Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-06
TIMELY TOPICS.

crimson into the bloom and verdure OF
Eden" The exquisite beauty of the Ian
guage is equaled only by the beauty of
the idea which conveys it.
Mr.. JAY GOULD, who is reported to have
laid aside the snug little sum of 100000
900, as the net profits of stock speculation,
is also reported as having made up his
mind to retire from active business in
Wall Street, and hereafter lead quiet life.
He is but forty seven years of age, and yet
for several years he. has been the great fig
ure among the stock gamblers.
II is said "Thomas Jefferson did not be-
lieve anything he read in the newspapers,
mistrusting even the agricultural column
and the household recipes" This state
ment is, of course, a gross exaggeration.
Thomas Jefferson was not quite a fool.
1t is true he ceased to be universal news
paper reader many years before his death.
The only newspaper he regularly read was
the Richmond (Va.) Enquirer, edited by
his faithful and devoted friend, Thomas
Rittchie.
CHRISTIAN Union: The clergy Of Prov
idence, R. l., have set an example which
we should like to see followed in every city
of the Union. A meeting has been held of
representative clergymen of all the de-
nominations, including the Roman Catho-
lie, 20 consider the subject of Civil Service
reform. As result larger meeting is to
be held, for the purpose of effecting
permanent Civil Service Reform Associa-
ton. If the clergy and the churches take
hold of the matter, the reform will certain
y be accomplished.
MAoMILLAN's Iondon) Magazine for
April contains COLLECTIONS Of Lord Chan
cellor Westbury," and satirizes him thus:
'Richard Baron Westbury, Lord High
Chancellor of England. He was an emf
Il ont Christian, an energetic and m erciful
statesman, and still more eminent and
merciful Judge. During his three years
tenure of Office he abolished the ancient
method of conveying land, the time
honored institution of the Inselvents'
court and the eternity of punishment.
Toward the close of his earthly career in
he judicial committee of the privY coun-
I'll, he dismissed hell, with costs, took
away from orthodox members of the
Church of England their last hope of
everlasting damnation.'
TIE Sunday School Times announces
the startling proposition that "civilization
is an expensive luxury" and comments,
sympathetically, as follows: "Ono q the
signs of progress in Philadelphia is the
forbidding cigar. smoking on tbs cars of
one Of the prominent lines of street rail-
way. Some of the smoke-inclined passen-
gers moan over this as an infringement of
the personal liberty. They even go so far
as to say their wives and mothers won't let
them smoke at home, and their employers
and customers won't allow it in their places
of business; and now they are shut off
from being a nuisance on the street-cars.
That does have look of hardship, but
civilization is an expensive luxury. There
is no securing it without some voluntary
self-dsnial, and some enforced iconstraint
of the individual for the public good"
QUITE breeze sprung up in the Jewish
synagogue in New York recently, by an al
legged remark reported in a newspaper, of
the Rev. J. P. Newman, Gen. Grants and
Jay Gould's deyout and consistent political
pastor. He was accused of having insulted
the whole Jewish race. It was said that he
had publicly stated that he would not be
surprised at anything 6oae by Jew"
fOr y
Another wrote to him 20 ask if he had
made the remark, and he replies that when
speaking of Felix Adler, who had become
an atheist, he said he would not be sur
prised by anything done by such Jew.
Which is very different thing. Then DR..
Newman adds: ''Whlle half the Christian
world is worshiping Jew and the other
half Jewess; while both Jew and GENTLE
receive the law of Moses. sing the Psalms
of David and reverently bow before the
God of Abraham, it is not fattery to speak
well Of an Israelite, indeed, in whom is no
guile"
A CLEVELAND, Ohio, journal has the fol-
lowing we'll considered and just remarks
on the value of business advertising in the
newspapers: "The newspaper of to-day
stands without rival as the great head.
master in the spsead of intelligence and
information. Viewed as a medium of ad-
vertising, in the service of the producer
and consumer, its vast resources are de-
veloped and shown in various ways; in the
large area covered by its circulation, and IN
bringing to the very threshold information
hourly sought Its time-saving properties
to the merchant, mechanic, and housewife
are incalcnlable. Judiciously managed,
the advertising surface of the newspaper
will prove to be, financially, its very back
bone. The immense sums annually de-
voted to advertising by many of our large
and successful business houses prove the
outlay to be profitable. The country mer-
chant doing local trade in the township
where he may be located, will secure the
best results by announcing his business
through the papers in his vicinity"
By the advent of Jesus Christ, the eco
nomic status, moral and religious, was