Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-03
SUNDAY GLoBELErs,

SUNDAY GLOBELErS.
The young rri,cesses Of Wales wear red
stockings.
Seventeen hundred people witnessed the first
performance of Wagners Parsifal " in Bay
reuth.
A dentist in Boston has in his possession q
"horse pistol" once the property of Benedict
Arnold, the traitor.
Ex-United States Senator Eugene Cassidy,
of California, has entirely lost his memory,
but is physically robust.
! 1t is said that Dickens was by no means a
ready writer, and his manuscripts were almost
illegible from interlineations.
Ladies' are advised to select for their earliest
autumn costumes solid coors, aud the sim
plest designs are sent over from Paris.
Fierce persecution of the Jews has broken
out in Poland, and the authorities are as lax
in protecting them as they were in Russia.
The census of France shows a tendency of
the people to concentrate in cities. The
modern movement of population everywhere
| tends to centers.
blue marble coping has been placed
around the grave of the discoverer of gold in
California, the late General Suffer, by his son,
now living in Mexico.
A gentleman lately dying in New Orleans
has left fortune, 1T is understood, to ex-Sec.
rotary of the Navy Hunt, now minister to
Russia, and his daughter.
The 'boy preacher" Harrison is about
| I'm olo ID IN
! his revival meeting antics cOmport with the
| verdancy of extreme youth.
Why do cats have fondpess for the back
fence? Prof. Smith thinks 1t is because they
were designed for the ridge poles of houses,
! and fat roofs send them to the fence.
The lady who, when fifteen years old. is said
to have made the flag which inspired Francis
s, Key TO write the "Star -spangled Banner"
lately died in New York, at the age of eighty
five years.
Toronto paper says: Montreal will prob
ably put on good deal of style as a result of
the advantages derived from the presence of
the American Association for the Advance
ment of Science.
There is yet in existence in Stockbridge.
Massachusetts,, the house where Jonathan Ed
wards wrote his works on the "Freedom of
Will" and "Original SIM" one hundle and
thirty years ago.
Prof. Brown thinks mosquitoes are only i'm
aginary. His theory is that they do not ex-
ist, and that it is a disease of the nerves which
makes US imagine We see and feel something
which we call mosquitoes.
The eldest son of ssawotamie John Brown,
the martyr, John Brown, Jr now a man sixty
years of age, with long s;lvery hair aud a
strong frame, is living in pretty white cot
tage among vineyards, in Putin. Bay island,
Lake Superior.
The Rev. Mr.. Greene, of Raleigh, North
Carolina, on late Sunday, baptised 140 peo-
pie in seventy minutes, thus averaging two
minute. He must have worked with the
rapidity of FAlstaff's ''pewterers hammer
displaying active agility rather than reverent
dignity.
The richest new silks are called Ottoman
velours. These are more widely repped than
the Victoria silk, and are .ornamented with
large detached figures of velvet or plush
strewn about on a repped surface. In others
this flower is wrought by machinery to give
the effect of hand embroidery.
Prof. Simmons, an eminent Chicago scien-
fist, has theory about flies. He believes
they exist all the year round, one nile and
seven-eightbs high in the atmosphere above
the earth, and that tn " are sent to the earth
by conclusion of the air. We like exactitude
and the learned professor has his measure
to nicely.
The last transit of Venus occurred in 1874.
These transits are of interest, as they afford
the astronomers chief means of ascertainlng
the distance of the sun from the earth. The
next transit of Venus occurs December of
The present year, and there will not be another
transit till about the Close of the nineteenth
century.
Alter MIR. EmmersOn had on one occasion
delivered literary address from a pulpit,
clergyman was asked to make a prayer, and
in his prayer SAID: "We beseech Thee, 0 Lord,
to deliver us from ever hearing any more such
transcendental nonsense as we have just listened
to from this sacred de.k' Mr.. Emmerson
simply remarked that she seemed to be very
conscientious, plain spoken man."
be useful to know that a very important part
oil the earliest importation of autumn goods
Is made up OF cloth and cashmere wrougt with
what Is called soutache embr oidery. These
costumes are imported unmsde in boxes, with
the trimmings already prepared and plate
accompanies each suit showing hew aud
whers the trimming is to be applied.
Science Is a great thing and the theories of
the dating Iished scientists, Profs Smith,
Brown ana Summons, given in tais column of
Giobelets abont cats, mosquitoes and Hies,
place them side by side, if not little ahead
of Darwin in his theory about tadpoles,
monkeys and the lie. B.echer ia devoting him.
self to the scientific theories of Oar win placing
science before theology. He might gain de
cided benefit by interviewing these eminent
scientists, Profs. Smith, Brown and Sim mons.
1tehiag Plies -Symptsms and Care.
IhsSyuptOms are N oisture, like pAfspira
ton, intense itching, increased by scratching,
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