Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-17

the people of Iceland. The winter OF
1SS0-81, the severest within the memory OF
man, was followed by cold summer
which brought a hay harvest that did not
amount to one-half of an ordinary aver
age one. This brought on wholesale de-
sruction OF live stock, and III the midst of
this fearful state came down the angel OF
death in the shape of the Greenland pack
ice. which arriving in April. filled the
ocean and every bay in the north and the
west until the beginning of July, bhghting
all prospect of hay harvest throughout
One-half of the country. A large portion
of the West. Country is now in a condition
of famine, and help is asked from this
country.
AdONG the interesting souvenirs which
have been loaned for the coming fair of
the New England Institute, in Boston, is a
gigantic pitcher which commentaries the
great naval events of the war of 1912. 1t
was manufactured in England III 1924 for
Mr.. Horace Jones, whose grandson, Mr..
Horace j. Richards. of Troy, now owns it.
1t Is finely engraved with representations
of the escape of the old Constitution from
a British squadron, the fight between the
Chesapeake and Shannon, Perry's great
victory on Lake Erie, the return of
Yankee squadron from the Mediterranean
and other stirring events. andswith the fig
ures of Perry, Decatur, Paul Jones, Nc
Donough, and other naval heroes. The
pitcher has adorned many festivities in
Troy not the least of which was the recep-
ton of Lafayette on Sept. Is, 1924
A CONSIDERABLE sensation was created in
Paris the other day, especially among the
conservative newspapers, by the announce
ment mat M. Naquet the promoter of the
divorce bill and an eminent radical depu-
ty. had invented a hair-dye. Was it the
same ID. Naquet: asked Figaro, to which
the Deputy made answer: Il am chemist
and I use my leisure in the laboratory.
Some time ago my attention was called to
the fact that many people are killed
from the use Of poisonous hair-dye, and.
thouGh think personally that ii is foolish
20 dye ones hair, yet do not think those
who do deserve to die for their folly. made
experiments which resulted i'll the prepare
ton / have patented. and i is at the public
disposal having patented It IN order to
prevent the use Of my name with it. / had
forgotten all about it in the press of bust
ness =! you called nay attention to it,
4 90VTMENT is Oh foot in Philadelphia
to celebrate the bi-centennial anniversary
of the landing OF Francis Daniel Paste
RUS. vino brought over the first Germans
who settled in Pennsylvania. In 1852
PastOriOus, who was an intimate friend of
William Penn, founded a society at Frank
fort-on the-Main for the purchase of land
IN Pennsylvania. He came over soon af-
terwaTdB and secured $4,000 acres where
Germantown now stands. Oct. 6, 1888 the
first German immigrants thirteen fami-
lies. fifty persons in all arrived. and set
tied upon 800 acres of the land. Others
soon followed, and in short time the
settlement became a hourishing commu-
nifty, and Pastorious was elected mayor In
1888 Christopher Sauer, a member Of the
colony, established the first German news
pape- IN the United States. 1t was called
the EochdeutScher PeansyyraniscIiei. GeS-
chichfSchrejbei- in English. the PeaasW-
rORj0 German Historian. The first com
plete Bible in German III the colonies was
printed Mt Germantown by Mr.. Sauer in
1743- Pastorious was buried in German
town, where a steet is named in his honor.
afh cfIn
lately convened at Watkins Glen in the
state Of New York. called "a convention of
Freethinkers." INDUCED itself in railing at
God and the Bible, and denouncing the
church and the clergy. On the
walls OF the hall in which their meetings
were held were displayed snch Illuminated
notices as the following:
l. Better be an honest man in hell than
a sneak in heaven.
>. An honest God will never damn an
honest man for an honest belief.
) All blessings come from the earth;
none are rained from heaven
T. Human welfare is the only good: hu-
man misery the only evil
. You cannot help God; man needs
your aid and sympathy.
E A man is equally slave whether his
master is on earth or in heaAen.
The New York Herald, a daily secular
paper which cannot be supposed to have
an undue religious bias,
gave full report of the pagan convention,
and said: If you might apply theolog-
ical terms to the proceedings of such a
convention, it might be said that Bob
Ingers0ll Is their God and Anthony Com
stock their devil. illusions to this point.
and they are very frequent, are always re-
ceived with delight, while the English lam
guage is hard put to it to furnish ephi
thets CT adherence for the latter
- IaENGUs," in a late number of the New
York Observer gives graphic description
of late visit to old Plymouth, Massachu-
sets, and to the historic rock on which the
Pilgrim Fathers landed and the holy ground
on which they trod." The landing TOOK
place N December, 1920. The day of the
month * in 0isDute Rv the penaralIv 70.