Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-24
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


April comes on Sunday this year, and
the clergymen might get in their little
jokes by quietly goingssfshing on that day,
leaving their congregations without SER
mons.
Rev. DR.. Dix of New York is pitching in
to American women for not having larger
families. It is palpable that DR.. Dix
doesn't live near family that includes
even one good, active boy.
An advertiser in a western,paper inquiries
for partner with $1,000 to take an inter-
Rev. Joseph Cook or Wendell Phillips de-
sire to go into business, here's chance.
Now, let's give David Davis rest
Boston Post. Oh, yes, because your
stock of jokes on him is exhausted you
want to haul the rest of US off! I'VE pro-
pose to keep him moving.-Detroit Free
Press.
Gen. Chamberlain has giveni:up tenn
porarily his duties as president of Bowdoln
college, that he may undergo critical
surgical operation. The trouble is caused
by wound inflicted during the re.
bellion.
Gen. Sherman kisses every girl to whom
he is introduced, and it is noticeable that
the prettier the girl is the harder it is for
him to remember her, and he sometimes
has to be introduced to the same girl a
| dozen times.
Miss Waite, the daughter of the chief
| justice, is organizing some private the
atricals for the benefit of the. sWashington
dispensary. This is tough news for those
people whose social positions will necessi-
tate their attending.
A London paper says the new "digided
skirt is simply compromise between the
Ottoman "shintvan,' the Morish "dzaba-
douli," and the Japanese "hakama" cos
tune. Certainly it is; certainly! Just as
if everybody didn't know that!
Persecution of the Jews has been trans
ferred from across the ocean to Portland,
Me-, where a series of most outrageous as
saults and incivilities have been commit
ted of late. The cause of the manifesto
ton of ill-feeling is inexplicable.
Over 100 passengers who were booked to
leave Liverpool for New York recently on
the steamship Lake Champlain, postponed
their passage out of dread of Virgins
predicted storm. The steamer came across
without meeting any very bad weather.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, recently sent
a gold-headed cane as a present to Joshua
Luke, of Irwin county, Ga. Mr.. Luke is
so steadfast in his admiration of the sen.
ator, that he has voted for Mr.. Brown fol-
governor through thick and thin during
the last dozen years.
Now that some of the Democrats Of
Rhode Island have Endorsed Sprague fol-
governor, it is to be inferred that love and
marriage have great deal to do with Pc
litical preferment. Ex-senator Davis MAY
look forward to the next presidential cam
pa1gn with renewed hope.
Miss Katie Yunker, of New York, OBJ
tanned verdict of $4,000 against a young
man aged twenty years, in that city for {
breach of promise. When the defendant
Hickman, on the stand denied that he haC
made any promise of marriage, the youns
woman tainted dead away.
Jupiter Robinson, of Pine Bluffs, Ark.
| was noted because of Two things. As
fifer he walked before Gen. Andrew Jack
son at the battle of New Orleans, and a
the possessor of a strong constitution b,
bore up the weight of 101 years. Blu
death, which levels all, struck Mr.. Robin
son the final blow last week.
Secretary Chandler has sent cable mes
sage to Lieut.. HARDER, through Ministe
Hunt, authorizing him to continue tn
search for Lieut.. Chip and his party dur
ing the coming summer, if he thought
advisable. This was in answer to a sug
gestion made by Lieut.. HARDER in his re
cent report to the secretary.
A woman of one of the interior towns o
Pennsylvania has introduced startling in
uovation into the time honored custom o
, giving birthday parties. She insisted tina
each guest, instead of purchasing pres
emit at random, should contribute fit,
cents. and that she should thus be left fire
: to buy such presents as she might wan
, Every minister's wife in Pennsylvani
will rise up and call this woman blessed
The residents on one of the fashionabl
squares in Erie, Pa, were startled tn
other evening by screams emanating fror
5 one of the most aristocratic houses in tn
l. row. A policeman rushed in, and, wit
assistance of the family, burst into tn
room of one of the daughters, from whenc
! the piercing cries had come. She ha
;, been curling her hair with hot slate per
IS Gil, which she dropped down her back.