Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-08
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.

Three Congregational churches in Denver,
Col, have been dedicated within six months
out of debt.
The chief of police of New York says three
fourths Of the abandoned girls il that city are
ruined by dancing.
Fine feathers do not make fine birds, for the
birds that have the finest plumage are in
themselves the least valued, and they rarely or
never sing.
committee for the purpose of collecting In
formation regarding the persecution of their
race in Russia and Poland.
The Tooth anniversary of Sir David Brew
ster's birthday was publicly commemorated in
Edinburgh, Scotland, last month, by a BAN
quet. He died at the age of 81.
Miss Knight writes of the King of Sweden:
cat supper his majesty was seen to scratch his
head with his fork, and, also, with his knife,
and afterwards go on eating with Them
The highest art is to conceal art, and no.
lady can dress we'll unless she has good
sense and good taste. Extreme fashion is
usually violation of both, and that is why it
is so quickly changed.
The parrot, the peacock, the kingfsher, are
beautiful to look upon, but their melody is
worse than the bark of pet dog. Such birds
may think with Artemus Ward, 81 am sorry
when I cannot sing, and my friends are sorry
when I CAM
Rev. E. K. Bell, formerly pastor Of the Evan
gelical Lutheran church in West Liberty, o.,
has recently been installed pastor of the
church at Findlay, o. This church is now
completing very handsome and admirably
arranged church building.
One might as well he out of the world as to
be out of fashion is a common remark. The
idea was ludicrously Illustrated some years
ago when the Princess of Wales was troubled
with q stiff knee, whereupon thousands of
young ladies went bending and limping about.
Edward Albert, prince of Wales, is warm
friend of Gladstone in power, as he was of the
great Liberal leader when out of power, and
in this regard was not in accord with the
queen, his mother. Gladstone paid the prince
graceful tribute at the annual lord mayors
dinner.
Pope, like Boileau, lacked one incentive to
lyrical inspiration. Boileau by physical mis-
fortune, and Pope by congenital physical in
firmities, were not fitted to feel passion for
the beautiful sex, and the fine exotic madness
that peoples the earth was unknown to both
of them.
twenty-five young Americans were recently
ordained priests.iu the Catholic church, by
Bishop Fabre at Montreal. On the same day,
nod 70 ~
hood by Archbishop Gibbons, at the cathedral
IN Baltimore, and twelve by Bishop Nierney,
in St. Joseph's seminary, at Troy, n. Y.
The great bell for st. Pauls cathedral in
London has been cast. Twenty-one tons of
metal were used. From three furnaces liquid
metal was pouring for four and three quarter
minutes, before the mould was filed. The
bell weighs 171z tons. 1t is the largest bell in
England, and one of the largest in Europe.
A correspondent whiting from Indianapolis,
saws: 'sThere is considerable religious inter
est in our city. The special interest of last
spring has not all died out, and we are expect
ing another blessing. Meeting of the minis
tiers and elders are held weekly, and after the
week of prayer special services will be held"
There are now about forty Protestant Epis-
copal parishes in Massachusetts, where the
sittings are entirely free-some free partly
through endowments, some through gifts; but
many absolutely free and carried on in entire
dependence upon what the people eonscien-
tiously contribute from Sunday to Sunday at the
services.
Rev. Wesley r. Davis has resigned the pas
torate of the Madison Avenue Church of the
Disciples, New York, because of the heavy
debt. This amounts to $4,000, of which he
undertook to raise $4,000 if the congregation
could raise the remainder. This was not ac-
complished, and he proposes to accept call
to church without debt.
To take to thing only because it is the
fashion is simply folly. The prince regent
of England lad carsuncle, and to conceal it
wore an extra yard of neckc]oth. The next
morning the gentlemen of his court appeared
in cravats so huge that afterward Baron Stock
NAH declared of the Duke of Gloucester that
his neckcioth was as thick as his head.
The NJ. E. church at Perth Amboy, New
Jersey, dedicated its new edifice on December
20. Bishop Simpson preached the sermon.
lie DullUlnR HIS CoSt 9osoOV, duu 10 iai 30
one, measuring 60x100 feet. The congrega-
ton have met for twenty-three years in the
basement, awaiting patiently the day which
sionld witness the completion of their struc-
ture.
The Rev. c. C. Salter, pastor of the Congre
gatioral church at Duluth, MINI, has resign
ed because of falling health, and will spend
the winter with his family in Florida. 1t is
great trial for the church to lose their be-
loved pastor, who came back to his former
charge about six months ago, and was renew
ing his service in Duluth with promise of
best results.
An acquaintance of the late Dr. Leonard
Bacon says of the Doctors personal bearing,
that If was that OF & singularly incisive and
determined energy, coupled with seemingly
exhaustless vitality, and his yellow hair, long
and brstling, the forward poise of his head,
and his earnest, almost aggressive, demeanor,
likened him in the mind of the beholder to a
lion, with his tawny name, advancing on his
prey.
Bishop McLaren, Of the Episcopal church,
recently consecrated communion service in