Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-04
TIMELY TOPICS.

AN English bishop querulously remarked to
his servant that he was dying. "Well, my
lord" said the good fellow, ''you are going
to better place" "John,' replied the prel-
ate with an air OF conviction, "there's no
place like old England"
LONGFELLow was the owner of the ink
stand which Coleridge used when he wrote
the rhine OF the Ancient Mariner" and he
once showed it to child and playfully told
her that the "Aneient Mariner" came out of
that bottle. 1t was not from this inkstand
that Longfellow drew his poetry. His ink
was "mixed with brains,' as was once said of
an artists colors.
DR.. JOHNSON, in his "Life of Dryden"
says that the excellence of an English trans
lator " is to exhibit his authors thoughts in
such a dress of diction as the author would
have given them had his language been Eng
lish." This is cannon of taste and proprie-
ETY. worthy Of the great dictator of letters.
How far the translators of the Bible follow
the rule, it is hardly competent for the un-
learned to judge.
FENELoN: There is no true and constant
gentleness without humility; while we are SO
fond Of ourselves, we are easily offended with
Others. Let us be persuaded that nothing is
due to US, and then nothing will disturb us.
Let us often think of our own infrmities, and
we shall become indulgent towards those of
others. Let us apply to our hearts these sub
lime and touching words of the Son of God:
LEARN Of me, for l am meek and lowly in
heart"
CONFINED, imprisoned electricity is getting
to be new feature in commercial transporta-
ton. A consignment OF Faure storage bat
teries lately arrived in New York from Paris.
They are brought by the agents of the Light
& Fuel company of Paris. There are, it is
reported, eighty large accumulations, capable,
when charged, of giving out power at the rate
of one-horse-power for one hour, or one tenth
horsepower for ten hours, etc. The next
problem to be solved is for the providing of
proper attachments to run machinery.
NEARLY nineteen centuries have passed since
our Lord assembled from the Mount of Olives.
This event is still commemorated at Jerusa-
lem, but the scenes now witnessed there are
| not SO sacred as that last scene in the earthly
| life OF Christ, when, as he was about to leave
his disciples, SHE lifted up his hands and
| blessed them, and while he blessed, he was
parted from them, ard carried up into
heaven" The inhabitants of the city now
observe Ascension day by picnicing on the
Mount of Olives. They resort thither on the
eve before and spend the night on the mount
in the open air.
MORE than %, 900 emigrants from Europe
entered the port of New York during the
third week in May, the largest number ever
landed in one week. The influx during the
year will be greater than ever before. The
Christian people of the United States have a
great responsibility in regard to this great
mass of people that are coming from Europe
to form a part of our permanent population.
We cannot shut them out as has been done in
the case of the Chinese, but we must labor
for their assimilation to our Christian institu-
tons and habits, and through their salvation
for our own salvation as people.
| A QUAKER was once advising drunkard to
leave off his habit of drinking intoxicating
liquors. Gan You tell me how to do it?''
said the slave OF the appetite. EYES, an
swered the Quaker; cit is just as, easy as to
open thy hand, friend.' "Convince me of
| that and I will promise upon my honor to do
as you tell me-" replied the drunkard. "Well,
my friend, when thou findest any vessel of in
toxicating liquor in thy hand, open the hand
| that contains it before it reaches thy mouth,
| and thou wilt never be drunk again." The
| topper was so pleased with the plain advice
| that ne followed it and became a sober man.
AN American missionary at Talas, a city
near Cesarea, in Asia Minor, IN reference to
| the terrible famine existing there, writes:
"From one-half to three-fourths of the peo-
pie in many villages are already destitute, and
| there are yet three months to the harvest at
Dendil. Out of $50 families so are reported
| as in absolute want. In some Of the houses
the morning meal consists simply of kind
of weed used for greens, with slight sprink-
| ling of cracked wheat boiled, together form
ing sort of soup or porridge and eaten with
out bread or any other kind of food. If
friends in America have heart and means to
grant some aid to these sufferers many lives
may yet be saved"
THERE are persons still living who we'll re-
member the hlgh-toned cooked hat worn on
"dress parade" by our ''New England faith
ers" in ante-revolution days, and even
much in vogue after the authority of King
George was extinguished, and the "col-
onies" had become independent states"
The origin of this cooked hat
establishment of the "dome of
thought" is thus given: Toward the be-
ginning of 17O0, the crowns of hats were
mostly round, much lower than before, and
had very broad brims, resembling what are
now occasionally called Quskers' hats, the
protrusive remembrance of which soon sug-
gested the convenience of their being turned
up in front. Fashion dictated the upbendlng
of another side or flap. and ultimately third,
so that by this process, in 1904, the regular
three cooked hat became the order of the day,
when feathers ceased to be usually worn.
A Mr.. HENRY STEVENS offers to sell to the
United States government, original papers of
DR.. Benjamin Franklin, the product of revo-