Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-01

PROFESSOR EsMARCH, surgeon of great
authority and reputation in Europe, has
printed for general circulation, a lecture
delivered by him on Kiel, reviewing the
surgical treatment of President Garfield.
He concludes that the wound was not nee
essarily mortal, that the cause of the sup
puration which led to fatal result was not
the bullet, but the repeated probing and
examination of the wound by fingers and
instruments not protected from septic in
lection by Listers method. He does not
think the splenic artery would have rup-
tured had not putrid suppuration been es-
tablished by this means. He refers to the
popular superstition that the bullet is the
cause of all danger in gunshot wound.
and asserts that had no search been made
for the ball, and the wound been properly
dressed so as to exclude germs, the presi-
dent would have been alive to-day. This
opinion of the eminent surgeon is full of
sadness, it excites no other than condem-
natory feelings.
The Presbyterian newspaper organ at
Chicago has the following: The Christian
Register, a Unitarian paper, ac-
knowledges the strength of the ''theologi-
cal grip" of Calvinistic theology upon
mems minds and characters-meaning by
the expression the terrorism. of evangelical
theology-but the editor thanks God that
the grip" is relaxing, and that no appeal
is made, in its communion, to the low mo-
tives of fear, but all to the winning inf1u-
ence of fatherly love. We have witnessed
the iron grip of Calvinism, and the not less
rigid grip of evangelical Arminianism dur
ing an average lifetime, and have also had
access to the moral influence literature of
Unitarianism and Universalism for nearly
as long period, and our testimony is that
the wonderful love, pity, forbearance, SYM
pathy-the sweetness and ight-of God, is
preached more fully, tenderly and consol-
ingly in the average evangelical pulpit
in one year than it is in any Unitarian pull
pit or publication in score of years.
CHARLES DICKENS had the faculty of
making his fictitious characters real to
himself. Writing of his public
readings from his own fctions, he
said that ''after hundreds of nights come
with feeling of freshness to that little red
table, and laugh and cry with my hearers,
as if had never stood there before" He
says: A necessity is upon me now-as at
most times-of wandering about in my old
wild way to think. hold nay inventive
capacity on the stern condition that it
must master my whole life, often have
complete possession of me, make its own
demands upon me, and sometimes,
for months together. put everything else
away from me. All this can hardly OK
pect you to understand-or the restlessness
and waywardness of an authors mind. 1T
is only half an hour."-''It is only an af-
ternoon'-"It is only an evening"" people
say to me over and over again; but they
don't know that it is impossible to CON-
mand ones self sometimes to any stipu-
ated and set disposal of five minutes -or
that the mere consciousness of an engage
ment will sometimes worry whole day.
A BEAUTIFUL painting has been discov-
cred in the ruins of Pompeii. It repre-
sents the judgment of Solomon, and is
said to be the finest picture on a sacred
subject that has been discovered in the
buried cities. A correspondent describing