Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-08
TIMELY TOPICS.

The once famous cedar forest OF Lebanon
has dwindled down to the dimensions OF a
mere thicket, numbering but 400 trees. The
governor general of Lebanon has issued string
emf orders for their protection.
JOHN WILKES, one of the ugliest men of
his time, according to his own confession,
took the hearts OF women captive by his fat
tering tongue, just as the serpent in the
Garden of Eden made Eve forget his ugliness
in the witchery of his eloquence,
The members Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the United States during the past
year gave S7,311,7S4 for its support-an in
crease Of $29S,032 over their gifts last year.
1t has 65 bishops, 9,4O1 clergymen and 3,0S5
parishes and 1850 communication aver
age of one clergyman to each 102 communi-
cants. The baptisms during the year have
shown decrease of 5000.
The Russians have strengthened their army
by the novel addition to each company Of
pack of powerful and carefully trained dogs.
These watchful animals are sent out with the
sentinels on picket duty, where their sharp
ears and still keener scent will prove an i'm
pregnable barrier to the lurking spies of the
enemy. The dogs used are species of blood
hound from the Ural mountains.
LONDON Paper: The expense which has to
be incurred by Lord Mayor of London is
now so great that we are not likely ever again
| to see any man allowing himself to be elected
twice to fill the position, even if the livery de-
sired to confer that honor upon him. Sir
! Francis Truscotts year of Office cost him
EGO, 600 over and above the 10000 allowed by
the corporation for expenses, and MIR. Near
thurs outlay will not amount to much less.
"soME little time ago." writes Moncure u.
Conway in letter to the Cincinnati CONNER
cial, 'when an art exhibition was about to be
opened in Glasgow, Mr.. Ruskin was applied
to for some of his pictures. He replied that
he would only be willing to lend his pictures
when Glasgow was in fit condition to enjoy
them, and that would not be until it had
pulled down every one of its hideous houses.
/ quote from the information of one who saw
the silly letter."
THE common practice of having night
lights in the bedrooms of young children is
strongly condemns it saying: "Instead of the
perfect rest the optic nerves ought to have,
and which nature provides for by the darkness
of the night, these nerves are perpetually
stimulated, and, OF course, the brain and the
rest of the nervous system suffer. Children
thus brought up are excessively timid for
years after on going into the dark"
A LONDON correspondent of New York
journal, summarizes England's policy and its
outcome in Ireland thus: "Three hundred
and fifty prominent Irishmen in Jail without
| trial; $4,000 armed men in the country, and
the rate Of agrarian outrages does not de-
crease" Yet, comments the journal, there
are people who affect to think the Irish an
obstinate set of reprobates, because they de-
cline to regard Mr.. Gladstone as sort of
Moses leading them out of Egyptian bondage.
The New York Herald calls the attention of
it's readers to the fact that the president, the
acting vice president, the speaker of the house,
and all the members of the present cabinet are
lawyers; that even the head of the army was
lawyer once in Kansas; but he did not work
at the business great deal. Well, lawyers
are not all angels, but they are, as rule, a
| long way ahead of preachers as law.givers.
About the poorest failure in nearly all .legisla-
| tive bodies, state or national, is your theolo-
gian. He is by habit theoretical, often dog
NAUTICAL, and nearly always impracticable.
TIE property belonging to the city of Paris
is estimated at the total value of S201 Zoo, 000,
| the principal items being the newly construct
ed Hotel de Vile, the 20 town halls, ore to
each ACCOMPLISHMENTS Ga Roman Catholic
churches, 8 Protestant churches, and syna-
gogues; 80 incumbents' houses, the public
funeral establishment 8 higher and secondary
schools, 143 primary schools, 8 theaters, 90
barracks, 8 halls and markets, 1875 octrol
buildings, 10 cemeteries, A parks, squares,
and nursery gardens; 90 statues and fountains,
and IS canals and depots.
NEITHER Boileau tie French, nor Pope the
English ssatirist underwent the delicious
thraldom of love-they neither of them felt
what the great prose poet, Emerson, finely
calls "the divine rage and enthusiasm which
seizes a man in his youth and maturity; which
works a revolution in his mind and body,
unites him to his race, pledges him to the do
nestle and civic relations, carries him with
new sympathy into nature, enhances the
power of the senses, opens the imagination,
adds to his character heroic and sacred attri-
butes, establishes marriage, and gives perma-
nepce to human society,""
| 4 VERY curious thing is a salt quarry just
discovered in Wyoming county, south Of
Rochester, New York, near Gainesville. They
were boring for oil and struck ledge twelve
feet thick of pure crystal salt. 1t lies in the
ground like gigantic cake of ice, and can be
taken out so clear and transparent, that you
can see through the cakes, as if they
were pure glass. It will be much cheaper to
quarry out this salt land grind it pu than it is to
boil down the Syracuse, Saginaw or Turks
Island salt. The mine is source of infinite
| wealth to Wyoming county, and one of the
! geological curiosities of the world.
The following touchinglincident will take
tender hold of many bereaved heart A
motherless little half-orphan saw his mother
in the sky. Was it not her ministering spirit
watching with motherly love over her child: