St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-21

ever will be arrayed in millinery glories that
even SoLoMoN's royal admirer and visitor
did not dream of. The prevalent colors in
the canons of fashion this year are green,
mahogany. with light shades of blue and
brown. Beauty and fragrance viii entrance
the senses, and lit the devout heart toward
the celestial Conservatives.
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1t was recently stated in parliament that
the first Sunday paper appeared in $780,,
about the time ROBERT RAIKEs was trying to
establish Sunday school i'll London. The
hostility of the established church and Scot
fish clergy was equally vehement to both.
The newspapers of that day would hardly be-
recognized as the protoplasm of the modern
journals. s.
Recently presbytery at Rochester, \. ",
spent several days of steady work on the
cases of number of deacons who had been
ordained by church of that city in spite of
the fact that they refused to indorse the
doctrines of foreordination and infant dam
nation. Their ordination was finally stls-
tanned, but it is hardly credible that any
number of presumably intelligent people
should hold to notion so antagonistic to all
righteous and humane thinking as the dam
nation OF infants. Heather mythology has
rarely had room for a notion so revolving
Christ said that the celestial kingdom was
peopled with infantile humanity, and he
held out his inviting arms to them. The
time has been when this doctrine was widely
held in the church, but it was the spirit of a
cruel and bigoted age rather than the
church. 1t has taken a good while to learn
the true spirit of the Master and 1nfuse it
through even the professed followers and
there is room for missionary work.
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Should none of the 72O persons who aban-
doned the sinking Danmark 500 miles out in
the ocean escape the perils of stormy period,
1t will break any record of modern times in
numbers lost i'll an ocean catastrophe. There
have been a few instances of vessels going
down with all on board and not one escap-
ing. The steamer President sailed from Ell-
gland about the year 1910, and no trace has
ever been had of her. She had large num-
Der of passengers, and the loss caused great
sensation at the time. Fifteen years or so
later the American steamer Pacific, in going
to England, was last seen among icebergs,
and no doubt was struck by one and went
down in a moment. The wreck of the DAN
mark near one of these icy monsters indi-
cate the cause of its disaster, and affords
little ground of hope that any considerable
portion of its human freightage will ever be
heard from.
One of the two young ladies who estab-
lished and taught the first Sunday school in
| New England died i'll one of the Western
| cities four or five years ago, nearly ninety
years of age. The school was established in
| one of the Massachusetts cities almost stimuli
taneously with a similar work in Phila-
| deiphia. The lady often referred to the diff
culties encountered in inaugurating the en-
| terprise, and it is noticeable that the OBJ
stiuctors, as nearly as they can be ident-
| fed, were of the same classes that are now
| shocked at the Sunday newspaper and their
objections were largely of the same charac-
ter. The church doors were shut to them.
| the clergy discouraged their efforts, and good
people generally were unable to see over the
traditions and prejudices. 1t was desecra-
| ton of the Sabbath, diverted the minds from
| the Celebrations of the pulpit and was In the
face OF proprieties and precedents. 1t was
| specially unbecoming for young ladies to
put themselves forward so. The great OBJ
| lection was to the use of Sunday for such
purpose. But, somehow, the Sunday school
outlived its opponents, md is a pretty
healthy institution. The Sunday paper is
getting along pretty well also.
| importing OF paupers is being carried on with
| some apparent stringency at New York.
| Out of one recent lot of a, coo about 200 were
| set aside as not endowed with needful qualifi-
| cations for American citizens. The incoming
| tide is growing stronger of late. Six Or eight
thousan land at Castle Garden in a day. fire.
quently. The aggregate last year was SAT-
COO, the largest number in any year being
$4,000 in 1882. The figures this year will
be among the largest. The opening of new
lands to settlement will stimulate immigra
ton from over the water, and the Northwest
will get a very large portion of the best of it.
According to KATE FIELD the Prohibition
lists are the greatest distillers of alcohol
Her theory is that pies and other indigesti-
bic articles in the stomach, in fermenting,
distill more alcohol than the distilIeries.
Prohibitionists are great pie eaters and dys
peptics, therefore the largest producers of
alcohol; and they pay no revenue to the
| government.