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

The New York Evening Post glorifes the
evening journal, ranking it nigh above the
morning newspaper. No one should deny
ant one, but the morning news as panoramic
delineator of the transactions Of the whole
world is without rival or a peer.
A HIGH-ToNED, affected asthetic journal OF
aristocratic tastes, sneefs al the plebeian man
ners of Democratic America, and advocates
the system of caste in fashionable circles on
the European plan. Itwould draw the line of
demarkation between the rich and the
poor, making wealth the "open sesame" to
refined circles of style and elegance. Clearly
the snobs are not ali dead yet. 1t was re-
mar6 OF Carlyle, that England contained al
kinds OF people, ''mostly FOOLS" American
heightened society seems likely to divide the
"h0nors" with aesthetic Albion.
AT Easter, says an exchange, there were in
Jerusalem about 5000 pilgrims of various Ms
tionaiitieS and persuasions. Although it is by
no means ,arge..city, yet these crowds find &C.
commondation, such as it is. The better
class OF the pilgrims go to the hotels, and
those that are not SO well off take lodgings in
the converts, which are built for the express
use of pilgrims. The Armenian convent is
said to hold 1000 persons. Most of the Chris
tan pilgrims are from Russia.
To avoid beggary the Russian
church requires sll pilgrims to de-
posit with the holy superiors enough to pay
for their passage and return. 4 speciality of
the pilgrims is to battle in the Jordan. They
take with them peculiar bathing robe, which
is used for no other purpose as long as the
owner lives. At death it serves as burial
robe.
SHOULD there be an outbreak of Moham-
medan fansticism 10 Egypt and the surround
ing country, it is feared the Christians IN
Jerusalem will be in the greatest danger.
Edith Holman Hunt. who has lived in Jeru-
salem from the commencement to the end of
the last Russian war, writes to the London
Times as follows: Jerusalem is the center
of fansticism 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 by thirty miles of diff
cult road. The whole of Christendon is in
terested in the question. Since there are peo
pie Of every nation living in Jerusalem, cannot
each government send frigate to Jafa TO
give refuge to the fugitives while affairs are
in the present hazardous condition? The only
retreats are the converts, and these would III
hold out against such an outbreak as would
take place If the banner of the Prophet were at
last unfurled in earnest"
ARAB PAsHA is thorough Mohammedan,
leader of the most bigoted of the Moslem
tribes, and great apprehension is felt, lest the
present state OF affairs in Egypt may lead to
fanatical, religious crusade resulting
in the meIciless persecution, massacre
and determination of Christians. An Ameri-
can correspondent says: "All over Turkey,
and even at the Turkish capital, the Christian
population, including our own foreign mis-
sionaries, have lived IL dread of such an up
rising, never for years lying down at night
but under the apprehension that before the
rising of the sun the outbreak and the massa-
ere might begin" A dispatch from Coustan-
tinople of August II says: "The strongest
orders have been sent to the governors of Bey-
rout, Damascus, aad Alsppo tn take excep.
tionai care ia Secure public order and prevent
an outbreak of the natives. A correspondent
writing from Beyrout says events in Egypt
are greatly influencing the Syrian Mussul-
mans. The situation is such that trifiDg
incident would suffice to set the whole prov
ince ablaze.
PLEASURE seekers, and persons in pursuit of
recreation and health during the heated term,
often encounter dangers to life and health OF
which they are little aware. Allusion is not
here made to possible railroad collisions and
steamboat explosions, but to dangers that lurk
in the hidden recesses OF quiet, secluded, and
apparently salubrious retreats, Sickness and
death is often hidden away in summer resorts,
where the weary, ever worked tourist. or in
valid lady traveller, expects to find health-giv-
ing and life.prolonging salubrity. Typhoid
fevers not unfrequently abide in the
defective sewerage OF the most cele-
brated and popular retreats. A re-
cent illustration of this occurred at the Belle.
vue hotel, at Seabright. Imperfect drainage
produced sickness among the guests. which
developed into typhoid fever, in regard to
two of them. There was at once panic
among the guests, and great loss Of bust
ness to the hotel, and the proprietor, who
had lease Of it, undertook to indemnify HIM
self by demanding of the friends of the two
sick persons $1,000, threatening to turn them
out unless that amount was Immediately paid.
AS removal was almost sure to be fatal to
the patients, their friends paid the amount
demanded. The friends of the patients now
propose to make it hot for the grasping pro-
prietor, by suing to recover the amount
Of the money extorted, and damages, also,
by showing that the keeper of
the premises was himself responsible for the
fever by the defective sewerage of his house.
Guests expect, and have right to demand,
every possible condition of health to exist in
such hotels, and are really at the mercy of
landlords for they cannot know anything of
the sewerage of such places. Summer seaside
life, and warm season resorts generally, are
full of horrors if, in addition to the imeuri-
ties OF such places, mercenary proprietors may
extort large SUMS of money of sick patients
made sick by his own negligence, as the con-
dition of their remaining when fatal conse- |
quences would most certainly follow removal.