Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-18
GLOBELETS.

family are to be built at Yokohama to cost
$5OO,OOO.
New Workers pay $7,OOO,00O year for
religion aud $22,CO0,O0O for whisky and
other beverages.
p Ex-Governor Seymour, of New York, has
been selected to deliver the address at the
unwilling of the Saratoga battlefield mon
ument.
An ice palace is being constructed for
the approaching carnival in Montreal.
Hundreds of men are engaged in its con-
struction.
The memorial to the late French Prince
Imperial. erected at the Royal academy at
Woolwich. Is soon to be unveiled by the
Prince of Wales.
The Chicago school board contemplate
the abolition of the study of grammar for
the younger pupils and the substitution of
oral language lessons.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette has
adopted the Paris style of personaliournal
ism,the several leading writers appending
initials to their articles.
Nilsson could not fill her engagement in
st. Louis on account of sore throat, but
the disappointed people kindly hope that
she will return and favor them in the fu-
ture.
Grant is ashamed of the medal bust
ness. He says he had never seen any
of the ''306' brass collars awarded to his
henchmen for voting for him at Chicago.
But he lies.
The pension bill calls for $751;
100000. It is believed3 that if the
reformers will stand off and give congress
a fair chance there will not be any special
need for reducing the customs duties nor
the internal revenue.
1t is said that Richard Smith occupies
the post of honor as senior editor of the
consolidated Commercial Gazette, and Murat
Halstead takes the minor position of jun
ior editor. Mr.. Smiths editorials are
printed double loaded.
1t is said Gen Butler, the new governor
of the "Old Commonwealth makes no
secret of his desire to become the Demo
cratic candidate for president in 1884, and
says it was for this reason he desired to
show he could command the vote of his own
state.
A Philadelphia exchange is authority
for the statement that the water in the
SchuylkiI river is almost thick enough to
cut. Diluted in the proportion to one
spoonful to three fingers Of whisky, it
still makes very agreeable beverage,
however.
Captain John Finerty, Democratic con-
gressman-elect from the Third Illinois
district, in his paper the Citizen, urges
Democrats in the legislature to unite with
Republicans and elect Joseph Medill, edi-
tor of the Chicago Tribune, to the United
States senate to succeed David Davis.
The Hon. Simon Cameron, the octogena-
rian statesman of Pennsylvania, and Mr..
Charles Dana, the editor of the New York
Sun, will leave New York about the 18th of
this month on two months pleasure trip
to California. They will travel in a
special palace car, with their own cooks,
etc.
Lady Wilde, whose letters to London
Societu have been one of the features of
that vivacious periodical, recently said:
s'The chattering, pert, fippant woman,
with a sharp manner, silly laugh and
ready, hooking retort, is insuferable to
man of culture; but coquette, though
vain and versatile, may still be charming,
for she has the wish to please, which is the
Grundbegrif of woman's fascination"
The Tennessee legislature has voted to
pay interest on the bonds held by Mrs.
Polk, the wife of the defaulting state
treasurer, but refused to pay the interest
on the bonds held by a poor blind girl in
Lawrence county. The Memphis Aua-
Ianche, which is justly indignant, remarks
that if the ghost of Andrew Jackson could
handle a club there would be cracked
crowns at the capitol.
The Boston Post regards the Gov. But
Ter presidential boom as unreasonable and
suggests that there is strong probability
that the next Democratic nominee for
that exalted station will not be one who
found it mis- pleasure and duty GO support
Lincoln, Grant and Hayes, and to oppose
Mcclellan, Seymour, and Tilden, and who,
when the convention IN 1854 assemblies,
will be a convert of only four years stand
ing and have voted for but one Democratic
candidate for the presidency in nearly a
quarter of a century.
A novel style of attempting to obtain
wife without the young lady's consent has
been developed II Chattanooga, Tenn. On
Friday night last week a man named
Samuel Peterman applied for marriage
license to wed Miss Belle Hendricks, of
that city. The publication of the license
in the papers the next day was the first she
knew of it. She scarcely knew Peterman,
though he appeared smitten by her
charms. Her father forced the license
from him, and Miss Hendricks returned it
IN person to the clerk and had it can
celled.
A twenty-five pound tomcat, long and
favorably known on Washington street
wharf, San Francisco, where he was born,
reared, and ensconced in the affections of
his owner, deliberately committed suicide
on jan. by laying his head upon the
pavement and holding it there until an