St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-30
tely there began to be an o'Rell boom,

ately there began to be an O'Rell boom,
and | received bids for his lectures.
This was two months ago, and now
have not one date left out of the fifty
lectures he is to deliver between Jan. 10
and April l."
Boyd Putnam, the handsome leading
man OF ''rhe Wife" company. passed
through the city the other day en- route
the Chicago Herald. He arrived with
the other members of the company, and
at once took cab for the residence OF
Ills friend AL Morton, up on Michigan
avenue. He had written Morton that
he would breakfast with him that morn
ing, but his letter had been miscarried
in some way; nevertheless he was
warmly greeted by his friend and
charming hostess. After breakfast there
was a train to catch, and Mr.. Morton
accompanied Putnam down town. They
rode by the Libby prison, and Morton
pointed it out. SIS that Libby?" asked
Putnam, and he seemed to regard the
half-cOncealed structure with singular
interest. Ever seen it before?" asked
Morton. "No," answered Putnam. with
a laugh, "but tried hard to. When
we were in Richmond not long ago
party of us started out to see it. We
hunted all over the place, looked at all
of the warehouses, and finally, after an
hours tramp, we asked native where
it was located. He eyed us curiOusly
and informed us that it had been taken
to Chicago. We had never heard that
before"
AS to the cost of living in China, Col.
Denny, our minister. told me, says a
New York World correspondent, that
he could save nothing from his salary,
and there is perhaps less entertaining
done at Pekin than at any other of our
foreign missiens. The minister TO Corea
receives only $500 year, and do not
suppose that Mr.. Dinsmore has saved
anything to speak of. The colony at
Seoul is dinner-giving one; and, when
it is remembered that most of the pro-
visions are brought over from London
via Shanghai, it will be seen that
a dinner in China is quite an
expensive item. Our minister to
Siam receives $1,000 a year,
but he does not have to entertain to any
great extent. The European ministers
spend, as a rule. more than their sal
aries, and when Gov. Noyes was minis
ter to Paris the entertaining was largely
done by the secretary of legation, Mr..
Hit, at present representative in
congress from Illinois,. Gov. NoyeS
once told me that Mr.. Hits expenses in
Paris were $4,000 a year. doubt not
that Senator Palmer is spending at
Madrid considerably more than he re-
ceiveS as minister to Spain, and White
law Reid will never get through with
his social duties at Paris Oh 1000 a
year.
~
Herbert Ward. who was with Stan
ley at the outset of his expedition, has
many interesting stories to tell about
that remarkable old gentleman, TippOo
lib, says the New York Tribune. His
real name is Hamid Ben Mohammed,
his nom de guerre being phonetic
effort on the part of the natives. Tip
poo has a pleasing way of going round
in the early morning surprising peace
full villages where ivory is reported to
be stored, and peggIng away with his
rifles. The natives used to say that the
sound of his gun was like Tip, TIP,
Tip" hence they called him Zip Tip"
which Europeans rendered into the now
famous Tippoo lib. 1ippoo is as
wealthy as he is rapacious. Mr.. Ward
has a photograph, which he took of him
in front of his hut, surrounded by his
braves, who are standing guard by thir-
ty tons of ivory, worth at least 100000.
Tippo0. in presence of his treasures.
wears an amiable, almost angelic eX-
preston.
An old preacher. whose name we will
call Birch, was famous for preaching on
the subject of paying off Old debts, says
the Greenville Is. c. Baptist Courier.
One of his auditors, who had been wea-
ried with Bro. Birch's iteration on
this subject, once said to neighborlng
minister: II wish you would suggest a
subject that [ can give Bro. Birch,
out of which he cannot get anything
about paying off old debts" ''GiVe him
the tconyersion of saul Of Tarsus,"
said the minister. Soon after this the
wearied brother met his pastor, and
said: BRO. Birch, would like to hear
you preach sermon on the 'Conver-
Sion of Saul of Tarsus.' Won't you do
it?'' Certainly" said the pastor. cit
is capital subject. | will preach on 1t
next Sunday" On the following Lords
day Brother Birch announced the text
Acts tx, 6: 'Lord, what wilt thou have
me to do?" and opened thus: my
brethren, shall preach to you to-day
on the Conversion of Saul of TarSuS.'
Saul, my brethren. was a truly con-
verified man. and my sermon will be
discussion of the marks of genuine con-
version. And the first mark, my breth-
rem. of genuine conversion is that a
man will always pay off all his old
debts"