Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-19

per cent. In the Unlteu STATES, IN 10VV Jnere
was one commitment for every 14.5 inhabi-
tants; in 1850, one for 6.s7; in 1870, one for
STA, 1879, one for every SIS. America is do
ing little better than the rest of the world.
TIE Lexington (Ky.) Press: About Z
o'clock Wednesday night meteor passed over
this city which was pronounced by many who
saw it to have been the most Brilliant ever
witnessed by them. The meteor made its ap-
pesrance in the eastern sky at about an angle OF
forty-five degrees with the earth ,darJed across
the heavens, and when about the zenith it sud-
denly unfolded itself in an immense luminous
body, and as quickly receded again until to
the eye it assumed the proportions OF tele-
graph pole, when its decline became more
gradual. Before it died away it performed
some snake-like evolutions, and then all was
over. The sudden appearance of the visitor
startled many persons who were fortunate
enough to be spectators, and who heard as the
meteor reached its height, faint explosions.
like the report of distant fireworks.
EARNEST efforts are being put forth to es-
tablish two Presbyterian colleges in the state
of Minnesota, one to be styled "Albert Lea
College, to be located at Albert Lea, the
other to be called "Macalister College," the
precise location of which is not yet decided.
A meeting in behalf OF these enterprises was
held at Albert Lea not long since. The Rev.
DR.. Rice, financial agent, hopes to raise
from $4,000 to $15,0J0 from each of the
two cities of st. Paul and Minneapolis. That
amount, he thinks will secure the establish
ment of the two colleges. A lot has already
been purchased st Albert Lea. The synod Of
of Minnesota has pledged itself to raise $45,-
600 for these two colleges. Judge Wander
burg. OF Minneapolis, was present at the meet
ing referred to, and subscribed $500 to Albert
Lea college, in addition to $500 previously
subscribed, making an aggregate of $1,000
The prospect is regarded as encouraging and
ultimate success is looked for.
THEW are determined to unraval the mys-
teries of Egypt, and It must be confessed that
there is sufficient store of materials to re
ward the most eager research. In the Acadc-
| naie des Inscriptions ct BelIes-lcttres, at the
session on December 80, Mr.. Georges Perrot
pISscuLcO lcttcI WHICH llOm GSy pb ny
Rhone in regard to the examinations led by
Mr.. Maspero. Mr.. Julien Hvaet reports con-
corning this in the Revue Critic, No. 2. The
pyrmid of Meydoun, until now supposed to
be inaccessible, has at last been pierced. In
der the sand, on the north side, a narrow
passage was discovered, leading to gallery,
with slope of AS degrees. at the time OF
writing the explorers were engaged in remov-
ing mass of sand, which checked their pro-
gress after they had advanced about forty
meters into this gallery. The perfect finish
of the workmanship surpasses, tits said, that
in all other pyramids. The wall of the gal
lery contains the names of two scribes, Amen
Mes and sokkar, who visited this pyramid
about 200 years before Christ.
TIE Hon. Justin S. Morrill,, United States
minister from Vermont, has written book
"for private distribution entitled sSelf. Con-
seriousness, or Noted Persons, Compiled in
leisure hours Why the book is for private
distribution is not clearly apparent. It GER
tainly is not beneath a senator to write book
especially if he writes good one.
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ashamed of it. Mr.. Morrill, has been twenty
seven years continuously in congress, as rep.
resentative and senator, and, OF course, has
been the intimate and associate Of all our
leading men and high officials in Washington
for the last quarter of century. One hun.
dred and fifteen persons are represented
in this book in their consciousness
e al, paul Ox-i1
Quintilian, Walt Whitman, Thucydides, John
Wesley, Harriet Mortineau and Queen Eliza
beth-two women to one hundred and thirteen
men. Mr.. Morrill,, in his book, presents g
well defined distinction between self-conscious.
ness and lfconceit-self-con is always
self consciousness. but self-consciousness
is not always self-conceit, but often
the opposite. Mr.. Morrill, says: "In
the works of Bryant, Longfell0w, Whittier
and other eminent American poets, it will,
believe, be sufficient to point out single ex-
ample of lasting self-apprecietion.
THE Rev. Ray Palmer, D. D., of Newark,
N. j., has written recently vigorous criti-
cism on sensualism in literature, and espe.
cially in poetic productions. He says "such
type of poetry addresses itself to what is
lowest in human nature; to the instincts
and appetites which is in common
with the animal, the brute
creation. It is essentially brutal in spirit.
Dryden and Pope, he commends for portions OF
their works, but declares that the pure in mind
will turn away with loathing from what they
unhappily dishonored and defiled themselves
by writing, to please the reigning sensualism
of the day. He commends as the true mission
of poetry the productions of Milton,
Young, Cowper, Wadsworth, Coleridge,
southey, Scott, Montgomery, Tennyson, Bry-
ant, Longfellow, Holmes, Whittier and others.
declaring that they "have no stains of inde-
cency upon them" Of Byron he says, "the
glory of Childe Harold has suffered dim
eclipse in the shadow of Don Juan, and
we are glad to forget the
excuses and sensual indecency in the writings
of Burns, as we read his "Highland Mary" or
ITO Mary in Heaven or ''The Cotter's Satur-
day night Thomas Moore regretted, IN his
later days the wantonness of his early muse,
and when asked how long he had regretted
the writing of his early effusions, replied,
UEver since had danrhters old erouoh IN