Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-05
TIMELY TOPICS.
TIE rumor is not credited that Gladstone is
about to resign his premiership.

The rumor is not credited that Gladstone is
about to resign his premiership.
THE clergymen of Pittsburgh are reported
to have abandoned didactic and doctrinal
preaching to grapple with the sentiments and
passing events of the times.
FEBRUARY 81 Archbishop Purcell, Of Gin
He has most wonderfully sustained the strain
of the tremendous financial struggles through
which he has passed.
A CANADIAN court has just decided that a
pew-owner has right to sleep in church, and
to snore, without being molested in these
privileges. We believe the courts Of the
United States have not yet adjudicated the
point. What is law in Canada may not be law
this side of the line.
TIE Christian Advocate: A pathetic Incl
dent connected with the great fire in Park
Row was young Treadway's identifying the
otherwise unacceptable body of his brother
by his mothers sewing in the garments he
wore. Every stitch mother takes for her
CulluTtU IdStcuS bucLn uiOiC ClOSCly ~ AOA
heart.
JULIUS Cesar died in the year IA B. c., and
Jesus Christ was born IN either the fourth or
sixth year before the Christian era. Augustus
was Emperor of Rome at the time OF his birth.
Tiberius Claudius Caesar was Emperor at the
time that Christ said, "Render unto Caesar the
things which are Cesar's.'' Tiberius was
still Emperor at the time of the crucifxion
of Christ.
BISHOP WILLIAM MAY WIGHTNAN, of the
M. E. church, south, died recently in Charles
ton at the age of II years. He was licensed
to preach fifty five years ago, and was elected
bishop in 1866. After entering the ministry
he was successfully professor in Randolph
Macon college, Virginia; editor of the South
erm Christian Advocate; president of the Wof-
ford college. South Carolina; and chancellor
of the Southern university of Greensborough,
Alabama.
THE origin of the Order of the Garter. the
highest order of knighthood in the world i,
has been variously given. Popular tradition
ascribes it to Edward Ill, on the occasion of
court ball, at which he was dancing with the
Countess of Salisbury. The lady accidentally
dropped her garter; the King picked it up, and
observing the courtlers smile, restored it to
the Countess with the words: "Honi soft qui
NAL q pense," (evil be to him who evil thinks)
and shortly afterward founded the order as an
incentive to chivalry among his knights.
The REV. JONATHAN F. STEARNs, D. D.,
pastor of the First Presbyterian church, New
ark, N. j., having expressed a desire to retire
from his important charge on account of in
firm health, his congregation have arranged
salary of $4,000. The great usefulness of DR..
Stearns, his wisdom, worth and pulpit ability,
cause universal regret that he feels constrained
to retire from active service. He has been
the pastor of that venerable church more than
thirty years.
THEY love darkness rather than light be-
cause their deeds are-tricky! A spiritualist
medium" was giving seance in Brooklyn,
N. Y, a few evenings since, but just as a
''spirit" was about to "materialize" some
wicked disbeliever turned up the
gas and threw a food of light
upon the whole machinery of the
naturalization, and the imposture was reveal
ed to the CONSERVATION of believers, and the
horror of the false operators. Will this put
an end to naturalization? No; impostors will
still fatten on the credulity of their dupes.
RECENTLY the faculty Of Yale college pre-
scented to ex-Presldent Woolsey massive gold
medal, IN commemoration of the semi-cen-
tenary of his connection with the college.
The presentation was a complete surprise to
the eX-president. The medal, which was
struck in France, is over six inches in circun-
ference. One side bears the inscription: "Suo
Preceptori Preceptores Colegii Yalensis,
1S31-1SS1." The border represents laurel
wreath. On the reverse side is portrait of
ex-President Woolsey in profile, with the name
'Theodorus Dwight Woolsey" in the border.
Bronze copies of the medal were also struck
of, to be retained by the professors as memen-
toes.
Mr.. Min, the new fledged atheist, finds it
rather dull work to "pray' to nobody for
nothing, and as church cannot be main
tanned with no God in the universe, he is in
doubt what to do, whether to practice law or
60 upon the stage. Let him 60 on
the stage by all means. In simulated chat
acters, false representations, and shams he will
be in his true role. Nothing can become him
better than the character of har-
lequin. Nobody has ever sunk more rapidly
than this false priest. He goes down like lead
in water-the sensation of the curious for the
moment. By his bold, CHASTITY ayowal OF athe-
ism, he is already passing into obscurity and
contempt.
TEXAS is about to build new state capital
building, and proposes to have it solid, stately,
ornate and magnificent. It is to cost S2,0OO,-
600. Instead of taxing the people to pay that
sum, the legislature has appropriated and
made over to the contractors 3,O00,O0 acres
1 of land, making in territorial dimensions an
area as large as the state of Connecticut. Of
course capitalists will step forward in aid of
the contractors, and share in the possession Of
this land. It will 20 hard if this land does
not bring 81 an acre, and much of it more, SO
that the profit to the contractors and capital
lists will be very handsome, and the state will
not feel the burden. The contractors are said
to be Chicago men.