St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-03

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Monday, also that James G. win be at Old Oh
chard Beach Aug. z, and generally conveying tn
idea that the old gentleman is good deal busie
just now than he will be in mid November.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Gossard of Washingto
county, Md, respectively 55 and as years of age
have just increased the family census of twenty
| two by another boy, who has been named Cleve
| land Gossard, OF the twenty-three chldre
fourteen are males, mostly of the voting age, an
all of them are Democrats.
In phamphlet just published at Nottinghs n,
Rev. j. Hirst Hollowell seeks to show that Lor
the financial difficulties of Egypt, and that Mr.
| Gladstone's government in SURPRISING Arabi'
movement. took the best course possible in yer
unfortunate circumstances.
THOMAS GIBSON BowLEs writing of newspaper
in the Fortnightly Rerie,u declares that Ameri
can newspapers show far greater enterprise, ia
greater readiness to understand and to hit tn
taste of the moment, than the English journals
He commends the English press, however, 70
trustworthiness.
N1OttItJCttoc
Blaine was i'll the Speakers chair he s'held the
House in his hand as completely as ever dir
Genry Clay, Yes; but he held it also in hi
breeches pocket, which is something an homes
man like Henry Clay never did, says the New
York World.
STURGEON tells an amusing story of the oil
lady who started up when her grandson wa
about to take her umbrella, exclaiming, 'sNo
now, you don't, I've had that umbrella twenty
three years, and it's never been wet yet, and you
amt going to Begin
FEMALE admirer of Mrs Helen Hunt Jack
son describes her as a round, pleasant littl
woman of thirty-four. Mrs j. may be round
but Hele1&need never hunt round for matera
that alwaU seems ready at hand for her mos
readable Stories
THERE is such a tremendous demand now il
Paris for Bavarian beer that the Eastern Railroad
company runs beer trains from Munich six day!
in the week. Paris has now %, 900 beer shops
and the daily sum spent on beer is estimated a
| S15O,O00
| JOHN W. WHEELER, secretary of the California
| Viticultural Commission, who has been travelling
| through the state, reports that the grape crol
will be unusually large and that from II, 900, 00
to 15,000,0 900 gallons of wine will be made thi
| year
| GERMAN opera has been financial failure il
London this season. 1t is just possible tina
German opera only needs some new, fresh SO
! prano'v voice, in the possession of some youn!
and winsome German girl, to make it popular
PRINCESS DcIGoRoUKI, the left-handed widow
of the late Car, is travelling in entire securit.
through Switzerland with no fear from dyna
miters. She simply hangs her name out at the
window and her sleep is sweetly serene.
ONCE in great while those English papers arr
accurate in respect to American politics Thu
Pail Nall Gazette prints its extended biograph.
of Grover Cleveland under the headline ''Th
next president of the United States.''
Mrs. B. F. FLINT of Hartford has young
humming bird which taken from its mes
four weeks ago. The bird has been fed on suga
and water. at her call it will aiight on he
shoulder.
PHILADELPHIA paper has the following
''Bshop Whipple, of Minnesota has rddel
30 900 miles during his service Of forty years, ant
now takes to parlor cars without murmur.'
| A MASSACHUSETTS paper has the news that Mus
| tapha ben Ismail has just arrived in Paris from
Tunis, and that his retinue includes seventeen
governesses for his wife and two children.
| CoMMANDER w. S. ScHLET, the rescuer O
Lieutenant Greeley and his party, was for thre
| years resident of Boston. He was at that tim
! lighthous inspector Of the district.
| EX-SENATOR s. NJ. COOK of CRANKY and Sen
ator Dawes Cummington brother Francis ar
among the prominent anti-Baine Republicans o
Western Massachusetts,.
LORD RowToN was at Windsor recently on
visit to the Queen, who is very anxious for tn
early publication of the first installment of Lor
| Beaconsfeds papers.
SENATOR MAHoNEs wife and daughter are nov
/ in London, after having travelled through Irelan
and scotland, They do not expoct to return
until after Christmas
! THE attendance at Bertha college, Kentucky
! during the past school year, included 202 coloret
and 14S white students, abont equally divides
| between the sexes
| AN English advertisement lately announcer
''ten dozen of port for sale, the property of
! widow, full-bodied and seven years in cellar
| ABOUT fifty young men of Rockfork, who hav
heretofore voted for the Republican party, hav
formed Cleveland club in that city.
| EX-MINIsTER SARGENT has been nominated TO
Congress by the Republicans of the Second Cali
! fornia district
| THE last glass of beer in an Iowa town brough
| SIPS The extra quarter is supposed TO be TO
the foam.
| Mrs. HARRIET LANE JOHNSON, President Blu
chanan's niece, has moved from Wheatland, Pa.
to Baltimore.
COUNT LEwESHAUPT, the Swedish Minister q
Washington, win soon be transferred to Paris.
SPEAKER and Mrs. Carlisle are among tn
guests at Old Point Comfort, Va.
| Mr. BLAINE has learned to whistle ssThe Wear
| ing Of the Green"
| WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS wears bangs.
The Mississippi River.