DE OMNIBUS REBUS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 84, 7 September 1874, Page 3

DE OMNIBUS REBUS.

Bisbop Croke has been offered the See of Cloyne. The Rev. W. Taylor, Wesleyan minister, and author of several works on California, who visited this city some years ago, has established a church in Madras, numbering already 139 members. A large beer house in Hudson county, N.J., was formerly a church. The shrewd Teuton who now keeps it was about to erase an inscription painted over the door, but on second thoughts he left the last line untouched. It is—“ Let him who is athirst come.” At a recent tea-party in the Highlands, a young man who had been relating his more than wonderful exploits in various parts of the globe, was not a little set back by the remark of an old traveler, ‘ Young man, ain’t you ashamed to talk so when there are older liars at the table V Amongst the passengers per steamship Tartar, for Australia, are Mr F. Linden and Mr Earnest Collins, about to establish agencies in Melbourne and Sydney respectively for Reuter’s Telegram Company (Limited). Mr Linden has filled the office of British vice-consul at Lima (Peru) for a number of years. A little boy named Charles Ross was stolen from his parents in Philadelphia by an organised band of ruffians, who demand 20,000 dollars for his release. This crime has had such an effect upon a wealthy lady in Hew York that her husband has offered 50,000 dollars for the prompt return of the child to its parents. He is prompted to make this offer in the hope of saving his wife’s life, tshe being of a highly sensitive nature, has made the Philadelphia drama her own. The “Policy ” of “ honesty” is beautifully exempliffed by a recent little incident in the experience of a man at Belmont, Mo, who sold to a mill-owner a saw-log, which proved to be hollow. As he sold it for a sound log, he voluntarily went and gave back the price, and hauling it to his own yard, chopped it up lor firewood. During this operation he found ten o dol gold pieces which somebody had secreted in it. Go thou and do likewise. A strong but unavailing effort has been made in Tennessee for the pardon of one Charles M, Stewart, who killed his wife while he was intoxicated. Gov Brown in giving his reasons for refusing to save the the man from the penitentiary, says ; “ Drunken husbands, and drunkards generally, of all social grades, cannot too soon be taught that they cannot shelter themselves from crimes that shock every refined sensibility behind the plea of drunkenness. If men, with a full knowledge of their weakness and temper, wiil persist in drinking to drunkenness, let them be taught that they will be made to feel the penalties of the law by every department of the Government.