Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-12
TIMELY TOPICS.

The H1NDoos believe in the magic power
of music, hence they claim that some OF
the rags" or tunes, are irresistible. Men
and beasts. yes, sticks and stones. nre
moved by them. This is the same story
which is told of the ancient Greek, Orphe-
as. 1t is even believed that the story Or
iginated in India and that the Greeks Dor
rowed it.
The GRAVE of Emerson is kept constant
ly covered with flowers by the young girls
of Concord. Rawthorne's, with stone at
head and foot bearing simply his name, is
thickly overgrown with glossy myrtle.
Thoreau's is unadorned, save with thick
sod of green grass. He dies hOAAyho dies
last, but some other dying d21bfity will
soon take and appropriate the flowers from
the grave even of Emerson.
AT A Buddhist meeting held lately in
Japan. one of the speakers said: ''Of late
the progress made by Christianity has
been marvellous, and may be compared to
fire sweeping over a plain. which con-
stantly increases in power" Anti Chris
tan literature is in such demand in India
that in Lucknow and Cawnpors there are
said to be no less than forty-five publish
ing houses doing this work.
GARFIELD said: GAIL that have accom-
plished or expect or hope to accomplish,
has been and will be by that Flooding,
patient, persevering process of accretion
which builds the ant-heap particle by par
ticle, thought by thought, fact by fact. If
was ever actuated by ambititionits high
est and warmest aspiration reached
40 further than the hope to set before the
young men of my country an example in
employing those invaluable fragments of
time called odd Moments"
The progress of Professionalism in Italy
is the subject of highly interesting ar
ticle by NJ. Peter in the Evangelical Chris
tan of Paris. He estimates at 5000 the
number of those who, beyond the Vaudois
valleys, regularly attend worship in Italian
churches and that in as many as 200
places; with 5000 CHI ldren in day and g.
600 in Sunday schools; the churches among
whom all these are distributed being three,
the Waldensian, the Free church, and the
Wesleyans.
The last of the crusades was undertaken
by st. Louis, king of France, who en-
barked with 100000 men, conveyed in
1.S0O transports. under the banner of the
cross, and landing in Egypt, was defeated
by the Saracens, and taken prisoner in
1850. and. though well treated, and iber-
ated in 1910, he embarked again, and land
ing at Tunis, he and most of his army
persisted by disease. It has been estimat-:
ed that religious wars cost Christian Eu-i
rope 100000 lives.
IT Is STATED that certain difficulties will
prevent Sir Garnet Wolseley receiving any
higher military rank in recognition of his
services in Egypt, SO he will remain on the
roll of lieutenant generals and only be
promoted when his turn comes in regular
course. He is now fifteenth on the list for
promotion to the rank of general. But if
he does not have due military promotion he
may be made peer of the realm,,'
duke or something of the sort, as was
Wellington, may he not?
AT RECENT convention of Episcopal
clergymen, held at New Haven, an interest
ing discussion took place Oh the subject Of
healing physical maladies by the exercise
of prayer and faith. 1t was opened by an
essay by the Rev. Mr.. Witherspoon, who
took extreme ground i'll favor of faith
healing, especially through the agency of
amounting with oil. Another clergyman
denied the soundness of this view and
good humoredly ridiculed the idea of a
miracle being performed by the olive oil
of commerce, as tending to a low mater
ialism.
A SAD story comes from Bengal, India,
of the rapid increase of intemperance
among the lower classes. A change in the
manufacturing system has brought the
price of intoxicants to so low figure that
even women and children are becoming
incorporate. The poor children in the
ragged school are often too drunk to read.
or they make teaching impossible by their
noisy disturbances. The parents, when
demonstrated with, reply that drink is
cheaper than rice, and why should they not
give it to their children. And all this
comes about by the government arrange
ment of the distillery system. How can
one help asking the old question, have
governments no conscience?
Four or five different men, who we're Sc
lected to personate William Penn, by their
supposed resemblance to him, in the late
bi-centennial celebration of his landing in
Philadelphia, got drunk, one after another.
and had to be rejected, till, at last, one
was selected that looked about as much
like him as chalk does like cheese, but un
luckily he, in full Quaker costume, sur
mounted by venerable wig, came under
the happy influence of whisky, and in the
initiated landing of Penn, read his speech
with thick tongue, and, finally, reached
the grand climax by stumbling and falling
into the water, to the great disgust of all
Quaker ideas of sobriety. What have two
hundred wears wrought in the habits and