Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-15
TIMELY TOPICS.

UNIQUE work is soon to appear, being
M less than a poem on Daniel Webster.
from the press of Charles Scribner's Sons.
New York, 1t is a vindication. land he
needs it, of the fame of Webster,
and as such recognizes the. that
n hostile sentiment abides in the public
mind against Webster. His detects. both
Of private and public character. are in
eradicable. and no effort of prose or poetry
CON ever efface them. What might have
hoer the brightest career and most unsul-
lied fame. rests in deep shadow. and may
so forever remain.
AMERICAN railroads have had bad name
in Europe. The popular idea Is that they
are smashing up continually. "hen Al
bert Edward visited this country In 1861,
his careful mother. Victoria, had his safety
insured by having pilot engine precede
every train on which he took passage.
There have been good many accidents on
our roads. it is true. some OF them utterly
without excuse. yet. considering the num-
her and length of our lines. they will sus-
tain a favorable comparison with those of
the Old World.
ApAMpHLEr has recently been published
IN Cincinnati entitled 1.-THE War of 1886
between the United States and Great
Britain" The satire predicts that the
war will be naval one exclusively and
that feet of English gunboats will sail
I'D the st. Lawrence into the upper lakes
and levy contributions upon Chicago and
the other rich cities. At the same time
another fleet will lay waste the sea coast
and assess the city of New York 500, OOO,-
400 and as the United States has no navy
there would be no means of deposition"
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES recently wrote
to lady correspondent in England thus:
1--WE are all burned up with drouth in this
part of New England, but we think more
of your country and its troubles than we
do of our brown fields and shrievelled har-
vests. We count every drop of English
blood that sinks into the sands of Egypt
almost as if it were from the veins of our
own countrymen. The understanding be-
tween the educated classes of the two
countries, and their sympathy with each
other, grow with every year. l have had
myself so many kindly tokens of regard
from England that l almost feel as If
had my home there
The Rev. Lyman Abbott, D. D.. has
written Life of Christ" and so extra
ordinary are It's merits that it has already
received a second edition. For popular
reading it is believed to be the best work
of its kind. \ critic says Of it: sit is not
so large, or so ambitious, Or so striking,
OF SO ornate, or SO elegant, or SO minute,
or so philosophical. Or SO poetical, as some
others; but it has a good infusion of all
the clements requisite to useful work on
the subject, and it is thoroughly interest
ing. We do not know where, within the
compass of $50 pages.a more scholarly,a c-
curate, thoughtful, rational, deyout and
graphic portrayal is to be found of the
person, chasaeter, service. and times of
our Lord.
The New York Independent, in it's issue
the next week after the nomination OF
Judge Folger, expressed the opinion tina.
considering his excellent character it
would be better to vote for him than to
defeat the Republican party in the state.
In its following issue, it honorably and
justly receded from its first position, and
pointedly and significantly said: ''Since
that time so much further evidence has
been accumulated of the atrocious forger-
les and frauds by which that nomination
was effected, and Of the objects which were
in view in securing 1t. that we can no lon
ger give even hesitating support to Mr..
Folger.' This is notable sample of the
sober second thought and sentiment of the
non-political, independent. patriotic and
moral portion of the community.
PETROLEUM V. Massey is travelling in Ger
many, and has written to his paper. The
Toledo Blade. series of letters concerning
what he has seen. About the eating OF
horse flesh he says: Il have a suspicion
however, that we have eaten it in hotels
and restaurants more than once. Is the no.
tel proprietor willing to pay twenty cents
a pound for beef for soups and stews when
horse can be had for four. especially when
no one can tell horse soup from beef? II
is an insult to his money making intelli
gence. Does any one suppose that the
manufacturer of sausage and other forms
of disguised meat is going to make hi
wares of all beef, when a very large per
centage of profit may be made by ju
diciously mixing them with horse meat
Go to-
The story that John Bunyan. the autho
of ''Pilgrim's Progress" was of gypsy orr
gin, is proven to be a fiction. The Rev
j. Brown, minister of the Bunyan church
Bedford, has made some discoveries among
the old records which seem to settle it tina
the fancy, which appears to have BEEF
started by Sir Walter Scott. that Bunyan'
family were gipsies. is without foundation
IN fact. He is able to prove from thes
documents-which include the wills o
Bunyan's father and grandfather-that tn
family (the name being then spelled Bon
yon), had been living in the same cottag