Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-04
GLOBELETS.
W. Il. Vanderbilt is about to visit Mex

| w. H. Vanderbilt is about to visit Mex
leo.
| When whisky goes in, order goes out,
says an authority on the subject.
Gov. Stephens of Georgia pardoned
twenty convicts on Christmas day.
Houma, La, has thirteen-year-old girl
with light brown beard two inches long.
The New Orleans rtcay,sne says Mrs.
Langtry is san actress for revenue only"
| San Francisco has several hundred native
born Chinese children, some of whom
are nearly old enough to vote.
Every foot of the Chicago and Grand
Trunk line between Port Huron and Chi
cago, is now laid with steel rails.
| Rear Admiral George A. Balch is to be
recalled from the commend of the Pacl6c
station and placed Ola the retired list.
Gov-eIect Butler of Massachusetts will
adopt the 'fuss and feathers" style, and
will be inaugurated in full military uni
form.
| Mr.. Osgood, the Boston publisher, says
that the greatest success in American fc-
tien have been 'sUncle Toms Cabin and
Judge Tourgee's "a Fools Errand.''
Isaac Van Auken, an inmate of the
Michigan penitentiary, set fire to his CELL
The heat expanded the iron door and the
keepers were unable to rescue him.
| Competent judges estimate that the
Franco German war cost France two prov
inces, 100000 lives and $3OOO,O 100000.
1t added $2,oOo,OOO,OOO to the debt.
F. o. Fulton, formerly of Niagara Falls,
has invented a roofing for cars, to manr :
facture which company with capitei of
100000 has been organized in detroit.
The shah of Persia lever eats meat I'M.
less che animal IL killed in his presenc, e
This obliges the royal butchers to MAKE 6
slaughter house Of the palace occasionally
Charles Banks and William Smith were
standing in store door in Lsona, Mass
An icicle fell from tie cave, pierced the
brain of Banks and knocked Smith sense
less.
The king of sP ain has turned his mother
out-of-doors by paying her debts on con
dition that ,he leaves. Spain, not to re
turn. The noral is, that the king is no
the son of mis- putative father.
CharleS May, of Canton. Ohio, aget
forty married Mrs. Mary Will, agec
eign' 3, last spring. They were happy un
III the bride confded $1,000 to his care
+ nee then he has been absent.
An old man of sixty at Kirksville, Mo.
wants to marry Lille Wilson, girl o.
fourteen or fifteen. Her mother is salts
fed, for the suitor is wealthy. The au
thorities refused q license, and the nuptial
wait.
Rev. E. j. L. Baker, of the Erie confer
I ence and pastor of the Methodist Episco
pal church at Pleasantville, Pa, died OF
Saturday. He was seventy years old
and had been preaching for over fit
years. He participated in the election o
Bishop Simpson.
Gustave Dore, the artist, has finished tn
elaborate illustration of Poe's ''Raven,
and the work is now in the hands of thu
New York publishers. But the artists il
lustration of Sbakespeare's works pro
, crosses very slowly, he has had so much O.
: other work during the past summer.
t Register Bruce (oolored), next to Fred
3 erick Douglass, the most noted representa-
tive of his race, was refused a seat in {
? white BARRIERS chat in Washington thu
, other day. This was excruoiatingly bar
berous. No portion of the country ex
GELS Washington in prejudice agains
color.
An ingenious individual has DISCOVERIES
, that the reason why Cincinnati is called
the "Paris of America" is that ''both have
/ been taken by the Dutch" 'There is not
J says the same individual, correspondent
} for the Press, of Philadelphia, "a city i,
the United States that is 80 completely I'm
der foreig domination as Cincinnati"
party of Italian savants have jus
gone home from an expedition to thu
South Pacific. They have settled, to theil
own satisfaction, the question of the for
mer existence of a race of giants in Pata
gonis, as reported by Magellan. In wan
dering over Terra del Fuego they found
human bones of such size as to convincs
them of the veracity of Magellan.
In tearing up the floor of mail car a.
Wilmington, Del, thirty -seven letters were
found posted in 1871. There were severa
remittances; one was an order for fresh
fish. A gilt edged card was an invitation
to attend ball in 1871, but the person to
whom it was addressed was beyond the
fascination of the dance. Several persons
received letters from persons whose funer-
ais they had long ago attended.
An English magazine contributor has
upset the accepted belief upon the rules
which should govern ladies in the choice
of dress. The nose, not the complexion,
should be the guiding star of shoppers.
With Greek nose almost anything may
be worn. The Jewish nose stands best the
dazzle of jewels and rich velvets. Severe
simplicity consorts best with the snub nose.
She who wears Roman nose must be ex-
tremely careful as to her style of head
gear and hair dressing.
The bay window is doomed. A Phila-
delphian became impressed with the idea
that this piece of architectural vanity was
a nuisance He called upon the courts to
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