HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1882-12-07, Page 1241.
November$O, 1,882.
One Own.
° If I had known in the Mornieg
_How wearily all tee claY ;
The -words unkind ;
, Would- trouble my mind
.18ald when YoR went away,
I'hbeen more carofnl, darling,
,-Terigiven yoti needless pain;
-3'Di-it we vex " our own "
With look and tone -
We may never ,talie' back again.
.For though in the quiet evening
-Yotzmay give us the kiss of peace,
Yet it might be '
That never for me
Tee pain of the heart should cease.
How many go forth in the morning
That never come homer at night!
And hearts have broken
For harsh words spoken
That sorrow eau- no'or set right
We have careful thoughts for the stranger,
Alasi,smiles-for-the sometime -guest ;
°flutoftfoiourow1i" '
Tho bitter tone, _
Though WO love " Our, own" the best.
Ahl lips with the curve impatient!
Ali! brow with that look of scorn!
'Twere cruel fate •-
Were the night too late.
To undo the work of the morn.
LATEST IN CHURCH CIRCLES.
Notable Sayings and Doings From. All
Over the World.
SOME INTERESTING .ANECDOTE
There are seventY-five Catholic churches
in'New York city. . • .
Rev. Mr. Barnes, the'''..mounta.in evim-
gelist,"'announees that, he has.' a • two-fcld
mission in lie-' to 'glorify. God and to
worry the devil."' . • - •
The Archbishop of York, England', is to
• be ptesented with his portraiton thescom-
pletion of the twentieth year a his
arehi-
episoopate. .
. M. Van Dorre .an agent of the Bible
Socrietrin.'Holleesd, plat niore than 110,000
copies of •the Scripture; iu circulation •dur-
ng his forty years of labor. •
"Your Moody," said a French materialist
who attended astueeting held by the Ameris
e. can evangelist iii Paris, " Was the essence
*of moderation. ,,He. did . not say a single
outrageous " • • * ••
A religious paper, the Gospel Bannergives
Rev. Joseph Cook the hardest rap in refer-
, ring to hittt as•"the Beaten gentleman,who
gave the plan upon which the universe was
created his unqualified. personal indorse,
merit." .
•The Very Rev. 11. T. Edwards, Dean of
Bangor, Witles,•Who recently, paid a, short
visit to America, is a proininent.candida.te
for the fiest Welsh bishopric that • may, be
•. vacant, on"acconut of his knowledge of the
Welsh :language,' being. _Welsh' by ' birth;
There is at present' onlymee Welsh bishop
in a Welsh See,,theBilihop at Et. Asaph.
"1 only latnent, yourabsence from re-
ligious observances; I donot complain of
it," said Cardinal:Newman, speaking of the
non-attendance upon the 'services of . the
' Church. ".But, Perhaps,' when One is busy
with his farm and aPother' with his mer-
chandise,and, therefore, .bannot come, the
vacant aisles are filled with invieible angels
and the discouraged pastor May, With tho.
eye of faiths be colascious'oltheir presence
and Bee the waVirog of the skirts' Of -those
whose faoes•See.Go&." ' •.' • • • ••
•
A correspeudent • of.; s'athe Edinburgh'
Scotsman. says: "'The l 'music in most,
of Our.. town and 'country. ' churches
Is, as a rule, 'simply shamehil: . Many a
time in listening tts the. extraordinary per-
formances to be • heard every day in our
churchee I have recalled ;the remark of
honest .Davie Tait,. when . ecime of- his,
acquaintances Were'paasing their opinions
about.his musical feats at family worship,:
' W.eel a weel,' Said Davie, anniSies aye best
in the distance, an' • it's a, lama waYup to
heaven. ,I've great in that.'" •
. ,
A curious band of ..religious enthusiasts
have recently emigrated from Chicago to
Jerusalem. Tne•wife.Of..a lawyer. in.'Chi-
cage lost three children by the :wreck of .a
ship, and the misfortune so' affected. her.
• mind that shebecame a prey to delusions
as to the speecly resurrection of her Chid.,
dren andpersonal revelations of the Deity
Strange to say, he bus persuaded her buss
band and several ether persons toshareher
deluSions.'.. Not lerig ago it was revealed to
her thataliendshersalkwats 'should. Sell
out their possessiOns and set teat for . Jeru-
salem. 'Phe pasties have recently .arrived
at the Holy City, and profess to be making
converts to, their Own eccentric faith. '
"Coins with holes in themare very fre-
quently found on the ocilleatoreplate," said
.Rev. Nicholae.Ballaie, addressing,' the con-
gregation at St. Bernard's Roman, Catholic.
Church, Putnam,: avenue,' l3reoklyns .on
Sunday: ." It not Unfrecluently happens
that a gentleman' puts a 50'cent .piece with
it haltathroughaitaniasstlie-plate. , The coin'
would not be taken by a broker for its fano
value; . but then, if we consider.. that, had
_the donor not .had , that mutilated , half -
dollar, he might not have given ,one -cent,
we should be grateful." Mr. Ballaie
Understands hurean nature. •
Rev. Cornelius O'Brien, D. D.; -successor
of the late ArclabishohHannan, of Halifax,
is a native Canadian, having been born in
Prince Edward Ielau'd a little over 'forty
years ago. . Althoeghaadietinguished for
_pietY,_eoholarshisisstudesability,__beirigrethe.,
author' of an sable work entitled "The
Philosophy of the ',Bible 'Vindicated," he
had spent' most of the years of his_priest.
hood m an -obscure pountryparish prior, to
Isis unexpected but deserved promotion.
Thi3new Archbishop ie also a poet of no
inconsiderable powers, and is in, every way
well fitted to adorn the.•poSitiou to which
he bas been ' • . '
teat; elt
wagnirfOlt, daMeibeategu-Sang, who, made hse
veife"9410.y eindtkiked her forty daye, „ • '
'Whia'Aative,Chriatians in Cairo. ',held ,te
cleilY,peayeretneeting during all thes
eitemeiat', and perils of the late Aver. in
EgYpitil!'ee "
'nee:idea who Were formerly Brahmin
Prfestahre now engaged in Christian work
in -connectionwith, the Santhal Mission in
In a reliant dibeoUr8e on N�ini a New
Jersey pireeehertook occasion to rebuke
what is called " the coarse and shallow
habit of alluding to Mothers-in-law."
The Town Council of Berlin have voted
a SUM a money in support of a. scholastic
celebration of Luther's 400th birthday,
which falls on the.10th of November next
year.
Miss Booth, daughter of the General ,of
the Salvation Army, who is bravely work-
ing in the worst shims of Paris, is de-
• ecribede-as-"-refmed-,--intelligeut, pretty
and fascinating."
• Rev. George Hill, el Derby, England,
says it is' a' remarkable fact, in view, of
some popular theories as to the ,origin of
the -human race, that, no raise has .ever
`yet been found -in any part of the world
, too degraded to be reached, by Christian
'truth, or speaking a language So barbarous
as to be ineapable of recoiling a transla-
tion of the Scriptures. ,
The church 'tin Londonl of which Rev.
Newman -Zan is pastor has 1,123 reembers
and nearly 6,000. scholars in the thirteen
Sunday Sundays. There are seventeen
societies for temperance and home and
foreign mission Work. The church build-
ing cost about 1300,000. The Lincoln
Tower, which. is A conspicuonsateature, was
built by Ameriean donations.
, .
Dr. Begg, the leader of the antiorgan
movement in the Free Church of Scotland,
protests vigorously against their use in
divine worship -FA being mere" human
inventions." In reply the Edinburgh Scots-
man argues that in logical consistency Dr.
Begg has really no standing ground, as he
allowshis precentor the use of a tuning -
fork. ." If; ' as the writer puts it, "you
allow the use of one instrument to suggest
the first note of a Psalm how can you
object to an instrument that suggests the
subsequent notes ?"
Rev. Dr. Arthur T. Pearson made a
remarkable !statement before the Presbyte-
rian' Synod of Indiana, lately:: He said:
"In November, 1875,-1 discovered that I
myself was the principal obstacle to a
revivalof God's work. I had been preach,'
nag the most elaborate literary sermons I
could produce. God showed me that I
was laboring for human applause. I had a
magnificent' church building, and $35,000
were spent on the interior decoration of
that church. Then and there I saidto God
that 'I would renounce all the idols of
which I had been conscious, if He would
only let me do His work. While I was
praying far the ,blessing, the church took
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 came." .
A recent lady traveller in the East tells
of her visit to the Girls' Orphanage in
Nazareth, the early home of Jesus, an
nstitution established many years ago by a
Christian society in London. There she
heard the children singing sweetly the well
known hymn, " jeetni of -N azaretb-Paeeeth
sBy ;" and she says that they were " sure
the words were all meant for them." • This
is another illustration of the far-reaching
power of a popular hymn. The hymn in
question Was first publitihed in the Sunday
School- Times, eighteen years ago. Since
then it has encircled the world with its
strains of plaintive pleading, and itis it
new power to day iu the earthly home of
Him of whom it Mugs.
In India there are 1,325,000 Roman
Catholics mad '325,000 Protestants. ' '
Presbyterian churehee among the ' free-
men of the South are inemeasingn antnber.
Professor Parke, of Andover Theological
Seminary, is in favor of stiffening the doc-
trines of the Congregational Church, to
.winch he belongs, and not to allow. clergy-
men of lax or vague views to be ordained
in that clentmainatien. One doctrine after
another, he says, has been given up, but
"we must stop somewhere," and there are
three doctrines which should be insisted
upon: First, that the Bible is trustworthy
as a religious guide in allits religious
teachings. Second, that . the doctrine of
the atonement is a. sacrificial act as con-
sisting in the sufferinge and death of
the God -man, which suffering and
death are representative of the aternal
punishment of sinners; that those suffer-
ings and that death were designed to, and
in fact do, honor God's justice and love and
holiness as much as the law and the holi-
ness and jinitice.of God would be honored
by the eternal perdition of sinners. Third,
that this world is the only world of proba-
; that the future world is the world of
'punishment, if a Man 'ilea impenitent, and
that suchsaman will suffer the punishment
of the law, which is eternal. These doc-
trines are' still held as vital by the churches,
but less emphasis -is- laid upon them than
formerly. Professor Parke is disposed to
insist upon their vitality. -
. • •
*veniseriga.Faticiei. '
At this important season provident
women begin to lay the keels of Christmas
slippers.
Sarah Stone, the deaconess of
Trinity Church, aleponset, Mass., is past
threescore and ten.L o
, A handsome woman pleases the eye, but
good woman pleases the heart. - The one
is a jewel, the other it treasure.
A Hindoo girl who isn't married before
she reaches the age of 14 is called an old
maid and must do the family drudgery.'
A-Vassar_College_raisesanneetimes reade
the prayer -book responses thus: " As it
was in the beginning, is now and ever shall
be, world withont-men. Ah, me!" '
' The soul's armor is never Well filet to the
heart unless a,vironian'a band ha,s,braced it,
and it is Maly when he braces it loosely
that the honor of manhood fajta-Ruskin
Miniature kitchen utensils are the 'latest
thing in cheap jewellery affected byyoung
women who cry themselves to Sleep unless
their names are used in, describing new
fashions. ,
ss-A-Chicagegirt who-pronsisPdacrelOpewith-
her lover backed out at the critical moment
when she discovered that his handsome
black moustache Wail partially the reeult of
hair dye. .
New Orleans( is about to erect a monu-
ment to Margaret Houghery, the deceased
benefactresa of the orphan asylum of that '
cityaand-will be the first city in the (Juion
to thus honor a woman. '
• "Aro you afraid of the dark?" asked a
mother of her little daughter. "1 was
01360, mamma, when I went into the dark
closet to takeA tart:" " What were you
afraid. of ? " "1 was afraid I wouldn't find
the tart." •
A well-known 'Troypastor sensibly 'ad-
vised the ladiee in his -congregation hat
Sabbath to wear to church such wraps as
might be easily removed during the service
and put on when leaving the church. Ile
preferred to, see a lady get up and take off
a sacque than to run the risk of taking cold
by wearing it in a warm clittrish. At this
Beason particularly'he advieed care in this
matter.
The Moravians were the first to, , eeach
the Gospel to the negroes of the 1i/est
Indies. '
The chapels of the New York City Mis-
sion and Treat Society will hereafter be i
called Chtirohes. ,
The Christian at Work thinks a listless
" congregation 10 the pews makes it die -
°enraged preacher in the pulpit.,
The Minutes of the Presbyterian Church
show that it has 1,578 preaeherea4n the
States that are not pastors. ' °-
The japaneee believe that the first matt
- Mr. David Morrice, the donor of the new
hall to the Montreal Preebyteriat College,
has declined a banquet offered him by
some prominent, citizens, --who" wished to
'mark their appreciation of . his public-
spirited liberality.
P.tlEvIous AURORAL' PISITAVe.-In Marais
1816, ad aurorit borealis extended from the
west of Ireland to the confines of "instals
In November, 1796, the 'whole horizon in
the latitude of fifty-seven degrees north
was overspread for many hours with a die-
- mai red by which many People were greatly
terrified, believing that the end of the
world had oome. • In August and Septem-
ber, 1859, when brilliant muerte , were fre-
'quent; the telegraph wires were seriouely
affected, and conateninication interriipted.
G.
•
.canguage et vitae
, vrbioseeialaia +beau
:ll3,7„ Muscles
oshren,olsig,
ais
Round -eyed pereoita,etsiisnagekiivive nand'
in the senses, butthink NSW,. -Narrow-eyed
persons, on the -other likiaidpeeee less, but
.think and feel Mored,intenlihliee'dIt will be
observed thatetheeyessofehhildrei0ere open
and round. Their wholet,difeqe faa'reeeive
impreseione:: 1± iseonly when childhood is
Maturing toWarcfmanhood and womanhood
that thought comes, if it comes at all. But
what most, leads to reflection? 1.1xperi,
ence. Our errors, our shortcomings, our
ailures-these teach us to think before we
acts to consider each step, to 'weigh every
motive. When, therefore, the upper eyelid
-fcr it is that which has the greatest
amount of mobility -droops over the eye,
A indicates not merely reflection, but some-
thing painful to reflect about. Hence the
length or drooping of the upper eyelid
betokens confession and penitence.
- The drooping of. half of, the eyelids from
the outer angle to the centre indicates the
disposition toconfessone'a faults to parents .
or seniors, to'a "father confessed."
-, The drooping of half of the eyelids from
the inner angle to the centre betokens the
disposition to:repent - and to " do works ,
meet' for repentance." Closely allied t0.
these signs are those of prayerfulness and,
, The fernier is indicated by the
muscle which turns the eye directly down-
ward, as represented in the, picture of the
Madonna. Prayerfulness is usually large
in connection with that of penitence, the
reason of which is that between the facul-
ties Of ,penitence and humility there. is the
seine -Close connection as between confession
and prayer. One who has habitually more
prayer than humility has the eye turned
somewhat upward, So that the upward part
of the iris is a little covered by the upper
eyelid, and so as to leave a slight space'
between the iris and the lower lid. The
reverse is true of one who has more humility'
than prayer.
The faculty of truth -that is the love of ,
it -is indicated by thee muscle that sdr-
roimds the eye, causing folds and wrinkles.
Justice is indicated by the 'Muscles Which
cause perpendicular wrinkles, between' the '
eyebrows. Fullness and , wrinkles. under
the eye, for which some persons are
remarkable, indicate love for rriathematis
cal aceuracy, and curving upward from
the 'outer angle of the eye and eyebrow
indicate probity or personal truthfulness.,
There are three degrees of the faculty of
justice. The first is a kind of exactnese,
or strict honesty in small money Matters,
whichsome people would call closeness,
and is indicated by a singular perpendicu-
lar wrinkle or line between the eye -brows;
The second is a 'disposition to require
justice in others, and is indicated by two
perpendicular lines or wrinkles, one
on each side of the centre -a very common
sign. The • third degree is ceitscientious-
nespe or the disposition t� apply the rule
of indicate one's self, and is indicated by
three or more wrinkles or lines, especially
noticeable, extending above the eyebrows
when •the Muscle is in action. The
faculty, of ' deninaand frequently ants
withthat part of justice which
reprimands or requires others to do.
right, and- both together produce that
frowning' and lowering brow which is so
terrible to evil -doers Or to those who''love
to be approved rather than condemned.
Printers's' Blunder
The public are familiar with examples of
the ludicrous naistakes made in occasional
moments ,by compositors; they havelur
Dished food for laughter to thousands.
When the Presbyterian Synod met here
ever a year ago, an account of its proceed-
ings appeared in the Mail _one day, contain-
ing the following passage : "Rev. Dr:
then 'read the report of the scommittee,
which was as follows (take in.") The sin-
gular scantiness, of information •imparted
by this report Was rather a surprise to the
rio wspaper's Kingston correspondent,
though easily understood. About, a fort-
night since the Oswego Palladium spoke of
Mr. A. 111. Sullivan, M. P, as a gentleman
"who has won the respect and admiration
of frauds and enmities." There is a remote
possibility that the editor wrote ." friends
and enemies." We ourselves were the vie-
tim of the playful blundering of the coin -
posit(); in an article ' in last' night's issue.
A quotation was there made from "Il
PenSieroso," and, in order to show that the
first word was not the commencement of
a line, a -dash was prefixed. In the proof
this dash appeared to be far too long; ac-
cordingly a mark was drawn through it,
-
and ha the ' margin the words 'half as
much" were written, indicating that the
size of the dash was to be contracted. The
article having been otherwise very correctly
set, no revise was called for. What were
our feelings; when the paper' appeared in
the evening, to find that the language used
as a direction to the proof corrector had
been incorporated in _Milton's verse I-
aKingatonspaitasaYSala
EO.f.' course printers are not infallible.
They would make fewer blunders if writers
for the press would write plainer. Throw-
ing an ink bottle at a piece of paper is not
the most approved method of committing
one's ideas to manuscript.'
Oddities About Kissing.
"-No one shall kiss his or her children on
the Sabbath or fasting days," was an old
ConneOticut Blue law. Herein we see the
origin of goin_g_Sdiadayeptglsiettee, kiss the
groviiiriitieffildren of other people.
emu triparfaiRe',01
. .
water liaaeaverad by IslatineliK, TwIs, 41.
Haze1 ssaint ollive-alasteriaua, lea
es , gat' *Gds. '
The London:Times publiehedePn SOO?
• day several.letters on the workingefethe
rod- ; Mr. T. .Sherd Smith,
,twritfog from' ',41at
, some yearsli,go'he was carrying on mining
bP,PiatiOns in Somereetshire. and had a
workman who professed the pewerof 'using
•
the "twig." He tested him, and found
that the twig certainly turned upsharply
between his hands, while in his own it
made no sign. On another occasion one
of Mr. Smith's men was ,pointed out, as
Possessed of the power. ,A number of hats
were placed in a row; and under one of
them (known only to Mr. Smith and two,
scientific friends with 'him) a- nuinher' of
copper coins. The man was called in, and,
by means ofthe twig, identified the right
-hat. The experiment Was several times
repeated; and in most ;caries with snocess.,
Lieut. -Col. C. Cooks, id a letter written:
from Montreux; says that j at Cannes and I
other places on the Riviera certain Italiana
constantly travel about the country for the
purpose of ,finding Concealed springs to suP-
ply lionises in course of bnilding. -In Place
of tho usnal hazel twig in coalmen use in
Cornwall, the Italians use .a ttvig. of "olive.
When water is indicated the loop gives slight
jerks %Swards and eventually slowlybecomes
upright and turns towards the breast of the
person operating. Col.Cooks gives an instance
of the Successful enaploynient of the; twig,
and says that he himself has often 'tried it
to trace a drain as a; mere matter of Curio-
sity, with invariable BUCCeSS. He has no
doubt whatever of its truth. On the 'other
hand, Mr. T. K. Taplin, of Milverton, Som.
ersetshire, waiting with reference to some
,andaessful, experiments said to have been
made with the twig in a -field near West-
bury -sub -Mendip, says that the field.' in
question, though generally surface -dry,
had abundance .of water below, and
he • has little doubt that the spring
said to be tapped could have ' been
tapped at any -Part of the field,
or ,even in the adjoining field. The men,
no doubt, knew very- well that they were
practising a joke. Tho laboring Men born
and bred in any district, be adds, know
well the nature Of the land, and where
water is to be obtained. Captain D; Bing-
ham, writing from Paris, says that. the
A.labe PariumellesWhe died four years ago,
possessed the power of finding water'and
through it conferred great benefits in
various parts of the country. He wrote.
a book 'on "The Art of Discovering
Springs," in which he, describes the merits
of .the divining:rod. The Abbe says the
rod turns spontaneously in the hands Of
certain individuals endowed with a tern-.
perament of a nature to produce the client;
the movement is determined by fluids
which escape our perception, such as eleo-
tricity; magnetisra, etc.; the Tod turns
indifferently oyer places where there is not
the. least, thread of water, as over these
where water is found, and consequently' it
cannot be depended ,upon.
Young man, don't pay the minister over
110. • Yon will need all your_currency the'
first time Belena Puts her' dimpled arms
around your neck and tries to trade off two --
kisses for a spring bonnet. '
An excited oldmaid in a temperance
lodge a few evenings since read an original
poem entitled, " The Lips That Touch ,
Liquor Shall Never Touch Mine,"And the
young men present gave het three cheers.
but no kisses.-,jeSsey City ,JoUrnal. . ' •
Talking' about your outside kisses. ' Give
ue the kiss of the good housewife, which is '
always preceded by it wipe of her mouth by
the nice and clean kitchen ' apron. (Of
course by this we don't mean-Tfh-eliiss o,
'any other fellow's housewife). -Kola/sky
State Journal. , '
The young lady to whom her toyer sang
"Darling, Kiss My TearAway," was
jhst leaningoutto the Moonlight for that
purpose when a No, 12 ball-ologs happened
&roiled the corner. Talk about "your un -
kissed kieses ; "-there was a backyard f ull-
of theta while the town ol�ckwas striking 1.
--Rochester Post -Express.
Tiae shop assistant population of Leman
is estimated at about 320,000 -larger than:
all Dublin --and there aro no less than
30,000 shops employing about one-third of
this population, who work from 12 to 14
hoursn day without relaxation. A century
.ago early closing was general, and for cen
turies 12 hours a day, ineluding two for
meals and relaxation, was the regular
period of work for employees. The exten-
sion of holm 'came in with gas and steam,
big houses (in 1800 the largest shop in
London employed only 16 on the premises),
and keener competition. Thousands of
persons employed in London' shops break
down every year and go honab to die.
A nerribie Pantomime.
In the Davidson county jail is confined'a
man on the charge of murder who is given
to som.Lnambulistic habits When thebaenlis
of the oitY 'usher in midnight the prisoner
a _
rises from his Couch in a stealthy d
noieeless manner, creeps out to the door of
the cell and scrutinizes the hall, or as nitioh
of it SS can be seen 'through the door, And
also every corner of his narrow apartment,
as if intent upon satisfying himself that no
one is in the vicinity. He then proceeds te
take a cotton shirt and fills the body of it
with the covering of the bed, also stuffing
the arms full. He places this in 'one cor-
ner on a, chair and pits upon the top of it a
hat: Having arranged this to snit hint, the
somnambulist with noiseless tread walks.
over tothe place where a broom is kept and
grasps it as If it were a gun, and creeps
with it cat -like tread upon the figure in the
chair. The manoeuvre consumed consider-
able time, the" sleeper" apparently aoting
as if he was -engaged in picking his way
through brush.
Having arrived at a point from which a.
good view can be commanded he 'coolly
and deliberately raises the broom in right
angles to his shoulder. After taking. a
long aim he goes through the same motion
that one would in firing a gun. He then
approaches the - chair, picks up the
" dummy," and carries it to the remote
corner of the cell. He then goes down on
all fours and goes through the motion of
digging with his hands. Flaying dug until
the hole is ,large ' enough; be places the
stuffed shirt in it and carefully covers it up,
stamping the floor 'of the dell' as if he was
preseing down uneven ground.' He then
scatters over it an armful of leaves, which
he goes through the process of gathering
from the different pergolas of his cell.
The work concluded to his satisfaction,,
the sleep.walker conceals the broom under
his bed, as if hiding a gun. He then
hna-hie-alnardia7-axsan Mee lins'eclothaer
carefully, as if to see if there WaS 'any
blood upon them, and resorts again to his
couch to sleep quietly until morning. The
prisocer, when informed of this strange
freak in his waking moments, denies all
knowledge of the occurrence.- Nasal:UM
American.
The Toes of n Cni.
ilovi many toes has a oat? This Was
one of the questions asked a certaio class
i • .
n school No. 3, Paterson, New Jersey,
during eXlidEllnaii011 week, and as simple
as the. question..appears to bo noue could
answer it. in the emergency the principal,
Mr. Brands, was e.pplied to for a solution,
_ ,
and healso, seith A goodsnatured
-gave it --uPe. when . one of the teaOhera,
deternained not te be beaten On EO simple
a question, bit on the idea of eending out
degatioe of boys to scour the neighbor-
hood for a cat. Whets -this idea Was
announced the whole blase.waritecl to join,
in the hunt. , Several boys went out, and
having been succesefiil, soon returned 'with
a Thomas. A returnina board was at once
appointed...and the toes counted, when to
the relief of all it Was learned that a cat
possesses eigliteen toes, ten iu the front
feet and'. eight on the hind ' feet.' The
Beard. et' Educatiou should feel proud at
having in their ediploy so determined and
practical -A teacer.After the question
was solved, Then:fag Wits allowed to depart,
imuoli• to his `satisfaction:
A Coming Avalanche of Photographs.
. The proprietors of a well-known o -O -S
Maticsoap have given , an order to the
London Stereoscopic Company for . 200,000
portraits of Mme Patti and- MriseLaugtry,
which itt believed to be the . largest order of
the kind ever issued, the weight, of the
cartes alone being aboutfour. tons. They
are intended fer‘..g.r...aitu_itous di:strilention in
the United States. -London 251Orning
_The'-eleation of Chancellor ot Qiieeh's
College, Kingston; ogee -re next. January, and.
already an agitation/hate commenced in re-
gard telt. Sandfeed Fleming is now in office.
ViceChantiellor Blakp and Mr. G.
A. Kirk-
patriok, M. P., are mentioned in connection
with the office, for nominations inusb
ahortly Occnir'.
TOODF.EsTiss TRAGEDY.
Valate is*arsiess-",and suicide ,tit Lenoir,
,,• .1s • lianaiand.
The diStriet"ot Kentish Town was thrown
into it state -tifaexcitenient on SaturdaY,
mornitig weekwhenheifame known that
a tragedy-140.1*n 4onimitted in Dunollie.
:Read, a fialloneriger aained, Meakin having,
lot re
believed,lmweiiddr i
er, is d:iheier k
wife and Meakintwo
n.
' pa
resided in the aloWer portion of a house -in
'Dunollie Place, Kentish 'Town Road, near
to the police Station, with his wife, aged 30,
and his two obildren,a boy aged 5 years
and, a girl. aged 2 years. On , Saturday'
Morning, about a quarter to 10, one of the
lodgers opened the . door of the room occu-
pied by the family and notieed that the
floor was covered with blood. Not seeing'
any one about,she thought that soniething
dreadful had occurred, and at once ran;
to the Kentish Town Police . Station
-Alie.:17-gave :analarm-Two conetaolees
,averit 46 the 40140, And there, uponlenter,'
ing,theroensa they found a most horrible
ePri4et: ',blieed'wa4Diwillithlarithdeirhetrhrtowaqstir!An
moical Man was Called in, who, after an
examinations gave Was his opiniontliatthe.
:liYee of the thee vietims had been extinct
fer.seVeral ana that their .thatinta
must Intveheen ptit tionse time during the
nighte''.;Thepersone lodging in, the same
house; on,being queetieried, stated -that they
did' not heir 'anY quarrelling !during the
night, nor did they knew when the husband
left the house. The bodies of the victims
have been removed to the St. Pancras mor-
tuary. , It was subsequently ascertained
that Meakin had, alteeleaving the house,
.gone to Loudon Bridge and 'thrown 'himself ,
over. He didnot, however, fall into the
water, but on to ond of the abutments.
When found he was 'dead. •
A Boarding School Story.
If any one ever wanted to laugh when it
would have been the height of impropriety
to even have smiled, they May be reminded
of their feelings on such occasions by the
following good story: "In a ladies' college
not far from Hamilton, a few years since,
the scholars and teachers were assembled
for morning prayer. The reading, and
singing were over, and all were resuming
their seats, when one of the young ladled, of
a very short and thick stature, missing her
chair seated her sell with a " thud " math°
floor. Nobody smiled. Al/ were too decorous
forthat. The fallen one, embarrassed into the
Momentary loss of common sense'retained
her lowly seat, opened her prayer book, and
appeared to be earnestly engaged in exam-
ining its contents. This was almost too
much for her companions, and a snail°
began to struggle 'on many' a fair counten-
ance, when the rector rose and commenced
reading the first Morning' lesson. He read
from the fifth chapter of Amos, as follows
The virgin of Israel has fallen ; she shall
no more rise; she is forsaken upon ,her
land : there is none to raise her hp. This
was too much ; the voice of the rector
trembled as he looked up and saw the
fallen virgin ; thea scholars turned red in
their faces, and the exercises were brought
to it hasty close.
From Weakness to Perfect Bealth.
Few men have had a more trying ex-
perience than Mr. A. C. Durant, Kempt
, Road, N. S., who writes that for the past
three years he had been confined to, his
room with lung disease and hadbecome so
debilitated that he was unable to turn him-
self in bed. Through the aid of Dr. Wil-
son's Pulmonary Cherry Balsam heahva
short time was able to take exerciSe and
now is perfectly well. This is a remark-
able instance of the benefit of remedies
which exactly suit the disease. Dr. Wil-
son's Balsam has a wonderful influence on
all diseases of the throat and lungs. There
is no doubt that .the discoverer of this
combination of materials all influencing
favorably the delicate organs of the throat'
and lungs and also bearing on tho general
health has become it benefactor of his race.
The Prince of Wales has consented to
open the new city of London schools ort,the
Thames Embankment some day before the
middle of December. The Princess of Wales
is also expected to bepresent.
• The -Value ot
Men , can live longer without food than
without sleep; but as moo can survive for
a long time with a little food so also they
oan drag out an existence with much less
sleerahan is required to recuperate their
energies and fill them with life and health.
,Any remedy therefore which can so conquer.
painful diseases as to remove the pain and
give the patient Bleep and new life must be
considered a benefit to humanity: Dr.
Dow's Sturgeon Oil Liniment is this rem-
edy. Wm. P. Thorne, Morristown, N. S.,
says of it : I WAS troubled with rhea.
matierci,for years was all drawn up with
pain and was, deprived of sleep. I tried
many, doctorraffirrriany remedies _Finally -
tried Dr, Dew's Sturgeon Oil Liniment
and HA new' well."
„.
It is probable that a simple consul will
he substituted for the Chinese Minister at
Washington in conSequenee of the passage
ef the anti -Chinese Bill, and that China
will take other steps to vindicate her dig.nity.,
, • A 'Good
The Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Rail-
road Company bus just issued an illustrated
treatise, "Tho Heart of the Continent,"
describing the wonderful growth of the
Six Great States. The book is beautifully
printed, and numerous engravings of high
merit adorn its pages. Any: one sending
1heir 'mune and address with two three
cent postage stamps will receive a copy by
return mail, by applying, to PEROEAL
LOWnI,L, General Passenger Agent, Chicago,
Illinois. • • .tv 51
" Ma," exclaimed a youngster at a party -
pointing to an elaborate epergne in the
middle of the table, " have you hired that?
I never save it before."
II. AS Mills, Troy, Onte *rites that he
has been troubled with costiveness for 5 or
6, years which caused hina it good deal of
suffering. Dr. Wilson's Anti -bilious and'
Preserving Pills have cured him, and he is
now as regular as ever he was in his life: -
He is anxious our readers Should know
there is.such a remedy.
- Richard Huffman, of,Bentleyville, Wash-
ington County, a cripple by paralysis for
SeVeral yearS, professes to have been
teetered to health and attributes ..his
miraculoue cure to tlae influence of prayer.
important to Trayeiters
Special inducements are offered you by
the Burlington route. It will pay you to
read their advertisement to be found else-
where in this issue.
Any person having a bald head, and -fail.
big to seethe, benefit to be derived froth,
the greatneteleum hairreewer Cerise:,
its -now agawaviia perfected, in the
face of the vast number of -testimonials
from our very beet citizens, is surely going
it blind; I
Anliallosselaintleff ,
EXIalicalr CRI1kCIU.'
The Glaring Paull !That she Horse Ifte..--
PorierrpoaothveasycheideitignouTrcibouvnee.17torsa
w
. .
Good day, geatlemen."
A'very nice looking young man stood in
tha doorway of the editorial room and gazed
in a benign way at the oodutiants of the
aPlIapartment.t. Would it be pOseiblo for me t� sell the
Tribune a story ?" he continued. '
" What kind of a story have you .. ground
out ?" asked the horse reporter.
" The. story," said the visitor, "15 one
in which the triumph of love is depicted,
and
"1± one of those audits Ethel stood
there in the soft moonlight, her lithefigure
sharply outlined against the western sky,
there was a loud crash in Coastcliff Castle,
and the girl knew that her mother had
dropped the doughnut jar'' kind of stories,
le it Fbecause,they, won't do," said -the
horse 'reporter. ' • --
" Thereis nothing at all about doughnuts -
Dal the story," replied the: visitor, rather
haughtily., "but it you like I can read a
portion Of it." '
"All right."
" Where shall I begin ?"
"Anywhere," rePhed the torse reporter.
" Supyose you give us the last sentence
of
"1 should hardly think,—"
never mind about that. We do
all the thinking for young authors that
come op here."
The visitor seated himself and read as
follows : ,
"'For answer Crladyal • beautiful eyes.
dropped; but she gave him both her hands,
and,there, under the heavy fruited trees,
thegolden bees flying all 'about them, and.
the air filled with their dreamy monotone,
he 'drew her upon his breast, and raising
her long ringlete to his ;lips, kissed them
sentence; issit-?" arsked-
rtheve'eThr eohnrastte1131.52-rtehp'eOrltaesrt.
" Yes, sir."
'1 should hope it was. It m ke me
tired to read about such ducks."
,".Wlay,I don't see---," began the author.
"Of course you don't:Probably you I
were the hero of the _novel.' Did you ever
hear of Thornpsonas colt ?"
The visitor admitted his ignorance con-
cerning that historical animal.
"Well, Thomyson's colt," continued tho
horse reporter, • was such an idiot that he
swam across the river to get a drink. Now,
that fellow in your story is a dead match
for him." '
"1 don't .understand--"
"Probably not. It is not to be expected
of literary -people. But 1 will tell you ;
this young fellow in your. story is out under
an apple tree holding a girl's hands, isn't
he?"
_ "And, according to the 'stork, he raised
her long ringlets to his lips and kissed them
reverently.' That right
ee"Now,rlitw
iilt' Yado you think of a Young
man that wonld, go nibbling around h girl's
beak hair when she had her 'face with her?
Such stories do not possess the fidelity to
nature that should ever. chareeteriZe tho
work of genius. No, my genial imbecile;
you cannot get the weight of this powerful
journal on the side of any_esuch young man
is your storidepicts. We wereoncelyoung-
and up to the apple -tree racket ourselves."
Good -day," said the author, starting
for the `door. ' '
".So long," was the response. Make
George aet like A.white'inan in your story,
and come around Again."
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