Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-08
GLOBELETS.

'o 10 oo'iLHaCeu at SS,O0O,U00.
Fifteen widows live on 100 rods of a
Montpelier, VT street.
Louisville, KY, is putting up a. cotton
exposltlon building to cover fifteen acres,
to be finished by next July.
Congressman Carlisle, of Kentucky. who
is a candidate for the next congressional
hoase. IS forty-eight years old.
Ex-senator Mcdonald is about to take
up his residence in Washington it is
said.
The London Truth denies the statement
that the duke OF Bedford is about to join
the church of Rome.
The new Michigan senator belonged to
Ferry's faction, and supported him, as Mr..
Sabin did Window, and finally himself
bore away the prize.
The amount appropriated by con-
gress for pensions was $50, ,O0O-nearly
twice the amount appropriated for any
other purpose.
From records of the appropriateness of
the London geological garden it appears
that the maximum age reached by
these animals is about thirty years.
1t is reported at Vienna that Herr Won
Bennsen is to enter the German cabinet.
Prince Bismarck, it is said, favors his
nomination as chancellor.
The Compile de Chambord, the Orleans
pretender to the French throne, is seeking
popularity in Paris by having distributed
among the poor free food tickets bearing
his coat-of-arms.
N. Clemenceau, the French statesmen
gave French lessons in a school at Green
witch, Conn, where he made the acquaint-
ance of the lady who is now Nine. Glenn
enceau.
This is the week that Virgins greatest
storm that has ever swept over the earth
since the creation of the world, is to come
OFF. Watch and pray! Virgins parts his
hair in the middle!
Londoner advertises powder which
will prevent cats running around and
making noise at night. 1t is black and
is put into a gun and makes noise it
self.
Josiah Quincy writes that Emerson rated
seventh as an essayist in his class at Har-
ward. Who were the SIX geniuses who
stood above him, pray: Has the world
heard of them?
One United States senator spells ''ord-
nance" ordinance" and Laboratory" ''lab-
ratory." Another speaks of the ''beau''
of ship, and a third talks of gun waiIs''
instead Of ''gun wales.''
The New York Times says that the habit
which, Eastern newspapers have of sheer
ing at the Mississippi river is almost as
bad as speaking disrespectfully of the
equator" Yes, or smiling at the granite
or slate-covered farms of New England.
ExGov. st. John, of Kansas, is bigger
man than Oscar Wilde in Kansas, not
withstanding Oscar parts his hair in the
middle. There is no hall in Boston large
enough to hold the crowds that flock to
hear the ex-governor crate.
1t is fortunate that the people are no
longer expected to remove the glove when
shaking hands. 1t would be very awk-
ward for lady in a pair of fashionable
gloves to be obliged to half undress every
time she meets friend
At the marriage of an Alabama widower
one of the servants was asked if his master
would take bridal tour. Dunno, sab;
when old missis's alive he took g. paddle to
her; dunno if he take bride to de new
one or not.
It has been asserted that opium eaters
are comparatively exempt from malaria,
and in the East are quite sure to escape
the cholera epidemic. The opium habit is
itself, however, a disease hardly less seri-
GUS than malaria or cholera.
Mr.. Frank Moffat has described to the
Edinburgh Photographic society process
for obtaining photographs by moonlight,
which he has successfully tried. A picture
exhibited shows a house and trees very
distinctly, while the difference in level on
grassy lawn may be clearly seen.
Ex-Secretary Eyarts turns his delicate,
thin-soled boots out when he walks; he
holds his hand against his thin overcoat
| as if he wonld aid the back of his head,
but not as far as Charles O'Connor's ia
nous hat; and he walks as spryly as man
of twenty-five.
| A correspondent of the Indianapolis
Journal declares that Boston's baked beans
are detestable, its women impolite, its
newspapers vel! nigh worthless and its
| Wanted temperance a sham. The CORES
pondent probably feels better and Boston
is about as usual, thank you.
When General Grant is in New York on
| Sunday morning, he usually walks to the
corner of Sixty-s1xth street and Madison
avenue Dat about 1870 o'clock, and
so he calculates that when downtown
car arrives at the corner, the stump of his
| cigar has given him he last possible Whit.
One of ths most candid clergymen in the
country is the pastor of prominent
church in New York. He declines an ad-
ditional 500 to his salary because he had
heretofore experienced so much difficulty
in collecting his pay that it would kill him
to attempt to gather in any more money
from the members of his congregation.
Miss Mary Dickens is now to be seen in
the part of the innkeeper's daughter in the
drama of ''The Silver King" Although