The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-24
NOTES AND GLEANINGS.

IT is said that Congress has 10000
bills before it. IL the most Of them are
never passed, the country will be best
served.
The late Mr.. Alcott was a vegetarian,
but not bigoted one. "Animal food
may be good for you," he used to say to
his daughter, "but it is not for me-"
HE demand is quite general that
when the fishery treaty comes up for dis
cussion in the Senate the doors shall
be open. The public wants to see how
the senators stand, and for that very
reason the demand may not be granted.
MIR. WHITAKER, Of New York, is pre-
pairing series to be known as the "Oon-
temporary Pulpit Library" containing
sermons by famous living preachers.
The first volume will contain fifteen by
Canon Liddon. Canon Farrar and Bishop
Magee, of Peterborough, will follow.
CANON SooTT ROBERTSON is RESPONSE
BILE for the statement that the United
Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ireland
spends e1,195.7l4 on foreign missions,
which is divided as follows: Church of
England, 9486, 0S2; societies which unite
Churchmen and Dissenters, e193,617;
Nonconformist, 933O,129; Scotch and
Irish Presbyterisns, 9l77,184; Roman
Catholics, 98.703.
Mr.. ERNEST FALIaAN has written a
"Histoire de la Legende de Faust" in
which he asserts that the legend of the
man who sells his soul to the evil powers
In order to obtain in return terrestrial
wealth and enjoyment, is to be found in
the history Of all peoples. The fable is of
Catholic origin, but has undergone num-
erous transformations according to the
notifications that have taken place in
the religions faiths of the different peo-
pies. The hero of the Protestant legend
really existed, according to M. Faligan,
in the last year of the fifteenth century,
and he was anything but the ideal Faust
of Goethe and Gounod.
WISCONSIN, by it's last Legislature,
adopted an act applicable to cities con-
tanning upward of $4,000 inhabitants.
1t. OF course, applies only to one city,
Milwaukee. This act vests in the State
the distributing of ballots, which are to
be printed, however, and paid for by the
various political parties. The citizen re-
ceives his ballot from State inspectors,
consisting of both parties, and then pro-
ceeds into an apartment to deposit it,
where it is absolutely free from all SUI
pervision. Vote distributors are forbid
den to ply their calling within one hun
dred feet of the room were the votes are
to be deposited.
The first great papal jubilee which we
read of was celebrated by Pope Boniface
VIII. (the magnsnimous sinner, as he
Is called in history, in the year 1900.
The pilgrims who came that year amount
ed to two millions, and eye-witnesses
state that the crowds were so great in
the streets of Rome that lots of people
were trodden to death, and to avoid
greater accidents, the Saint Angelo
bridge was divided in halves, lengthwise,
so as to separate those who went to Saint
Peters, and those who returned from it.
The historian Villain, who lived at that
time, says that the money collectors at
Saint Peters had to rake up the money
which the pilgrims gave during the mass,
and this collection amounted to fifty
thousand gold forms (all in copper
pieces.)
The Rev. Clinton Locke, the Episcopal
rector of Grace church, in our city, is
hum orist. Not long ago a worthy couple
came to him, bearing between them
babe of exceeding tender age.
"We want you to baptize her," said the
father.
"What name have you decided uponp
asked the reverend gentleman.
"Alas, sir" answered the father, dis
mally, i've have not decided. Had this
child been boy we should have named
him Benjamin. A favorite name of mine
cir, is Benjamin"
"Yes, and of mine, too,' echoed the
mother.
"But it is girl, said the father, wo-
fully.
"And we don't know what to call her."
added the mother.
"Cheer up, my good sir" cried the sa-
gacious pastor, "and you, too. my good
woman; be not cast down in spirit. We
may yet find some way of applying to
this child the name you so much prefer"
"Sakes alive !" cried the father, I'VE
can't name her Benjamin.
"Nay, nay-very true" answered the
holy man, softly, "but we can name her
Ben Hur p
THERE is considerable discussion in
Methodist Episcopal circles on the ques-
ton of limiting to some extent the timer
ancy Of the bishops. Referring to this mat
ter, the New York Tribune says the Epis-
copal residences are fixed by the General
Conference, but the bishops themselves
decide which of these each shall occupy,
choice being made, we believe, according
b. % 81 II. l. Il.