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

Sturgeon is only so yeara old.
Gen. George B. Mcclellan is So yeara old.
In 1920 the first striking clock was invent
ed.
The Goth inst. viii be the seventy-fifth an
niversary Of Gladstone's birthday.
Salt Lake proposes to boycott the Union
Pacific for having raised the rate on ore.
The public benefactions to Cincinnati of
the late Reuben Z. Springer we're 1920, 500.
The greater portion of the wheat crop Of
California is stored, and will not be sent to
market until prices grow better.
Queen Victoria's private fortune is only
$50, OO0, 900. II 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 $4,000 miles a second; that of the
sun 1s6,5O0, and that Of petroleum lamp
1s6, 200.
Arab Pasha, the dark-skiuned izzler who
bad great opportunity and dropped it as if
it were hot teapot, is stin 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 1t
was running of with 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, 'the
Ohio penitentiary only needs colored waters,
an elevator aud q pretty clerk to make Il
hrst-class hotel on the American plan.''
John r. Mclean sent the night messenger
boys Of Cincinnati present Of 81 900 in
response to visit of 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 100, 900
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 aud his
covenants faithful"
The Wesleyan mission in the Canton dis
trict is practically suspended, and at Flats
han botn the Wesley an and London mis-
sionary chapels have be en- dismantled by
the Chinese MODS. The alive Christians
in many places are suffering great persecu-
tion
We cut from the Episcopal Recorder: ssMr.
Beecher talked last evening to lis prayer
meeting alb out reading the Bible. Speaking
of the Revelation of st. John, he said: Reve-
latioa is useless to me. I'd as soon think of
trying to lights candle at the aurora borealis
as to get inspiration from ReveIation.-.Ne,c
York Times
The Apostle, however, appears TO differ
from the Brooklyn preacher, for he writes:
Blessed is ne that readeth aud 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 Sir. Beecher shall
continue to believe that the Book Of the Rev
elation has some good things in lt.''
Lord Napier. in recent address before
the Church OF Eugland Temperance society,
said that while commanding the armies in
India areturn made to him relating to 49,
GOO 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 non
abssainers.
q The Mormons are laboring with great ASST
duty 10 secure astrong foothoid 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, andare preparing to take third
TO Salt Lake City, to prove the superiority Of
the Mormons over the Protestants. every
year they come in hordes to the territory,
seizing our best lands, 10 blight the country
with curse not easily eradicatedn
Two years ago Eagle Rock, Idaho, having
population Of GOO to 500, had neishe r
church, Sunday school nor day school.
Through the influence OF good woman, Mrs.