Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-28

LAUGH and grow fat-grow fat and
be laughed at. It is poor rule that
will not work in all directions.
CURIOUS EPITAPH.-The following Gu
rious epitaph is to be seen (or was) in
Hadleigh Church, Suffolk, England:
The charnel mounted on thew
Sets to be seen or tuner
A matron plain, domeftic
| IN care and pain continu
| Not slow, nor pray, nor prodig ,11
| Yet neighborly and hofpit ALL
Her children feyen yet living
| Her ffty-seventh year hence did &C
To rest her body natur
In hopes to rife fpiritu
ACH1cAGo clergyman begana sermon
with the following story of man who
was noted for his uglness: "Being at
a party, he had taken no part in the
dance, as his hostess had some difficult
ty in providing him with partner. At
last she led up to him prim and aged
spinster, at the same time whispering a
few words of apology in his ear. oh,
you needn't make any apology said he,
jumping up with alacrity; any old
thing is good enough for me-"
THE leap-year privilege of ladies
choosing their husbands is explained in
work entitled, Glove, Courtship, and
Matrimonie," London, 1906: ALBEIT
it has move become part of the COM
mon lave in regarde to social relations
of life, that, as often as every bissextile
year dothe return, the ladyes have the
sole privilege during the time it continu-
eth of making love unto the men, which
they doe, either by words or lookes, as to
them it seemeth proper; and, moreover,
no man will be entitled to the benefit of
clergy who doeth in any way treat her
proposal with slight or contumely."
BIBLE TERMs.-Readers of the Bible
will be interested in the following ex-
pressions frequently met with in the
holy scriptures.
A days journey was SO and 1-5
miles.
A Sabbath-day's journey was about 8
of an English mile.
Ezekiels reed is said to have been
nearly II feet long.
A cubit is nearly 70 inches.
A fingers breadth is equal to one
inch.
A shekel is about so cents.
A shekel of gold is $9.O7.
A talent of silver was $1,65O.S6.
A talent of gold was $26,44S.
A piece Of silver, or penny, was Is
cents.
A farthing was 5 cents.
A gerah was cents.
A mite was ! cent.
A homer contained IS gallons and 5
pints.
An ephah, OR bath, 7 gallons and 4
pints.
A hin was gallon and pints.
A firkin was 7 pints. An omer 6
pints.
A cab was 8 pints. A log was j: a
pint.
INTERESTING FAcTs.-The tomb of
Edward l., who died in 1901, was
opened Jan. 2, ITO, after 1853 years
had elapsed. His body was almost per-
feet. Canute (the Dance, who crossed
over to England in 1917, was found
1879, by workmen who repaired Win
chester Cathedral, where his body had
reposed nearly $50 years, perfectly fresh.
In 1869, three Roman soldiers, fully
equipped with warl;ke implement, were
dug out of bed of peat in Ireland,
where they had probably lain 1900 years.
Their bodies were perfectly fresh and
plump. In the reign of Janaos III. of
England, after the fall of the Church of
Ashley, in Warwickshire, there was taken
up the corpse of Thomas Gray, Mar
quis of Dorset, who was buried the 10th
of October, 1880, in the twenty-second
year of Henry VII; and although it
had lain there seventy-eight years, the
eyes, hair, flesh, nails, and joints
remained as though it had been newly
buried. Robert Braybrook, who was
consecrated Bishop of London in 1881,
and who died in 1404, and was buried
in St. Paul's, was taken out of his tomb,
after the great fire in 1866, during the
repairs of the cathedral, and, although
be had lain there no less than 1852 years,
his body was found firm as to skin, hair,
Joints and nails. The Convent de st.
Domingo was demolished in search
of treasure supposed to be concealed
there, and the body of Prince Rodri-
guez taken out, who had been buried
alive in 1865, exactly as when placed
$50 years before. His daughter, 2 years
and months old, was lying at her
fathers feet, and as perfectly preserved
as himself. The position of his hands
showed that he was suspended by the
body and neck till he died. Marks of
the cord and of the burning iron were
deeply recorded on various parts of the
body. His hair and beard were firm, his
skin natural in hue and texture, without
the least trace of decomposition in any
part.