St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-20
SUNDAY GLoBLETS.

SWIFT: No wise man ever wished to be
younger.
MADAME DE SrAEL: It is difficult to grow
old gracefully.
FCLLER: Good counsels observed are
claims to grace.
MADAME SwIToH1NE: Years do not make
sages; they only make old men.
P. FRANCIS: Our actions are our own their
consequences belong to heaven.
RocHEFoUcAULD: AS we grow old, we be-
come more foolish and more wise.
STEELE: A healthy old fellow, who is not a
fool is the happiest creature living.
JOANNA BAILLIE: Heaven oft in mercy
smites even when the blow severest is.
RICHTER: There is a long and wearisome
step between admiration and imitation.
WHITTIER: Speak, out in acts; the time
for words is past, and deeds alone suffice.
STANIsLAUs How many men fancy they
have experiences because they have grown
old.
BARRY CORNWALL: Half the ills we hoard
within our heart are ills because we hoard
them.
PINDAR: Some one has said of fine and
honorable old age, that it was the childhood
of immortality
RoCHEFoUoAULD: We always love those
vino admire us, but we do not always love
those we admire.
PASCAL: The least movement is of impor-
lance to all nature. The entire ocean is at
fected by pebble.
BACON: Prosperity is the blessing of the
Old Testament, adversely is the blessing OF
the New, which carrieth the greater bene-
diction, and the clearer revelation OF Gods
favor.
a Swiss doctor at Monaco who had been
financially ruined by gambling was the thirty
second suicide of the season.
My brethren bear in mind that the adver-
tisements which read Summer boarders
taken inn mean all that they say,
The present senior class at Harvard col
lege is the largest ever graduated at that
institution, or at any other American col
lege.
A Brooklyn clergyman declares that ''the
without back ground of woe to set it in re-
lief.''
More than 60 per cent of the adult male
population of New Mexico can neither read
nor write, and yet they get up avery sizeable
revolution now and then.
An astronomer who believes that the future
OF the science depends much upon photogra-
ply, estimates that it would take ten years to
photograph the heavens.
OF the 204 houses which once composed
the famous Jew Lane in Frankfort on-the
Main only 35 are now left standing includ-
ing the Rothschild homestead.
In the ninety-eight years of its existence
the American Bible society has issued no
less than 4S, ,O31 volumes, including
Bibles, Testaments and portions of the Cos
pels.
IN MANY of the States of the mon a wom
an cannot make a will for the disposition of
her property after her decease, according to
her own wish Surely ''woman's rights
need little more scope.
A parliamentary return shows that the
commission Of national education in Ireland
consists of ten Roman Catholics, five mem
bers of the established church, three Presby-
terians and one Unitarian.
Since the beginning of the organized fe-
male suffrage agitation in England, in 1870,
the official records show that 16, 354 petitions,
bearing z, 542, 1862 signatures, have been pre-
sented to parliament, while over 1000 meet
ings, on large scale, have been held.
The Queen of Sweden has sent to England
donation of e2, 600 to the fund for transla-
ting, printing, and distributing Gospel tracts
among the children Of different lands, and
has accepted ten thousand leaflets for distri-
button among the children of Stockholm.
N. Y, journal has the following: A
graduate of Michigan medical university
went to st. Paul, where, failingto get any
practice, he went to saving wood. He now
makes 80 day and owes no man a cent.
This is considered, for medical graduate,
phenomenal success.
1t is almost impossible to exhaust the lodg-
ing Accommodations here, writes correspon-
dent from the Holy Land. There are four or
FIVE converts, besides several hotels, in Jeru-
salem which solicit patronage. One of these
converts Is accredited with having comfor-
table lodging-room for 1000 travellers, and
with being able to house 5000 people on
pinch.
In Morocco, when thief is caught in the
most trivial offense, they politely request him
to hold up both hands. Then they ask him
what hand he would prefer to have in his
possession, and when he has made his choice
they cut off the other. When thief has
thus lost both hands, and also his feet, he
loses his head and quits stealing.
crematory is to be built at Buffalo, N.
Y, modelled after the famous one at Milan
No flame, but intense heat will be used to re-
duce the body to ashes. The high tempera-
ture is afforded throug pipes from movable
heater, which will be connected with the
furnace. The required heat by this method
must be 500 degrees, and it will take four
hours to reduce a body to ashes.
Professor Biackie has written clever poem
on Female Beauty After describing GER
tain physical characteristics, he says:
All these, fair maid may show
faultless mould from tip to toe
Yet lack the one thing that makes woman
More than the daisy on the common,
The one fair thing to mortals given
To bridge the gap from earth to heaven
The inspiring soul that to godlke grace
Attunes each move, and spreads glory DER the
face.
There is an association in London, just
year old, for the purpose Of placing texts of
Scripture in street ears and omnibuses The
number of the London street car routes alone
exceed four hundred, and it is estimated that
the passenger traffic, which is steadily in
creasipg, is $4,000, 900 annually. Texts have
been placed in fifty of the cars. at n cost If