Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-27

| riDgton Qua dian, sued an ad yertiser who
defended on the ground that the GUARDIAN
had not printed his advertisement precise
ly as he had phsased it. DR.. MacEie re-
/ sporded that he had altered the word
"machinatio-,s' to ''doicos' in The adver-
tisenent because the conte made the
suppressed word libe'ous and so would
have exposed him TO damage. Judge
hughes, alter hearing learned arguments
on both sides, decided that newspaper
publisher had the right to substitute an
innocent for libelops word in an adver-
tiaement offered to him il the alteration
did moi affect the lawful sense and IN can
ing of it.
Ii is related in London that when Nine.
Modjeska ives last in that city she was ask
ed one evening. at fashionable patty, to
recite some piece in Polish. She at first
declined, on the ground that it would not
be understood by the company. But being
further urged she yielded, and, with great
volubility and many dramatic gestures.
replied in Polish-the numerals, from one
to 100! Three or four OF her Polish friends
precipitateIy fed from the room to hide
their laughter at the joke. but the rest of
the company was delighted, and protested
to find in the language grace and beauty
never before imagined.
One at least of the foreign unsel of
Arab Bey comes to his work fresh from a
special and advantageous training for it
This is Mr.. A. NJ. Broadley. an English
barrister, who served throughout the whole
Fieach expedition against Trnis as the
special correspondent of the London Tires
and who published no longer ago than the
Goth of June last the only thorough and i'm
partial account rs yet accessible OF that
expedition. The French expedition against
Tdnis, as described in the pages OF Mr..
Broadley. was al uniptentional prologue
OF the English inyesion OF Egypt; and,
though it is evident that when he closed
his account of his experience with the
French corquerors of the regency Mr..
[ oadley had no aut;ci patton whatever of
the tuln which thirgs were about to take
in the land of the Pharaohs, the conclu-
sions which Re reeched as to the effect of
the French expedition upca the relations
of Africa aud Europe and. of Mahonetan-
ism with Christianity apply accurately.
and forcibly to the situation and outlook
to-day on the Nile.
Mr.. Tennyson's new drama. which at
present he he's called THE Promise of
May" is soon to be produced by Mrs.
Deere in Londor. In the drama his heroine
finds out too late for her own peace OF
mind that the man she loves is the libertine
who ruined and deserted her dead sister.
aud it is on this discovery that tie chief
situations OF tue piece depend. The piece
is described as thoroughly rural in lone
throughout, the scene being laid in Lincoln
shire, the county which has so often served
Mr.. Tennyson sor background to his
poems. The author will not attend the
early leaearsals, but has made half-prom-
Use to be present later on. He takes the
keenest interest in the details of the mount.
ing of his drama, in which there is no
verse. The subject, however, was one
which the laureate had long intended to
deal with in verse; and it is only within
the last twelve months that he decided to
make drama of it. 1t is understood to
have been approvingly read by Mr.. Henry
Irving, who, however, could not see his
way to the production of a three-act piece
of such importance before his American
tour.