The Sentinel, 1883-04-27, Page 4,
.0,411,147.144'S WIVE.
Pen Pictures of the Carlyle House
from
• Pti.108,0PHY FROM A. PlilL084PREW8 Virg,
• OraVide .klxtruete from.-,Olere. Cierieseer
Renewed interest in' the Cerlyle family '
has been caused bY the piiblicetion of the
,'",Bettere end Menaoriale of Mrs Carlyle,"
' prepared for the press by Carlyle himself
" shortly after her deeth, and given into the
• bands of Mr. a. A. Feoude to be bropght
out at hid disoretien. Theyadd materially
, to our knowledge of both Thomas and dene
OarlYle, and is, as .self•revestling a ser iee of
lettere as has ever been given to the world...
—Thee Welsh was widely different from
Thomail Perlyle, ; and Yet,, in 'a ceetain
illtebeitY of • feeling, and ..bright, swift,
ineitsive imagination!. she With , greatly like
him. Her giillietni• at Haddington,. the
I giving up zof 'eying for Carlyle, , the;
tender and pathetic% *ay in which
• they lived el Ceaigenputtook, 'aeid;
her geeat Witrinth ' of _heart .1and
beautiful loyalty to him in their earlier.
niarried life have- become Walks property,
,. while the tributes paid to her mimicry by
• Carlyle, hiraself in the ".1Vetniniscences,".
andthe evidence of the suffering which she:
•
endured in win 1•0
.....arry.n, a man of: genius,., are
•tioattered up *anddown ali the memoirs of.
• , Carlyle as thick as NOSS in Vallonabrose.
wes'an uncommon woman, and ' all
through her' -trying career managed to do
'the work that God gave her to do with
wonderful forbeittlinie, courage and, herb -
ism. The lettere' strike_ thenote of very
• high and tibble living:. and Will be read
, , With absorbing interest by those who have
• 'bib that the sphere of •womaio ought+ be
• enlarged. Mrs. Carlyle bares her heart,
'• Oen her very soul, in these reySlations,
and towhee, every, .oherd in . the Kale of
bninan feeling and passion." *The letters
of mod tvemnp ar clever accounts of
;their frivolities ; Hrs. Carlyle's. are con-
• orned With the lights , and shades of real
life, and were: written .to give the exactest
• tranecripts•of her feelings which be could:
possibly alike. Here' the domestic hie of
• Carlyle is photographed,by•aliebigovithess,
k-hy-the-one-ewhoi-nexteteliimself.--bad
moat to do:with it; you get the.exaot tones;
you-le.el-thedear-Vite*-jofiurtits- stiticeEMT
-4-k- you" feel, • lier: pain When Lady. Ash-
ad pavetheway to; bitt 111100011a, k you
note the change feeth •'" dearest 7 and
precieuilnishand of me;", to journal
in *blob "-Mr. (17 ie the only Way alveoli,.
ing of him; 'aiid.the endearments in letters'
are utterly gene, and the Blow return of the.
word "dear," and -the 'final reassertion of,
family peace : in . the restoration
of . the . term • "dearest"to :its
•'old . place in ' %the ,..correspOndenoe.
• The work in almost 'Utterly devoid. of
.erlitorial,notes,save what Carlyle hat; added,
almost • in ceinderrination, by why Of
iiiewife'aletters, and the,grand
old mao, elWaye hae.never eti truly
° apPearod:tte the very Soul og intedrity. ais in
,-thtiet) They 'mayealOarlyle not more
than they reveal ,. ' and their wit
' and wonderful' portraiture dis-
OlOse rare powers • :Of autbersbiP .and :the
-retest skill in apprehendingfaets and using
; thiito.Advautage,, (r./II•thet whole, nothing
.abpitt. Carlyle, not even Awn ..graphic
•'lletters, hat) more interest for thestudent .
Menthe strong and healthy ;eve?
•, lations•of.theed letters. They :000 ; Mre-
• Carlyle among the foreniost writers of the,
• ; .00ntury. Within the Oirele •of 'her•se*, and
• will take their: pleesi in the permanent
littiritilike of the English language,• „
Theiletteeebegin With. the ,Chelsea life,
Where Carlyle has jest Bet himself to work
`. Upon the"•Prench'Itevolution," and. John.
Stuart Mill had eent'him,alliiost neartload
.ot beoks 00.,t4o oubjeot:, I 041346 says of
. Henan tekena great attacinnent to me,which
• 1,4104 SD0lIttell'Yeareeend then. suddenly ended,
'ii;17(Ttiif, a :341117,
laspeet'edas sti n. here, though! sometimes felt tO
-be ra'ther-Soloilees," 'even anneOut-'-no religion
abiloittany•form tracenble- in bina;., • lie wag
among our cltiel visitors spd. soeial element* itt
• ••!•that Caine to us in the °Tennant,' °hoe or
,twice A week; Wave with onlmidays, etc.;
•*With nalteet discourse bob, Worthless to
.ithe 101W:hind. Still prettier were Leigh Bunt's.
;little'. nights with. • us; - name 'mid bear.
• lug •• Of: the !t man, of . it perfectly,
graceful, spontanewely Original: dignified
and attrinitiva kind. - Considerable sense
Of bUtilOYAU him ). it very pretty little laugh,
• sincere and cordial always many triokay turns
•° of witty insight, Of intelleda of phrase ;oounte-
-
;trif ttn•glt 70,.V-11.7.1:07kr.a.,rEf,.?,4rte
.....................
-Ininded of tinging birds. He omne always
." rather scrupulously., though meld simply and
modeetly dressed„ "Kind of Talking Nightim-
itele,"'We priVetely,called hire -natio first due to.
et • He ntijoyed much, and with it kind of
Ohivalronsaffenoe and respect, her Scotch tune's
• on the piano,nlost of whiehheknew, already, and
• their Burn; or Other itcoompaniment ; this was
•Oomnionly •enotigh the wind -tip of Our even-
ing; "supper" being ordered (uniformly .."por-
ridge'! of Scotch oatmeal), moat likely the
piste, or Wino hint, Avoiald be opened,
and continue till the "porridge" came --a tiny
•basin of Which Etiliit always took, and ate With
temente:in to :auger, and Many pains of the
° ensile:at /angel arid noble article. .It seems to
Me, in our long,.illiti-lighted,, perfectly neat and
tthaint reeni, these "evening parties" of three,
•were altogether human and beautifel; perhaps;
the best r anywherehed•before nr. Wince! Allen
. Cunningham occasionally Walked .down; plea-
sant enough total* .With. --though the topic was
.11tU'e to be Nithadele '(reaillitoNithedele fun); and'
nothing else. • Mrs. Austin,- Ifra. Buller, Darwin,
Wedgwood, etc., etch (Of Mit Or &Drily posterior
dates), do not mention. 1 Was btisy• she still
- More bppefull* and .gayly to rand- in what Is
. tithed 'society., Or London interests for ne,
there was rib lac Ofall Which, these "lettere,"
accidental waifs among such multitudes as have
&mile perithed, are now the only reeq0,
tholie busy days, Mrs. Carlyle Wit
y.411 ottflanie, of Whom elle Virites
andve mother ,
it from an old rejeeterliover,
row& these 30 year; though be
Mote th011sande ofpourels
to havehundreds, or titian
did. not make me doubt i
co. Indeeit icinitinue
11; I eetildwith bim
mete petweeble
totossestion, Indeed,,o0 SOPU at you eyee 04'
it And behold its vaeteess its siniple greetnese;
vie will perceive that th'etheught or you was
actively Owe* in.ilaY ch0140,1 It was neither
dear nor cheep, but bargain nevertheless,
being seeondbetel, end se geod a ciecoud-haud
OM) net, I BUOlibt tbiUk;01t012.,t0 be met, 011,
it is so tieftA se easy 1 and otle of ' us, or both,
inay sleep id it, should ()Oast= require -I Mean
for all night. ' 31 will telt agaiaat any tiMe ", it
to sufficient an .article. With My velVet, gottia, I
shall need nocgreat outlay for P,utt this winter,
go I thought I might fairly 11411110e ourselves In it
BOB at last. • ,
There was a time iu her life, when Mrs.
'Carlyle had regeon':te leel•thei her hubletud
neglected her, nod there,Wee . reel treth iu
the accusatiou, but \ iu earlier daym sloe
wrote this paragraph' out of ber heart to.
laio mother ; •
Cintminit, Sept. 22114,18V.
MY DEAR MOT1211:21,-Y0111.1110)t tbe saying, "'It
• it not 1014 which f iend gets," and in the
present ease it must comfort you for losing him.
Moreover, you ha,ve,others• hehind, 1' have
• only iiia, only him in the whole wide world to
hiVe aild tate. Care'of me, poor little wretch
that I am. Not but titatiahmberaot peopleIOvtl
nialifier their fahhhiliir better thau I cleservel,
but then his fashion N so different fronvill
these, and beenni .u.lone to soft "the crotchety
creature that I min.' Thank you then for having,
in the first place, been kind enough to produce
WM. tuto this,. world, and: for having, la the
second place mtide biro scholar enough to recog-
nize my Various eicelleueiet; and for having, in
the labt Owe, • sent him beak • to tat, again to
stand by me in the cruel east wital. • '
In her distrese twenty yeare
when sne-felb -thate-!-Carlyle had deserted
her, she took to keeping a diary; As an off-
set. to **IN :Visits to ." that eternal Beth
}Immo,* where the .; Ashburtons lived. In
ilus journal the afflicted wife says: •
That eternal Be.th House. I Wonder boy*/ many
thousand -miles Mr. C. has walked between there
and here, putting' it altogether ; -setting up
always another milestone and another betwixt
himself and me. Oh, good gracious! when I first
noticed that heavy yellow house without know-
ing,,9r caring to know, who it ,belonged to, how
far was from dreaming that, through years and
years, carry every stone's weight of it on
my, heart." About feelingt alreadyl Well, I will
not proceed, though the thoughts I had. in My
bed about all that Were tragical enough to fill a
page of thrilling interest fpr myself, and thought,
as George Sand has- shrewdly remarked, " ram
110 soulage comma la rhetorique." • •
The agony of tb,e.little woman's heart
breaks out in passages like these :
Nov. 5. Alone t eveurng. acly A. In 'town
again; and Mr: 001 eourse at Bath Nouse. ,
. .
When I think of what I N
'‘.1 And wk at I used to was; • • •
• .• I gin to think IWe sold myself
• For very little ca,s. •
• Nov. 6: Blended. Etti.C:fit dressing -gown. • Much
movenient under:the flee BkY._10 _needful ior-rae-
to keep rny heart trete throbbing up into my head
and maddening it. • They must be comfortable
people who he.ve, leisure to think about mina to
•heevenl-illy-preetTonstant and pressing anxiety
iato keep out of bedl'am ! that's * * * •
Acb 1 11 there were no feelings -4 what. Steady
saving craft we should be," as the nautical gen-
Venom of solna novel soya. • , "
-
been vita Met Oh, My' raother 1 nobody •Seea
when I am -suffering now 1 and I have learned to
suffer " an to myself," From "only 0121144*s "
to that, is a fax and it rough road to. travel.
, Oh, little did my mother think..
• • The day she cradled me, . •
The lands' was to travel in,
•
•
, The..death X was to dee.
The
yeare later .there this passage le
• . •
it letter. to Mo. Austin: .• .
. 5 Onairsw RoW,•Cimismt, 'Jan. 2, 18i7.
MY Min, lilinr,-The box came yesterday, all
safe - not so much as one egg. cranked -and just
in time to have 0110 of the fowls boiled for Mr.
0.'s dinner.. Mr. C., dines all by himself, at
present, I merely looking on, be doesn't par-
ticipate. in my dislike to eating hi presence of.
one's fellow creatures ,no Similarly occupied.
Theal latter portion of her life Mrs. Oak-
-
lyle was a conetant invalid, and her -letters
are largely conoereed with- bier effo-rtIi to
bitterly regretted the way m which he had
negleeted his Wifethail Carlyle did,.apd
is tOuching• that her last letter to him,
Written a few hours •before her buddeu
death in 1866, while he was absent to 'give
his address, before the University of:Edin-
burigh, should haveall the brightnae and
beauty attheir earliest and tenderest 'love
• ' •
5 Oheyne RowpOlaelsect, Saturday, April gist, 1.2.te
Ditansen,-It seems a" Wnstiming of
time "1.0 Write today, when you are Coming the
'clay atter th-morrow. But "if there were nothing
else in it (your phrase) such a 'Piece ofliberallty
as letting one have ' letters on. Sunday, it balled
tor, ehOuld be honored at least 1:03r availing one's,'
self Of it!, All long stories, however, may be
postponed till next week. Indeed, I have neither
long stories nor (theft, ones to toll this morning.
'TO -morrow, after'the tea partY,I May have mere
to say, provided I survive fa:. Though' hat, tam,
to entertain," onmy (Ana basiti," 11 people in a
tint night "WithOtit retreihment " (to :weak of 18
more thatt 1" see, rily.Way 'through ! yen as
inaps--4here are only hi cups'of conapany china
,anclid ere coming, Myself Making 12, ." After
op said Jesela "you- had Oncck eight to tect-
three mair Woil'A kill us!" Dianet so' sere of
that. Let mihope,the motive swill sanctify the
and; being" the Welfare of others 1" an
.desire to Make two beings bappy
Tullocb and Fronde, who have a great liking for
one another 1 The Spottiswoodes Were added in
the saved philanthropic epirit. We met in a oho
and they begged peril:his on to come again ;so 1•
thought 'it would .be Clever to get thank over
(handsomely With. Freud() and Mni. Oliphant)
beforeyon came. Miss Wynne Offered herielf,
....!..1"7.1...-ettlIrtr_f:,74.13,'4,ftyrktr,tht„. •
•
Of Thelyie's 'affection spines1114 out as he
rebel's the tours with hie wife during the-
" Frederick the Greet "tirnei-and • recueni-
_ .
hers her sufferings.badder and tebdeter
Wordshave seldom been written by mortal
pen: The pietnre Must 'be given Net as it
Cattle from the man who wrote it out of his
heart:
Of all, thete dreary sufferings and miseriere
which had been steadily increasing for years
pastplbtierceive now, With pain and remorte,
bad never had the leaf:Col a clear notion: such
herdnvincible spirit in bearing thew. such„ber•
constant effort to hide theta from Me altogether..
My own poor existence, as she also well line*,
was laden to ttie utmost pitch of strength,
&lid sunk in * perpetual /middydarkness,
by a task too heavy, for me -task
Which Reetned impossible and as- it it'
would end me in:AC.1d or I it: 1 eat/ no company,
had no companion but My horse (14,xiilletta day,.
winter time, nittitily in the dark), rade in all, es I
have scinietimes collated, shove 8060 miles fbr
health's take, while Writing, that unutterable
book. The One bright polht in my da was from
-half an hour to 20 minutes talkingwith her after
my rettirn from thole thrice disinal rides, yttifle
X sat einoking,(on the heszthrug, with my back
tOthe jamb, peeing fireWarde-a rare invention I)
and sipping a spoonful of 'brandy In water, pre-.
parattny to the hour .0. sleep Iliad before din-
ner. She, toe; the dear and noble soul, seemed
to feel that this was 'the eye Of bar clity, the
110Wat of all her ,daily'endecteor in the .world..
X found, her " ofteneet .stretched on ,the: tote
(WOW. „tny right .hand, I between
her and the Ate); her drawing robin and self oall
n the getiewfuleet and most pentad. Order, and
waiting with such a welcome; ah me I eh, mei
18he was Weak, weak, far weaker than I under-
stood; but tome 1904 bright alWayil,(tt stare and
dietriendit.; bey, I should say it kluct oZ cliebry.
ettilshine blithe*" otherwise Egyptian clay, She
'had ilWaYe itOrnething theerfut tO tell me of
'(m tally it ...she. had been out or bad had
wIaitoTR); ,generally something quite 'pretty to
report, an Jidr sprightly, quiet s,nd titer genie
*Atleivest, nothing thapleastitt was ever
d from letr :,, that Was glOomy she was
t tipon, and had atelier,' hirVert array;
1 • remember, /bare henna, this,
a • buffered tinder rine OE her
tita (littlebiotin te inc hew
baa/t 011453.e in for thrfie 011iebStive eve •ee foil
of the "Battle er 11101witt (which 1, had at latt
got to utuleretand, multi to my inwa I'd trieeePhh
and tallie4 to her all my halt hour about nothing
else. fine ,anowered little (i 01)00,kiUit. not geed
for me"' perhaps); but gave no. eigit of want ht
intereet--nay, perhaps did not guitt, want add
yet of:infested to ine, several years afterward, her
principal thought WA% " Ebel' never•see
this' cora° teiwint ; amollastening toward death
instead These were,„intleed, dark (lays for es
both, and still darker, Ut1/1140Wil t0-1,10, Were at
hand.
Her appreeistion*sif her .littsbandie • writ -
WO grope oat in this '0110910 moreel of
criticism, written while • "Frederick the
Groat,' was OW incomplete, and of whieh
•
Carlyle taps that, " exeept 'Etifiall .patob of
writing by Bannon, this lathe only bit of
horned criticism in which, acmes the 11,91) -
end eXaggeration, ' I could Oiscover real.
lineaments Of the thiug. Very memorable
was this ether to me, aud forever, be:
.:
Oh, nay deem I What a mitgnitleent book this is
going to bo! The best of all your books. I say
so, via° never flatter, as you are too well aware; ,
e,nd who am the only .perscta Limo* that is.
alwaya. riglittr Selig as it ie. bete before
itio,1 find it forcible and 'vivid, and ,spetrkling as
The French Bevcdution,'„' with the geniality
and pomposure and of.• " Oroinwcll
Wonderfut combination of meritsl and liew you
have contrived to lit together all those different
.sorts of pictures, belonging to oifferent sorts of
times, as compactly and smoothly as a bit of the
finest mosaic! Really, One maysay, Of these two
first book': at least, whaptialen said of the letters
of her sister .Who'died-you remember 2--!' So
splendidly put together one would have thought
that band couldn't have writtenthenar -
Here is oneofthe ;genuine love passages
in which portions of , the lettere abound ,
July 15,•SeafOrth. .0h, My; darling, r want to
give yeti an .emphatie kiss rather than to viritt !
J3ot you are at Chelsea and I at Seaforth; 00 the
thing is clearly impossible for, the moment. 'But•
I will keep it for you till I come, for it is not
with words that I can thank you adequately kr
thatkindest of birthday 'letters add its small
enclosure -touching little key 1 . cried over it
and laughed over it, and Weld not Sufficiently
admire the graceful iclea,-,--an 'idea which might
opine under „the category of What 00aignac
,uties1 to call "oldees de foontte," stipposecl' to be
nilattainabhiby the coarser sex! And have
put the little keyto my chain and shall' wear it
there tin I return.. ,••
• It is dif6oUltito 'resist cluoting iron the
bright letters in thew voltireee of pithy
thing e which Mts. Carlyle alwitys Bay-
' big. They will be at once and Widely reed
and Will rival in fable the :ooreespendepoe
Of Carlyle and Emerson.
. ,
fantall Losses'. •
. The man who saves ocimething 'every
year hi on the road to prosperity. It nuty
not be possible to save miich ; if not save e;
little.--tion't-thinka dollar -or- a dime- is
too eneall a. sum to ?lay by. Everybody,
keovire how little expen*urea_get_.:9;
With large inms. But few' seem , to knew
thekthif.rulaiii:One..that,worke both ';--tvays:
It a diine spent here and a dollanthere
son neekeketelergo--holetinAlna_LVeeigeo
Soon ecomeete
visible and respectable aticumulation;
this country, any man may make. hinidelf
independent, or keep • himself, 'under the
harrow for life, according aa ; he wastes or
spends small change. How Many things
do individuals 'and Ian:lilies buy that they
'do not need or cannot afford. Think twice
• • •
before you vend that small coin.. •Don't
be .stingy. or mean, .but also ' don't be
foolishly self-indulgent. The self-indpl-
'gent person is far more likely in, be Ungen.
erouti than the self-denying one. 'The
•money wasted on hurtful things alone,
the drugs and medicines we mingle With
opir diet in the fOrne of UN tobaCeo,,aloOhot
and the like-stand:1)W the very threshold
of prosperity, and bar the wag of thougands•
tealome in their old age. Don't. forgetr=
Econoing is the read.loWealth.7_, .
.112itelleal Notes •
. ,
A • Montrealdespatch says Madame
Albani, whirls much plotted at being home
and at reception manlier, has donated.
$500 to the poor. • : ••• , • . .°
• England's : teadiness. 'to introduce to
pnblio notice every fresh; utterance of A
representative German composer Is re-
garded as evidence Of musical progress.
When she was recently tendered a recep.'
tion An Montreal. :in a red 'satin afternoon
dress, trirnined, with Chantilly lab° and
bonnet to match, 'Mine. Alban" looked her
fairest. She wore- no ornament except
the pearl cross, a gift of Queen .Viotorus.
While en mita to the Windsor her Weigh
Weaned with: flowers. Her next recep-
tion will be this afternoon at the Convent,
where she received her early education. :
In &recent issue of "Temple Bar" Lady
INIOok draws attention to the fact that,
whilst thirty years ego all the great operatic
singers were Italians, the rule is different
to -day: We have Christine: Nilson, a
Swede ;:Albani, a Canadian ;• Adelina Patti,
anAmeTwan ; Maria Bose, .a Pren Wiwi= an .;
'.Trebellii• a Parisian; Madame Marunoia, a
Parisian ; 'Madame Paley, an English-
woman ; Sims Reeves, English; •Santley„
English; Faure, Preach „.• the milY,Italian
.„,
:
• .11PleabeClial glory ot ibe mimeo.
A is the Angel all blushes and suiiieg; '
'Xis the Beau in the latest of styles;
0 is the Colutingwith Caddies and Cream;
D's the Devotion displayed in the Dream.
E's the Engagement -enchanting of wings
it the Father opposing by force;
is the Groom rushing blind to his fate;
H is the Honeymoon; Husband elate.
X is the Infant with colittat night;
Xis the Joy of the parents at sight;
Is the Knowledge that always comma late. .
L is tlae Love that it turning to hate;
M is the Motherliti-law.who appears;
N.iis her Nerve Which the son-intle,w fears;
O's the Obedience whie.h he unlit show;
P18 thittrictarePretented of Woe. .
Is the Qtiarrela 'tenon husband and wife;
is the Reins that he Weeks in the strife;
Separation end Sorrow we :tee
T is the Trantporls of husband dow tree;
17 is his Union anew with a bride;
V Is the VizenThe finds by his side.
itihOlg for freedom again;
• Xis Xperience purchined with pain;
•%TY is his Yielding, once more to the Yoke
Z is the Zany Who laughs et the joke
4J1and she
n of
bit
•
ill'ArrInh Against ISaivationtite.
A Syracuse; N. /".' telegram says: A
crowd of 500 boys andd ,girlii gathered in
front of the hall in Which the "Salvation
Army were holding their meeting to -night.
Thii 'special efficere at the elitratiol were
pelted with Mud and otherharroiless agonies
The stolid sang Rollthe Chariot Along"
and Paddy Duffy's Oat." The exereiees Of
'the Presbyterian Church in the vicinity
-*arc! olcised abruptly on account of the 'dis.
graceful proceedings. The police dispereed
theblob after three. arrests Were made. ,
" The babe's in the wood 'remarked a
punster, at the shine time pointing to an
infant sleeping in its cradle.
/ft whe lives te 320 litirpOrse littel1
bad parpoiee-Ifetho.
$41(ONC4 THE'
querei"Oleirilie by Viergytnatt,MIstehth
94 liVerltinghten-41441Velt
A, country clergyman who recently
Preached in au Austin iihureh is it great ,
admirer' of the writings of Charles,
Dieltene, and ; Tinto- igen • ,
Heiiovels almost surprisedehlptCriliseaa413. IShe'cOnrree4.
gatien by winding up gorgeous peroration
with : 44 Tt is thus You see, my brethren, as
the 'Scriptures. Say( ' Deride le willing, but
the ileihie Weak.'
• The moot importaVt religious oerernony
after the cpronaton of the Czar will be the
inauguration of the church cbneeerated to
the Saviour. The foundation of this church
„was' thitl. to it 'vow of: Alexander, 14 4urink
the Frenda Occupation of Xoscow. l3dgun
-in 1817 on Mooke Rill, the only eininene,
in the neighborhood Whichbreatoi the dea,
leVel, works, after. ht,Viug. oobt an iw
manse:sun:4 were hoed:11'0e. etandoil
-afteeeiglit years by reason of the disoover
that the foundetiona v,,,ere gradually sink
jug into the sand.. new site was the
selected not far 'from the Kremlin; Th
work was begun in 1839; and is juet ou th
eve of eoinpletion. It is 'in the pures
Byzantine style.. The material is as .far;
potteible Russien; worked Ruesiant th
only foreign*attetheing certain marbles
An. explorer of the Mery tb
Desert of SeharS,, heti discovered oven
&wish fenellies Who have been. established
there for an 'unknown. period of time and
*bri have preserved intact Costenie, religion
.end language' of their ancestere. Who were
probably Chaldean. There are nutny uterie
of isolated Aevteieb' .communitio in centre
. '• •
.
Recently Professor Bleokie preached in
the Workingreen's, Church, Grassniarket
It was, oeowded by the .vVerking chianti
The Protest* said he "Could not leek quite
grave or aesiunett pulpit tone, but he Would
give them'good common:Sense."
'The population'Of thcifii numbers 253,891,
821. •persons, ' ocCupying .1;312,588 • Square
milee, and •inhebiting over 48,600000 dwell
lt . is Massed in .714;707 towns .. o
villages,•And)iiil. made up ot 129;941,851
miles And 1.23,949,970 fernalea Religtousiy
thepopulation is divided as follows: 187;
937,450 Hindotie; 50,121,585
'
dans; 6,426511 'native ivorahippers; who
represent the Aborigines of India; 4,418,
884 -Buddhists; 1;862,634 ;•11853,;•
.426 Sikhs; and 1,221,896 jeans.' Out of all
hese-leindreele---of-Millione,Lonty-A03:00
persons English. ' •e, . •
--Thr'Ctethtiliee`of" Spaiiirittillib5r487,0041,000
And have 46,006•mfignifloent•ohurehea.
itY-19POWy-Trfar'ner
'Wed took, for his text, ." She pleaseth me
• The•p. eat winter gave' us eight Stonily
Sundays Nothing • this
has occurred eine° 1852. • • • • ,
, During 188L.82 in the colleges Of the
Jesuit Fathers in the United States there
were 5,117 stpdents.• • ••
The Orotiers' London, -tees
before its feasts this prayer: *".Oeid ' pre-
serve the Churoli, the Queen and the Wor-
shipful Company of Grocers."
Thenensus of missions.to be taken next
year Will; itis estimated, show an increase
of 200,000 native hriStians in India,.
Cey-
lon and Burnish for the :last ten years -
500,000 in all.• _ • •
The"taiieen. of Madagaeliar A 'devoted
Protestant and has her own chapedin the
4Peasliteve- s heransoinaa_rifee4h
helper in the mission' work; .• ••
• In the Episcopal Church At Dent, York;
Shire; two • geog „Eigiolvotp. are • filled every
Sunday with. leaveti for .the poor, which
they.carry away with than 'after, the eer.;
vio.. This is solid religion. • . •
The English Baptist ,Pundeeii, a society
formed in the One of. George I.; received
list Year 615,000, of , whit*" over 04,0op
were • 'expended in assisting country
churobea,,stidinti for the ministry, etre
The Moravian Misiron, on the .•Mosquito
coast, Central Americo, reports • Amonder-
ful religions. awakening anniog the Indians.
Over 400 persona have United with the
church thus far, and _ethers have applied
fee admission., •. •
There are fifteen Baptist Recta in the
mother eountey,• and , one cif then( ,*ottllit
itaelf theUnitheiaii. Baptist denomination.
Of coarse . Many of these are small and
Obscure, and they are not! included in the
statistics of the linglish.Daptist Handbopk,
%In 'Miles (AV, Montana, the Mothodibts
believe in receiving contributions from
anybody, whether' good or bad, who is dis-
posed to give. ' They .plees. contribution
boxes in the drinking saloons, and sonic+
of the patrons of those .estebliehments
e
• to a selid blook„ iu the form of it truncated
,4101.ca' wlonik,400. •
A. Solpherone, ^twenty. 'which Aetsnione4 •
, • • *rural icesidents. •
(hie day last month some petteant4vork.
ing in a:field' near Brescia, in italy, were
startled by bearing alma report like thnn.
der. Looking up, they Baw the (donde torn
OPen and a large body folio 'Wed by it train
of =eke hurtling through the air
over their heads With the notbe Of an
express? train. The aerelite buried ,itselk.
in • an adjoining ilehl; the fall pausing '
shook like that of au eartlupieke. The
report was heard at Vero)" and Piecenza,
Many miles dietaut. Whole they had '
recovered' from their fright:4,12e peasants
hurried to the vont atid found: it cleat
hole abent three feet deep runitipg
iii au ! ohltqee • direction "from north- •
northeast ; 'end 'on diggingedownthey came
: cone; weiglaing frotri 400 to 500 Tquo411, „
r 'The eilefeee, which ';wetii. Still hot 'and
y emitted, a sulphurous melt. was coe,ered
With a greenish black Orubt, full AA Htnahl
n holes, such eto would be Wade by finger
e tips sof G paste, which ipay. have
g• Wee vise to the 'report that/Amp of the
fregueents bore the irnpressof elhand. The
8 proprietor of the clover field in which,the
e aerolito fell flew ;Leto. a rage at big' '
being trampled down by people. orning to
see it, and broke it up When it was carried
e
away piecemeal'. So he gained nothing but
damage to hie fields, white thoseewho picked
up the pieces found oatto.,yr_sale fey "thett14,
One erten getting as much as 7:000. francs,
- for a limo that weighed twenty.fivepcninds.
,
1 O'HoNnITAN ' stOansi. .
TI,ebt " of the Atibeiked ttgeVelpt1012
• ..4.•,A4.4. • try -Wirepallew-
• h
• OTionovan Itoeiut is said to be the laugh-
. leg stock Of the people? of his adopted
-
country, A writer in the Brooklyn' Eagle
regards the terror of the British•empire ate,'•
a comparatively barmlesp Person." "
people could en to his room," remarks that - •
" I did, in the seventh story"
- of a rickety tildhuilding in Chambers Street,.
rt, just off Centre, and see the 'patriot sitting:
in e 35 cent wooden atilt,' and, writing 'on
, •Sedry,goods-boxe-th6T-Would-morne-tellie—,
- conclusion that his influenee and power ib
the Witr,ageinst Great Britain were eonsid-
- When I '
erabiy. mailer than heit_rberisrieisy,:enentegdagtelicenein,
countieg up seven or eight dollars. w'hich
had come In for eubeeriptions for his paper,
ratan- bleb glee twat -the.' attempted '
murder .of Lady Dixie. -4 I am stving
nothieg: knew a
thing or two:that would. make the British •
ralininnwopqmirr-aiiargewenlitrifi '
were aware of my :knowledge and Plans.' -
Thereupon he winked shrewdly and Wagged .
his head. ,He lie a 100y :set man with
rather a kindly fade, straggling chin whisk-
ers an moustache soiled linen and sleepy
eyes." -
*owe, ste4c 'and,
.Dr. Sargent discussed • yesterday • the
9iiestion, of ;the importance of rest and •
bleep for men in•tranung and for • students.'
A distitiotion, should be made, said the ieo- •
• hirer; between, rest and What is initially
called sleep. Rot May be, termed ;11. looaL
skean. 'Recreation, in the sense et' "build-
ing anew,7- hi rest. So Often it Mere (Mange_ ,
in local condition is better for a man _than
coropiete rest or pleep ; a change of activity '-
is in itself rest ; The Indians; when tired of: •
walking; rest themselves by running:" This
principle . is too • often disregarded by
general training, but think their, whole duty, • • •
,atudents' and by men who are training for
any particular object; Boating -men many
times fail to recognize the importance of -•••
lies inthe•direat exordia of rowing or in 'P
•• absolute rest. The value of indireot •
•,••
tr'extaxiir
training is Mit to be over-estimated. . It is
'noticeable' that men 'who, do net- devote
themselves exelutiliely to One branch of
training, but Win at a. general physieal.
. development, often excel in their own .
Specialties men who only train for One '
branch Of athletieti. '• The best examples of •
such facts, said Dr. Sargent,. were to be
seen in the superior' physicali, condition Of
the imen, now in training for the, genera/
excellence prize. The • same rule holder '
good in matters of the intellect. Variety'
of studies is an excellent thing. • A man .•
who devotes himself tis • our, one or two
subjects oan hardly he said to he worthy of . •
a college -degree. As le the matter of,
slesplessnass-r•mubeular. exertion, if not
exceesive,.induces eleep. Thus it:is often a ••
'good plan for men troubled with ,Eilespless-,*
nese to exercise in • the evening before •
retiring. Men e)iould be warned:against'
the use of druge to cure sieeplessnese, The .
sleep thereby induced' is not a genuine
sleep:. Atter any violent or unusual exer. -
. .
--••••
-
drops,..cein-orltwain.whenever.timAikka a
-k4131,01X Clortlyntrmitiza to.tero.'t
his congregation that there, was iitill mealy
a one who,•whileengaged in singing appar-
ently with all his heare the, lines:
' Were the whole realm of nature lnine,
That wore an offering fax too email,
was diligently engaged with pne• hand in
his pocket SOrapang the edge of a -three-
penny,piecei to make BUM it Was 1:10t h four.
penny piece.
s. .
114 ifieaven.
The • following curious calculation 'is
based on the Book of Revelations xxi. :
And he measured' the city with a reed,
twelve thousand furlongs. The length and
breadth .and theheighth are equal" Twelve
thousand..., furlongs -7920,000 feet, which
being cubed 18 943,088,000,000;000,000,000,-
000,000 onhio feet, and hall of which we
will reserve for the Throne of God &with°
Court of HeaVen,Isaltof the balance streets,
and the -remainder ,divided by 4,096, the
cubical feet ie a, room 16 feet square and
16 high; will be 30,843,760,000,090 rooms,
We 'will now suppose the world always did
and always will eontain 900,000,000 of
inliabitatitti, and a generation Will last 30*
years -2,700,000,006,000: 'Persona Then
suppose there . were 11,230 such • worlds,
equal W this in number of inhabitants and
duration'of years -then there would be a
room 16 feet wide and 16 feet high for eacth'
person, and •y(etpere wOuld be room.•.
•
The Duke of Newoastle caught fifty
black bass at Enterprise,. ,Elit.,.-the other
day.
No poieltry house, says the Amerierne*
riculturist, can be kept clean without a
board floor.., In • settinghens, the nests
should be in warm, dry -location* in oom
**ether; and iireeol, mqist places in sum-
mer.
•
tubing the feet alone is a doubtful one,
however. It is, in general, best' not to -be
dependent upon anyartificial condition te'
seoure sleep. One °should aim for a Coin -
plate Mastery oxer himself in such mat-
ters, op that he eancommand 'deep
and ..thus economise time and force. By
such a course the • usual average of hie
sleep clan he reduced to seven or six and a
half hours with safetY. The habit of read-
ing one's self to sleep is to be depreoted,
since it may become a troublesome one and ,
interfere sadly with serious study. It is
doubtful whether the sleep gained before 12 •
o'olook ie of any m'oreValue than that after-
ward. The •,00nditions favorable to sleep'
then are not usually sob inany...--ffaramel
Herald. ,
• • libteless gatighti •
To iworr7 about any LiVer. Kidney or
Urinary Trouble,espeoially Bright's Disease
or Diabetes, as Roppitters never fails of
euro where a cure is Possible. Wee know
this. ;
They truly Mourn 'that mourn witheut
witness--Bgron„
The Gloverninent bonded warehouse at
Liverpool was entered on Sunday by un-
known parties, and the contents of a num-
ber of casks Of, epirite spilled. It is supposed
that tbie was done With inoenclittry intent,
but no lire resulted'. Damage was done to
the extent of 21,009.
Probably the most remarkable •ceinie of
humor ever known was that of a German
soldier who laughed uproariously all the
time he was being flogged, ,eua when the
officer,at the end, inquiread the ontse of
his mirth, broke out into a fresh ft of
laughter, and Cried, " Why, rant the wren
inan 1"
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