Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-26
him in wedlock. and at the time OF his death
was quite alone in the world.

THE wife OF the Chinese minister al Wash
ington lives in isolated, solitary seclusion
from the social life of that city, The national
law Of China compels women Of rank to keep
within their homes, and the wife OF the minis
ter here is compelled to obey the social laws
OF her own country. Mrs. Cheng Tsao ia
is the youngest and handsomest OF the
four wives of the minister, and the remainder
OF the quartette stay in China, while the young
wife comes to this country, to be held close
prisoner in the handsome residence of the le-
cation, while her husband enjoys the dinner
parties and social life in Washington. The
minister cannot speak word of English, but
takes his interpreter along, and the
society ladies of Washington enjoy many
an animated Irritation talk, with the hand
some Chinaman of rank, their conversation
spiced with sallies, repartees and laughter.
But the patient Chinese wife not only does not
60 into company, but receives no company at
all, and must not be allowed TO see any man
EXCEPT her husband. Il would diminish Wash
ington society scandal, some what, # some
other wives were restricted TO the Chinese
regimen.
TIE following epistle was taken by the first
Napoleon from the public records Of Rome,
when he deprived that city of so many valu-
able manuscripts. 1t was written al the time
and on the spot where Jesus Christ commenced
his ministry, by Publicus Lentulus. the then
governor of Judea, to the senate Of Rome =
Cesar emperor. Il was the custom in
those days for the governor to
write home any event Of importance which
transpired while he held Office. This IS the let
ter referred. to: 'Conscript Fathers.-There
appeared in these our days man named Jesus
Christ, who is yet living among US, and OF
the Gentiles is accepted as prophet of great
truth; but His own Disciples call him the Son
OF God. he hath raised the dead, cured all
manner OF diseases. He is man of stature
somewhat tall and eomely, with very rudy
countenance, such as the beholder may both
love and fear. His hair is the color of the
filbert when fully ripe, plain to his ears,
whence downward it is more orient of color,
curling and waving about his shoulders; in
the middle of his head is seam or PARTITION OF
long hair, after the manner Of the Nazarites.
HIS forehead is plain and delicate; his face
without spot or wrinkle, beautiful with a
comely red; his nose and mouth are exactly
formed: his beard is of the color of his hair,
and thick, not of any great height, butforked.
In reproving, he is terrible; in admOnishing,
courteous; in speaking, very modest and wise;
in proportion Of body, well shaped. None
have seen him laugh, but many have seen him
weep. A man, for his SURPRISING beauty, ez-
ceiling the children of men
ONE OF the daily papers in the city Of New
York states that ION June /, 1868, President
Lincoln issued his memorable proclamation
declaring the black race Free" This is NOT
precisely correct. The proclamation did not
declare the black race Free sThe proclama-
ton was war measure, and found
its justification in that fact. II
proclaimed the freedom OF slaves held in those
states and parts of states in rebellion, but ex.
cepted the city of New Orleans, and twelve
specified parishes of Louisiana besides; 1t also
excepted the forty-eight counties known as
West Virginia, and seven counties in old Vir.
GINA, and did not include within its scope The
slaves of Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee and
Missouri. These were not openly il
rebellion. but held from joining the confed'
racy, by federal arms, not by their own 10y.
atty. It was the thirteenth amendment to
the constitution that completed Mr.. Lincoln L
benign work, and declared the black race free.
for by that amendment slavery was abo-
lished throughout the United States
of America. There were at that
time thirtY-six states in the union, and
twenty seven, precisely ree-fourths, ratified
the amendment, and the secretary of state,
Dec. 10, 1866, made the official announcement
that the thirteenth amendment of the c0nsti-
tuition had been ratified by three-fourths Of the
states. It is, therefore, an error to suppose
that the proclamation, as benefcent, just and
necessary as it was, covered the whole ground.
It needed to be supplemented, as it was by the
thirteenth amendment, and then emancipation
was complete.
AN enthusiastic Boston lady, leader OF So
ciety in that cultured city comes to the rescue
of the licentlous Oscar Wilde, and writes:
Admitting that he is bad young man, still
to cut off even an offending member of society
from its best influences and most humanizing
resources is scarcely christian in any sense
Women, she says, are not merely ''the
guardians of the public purity" but they are
also "the proper representatives Of tender hope
and divine compassion" Consequently, ''ii
as alleged, the poison found in the ancient
classics is seen to linger too deeply in his
veins, should not prescribe for his case the
coarse jeering and Incorporate scolding go
easily administered through the public prints,
bat cordial and kindly intercourse with that
which is soundest, sweetest, and purest in our
own society," The critic Of the New York
Evsning Post, sharply raps the knuckles OF
the Boston lady society leader thus: "This is
a npw view of the relation which society
ought to adopt to the aesthetic. and that it
should exist at all, accounts, in a measure, for
the increasing seriousness Of the discussion
about him in New England. The suggestion
that the author may be made pure and good
by cordial and kindly intercourse with the
ladies OF Boston will probably make the young
man and his manager weep for JOY" Another
New York journal, of heightened morality, of
wide circulation, enjoying the respect and con-
fdence of all, sternly and justly says: "Can
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