Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-27
SUNDAY GLOBELErS.


sas empty, because of the prohibition law
in that state.
Leipzig, in Germany, has only seven
churches, all poorly attended, and no such
thing as a Sabbath school.
The yellow fever has, as yet, barely showed
CURED are OF the real, malignant type.
A very rich man said: Il worked like a
slave till Twas forty, to make my fortune, and
I've been watching 1t ever since, for lodging,
food and Clothes"
In the vicinity of Cesarea, Western Turkey,
tens of thousands of people are suffering for
the necessaries OF life, and are making their
meals on weeds ard greens.
las said that $4,000 spiritualists will assem-
bic at their coming annual convention al Mes
hamminy Falls, in Pennsylvania, which shows
that the theoryis not yet dead.
Sir John Herschel said: "Ar human dis
coyeries seem to be made only for the pur-
pose of confirming more and more strongly
the truths contained in the sacred scriptures
By attaching the telephone to the
telegraph. cable, the sound OF the
bombardment of Alexandria was distinctly
heard at Malta, distance of about 700 miles.
One of the most eminent German meiical
men is reported as saying that there are not
less, probably than 10000 persons in Ger
many who have become slaves TO the habit OF
hypodermically injecting morphine.
Mr. George Muller, of Bristol, England,
who visited this country and st. Paul not long
ago, expended last year for orphan work 1885,
600. This large sum was realized by faith in
PRAYER from voluntary contributors.
Sister Agnes, the gifted nun, whom Par
eppa Rosa pronounced the grandest singer
she ever heard, and whom Strakosch offered
$4,000 for a season OF six months, died
recently near Baltimore, of general debility.
The total number Of newspapers and
periodicals published throughout the world is
estimated at 81 ,274, with an aggregate circu-
lation of 1lq, 900 copies. North America
has two-thirds as many as the whole of Eu-
rope.
At the Yorktown centennial celebration the
congressional committee, having in charge
about twenty French guests, spent nearly
S7,C01 for brandy, wine, whisky and cigars.
But then the French are an awful thirsty set
of frllowsl
A marked falling off in numbers has been
noticed in the churches of New Hampshire.
In 1878 the Methodists numbered 1889. In
1881 the number was 1921, showing a de-
crease of AIS. Other churches have shared
the same decline.
Wilhelmj, the violinist, has been away from
his home nearly four years, travelling all over
the United States, China, India, Japan, Per-
STA and Italy. Wagner sent him special in
vitaton to attend the recent "Parsifal' per-
Torrance at Bayruth.
A new piano for short-armed pianists has
been invented in Germany by Herr Neuhaus.
1t is an upright with semi-circle keyboard,
the extreme ends Of which can be reached with
ease. It is an interesting invention, but will
prove of little practical value.
A gentleman long connected with an East
ern publishing house says they receive more
poetry from Wisconsin than from all the other
states in the Union put together. The climate
of "Ouisconsin" seems peculiarly favorable
to the development of the divine af1latus.
A New York music scalper, whose "fve
cent music" may be found in all parts OF the
country, and who is doing more to cut the
throat of the music trade than any other
one man, heads his circular thus: "These are
the times that pave the way to prosperity"
In Port Jervis, NY, IAN association has been
formed whose object Is to do away with the
observance of the Sabbath and national thanka-
giving days, as religious days, and the aboli-
ton of the uss of the Bible in the public
schools. Bold infidelity says, there is no God.
The French of to-day are treadlng closely
upon the French Of an atheistic generation.
The French chambers have excluded the name
of God from the oath taken in courts and
legal proceedings. The formula is now to be:
81 swear itupon my honor and conscience. "
If there is no belief in God, where is the con.
science.
The Baptist Weekly remarks that "the
strange reverses of fortune are illustrated by
the fact that the widow of a Californian who
was once millionaire is now chambermald
at Rockaway Beach hotel" And they are
further illustrated by the fact that the widow
of more than one Chicago millionaire, and
the wives of Others were once girls of all work
at service.
Carlyle once said of Daniel Webster that he
was "the most remarkable man in appearance
/ ever saw-great, shaggy, taciturn, having
the gift of silence yet knowing how to talk
agreat thing that, to know when to hold your
tongue-evidently of great reserved power.
shouldn't like to fall into his claws when he
is exclted.''
Some one once wrote to Dickens to know if
it were possible to obtain copy of "The Vii
lage Coquettes," comedy which he wrote in
the early days of his literary career-in his
twenty-fourth year; and this was his reply:
''If thought there was copy of it in my
house, and could not destroy it ia any other
way, would burn down that .part of my
house which contained it.''
Osborn H. Oldroyd, of Springfield, H.,
after steady labor of over three years, has
ust completed his memorial volume Of Abra-
ham Lincoln, being an album of opinions
touching his life and public services, collected
from two hundred eminent Americans and
Europeans. 1t will make book of nearly GOO
octave pages. The author claims to have the
most valuable collection of mementoes of tho
martyred president to be found anywhere.
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