Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-26
CURRENT COMMENT.

CURRENT COMMENT.
THE New York World psrtinentiy says that
that city owes it to itself to crest a monument
to VIM. Cullen Bryant, the poet, but first Of all
tbs citizen whs is entitled to the distinction is
Peter Cooper, the philanthropist. Monuments
to Mr.. Cooper's great-hearted benevolence al
ready exist, but they were erected by Mr.. Cooper
himself. There is movement on foot to build
q Cooper monument, but it is not hourishing.
"a few contribution boxes" says the World,
throughout the city containing pennies, tooth
picks, buttons and cigaretts stumps tell how
soon good man is forgotten in the gave"
An this ia the old, the universal story. The
effort to secure fund for the Garfield monn-
ment is yet fresh memsry. At first it seemed
possible to secure any amount of money for the
purpose, SO much million of dollars, if re-
quired, and extensive plans were formulated
But the matter soon languished, and it was with
q great struggle that even small sum, one that
seems insignificant in the memo ~ of the early
glow, was secured. Mr.. Brya 1T needs no mon
ument of ''storied urn'' to perpetuate his fame.
That is secure in the hearts and the minds of the
generation of which he was part, and the foot
steps which he left upon the sands of time will
pass down to many generations yet to be. No
monument can add TO those already builded by
Mr.. Cooper. They are imperishable, and traced
upon each line ard pile is the legend that he
loved his fellow men. The people of the world
perhaps do not altogether forget, but they are
corless and their hearts cannot be contin Tally
pitched to the high key of sentiment How
Many years have passed and yet the Washington
monument is not completed, nor soon likely to
be. But what can it add to memory that lies
in every nind Of the subject in whose honor it
is reared. Who would not prefer to live in the
hearts Of his fellows for some deed done, some
word spoken, with memory spreading to many
lands ana made lustrous il many chimes, than
to have the sold, gray shaft raised in some iso-
lated spot merely to attract the gaze of the pass
er-by, without awakening single throb OF
braiaing solitary chaplet that nay touch the
heart or enzS BILE the SOUL
NEW YORK City has 5000 lawyers. Mr.. Conk-
ling, it is thought, makes 800, ESQ year; Mr..
Evsrts' finn have an income Of 5000; Lord,
Day & Lord, $65 900 (.his firm in the suit Of
Hicks vs. Lord had fee Of $1,000; Gen.
Rsger A. Pryor began in Now York without .
dollar and now has an income of $40, GOO; F. ".
Belts, sKd Dickerson & Dickerson, patent law
yers, have each $25,0ee a year; David Dudley
Field has made S11, 0e0, geo out of his profess
sion, and in fighting Tweed had fee of $780,
600. But these are only few Of the five
thousand, most Of whom have only modest in
GENES, and many OF whom are mere starvelings
The good lawyers do very well, the poor ones
badly enough, and there are too many, gssd,
bad and Indifferent.
THE leading Sunday paper of tLonden, Eng
TIE Observer, speaks harshly OF eur bright and
piquant Lolita. With coarse comment it
| charges upon her that she is old, vulgar and
| ungraceful, her voice grown harsh, aud that
! she is in every sense failure, Other of the
London Sunday papers talk of hsr in the same
! strain. Alas for Lolita. Had she remained
Miss Crabtree such treatment would net have
been measured out to her.
TIE Chicago Times rebIkss Oscar Wilde for
saying in q lecture In England, that the great
American game is suehre, for the true, virile
American soorns So frivolous and effeminats Q
game a. euchre but devotes himself 70 the en-
nobling poker, which Mr.. Wilde should know
Is the great game of this great and glorious
country. Oscar, it seems, was guilelsss All
Sin.-
NEW YORK paper reports that President
Arthur was completely overcome by the warmth
Of reception at the hands of the descendants Of
the Pilgrims in Brooklyn. he boldly pro
claimed himself son of New England, and his
response to the toast assigned partook Of the
nature Of fervent, pious prayer in behalf of
the society tia. furnished the dinner.
SOMEBODY having charged Senator Sabin with
being remarkably exttaysgsnt man, because
hs recently bought twenty-sight pairs of boots,
3 Chicago paper comes to the rescue with an
| authorized version" that he will give twenty
seven of them to the candidate who will start
next year from Chicago. Running fos presiden.
must be very trying to sole leather.
SUNSET Cox has lost his faith in the goodness
of h Imam nature, owing to his defeat for speak
er, ard his disappointment in regard to the pc
sltlon he coveted upon the committees. It's
ha d, but "a Ill that the clever congressman
must abide. Human nature IS no better nor
any worse than II some stAsr man had to bear
Nj. Co1's disappointment.
TEEEB New York policemen have been sent
to states prison recently, four more are IN jail
waiting to be tried for various crimes, and one
is to be hanged ext 2sath fer murder, AID
there are plenty rssre who ought to be in prison
| as several who deserve to ''stretch hemp New
York is an awful town.
FIVE thousand citizens joined IN givins, Geu-
ersl Hancock a glowing public reception a. San
Francisco. The general should not snisundsr-
stand this as beng a Pre4ider sial boor;. L
Is nsthing Of the sort.
TIE 1.tl Of January proxmo has been desia-