St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-16

One tenement house in New York shelters
800 families.
AT recent ball in London a lady wore q
dress studded with dense rubies.
Over 81, 600, 900 pounds of tea were sold at
the New York Exchange last week.
The trustees of Dartmouth college have
decided to erect new building at cost of
$4,000.
The Massachusetts house of representatives
has passed bill furnishing all school books
to all pupils of the public schools.
There are now las students in Oahu col
lege, Sandwish Islands, of whom ga are in
the Preparatory department, and 542 the
Collegiate.
Pope Leo has conferred on Edmund
Dunno, former Chief Justice of Arizona, and
in Florida, the title of Count.
A resolution has been introduced into the
Dominion parliament to prohibit the import
alton, manufacture and sale of liquors used
as beverages. Ithas a strong support.
Good men in Connecticut get into trouble.
A man there has had 81 ZOO worth of live
stock driven off by sheriff on suit for an
$500 subscription to pay church debt.
The latest theory about the interior of the
earth is that it is twice as dense as the solid
materials of the surface, and, though very
| hot, no portion Of it is in liquid condition.
A Dakota paper is authority for the state
ment that there is not Baptist church in
the Black hills country, though every other
religious denomination is in some way rep
resented.
The legislature of New Jersey has passed a
law to encourage tree-planting, authorizing
the governor to set apart day in April for
the consideration of forestry topics. Action
by the public schools is particularly recon-
mended,
The Pope recently had meeting of Car
dinals in the Vatican to concert measures to
protect the interests of Catholic missions
abroad, in consequence of the decision OF
the supreme court of Cessation in favor OF
the conversion of the real property of the
Propaganda Fido into Rente.
Arespectable couple in Belmont County,
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husband being Is years old and the wife "a,
applied for divorce few days ago, alleging
that they could not live harmoniously to-
gether. The judge gave them long talking
to and refused their application.
The Temple of Jerusalem, writes a special
Paris correspondent of the Pilot, is to be re-
built by the combined efforts and contribu-
tons of twelve American millionaires, two
of whom have already gone to Palestine to
study on the spot the most efficient means
of putting into execution their gigantic and
costly project.
A resolution was passed recently at a
| meeting of the English Church Union de-
clining to accept the proposed Court of Final
Appeal, or any secular coart claiming to re-
verse spiritual sentence. A resolution was
also passed urging that no reconstruction OF
regulation of ecclesiastical courts could ac-
quire spiritual validity save from the authori-
ty of the synods of the Church.
Forty lady students have, during the pres
ent year, entered upon course of study al
the Paris hospitals. OF these only three OF
four are Frenchwomen. There are some
English and Americans, and even few
negresses; but the Russian is the nationality
most numerously represented. Three fe-
male candidates have been successful in the
examination for professorships.
Missouri is making rapid progress in wealth
and industrial matters. The statistics for
last year have just been made public, from
which it appears that the taxable property in
the State was 1855, $50, Alb. an increase OF
Sc, 983, III over the valuation of 1882, and
S54, 52S, 900 over that of 1881. The State
taxes collected last year amounted to 3d.
345, 1878.
The gross value Of the City of London in
April next will be e4,237 900, and the rata
BILE value e3, $50, 900 while the gross value OF
the rest of the metropolis will be ego, 745, 00C
/ and the ratable EOS, 372, 900. Thus despite
the rapid growth of the metropolis the one
square mile of the city keeps up its proper
| ton of about one-seventh of the ratable
| value of the whole 120 square miles.
A few days ago private in the Hampshire
Regiment at Gosport, in England, called
upon the Almighty to strike him blind. A
little while afterward he felt drowsy and
threw himself on bed. On trying to open
his eyes he could not do so, and he is now
under treatment in the Haslar Military Hos
pital, not having recovered his sight. Such,
at least, is the account given in an English
/ paper.