St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-19
SUNDAY SILHOUETTES.

SUNDAY SILHOUETTES.
President CLEVELAND, who was the
son of Presbyterian clergyman, has
not forgotten his early training There
is no place in Washington where the
Sabbath is more strictly observed than
at the White house. Mrs. CLEVELAND,
too, has some good old-fashioned ideas
about Sunday. On that day she does
everything i'll her power to lessen the
work OF the servants. Sunday luncheon
at the White house is served early and
is cold. The servants then have the
rest of the day to themselves. The
president and his wife drive out to their
country home for Sunday dinner.
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Sunday is observed in different fash
ion at the houses of some of the promi-
nent congressman. AS an instance,
Senator PALMER has a Sunday after
noon symposium at his house, which is
highly enjoyed by his senatorial col
leagues. Music is the great attraction
of these gatherings. The senatorial
glee club consists of PLUMB and IN
CALLS, leading sopranos; PALMER,
EDMUNDs, basSo; and Senator NIT
CHELL is the accompanist. The popu-
lar songs are 'Blow, Ye, the Winds of
the Morning." Goodbye, My Lover,
Goodbye" 1'Razors in the Air" ''My
Sweet Mary Ann" and Golden Slip
perS."
The mystery of the ownership of the
famous peachblOw vase is still un-
solved. 1t was sold at the MORGAN art
sale for $4,000, and the American peO-
pie laughed so heartily over the silli-
ness OF an individual wasting such a
large sum of money on such trifling
bric-a-brac the purchaser was ashamed
to acknowledge his ownership of the
property. Mr.. WALTERS, of Baltimore,
posed to have been the purchaser. Re-
Gently the enemies of CHARLES A.
DANA. of the New York Sun, charged
him with being the gilIy who blew in
his stuff on cheap Japanese vase.
Miss HoLoHAN, the Minnesota poet,
whose contributions frequently grace
the columns Of the GLOBE, has been Of
fered the position of editor of the Stand
ard Fashion Magazine, of New York,
and has also been rendered place Oh
the staff of Leslie's Magazine. 1t is
gratifying to know that our Minnesota
talent is being recognized so readily in
the East, but for the present Miss HoL-
oHAN has concluded to remain a cOun-
try curiosity rather to venture on the
uncertain sea of journalism in the great
cities.
In addition to performing the duties
of station agent ut the modest little vii
lage of Millville. Miss HOLoIAN is also
the telegraph operator at that place. 1t
was while seated at her desk the other
night, and hearing a death message
licked over the wires, the following con-
tributiOn to the GLOBE was inspired:
INTRosPEcT.
Ghostly hands are telegraphing
On the wires. | careless harken--
Idly first their message quaffing,
While shades undulating darken:
"Oo-hoo. dead! Dead and gone, alack,
Gone! whence never an echo comes
baek!'
Oh, death message! sadly moaning,
Ere the storm bursts upon vision;
Family now and weirdly groaning;
Shrill anon with mad derision;
Wake not with o'er-woful numbers,
Echo in my soul which slumberS.
Those who once have shrinking, fearing,
Explored deepest caves of sorrow;
Know how, oft and oft. those leering
Phantoms haunt them on some morrow
COLLINS long since wildly battled,
By the chain of memory ratified.
Yet, who has not sunk to grieving,
Ger some treasure lost in sadness;
Who has not, in rapt conceiving,
Risen 10 those heights nigh madness,
Is at best sorry creature.
Lacking sympathy with Nature.
oh, death message. weirdly sobbing-
Well | all your passing reckon;
In my heart your wall is throbbing;
10 my soul your signals beckOn,
BY this sad and sorry token:
Chaos-where dear Hope lies brokeni
MARTHA EILEEN HoLAHAN.
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''Was st. Paul a dupe?" asked Rev.
Joseph Cook in recent lecture in BoS-
ton. The next morning Boston news
paper allowed him to appear in type as
asking, ''Was st. Paul dude?"
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The election of Dr.PATTON to succeed
DR.. MCCOSH in the presidency of Prince
ton college signifies that the famous in
stitution is going to cling fast to its
theological tenets. There is going to be
no growth of religious liberalism such
as has recently struck Yale and Har-
ward. PATTON is man after NICCoSH's
own heart, and will insist on spelling
Hades in the old-fashioned way, with a
double l. termination.
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During the twenty years of DR.. Nc
CosH's presidency of Princeton between
81 600. 900 and S3,000,000 have been sub
Scribed to the college; the number of
students has increased from 264 to over
600, and the number of professors from
II to IL. He deserves to retire on his
laurelS.