Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-05

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unbelievers.
New Hampshire records one divorce for
every ten marriages.
The Church of England Temperance So
ciety has been in existence twenty one
years.
OF the bishops of the Church of England
three are over eighty and nine over seventy
years of age.
The Zuni and Pueblo Indians worship
god of pain, and the Navajos bow down 10
brazen images.
The Mormons ridicule the Edmunds bill
and boast that they will make 10000 con-
verts this year.
to the Scottish universities, and allows
e10S,757 for new works.
Henry L. Dawes, Jr., of Massachusetts,,
son of Senator Dawes, has Joined the geo.
logical survey in Montana.
'No, Sir" said. the clergyman, 81 don't
pray for rain unless my especial dispatch
weather bureau says we're liable to get
it."
The late Gen. Ord, who recently died of
yellow fever at Vera Cruz, left a widow
and two daughters. They are in Wash
/ ington City.
The Kansas City mo-, Journal says
that within five terms, covering fifteen
months, St. Louis courts have granted
1000 divorces.
The Germany Baptists are not allowed
to hold Sunday school under that name.
To make it lawful it must be styled divine
service for children.
A Presbyterian university will be located
at Pierre, Dakota territory. The college
will begin with buildings valued at $4,000,
and will have an ample endowment fund
Lavater could tell mans character by
the crook of his nose and the curl in his
hair. 1t was he who said, ''The affectation
of sanctity is blotch on the face of
piety."
An enormous spiders web seen recently
in FFanconia valley, New Hampshire, was
of the geometrical kind, stretched between
two trees. The guys or supports were
fifteen feet long, while the web was three
feet in circumference.
Judge Blodgett, of Chicago, decides that
national bank stockholders are liable for
debts of the bank to the amount of their
stock, and that individual suits to recover
on this liability can be begun without the
Intervention of a receiver.
| A wonderful deposit of whole trees i'm
pregnated with silica and covering two
square miles has been found in eastern
Arizona. By breaking the stone'l1ke wood
beautiful specimens are obtained, which
look like jasper and agate.
Recent legislation in Kentucky is likely
to have a discouraging effect on church
going. A law fixes the legal distance be-
tween church and the nearest saloon at a
mile. The effect of this will be to make a
good many men late to church.
The wife of the editor of the Sidney
Herald, lady of great beauty, personifed
''The Press at the Savage club ball in
London recently. The dress was made of
white satin on which ac'ual copies of her
husbands paper were printed in clored ink.
The Salvation army now it is stated
numbers 4S4 corps with 100000 members,
while the income amounts to e121, 900.
The rental expenses last year were e21, 900
and the value of the property acquired
e150,000, but The mortgages amount to
e54, ZOO.
Modjesta's poem, "The Wanderer," late
~ printed in the Denver Tribune, having
been pronounced translation from the
German, made by somebody else, the edi-
tor of the Tribune offers to pay 500 to
the person who will produce the German
original.
The Michigan Legislature has passed by
nearly unanimous vote bill requiring
teachers in that state to pass examination
in physiology, and hygiene,with particular
reference to the effects of alcoholic
drinks, stimulants and narcotics upon the
human system.
Michael Potter, of Willow Grove, Salem
county, the oldest resident of New Jersey,
has just celebrated his ninety ninth birth
day. His descendants number 212 chill
dren of seven sons and four daughters.
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