Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-07
TIMELY TOPICS.

Cleaner of Tennessee, formed two or tnree
years ago, and on the field where there
were two Baptist papers there is now none.
The Journal and Messenger remarks that
E'this is another illustration of how much
easier it is to start paper than to Perpet-
uate its existence"
The Springfield, (Mass.), Republican
makes mention of the following incident,
which would have been regarded as
among the impossibilities only few years
ago:
"a Baptist pastor in New Britain,
Conn, while preaching on a recent Sun
day in his own pulpit had among his at
tentive hearers some in the former city
forty miles distant from his church. The
telephone carried the words faithfully, ap-
parently doing Justice to the excellent elo-
cution and articulation of the preacher"
THE New York Herald remarks that
e'there is an air Of settled gloom over the
vatican. Whenever, as yesterday, Pope
Leo speaks, he complains of new afronts
to his dignity. His halbe riders stand 81
lentIy on guard at the gate of bronze;
cardinals inapurple stockings and priests
il shovel hats pass quietly to and fro N
his corridors; peace reigns in all his court,
andyet he waits for the day when its sane
tity shall be invaded by a brawling mob
and he shall be forced to fly to such shell
ter as some neutral power may afford.
These are pitiable days for the paPacy.
TIE inspiration of good wife is the
very making and salvation of many man.
Here is a case in point: Strauss, whose
wsltzes are household words the world
over. found himself quite out of tune
when ne attempted to write the comic
operas which have lately been ADDED to the
long list of his works. He never would
have attempted them had it not been for
his wife; and it was she alone who kept
him from giving up in despair after the
first unpropitious effort. She had noticed
the money made by Offenbach out of
operas in dance rythm. "And who," she
demanded, ''can write prettier dance tunes
than my husband? Let him write opera
bouffe. and his success is certain
PR-EEM1NENr antiquity is claimed for
Egypt and the people of the Nile. A state
ment of Hon. George W. Williams in his
E'History of the Negro Race in America
has decided interest. He traces the negro
race back to 1900 years B. c., and says:
'EBefore Romulus founded Rome, before
Homer sang, when Greece was in its in
fancy, and the world quite young, 'hoary-
Meroe' was the chief city of the Negroes
along the Nile. Its private and public
buildings, its markets and public squares,
its colossal walls and stupendous gates, its
gorgeous chariots and alert footmen, its
inventive genius and ripe scholarship,
made it the cradle of civilization and the
mother of art. 1t was the queenly city of
Ethiopia-for it was founded by colonies
of Negroes"
THERE is a great deal of blood-letting
and criminal outrages on the broad theater
of life, but the worlds simulated success
Oh ''the mimic STAGE" are getting to be
quite too full of tragic horrors. But
short time since the foolhardy attempt to
shoot an apple from the head of an actress
at Cincinnati, resulted in her instant death.
And now another bloody scene has occurred
on the theatrical stage. The report is that at
Monmouth, Illinois, in the play of ''Only
Farmers Daughter" Miss Vinton, who
took the part of the adventures killed in
the plot, made misstep and was struck by
the assassin's dagger and dangerously
wounded in the shoulder, the blade narrow
ly missing the heart. The weapon was an
ugly steel dagger. The misstep was entire
ly accidental. Dangerous weapons in
play-acting on the stage should not be in
treduced. A dagger of lath,' and an
empty pistol are all that should ever be en-
trusted in the hands of excited, careless
actors or actresses. The world is full
enough of horrors without running the
hazard of repeating them in entertain
ments for the gay public.
IT IS contended that a good "forgettery"
is as essential to happiness as a good
memory is to convenience and erudition.
Retentiveness is a good thing-forgetful
ness, in some cases, a better. There are
bCSuGS anu AUS III l1dIl d 111O GldI oil LII
dividual would be glad to cover with the
veil of oblivion. If the bad
could be filtered through the
sieve of memory, and the good
only retained, how much remorse would be
avoided, and how much more happily
would run the current of human life. The
truer, purer life one leads, the greater is
the ministry to his happiness by ever busy
memory. As one has always to live with
ones self, how wise it is so to act and
think, as to make that self choice COM
panion, all whose remembered acts
are fragrant with truth, justice
and true nobility. The memory holds with
an iron grasp the hideous, hooking every
effort to gain true peace of mind. The
virtuous alone are comforted and happy
in the review and remembrance of life's
checkered, varied, kaleidosc opic scenes
How many of the signing, Respondent ones
OF earth, racked with mental suffering, can
give pathetic expression in the words of
the poet:
"Come, peace of mind, delightful guest;
Return and make thy downy nest
Once more in this sad heart -