Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-27
GLOBELETS.

The Boston girls are wild over the ban
10.
Chss. A. Dana is about to visit Eng
land.
The total vote in Ohio was about 1922
GOO.
Matthew Arnold is said to be vain of his
looks.
Telephones are in use in 161 cities of
Europe.
The orange crsp at Florida is estimated
at 100000 boxes.
The birds are dying by thousands in
Louisiana for want of water.
A fashion reporter notes that the fash
ionsble color this year is gray.
c. @. Hazewell, the Boston journalist,
left library of 10000 volumes.
The inhabitants of Massachusetts are
worth an average of $1,000 apiece.
Overcrowded London is the great recruit
ing ground Of the Mormon Church.
A San Francisco policeman proved in
The Canadians are making as much fuss
over their new Governor General as if he
had life lease of the Office.
The vote in Washington county, Iowa,
shows the election of the Democratic rep
resentative By majority of one vote.
John Swinton is blaok-eyed Scotch
man. He aims to cure, at one dose, all
the political and social ills that man is
heir to.
The Prince of Wales still refuses to say
whether Mary Anderson snubbed him Or
not, and so the discussion is growing to be
one-sidsd.
George Alfred Townsend has novel in
press. He has long been engaged in writ
ing fiction, but chiefly in the form of news
paper correspondence.
It makes but little difference how good
en- article is if the owner does not choose
to advertise it; other people will never find
it out. No good business man doubts this
fact.
The population of Ireland is 100000
less than it was thirty-eight years ago. 1t
has declined almost one-half. At this rate
the island will be depopulated in fifty
years more.
A Boston preacher took for his text to
sermon On politics, "Many are called but
few are chosen" Considering the number
of candidates in that region the Scripture
is very likely to be fulfilled.
No clergyman who wishes to be thought
in good form will use the word 'obey" in
the marriage ceremony. The Boston min
listers nearly all of them ''cheese" it, and
that ought to settle it for the outside bar
barians of the cloth.
The Mississippi annually carries SIP
501,0OO,000 pounds of mud into the Gulf of
Mexico. So says scientific chap, who
has probably weighed a years mud sim
ply to find out. 1t is perfectly astonish-
ing how much some people know.
Mrs. Langtry's dresses have been passed
free through the New York custom-house.
There were 25, of which sill but three were
new. and they were appraised at $4,000
The dresses we're passed free on the ground
that they were stools of trade"
The tastes of great men differ. For ex-
ample, while Editor Richard Smith
brought away from the grave and home
of Washington only memory of fried Ssb,
Lord Chief-Justice Coleridge was delight
ed to bring away as . precious souvenir
one of the rarest plants that are grown at
Mount Vernon.
Some eastern journalist gives tho follow
ing version of the story Of sold Grimes"
He says: "sOld Grimes was janitor of
Yale college, was somewhat eccentric, wore
an old brown coat and was styled PRO
lessor of Dust and Ashes by the students.
After his death one of the esllege rhym-
sters wrote the stanzas in question, which
were sung by the students assembled for
that purpose on the roof of the college
buildlng.'
Governor. reject Hoadly has beautiful
place in East Walnut Hills, near Cincinna-
IL, The Hoadly family consists of the
Governor-elect, his wife, George Hoadly,
Jr., Miss Hoadly, "a school-girl) and Ed
ward Mills Roadly, the youngest of the
family. They are described as very hap
Ply circle. The successful candidate is
still receiving perfect avalanches OF con-
gratulatiens from all parts of the country.
The ex-Congressman is character in
Washington. He enjoys privileges in and
about the House and Senate that are said
to make the lobbyist green with envy.
Passing the doorkeeper and entering the
cloak-room, he buttonholes members and
gets through with his work while the lob
byist is waiting to catch his member on
the outside, or hoping for chance that
will throw the man he wants to see in his
way. Ex-members reach Washington SIM
ultaneously with members and they remain
as long.
Judge Black had one of those sears for
music" that cannot tell one tune from
another. Once he heard his daughter
Becky, who is fine pianist, play piece
that pleased him, and inquired its title,