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FASHION NOTES. Bom of thd KrmntrlcitlM Wlilrh Distill-g-ulali Woman's Attire In the lllu-iriu Krglon. Small knoU and bows of velvet will again bo worn in the luiir. New summer bonnets will be of drawn net, close at the sides, with trim mings vnrjr high in front. A black net bonnet with soft pink roses is very attractive, this combina tion of colors being always admired. A glove intended for evening wear reaches to the wrist, and has a long lace sleeve of the color of the glove extending nearly to the shoulder. A beautiful little jacket of black net, embroidered all over with gold, with a deep flounce of gathered lace, and a moire sash fastened about the hips is very becoming to youthful figures. A girl 8 hat is of gray straw, bound with blue velvet, ami trimmed with a blue and gray scarf, with a handsome gray buckle in front. Another is of line brown straw, with high crown and curved brim. It is handsomely trimmed with brown velvet and a cluster of spring flowers. A largo hat of split English straw braid is in sago color. The brim is faced with moss green velvet and edged with gold tinsel cord. A wido band of velvet, overlaid with tinsel torchon, surrounds the crown, and in front is a largo drapery bow of velvet, sur mounted by ostrich tips and dark green quill feathers and a metal aigrette. In tho latest bonnet styles wo ob serve ono of medium size, faced with gold tinsel nicotine, tho brim linished with a fringe of gilt and straw beads, having a soft crown of Kgyptiun em broidery in a design of tinsel ami straw, Tho trimming was of chartreuse-green velvet ribbon, crossing the top and forming tho strings, and on tho left of the top a monturo of green marabout tips and oats, upon which rests a large grasshopper. A pretty dress for a little girl has a skirt of handsome brown and red plaid material, made with broad sido plaits nnd set on a waist of silesia. A long jacket of brown velvet, closed at the throat, falls open over a full vest of red silk, tho back of tho jacket tilting snugly. It has coat sleeves nnd a small sailor jacket collar. A frill of lace at tho throat and wrists completes tho suit. Another largo hat has a flattened, oval-peaked crown of rose-colored silk undervailing of Oriental piece lace, the brim being formed of bordering lace. Tho hat is trimmed with rose eolored ottoman ribbon around the crown, a bow being made with long ends at tho left side of tho back, with a monturo of full nodding white ostrich tips placed on the left sido of tho front Another bonnet, with mitre crown and pointed poko brim, is of pale, straw-colored silk, covered with tiusel embroidered net. Tho crown is delined by folds of Trench crepe, and the brim is faced with brown velvet and over laid with drop straw fringe. A largo bow of cork-brown satin ribbon is on the top, held down by a tinseled bird, and strings of tho ribbon complete ths trimming. A handsomo dress is of moss green Sicilienno with front trimmed with wide, handsomo passementerie of cut black jet, with small jet tassels depend ing from it. A long polonaise opens over the front, showing the passemen terie, and is edged down each side with a rich trimming also of jet, arranged in Vandykes, The folds are caught up very high toward the back, and fall in graceful folds over, tho skirt of tho tlress. A costume of mushroom color, in faille frnncniso is attractive. The skirt is trimmed with narrow stripes of tar tan velvet running round it. The polo naise is tucked longitudinally upon the bodice, these tucks supplying the full nest for the skirt of the polonaise. The folds are caught back very high and fall over the skirt of the dress. A little cape of velvet, the same color as the faille, trimmed with a thick, deep fringe, in which all the colors of the artan are mingled, completes the eos tiitno. I.oui.trillt. Courier-Journal. NEWSPAPER CUTS. How llrliclit Huston JiiiirnnlUt Mi't aa KimrK'iiry. About nine years ago James W. Clarke, who is now the managing editor if lioston Trartler, was conducting the lloston Sunday Times. Illustrated journalism had never, so far as I know, been heard of then, and the enterpris ing young man, who was always trying experiments and original inventions, bethoiiL'ht him of tho attractions of outline portraitures. The famous Bel knap commotion was going on then, and vounir Clarke conceived the idea that to bring out the portrait of Mrs, Helknap would be a very "taking" tliiiiir. So on Friday he advertised in all the city papers that tho Sunday Times would contain this portrait. Ho telegraphed to Washington for a pho tograph. and behold! none could be obtained. Saturday came. Ho tele- lrraohed to a friend in New York to search Saronv's, to search every pho tographer's, but there was no success. Saturday nurht came, ana it was demonstrated to a mathematical cer tainty that no photograph of the lady could be obtained. In this dilemma Mr. Clarcro sought a wood engraver, arranged with him to cut the likeness of an ideal beauty that figured on his favorite brand of tobacco, and the next morning this ideal divinity appeared in the runts, uulv labeled "iirs. in knan." 1 doubt if from that day to this anv reader of that illustrious sheet ever knew thedifterence. It was Mr. ( larke. 1 believe, who lirst introduced this illus trated journalism into lloston. Chicago Inttr (Mum. In Maryland, in early times, a box of forty pounds of tobacco was levied npon every taxable inhabitant for tho pay of tho preacher's salary. This tax was collected by the Sheriff, who c harged four per cent, for his services, and also deducted from the total col lecU'd one thousaud pounds per annum for tho payment of the Parish Clerk llv the laws of Virginia every clergy man received annually ono thousaud five hundred pounds ol tobacco and six teen barrels of flour. MUTTON AND MERINOS. Tlio Two l-iirturit W.im-Ii It ii I, r slierp- l; l 'i if I r 11 1 li f. Sheep litisbandri' would not be profit- able if we sa.ed t.'ie tb'cee only. Mut ton and wool u"o the. comb. nod object we seek. Hut as we oti'-e before stated the larger the surface lb? larger tho mailt tv of wool; and thus far certaiu- ly the nrgtrneiit is on the s do of size. What argument can be urged against it? That it re ill res inor- lood to keep a large than a small -h e ? W i I lion t saying and prov tig nto.v in.in i.us. u is no argiinn nt at all. Doei ;t cost more to keep a I irg' sho-p thai the prolits which its rt finis compensate for. is the m-st o-i. As to the d II r- enee beiween tue amount of food con sumed bv two sheep of diloicnt s zes tit' opinion must he largely speculative. Indeed, we can not s -e how a di tin to rule could be lixed. for nil sheep of one size ilo not m ike I lie sameeconosn- c .1 use of food. One may assimilate perfectly, and another may not. Itis true that the digeston and powers of as- imilation of the she-p are very strong, and may be said to be almost uni versally nearly perfect. Still th-re is a difference, and maybe more differ ence than wo are able to see. lint we do not bel eve that a large Merino eats more than it pays for; 'n fact, we do not believe that the dilVerenee is worth consider. ng. At the Mn h gan Sheep Breeders' As oeiat on last year we notictd it at me i me n was stated that a French Ili,ckmii4 -r had demonstrated that a heavy sheep .-hear ing seventeen pounds of wool ute twice as much as a light sheep shearing six teen pounds of wool. As between two individual sheep tins might be true. but as we understand the statement, it was that the Frenchman found this to be true throughout a flock: and if that is the statement, though it may prove nothing to say we do not believe it. II we snv it. 1 lie prine.ple in regard to large cattle is equally applicable to sli'-ei), viz., that it does" not make any .... 1 . 1 :l Iilteience now large an animal is, u n is symmetrically de eloped, compact in form. A speaker at the convention re ferred to recognized this principle, though he did not comprehend it. Ho advocated a sheep of medium size and ompact form, evidently believing that we could not secure compactness if wo went beond the size stated. But we all know that this is not true, for we -ee large compact animals every day. An angular sheep is not more desirable t inn an angular steer. Such an ani mal will cut. and nit. hut will take on fat very slowly, if it does at all. 1 lie system will unlize that part of the food consumed which makes bono and mus ic, or enough of it to keep the bones ami iiiiis diM in full strengih. and will exc te the fat-producing elements. It is a waste of resources to feed such an animal fat-producing foods. If they are useful for other purposes than meat production, they should bo fed the non-fat-form ng foods as long as thev can be made to serve tho purposes for which they aro kept, and then be got rid of in the easiest wav. if there is no other purpose in keeping them than meat production, everyone niii-t judge for himself what ho will do with them. As to the sheep, the bone and muscle of the angular nii'iiuil will secure the nourishment, to the detri ment of the lleo-e to some extent. But if wo had a sheep that was swninctr - call, developed it would not tie on, it tionalile if d was as large as an e e phan!. In tit s country, where we have so much feed that we desire to convert into greater than its orginal value, what we particularly wan; is an ani mal that will con-lime all that it will give aa account ol. It i.- fortunate t- at but few thought fill breeders w.ll agree with the gentle man to whose remarks wo have reter red. l'nlss there is some special fea sor of a selfish character for u d ffcrcnt ulvocaev, all breeders will ndvocatt large sheep. As one genleniiin sa d at l.a sing, the champ on shearer the wiinil was a large sheep. vi ncu a man has a family of high ped greed Memos fiat are small, he will mlvo- c it -ma 1 she 'P. ot iurc; anil lie is iveitv nearly the only man who do -s, I'. i - wa- shown bv the results of the ati'-m t at tins convention to ueur mine the idea of the members of the as-oc at.ou in regard to ine s ze oi a slock tain. Tho-e who bel cved that one hundred and thirty pounds, independent of lleece, was the proi er s e, were a-weit to statin up. oui , i . ..... i i ... none tv-ponded. 1 he Ml lie iv uest with ivfcrene to a hundred and forty pounds met with no response. A hun dred nnd lil'tv pounds drew lo ir to their feet, and s.x thought that a hun dred and sixty pounds would lie -;iti factory. But already the leader, who knows that many h gh-priced memos w.ll not come up to these hie her w eights, have begun to wonder how the owners of such could consent to tie put on record its favoring large sheep, l itis was the thought that came to us as soon as we began to read the re port. Well, they would not be put on record. The four who voted for I .VI Hounds, of course, had rams of that wo'ght, and those who stood up for ItiO had" rams of that size. But when those w ho believed 170 pounds were ind ca- tive of the proper size, the convention remonstrated aga n-t being put on ree ord upon such a matter, and we think very uroicrlv. tor lite mem oi an ant mal. as already stated, depends upon other things than s ze. At the sugges tion of 170 pounds, someone stated tho i-eouireiiients in the animal in a nut shell, as we have stated it above sheen could not be too largo, or. as the sneaker nut it. "scarcely too large," if balanced up with other good qualities, - MV.sfiTi Ultra!. The annual report of the Ohio Ag r'cultural Fxperiment Station urges the preservation and maintenance of for- ests. and s:tvs tins concerning wood lands: Tlie'tirst step should be to re move nil worthless varieties, and to encourage the valuable sorts to take their place. Sto. k should not oo nt lowed to run in wood lots for purpose of forage; there should lo a careful guard against lire; seeds should be planted m vacant places of such va rieties as are most desirable; shoots of inferior varieties should be kept down and valuable sorts should be trimmed up, so that thev may grow tall, form ing trunk rather than branches." CUr!and It fir. THE BIRO SPIDER. Illtrr of lniarloille In-rrl Native to Wri!i ( ountrlr. Few animals are more repulsive than this gigantic spider. The bird spider (Mij'jnle arkularin), for so the creature is called, excites horror in all the coun tries in which it is found. In the Antilles and in tho forests of Venezuela, Brazil, Guiana and Ecua dor, its repulsive aspect has, among tho residents, as well as among travelers, caused a terror that the imagination of the aborigines has still further exagger ated. Ilow many times, while iying in my hammock during tho long equinoc tial nights, have I heard the Indians and peons, while sipiattirig around the camp lire in the virgin forest, tell each other stones, or fables rather, who-e inexhaustible thnino was serpents, bats and big spiders! In measure as the night advanced, the tales became more and more extraordinary. From heca tombs of birds devoured upon their nests by the Arann ainyrejo (crab spider), with long velvety legs and poisonous jaws, the orator passed to more dramatic facts, and the la-t flickering of tho living embers often lent their fantastic accompaniment to a story about a child whose blood had been sucked while it lav in its cradle. Freed from the-e local exaggerations. which aro so frequent among these weak minds in a state of nature (and examples of which might bo easily found nearer home), the history of tho bird spider still remains sullieicntly in- tere-lingto merit being narrated and be better known. I.inno described this species under tho name of .Irmici ariculuria, the specitic name recalling tho animal s habit of feeding at times upon birds, and even upon adult humming birds, cant tired upon the nest. Tho celebrated ento mologist Latreillo in lwrj established the genus Miyale for Arachnids of the tribe I heraphoses. All tho individuals included in this group aro hunters, and live either in ne-ts constructed in the the earth or in the clefts of stones and under the bark of trees, like the species that form the subject of this nrticle. Some of them are wonderfully skilled workmen, as the mason spider (.V. emnenlarin, Latr.), of southern France nnd pioneer spider M. Judtais, alck.) of Corsica. The habits of the bird spider are not so well known as those of the ones just mentioned, either because from its hunting being done at night it is rarely met with, or because it selects retreats that are not very accessible. There are few authors to be found, however, who havo correctly spoken of this curious nnd dreaded spider; several of them have copied one another, and others have devoted themselves especially to its anatomy. During the course of niv travels in equinoctial America I have several times had an opportunity of seeing tho bird spider in a state of nature, and it will perhaps be permitted me to add a few personal observations to those of the travelers who have pre ceded me. Of the several hundreds of spiders that havo been described, this is the .argest The largest specimen that I raptured measured exactly, with legs stretched out, seven inches in diameter. The first one I saw was at Martinique, not far from Saint Pierre, in tho trees skirting a road. Its nest was suspended from the brunch of n I'nlirourva, an elegant shrub of the Kubiaee.-e, and its appearance strikingly recalled those large caterpillar nests that we so fre quently find upon the Aleppo pine ( I'inus haltit nxis) on the mountains in the vicinity of Cannes and Nice. It con sisted of a beautiful white silken tis-ue, of several thick layers, strengthened by very strong threads capable of arrest ing a small bird. In the center were placed 'the eggs, perhaps 1.501 to 2,(RH) in number. As soon as the young are hatched and escape from the cocoon, large red ants of the genus Mvnnica wage a bloody war on them, and feast upon their whiteish lle-h of no consist ency and without hairs. Such destruc tion happily counterbalances the rav ages that the spider would inaka were it to multiply too abundantly. In fact, the adult animal, whose body measures no less than four and one-fourth inches in length, not including tne legs, is as ferocious as its aspect implies. Its en t're body bii-tles with long reddish brow n hairs. Its eyes, e'ght in num ber, are strangely grouped upon a small elevation (cephalothorax); six of them are arranged in a triangle on etch s'de, and the two others are separated at tho apex of the warlv prominence. At the extremity of the strong, black, smooth jaws are the palpi. shaped like legs, and each terminating in an enormous, black, shining sting, which is obliiiuelv swollen like that of the scorpion, and, like that, tilled with a dangerous venom. 1 heso tire not its onlv weapons. At the extremity of its abdomen two elongated glands seereto nn abundance of lactescent, corrosive liuiiid, which the animal is capable of ejecting against its enemy at will, in order to blind it or render it insensible. Add to this a muscular power so great that it is very ditticiilt to make it let go. even when it has fastened itself to a smooth body, and we shall obtain some idea of the formidable manner in which this species is armed. It is rare that the turd spider is seen lo hunt during the daytime, except near its ne-t, and principally in dark places; but as soon as night arrives it leaves its lair. Its wonderful agility, a char acteristic which it shares with its con geners, is coupled with rare boldness. It attacks large lizards, like the anolis of the Antilles, and likewise serpents, it is said. These it falls upon as quick as a llash, and seizes by the upper part of the neck, in order to prevent tlieiu from resi-ting. If it surprises a hum ming bird upon its eggs, it buries its terrible pinchers into it between tho r-ase of the skull and its tirst vertebra. Injects therein a poson which paralyzes it, and then sucks the blood of its vio liiu at leisure. l.a Xaturt. If there is a craze called roller ikating raging in the land, as reported, it is very strange that some of the para fraphists don't make a joke about it. N'urriifoM'n Herald. Some one has discovered that the reason why men succeed who mind their own "business is because there ia tittle competition. THE ART OF THE BAKER. Aa Improvement In the Method of Mak ing Cokes Tlia I.tet Nuvrltle. Fine cake-making Is not a secret, but it is manifestly tin art. The regulation old-time pound-cake, and jumbles are st II to be seen, but they no longer hold the put in. Even tho d'-IVioiis -p ig" cake, so delightful in childhood's mem ory, now takes a modest back seat be fore the appearance of the mult tudu of other light, feathery loaves and la;, e: cakes. 'Wo sell on an average about worth of cake each mouth," .-:rd s young lady behind the -mall counter o' a place where genu ne iloine.-tie com pounds in the wav of bre id. c.:ke, i n- serves, etc., are offered for ruU: "T demand is about e utal for di I cate bei cakes and layer cakes. We have om, call for old-fa.hioncd fruit cake, bin there are several f.'uit ca'-ics made now much lighter and le-s ii:d 'gestii.le thai realiv taste nicer, too. and they see m it be preferred. We keep thai old-tum stand-by, pound cake, on hand always. too. Layer cakes up- nueii wun every thingjellies, ch ic oi l -. niits. creams, and fruit. A favor.tc cake is the one made with Engli.-h walnuts. A new cako i-. called walnut cream.' the flavor being in the Idling. Another new cake is 'pineapple.' The canned fruit is used, being chopped line and mixed with frostiii' for the tilling. Tinafore' cake is made with alternaie laiers of pink and white icing, the pink being given its tint by using a few drops of the fruit coloring that can bo bought nt any gro cer s. 'tloliv ar ien cuko is mo same tiling except that instead of pure white icing chocolate is mixed with it. Tho lighter am' more delicate cake can be made the better it is liked. Conse quently the greasy loaves, heavy with good butter, which our mothers were taught to consider the proper tempta tion to place before company, nojonger have an existence. J he cake maao now is mostly harmless to the most del icately organized stomachs, but it's aw fully expensive to make. "But few ornamented cakes are used by Americans except on some pro nounced festal occasion like a wedding, and not always then. Tho Germans ninko the most use of ornamental cakos, but the cake is very light. Some of the ornaments designed to make the tops of cakes e-lorious are indeed ot iearttil and wonderful construction. I saw a lot the other day four or live hundred. There were those not more than an inch high, and some queer construc tions at lea-t three feet tall. Ono had the form of the trunk of a palm tree given it, with nn immense, bushy head composed of trailing rose vines, with sil ver leaves and orange buds, lieneatli it stood a winge I figure arrayed in a cloak a la Hamlet and engaged in the act of hurling forth a crown of thorns. It was a touching matrimonial symbol. Then there were hands clasp ing hands, some tinted flesh color, with tho most miraculous cuffs and frills about the wrists. Of course there were marriage-bells and horse-shoes without number and of considerable price. There were brides whose candy heads and sugar features were shaded by little veils. Think of a bride standing on a cake! But more effective than the bride alone wore the representatives of tho brido and bridegroom; he w as clothed in the prescribed full dress black suit, with gloves, and shirt-front as immacu late lis the confectioner's art could manufacture for him from sweet stuffs. "The Gorman people sometimes uso colored flowers on cakes for special oc casions, but not for weddings. Many inericaiis. however, consider cakes ornamented in any way suggestive ot being a thing to gaze upon and not to eat, in very bad taste, and seldom use them. It is generally understood, even by the buyers of these decorated loaves, that being for ornamentation thev are of inferior quality. Chicago people buy a large quantity of nice cake, and we could sell far more than we do if we had stores in different sections of the city. It is a lield of enteriirse open to anv woman who knows how to bake skillfully, and I'm sure 1 don't know why more do not venture upon it." t At- CU'JO .YcK'S. Pigeon Catching in the Soudan. Miss Sartoriits, in her book on tho Soudan and Egypt, says: "Every village has its pigeon houses, looking like great mud cones, and in t'le evening the owners go out and call them in. But when a man wants to get hold of extra p:geons, instead of calling them ho frightens the pigeons away. They do not understand this, keep circling above, and swoop dow n now and then toward their houses. Other pigeons. s-'t ing this commoi ion, join them, and as soon as the man sees there are enough he hides. The whole of tho birds, old and new, then go into the house, and the man r-'tttrning shuts them in. This would b a tine business if it were not that all of them do tho same thing, and, therefore, each gets caught in his turn. They know this perfectly well, but no Egyptian fellah could re-ist tho temptation of cheating his neighbor. A Remarkable Case. A wri er says: "Talking the other dav of General Grant, and the expect ncy some people had that he would die Dn the anniversary of Appomattox, Sen tor Palmer, of Michigan, said to me: 'I knew of a remarkable case of hold ing on to 1 fe in Michigan a year or two a"-o. There was a clergyman at Detroit named Barnes. 1 was over at Grand Uanid-oti the cars, when he came rush ing in iust as the train was starting. I noticed that he was Hushed and ex cited. He said to me that he bad just received a telegraphic nie-sage that his wife was suddenly ill and dying: he had answered: "I'm coming, Marv; hold on till I get home." All the way over to Detroit the clergyman sat m s lenee bv himself. I think he was prayin It s wife got the dispatch and her at tendants said it revived her. She held out till her husband arrived and died shortly afterward in his arms.' After the death of a man at Bidde- ford. Me., over SlO.iksi in cash and b' ndj were found concealed !n his bed. NOT A BLAMED WORD. How the Trn.ler rem... . - -- - Vounx Mm Were TMinpieu ip -Dml:nlnir V-ii"5 Woman. ThuAud torofSta-c, hearingsomeon enter the r om looked up and beheld a man who look-d as though ho and melancholy h d long been compan ions. . ... Good morning, ' mid the Ami tor. "Onlv tolerable." He silt down and had, during n half hour, ma ntaiiied an unoroKcu a.ic.n...-, when the Au I. tor said: "Have you any bus ness with me. Not in part'cular." A":rn he yet tied down into deep si- len -e. The And tor became impai cm. What can I do lor you. J ll-'l'!' What can I do for you?' repeated the Auditor. , Well, if vou were in my place wn.u would you d ?" I don t know, 1 am sure. Haven't heard anything about mo, then?" "Noth ng." "Not a blamed word?" Not a word." "Well, I'll tell you. I live out about twenty miles Horn nere. i m iuu feller that killed tho big rattlesnake. Now. you have heard of me, haven t yu:. .. "o.- "Not a blamed word?' Not a word." "That's strange. Well, som t mo . .... . .-.i. I, if'O 1 tell in love wun -ui ii-m daughter. 1 on vo heard of that, i reckon?" "No." "Not a blamed word?" "Not a word." "Well. Nat he wan't agin the all'a'r." "W.-i-n't. eh?" said the Auditor. 1 e- poniiny amused. No. When I asked him he lowed that he didn't care, jes' so I waited till he cot through plaiitin' corn, for Sook that's her name tan kiver more corn with a hoe than any man in the neighborhood. I hadn't said iinytli n;r to tho girl all this time, th nkin' that 1 would wait. Well, when I spoke to her about it she 'lowed that it suited her well enough. Concluded to git niar r ed in town bv a Jestico of the Peace, so this niorniu' e sot out nn' come to town. I got my license an' bou't her a lot of aimles an' eatin' truck an' sweet tuff. 1 left her nt the 'Squire s ollice w hile I went to the wagon yard atter our horses, lutendin' that as soon as we u-iis married we would r do. Well, sir. when 1 came back h - had dun marred IL-e Jacob-. You Know him. don t J'0":. .. ".o. "You've heard of him. haven't you "No, never heard of him." "Not a blamed word?" "Not a word." "Well, ho is a 1'ttle bit t.io ugliest an' good for liuthin man I ever seed. The State of Arkansaw can t show up such another feller. hy, sir, he let Darb Andrews lling him down. You've beam o' Darb?" "No." "Not a olamed word." "Not a word?" "Well now, if vou was in my place what would vou dor I wo ..Id i't do an thing. Not a blam d h ng?" "No. ' I tell yon, cap' n. It wan't so much that 1 love the g rl, hut that 1 need her." "Need her. eh? "Yes. 1 ve got ten acres of new ground tlKit I want to put in corn. It is so rough that it can't be kivered 'cept with a hoe. That gal ca i kiver it in three d:ivs. It's awlul to be disap- pointe I so early in 1 fe. Well, don t say anything about it." "1 won't. "Not a blamed word?" "Not a word." Well, good-bye. Grief ha " . .i tuck possession oi mo. .irnaimiu e!cr. Tnt i The Turpitude of Church Choirs. In no sphere of human etl'ort is greater progress .shown man in me puipit. nui, as we bear witness to the fact, a dull pan" of regret abates our joy in con teniidiit'ng the peccant of humors ol church choirs. The pews feel many a ipialm of con sconce under the lire of the pulpit, Sin cannot perk it -elt Miaine-need on the cushion of tvpo-e in the high scat in the synagogue, but who ever knew a church choir to cry p. ecavi The theological sword thrifts at sin ners in tiie pews and the arrows of elo iiuence that llv over their bends never hit the choiristers. They tickle them selves w ith the s'raws of conceit. Thev wear an invisible c tat of mail, and, under a barricade f hymn-books, eat sugar plums and crack jokes as if each in turn had slipped on the ring of Gv- gcs. The man with bulging eves a,"JJ a bald head, who plays a lantasy "Hock of Ages" on the cornet, fear moral castigat'on from the pulpit tlirting with the soprano. He hold at disadvantage. In mockery o f preacher's meek stare of reproof, causes the diamond on his little tin to twinkle in his eyes, as if it I caught a ray of celestial light wj triple-tonguing the last cadenza v, an air of "sarcastieo-benigant supi ority.'- He knows it is not thesern that draws, but the cornet. While the organit is holding a sus picious ttte-a-kte behind a sheet of music with a choir girl, who meets him half way with a fan of peacock-leathers, the tenor surreptitously writes a note on the llv-leaf of a hymn-book and pokes it iii the contralto's mull. The moral torpor of the the basso, who sits with folded legs reading a Sunday new spaper, is a contemptuous comment on the evangelizing power of the pul pit. Then tho. second tenor is convuls ed with a tit of'laughler in watching a tly tickle the bald pate of a deacon be low. It seems as if the Evil One had been nietanirphosed into an in-ei-t, and was making a rival pulpit of the bare patch on the deacon's crown. Usi.ge has so conscTeted the levities of church choirs, that m';sionaries niu-t ever regard them as sterile fields for labor. II. V. S CELEBRATED CHURCH EDIFICES. Exterior Front Vlewt, with Soma Iota eating Fact Concerning Them. TRrxiTT cnrncn, new towi. Tho three most notable church edifices In the United States are probably Trinity church in New York city, and Ply-mouth and The Tabernacle in Brooklyn. The first, beside being one of the most cathedral-like and ele gant structures In the country, is the prop, erty of the richest church organization, the income from its real estate being considerably over half a million dollars per year. It is situated nt the head of Wall street, within a stone's throw of tho Stock Exchange. Ths offices of Mr. Jay Gould, the late firm of Grant & Ward, Russell Sage, and the princi pal notabilities of Wall street look out npon the spacious graveyard surrounding it The land on which Trinity stands, once the site of a Jesuit mission, was deeded together with a farm extending about a mile alons; the Hud son to it by the British government about 1700. During tho revolution the church was closed for a time on account of its clergy per sisting in praying for the success of the king of Englai!." The present gothlo structure was erected in 18411. It is built of brown sandstone, the steeple rising 1S4 feet above the sidewalk. The principal feature of the grand interior is the marble altar, which was built to the memory of the late Wm. B. Astor. As the church was constructed to ac commodate the beautiful ritual of the Pro testant Episcopal Church, the space token up by the chancel and allowed for aides reduces the portion alloted to the pews, so that the eating capacil is not as great as the size of the interior would warrant. i vm PLYMOUTH enmen, BR00KT,T5. Plymouth church in Brooklyn, "the city of churches," has long been famous as possess ing in its pastor one of the greatest orators of the country. It is a great attraction for both strangers and residents. The usual directions to a visiting stranger going from New York to Plymouth church on Sunday is, to "go over to Bmiklyn and follow the crowd." The church is a huge brick building of great architectural simplicity. It was built in 184'.', two years after Mr. Beecher's associa tion with its congregation. The building is 105 feet in length, 80 feet in width, and 43 feet in height from floor to ceiling. It has a seating capacity of !!.X). In anti-slavery days and during the Kansas troubles it was the scene of many historically interesting meetings. In marked contrast with tho other wise plain interior is the immense organ, the largest of its kind, which cost S'JT.OOO. In the rear of the church is a building that will accommodate over 1,00!) Sunday school chil dren. TITK TABERXACLE, BROOKLYN. Not for from Plymouth church is the Taber nacle, where the "Rev. T. De Witt Talmage frequently gathers on Sunday an audience of nearly 5,Ouo people. The building is con structed after the plan of an half amphi theatre, the speaker's platform being in the centre, with the pews rising in semi-circles around it. The pews on the floor will at 2.C00 persons, the gallery has a suiting ca pacity of 1,800 and 500 more can he accom modated on the steps in the aisles. The build ing was built in 1ST3, at a cost of fUT.OOO, and contains a f iM.eiXWg&n. Tho popularity of Mr. Talnme is so gnat that an tn!srg ntetit of the Tabernacle Is conteniplnUd. "o sibly by the addition of a secoLd j-alio y, which will complete the theatre-like at'j -ir-ance of the interior. e Burlington Fnv Press: "Winter Is close a: baud.'' reniarkivi an ei'-Lange. Ilow re freshing Is a bit of truth like tMs, in ths midst of such a rubbish Leap of old lie with the nail still sticking in them. ml I toil I i ill