Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-16
GLOBELETS.

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Strong efforts are to be made to secure
to women the right to be educated in
Columbia college.
A little child some eight years old said
that when the Bible speaks of ''childrens'
children it must mean dolls.
1t is said that kissing cures freckles, but
every red headed girl knows better.
Miss Frances E. Willard, who in her
lectures has been very complimentary to
the South, was received very cordially at
| Charleston.
Miss Laura Bridgeman, of Boston, the
the deaf and blind mute, is still living at
the age of sixty.
A man in Rochester. n. Y, was fined
$3.50 for giving fire alarm in fun.
1t is estimated that $3OO,OOO,OOO worth
of articles were manufactured in Chicago
last year.
| No sleeves and low bodice are conspicu-
Gus features of full dresser rather OF the
lack of it.
1t is wise goat that butts not a coat in
our day.
in Florida thirty pound watermelons
and sixteen inch radishes are now being
gathered.
George Holt, Of Marion county, Florida,
has an orange tree thirty-fve feet high and
two feet in circumference.
For every $50 human beings in Switzer-
land there is saloon. This is the first in
timation that Switzerland was settled by
Kentuckians.
The Democratic committee of the New
York legislature is preparing a plan for
redistricting the state for representatives
in congress, which will give the Democrats
nineteen of the thirty-four districts.
In England last year there were report
ed twenty eight mining explosions, fifteen
of which were fatal, the number of deaths
reaching 241, exactly the average for the
past thirty-two years.
Mr.. W. G. Darlington, of Richmond, Va,
attorney, has received from London the
certificate of marriage of Mr.. and Mrs.
Pigeon (Labouchere). It is intended tobe
used in the divorce suit of Mrs. Pigeon VS..
Mr.. Pigeon, which comes up in Richmond
in few days.
On Wednesday last Miss Mary Papple-
well, of S ,merset, KY, was burned to death
by her dress catching fire in the CRATE of
her room in the hotel at that place.
She had fastened the door, and when she
found that she was on fire evidently strug
gled to open it, but failing, fell to the
floor, and expired without any one in the
hotel hearing her screams. When discover
ed her body was burned to crisp.
A hospital for the children of gentlemen
of limited meaDs-a class believed to be
increasing both in number and necessity
has been established in England. It is a
recognition of the fact, now becoming bet
ter known, that sometimes those who are
the last to apply for help need it most,and
that those who by hard struggle contrive
to maintain independence do so some
times at the price of absolute want.
The Hon. Jere Black, in his argument
before the judiciary committee Of the
house of representatives in favor of re-
pealing the Edmunds law against pollyga-
my, asserted that the object of the law was
to plumber the Mormons and make Utah
Republican state.
During the past twenty years, more
than sixty lives have been lost at Niagara
Falls. Some of these were by suicide, but
the greater number were caused by the
carelessness of boatmen, who had become
over confident and ventured too near. No
person has ever been known to go over
the falls and live, but dogs and cats are
said to endure the trip with little or no in
jury.
The pope's well-known moderation has,
in the case of Germany, not been approved
by the more extreme organs of what used
to be known as Ultramontanism. In fact,
all over Europe, the extreme Catholic
party are exhibiting signs of antagonism
to the statesmanlike and moderate policy
pursued by the pope.
A religious paper says that for the last
fifty years the Baptists have established
eight churches per week the year right
through, making over 421 per year. The
promotion of swimming is certainly
very noble work.
A respectable youth was expelled from
the New Orleans academy of music re-
Gently for Kissing very bad song, very
badly sung, by an extremely uninteresting
company in an intensely stupid play. He
himself, however, said he was applauding;
that some people whistled, but as he could
not whistle he Kissed and clapped his
hands at the same time. This excuse
might be a valid one, but any young man
who claims he can't whistle ought toibelpre
senred with a chrome and pension ior
life.
A young woman went into well-known
dry goods store in New York a short time
ago to purchase an ulster. While she was
trying it on the floor walker of the estab
lishment approached and said to the sales
woman: 'sTake it off; she does not want to
buy it." The ulster was snatched off, and
the young woman was accused of being
spy from a rival establishment, and that
her sole and only purpose was to obtain a
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