Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Costly shoes for wear with fine street
costumes are made with tops that roll
over and are lined with silk and en-
broidered to match the costume with
which they are worn.
A French monk has been imprisoned
for q month for remarking to one OF his
comrades that the Paris police, during
the recent expulsion of the Jesuits were
like dogs following the holy sacrament.
A girl only years old was arrested
for drunkenness at Lowell. To COM
plete the disgraceful picture, the police
let her lie ten hours insensible in a cell
without attention.
This swim de Champayne7 color is a
handsome gilded shade combined with
pale rose. Some marvellous toilets are
making of satin and brocard in this
color, which combines well with all
other hues. AS
Jefferson Davis Memoirs" IT is
stated, will not be given to the public
until April next. The Appletons have
the first volume in type, but they are
delaying the publication until the second
volume is ready. -.a
Rufus Hatch's Iron Steamboat COM
pany has closed contract with Phila-
delphia and Chester boat-builders for
| eight new iron steamers to be finished
| May l, 1881. The amount involved is
about $l,5O0,O00. re
Rev. L. w. Bacon, of Norwich, Conn.,,
has started new temperance move
ment in which he recognizes the need
of q certain limited sale of spirituous
liquors, and also of places Of entertain
ment for young men,
Mr.. Thomas Brasseay has bought from
Sir John Macdonald $4,000 acres of
land in Canada, at the foot of the Rocky
Mountains. He may now have from
1900, to 1000 working tenants, with
from ''forty to fifty acres EACH"
The holy synod of Russia has decid-
ed upon erecting an orthodox church in
the city of San Francisco. The priest
of the Russian chapel of New York has
recently petitioned the holy synod for
permission to erect an orthodox church
in that city. le-a
King Oscar, of Sweden, gave 10000
crowns toward the expenses of Norden-
skiold's expedition. The total cost of
the expedition is said to have been
419.177 crowns. Nordenskjold's ac-
count of his voyage is shortly to be
published in German, at Leipsic.
DR.. William Sharswood, of Philadel-
phia, is giving his time and efforts to-
ward founding great museum of prac-
teal art and applied science in connec-
ton with the university of the South
at Sewanee, Tenn, owned and con-
trolled by the dioceses of the Episcopal
church comprehended in the ten States
lying south and southwest of Virginia
and Kentucky.
In excavating for the St. Gothard
railway near Amsteg, a magnificent
glacier garden, series of so-called
giants kettles, or enormous holes torn
in the rock by the action of glacier
millstones, has been laid bare. One
half of the garden lay across the rail
way track, and had to be blasted away,
but the other half has been walled
round, and will be carefully preserved.
Prince Bismarck, says Berlin CORES
pondent, has sent a commission to Al
SAGE to study the condition of the work
men there, especially with regard to
their dwellings, which are somewhat on
the English cottage principle, every
man living in his own house. This sys-
tenn seems to be in favor with the chan
cellor, who wishes it to be introduced
all over Germany by government help.
He conjectures that this plan would 60
q long way to satisfy the lower classes
and make them dependent on the state.
The new street coaches in Philadel-
phia, after weeks trial, are pronounc-
ed a great success. They go full all the
while, are more comfortable than cars
or stages, each passenger is sure of q
seat, and the roads are SO varied that,
by transfers, any part of the city may
be readily reached. Those now in use
hold eight persons, and are drawn by
one horse. Additional ones are to be
of double size, for two horses.