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

he thereupon resigned his position-not
as custom house inspector, but as a GEN.
sor of morals.
In Virginia church, while preacher
was delivering sermon on the 'Prodigal
Son." young man in the congregation
jumped up, and pulling out his six-shoeter
shouted, Il will not stand these reflections
on me-" He threatened to shoot the par
son if he continued his remarks. and
pious members of the congregation had to
take the young man in hand and lead him
gently to the door.
An antiquated preacher of the Free
Kirk, of Scotland, in a sermon referring to
the Introduction of an organ into a neigh
boring Established church declared that
"soon they would get concert every Sab.
bath in the old kirk. The devil would have
| his bandmaster there to discourse music to
them on the organ, and the captain, like a
cursed pirate, would hoist his false colors
| to lure souls to destruction"
The Michigan law which opens the prac-
tice of medicine to anybody who cannot
make living peddling tin pans or saving
| wood is again responsible for the loss of
human life. A quack doctress diagnosed
malignant scarlet fever as "spasms," and
failed to report the case. The patient died, of
course, and the disease is spreading in De-
troit, where the patient lived, and in
Eaton Rapids, whence the corpse was
sent.
Dean Afford relates that the following
brilliant notice to conductors and engine
drivers was conspicuously posted at an
English railway station: thereafter when
trains moving in an opposite direction
approaching each other on separate lines,
conductors and engineers will be required
to bring their respective trains to a dead
halt before the point of meeting, and be
very careful not to proceed unti each trail,
has passed the other"
1t is the testimony of veteran lobbyists
that the regular appropriations of the past
session of congress were filed with jobs as
never before. They assert that the jobs
which heretofore have been ground out in
special bills or tackled on to various meas
ures which afforded a hiding place, have,
as if by common understanding, secured
berths in the regular appropriation bills.
In nearly every instance these bills have
received their finishing touch from the
hands of conference committees.
. The Rev. j. w. Butler, writing from the
Methodist mission at Mirafores, Mexico,
says: ga Mexican Roman Catholic with
whom have been on friendly terms some
time, and to whom l once spoke of our
schools, called and gave me $50 towards
the repairs of the schools under my charge
and 500 to be distributed among the
worthy poor of the congregation. Surely
times have changed in Mexico when Ro-
man Catholic will voluntarily place $3.50 in
the hands of Protestant pastor for his
work."
This is the greeting which a Texas paper
extends to new pastor: "The Rev. Mr.
Glass, the preacher for the ensuing year,
has come. He has pretty good clothes,
doubtless purchased with means saved by
systematic starvation from his salary last
year, for he looks little lank 1t is, per-
haps, quite proper that the world and es-
pecially his church members, should take
his good clothes into consideration and
deadbeat the Lord this year. There is
nothing more to be appreciated than free
The story of Mr.. Forster's escapes from
assassination, as told by the Phoenix park
murderers, is one of those truths which are
stranger and more romantic than fiction.
Six times the conspirators lay in wait for
him, and six times their schemes were de-
feated. Once the appointed signals we're
not given: again the secretary took an I'M
expected road; on other occasions some
equally slight circumstances interfered to
save his life; and on the night of his de-
parture from Ireland, when fifteen armed
''invincibles" followed him to the railway
train, he escaped by taking a different
carriage from that occupied by his wife
and daughter.
A IMAM without a country is about to
appear before French court for the pur-
pose of having a country assigned to him.
His name is Gillebert, he was born at
Wazemes near Lille, and his father was born
at Belgium at time when Belgium formed
part of French territory, On the ground
that he was not a French citizen he was ex-
PEELED from France for menacing the local
authorities of a French commune and
escorted to the Belgian frontier His case
was taken up in the Belgian chamber, and
the ministery declared him to be a citizen
of France. He has therefore returned to
France and caused himself to be arrested
for violating the decree of expulsion, in
order that his nationality may be def
nitely decided.
One wintry day Hawthorne received
notice at his Office that his serv ices would
no longer be required as collector of
custom at Salem. With heaviness of
heart, says Conway, he repairs to his hum
BILE home. His young wife recognizes the
change and stands waiting for the silence
to be broken. At length he faIters, 81 am
removed from Office" Then she leaves the
room; soon she returns with fuel and kim
dies a bright fire with her own hands; next
brings pen, paper and ink, and sets them
beside him. Then she touches the sad
man on his shoulders, and as he turns to
the beaming face, says: Now you can write
your book" The cloud lifted. The lost