Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-25

foundation, that more people are killed by the
bad ventilation of theatres and other public
buildings than are burned to death IN them,
bnt the public don't get excited about it.
The biography of every member of the Cab
met may be written in brief and stereotyped,
as the formula answers for the whole bench,
thus: "He is stalwart and a third termer.'
Lovely, and significant of usefulness, is it
not
THE Cincinnati Enquirer rather wickedly
remarks, having reference doubtless to GER
tain speaker hailing from that state, SO affiu-
emit in great men, that "Henry Clay was
once speaker of the house of representatives.
Look at that picture and then this.'
A CONTEMPORARY remarks, with not little
just point, that huge signs are becoming un-
pleasantly common in some of the business
quarters. It does little good to put up
building of handsome architecture, and then
let tenants veneer it all over with wooden
signs, so that the architecture cannot be seen,
beside offering fine foothold for fire, should
it break out in the neighborhood.
The Nashville American says Conkling is
either quietly washing himself clean in Lethe,
expecting to come out of his bath renovated,
or else the boys have forgotten him. What
doth COnkling think, what will Conkling do,
or where doth Conkling stand? If he is at
his additions in the stream of oblivion, let
him beware lest, with the accumulated
political sins, he wash also away the
power which stood him so long in stead.
Truth, one of the brightest of all the Lon
don weekly journals, tells the whole story of
Guiteau in two sentences, and finds the right
name for him: Gas for his being mad, this is
nonsense. He is pernicious fool, and if he
were acquitted on the ground OF insanity, the
life of no president in America would be safe
against the endeavors of pernicious fools like
him, seeking to thrust themselves into noto-
| riety."
PROFESSOR FLINT, the great Scotch theo-
Logan, in recent address to his class, hit the
nail on the head in the following telling ut
terance: "The church," he said, (which had
no wish to grow in knowledge, which had no
desire to increase and improve theoretical
science, which made no effort to add to the
store of religious truths it had inherited, was
a church guilty before God of Indifference to
his revelations OF himself and could not be ex-
pected satisfactorily to accomplish his work
among men,"
RUsKIN says that nobody but bishops and
bankers can be so bad as to deserve hanging.
That they may deserve it we do not doubt,
| and, for aught we know, the banker Dan
forth, of Caldwell, Kansas, who failed, very
likely fraudulently, may deserve it. But one
thing we know: that to have him snatched
from the sheriff's hands by mob, and held
under threat of being hanged by them ii he
does not pay his depositors in full, and for
this to be going on for week, is disgrace
and shame that battles words.
THE great comet of last June is still in
sight. It is, of course, not visible except
through instruments. It will be remembered
that it seemed last summer to linger long
near the north pole. From observations and
computations made at the Naval Observatory
in Washington, it is stated this comet will
return in 2900 years, so that in the 4Sth CEN
fury Of the Christian era, the jewellers on the
earth may expect to see this brilliant wonder
coming up from the south. 1t is still near the
pole, and seems but a speck, and will soon
disappear entirely.
THE st. Louis, Missouri Republican, one OF
the oldest, perhaps the Oldest Demo-
cratic journal in the southwest, has the follow
ing significant utterance: If the Democracy
can keep power in the South only by submit
ting to the domination of those who urge re-
pudiation, fiat m oney and other ruinous doc
trines, we trust there can be no doubt that the
Democracy will prefer defeat, What it will
lose in the South will be more than compen-
stated Ly gains in the North. and, above all
things else, will the country be relieved at last
from the sectional division. of parties. To
those Democrats who want to follow Malone,
we say, therefore, Godspeed.
A METHODIST church, on Staten Island, that
has been heavily embarrassed by large inter-
est drain on its finances for long years, is at
last happily relieved. The debt of $4,000 on
the church, at TOttenville, Staten Island, Rev.
D. s. Parsons, pastor, has been extinguished.
During hetwenty years in which the debt has
been standing, the large sum of $500 has
been paid for interest. DR.. Parsons presented
a sketch of ruined wall, which was gradu-
ally repaired as the subscriptions were an
nounced, until the close of the evening service
showed all the stones in place. One lady en-
couraged the benevolence of the church by
personal gifts, which finally reached total of
SLIGO.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has adopted an caused
to be posted around the White House the fol-
lowing regulations in regard to public bust
ness, in his own personal convenience: "Hours
for the reception of visitors upon business by
the President are from 10 O'Clock a. m to 1
o'clock p. m. daily, except upon Saturdays
and Sundays and the days upon which Cabinet
meetings are held. The regular meetings of
the Cabinet ore at IL m. upon Tuesdays and
Fridays. All applications for appointment to
office must be presented at the proper depart
ment. Personal applications to the President
will not be considered" 1t is authoritatively
stated that the President does not desire to re-
ceive even members of Congress upon Satur
days and Sundays. He desires to have those
days to himself, The rooms of the house will
only be shown to visitors from 10 to any
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