Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-21

Much doubt has been expressed whether
General Sherman, himself, belongs to the
Catholic, or any other church. Certain it
is, he has been very quiet as to his religious
belief, and has refrained from obtrudipg
his theological views upon the public. But,
as possible candidate for the presidency
all that pertains to his personality is of
more or less interest. The Cincinnati
Gazette, which may be supposed to speak
by the card, is authority for the following
There has been no report that Gen. Sher
man has recently been received into the
bosom of the Roman Catholic church,"
nor that he is ''recent distinguished con-
vert" The reports that it was done many
years ago, and that the remarkable part is
that he has kept his Roman candle under
bushel.
DID you ever think, asks a Paris paper,
now many male and female ancestors were
required to bring you into the world?
First, it was necessary that you should
have father and mother,-that makes
two human beings. Each of them must
also have had father and mother,-that
makes four human beings. Each of those
four must have had father and mother
that makes eight human beings. And so we
must go back for fifty-six generations,
which brings US only to the time of Jesus
Christ. The calculation thus resulting
shows that 1925, O17 ASS, 534,976 births
must have taken place in order to bring
you into the world!-you, who read these
lines. But remember we are only taking
the case of yourself-one human being
and there are billion of human beings in
the world with the same history, and we
have only carried back the calculation to
the time of Christ. How monstrous the
calculation becomes if Re carry it back
six thousand years How CHASTITY it be-
comes if we push it back 100000 years.
which De Mortillet' and others give as the
age of the human race. Just count three
generations to century, or thirty to every
thousand years; and reckon up the history
of one individual. Imagine the number
of births necessary to bring into existence
one member of the 7,500th generation!
The Disagreement of Jewish women at
their marriage, to make them unattractive,
for obvious reasons, is yelled in antiquity
The cutsom though not general at this day
is not wholly abandoned. The Jewish
Chronicle has the following: "There is a
remarkable mystery surrounding the origin
of the custom of the Jewish women cutting
off their hair and donning a wig on their
marriage. Even in the present day the
custom is still observed by the ultra ortho-
dox. The effects of the custom were sup
posed to give clue to it's origin. There
was undoubtedly too much reason in the
middle ages for Jewesses to be eager to
make themselves as unattractive as posi-
BILE. The custom of cutting off the hair of
the bride on the wedding day is not men
toned in the Talmud. According to Mish-
nah Ketuboth, vii, 6, it is contrary to jew
| ish custom for married women to appear
on the street with head uncovered. Out of
modesty the custom was also observed in
the house, and in order to remove the pos
sibility of yielding to temptation the hair
serving no longer as an ornament, but
being superfuous weight on the head
was entirely cut off. According to Mish-
uah Nazir, w., 5, the cutting off the hair
is considered Disagreement, which The
ing Nazarite. Some few believe that the
custom of dates from the very earliest
times, and they found their opinion upon
the allusion thereto in Deuteronomy, chap
ter xxi, II. Referring to the mode pre-
scribed for taking captive woman for a
wife the text says: "Then thou shalt
bring her come to thine house, and she
shall shave her head"
THEY did not entertain an angel, una
wares, perhaps, but they did a bishop.
The Harrisburg, Pa, Patriot, gives the fol-
lowing anecdote of Bishop Simpson, of
the nj. E. church, the we'll known
eloquent and unsurpassed preacher:
The bishop made his first appearance in
Lancaster, Pa, one Sunday morning very
unexpectedly. After breakfast he saun-
tered out to find Methodist church, and
walking he met good Methodist, who en-
gagged the bishop in conversation. DIR.
Simpson was plainly dressed, and looked
anything else than bishop is supposed
to look. Brother McCIeery judged from
his conversation that he was local
preacher, and the good bishop did not en-
Tighten him to the contrary. The preacher
in charge of the Duke street Methodist
Episcopal church finally arrived, and
the bishop was introduced to him
as Brother Simpson, local preacher of
the Pittsburg conference. After considera-
BILE persuasion the bishop was prevailed
upon to preach. What disappointment
was visible upon the faces of that congre-
CATION that morning! They expected to
be bored by country clodhopper." The
bishop gave out the opening hymn and
then prayed. Those who thought they
were going to be bored began to think
differently, and when the bishop announced
his text, ''The greatest of all is charity"
expectation was on tiptoe. grander,
more eloquent, more feeling discourse was
never delivered in that church. AS the
bishop was celebrating his points and
carrying the congregation to the highest
pitch by the magnificent roundings of his
sentences, the thought occurred to the