St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-19
GLOBELETS.


| board has reached Havana
Heavy rains in the south have added ma
terially to the dangers to the levees.
violent tornado passed over the coun-
try near Storkville, Mississippi the other day.
Ten novels are written and registered in
England, it is stated for every one that is
published there.
1t is said that Senator Fair of Nevada
will subscribe $500, ZOO to the Democratic
campaign fund.
King Alfonso is slender and good looking.
He has dark eyes, while his sisters have blue
eyes. Significant!
The Massachusetts House of Representa-
tives has passed bill making wife-beating
punishable by fogging.
Prairie fires have destroyed buildings and
improvements on several farms near King
ston, Kansas. One life was lost.
Italy is about to strengthen her coast de-
fences with 10 steel guns, over So feet long,
and capable of sending a protection of
more than 1900 in weight.
An Alabama judge has decided that a man
who puts his satchel ON seat iu the cars re-
serves the seat-unless the man who
moves it is bigger than he is.
The copy of Vapeau which Napoleon IIIl
owned has found its way into a Berlin anti
quary's possession. 1t is richly bound, and
on the cover appears the initial ''N.n in
gold.
Envelopes made of vel,um of the purest
white, and bound all aronnd with tinted
satin ribbon, which is tied into knots and
sealed with wax of the same shade are a
stationery novelty.
Mr.. B. S. Sheldon of Brooklyn, bought a
Newfoundland dog for his child few days
ago. The dog whined on parting from his
| old master, and recently as Mr.. Sheldon was
going across the ferry, he saw the dog walk
to the deck and throw himself overheard.
The dog evidently committed suicide.
Constantinople was much disturbed by the
| sudden death of Kadri Pasha. 1t followed
the arrival of a letter purporting to reveal a
plot to dethrone the Sultan, which Kadri was
to aid with the Adrianople army, and it was
whispered that Kadri's death was not wholly
| due to natural causes.
A one-armed man was the only person in
Hartford, Conn, who could be prevailed up
| on by the Times of that city to climb a pole
thirty feet high and bring down the flag
which had been floating at half in men,
ory of Governor Hubbard. The one-armed
individual performed the feat successfully.
AS they were trudging along to school, a
five-years-old Boston miss said to her COM
panion, lad of six summers: "Were you
ever affrlghted at the contiguity of a rod
ent!" ''Nay, forsooth," he replied; II fear
not the juxtaposition of the creature, but dis
like its tendency to an intimate propin-
guilty"
New Hampshire fish and game commits
sioners intend this season to have hand in
the deer-destroying business in the northern
part of the state. The law will be tried in
all cases where evidence sufficient to hold
can procured. The commissioners are now
having published, in pamphlet form, two
| thousand copies of the game laws for distri-
| button.
The Dutch papers mention the discovery
OF certain ''cure" for gout. A peasant
who was confined to bed by sharp attack
was stung by bee, and almost immediate
| ly he felt better, and the next day he was
| well. A short time after another patient
| thought he would try the same remedy, and,
having induced bee to sting him on the
part effected he also was cured.
On the occasion of his recent visit to the
British Commons NJ. Clememceau was very
warmly received by the men of all parties in
the house. Lord Arthur Russell, who pre-
sents the good society element, was most cor
dial. Mr.. Chamberlain and Sir Henry James
ON the part of the official Liberals, were
slightly enthusiastic, and wonderful, to say,
Mr.. Parnell thawed out and displayed unusu-
al warmth in getting up the French Radical.
Assistant Bishop Potter of New York, and
nearly all the Bishops of the Protestant Epis-
copal church in this country expect to 90 to
Scotland to assist at Aberdeen in the
centennial celebration OF the conservation of
Bishop Seabury, of Connecticut, the first
American bishop. The actual consecration
was in November, 1884, but October and 6
have been selected for the celebration so as
to give the bishops invited from this country
pleasant and safer month to cross the ocean.
Minister Hunt lost two wives by death, got
divorce from a third, who was considera-
bly, older than he, and leaves fourth. When
he was secretary of the navy Mr.. Hunt was
a good disciplinarian. About the time of
his appointment to that office his son, a
naval officer, reached San Francisco and tel
| egraphed for permission to come home by
rail instead of the Panama, by which route
the rest of the officers were ordered home.
The secretary telegraphed to the boy that he
had better obey orders and take his chances
without favor.
Speaking of Stonewall Jackson's beautiful
daughter, now the reigning sensation in So
ciety circles in England, the Washinton Star
says: ''Miss Julia jackson is said to be a
much more beautiful girl than the now IA
famous Jennie Chamberlain, and there is
every probability of her being the rage the
coming season in London. 1t would appear
that the crop of English professional beauties
has given out, as we hear of no one who
takes the place formerly filed by Mrs. Lang
| try and Mrs. Cornwallis West 1t is new
field for American enterprise. Miss Jack
son is dark type, and half the artists in
London are ravlng about her eyes"