Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-27
GLOBELETS,

Loo Chin Foo, popular Chinese actor
is anxious to start Chinese theater in
New York
The missing German girl from Silesia,
Pa, is not lost. She only got married and
forgot to tell her friends about it.
Mrs. E. j. Davis, widow of the late Gen.
Davis, Of Texas, has been rendered, but de-
clined to accept the Austin, Texas, post
Office.
De Lesseps has embarked for Tunis to
direct surveys in the project to connect the
desert of Sahara into connection with an
inland sea.
The Tarr farm, in Venango county, Penn
sylvania, has been sold for $4,000. During
the oil excitement in 1865 it was valued at
$5,0OO,OOO.
The Jefferson club of New York has nom
mated Henry George for president in 1884.
Who is Henry George? Amost excellent
nomination! What did you say his name
was?
Three noted-not, perhaps, exactly Grim
5nals-but invalids, Arthur, Cameron and
Folger, are goin on a sea voyage gto recu-
perate from Washington winter dissipa-
ton.
Democratic journal says: ''There is
one way in which Virgins regains his lost
laurels, if he ever had any-by predicting
the defeat of the Republican party in
1884.
1t is about time for some one to destroy
the peach crop and declare the wheat has
all been frozen out. Has the fruit liar
gone into his hole along with the ground
hog and forgot to come out?
The Kelly motor has subsidized and with
drawn from the public gaze. Will it ever
materialize, or will Keely be added to the
catalogue of asses and humbugs, such as
Virgins, Eazen and the like?
At the recent annual commencement of
the Woman's Medical college of Pennsyl-
vania, at Philadelphia, the degree of NJ.
D. was conferred on thirty-fve women,
one Of whom was from Palestine.
The library of the late Joseph Cook. of
Providence, r. L, is a most valuable col
lection of over 1000 volumes, and is being
sold at auction in New York city. The en-
tire library cost originally $4,000.
Gen. Henry G. Wayne, who died in Sa-
vannah few days ago, was of much prom
inence in the South during the war. After
the war he lived quietly in Georgia, writ
ing few military books, among them "a
Manual Of Sword Exercise"
Newspaper publishers are proverbially
poor. Here is one of the poorest: 'Charles
A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, has
purchased for S15OOO0 a house which is
now being erected at the corner of Sixth
eth street and Madison avenue, in New
York city. Poor rich man!
The West is losing much of its old-time
reputation as the home of the picturesque
in human nature. A notorious horse thief
committed suicide in Texas few days
ago. The dime novel writer will now be
compelled to sober up long enough to
work up a new lead in border literature.
Henry George, John SWiuton, and Herr
Most are advertised TO take part in memo
rial service in New York to the late Socialist,
Karl Marx. Judging from these names,
craDl1isn and blOodthirstiness are not Con-
fined to what are usually known as the
dangerous element of society, but may
even mount to more ambitious heights.
Capt. O. Il OIdroyd, of Springfield, Ill,
offers to give that state his great collection
of relics of Lincoln, as soon as the state
will provide q suitable building for its re-
ception, and the legislature now proposes
10 purchase Lincoln's former home, in
Springfield, for that purpose. The Old
royd collection consists of more than 900
articles.
Ex-Governor stone, of Iowa, one of the
ablest and most active Prohibitionists in
that Estate, says that hereafter he will re-
sist, with all his power, all attempts to
make the temperance question a party is
sue. He will hereafter urge an entire sep
aration of the liquor question from poll.
tics, and says that no good has ever yet
come of the union.
Benjamin S. Ewell, the president of
William and Mary college, at Williams
burg, Va, feels aggrieved at the report
that the old school is without students.
Several young men are in the classes there,
and the trustees do not think of letting the
college-''the only college in the United
States having a royal charter"-pass out
of existence.
Mr.. Blaine passes much of his time in
the hooks of the congressional library. He
hopes to have the copy for his political
volume ready this summer. In speaking
about the book to friend day or two
ago, he said he had not fully deter
mined upon his publisher, but that
the book would be sold by subscription
only, and heintended to retain an interest
in the copyright.
IT is nearly week since Governor But
Ter, of Massachusetts, vetoed an appropria
ton bill, yet nothing more has been heard
of it, so that it is probable the Legislature
of that state has agreed to take its castiga
ton in good part and to set about the worl
of preparing bill which shall be in &C
cord with the governors views. 1t il
probable that the Republicans of Massa
chusetts have concluded with the people
%'to give the old man chance for one year
mat m saa what he will do',