Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-14

Nine. Modjeska has left Poland for Paris
ana WILL soon 60 to London. She does not ex-
Rect TO return to America before next year.
The Rt. Rev. q. B. Whipple, bishon of Min
nesota, has arrived ut Long Branch and is the
guest. OF Hon. Isaac Lea, LII. D., of Philadel-
phia. ..ss.
Russian physician, struck by the common
ness OF near sight among literary men, pro-
poses to print books with white ink on black
paper a. remedy. E >-r
Mr.. D. P. Hicks, of Rochester. N. v ha.
such wonderful memory of sounds that he
can tell the number of any one of 500 engines
by simply hearing the bell.
There was fashionable wedding at Newport.
Il. l., the other day, and among the gifts to
the bride was one of one Thousand 300 bills
from her father, Chas. 81. Burdick.
"Margery Dean (Mrs Primary. one of New
ports favorite local correspondents, is i'll. Her
physicians advise her to give up work, and she
has left for "lazy month at Saratoga.
General Grant and other trustees of the
metropolitan NJ. E. church in Washington, have
been sued for a debt which hangs over the
church. Mr.. Kmball will probably be sent
for. @
1t has generally been supposed that Boston
is the center of civilization; but this appears
to be mistake.a writer in the Transcript de-
claring that ''the nose is the scenter of civili-
zation.''
The Count de Sampengny shot his wife, at
BRUSSELS, because she had deserted him and
gone to live with her coachman. She begged.
before dying, that her husband might not be
punished. .s..-..-
Miss Elizabeth Menzele, the actress, who was
saved from drowning while bathing at Rocka-
way in June, by the expert swimmer Butt, has
presented him with gold pearl inlsid locket,
suitably inscribed. ..a,.
Gen. Grant has taken passage in the steamer
City Of Toxic and will sail from Yokohama for
San Francisco on the 25th or 10th inst He is
expected to arrive in San Francisco somewhere
between Sept IL and Is.
lightning is eccentric in Georgia. The For
syth Advertiser says that a large tree was struck
and felled to the ground, and q young man,
riding by on a mule, received such heavy
shock as to jar the beast from under him.
Senator CHATTER does not propose to change
his residence from Denver to New York, a. was
reported recently. The newspapers out that
way declare that for CHATTER to abandon COL
orado would be like a father deserving his
child.
The French army exists only on paper; that
is to say, the number of men actually under
the flag has been reduced to the lowest possible
figure, and compa MES which in time of war
were $50 strong, only mustered fifteen files at
a recent review. ... ...
While the fire at Marshailtown, Chester
county, was raging, and all the family were
away from home, a twelve year old daughter of
Mr.. John Thornbury climbed to the top of the
house and for three hours put out sparks, and
thus saved the property.
Maj. Serpa Pinto, the Portuguese traveller.
has arrived in Paris. The French Geographical
society entertained him with the same honors
as those it bestowed on Cameron and Stanley.
The meeting was attended by the leading sci
entifo celebrities of the day.
A Sioux City man gave fine hunting dog to
q German to train. The dog was returned to
the owner the other day thoroughly trained,
but he won't hunt in anything but German.
The owner will have to hunt in the same Ian
guage if he wants to make use of his dog.
The Krupp foundry at Essen, that arsenal of
nations, is busy on Danish order for q mum.
Der of 55-centimetre guns for coast gunboats,
and aSwedish order for battery of field guns.
Some cannon have lately been sent to Bolivia,
and mountain gun as gift to the new khe-
dive.
The practice of fogging in the English army,
according to the London Lancet, is now virtu.
ally abandoned, and no recruit need dread it
except as he may fear the punishment of
death, for the cat is only to be used for often
ces punishable with death, and so it becomes
capital penalty.
British army captain and two ieutenants
have been fined $50 each for breaking into
the bed rooms of two other officers and sprink-
ling pepper on the carpets in order to make
them sneeze funnily when they returned. The
complainant was the landlady, whose furniture
had been damaged.
Father Martin Marty, abbot Of the monas-
terry of St. Meinrad, in Rockpo1t, ILL.,, has been
appointed by the Pope bishop of the Catholic
diocese of Dakota He can speak the Sioux
and other Indian dialects, and will devote
great part of bis time to the conversion of the
Indians of his diocese.
The kremlin at Moscow was set on fire in
broad daylight on July 10, wooden staircase
having been saturated with petroleum. Red
flags were displayed on the church towers, the
socsin was sounded, and the whole population
hurried to the place, but the palace was only
saved nv rrx nj aYortiona
Rev. w. H. 81. Murray, before he accepted
the pastorate at Meriden, Conn. filled for
about a year the Congregational pulpit at
Washington, Conn.,, where his advanced mo-
tions on matters Of doctrine caused bitter
schism in the church, the younger members
generally siding with the pastor and the older
ones oppoing him.
1t is quite the thing among visitors to San
Francisco now to keep on to the Sandwich ISL
snds. Congressman Money, of Mississippi,
sailed for Honolulu the other day, and will be
the guest OF the Hawaiian government having
been invited to visit the islands by the king.
Ex-senator w. M. Gwin has since left San
Francisco for that happy land in the Pacific.
When Alexander Il. Stephens delivered his
Grafton before the alumni of Athens university
q few days ago he sat in chair, as though in
conversation. There was nothing else CONVEX
sational about the address, however, for the
Old Man Eloquent nude the ears of his audi
tors ring with an argument as to What is the
Chief End of Man usefulness and duty to
both God and man.