St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-19
AROUND THE WORLD.

Ernest Renshaw, of England, has never
been defeated at tennis.
Adam ForepRugh. the circus manager, has
bet over $4,000 that Cleveland will be
| reelected.
Mr.. Gladstone is understood to say in pri-
vate that a federal constitution for Great
Britain is inevitable.
John L. Sullivan is only twenty-nine years
of age. 1t is said that he made and spent
$500, 600 in the last three years.
The Prince Of Wales took a Hungarian
brass band with him when he went bear
hunting III the mountains of TransyiYa-
| mia.
Pere Hyacinth lately delivered an address
in Paris on the relations between church
and state, in which he expressed the fear
that the republic might succumb.
Ed Davis, of Lexington, Ind, died re-
Gently oflockjaw from snake bite. He was
bitten by black snake.
1t is estimated that in England one man in
| 500 gets college education. In this glori-
Gus country one man i'll every 200 takes
college course.
London woman, Bridget Mcmillan. aged
forty-fve years, has been brought to the po-
lice dock 2U2 times and been committed 147
times, charged with being drunk and riotous.
Two women of Appleton. Me, bet on the
recent election of certain state senator, the
winner to wheel the loser through the streets
In wheelbarroW. The wager was settled
the other evening with considerable noise
and hilarity
pony was recently lost for eleven days at
Mold, England. 1t was found in culvert
which conveyed water from q coiliery, I'D to
&c ha1l IN, rnt.
was too narrow TO allow the creature to turn.
and the men had to dig down several feet to
rescue it.
Prince Henri d'Orleans is staying with his
parents at st. Firman's, near Chsntilly,
where his amateur photos of American beau
ties are attracting much sttention.
Mahmoud Djelladellin Pasha, late minister
of finance to the sultan of Turkey, entered
his recent Office practically penniless. Now
he owns over quarter OF a million Turkish
pounds.
The tract form" of booklet has invaded
Paris. Thousands of copies of a little
brochure entitled Essay on the Incom-
patibility of Theater- G DING with Profession
OF Christianity have poured through the
postoffice. 1t bears the name of Josiah ".
Leeds, of Philadelphia, as author, who. it is
Strted, has kindly consented to the tranSla-
ton of his work into French. Mr.. Leeds is
Philadelphia Comstock.
NJ. Van Diet Elst, secretary to the Belgian
minister of agriculture, while spending va
cation at Eastbourne, England, attempted
with friend to climb the face of the cliff
known as Beachy Head, where the rocks are
600 feet high. He succeeded in reaching
the summit put was cut and bruised His
comrade got only half way up, and then had
to be rescued by the coast guardsman, with
much danger to himself and them.
Cremation is illegal in France, and bodies
have to be taken to italy to be burned. Nj.
NORM, dying recently in Paris, left instruc-
tons that his body should be sent to Milan
TO be burned. This was DONE and the cost of
the incineration was but fifteen shillings
The Italian custom house, however, levied
$40 import duty on the body when it came
! into the country, and the same amount ex-
port duty when the ashes were taken back to
France.
The handwriting of English literary men
being under consideration, it is said that
Andrew Lang writes a peculiar, but not
illegible hand; Swinburne's was curiously
schoolboyish, but perfectly legible. Mathew
Arnold's was lucidity itself; Mr.. Ruskin's is
pretty and plain; Sir Edward Arnold's is also
very plain; John Morleys is difiicnlt at first,
but easily got acquainted with LabOuchere's
is pretty bad; II. P. O'Connor's is rather
rough, but easy to read; Frederick Green
woods is called agreeable, and the editor of
the Times it is said, writes a particularly
good and legible hand