Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-24
GLOBELETS.
Charles W. Cook, who has just died in
the state prison at Concord, N. H., confess
cd that he committed a murder for which
Josepfl Buswell WAS hunp.


the state prison at Concord, N. H., confess
ed that he committed murder for whic
Joseph Buswell was hung.
The reason that editors wives don
load themselves with diamonds is becaus
they fear that strangers will think thei
husbands are pawnbrokers.
The Ohio delegation in the nexs congress
is said to be unanimously in favor of Johl
G. Thompson for sergeant at arms, and al
but one member will support Carlisle fol
speaker.
In St. Louis it has been discovered By
polling the Langtry audiences, that tht
women are generally jealous of the jersey
Lily and the men overwhelmingly envi0us
of Freddy.-Apocryphal.
Victoria, British Columbia, is just nov
being favored with beautiful weather. The
fields are green,th trees budding and flow
ers blooming. Five ships, with cargoes of
British Columbia salmon, valued at 81, O0O,-
| 600, are on their way from that port to
England.
United States Senator Isham g. Harris,
of Tennessee, recently reelected, was born
in log cabin in that state, in a district
known as THE Barrens,' Franklin county.
His father immigrated to Tennessee when
the Indians were still at war with the au-
thorities.
Edward V. Valentine, the Richmond
sculptor, is engaged modelling the statue
of John G. Breckenride, which is to be
erected at Lexington, Ky. This artist is
also at work on bust of Hayne, and his
recumbent figure of Gen. Robert E. Lee is
to be unveiled at Washington and Lee uni
versity next summer.
The smallpox prevails in Nashville,
Tenn, to an alarming extent, and people
in the surrounding country fear to visit
the city. The result is the markets are
greatly affected, and the price of all kinds
of country produce has doubled. The city
authorities are using extra exertions to
crowd out the disease.
''I'm a reporter said an unsalted youth
to the baggage master, as he planked him
self down on hand truck near the car.
Got anything new for me?" 20, upset
can of varnish on that truck just before
you sat down, but as the item is already
covered, it will be stale before you can get
at it," The news gatherer was priad off
with coupling pin and sent home by slow
freight.
The marquis of Lorne during his stay in
Richmond, Va, spent much of his time in
the state house examining souvenirs of the
Confederate government, among them the
original copy of Stonewall Jacksons last
dispatch, his letters, the ordinance of seces-
sion and other relics of the Confederacy,
in which he took great interest, as he did
also in the portraits of the viceregal gov
errors of Virginia.
Irate customer-"That goose I bought
here last week was as tough as leather
Judgment, and you said it was only six
months old. Ny wife says she bets that
goose has seen twenty winters" Butcher
"Quite likely" Irate customer-''What do
you mean, then, by saying it was but six
months old?" Butcher-"You forget, sir,
that it was female. Gallantry to the sex
would not permit me to put the age be-
yond that
'Old Abe'' once replied to a question
early in the war as to how the Union re-
verses affected him, by saying: II feel very
much like a great stalwart Illinois neigh
Dor of mine who was out logging in his
bare feet. A log rolled over and crushed
one of his big toes before he could escape.
All drawn up with pain, he replied to a
question of how he was, with: ''Well, I'm
too big to cry, but it hurts too bad to
laugh"
Schuyler Colfax warns the country to
look out for season of business stagna-
ton. He thinks there are four leading
reasons to anticipate financial stringency,
viz: The change in the balance of trade,
which is now against rs; the low prices we
are getting for our crops; the extrava-
gance of the people last year, and the very
extensive building of railroads. About
next fall, according to Mr.. Colfaz, is when
this crop of trouble is to be harvested.
One of the most popular conductors that
ever ran train out of Boston has the
credit of the following bon mot: Not long
since special minister's ticket was handed
to him, to which he gave careful inspection,
as his duty required. The passenger quite
tartly remarked that it was unnecessary to
be so very particular about his ticket. The
conductor quickly replied, in his quiet and
courteous manner: Il am only look
ing to see where you are going, sir. I
don't care to see in the morning papers,
Another minister gone wrong!"
The Rev. George F. Pentecost, the evan
gelist, says in the Independent that the
of sinners is becoming lost
art. ''The fact is sad and stubborn that in
the great cities, of churches where the tai
ent, wealth and culture, leisure, and OPP
portunity to do revival work abound, there
the number of conversions is in an inverse
ratio to the facilities" He attributes this
to what he calls the overlooking of the
churches. Too much food and too little
work result in surfeit and torpor. and that
is where he thinks the trouble is.
The San Francisco Report is rather
severe when it says: 'Mark Twain's modus
operandi is to get some bright original
fellow, pretend great friendship for him,