Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-11
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.

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Va. lis reported to have erected church edifice
costing $4,000.
At the recent Episcopal church congress in
Providence, r. l., three essays were read On
t"Civil service REFORM"
The number of metals now known is stated
to be seventy.seven. Within five years four
teen new ones have been recognized.
Mormonism stretches out beyond Utah, II
already holds the balance of pswer in Idaho,
and has gained strong foothold in Wyoming,
Arizona and Southern Colorado.
A committee appointed by the synod of
Michigan at its recent meeting puts forth an
appeal for aid in rebuilding the Presbyterian
churches destroyed by the great fire in Michi-
can.
Advices from Paris of a recent date state
that Mrs. Morton, wife of the American min
lister, is ill, and by the advice of physicians,
has gone 70 Cannes for the benefit of her
health.
| The American Unitarian association has
taken steps to have new commentary on the
old and new testament prepared. has also
appointed missionary to labor among the
Scandinavians of the west.
The father of the first Protestant Episcopal
bishop in the United States, DR.. Seabury, drew
a lottery ticket, for which he recorded to pos
terity his thanks and praise to Almighty God,
the giver of all good gifts.
! A Massachusetts judge has decided that the
ringing of church bell at 5 O'Clock in the
morning is public nuisance, and if people
must worship at that hour, they shonld do so
without disturbing their neighbors.
Translated from the Sonntagsblatt.
meress: "Thou, sepp, the flesh of our
slaughtered SOW, cannot good be. It has
trichina. We shall it not eat.'' Farmer:
"Knowest what we do? We send to the
preacher and schoolmaster some. If it to them
nothing does, may we also eat
London dispatch to the Toronto Globe
says the Marquis OF Lorne and the Princess
Louise made their first public appearance to-
gether since the governor generals arrival in
England at the ceremonies attending the open
ing of an exhibition of smoke preventing ap-
paratus and smokeless fuel, at the South Ken
singGon museum.
Domestic Bliss-sI never tire of reading
Paradise Lost" said Miss Posigush, her eyes
beaming with dreary languor. "Don't you
admire it., Mr.. Crab?" "No, DON'T" replied
Crab, crisply. 81 used to read it, before 1 was
married; but now know what Paradise Lost
is without reading it," No wonder Mrs. Grab
says Crab is brute.
At the recent session of the animal confer
ence of the NJ. E. Church, held at Charlotts-
vile, it came to light that the late excitement
in the sale of Confederate bonds had Injured
| to the benefit of the church. 1t was reported
| that Confederate bonds belonging to the
church, to the amount of S21, 400 had been
sold for S149,SO. The report was received with
satisfaction.
Out of total population Of $4,000 in Utah
| about 10000 are adherents Of the Mormon
| church and system. Only small per cent. of
| the anti-Mormon minority render any aid in
the effort which is being put forth by the
combined endeavor of different religious de-
nominations to establish Christian homes in
the place of the foul system of polygamy
which prevails in Utah.
At the Scottish National Sunday school con-
| vention recently held in Dunfermline, in the
course of discussion regarding attention
shown to strangers in church, the fact came
out that in one of the Glasgow churches there
is Misunderstanding committee whose duty
it is to watch for and welcome strangers, and
to invite them to come again when leaving.
Similar committees in some of our churches
here would be valuable auXiliaries in church
work.
A certain Galvestonlan was not expe cted to
live. He had neighbor with whom he had
been on bad terms for many years, and after
whose condition he made inquiry of mutua
friend, when he heard of the illness. 81 N
glad to see you feel kindly interest in him;
but am afraid he is sinking FAST" responded
the mutual friend. "He is, is he? Well,
am not surprised. always thought that was
about the direction he would 60 when he
died"
The latest and perhaps the prettiest poem
written by Mr.. T. B. Aldrich relates how be-
trothed young couple were wandering in
churchyard, when the maiden saw babV'S
grave, and Immediately began to cry. That
the girls of the present generation are Often
times entirely too s'previous" there Is no
doubt; but that one of them should be moved
to tears at the thought of how deep would be
her grief in case she should marry, have
child, and loose it, is hardly probable.
A young gentleman who is very particular
about the getting up of his linen wrote note
to his laundress, and at the same time sent one
| to the object of his affections. Unfortunately,
he put the wrong address on the envelopes and
posted them. The woman was puzzled, but
not in the least offended; but when the young
lady read ''If you rumple up my shirt Blossoms
and drag the button off the collar any more,
as you did last time, shall have to go some
where else" She cried all the evening and
declared she would never speak to him again.
Bishop futile, of Utah, and several promi-
nent clergymen and mission workers of the
Protestant Episcopal, Catholic, Presbyterian,
Methodist and Congregational churches in
Salt Lake City, have put forth an address
to the ministers of the different churches in
the United States, setting forth the social cor
ruptions of Mormonism, and urging them to
bring to bear on congress an influence in or
dor III of the owls oornplained IF nav have