Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-19

| HON. DAVID DODLEY FIELD, OF New York,
recently appeared by invitation before the Sc
lect committee of the congressional House OF
Representatives, on "the law respecting the
election of President and Vice President"
| A DISTINGUISHED author says: 1.-THE trne
law of the human race is progress and devel-
Opment. Whenever civilization pauses in the
work of conquest it is overthrown by the bar
barian." And Goethe remarks, Mature
knows no pause in progress and development,
and attaches her curse to all lnaction."
| WRITER in the London Truth says: II do
! not quite understand upon what principle
| Prince Leopold has been made colonel. He
| is not soldier, and does not, I presume, in,
tend to become one. The Prince of Wales has
military rank, because eventually he will, if
| he survives the Queen, be the commander of
! the army. The Duke of Edinburgh is a sailor
by profession, and the Duke of Connaught is
| soldier by profession. There may be a valid
reason for making Prince leopold a colonel,
| but fail to see it, and it seems to me that he
might just as well have been made a bishop or
a queens counsel"
OLD CANosH, an Indian chief OF once
powerful tribe, was once asked upon what
terms he would abstain from slaughtering
emigrants who had occasion to cross his ter
ritory grounds, and replied: TELL the presi-
dent that if he will send me gold watch, two
good wagons, four sets of nice harness, ten
well-made copper kettles, fifteen of the best
rifles, good suit o. clothes, three handsome
white women for wives, and $4,000 in gold, /
will promise not to slaughter another emf
grant till next year." That seems to have
been very moderate and reasonable demand
for o stalwart savage
CARDINAL DE BoNNECHosE: 1--WE see the
supreme pontiff despolled of his temporal
power, confined within the walls OF the Vati-
can, and consequently captive. Alive, he
cannot issue from his palace to preside over
the august ceremonies Of religion, or to visit
his churches and people without exposing
himself to the insults Of the secretaries who
have mingled with the Roman population.
Dead, his ashes are insulted and threatened
with being thrown into the Tiber. The out
world shudder, is the most significant and
sinister of lessons"
PuMpBRNICKEL bread is esteemed in Virginia
City, Nev. The Territorial Enterprise says:
We yesterday tasted some of it that had been
baked nine years, and apparently it was the
same as though prepared but the day before.
1t would be just the kind of bread to carry to
the Arctic regions, rs it would never freeze;
there is not L particle OF moisture in it to
freeze, and yet it is very easily masticated, and,
beng dropped into coffee or tea, becomes very
soft at once. AS regards the pumpernickel,
though most persons call for that which is
fresh, it is best when some three weeks old,
and it is for that kind that people from the
Fatherland inquire.
THE UNITED States congress can, If it will,
entirely and thoroughly exterminate poly
gamy in Utah. But there must be no tenn
porising, no com promising. Legislation must
be sharp, decisive, well conceived and to the
point. And enactments once made must be
executed promptly, vigorously and in dead
earnest. In this way, and in no other, can
this monster relic of barbarIsm be banished
from the land and a corrupt band of bogus re-
ligionists headed off in the practice of their
vile and filthy inquities. Will such laws be
enacted and inforced? Certainly they will, if
our representatives have due regard to the I'M
anlmous sentiment of the country outside of
Utah, and to the wish of large portion Of
the people of Utah itself, and to the united
voice of all christendom.
WHILE at Rotterdam a travellers guide
calls the attention of his party to the expul-
sion scene from Paradise, with which church
pulpit is decorated. do you observe any
popularity about its' asks the guide. "No;
nothing" "Well don't you see that Adams
chin has been shaved?' Sure enough; the
artist, who must have been something of q
barber, had lapsed lnto..a sort of tonsorial an
achronsm, scraping the first fathers chin off
very clearly, while investing him with we'll
defined pair of mutton-chop English side-whis-
kers. The guide, despite his travel and prof.
cheney in modern languages. retained his native
Holland simplicity unimpaired. cit is all
wrong" explained he, with serious earnest
ness: s'it was q mistake of the artist. Adam
did not shave himself, of course; in fact, if
you come to think of it, in those days there
were no raZors.''
THE length to which bigotry will carry
zealots, whose heads are crowded to crankl-
ness with the zone idea'' that they glory in,
was illustrated in the speech of clergyman
at one Of the recent prohibition meetings in
Boston. He favored stationing spoilers at
the polls, to mark church members who voted
against prohibition, with view TO denying
them the sacrament" This is the identical
spirit that roasted and tormented men "for the
glory of Godr'' To differ with man who
shuts his eyes to the facts OF human nature
and the uniform results of experiments to CO.
cree communities into virtue, as TO the best
methods for lessening the evils of intemper-
ance, is to invite his maledictions as "a friend
of the rumshops" And still some people
wonder why the professional reformers do
not make more Roadway with their patent
plans for regulating the world by a fat.
THE "REv." Mr.. MILNE, of Chicago, is
surprised that his church 1.-THE Unitarian, for
merry Mr.. Collyer's) do not want his services
any longer. He is one of the advanced think
ers" of the age, and why he should claim the