Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-30
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.

box is being passed.
Kev. MIR. Cleves, Protestant minister of
Columbus O., has become convert to the Ro-
man Catholic church.
People who pay dollar for hot sulphur
bath don't stop to think that they can get 'em
free in the warm by and by.
The London correspondent of LIVERPOOL
paper mentions report that the Marquis of
Butte has joined the Greek church.
The idea that fruit eaten at night is deleteri-
GUS is proved by the bad effect it had upon
Adam from eating an apple after Eve.
Tradition says that the devil parts his hoof
in the middle. That's the reason, probably,
that he lets the mule do all his kicking
The eighth annual meeting of the Women's
Presbyterian Board Of Missions of the North>
west will be held il Toledo, April % and "a.
The Rev. Thomas B. Fairfield, one of the vet
eran Episcopalian clergymen of Ohio, died on
Saturday evening, at his home in Cuyahoga
Falls.
The Rev. s. W. Boardman, D. D., who was
pastor of the Second Presbyterian church at
Auburn, N. Y, goes to be Congregational
pastor at Sterling, Ill.
A colored preacher in Alabama puts his foot
on excessive bribery at elections and crushes it.
'Dis ting" he says, sob gittin' 800 for vote
is all wrong; $40 is as much as it's worf.''
The annual meeting of Mr. Spurgeon's church
has just been held, and the statistics show the
present total membership to be 5,l66. During
the last year 1874 new members were received
and 81 died.
A preacher out West announced on his Sun
day night bulletin: 1.-THE Funeral of Judas
lscariot." To which an obliging fellow added:
'Fr1ends of the deceased are cordially invited.77
The church was filled.
Burlington Ha1cheye: Well, after all, COL
onel, Moses did great deal better than the
most of us. He made such accurate mistakes
that it has taken the world several thousand
years to discover what they were.
A colpOrteur of the American Bible society in
Missouri says he found some young men of the
age Of Is and 20 years who seemed to. know
nothing about the Bible. No wonder st. Louis
is anxious to be attached to Illinois.
The Free Church of Scotland, says The Chris
tan at WORK, with a membership Of 1000. 900,
as the whole church of England with its 49,
10000 adherents and unlimited wealth.
Mr.. William Ashmore, of Roche ster Seminary,
is shortly to be ordained and sent out to China
as missionary by the Baptist Missionary
union of Boston. His father, DR.. A;hmore. is
already in that country and the son will join
him.
Rjh1ec ara MT a11Duad 10 or+a- Pre.;, ..r..-L
through the Holy Synod; but the late war en-
abled the British and Foreign Bible society to
place 100000 copies of the book in the hands of
Russians while they were out of their native
country.
Ncar-General Byrne, of Boston, SAYS the
public schools of that city come nearer the So
luton Of the question between Catholics and
Protestants than any other. Still the Boston
schools are not quite all the Catholics would
have them.
Rev. P. P. Lawlor, of st. Mary's, New Lon
don, announced recently that hereafter the
names of all Catholics who appear before the
local police court will be publicly made known
in church, and their ofenses described to the
congregation.
1t is announced that the attempt of St,
Marks church protestant EpiscopaD Detroit.
to go over to the Reformed body, which thew
have voted to do, will be resisted by the au-
property is concerned.
The consistory to be held by the Pope for the
creation of new cardinals will probably not
take place before the month of June, when Leo
XIII. will, it is said, confer five or six hats.
In the conclave to be convened this month his
holiness, it is understood, intends to nominate
only bishops and archbishops.
There is no lack of candidates for foreign
missionary appointments in the Protestant
Episcopal church. The foreign committee of
the board of missions had at the beginning of
the present year fourteen applications they
could not accept because of lack of funds
Archbishop Wood, of Philadelphia, says his
church property is worth $4,000, 0OO and the
debt on it is only 100000. He would not
change his archdiocese for any other in the
world, as he has the best churches, the best
priests, the best sisters and the best people.
There are $50 Protestant Sunday schools in
New York city, with SS,237 scholars on their
rolls. There are likewise of Roman Catholics.
Jews, ETC., sixty-two Sunday schools, having
q ,5S9 scholars on their rolls, making total of
41S schools, with an enrolment of 1885
scholars.
The Pope has been much vexed at the sisnif-
canoe attached to what he is alleged to have
said in conversations he has had with certain
journalists He does not wish war with Italy.
All he desires is better assurance than he haz
at present for his personal liberty and indie
pendence.
The Jewish Rabhinica1 association has in
contemplation the publication of a Jewish
quarterly review. The Je,cish Messenger ia
vors the project, if man qualified to edit it
can be found. The editor, it says, must be
man of the highest scholarship and thorough
theologian. ..-
The Roman Catholic bishops of Ireland have
issued a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS protest against the
failure of the government to take up the sub
ject of Catholic university education. They
call upon the Iriah representatives in parlia-
ment to make every effort to have the matter
considered.
The Rev. Joshua Y. Hines, of Nebraska, for
merly well-known "Millerite'' preacher in
New Hampshire, has joined the Episcopal
church and is now a candidate for holy orders.
He is 70 years old, and has been in the minis
try ffty-three years, but is in the enjoyment
of vigorous health.
Nervous little Bob r. was nearly frightened
into fits one day, when bungling old Parson
Pew in his hard, unsmiling way, with voice
like thunder, asked him suddenly: ''Who made
the world in six days and rested the seventh?''
II dldr' screamed the child; "but-Tn-never
do so-any more"
A pious old lady complaining to her clergy
man that an orthodox neighbor complained