Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-17

have kept that corps out of every action.
except as reserves, and has not only de-
prived its own generals of a much coveted
command. but has also deprived the officers
of all chance of distinguishing themselv es
A prince of the blood they say may not risk
his life like meaner folk, although he may
elbow out of coveted command able OIL
GERS who have seen more yearssof service
than he has of life.
Though it was the teachings of the great
leader of the tractarian movement, DR..
Pusey. recently dead, which brought many
Protestant divines over to the Roman Cath
Ole church. he himself remained outside
its pale to the last. Some years ago car
dinal Newman addressed him a very pa
thetic letter. appealing to him to consider
the question more deeply, and many peo-
pie wondered that the master remained. as
it were, lowering like a meteor between
two worlds, while the disciple had become
one of the most fervent and devoted chill
dren Of the church of Rome. DR.. Pasey
had been for years q kind of ecclesiastical
enigma. Nevertheless, the purity of his
life and greatness of his intellect won him
a host of enthusiastic admirers. He had
special hatred Of the Photographic art, and
never permitted e photograph OF him to
be taken.
It is related in the Boston Transcript
that James Russell Lowell. the distinguished
author, our present minister to Eng
land. once wrote an article on America n
humor and sent ii anonymously to the At
Jontic 4 few weeks after he adroitiy led
Editor James t. Fields to the subject. Mr..
Fields said: ''Te get 8 great deal OF man
uscript on the subject of humor, but it is
so poor that we cannot use it. 1 threw
into the waste basket the other day long
screed christened the Essence Of American
Hunor' for q more absurd farrago OF
stuff I have never SEEN" Lowell burst
into laughter and informed Fields of the
authorship of the article. The editor
| turned all colors and swore it was one OF
Lowelrs jokes. Indeed 1t is responded
Lowell, land the best joke I ever played
I never thought highly OF my scribbling
but didn't believe il was the most ridicu
Ious farrago OF stuff you had ever seem
Topeka, Kansas, is in bad way in con
sequence of the passage Of the prohibi
ton law in that state. There are fifty
saloons in Topeka, which do a thriving
business in the liquor line. although Their,
is stringent prohibitory law upon thu
statutes. The saloons formerly paid an
nually into the city treasury about $40.
COO year. Prohibition has prohibitet
the receipt OF that revenue, although
there is just as much liquor sold and jus
as much drunkenness as ever. In orde
to compensate for the revenue lost b!
the enactment OF a prohibitory law, DR.
goods merchants are taxed 5000 each
year: grocers. $3.50; physicians. 500, an
street railways, $500 per year and So
additional for every car IL use. Anon
these branches Of trade, consequently Their
is considerable growing and loud de
mand for the old law which taxed the iquo
saloons.
Henry Augustus Blake, Of Bridgewate
Mass, was briefless lawyer with a ric
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idleness, and, when he desired to make a
extensive western tour, she gave hil
money for the expenses. He was absent
year, and she had frequent letters frol
} him, while he received regular remittance
from her. Lately he wrote that he We
going into rough mining region, whel
there were no postohices, and that 81
would not hear from him for months. Br
she did. and within q few days, tllro-sesl
marriage notice in Providence lewsp
paper, which said that he had become Il
, husband Of Caroline Hale, who recently il
herited $125,000 from her grandfather, IL
2 late Congressman ARENAS Hale. He he
7 used his wife's money 10 get western d
l vorce, in order to marry wealthier W
3 man.