Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-20
GLOBELETS.

GLOBELETS.
The New York Herald advises Don Cam
eron to go west and grow up with the
country
Field Marshal Won Moltl1e celebrated
his SD birthday, Oct. %. Since Oct. 20,
1857, he has been at the head of the Ger
man army staff.
Herbert Spencer returned to England
fully persuaded that the people, and not
the bosses rule this country. To learn that
fact, reliably, is worth voyage across the
Atlantic.
The Ottowa Free Press prints report
that the prince of Wales will come to Can
ada to preside over the meeting of the
British Association for the Advancement
of Science, in Montreal.
Gov. Cleveland, of New York, IS forty
cratic governor of Pennsylvania, is thirty
two years old. ''Young blood" OF Demo
cratic quality to the front.
NJ. Saint Paul has offered the French
academy the sum of $4,000 francs to found
a prize for the discovery of cure for diph-
liberia. The competition is open to all
the world, and is not even confined to the
medical profession.
A Dominion paper says there is trouble
among tho stock gamblers in Montreal.
The money market is feverish. The cause
of this is doubtless reckless speculation,
and if no one suffers save the spectators
the panic will Go no harm.
It is said that land planted in walnut
timber in California will quadruple the
profits accruing from wheat on the same
land during the ten years that it takes the
trees to obtain suitable growth for
telling. This is lesson for farmers every
where.
From the dictum of Judge Barrett, it is
his suit against Henry Ward Beecher for
breach of contract in not completing tina
Life of Christ, will be consulted. The
peculiar pastor of Plymouth church is too
slippery an eel to held.
The Garfield Hospital association has
$13,S67 in the treasury. The association
now owns the Soldiers and Sailors prop
erty in Washington, valued at $500 The
Finance committee proposes to buy the
Columbia university property in Washing
ton, for which is asked 100000.
Some keen Partisan observer states that
he has made a practice of watching the
tactics of pedestrians who carry umbrel-
las through the streets upon rainy days;
and he declares that when there is a crowd,
the small man invariably tries to pass his
umbrella ADORE the umbrella of the tall
man.
The Rev. j. P. Newman, D. D., pastor of
the Madison avenue Congregational church,
New York city, has avowed his belief in
communications from the spirit world. He
said in his sermon on Sunday on the sub
iect, ''Do the Dead Return that he had
believed in spiritualistic theories for
twenty years.
Somebody named HELLER has invented a
new army rife which ought to supercede
anything Of the kind in existence. It is
said to carry something over three miles.
AS a French paper observes, however,
either the eyes of the soldier will have to
be improved, or the rife must be mounted
with telescope sights.
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,, in a
speech before the election said: Il would
rather for myself have every avenue of
public reputation and public service, have
every opportunity for public honor, closed
forever upon me than to have to say for
the rest of my life that I lived in state
which preferred Benjamin F. Butler to
Robert r. Bishop" 1t is not known that
hari-kari.
Stanley got the entire Paris press down
upon him by reason of his savage attacks
upon the African explorer, De Brazza,
whom he called Gan old tramp and "a
fraud.' Stanley appears to be frightfully
irritable; and it doesn't pay to lose ones
temper in the metropolis of jokers and sat-
irists. He does not speak French very in
telligibly; but he managed to make him
self understood even better than he bar
gained for.
The annual production of iron in the
civilized world is 19,5OO,OOO tons per an
mum. England comes first among the ma
tons with her annual production of about
100000 tons a year; and the United
States and Germany follow in succession.
France occupies the fourth place with L.
100000 tons; and Spain produces least of
all European countries only $4,000. But
England and the United States absorb
more than half of the entire production.
The vitality Of national life may perhaps
be justly estimated according to the pro-
duction of iron.