St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-10

come, and the Queen contempIates return
ing to Balmoral atano very distant date for an
unusually long stay in Scotland.
According to recent observations, the star
Arcturus is travelling towards the earth at
the rate of 1920, 600 miles day, but even
at this rate of progress, it would not com
plete the journey this side of 90, 900 years,
SO far is it removed from our planet
AS an evidence of the advanced state of
civilization now reached in New Zealand,
Mr.. G. w. Griffin, our consul in that far
away place, states that the natives are no
longer canibals, having ceased to feed on
missionaries some twenty years ago.
Rev. Joseph Cook has been figuring about
our future population. He estimates that in
the year 2100 our population will be 400, O0O,-
600; in the year 1900 it will be SOC, 600, 600;
in the year 1900 it will be /, 600, 900, 900, and
in the year 240O it will be 1920, O00,0 600.
young Hebrew openly embraced Christi
anity at the Boston Industrial Home recently
and a local paper says this is believed to be
the first instance in the history of Boston's
ecclesiastical activity Of Israelites responding
to direct missionary labor on their behalf.
Sixteen thousand Board-school children
this year sent in essays on kindness to ami
mails, and the prizes were distributed by Bar
oness Buedett Coutts and Lady Wolseley on
Monday, at the annual meeting of the Lon
don society for the pre- yention Of cruelty to
animals.
The presence Of Princess Louise, wife Of
the Marquis of Lorne, is in great demand.
The other day she opened a new wing of st.
Mary's hospital Paddington, which will con
tain 70 BEDS and which has been built out of
legacy left by the late Mr.. Stanford in
memory of his mother.
''My son." asked Sunday school teacher,
''what do you know of the proverb regarding
people who reside in glass housesm Il
don't know nothin,' " was the response,
''about the proverb but know that people
wot live in glass houses orient to lay abed
late in the mornin' unless they pull down
the blinds'
The largest organ in the world has just
been completed by Walck of Ludwigsburg,
and placed in the cathedral church of Riga.
The colossal instrument measures thirty-six
feet in width thirty-two feet from back to
front, and sixty-fiye feet high. 1t contains
no less than 6, 500 pipes, distributed among
1874 sounding stops.
Mr.. Sankey, after brief stay in New York
left for his home in Newcastle, Pcnnsylvan-
III. The Irish Protestants have sent a mon
ster petition, requesting Messrs. Moody and
Sankey to conduct evangelistic services
throughout Ireland. The petitions declare
that the country is ripe for such move
ment. Notwithstanding these appeals the
evangelists are disposed to devote the next
few seasons to America.
The Mahdi is radical total abstinence
man, down to coffee and tobacco, which he
won't even allow in his camp, in fact he
lately gave a refugee $50 lashes for smoking
a cigarette But he makes up for this by
having thirty-nine wives, and keeps within
the letter of the law, which only allows four
wives at time, by an ingenious system of
temporary divorce, by which he has always
thirty-ive spare wives in waiting.
There is 4 touching pathos in the appeal
of Esther Amar, Jewess, ct Dar-al-Baida
(Casabianca), who was cruelty logged with
out trial, on charge of immoral conduct.
Her letter to Lord G ranville to secure re.
dress, dated at Tangier, closes thus; "Some
friends tell me that in England there is more
justice than in this country, and that her
Majesty the Queen would never allow pooI
girl to be nearly beaten to death, as / have
been, and beg of your Lordship to tell the
Queen about it."
According to lecture given at the Health
exhibition it is not enough to see that house
is properly drained and that the water sup
ply is pure The arrangement and style of
the furniture has a great influence upon its
heathliness. Wardrobes and chests of
drawers karbor dust. hence cupboards should
be used instead. Venetian blinds, heavy
curtains, and everything that collects dust,
are Objectionable. Carpets in bedrooms are
also regarded as unhealthy. The floors
should be painted, then rug or two would
be quite sufficient covering.
A good instance of the affection Of the
Spanish people for old churches occurred re-
Gently in Mission San Jose, little village of
Santa Clara county, Cal. The place was
swept by fire, which threatened at one time
to destroy the old church, which is still in
good preservation. Next door to it was
large wine cellar, so the ingenious citizens
knocked in the heads Of dozen hogsheads
of fine old claret and with the wine cxtin-
guished the flames and saved the church.
The best part of the joke is that the claret
belonged to Archbishop Alemauy, and was
intended for his private table.
General Butler asserted in the Democratic
convention that George Washington's early
education was so neglected that he never
learned to spell correctly, and in his will
wrote ''cloathes'' instead OF ''clothes." In
n volume Of selections from the Bible before
me, printed in London, 17l4, in Matthew
XXI, z, it is written, land put on them their
cloathes," and Matthew VII, -, beware Of
false prophets which come TO you in sleeps
cloathng. Edward Everett, in his famous
lecture, says the boy Washington was taught
daily from the Bible and prayer book. | have
copy Of Washing ton's Farewell Address,"
print ed in September, 1875, doubtless from
an authentic manuscript, in which Washing
ton, in the first sentence wrote 'cloathcd''
because ne found the word so written in the
Bible and in other books Of his day.
A case illustrative of the Irish custom Of
marrying and giving in marriage III the rural
districts was heard in Limerick court.
John Hayes, with two other men, went to
Mrs. Ryan's house, and an agreement was
entered into that Hayes should marry Mrs
Ryan's daughter He was to get a marriage
portion, $1,750, and the marriage was to
take place on the following Sunday. in the
interim defendant obtained 1920 to cover
expenses, but when the guests were ASSEM-
bled for the wedding breakfast he quarrelled