Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-17
GLOBELETS.


brated in various places Feb. Il.
Arab Pasha's family are said to be suf-
fering for the necessities of life.
Charles Mackay, the English lyrical
poet, is recovering from dangerous i'll
ness.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge of Eng
land, is to visit the United States next Au-
gust.
Ex-Secretary Evarts sixty fifth birth
day was celebrated by banquet set up by
his friends, Feb, 10.
Bismarck kicks against the American
mode of Sabbath observance. He de-
nounces it as terribly tyrrannical.
Virgins, the great weather falsel
prophet is the author of an almanac, and
his weather predictions are designed to
advertise his almanac.
man in Lawrence, Mass, offers prize
to any one who will decipher letter he
received years ago from Horace Greeley,
and has never been able to read.
The well-known elephant in the zoolog
zeal garden at Berlin, which is generally
used for the conveyance of children about
the grounds, has just killed his keeper.
The new Illinois senator, Gen. Cullom,
lives in little cottage at Springfield. 1t
is not expected he will build palace in
Washington like ''Our Window" on $1,000
q year.
Virgins is terribly mortified because he
did not predict big food instead of a
big hurricane. If his foresight was equal
to his hindsight he would not make so
many mistakes.
The Philadelphia Nelos gives this def
milton Of a theater party: A theater party
is volunteer home troupe, whose business
it is to keep the audience amused while
the people On the stage are speaking.
Darcy county, in Arkansas, possesses
only two lawyers, and litigation is SO rare
that neither of them could make living
oSt of his practice if he were to receive all
the fees on both sides of every case.
Eighty thousand packages of tea we're
refused landing in England, under the
adulteration act, during 1881 and 1882,and
''gift'' tea stores of the United States.
The Melbourne Argus states that the
wreck of vessel of about 800 tons has been
discovered at Fay river, New Guinea. The
natives report that the crew, numbering
seventeen, have been eaten by the Keewai
tribe.
Mr.. Dodge, the youngest son of William
E. Dodge, saw his father die in New York
on Friday and arrived in Hartford on Sat
urday barely in time to close the eyes of
his dying father-in-law, Ex-Governor
Marshall Jewell
One thousand seven hundred and ninety
actual sh1pWrecks were reported through
out the world last year, representing an
aggregate of 631, 1920 tons. Four thousand
one hundred and twenty-nine lives were
Iost-fve less than the previous year.
George Washington's big toe has been
broken off frequently, and now Roger
Williams little finger is missing. G. W.
and R. W. are statues of great men and
are to be found in government buildings
in Washington. The local paper denounces
the losses as acts of vandalism.
A society for esthetical culture is one of
the latest artistic agonies of New York.
Among the lofty aims of the organization
is Che fostering of spirit of fraternity
among the members. Artists, from not
knowing each other" says the prospectus,
become jealous and unfriendly."
Father Ryan, the Southern Catholic
priest-poet-lecturer, said in Montreal,
"God never spoke English" From pub
llshed illusions attributed to the pen of
the terrestrial father one is forced to the
conviction that in this matter at least, he
is not much superior of the Heavenly
Father
Mrs. John G. Green has given the New
York chamber of commerce $4,000 for
the benefit of such of the members as are
poor. How is the distribution to be made?
Some are poor with one hundred thousand
dollars, the others with ten. The lady
evidently is daft to make such ridicul GUS
donation.
The chaplain Of station in the Punjaub
was asked recently what attitude he intend
ed to assume toward a detachment of the
salvation army about to take up its quar-
tiers in neighboring city. His reply was
characteristics ooh, to show l bear them
no professional i'll will, I intend to leave
card at the mess"
4 Baltimore gentleman writes that he
knows a young man who addressed girl
by letter asking her to be his'n and she
answered on a postal card declin-
ing the honor; whereupon he placed
one cent stamp and her address on the
back of her photograph and returned it by
mail He was shoekingly ungallant, but
still it was tit for tat
Immediately following the announce
ment that man had broken his neck by q
sneeze, comes the information that 6
Florida orange grower had sprinklcd 200
pounds of Connecticut snuff upon the soil
of his orchard. Serious results might be
anticipated we're it not for the shameful
reputation of wooden nutmeg snuff.
Connecticut is rapidly advancing in the
cultivation of oysters. About 10000 acres
are now planted and thirty steamers and