Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-13
SUNDAY GLOBELETJ.


with the unseen.
No matter what his rank or position may
be, the lover OF books Is the richest and the
happiest OF the children of man.
The liquor statistics OF Jersey City show that
there are now i,075 saloons in the city,
against go at the same period last year.
DR.. French, the Bishop of Lahore, has been
given the war medal for Afghanistan for hav-
ing ninistered under fire to the dying soldiers
during the campaign of 1sT9-Sl.
It is spoken of as worthy OF note that
church edi6ce at Long Branch on recent
Sunday, was occupied in close succession by
first Protestant, and second, by a Catholic
congregation.
The printed minutes of the last general as
sembly of the United Presbyterian church
show total of s77,736.O7 expended during
the past year on foreign missions andi 49,.
296. IA spent on home missions.
The Chicago Tribune thinks "the German
Republicans are making an enormous bluuder
in dragging the liquor question into politics.
and adds, SIT is q mistake to suppo that the
Democratic party can ever be fully identified
Win the liquor dealers cause.
Feeble intellects are more easily troubled
with doubts than are those great minds that
readily understand how far below the infinite
ranks the highest of the finite; that there may
be depths of knowledge into which angels
may desire to look and ret be able.
During recent thunder storm at Texqrkaua,
Arkansas, a large three-story brick building,
just finished, was struck by lightning, and fell
on the top OF a frame saloon, adjoining,
crushing it. Over thirty persons in the
saloon were killed and Others injured.
Hope is the rudy morning ray of Joy, says
Richter: recollection is the golden tinge; but
the latter is wont to sink amid the dews and
dusky shades OF twilight, and the bright blue
day which the former promises breaks, indeed,
but in another world aud with another sun.
San Francisco is reported to have had
seventy-two suicides during the past
year, and inside OF twenty years,
3O4. Debauchery and utter moral de-
moralization is believed to be the cause of self
destruction in majority Of cases rather than
financial disaster.
1t is not now decent to deny that Jesus IS
the son OF God. An inidel is now regarded
as public enemy. Christianity is accepted
as the religion of civilization. Science has
conspicuously failed in constructing the uni
verse without creator. aud education con-
fesses itself unable to teach in this world the
arithmetic OF heaven.
| The temperance question in Ohio, as in
Iowa, is entering largely as an element into
the political party contests this year, and Ne
braska stands in the same category. The tenn
perance question is getting to be so powerful
a factor in party politics in these three, and
perhaps other states, as to cause unusual dis
turbance in election results, at the fall cleo
tons.
The Rev. Levi Scott, D. D., senior bishop Of
the Methodist Episcopal church, recently de
ceased at the age of eighty years, was man Of
extensive learning, great executive ability
practical wisdom, and devoted piety. AS
preacher he was solid and instructive. He
was universally beloved and respected in his
church, and his name will long be held iu re-
membrance.
George Washington Ackerman, the janitol
of the State National bank at Elizabeth, n
j., was yesterday detected in a clever rus
which has cost the bank $4,000, A bit o
string was run through an old gas pipe into
the cellar, communicating above with thu
teller'S drawer where it terminated in a piece
of lead covered with shoemaker's wax L
which stray bills adhered when placed in the
drawer.
The Cincinnati Enquirer wants to know
what has become of the tramp. Gle seems
to have disappeared from the shores OF time, ,
it says, "and along with him the mysteriou
chalk marks from the side of the barn and tn
gate post. Perhaps he has gone into TEN
| porary retirement until after harvest. Maybe
he is gone. Our blessing go with him.
Perhaps the tramp, as well as the Ohio man
has gone to Illinois.
A nice legal case, involving the polity oil
the Roman Catholic church, is now pending
in the superior court of Maine. a priest ha
brought suit against his bishop to recover
balance alleged to be due him for erecting a
church. The bishop insists that the question:
in dispute between himself and the prizes
should be determined by an ecclesiastical tri
bunal, and is averse to having the case brought
before the civil courts.
It is charged by one John II. Stone, a iawye
of Baton Rouge, that the state government o
Louisiana is ruled by the lottery company, o
which Charles Howard, Gen. Beauregard anC
Gen. Jubal Early are the head eenters. Mr.
Stone also alleges that the press OF the state il
controlled by the company, and that ever.
measure OF legislation is pooled with the gam
bling concern. Why it is that lotteries evel
flourish in the South no one has yet ex
planned.
The Paris Figaro gives the following recip
for making a free tour OF The world: Adop
the Jewish religion and go to Russia. Themes
you will be elected and forwarded by way o
Lemberg to America by the emigration agent
In America assume the garb and appearances
of Chinaman and you will be dispatched te
China. There give yourself out as Russian
and you will be returned TO that country, from
which you may gain be expelled as Jew an,
returned to Austria.
The London Standard says that the domin
ant influences OF the day are uniformly hostile
to copious, and not too friendly to moderate
drinking. There are few English refreshmen