The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-23
TALK OF THE DAY.


A Southern delegate to the Methodist
general conference said the other day:
one OF the most striking things in con-
hectlon with the present conference Is
the great advance which has been made
IN recent years. by the colored members
OF the church. sSoTae of them are now
able to make most ELOQUENT and telling
speeches. says the New York Tribune, and
almost all of them are men of good edu-
catlon. How different it was in the days
when Iafirst went South! Shortly after
my arrival l attended colered confer
ence as the representative of my college.
1 had made speech, and good colored
brother got up to reply. We has most
splendltorous college, he said, with
corosai corpse of teachers, %ub which our
brother heah is a faih sample AS he
pointed to me, sitting like mere ghost
IN my chair, and called me a faih sample
OF the corpse ub teachers, the humor Of
the situation almost overcame me. He
And yet the man WHO made that speech
persevered in the ministry, got a good
education, and is today a scholarly ana
most efficient pastor
when l marry said the young woman
of advanced ideas, 81 shall insist upon
my husband taking my name Il would,
y
promptly, 'ff 1 expected to get that sort
of a man. = Chicago Post.
A rare map of the federal territory in
1875 has just been presented to the Mas
sachusetts Historical society. 1t belong
ed to Thomas Blake, who was Reyolu-
t1onary officer and served through the
war, was in the battle of Saratoga, and
died in Boston fifty years ago at the age
W.
ment of the public territory lying beyond
the Ohio river, and shows what land was
granted to the army and what was re-
served by Virginia for her military Off
GERS, and what was allotted to the Wy
andotte and Delaware nations to live and
hunt in" 1t is described in rare pam
phlet, written by Manasseh Cutler, but it
is so excessively scarce that some writer's
have even doubted whether copy was
now extant.
81 suppose you've read about that
breach case. l tell you a fellow can't De
too careful about the letters he writes.
That's 50. 1 wrote just three letters
once that made all kinds Of trouble for
me"
t'You don't say!'
phia Record.
eve have for many years past says
the New Orleans States, been protesting
against the practice, not only OF the
Northern, but even of the Southern press,
whose editorss should know better, OF
speaking of the dogs used in pursuing
criminais-or runaway slaves before the
war-as 'bloodhounds. 1t is extreme
ly doubtful if any Of, these wiseacres ever
saw a 'bloodhound,l but the term is 50
bloodcurdling, you know. The dogs used
for this purpose are the common fox or
deer hound, probably the most timtd of
all dogs, and are remarkable for their
keenness of scent. Their owner or train
er simply follows their cry, and thus
comes up with the fugitive. The latter,
when oyertaken, hasino difficulty in keep
ing off the dogs, which bay around him,
but keep at a safe distance from knife Or
stick until the hunter comes up.
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One of the most remarkable documents
that have ever been under our observation
is to be found in the case of ex parte
Scoggin. 6 Tex App. 546. Mr.. Scoggln
was under Indictment for the murder OF
one William Gerard, and an extract from
memorandum book in defendant S hand
writing and found near the body, ran as
follows:
johnson Co, Tx, Jan. the "A, 1873.
LAS this may bee the last pencilinS
that 1 may ever do or earth, May heaven
Bless me, and the man that am gong
to fife, for we have been travelling to-
geather some time and have fell out a
bought the sum of $25, and nave agreed
to fight a dewel this Butiful night Of our
lord, and as one of us has to die May
heyen bless US as this is the last half
hour on earth with one Of us, heVen Pre-
serve me now and forever-written by
Jesse Scog-, Bornd and rased in TX
Sined by William Jirod, Bornd in Illinois.
Mr. Scoggin's piety apparently brought
victory to him in the ''dewel, for his
adversary when found, appeared to nave
been struck behind the car by thirteen
inch shell.-Law Notes.
The London Financial News estimates
that the fame which attaches to Strat-
ford-on-Avon because of the fact that
Shakespeare was born there Is worth
So 600, 900 to that town. The charges for
admission to the poets house, to Anne
HathaWays cottage, to the church. 20
the memorial and to the grammar school
net $50 900 yearly-a sum equivalent to an
income of per cent on the S5.o00,0O0 cap
ital This calculation does not take into
account the income to the railways from
the pilgrims to the Warwickshire Mecca,
and there is no estimate of the profits OF
the Stratford tradesmen, who do good
business in photographs. pamphlets and
trinkets relating to the town and tho
great bard.
Mrs. Younglove-Oh. dear! Such is life.
Before we got married George was tag
ging around after me all the time. l
couldn't get away from him for min
ute. That was three months ago.
Her Dearest Friend-Poor child! What
has the wretch done?
'He said last night that he thought
we'd move next spring to seme place
where he can have den. so as to get by
himself once in a while. Chicago Times
Herald.