Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-11
TIMELY TOPICS.

look of surprise and horror)--"Greet good
ness, boy, you attend church and Sunday
school every week and don't know who
Shylock was? Go and read your Bible
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AMERICAN ladies who have gone to Eu-
rope il search of title have not been very
fortunate IN the German field. The Unit
ed States consul ct Crefeld has gathered
the facts concerning thirty one marriages
between American girls and German no
bles. In every case there has been either
q divorce, abandonment, or separation.
The American girls are as nice and as wo-
manly as any others, and it is obvious that
the fault must De with the saurkraut Ger
man barUus,
The Rev. DR.. Hamlin, president of Mid
dlebury college, Vermont, has introduced
novel idea into the college. A set of
weighing scales has been placed in the
college boarding hall, and the student
boarders are to be weighed monthly. A
record of their weight each month will be
kept, in order to determine what effect the
college diet has upon them. If this
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the place of examinations, the students
would probably be entirely happy.
WE reproduce this from the Philadelphia
Bulletin, even at the risk of causing few
cases of pen paralysis: millions of books
are published and read every year in the
United States, but how many authors are
there in this country who make more than a
fair living from their pen? We can count
or the fingers OF one hand the names of
those who have made even competency
by their literary work. Even Mr.. Howells
and Mr.. James, who are presumably just
now the best paid of American authors, do
not probably enjoy incomes that would
satisfy the average broker or small manu-
facturer. Yet both of these gentlemen, in
the opinion of competent critics, writ etoo
much"
The great bulk of the horse-hair used
in the United States is imp orted from the
Argentine Republic and Uruguay. The hair
sells in Buenos Ayres and Montevideo at
from 26 TO 80 cents per pound, and Is
packed in bales weighing about 1000
pounds and costing from $3.50 to $500
each. The total amount imported in 1882
was 4,0S2,000 pound, of which 1,417,00O
pounds came from South America, 1876 900
pounds from Mexico, and 100000 pounds
from Russia. In the previous year the
importation was 3,643,972 pounds, and in
1880 nearly 100000 pounds; but in 1879
1T was not quite 100000 pounds. Assum-
ing an average price of % cents per pound
the amount imported last year would
reach total value of about $1,150o00,
The Providence Press makes strong
plea in favor of compulsory education
and Lruancy laws. "Their effect" it says,
"hes been uniformly sslutary. OF course
it is not claimed that they have entirely
done away with immortality and crime,
nor that they are likely to do so. But it
is claimed, and abundant facts support
the assertion, that the operation of these
laws has directly resulted in large and
gratifying increase in school attendance,
and consequent decrease in illiteracy,
immor elity and crime. And it is true
beyond question that Rhode Islands
present alarming proportion of ilIiteracy
Is directly due to her neglect, until now,
to enforce legislation Of this kind"
A CELEBRATED German professor, Gherke,
has put forward a new origin of the hu.
man race. He says that the aboriginal
Americans and the people of the north of
Europe are descended from bears. To
wards the end of the glacial season these
bears hoated south on icebergs. They
could not return and were forced TO make
the best of their quarters. Gradually
they shed their furry coat, and in order to
keep one pair of feet dry they walked on
their hind legs. After the lapse of in
Vulnerable years these bears, undergoing
the process of modification, ultimately
were developed in the form of man. The
professor bases his theory or argument on
structural similari.ies between the man
and the bear.
The vestry of ST. Pancras, London, have
just issued TO every householder in the par
ish valuable and concise code of "Pre-
cautions Against Disease" II Is printed
on card, and, sfisr stating that "she
usual objection TO sanitary notices, like the
one in question, 10 thst they brighten
people about diseases" proceeds to point
out that no one will catch sny disease BIZ
studying the Recommendations of such an
official circular, and under the following
headings gives precise and very Ineligible
directions as to "Dampness," "Dirt," "Cis
terns,n "Nster Closets" "House Drains
Sink and Bath Wastes" "Dust Bins
"Disrrheal Diseases" "Infectious Dis
cases. "Disinfectior," "Disinfectants,, y
and Patients and their Attendants 81.
Pancras parish contains about 100000 per
sons.
Nh. LrvI ALLEN, of Horne Plsine, Mon.
tana, writes as follows: l have q well
fortyhve feet deep, situated under 4 saw
uill. In sinking the we'll, at depth OF
thirty five feet we encountered q sirsnC
current of cir, strong enough to blow oui
candle. Last September the we'll com.
menoed to freeze up; We bsnked &c viii
saw dust, bui II did no good. The lass OF
November il vss frozen solia. have 8
steam pump within fifteen feet OF the bot
tom Of the well; went down last week tc
the pump to repair same and found two
feet of solid ice within four feet of sae
pump. The mill Ass bean idle for sArss