Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-19
GLOBELETS.

--ohescbOA HAS U6Sn dppUluI6Q
Onlteo States charge d'afaires at Santo
Domingo.
The Republican National committee will
meet at the Ebbitt house, in Washington,
December u, next.
Senator Mcdonald makes abont s2oOca
year, and gives literally but quietly to
charities and the church.
In Africa salt is considered de,icacv
but it is so rich delicacy that a little of II
goes great ways,as in any other country.
w. A, Very, a grain dealer at Ottawa.
Illinois, has married his divorced wife.
and resumed paternal relations with his
four children.
The duchess of Edinburgh, daughter of
the late czar, is the brightest and most
amusing talker of the British royal family.
She says very funny things.
The tax list of real estate and personal
property of st. Louis for the current year
show valuation of $21O,OOO,00O an in
crease of about $2O,OO0,O00.
The wives Of both Gen. Sherman and
Fhll. Sheridan are devoted Catholics.
MRS. Sheridan has secured pew in St.
Matthews church, Washington.
Inc Christmas number of London
1Tath will be called "Barnum in British
iand,'' and will describe the showman's ad-
ventures in search of Jumbo's successor.
The death is announced OF Rev. DR..
Benjamin Larrabee, who was president of
Mlddelbury college for a quarter of q CEN
fury. One of his sons is the American
minister to Persia.
The Wholesale merchants of Montreal
are moving for reduction of time on
goods sold. The leather dealers start out
with four months, giving four per cent.
discount for cash.
In the case of Lieutenant Colonel Nor
row, President Arthur changed the SEN
tence of dismissal to suspension with half
pay for one year, and reduction in rank
to the foot of the list.
Edward Richard, reporter in st.
Louis, has been tried there three times for
the murder of his landIady, Miss Selma
Wilson, and was acquitted Friday on the
ground that his pistol was accidentally
discharged.
John Sellers, an eccentric farmer near
New Philadelphia, Ohio, who never shaves
nor cuts his hair or nails, has a flock of
sheep which have not been s1orn for six
| years, the old man contending that God
gave them wool to keep them warm.
Prof q. S. Morse, in lecture in Boston
on Japan, said that the rich Japanese send
their children to school in inferior gar
ments, in order that the children of the
! poor, who can get no Others, may not be
ashamed to wear their own clothing.
De Lesseps is again in England, ar
ranging for the construction of a second
Suez canal. It is said that the proposed
agreement includes loan of e8,000,OOO
sterling from the British government. and
that it is intended to make the admins
tration of the company "A per cent. Eng
lish and Sc per cent. French.
At the present moment the fashionable
cure for dyspepsia is hot water, which,
after all, is only an old fashion revived.
The London Nelos, commenting on this.
says that the hot water treatment is taken
externally in London as a cosmetic, and
informally in America for the stomach, and
that sealding propaganda is IN progress.
| General Sheridan's eyes are his chief
characteristics and any one who catches
even one ray of their CLEAN, says a corres-
poadent, will never forget them. They
are small, gray and sharp as needle;
when talking tho general always looks one
straight in the face and il never needs his
tongue to tell when he is angry.
Two machine guns have just been com
| pleted at Pratt q Whitney's works, at
| Hartford, Conn, for Gen. Grant as pres
ents to the viceroy of China and the mika-
I do of Japan The guns are Pratt & Whit
ney's improvement over the gun once
known as the Gardiner gun. The guns Of
the model after which they are made have
government record of sos shots min
ute, and have been fred at the rate of 700
minute and 5000 in 13 minutes 30 sec
on3s.
Mrs. Thackeray Richie, it is reported,
says in the forthcoming Harper that Mr..
Tennyson's first verses were written i'll his
childhood upon a slate given to him by his
elder brother Charles one Sunday when all
the family except the little Alfred were go
ing to church. For subject Charles gave
him the flowers il the garden. The little
man straightway buried himself in blank
verse, and when his brother returned was
rewarded by the simple commentator:
"Yes, you can write"
Some Oxford dons were discussing the
ssx of George Fleming, author OF the nov
ell "Kismet," and step-daughter of Mr..
Eugene Benson of Rome. They decided
that certain passages in that novel could
have been written only by man, and in
order to be confirmed in their opinion
they sent an invitation to dinner to the
writer, through her publishers At the
appointed tune she foated into the room,
a sweet and charming vision in cIaret silk
and luxuriant blonde tresses.
Mr.. Lawson Melton, of Dawson, Ga,
has mirror in the side of one of HIS
stables, and he has a horse which goes
every day several times and looks at him
self With peculiar air of personal pride
as if he were young dandy, He steps
before the glass, takes look at his face,