Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-12
GLOBELETS.

bndI SUE cdu DOrrOW money al poE CcAIs
The Erie railroad has leased the Atlantic
and Great Western railroad for ninety mine
years.
March 9th, 100000 were Withdrawn
from the Bank of England for shipment to
New York.
Both houses of the California Legislature
have voted to repeal the Sunday laws of
that state.
The negotiations between Russia and
the Vatican are said to be progressing en-
ceuragingly.-
Brooklyn has 285 churches to q popula-
ton of 566,6s9, or one church to every
1888 persons.
A number of employees of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad company have organized a
Christian union.
OF the bishops of the Church of En-
gland three are over eighty and nine over
seventy years of age.
The great Touring mills of the North
west are said to be closing on account of
the scarcity of wheat.
Arrests of alleged Nihilists are frequent
ly made in Moscow, in view of the ap-
proaching coronation of the car.
A Minnesota man had himself baptised
in hole in the ice when the mercury was
down to thirty degrees below zero.
The old Congregational church at Litch-
field, Conn, where the Rev. DR.. Lyman
Beecher formerly preached, is now used as
q skating rink.
An organist in church at Providence,
B. l., relieved the monotony of waiting for
belated bridal party by playing: sob,
dear! what can the matter BET"
Gen. Wallace, United States minister at
Constantinoplo expects to obtain several
concessions from the Porte in favor Of
importers of petroleum to Turkey.
Forty years ago there were three biblical
scholars in this country exceptionally dis
tinguished, namely: Moses Stuart, Ed
ward Robinson and Taylor Lewis. They
we're the giants of those days.
Lady Florence Dixie, in letter to the
London Times charges Parnell and Biggar
with failing to account for e152, 900 of the
land league fund. But little, if any reli-
ance is placed upon her charges.
The grandfather of DR.. Benson, the
new p1imate of England, was a Methodist
preacher and the author of a commentary
on the Bible still much esteemed by IN any
Methodist families in Great Britain.
why" asked q governess of her little
charge, "do we pray to God to give us our
daily breads Why don't we ask for four OF
five days or wsekH" because We want il
fresh" replied the ingenious child.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
union of Nashville, Tenn, has opened an
eating-room where it is hoped good food a.
low prices will prove an antidote to the
temptations of the drinking saloons.
The undergraduates at Oxford, England
have formed what they call salvation
army. The object is to do Christian worI
in an aggressive way, but to avoid the clap
trap show of the followers of Genera
Booth.
A quaint old minister was once asked
what he thought of his two sons, who wer
both preachers. "Well,' he replied
''George has better show in his shoI
window than John, but john has large
stock in his warehouse"
The governor of Michigan has pardoneC
a convict who has been in that institution
for twenty-eight years, serving out lif
sentence for an alleged murder. His limo
cence is now established. What amend
can or should be made him for a RUNE
life? Is there no redress for such ipius
tice and hardships?
MY son." says Burdette, of the Burlins
ton Hoi0keye, "when you hear man grow
ing and scolding all the while because, q
he says, Moody gets 5000 a week fo
preaching Christianity, you will observ
that he never worries minute because Ii
gersoll gets $500 or $1,000 a night fo
preaching atheism"
The Christian Register, Unitarian. say
1.-The Bible is a Unitarian book" Th
Rev. George E. Ellis, D. D., Unitarian
says the Bible is an orthodox book, an
that only ingenious, special and force
treatment can make the Bible teach AM
thing but orthodoxy" The Christian {
, Work says: "Really the brethren ought
r come to some agreement as to what kin
l of book the Bible isl
All the illiteracy is not among the NJ
, groes. A correspondent of the ramline
tells of an excellent but ignorant memb,
: of Baptist church in Lockport, N. Y
| who made it point to speak or pray
every meeting, and who could not be bro
ken of offering the petition: 80 God, fC
Jesus Christ's sake visit this church an
, this town with thy damnation." To hi
|, the big word meant salvation.
; Hyde park contains $50 acres; Kensin.
, ton gardens, 300; st. James and the Gree
park together, 154; Regents park, 40
Victoria park, $50; Battersea park, %
:. Greenwich park, ia; Crystal palace, 16
, Alexandra Park, 1872; Clapham common
100; Epping Forest, over 5000; Kensin,
. ton Park,..16; Camberwell, 1881 acres a
7 told, very respectable area of plsasul
ground even for SO large city as Londo
In 1908 Charles Thomson, secretary {