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-â€"The railroads carried a million of per sons into Philadelphia during the week 0! the Penn celebration; but trade was almost at a. standstill, neither visitor nor residents buying much while the show was going on. The 110- tels and theaters made money out of the crowds and the merchaan lost heavily. â€"Arabi Pasha’a tent. which was captured at Tel el-Kebir, is at present at Portsmouth, in England, and is exciting much interest, although of course, the tent and equippage are jealously kept close. It is fitted with true Oriental splendor, and is lined with silk fringe and bullion in the most sumptuous style. â€"An experiment is to be made in New Or leans to adapt mosquito wood, a native of Texas, very durable, and nearly as hard as iron, for street paving purposes. It is so abundant that the cost of buying, cutting and transporting will be very slight. â€"â€"According to Dr. lialtenhofi', Professor of Opthnimology in the Univemity of Geneva. there are in Europe 311,000 blind persons, who cost about four million pounds a. year and 75 per cent. of whom have become blind through neglect and carelessness. -In the palmy days of Rome it was no un- common thing for a big man to give adinner costing 310,000. No patrician in those flush times realized that the day would ever come when an American couldn’t pass through the same city on account of the beggars. â€"A Chicago man gave bail for the woman who had shot him, in order that she might be free to nurse him while he was recovering from the dangerous wound. She had intendâ€" ed to kill him, but he believed that she was sorry and would take the best oi care of him as a matter of self interest. ‘ -â€"Three hundxed dollars a year gives a spacious and elegant residence in the Azores. Servant wages are 32 to $5 a month ;one cent. a pound buys the finest glapes ; meat. and chickens cost about 50 per cent. less than here ; fish is excellent; and abundant, and vegetables are plenty and cheap. -â€"Americana leave their goodness behind when they go to Paris. So Mr. Moody said in his first sermon in that city. Their desire is to see all the sights, and these, he thinks, Christians should avoid. â€"It has been suggested that thanksgiving day in the future be held on the mm of October, the anniversary of the discovery of America. by Columbus. We object. Turkeys are not. ripe so early. â€" Haw Haven Register. â€"In Spain and Italy the vines are expected to yield a. return variously estimated at from one-sixth to one-half above the usual aver‘ age. In Algexin the vintage is abundant beyond all expectation, and we are even told that vessels are not. to Le had in sufficient number iorreceive the juice 0! the guys. â€"The Ting Yueng, the formidable ironclad the: has just been built in Germany for the Chinese Government. is to be lighted by 240 Edison electric lamps. This mysterious method of illumination will probably be as satisfactory evidence to the magnets of the Flowery Kingdom that there is something in Western civilization as any than could be lumished. .. . . n r “Dw‘ â€"When Henrietta. cloth and drap d’ete are used for dressy suits by ladies not in mourn- ing the approved trimmings are aoutache embroidery and heavy knotted cord fringes. â€"-A remarkable sale of Montana grass fed steers has been made in Chicago by D. A. G4 Floweree of Helena, who received $57,000 for 700 head of four and five year olde, aver- aging 1,448 pounds each. â€"In the fifty years from 1830 to 1880 the amount of money invested in cotton manu iaotures in the United States increased from 840,000,000 to $225,000,000, and the bales consumed {rom 194300 to 2,000,000. â€"In digging a. Chicago sewer a. few days ago a. mountain howitzer ball was found about {our feet below the surface, which is supposed to have been used against the In- diana who once roamed over the site of the city. _ 1--n n â€"Vigilanoe committees have been organ» ized in Des Moines, Iowa, to rid the any of the rough native and imported element. â€"B‘unmbn’a Gap. VIL, has a patriarch of 80 years, living with his ninth wife, who is a father of fifty-three chimren. At a recent reunion over 300 descendants wished him long life. â€"â€"Musoatine, Iowa, has a comet band comâ€" posed of young ladies of good social standing. Jun u-wnuu . â€"-Drunkards are suffering in the rural counties of Wisconsin, where the local option of the State enables the total abstinence people to vole down the public sale of intoxia cants. Heretofore the traflie has been con- tinued out of sight,but now the railroad companies have prohibited their emploses from taking liquor as freight and the deal~ grs can therefore obtained only very limited supplies. â€"A tailor, who had made :3. hide dah young man a suit of clashes. allowed him to try them on in the store. The young fellow walked towards the mirror at the front. gave one glance at the glass, seemed entirely marina fled with his suit. and walked out of the front door into the street. leavinghis old duds as atoken of his regards. I: was a. walking suit. . ... .u Arnnnnn-znn “nun-.5 u n. -â€"It is estimated that from 450,000 to 500,- 000 tons of oharcenl are annually made in the United States. No better way to get; through forests. It was this which. more than anythmg else, deprived Ireland of here. Few countries are now more barren of him- ber, although tradition avers that n aqulrrel mum nrmn travel Irom tree to tree irum iér, although tradition avers could once travel Irom tree Antrim :0 Kerry. â€"â€"Two French Women : Mme. G. called at a irlend‘s house on awe: day. and, her feet being damp, she said : " My dear, will you let your maid bring me a pair of your slippers f” “ My love.” replied her friendâ€" there are several people in the roomâ€"“ do you think my slippers will fit you ?" " Oh. I think so, my darling, if you will tell her to put: cork sole inside of them.” â€"â€"A Munioh professor has invented a bracelet that will remedy the affliction known as “ writer’s cramp.” The penholder is fastened to the bracelet in such a manner that it can be used to write with ease and without bring- ing the fingers into use at all. The hand can rest on the table, moving easily along as the letters are traced, and it is mid that little practice is required to give experience in the use of the invention. â€"The Japanese Military Gazette estimates the total land forces of the empire at 109» 383, composed as follows: Generals. 30; officers, 2.626 ; non-oommissiuned officers, 6.696; privates, 90,746 ; artificers, 60 ; Cadets. 726 ; cadets aboard, 17 ; Uomrol department, 1,768. The regular tomes, however. only number. it appears, 43,705, while the militia and reserves amount to 58,415. The number of horses is 3,112. â€"A Kimberley correspondent of the Natal Mercury, speaking of the financial affairs there. says it is impossible to dcscribe the dearth 01 money at the diamond fields. Searcer any company is paying dividends. Shares that were worth £15 last year fetch only 53. or 10s. now ; £22 shares are quoted at £4, and £380 shares at £140. This is the unit of over speculation, illicit diamond buying, and catastrophes in the mines. Dia- monds are still found, hoWever. â€"Veccination is henceforth to be compul- sory in China. One cause for popular op- yonition to it is that it is the practice there to vaooinate children on the tip of thenoae. A reward of halts tael, which the Government has offered for every child vaccinated, has not been snfiieient to persuade parents in any circumstances to disfigure their children in this way; and a law has therefore been promulgated punishing the failure to vacci~ inute by fine and imprisonment. -Mr. Wake, engineer of the River Weir Commissionera,and Mr. Irish. manager of the Northern District Telephone Company, in England. have made some interesting ex- periments in the use of the telephone by divers. The length of the cable connecting AROUND THE WORLD. â€"â€"The balls at Oxford are becoming ab- sorbed in the colleges in conformity to the scheme of iho University Commissioners. The principal of Si. Albun Hall has placed his resignation of the hall in the hands of the Chancellor of Oxford University. By a pro- vision of the Oxford University Commission- ers, the hall comes into the possession of Morton College. and is annexed to it, while the resigning principal is to receive a pension from that society. St. Albzm Hall is thus the first of the halls to suffer extinction. Magdalen Hall was some yenrs sinco endow- ed by Mr. Baring. and received a charter of incorporation as Hartford College. St. Mary Hall. New Inn Hall, and St. ndmund Hall are ultimately destined to absorption by Oriel, Baliol, and Queen‘s Colleges respectively. -â€"-The late Mr. Twistletou, a. London liter ary man of very high attainments, who mar- ried a. niece of the late George Ticknor. 0; Boston, once said that he found there were in all London only two regular professional experts in handwriting, nor did it seem that the number had ever been much more. He drew a sharp contrast between such persons as Uhebot and Netherchft, who really brought to bear upon the documents submitted to them not merely acute intelligence and close reesoning, but the labors of years, and the experts, loosely called so. who have merely the experience gained by ordinary professional svecstions in banks and counting houses. To- the evidence of these letter he attached very little value. â€"The High Commissioner at Cyprus at- tributes its chief curses. drougthts and locusts, to tho roohlona dash-notion of he screen. A .‘ \he Woods disipiiéercd. so did the soil that covered the hills ; that soil was weshed down to the plains, choked the rivers, and formed malarious swamps, the hills became bare rocks, incapable of growing a blade of vegeta' lion. and the locust a: once took possession of the barren ground, while lhe absence of trees deprived the earth of its annually fertilv izing agentâ€"leaf mould. The same process 13 going on upon the higher hills, and Sir R Biddulph believes it is no exaggeration to say that Cyprus is in a. critical state on this acâ€" count, from which, however, there is reason to hope that it may yer be recovered. There are districts of this country. too, where these remarks may be pondered over with advem tage. â€"Peuedcn Heath. in Kent, England, Where for Esme fifty years mulgfactors were hanged in chains, and left hanging for momhs,hus been given over as a public pleasure ground. The last famous criminal hanged there was Nicholson sorvantto a great Russian merâ€" chant, Thermaon Bonur, of a firm ye‘t extant. He killed both Mr. and Mrs. Bonar, W‘nojlived at Camden place, where Louis Napoleon died When Sir Astley Cooper saw the wounds he said, “ Done by a left handed man.” This directod suspicion 20 the right quarter. â€"-Old Maggie Parker was 5 Cincinnati beggar. She got food in scraps from restaur- ants, and did not scorn bits from garbage barrels. Her clothes were given her. and she lodged in a shanty where no rent wss‘deman- ded. When tbs site was needed she secured another free hoyel, and implored a poor teumfi Bier to move her scam ifi'ccta He devoted an evening to the charity, and in handling a hsavy box. thought he head the Chink of coin. Opening the cover, he found bags containing about $6,0U0 in gold and silver. He declined to finish the job without pay. *Eighty Frenchmen, engineers, guides, foremen and nfwvies, with 600 Morocco navviea enlisted in Algeria. 600 Senegal no. gross, and 200 or 300 Krotnwu, are about to commence the construction of the railway to connect Senegal with the Niger. Their oper- Litinns will be protected by a column under 001. Desbordes, which will viutunl the posts. plant the French flag on the Niger and erect two forte on that river. A second railway, from St. Louis to Dakar, is also about to be commenced, and a cable will shortly be laid between France and Senegal. the receiver in the diver’s helmet with the transmitter above water was 600 yards. It was found that the diver could converse with ease, and ns‘k for tools in any posifion in which his work might require him to place himself. â€"-In London, Paternoster row has been from time immemorial the headquarters of publishers, Holleywell street of retail book- sellers. Long Acre of coach makers, War-dour street of furniture and picture dealers, Ber- mondsey of tanners, and Mount street of house agents. Groevenor street and old Burlington street are sacred to the medical profession. Dover street abounds in private hotels, and Banners street in music shops. Fleet street. Catharine street and Welling- tonstreetxnpply half the newspapers. while Mortimer street and its immediate neighborâ€" hood appear to be recognized places of refuge for servants‘ agencies and French laundrees-. e5. Manchester street is entirely devoted to the accommodation of strangers ; it possesses two flourishing hotels. glaring at eeoh other, and every remaining home, without excep~ tion, is let out in apartments. â€"â€"Tho Emperor William’s uniforms oom- prise one of each of the regiments of the Guards and of the body regiments, one .each of Baden, Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemberg, four Russian uniforms, and one each of his Austrian regiments of the line and humans. The civilian sum; are elegant and chiefly dark, although a light pair of trousers is now and then tolerated. The regular head covering is the high silk but. The hunting suits are rarely renewed, on the prinâ€" ciple, probably. that the older the batter. Perhaps the most remarkable piece is the Emperor’s brownish gray havelock, which he wears in the spring and fall in his drives, and with which, though twenty-five years old, he in not willing to part. All his uniâ€" forms and suits were made by a. member of the same family. whose predecessors pm- Benled the young Prince William withhis first uniform. Numerous as the contents of his wardrobe are and have been, it has never held a dressing gown. â€"Charles Sauter. the man now awaiting trial in oannention with the Dunecht outrage, describes with the utmost Circumstantiality the manner in which he discovered the Earl of Balcarres’s body in the wood one night while poaching. He heard a sound like the breaking of a stick, and stopped to listen. He j then heard the rustle of a person crawling on . his right hand side. He thought it was the keepers trying to surround him, and ran as fast as he could for the thickest part of the wood. When he had gone about twenty yards he was suddenly tripped up. (lasting a glance upward he saw twu men standing above him. Their faces were blackened, and they appeared to be about the middle height. Presently they were joined by two other menI who were taller and who wore half masks on their faces. One of the tall men preSented a pistol at him and said to one of the men who had been holding him, “ Remove your arm and I’ll settle him.” Finding. however. that Sauter was alone, they let him go, warning him that if he breathed a svllable of what he saw “they would have his life if he was on the face of the earth.” After wanderi’fig about for a few hours Sauter, about daybreak, came across what seemed at first a heap of rubbish. he opened it and found a blanket, which he turned up, and saw the dead body of a man lying beneath. He said the two men whom he first met spoke with an Aber- deenshire accent, while the tall man appeared to be a gentleman. VOL. XXV. As flowers in ruin. Gad wntcbes, and thou wilt have sun. ' \Vhen clouds their perfecn work have done. The xitualiatic agitation in England would semn to be interminable. The case of Mr. Green. who, by the way. still languishes in jail, is the aubject'of continued controversy through the meJium of me daily papers. and the debate now and then waxes warm. The following is given as a bona fide song at a. colored camp meeting in New Jen say: The antiparhy between. the write and hlack YthbS m the South is described by the Wesleyan Chrisbirm Advocate of Macon, G3,, m; “ one of mat/moi and not, of pnjudice ;” and the editor is against the mixing of the colors in churches and schools. Gan. Booth of the Salvation Anny says that what is required for efficiency in Gospel work is {Jon loarmng nor mental pOWer, but “ a hallelujah burdy~gurdy in the insides. constantly played upon by the Holy Ghost.” Mzmy pel‘BOnB will dissent from the General's vww of the matter. The Boston Globe reports that lighhflng struck a contribution plate in a Western church just as the deacon was passing it around, “ This is the first time anything has struck this piaie for thxee months,” said the deacon. thoughtfully. “ Do you uubacribe to all the articles of the Athanasiuu crud ?” was asked by an old lady. “ No, I won't: I I can’t afiord it. There’s a collection nexfi week for the con ventiun fund and I can't do no more,” was the reply. Art thou weary, tenderhem‘t '1 Be gm] of pain ? Iu‘soyruw sweetest things will grow, I have u praying fathur, Ho prays three timas a day ; And the angels hist the Winder. To hour my- tuther pray. “ What other business do you follow be- sides preaching?" was asked of an old colored man. “ I speculates alittle.” “ How spec- ulate '3” “ Sells chickens," ‘ “ Where do you get the chickens ?” “ My boys Ietch ’em in." “ Where do they get them 'I” " I dean know, 5313, 1’28 allera so busy wid my preachin’ dint I ain’t got time to ax. I was ’agwina ter inquire de udder day, but a ’vival come on an’ tuck up all my time." 01d Chief Pocoleflo, now' at the Fort Hall namnv. in ans er tn, an *nqulr re1ative :0 the Ohnsmau c aractur m fi'whlzmfi! Imufi As England and Germany seem to be an able to agree upon the appointment of a Prot- eamnt Bisuop at Jerumlem. it is expected that the See will be abolished. the Uhnsmau character 01 31.1; mm Inna agent at. that place gave in very terse ‘hu guage the moss accurate descripfion of a hy‘ pocrite that was ever given 1,0 tbs public “ Ugh ! too much God and no flour.” Tho committee of the Pan-Presbyterian Council haw. held a session in Belfast. to ur- range for the meeting of the council share in June 24 of next year. The National Liberal League met at St. Louis, Mo., recently. The principal business done was rejecting the Christian calendar by taking the year 1600 B. G. as the starving point, and substituting E. M., meaning Em of Man, for A. 1)., Anno Domini. The oldest existing Baptist church in Wales is the one at Swansea, which has just entered upon its new premises. I‘ was formed in 1649, and even now, after a. lapse of two hunn dred and thirtywhtee years, continues to hold its own as the largest in the principality, its membership being six hundred and seven» teen. Ninety per cent of the residents of New York City are provided wich Bibles. and 85 per cent of the Bibles are used to ornament stands and tables. - The new English Wesleyan conference minutes show that that body baa 509,367 members,with54,489 on trial, and2,124 min~ isters. “nth 289 on trial, and 341 suparuum- erariw. ABOUT PREACHERS. UHURCHES AND ' RELIGION. Tho heathen now warships idols made in New England. > 15:. Talmagé says it takes a man who is a Chrisziun an the way through to behave the story of Noah and his ark. When Mr. Spurgeon was asked how he succeeded so well in keeping his church lull. he repliud: ” I fill the pulpit and let the people fill the pews.” Two of the fathers of the United Presbyte rian church have recently passed away in Scotland. Rev. W. Brodie, who was for fulty years minister of Lasswude, and Rev. David M. Groom, of Edinburgh, whose name is pre- fierved in connection with the great Atoneâ€" ment controversy. The Universalist Shape convention of Gen- neoiicui held in session at Stufford a few days since. The executive commi‘tee re~ porLed that $39,000 had been expended dur- mg the past year in improving churches and paying church dbbis‘ In authorized also the mining of $700 for the support; of a. State missionary. A prominent Methodist clergyman in Phil- adelphia‘, without regard to the proprieties of the occasion, fielibcmiely cond1:mus William Penn for-having bought. land from the In dians and paid for it with rum; therefore he was no betmor than any other liquor dealer. Miller was tried by a Wisconsin Baptist church, or which he is a pillar. on 1: charge of irreligiuus conduct in going to a negro min- stlel show. His defence was that he started for a. temperance lecture. got into the wrong hall, and did not discover his mistake until the show began. He admitted that ho was to blame for not instantly withdrawingmnd that he remained because the entertnmment amused him. He was reprimanded. MiSBiSSippi has n. religioufi Joan of Are in the person of a young: woman who attended a party. and while dancing was so foruibly im- presstd with the sinfulness of the pastime that she made encrgmic protest against it, and really succeeded in canvcrtingthe gather- ing into a protracted religious meeting. A circular letter ham been sent to all the Roman Catholic clergy in the archdiocese of New York commanding their attendance at a synod in m. Patrick's Calhedml, New York, Nov. 8 and 9, for the advancement of Christ- ian piety and strengthening eccleaiusiieal discipline. The but synod was held in the old cathedral. The Litany of Saints is ordered to be recited until after the synod has been held. In a recent account of a religious meeting at Liverpool :1 daily newspaper stated that the hymn " Jesus lives no longer now” was sung. but it proved, on further investigation, that the actual lines were “Jesus lives : no longer now can thy terrors, death, appal us.” The reporter refused to take the responsibility of the mistake, but declared that the choir sung it in that way. and, not having any hymn- book, he had no chance of getting the correct version. Little Eva. 5 years old. goes to visit her grandpnroula in the country. The morning after her arrival her grandmother asks her if she has said her prayer. ” Oh," replies the child, ” I do that at night. when I go to bed.” “ But you should thank God in the morning for the good sleep He has given you." “But, grandmother,” obj eats the young philosopher, “ I didn't sleep last night.” The title of the leeson was “ The Rich Young Man." and the golden text wau, “One thing thou lackest.” A teacher in the pri- mary class; asked a little tot tq repeat the two. and looking earnestly into the young lady's face, the child said : “One thing thou lackest â€"a rich young man.” Cardinual Newman, when vicar to St. Mary's, Oxford, speaking of the nonnattend‘ RICHMOND HILL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16 1882. Still another clergyman of agnostic tandem eiee have been installed as a Congregational pester. He is the Rev. William Kayne Leavell of Brighton, Mass. He believes in the authority and infallibility of the Scrip- tures for all purposes for which they are in- tended by God. but he declines to commit himself to any theory as to the mode of operation by which the Holy‘Spirit had se- cured the obsolute oogreetness of the work of the writers as to all motel ind. epii-itual truth as related to the ends: m". yevehtion. But itie his view of th.‘ V; . Jet atone- Tie t‘ gzhii‘ti. Int-1:" -- , ;.-;;_‘u imti‘ett'fhaet nonrigmnimon oi the ministers who A clergyman. says Vanity Fair,was turned down at a fashionable spelling bee for spell: iug drunkenness with one 11. Shortly after- wards he returned to his parish, and found himaelt very coldly received by his pariah- ioners. He sent for the parish clerk and asked him what was the cause. “ Well, sir,” replied the man. " a report has come down here that you was turned out of agreat lady’s house in London for drunkenness.” Shortly nicer his accession to office, Rev. Charles Garrett. president of the British Wesleyan Methodist conference, issued a. letter stating that he had a list of eighty ministers who had duly passed shrough the theological colleges of the connexion, for whom circuit employment could not be pro- cured. The result has been that applications have been received from home circuits for their services in aggressive evengeliafic work, and that the whole of the eighty unemployed ministers have been since stationed in spirit- uelly neceseilous districts in difierent parts 0! the country. installed him. He says that the atoning work of Christ is a mystery. and he has no settled belief regarding it, further than that to every man will be given an opportunity to become reconciled to God through Jesus Christ. and to be renewed by the power of the Holy Spin-is. What the mpottuniby shall be, when, where, and how it shall be given, God is to decide. .The Hev. Charles Spurgcon. jr..is traveling in the West, and occasiollally preaching in Bennie: churches. “The ‘yoice oi the young- er Spurgeon,” says the SI "Louis Republican. “is s baritone. His Bible selections were read giandly. He is more vehement, more of an actor than his’icther. Hie gestures are strong and frequent. His references to daily rind local occurrences showed freshness and originaliiy. He is also humorous. He proâ€" vokes a smile more frequently than teurs. From appearances he is about thirty years of age. The characteristics of his talk are plain- ness, simplicity. personality, augmentstive humor and pathos.” The young people of the South Congrega tioual church. "Springfield. Mass" mm the church parlors into a. free reading room each Sunday from 5 to 7 30 p.111. Now if to this very good step in the right direction tuey will add another, and open the parlors two or three evenings in the week, the result will be the saving from temptation of many young men who are strangers and have free ensrance only into the liquor saloons, where they are always made welcome. The Rev. Dr. Arthur T. Pierson made a remarkable statement before the Presbyterian Synod of Indiana last week. He said : “In November. 1875. I discovered that I myself was the principal obstacle to a revival of God's work. I had been preaching the most elaborate literary sermons I could produce. God showed me that I was laboring for hu- man applause. I had a magnificent church building and $35,000 was spent on the interior decoration of that; church. Then and there I said to God that I would renounce all the riols of which I had only been made consci- ous if He would only let me do His work. While I was praying for this blessing the church look fire and in half an hour it was in ashes. We went into the Opera House and I threw aside my elaborate manuscripts and the Holy Ghost oame. ’ A Louisville clergyman says it is not only sinful for women to preach, but it is improp- er. They can scream louder than men. but their throats are not constructed for public speaking. They can say many cute things. but when it comes to making a strong sensi ble 8pm ch they can‘t do it. If Miss Anthony we: has a chance at this man he will be sensi- ble of the strength of her speech. anoe upon the services of the church, said, very beautifully: “I only lament your ab- sence from religious ordinances. I do not complain of it. But, perhaps, when one is busy with his farm and another with his mer- chandise, and, therefore. cannot come, the vacant aisles are filled with invisible angels, and the discouraged pastor may, with the eye of faith, be conscious of their presence and see the waving of the skirts of those whose faces see God." King Mtesa is more troublesome to the missionaries than any other of the petty monarchs of Africa. He has an unpleasant habit of falling from grace and turning his back on the conviction of which be has been proud. He disdains to hold theological argu- mentiwith anycf the missionaries. It is enough for them that he orders them to clear out of his territory. Having tired of all the religions he knew, he sent three commis- sioners to England to obtain lurther infor- mation as to the ecclesiastical and political outlook. Those commissioners returned with a long report, which he refused to let his people see. But, after hearing What they had to tell about England. Mtesa announced that he would let the missionaries of any persuasion from that country come into his dominions on one condition. That condi- tion was that Queen Victoria should give him one of her daughters in marriage. For the present the missionaries are laboring elsewhere, and it is their general impression that King Mtesa is an unprofitable sinner. The Rev. J. Hearvey Beale of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia said some plain words to young women on Sunday He condemned vigorously tight lacing and tight shoes. He said that many came to hear him preach whose feet and forms were so compressed that they could not hear the Word of God. He condemned the habit of gossiping in these words: “ When women are together they breathe observations not affecting the worth of anotner woman, but her appearance. Some- thing is always wrong. I This one has no pedigree. That one is foolish because she talks too much; Another has hair of a wrong color, or a nose that has been put on wrong. Some open their mouths too much when they talk, and others have hangs made too large. They are always sneering and cannot pass one another on the street without making unpleasant remarks." The shade of the good Mr. Wall. of Balliol, sometime Professor 0! Logic in the univer- sity, will forgive me for relating a crushing reply, which he: in the days of his flesh used to be credited with having received from an injured examiner. The story is, I fear, too good to be true. Prof. Well, it should be ex- plained, was as conspicuous for wearing a. broad white necktie. commonly called a ” choker,” as for his brilliant elucidations of logic on a blackboard in the hall of Balliol He is said to have been once pounding an un- fortunatenin the Acts of the Apostles : this man, exhibiting a great inacqualntanoe with St. Paul’s defenses and explanations of his conversion, drew the Professor considerably. “ Come, sir,” said the noted lecturer, “ come give me something that St. Paul said : cannot you remember any passage 7” The young gentleman {altered considerably, but at length produced a reply. " Yes, I do oneâ€"4 God The Free Methodists have taken a stand on the liquor and tobacco question that would make many members of other churches wxnce if the same standard were applied to them. At their centerence in Burlington, Iowa, last week, the Free Methodists declared that ‘ the manufacture of wines and cider, the brewing of beer to be used as a. beverage or traificing in the same, the raising and selling hope for brewing purposes, and the growing, using, or traflicking in tobacco for commercial pur» poses or common use. is a sin against God and our neighbor, and that persons guilty of w of the atgge \tieee are not worthy B'é aasaaéi‘enmse statesmanmam for its own denomination, but declares against any lower standard of membership in any Christian church. It will be interesting to note what the other churches will say about it. The Presbyterian mininsters of Pennsylva nia take strong ground against the “deaeoraâ€" tion of the Lord's day." One of the closing acts of the synod which adjourned on Monday in Harrisburg was the adoption of a resolu- tion apgealing to the legislative. judicial and executive authorities of the commonwealth “ to maintain that system of governmental sanction and support which has hitherto been employed to secure the day of holy rest to the Christian people,” asking the railroad and other corporations for travel and transporta- tion to “ suspend thslr violation of the Sabr bath," and protesting against the running of excursion trains or boats, “ whether openly for the purpose of pleasure or in the name of religion.” The Presbyterians are a large and influential denomination. It will be of inter- est to watch what afleet this resolution has upon the authorities and corporations to whom they appeal. Her Highness the Maharantee of Vnzmna- gram, having heard that the works for the new Roman Catholic Church at szianagmm has come to a standstill for want of fuuda, very kindly gave 2,000 rupees in order to complete it. Her Highness previously gave 1,000 rupees to purchase the house and com- pound, in the latter of which the church will The last act of the recent English Church Congress waa‘to urge the endowment of tlzu new Biahopric of Southwell. It is proposed to raise the sum of $350,000. which will yield the Bishop an income of $15,000 a year. “ In the meantime,” says the London Echo, “ scarcely a week passes in which clergyman are not heard of who have hardly enough bread to eat.” “, The crop of religious mountebanks," says the Catholic Examiner. ” who yearly pose before a patient and long suffering public has been unusually large this summer. and their antics have been unusually ridiculous. Leavâ€" ing out of our calculations the Salvation ‘ Army, with its regiment of hallelujah lassos ‘ and hysterical and ungrammatioal attacks upon the powers of the Prince of Darkness, side shows‘of a religious character have been immensely popular with our Protestsnthreth- ren. The latest exhibition of this peculiar species of piety comes from the Rev. Harri- son. the boy preacher, who warts to wager that he can bring more souls into the fold in a given time than any other Evangelist in the profession. This challenge has not gyet been accepted by any other professional soul snatcher. Uur suggestion to the Rev. Harri son is that he make it a sweepstake match. Let half of the gate money so to the winner and the other hell be divided among the other contestants. A contest of this kind might not be so entertaining or so instructive as the boxing matches now in vogue, but it would undoubtedly be more edifyingl” A PLANTATION HYM‘N. Ohl mighty Lawd l I ’penls ter youâ€" Pleuse check my sinful way. I scarcely know, Lewd, what I (10, Yet fee‘s I'm gwine astray! De darkness henis me all aroun', Eu pains my weary eyes; I hours (is nwil thunder soun' En sees de angry skies l I hours as ro'rin oh de win’ Er risin’ bv d greasâ€" De creepin' sto'm o' wrath en sin, En drops erpon my kneesl Please lo.y yer blessed han’ on me, En whisper in my ear: Pleaseflnsh delight so I ken see En speak so I ken hesrl Lewd let me p rish not dis nightâ€" Ohl pitiful I cry, Please eabe my soul for glory bright, When I shall come ter die l The following was written by a Uleveland clergyman whose son recited them at a Sun- day school entertainment : The Salvation Army in England, though supposed 'to perform merely military functions of aspiritual character, have beenehowing disposition to use the weapons of the flesh. At a place called Yeovil on a Sunday recently Booth’s troops fought the police, and succeed- ed in giving the guards the worst of it. The newspaper report of it says that one Salve, tionist “ cut open a youth’s head.” The Baptists had planned a general Bible Convention. which was to have met at Saretoga in November. But the plane failed for lack of enthusiasm, and the Convention has been postponed until next May. It is exâ€" pected that. when the Convention meets some of the vexed questions as to translations, ver- sions, and circulation will be definitely get; at rest. These have for some time worried the Baptist denomination. The fiflh annual report of the Women’s Missionary Society of t Melhodisf Epiaco pal Church South gives i 6 number of auxâ€" iharies as 958, with 21,061 members; and 191 juvenile societms, wibh 5,344 juvenlle members The total membership, inuludmg life members. etc, is 26,763. The tom! &m_0nnt raised the past year was $26 739 29. stand. The house forms a. convenient and cogn‘f‘nitable residence for thefriegtju charge. shall smite thee, thou whited wall!”'â€"London Sogiyetyt A silly young rogue was the Prndigal son, He caught up his traps and away he did run ; He spent 8.11 his 111: may in frolics and gigs, And then wasn‘t allowed to eat with the pigs, “ I’m .mgngry," he said, and he sighed and he side ; ‘Here I. tho’ IL son. am starvmg for bread, While servants at home with plenty are fed ; I’ll go to my father. and tell him my grief, Perhaps he'll forgive me and offer relief ; I’ll own I have sinned in all I have done, Andjust be a servant instead of n. son." The father. a. good distance off, saw him come, And with a kiss and embrace he Welcomed him cried ;v ' ' ' V Be tglgought of his home, and his mammu. be- home .' Then dressedhim {L11 neatly with ring, shoes and vest, And killed the fat calf and made him a feast -â€"Thia month brings the English sports- woman. Lady Florence Dixie‘ to inspact "Dixie’s Land" and scour the Western plains. -â€"Some French chemists have succeeded in solidifying petroleum, in which state it burns like tallow. The solidification is effected by adding to distilled petroleum 25 per cent. of the purified juice of a plant ben longing to the family of the Euphorbiaoeoe. â€"-In Germany, in 1881, a census was made of the condition of trades. From an abstract published recently of the results of this sta- tistical enquiry, it appears that women are taking a. more and more active part in trades and industries. Most of the female working people are engaged in the textile branches, in viotual trades. and in leather and paper man- ufactures. The age of these females is be~ tween 12 and 27 years. In all 345.753 female laborers are engaged in the 93,554 GOIH man mauufaetories, which also give employ- ment to 1,636,009 men. There is no man- uiaotory in which female workers are not engaged. 12. Every leaf has a bud at the base. and either a bunch of fruit or a tendril Opposite it. 13‘ A tendlil is an abortive frui bum.“ v-‘I bunch of fruit a productive tondril. - $’ '4 14. [A bunch of grapes without ‘ 55¢: leaf opposite i: is like a. ship at 83 ° 1 Ma. _J,a'ttaasr"~?eeafi:§a ‘e' Iiticitnf‘ nheckea, they are the worst of thievea.â€"The Vine Dresser. ‘~ 11. Vine leaves love the sun ; the fruit the shade. How to Manage a Biting Dog. A gentleman who has given the subjeoi close attention furnishes the following cam- paign plan to avoid being bitten by a vicious dog, which we in all seriousness publish lot the benefit of those of our readers who may be interrupted by a biting dog while they are stealing firewood, or are in their neighbor‘s yard for any other improper purpose. 2. Give the vine plenty of manure. old and well decomposed. lor fresh manure excites the growth but does not mature it. 3. Luxuriant growth does not insure fruit. 4. Dig deep but plant shallow. 5. Young vines produce beautiful fruit,but 01d vines produce the richest. 8. Vines, like old soldiers, should have 309d Erma. v 6. Prune spurs to one developed bad; for the nearer the old wood the higher flavored the fruit. 10. Those who prune long must soon climb. “ If you enter a. 101; where there is a vicious dog be careful to remove your hat, or cap as the animal approaches you, hold the same down by your side between yourself and the dogf When you have done this you have secured perfect; immunity from an attack. The dog will not atmck you if this advice is followed. Such is my faith in this policy that I will pay all doctor’s bills from dog bites, and funeral expenses for deaths from hydrophobia. IL is the unknown danger the dog does not; like to meet." A Puzzle to Forgers. The Blink of France will issue a few hun- dred frencbsnk notes of en especislly elab- orate pattern, which it is believed, will beflle the most skilful of forgets. An eminent painter has furnished the design, and the en- graving has been executed by artists of the first rank, the distinguishing feature of the new note being its double water mark. That to the left is the head of Ceres, end that to theiright the head of Mercury. One is visible with the note placed flat. and the other when it is help up to the light. The water marks are not printed over. On both sides of the note they appear encircled by ornamental devices. On the face of the note are draped figures seated. which symbolize Agriculture and Navigation. On the reverse the centre is occupied by 9. group of the goddessses Minerva and Fortune, and below each of the water marks is the standing figure of a genius, bearing an escutcheon, on which is inscribed the value of the note. The new note, like all French bank notes, is printed in blue. Every corpse that is taken to the Paris morgue is now quickly convened into a block almost as her-l as stone. This result is ob tained by Oarre’s chemical refrigerator, which is capable of reducing the temperature of the conservatory, where each body is laid out in something closely resembling a camp bed- stead in stone, to 15 degrees below zero cen- tigrade. At the back of this room is a row of stove like compartments, in which the corpses are boxed up and frozen hard before being exposed to public view. As an illus- tration of the intense cold thus artificially secured, a Paris journalist. in discribing a recent visit to the morgue, says that in open ing one of the compartments the atten- dant took the precaution to wear a glove lest his hand should be burnt by contact with the cold iron. The corpse, which was taken out of its receptacle, had been there nine hours. The doctor who accompanied the visitor struck the dead man on the breast with a stick, and the sound was just as it he had struck a stone. Grave Growers Maxims 1. Prepare the ground fall; plant in spring.’ 6. Pruie in autumn to insure growth, but in gprjpg to promote flfuitfulness. 7: Flint y’our vines before you put up trel- lines. Way the deg refuses to bite the man who carries the nut. in his hand we are unable 10 say ; but such 13 the fact, nevertheless. Per haps the intelligent and appreciative animal is disarmed by the puliteueus of the intruder in removing his hat, or, may be, the dog he- comes paralyzed at trhe intruder taking up a collection for some charitable purpose. Texas Sittings. Adam Kirpen, of Chicago, woo possesses the longest board in the World. is 66 years of age, is 5 feet 11 inches tall. and a perfect specimen of robust. though aged. German. By means of his heard he has amassed a con siderable fortune‘ but. notwithstanding, he endeavors to sell his photographs on the plea of poverty. The board which he at present Wears has attained the wonderful length of nearly twelve feet. He disposes of this rather unwieldy appendage when walking on the street by rolling it around a leathern belt suspended about his neck. The length of the heard is such that he can place both feet upon it, and the other end, upon being lifted up, reaches a few inches above his head. The beard. which is of a dull gray color. is quite thick. and is the result of twenty two years; uninterrupted growth. From his youth Kir pen gave evidence of becoming as beardtd as Esau. At 11 years of age he was under the necessity of shaving, and at 14 had a. large bushy beard, which, added to his robust frame. caused people to frequently confound him as being his father‘s brother. When he entered the German army as artillerist his mustache was three feet in length, and he experienced about as much trouble in partak~ int: his meals as Victor Emanuel. of whom it is related that he tied his mustache to. gather behind his ears when about to eat. He was the wonder and delight of the fair sex. and received innumerable privileges from the officers on account of his appearance. It was not until he came to America that he allowed full sway to the growing properties of his beard. When the heard was five feet long he sold it to a Chicago museum for $75. From that time, twenty-two years ago, no razor has been applied to his face, and the i beard has grown steadily and is still growing, having increased two feet since 1877. The hairs branch out like a tree some having as many as a dozen splits. The old man has one son, but the beard does not seem to be hereditary, as he found it a difficult matter to raise a beard previous to his 30th year. His grandfather was remarkable, however, in having his limbs and body covered with hair nearly twelve inches longâ€"Milwaukee Re- publican-Seutinel. An attentive reader of newspapers can see a great deal more than is set down on the printed page. For instance,an expression common in these days of nominations is WHOLE N0. 1,27Lâ€"N0. 24, The Longest Beard in the World. A key to Editorial Expressions. Freezing a Corpse. BRlan-BRAC. L}; _ The oistome} said he did not care for 9W “33 notice. / fig ; “ Of oourse,”aaid the 049'“ you “'3‘ 3 v . _ ‘ Tree paper sent to sue 393.13%, 0: 31;“ 1'91, A, one ior out-self and 3mm '53: i6 bi‘ifi’gr‘ngfl E“ a? two because you ed- vertise?” » The gentleman expected ‘iam for his paper, and asked the price of the Isde . ment. " Yes. sir ; want the top of the column. I s‘pose ?" “ No ; I'm not particular," said the adver- tiser." “ Want it inside near a leading editorial 2" “ Either page will answer." replied the other. " Good enough. Want about ten inches 0! notice free, don’t you? Family history ; how your grandfather blacked Washington’s boots once; mention of yourself as a member of a circulating library, church, fire company, oo- operative store, base ball club, and other im- portant public positions 7 ” paper Advertiser. Boston Commercial Advertiser. "I would liké to have an advertisement inserted.” This is a slogan tln dead man behind a ne‘ the clerk turned as if current and ejaculated : " Want a cut of a. death's head and mar- row bones or a sore leg to make it attnozive, or the portrait of the advertiser with long hair and a. turn down shirt collar 2” “ No ; a plain. straightforward advertise- ment in space of four inches will answer my putpgse.’_’ Extraordinary Self-Restraint of a. News- " Clear typo, black ink and white paper are gpgd pgough 101: p9,? yas fiho reponne._ “ All right; want head-line in type an inch longer than Jenkina‘ ad. in next column, or will you have it put in upside down or your name in crooked letters like forked lightning all over it ‘1‘" The delighted clerk figured up, and then asked: “ If we send you the bill around in about a year you can tell the boy when to call again, can't» you; ’ Th5 newspaper man’s eyes bulged as he said: “ Ah ! you wan’t to ask for seventy-five per cent. discount and twenty-five per cent ofi for cash ?” " I am ready to pay a fair price for value re- ceived. Tell me your regular rates and here is the money.” “ While a portion of the ticket is not such as we should have nominated. we shall give it our hearty support." This means that the editor’s most bitter enemy, who will give the printing to the other paper it he can, is on the ticket and the editor hopes that the- low reptile may be beaten out of sight. I he case of distinguished orators, the re rk, ” The Hon. Mr. Blank was attacked with a sudden indisposition and did not spea " means that the 'venerated states- .man was too drunk to hold his head up. The observation means the same thing when ap- plied to the lights of the American stage. “ We failed to catch the last words of the speech " means that eloquence at the critical period was drowned in budge. " We regret we have not space to publish the gentleman’s eloquent effort in tull” means that, in the editor's opinion, the speech wouldzhave made a reflective mule leave his oats, and that it would be an outrage on the public to print it. " We may refer to the address hereafter " means that the newspaper man feels happy at getting out of it this time, ‘and trusts that perdition may sieze him if he ever mentions the matter again. In obituary notices “con- gestion of the brain," when applied to a gentleman of easy views in regard to drinks, means delirium tremens. and “ He was his own worst enemy " means that the deceased was a drunkard and the worst enemy of the people who loaned him money. "He had his faults, who of us has not ?” is an equivalent exprcs-u sion. In regard to performances, dra- matic and otherwise; “Those who failed to be present missed a rare treat,” means that everybody failed. “The audience was small but appreciative" means that nobody was pre- sent except the holders of complimentaries. "Owing to the inclemency oi the weather the audience was not what it would have b27811," means that nobody would have been there had the sky been as clear as crystal, and the neighborhood been fanned by the spicy breezes that, according to the hymn hook. hlow softly o'r Ueylon’s Isle. In the way of dramatic criticism. Mr Montgomery shows some crudity and inexperience, which will doubtless disappear With time and study means that Mr. Montgomery is a hopeless and irredeemable stick, Finally a scandal in high life has been brought to our nonice. of Which we will have more to say in a few days, that meansâ€"well, that means business. “ Nb ; I will pay you now,” said the other, taking out a roll of bills. A beatificV expression spread over the wan face of the worn clerk, as he murmured : “ Stranger, when did you come down, and when fig you expect the test of the Apostles along The Journal des Debate publishes the following; A Commissioner of Police at Paris, named M. Kuehn, was making some inquires about an individual named Lelung and i0: that purpose accumpanitâ€"d him to his resid- ence. M Kuehn was surprised to find Ihzn an individual like Lelong, who was attired like a trump, lived in xhe quarter of the OlmmpeuElysees. and was still more aston- ished when he stopped before a moat aristoc- raticâ€"looking hotel and opened the door. “You don’t live here; is not Ihls is vacant hotel?" gemnnded the Commissioner. “1 live here." replied Lelong; “this howl belongs to us (“her and son. for more than a century. and [have lived here fihy years wuhoul either a housekeeper or servants.” Mi Kuehn entered and opened the hermeti- cally fastened window shutters, and was al- most stupefied upon seeing under a thick cov- ering of dust furniture of the moat magnifi~ cent description. pictures from the canals a! all the old masters, heaps of objects of art, among which were more than twenty clocks of the most costly description, poll mell with rare books, dresses and linen. In the bed-room he found a magnificent bedstead of rose-wood. covered with books and engravings. A few steps off a mattress was thrown upon the inlaid floor with dirty linen and a wretched ooverlet. This was the couch of the singular proprietor of the hotel. who has acknowl- edged himself to be the recipient of an income 1 £ 100,000. When the garments which he wears are worn out, he buys a. new euit. always black, and throws the old one with the dirty linen into the four corners of his apartment. The hotel contains a Belle (1e spectacle filled with beautiful furniture. decorations and costumes. The proprietor had never invited any one to enter the place. he states, and on this point he is believed to be sincere. for he would therefore expose himself to the risk of being assassinated in the midst of his riches. The unfortunate. who will be medically examined. with the object of ascertaining his mental condition, has been taken to the police depot. â€"There are over seventeen hundred more post oflioes in Uncle Sam's letter-writing nation than there were a year ago. â€"â€"What was done in the police court to- day? asked anuIntelligenoer reporter of the police magistrate. “ Oh, nothing," he re- plied; then, after a brief pause: “Oh. there was a drunk who was frown to death in the cells. and I let him 0 ."â€"Belleville Intalligenoer. â€"“ ’Tis the most exasperating thing," said Galina, “ to 'find you have the ticket next to the winning number in a lottery; To prevent it. when I buy a ticket I always buy the numbers on both sides of it, too.” ECCENTRIUITIES OF A MISER. CAN THIS BE TRUE? that would resurrecta uewspapqrfioumer. and m-ov'ed by an elaotxio