Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-02
G1oBELETs.


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Miss Mary Dickens, eldest grandchild OF
Charles Dickens, is about to become al
actress.
The industrious legislature of the STATE
of New York exhausts itself in a daily
session OF about forty-fve minutes.
The political situation in France is one
of great gravity. A crisis involving i'm
meuse consequences seems to be rapidly
approaching.
The rumor that Don Cameron intends
soon to retire from political life is denied
He won't retire till he is retired. He is de-
termined to ''stick."
1t is said that French business people do
not believe in advertising. Even the pa
pers of the largest circulation have but
few advertisements.
Henri Watterson, of the Louisville
Corier-Jomnal, is growing unambi-
tious. He declines to be candidate for
mayor of the city.
trial for murder is in progress in
Brooklyn, n. Y, where the attempt is being
and not the prisoner, is the murderer.
A deputy marshal at Independence, No.
permitted Frank James to accompany him
to theater. The judge promptly turned
the accommodating marshal out of Office.
1t is alleged that Gen. Grant, coached
and inspired by his 1906" collared sa-
traps, is already fishing in the dirty pool
of politics" for third term candidacy in
1884.
It has bean discovered in Georgia that
pistols are not needed in a state universe
ty-that they are not aids to education!
A sublime discovery, ereditable to the
stated
A project is under consideration in st.
Louis to erect fire-proof building to cost
from S2j),0J1 to 100000 in which to
place all its libraries and scientific collec-
tions.
A young lady at Hartford City, Ind,
committed suicide because she thought she
was too young to marry. So instead of
committing matrimony, she committed
suicide
The next total eclipse Of the sun will
take place on the 9th of May; but voy-
age to South Australia, where it begins, or
the coast of Peru, where it ends, will be
necessitated to get a sight of it.
COL King, of Gov. Cleveland's staff,
thinks that not more than 1000 New
York National guardsmen could be mus
tered promptly in an emergency, although |
the entire force in the sta tie is 1882 men.
A jury in Chicago has determined the
value of wife to be one cent? A man
sued another for alternating his w1fe's af-
fections. The jury found for the plaintiff
and awarded him one cent damages! A
valuable wife, truly!
In a quarrel in Dayton, Ohio, negro
was shot with a 44-cal1ber revolver in the
back of the head. The bullet was fattened
and fell to the floor, whereupon the I'M
killed negro seized his assailant and gave
him q sound threshing.
Lasalle, the baritone at the Paris Grand
opera, receives a salary of 400 a month,
but is dissatisfied with the contract an
threatens to strike for $4,000. He was
once offered 100000 for a six months
continental tour.
The Philadelphia Record, Ind, feels
called on to remark: Senator Window,
it is said, is alarmed at the presumption
of young men in politics. It is not youth
that damns politician. 1t is age when it
has not outlived youths follies."
The first railroad in the Shah of Persia's
dominions is to be laid from Teheran and
the Caspian port of Resht, distance of
225 miles. The difficulties of the Kharzan
Pass, in the El5urz range, 1000 feet above
the sea. will have to be overcome by the
French engineers.
Investigation has developed that the
fascinating game of draw poker was in
vented somewhere about 1916 or 1847, by
a Mr.. Kirkman, of Tennessee, a turfman
of some note. The game of strait or plain
poker, of course, dates further back, per-
haps as far as Pharaoh.
Mr.. Henry Lightner, drummer boy of
the war of 1872, died at his residence in
Baltimore on Wednesday last, at the age
of eightJ-fve. He left behind him the
drum which his father had used in the
revolutionary war and which he used at |
Fort McHenry IN 1912.
Claus Spreokles, of San Francisco, the
great sugar raiser, IS Prussian by birth,
and about ffty-fve years Of age. In 1856,
when he went from Charleston, S. c., to !
California, he was a poor man in search of
a fortune. He is now worth about as many |
millions as he had hundreds then.
As an illustration of the profits of corn
culture in Los Angeles county, California,
the Anaheim Gazette cites the case of
farmer who last year sold 1850 centals of
corn from thirty acres. He sold it for
$1.63 per cental-a total of $1,S75.5O-
and his actual cash outlay was barely
$3.50.
Several influential New York papers are
urging the establishment of the whipping
post for petty offences Now let The super
fastidious howl. After the howl has sub
sided let it be remembered that the whip
would more largely clean this country of
thieves, brutes, and most internal of all.
wife beaters, than a tidal wave.