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

Democratic ticket. That vote saves him,
for he has good conscience and sleeps
well at nights.
Pope Leo XIII is in favor of educating
girls-those of the highest as well as those
of the more modest social condition. He
| says that woman is destined to be the
most powerful aid to the well-being of the
human raee,'' but that they may be SO, ed
| ucation of both mind and heart is needed.
There was once a clergyman in New
Hampshire, noted for his long sermons and
| INDECENT habits. 8How is it," said man
to his neighbor, shat Parson -, the Ia
ziest man living, writes those interminabIe
sermons?" "Why." said the other, she
probably gets to writing and is too lazy to
STOP"
Rev. Newman Halls "Come to Jesus has
been printed in twenty languages and7 ,OOO,-
900, copies have been sold. Mr.. Hall is tall
| IN stature, not robust, genial in manner and
with face kindling with sympathy. His
home is called Ivey House, half hidden by
vines, is full of pictures and books, gather
OO 1lOlu oil pdItS VI Glo WOIlu'
Prohibition in Maine does not quite
prohibit, Tor the Portland Press says the
liquor deputies at Portland,
made thirty seizures last week,
capturing a large amount of liquor
of various kinds. Nine persons were
brought before the court during the week
charged with being engaged in the liquor
business.
There is movement in Spain to pro-
mote the separation of church and state,
and those interested therein have trans
lated into Spanish Mr.. Bright's recent
speech at the nnual.meeting of the Liberia
ton society. Perhaps the speech is SO
exclusively English in spirit that most
Spaniards will find difficulty in under
standing it.
At Wolcott the Rev. l.. F. Congdon, who
IL the preacher having charge of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, baptized twelve
converts by immersing them in pond.
The ceremony was on Sunday afternoon,
about mile from Mr.. Congdon's church.
Such an unusual proceeding on the part
of a Methodist minister attracted an i'm
mense throng.
Since its commencement, the New York
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children has entertained over Il, 900 cases.
involving over 100000 children, and during
the past year alone over 5000 children
| we're looked after, and 1858 placed in
homes or institutions, to say nothing of It's
prosecution of 1,0S5 cases, resulting in
1909 convictions.
A special conference of the Catholic
Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland was
held recently at Maynooth. The subjects
for consideration are the recent circular
frhm the Propaganda in reference to the
Parnell tribute, the filling of vacancies in
Maynooth college, the condition of the
Catholic university, and the proposed
scheme of aid to training colleges for teach
ers of primary schools.
DR.. G. G. Abbott, of Trenton, n. j., has
destroyed another old belief in weather
lore. For twenty years he has kept re-
cord of the building of their winter houses
by the muskrats; the storing of nuts by
squirrels, and other habits of the mammals
which are commonly regarded as indicat-
ing the character of the coming winter.
His conclusion is that the habits referred
to have no connection with the rigor or
mildness of the approaching winter.
In nature, seen under ordinary daylight,
there are for the healthy human eye about
LOO distinguished colors. For 1O2 of
these Roget has names; but the number of
color names in modern French is said to
be not short of 500. Alma Tadema repro
duces his color impressions of the antique
world by a palette of twelve colors, while
the palettee of Virgil's vocabulary con-
tains twenty terms of high colors,
and fifteen more for shades due to excess
or deficiency of illumination.
Decoration Day was generally observed
| in Honolulu as a holiday, and under the
direction of the Grand Army flowers were
scattered over the graves of Union soldiers
who have been buried in the Hawaiian
| capital since the close of the war. At the
grave of Majoy Bates Dickinson the Rev.
Mr.. Cruzan delivered memorial address
in the presence of the United States minis
| ter, the United States consul, eight officers
of the Hartford, which had arrived that
morning from Hilo, the kings ministers
and large concourse of citizens.