Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-28
GENERAL NOTES.

mournfully speaks: There is something
here in the history of current political
events which reminds US gloomily of the
dark and ensanguined days of fatsd Rome.
1t is said that the art of making Damas-
Gus steel has been lost to the world, but no
one need grieve over it. We have state
treasurers in this country who would steal
Damascus herself if they could get tow
line fast anywhere.
Before the election of the United States
senator in Colorado, the Denver Neacs re-
marked; ''BoWen is as dead as Julius Ce-
sar." After the election the Denver NelrS
remarked: 'Julius Caesar is not as dead
as we have been led to believe"
little boy of three years, whose moth
or played the organ in church, and who
was obliged to be left to the care of others,
was asked what his kitten was crying so
piteously for. II don't know" said he
''but s'pect the old cat has gone to church"
The Arkansas Troreler tells of St.
Louis man of that neighborhood whose
feet were so large that when he undertook
to use the forks of country road for a
bootiack he split the road wide open and
spoiled the geography of the neighbor-
hood.
A reporter rang up the Office of two
prominent physicians. us anybody in ?'
was asked. eyes. sir.' "Who?" ''Me,
sor, Place" us DR.. A. in:'
"Wouldn't DR.. R do, sor, PLACER"
swell, yes" ''Nather man iv 'em is here"
sor''
Atwater Press: A German farmer named
Julius Mohr, living north of town, was out
telling trees. He was caught by a falling
limb, and pinioned in such shape that he
could not extricate himself. Help arriving.
he was released from his perilous situation,
but one leg was broken and the other lac
Grated and bruised. DR.. j. S. Gibson, of
this place, was summoned and attended to
the wants of the wounded man, and he is
now getting along all right.
Another bright star has fallen. Mr..
Charles II. Emmons, leading merchant
of Hartford, Connecticut, an active mem
Der of the Baptist church, and occupying a
prominent place in the Young Mems
Christian association, has been sued by a
young and pretty widow for $4,000
damages, for breach of promise of mar
rage and seduction, and, when the civil
case is settled, the grand jury will likely
have something to say to him about his
alleged completely in an infanticide. One
by one the roses fall.
Herbert Bancroft, the historian, writes
to the Erening Post to say that his work as
finally laid out proved sufficient to occupy
one man for two hundred years, and to ac-
complish it he must employ assistants.
This work he says is one that in all civil
lied societies has besn deemed important,
and for the western coast, where he now
is, and where so much knowledge was fast
dropping into oblivion, if fully done it
must be done at once. For the past
fourteen years, he says, he has devoted on
an average more than eight hours day
to his literary work. and is doing SO still.
The letter. it should be mentioned, was
called forth by the accusation in certain
quarters that the historian appropriated
to himself the labors of his assistants, to
whom it was claimed the full credit of
the work in hand should be made.
The number of students in the German
universities is now about $4,000. Accord
ing to reports recently published, most
of these students devote themselves to
what in German universities is called
philosophy, which includes natural history
the Languages, and the exact sciences.
Next TO this the heaviest increase has
occurred in the number of the law stu
dents, the Prussian universities alone hav-
ing 1858 candidates for the honors of the
bench and bar, The only marked
decrease has occurred in the
number of students devoted to
catholic theology, while Protestants,
theology attracts very many students,
especially when taught by evangelical
professors. By a somewhat singular mis-
fortune the German universities are not
very well described in English and Amer
lean books, except that the bureau of
education in Washington has just
published good article on the University
of Bonn and that was translated from the
French. Bonn by the way, has eighty
seven professors, over 1000 students and
the whole university budget is less than
S250,OOO, of which about one-half goes for
salaries, Indeed, German universities seem
to care for endowments less than for emf
nent men in the professors chairs. The
salaries of all German university profess
sors mentioned-about 725-amount to
less than $4,000 year And yet the
most eminent scholars of Germany are
willing to serve as university professors.
BERLIN, Feb. 27.-The United States