Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-09

nothing, ana also hopes 10 reach Inc
presidency for a third term by way O the
Nicaraguan canal. 1t is a long way arc and.
Mr.. James G. Blaine disapproves OF the
N~icaraguan canal scheme. The Nicafa-
guam canal, it W II be remembered, by the
WY, is one of the channels by which Ger.
Grant still hopes to reach the presidency.
Senator Elmunds, of Vermont, whose
name has been mentioned as the Republi-
can candidate for president i'll 1884, said
recently to a friend that none of us will
ever live to see a presidential candidate
taken from any state east of the Hudson:
and probably no one, save thu ambitious
Benjamin, will take issue with him.
The meaning of the sss."-seen in nearly
all legal documents and advertising-isn not
generally known. Many have inquired
the use of the cabalistic device, until the
question having got into the newspapers.a
correspondent Of the st. Louis Gto5e-Dena-
ocT'dt, after much research, has decided
that symbol is derived from the Latin
phrase, suos sulutans-i. e., greeting Or ad-
dressing its own; those With jar;sdic-
ton.
Mrs. Langtry does not seem to meet
the nqualifed praise in Boston that she
has received elsewhere. She was greeted
with a full bat not packed house. The au-
dience in point Of fas hion was one of the
best ever assembled in Boston. She was
recalled al the end of the first and second
acts, but not at the close. The play was
can Unequal Match" A critic says the
approval OF the audience seemed to rest
upon her grace and sweetness as a woman
IA her !ha1 upon her capacity as an &C
trees.'
A ;ou2s b~53h-15apsr OF Backatuaas.
Ala, attended a dance, and during the
evening announced to various partners
that he would die before the party separ-
ated. As the dancing ceased he arranged
chairs in a circle about the room, asked
the persons present TO occupy them AMI
seated himself IN the center. He then
stated he had been well instructed by his
parents, bat had fallen into wicked ways
and did not desire to live longer. n then
Suddenly drew a pistol from his breast and
put a ball through his brain.
Tie national debt Of Russir has almost
do 1bled since 1872, the expenditure for the
past ten years having averaged 40 per cent.
more than her income. She has just nego-'
tiated a new loan for e6,000 ,O0C which
brings her total outstanding debt up to
ST. 65, 100000. This amount has been in
Cured in three ways: Foreignloans, &c.,
100000: domestic loans. 300,000,000 and
an uncovered paper issue of G9l.500.0oO
The government has contributed 1882
100000 to railways for which 1t holds
stocks and debentures. The Crimean war
cost e142,O00.0O0. the Turkish war $685.
100000, and the Khiya campaign $780,
900.
The Philadelphia Ncws says: "When a
New York paper wants to be very severe
and fiendishly cutting it refers to a rival
as sou esteemed contemporary" When
a Missouri paper wants to express the same
idea it does it in this way: "The ignorant.
contemplate, moan, sneaking, cowardly,
self-important, l~ow-huug. dirty, o~utlandish,
back-biting, self-styled politician dead
beat, whisky b.oat, backwoods hummer,
log cabin child of misfortune, beer intls-
ted ~big-headed, soft-skulied. oyerrated
swamp angel who claims to edit the swamp
paper" In the e parts they torment each
other by telling the truth about each
others circulation.
Mr.. Robert 2. Porter, of the late tariff
commission, having visited the factories
of the United States at the public xpense
in the interest Of sundry protected mon
opolies, and found that they would be per-
fectly protected with % per cent. less pro-
lection, is to sail today, it is announced.
to his native shores to visit the factories O.
En- gland in the same interest. Mr.. Porter.
with equal candor and accuracy, described
his American Investigations as a farce"
Possibly in his private corresp ondence he
wonld describe his new adventure as a pre-
mecitated libel. He may in any case be re-
lied upon, III his own words, to give his
readers 1.-The worst features of the work in
progress"
Philadelphia journal says: A little
girl, delicate and poorly clad, six years
ago, proposed to a clergyman who was
administering to her at her bedside, hat a
church should be built for people like her
cC1l, VIII WCFO tOO AuOluCICueiy OIceSCu w
worship in ordinary temples and ashamed
to mingle with rich congregations. She
placed in his hands some copper and
nickel coins which she said would do to
start the subscription. Her name was
Fannie Smith, and her donation was 1921.
Some time after this she died. Yesterday
the Memorial Presbyterian church, on
Montgomery avenue below Eighteenth
street, which had been the dream of her
life, and for which she gave her savings,
was opened with dedicatory ceremonies,
and the Rev. DR.. Mutchmore, the e~xeuctor
of little Fannie, duly installed as rector.
The building and lot cost S70.500 of which
every cent is paid.
The death of Rev. James Calls, NJ. A.
F. B. S., F. r. A. s., IS re2orte | from Lon
don. He was born in 1903. was educated
in Trinity college, Cambridge, where he
graduated in 1925 and became fellow OF
his college. Ordained in 1880, he was, in
1886, appointed a professor in the Univer-
sity of Cambridge and director of the
Cambridge observatory. In 1861 he re-
signed the dictatorship of the university
In the same year he published "Creatior
in Plan and Progress" a rep'y to Mr.
Goedw;n's treatise on the Mosaic cosmogo