The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-26
NOTABLE DAYS OF THE WEEK.

NJ ABLE DAYS OF The WEEK..
April rs is the second Sunday after
Easter. This is also Confederate Mon
ument day in Alabama, Florida, Geor-
gia and Mississippi. This is also the
anniversary of the birth. in I'LL, of
David Hume, an eminent British his
tor1an and philosopher; of Edward
Maynard, in 1913. the American dem
tai surgeon and inventor. the first to
fill the nerve cavity with gold; of
Alice Cary in 1920. a favorite Ameri-e
can author and poet; of Martha Fin
ley, In 1928, author of popular Elsie
Books" for children; of Charles F.
Browne, in 1884, well known as the
humorist, "Artemas Ward" of John
Clark Ridpath, in 1910, the historian.
This Is also the anniversary of the or
ganization in Baltimore, in 1919, of the
first American lodge Of Odd Fellows.
April u is the anniversary Of the
birth, in 1887. of Edward Gibbon. au-'
thor of the Decline and Fall of the
Roman EMPIRE, one of the greatest
of historical works. of S. F. B. Morse
In 1871, distinguished inventor and
artist, whose name is connected with
the invention Of the recording electric
telegraph; of Louis Kossuth. in 1902,
eminent Hungarian orator. statesman
and patriot; of Herbert Spencer in
author, who is to ethics and politics
what Iyell has been to geology, and
Darwin to the Development of organic
forms; Of Ulysses Simpson Grant, in
1920, eighteenth fpresident. and the
hero of the Civil war; Of Charles j.
Van der Poele,- tnt1 SAC, Americaneirl-
ventor of the troltsy. device for electric
railways. -
April % is the anniversary of the
birth, in 1853, of Franz Karl Achard,
the German chemist and pioneer IN
the work of extracting sugar from the.
beet root; Of James Monroe, in 1853,
the fifth president. who announcer
the famous Monroe doctrine; gsfSDr..
Ezra Abbot. in 1919. without an equal
In Europe or America as Greek
scholar; of Robert Bonner, in Ireland,
|. In 1924, founder of the New York Led
ger, and famous for his love of good
horses; of Palmer Cox, in 1910, the.
artist who originated 1.-THE Brownies"
April 20 Is the anniversary of the
birth, in 1745, of Oliver Ellsworth, the
second chief justice Of the United
States; of Matthew Vassar, in 1892,
founder of Vassar college, at Pough-
keepsie, N. Y; of Alexander I. of Rus
STA, In 1878, who freed the serfs in 1861,
and in the same month in 1881 was
as, in 1882, founder of the Peoples
church, Chicago; of Charles r. Otis, in
1885, inventor of elevators in buildings.
April 30 is the anniversary of the
birth, in 1771, Of Hosea Ballou, the
founder of "Universalism'' in the gen
eral acceptation of this term, and, in
1919, of the first paper devoted to that
/ fa1th; OF the purchase of the province
Of. Louisiana from France in 1903 for.
$lb,0OO.O0O; of the admission, in 1879,
of'Beuisiana, the first state established
| west of the Mississippi. ...t..oo -,
| May IS the anniversary of the birth,
| in 1872, of Joseph Addison, eminent
English essayist, humorist and moral
| list; of Arthur Wellesley, in 1764. the
first Duke of Wellington, who over
come Napoleon at Waterloo, June Is,
1913; Of Benjamin II. Latrobe, in 1864,
designer of the capitol at Washington;t
of Daniel B. Wessen, in 1925, inventor
OF firearms; ofnthe beginning Of the
battle or Chancellorsville, Va, in 1853,
| and of the battle Of Manila, in 1898,
| when Dewey destroyed the Spanish
| fleet. In the church, calendar this day is
| combined in honor Of ST. Philip the
| Apostle and st. James the Less. The
FORMER is patron saint of Brabaut and
Luxembourg. The latter was first bish-
| op or Jerusalem, where he exercised
| great Influence for his piety and sim
| Pllclty. He was tstefied to death. OF ST.
| Philip little is known except the mem
ton of him in Acts xxi. 50.
| May is the anniversary of the birth
| In 174O of Elias ,Boudinot, a revelu-
tionary patriot and first president of
the American Bible society; of John
! Gorham Palfry, eminent American d.
VINE, historian and politician; of B. B.
| woodward, English historian, and
scholar and literary assistant to Queen
Victoria and Prince Albert; of A. b.
| Tourgee, in 1888. author of 1.-THE Fools
Errand" and other popular books
founded upon life in the South; of
| clyde Fitch, in 1865, popular author
: and playwright .