Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-03

| QIEUOTy
of that time.
The Presbyterian church at Port Gibson,
Miss, one of the handsomest in the state
was badly damaged on recent Sunday by
the falling of large portion of the ceiling
to the right of the pulpit, accompanied by
the rafters and the woodwork. The acct
dent occurred Just before the hour of serv-
ice.
Jewish soldier who in the Belgian in
dependence struggle volunteered at the
risk of his own life to crawl along the side
of the Palace Royal, of Brussels, and at
tach ropes to some gun carriages, by which
they were drawn back-presumably at
n1ght-into the hands of the Dutch, was
wounded and had to quit the army. He
lately completed his fifty years service in
the Dutch inland revenue department..
Two years ago, one native Chinaman in
the village of Koki, China, was the soil
tary follower of the Christian religion
among the jewellers in that place. Through
| his influence and that of the ministers, a
neat little chapel has been built, which now
has thirty church members and over fifty
Christians have contributed two-thirds of
| what the building cost. They now carry
on their Sunday services themselves, and
provide for the expenses.
The hard trials and great fluctuations of
Salmi Morse, who has been so anxious
sacrilegiously, to represent Deity on theat-
r1cal boards, are apparently unending.
IIofo
known as A. H. Warren, have sued Mr..
Morse for back pay for services rendered
in the passion Play" in the above men
toned roles. Mr.. Morse is becoming thor
oughly entangled in a net of litigation
| and doubtless ere this has earnestly wished
| that he had never heard of such a thing as
passion Play"
The government bonds and currency
lost and destroyed in one way and another
Will in the end cut no inconsiderable fig
ure in reducing the national debt OF the
$49,OO0,0O0 of fractional currency issued,
| over $15,000,000 is still outstanding, re-
demptions have almost entirely ceased,
and it is certain that the most of the
amount is destroyed. The loss of green
backs will OF course be smaller proportion
ately, but it must make very large
amount, and there will be many millions
| represented by bonds burned and lost in
the hands Of unlucky owners.
Birds, insects, and various animals we're
well represented at the Vanderbilts' fancy
dress ball. One young lady representeda
Scat" The overskirt was made entirely of
white cats tails sewed on dark back
ground. The bodice was formed of rows
of white cats heads, and the head-dress
was stiffened white cat skin, the head over
the forehead of the wearer and the tail pen,
dant behind. blue ribbon with "Puss"
inscribed upon it, from which hung a bell
worn around the neck, completed the
dress.
Mary Anderson, whose stage career, has
been notably free from scandalous gossip,
has lately become the victim of an ingeni-
Gus attempt at blackmail. A Pittsburg
doctor named Marshall has sent to her step
father an obscene picture and letter, stating
that copies of it would be widely distribu-
ted in England, and that certain damaging
letter would be published if $4,000 was
not forthcoming. Marshall has been i'm
prisOned for malpractice, and has now been
arrested once more. But he declares that
the package was left him by some unknown
person, and was forwarded to DR.. Griffin
in innocence of the contents. good deal
Of mystery surrounds the affair, but Griffin
seems to think that Marshall may after all
be only a dupe.
An electric light introduced in a Penn
sylvania coal-mine the other day scared
a lot of mules there out of their wits, and
miners said it was the first time ono of the
animals were ever known to show fear IN
derground. Mules taken into the mines
never go out unless work is stopped, and
the teasing of driver-boys maks them
vicious beyond all their kind. One animal
called Big Joe" is famous all through
Schuylkill county for his kicking exploits
and miners and boys without number have
been marked by his heels. Another one
called Mack is equally famous because
he never kicks, and this one is petted by
the men and given green grass and all
sorts of mule delicacies. Colliery mules
are generally we'll fed and cared for and
are fat and healthy.
There are good many isthmus canal
schemes in the world just now. Besides
| the Panama canal this continent has the
plan for cutting across Delaware and Mary
land between the Delaware and Chesapeake
| bays, the Florida canal scheme, and
western vision for cutting off the whole
state of Michigan. Thensa canal is being
made at Corinth between the Gulf of Cor
NTH and Aegean sea to shorten the voyage
from the westward to Asia Minor by 200
miles, and avoid one of the most danger
Gus parts of the Mediterranean. And as
Malay is in the way of ships going between
| the Indian ocean and the China sea, II is
| expected that q canal will soon be cut to
| shorten the distance by 1000 miles. And
still another plan is to cut through DEN
mark in the region of Schleswig between
the North sea and the Baltic. The Spau-
ish peninsula is already cut by small
canal, which could be enlarged if it would
pay.
*Che surprising success of Mrs. lydia z. Pink