Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-15
SUNDAY GLoBELErs.

| The New York health authorities are taking
special precautions against the spread of
small pox. There have been 1900 cases in
that city the past year, 400 resulting ia.
tally.
| According to the recent arrangements with
the Vatican, it is said the archbishops of
Posen and Cologne will resign their gees,
Prussia on her side reinstating several of the
| deposed bishops.
The death is announced of G. c. Clay at his
country residence, near Huntsville, Alabama.
He was a prominent United States senator
from Alabama before the war, and confed-
crate state senator during the war.
| A Washington city journal says Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury French has in Office
his three sons, neice and enough other near
| relations to foot up in annual salaries the
sum of Sl7,500. pretty solid chunk of nc
potism.
The pastor of Congregational church in
onnecticut used revised edition of the New
Testament in his pulpit, whereupon the
officers of the church sent HIM request in
writing to the pulpit, "St. James" version.
He could not stand that, and resigned.
IA missionary writer from Japan says inf
deity is making rapid progress there. Prof.
Morse, for some time leading mind in the
Imperial university at Toxic, is pronounced
skeptic. Infidel literature, including "Paine's
Age of Reason" is being toasted and placed
before the public.
The entire medical profession in England is
arrayed against the proposed sanitary rule re-
quiring physicians to report to the health au-
thorities all cases of infectious disease coming
within their knowledge. 1t is proposed to
compensate tradesmen whose business might
be damaged by the report OF disease on his
premises.
The first practical use of.electricity to trans
nit power was made in coal mine at Blanzy,
France The shaft was 1 $40 feet deep and a
cross-headiDg had been run 1872 feet. The
electric motor was used to operate two fans,
by which the temperature was reduced five de-
grees and good ventilation secured. Niagara
may yet be utilized to run mills in Missouri.
Aspeaker in a London Presbyterian meet
ing recently said he had just returned from
America, where be had worshipped in a
Presbyterian church that cost s75O,0O0. In
England they believed in good buildings, but
had not yet reached such perilous eminence.
The 'Salvation Army business Of Chicago
| received sharp rebuke, as disrespectful to
the Divine Being.
| A "Christian army has been formed in
Chicago similar to the Salvation army" in
England, with general in command, captains
| for exhorters, sknee drills" instead of prayer
| meetings, skirmishes by some parties in sa-
| looms, and 'tbattles" in public hall. Puzzle!
To borrow an idea from "Hosea Biglow,' -
| how would st. Paul look at the head of such
an ssarmy," walking around in a swallow-tail
coat?
Prof. Phelps is down on those lachrymose
clergymen who ''cry little weep in the pull
pit while preaching. He says tears are some
times nothing but nervous luxury, and an
irfrmity to be got rid of. BE advises the use
of tonics, the study of mathematics, the TAX
ing of fresh air and horseback riding, and he
might have added, the cultivation of a manly
vigor of thought instead of efeminate gush.
Morning Star: Is life to be success or a
failure? This is the question with JAIL. 1t is
struggle. 1t is a hard one, ana are you dis
couraged and on the point of giving up? If
the crisis is upon you it is the time for manly
struggle, for decisive effort, based on courage
GUS purposes. Here is hope: To give up is tc
make life a'failure: to hold on is to give broad
and triumphant success. Stability will take
the place of fickleness and hesitancy, and the
struggle will not be in vain.
The Christian Secretary says that it is ga
reproach on the members of the church OF
God that the whole work of temperance is not
done with its pale, that there should be neces-
sity or excuse for al organization to accom-
plish this Christian work outside of it. The
hand of God should be made a refuge for the
inebriate. Not only the officers, but every
member also, should be a faithful worker by
Drecept and example to protect the innocent
and to reclaim the fallen
Rev. Dr. Newman, of New York, has bro
ken away from the NJ. E. church and become
the pastor of a wealthy Congregational
church. The Pittsburgh Christian ADVOCATE,
Methodist organ, gives him the following
parting kick: "When man, whose mother
has nursed him tenderly, comes to the conclu-
sion to disown her because there are some
things she sees fit to withhold from him, the
poignancy of her grief will be somewhat
dulled by the consideration of the ingratitude
he manfests.''
An article on "Proof Reading" brings to
the surface the following, which is going the
rounds of the papers: A politician finding he
had made great mistake in an article he had
published over his own name, wanted the edi-
tor to get him out of the scrape by saying the
article had been misprint ed, and SO the oblig-
ing editor in his next issue stated that the un-
popularity of the article had been occasioned
by several unfortunate typographical errors,
| in the manuscript
A life-size portrait of Ralph Waldo Emer-
son, uniform with the Atlantic portraits pre-
| viously published of Longfellow, Bryant,
Whittier, Lowell and Holmes, has just been
published. 1t represents Mr.. Emerson, not in
his old age but in the full vigor of his man
hood. To those who used to hear Mr.. Emer-
son lecture twenty years ago or more, this
portrait will replace the marked features and
personal appearance of one who then was,
and still is, leader in American thought and
| tongue.
The Rev. John Jasper, of Richmond, Va,
who has become celebrity from his sermon