ly drawn az if by the pencil of an artist,
and when framed this natural curiosity has
all the semblance of art.
Two vessels have recently had narrow
escapes from destruction at sea by mete-
ors striking them in their fall, and it is
thought quite probable that more than
one of the twenty ships mysteriously
missing during the last forty years may
have been sunk in that way.
A man named Bird. who fell from the
porch of the st. Charles hotel at New Or
leans during the carnival and sustained
serious injuries. has been identified as the
leader of the gang Of masked highway
men who Perpetrated SO many robberies
near Belleville a couple years ago.
Hazen. the chief OF the signal service bu-
reau, is denounced as corrupt and charged
with violating the articles of war by con-
gressmen. His dehnquencies deserve and
will receive an overhauling. The wonder
is that such a shallow, incompetent speci-
men Of pomposity and unscrupulousness
should have been appointed to the posi-
ton he disgraces.
Chicago Neecs: Gen. Hazen has asked
for an investigation into his administra-
ton of the signal Office. The pretense is
that he wants to show the malignant and
unfonnded character of the attack of Con
gresham Beethoven, but the real object
of the inquiry, no doubt, is to enable Hazen
to find out what ais him, why he is there,
what the weather means by defying the
representations of the signal office, and
what he had better do about the mix up
anyway.
A law student had just been admitted to
the Boston. bar and had opened an Office
for practice, when the death of his father
left him 100000. He was in such haste to
get and spend the money that he left the
Office without stopping to lock the door,
abandoning his fine library and furniture
to his creditors. He wasted his fortune so
wantonly that it only lasted year. Now
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