Daily globe., 1883-08-19

fordshire, but the property attached to 1t
is small.
"What is the best thing to say when the
mosquitoes bitter" asked distressed and
perplexed divinity student. Answer: "No
use telling you, you wouldn't dare to
say it."
A Wisconsin believer in hell Of eternal
fire for sinners has fitted up his cellar with
painted flames, wooden demons and other
horrors. There he takes his children for
whipping.
A priest in Montreal. the Rev. Mr.. SEN
teen, advises that the money now spent in
public professions be used in erecting
statues of celebrated Canadians in the
square of that city. s
The correspondents who wish a news
paper to stand good for their libelous
communications are always the ones who
would not have their "names made public
for anything in the world"
1t is all very we'll for a man to believe
that the earth revolves on it's axis, but
when he becomes thoroughly convinced
that he himself is the axis the less you
have to do with him the better.
Some of the Methodist mission schools
of high grade for boys and girls in the
cities of India are full to overfowing, and
are obliged to stop advertising and must
enlarge their accommodations.
1t is proposed by the friends of Yale
| college, that the next series of lectures on
preaching, which are usually delivered by
distinguished divines, be given by some
competent and cultivated layman.
The American and Mexican laborers at
Los Palmss, Mex, the terminus of the
San Luis & Tampico railroad, rioted re-
Gently. Seven persons were killed, and
eight or ten wounded, three fatally.
The Rev. DR.. McCosh seems to have no
difficulty in raising funds for Princeton
college. Of the 5000, 900 needed for car
rying out the designs for promoting phil
osophy there $15O,O0o have already been
promised.
The New York World commends the
Suns ''idea of subjecting great political
truth to the ordeal of pecun1aIy test" and
begs to offer $4,000 for the slightest evil
dence that Gould directly or Indirectly has
any interest in the World.
They have started in Paris a cock-and-
bull story that Stanley is making himself
sovereign of the Congo by means of
treaties with the chiefs, and "aspires to
found dynasty" The explorer has no
material for a dynasty at present, but the
French gossip don't mind little difficulty
like that.
A California Judge has recently decided
that the Chinese who have burned tapers
and bits of paper over the graves of their
dead offended city ordinance, despite the
plea that the state constitution guarantees
the free exercise of religious worship. The
Judge stood on the next sentence, which
declares that religious liberty shall not be
construed to excuse acts of llceniousness
or justify practices inconsistent with the
peace or safety of the state.
The University of Cambridge, since
Girton and Newman colleges to the same
examinations as men, and next year will
place their names in the university calen-
dar with those of men.
'Some folks who always 60 to church,
Are Just as mean as "pizen;"
For, while the preacher leaves his perch,
They keep their eagle eyes on
The deacon who propels the plate,
10 take up the collection;
And as he comes down to their sea,
They look the wrong direction
He lived in country town rear Provi-
dence, R. l., and had not ATTENDED church
for many months. At length, having a
friend visiting him, he accompanied him
one Sunday to meeting. Arriving in front
of the edifice, one of the deacois beckoned
him to one side, and he expected "talking
to'' for his delinquency. He was much
relieved, however, by the denouement.
Looking all round to assure himself that
he would not be overheard, tho dispenser
of bread and wine said to hin, 81 heard
you had very fine calf yor wanted to
SELL"
The New York sStar of Aug. IL, says:
Attired in faultless garments, With his hair
cut in the most approved styleof summer
shortness, and his great, chubby cheeks and
smooth face giving him the air of rather
stylishly dressed fat boy attached to some
circus, Oscar Wilde, the apostle of estheti-
cism, arrived in this city yesterday on the
White Star liner Britannia. He comes to
reap another harvest of glittsring Ameri-
can dollars. His return was by no means
a triumphal affair, for scarcely dozen
knew of it or cared about it. The news of
his utter social collapse in London and his
rejection by the best society there had
preceded him to New York, and the
probability now is that, far from being
lionized, feted, petted and caressed, so
strong is the force of example in canons
of taste, he will be left by people this side
the Atlantic severely alone
A leading negro politician of South
Carolina, Thomas Hamilton. of Beaufort,
has published in the Charleston News and
Courier,a fierce denunciatioa of the Repub-
lican party in the state as Systematically
unjust to his race. His letter indicates
that the curses of carpet-bag rule have
'come back to roost," for he, asserts that
the Republicans have ''stolen the money