Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-01

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each side of him sits a councillor, and be-
hind them six soldiers under arms. The
king is leaning over the front of the dais
toward woman in green robe,w who kneels
before him with dishevelled hair and
outstretched hands. In the center is
three-legged table, like butchers block,
upon which lies an infant who is held in
recumbent position in spite of his .strug-
giles by a woman wearing turban. A
soldier in armor and wearing helmet
with long red plume, holds the legs of
the infant and is about to cleave it in two
with his falchion. The agony of the kneel-
ing mother, the attention of the listening
king and the triumph of the second
woman, who gloats over the division of the
child, are all manifest"
RICHARD PRocToR denies that he ever
predicted that the world would be burned
up in 1897, by the fall of the comet of
1880 into the sun. He believes the comet
in question is not likely to bring danger
to the solar system, and that the world is
more likely to last 100000 years, than
to be destroyed in fifteen. But although
there is not the slightest reason to fear
that the comet of 1843 and 1860 assuming
that they are the same,) will do any harm
to the solar system when finally absorbed,
it would be quite otherwise if such a comet
as that of 1871 were to fall directly upon
the sun. This, the most remarkable of
oil nf
million miles from the sun at the time
of its nearest approach to that luminary,
and can never bring the slightest trouble
to the solar system. Fortunately, the
chance of any comet visiting our system
from interstellar space, travelling directly
toward the sun, is so small that
it may be reckoned ''almost at
naked nothing" AS to comets already
belonging to our system, if any such
have orbits passing very close to the sun.
so as to be checked in their career at every
perihelion passage, it is clear from the
continuance of life during many hundreds
of thousands of past years on the earth)
that the mischief must long since have
been taken out Of them-unless we sup
pose (which is Incredibly that the last
perihelion passage of such comet pre-
ceded the beginning of life On the earth.
IT IS only old men who now recall dis
tinctly the period when DR.. Pussy, who has
| just died, was at the head of the move
ment which was literally convulsing not
only the religious world in England, but
the world which, though not religious it
self, thought religion useful thing. 1t is
impossible for any one in our time to get
an adequate idea of the alarm with which
'sPuseyism," as it was called, filed Eng
land, without going back to the magazines
and newspaper files of that period. When
man of this generation looks at the
''Tracts for the Times," which caused it
all, he is literally filed with amazement.
He finds it impossible to understand why
anybody cared to read them, much more
why anybody was troubled by them, or
why they made any sensation. The ten
dency to the Roman Catholic church, and
its modes and dogmas was what fired the
! English mind. DR.. Newman and some
others illustrated this tendency by "going
over to Rome." DR.. Pussy stayed in the
| English church, but showed his sympathy
for Roman Catholic forms by adopting
auricular confession, and boldly and pub
licly defended the position. When he first
showed a tendency in this direction he al
most sent tremor through the kingdom.
The alarm about Puseyism lasted fifteen
years, though with rapidly diminishing in
tensity, when it was found that the sect, on
the whole, was not large one, and it may
be said to have ended with the passage of
the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill in 1851, for
bidding the assumption of territorial titles
by Roman Catholic bishops. This enact
ment seemed to give relief to the over
wrought Protestant mind, which from that
day to this has apparently not cared one
straw about DR.. Pusey's sayings.
| ONE year ago on the 10Th of the Just
ended month of September, the president
of the United States died, his death being
caused by the hand of an assassin. The
land was filled with gloom, the world with
| sorrow. A great man had been premature
| ly cut off, cruelty slain by a bloody minded
villain. The heroic endurance exhibited
| by the sufferer on his dying bed had called
forth the sympathies of the people, and
touched their tenderest sensibilities. Cities
were shrouded in the dark habiliments of
mourning, and crowds assembled to do
honor to the departed chief, and eyes un-
used to weeping were wet with tears. The
first anniversary of the death of the peo-
pies ruler, one chosen by themselves to
administer the affairs of state, has come
and gone, and few have stopped to think
of the year-gone-by great calamity and
national bereavement. The surging mass
of humanity have crowded on, are crowd
ing on, jostling and pushing here and
there, absorbed by petty schemes, or by
more weighty affairs. A locum tenens,
constitutionally provided for, holds the
place of the murdered executive, position
to which he was not elected by the people,
but which is assigned to him by sort of
ec-otfcio, legal arrangement. But he
seems to forget s'the pit from which he
was digged," and disports himself as if he