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PIT -FALLS FOR STRANGEII.
Rev. Dr. Talmag.e Taiks About Your Fresent
'A despatch froun.Waehington says:
lar.,Talmage preached from the,
following text "And Solomon num-
bered all the strangere, that were in
' the land of Istrae1."-2 ii. 17.
Ia, in the time, when people travel-
' led afoot or on camel back, and Yea -il-
lation from city to city Waehlam, it
was Important that Solomon recog-
nize the 'presence of etrangers, how
much' maste imPortant now, in these
day, when by railroad and steamboat
the population of the earth are al-
ways in motion, and from one year's
'end to•the other, our citiee are crowd-
ed with vieitare. 'Multitudes of them
come into our morning and evening
Service. r ara conscious that Iestancl
in, the presence of many of them to-
night. 1 deeire more especially to
epeak to them. May God give ,me the
right word and (help me to utter it
in the right way.
There have glided into this house,
thoee unknown to others', whose his-
tory, if told, would be Mare thrilling
than Booth's tragedy, more exciting
than Nilsson's song, more bright
than a spring Morning, more awful
than a sirintry midnight. If they could
stand up here and tell the story of
their eecapee, and their tenapta.tiens,
and their bereave,rnents, and their dis-
asters, and their victories, and their
defeats', there would be in this house
such a commingling of groans and ac-
clamations a$ ,would make the place
unendurable.
Tha hotele f this, country for beau-
ty and elegance are not eterpassed by
the hotelin any other land; but
these that are most celebrated for
brilliancy of tapeetry and rairroiscan-
not give to the guest any costly
apartment unless he can afford a
parlor in addition to hie lodging. The
. stranger, therefore; will generally
find aseigned to him a room, without
any picture, and perhaps any rock-
ing chair I He will find a box of
inatchee on a bureau, . and an cald
newspaper left by the previone
oeou-
pa!ut, and that will be about ,
t ALL THE ORNAMENTATION.
At sieven o'clock in the evening, af-
ter having taken hie repast, he +looks
over his memorandum book of the
lay'r, work., nc will write a letter to
, his hornet and then a• desperation will
seize upon him to get out. You hear
the great city thundering tinder your
evindlove, and you say: "1 mist join
that „procession," and in ten nainutes
,you have joined it. Where are you
ging? "Oh," you say,. "I haven't
made up m3, mind yet." Better make
up your mind before you start. Per -
hap$ the very way you go now you
will always go. Twenty years ago
there were young men who eame
down the Astor House steps, .ind
started out in a direction vhere they
have been going -tse-er since, and ten
million years froirt now, if you should
meet them on the highway of eter-
nity, you would find thein going in
the same direction, only faster. -
" Well, where are you going?" says
erne' man. "I ain going to the Aca-
de,my to , hear eome music." G-ood.
would like to join gen at the door.
At the tap of the orchestral baton, all
the' gates of harmony end beauty
will epen before your soul. I congrat-
ulate you. 'Where are you going?
" Well," you say, "I am going up to
see some advertised ,picture'! Good
I ehould like to go along with you
an,d look over the same catalogue, a.nd
study with you •Kensett and tBierstadt
and Church and Moran. Nothing more
, elevating' than good pictures. Where
are you going? "Well," you say,
ana going to the Young Men' e Chris -
'than Aesoceation rhoms." Good. You
will find thee° gymnastice to strength-
en the muscles and books to improve t
the mind, and Christian influence to
save. the soul. Where are you going? a
"Well," you say, "I am going to o
take a long walk up Broadway, and
so turn around into the. Bow,ery. I
am going to shady human life." Good.
'A walk through Broadway at eight
o'clock ,at, night, is interesting, edu-
cating, faecinating, appalling, exhilar-
ating to the last degree. Stop in front
of that theatre and eee who goes in,
Stop at that saloon and see who
r
comes out. See the great tides of life
eurging backward and forward, and
beating againet the marble of the
cuebeto,ne, and eddying , •
- holey to keep the Lord's Day away
from. home. A great many who are
consistent on the banks' of the' Ste
-Layeren,ce, 'or the Alabama, or the
1:1,ssi,seippi, are nat consistent when
they get so far off as 'the East River.
repeat—though it Ls putting it on
a low grouriti—y,011 cannot ,financially
afford to bre,ak th4 . laotal'ealay. It is
'only another way of tearing up your
government . securities, and putting
down the price of goods, and blew -
big up your stor,o. ' I have frienas
terlao ate all the time 'slicing off pieces
of the S,ab,bath. They out a little
of the Sabbath off that end, and a
little cif the Sabbath ,off title end.
They de net keep the t wen t y -four
hours. The Bible says: "Remem-
ber the Sabbath day, to keep it holy."
I have good friends who are quite ac-
custo,ined to leaving Albany by the
midnight train on Saturday night,
and getting home before church.
Now, there May be occasions when
it is right, but • ,
GENERALLY IE' IS''WRONG.
How, if the. train ,ahould run off
the track into the North River? I
hope your friends will not eend to nee
to preach your funeraliiermon. It
would be an awkward thing .for nee to
stand by your side and preach --you a
Christian man killed on a rail -train
travelling on a Sunday moaning.
"Remember the Stebbath day to keep
it holy." What does that mean? lt
means .taventy-four hours. A man
owes You a dollar. You don't want
hihn to pay you ninety cents; you
want the dollar. If God demands of
yeu tsventy-four hours out of the
week, ise means tsventy-four hours
and net nineteen. Oh, we want to
Iseep vigilantly in this country, the
American Sabbath, and net have
transplanted here the Gerraan or the
French Sabbath.' If any of you
have been in Paris, you know that
cn Sabbath morning the vast popula-
tion rush out toward the country
with baskets and bundles, and toward
night they come back fagged out,
'Cross and info:ideated. May God pre-
eerve to us our glorious, quiet Am-
erican Sabbath.e.
•;. New you are in this hotel, and it is
S,abbath morning, You wake up and
say to yours,elf: "Whatever others
may do, I am going to ,have a day
of rest for my body and for my soul."
Go ,out and find a church reemewhere
You will find something just euit-
ed to your taste in architecture,
rnus-
ic and preachirtg—something certainly
between St. Alban's, and the plain
Quaker sn,eeting-house. Go in. If
the . .sacs•ament is spread, without
being asked, if you are prepared, sit
dosv,n at it,. My children, coming
into the dining-roorn, never ask me
whether they can zit at the table.
alley know they have a right to sit
there. And when my father epreads
a. table, I have a right to sit at it.
It is my table as much as his. Join
in the singing, that is if the chair
will let you!. a And listen to the
preaching and fe,e1 at home. Christ
on the banks of the East River is
just the same, Christ as on the banks
of the Rio Grande. And then hav-
ing found the Sabbath day the best
day in the city, find the Sabbath
night the best night of all the week.
Iathink it is. Saturday night is, a
good night-. We come home and put
Off OUT toile, yet the limbs ache and
t THE HEAD.1S HEAVY;
but by the time asabbath night has
c,orcue, we are rested. We have been
all day in Christian society, and 'ele-
vated thoughts have been going
through our mind, and when the
evening service conies, and we as-
semble in church, there is not a
great deal of difference between earth
and heaven, and ' the angels ca God
flying t,o and fro can hardly 1 had
the boundary line between the two
worlds, and ciur departed kindred
s,eeni to come down through tha twi-
Ight, and see all clap our hands in
glee and say; "It is good; it Le good
o' be here."
And eat. men come to the verge of
ity life and soy; "Nciw, we'll look
ff. 'COartle, young man, don't be
afraid. Came near, let's look off.''
lIe 1,eo,k3 and looks, until after awhile
Satan COMCS and puts a hand on each
of his shoulders', and pushes him off.
Society says' it is evil proclivity on
the part of that young snare Oh,
no, he was simply an explorer, and
DOWN INTO THE SALOONS. '
-Whati that' blotch on 'the face of
. that , debauchee ? ,the hectic
flueh of eternal death Whateis.that
twoman's laughter? IL. iettlieesluriek
ofa loet 'soul. Whas is that Christian
anantgoinetaTeng wall a Phial' of ano-
dyne ,tie, the' tdying ,pauper inEIm'
, Street 1, ,,Whea"Le that , bele ted man en
• 'the. way to a praye,reenee,ting ? Who
ie. that city miesianarYagoitig to take
a box in which to bury'se ? Who
are all thee clueters of bright and
beautiful face e ? They ,are going, to
Soina intefeetingsplace of amueementa.
, Who is the nea,n who ehoofs tteeess
Broadway from alley to alley? He
ie the murderer 1 Ile •ha e whetted his
knife',until' it will eut' a hate, and.it
jinglee in his' filthy poeket. Who is
that men going into the drug -store?
That ie the man who weal:0;1'day lost
'all his fart:WOO Oil Wall ratreet. He is
going tn for a death of Belladonnesancl
before morning it will make no differ-
ence to him whether etock s are up
or down. Who Le that young man
haete,ning along? He Ls going to rob
List employeaae till, if the coast he
clear, and no Christian young map
meet him and take him off itt anoth-
er direction. I tell you tlaat Broad-
way, between ecven and twelve,o'clock
at night between the 13attery and the
tUnion Sgatere, its an Auete,rlitz, a,Get-
tyeburgh, a Waterloo, where „king -
dome are lost or won, and three
Worlds mingle in the trife.
How few men there are who know ,1\1„:rn.
sacrificed his life in cliscciyery. A
young roan comes in from the coun-
try bragging that nothing ean do
him any harm. He knows about: all
the tricks of •city life. 'Why," he
says, "didn't I receive a circular in
,th,e country,. telling me, that r,oene,how
they fonnd out ',Twee a eharp •business
raanaend if I would only fiend a cer-
tain amount of money by mail or ox -
express, charges prepaid, they -would
send a package, with which 1 could
make a fortune in tWO 1110/11.hS; hilt
didil't'beliO'Ve it. My' neighbors did
but I •didn't. Why', no man could
take My ' nanoy. 2 carry it in a
poteket inside my vest. No man ebuld
take R. No man could cheat me at
the, faro table. Don't I know all
about the 'cue -box,' and the 'dealer's -
bee,' " and th,ii' cardere; tuck together as
„though they were ane, and when to
hand in iny ,check'e? Oh, they can't
,cheat 'me. I ,know what Tam about."
While at. the' beetle time, that very
moment, euch men are succumbing to
that worst Satanic influences in, the
eimple fact that they are going to
observe. Now if a man or woman
shall get down into a haunt of ini-
quity .eor .the purpose of reforming
men and avoanen—ill, as did John How-
ard, or Elizabeth Fey, or Van Meter,
they go down among the abandoned
Lor the purpeect of saving souls;
then they Ethel]. be God-proteeted and
they will came out bstter than when
they went in. But if you go on, this
work of exploration merely for the
purpose of satisfying a morbid curi-
osity, 1 will take twenty per cent off
your moral character. 0 ,atrancestra,
'WELCOME TO TUTO GREAT CITY,
54*
att‘,ql
ay you find Chrtat here, and not
y phyaical or moral damage. Men
,
corning from inland, from, dieta.nt ci-
tien, have here found God and found
him in otite eervichs. May that be your
caeo to -night, You thought you were
brought to this place merely for the
purpoee of eight -seeing. Perhaps God
b,rought you to thiel roaring thunder-
.
ang city for ,the puepose of working,
out your eternal ;salvation. Go back
to your homeand tell them how you
Met Chalet here—the loving, patient,
pardoning and eympethetie Christ.
Who knowbut the city whieh has
been the kleeteuction of so many ,naay
he your eternal redemption. A good
many .yeare ago,- Edward Stanley, the
Englielf pommandor, with he regi -
meat, took a font. The fort was man-
n,e,d by one three 'hundred Spaniard,
Eclwa:rd Stanley came cloee un to the
fait:leading his men, when et Span-
iard thruet tit him a spear, intending
to deetroy hie life; but Stanley caught
held of the epeer" and the Spaniard
in attempting to jerk the epear away
from Stanley, lifted him into the bat-
tlemente. No s,00iter had Stanley tak-
en hie poeition on the battlements,
than lie swung his sword, 'end his
whole reigiment leaped up after him
and the fort was taken. So may it be
with you. 0 tranger. These city in-
fluences synich have destroyed so,
many and daehed them down fonever,
Shall be the me.anS of lifting y,ott iI
into the tower of God' e mercy,. and
etreagthe your soul more than eon-'
querar through the grace of him
who hath promised an eepecial bete -
diction to tho,le who hall treat you
well, saying: "I was a stranger and
ye took me in." '
eat
THE KING AS A CRICKETER.
Eitis Majesty Ring 'Edward VII. Takes a
Great Interest in the Garae.
A very pleasant incident, recalling
the King's early cricketing exploits,
occurred a year bast July during his
visit to Edinburgh, when the gate-
keeper at the chief entranceeat Chits
hiestas—the Duke of Buccleuch--- resi-
dence was summetned to the palace for
itn intervitens with the then Prince of
Wales.
Mr. Walter Mitchell, who is the
gate -keeper in question, was natur-
ally delighted to find that the Prince
had not forgotten th,e game of cricket
on Dalkeith lawn in which they had
together taken part, many Mcidents
in c.annection with these games being
recalled by the Royal player, who, al-
,
though h,e. -was the proprietor of Ken-
nington Oval, whistle property forme
a portion of the ;estate of the Duchy
of Cornwall, never attained, probab-
ly from want of pracLic.e, to a very
great proficiency in the, game:
There is, we believe, only ono oc-
casion accorded in. which the King
took part in a formalmatch,, namely,
when in 1866 lie assisted I Zinger). to
defeat the • Gentlemen of Norfolk, at
San,c1ringliarn, and was bowled by the
first ball he received.
Early ina the ,sixties, when the pro-
fe,ssienal cricketer attached to Eton
College was the at that time well-
known Ca.mbrielg,eshire player, F.
Bell, hie was laiat infrequently sum-
moned to Windsor, Castle to boavl to
the' Prince off Wales and the other
young and Royal menabe,rs of th,e
heussehoLd. But, alas! it has to be re-
corded th,at on his return from one of
these expedition,s he made the
DIREFUL ANNOUNCEMENT.
that he "couldn't make a job of 'em
at ale."
The Duke. of Clarence and York
bays: both taken an active interest in
the game; the latter, indeed, who as
a "Middy" used to indulgein the
game oiaz the deck of tlie Bacchante,,
at the conclusion of one day's . rac-
ing at Goodwood a couple of years ago
played in 'a match in Goodwood Park
that was gat up between the guests
at Goodwood Hansa. The tea.m, In-
cluded. hie Roy,al. Highness and on
eleven captained by M. Cannon, the
famous jockey. The former' is credit -
ed with having poesessed one of the
most expen.eitve bate in existence, the
blade beting of walnut, and the bat
being mounted in silver. A peculiar-
ity with regard ,to the King's favor-
ite bat, by the wlay, lies in the fact
that high up on the blade on either
,siele of the stabiee appear the famous'
three feathers that forrra the crest of
the Prince of 'Wale%
The late Queen svitne,ssed more than
one cricket match, but never one
that may ,sveth accuracy be described
as a fiest-class fixture.. On August
3rd, 1866, the: late Queen, together
with the Prinee and Princees ofWales
and other members of the Royal Fam-
ily, avatnessee.c1 a very close game, at
Osborne between the Royal House-
haad at 0,-eborne and the officers and
men of the Royal yacht, sehich was
won by the former by the narrow
margin of twelve nuns. The match
wasparticularly interesting for th.e
re,es,on that the late Prince Leopold
undertook th,e, duties of scorer, whilst
fighting on the side of the sailors we
find the late Duke of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha, one line of the ocore-sheet
reading :-- • •• • ,
H.R.H. the Iatukte Of. Edinburgh, b
Head, 10; e Cele, b. Archer, 2.
, HOLD TIGHT ON THIS TRAIN.
•
The train had stopped at Cowlairs
Station on its way to Glasgow, a,ncl
a troublesome old lady, who had
asked' at leest half a dozen questions
of passing railway otlicials at every
stopping -place, called out to e por-
es.
Can you tell me, my .goad man,
whether this train is quite sure to
stop at Oueert Street Station?
Weel, mum, was the reply, if She
dime, get ready for the awfu'est
bump ye ever had.
The dear 910 lady (licl not anew
that Queen Street Station was a
terminus. •
•
HAD LAIN tAWA.KE TO SEE.
large. Wiesgte,s—You know My husband
ta Ike in his sleep,
Mrs. Waggles—No, I didn't. Doee
he?
Mrs. Wirrelea—Yas. After' a poise
Well, he, never eays anything worth
'
„IlIartaiararallanattatestexaes
TIIE SI.JNIOATY SCTIOOL,
LESSON XI, SECOND QUARTER, °INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES JUlaiE 1 6
Text ef the Leeson, Rev. I. 9-20—lileta.
017 VerSeil, 17', IS 001(100 Text,
nen. xiii, 8—coninkentary Prepaeed
by the Rev. I). AI. eteurne,
[Copyright, Don by Atnerican Press Association.]
0. "Ie the isle that ,is called Pistmos,
for the word of God and for the testimo-
ny of Jesus Christ." We should be very
grateful to have two lessons from the
book of Revelatioa; more would have
been better, for it is the only book of all
the 60 that has a special blessing pro-
nonaced upon those who read and keep
it 0, 3; xxii, 7). It is a revelation, not a
nlystory: a revelation is the unfolding of
a mystery. It is the revelation of Jesus
Oblast. So if we love Him we shall be
destehrenely in love with this book, even
thoegia' we be in some sense sent to some
Patines for it, and we shall be very apt
to if we make much of the great topic of
the book as stated in i, 7; xxii, 7, 12, 20.
10, "I was in the Spirit on tho Lord's
day and heard behind me a great voice,
as of a trumpet."Being in Patmos did
not hiader his being` in the Spirit; possi-
bly led to a greater fullness of the Spirit
by whom alone we can see or understand
the things of G-od'or hear to any purpose
the voice of God. Some think, that "the
Lord's day" in this verse inutile the first
day of the week, while others think that
it is the same as the oft used phrase in
the Old Tesameut, the day of the
Lord." We should be in the Spirit every
day, for only thus can we see clearly tlie
significance of the great day of the Lord
Cotiiroifstany other truth or live the lite of
11. "I am Alpha and Omega, the first
and the last." Compare i, 8, 17; ii, 8;
xxii, 13; Isa. xliv, 6; xlviii, 12; Col. i, 17.
He is all that can be told of God evith all
the letters from a to z, for in Him dwell-
eth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily
(Col. i, 19; ii, 9). By Him all thing
were created, and in Hiin all thiags shal
be consurninated. It will be well for u
when ia our daily life all things are be
gun, continued and ended in Him, when
we begin nothing that we cannot begin
with Him and when He is with us first
and last. •
12. "And I turned to see the voice that
spake with me. e Aad, being turned, r
saw seven, golden 'candlesticks." What a
good thing that he turned to see, else we
might have missed what'folloavs! It was
when the Lord saw:that-Moses turned
aside to see the tiurnhig'bush that God
called unto him and spoke to him (Ex. iii,
4). There may be many a burning bush
III our path ancl many a voice calling
us which we think we have no time to
turn aside to see or stop to hear, and
therefore Miss Many a revelation of God.
13. "And in the midst of the seven
candlesticles one like unto tile Son of
Man." In verse 20' we are told that the
seven candlesticks are the seven church-
es, the seven inehtioned in verse 11, the
same to whom the seven epistles of chap-
ters 0 and iii are addressed, representing
all the gatherings of the saints then and
now and till He come. The great thing
to notice is that He is always La the
midst of 1 -lis people, whether in their
gatherings, in ordinary life or irt the
furnace for -Him (Math. xviii, 20; John
xx, 19, 26; Dan. ill, 25). He is our Great
High Priest, as garment and girdle indi-
cate, and a previous lesson tells us
something of the meaning of this.
14-16. The white Lead and hairs sug-
gest intense purity, or possibly "the an-
cient of days" (Dan. via 13), for He is
one with the Ftitherna,His eyes, as a
flame of fire, tell us heiv He searches all
the thoughts and intents of the heart
(Ter. xvii, 10; Heb. iv. 12). His feet like
unto fine brass, as if they burned in a
furnace, 1111113:0 US think of Him as right-
eously transpliug down His enemies who
rebel against and trample under.foot•Plis
precious blood, of which the brazen altar
teaches. His voice as the sound of many
waters takes us to Dan. x, 6, svhere we
mad that the voice of His Words was
like the voice of a multitude, and to
Ezek: xliii, 2, where we read that His
voice was like a noise of many waters,
and to Ezek. i, 24, where we read that
the noise of the wings of the cherubim
SIR ALFRED MILNER, WHO HAS
BEEN CREATED A ,PEER BY
THE KING,
REMARKABLE PROCESSIONS.
Some c uric) as Parades Which Have Taken
Piace in Europe and America.
Coe ea the Innse curious epe,ctacles
ever seen in the (Emerald'fele took
place at Limerick some years ago. A
y,oung lady named Helen l3rooks had,
in ounstequence of hex personal ,attrac-
tions, a large number of suitors, but
she reje,ctecl aH their adclre.sses vestal
at length her affeetione were fixe,d
'upon a man doulalts her own age.
She, •thereacre, invited Many of the
unsuccessful suitors to attend 'her
'wedding, and to their credit be it
&aid that the ma aerit took the'r
feat in geed part, and not only form-
ed a processien to the chuech, but
coingratulated the lucky bridegroom
into the bargain.
s A well-known Liverpool benedict
I desired t,hat his Marriage • seven
s years ago should be unique in every
way. His fiancee being possessed of
was like the noise of great waters, as the
voice of the Almighty, the voice of
speech, as the noise of a host. The stem
in His right hand tell us that the mes-
sengers of the churches are in His hand
(verse 20), the glory of Christ (II Cor. Oil,
23). One of the best things I know is to
be .,"in His hand for His pleasure" (Jer.
xviii, 6; Rev. iv, 11). The sharp sword
from His mouth is explained by Heb. iv,
12,whore we.read that the word of God
is sharper than any two edged sword.
And additional light is given in Rev. xix,
15, "Out of His mouth goeth a sharp
ssavtoirodn,s.that with it He should smite the
ii
17. "When I saw Him I fell at Ells
feet as dead." If John, who leaned upon
His bosom, was so overcome by the sight
of his glorified Lord, how can the un-
saved bear the sight of Him whom they
have rejected? Chapter vi, 15-17, de-
scribes how some will feel and act. What
madness not to accept Him now as He
offers Himself and His redemption to all
who will receive Him! Hera comforting
His words to John as He laid His right
hand upon him, saying, "Fear not, I am `
the first mot the last!" He is always the
very same Jesus (Heb. xiii, 8), and Hie
"fear nets" front the first one in Gen. se-,
1, until now should dispel all fear and
a h,and,seana dowry, while he himself
was eel-eau:sly in debt, he envited ail
has crteditors to atten.d the ceremiony.
T -he knot having been eafely tied,
these gentlemen formed in procession
and adjecurnet,c1 to partake of the
wedding breakfast, svh•en each found
beneath his plate a cheque in settte-
eaen,t of hes c-laim, smith an appro-
priate note from the bridegroom atat-
ing it ,wes his wish to keep at
of debt in future.
Ha,mtbrurg wa-s startled a few years
ago, by a proceion of twasherwomen
through the main etre.ets of the
city.. Altoge thee
300 -WOMEN PARTICIPATED,
and carried with them all the, para-
phernalia attached to their calling.
The reason for this novel spectacle
was that a strike happened to be in
progrests a,rolong. them, and as they
had the empathy of the populace suf-
ficent funds were realized to en -
'able them to eiltimately defeat their
tyr anneue ernplo ere.
A remarkable- 'proeeesion is that
held in Ashbiu,ry Park, New Jersey,
,every year. The Mothers of infants
born du -ring the preceding twelve
,nannthe bring their offspring in ele-
c,ona,beal perambulatore, this parade
being headed by a Little bey dressed
in polecemsn'e clothe,,s. The pro-
cession, which frequently takes half
an hour to pans a certain point, was
first orgies:deed More than a quarter
of a ce•noury ago, and has been held
annually iseithout interruption ever
since. Spectators COMB from ahl
parts of tbe. country, and ,the money
ce,Ilected is distributed among local
Charities.
It bre a long, tame before New
York forgets theeextreordinary pro-
cession of spinsters that wended its
way to a, welleknown hall in that
city two num:mars ago. Mr. John
Norden, a lVfontana mill ionaire, made
it let,own that he would tuarry any
girt who, chanced to ts.trike his fancy,
isrlint'ever her position might be. In
addition, lee protatised L. fly() her
440,000 on their wedding -day; and in
consequence the hotel a,t which he
woe seayeeg was besieged by marei-
ageablie, maLdenis..
This n.adurelly ar,oused the, ire -of
the proprietor, who immediatel-y or-
dered the millionaire to leave. He
th,erefore hired e spacious, hall in the
vicinity, and announced that he twould
make his choice from such applicants
as chos.e to assem.ble there on a cer-
tain day. A procescion made lip of
several • hundred ladies watted
mb-
dde-the doors more than lerenty-four
hours before they ware opened, and
the petine were laslple,es to interfere.
In &am time, Mr. .Norden, tenet 'to his
word, made a selection and entered
into e matrimonial alliance forth-
with.
tee
BLACK IVIEN alAY BECOME WHITE
As a rule, the one desire of a negro
.who livee in a avhate ttuan'e country is
to become less black," If lie could be-
come white he av,auldl be the happiest
neaa under the sun, but thatobeing
fill us with His peace. If we can truly 12121)°6'sible' he is SatISfiCaN if 'he earl
say, "Unto Him that loved us and wash-
ed us from our sins in His OW11 blood and
hath made us kings and priests unto God
and ITGrf loather" (verses 5, (3), there is no
room for Tear in such a life.
18. "/ am He that liveth and was
dead, and, behold, r am alive for ever-
more, emen, and hasie the keys of hell
and of death." • Having all power in
heaven and on earth, ever living to make
intercession for Iris people in His place
at the Father's right hand lied ever with
them On earth (Math. xxviii, 18-20; Rom,
viii, 34), how strong and victorious His
people should bo and would be if they
would eee Jesus only alid not peeple ex
circumstances! We meet allow nothing,
neither possibilities, probabilities nor
actualities, to come betn-een Ilim and us,
but, like Stephey, look up Steadfastly
into heaven and see the glory of God
and Jesus (Acts vii, 55). '•
19, 20. "Write the thingsal Not for him.
self, but for others, NV:1S John seeing and
about to see thataivhich God graciously
revealed to him. Not unto ourselves, but
"unto Ifirn who loveth us," are we ex.
peeted to live if redeemed by Iris pre
does blood. 'Verse 19 gives a threetold
,
division of this book—chapter atitc things
John eaw, chaptai' 11 and iii the things.
whicae are, chepters iv to xxii things,
tmakeehiS ekin a few, shades lighter
in colour. Accorclingdy, eorn,e, enter-
prising chemiets in South Atrica and
Amexica have produced a number of
pre,paratiene intended to bleach the
Theee preperations ere known
by all ,kinds of faneiful names, and
the bottleueutilly have a gaudy
label, ehoeving a negro svilla black
hands, and the regular woolly hair,
but with a facts es white as a china
doll's. Enormoue amantitiee of these
patent Washes are sold, and onany
manuftteturers have made fortunes
out of them. Another thing that i.8
In'UCh in demand it a patent hair lo-
tion that its intended to take Use curl
out of a togrots hair; and whether
tt is effective or not, it finds att en-
,
PRIZES FOR BEAUTIFYI-NG
PARIS.
The Municipal Council of Paris has
bit upon a capital idea for encourag- i
big citizens to beautify the city,
They give an annual, prize to the ar-
chitect and the builder of the most a
beautiful building erected during the
year, and allow the owner to deduct w
1.50 per cent, when he pays his taxes. li
eass
„V
BITS OF INFORMATION.
A Yew Paragraphs Which Will bo Pound
ViTorth Reading.
The first belie/an ascent took
place in, 1783.
Ettgl,and ,ersencis 42,9a0000 a year co
blacking.
LDnclon. imports, 4,0b0,d00 par.asP11 „.
and uralinilifl,S, a year.
Out of every three pet,sonsa etruck
by lightning two recover.
Ths lar,leta,11 GoVeenment is the own.,
er of over 25,000 earaels.
There are 6,742, loodaa and keys in
the Grand Opera House, Paris. • .
France hae the most expensive
Parliament-. IL c eels $1,500,000 a
year.
At present each 1,100,000 tons 01
coal raised costs one human life.
laxpretes trains in Russia de not rue
Over twenty-two miles an hour.
There are 232,821 women empleyed
10 langlash cotton factories; only 147(
245 men. ,
Fiv,a and a half ounces of grapes are
r,e qui red to eo:a k e a ,s Ingle win eg las*
ful of port.
Of ala the newspapers publ:sheci isi
the world 68 per cent. are in the Eng-'
lash language.
hiluehraomfs are said to contain more
nourishment than any other vegetable
sable t a nee.
, Great Britain can build 2,203 loan-
mietiv,e0 a year, againet 4,209 for th,3
rest of Europe.' ,
Th,ere , were 150,000 children a t
seleo,o1 in India sikty years ago. There
are 4,000,000 now.
Two htundred• and ten tons of honey,
worth $50,000, are the yearly pro-
duc,e of Ireland.
• Great Britain tastes 1,000,000 tons of
paper a year, of wh,ach she buys 100
000 tons a.b,road.
A s,ixty-bon vessel, with twelv
men, can earn cm an average $2,201
in a eenson at cod -fishing.
Forests cover one-tenth of the land
of th,e earth and one-cru,arter oi
Europe's land. surface.
The United ICingd,oan uses 290,000 ,
tons of tall:one a year—that is, 1811e
for each inhabitant. -
The French census shelws that the
pepulation of Frames has decreased by.
12,083 in five years.
It requires more than 10,0 gallons ot
oil a year tokeep the largest loco
Motive in smooth running order.
Islington is the most thic,kly-popue •
lated parish in England, having 112 , ;
persons to th,e acre.. Bolton COMES,' ,
next.
The public -houses of London, if r.''Ot •
side by side, would reach, a distance • e
of .something Like seventy-six
mulas-
It is stated that there are 80,000
barmaids in Englund, •Whose houra ,
$av2e.5ri}par
ag,)eacTvraetiecen daily for a wage of
New' Zealtan,d's frozen meat trade •
with Great Britain now equals about
15,000 shte.ep a day, or caorne 6,500,000
PC c annum.
The large-s,t needle manufac tory in
the vetertd is nt Redditch, Worcester-
shire. 0v,er 70,000,000 needles' are
made there weekly. .
tures daily 9a0,000 boxes of matchce.
ble,m. cif a crossed, len:ft; and fork.
world la at Tidahalne, Sweden. It em.
ploys over 1,203 mm, -dna ma.nufac.
which meals am served are known by
a aign asnitich bears the !suggestive em -
Th. e Englash
tains Lesv DaraotorY con -
the names of Some 10,000 bar-
risters, but tile nuraber of those who
peas:dee d,ces '110f exceed 8,000.
The biggeet nale,tch factor's/. in the
The railevey-stations in Seve,den at'
E
The most curious paper -weight in
tate world is said to belong to the
Prince of Wales. It is—go report
goes—the mummified hand. of one of
the a,aughters of Pharaoh.
A -Parliamentary return shows that
t,he total n-urculaer of registered elec..
tors in this. United Kingdom, at the
present tame, is 6,822,583, as compared
with 6,730,9a5 Last: year.
•• The' Spa,nits,h. salidi,er has only two
moats a day, and he keens itt ext
celtent candid:Don on a fare consist,
ing of a chiutnik of dry black beead, a
1,itttlo oil, a clovn of garlic:, and his
cigarette. ,
A photographer of Zurich has, III,
vented an apparatus for takinglong,
distance libel:els. He tock a good
photograph of Saentis, 120 miles iron
Yver,d,en, wth,ere he had fixed an ate
paraleas laft. long.
It is the custelra on the .birth of a
Japanese baby to plant a tree. This
is carefully tended until the party is
about to be married, when it is cut
down and, made into an article of our.
niture foil: the new, home.
AUTOMATIC TICKET SELLERS,
•
Travellers to Switzerland thie sum.
mer will fino that railwoy,tickets on
some of the lines can be obtained
from the familiar penny -in -the -slot
machines ---though the amount to be
inserted will vary, of couree, in this
case with the distance to be travel-
led. The, inachine is similer to the
ordinary automatic machines bil , •
tlie glass cases - contain the tickets t
on which are printed the names of
stations and the price of the ticket,.
By dropping in the rig h t
anTou at anti Oiling a handle'
the ticket is set free. The
machinery is so • well constructecl
.
that an insuflactent sum (Sr any base
coin, will not work the spring, and
there is no danger of the purchaser
losing the whale emount.,
rt
SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE,
jinka—irello I Well, trewan 1 Study,
ng a book of etiquette, ela
'Old Gruff—Yep.
Janke—Want to learn host/ to treat
olk$ p-olitely, eh?
Old Gruff-e-Na,w, Want to f ina out
•hcither folks are treating me pa,
telye '
aan