Daily globe., 1883-07-29

The movement for the removal of the
bishops of the Established church from the
house of lords has received considerable
| impetus through their votes having nulli
| fed those Of the large majorities Of the lay
peers in favor of the marriage with de-
ceased wife's sister bill.
The London Christion Commonwealth
says: "The Birmingham trade in idols is
rather brisk. 1t says 1000 glass gods have
just been imported into Burmah from that
town. They only costs Is. Sd. each and
sell for eight rupees. Christian England
manufacturing idols for the heathen!"
A correspondent writes that all religious
instruction, or even allusion to religion in
the schools of France, is 80 strictly forbid
den by the laws on the subject that the
name of the Deity is carefully expurgated
from the new text books. The governments
that sustains suchilegislation and practice,
takes away its only safeguard and invites
the overthrow and destruction that will
soon come upon it.
Leprosy, says physician of San Fran
cisco, has not a few victims among the
whites. Especially is it revealing itself
about the lips and tongues of boys who
smoke cheap cigarettes made by Chinese
lepers. This physician says he knows of
170 cases. the majority largely Chinese.
The body of Jew, who died in Chicago
recently, was laid out in front of a win.
dow facing west. The centre pane, which
is now on exhibition between and 8
o'clock every evening, presents perfect
likeness of the dead man. At no other
time during the day is the strange ap-
pearance visible. Washing with chemicals
has failed to obliterate the mysterious
image, which does not fade.
The London Jewish World says that if
we were to take only from Jewish names
Moses, Malmonides, Spinoza and Mendels-
sohn--as representative of intellectual
power at their highest outcome, the Jews
might challenge any other people to pro-
duce like assemblage of nobilities whose
sranscendent influence on the world of
thought in its moral, spiritual and philo-
sophical ethics has been SO elevating for
humanity.
The result of the discussion on instru.
mental music in the assembly of the Free
Church of Scotland has been the adoption
of Principal Rainey's motion that the in
PRODUCTION of such music into public wor-
ship is allowed to congregations, but they
are recommended to consult the interests
of peace and harmony. Rev. DIR. Begg,
who has heretofore strenuously opposed the
use of organs, contented himself with en-
tering prote st.
The Bishop of Peterborough does not
think the bishops have behaved disgrace
fully in relation to the Deceased Wife's
Sister bill. He does not think they have
even committed an error of judgment. If
they had spoken on the bill after the din
ner hour they would have weakened the
division. and shown moro regard for their
own reputation than for the welfare of the
church. 1t is not thought, by those who
heard the debate, that the speeches which
were made showed much regard for the
reputation of the right reverend bench.
The Boston Post says there are over 151,-
900 Catholic Indians in the United States,
distributed througout the following states
and territories: In the State of Maine l.
400; in New York, 900; in Michigan, 1000;
in Wisconsin, 1,480; in Minnesota, 10000;
in Dakota, 1000; in Kansas, $500; in Mon
tana, 1929; in the Indian Territory, nearly
100000; in Arizona, 1,500; in Idaho, 700; in
Washington Territory, more than 10000;
in Oregon, 1,600; in California, more than
5000. The same authority states that more
than 100000 of the negroes of the United
States are Catholics.
The Vienna AIIgen,eine-Aunst- Chronik re
portsthat Herr Penther the custodian of the
gallery of paintings at the Vienna acade-
my, has discovered an Albert Durer, which
was catalogued as Lucas Kranach. 1t
had some time or other been subjected to
process of restoration, which had COM
pletely obscured the original. Herr Pen
ther has been able to remove almost all the
traces of this super-imposed work, and the
underlying picture is on the whole we'll
preserved. The subject is "The Dead
Christ taken down from the Cross lament.
ed by the Holy Women"
Stockport, Scotland, claims to haye the
most wonderful Sabbath school in the
world. Its membership comprises 400
teachers and $500 children, and nearly
$4,000 children have passed through the
school since it's commencement. The
singing is led by an orchestra with sixteen
violins among the instruments. DIR. Nc
Gregor recently preached the sermon on
its ninety ninth anniversary, and he de-
clared that when he heard the hymns sung
by from 5000 to 1000 young voices, with
the accompaniment of the orchestra and
the full force of the organ, he felt as if the
windows of Heaven were opened.
An interesting discovery was made re-
Gently at Augsburg in the course of carry
ing out some extensive repairs at the Pro-
testant church of st. James. In the pro.
cess of taking down the old organ some
OF the neighboring surface plaster became
detached from the wall, and it was found
that beneath several coats of whitewash,
old and modern, there were hidden some
very beautiful large frescoes. Among the
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