Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-24
GLOBELETS.
Philadelphia has nine manageable fe-



wonder is what ais the Croton river aque
duct.
In Berlin, during the first nine days of
February, there were ten suicides day, a
large per cent. of which was in the army.
The New York legislature has enacted a
law requiring that telegraph and telephone
wires shall De placed under ground before
March I, 1885.
1t is thought Casey Young, of Tennessee
is likely to loom up prominently for the
speakership of the next congressional
house of representatives.. His merits and
qualifications for the position are not con-
spicuous.
The general impression seems to be
that President Arthur's health is failing
rapidly, and that national mourning
badges may be in vogue before the present
year closes.
Vermont man bet neighbor that he
couldn't walk half a mile without looking
to the right or left.t and just as the man
started on his walk set two dogs to fight
ing about half way down the track, and
won his money as easily as could be.
Mr.. Julian Hawthorne is regarded by
the New York Times as the 'most interest
ing American story writer" and by the
London Saturday Reciet0 as the worst
This shows how easy it is for two parties
to disagree and both be wrong.-BoStOn
Post.
Bismarck thinks that farmers are right in
taking advantage of a sunny Sunday to
harvest hay or grain, or to do anything in
which delay may cause injury. He says:
81 could never bring myself to bind ten
ants of my farming land not to do such
labor"
There is a new so-called funny paper in
New York called "Life,'' and various pa
pers are applying quotations to it, the
Philadelphia .Ne'gs remarking: Life is
real; Life is earnest" It is left for some
reader to observe: I'm the midst of life we
are in death.''
NO. he said, ST wouldn't accept the po-
sition of deacon when it was rendered me.
If had never could have traded horses
without being accused of swindling, and
every time went to the city people would
oNo PCOt LIZ Va 5OtAiS " OuIAOSdUO OAOWo
and raising old Nick"
Infiamed Office seekers, like the assassin
Guiteau, are very much alike the world
over. Germany now comes to the front.
Herr Won Wongenheim, counsellor of state
and minister of worship and schools,
has been shot, dead at Goethe by disap-
pointed seeker for Office.
The jail in Grand Isle county, Vermont
has been without an inmate for over two
years. The Green Mountain boys must be
models of virtue and propriety. Natives
of the Green Mountain state resident in
st. Paul and Minnesota may we'll be proud
of the land of their nativity.
pardon was recently granted to a con-
Wet in South Carolina penitentiary.
When the document was forwarded to the
institution it was found that, six months
previous, the prisoner had been released
by a power higher than the chief executive
of that state. The man was dead.
The once famous Williams and Mary
college at Williamsburg, Va, the alma
mater of Jefferson, Marshall Monroe, and
Randolph, had only one student last year
and is now closed. That one student quit
because he couldn't stand the blame for
all the deviltry committed for miles
around.
The question as to whether husband
has right to exact that his better half
shall build the fire is to be settled soon in
Indiana. A ministers wife has raised the
e., ba 5,,f ba
case have a solemn duty to perform. This
is a time when married men should stand
together.
Gov. Butler, of Massachusetts, has re-
moved from Office an official who has held
his Office for thirty years, and put Demo
crat in his place. OF course the patriots
in the Old Bay state who believe in the
prescriptive right to hold Office forever are
raising an immense howl over the action
Of the hard hearted Old Ben.
George Francis Train, once the greatest
and most voluble talker of the generation,
does not speak TO any one any more. At
one time one of his vagaries was to con-
verse only with children, and commune
with adults only by writing, but now
his voice is no more heard. Mental imbe-
ciIity is his great characteristic.
Charles j. Bonaparte, attorney-at-law,
adorns q professional shingle hung out
in the city of Baltimore. The said Bona
parte is a grand-nephew of the great
Napoleon. He is q descendant of the beau
tiful Elizabeth Patterson, wife of Jerome
Bonaparte, whom the great emperor, for
state reasons, cause to be divorced,
The Rev. DR.. Crosby, in recent lecture
on the glory of New York, said: "The Bos-
tonian has to come here to be rid of his
prov1ncialism. Until he has been in New
York he has no larger circuit of tho ught
than squirrel il cage" This gentle
mans faculty for writing himself down an
ass is something remarkable, obviously re-
marks the Boston Post.
Two school teachers of Lynn, Mass,
have shown the world how to administer an
artistic whipping to a scholar. One of
them held him, an eight-year old boy, and
the other pounded him ''up and down, all
around" with sharp edged ferule, until
his body bore a striking resemblance to a
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