Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-12
TIMELY TOPICS.

IHE HINDoos believe in the magi' mower
# music, hence they claim that s,me Of
he rags" or tunes, are irres' .t,,,1o Men
nd beasts, yes, sticks ar 4 .tones are
aoyed by them. This is tho s.me story
'hich is told OF the am .1eas Greek, Orphe,
:: IL Is even oeir SEQ tAat the story Or
owed it. ''''' '
LIE GRAVE OF Emerson is kept constant
eoVefe' With flowers by the young girls
u Con .eaSi. HawShorne's, with stone at
eao al. foot bearing simpay his name, is
:, NC asv overgrewn with glossy myrtle.
; ,trreau's is unadorned. save with a thick
.oti Of green grass. He dies best, who dies
..ast. but some other dying celebrity will
soon take and appropriate the flowers from
ltte grave even of Emerson.
At A Buddhist meeting held lately in
Japan, cne of the speakers said: ''Of late
the progress made by Christianity has
been marvellous, and may be compared to
a fire sweeping over a plain, which con-
stantty increases in power" Anti-Chris-
tiana:terature is in such demand in India
that in Luckncv and Cawnpore there are
said to be no less than forty-6we publish
ing houses doing this work.
GARFIELD said: "All that have accom-
plished or expect or hope to accomplish.
has been and will be by that plodding,
IF
which builds the ant-heap particle by par
ticle, thought by thought, sact by fact. If
was evee actuated by ambition its high
est and warmest aspiration reached
no further than the hope to set before the
young men of my country an example in
employing those invaluable fragments of
time called odd Moments"
The progress of Professionalism in Italy
is the subject of a highly interesting ar
ticle by NJ. Peter in the Evangelical Chris
tian of Paris. He estimates at 5000 the
number of those who, beyond the Vaudois
valleys, regularly attend worship in Italian
churches, and that in as many as 200
places; with 5000 children in day and g.
600 in Sunday schools; the churches among
whom all these are distributed being three,
the Wa,densian. the Free church. and the
Wesleyans.
The last of the crusades was undertaken
by ST. Louis. king of France. who en-
barked with 20o,e0o men, conveyed in
1.SOO transports, under the banner of the
cross. and landing in Egypt, was defeated
by the Saracens. and taken prisoner in
1866. and. though well treated, and liber-
ated in 1870, he embarked again. and land
ing at Tunis, he and most of his army
persisted by disease. It has been estimat-
ed that religious wars cost Christian Eu-
rope 100000 lives.
IT IS STATED that certain difficulties will
prevent Sir Garnet Wolseley receiving any
higher military rank in recognition of his
services in Egypt, so he will remain on the
roll of lieutenant generals and only be
promoted when his turn comes in regular
course. He is now fifteenth on the list for
promotion to the rank of general. But if
he does not have due military promotion he
may be made peer of the realm" q
duke, or something of the sort, as was
Wellington, may he not?
AT RECENT convention of Episcopal
clergymen, held at New Haven an interest
ing discussion took place on the subject of
healing physical maladies by the exercise
Of prayer and faith. It was opened by an
essay by the Rev. Mr.. Witherspoon, who
took extreme ground i'll favor of faith
healing. especially through the agency of
amounting with Oil. Another clergyman
denied the soundness of this view and
good-humoredly ridiculed the idea of a
miracle being performed by the olive oil
of commerce, as tending to a low mater
ialism.
A SAD story comes from Bengal, India.
of the rapid increase of intemperance
among the lower classes. A change in the
manufacturing system has brought the
price of intoxicants to so low a figure that
even women and children are becoming
Incorporate. The poor children in the
ragged school are often too drunk to read
or they make teaching impossible by their
noisy disturbances. The parents, when
demonstrated with, reply that drink is
cheaper than rice, and why should they not
give it to their children. And all this
comes about by the government arrange
ment of the distillery system. How can
one help asking the old question, have
governments no conscience?
Four or five different men, who were Sc
lected to personate William Penn, by their
supposed resemblance to him, in the late
bi-centennial celebration of his landing in
Philadelphia, got drunk, one after another.
and had to be rejected, till, at last, one
was selected that looked about as much
like him as chalk does like cheese, but I'm.
luckily he, in full Quaker costume, sur.
mounted by venerable wig, came under
the happy influence of whisky, and in the
initiated landing of Penn, read his speech
with thicktongue, and, finally, reached
the grand climax by stumbling and falling
into the water, to the great disgust of all
Quaker ideas of sohriety. What have two
hundred years wrought in the habits and