St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-20

ady.
PASCAL: Happiness is neither within us
nor without us, it is the union of ourselves
with God,
BAnEAU: Hasten slowly and without
losing heart. Put your work twenty times
upon the anvil.
BRUYERE; To be deprived of the person
we love is a happiness in comparison of liv-
ing with one we hate
PLUTARoH: That state of life is most hap
py where superhuities are not required and
necessaries are not wanting.
EDWARDS: A sound mind in a sound body;
if the former have the glory of the latter the
latter is indispensable to the former.
BICKERsTAFF; Health is the greatest of all
possessions, and it is maxim with me that
a hale cobbler is better than sick king,
CHEsTERFIELD Whoever is in a hurry
for him. Haste and hurry are very different
things.
Mrs. L. NJ. CHILD; A human heart can
never grow old if it takes lively interest in
the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flow
ers, and the changing tints of autumn
leaves.
CHALMERS: fit be characteristic of world
Iy man that he desecratcs what is holy, it
should be of the christian to consecrate what
is secular, and to recognize a present and
presiding divinity in all things.
Mrs. jameson: Blessed is the memory of
those who have kept themselves unspotted
from the world, yet more blessed and more dear
the memory of those who have kept them
selves unspotted in the world.
Last year 4, 1872 new books we're published
in England.
Bangor, Maine, has again voted down
standard time.
Last year 4,34O, 900 boxes of "sardines"
were packed in Lubec, Me.
No state or county official in mississippi
can now ride ON free pass.
During the past year 5000 homesteads
have been entered in Florida.
A medical journal states that the average
Chinese baby weighs but five pounds.
London has % daily journals, 524 week
lies, and over 600 monthly magazines.
An ocean pier to cost 500, 600 is to be built
at Cape May this spring. 1t is to be LOCO
feet long, and so feet wide.
recent report from the minister of pub
lie Instruction shows that there are 1905
public school teachers in France.
InsToledo, Ohio, all the newspapers are
combining to do their work without any au-
thority from the typographical Union.
The breaking of the levee at Roberts Island,
near Stockton CAL, has destroyed $4,000
acres of wheat worth half million of dol
lars.
New Haven, Conn, undertaken is I'M
der arrest charged with burrying two bodies
in one coffin while having permit for only
one.
In conversation humor is more than wit,
easiness more than knowledge; few desire
to learn, or to think they need it; all de-
sire to be pleased, or, if not, easy.
That was triumphant appeal of the lover
of antiquity, who, in arguingt the superiority
of the old architecture over the new, said:
''Where viii you find any modern building
that has lasted so long as the ancientl"
Arizona has been large i'm porter of Cali
fornia lumber, but she is now becoming an
exporter of the home product. The Atlantic
& Pacific has tapped the timber region of
the territory, and lumber is being skipped to
Los Angeles.
IT is proposed to tunnel the Sierra on the
e ha oil
Truckee to Blue Canon, and do away with
the snow-sheds, many of which are getting
old and rotten, and break down easily under
aheavy weight of snow.
A Boston woman has hired orators for
series of lectures to boys and girls, in the
Old South Church. having for their object
nothing else than to 's'excite in the minds of
the young the proper love of freedom Of their
country and their city"
A sea-serpent is reported to have been
seen off Mendocino harbor, CAL, on March
-. 1t had somewhat the appearance Of
flock of albatrosses Swimming slong the
surface of the ocean, and, and was swiftly
making its way northward.
Sheridan one day descanting on the pedi-
gree of his family, regretted that they were
no longer styled O'Sheridan as formerly.
Indeed, father" replied the son, IT think
we have more right to the 'O' than any one
else, for we owe everybody"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES included in your
curriculum? Young Hopeful-Our what, paP
Paterfamiias-The curriculum of your col
lege. Young Hopeful-Well, to tell the
truth don't know. You see, being the
stroke oar and the picked nine captain, |
have not much time for botany.
Colonel Barre was blind of one eye and the
other was far from strong. Lord North had
been blind for some time. The Colonel paid
his Lordship visit, who received him kind
", saying: Colonel Barre, nobody viii sus-
pect US of insincerity, if we say that we should
always be overioyed to see each other"
A return of the lives lost by drowning, or
other accidents in British merchant ships
regisf cred in the United Kingdom during
the twelve years from 1871 to 1882 inclusive
places the total at 3S,722, of whom 1860
were crew and 1902 passengers. Of the sea
men 80, 100 were drowned, and $3.50 lost by
other accidents.
1.-TWO women in train from London to