Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-23
TIMELY TOPICS.

IT is proposed to erecta statue to Long
fellow at Cambridge.
The porcelain plate with the likeness of
Garfield, executed by Sturns of Dresden, has
been received by Mrs. Garfield. It has dedi-
cation to the memory of the late president
on the back. The portrait is surrounded by
broad band of bronze.
THE English parliament is confusing.
Sometimes it is 'cloture," and sometimes it
is CLOSURE" but the cabalistic term means all
the while neither more nor less than "the
previous question:" a parliamentary check on
nterminable discussion not heretofore in
vogue.
THE London Observer, referring to the case
of DR.. Lamson, says: ''If the Americans are
to ask a respite for DR.. Lamson because there
is evidence in America proving his insanity,
the English government might with equal
Justice demand a respite for Guiteau on the
ground that certain persons in England are
convinced that he is not responsible for the
crime he committed"
FENELoN, the renowned Archbishop
Cambria, beautifully and winningly says;
The soul loses command of itself when it is
impatient. Whereas, when it submits with
out murmur it possesses itself in peace, and
God is with it. To be impatient is to desire
what we have not, and not to desire what We
have. When We acquiesce in an evil 1t is no
longer such. Why make g real calamity of it
by resistance? Peace does not dwell in out
ward things, but within the soul. We may
preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain,
if our will remain firm and submissive. Peace
in this life springs from acquiescence even in
disagreeable things, not in an exemption from
suffering.
IAN intelligent young man, promising
student, just back from Brown university
relates the Burlington Kaackeye, "was met at
the Union depot by ar elderly man, who made
grasp at the young mans hand, and even
essayed to clasp him in his arms. The young
man shook hands with the enthusiastic native
in a on-committal sort of way, and sad,
in not unfriendly tone, "well, indeed, my
deah fellah-I, really-your face is rather IA
miliar; it seems to me I have met you some
where, and yet can't exactly place you"
The man gazed at him and went back to his
office with the determination to bind out his
remaining sons to shoemakers and black
smiths.'
MALE and Female Longevity-The recent
official returns in regard to the health and
N Mortality of the population of Europe have
supplied the statistical department at Vienna
with the means of making some interesting
determinations in respect of longevity. 1t results
from this that of 102, 1871 individuals who had
exceeded the age of ninety years, 60.3O3 were
women and 2,52S men. Again, the superior
longevity of women is exhibited by the great
er chance, it seems in the cases of women, of
attaining or exceeding the hundredth year.
Thus in Italy, there are found 241 females GEN.
tenarians for al males, and in Austria 1885,
$50 sexagenarians, or rs per cent. of the total
population.
Mr.. GOODWIN SMITH speaks, it may be
feared irreverently, of Mr.. Spencer and his
definitions, thus: "Mr. Spencer is, by virtue
of his general philosophy, a Necessarian. He
holds that evolution, which is the order of
the universe, consists in change from an
indefinite coherent homogeneity, to definite
coherent heterogeneity, through continuous
differentiations and integrations." The uni
verse may well have heaved sigh of relief
when, through the cerebration of an eminent
thinker, it had been delivered of this account
itself. Yet it must be curious universe if
this is its secret. AS the Yankee said of the
enormously rich church with very scanty
congregation, it must be doing the smallest
business on the largest capital of any concern
in this State.
THE statistics of the death rate in New
York city for the year 1881 will attract the
attention of every one. For the year ending
December 81, 1880, the death rate was 26.4S
per thousand inhabitants. For the year end
ing December 81, 1881, it rose to S1.0S per
thousand. The death rate of London for i $50
was 22.14, and that of twenty other towns of
Great Britain was 1927. Thus London, with
all its mass of people crowded together in
novels and cellars in such poverty and filth as
can be scarcely seen elsewhere, showed a
smaller death rate than the cities throughout
the Kingdom. On the other hand, against the
death rate of 26. 48 in New York for 1880, the
rates of forty-eight other cities of the United
States show an average of 2.0S. Only six
cities had a larger death rate than New York
The atheistic gush, bombast and bias
phemy of the Bob Ingersoll school, is crush
ingly rebuked by the remarks of Canon
Farrar, of London, who made the
venerable arches of Westminster Abbey re-
Gently ring and resound with vigorous SER
mon on the fruits of atheism. "For time"
he said, Gan atheist populace may uphold the
tattered banner of corpse-like traditions which
has been stolen from the rifed grave of Chris
tianity. But it will never be long before it
declares itself the enemy of the church, the
enemy of the family, the enemy of the throne;
never long before it tears down the flag of de-
eency and order, and uphoists in its place, if
not the red flag of socialism, or the black of
spoliation, at any rate, the standard of ma
terial sppetites and physical DESIRES
| Mr.. DARWIN claims that earth worms bring
to the surface from seven to eighteen tons of
mould per acre annually; and this spread out
evenly would produce in every ten years a
layer of soil of from one to more than two