Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-10
GLOBELETS.

Sunset Cox will be a candidate for the
speakership Of the next congressional
house.
The tailors have had strike at Des
Moines, but have gone to work at the old
prices.
Father j auchan. has been appointed CO.
adjutor, cum jure, to the bishop of Van
couvier.
The greater portion of the contributions
sent to the German flood sufferers were
from America.
1t is believed the Mormons are respon-
sible for great many of the outbreaks of
the various Indian tribes.
The public schools of Chicago were
closed this year on Good Friday, thing
that never happened before.
Bishop BrondeII. of Yencouver's island,
has been appointed apo6tolical administra-
tor of the vicarate of Montana.
The prince of Wales receives annually
for the duchy of Cornwall some 100000,
and has other large incomes, yet is always
in debt.
During the season Just closed the Moya
mensing Soup society, of PHILADELPHIA, dis
tributed $500 pints of soup and 21.O70
pounds of bread.
AGerman astronomer has discovered an
other comet. When four more are found
the universe" according to Swormstedt,
will be destroyed.
The Salvation army have had batch of
watches inscribed 'every hour for Jesus"
which they offer for sale. This is another
of their shoddy clap-traps.
It is recorded to the Jersey Lily's (Mrs.
Langtry) credit that she recently gave five
cents 20 q hungry man on a railroad train.
Freddie, her poodle, didn't give anything.
Western Africa is reported to be in a
state Of great confusion on account of the
resignation Of the king of Ashantee. The
''crowne5 heads CT Guinea" are said to be
ii state OF great excitement.
1t is given out that the French govern
ment intends to hold a grand international
exhibition in Paris in 1885. VIII the pres
ent French government be in existence?
Better hurry up the exhibition.
Somebody substituted pile of corn
cobs for the doughnUts on Vermont rail
way restaurant counter, and they were
about two-thirds eaten before anybody
discovered what had happened.
High license i3 rapidly gaining friends
in Ohio. 1t is believed to be the best plan
for the restriction OF the traffic, until such
time as prohibition can be adopted and
enforced, if that time ever comes.
School teachers can borrow hint from
the Kentucky schoolmaster who got a YER
dict OF 81 the other day in suit brought
against the trustees for damages from a
cold caught running after them to get his
pay.
My soldiers" says Emperor William,
|'haye never seen ms with my coat unbut-
toned, and do not intend they ever shall.
For, let me tell you, it is the one button,
left unbuttoned that IS the ruin of an
army"
The venerable senior and presiding bish
op Of the American Episcopal church
DR.. Smith, may be said to have been citi-
zen uIdar every president of the United
States. He vas five years old when Gen.
Washington died.
The Bri.is.. war ship Iron Duke cost
million ana G quarter dollars to build, and
It costs nearly a quarter Of q million dol
lars annually to keep the ship at sea. Next
to the Great Eastern TINS IS the biggest of
The English sea elephants.
buffalo Is rapidly becoming one of the
most Important coal distributing points
IN the country. More than 100000 tons
were received there last year, and the re
ceipts Of anthracite were 80 per cent.
greater than fcr the previous year.
a substance resembling sulpher has
been falling OF late in the night time, at
Princeton, Has. Superstitious people are
very much alarmed, thinking it indicates
the final catastrophe of the burning up OF
the world, and the sulphur is being pro-
vided to aid the general confagration.
The Mugby Junction tea party is de.
vice of Massachusetts invention for yielding
fun and money for children. Baskets con
tanning suppers for two persons are sold by
auction. Each bears the card OF the woman
who prepared the meals enclosed, and the
purchaser has her for companion at the
table.
Internal Revenue Commissioner Raum
has large force hard at work making
necessary changes on the face of the i'm
mense stock Of stamps on hand, to make
them conform 10 the rates of the new law
The safe for stamps now contains ove
S50,000,O00 worth of stamps. The face
value Of all these have been changed By
the new law.
The British National Smoke-abatemen
institution IS making arrangements 70
opening permanent exhibition in a cen
trail part of London for the display of ap
paratus, fuels and systems of heating, com
bining economy with the prevention O
smoke, and the best methods Of ventilat
ing and lighting.
A rumor is circulated in London tina
the death of John Brown, Queen Victoria:
Scotch coachman, was caused by Fenia1
poison, and in the absence of definite in
formation as to the circumstances imme
diately attending his death the rumor ha
spread rapidly. No body can imagiu
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