St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-09

o~o pupllS.
The Southern Moravian Synod at Salem,
Forsyth county, N c., recalled its measures
of union with the Northern Synod.
It has been estimated that the force which
the human heart expends in "a hours is
about equivalent to lifting 217 tons one foot.
A poem has been written by Ella Wheeler,
entitled 'sYou Kissed me-" 1t is not adj
dressed to any one in particular, but Gen.
Sherman is suspected.
The English Lutheran church, at Mahanoy
City, Pa, Rev. W. H. Lewars, pastor, paid
its debt of 81 ZOO and its membership in
crossed from 10 to 146 during the past year.
A woman who has to keep the breakfast
standing for her two indolent daughters I'M
til O'Clock, says this year is no different
from all the rest. It's always sleep year
with them.
The dryest flour contains from 6 to per
cent. of water, and the average percentage
cent. can be driven out by heat Of about 300
degrees Fair.
Ex-President Simeon North, of Hamilton
college, died at his home at Clinton, recently,
aged eighty-one. He was graduated at Yale
college in 1925. He was president of Ham
ilton college from 1889 to 1857.
Rev. Henry NJ. Field, D. D., editor of the
New York Evangelist, has gone with his
family on an extended tour to California,
taking New Orleans in his route. He ex-
poets to be absent about three months.
| Out of 479 students matriculated at the
| University of Zurich this winter 81 were wo-
men, 38 of whom entered for the medical
classes, II for philosophy, and for law.
Eleven are Swiss, II Russian, II American,
6 German, Austrian, and 1 Roumanian.
Several students at the Navel Academy at
| Annapolis have been dismissed for hazing.
A bill has been introduced into the United
States senate, forbidding the reinstatement
of such expelled students. 1t is thought that
this will break up hazing. and that moth
ing else will.
Professor Asaph Hall, the discoverer of
the moons of Mars, observed both satellites
of Mars Saturday night, January 26th. The
positions were as unfavorable for seeing
them as they will ever be. SO it is now est
ablished that the moons can be seen with the
large Washington telescope at every revolu-
ton of Mars.
The new University of the Methodist church
was recently located at Chattanooga with i'm
posing ceremonies. Bishop Wiley presided,
and the members of the Board of trustees of
the Methodist Episcopal Educational Fund
! were present. 1t will be the central Metho-
dist university in the south, and $50, 900 will
be spent this year.
A Paris paper publishes despatch from
the French bishop in Tonquin to the effect
that one priest, twenty-five catechists and
215 Christians had been massacred, and that
1OS mission houses had been destroyed.
These accounts of massacres in China have
not all been authentic, and we hope. that
this latest may not-be true.
For several years past the Swedish govern
ment employed an entomologist to assist
the farmers in distinguishing and destroying
insects that prove hurtful to the crops. The
demand for his services has been so very
great, and the work he has done has been sc
useful, that the Office of government en-
| tomologist is to be made permanent one.
| According to Consul Ayme of Merida, the
northern portion of the state of Yucutan is
a level plain of recent geological formation
The soil is poor, shallow and stony. There
are no rivers en- the surface, but large sub
| terranean streams are known to exist. Small
caves, OF cenotes, as they are called, are
found everywhere, and they always contain
| water.
The American Baptist Missionary Union,
organized in 1914, has missions in Burmah,
India, China, Japan, Africa and Europe
Excluding Europe there are 36 stations, 19(
missionaries, ia ordained and 81 lay ma
tive helpers, 900 churches, and 50,691 mem
bers: 3 theological schools. The receipts fol-
the year ending March 81, 1888, were 1907
1876. o..
The Foreign Christian missionary services
of the Disciples of of Christ denomination
dates from 1875 It's receipts for he yea
ending October 20, 1888, were $25, 004. S5
There are missionaries in Japan, Q in In
dia, in Turkey with so, members. in Col
umbia, South America, besides missionarie:
in Europe. The mission in Japan was com
menced in 1888.
| The number of volumes in the Astor libra.
~ at New York, exclusive of pamphlets, i:
2Os, 42s. The annual report of the trustees
of the hbra airy shows that the fund for the
maintenance of the library is $4,000, anG
the endowment fund is 1866, 2s3.5O. The
income for the year was s24, 5Ss.s2. There
have been added to the library during the
year 1910 volumes.
Again the public mind is shocked by de-
| falcation of a man who stood high in the es
TEEN of his fellowcitizens. Henry s. Church
city chamberlain of Troy, N. Y, has fed. i
proved that a discrepancy of $4,000 existed
in his accounts. Identified with the city'i
| interests and industries, a church member
exemplary in conduct, he was the last man
of whom such thing was thought possible
| Perosmic acid is new remedy employed
| by Professor Winiwarter in cancerous and
scrofulous swellings. 1t is used by injecting
daily three drops of l per cent. solution
of the acid. This treatment causes the tu-
NOR to soften and decrease in size. In
| about a month the dead tissue is thrown of
and the tumor disappears. No curative eff
feet upon the cancer itself has been observed
| from this remedy.
The highest velocity that has been impart
ed to shot is given as 1926 feet per second
being equal to mile in 3.2 seconds. The
velocity of the earth at the equator, due tc
rotation on its axis, is 1000 miles per hour,
! or mile in 3.6 seconds; and thus, If can