Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-09
GEOBELETS.

nothing, and also hopes to reach the
presidency for q third term by way O. the
Nicaraguan canal. 1t is a long way ara and.
Mr.. James G. Blaine disapproves OF the
Nicaraguan canal scheme. The Nlcara-
guam canal, it VII be remembered, by the
way, is one of the chalnels by which Gen.
Grant still hopes to reach the presidency.
Senator Eimunds, of Vermont, whose
name has been mentioned as the Republi-
can candidate for president in 1884, said
recently to a friend that none of us will
ever live to see a presidential candidate
taken from any state east OF the Hudson:
AMI probably no ono, save the ambitious
Benjamin, will take issue with him.
The meaning of the 'ss."-seen in nearly
all legal documents and advertising-i not
generally known. Many have inquired
the use OF the cabalistic device, until the
question having got into the Newspapers
correspondent of the ST. Louis Globc-Dem-
ocrat, after much research, has decided
that symbol is derived from the Latin
phrase. suos sulutans-i. e., greeting or adj
dressing its own; those within jurisdic-
ton.
Mrs. Langtry does not seem to meet
the unqualified praise in Boston that she
has received elsewhere. She was greeted
with a full but not packed house. The au-
dience in point Of fas hion was one of the
best ever assembled in Boston. She was
recalled at the end Of the first and second
acts, but not at the close. The play was
GA, TT.oo-,l FF,4,I.s critic covc s1fbo
approval of the audience seemed to rest
upon her grace and sweetness as a woman
rather than upon her capacity as al &C
tress."
A young ~book-keeper Of Buckatunna,
Ala, attended a dance, and during the
evening announced to various partners
that he woald die before the party separ-
ated. AS the dancing ceased he arranged
chairs in a circle about the room, asked
the persons present to occupy them ana
seated himself il the center. He then
stated he had been we'll instructed by his
parents, but had fallen into wicked ways
and did not desire to live longer, and then
suddenly drew a pistol from his breast and
put a ball through his brain.
Tie national debt Of Russia has almost
Go lbled since 1872, the expenditure for the
past ten years having averaged 40 per cent.
more than her income. She has just nego-
tlated a new loan for e0,000,000 which
brings her total outstanding debt up to
50, 765 ,000. This amount has been in
Cured in three ways: Foreign loans, el64,-
100000; domestic loans, 100000, 900 and
an uncovered paper issue of sol 100000.
The government has contributed ei32.-
100000 to railways for which it holds
stocks and debentures. The Crimean war
cost e142. 100000. the Turkish war e133,-
100000, and the Khiva campaign eS5,5GO,-
NOO.
The Philadelphia NeWs says: "When a
New York paper wants to be very severe
and fiendishly cutting it refers to a rival
as 'our esteemed contemporary" When
a Missouri paper wants to express the same
idea it does it in this way: The ignorant.
contemplate, mean, sneaking, c%owardly,
self-important, low-hung. dirty, ~outlandish,
back-biting, self-styled politician dead
beat, WHISKY boat, backwoods bumnler,
log cabin child of misfortune, beer-infa-
CC0 OiS-IiSduSA. SOIs-ohCitCQ. O'SEItLC0
swamp angel who claims to edit the swamp
paper" IN the G parts they torment each
other by telling the truth about each
others circulation.
Mr.. Robert p. Porter, OF the late tariff
commission, having visited the factories
OF the United States at. the public expense
in the interest of sundry protected mon
opolies, and found that they would be per
fectly protected with 20 per cent. less pro-
lection, is to sail to-day, it is announced.
TO his native shores to visit the factories of
En- gland in the same interest. Mr.. Porter,
with equal candor and accuracy, described
his American Investigations as a farce"
Possibly in his private correspondence he
wonld describe his new adventure as a pre-
meditated libel. He may in any case be re-
lied upon. in his own words, to give his
readers "the worst features of the work in
progress"
Philadelphia journal says: A little
girl, delicate and poorly clad, six years
ago. proposed to a clergyman who was
administering to her at her bedside, that a
church should be built for people like her
self. who were too lndifferently dressed to
worship IN ordinary temples and ashamed
to mingle with rich congregations. She
placed in his hands some copper and
nickel coins which she said would do to
start the subscription. Her name was
Fannie Smith, and her donation was 81. 81.
Some time after this she died. Yesterday
the Memorial Presbyterian church, on
Montgomery avenue below Eighteenth
street, which had been the dream of her
life, and for which she gave her savings,
was opened with dedica;ory ceremonies,
and the Rev. DR.. Mutchmore, the exeuctor
of little Fannie, dniv installed rs rector.
The building and lot cost S70.500 of which
every cent is paid.
The death of Rev. James C1allis. NJ. A.
F. r. S., T. r. A.. S., IS re orte l from Lon
don. He was born in 1903, was educated
in Trinity college, Cambridge, where he
graduated in 1925 and became fellow of
his college. dained in 1890. he was, in
1886, appointW a professor in the Univer-
sity of Cambridge and director of the
Cambridge observatory. In 1861 he re-
signed the dictatorship of the university.
In the same year he published "Creation
in Plan and Progress" a rep'y to Mr..
Goodw;n's treatise on the Mosaic cosmogo-