Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-13
TIMELY TOPICS.

cruelties practiced in Peru on the Chinese
coolies, engaged in working the sugar planta-
tons. The coolies are practically slaves,
though not such legally. They are driven by
hard task masters, and prosecuted with cruel
tortures for the slightest infraction OF the
rules. Their food is pound of rice per day
each. They go to work at daylight and re-
main in the fields till dark.
IT mag be matter of pride to the brewing
profession to know that one OF their number
has just been made peer of England. This is
Sir Dudley Coutts Majorbanks, of London
Other brewers, as for example Guinness and
members of the Bass family, have been
knighted, created baronets, ETC., but Majori-
banks is the first of the trade made member
of the house of lords. The father of the new
peer was poor boy, who transmitted many
sterling qualities to his son.
A CHURCH, which is described, with local
pride, as standing in architectural beauty
without an equal in the United States" has
just been dedicated to Protestant Episcopal
worship in Lynn, Mass. 1t is a memorial to
the late E. Redington Nudge by his heirs. The
outer walls are reddish rubble stone, the facings
and angles brick, and the weatherings Nova
Scotia freestone, richly carved. The building
forms Latin cross, and there is square
tower 100 feet high, without spire. The in
terror is exceedingly ornate, its striking
features being the mosaic pavement contain
$4,000 pieces, and the tridescent windows. The
cost was $3.50, 600, exclusive of the site and
large part of the stone, which was quarried
on the estate.
Bob OBLENIs, character of note in st.
Louis, is dead. His father was blue Pres
byterian minister, his wife was from wealthy
and respected family, and his own conduct
was above reproach until he was about 40.
Then he killed an enemy in a street encounter
and was sent to a penitentiary for twenty years.
His wife bought residence directly across
the way from the gubernatorial house in JEFF
ferson City and labored with governor after
governor to obtain pardon, until the seventh
granted one. But Oblenis did not return to
responsibility. He became a gambler and a
leader of gamblers, exerting a considerable
political influence in St. Louis, and amassing
fortune. He died at 70, soon after becoming
seemingly devout Christian.
| A PORTRAIT of Columbus is said to have
just been discovered at the Spanish colonial
office. The great navigator is represented at
the age of 40, "with black hair, wrinkled tore
head and aquiline nose" AS was only natural,
the first copy taken was presented to the Span
ish nobleman who figured at the late Ameri
can Geographical congress as ''the descendant
of Columbus" Another is to be made for the
colonial Office itself. The picture is described
as being painted from life. How the portrait
was identified it does not appear, and it would
not be surprising to find that the "Old Mas
ter who painted it, is enjoying the discovery
quite as much as ''the descendant of Co
| lumbus."
ALTHOUGH Brazil is beyond doubt fine
country, nearly every attempt made by i'm
migrants of Saxon stock to effect prosper
Gus Judgment there, has failed. There is a
| German colony, however, some $50 miles south
of Rio de Janeiro, which is said to be in a
fourishing condition. The settlement, how
ever, enjoys peculiar advantages in tine shape
of government subsidy and the patronage of
| the Prince de Joinville, who married the sister
of the Briziliap emperor. The Hamburg
colonization society has agreed to furnish
1000 immigrants per year, and the Prince de
Joinyllle and his brother have agreed to spend
$150,000 in the erection of saw mills, sugar
mills, rum manufactures, etc. Under these
favorable auspices the colony appears 10 be
doing well.
AN Italian professor has just issued a vol
ume of suicides, from which it appears that
Calabria stands lowest in the scale of those
who are weary of breath. Norway stands third,
and Ireland fourth. England and America are
very high; and the recklessness and misery
which make life insupportable reach the max
imum in the center of Europe, from Geneva
to Paris, and through Saxony, Baden, Prussia,
and the Austro- Hungarian provinces. The
small German states are the very highest. Su-
icide has increased everywhere for the last
| forty years, even in Ireland, whert the figure
is so low, from ten in the millionto eighteen
in the million OF population, while England
and America have mounted from 81 to 6S,
Prussia from "a to 142, France from 81 to $50,
and saxony rushes on with an average of 264.
| Childless widowers are by far the largest num-
Der on the sorrowful list.
| AN intelligent mechanic of San Francisco,
| who spent a couple of years in the Sandwich
Islands, has returned filled with disgust. He
declares the labor system of that fertile but
poorly civilized country is worse than
any slave system ever known in
America Large fines are i'm
posed on the workmen at the merest whim of
the overseer, and the law prevents laborer
leaving his employer until all fines are paid.
This convenient plan enables the plantation
owner to keep perpetual lien on the services
of the man or woman Who is so
unfortunate as to once get within his tolls.
The food furnished the laborerslis disgusting
and the quarters assigned them for living are
small dirty and unwholesomd. All the
laws and customs discriminate against the
working classes, and there seems to be no hope
of higher civilization.
jim FISK was worth something Bear 3d.
600, 1000 when he died. His widow is depend
ent on the charity of her family for support.
A New York paper calling attention to this
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