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Rev. fitoptord Brooke tells of a converse-
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- The Bishop of. Peterborough (Dr.Illiegee)
cont.inued his visitation at Leicester, and
his .charge *dealt with the question of
- sensational. preaching and thapractiees of
the Salvation Army. He said he -could
•-• not help fearing.that the desire • to fill
-churches by all the meaue it could beelone,
Stanley, who urged him to stay - M -the
Nstablished Church and 'broaden -it.
the Church in .my .time or yetis ever be
breed . enough. to, Make jetties' Martinean
_Archbishop- et: _Canterbury ?" silted -Mr.
Brooke.. "No, I don't think it Will,"
eplied the -Dean. "Then," said Mr.- Brooke,
rI don't think it will ever be broad enough-
. •
Rev. Dr. '..bettitur T. Piersme told the
Presbyterian Synod et Indiana that pastors
too often" make .idols -a. their ,church
edifices. fe I had a-magnifieezit church in
1875," he safite" and.435,000 was spent on
the interior decoration, Then and there I
said to. God that I- would' renounce . all the
-Mots of which_ I had been madeC301280i0118
- though laudable in itself,. might have the if He would only let • me. do His: work.
- -very fortunate result of lowering -the tea*. While I was praying for this blessing the
ng and the position of the Church of Eng-
lap& in order to obtain for her an ephe-
church. took/ire, and. in half an hour it was
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zebra popularity. Ah attempt was being in ashes.
made by the use of what he raight call the A pastor whose inert was --earnestly
"sensational n in religion—by very extrava-- engaged for his people and his *Ink is
put. ula etrange_ methods, .by announce,. reported to have met Its member of his
--ments of extraordinary texts, by sense, churchnot' long sines to whom he said ;
tonal preaching by gross irreverences by "-I. haven't seen you it prayer -meeting,
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the-Use:of slang and by -other extravaganoisl °nee this surauler-" " was the reply.,
- " it has been toe hot for Me to 'attend."
The poster's eyes tWinkled*ith humor as
he mattered " Too hot 7 • Where could
you find te colder place than our piayer-
- eeting9": The humor was delicious and
the satire was superb.- -
The three evangelical dootrineie -that
ought tolf3 insisted upon as: 'conditional to
the ordination.or installation ota pastor; as
stated by the Rev. Edwards A. Park th the
Boston -Congregatianal ministers, and ap-
parently approved by them, are that the
Bible itt perfectly trustworthy* a religious
guide ;.`that theatonement of Chriat is a
seerificial act, -Itifiiieticing the mind �f God
as well as einners.; and. that this is the only
world Of probation, the future . World' being
one- of punishment for those whet die
impenitent. : •
to gather multitudestogether„ but lis
/Oared they were gathered.' at the cost of
-the debasement and degradation of
• religion. There Viis: ,131): doubt that; senii3s.
tionalisnr woulddraw a_ crowd at first-, but-
itwas equally certain that it Oeiried- 'With
it the- seede of its own. decay and failure. A.
novelty could not always be a novelty, and
t if sensationalism _ Was persevered in the
. time must comet the new sensation
-.would becomethe old form, an1 vtlienit
would cease- to attract as much the old
thing which: it- replaced.- He wits told,
- however,. that :it was only -htt euch
irreverences, only by -each extreeregaeces,
that they could win antl. attr.act the teasel:4e.
It that were so, they had. better begin. by
'burning their Bible!), From one cover to
.1th.O., Otherof their Biblerthey- couldfind no
irreverence,- na 131011gt: /10.-- profanity, and
- yet tlietbook recorded, especially in the.
New Testaniente the- success of the greatest
- Mission the wed& had. ever known. The
41101pleB of our Lord, ignorant. and. mv,
cultured. Men,- he: their -day • gathered
together a great company- rom -all Places.
They. drove the Vilest ot the heathen ; they
- converted theptiztefighters of their day;
the gladiators ead the most abandoned;
and, theycefeverted them, _not by irreverence
or profanity—they. -,converted them by
_preeching the goepei iti- language simple and
pure. And those who believed their. preach-
ing were drewn into no. irreverent -twill-
,lari:ty with. their Maker ;:but they -worked
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out their Balvation with fear and trembling
and lived Soberly,. -righteonsly and -godly.
Be did not believe that slang,. irreverence
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and. profanity, verging upon blasphemy,
were, -necessary to- win the hearth of the
• people of EnglAnd„ even ,of the most
*Weeded: and estranged. He danot believe=
• that the thess-age of the everlasting gospel
- neededto be defiled in order -to .win the
hearts of the masa of any pop:ation. The:
ostrangeme.nt.of so large a proportion of the
mass- cit the people was to some extent
owing to thenegied of . the Church, and it
• • triftyt or evert thiity yeare age they had lieu
such, efforts: for Chutcli eitensien. -as
they had : seen within the. _last foarteen
years, • they Would.- not. have . heard.
ea muckas they now did of the
• estrangement of the males of the people, -
As ter the adniission of inembers of the
Seivation_ Artny to the Hely Com•munion,
he was only too thankful for many
reasons that •rthey " did go to Holy Coni.
=union. MetabershiP in the, Salvation.
• -Ariny did not, however, &institute a, title:
- o admission to. corainunion in their
. 1Chttroh. Tbs•- Church. ordained *anew;
tahouldtake- the communion eiceptthose
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who bad beenbaptiked- and. confirmed, or.
who were willing to be so. Of course : if a
member of the: Salvation Army, or a mem-
ber of the Blue Bibend Movementeer
member of anyotherorgariiiittionof the
day-it:lathe to them as a, baptized and cen-
firined man,: and Asked- to -be admitted t�
the Holy -Communion, they would only too
gladly welcome -hire ; but to admit a whole
body Of Men. Wham they had only too Mitch-
• reason for believing:. had neither been•.bap-•
tiabanor :confirmed,- seemed to him to be
n• very unwise breaoh ot the diseiplihe and
laws of the- Church. .
- Other Chorea efetteera
There -are 117,000 Sandaysschocidescholars:
in New.York-State.. •
• - The bieravitur.Ohrtrob tolaetbe
• Oldest Proteetaht Epiecopal Church • in this
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Diseoireries ReCoe-i#17.
ade 133r Astroxf.Onierie:
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miortERAtt.-"iNE, mar R. :0013 SATELUTE
A Plaaet with Atmosphere and Probably
Animal 'mid Neigettible LAO.
The teleedepe .hae lately revealed some
.curiousand startling appearances in
the moon ..Astronome,rshave beenelow-to
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accept the conclusions which these Obser;
vationa -.suggest, because they have so long__
believed that tha-. meen is a dead _planet
and ipoapahle of inipporting amy,lifelupon-
ite surface, . is based principally
upon "the- assumed. absence -.of- huger
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atmosphere. But theserecent observations
indicate that themoon has- an atmosphere,
and if it has an atmOBObere; it may have
various fonts Of lifeutionies surface dIffer-
ingasmu�h
from-these upon the earth as
the nieen itself. differs from the earthin
ite geological end- climatological. features;
It would be very ciitious if the -telescope,
the -instrument '`which has banished from
the moon the hostsof -strange creatures
With ,vibich, the imagination of eenie O1. the
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ancients peepled- it, and. shown howlinfitted
it ig forthe - habitation of beings' like our-
selves and those we • see, around us, should
now make irt believe -that the -moan is the
home of -beings more grotesquein our eyes,
-perhaps, than any -the imagination"has -pia-
vured.- We dosnot spy -Thiele) probable, but
. onlythat it ii suggested -by Tthe very inter•-
.esting Observation* -which have lately been,
inedit; and which we shall briefly' describe.,
On the. 27th of- Marcklaat
an:knglish observer, was leekipg•
at the moon . . the early 'evening - with se.
telesecipe of considerable -power, :end:giving
,particular 'attention to thatvery singular;
oval yValle known_ to actrOnoniers by the:
name of -Platte, .This valley is about sixty
miles broade remerkably level and eur-
areiindect by a ring of mountains averaging
-something- lea's. than 090 '.feet nigh; -but
shooting up here and there into peaks-
. heady as high as When. the sun
light strikes Wets the -suniihite ofthe:
mountains on one-sia(.3- it throws .the -Aid -
jug' peaks: into apieticlid' relief, btit all
the valley within •-reMeine shrOeded.,
e-datkness. The sun Was just rita-.
fag. upon, -this inountau ring , When:. Mr,
William's made' his -obs6rvat1on of Plato,
and his eye at exiee detected -.6 strange itp-
petrance. The interior of -.the „valley,
Whit% usually -appears Wall*. dark :at sack
'time?, was with a". faint
phosphorescent _light,' Mau* it -level
'floor dimly visible. It was not the effect
,of refteetion from .the
illuminated noun-
taine,'because the interior of the valley
Was protected from euch-reflectiene Some
passingclonde in our atmosphere -shut- ont
this interes4ag. scene from the • sight of the
observer for 'alieut an hour.- When the
sky cleared again, s.Mr... Williams looked
.0E4 more -end km that -the etrepge light
had disappeared. Mr, Wiiliamehed- Made
a :similar observation in the -.same spot
-about fiefifyeeeeetge. , . - - •
- Aleut beven- weeks after Mr. Williame!,
-observation which We -have.deecribeclethere
was a total eclinse alba and' a party
of French and -English astronomers Went to
Egypt to obtieeve it, is theeline Of -totality
ran ecress that country.: When those
astronomers- turned .; their 'spectroscopes
upon the edge of tlie:motai as it hid the sun.
on the 17th.of-MaY they perceive& ,indica;.
gone, hi the strengthening oI • Certain lines
of. the spectrum, -of the existence Of an
atmosphere on the moon. Thie•Obeervii-
tion, though not unprecedented; was :hailed.
with'.satisfa.Ction by fiteee Who had always
--contended that the moon was --not avi dead
atilt ieemed. The existence of an 'atmos-
phere would explain theplienomenonwhieh
Mr. Wipiaing . witnessed. In the valley of
Plato, as Well as various* other: equally
sifigular_obsertations which have been made
by students of the Moon from time to-
But this Was not -all. On the "19th of
key, two da,ys-gfter the eclipse'4olin
JELOke911, of Delaware, evhile -stndyieg the
moon, as he had been aculuatomed to de for
years; with a reflecting teleicopet was sur-
-prised to see nealthe western edge of the
-Iliac; and over a -p.ortion of the :fiat regioii
known as the Sea of Crisis, '• semething
which he described as feetbsey-leoltipe-
.oloud. Just tWo Months later he sew a-
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app rancein the plate' And
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now Mr. LJ E. Trouvelot,it well known
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astronomer commenting - Upon Stanley
ebBervetion, :saya-::that ieI has',
more eleitialeice witnessed:similar appear-
ances. on *emoons - disc.- has. 'seen ,
timer 10,640134es lose their distinctness aff.
if thin cftuds were -floating over them, and
Mice arfiatidthe.oriter .of Kant, he saw
whet my have been a rare. vapor
, . .
slightly
. . , _
,inged with purple. He -.hat; -also.
seen a ther large crater illuminated with
a fein ahrple-light. Mr-Troufelot thinks
these Arlene appearaeces aree-manifeetse-
, _
tions !:& lunar atmosphere of a nature yet:
_ui3kn fl_ •
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The Livingstone-Mmotial P; *Church
h.at3 been opened for divine service. De.
Livingstone, as is -well knowne was reared.
in the Parish of Blantyre. : The Itete.Dr,
'Biaikie relates' of .. old Nen, Livingstone,•
father of, the explorer, that he Was the
.fountter of a, missionary society, and Bilge'
of a-rfessionarypiayer meeting in Blantyre.
He bought or borrowed as ina,ity mission-
ary boas as he could lay ibis hands on.
Thelerees of the householdd-were Martyn,
Judson, Carey and. Zinisindorff ; so that
from his earliest years David Livingstone
wag steeped in the literature of 'Christian
missions.
Henley Varlsy, the London evangelist
has been Aoing some evangelieal work in
Scotland,* the course Of :which he has
created considerable stir: _In_ Glesgovi he
gave great-offenceto play -going . people by
allusions to .Sarith Bernhardt, and; it is
intimated that the actress' husband may
invitt him to fight a duel. In Edinburgh
he was essatdted with mud by a, woman in
an opereair meeting -in a neglected part. of
the city. Considerable corenienthas been
made oh the occurrence. It is stated. that
in utter detotivity the bed districts of the
Modern Athens are almosiiinapproacliable.
There is evidently plenty:of 'work for the
Salvationists - •" .
A. BilIGGAIVIS:, BHEECEI.Eis.
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.Novel Eipedient et --a rarly-ot London
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Tagrants tor'i, Raising the Wind."
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" Adventures are to the adventurees "
Was the sententious motto enseribedeby
Ixion, King of Thrace; --in 'the -celestiel
earep.book of Juno, Queen of Heaven ; and
even the humble and. nornially unromantic
pauper is able to realize the -truth of -the
maxim When induced by Circumstances -
ever which he has little control to part
with his trawlers in order to acquire a pot
of beer. About a fortnight ago three abso-
lutely impecuilious- inmates of St. Maryle-
bone Workhouse Viere,discharged there-
from, and decided: to celebrate the joyous
occasion with a - friendly, glase- at
an ad -joining tavern. But where was
the money to twine from ?eseae the great
qteetion. With admirable presence of
mind Wiliam Bailey, one of the trio, be
-thought himself of a plan to raise the wind
which at once 'commended itself to the
reinde of his fellow-paupere as an -inspira-
tion of genius. 'Bailey decided:upon e tem-
porary separation from histrousers, and
gracefully retiring into a shed at the back
of the teverh; he proceeded .to divest =him-
eelf of -those important integuments
comrade, Edward Gilbert, thereupon took
Off to the heaieet paWn-shop and exchaneed.
for the leen Of a half-a-crown. But '
as the rules- -of An absurdly artificial
civilization seemed - to demand that
Mr. Bailey Shoal& be arrayed in some
kind of lower garments When he appearedat
the bar to indulge in thee, flowing _bottle
Gilbert proceeded t� putchaee at the modest.
cOst- ot ninepence—taken froth_ the hail-
oreWn-ea pairefinferior'",breeks." Hasten-
ing heels, to the . tiled- wherein thetoo
idgeniOns pauper was lying concealed froni
general observation,- the trusty bearer of
the apparel and the change from tlie: half
°towel was suddenly set upon by the third
pauper, appropriately named Laivelegs, Who
'snatched the trousers and Money' from his,
grasp and -run away with his.ill-gottengams.
LawlessehoWever, was justly punished for
the offenee by being locked up ehortly
after-
ward on being found drunk in - the
. • _
.pablic gutter, .and . being : subse-,
quently: .broUght to book,- he was awarded
eighteen menthe! hard labor for *his.
heartless theft.. Meanwhile, imagination
turns back to -the condition of Mr: Bailey
..in his - solitary shed, who: was anxiously
eapeeting, like - Mariana in the rrieeted-
grange, the return :of his pauper and his
trousers. When at -length the full extent
of the disaster was disclosed, sad; indeed,
Wotild have been his case but for the
timely -assistance of the owner' of the beer
liaise who. sympathized. - with.. the
adventurous but troeserldee pauper in his
.backshed, and rigged him out straightway
in a - pair Of his - own garments. • --Thus
ended an ineident in pauper life atvhieh is
probably quite uripatelleled. in history, and
on which at. Carlyle would have been
able to write an entirelynewchapter of
"Philosophy' .of Clothee." Leedom
'Daily Telegraph. • •
:peg the other evening on the r
&retie Iretdobs,
.
De. Rae briefly discuieed the Hudson Bay
routeto the :Old World. He was eeety way .-
faVorabletethis route if it was
but he didaliat think it was; It was _elid .
that the hat was open- all winter, and
straite-Wire navigable four months in the ,
year. This did. not accord with his 'obsere:
vetionsand experiehothelle had repeatedly -
-seeh the bayefrozen over, „ :Three - tithes he
had gone through the straits. Otece they -
were badly blocked by -.ice; a eeond
tiine. they were .iteitsiderably impeded in
their minim- because of the presence -
of ice, and a third- time the.chenuel. was ...
quite" Clear: ?I-He:said. the HudienBay. Co.'s
ships never lefe Scotland to make
pessagetintilethe middle or end of Jane,:
knowing that earlier in the season thole
Way would be obstructed - by --ice: His
voyages had been made in sailing ships,
and of course eteamers could make _ bettet. .
progress -.Still,' he had no faith in the
peojeet.- The Hudson Bay route. was
shorter by 500 Miles than that by way of
the lakee,- but the latter was practicable
six.months in. the year. Ho -cOuld notstatee
how long the straits Were open, as the time ,
was variable: owing to: the diversity -of
Seasons, but during: the best gelions the,
.iiinetiOnldebelaue short." He thought it
would be inexpedient to risk the ' outlay. of
money onlotoildinga railroad with a view
of opening this route until. More. accurate
informaticin were obtaitted-.concerning it
• cettiEW_AkRIL PittE1't,31.E&A.•
SOnte Startlinglitatemeuta Regarding our
. lltearealy Visitors. •
Before' 'the New . York . Academy of
SOieneell on Menday.night Professor John
K. Rees read a paper' upon the comet of
1882. Professor Rees said. that it should
beteemed. 'Gould% comet , shies Professor
B. A.. Gould, a Cordova, was the first to,
-see it. The -lecturer read extracts_ teem
-lettere fruit ProfeeserYoung,..of Princeton;
from the D1ret:tore:4*e Dudley Observa-
tory, in Albany; from the Director of the
'National Observatory, • and from. Mews.
'Chandler and. -Wendell,. et Canibeidge,
Ittass,,--and he concurred. with Mr. Chandler
in combatting Professor Praetor's theory
that the comets of 1843,1880 and 1882
are identical, aid that- comet
now vaiaishtng frbm view" will return
within • six months;According to
_Chandler's computations, which
are -based 'on all -the observations thus far
madeat several.points, the -comet of -1882-
will not return 111 less than tear thousand'
years. The comet, as seen from the Cape
ot Good_ Hope, transited one the 17th of
September Iast, and .at the instant of its
entering the atmosphere of Our sun it was
1,600.000-railes from.the suffice of the sun.
The comet's- til, - which was only 100,000
miles long when first seen, -has knee
.,iengthened to railliont3 of miles, and as this
vast body crossed the sun's discin two
hours,the enormousyelocity with_which it
travels may be Conjectured.. As. its. light
was visibie until it touched the edgeOf the
min's disotthe inference is- -that the lightia
not borrowed from the sun, but that it
is the • 001:118*3 own.incandescenee.
Touchintupen other celestial -Visitors, the
lecturer said . that •thecornet of -1043
-appioachedwithee500R00 relies of the centre
ef the sun, or within .70,0,00 miles - of the
aun'sojr�umferejioe,and that it must yet
plunge into the gun: and be absorbed. The
. A beim-to-house •viititatiot shows .that
only about- 10 per 'cent. Of the families in
New York are without bibles:.
Mr. Themes- Spurgeoon„ son of the great
London preacher, hashad seventy bep-
-tismi in seven naontlts since his settlement
at Auckland; NOW Zealand. He is raising
ato build a Tabernacle- ' •
There Edwin Belt, fourth WA Of :the Itev.
°yee of Strlington-, has entered
there are t -w(1.! -4- et Trinity College,_
at 04,tirile.- Malariallevere resented with. a,
in one family "there have Itowl;
from, the disease,: atYi Students'.
agar
Tee Km- . A VELoz;.--49zid, as a whole, is
bring it t°' a head it tPetahlleediCinatgt4eciiintio' tido
to make eit.poultice„
take ' Pi3rie roota4-1.dthe largest owner of
is net toe tar advanctleettneed it "iegeiee.
if it iB, it will hasten s,
deaden the path in a elf.,1.E'grrettaYtei bpeuallorinthges
Mucksuffering. ,„
Since it was discovered a Some scarcely
cgail'....544**.;-,,,4as lost five..y so -languidly ;
iteis•give buTAIrriagt), theak4ge!:.titt the
-"rope; but he wh tuttLogath heaven is the
man who, grasps. the rope boldly and pulls
nontinuOusly with all his mighty .
The Salvation Array in England receives
all sorts of valuables wheu. the- contribu-
tion bot is passed around. Gold and silver
• ,watches, gold guards, gold and silver
toekets, gold scarf pins, silver -brooches,
silver solitaires and- gold watch 'keys.
* Watches and -jewellery„ it- is understood;
are to beabandoned by all who delta to be
true. Salvationists. " •
-
:The Salvation Army in England,- thOugli
SUptioeed.to perforni. merely military fume
tient of a, spiritual character, have been
showing ti diepositioncto use the
theflegh.t At a place called Yeovil on a
Sunday recently, Gen. Booth's troops fought
the pciice, and auccetkled in giving the
guordiaflu of the the worst of it. Thotivisteri.
The -.11.onges1 eard- the Wtirld-.
Adam Kirpen, of Chicago, who possesses
the longest beard., in -the- world, is 667years-
Of age, is five feet' eleven inches tall,and a
perfect specimen of a- robustethough aged,
German. s By Means of his - beard he has .
aniaseed a _poesidereble:fortuhe; but, not-
withstanding, he endeavors to sell his
photographs on the plea of poverty.: The
beard 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 leather belt
-euspended about- his intik. The lengthof
the_... beard is &We that he can, place
both . -feet. . upon it, and the. other
-end, upon being lifted Up, • reaclieS a *few
inoheS above head. ' The . beard,
Which is of a dull grey color, is- quite
thick, and is the result of twenty two years'. -
iminterrut;ted growth. From fibs, youth
leit-pen gave -evidence of becoming as
.bearded as Eisele At 11 years- of ego he
Was under the necessity of: shaving, and at
14 had e large bushy beard; which; added: to
his robust frame, -ceased People to .-fre. •
quently confound him. is Toeing.his- father's
-brother. When he -entered the „German
army aaartillerist his Mustache was three _
feet ili length, and heexperienced.ttboutite
much *able in partaking of his meals as
--
Victor Ethataiel, of whom it is telaIed, that
hetied his raustaches together behind has
ears: when &bent_ -to eat. - 11 -e• -was the -
wonder and delight of the lair sex; _and -
received innumerable privileges -from
Officers :on iteconnt Of -his appearance. •
It wasnot until he came to AnieriCa that..
he allowed.; fell sway . to -the' growing
properties -ref his lbeard. k When hie beard
Was five -feet keg- he _ sold it to -a Chicageee
niuseupa- for $75. Froth that time; twenty.
two years..ago;-no razor bas been applied to., -
his fade; and the heard has steadily grown
aiid'is-still growing, having -increased two;
feet, glace 1877.1 Thehairs branch outlike
a tree, setae having as eaanY as a dozen --
splits.' The old Man haa one eon, but the
beard does net seem to be hereditary, as he •
foam:lit a difficult matter to raise at beard
-previeus to hte-3eth year Hid grandfather.
was remarkable, -however, in. having his .
limbs- and body. coviged with hair nearly- _
twelve inches long.lifiligatticee Sentinel= -.
Republican. -
v
WOrtititverth;e1 Neglected Grave.
Thomas De Quincey records that on the
23rd - of April,: 1850, WordsWorth- Was
"buried in the - green churchyard ofGras-
mere, between 4 yew tree of hitsowe plant
ing and an aged thorn." We Visited the
'spot last week. ----We. saw path among the
grave mounds, about- one • foot in width,
And followed it; and at led to e dirty, dark
-corner, Where getiersa -bleo-black headstones
of elete stood. -:Could this he -the resting -
place of Nattire'S tenderlover..) It was, and
we fat a ohill ceitie over Us. The dey Was
beautiful, the sun was shining in a cloud-
less aky, but •everything round the, spot we
had *come to seek 'seemed decayed and-
-withered, like a grave in - the' centre -of - a
dirty, smoky town, -not inbeauteous Gras -
:mere.. AO green "grilse was there—all was
dull, dank and depressing: The poet's
corner must be badly drained, for we could
Scarcely get .near enough to read the • in,
scription, in consequence of -an aticumulae
lion of water that formed a .trench at least
an inch deep at the belie ofthe stoneenarb
that held theiron rails 1 inirrouuding• the:
grave—London Builder.
lecturer threw upon the- •screen represents-
tions of atutiMber of comets and then et star
shower snob *is is seen once in thirty-three
years, and the next of which will be seen
when the earth passes thetrack of a star
shower in 1899. These shooting stars are
ineteorgfrour disintegrated comets, and the
ffirolites that fall to the earth come to us
from interstellarapace. In- conclusion, the
lecturer said -that all the suns of the
-universe hive •COillietti toirootdating about
them and that- the universe is as full �f
cometeas the sea ie of fishes.
-
MEDICAL MGR have alwayediffered as
whether the best medical treatthent ot
frozen persons was by e gradual or- a rapid
application Of heat.- "To settle theraatter,"
says Knataledge.'!,- Laptchinkski has made a
series of very careful experiments* -upon
dogs; with the following results: Of twenty
animals treated, by the method tit gradual
resuscitation in - a cold room, fourteen
perished; of twenty. placed at putt in a.
warm .apertnient, -eight died; -while of
twenty imniediately put into,a, hot blab,
all recoveredeetTliese • experiments will
probably' int* 'eAtti predicted medical
-
men in Rusidels, itterthernEttroperiwhere
the question ufilt •.11estfr_meangof meter,
animaticin- frOipersous sufferifig Nadi�i
OeStithre ega: bra freqtiedt-Ocourrence. every
An Irloh-Romace.
XV70 years -ago Miss Bllard, the owner of
a fine estate at Newfoundland -Oola Was.
-firedat; but both she and -her coachinan
fortunately escaped_ the bullet of the asias-
;gin Shortly -afterwards police protection
was afforded Miss Ellaird two sub con-
stables being.drivii from the New Pallas
Station. and appointedto that duty._ The
guards appear to have aCqnitted themselves
to the entire satisfactiote of the fair pro-
prietress, and one Of them, Sub -Constable.
Sheehy, a brave, • dashing young fano*,
proved himself so highly agreeable that she,
resolved to render his protection apetinan-
ent duty, The young, wealthy and accom-
plished lady " has, . in - 'plainer Words,
iven herhandand-heart to Sub -Constable
-Grape „Growers' Maxims.
1. Prepare the ground in fall; plant in
spring
Giveilig' them
., vine plenty of manure, old•
and well decomposed ; for fresh manure -
excites the growth, but does not mature -it.
3. Luxuriant growth does not insure
fru45i:tilyuieeepuudgvihune' pplraondtu. ceeh abl low
e'autibul fruit,.•
but old vines produce the richest. -
6. Prune in autumn to insure growth,
but in spring to promote fruitfulness.
7. Plant your vines before you put up
trellises.
Vliseisn'es,like old sh- oulcl have -
goad arras. -
9. Prune spurs to One developed bud;
for the nearer the old wood the higher
flavored the fruit. •
10. Those who prune long D:14146 80011
43tihie:112:.h.gadvee.ry leaf has a
bud at .the base,-
11. Vine leaves love the sun; the fruit
-
and either a bunch of fruit or 'a -tendril
opposite it.
13. A tendril it; anabortive fruit bunch=
a bunoh of fruit a productive tendril.
14: A bunch of grapes without healthy -
leaf opposite it ie like a ship at sea without .
a rudder—it can't corae to -port.
15. Laterals are like-politiciana ; if not
checked they are the worst of thieves.—
The Vine Dresser.
- - • . _ ,
Cu ms observations_ of a similar nature sheehy Vim is now the husband of 0,
Can'
aistr
than
been
total
tions
to vin
shown
-Sir W
satelli
Insoori
de '
expeo
obser
.who
city- an
the ..
showieugil•11-tifittinf-tttlat lie moon
slim -the-Witt - Nin
found -Scattered here and there in
omical records reaching beck more
a century, but, they have-generitlly
ooked upon with 4istruit or:
sregarded. These recent obsertra-
e them renewed interest and tend
ate their correctness. If it can be
at- ther. moon- has an atmosphere,
iamHerschel's idea that our
einhebitable will not be deemed
along as it -has *seemed to some
astrOnomers. We , should not
o obtain - any confirmation of the
lens of the German telescopitit
'eyed he had. discovered a big
-And great military works in.
but reasons might be
po e sawdust should he first dried and ''
ite:proughlY sifted in order tO. • reMove the natu-Ara 1E04 .012 the safe side if he uses 41-,. 4. An
a a 1 t. o h gi I get no whoa ing.
hiell will __Ifau, silt Peer.reeunt- of the boyie and se peer .
ne ser•Partibisee- ' A IniXthee iethen made improved sanrivinit la.ngnage., w
re. ' wo parts" sawdust, five parts sharp sind general, remark by *PO 1 intellige
be one .part• oeinent; which ' shonld be, itI3 effects upon the hum , - art>
a
beautiful wife and a landed proprietor'
with an income, it is stated, of £10,000
year. --Limerick • Correspondence Pall Mall
Gazette.
The Great Good of Accuracy.
A dwarf kangaroo has been discovered in
Texas with foie legs only two inches long
and hind legs o iight inellet3 in length.
The report aleo s that it is a marsupiel.
we are glad to .wthis, as it throws a
flood of light onlife- anatomical structure
of the animal, which will be duly
appreciated by the intelligent reader, who
at first blushmighthave imagined that it
was a connubial or a mandamus or e
habeas carpus, or idiosyncrasy. In news -
Ivor -.'reporting the _ young man will
• Dancing.—The Anti -Temperance Move-
raent—The Sottish. - • .
The latest Russian census shows St
Petersburg and its suburbs possessed of a
population of 927,467, living in 10,929 stone.
houses, '9,318 that are of weed, and 913 that
are partly both. The cityhas 75 hotels,
625 restaurants, 1,416 beer -rooms, raarog
shops and 793 wine -rooms. Out of i3r.o90
tenements, 13,710 are unoccupied. There
are 645' Boohoo's, and 109,000 children
between the ages of 7 and 16 who ought to
be attending -school • but as a matter of
.epaiteighly stirred together and.- there in- -all dealere in drtigs:
'W-eak lungs,sPittingof tilOba',c'ero. heurap-
tion, and kindred- affections, curedwithout
physician.- Address for _treatise,-, with two
stainps, WOltIstaliii. 1)ISPEt$AIVY lilltDIC141 As-
erictearoti, Buffalo, N. Y. •
mood feted with
the rameatftritoti aniceo-w_ttrico'rit:Utot e. Vier
fartry;
theeA fitel awi ir .13;A nEbt h lyPietli cie douto bt it.
thout t
this thittsitautir
frotnienfOnerweAlwAll,;(?±.r
only admit the
miles, es *TT—
tin
•
ON (ESTABLISHED 1871
•
'TWEET EAST, TUEOPIT
BILITY, Rheumatism, Late
andall`LiverandOhes
y relloyed and .perma
thedi sI13AND.