Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-21
SUNDAY aLoBELErs.

Very little coal Is found in Italy. Anthra-
cite is to be had in the Valley of Aosta, but on
good authority the annual output is said not
to exceed 2, 600 tons.s
Three illustrious men in the realm Of po-
etry, learning and philosophy have recently
died, within few weeks OF each other, namely:
Longfellow, Darwin, Emmerson.
The British government has decided to ap-
point an imperial commission OF education,
comprising twenty-one members, representing
different provinces of India, for extending the
blessings of education to the masses
In some of the public schools in New York
city a text book on the use and abuse of al
cohol is taught. An effort is being made to
introduce it in Brooklyn. Such books are
used in England in national schools.
The monster, King Theebaw OF Burmah,
has recommended massacreing his obnoxious
subjects. He has put to death one of his
wives, two half-sisters, the chancellor of the
exchequer, and fifty of their relatives.
A smooth sea never made skillful mariner,
neither do uninterrupted prosperity and
success qualify for usefulness and happiness.
The storms Of adversely, like the storms of
the ocean, arouse the faculties and excite the
invention, prudence, skill and fortitude OF the
voyager.
The remarkable statement has been made in
connection with the closing up of the bust
ness of A. T. Stewart & Co., that one-haH of
the clothing trade of the United States is in
the hands of the Hebrews, and that the retail
dry goods trade in the South has largely
passed into their control.
Henry Landsell says most persons who have
had the opportunity of observing allow that
the Russians are religious people. One
sees this not only in the large numbers both
of men and women who attend the churches,
but also in the tens of thousands who yearly
go on pilgramages to sacred places.
From the vaults at the church on Broome
and Bridge streets, New York, about thou
sand collins with the dust of the dead have
been removed. Only about fifty could be
identified, though the vaults were closed as
recently as 1858. Dust unto dust-undis-
tinguishable dust. Verify "what shadows
we are and what shadows we pursue"
A Minnesota inventor, says the New Eng
land Farmer, proposes to send grain from the
west to the seaboard by pipe line, somewhat
as petroleum is sent from the oil regions,
the grain being propelled by compressed air.
The experiment has been found to work per-
fectly in short tube, and machinery is being
built for determination of the merits of the
plan.
Cincinnati Enquirer: Gen. Arthur was
our vice president and is now our president;
and hence you will find that the tail is wag-
ging the dog while Ohio is breaking away
from the party; and as the Wings lost the
government under Vice President Tyler and
Vice President Fillmore, they are pretty sure
to lose it, it seems to us, under Vice President
Arthur.
Cecil makes distinction between learning
and knowledge. Hesays preacher may have
little Of what is called learning, but he must
have knowledge. There is knowledge of
spiritual things which no books and no genius
can give. The humblest Christian may have
this knowledge; and it is this eight from
heaven that creates the effective preacher,
who carries conviction to the heart of the
sinner.
Full particulars of the recent discoveries
made by Capt. Gender, on the east side of the
Jordan, are published in the quarterly state
ment of the Palestine Exploration society. He
found four great centers, the first of which he
Identifies with Bamorth Baal, the second with
Baal Poor, the third with "the top of Baal
Poor, which looks toward jerusalem" and
the fourth with the Sanctuary of Baal Peor,"
in the Jordan valley, where the Israelites
worshiped in Shittim.
Canon Farrar in sermon in Westminster
Abbey, held the nation responsible for the
prevailing immoralities of England. He pre-
diets that Gods memorable law will at last
send Nemesis crowned with fire, trampliug
guilty nations into indiscriminate ruin. Ma
ture and Destiny are but the names of this ir-
resistible Providence. The scandalous bronze
lacquer age of hungry animalism, spiritual
impotencies and mendacities will have to run
it's course till the pit swallows it.
The editor of we'll known religious jour-
nal called one evening on a friend who was a
deacon in the church. His wife received the
visitor, explaining that her husband would be
down in few minutes. During the CONVEX
sation there were noises upstairs which pro-
ceeded Enthusiastically from the fogging of a
boy. Pretending not to comprehend the cause
of the sounds the editor said: "Perhaps I
have interfered with some important engage
ment of your husband 90 "Not at ALL" she
replied, "he'll be at leisure soon; he's only
furnishing an example of Christian at work.
The delinquencies Of Christians of the fourth
century were very much of the same type as
those of professors of the present day. Chry-
sostum preached against the defects and neg
Iects of Christians of that day, and his SER
mons give vivid picture of the manners
and customs of protesting Chris
tians in that century. he re-
proved them for falling to search the scrip
lures, and for neglecting the reading Of Chris
tian books. Said he: "Draughts aad dice
we shall find in your houses, books no where,
or at least in but few"
Fenelon: 1t is ordained by God that we be
conformed to the image of his Son, that we
may be crucifed to self; that we renounce
sensual pleasures, and submit like him, to
suffering. But how great is our blindness!
We would quit the cross that unites us to our
master. Let us live, and let us die, with him
who came to show us the true way to heaven.