Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-15

more citizen influence, less corruption and
farce, and more sagacity, magnanimity and
patriotism.
A PITHY writer speaking of Homer's
phrase, "winged Winds" claims this as Pc
culiarly the property of the Greek language.
Latin, he says, marches; italian floats; French
hops; English walks; German 1umbles along.
Klopstick's German hexameter, he adds, is
not unlike the tune with which broad
wheeled wagon tries to solace itself when
crawling down hill.
The London Times gives an account OF
new experiment with the electric light. It
was the running of special train from
Brighton to Victoria ard return, with a car
riage lighted with stored electricity. It says,
while the event was noteworthy III itself, it
may come to possess an historical interest,
since it is the first time, either in the old
world or the new, that accumulated electric
energy has been SO Employed; while the COM
plete success which attended the experiment
must unquestionably make new era in rail
way management.
DEATH often comes to men in striking
and dramatic character, hurting them from
lives of activity and usefulness in mid-career.
To illustrate: short time ago, Rev. E. D.
Slayer, pastor of the Baptist church in Wood
stown, N. j., went into his pulpit on Sabbath
morning IN apparent good health. In the
midst of his sermon he wavered and stag
gered back to the sofa. Men rushed to his
assistance. He SAID: "Let me have a little more
time. must warn Them" and was dead. His
wife and children were in the congregation.
Their grief and anguish, and the CONSERVATION
OF the congregation may be imagined.
ScovILLE has accepted the offer of 81 200 for
the body of Guiteau, the purchaser to pay
the money now, and to run the risk of OBJ
tanning the body. The object is supposed to
be speculation, to embalm the body and place
it on exhibition to crafty morbid curiosity.
A contemporary says the government will own
the body after hanging, and contends that it
ought to be Immediately buried, with suf-
ficient quantity of quicklime to reduce it to
an inpalpable substance, as there is not, and
should not be, in the whole world, room,
enough for the preservation of such foul
carcass.
HEBER DONALDSON, member Of the Presby-
terrain church at Emlinton, Pennsylvania,
danced last April. He was cited before the
session on charge of infracting Claw and
USAGE" and was unanimously suspended from
communion. He appealed to the presbytery.
The action of the session was sustained, TWEEN
ty-two to one. He appealed to the synod and
the decision was against him, seventy-three to
twenty. He now appeals to the general as
sembly, which meets in May next, and that
body will, no doubt, sustain its lower judi
catories. What does Mr. Donaldson hope to
gain by dancing attendance on these several
religious bodies? Probably, like the assassin,
Guiteau, is after notoriety.
DIR. WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, the eminent
physician and surgeon of New York, takes
pains to air his profundity on the effects of
narcotics on the human system by statement
written for publication. that he smokes eight
cigars after supper, and says they "make him
wiser man." On the contrary, distinguish
ed medical men of every school, such as Drs.
Agnew, Hamilton, Olcott, Barnes, Woodward,
Rush, Hosack, Harvey, Mott, and the like,
allapathic, homeopathic, hydropathic, and
eclectic, denounce the practice of smoking and
warn the community against it. DR.. John G.
Warren, the highest medical authority in Bos-
ton, says that after thirty years experience
and investigation of the subject, he has found
that it was the exception where cancer of the
tongue and lips did not occur from the use of
tobacco.
HENRY WARD BEECHER in a late sermon in
his pulpit in Plymouth church produced sensa-
ton by denouncing and objurgating the dog
ma of ''eternal punishment" He said: III
believe in future state of retribution, but
believe it is remedial. What the end will be I
do not know, for cannot see the beginning;
but that punishment will continue after it can
no longer do good, or that it will be made
everlasting do not believe. God do SO to me
and more, if ever preach that or counter
ance it in any way whatever. For Gods own
sake, for the sake of everything that reason,
conscience and benevolence justiies, would
clear Gods skirts of every such aspersion.
Penalty so long as it continues to do good,
then humiliation if you believe it, but eternal
punishment, never
THE Protestant clergymen under the shadow
OF Yale college, New Haven, do not ppear
to have the most exalted opinion OF the work
of the revisers of the New Testament. At a
meeting recently held they expressed much
dissatisfaction with it. While all present, it
is stated agreed in the desirableness of the re-
vision, of King James translation, they
were equally unanimous in the opinion that
the recent revision is too faulty to warrant its
adoption. The New Haven divines objected to
the bad English, and Rev. DR.. Todd, of the
Church of the Redeemer, GpiscopaD, said he
had counted one hundred and fifty specimens of
this character in one of the epistles to the Cor
rinthians alone. Others criticised it in the
same direction. On account of this fault, re-
garded as serious one, no church in New Ha-
ven, it is added, has adopted the revised edi-
ton for use in public worship.
GRAVE robbing as a matter of profit is car
ried on more extensively than the public are
aware of. Medical colleges afford the induce
ment. But the ghouls are adopting new line
of policy, and the bodies of prominent indi-
viduals are now stolen to gain large ransoms
for their recovery. The first case of note was