St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-07

Since the election the prevailing mood and
expectation Of the business men is cheerful
Middle Mountain, of the Green Mountain
range, has been rechristened Mount Cleve-
land.
Life senatorships have been abolished in
France. The senatorial term Ia now fixed at
nine years.
The Cincinnati deputy marshals cost the
county $4,000 in salaries-aside from the
other trouble they made.
The Boston Board of Trade have peiitioned
congress TO pass bankrupt law, ahd to re-
duee the coinage of silver dollars.
The drouth in the western border counties
OF Virginia has been followed by epidemic
disease and heavily increased mortality.
"Kimball's starvation store,'' in City Hall,
New York, furnishes food gratis to the de-
serving poor, being supported by benevolent
down town grocers. In one day 1900 pounds
of food was distributed.
Mr.. Gladstone admits that at the Spiritu-
alistic ''seance" which he attended recently
many things occurred that were inexplieable
TO him, and he thinks it will be worth his
while to investigate them further.
Lord Berresford, who was delegste from
Texas to the ST. Louis cattle convention has re-
eeceived news Of his brothers. death in Eng
land, whereby he becomes heir to a dukedum.
he viii sail for England at once.
A German histiologist figures out that the
human brain contains 300, 600, 900 nerve
cells, 5,000,0O0 of which die and are succeed
ed by new ones every day. In sixty days,a
this rate, one gets an entirely new brain.
Gov. Cleveland has engaged suite OF
rooms at the Genesee, Buffalo, from Feb. At
to March 3, which would indicate that he will
not 60 10 Washington several weeks before
the Inauguration, to be bored by place-hunt
ers.
Minister Lowell has written to his Boston
friends that early in December he will pack
up and come home with Mrs. Lowell, leaving
the London legation in charge OF Secretary
Hoppin, who is hoppin' round lively to help
Lowell of.
The Emperor Of Germany, in his speech
on the opening Of the Reiehstag, comments
on the progress made in the work of social
reform, and announces that bills will be in
mems accident insurance and savings banks.
The signal officer on the summit of Pixies
Peak says the highest velocity of the wind
ever recorded there was ITO miles per hour,
when the instruments broke and cordwood
began flying down the mountain. The guide
adds that seventy-five miles per hour would
lift a mule out of the trail.
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COrkhill, of Washington, the prosecuting at
torney in the Guiteau trial, was recently
callenged by Gen, Sprigg Carroll, of the army
retired list, TO fight with revolvers, and was sub
sequently beaten with cane. Corkhill is
counsel for Mrs. Carroll in divorce suit.
A New York scientist claims that deafness
generally has its origin in the mouth and
not in the ears, as commonly supposed, and
Is owing TO the relation of curious, crowded
and displaced teeth. He has a museum of
some 500 casts of the interior of the mouth
wherewith he proves his assertion.
At the recent great cattle convention in St.
Louis, 1900 accredited delegates are said to
have been present The cattle trade is of al
most inconceivably immense proportions.
The friends of the business claim, that
neither cotton, nor corn but, cattle is king.
The aggregate value exceeds that of any 9TH
er product
Sir Watkin Williams Wynn was brough
down TO the house Of commons in bath
chair at the recent franchise bill debate, and
wheeled, half paralyzed, through the division
lobby to vote against the bill. This was done
in the case of Lord Douglass Halliburton, in
Lord MeIbourne's time, and he died few
hours after.
Miss Kate Field is lecturing on Mormonism
showing that polyganY IS not only the great
curse of Mormonism, but it is disloyalty to
the constitution of the United States. 1t Is
the greatest present menace TO Republic
can institutions Treason is the monster lie
Of the Mormon church, and its teachings are
dramatically opposed to free government.
The coming Legislature Of MsIue, says the
Dexter Gazstte, has plenty of business, but it
should not neglect to remove from our stat
ute book that law which has long disgraeed
the state, by which men are imprisoned for
debt. Feeble aud iufrm men who find it
impossible 70 raise SO even can be confined
for an indefinite time in felon's CELL
According to the census, San Francisco
has the largest GAS per cent? foreign-born
population Of any city in the United States.
Next in order comes Chicago, 40-S per cent;