Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-14

damages for alleged ibelous statements
concerning herself in a biography of hel
husband, written by Rossitur johnson and
printed in Lippincott's Magazine of March
1879.
Sergeant John P. Finley, Signal corps
U. s. A., has been directed by the chief sig
nal officer to take a special course of in
struction at Johns Hopkins university.
having In view careful preparation in
such sciences as will affect his investigation
| concerning tornadoes and other violent
wind storms a work upon which he has
been engaged for several years past in the
signal Office at Washington.
Ernest de Bocque, a Frenchman. ran
| amuck among women on Fourteenth street
In New York the other day, and stabbed
SIX women, some fatally. Upon this the
World says: ''Of course it would have
been blot on our civilization, and all
that sort of thing, had the outrageous ruff
nan who yesterday ran through crowded
| street stabbing innocent women been
swung out of harms way from lamp
POST. But it would have saved the courts
some trouble and possibly the community
a good deal of nauseous gush about the
limits of criminal responsibility
significant feature of the New York
campaign is the stumping of Parson New
man, Grants and Jay Goulds pastor, for
foiger. This political priest is the syco-
plant, who, at campaign supper in New
York, soon after the death of Garfield,
Whose name was not mentioned at the
banquet pictured Conkling as being only
little lower than the Deity. 1t is quite in
character for this disgrace to the pulpit
and the Christian name to advocate the
election of candidates nominated by the
grossest machine trickery, fraud and for
gerry.
The latest bit ofsEnglsh legal sensation
news is that Sergeant Ballantine has been
asked to go out to Egypt to defend Arab
Pasha. AS the learned sergeant is now in his
sixty eighth year, he would certainly exbib-
IL great enterprise if he went to the land of
the Sphinx to plead on behalf of the Egyp-
tian leader. 1t will be remembered that
some years ago this distinguished English
| barrister went out to India to defend the
Guicowar Baroda, and received on the oc-
| caslon an enormous fee for his services, a
| large portion of which he dropped at
Monaco on his way home.
An Englishman in New York sharply
| crlticises the famous Seventh regiment,
He says that in the first place he noticed
privates passing their superior officers in
the halls without taking the slightest no.
tlce OF them, and he believes the regula-
tions say "a private must i'll all cases sa-
| Lutte his superior officers Then, when the
order was given ''fali in,'' the men did so
quickly enough, but kept on talking as if
| they were not under orders. He contends
that, although these are small things in
themselves, they show lack of discipline,
which ought not to exists in the ranks OF
command claiming to be the first in the
state.
| A prominent New York electrician. in
speaking of the use that could be made of
electricity as defensive measure in time
OF war, says: Suppose had in fort a
steam fire engine, with hose that would
throw stream of water quarter of an
inch in diameter 300 feet. Now, if I had
one end of Brush machine grounded
and the other end connected with the water
passing through the hose, the very instant
the stream of water struck line of troops
that were advancing to attack the fort it
would kill them. The stream would then
be really flexible electric wire, and as it
swept along the line of men it would NOV
them down like grass. If thousand men
| were to march up in a solid body they
could all be killed in ten seconds. It would
be absolutely impossible to take the fort.
It could be used with equally terrible effect
| in naval warfare.