Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-28
TIMELY TOPICS.

A VIENNA journal, in publishing the news
of the death of Darwin, apologi5edfor speak
ing of politics at all in its "columps on day
when humanity has suffered SO great loss"
WITH the close Of last month, the law,
whichhas existed in the state OF Virginia for
the past four years, establishing the whipping
post as an instrument for the punishment OF
petty larceny, expired.
"GoD tempers the wind to the shorn lamb"
is found in Lawrence Sterne's "Maria," A
hundred years before Sterne Frenchman,
Henri Estienne, said the same thing, translat-
ed by Herbert thus: ITO close shorn sheep
God gives wind by measure" Sterne's form
of the epigram is far the most euphoneous.
JUDGE WYLIE, of Washington, in recently
sentencing young man to the penitentiary,
said that every parent in the land should put
his foot down on the trade organizations and
combinations, which have the effect of bring
| ing skilled labor here from abroad and prevent
| boys from becoming apprentices, and thereby
cause universal idleness among them, which
both tempts and drives them to crime.
COUNT ORsI, who is now seventy four years
old, but still alert and merry is in the habit Of
illustrating Prince Louis Napoleon's obstin-
| acy by story of his behavior at the time the
attack on BouIogne failed. The princes COM
rades had to carry him away by main force.
He made up his mind to die, rather than to
yield his chance of accession to the imperial
throne; and he chung SO desperately to the
ratings of the column commemorating the
assembling of his uncle's army that it took a
half-dozen of his companions to wrench his
hands away
| The publishing house of the Southern
Methodist church at Nashville has liabilities
of over 100000 above its assets and this is
due to the administration and frauds OF
Rev. A. Fl. Redford,D D., the trusted agent of
the concern, who has shown himself to be awolf
in sleeps clothing, like many another pious
rascal. The report gives detailed account
of his management, manipulatiens and pecu-
lations. Thus the prestige of the church is
lowered, its influence impaired, and Christian
i:y itself made to suffer by the conduct of false
and Ubiquitous professors.
THE ex-king of Naples has been living in
Paris, in a fashion better suited to modest
grocer than to royal parsonage. His home
has been a small furnished apartment on the
| third floor Of far from magnificent hotel.
When he was dethroned, all his jewelry and
money we're confscated, as well as the person
| al property bequeathed him by his mother.
His wife, one of the best and gentlest of wo-
men, has lately visited Italy and had an inter-
view with its ruler, and it is said that King
Humbert has used his influence with the Ro-
man cabinet and restitution OF the confscated
property is to be made.
| THE Christina (Unitarian) Register says OF
the Andover professors statement of their
views: "The professors make the remarkable
statement that the questionings of to-day in
Christian hearts respecting the doctrine of
eternal punishment are consequence Of the
elevating and spiritualiziDg power of the Cos
pel.' Yet, we suppose, this is not to be
understood as any concession to the truth OF
| Universalism, since they are pledged to oppose
y.
| full text of the creed, the statement Of the
professors is certainly remarkable docu-
ment."
THE Charleston Is. CO. Netos thus gives
the Southern side Of the story of the indig-
nifty offered Bishop Payne, Of the African
Methodist Episcopal church: "Bishop Payne
had second class ticket and went into first
class car When the conductor came to him
and took his ticket he told him he must go
| into the second-class car. The colored bishop
| became very angry, and said if he could not
ride in first class car he would not ride any
| where; and. although he was told he might
ride to the next station, he refused to do so,
and despite remonstrances got off the train
and walked back to Jacksonville, where he
| had got on
The report of the committee OF the senate
recommending an amendment to the national
constitution, giving suffrage to women, has
thrown the woman suffragists into ecstatic
| delight. They feel that they have scored one,
and that day light is breaking. The action of
the committee, however, only serves to show
more palpably the deep, dense, darkened
gloom. Let the woman's rights women
bear in mind that the measure passed the COM
mittee by only majority of one, and that
there is not a ghost of chance for it to pass
congress. And yet the woman suffragists
may think it marks progress, while those who
favored the action, were impelled only by
hollow pretense, intended to amuse the ladies,
without advancing their cause.
a WASHINGTON correspondent writing
about the dead letter office, gives the follow
ing interesting particulars: "At the dead let
ter office 1900 letters are the average daily
received. They are first put in packages of
100 letters, and sent to eight persons, who
take once about 800 letters each day, and
send them TO The class to which they belong.
Here sits young woman with badly directed
letters and books of reference on her table.
There was pile of letters with no state on
them. If the county be on them, by refer
ence she can add the state. One was directed
to q college student. She fonnd the college
and added the town and state. But the sad
dest of all are the poorly written letters, with
the hard-worked for and carfully boarded up
money, sent with generous words to the needy,