Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-18

CHESTERFIELD: The scholar without
good breeding is pedant; the philosopher,
cynic; the soldier, brute, and every
man disagreeable.
MAssILLoN: God should be the object of
all our desires, the end of ali our actions.
the principle of all our affections, and the
governing power of our whole souls.
HARE: Handsomeness is the more ami
NAL excellence; beauty the more magma
tive. A handsome Madonna l cannot con-
ceive, and have never seen a handsome
Venus; but have seen many handsome
country girl, and few very handsome la
dies.
CoLER1DGE: The happiness of life is
made up of minute fractions-the little,
soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, smile,
heartfelt compliment in the disguise of
a playful raillery, and the countless other
infnitesimals of pleasant thought and
feeling.
Father st. Cyr, an octogenarian Jesuit
priest, who first introduced religion TO
Chicago, when it was an Indian settle
ment, died few days ago IN South ST.
Louis.
The Free church of Scotland is still ex-
ercised over the ''organ question:" and it
is said that the next general assembly will
receive protest against the use of instru-
mental music in the churches, signed by at
least 100000 persons.
There are over 1000 savings institutions
in Italy, and the total deposits show that
the people are saving at the rate of about
$15,0O0,0OO a year There are now on de-
post almost $2OO,OOO,OOO, represented by
almost 100000 books.
Two youngsters arraigned before a New
York police court admitted that they had
stolen tin kettle, sold it for fifteen cents,
and divided the money. "What did you do
with the odd cent?" asked the court eve
bought a cigarette and broke it in two,'
said one youngster.
A prominent Democrat recently said that
Fifteen years ago the Democratic party
took out patent for being fools and now
they are at Washington trying to get re-
ISSUE" This was said in reference to the
course of the Democratic members of con-
gress Oh the tariff question.
A noble lord asked a clergyman once at
the bottom of his table why the goose, if
there was one, was always placed next to
the parson. Really" said he, 81 can give
no reason for it; but your question is SO
odd that 1 shall. never see a goose again
without thinking of your lordship."
A Presbyterian Home Mission in Alaska,
known as the mcfarland Home" at Fort
Wrangle, was burned to the ground last
month. The inmates all escaped, but the
furniture, clothing, supplies, ETC., were all
destroyed. Temporary shelter was afford
ed in former government hospital.
No mortgage debt on a single Presby-
terrain church in Nebraska. There are in
Nebraska about 16O churches. of which per-
haps half have edifces. But the church
erection board helps most of them in
building, and by paying last bills, is able
to do great deal to keep the churches out
of debt.
A correspondent in the London Times
says that Switzerland is the most drunken
nation in Europe, corroborating the asser-
ton by the alleged fact that, in proportion
to its population, it annually consumes
larger amount of intoxicating liquors than
any other European nation. 1t manufac-
lures wine.
Bishop Whipple, on a recent visit to the
Indian department of his missionary do
cese, administered the communion to 247
Chippewa Indians. Fifteen years ago
there was scarcely one communicate among
them. There are now eight churches in
Chippewa mission, and one now building
will cost $4,000.
A Southern correspondent says that
there are three seasons in FIorida-the
orange, vegetable and invalid season-and
that the last named pays the best. Some
body had said before him that in the sum-
mer, the natives of the state live on sweet
potatoes and sugar cane, and, in the winter,
on Northern visitors.
An astronomically inclined lawyer of
Pesth has bequeathed $500 to the Hungarian
academy of science, to be offered as
prize for the best solution of the question
how the inhabitants of the earth may be
enabled to communicate with those of the
moon. Anglo Saxon law would hardly
sustain such bequest.
A Philalel l'hia tenor took place in a
church choir under his own name, and in a
negro mirs~'Hl company at the same time
under an assumed one. But the double
salary did not last long, for persons from
the church recognized him through the
burnt cork at the show,andhe was excluded
from the choir gallery.
Congressman Van Aernam recently said
81 attended the memorial services of
Abraham Lincoln in 1866, and those of
Garfield IN 1881. OF the 400 great men
who were present on the former OCCASION.
only nineteen we're gathered at the latter.
In sixteen years political generation has
passed away. We live and die rapidly on
Capitol Hill"
custom house officer at Calcutta find
ing some vases with nude female figures
upon them, confscated them as Immoral -
He subsequently learned that they be-