The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-05

In Spain, Italy and other Catholic
countries there is much ceremony in
connection with it's observance. This
is also the anniversary of the birth in
1649 of Elihu Yale, for whom Yale
college was named; and of Jonas
Chickering, in 1897, founder of the not
ed piano house.
April 6 is the anniversary of the
birth, in 1885, Of John Pierpont, poet
and clergyman, and author of a no
table poem, The Pilgrim Fathers
He was also the grandfather of J.
Pierpont Morgan, whose name is not
an unfamiliar one in the financial
world. This is also the anniversary
Of the first day of the battle of Shiloh,
or Pittsburg landing, in 1862 during
which Gen. A. S. Johnson, the Con-
federate commander, was killed. The
killed, wounded and missing on both
sides, numbered over %, 900. 1t was
one of the most holly contested battles
April is the anniversary of the
birth in 1870 of William Wordsworth,
illustrious English poet, who with
Colertdge and Southey, constituted the
Lake poets" because they resided in
the lake district of Cumberland, and
described the. scenery of that beautiful
region. He succeeded Southey as poet
laureate of England and held the Office
from 1843 to his death, April %, 1850.
OF him Coleridge said: Since Milton /
know of no poet with so many felicities
and unforgetable lines and stanzas.''
April is the anniversary of the birth
in 1892 at Germantown, Pa, of David
Rittenhouse, astronomer and mathe-
matician. He made the first survey
ing instruments for the government,
and became president of the American
Philosophical society on the death of
Franklin, to whom in point of scientific
merit, he is considered next in rank.
April 9 Is the anniversary Of the
birth in 1888 of Rufus Putnam, revo-
lut1onary general, and founder of the
city of Marietta, Ohio; of Fisher Ames,
in 1858, revolutionary statesman and
orator; Of John L. Sullivan, in 1777, the
engineer and physician who planned
the first canal in the United States, be-
tween Boston and the Merrimac river,
and in 1914 received patent on the
first steam tow boat.
April 10 is the anniversary of the
birth in 1775 of Samuel c. F. Hohne-
mann, founder Of the homeopathic sys-
tenn of medicine; of Gen. Lewis Wal
idSc, SSleIdl, lawyer ana duInOr,
Brookville, Ind, in 1927. Was governor
of New Mexico, where he wrote his first
notable book, THE Fair God" and
minister to Turkey where he wrote
portions of his most famous work, Ben
Hur.", On this date in 1S41 Horace
Greeley issued the first number of the
New York Tribune, and a year later
Joseph Pulitzer was born, who came
to America in an emigrant ship and
became notable in journalism as editor
and proprietor of the New York World.
This is also Good Friday in the church
calendar, and a legal holiday in Ala
bama, Louisiana, Maryland, Pennsyl-
vania and Tennessee. 1t is in COM
memoration of the crucifiXion of Christ.
1t probably received this name from the
good things which He gained for the
church by His suffering and death. An
other explanation that it is corruption
of Goodies or Gods Friday, Among some
of the Europeans in the early days of
Christianity it was called. Long Friday
owing to the long fasts and Offices of
the day. In Catholic countries the day
is most deliberately observed.
April II is the anniversary of the
birth in 1910 of George Canning, Eng
lish statesman and orator, whose in
f1uence changed the foreign policy of
England against the Holy Alliance; of
E. q. Ellsworth in 1837,nMhose tragic
death while pulling down q Confederate
flag at Alexandria, Va, produced a
sensation early in the Civil war