Daily globe., 1882-04-30

Die illustrations that might be siyeu. the fol.
owing is presented from -he;.ns ionrnal:
lis reported that Me Aca,s. church in
Washington city propo ~ to mortgage it's
property ana oniid IA - to make income, of
course, to do goo'A Wa kuew Baptist
IN one oI our cities that did this some
Time ago. and the mortgage thus Incurred
was .nc eAc Ase to keep of oil applications
LOT Dehe SoAenee. and finally by that said
piece 4 worldly wisdom tho congregation
cam Anenr losing beautiful church edifoe.
>csides sacrificing the valuable and beautiful
plat which had surrounded it. Never since
the devil tried to induce our Lord to accept
oil the kingdoms OF the world has it been wise
for churches to 60 into real estate specula-
tiop.
To be president OF college is 80 giided
vanity" and often a vanity, without the
gliding, according to the NafionaI Baptist,
which says, speaking of University presi-
denc1, lately offered 10 one Of its clergymen:
''It ia gilded vanity; it sometimes is only the
vanity without the gliding. 1t means doing
your full work at home, going all over crea-
tion to collect money, and then giving all
your salary to the endowment, and having to
60 everywhere to preach ordination eermors
at your own proper cest and charges, and to
address educational meetings, and then having
to support your family at odd epells. The
only compensation is, that when You drop
dead In your tracks they give you very large
funeral" The prospect Of big funeral as a
reward, would seem to be hardly an adequate
inducement to assume the honors-a ghostly
climax at the best.
THE Philadelphia Press entered upon the
enterprise Of issuing Sunday edition one
year ago, and the undertaking, in the staid
old Quaker city, has secured both popularity
land success. The Sunday papers of that city
had been previously of low, immorally SEN
sational, vicious character, such as respecta-
BILE people disliked to patronixe, but were
obliged to take them, or 20 without desirable,
and often :mportan. current news. The Press
has changed all this, producipga Sunday is
sue in all respects unobjestionable, and filed
with important, entertaining and instructive
reading. The sensational sheets alluded
Ss iS Ho" Ieao ohAf W %
limited extent, and by class
generally. who like garbage better than refine
ment. The Philadelphia Sunday Press is q
model of what q Sunday paper ought to be,
at once chaste and delicate in its selections and
atterances, and instructive and entertaining in
all its columns. Such journal ought to be
welcomed and have free admission into every
| ;cr;o Cow 1ry
the appreciation OF the general public. Such
Journal is second only in its benign influence
to the influence of the pulpit, if, indeed even
second to that.
GEORGE r. GRAHAM now lies seriously i'll
with age and disease in st. Michael's hospital,
Newark, New Jersey. In 1S4l he Issued
"Graham's Magazine" in Philadelphia,
as the successor of the "Gen-
tleman's Magazine" published by William
z. Burten, the comedIaa and author.
Mr.. Graham employed c j Peterson as edi-
tor, and Edgar Allen Poe, the poet, as assist
ant. Longfellow, Bryant, Lowell. James, Poe.
j. Fenimore Cooper, the novelist, and all the
best poets and novelists OF that day were paid
contributors. Mr.. Graham paid as high as
$50, 600 year for contributions. For Long
fellows "Spanish Student" alone, he gave
$50. Poe, by his dissolute habits, gave Mr..
Graham great deal of trouble, but he was
too valuable to be dispensed with,
and hence Mr.. Graham bore with
him. The largest sale of any number
of the magazine was that which contained
Poe's story OF Character from Chirography." :"
A movement is on foot by literary and
wealthy gentlemen to give Mr.. Graham an
easy position in Philadelphia in his old age
for the remainder of his life. Philadelphia
could not well do more graceful act than
thus to provide for an old citizen who did SO
much in the years long gone to elevate the
the literary character of that city.
TIE London Vanity Fair. makes heavy
lunge at Americas great Professor of Poker
the Hon. Robert G. schenck, late minister to
England. 1t seems the honorable gentleman
did not SO much distinguish himself in diplO
macy as in the highly @sthetic science of Poker
Indeed, he became an author. he wrote book
which is an authority in 1.-THE gambling helis."
Is the worthy gentleman satisfied with his
achievements and honorsf Vaaity Fasr has
this to say of the once familiarly known
"Bob Schenck," and Of his influence on
English society. 1t says: "Fashionable society
does not improve. Ii is as goddess now as in
the old Roman Empire. The element Of chance
in poker playing is the same in many kinds of
speculation. Gen, Schenck's book ON "poker"
was the most famous thing he achieved as
minister to England. Gambling is now carried
on in New York as never before Judges OF
the supreme court can issue orders in It's inter
est. Gambling always had o peculiar faseina-
ton for women. Suicide waits on the
gambling table, because the gambler became
reckless before be began. Nothing Is more
demoralising than gambling. Church raffles
are the DEVILS Internal machines; they come in
like harmless amusements, bnt they appeal to
the same passion which fills the gambling
saloon and the policy shops. Art raflles, like
church rafles, are Satan coming as an angel
of light.
EMIGRATIoK is believed to be the only
safety valve for the densely and vastly
oven populated cities and provinces of the
German Empire. A contemporary has this
to say: OF the large cities in Europe, Berlin
ranks ufxt in siSa ia Inndon and Par;s-the