St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-21
spurgeOn is only so reara old.


Gen. George B. Mcclellan is So yeara old
In 1920 the first striking clock was invent
ed.
The goth inst. win be the seventy-ffth an
niversary Of Gladstone's birthday.
Salt Lake proposes to boycott the Union
Pacific for having raised the rate on ore.
The public benefactious to Cincinnati of
the late Reuben r. Springer were $40. 500.
The greater portion of the wheat crop of
California is stored, aud will not be sent to
market until prices grow better.
Queen Yietoria's private fortune is only
$50, 100000 1t is believed it will suffice to
pay the debts Of the Prince Of Wales.
Ristooi has had habit of rising eoactly at
z O'Clock every morning. She has done this
for eighty or ninety years, regularly.
The light Of an electric lamp travels at the
rate Of 1S7, 200 miles a second; that OF the
sun 1S6, 500, and that Of a petroleum lamp
1s6, 200.
Arab Pasha, the dark-skiuned fizzler who
bad great opportunity and dropped it as If
it were hot teapot, is still living in luxur-
ious captivity in Ceylon.
One Of those Georgia papers that are al
ways discovering wonderful things has found
rat twenty inches long. When captured it
was running OF with a pullet.
The London Standard declares that the
opinion steadily grows that Nathaniel Haw-
thorne was the most considerable literary
parsonage that America has yet produced
According to the Cleveland Herald, sthe
Ohio penitentiary only needs colored walters.
an elevator and pretty clerk to make it
first-elass hotel on the American plan."
John r. Mclean sent the night messenger
boys Of Cincinnati present Of 81 200 in
response to visito congratulaiton made by
the little fellows just after his marriage.
Roman Catholics can hereafter participate
in our national Thanksgiving day, the PIen-
airy council having graciously included it
among holidays that they are permitted to
observe.
War Is imminent between Brazil and the
Argentine Republic. The latter has 120. 600
men in readiness to throw across the from
Tier the moment war Is declared, while Bra
I'll is placing her navy in readiness for act
i've service.
Mr.. Ruskin discovered on church in
Venice, near the Rialto, the appropriate
motto: 'Around this temple let the merch
ants law be just, his weights true and his
covenants faithful
The Wesleyan mission in the Canton dis
trict is practically suspended, and at Flats
han Potn the Wesley an and London mis-
sionary chapels have be en- dismantled by
the Chinese mobs. The alive Christians
in many places are suffering great persecu-
ton.
We cut from the Episcopal Recorder. 'sMr.
Beecher talked last evening" to his PRAYER
meeting alb out reading the Bible. Speaking
OF the Revelation OF st. John, he said: Reve
latio1 is useless 10 me. I'd as soon think of
trying to light candle at the aurora borealis
as to get inspiration from Revelation.-.Ne7c
York Times
The Apostle, however, appears to differ
from the Brooklyn preacher, for he writes:
Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear
the words Of this prophecy, and keep those
things which are written therein; for the
time is at hand. We prefer to stand with
the Apostle and despite Mr.. Beecher shall
continue to believe that the Book Of the Rev
elation has some good things in tn
Lord Napier, in a recent address before
the Church Of England Temperance society.
said that while commanding the armies in
India areturn made to him relating to 49,
600 men showed that among the total alb
stainers there was no crime and practically
none among the partial abstainers, but that
the whole body Of crime was among the nom
abstainers.
The Mormons are laboring with great ASST
duty to secure strong foothold in Arizona.
Rev. N Gregory writes from Tuscan that
they are supplying teachers for the public
schools and among the Indians, wherever
possible. They have taken two delegations
Of Indians, and are preparing to take third
to Salt Lake City, to prove the superiority Of
the Mormous over the Protestants ssEvery
year they come In hordes to the territory,
Selling our best lands, to blight the country
with curse not easily eradicated-"
Two years ago Eagle Rock, Idaho, having
population Of 600 to 500, had neither
church, Sunday school nor day school.
Through the inhueneeof good woEa4a Mrs.