Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-12

of robert and Clara Schamann, 10 :sini,
Tbalberg, Spohr, Malibxen, Lsndseer and
others, many of them accompanied by
bits of music and sketches. On one page
are few words and the autograph of the
dying Chopin, feeble and wavering.
FROM Rome come particulars of an ex
traordinary crime or accident in small
village in Sicily. A young priest by the
name of Failla, at the moment he raised
the wafer to his lips in the celebration of
the mass was conscious of an intensely
bitter flavor in his mouth. He thought
little of it, however, and at the conclusion
of tn eservices went home without making
an inquiry. But almost Immediately
afterward he was seized with a burning
thirst and acute pains in his breast and
stomach, and within an hour died in ex-
treme agony. The priests blameless
character and peaceful life seem to forbid
the superstition that he had an enemy in
the village, and at last accounts the natu-
raj suspicion that the wafer had been
poisoned was entirely uncon6rmsd.
The CHURCH Union: It is strange that
the preacher of the old-fashioned doctrines
of sin, and its eternal penalties, should be
viewed with disfavor when the novelist and
dramatist find ''the armament ablaze with
admiration" at their equally lurid pictures
of the workings of guilty conscience.
Professor Phelps in his new portfolio
says that from Eschylus to Shakespeare
dramatic tragedy aiscloses sin and tho
clamor of conscience in tne same way that
old-time theology has indicated, and not
otherwise could genius keep literature true
to the facts of life. The Marble Faunn
with no theological intent, puts on the
canvas with the same lurid coloring the
biblical idea of Gods wrath against sin
manifested in an awakened conscience
So, in Holiness "Elsie Venner" and George
Elot's 'Middlemarch" the facts which
interpenetrate and characterize the aBlood
The ology," stand out in vivid prominence.
New YORK Tablet: A notorious den of
vice was opened in London a few DAVIS
since to the intense delight of English roues
and debauchees. Worse still, the place is
authorized by law to do the DEVILS work.
The establishment had been closed for
about two years. During that period the
frequenters of the den IN question made
night hideous with their orgies in the ad-
joining streets. This notorious den is
known as the "Argyle Rooms" Of course.
there are infamous resorts as bad as this
in England's metropolis which reek with
crime of the worst kind, and where iniquity
burns out all that is good and pure in hu-
man nature; but that such place should
be sanctioned by law in the very shadow
of the throne is something that is sufficient
to horrify II. W. Beecher himself. It is
no wonder that British morality is at such
a low ebb when the law itself tends to nur-
ture effeminacy, to legalize vice and en-
snare innocent victims till they are utter
ly lost to society and God. And this in
1.-THE great center of civilization sancti-
imonious, Bible-reading England!
THOSE who have interested themselves
LII SuO HuCoUAOA VI OdrWluS CQTlS-
tianity may like to read letter written to
a student of the University at Jena, which
we find in the Observer: SIR: am very
busy, and am an old man in delicate
health, and have not time to answer your
questions as fully, even assuming they are
capable of being answered at all. Science
and Christ have nothing to do with each
other. except in as far as the habit of sci
entitic investigation makes man cautious
about accepting any proofs. AS far as 1
am concerned, do not believe that any
revelation has ever been made. With re-
gard to a future life. every one must draw
his own conclusions from vague and con-
Trajectory probabilities. Wishing you
well, remain, your obedient servant,
CHARLES DARWIN.
Down. June 5, 1879.
This, if true, puts an end to the sYecu-
lation about Mr.. Darwin's being a Chris
tian' And where does it place Henry
Ward Beecher, who is an ardent admirer
and disciple of Darwin?
HE dowager duchess of Galleira not
long since bestowed two splendid estates
on the pope. The way the old lady be-
came so rich is curious. The late duke
possessed a fortune of 3OO.OOO,OOO francs.
which would by the ordinary course of
devolution, 60 to his only son. The heir,
however, in his fathers lifetime declared
that he intended to renouncc the world.
He went, in his twentieth year, into the
territory of Nice and applied for a situa-
ton as village schoolmaster. His father
regarded the thing las mere freak, and
sent his son every year 100000 francs.
The young man, however, sent this sum
every year to Paris, requesting it should
be expended on the poor. After three
years the minister of public instruction,
finding out who the schoolmaster at Nice
was, appointed him to high oficialypost,
and his father dying about the same time
he became the duke of Galleira and owner
of immense wealth. He declined the post
and allowed his mother to use the fortune
without interference, content with his posi-
ton and income as teacher at Nice.