Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-02
SUNDAY GEOBELETS.

Harriet Beecher Stove denies that she is
writing another novel.
Tbs venerable ex-senator Simon Cam
eron spends Che winter in the south.
The state of IlIirios has ceded to the
federal government the Illinois and Michi-
gan canal.
NJ. De Lesseps promises that the Panama
canal shall be an accom- lished fact inside
of five years.
Escalois, the new tenor, has a phenomi-
nal voice, but is said to be the homeliess
man in Paris.
Herr Lasker says the brain power
of the people is the Distinguishing feature
of the United States.
Mrs. Langtry is now spoken of as an
! electrical creature, because sho shocked the
! whole American continent,
Learning is the temperance Of youth,
the comfort Of old age. and the only sure
guide to honor and prefermeDt.
1t begins to look to the Philadelphia
CaU as though somebody had given Fred
die Gebhardt dose Of chloroform.
Mrs. Livonia Wager, who died in New
Orleans recently, was Il queen in society
for years, and firted with Aaron Burr.
Agesilaus being asked what he thought
most proper for boys TO learn, answered,
''What thsy ought to do when they became
men,"
The will of Henry Z. Durant, of Boston,
gives his wife the use OF his millions dur
ing her life, and to Wellesley college at
her death.
Aristotle says that 10 become an able
man in any profession whatever, three
things are necessary, which are nature,
study and practice.
There has been g number of cases of
diphtheria in New Brunswick, N. T., and
in twenty five instances death has resulted.
Some fears of an epidemic are entertained.
DR.. Marion Sims, the distinguished sur
geon who died suddenly in New York rs-
Gently, had an endowment policy for 800 :
coo on his life, which would have come duo
and payable to his order if he had lived
two weeks longer.
An illustrious aDd v1rtuous education of
than q great estate, To what purpose is
1t, says Crates, to heap up great estates,
and have no concern what manner OF heirs
you leave them 90.
Two machine guns have been made at
Hartford for General Grant, intended as
presents to the Viceroy of China and the
Mikado of Japan. It is stated that they
can be fred at the rate of over five hun
dred shots minute.
It was a good reply of Plato to one who
murmured at his reproving him for small
matter. Custom, says he, is no small
frequently alter the natural inclination
either to good or evil.
John McGraul, a e-yeer-old boy, of
Hoboken, n. j., loaded toy pistol with
powder and tacks. Next morning, Harry,
his three-year-old brother, fired off the
weapon. and the charge tore off part of the
hand of Willie, another brother, five years
| of sge.
Vicious habits are great stain to hu-
| man nature, and 30 odious in themselves
that every person sctuated by right reason
would avoid them, we're he sure they would
be always concealed both from God and
men and have no future Punishment en-
tailed upon them.
The monthly statement of the Boston
board of health shows a noticeable in
crease in October of contagious diseases,
compared with last year, being 526 as
against $40. There were 21S cases of scar
let fever in October this year, as compared
with As last year.
The bi-centennial of Suffolk county, n.
Y, was celebrated recently at Riverhead,
Long Island According TO the strict re-
cord it was two hundred years old on Nov
1. The county was declared one of the
twelve shires of what was then the prov
ince of New York.
Mrs. Anna Greene, the widow of the late
Nathaniel Greene, now residing at Middle
town, r. L, celebrated her one hundredth
birthday on November s. Her husband
was the son of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, one
of Rhode Islands revolutionary heroes
and friend of Washington.
Jeer not others upon any occasion. If
they be foolish, God hath denied them I'm
derstanding; if they be vicious, you ought
to pity, not revile them; if deformed.
God framed their bodies, and will
you scorn his workmanship? If poor,
poverty was designed for motive to char
ity, not 10 contempt; you cannot see what
riches they have within. Especially de-