St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-09
PERSONAL CHIT-CHAT.

Lord Garnoyle's golden haired darling"
now insists on being heir to his gold.
Miss Annie Noel of Adams County, Pa,
who died few days ago, weighed 465 pounds.
The daughter of Ole Bull appears to have
inherited some Of her fathers genius for play
ing the violin.
Every communion Sunday Mrs. Annie
Gordon of Button, S. c., walks four miles
to church. She is Ill years old. n
Mrs. Margaret Lincoln Mcyeagh, the
mother Of ex-Attorney General Wayne Mac
Veagh, died Monday, at the age of 90.
Mrs. Haight, the aged woman who is to be
hanged at Morrisville, N. Y, in April, re-
quests that she shall be killed in new silk
dress.
David Dudley Field is reported as saying
that it is the dream of his life to have New
York and Brooklyn united under the name
of Manhattan.
Paris ladies are now wearing blue gloves.
AS soon as the streets become muddy the
cable reporter will send over the color of
their stockings.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, now Is, goes
over to Cambridge once month and charms
the medical students with his chat about old
college men and days.
1t is current gossip at the capital that
President Arthur can hum correctly two bars
of the air "Over the Garden Wall" There
is good deal of hum in President Arthur.
Jefferson Davis declines an invitation to
address the Mississippi Legislature on the
life of S. S. Prentiss. He says that his
health is too feeble for him to undertake any
public work.
Congressman Kelly of Philadelphia left
his daughter Florence in Europe, where she
will remain for some time as the rathor live
~ and entertaining correspondent of one of
the Washington newspapers.
Truman Smith, the oldest living United
States Senator from Connecticut, now in his
95th year, continues active in mind, though
weak physically, at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. George A. Hoyt, in Stamford.
Mr. H. B. Clawson, the Scandinavian Nor
mon, who has had four wives-three of them
living-and twenty-eight children, should be
invited to come East and lecture on GLOW
it Feels to be Colonel of your own Regi-
ment.'
Edward Wallace, member Of the East st.
Louis board of education, has been indicted
by the grand jury for keeping a place for
fighting game cocks. Mr.. Wallace seems to
be a broad and liberal educator. He should
set up the plea that he is keeping school
where game fowls are taught the chickenly
art of self-defense.
Pretty Mrs. Wise of Virginia says: "When
my husband was elected to congress said
would not go to Washington, as had moth
ing to wear. My friends wrote to me to get
out the family laces and cover my old dress
es. So here am as you see, with my grand
mothers laces over my old gowns" These
laces have been the envy of all beholders.
Queen Victoria has telegraphed her con-
gratulations to the little British army that
won the victory at the Wells of Teb last Fri
day. If the good woman desires to fill her
fighting boys in Nubia with an enthusiastic
and patriotic reverence for the British throne
she should send each of them a cheap copy
of her late book containing incidental refer
ences to John Brown.
Denver, Col, is a bright, pushing town,
but it is not equal to high-priced Italian
opera. Col. Mapleson's company opened
there last week to 81, 900 and Patti sang at
matinee to less than $4,000 The newspa-
pers explain the evident lack of musical cul.
ture upon the ground that Mapleson placed
his tickets at So and ST. The impresario
was evidently under the impression that the
streets of Denver were still paved with gold
en- bricks.