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

horseshoe. The president sat at the toe OF the
| hsrseshoe, with Irving on his right and Charles
Wyndham on his left. One pleasant feature of
the affair was the presentation by Hon. Thomas
Donaldson to Mr.. Irving of the watch Edwin
Forrest carried during the last twenty years of
his life Mr.. Irving was very much surprised,
as no intimation had reached him of this feat
ure of the occasion. He kissed the relic rev.
erently and in a very felicitous speech returned
his thanks and promised so long as he lived to
carry the watch, as a momento of the great
American actor, and 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 insincerehalf heart
ed methods to deal cut national aid, by retail,
or, in his own language, 1.-THE 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 scheme, and be infinitely more compli-
Gated and vexatious. If the lavish and unwar-
ranted expenditure of money were curtailed at
Washington, instead of the devising of new pro-
jects TO dive into the treasury, the public would
not be so entirely without confidence in the
professions of their public servants.
EDWARD MCPHERSON turns up as a candidate
E. Al.
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, a. natural sequence Mcpherson
bobbed in again also. What luck this veteran
tax-eater may have now to get on to the Senate
payroll is immaterial If that place is not OBJ
tainable, he Will surely contrive to fit him
self in somewhere else. He will be on hand as
long the Republicans have any Offices to give
GU.
The hideous sea serpent is raid 10 have
"bobbed up sere1ely" again. This time off the
New Jersey shore in a revised and enlarged edi-
ton. 1t has besn suggested that it might have
been one of Robeson's old cruisers, but their
well hHoHu ludDl1lly W uodL 30 Ou5uJ 10
put stop to such insinuations. 1t must have
been 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 and this is
the TRUTH
MANY sHoTwELL, Of Concord, Jasks N 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. Ga the ia
bic in front o. him pencil and a stick.
Taking the pencil between his teeth he can
write good hand-if that is what one would
call it-and with the stick in his mouth aud
resting on the key he can send messages at the
rate of about seventeen words per minute.
| TIE Willard Fillmore will case. in which the
sanity of the wife of the ex-presideut is in dis
pute, recalls the fact, the Buffalo Express says,
that the widow OF President Lincoln became in
sane before she died, and that Martha Washing
ton acted very queerly, shutting herself up in a
room at Mt. Vernon, without fire, for eighteen
months, and Lifting no one see her except the
| cat, which came through a hole which she cut
| for the purpose.
The Boston Herald thinks that Senator Ed
nunds' rev aati-polyga my bill contains several
good features, foremost among which is the
abo.ishing woman suffrage In Utah. ''This il
right of the slaves and dupes Of the Mormons
has proved bulwark or defence FOR polygamy,
and it should be withdrawn" There is feo5
for thought in that proposition.
THE Mobile Register gives as one of the rea-
sons for the increase OF crime ''the increase Of
libsrtinism, fostered in its growth by the in
decent periodicals and publications with which
the land has been flooded
MAN has just died in New Bedford, Mass.
who has been in business in the same apart
nents 81 years. An instance like this il THU
restless, hustliDg land Of ours may be set dswr
as remarkable indeed.
TEH stock of the horse car railroad. in New
Yor. is very good thing to have. For tn,
year ending September 80, 1888 eleven line
paid dividends ranging from 1 to II per cent
The Kellogg star route case has been contin
ued at the request of the attorney general unit
the next term of the supreme court of the Dis
trict OF Columbia. That is the end of it.
A young lady of Anderson, s. c., declined al
offer OF marriage on 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
to have SO happened.
LAST Saturday Chicago issued fifty one de
crees of divorce and only forty-three marriag,
Licences.
ALBERT LEA FIRE BUGS.
Scoundrsdly Attempt to Destroy the Tswr
by Fire-Incendiarism RampAnt-Ensin.
Disabled, etc.
Special to the Globe.
ALBERT LEA, MINI, Dec. 1O.-D.rine
the past fsw sdays there has been quite al
excitement in this city owing to fire bug
attempts. Thursday morning last at a
NJ, an attempt was made TO fire the two
story building of n. l.. Nelson, occupied
as saloon on first floor by @. Pinkhan
and second floor as dwelling. Fortunatel,
: the smoke awakened the hired girl. vho