Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-23
SUNDAY GLoBELErs.

In Nepaul, northern India, the suffice or
widow bRrning on the funeral pyre OF hus-
bands is openly practiced.
HIt will be thirty five years on the 25th OF
July since the republic OF Liberia, in western
Africa, declared its independence.
Worldly conformity is one OF the besetting.
cankering, destructive sins OF the alleged
church of Christ at the presen. day.
People generally regard religion as very
necessary when one is dying, but terribly in
trusive and in the way at all other times.
The Mormon church is reported to be con-
fdent of maintaining its supremacy in spite of
all the anti polygamous Juror that fills the
land.
The 400th anniversary of Lnther's birth
comes next year, and is to be COMMUNICATED
by the unwilling of statute to be erected to
him IN Erfurt.
1t is proposed to send a new colony of select
immigrants to Liberia to form new interior
settlement to be called Garfield, in honor of
our martyred president.
King John, the monarch who rules Abys-
sinia, is violently opposed to missionaries. and
arrived party of missionaries.
Sara Bernhardt gives her illegitinate son
an allowance of s400 month. since he is s'too
aroud to live under the same roof with her
recently married husband, M. Damalas.
John L. Stoddard, while at Cologne, re-
Gently, tried to photograph some of the skulls
in the church, where the bones of IL 900 vir-
gins are shown, but was denied the privilege.
AnAustrian physician who visited the Jews
hospital at Odessa, states that there are 125
horribly mutilated persons there, the Rus
SLAMS having poured petroleum into their
wounds.
Kate Shelly, the Iowa girl who saved rail-
way train from destruction, has invested the
money given her lor the brave act in land,
and is going to school for five years. She is
16years old now.
Within year 400 ministers residing in thir-
ty.five different states, members of thirteen
denominations, have taken up the study OF
Hebrew, under the guidance of Prof. Harper,
of Morgan Park Seminary, Chicago.
The Princess Maria of Schoa, who was
lately married to the Crown Prince OF Abys-
sinia is claimed to be'the direct descendant Of
the Queen of Sheba. the Schoa dynasty, being
the most ancient royal house in existence.
The present spring has exceeded all others,
probably, in producing fearful tornadoes
which have been destructive to property and
life. We have had the news Of eight in differ
emit parts OF this country during the last two
months.
The Russian emperor has approved regula-
lions prohibiting Jews from settling outside
of towns or villages, forbidding them from
trading or Sundays and Christian holidays,
and suspending all contracts of purchase or
tenancy with Hebrews.
Alrs. E. D. N. southworth, the noted vo-
luminous and popular novelist, regards as tie
hsppiest portion of her life the time she spent,
soon after her marriage, in lonely log cabin
in the forest wilds Of Wisconsin, where wolves
often howled about the doors.
One fact which stares us in the face every
time we open llwspaper is the list of sui
cides and dlsappearances. We name them to-
gether, because Il has seemed to us that they
may be traceoble TO essentially the same cause
a morbid impulse to get ont Of The roag.
In a>report Of an Irish meeting at Cooper
Institute, New York, presided over by the
mayor of the city, "Mr. James Redpath was
heartily received He SAID the man who de-
nounced Russian NihiIist was not an Ameri-
can. He cried, God bless dynamite in Rus
sia'"
Under tue Hayes administration breakfast
was served at the White house as $50, lunch
at 1, and dinner at 6. President Garfield had
breakfast st 7:S0, dinner at 3 and tea at7 Now
the times for the first two meals are exceed
ingly variable, but diuner is served regularly
at p. N.
In this nineteenth century of the Christian
era, where ia the churches is the simplicity OF
religious life and practice of apostolic times,
or that characterized the church Ia the earlier
centuries of The year of cur Lord, or that dis
'tinguished even the Puritan churches OF our
own New England
Many people regard religion much as they
regard the smallpox. They desire to have it,
(if they have the semblance of it atalD, as light
as possible, and take great care 1t does not
mark them. Indeed, in vastly many cases 1t
entirely strikes in and is wholly invs ible,
1AAS"iAt3 iiO oeAo"aiN SiEu Vi i1iai n VI I'D CA
istence, if indeed (Which may be doubted) il
has any existence at all in such squeamish
bodies.
Lawrence Oliphant, the English socialist, is
doing all in his power to promote the emf
grafton of the Hebrews of southeastern
Europe to Palestine. He has come to be re-
garded as the new Moses. At Bucharest he
and his wife are surrounded by cheering
crowds whenever they show themselves upon
the streets and wherever they may 90. The
wealthiest Hebrews of the city have offered to
assist in the work of colonizing Palestine with
their poorer co-religionists, and sum of co..
600 francs for this purpose was subscribed at
one meeting, after an address by Mr.. OH
phaHt.
A religious writer, with significant empha.
sis remarks: There must be some time when
the Lords terrible judgments on this wicked
earth must begin, and we know Of no period
more likely than when SO many boldly call in
question his very existence, and when his
holy word, spoken through his chosen vessels
the prophets, apostles, and Jesus his be-
loved and only Son-is utterly set at naught