Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-12

OF that city. line silver KING, rejoicing In
his millions, proposes to build a stately
mansion in the city of heightened, artificial
social life, and to occupy it with his new
bride. The millions will win, the tremors
and futters and envies will give way, and
the silver bride will yet be admitted to the
exclusive" circles of the official, shoddy
aristocracy of the national capital.
Leo XIII, has just given an audience in
the Vatican to 1,600 children from five
years of age and upward, of the elemental
ry schools established and supported by
him. The children, who sang hymns in
chorus and recited pieces of poetry, were
accompanied by their teachers, and at the
conclusion of the audience his holiness
gave the pontifcial almoner 1000 francs
to be distributed among the poorer
scholars.
The lowest point cotton has reached
since the war, was in December, 1873, when
middling was s q cents here and q pence
in Liverpool, but it then rapidly advanced
in price, and in the May following was
thirteen cents in New York and IL pence
in Liverpool. The highest point was
reached in 1864, during the war, whom
middling sold at $1.9o per pound in this
market and two shillings and six pence in
Liverpool. The lowest point ever reached
was in 1912, when it was as low as four
cents.
TIL son of Baptist clergyman is in the
penitentiary of Philadelphia. He served
during the war as lieutenant, but, on be-
ing honorably discharged, promptly and
deliberately became thief. He has spent
most of his time since in prisons. Lately
an attempt was made to get him pardened
and it was essential that he should show
contrition. Il have no desire to go back
into respectable society,"" he cody said
having been criminal and associate OF
criminals so many years, prefer to end
my days among them"
The Missionary conference held at Cal
cutta at the beginning of the year deter
mined to attack the practice, which is al
ready universal among families of higl
caste, of marrying Indian children in early
infancy. The missionaries will endeavol
to procure the passage of q law which
shall make such marriage null unless ap
proved by the girl when she comes to year
of discretion. They would thus, in al
cases, interpret the marriage ceremony, a
it is called, as a mere sbetrothal, and leav,
the parties free either to ratify it by
later marriage or resoind the contract
A suggestion that brutality and bunglins
in capital punishment might be avoided i
, resort Was had to electricity brings to ligh
the fact that in q series of e1psrim emit
r upon animals in the Poly tschnic Institut
{ London, given force of the electri, full
killed animal after animal, yet occasion
a ally failed to uttorly destroy the vite
spark. After an interval, signs of life ap
t peared in some of the subjects and cleo
3 tricity was, somewhat unhsstily, perhaps
pronounced untrustvorthy. These expert
ments turned the attention of human
> butchers from the project of killing i
this way because the meat afterwar
showed dark lines and spots, and was OIL
; marketable.
Ex-senator Tabor, of Colorado, is il:
now made the object of merciless jibe
d ridicule, and scandal. Falsehoods al
e also brought in to help out the sarcasm
/, His recent marriage in Washington is ca
p featured, and it is alleged that he and I'll
,r lady to whom he was married were marie
last fall IN st. Louis by a justice of IL
4 peace. This Tabor and his bride bot
N deny. He has become suddenly riC
"a by mining operations, and hence mali,
\ and envy make him their victim. IL l
Is were rich by inherited wealth, the uppe
n tendon would treat him much more or
:. ciously. Suddenly acquired wealth ca
not be forgiven, and must pay the penal
of the girds, sneers and base insinuatio1
, of the improvident, less fortunate and il
,s pecuuious.