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

year.
Tennyson is now seventy-four years Old and
in feeble health.
The moon, according to the astronomers, is
undergoing great internal CONFUSION, and
threatens to turn around and show us new
face.
In a Boston theater lately the curtain took
fire. The audience remained Gained, self
posed, none left their seats, and NO damage
done either by fire or panic.
It is said that French wines are SO villain
ously adulterated that the italian vineyards are
resorted to for transportation 10 tDe great
detriment of the French product.
Mrs. George Clinton Smith, of Springfield,
ILL.,. has undertaken the compilation of
woman's HYMN book. She asks that all wo-
men who have written hymns that have been
published to confer with her.
1t is said that the Prince Of Wales has An
American correspondent in the person oil
man livingi in Prescott, Arizona, The MAJ
who is now in poor circumstances was play
mate OF the prince when they were boys:
Rochester Democrat: John G. Calhoun was
born 100 years ago Saturday 1t took just
about the 100 years to conquer the pernlci-
GUS governmental schemes of which he was
the ablest exponent. The new republic, which
has been builded upon the ruins of the old,
has small room for his heresies.
Fred Douglass presided at a gathering the
other night where s. s. Cox, Democratic
member of congress, delivered lecture n
introducing the honorable gentlemen 10 the
audience, Mr.. Douglass said: eff the gen.
tleman can stand the complexion of my skin
and my politics, l can stand his.''
Naiantchi, one of the Zuni Indian chiefs
who have recently been "doingn Boston, al
most bursts from inability to express his
swelling admiration of the Club and Of the
| east generally. All he can do is to put it in
| this way: 81 am angry with my heart that it
| is so awkward that it cannot say what it
| thinks.
The report that the Rev Henry Ward
Bescher intends to retire from pulpit labor at
the age of 70 is not true, Mr.. Beecher himself
denies it. He will be 60 years old in June
next He says his father Lyman Beeeher,
| preached until he was over So, and he would
| like to DO the same, and that his health was
| never better than now.
Queen Victoria has caused monument to
BE- erected in Hughendon church to the mem
DRY of Lord Beaconsfeld. 1t bears this in
scription:
"This memorial is placed here by CRATE
| full and affectionate sovereign and friend,
''Victoria, R. l.
"Kings love him that speaketh right.
rbo Do of he
| Queen writes: 'sParisians read very little in
| comparison to LondOners. The newspapers
| though numerous are limited in volume; that
universal Petit Journal hardly contains as
much as two columns of the Times. Weekly
literature does not extend beyond the comic
and illustrated press The monthlies may be
told off on the fingers of the two handle.
| Crow Dog, the Sioux Indian chief. who as
sassinated Spotted Tail, by shooting him from
behind, a Ia Guiteau, has been convicted in
the Dakota district court, of murder in the
first degree and sentenced to be hung. Crow
Dog will accompany the miserable dog, Quit
eau, to the "happy hunting ground" taking
| their departure from the elevated and favor
able position for q rapid transit, the gallows
perch.
The saying "as rich as jew" is Cole
planned of by the Jewish Messenger as mis-
| leading at present, even if it ever had any
justification. The wealth of the Jews of New
York is greatly overestimated, according to
this authority, for ''the vast majority are in
moderate circumstances, few only are mil
lionaires, and many thousand are actually de-
pendent on the charity of their more fortunate
brethren"
Bishop Pierce, of the Methodist Episcopal
| Church South, says that he thinks dancing
, the silliest and most nonsensical amusement
that rational beings, socalled, ever engaged
( in. He also says that it had its origin in
heathenism, being pastime of savages; that
it is lewd, sensual, and obscene, appealing to
the lower instincts of humanity, and being
the chosen sport of the vilest and most enc
bruted Of the human race.
| Mrs. Mary F. Butts has written a little
poem called Crust" which has had wide
circulation and has served to strengthen many
a weak responding heart. Here are the lines;
| snake little fence of trust
| Around to-day;
| Fill the space with loving work,
| And therin stay"
| "I.ook not through the shelt'ring bars
| Upon tomorrow;
God will help thee bear what comes
| Of Joy or sorrow"
| Some Christians think the church is drifting
away from its original moorings. A writer
saws: If we had the wit of Dean Swift, and
| the sarcasm of Voltaire, we would expend
both in scorching philippe on the modern
church custom of pandering to the perverted
taste of the people who wish to avoid church
beneyolence and Christian duty, by making
church revenues come from fairs, shows, light
theatricals and other Objectionable worldly de-
| vices.
| Miss Mary Anne Greene, who died at Prev'-
dence, R. l., recently, at the age OF lVo, was
a member of the old Rhode Island family OF
the "Greenes of Warwick" To this same
family belonged General Nathaniel and Chris
TOPPER Greene, heroes of the war fer inde-
pendence. Miss Greene's father, John, was
Iorro landed nrODrietOr of the old colonial