Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-11
GLOBELETS.

HOFoAuSAG Is nON SOlLA5 4OIWdrO III
Germany in behalf of compulsory vaccina-
ton.
The statue of Gen. Lee will be unveiled
ct Lexington, Va, next June. Jefferson
Davis will preside.
This has served as test winter for the
st. Gothard tunnel, which has answered the
best expectations.
DR.. Talmage says there is one thing
that prayer will not do; it won't pay him
his salary. Is the great doctor growing IL
reverent?
The windows of houses in the Philip
pine Isles are made of pellucid oyster
shells, which admit light but cannot be
seen through.
described to a visitor as 'new comer,"
though he had been resident of the state
seventeen years.
New Orleans has commenced the expor-
tation of this seasons growth of cucum-
bers to Northern cities where they COM
mand good prices.
Those having in charge the proposed
Longfellow memorial at Cambridge are
scaling down the 100000 project to $780,
900, and have to complete it for the latter
amount.
1t is reported that the ex-Khedive Is
mail is preparing with his sons to avail
himself of the permission given to return
to Egypt, and will take up his residence in
Alexandria.
The discovery of Darrest's comet by
is announced by a cable message to Bos-
ton. The doctor had predicted its appear
ance about April %.
Young Daniel Boone a great-grandson
of the brave Kentucky pioneer explorer,
delivers packages for one of the great New
York Broadway dry goods houses on a sal
airy of $3.50 week.
The candidacy for governor in: Georgia
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Gov. Stephens is being strongly contested.
Acting Governos Boynton and Col. Bacon,
OF Macon, are the leading contestants, and
dark horse" may slip in and bear away
the prize.
Salmi Morse has been advised to come
West with his passion Play" If it is as
poor q piece OF literary trash as it is rep
resented to be, and the writer believes from
extracts he has read 1t to be, he had better
end his western tour at Jersey City or Har-
lem. The West wants none of it.
The other day colored soldier attempt
ed to commit suicide at Fort Elliott, La.
Under the sixty-second article of war,
which provides that soldier may be pun
ished for making himself i'll in order to es-
cape the performance of duty, he was SEN
fenced to imprisonment at hard labor for
three months, with loss of pay.
Stanley, the African explorer, will be re-
inforced on the Congo by Belgian troops,
and France will have an opportunity of
seeing whether bulldozing will work as
we'll in that locality as in Madagascar.
France is determined to go into the colony
business again, and it is not unlikely that
France may getitself into trouble just that
way.
According to a Southern paper, spring
fever has its ccmpensations: 1T puts US
in harmony with the scheme Of our exist
ence and progress, and by that sign we
know that we are not clOds, insensate and
accidental, but vital entities, definite fac
tors in the machinery of the universe" If
that is not philosophical sanitation, what
is it?
The half brother of Napoleon, king of
Rome, Prince Frederick Albert de Monten-
nevo, aged sixty-two, (son of Marie Louise,
Napoleon the First's wife, and her second
husband, Field Marshal Neipperg,) has Just
come out, completely cured, from the mad
house, where he had been confined for the
last two years. He is now with his son in
his chateau of Steinam Anger.
A religious movement bearing some re-
semblance to that of she Salvation arm
| has begun at Hamburg. Three orthodox
clergymen invite people, especially work
men, to meetings by placards with the in
scription, Followers of Christ, assemble
and take up his cross" The meetings are
well attended by men and women of the
lower classes. Free discussion is allowed.
Wallace intended to walk up to Williams,
in an Indiana barroom, present his face
in a tempting manner, dare him to slap it,
and when he did so-as there was no
doubt he would-draw pistol and shoot
him dead. But Williams failed to perform
according to programme. Instead of
striking the proffered visage he sent IA
tai bullet into it before Wallace could
draw pistol.
Sarah Bernhardt has sent to the press
her autobiography, which will be published
at the end of this month under the title of
| ''Ma Vie de Theater." This volume will
have for frontisp1ece portrait of the &C.
tress, etched after drawing by Nile.
Louise Abbema. An edition de luxe of
$50 copies is TO be issued for bibliophiles,
in binding designed by N. Roybet after
that of an old Enissal.
Herman Bamwick, of New York, has
sued Miss Rebecca Mclean TO recover