St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-09
SUNDAY SALAD.

struction is through the medium of
romance? Does't it go to show that the
taste for novel reading has grown so
that even the sublimest truths can not
| be impressed upon the mind unless they
are dressed out in the garb of fiction?
On the face of the returns it looks as if
the mania for novel reading had rooted
out all taste for solid literature. And yet
this is perhaps only morbid view, after
| all. There never was q time when the
worlds greatest teachers did not choose
fiction as the favorite method for i'm
parting instruction to the masses. 1t
was even SO in the inspired writings;
for the prophecies are filed with al
legOrieS, and Christ's sermons were re-
plete with parallels.
~
There is story told of the late Presi-
dent ANDREW JOHNSON. that when he
was governor of Tennessee there was a
great religious revival in the city of
Nashville. 1t occurred to a party of
exhorters, one day, to 60 up to the execu-
tive mansion and persuade the governor
to become Christian. They prayed
with him long, and wept untiringly over
his SINS He waited patiently through the
first onslaught. Seeing that they had
not wrought upon him, they asked if
they might begin again. EYES," he
said; "but wait minute" and he rang
for servant. John, go down and
bring me up basket full of rocks; 1
want to load the pockets of these gen
tlemen; for, without ballast. the gas and
saintliness with which they are filled
will float them away to heaven before /
am converted"
~
There was look of Encouragement
on the little fellows face as he wendell
his way home from school. He was
only ten years old, and he lived out on
st. Anthony Hill. When he reached
home he dropped languidly into a
chair. There was tear in his eye, a
tremor in his voice, and despair written
On every line of his little face. "Pa, [
am going to fail on the examination,
were the first words he spoke. "Why,
so, my SOM" "'Cause the teacher says
l have got to pass on singing, and you
| know God didn't cut me out for a
| singer"
49,
Monsignor CAPEL says that the
| worst English he heard in America was
| spoken in Boston. 1t was the worst be-
| cause the most stilted and the least me-
| lodious. Monslgnor CAPEL was pres
ent at meeting beween Pope PIUs TX.
| and prominent Wisconsin politician,
| which gave him an exalted idea of
Western cheek. The unterrified Osh-
koshian was ushered into the presence
OF his holiness with due ceremony. Not
at all dismayed by the grandeur of the
surroundings, he walked right up to the
| successor to st. PETER, and, Selling
his holiness by the hand, exclaimed:
81 am glad to meet you, Pope, because
we have often hearn of you out in Wis
consin."
~
Speaking of good linguists recalls the
story once told ON Judge JOHN Y.
MASON, who was American minister to
France under the PIERCE administra-;
trious family and was an eminent jurist;
but thorough knowledge of modern
languages was not among his accom-
plishments. At banquet in Paris he
was seated next the Prussian envoy.
The German courteously asked the
judge if he spoke French. "Oui,
Barong, une feu." A painful silence
CT
Finally, the judge asked his neighbor
if he could talk English, and received
the reply: eyes. judge, a few"
-
81 want to say word to this congre-
cation about their exclusiveness and
lack of sociability." said prominent
st. Paul clergyman at the close of his
sermon last Sunday. And then he told
them that there were persons who had
come to the city, strangers, twelve and
eighteen months ago, and had united
with that church. They had been reg
ular attendants all the time, and yet
they have never been visited, or even
shaken hands with, by any one of the
several hundred members of the con-
SlOSdUlOHs 1lC uluIl IEi1lh tudG ItllS
was proper Christian spirit, and he
proceeded to lecture them accordingly.
The rebuke was merited, and had good
effect, for such handshaking as took
place Immediately after the close of the
service hadn't been seen in that church
for many day. If the church militant
is supposed to be modelled after the
| general assembly and church of the
first-born in heaven, why is it that
Christians can't enjoy degree of So
liability here on earth? There may be
caste distinctions among the angels in
heaven, but there will surely be none
| among the saints who are fortunate in
| getting passports to the eel estial realms.
IS
The best Judge of horseHesh in Mis-
souri, is said to be Mrs. Oils, who
runs stock farm and came from Ken
lucky. There are some very large cattle
ranches operated successfully by wom-
en-. In the broader West there are few
barriers to the progress of the sex in any
direction, except the ballot box.
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