Daily globe., 1882-08-13
SUNDAY GLoBELsrs.

some threat, have the appearance of not hear
ing it.
Man both by nature and destiny belongs to
the other world; as a spirit, he has aftinities
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 976 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 a
church edifce at Long Branch on a 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 q total Of s77,7S6.07 expended during
the past year % foreign missions andl siO,-
296.14 spent on home missions.
The Chicago Tribune thinks ''the German
Republicans are making an enorm ous blunder
in dragging the liquor question into politics.
and adds, 'sIt is mistake to suppo that the
Democratic party can ever be fully identified
with 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 Texsrkana,
Arkansas, 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 and with another sun
San Francisco is reported to have had
seventy-two suicides during the past
year, and inside of twenty years,
304. Debauchery and utter moral de-
moralization is believed to be the cause of self.
destruction in msjority Of cases rather than
financial disaster.
1t is not now decent to deny that Jesus IS
the son of God. An in6del is now regarded
as apublic 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 temperanbe 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
factor in party politics in these three, and
perhaps other states, as to cause unusual dis.
turbance in election results, at the fall elec.
tions.
The Rev. Levi Scott, D. D., senior bishop OF
the Methodist Episcopal church, recently de
ceased at the age of eighty years, was man oi
extensive learning, great executive ability
practical wisdom, and devoted piety. AS q
preacher he was solid and instructive. He
was universally beloved and respected in his
church, and his name will long be held in re-
membra
George Washington Ackerman, the janitor
of the State National bank at Elizabeth, n
j., was yesterday detected in a clever ruse
which has cost the, bank $4,000, A bit oi
string was run through an old gas pipe into
the cellar, communicating above with the
teller's drawer where it terminated in piece
OF lead covered with shoemaker's wax to
l ,aI- l.
drawer.
The Cincinnati Enquirer wants to know
what has become of the tramp. "He seems
to have disappeared from the shores of time p
it says, 'aud along with him the mysterious
chalk marks from the side of the barn and the
gate post. Perhaps he has gone into tenn
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 of
the Roman Catholic church, is now pending
in the superior court of Maine. priest has
brought suit against his bishop to recover q
balance alleged to be due him for erecting a
church. The bishop insists that the questions
in dispute between himself and the priest
should be determined by an ecclesiastical tri.
bunal, and is ayerse to having the case brought
before the civil courts.
1t is charged by one John II. Stone, lawyer
of Baton Rouge, that the state government oi
Louisiana is ruled by the lottery company, oi
which Charles Howard, Gen. Beauregard and
Gen. Jubal Early are the head eenters. Mr..
Stone also alleges that the press OF the state is
controlled bv the company, and that every
measure OF legislation is pooled with the gam.
bling concern. Why it is that lotteries ever
flourish in the South no one has yet ex.
planned.
The Paris Figaro gives the following recipe
for making free tour of the world: Adopt
the Jewish religion and go to Russia. Thence
you will be elected and forwarded by way oi
Lemberg to America by the emigration agent.
In America assume the garb and appearance
of Q Chinaman and you win be dispatched to
China. There give yourself out as Russian,
and you viii be returned TO that country, from
which you may again be expelled as Jew and