Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-14
SUNDAY GLoBELETs.


to educate men to manage and operate
railways.
''When once we see the cross says the
Rev. Joseph Cook, sit is no cross to bear
the cross.''
Madagascar missionaries dread the pos
sibility of the French gaining foothold
on the island.
The tonnage launched at Glasgow in
1850 was 5000, in 1869, 1O2,310; in 1879,
TIA, 1854; in 1882, 1884.
The Methodists, by their characteristic
activity, have, after twenty years labor,
gained strong position in Switzerland.
The English Presbyterians are taking
steps to thoroughly equip a theological
college in China for the training of native
evangelists.
The Christian Union says: "It is more
difficult to live the twenty fourth Psalm
than to sing the twenty third, and it is just
as religious"
1t is estimated that over $106,000,Oo0
were given for benevolent and religious
purposes by the different denominations in
this country last year.
Says an exchange: Obituary notices in
the religious press are growing shorter
every day. More space ia given to the liv-
ing and less to the dead.
Some Of the London hosiers are selling
"digitated stockings" or foot gloves, but
not sven the endorsement of hygienists
has made them popular.
An old Mormon temple at Kirkland, O.,
which has stood silent and tenantless for
many years, is to be rejuvenated and the
ancient Mormonism revived.
A Missouri quack not only promises to cure
nasal catarrh at one sitting, but makes the
astounding statement that he will "remove
the catarrh and place it on saucer"
Numbers of those English landholders
whose generosity in returning percentages
of rent is paraded, do SO simply because
| their farms.
"Aunt Marjorie says in the Christian
IntelIigencer it is very curious that very
many Christian women have either pro-
noupced aversion to or a nervous horror of
"a ladies' prayermeeting."
A poor Chinaman who had been helped
by missionary showed his gratitude by
praying that Badha would turn him 1.-THE
Chinaman) into an ass, SO that the mis-
sionary might ride on him in the next life.
The confidence of the people in the
Methodist missionaries in the Hok-C Chang
district, China, is increasing 80 rapidly
that the mission cannot supply the demand
for aid in opening schools for girls.
DR.. Murrell, an English physician, con-
fesses that he once nearly lost patient
by giving him one-ffteenth of grain of
nitro-glycerine. 1t has been used in
much larger doses in angina, neuralgia,
etc.
The Christian Messenger says: eve
once offended brother by changing a
sentence, and yet the only thing we cut out
was the announcement that some old
mother in Israel had died of cholera in
fantum."
Astronomical Christians is what the
Christian at Work calls those people who
resolve to turn over new leaf about the
time the sun enters the winter solstice.
Religion it says, s'should not be made a
thing of dates and times and seasons"
A religious tract, called 'sPut Not Your
Trust in Princess was thrown into the sa-
loon of a simple old German. He read the
title and soliloquized: ''Vell, don't put
some drust in princes. Dey must pay der
cash in dis shop chust der same as vite
mans"
Chang Kun Sing, who was converted in
the Fifty first Street Baptist Church New
York Sunday school and who left for China
few days ago to become missionary at
his old home in Canton, is the first of those
Cinnamon converted here to return to
preach the gospel in his native land.
The use of artificial leather is now sug-
gested for buggy tops, and for upholster-
ing purposes where leather is now used.
The new material has the alleged advan-
tage of being much more impervious to
water than.the genuine or natural article,
while it is found to wear longer and looks
better.
The Canada Northwest Land company
started last July with the rather impecu.
NOUS and not too brilliant Duke of Man
chester-selected, of course: simply fol
his rank-as chairman. The duke, put in
merely as bait, has slipped out of the
chair, leaving the shares, with $15 paid, al
1915 discount.
Sir Tatton Sykes, the wealthy English
convert to the Roman Catholic religion
proposes to build magnificent cathedral
at Westminster resembling the votive
church of st. Saviour at Vienna, which has
been erected recently to commemorate the
escape of the emperor of Austria from an
assassin's hands.
Within the last year the women of the
United States have given the magnificent
sum of 100000 for the spread of the
GOSPEL in heather lands. OF this amount
the Presbyterians gave nearly 100000;
the Baptists, $156,OOO; the Congregation
alists, $13O,0OO; the Northern Methodists,
$1O8,O00, and the women of the Methodist
church South, $25,110.
The number of foreign mission stations
II n. Il l. O