Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-17
TIMELY TOPICS.

the people of Iceland. The winter o.
1880 81, the severest within the memory o.
man, was followed by cohl summer
which brought a hay harvest that did not
amount to one-half of an ordinary aver
age one. This brought on wholesale de-
struction OF live stock and il the midst OF
. this fearful state came down the angel OF
death in the shape of the Greenland pack
ice, which arriving in April filled the
ocean and every bay in the north and the
West until the beginning of July, blighting
all prospect of hay harvest throughout
one-half OF the country. A large portion
of the West Country is now in condition
of famine, and help is asked from this
country.
AMONG the interesting souvenirs which
have been loaned for the coming fair of
the New England Institute, in Boston. is a
gigantic pitcher which commentaries the
great naval events of the war of 1912. 1t
was manufactured in England in 1924 for
Mr.. Horace Jones. whose grandson, Mr..
Horace j. Richards. of Troy, now owns it..
1t Is finely engraved with representations
of the escape of the old Constitution from
a British squadron. the fight between the
Chesapeake and Shannon, Perry's great
victory on Lake Erie, the return of
Yankee squadron from the Mediterranean,
and other stirring events, and with the fig
ures of Perry, Decatur, Paul Jones. Nc
Donough, and other naval heroes. The
pitcher has adorned many festivities in
Troy, not the least of which was the recep-
ton of Lafayette on Sept. 10, 1924.
4 CONSIDERABLE sensation was created in
Paris the other day, especially among the
conservative newspapers, by the announce
ment that NJ. Naquet. the promoter of the
divorce bill and an eminent radical depu-
ty- had invented hair-dye. Was it the
same III. Naquet: asked Figaro, to which
the Deputy made answer: Il am chemist
and l use my leisure in the laboratory.
Some time ago my attention was called to
the fact that many people are killed
from the Use of poisonous hair-dye, and,
though l think personally that it is foolish
to dye ones hair, vet do not think those
who do deserve to die for their folly. made
experiments which resulted in the prepare
ton have patented, and it is at the public
disposal. having patented il i'll order to
prevent tie use Of ny name with it, had
forgotten I'll about il in the press Of bust
ness Ill yen called my attention to it,
mOvEMENT IS on foot IL PHILADELPHIA
to celebrate the bi-centennial anniversary
of the landing Of Francis Daniel Pasto-
RUS, WhO brought over the first Germans
who settled in Pennsylvania. In 1852
Pastorious, who was an intimate friend of
William Penn, founded a society at Frank
fort-On the Main for the purchase of land
IN Pennsylvania. He came over soon af-
forwards and secured $4,000 acres where
Germantown now stands. Oct 6. 1853. the |
first German immigrants thirteen fami- !
lies fifty persons in all-arrived. and set |
tled upon 800 acres Of the land Others |
soon followed, and in a short time the |
settlement became Il fourishing commu-
nifty, and Pastorious was elected mayor In |
1888 Christopher Sauer, member of the |
colony, established the first German news |
pape.. IN the United States It was called |
the HochdeptSchpf PennSylrdniScIier Ges- |
chichtSciaejje3-in English, the Pennsyl-
gdRiG German Historian. The first COM
plete Bible in German in the colonies was |
printed at Germantown by Mr. Sauer in |
1743. Pastorious was buried in German
town, where steet is named in his honor. |
HE blasphemous, atheistic gathering |
lately convened at Watkins Glen in the |
state of New York, called "a convention of |
Freethinkers,' INDUCED itself in railing at |
God and the Bible, and denouncing the |
church and the clergy On the |
walls Of the hall in which their meetings
were held were displayed snch Illuminated
notices as the following:
1. Better be an honest man in hell than
a sneak in heaven.
.. An honest God will never damn an
honest man for an honest belief.
. All blessings come from the earth;
none are rained from heaven.
4 Human welfare is the only good; hu-
man misery the only evil
.. You cannot help God; man needs
your aid and sympathy.
+ man is equally slave whether his
master is on earth or in heaAen.
The New York Herald, daily secular
paper which cannot be supposed to have
an uniue religious bias,
gave full report of the pagan convention,
and said: If you might apply theolog-
zeal terms to the proceedings of such
convention, it might be said that Bob
Ingersoll is their God and Anthony Com
stock their devil. illusions to this point.
and they are very frequent, are always re-
ceived with delight, while the English lam
guage is hard put to it to furnish ephi
thets of adherence for the latter
= IEENGUs," in late number of the New
York Cbserrer gives graphic description
of q late visit to old Plymouth, Massachu-
sets and to the historic rock on which the
Pilgrim Fathers landed and the holy ground
OF which they trod." The landing took
place In December, 1920. The day of the
month is in dispute. By the generally re-