Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-20
SUNDAY GLOBELErS,

Christian grace.
Vice stiugs us even in our pleasures, but
virtue consoles Us even IN our pains.
Gran: graciously what you cannot refuse
safely, and conciliate those you cannot con-
quer.
OF tue fractional currency, S15. COO, 900 was
worn up and lost, and never returned to the
national treasury for redemption.
OF the S.6OS.SS4 square miles of land con-
tanned in the United States, 1,5O0, 600 in round
numbers are stated to be grazing lands.
OF all religious thought, none is SO impor-
tant as right thought of Christ. What we
think Of him underlies all true spiritual life
and hope. Whom do ace say that be is:
DR.. Angel, Chancellor of the University Of
Michigan, in his recent baccalaureate dis
course, planted himself on evangelical grounds
and preached Christianity as tested by its
fruits.
Horrible scandals are reported, says the
Catholic Repie,c, from one of the Royal
schools in Belgium, showing that in some of
the public schools in that country the ,devii
has had full swing.
The Southern General assembly of the Pres
byterian church in Atlanta, Ga, earnestly rec
ommend the churches under its care to raise
100000 for the cause OF foreign missions dur
ing the current ecclesiastical year.
The loss of money orders Of the people Of
the United States, shows the business care
lessness and looseness of the people. It is esti-
mated that sl,250,GC0 of the unpaid money
orders will never be redeemed Do bank drafts
lunpresented and unpaid bear any com parison
to this?
George c. Min, tie ex-Rev. iufidel minister
who was lately kicked out of a pulpit in Chi.
cago for his glazing avowal of atheistic SEN
timents, is now editing the Chicago Alliance,
an infidel journal, with Bob Ingersoll as one of
its chief contributors. Congenial work this,
no doubt, for the Grey" Mr.. Min.
The reign OF forty five years which queen
Victoria has just completed is certainly long
one; still it has been surpassed by three reigns
in English history, those of Henry Ill, Ed
ward Ill and George ILL.,, which were re-
spectively ffty-six, fifty, and sixty years. Vic
toria, however, has beaten the record of Eng
fish queens, having reigned longer than Eliza
beth.
If st. Paul were again to appear on earth,
remarks clergyman, since all the multifa-
rious denominations of Christians would
claim him, which would he choose? The
Apostle James shall answer: Pure religion
and undefled before GID and the Father is
this: to visit the fatherless and widows in
their affection, aud to keep himself unspotted
from the world.
Being called to save the life of a.woman
who had swallowed poison, Philadelphia
physician refused 10 write a prescription until
his fee OF 81 had been paid. AS the money was
not forthcoming he left the house, and she
died soon after. A simple antidote would
have been enough at that time, but en- hour or
two afterward, when she was taken to hos
pital, it was too late.
The Rsv. c. C. Cotton, in his "Lacon,''
writes: "Suicide sometimes proceeds from
cowardce, but not always, for cowardice
sometimes prevents it, since as many live be-
cause they are afraid to die as die because they
are afraid to live" And in another place ne
writes: "The suicide abandons earth to for
felt heaven" And yet, severaI years later,
Mr.. Cotton himself committed suicide.
M. Giffard, the well-known Partisan in
ventor, lately deceased, left to the French gov
eminent a generous legacy, under most singu
lar conditions. 1t is to be devoted to the
establishment Of SuiciSGrid, Or public institu-
tions in which persons suffering from painful
and incurable diseases may bring their own
lives to an end, under The direction of medical
experts, and with the consent of their immedi-
ate relatives.
Constable Breckenreid of the police force of
Toronto, who has just returned from two
months leave of absence in Ireland, where he
has been visiting relatives, thus sums up his
impressions: "The people are ripe for REBEL
ion, and as pot which is just on the point of
boiling only requires another stick added to
the fire to make 1t boil over, so the people
only want the opportunity to rise in such
rebellion that it will cest hundreds of lives TO
subdue."
During the year 1881 no less than ,149 per-
sons were killed, and S,676 injured by railway
accidents in Great Britain, but OF this grea
number only forty-two met with their deaths,
and l,16l received injuries from causes en-
tirely beyond their own control. Again, OF
these forty-two persons killed, only twenty
three were passengers, and as the roads carried
altogether more than 60O,000,0O0 passengers,
there was only one death in 26,000,000.
It is worthy of note that in all the discus
sions concerning the punishment of the as
sassn of the late president, not word was
ever said againss the justice and expediency OF
putting him to death if he was a responsible
man. There is point here to be studied
thoughtfully. There was never fairer op-
portunity for the discussion of the subject.
Bat by universal consent it was taken for
granted that the assassin would be Justly ex-
ecuted, provided he was aware of the nature
of dis crime. The fair inference is that the
universal conscience of enlightened men ap-
proves the death penalty for murder.
The astronomers who went to Egypt to wit.
| ness the total eclipse of the sun last month
describe the fright of the natives when the
mysterious darkness crept over the land and
| the sun seemed to have been extinguished IN
| the heavens. There wentup shout of won
der and horror from the crowd collected along
| the banks of the Nile and around the observ-
ing station of the astronomers as the last
CLEAN of sunlight disappeared. The excite.