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

An Nepaul, northern India, the suLtet VI
widow bHrning on the funeral pyre OF huS-
bands is openly practiced.
1t will be thirty-five years on the 10Th OF
July since the republic OF Liberia, in western
Africa, declared its independence.
Worldly conformity is one of the besetting.
canlzering, 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 end in fhe way at all other times.
The Mormon church is reported to be con-
fdeut of maintaining its supremacy in spite of
all the anti polygamous Juror that fills the
land.
The 400th anniversary of Luther's birth
comes next year, and is to be COMMUNICATED
by the unwilling Of statute to be erected to
him IN Erfurt.
It is proposed to send new colony of select
immigrants to Liberia to form a new interior
settlement to be called Garfield, in honor of
eur martyred president.
King John, the monarch who rules Abys-
sinia, is violently opposed TO missionaries. and
has banished from his dominions a recently
arrived party of missionaries.
Sara Bernhardt gives her ilIegitizaate son
gu allowance of $500 month, since ne is 'too
proud to live under the same roof with her
recently married husband, ID. Damalas.
John T.. Steddard, while at Cologne, re-
Gently, tried to photograph some OF the skulls
in the church, where the bones of II, 900 vir-
giuaare shewn, but was denied the privilege.
AnAustrian physician who visited the Jews
hospital at Odessa, states that there are f25
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 il land,
and is going TO school for five years. She is
16years old now.
Within year 400 ministers residing in thir-
t5-tiye 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
ent parts of this country during the last two
months.
The Russian emperor has approved regula-
tons prohibiting Jews from settling outside
OF towns or villages, forbidding them from
trading on Sundays and Christian holidays,
and suspending all contracts of purchase or
tenancy with Hebrews.
Mrs. E. D. n. Southworth, the noted yo-
luminous and popular novelist. regards as the
happiest 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 newspaper is the list of sui
cides and dlsappearances. We name them to-
gether, because it has seemed to US that they
may be traeeable to essentially the same cause
"a morbid impulse to get oat Of the tOay.
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 Nihilist was not an Ameri-
can. He cried, God bless dynamite in Rus
sia.'"
Under the Hayes administration breakfast
was served at the White house at $50, lunch
at 1, and dinner at 6. President Garfield had
breakfast at $780, dinner at and tea afr. Now
the times for the first two meals are exceed
ingly variable, but dinner is served regularly
ct p. M.
In this nineteenth century of the Christian
era, where in the churches is the simplicity of
religious life and practice of apostolic times,
or that characterized the chu7ch in the earlier
centuries of the year of our 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,
tif they have the scmblaDce of it at alb, 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 invis ible,
showing no outward sign or mark of its ex-
istence, if indeed (Which may be doubted) it
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 60. The
wealthiest Hebrews of the city have offered to
assist in the work of colonizing Palestine with
their poorer co-religionists, and a sum of co.
600 francs for this purpose was subscribed at
one meeting, after an address by Mr.. Oil
phant.
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
and disreparded mot only nv omen infil1els hI,t