Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-12

as no intirnation had reached him of this feat
ure of the occasion. He kissed the relic rev.
erently and in very felicitous speech returned
his thanks and promised so long "a he lived to
carry the watch, as a momento of the great
American actor, and a reminder Of the generous
treatment and open-handed hospitality extended
to himself in this country.
| PRESIDENT ARTHUR Joins in with the Cheap
Johns of his party in recommending national
aid to education, owing, as he puts it, to ''the
alarming state of illiteracy in certain portions
| of the country Logan, ard that school of pa
triots propose to furnish this national aid by
wholesale, creating a big machine covering the
| whole country with no end of Office holders.
Arthur in his characteristic insihcere-half heart
| ed methods to deal cut national aid, by retail,
or, in his own language, sthe aid to be given
only wherever adequate provisions has not al
ready been made.'' This plan would involve
no less amount of public burden and no less
number of tax-eating Office holders than the
wholesale acheme, and be infinitely more ccmph-
Gated and vexstious. II the lavish and unwar-
ranted expenditure of money were curtailed at
Washington, instead of the deyising Of new pro-
jects to dive into the treasury, the public would
not be entirely without confidence in the
| PROFESSIONS OF tnelr pubic SeFFGnIS.
| EDWARD MCPHERSON turns up as candidate
for Secretary of the Senate. He has been in
Office at Washington for twenty years, and quite
portion of the time as Clerk of the House.
Whenever the Republicans have gone out of
power in the House, Mcpherson has been on
| their hands, and when, as two years ago they
! got back again, as natural sequence Mcpherson
| bot ,oJ i-,s oISn Tha+ Iuol- HI
| taz-eater may have now to get on to the Senate
psy-roll is i1nmaterial. If that place is not OBJ
tainable, la Will surely contriYe to tit him
self in somewhere else. He viii be on hand as
long 81 the Republicans lave any Offices 10 give
| out.
TAB hideous sea serpent Is said 10 have
"bobbed up seraaely" again. This time off the
| New Jersey shore in revised and enlarged edi-
tion. 1t has been suggested that it might have
| been one OF Robeson's old cruisers but their
| well known inability to float far, ought to
put stop TO such insnuations. 1t must have
been a really and truly live sea serpent this
time, for Capt. Green of the life saving service
| gives an elaborate description OF the creature;
closing his report with the remark AID ''this is
the truth.''
MANLY SHoTwELI4, Of Concord, Jaskson CO.
Mich, has been, by the misfortune Of sickness,
deprived of the use Of his arms, but student
of telegraphy at Ann Arbor University he sends
and receives messages with facility. On the ia
bic in front O. him are pencil and stick.
Taking the pencil between his teeth he can
write a good hand-if that is what one would
call it-and with the stick in his mouth and
resting the key he send messages at the
rate of about seventeen words per minute.
TaH Willard Fillmore will case in which the
sanity of the wife of the ex-preeideut is in dis
pute, recalls the fact tae Buffalo Express says,
that the widow OF President Lincoln became in
sane before she died, and that Martha Washing
ton acted very qgeerly, shutting herself up in a
room at Mt. Vsrnon, without fire, for eighteen
, months, and listing no one sec her except the
cat which came through hole which she cut
for the purpose.
g TIE Boston Herald thinks that Senator Ed
munds' evauti-polyga my bill contains severa
COED features, foremost among which is the
abolishing woman suffrage IN Utah. ''ThiS il
right of the slaves and dupss OF the Morzons
= has proved bulwark dsfencs Tor polysamy,
9 and it should be withdrawn" There is fso.
i. for thought IL that proposition.
Tbs Mobile Register gives as one of the res
= soas for the increase Of criRle "the increase O
ls.rtinisrn. fSstered in It's growth by the in
Z decent periodicals and Publications with which
the land has been flooded"
u Nan has just died in New Bedford, Mass,
| who has bean in business in the samo apart
nents 81 years. An instance like this in Thu
: restless, hustling land sf ours may be set down
: I'd remarkable indeed.
: TIE stock Of the horse car railroads in New
= YORK is 8 very good thing to have. For tn
= year ending September so, 1888 eleven line
y paid dividends ranging from to IT per cent
THs Kellogg star route case has been contin
h ned at the request of the attorney general unit
the next term of the supreme court Of the Dis
Q trict OF Columbia. That is the end OF it.
young lady of Anderson, s. c., declined az
! offer Of marriage the ground that her fathe
already had too large family to support.
PRESIDENTS are made by luck, not by news
papers says the Fort Worth Gazette. 1t seems
o to have so happened.
= LAST Saturday Chicago issued ffty-one de
crees OF divorce and only forty-three marriag
+ Licenses.
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ALBERT LEA FIRE BUGS.
ScOunSredly Attempt te Destroy the TowI
by Firs-IscensiarisaR smpant-Engin,
Disabled, etc.
Especial to the Glsbs.
ALBHRT LEA, MINI, Dec. 10.-Durine
, the past few Sdays there hiss been quite al
= excitement in this city owing to FIRE bug
l. attempts. Thursday morning last at 1 8
l. H., an attempt was made 30 fire the two
ssory building of n. L. Nelson, occupied
. as saloon on first floor by G. Pi2khsn
and second floor as dwelling. FortunateI,
the smoke awakened the hired girl, who
Il awakened the Pinkham brothers, and b,
great exsrtion the FIRE visa exsInguished b,
tAsm and soma nsighbors without oallin.
q out the FIRE engine. The fire vas undoubt
l. eddy the work of IRE bug, as a quaint +,