St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-01
HERE AND THERE.

A correspondent asks: "What was Mr.. LIN
COINS religious belief" He believed that
this was Gods chosen land, and that some
where in Gods great universe he would
find final resting place for his own soul.
Further than this we have no knowledge Of
Mr.. LINCoLN's views on religion.
Col. II. p RUGG, of this city. was one of the
orators at Gettysburg on the occasion of the
unwilling of the monument erected by the
old Fifty-ninth New York infantry. The
survivors of the regiment gathered at Gettys-
burg on the twenty sixth anniversary of the
day on which PICKETT made his famous
charge, and dedicated their monument to
those Of the command who there sacrificed
their lives. The monument stands close to
clump of trees which locates the spot known
as 1.-The high-water mark of the rebellion"
"That man is an inseparable part Of the
city government" remarked one citizen to
another the other night in the council cham
Der, as the Hon. WILLIAM PITT MURRAY fitted
by on his way to drop flea into the ear OF
the aldermen. "You are wrong there" re-
sponded the other. "You have put the cart
before the horse. The city government is an
inseparable part Of Mr.. MURRAY"
The old jealousy between the Grand Army
and the Loyal Legion is rapidly disappearing.
Special invitations were issued to the various
orders of the Loyal Legion to attend the
Grand Army encampment at Milwaukee.
Hon. ALBERT SoHEFFER and Maj. WHITE
were in attendance as the representatives Of
the st. Paul order of the Loyal Legion. and
were delighted with the cordial reception ex-
tended to them by the Grand Army boys.
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Il wish to God some us had sense enough
to see through this muddle." said an alder
man in an undertone at a council meeting
when the franchise problem was being wrest-
led with He merely echoed the prayer Of the
public.
A Portland railroad man has obtained
patent on an improved sleeping car. The in
vention consists of combination of sleeping
car and parlor car, the berths being in day
time located in pockets under the floor,
while at night they are quickly raised into
position, the chairs taking their place in the
pockets under the berths.
''They must have severe notions Of justice
In Minneapolis" was the criticism of st.
Anthony Hill lady who had been perusing
the Minneapolis page Of the GLOBE. why
SOP asked her husband. why, 1 see here
that Door woman was sentenced to three
months imprisonment for chasing hog. 1t
was an undignified thing, 1 admit for
woman to do, and the paper says the poor
animal was blind. Yet, do think the pun
ishment was unnecessarily severe The
husband glanced at the paper and read in
the police court items: Mrs. - got ninety
days in the workhouse for running a blind
mig at Minnehaha"
81 am not much OF Bible student. and yet
if 1 have read Scripture Alright think dis
Germ some of the signs of the approaching
millennium around here" 1t was the Old
Citizen who spoke, and then he wiped the
perspirarion from his face and dropped his
bandana into his 1910 hat. Drawing cou-
pie Of long breaths, with some side remarks
about the diabolical condition of the weather,
he proceeded: You see ISAIAH gives fig
urative description of the millennium by
speaking of it as the time when the wolf and
the lamb shall lie down together in the ut
most concord, the lion and the OK shall feed
in the same pastures and a little child shall
lead Them There is the figure; now for the
literal fulfllment Here is Bishop IRELAND,
the arch prelate of the Catholic church, and
THOMAS COCHRAN the straight-laced, blue
light Presbyterian elder, gone into co-part-
nership in the electric motor business, with
Tom LOWRY in the lead. And yet there are
some folks who don't believe IN the prophe-
cles.'