St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-17

And left our bosoms bleeding?
Heaven gives our years Of fading strength
lndemnifying feetness;
And those of youth a seeming length
Proportioned to their sweetness.
SUNDAY GLOBLETS.
LAvATER: All fnery is sign of little
ness.
JouBERr: Ornaments were invented by
modesty.
PUBLIUs SYRUs: Pardon others often, thy
self never
SHAKEsPEARE: Adieu! have too grieved
heart to take tedious leave.
KLoPsTocK: He who thinks for himself,
and initiates rarely, is a free man.
NIEBUHR: 1t is better to create than to
be learned. Creating is the true essence of
life.
BERNAD1N DE ST. PIERRE: Party stand
ards are the shadows in which patriotism is
buried.
WHATELY: The tendency of party spirit
has ever been to disguise and propagate and
support error.
CECIL: Nothing can be proposed SO wild
or SO absurd as not to find party, and often
very large party to espouse it.
SUcKLING: Abruptness is an eloquence
in parting, when spinning out the time is
but the weaving of new sorrow.
FOLSOM: The way to conquer men is by
their passions; catch but the ruling foible of
their hearts, and all their boosted virtues
shrink before you.
JOHNSON: Those writers who lie on the
watch for novelty can have little hope of
greatness; for great things cannot escape
former observation.
SoUTHEY: Order is the sanity of the
mind, the health Of the body, the peace of the
city, the security of the state. AS the beams
to house, as the bones to the microcosm Of
man, so is order to all things.
HORACE WALpoLE: 1t is special trick of
| low cunning to squeeze out knowledge from
a modest man, who is eminent in any sci
ence, and then to use it as legally acquired,
and pass the source in total silence.
GoETHE Originality what do they
mean by it? the action of the world upon
Us commences with the hour Of our birth, and
ends only with our death. 1t is here and
there and everywhere. Their is nothing we
can claim as our own but energy, strength,
and volition. Very little of me would be
left if could but say what owe to my
great predecessors and contemporaries.
Some of the medical professors OF Vienna
are delivering lectures in the English Ian
guage.
There are 55O,S41 miles of telegraph in
the world, of which 1853, $40 are in the Uni
ted States.
In 1875 there were 1856 newspapers and
periodicals published in Japan. Now there
are 1900.
The gross income of the society for the
propagation of the Gospel in England last
year, was $54O,s6O.
Spdrgeon says, the strength of the church
lies not in the oratory Of the pulpit, but in
the oratory of the closet.
Chesterfield says, aweak mind Is like q
microscope, which magnifies trifing things,
but cannot receive great ones.
Said servant, presenting herself to Lon
don housekeeper. 'I'm hagnostic, if you
please, I'm, but no objection to Christian
family;'
Lord Coleridge, not long since, in reply to
the question how long sermon should be,
said: twenty-five minutes, with lean
| ing to the side of mercy"
President Henry Darling, of Hamilton
College has been elected member of the
Victoria Institute and Philosophical society
of Great Britain.
A landlady in England advertises for sum-
house is situated at Hughenden, Sin a
healthy, pleasant spot near Lord Beacons-
| fields tomb.n
| When Henry Clay was secretary Of state
Washington newspaper informed him that
''chivalrous regard for the feelings Of his
family prevented full exposure Of his
shameless debaucheries.'
A Georgia man has drained large swamp
on his land by scuttling process. He
bored an artesian well in the middle Of it,
80 feet deep, and came to "fault;" and
the water runs into the hole and the ground
is left dry.
"General' Booth, the founder of the Sal
vation army, claims that he has never drawn
one penny from the army's funds since he
started it nineteen years ago. He denies
that he is going to purchase PATHS residence
| in Wales.
| RaIf; ipEc ha hov
found Goldsmith's slost noyep' in the shape
of volume entitled Triumph Of Benevo-
lence, or the history of Francis Wills. By the
author of ''The Vicar of Wakefield, ''Berlin !:
Sold by August Myths. 1885,"
The Jews suffer reproach for following
some mean avocations, says the Baptist
| Weekly, but Of the 10000 Jews in New York
City, it is said there Is not one who has SO
far forgotten his honorable ancestry as to
become a bartender.
Cardinal Newman says, 1t is fearful
thought that we, as it were, exhale our
moral being is concentrated in every second
of his life; it lives in the tips of his fingers,
and the spring Of his instep. A very little
thing tries what a man is made of.
| Lord Ropertswood of Victoria, New South
Wales is reported to be richer than William
II. Vanderbilt. He is worth more than 5000,
600, 900 and his wealth is rapidly increasing,
He inherited great estate from his father,
including millions of cattle and sheep in
Australia. His house cost "A, 000,0 900.
Xenia (Ohio) Presbyterian church refus-
es to give money to any missionary board
which aids Congregations using instru-
ments of music in the worship of God. -