Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-17
SUNDAY GLOBEL ETS.
A caution may save a soul.

A kind word nay win a friend that will
never turn.
A bitter word may make a wound that
will never heal.
Mr.. Moody in conducting his meetings in
Paris spoke through an interpreter.
Silence is often more singing, and at
other times more soothing than any word
The sweetest home on earth is where
Christ has taken up his abode in the hearts
of both parents and children.
The last census shows 1868 Protestant
churches in the United States with 1862
ministers and 9.OO3,OsO members.
During the present year there have been
1860 arrests in San Francisco, 1880 of
which have been for drunkenness.
1t is said there are 100000 gallons OF
whisky in bond IN Kentucky. This repre-
sents the use of 100000 bushels of corn.
The gifts of the Magi to the Infant
Christ were emblematical; the gold of his
royalty, the frankincense of his lowly
origin, and the myrrh Of his suffering and
death.
French enterprise is rapidly redeeming
the desert of Sahara by means of artesian
wells, a large number of which have been
successfully sunk along the northern Dor.
der.
A volcano in Vallecitos, New Mexico, fills
the people in the neighborhood with fear
1t is burning and emits lava continually,
and what new developments may arise is
cause for anxiety.
An appeal to Christendom has been pub
l1shed to subscribe for the complete restor-
alton of the Castle church, Wittenberg, the
church where Martin Luther placarded his
ninety five theses on the door.
According to report from the English
colonial Office the island of Cyprus has
expended 100000 this year for the de-
struction of locust eggs. This is supposed
to represent destruction of 100000
embryo locusts.
Several hundred women in Annoy, China,
have pledged themselves that they will not
bind their children's feet and that they will
marry their sons only to women whose feet
are unbound. This is the beginning of a
desirable reform.
The Roman Catholics are making deter
mined efforts to convert the people of Cen
trail Africa to their faith. Already more
than fifty missionaries have gone from
Algeria to Equatorial Africa and the pope
is juggling greater efforts.
The French minister of justice says that
| no amt hoe ~ &c hon6C o1a IN
the vast revolutionary organization, in &C
cordance with which France is divided into
local federation, directed by committee
having its headquarters in Geneva.
Agrarian crime is rife in the Baltic prov
inces of Russia. Armed bands of peasants
threaten their landlords from the woods.
One landlord has been shot dead and an
other has received threatening letter from
the agrarian Executive committee"
A young Columbian, named Forces,
with some friends who had settled in a
dense forest tract on the Putumayo river,
tributary of the Amazon, were recently
killed by Indians, who capped their afro
cious work by cooking and eating
the bodies of their victims.
The newspapers have just made
The report is that recently he felt some
what i'll while out Of town, and he sought
the service of strange physician. After
long examination the strange physician
said he ought to exercise his lungs.
An organization has been incorporated
in Boston for the colonization and devel-
opment of Palestine. The association be-
ieves that it can be made the center of
the world of commerce, as it is now geo.
graphically, and proposes to run line of
packets between Boston and its principal
parts.
Cardinal Manning writing of Sir Garnet
Wolseley as total abstinence man says,
II can on my own knowledge, derived
from Sir Garnet Wolseley's lips, affirm that
he is total abstainer. His army in Egypt
is the first, believe, who ever carried tea
in their bottles to assault an entrenched
camp"
The Rev. Mr.. Inglis, twenty-five years a
missionary in the New Hebrides, says that
when he first went to the Aneityum there
was not a single widow or even the name
for widow in the language, the reason
being that the law doomed every woman
to be strangled on the death of her hus-
band, and her body to be thrown with his
into the sea.
The Salvation army is assuming i'm
mfnse proportions, and is extending its
labors to distant nations. Detachments
are being sent to the various nations Of
continental Europe, to Turkey, where they
assume the Turkish costume and mingle
freely with the Mohammedan people, and
adopt their diet. in order that by some
means they may save some.
The London Economist estimates the
cost of ali the great wars of the world for
twenty-five years, from 1852 to 1877, in
| Guiding the Franco German war an | our
| own civil war at something over $l2,-
O00,0O0,O00. The costs of intoxicants in
| the United States for the same period, is
| estimated at $4,000, 100000, Or S3,O00,OOO,,
600 more than all the wars of the world
In the family circle, little Mary one
! evening when all was silent. looked anx.
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