St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-27

Mollie Morris, the Belle of the village, prom
ised to marry the man who would recover the
body of her father.
The senior class of Hamilton College, in a
published statement, declare that the article
published in the newspapers over the sigma
ture of Professor Hopkins as to their uncon-
ditional surrender is entirely false. The
faculty are accused of bad faith and the SEMI
ors threaten to prefer charges against them.
The crofters who emigrated last year from
Lady Gordon Cathcart's estates in the Heb
brides are doing so well, and the experiment
has proved so entirely successful, that her
ladyship has arranged to purchase 500, 600
acres of land in the Turtle Mountain coun-
try Of Manitoba, on which it is proposed to
locate several more detachments of crofters,
who viii leave for America in the course of
this year.
Scandalous disclosures have been made
about pauper burials at Liverpool. 1t seems
to have been no uncommon thing for the
friends of pauper to remove his body for
the purpose of drawing any insurance money
that happened to be due to him, to indulge
in the pleasant festivities of ''wake'' with
the proceeds, and then to leave the ceremony
of burial to the parish. Cases are mentioned
in which, by this process, as much as twelve
pounds has been realized on pauper corpse
for purposes of conviviality, and the body
has been returned to the parish after four or
five days. interval.
Old London is fast disappearing, and in q
very short time the style of buildings In Wych
street, Strand, with their quaint old fifteenth
century gables, which are now being de-
molished to form site on%hich to erect q
block of chambers for the legal profession,
will be seen no more. Diprose, in his 'Some
Account of st. Clement Danes" mentions
these houses, and some of the scenes that
were witnessed in and around them in by
gone days. The fate of Clements inn, too,
seems to be trembling in the balance. 1t
las recently changed hands, having bee
sold to a private gentleman for $685.
While discussing the report of the pope's
intended departure from Rome with a cores
pondent of the Ne,c YORK. Herald, Cardinal
Howard ridiculed the notion of the pope hay
ing any thought of leaving the Vatican. cat
all events" said his Eminence, laughing
heartily as he arose to receive another visitor,
81 have not heard a word about it. Nor has
Cardinal Newman, to my knowledge, taken
any steps to induce the Holy Father to move
from Rome. Nor have L any reason what
ever to believe that the Holy Father will al
lude to his alleged departure in addressing
the Consistory next week."
DR.. Oliver Wendau Holmes, writing to
the Cincinnati planters recently said:
II have written many verses but the best
poems I have produced are the trees plant
ed on the hillside which overlooked the broad
meadows, scolloped and rounded at their
edges by loops of the sinuous Housatonic.
Nature finds rhymes for them in the recur-
ring measures of the seasons. Winter strips
them of their ornaments and gives them, as
it were In press translations, and sum mer
reclothes them in all the splendid phrases Of
their leafy language. What are these naples
and beeches and birches but odes and idyls
and madrigals2 What are these pines and
spruces but holy hymnsa
Sir. J. Freyer inclines to the belief that,
Notwithstanding the fact of the toothless up
per jaw, deer do actually consume their shed
horns. lie picked up recently Ut the ueer
forest at Dunrobin, Scotland, horn which
appeared to show that it had been in great
part eaten away, and this, it seems, was the
belief also of members of the Geological Soc
iety Of London, to whom he had recently ex-
hibited the gnawed specimen. The marks
on the horn are such as would be made by
the broad incsore OF the lower jaw, and hero
| soientiic observation seems To confirm pODu-
lar opinion.