Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-29

VI "hdG suo OutluinS OOse' AHSJ AZ" 80
ry on their Sunday services themselves and
provide for the expenses.
Michael Davitt, from his prison, has
written vigorous letter to the Young Ire
land Society of Glasgow, in which he says
the dynamite policy can only have the eff
feet of exasperatiDg the English democra-
cy. He declares that it would be far bet
ter to work and wait another twenty years
than to play into the hands of Ireland's
enemies by giving rein to despair and re-
venge.
The public meeting which was held at
Lin click for the purpose of giving to Mr..
Parnell substantial testimonial of the es-
timation in which he is held proved to be
fasco. Only forty persons subscribed to
the projected fund for raising the 1Rcum-
brance on his farm, and the scheme was,
temporarily at least, abandoned. Another
dispatch says that the fund has thus far
realized $4,000.
new Missions institute, the tenth in
Germany, has recently been founded at
Neukirche, near Morz, under the direction
of Pastor Doll. 1t appears to be the out
growth of the faith of the founder, who
having recovered from a bodily affection
vowed to do whatever the Lord might COM
mand of him; and then, having prayed for
direction, was led up to the execution of
the idea of the institute.
An Englishman named VIM. Menefy has
been locked up in Pittsburg, having an
%IoE 10 ,f
of Lord Leitrim. He says he was one of
the six men chosen by the and league to
kill Leitrim, and that they shot him on the
Killmerrick road, County Antrim, on No
vember II, 1881. He says he is a member
of the land league, a nihilist and a socialist,
but he is thought to be crank.
Dancing in Lent used to be considered
as not sin good FORM" but now we read of
fashionable lady who said, 'It is getting
to be quite the thing to have little fes-
tive oasis in the center of the forty days
of desert pilgrimage-a sort OF temptation
in the wilderness, you seeW It is hard to
serve God and mammon at the same time.
Better not to pretend to keep Lent" than
to try and compromise with conscience;
God is not Knocked.
The drop of a bullet at 100 yards will be
nearly ten inches, basing the opinion on
the Bashfurth experiments, and an assumed
velocity Of 1900 feet per second, which is
about as much velocity as can be gotten
out of thirty inch, forty -caliber barrel
with as light ball GOO grains); the pow
| 4 10 y
occupying (for an average four fingers No
eight HANDY tive and three-quarters inches
Of the bore, and not being fully consumed
With an assumed velocity of 400 feet pei
second, the drop will be at least eight
inches in that distance.-Anericd1t Field
The Christian at Work tells the story OF
a minister in an interior town in the state
of New York who, having had the afternoon
service opened by the Eighty performance
of somewhat ford and decidedly ambi
tious choir, rose, and in the most solemn
and impressive manner announced hymn
only the first two lines of which he read
What various hindrances we meet
In coming to the mercy sat!
The late John Dinsmore, of Dlnsmort
station, Pa, bequeathed sums Of money IL
the Presbyterian boards of home and for
eign missions. Owing to an ambiguity il
the will, it is uncertain whether tn,
amount is 800 to each or total of sabou
$4,000.
Mr.. ]. II. Mead has just completed I
temperance speaking tour in the South
having held some seventy meetings. II
some of the colored meetings many a
good things were heard said by coloret
men as were ever heard in white meeting
anywhere. Mr.. Mead writes of the colorel
people: ''A whole race of nearly 7,O0O,OOt
to be educated and uplifted from the low
est plane of civilization. Ignorance-th
legacy of q score of generations-to b.
overcome. The intellectual to be elevated
and the animal brought under control
Virtue to be encouraged and immoralit,
put away"
At late Methodist conference in Ney
} York city it was stated that there are forty
) three seminaries scattered through tn
South, in which $50 teachers were EN-
ployed and $500 young men and womel
were receiving a thorough education, a
we'll as true Methodist training. Speak
ing of the ignorance of negro preacher:
DIR. Hartzell said one of the best sermon
? he had heard from a colored preacher wa
on the text, ''And the Lord shot Elijah q
; to heaven out of a frying pan," while an
5 other in praying for him, becoming slight
, ly mixed in his metaphors, asked God t
place wall before him and fire behind
; Though the preaching was upon remarka
BILE texts, and ofttimes the minister coul
only relate his experience, it did nue.
good.
Blue Horse. Sioux Inoian, wrote TO tn
commissioner of Indian affairs from L IN
f Ridge agency, Dakota, March 26, rs fol
Z lows: II ana friend of the Great Fathe
and am going in the white mans ways.
have noticed white men cutting wood, an,
, thought 1 would be like white man AM
, chop some wood for my wife. A piece O
wood few up and put out my right eye
{ and now would like the Great Father +