Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-16
TIMELY TOPICS.

yI.MErALlsM is on the increase in Germany.
| A society to further such currency has been
formed in Berlin under the leadership OF DIR.
Arendt. who is well known as writer on this
subject. It is recommended that the relations
of the precious metals be established at the
figures 1:l5.5.
THE Observation-Disclosures have new alley in
NJ Jules Schroll, aSwiss literary gentleman OF
distinction, member of the Asiatlc society Oh
Paris, ETC. He contends in the recent VOL
ume, "Have Pity" that the practice has de-
yeloped into moral disease, and that an ma
bitual drunkenness of cruelty" is the result
THE English sparrow was introduced IN
South Australia about twenty years ago.
They have now increased so formidably that
the citizens are calling on the government TO
take measures to rid them Of the pest OF these
destructive birds. That is what people
| in cities and localities in this country where
thew have been introduced will be crying for
| in a few years.
A NEW geological theory has been advanced
by the English scientist, Alfred R. Wallace,
in an essay on 1.-THE permanence OF continents
and oceans.'' He attacks the generally re-
| ceived theory that the distribution OF land ana
water in previous geological epochs was ma
| terially different from what it is now, MAIN
tanning that the outlines of the continents and
the oceans are now as they always have been.
| Mr.. LICK, the California millionaire, who
| left large bequeet to erect "the most power
ful telescope in the world" did good thing
for science. s'Science embraces the descrlp-
ton of bodies and of the general laws that
are derived therefrom." 1t does not mean the
various uses to man of this knowledge. This
latter is "applied SCIENCE" or "the useful
arts, as mechanical art, medical art, etc. The
distinction is just, and in all exact speech or
conversation should be observed.
ADAN1sH writer, by name Sophus Setback,
who is also painter of some reputatlon' mas
| written work On physiog-
nomy, in which he MAINTAINS
among other curious theories, that repeated
intermarriages OF near relatives produces
type of the human face resembling that OF
monkeys. He attempts to show this by
sketches from family portraits--not much
to the delight of the families, one might sup
tpose.
| A MOST important classical discovery is re-
ported from Athens. 1t is nothing less
than a. manuscript of Homer dating from
the 117th Olympiad, $50 years 3. Z IL was
found in an Athenian monastery by professor
Rokos, already known to fame as the dis
! coverer of the supposed lost works oil PHOTOS.
The papyrus roll is endorsed as the property
of Andronokos, nephew of the last emperor OF
| the Eastern empire, and was Dy hln piaceu
| in the monastery in l42S.
NEARLY all physico. ogsts agree that great
benefit to medical science has been derived
| from yiyisection in the experiments on living
animals The strong sentiment against 1t is
not justified to any great degree. Yet, no
doubt, needless pain is often caused by these
experiments. As a practical solution OF the
question, 'the Danish Society for the Protection
| of Animals has offered prizes on the posi-
bility of replacing living by recently
| killed animals in physiological Investigations.
! This, no doubt, can be done to great extent.
MANY persons like rare, or as our English
cousins call it, ''undone" meat. II has the
advantage of greater digestibility, but also the
| drawback that the eggs Of tapeworms, trlch-
ua, and such like unwelcome guests may
| Turk IN vigorous life in it, Even more serl-
| Gus danger has lately been pointed out by DR..
| Toussaint, of Paris. He thinks that the pol
son which produces consumption and scrofula
| is thus introduced into the system. The raw
flesh of turburculous animals, be AYERS, can
convey the disease, and as such animals are far
| from uncommon, he recommends that all meat
| he subjected to temperature OF at least lou
degrees fab. throughout, before being eaten.
| OSCAR WILDE is not the only practical adYo-
| cate of short knee-breeches. A farm laborer
comes to the rescue, il letter to an agricul-
| tural exchange, advocates the use OF knee
| breeches, and gives some practical reasons
| for their use which have escaped aesthetic
notice. He says farmers would use leggings
with them below the knees, which could be
easily removed, whereas, IN ploughing or
other rough work, mud now lodges on the
pantaloons, and it is apt to stay there. Be-
sides, trousers Of the present fashion are SO
loose that they not only admit dust to the
delicate cuticle OF the laborer, but also permit
| the encroachment of the sly and vindictive
yellow jacket.
GOOD people differ much in their opinion OF
the propriety of the Ober-Ammergau Passion
Play. Those who have seen it in its native
place in the charming Bavarian village, amid
pious listeners with the marvellous background
OF mountain. vale and sky, rarely acknowl-
edge any sense of appropriateness. On'the
| boards of theatre in San Francisco, or New
York, in both of which cities it has been pro-
| posed to exhibit it, the charm would be lost
and the play would seem irreverent. 1t has,
however, been initiated successfully in viii
lage in Worcestershire, England. A number
of scenes from the life of Christ were repre-
scented and the general impression was
satisfactory. The presentation, at
| the best is a hazardous one,
and more. For mortal men to personate the
Savior of mankind, his bloody agony, his
crown of thorns, his crucifNon, is nothing
short of sacrilege, and the whole thing should
| be stamped out as blasphemons 1t is trench
ing ON ground too awfuly sacred.