St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13

fused to allow him to testify. AS he was the
principal witness, the case was consequently
nolled.
worldly father, after the style of Lord
Chesterfield,i is giving good advice to his son,
who is about to enter society. ''And above
all avoid firtations. But if you must hirt or
fall in love, be sure that it is with a pretty
woman. 1t is always safest. "Whyl' ''Be-
cause some other fellow will be sure to be at
tracted and cut you out before any harm has
been done.
Assistant Bishop H. c. Potter, of New
York, thinks that the principle of civil service
reform should be applied to the management
OF prisons, and says that men put in charge
OF criminals should have had trainingin that
work and not be mere politicians. ''It
should also," he says, ''be insisted upon that
there should be in charge of prisons much
higher standard of character and capability
than has heretofore been the case"
The crossings yesterday were just awful.
Tawmus stood in the doorway contemplating
the weather and wishing he were dead or it
would clear off, when he saw a very pretty
young lady about to attempt to cross the slush
flooded street His natural gallantry prompt
ed him to tender his assistance, and stepping
forward, he said: Madam, will you permit
me to observe-' ssObserve if you like
she interrupted him, GIVE got rubber boots
on.n
Cremation has become a small issue in
Wales, and has won a victory. DR.. Price,
an eccentric individual who delights in call
ing himself Druid, and initiating supposed
Druidical rites, was tried before the Glamor-
ganshire assizes for trying to cremate the
body of his infant child. The man was dis
charged, of course, but the affair has caused
an amonnt of discussion which the friends
of cremation in England may eventually
turn to their advantage.
Henry Wheeler, of Hickory Flats, Ga, is
seycnty-four years old has lived in the same
house forty-nine years, never owed cent,
sold corn at 81 bushel all through the war,
has the first silver dollar he ever saw screwed
fast to the inside of his clock, has nineteen
children and grand and great grandchildren
enough to run his direct posterity to 121, is
hale and hearty, never chews, smokes, or
drinks, and is supremely happy. There has
never been death in his family.
At benefit entertainment in New Haven
one of the incidents of the money getting
was a mock auction sale of old maids. There
were thirteen of these spinsters, and the bid
ding was spirited, but its result reflected on
the perspicacity of the gentlemen who did
the bidding; for, after the unmasking, the
chattel who had commanded the fewest offers
and was knocked down at the humilating
figure of twenty-three cents, proved to be the
wealthiest young woman in the city.
The name of the Sub Dean of Westminster
who, in the unavoidable absence both of Mr..
Gladstone and Dean Bradley, unvailed the
bust of Longfellow in the abbey, has been
variously rendered by contemporaries, but in
no instance correctly. The Sub Dean and
Canon in question was the Rev. George Pro-
theirs, a venerable gentleman known of Eng
fish churchmen for the past half century as
courteous gentlemen, a polished scholar and
a favorite Chaplain of Queen Victoria.
Cleanliness is next to Goodness" eff
the prophet had hidden thee do some great
thing, wouldst thou not have done it! How
much rather, therefore, when he saith unto
thee, Wash and be Clean" Trinity
church, Boston, of which the Rev. Philip
Brooks is rector, has a laundry department.
It's earnings last year were about S4, 800, of
which $4,000 was paid out as wages to the
women employed in the laundry. The wash
tub as well as the font, is needed in the
churches, if ''the great unwashed'' are to
be dealt with.
Arrangements are being made in London
for the celebration in June next of the fiji
teth year of Sir julius Benedict's artistic
life. This eminent musician and composer
has been in the artistic world more than fifty
years, however He was born in Stuttgart
Nov. 81, 1904, and at the age of nineteen
years was engaged, on the recommendation
of Weber, his teacher, to conduct the German
operas at Vienna. His first opera, ''Giacinta
ed Ernesto," was produced at Naples in
1927. He went to London, where his chief
honors have been won in 1885.
A New England paper having said that
Washington's birthday was commemorated
and freedom from tyrant's oppression en-
joyed ''by sixty millions of Puritan descend
ants, scattered over this widely extended
republic the CAuychn,dn remarks sit will
certainly be news to the vast majority Of the
sixty millions of people in the United States
to learn that they are defendants of the
Puritans,'' and very much doubts if even
''the description would apply to very large
majority of the inhabitants Of the town"
where the paper quoted is published.
1t is told of DR.. Chalmers, who was rather
given to magnificent verbiage," that on
one occasion, he being invited to address a
Primitive prayer meeting in a remote High
land parish, the parochial minister begged
as a personal favor that the distinguished
minister would speak down to the intclli-
gence Of his flock and use only the sim
plest words and sentences. Chalmers good
naturally assented, and began with this easy
and unstudied sentence: ''My friends, l
have been specially asked, in addressing
you tonight, to avoid the technical nomen-
clature of scholastic theology
The contributions of the several religious
denominations in New York city in 1888 II
the hospital Sunday collections were: Prot
estant Episcopal churches, So, 1862. 70; Pres
byter;an, Sc, 715.50; synagogues, 81, 5000 f.;
Reformed, 81, 304.24; Methodist, 81, 1868;
Baptist, 1898; Lutheran, $63S.13; Congre-
gational, s54O.95 Unitarian, S174,91; Uni
versalist, S134.73; Moravian, 5000; mis-
cellaneous, S716.12. Total, 527.04O.50 by
219 churches The collections from other
sources in 1888 were SIS, 762. 10, making in
all $40, SOB. 90, about $4,000 more than was
1000