Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-05

day set apart for such purpose, unless the
bulk OF young college hoodlums are past pray
ing for. The indecent and riotous conduct of
college students is getting to be a marked fea-
ture in college life. The recent smashing OF
lamps and windows at Princeton is sample.
The practice of "hazing'' is disgrace to civ
ilization. The drunken orgies, and the strata
OF dissolute life in most of our colleges should
admonish parents of the hazards of college
life. Less boat racing and more morality is
an element most needed in our higher insti-
tutions of learning. The Princeton rowdies
who break lamps; the salacious rats of the
Burlington, Vermont university, who inveigle
young girls to go a coasting, and get them
drunk by filling them with wine, will make
careful and conscientious parents scrupulous
about sending their sons and daughters to
houses Of ill-repute, yeleped colleges. College
faculties seem to present no barriers, or to af
ford any adequate protection.
OSCAR WILDE, the SCI disont expert in
taste and high art, who is travelling in the
United States, and making laughing stock
OF himself generally, and who is character
lied as an "ungainly, kneebreeched young
Englshman," is, with both justice and sever
| ity, done for by the Critic, thus: 'We doubt
| if there are any persons in America who take
Mr. Oscar Wilde's present venture seriously.
| If there be such, they should be told that he
is ayoung gentleman of excellent parentage,
liberal education, and good parts, who is will
| ing to accept the financial rewards of an alb.
surd notoriety rather than of legitimate
reputation; who is travelling in this country
under the management Of the same agent that
runs the comic opera in which he is supposed
to be burlesqued; and who may be said to sue
cessfully represent nothing under the heavens
save an exceedingly thrifty egotism. Is it not
preposterous that such a man should go any
where-even to the jungles of South Africa
TO preach gospel of good taste?'
THERE is much interest excited by the rev.
Citations made by the hyeroglyphic readings of
NJ. Revellant, the distinguished Franco-Egyp-
tian scholar, bearing upon the various aspects
Of the social life and customs of the ancient
Egyptians, which have hitherto been I'M
known, and which supply a missing and very
important chapter in the history of that peo-
pie. The larger share of this information was
derived from legal documents, such as bonds,
contracts, settlements, deeds, ETC., and per-
tanned to the living. The London Times, to
which we are indebted for the information
contained in the first article, has printed a
second series of documents which pertain to
the Egyptian after he was dead, and these are
in TO way inferior in interest to the first.
These documents are selected from the
archives Of the Choachyte priests, and to fully
comprehend their purport it is necessary to
glance at the functions of these priests. The
preparation OF his sepulchre and the preserva-
ton of his mummied corpse were of first i'm
portance to every Egyptian, because his re-
ligious faith led him to believe that after a
certain period of trial he must return to this
world again, and that be could only attain
eternal rest with Osiris after many periods OF
probation in this world.