Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-27
TIMELY TOPICS.

WINS JSNAAois loLtAiur h'S.u NipNO INC
morning newspaper. No one saceld deny
that the evening field is 2 valuable aad impoat-
ant one, but The morning news as panoramic
deline&tor OF the transactions of the whole
world is without rival or peer.
A TEIGH-T0MED, affected asthelic journal Of
arist0cratic tastes, sneets al the pis5tian man
ners OF Democratic America, and' sdv0cates
The system OF caste in fashionable circles on
the European plan. Itwou!d draw the line of
demarllation between the rich and tae
poor,. making wealth the ''Open SESAME" 10
refiued circles of style and e'egsn9e. Clearly
the snob5 are not alI dead yet. Il was = r.
mark Of Carlyle, that Bagland contained ii /
kinds of people, 'mostly fools" American
heightened society seems Likely to- divide the
"honors" with aesthetic Albion.
tsr Easter, says sn exchange, there we're 10
Jerusalem about IL, goo pilgrims Cd various pa
tionalities and persuasicns. Although if i3-by
nomeans g large city, yet these clcwos ind az
ccmmon6ation, such 8: IL is. The better
class OF TIE pilgrims so TO the hotels, and
those tha5 are not SO we'll II take lodgings in
the converts, which are built for the express
use of pilgrims. The Armenian convent Is
said TO Sold 4 900 per.ons. Most Of the Chris
tian pilgrims are from Russia.
To avoid baSgary the Russian
church requires all pilgrims to de-
post with the holy superiors enough TO pay
FOR iheir passage AID returo. A specially Of
the pilgrims is to 5athe IN tAe Jordan. They
take with them pscuiiar bathing roSs, which
is used for no o5her purpose as long as the
owner lives. AT death it serves rs a burial
robe.
SHOULD thege be an cDtbresls of Moham-
medan fanatieism 10 Egypt and sac surround
ing country. IL is feared the Christians N
Jerusalem will be in the greatest danger.
Edith HOLMAN Hunt, who has lived IN Jer,l-
salem from the commencement to the end o.
the last Russian war, writes to the Londoa
Times as follows: Jerusalem is the cente1
of fanaticism for all the peoples of the world,
and should the long threatened storm
burst, the Christian Inhabitants there
will be among the first to
feel it. They are sinGularly helpless, shut
from the nearest coast h. thirty miles of diff
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terested in the question. Since there are PEG
pie Of every nation living in Jerusa lem, eanuo'
c och government send irigafe to .;affa t.
give refuge to the fugi!ives while affairs ar
in {he present hazardous condition? Tbs only
retreats are the converts, and these would Ii
hold ont against such an outbreak Gs wor}'
take place if the banner of the Prophet were q
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ARABI PASTA is q thorough MOhsmmedan
a leader of the most bgoted of The M0sleu
tribes, and great apprehension is felt, lest tn
present state OF affairs n Egypt may lead I,
a faaatical, religious crusade resulting
IN the me CHESS persecution, mass4cr
AID exterClination OF Christians. An Amer;
can correspondent says: GAN ever Turkey
and even 1t the Turkish capital, the Christina
population, including cur own foreign mis-
sionaries, have lived ia dread Of such an NJ
rising, never for years lying down at nigh
, but under the apprehension that before In
rising OF the sun the outbreak and the massa
ere might begin" a dispatch from ConsLan
tinople of August Il says "Fhe stronces
orders have been sent to The governors Of Bey
rout, Damascus, and AepPo 70 take excs !
tional care to secure public order ard prever
an outbreak of he natives. correspondent
/ writing from Bayrout says events in Egyf
/ are greatly Influencing the Syrian Mu7suI
r mans The situation is such that a trtiiu
2 incident would suffice to set the whole prov
t ince ablaze.