FOREIGN
GOSSIP.
I canals were the favored haunts of ban-
BILL NYE'S HOPEFUL.
•hot gun which goes with her. In May she gen
erally goes away somewhere for a week or two
HOME
ANC
FARM.
| litti, and the untimely graves of many
ai>d returns with a tall, rad calf, with long waD-
_ Shearing lambs in midsummer is
—A Parisian hotel, recently estab t burgher and Senator of the Republic H< Kiulmrks In the Vewspaprr Hiislneu hly lags. Her name is Rosa and I would prefer
I
and Receives Koine Parental Advloe.
claimed by English farmer* to greatly
to sell her to a non resident.
lished, is being run on the “American of Venfco. All that I read of the mur
Mr D ear S ox : Your first letter writ
Yon may keep this notice in your increase the growth of the carcase.
method.”
derous bravos, the ruffianly gangs and ten since you started your paper at New paper till you sell the cow. We are all
—Too much grain is often »own when
—The interesting assertion comes the hired assassins of the ancient city Bolony was received yesterday. We felt
prefty well, and hope your paper will neefling and too little gras« seed These
from Paris that in the last year the dogs rushed back witfi appalling Intensity glad to hear that you had got located in
are two common errors. — Toledo Blade
be self-sustaining.
there killed 1,700,000 nils.
—Pound Cake: One cup of butter,
, on my memory, and dreams of flashing a business for yourself, and it made
If I had four or five boys all engaged
—King Kalakaua of the Huwaiian poignarils and blood-stained victims, me feel proud to get a copy of the paper
in running newspapers that had liberal six eggs, half a cup of sugar, one pint
Islands lias gambled away $74,000 de [ smothered in sacks and flung pitilessly which vou call the Retina. I do not
of flour, three-quarters of a teaspoonful
posited by poor people in the Postal into these still streams in the dead of know why you call it the Retina. Still, patronage I don't believe I'd have of baking powd«. Bake fifty minutes.
money enough to pay my poll-tax. But
Savings Bank.
night, seemed to stand out in ghastly the Bolony Retina sounds kind of ful I must now elose by saying so-long. as — The Household.
—Sweet Potatoes: It is sometimes
—During the year 1885 twelve deaths relief before the eye of the imagina some and didactic.
the feller says.— Hill Nye, in Chicago recommended to dry this vegetable for
were reported in England from chloro tion. The reality of the surroundings, , Retina 1 always supposed was kind of News.
winter use, which is done in this way:
form, and three from ether. None are however, soon forced itself back to my a medical term, and I would be just fool
First boil them in very little water, or
known to have occurred from any other mind. It was then too late for one to enough if I started a paper to call it the
ASSYRIAN TABLETS.
steam until tender; remove the skins
ansesthetio.
bo able to see many outer objects. Sciatica or the Polypus al Work. It's Valuable Testimony (lathered from the with any defects, slice rather thin and
Libraries of Antiquity.
—Word conies of the death of the Dark masses of granite palaces and wonderful how people run to new names
dry in an oven .or dry-house.— Field
It is well known that the late Mr. and Farm.
Countess Beust, who survived her illus domes appeared to line the canal on these days, and a plain man with a
trious husband only a few weeks. She both sides. VVliat struck me par . common-school education has to go George Smith and others recently made
—Gingerbread: One-third cup of
was once noted as the most beautiful ticularly was the extreme precis groping along through the world the most extensive explorations and most sugar, till the cup with molasses stirred
woman in Germany.
ion or dexterity of the gondoliers best he can. I presume that, with your valuable discoveries in Assyria. Mr. down into the sugar, a scant half-cup of
—A family of eleven brothers, named in the management of their little thorough and florid education, such a Smith unearthed whole royal libraries butter, one-half cup of sour milk, one
of soda, ohe egg, two cups
Christopherson, all good cricketers, boats. Many of my readers have word as Retina don’t stump you for a from its mounds—libraries not consist teaspoonful
of flour (solid), and a dessert spoonful
ing.
like
ours,
of
volumes
of
paper,-but
played a match at Blackheath, England, doubtless remarked the extraordinary minute, but with me it's different. I am
of ginger. Beat thoroughly, and bake
against a local team, and, after an ex skill and capacity of hansom drivers in a rough, hard-working man and always of clav tablets, which, while the clay in a round t wo-quart pan.— The Caterer.
was in a soft state, had been written
the busiest parts of London, where been busy all my life.
citing game, came off the victors.
—For family use celery may be
I like the tone of your editorial piece upon with an iron pen. and then baked trimmed as if for sale, and nacked into
—In Paris “Sydonie” is tile common these vehicles flash within half an inch
hard
in
an
oven.
Among
these
curious
a box with damp moss, rather closely,
name for the wax head on which wigs of each other without fear of the re on the inside of your paper which is en
and headdresses are shown in the shop motest accident. Well, I think that titled Salutatory. I like it where it goes old volumes we find accounts of the and, of course, standing upon its root
Creation, of the Deluge and of other ends. A few dozen bunches can also be
windows, and “Therese” is the name the British Jehus are, in skill and pre on to say as follows:
“We shall strive in season and out of events of sacred history, tinctured, as kept in excellent condition by standing
for the wooden head used for the dis cision, outwitted by the gondoliers of
into a water-tight box or tub witli
play of women’s cups. Does anybody Venice. When you enter a gondola j season to advocate the resources and we should naturally expect them to be, them
an inch of water in the bottom.—
for the first time you imagine every liabilities of New Bolony as a health re by the natnre of the soil through which about
know why?
N. Y. Examiner.
they
had
filtered,
so
that
they
did
not
moment
that
a
catastrophe
is
sure
to
sort
and
epunty
seat.
Our
voice
will
—A French lawyer asked a peasant
—The keeping qualities of apples are,
two francs for a case which ho had won occur. At one time you fancy that the even be heard in clarion tones, putting correspond exactly with the Biblical in large part, dependent on the soil
accounts,
but
yet
corresponding
suf
for him. “That is dear,” said the tiny craft is about to dash itself to its shoulder to the wheel of progres.
where they are grown. Those matured
peasant. “Two francs or nothing,” i pieces against the edges of a bridge; at and tramping on oppression with both ficiently to yield a most remarkable on a heavy soil keep better than those
and most valuable corroboration of grown on sand, and on heavy soi -hey
said the lawyer. “All! ‘nothing’ suits another, while you are sailing at full feet.
“We shall uend the Retina to even their testimony. We take up the fifth are also less liable to be injured by I he
me better; good day; much obliged,” speed among a flotilla in a canal of
replied the peasant, to the surprise of some four or five feet wide, you can not quarter of the globe, so that New Bolo tablet, for instance. Here is a transla codling moth. All insects find in dry,
bring yourself to believe that the tiling ny, with its wealth of picturesque val tion of seven lines of .this strange sandy soil better facilities for remaining
the lawyer.
unharmed during winter.— 'Troy Times.
—The Crown Prince of G ■ririany, can be accomplished without a disas ley, hill and dale, together with its lien volume from the library of King Assur-
—For Neuralgia: Put a teaspoonful of
like Von Moltke, is a very silent 'man. trous collision. And yet hardly ever court house and health-giving atmos banipal, from which the reader may. ammonia in a teacup aud fill with toil
see
that
it
is
a
kind
of
heathen
Genesis:
an
accident
takes
place
on
these
waters,
phere,
will
be
known
of
wherever
the
He lives in a quiet, domestic way, and
ing water Take a teaspoonful once
The moon He appointed to rule the night.
is said to be bitterly opposed to the where one is as comparatively safe as English language is spoke.
And to wander through the night until the dawn every half hour for two hours.
Tt will
he
is
on
land.
—
Venice
Cor.
San
Fran
of day.
“It is true that the editor of this pa
sentiments of Prince Bismarck, and
be known in that time whether it is go
Every
month
without
fail.
He
made
holy
assem
per has just emerged from college and
ing to relieve or not. This is good for
this a source of considerable annoy cisco Chronicle.
bly days,
beginning of the month, at the rising of all nervous pains, earache, headache
is still young, but he nas had some ex In the the
ance to the Emperor. After his first
night.
IMPURE WATER.
perience in writing for a college paper It shot forth its horns to Illuminate the heav and toothache. Never, however, take
audience with the Pope his only re
ammonia in any quantity, as it is said
mark was: “’J’lie Pope is a breneh- Epidemics Traceable to the Polluted Con and he knows what the needs and On the ens,
seventh day He appointed a holy day.
to be injurious bqt perfectly harmless in
wants
of
the
people
are.
He
is
aware
And
to
eease
from
all
business
He
commanded.
man.”
dition of Private Well«.
small ones.— Indianapolis Sentinel.
Our
quotation
is
from
the
translation
that
the
class
of
readers
who
will
pe
—The feasibility of using the tele
It is a common belief that when a
—Quince Marmalade: Boil
the
phone upon moving trains, especially well is dug pure spring water, oozing ruse the Retina will not be so refined of Mr. H. Fox Talbot. Now. the date quinces until they are soft, then peel
where the traffic is not crowded, has from the ground, is obtained; that is or cultivated, perhaps, as his college of this tablet is about, 700 B. C. But Mr. them and run them through a sieve or
been satisfactorily demonstrated by ex true in the case of artesian wells; but, readers were, but he will try to make Smith, of whose eminence as an Assyri- on a grater. To each pint of pulp al
periments upon tliirtv-three German although possible, is rarely the case himself understood, and we think we ologist it would be an impertinence to low one pint of sugar and boil for two
speak, says: “The present copies of the hours, stirring frequently. It is well
railroads, (hi heavier lines, it appears, with ordinary surface wells, and under will be successful.
“We shall constantly improve the Chaldean account of creation were to place the preserving kettle where
the telephone has not proved sufficient this name arc embraced all wells not
for the purpose, and has been used as more than fifty feet deep. The watei Retina as growing business and pat written during tho reign of Assurbani- there is no danger of burning, but
where the boiling is continuous. The
an auxiliary to the telegraph.
obtained from these wells is merely ronage may warrant, so that in a few pal, B. C. 573 628; bnt they appear to long boiling causes the color to become
be
copies
of
much
earlier
accounts
of
years
our
readers
will
look
back
on
this
the
water
which
has
fallen
on
the
sur
—The largest farm in England has
a rich red. An inferior marmalade maj
been thrown upon i s owners’ hands. It face of the earth in rains, and has per first copy with ill-concealed mirth. Creation—works the date of the compo be made by leaving the skins and cores
sition
of
which
was
probably
nearer
B.
We
are
already
figuring
on
a
dark-blue
is in Lincolnshire, and consists of 2,700 colated the soil and become collected
and pressing through a sieve, proceed
acres. The tenant paid £1 per acre. in this excavation. It is called ground job press and a rubber door-mat for the C. 2,000. The legends, however, ex ing as above.— Boston Budget.
This year a reduction of fifty per cent- water. Even granting that- some of office, bearing the legend ‘Welcome’ in isted earlier than this, and were in the
—Quince Pickles: Wash, peel, quar
form of oral teaching.” Thousands of ter and core the quinces. For seven
was made to him, but finding, although the water may be spring water, some large. Gothic extended letters.
years,
therefore,,
before
the
Christian
pounds of the fruit allow three and a
“We shall espouse the cause of no
nn experienced and energetic farmer, of it must be the results of drainage,
that even at the reduction he could not and the amount, of this will depend party or faction for the present, pre era, it appears that the Sabbath was naif pounds of sugar, half an ounce of
make two ends meet, he has thrown up upon the rain-fall, and the character ferring to remain neutral for the tune known in Chaldea. This is not the only white cloves, half an ounce of stick cin
a little white allspice, a blade of
his farm.
of the soil. A moment's reflection will being, hopping on to the erroneous, Assyrian discovery which bears on our namon,
mace, and one pint of pure vinegar.
—It is not generally known that a show that wells must, act as drains to ever and anon, however, as circum page. “In 1869,” says Mr. Smith in Boil the quinces gently for fifteen min
little gold mining is done in Scotland. the surrounding soil. Just as a wet field stances may arise, which will seem to his "Assyrian Discoveries” (page 12), utes in just water enough to cover
Gold is found in small quantities mi the may be drained by digging one or more call us on for a word of reproof, admo “I discovered, among other things, a them; boil the vinegar, spices and sugar
property of the Load Mills Silverlead trenches into which the soil may drain nition or encouragement. We shall curious religions calendar of the Assy together for five minutes; drain the
Mining and Smelting Company (limit and be carried away, so, when a deep not make any boasts or fill the air with rians in which every month is divided quinces and put them carefully in the
ed) in Lanarkshire, and Lord llope- trench or well is dug. the water in the bombast at this time, but when hvdra- into four weeks, aud the seventh days, simmering syrup of vinegar, sugar and
and boil gently for five minutes;
toun, whose marriage was celebrated surrounding soil will necessarily tend headeil wrong emerges from its hole or Sabbaths, are marked out as days on spice,
put into jars, covering as soon as cold.
recently, i—ceived as a wedding pres to drain into it. This is not only a mat the casual observer will see us knock which no work should be undertaken.” —Rural New Yorker.
ent from the miners a nugget of three er of reasoning, but a matter of expe seventeen distinct varieties of talfbut —Prize Essays on the Sabbath.
hundred and fifty-five grains. Lady dience. The following ease is reported: of said hydra-headed wrong and those
LADY MINERS.
NURSERY HINTS.
Hopvtoun now wears a wedding and “In consequence of the escape of the who carefully observe our course while What a Female Speculator Has to Say
keeper ring made out of this nugget, contents of a barrel of petroleum, or conducting the Retina will notice that
Directions
For Mothers Who Believe That
About Women Who Made Money Out
Prevention Is Better Than Cure.
West.
and the share-holders hope to have their benzine, which had been buried, a cir there are no flies on it.
I
“We have quite a number of our best
1 have been asked about ladies’ pros-
In a recent book by Marion Harland,
dividends increased some day by tho cuit of wells, sixty feet below, and two
hundred and fifty or three hundred essaysand orations prepared while we peeling, I have a lady friend who, “Common Sense in the Nursery,” she
silverlcad running into Scotch gold.
—A curious instance of death by yards distant, became so affected that were attending school and college, while on a summer trip on the moun- attributes much of the babies’ sufferings
electricity oecured recently nt Mos the occupiers of fifteen houses, contain which will appear from time to time in rains, found an outcropping of ore on from cold to the placing of the children
cow. A fete was given at a public ing eighty-two inhabitants, were for ten these columns. They are carefully and the surface and located a claim which on the floor to play. She says: “In
pleasure resort, inclosed by a wooden lays unable to use the water for cook exhaustively written, and entirely sold for $5,000. Mining for gold is a the best warmed room there is inevita
When wells are I cover the ground. Among these we tine art, for in a whole ton of earth bly a current of cooled air close to the
palisade, the exterior of which was ing or drinking.
the may name the following titles:
you will probably get no more than an floor, in which as baby sits on the carpet
itluminated by the electric-light, w’hon first dug in rural districts,
Indian—His Glorious Fast and ounce of gold, and that in such minute
some peasants attempted to gain an water is pure and may remain ‘■The American His
his feet are bathed, while his shoulders
Opaque Future.
entrance by breaking through. The -o for a long time. Fortunately, the “The Care and Discipline ot Children from an particles that one would need a micro may overtop it.” She considers an
Unpartlsun
Standpoint.
soil
possesses
some
power
of
purifica
scope to find them. I have another lady
foremost had already succeeded in
“The Disagreeable Results of Crime—Necessity
friend who is a fine judge of ores and other prolific source of trouble the hold
getting his head and arm through the tion, and although the water may re
for Exercise Among the Laboring
Classes.
lives
in a beautiful little cottage, with ing of the young monarch close to the
opening in the palisade, when he ex ceive polluting matter on the surface
“Demosthenes as an Off-Hand Speaker.
window, the air in close proximity to
>f
the
ground,
some
of
this
matter
is
“
How
to
Recluim
Giddy
Parents
—
Where
Is
her
husband,
near some large mines he the windowpanes being several degrees
pired without uttering a sound. The
Your Parent. To Night?
detained,
mechanically,
by
filtration,
There is also a lady in Gunni cooler than that further in the room,
unfortunate fellow had grasped one of
“Criticisms on the Present Imperfect Plan-ot owns.
Salvation.
son County who owns and works a large and more or less draughts through thi
the electric wires, and death was in and other portions may be decomposed
“
Duty
of
Wives
—
What
Constitutes
a
Good
and taken up bv growing plants and
mine aud gives it her personal super casings of the window can not be pre
stantaneous.— Electrical Review.
Wife.
trees. But this power of the soil is “George Washington and the Misery He En vision. She hasher own home, where vented.
tailed Upon the Youth of America by
Sudden changes from the room used
limited. When the sources of pollution
ON BOARD A GONDOLA.
she boards the miners and tends them
Telling the Truth and Afterward
Becoming the Father of
are
constant
and
numerous,
as
in
in sickness. My last year has been as a nursery to the halls, or rooms with
A Ride Through the Solitary Canaln of the
His Country.
lower teipperature, are another evil,
cities, from privies, cesspools, slop
Quern City of the Adriatic.
“All these essays are well written and very profitable in a financial way, and which might be avoided by extra wraps
Is it not a strange fatality that the water, offal and the manure of domes would be highly ornamental to any I could have done nothing half so lu when it is necessary to expose a baby to
ridiculous nearly always follows the tic animals, and, sometimes, from first-class magazine in the land, but we crative in any other business. Of course, such a change. Flannel night dresses
steps of the sublime on this old-fash leaky and imperfect sewers and drains, are here to give satisfaction in our new I have bought my experience dearly, coming below the feet far enough to al-
ioned globe of ours? Here was I a mo the soil becomes ‘tilth sodden,’ and the field, and the best we have ever written but I have spent a great deal of time in low of being I drawn tightly at the hem,
=, without
_____ r...............
preventing the
ment ago indulging in meditations a filth is carried deeper and deeper, until is none too good for the people of New studying the matter up. I own mines forming a bi >ag.
in Eagle. Summit and Boulder coun baby using his feet with perfect freedom,
la Werther, but now. as I take my va finally it appears in our drinking wa- ' Bolony. We aim to please.
are one of the means to prevent expo
lise in my hand ami make my way out ter. Sanitary literature is full of
“In closing We state that the Retina ties, and to people who understand sure at night. Marion Harland suggests
of
mining
districts
they
are
three
of
tho
of the railway station, my lips part in instances of the outbreaks
of diarrhoea, typhoid starts out with a liberal patronage and best counties in Colorado for both sil loops on the lower edges of the mat
n merry peal of laughter. Here is a epidemics
has come to stay. We use this last term
tress, and corresponding buttons on the
Frem hman, all worry and bustle, who fever and cholera; which have with the permission of the man who ver and gold. Then I own one-fourth blankets, as a safeguard against expo
been
traced
to
the
drinking
of
well
of
a
claim.of
a
group
of
twenty
mines
hardly knows two words of Italian, and
sure to cold in the night.
made it.
called the Table Group, eleven of which
who is swearing and cursing in his own water thus polluted; and, even though
In the daytime have a mattress cov
“
We
expect
our
new
navy-blue
jobber
tongue as only a denizen of the Canna- the city may go through one or more in a few weeks, and little boys in town are developed, The deed stands ered to put on the floor for baby to
biere of Marseilles can curse and swear years’ epidemics, it is not a pleasant who wish to see how a newspaper is in my name and the mines are in stretch and roll on, or a box with sides
when he is really in a passion. "Troun thought for the inhabitants to indulge j made, and would like to contribute a the hands of London and New not more than five or six inches high,
lie Fair!" he exclaims to one of the in, that they are drinking the drainage thumb or two out of their little collec York firm«. In these days when entirely padded on the inside, and large
railway ]«irters, “can't you get mo a of their privies and cess-pools. And ! tion, may come and monkey with the all the professions are studied by enough to hold the baby and his toys;
this, with a high baby-chair having a
cab? Sacrchlcu! are there no cabs in yet they must realize the idea that their 1 new press at any time. We will return ladies, hotels and manufactories run by table attachment, will prevent hours of
wells
are,
and
must
la-,
drains
for
the
I
this infernal city?’’ Within a few
their thumbs to them at the end of the them, and even a steamboat license ob suffering, anxiety and toil.
paces of him was the “omnibus’* surrounding grounds, with all its con week.”
tained by one of our sex, it seems to me
One wise mother, whose babies are the
—gondola (a public
conveyance tents that are capable of solution in i I like the tone of this piece ns n gen- that mining is one of the easiest of all pictures of health, bundles them up every
that plies through the canals to water. Science can lint tell us that, in I . eral thing, though I am sorry to hear these. The wealthiest woman in Color day as warmly as though they were to
the Place Saint Mark), into which ho a given water is charged the poison of ' 1 you allude to your liberal patronage ado, Mrs. Bishop Hiff Warren, made go into the outer air, and they are car
w as rather unceremoniously hustled by a definite disease, but it can tell us that . and by the same mail get a request for her own money, and is now worth $10.- ried, and allowed to run when large
one of the boatmen. 1 also took a seat it has received the product of decaying ! more funds. I will send you what money 000,000. She made her monev on cat enough, about a room the windows of
in its interior, a structure some eight matter from animal sources, and. again, | I can spare, hoping that you will soon tle. Ladies are too apathetic, and are which are all open. This allows them
to have all the benefit possible from
feet long, three feet wide and four feet that such water is dangerous to health. ■ get on your feet again.
bound down by conventionalities, and outer air when the weather is so in
high, with a wooden roof and glass — Hr. E. F. Mack, in Sanitary Monitor, I
we are too often kept back by advice clement that they could not be taken
I suppose you will be running for
windows. Two gondoliers plied their
from the men of our families, who are
of doors. These babies rarely have
Congress
the next thing and then you always cgostieal enough to think they out
ours, one in front of this structure and
—The most powerful telescopes now
a cold, and when met out of doors in
will
forget
all
about
your
old
father,
the other behind. The “shades of night in use magnify 2.000 times. As the
can make enough. The women of Chi winter they are a charming sight. Ap
were falling fast” as the gondola pro moon is 240,000 miles from the earth, it and borrow money of people who cago and New York deal in stocks, in parently they are clad in such a way a-
haven
’
t
felt
near
the
interest
in
you
ceeded on its voyage. Solitary gas is thus practically brought to within
wheat, oil and consols, and why not in to be perfectly proof against cold. Soft
.
woolen dresses and cloaks, hood ties
lights, hung out from blackened walls, 120 miles, at which distance the snowy that I have.
mining stocks?—87. Louis Globe-Demo closely
under the chin, warm leggins,
Send the paper for one year and crat.
cast their giddy reflection on the inky |M-aks of several lunar mountains are
thick-soled shoes without heels, and
waters, and not a sound broke on the j distinctly visible to the naked eye.— charge me with the subscription price.
—“Featherbone,” an article prepared when the snow is on the ground, rubber
You may also put a piece in your paper
ear save the measured splash of the j Boston Budget.
from the quills of geese and turkeys, is boots, complete their costume. With
stating
as
follows:
oars or the hoarse, sepulchral shout of
■------ — • —---------
FOR SALE -Owing to ill health I wiU sell at largely taking the place of whalebone red cheeks, shining eves, and clear, ring
the gondolier warning the guides of
—The present cost of operating the ny residence tn town ill. range IS. west, accord in the manufacture of whips, etc., for ing voices, they are the embodiment ot '
ing to Government aurvey, one i mshed-raspber
health and happy childhood. — Christian
other craft as his turned a corner. railways of this country by steam is rv
oolored cow. aged 6 years She is a good
which whalelsme was formerly used ex Union.
What a solitatw city is not this ex-queen $502.000,000, but to transport the same milkster, and is not afraid of the cars—or any cl usi veiy.— Chicago Timcs.
else. She Is a cow of undaunted courage
offflic Adriatic! As the gondola passed tonrfisge, using men and horses, would thing
and gives milk frequently To a man who does
Patents are issued in this conn tn
A convict employed in the kitchen
into narrow lanes and under low arches cost •11.806,500,000. That is to say. a not fear death in any form she would be a great ■
boon. She is very much attached to her home
of the Montana penitentiary put con at the rate of six hundred a week, anil
the waters seemed to grow inkier still. return to old methods would render at
present, by means of a trace chain, but she
will be sold to any one who will agree to treat 1 centrated lye into the coffee which was yet a man who paints his mustache is
It was not without a shudder of hor commerce practically impossible.— tier
without any means of concealing a de-
right. She is one fourth Short Horn and
ror that I recalled the time when these Philadelphia Pres».
three fourths hyena. Purchaser need not be served to the prisoners, and they thought oeption which deceives no one. — Alta-
idenunea. I wiu also throw ta a double barrel it was an improvement.
California
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL
—The m ñute» of the last
: General Assembly show tha( nj
their churches last year received jjj8*
1 tions of 50 and over each.
uai'
—Two or three clergyman in Brook
lyn introduced the practice of
brief talks to the children be.ore E h /*
ning the morning sermon.-ira(.f,D‘
Union.
—«ja.
—Rome papers report that the Pon.
intends to establish a great univHrait.
the Lateran Palace. The head o/thi
—The Chinaman in America is bein.
more and more cared for. Aeonwi:-’
to the New York Tribune “twentv-tw*
Chinese missions have been established
in New York and Brooklyn since 1878
and are in a flourishing cond tion Whit
JV1
is more, a large proportion of the con
vert ‘stick
Sil
—In an article published in the A«,.
velle Revue, a French traveler declare,
that there is scarcely a village in Sml
Tn
w.thout a Protestant church; more than
one mav be found even in the gorges of
Mount Hermon. At Bey rout there is Í
German hosp tai and American univer
er«
mm
sity, where the most practical sciences
iwi
are taught, especially that of medieine.
turn
—“A Century of Protestant Missions ’’
is the title of a book published in Env-
land by the Rev. James Johnston. It
makes tho startling Estimate that while
3,000,000 converts have been added to
■a
the churches, there are now 200,000,000
more heathen in the world than thers
were when Protestant missions beean »
Mu be
hundred years ago.—N. Y. Witness.
•J'jUWi u
The Illustrated Christian Il'eeWi/fol.
lows up the remarks of l’rosident Eliot
LITI
of Harvard, in denunciation of the ten-
dency to extravagance that seems to bo
iysi(
increasing among lolleg’ans with some
appropriate remarks of disown. Owing
to this extravagance, the scale of ex
penditure is raised to all, and it will
cost the frugal student of to-dav from
50 to 100 percent, more than itdidtheir
s.
equally frugal fathers to lake a collegs
course in similar comfort.
—In Brazil arc found the best schools
in South A mer ca. They are divided
in o three grades the primary, the
secondary, and, the technical schools.
I he first two correspond to the various
grades of our public schools. There is
but one institution in the country cor
DR.
respond ng to our college, namely,
“College Don Pedro II.” in Rio de
D
Janeiro. The lower schools are'free,
(INNVIL
and the law even demands compulsory
attendance.
—The Bishop of Rochester does not
approve of the popular clamor for brief
sermons. “I)o not.” he advises ts
vv
ecclesiastical subordinates, “readly
give in to what is often only a world:/
cry forsh rt sermons. You need i
great deal more experience than you
can claim now for making a fifteen
Up Sts
minutes’ sermon that sh;dl be really
us ful. Either so much will be com tXINNVILL
pressed into it that it will become load
ed and obscure, or what is perhaps
more likely, so little will g ■ into it that
it will be impossible to endure it”
The
—The figures laid before the Metho
dist conference show the steady growth
ed to fu
of the M> thodist Church in Canada.
The meinbersh p is placed at 197,479. I
j
There are 1.610 musters and proba
tioners. The church has property to
the value of $9,975.043. The number
of Sundsy-scho ds is 2,675, with an at
M’J
tendance of 191,185. Sabbath-school I
papershave a circulat on of 229,639. I toy Fe
The work of temperance, according to
the rep i t of the statistics comm tteo, I Comer Thi
lias been carried on energetically, as is I
witnessed by the fact that 46,2^0 Sun- I IGAN BF
day-school scholars have taken the total I
abstinence pledge.
1
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—School-teacher - - Come. Bobby,
surely you can spell Kentucky—K-e-ud
—Now think what cones after t? Bob"/
(in deep thought)—Well, 1 don't know
which you mean. There's George for
s ster Belle, Tommy Brown for me, and
the man pop always tells he will settle
with in the morning. — The Judge.
—A crier in a Massachusetts town,
whose duty it was to announce auctions,
ectures, etc., was needed one day, and
those who went to find him were greeted
by the following rather equivocal sign
nailed upon his door: “No crying for
hree w eeks on account of the death of
vife.”
—We must learn to accommodate
mrselves to the discovery that some of
hose cunningly-fashioned instruments
■ailed human souls have only a very Tin
ted range of music, and wdl not vibrato
n the least under a touch that tills
•thers w th tremulous rapture or quiv-
•ring agony.— N. K Examiner.
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