Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-19
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.

test against Tie persecution OF LIE jews III
Russia.
The supreme court of Wisconsin decides
that the undue whipping of pupil by a
teacher is misdemeanor.
1t is said the lowest percentage of illiteracy
in the United States is found in Nebraska, and
the highest in South Carolina.
Harrison and Garfield are the only presi-
dents that never had an opportunity to hold an
official New Years day reception.
An English traveller in America thinks that
when all the buffaloes have disappeared the
red men will be more easily civilized than they
are now.
1t is alleged that the territory of New Mex
leo, in point of natural advantages, is among
the richest and most valuable portion OF our
great western domain
| The new superintendent OF public lnstruc-
ton in Virginia Is getting to be very unpopu-
lar. 1t is alleged among other things that he
! is very defective in his orthography.
! During the absence from Canada of the
Princess Louise, the sister of the Marquis of
Lorne, Lady Balfour, will preside at the official
entertainments of the Governor General.
The statistics gathered in taking the last
census, show that the taxes, state and local,
of 1880, for the support of public schools in
the United States amounts to S70,S71 1856.
The Tooth birthday of the late Thomas H.
Benton, of Missouri, will occur on the 18th OF
March next. The people of st. Louis are
discussing the propriety of celebrating the
day.
Among some unpublished letters of Wash
ington one has been found taking strong
ground against Slavery in this country and ex-
pressing hope that it would soon be .blotted
out.
Queen Victoria hasscommissioned GOuenod,
to compose a march for the approaching
marriage of her youngest son. The selection
of foreigner to do this work, is said to have
exasperated the British composers.
If, according to the Rev. Mr.. Milne, OF the
Unitarian church in Chicago, there is no
heaven, no conscious life after death, what is
the use of churches, pulplts and preachers!
His congregation have very properly asked
him to step down and out.
Gen. Lew Wallace, the American min
lister in Turkey, is said to be
receiving 1attering attentions abroad. The
Sultan conversed with him some time about
his novel name s'Ben Hur,'' and asked copy
for his scribes to translate into Turkish.
Mr.. Hdmlln, minister to Spain, &C
cepted that mission because he had
never been abroad aud wanted
to go. His intimate friends say he will prob
ABLY return home within q year, and that
nothing could induce him to remain abroad
four years.
Attacks of vertigo, short time since,
greatly alarmed the friends of the poet Long
fellow. He is now reported better. His fam
lily physician epjoined absolute cessation of all
literary labor and entire rest. Obeying this
injunction, the poet has rallied and now care
fully avoids all excitement
The English Church Union (Ritualist) con-
tinues to gain in strength, as does its oppon-
ent, the Church Association. 1t has 270
branches and received last year,, $50 new men,
bers and associates making the total 1880.
The association had expected to advance the
enrolment of 20 900 in the past year.
The old Catholics of Austria have been
sorely disappointed in the answer of the gov
eminent to their request for state aid The
petition was denied on the ground that the
Catholics had completely broken with the
Catholic church, though their clergy could,
nevertheless, be communicated by the Ro-
man Catholic bishops.
The Rev. S. II. Edgerley, of the mission of
the Scottish United Presbyterian church in
Old Calabar, Africa, has paid a visit to the
people of Akunakuna, about 100 miles up the
river from Creek Town. He was favorably
impressed by what he saw of the people as to
willingness to have missionaries and he urges
his church to establish station in that coun-
try.
| Grace Greenwood says, in an article on
ssJohn Chlnaman in America" in late num-
Der of AL the Year Round, that the ideal
theory of the Declaration of Independence has
been gradually realized by abolishing. one
after another, such tests Of citizenship
as religions, property, alien birth and color,
until only two exceptions now remain,
the denial of citizens rights to Morgols and
women.
In Wendells students edition of the revised
version of the New Testament, an enumera-
ton is given of the changes made. There are
1855 words changed by a substituted render
ing of the received text; 4,654 words added in
translation of the received text; $50 words in
translation of additions in the Greek text;
1.6O4 words which translate an altered
Greek text; and 222 words taken from the
margin into the text; in all 25,3SS words
changed out of 179, 9l4, or II per cent.
Independent: We observe with pleasure
that the ministers of the country are begin
ming to speak out on the subject of Mormon
polygamy, and not only to speak from their
pulpits, but to engage in movements for
bringing the matter to the attention of con-
gress. Congress must act in order to crush
this relic of barbarism, and congress will act
when a strong and earnest public sentiment
demands action. Ministers can do much to-
ward the creation of such sentiment,
Whether hell is in the center of the earth or
in the sun has not been settled; but passage
in "The Curse of Kehama," BY Southey. who