Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-14
TIMELY TOPICS.


ner in New York city, was designated to
speak on the toast, woman" And he did
speak. He attempted to be witty, and
achieved only coarseness and vulgarity.
The New York Tribune says: Mark Twain
achieved what Milton would have denomi-
mated ga bad eminence" at the New Eng
land dinner. A professional humorist, it
was to have been expected that his speech
would be pervaded with humor. And so it
was. But it was humor so low in tone, SO
coarse in suggestion, SO trite in allusion,so
foreign to the spirit of the occasion, that
we apprehend that the average man, on
reading it, will feel moved to exclaim:
I'm so in love with melancholy
| would not, if l could, be gay.
EXTREMES are ever prone to meet, and
they are meeting again in way that is
peculiar and unusual. The FBbruary num-
Der of the North american ReuielU will
contain paper by Bishop McQuaid en-
titled, "The Decay of Professionalism"
Father Ryan, the poet priest of the South,
recently delivered lecture in Boston on
''The Decline of the Political
and Material Order of Catholic
Nations, and the Ascendancy in
the Same Order of Protestant Nations"
Thus the champion of each discerns the
decay of its own, and the ascendancy of
the other-the two orders that largely di-
vide the Christian world.
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consolidation with the Commercial, was not
issued Sunday mornings, the conscientious
Deacon" Richard Smith having scruples
about desecrating the sacred day. But
since the consolidation, Mr.. Smiths asso-
citation with his wicked partner" Mr..
Halstead, has demoralized him, and the
amalgamated paper, the Commercial
Gazette is now issued every
Sunday morning. Nay, more, since the
devout Deacon has become converted to
the wicked ways of the Field Marshal, he
has come out in double loaded leader, JUS
tifying this newspaper breaking of the COM
mandment, to keep holy the Sabbath day,
saying among other things, he has be-
come convinced that "far more impor-
lance is attached to what is printed in a
paper than when it issprinted.'
THE venerable Archbishop Purcell, of
CINCINNATI, on Christmas day sent $50 to
the editor of the Catholic Telegraph, en-
closed in touching note which read as fol
lows: "Dear Sir-Having learned that you
have opened in the Catholic
Telegraph subscription list
for my poor, suffering creditors, 1 send
you $50. Like the widows mite it is very
small; yet,like the widows mite, it is liter
ally all l have. 1 could not send you this
even were it not for the touching kindness
of an old friend at Christmas tide With
this pittance l send you my warmest ap-
proval of your noble, generous work. God
ever bless you and the noble Telegraph for
your devotion to the cause of Justice and
honesty. You shall have my daily prayers
for your success in your efforts to pay my
debts. Please accept the gratitude of an
old, penniless archbishop
DOES giving impoverish? Not in a spir-
itual sense, nor judicious giving in any
sense. The seIf-sacrifice implied in giving
is a spiritual stimulus and an element OF
growth in every Christian organization
An idea prevails, (who will say it is not a
just one,) that it is not best for church
or missionary association to have invest
ed funds, using the income only, thus re-
lieving professors and church members
from the burden of self-imposed taxation
to carry forward the work of evangelical.
ton at home and abroad That
which costs nothing is but OF
little worth. Those who attain tc
the greatest spiritual life are those
who sacrifice most, give their all, even
themselves to the great cause of the
worlds divine renovation. A stingy church
is hidebound spiritually. 1t grows and
thrives and spreads abroad a beneicent
influence in proportion to its liberal bene
factions. The admonitory words of the
Apostle Paul are: HE who soweth spar
ingly shall reap sparingly, ani
he who soweth beautifully shall
reap also bountifully. Every
man according as he purposeth in his hear
SO let him give; not grudgingly, or by con
straint, for God loves cheerful glver."
The following interesting Jewish legend
(of King Solomon and the Ants) of one
who is additionally believed to have I'M
derstood the language of birds, animal;
and all created things, has been often pub
lished, but will bear repetition. The story
comes from the old Rabbinical legends
and it is told in this wise: One day the King
rode out of Jerusalem with a great ret
inue. An ant-hill lay directly in his path
and Solomon heard its little people talk
ing. Here comes the great King" he
heard one of them say. ellis fatterers
call him wise and just and merciful, but he
is about to ride over us and crush us with
out needing our sufferings." And Solo
mon told the Queen of Sheba, who rode
with him, what the ant said; and the
Queen made answer: "He is an insolent
creature, o King! 1t is better fate than
he deserves, to be trodden under
our feet" But Solomon said: 'It
is the part of wisdom to
learn of the lowest and weakest" And he