Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-26
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.

Washburn college, at Topeka, Kansas, has
an attendance of 1873 students.
The amount expended in Maryland last year
on colored schools was $751;. 544.
A colossal statue of Sir William Wallace is
to be erected at Aberdeen, Scotland.
The Jubilee fund of the English CoHgrega-
tional Union now amounts to 100000.
A larger proportion OF the population go to
school in Burmah than in any other part OF
India.
1t is stated as fact, and it is strange fact,
| if true, that New York city has no public
| library.
The aesthetics speak of work as unleisure.
Very refined, isn't it-almost "tantamount to
nothing"
| The late Col. Thomas A. Scott, the railroad
magnate, gave $4,000 to the University of
Pennsylvania.
| Five women have held the office of county
superintendent of education in Nebraska dur
| ing the past two years.
| In Burmah there is national system of mo-
nastic education, in which are included g.
645 schools with Is 1920 pupils.
The permanent endowment fund of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania has been increased
S265, 900 in the last eleven months.
Our present congress now numbers among
its members eight Irishmen, five Englishmen,
four Scotchmen and three Germans.
oMarion Harland" teaches Bible class of
forty young men in Springfield, Mass, in the
church of which her husband is pastor.
Maryland paid but last year for public
school education the sum Of 81, 604, $50. The
state has 2,O39 schools, and an average attend
ance of 70,739.
Charles Dudley Warner says that, while the
country is filled with people unable to pay for
a newspaper, he has never heard of anybody
unable to edit one.
Bishop Coke is reported to have written
| letter in which he warns the people of his do
cese not to take any religious paper published
| outside of the diocese
| The great Saladin, convinced of the vanity
of all illdrected ambition las he felt the chill of
death, sent forth his herald with shroud-
the only remnant of its greatness.
| The Grand Duke Constantine, uncle to the
| Gar of Russia, has taken house in Paris,
and it is probable that he will remain there in
future, as he is not permitted to return to
| Russia.
"Who's this ere Oscar Wilde?" said street
Arab to his mate. ooh! he's only tall
Nick that's put in here to show people how
mean man looks with his little brothers.
pants on
A new edition of the life of Daniel Webster
is about to be published, the enterprise being
suggested and warranted by the interest
awakened by the recent celebration of his one
hundredth birthday.
The report that Lieutenant Fiipper (colored)
has been convicted by a court martial of en-
bezzlement is contradicted, and he will not be
dealt with severely for any supposed, or al
legged venial laches.
President Grevy, of France, has issued de-
cree throwing open instructionin modern Ian
guages in. the lycees and colleges for girls, to
ladies able to obtain certificate OF aptitude
for such instruction.
1t has been said that Wellington was no SEN
tamentalist, yet he, as he galloped his horse
along the bloody field of Waterloo, paused
and exclaimed. ''What is worse than 4 battle
won, save battle lost"
The prediction OF well-known author 'as
to the religion which is to succeed the religion
of Christ" has been aptly compared to an at
tempt to describe the luminary which shall
yet displace the MONDAY sum-
A union is proposed of the Canada Metho-
dist church which was founded a few years
ago by the consolidation Of two or three sep
arate bodies with the Methodist Episcopal
and Primitive Methodist churches of Canada
In the house of commons Sir Charles Dixie
declared that IN regard to the Jews in Russia
all the presidents showed that Englsh inter
ference in the internal affairs of foreign
country would meet with q rebuff, and do
more harm than good
George Smalley telegraphs from London
| that Mrs. Langtrv's s'ankles are slender" Let
us thank Heaven and Cyrus Field that we
have the Atlantic Gable, so that we can have
this fact telegraphed to us, and not have to
wait for it to come by mail.
King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Islands, is
fitting up the royal palace at Honolulu, which
has cost about quarter of million, and has
sent his chamberlain to this country after the
furniture, which he expects to buy in New
York, PHILADELPHIA and Boston.
The latest news from the American Board OF
Missions expedition to Rihe, Central Africa,
is to the effect that DR.. and Mrs Nichols, who
were lately sent out have arrived at Benguela,
where Messrs. Bagster and Walter were pre-
pairing for their journey into the interior.
| Several students of the Wisconsin State uni
versity objected to paying yearly fee of $40,
on the ground that the university was free
institution. The matter was finally brought
up in the supreme court of Wisconsin, whose
judgment has been rendered adverse to til
students.
Of Daniel Webster's first legal argument be-
fore court it was said by the judge to whom
| it was addressed: "That young mans state
ment is most unanswerable argument" One
of the most remarkable features in the action
of Mr.. Webster's mind consisted in his ability
so to state point as to make the statement its
proof.
Gov. Vance, of North Carolina, was in Phil
adelphia the other day, and while there met in
the person of hotel-waiter Negro, advanced