Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-18
GLOBELETS.

| Senator Logan 'has the courage of hi
convictions" He says he will oppose the
Fitz John Porter restriction bill to the bit
ter end.
James Gordon BENEFITS new steam
yacht does not come up to her owners
| expectations, and a London firm has been
given contract to place new engines in
her.
German newspaper declares that dy.
Mantle will have to be used in the next
Franco-Prussian war, owing to the present
immense strength of the French forts and
the French army.
A Pullman sleeping car was blown to
pieces in st. Louis the other day, the re-
port sounding like the explosion of can
non. The 'bass drum" connected with the
heating apparatus of the car had cracked
and caused large amount of gas to ignite
and explode.
The N. Y. Tribune saucily saws: Politi-
cal economists who are inquiring into the
present troubled state of the iron trade
must not lose sight of the immense
quantity of that metal that entered the
souls of sundry bosses and their followers
when they found out how the late election
went.
| A marble bust of the Hon. Thos. Allen.
formerly president of the Iron Mountain
railroad, who died in Washington last
winter. while representing the Second Con-
gressional district of st. Louis, was un-
yelled at the Southern hotel in that city
on Tuesdoy night last with appropriate
| ceremonies.
Col. Keyser made an interesting expert
ment in signaling by sunshine during the
recent Egyptian campaign. Ascending
one of the pyramids near Cairo, by means
of Telegraph mirror he reflected a ray
| of sunshine to Alexandria, 12O miles away,
sending message from Gen. Wolseley to
| the khedive.
Londoner makes pert suggestion in
connection with cremation. As the ashes
left in the crematory is phosphate of lime,
he thinks it would be good idea to treat
it with sulphuric acid: and thus convert it
| into sulphate of lime-plaster of paris
| from which a bust Or medallion of the late
departed could be made.
A new way to defeat an ap peal in suit
for divorce has been discovered in Brook
Ign. The referee makes his report so long
that the plaintiff is unable to pay for the
cost of printing her case on appeal In
| the particular case where this was done
the report consisted of $500 pages of
manuscript, and the printing of it would
| have cost $1,000. This amounted to bar
| to appeal,as the plaintiff was only receiving
| SO week for the support of herself and
child.
| Miss Chamberlain, of Cleveland, o.,
| the American girl whose father is million
| aire, by her great beauty of face and per-
| son has become the toast across the. water
| this season, figures in an English illustrated
| paper, with the prince of Wales, looking
at the fireworks at Hamburg. It is said
that the princess Of Wales is much an
noyed at her husbands recent Irritation
being thus made public, and that because
of this, Miss Chamberlain has fallen into
disfavor in higher English circles.
A son of Hon. w. II. English, candidate
for vice president at the last presidential
election, was arrested in Indianapolis Oh
last Thursday night at the instance of Miss
Elizabeth Williams, a refined and educated
lady of that city of striking beauty, who
has had many admirers. The nature of
the charge was such as to greatly shock So
ciety circles in Indianapolis. After hav-
ing been placed under $1,000 bonds to ap-
pear for trial, the case was suddenly drop
ped by the withdrawal of the charge.
Among the DEGREES of the ecclesiastical
synod, which closed its proceedings in st.
Patrick's cathedral, in New York, last
month, are the following: A decree for
bidding priests to attend dramatic or oper-
attic performances in theatres; one forbid
ding clerical attendance at race courses;
and one making the wearing of the rabba,
or Roman collar, obligatory with priests.
There is also decree prohibiting the use
of flowers at funerals except in the cases
of young children, when they may be ap-
propriately used as typifying the innocence
and purity of the dead.
The Rev. Robert Collyer told congreg-
alton, at Springfield, Mass, how he had
made his way from the anvil to the pulpit.
Fifty years ago he was a child in York
shire, England, with unlettered but indus
trious parents, who put him at the trade
of blacksmith. He worked eight years
with an employer who died of drink, and
he thinks that it was only love of read
ing that saved him from the same fate.
His first preaching was as a Methodist
exhorter, and for the first ten years of his
ministration his income from that source
averaged seventy-fve cents a year, his
living being earned as blacksmith. He
came to America with his bride, and dur
ing the panic of 1857 he carried hod for
awhile. Twenty years ago he became a
salaried preacher, going over from the
| Methodists to the Unitarians, and has since
been very successful.
A lieutenant of the navy, while on the
South Atlantic station, recently, had a
commission from the manufacturers of
new rifle to try and sell a lot of them to
Dom Pedro. The Lieutenant intimated
through the proper channels that he should
| feel honored if the emperor would exam