Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-15

Warsaw. He entered the Prussian army
in his youth, and was made prisoner by
the French at Jena, when he at once
changed his flag, joined Dombrowski's
corps, and fought SO we'll at Eylau as to
receive high decoration at the close of
the battle. At Hanau he was badly wound
ed. He accompanied Bonaparte to Elba,
and came away from there with him, going
to Italy as orderly officer to King Joachim
Murat. At Gaeta the English captured
him and handed him over to the Austrians,
from whom he escaped in time to join
Bonaparte at Waterloo, where he was again
seriously wounded. Under the cars
proclamation of amnesty he went back to
Poland, entered the Russian army, and rose
to high rank, but when the Polish insur-
rection of 1880 broke out he joined it,
fought desperately, was wounded, captured,
and sent to Siberia for life. After spend
ing half century in penal exile he was
pardoned. and returned to his native city
to die.
The schoo! books which have best stood
the test of time. and that have not been
entirely crowded out and supplanted by
ambitious rivals, are the following: Web
ster's spelling book, published first in
1888 and is as old as the constitution of the
United States; Adams arithmetic; 1901;
Colburn's mental arithmetic, 1927 and
Browns institute'of grammar, 1928. These
books were pioneers in their several de-
partments, and their merits have preserv-
ed them to this day from being entirely
out of print, and the schools that still use
them need not sigh for others, or better
books in their several lines. They have
often been revised, and numerous and i'm
mense editions of each have been pub
hshed. Browns grammar presents fine
specimen of the philosophy iR power of
language, and its definitions, rules, exam
Piles, general instruction, erudition, ETC.,
are invaluable to every student of the
English language. Another revision is
called for, and this fact is a proof of the
merits of the book, and also an attestation
that the old system of teaching grammar
still holds out in spite of its modern de-
tractors.
A WRITER in the Louisville coaY-ier-Jour-
nal gives some of the current superstitions
of Kentucky negroes. If person passes
through funeral procession, he will die
before the oldest one in it. If dog lies
on its back and howls, it presages an early
death in the family. If the longest snake
killed in days search be suspended from
the tree nearest to a parched field, it will
bring rain. If it be necessary to turn back
after starting OH an errand, the consequent
bad luck may be averted by making a cross
in the path with the left fOre-fnger. A
sufferer may be cured by creeping up be-
hind him unawares and knocking him
down with raw beef. tongue just taken
from the beast by an unmarried butcher
under twenty years of age. A bloody
knife, bottle of alcohol, and bag of
live lizards, are an effective outfit for be-
witching an enemy; but the intended VIC
tim is often warned of the danger iby an
owls screech close to his cabin. The re-
cipient of a poisonous snakes bite drinks
pint of whisky, and then, if sober
enough, kills the first black chicken with
white tail feathers he can find, picks the
feathers out and burns them.
Nor long -ince the GLOBE in its 'Timely
Topics announced tina. the London Athe.
neum was to reopen the olu nues'ion VI
the married infelicities of lord ByrC'-
aud to vindicate his, and his sister Angus
ta's Mrs. Leigh's) reputation, from the
gross abuse, unwomanly and brutal asper-
sions of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. We
now regret to learn that the proposed pub
LEGATION is to be indefinitely postponed.
The reasons for the postponement
are given by the Athengum as follows:
''Since this announcement was made we
have received an intimation that the
publication of these letters would be dis
tasteful to several members of the Leigh
and Byron families. This is somewhat
surprising, for as we mentioned, the effect
of publishing the correspendence-and a
further examination confirms the opinion
we expressed-would be to prove the
groundlessness of the horrible suggestions
made public in 1869, and we should have
supposed that the representatives of the
Leigh family would have desired to see
Mrs. Leigh's memory cleared of the asper-
sions of Mrs. Beecher Stowe. There is
nothing in the documents that does not re-
dound to the credit of Lord Byron and his
sister. Still, as we wish, as far as may be-
to defer to the wishes of their relatives
| we shall not for the present take further
steps in the matter" The Difference
which the Athen@um pays to the wishes Of
the relatives of the distinguished deceased
is honorable, but Mrs. Stowe was infu
enced by no delicate regard for one o.
her own sex, to withhold from the public
the Ribald scandal, which was as baseles'
as it was unfit for publication. But un
fortunately, neither regard for the living
or the dead, stayed the hand of the sensa
tional Mrs. Stowe. That the surviving rel
atives of Mrs. Leigh and Lady Byron exc
crate the gratuitous work of Mrs. Stowe
and that all fair-minded English speaking
people condemn it, is not at all surprising