Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-24
TIMELY TOPICS.

A CONVENT for the Sisters of Perpetual
Alteration is being built in New York.
This is the first institution of this kind in
this country. In addition to the most
rigid fasts and self-humiliation the order
allows no fires in the convent, and the
nuns must rise every night at midnight
and pray for two hours.
ACCORDING to recognized medical au-
thority, promiscuous kissing has been in
fnitely more productive of disease of va
rious kinds than the public ever dresmt
of, and it is practice that should be dis
countenanced. The people should confne
their kissing propensities to members of
their own families, and even then it is not
always safe.
The United Presbyterian says: There is
very little need of finding fault with the
occasional man who spoils the prayer meet
ing by too much speaking. There is such
man, and he is always trouble, but he
appears SO seldom comparison with tho
many others who ought to be doing prop
erly what he is doing wrong, that he can
very easily be borne with. He is simply q
weed that has grown up where nothing else
was planted.
IT IS PROBABLE that with due care and
the exercise of the usual prudence and
thrift common to the German, Wagner
may keep himself from the poor-house, or
bo loo of &ho
of life. He has sold the copyright Of all
his musical productions to Mayence pub
Usher for a paltry payment of 10000
marks, or about $35, 900, each year. This
annuity is to be continued to his heirs thirty
years after his death. It is thought, never
theless, that the publisher has made a good
bargain.
A DISPUTE between the High church and
Low church parties in st. Jude's Episcocal
church, Liverpool, has eliminated in an
open outbreak. Part of the service, as
conducted by the rector, consisted of
professional hymn, during which he had
the choir boys walked through the main
isle of the chapel. Some of the congrega-
ton undertook to stop them as they passed
up the isle. Blows were struck, vestments
torn and the procession broken up. The
police quelled the disturbance, srresting
some of the worshippers and clubbing
others.
AFTER preaching an eloquent sermon
over the body of deceased parishener,
Tennessee clergymen. annouced: 'And
now, my Christian trends, we will proceed
to sell to the highest bidder the property
that our dear departed brother has left be-
hind him. The deceased died poor, and
his family stand in immediate need of mon
ey. The terms will therefore be cash or
ten days with approved security" he pro-
ceeded to ofhciate as auctioneer, and by
appealing to the sympathies of his audi
tors, got good prices for what little there
was to sell. The remains were then duly
inferred.
NEW YORK has four-ysar-old boy who
is confirmed tobacco smoker. He has
been addicted to the weed since no was
eighteen months old, and his pipe is now
seldom out of his mouth except whom he is
asleep. Tobacco never made him sick.
He seemed to inherit a stomach for it from
his father, who is great smoker. He is
fat, chubby little fellow, with rosy cheeks
and bright blue eyes, His father, who, be-
sides being fool is Frenchman by birth
and by trade glassworker, complains that
the child is inclined to taciturnity, and is
in doubt whether to consider it sign Of
deep thought or of the Supplying effect of
tobacco.
The recent fire in London, which ragged
through one night and part of one day,
was the most destructive since the Tooley
street fire of 1861. The loss then was
$1OOOO,OOO, and the loss by the fire of
Thursday night is estimated at $4,000
600. The other great fires in london we're
in 1884, when the houses of parliament
were burned; in 1894, when $50 houses
were destroyed, at loss of $5,0OO,O00; in
1866, when the fire burned for three days
and destroyed 1920 houses; in 1912,
when the greater part of the city was
burned; in 1886, when all the houses and
churches from the east to the west gate
were burned, and in 1913, when the city was
nearly destroyed.
DR.. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES sarcastical-
ly suggests that there be corps of licensed
interviewers to be appointed by the muni-
cipal authorities. Each interviewer to
wear in conspicuous position badge,
bearing for an emblem Zephyrus with his
lips at the ear of Boreas, who holds q
speaking trumpet; signyfying that what
is said by the interviewed in whisper
will be shouted to the world by the inter
viewer through the brazen instrument.
The interviewer's moral and religious
character to be vouched for by three Or
thodox clergymen of the same belief, and
as many deacons who agree with them and
each other. The witty doctor retains his
pungency in his old age to a remarkable
degree.
A CORRESPONDENT of an English trade
journal describes visit to largo jam
producing factory, in which he found that
the work was being bravely carried on