Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — Page 6

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CAREER OF TALMAGE.

RECALLED BY HIS RESIGNATION OF HIS PASTORATE. flow He Bnllt Up the Tabernacle and Gained for Himself a National Reputation—Cannot Be Accused of Departure from Orthodoxy. A Man of Original Methods. Naturally the resignation of Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage as pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle caused something of a sensation not only in the city of * churches but throughout the whole country, for Dr. Talmage is as well known in the rest of the Union as in the State where he was born and where he became famous. Dr. Talmage has been connected with the Brooklyn congregation for a quarter of a century, and the sudden termination of his relations while in the

REV. T. DEWITT TALMAGE.

full vigor of his power as a preacher was calculated to cause a commotion. It would doubtless be unjust to the eminent divine to suggest that he desired to create a sensation by his action in this instance As a matter of fact, he has heretofore employed what critics have called sensational methods to build up the Tabernacle and not to do it injury. Dr. Talmage began studying for the ministry shortly after leaving college and was a chaplain In the army during the civil war, but had not attracted much attention when he went to Brooklyn, although he had gained a local reputation in Philadelphia by his energy, his eloquence, and his original methods. The church to which he came was broken down and almost hopelessly disintegrated. He put new life into it, and drew a crowd almost from the start He was talked about from one end of the land to the other. The comments were not always complimentary. but he made many warm friends, and his church grew and flourished. It is a significant fact that in all his devices to attract popular attention Talmage has confined his sensationism to words and methods. He has not ventured to proclaim any new or heretical ideas. He has left new theological fields unexplored, and has stuck close to genuine old-fashioned orthodoxy. Indeed, he doesn’t inflict

THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

much theology of any sort on his hearers. No revision of creeds ever troubled him or his church. He preaches, the hell Are of Calvin, but he never speculates about the fate of unregenerate infants or worries over the issues which threaten to disrupt the American board. His severest critics never have brought any imputation of heresy against him; neither has his private character ever been assailed.

Pulling a Tooth by “Magic.”

One of the guests of the Briggs House yesterday was complaining of an aching tooth and inquired at the office where he could And a good dentist. He secured the information and went out to find relief, when proprietor De Witt smiled ata funny reminiscence. “I shall never forget a toothpulling Incident that occurred when .1 was a youngster,” he remarked. “My uncle, who was a physician, had a great, big, stalwart colored man for a servant. His name was Buck, and one day he went into his master’s office and complained that one of his teeth was nearly killing him. My uncle advised him to go and have it taken out Buck objected. ‘Naw, indeedy, boss,’ he exclaimed, ‘hit wud dess fa’rly kill me ter pab dis toof jucked out.’ My uncle then told him that he would fix it for him by using a little magic. Buck was equipped with all the •uperstition of his race, and be readily rtequiesced in the suggestion, for he thought a doctor could do anything. The old gentlemen took the ■malt string from his violin and making a loop dropped it over Buck’s aching ■ tooth and drew it taunt. Then he led Buck out to the hitching poet and made him stand on his tip toes, which brought his eyes on a level with the top Of the post, and tied tue cat-gut around it Upon the flat surface of the top he poured some gunpowder, and then solemnly warning Buck not to move he returned to the house. Suddenly he auae running out of the kitchen door

with a glowing coal of Are held in a pair of tongs. Buck saw him coming and backed for all he was worth. But he left that tooth in front of him.’—Washington Post

Mr Depew’s Courtesy.

“All railroad presidents are not czars,” remarked a traffic official who had been down East attending the conferences on the rate situation, says the Chicago Post. “I saw Chauncey Depew do a thing the other day which should cause you newspaper fellows to hold him in grateful remembrance for ever and ever. One morning, just as one of the most important conferences was about to go into session, a card was stuck into his hand. It had been sent in by a reporter of the Evening Sun. Chauncey never refused to see a newspaper man.

“ ‘Show him in,’ he said to the messenger who brought him the card. “ ‘Well, sir, what can I do for you?’ he remarked as suavely as imaginable as the reporter entered. He was a young fellow, looking as though he had just left school, but stated his business quite intelligently. “ ‘Well, now look here! It is now 10:30 o’clock. There is a meeting of all the presidents of the trunk lines and central traffic associations in session at this minute. I should be there, because they cannot very well begin till I get there, and I can hardly afford to keep them waiting. Their time is very precious.’ “ ‘I am very sorry,’ said the young man. ‘I have just started on this week, and if I succeeded in getting a good interview with you I think It would help me considerably.’ “ ‘Are you a stenographer?’ asked Mr. Depew of the young fellow. “ ‘No, but I think if you will give me an Interview I can reproduce it as satisfactorily as if I took notes of what you say.’ “ ‘All right, then. Here goes!’ And he talked to him for a column or so. “The interview appeared in that afternoon’s paper. Mr. Depew took pains to see it, and it seemed to him to be a complete photograph of what had been on his mind while he talking. He at once sat down and wrote to the managing editor commending the young man for his go<yl work. Next mail brought him a letter of thanks from the reporter, stating that he had been promoted to a position on the morning paper and had had his salary advanced.”

A Montana Bear Story.

“Montana is a zoological garden in its native state,” said Colonel Jim Struthers to a “Star” man last night at the Arlington. “We have all kinds of wild beasts, from grizzly bears and prairie dogs down. Speaking of bears reminds me of once upon a time. It was before the State got polluted by the trolley, and when it wasn’t good form to wear a collar. It was before Montana got to be the greatest State in the Union. I was prospecting away in the Bull Mountains. I hadn't seen any dirt that looked as though it had the right ring to it. The sun was turning in and shadows were coming out of the east. 1 took the pack off one of my horses, picketed the animals, and made a supper of hot coffee and bacon and bread. Thet> 1 colled up in a blanket and knew nc more. The night was about halt spent, when I began to dream that I was washing my face in one of the geysers of the Yellowstone. The sensation became so realistic that I 8-woke. A hot breath was breathing on my visage, and a strange tongue was swabbing me down. I was sort of dazed with fear, and remained perfectly still. Presently the licking process ceased and the hot breath was withdrawn. A big, dark, awkward something shambled off, and I sank to rest once more. When day came I found that my provision box had been raided, and the soft earth around me was full of bear tracks. I shivered a little bit, and moved on." The Colonel told this as though he really wanted to be believed, and the reporter left.—Washington Star.

Large Sailing Ships.

The largest sailing ship afloat is the French five-master La France, launched in 1890 on the Clyde, and owned by Messrs. Ant Dom Bordes et Fils, who possess a large fleet of sailing vessels. In 1891 she came from Iquique to Dunkirk in lOodays, with 6,000 tons of nitrate, yet she was stopped on the Tyne when proceeding to sea with 5,500 tons of coal and compelled to take out 500 tons on the ground that she was overladen. There is not a single flve-masted sailing ship under the British flag. The United States has two tivemasters, the Louis, of 830 tons, and the Governor Ames, of 1,778 tons, both fore and aft schooners, a rig peculiar to the American coast. Ships having five masts can be counted on the of one hand, but, strange to say, the steamship Coptic, of the Shaw, Savill & Albion Company, on her way to New Zealand, in December, 1890, passed the Governor Ames In 14 degrees south 34 degrees west, bound for California, and two days later, in 6 degrees south 31 degrees west, the French five-master La France, bound south. Passengers and crew of the Coptic might travel over many a weary league of sea and never again see two such object lessons in the growth of sailing ships in quick succession. The largest three-masted sailing ship is the Ditton, of 2,850 tons.—Chambers’ Journal.

Ugly Winds.

The most pernicious /Winds are the samiels. or hot winds, of Egypt They come from the deserts to the southwest and bring with them infinite quantities of tine dust, which penetrates even the minutest crevice. The thermometer often rises to 125 during their continuance, and thousands of human beings have been known to perish from suffocation in the fiery blast. It was one of these samiels, that destroyed the army of Sennacherib. Alexander the Great nearly lost his whole force in another and the army of Cambyses was utterly annihilated. Professor Garner says that gorillas do not talk with chimpanzees, but neglects to tell us which party is at fault or which began it. The man who has nothing to cay is all right if he doesn’t talk too much. —New Orleans Picayune.

REAL CRUSOE ISLAND.

JUAN FERNANDEZ IS WHERE SELKIRK LIVED. Che A»«umption that He Paaeed Hie Wear; Year* of Exile on Tobago Island In the West Indies Is Uawarranted-The Cave Where He Sheltered Himself. Tab'et to His Memory. Upon Juan Fernandez, or MassaTerra, a rock-bound, sea girt island in the Pacific Ocean, may the name of Kobinson Crusoe's Island be fairly bestowed. For here did that hardy buccaneer, Alexander Selkirk, of

CRUSOE'S LONELY LOOKOUT.

Largo, Scotland, spend more than four dreary years, thereby suggesting to Defoe his immo tai narrative. It must be remembered, however, that other spots upon the earth’s surface lay claim to Robinson Crusoe, too. Thus Tobago, in the West Indies, is held to be the true Crusoe’s

Isle, and during the last colonial and Indian exhibition held in London there was sent as an exhibit from little Tobago a skull actually purporting to be that of Robinson Cru soe’s historic goat. But the Scotch pirate certainly suggested his romance jto Defoe, wherever that author may pave chosen to lay his plot, and tor this reason Juan Fernandez must be interesting to all readers, from the crowns of its volcanic peaks to the silver surf which breaks eternally upon its shores. Amidst the island’s forest of tree fern did Selkirk live, build him a habitation and cultivate the soil; from its mountain caps must his weary eyes have sought a sail through the long years of lonely waiting, says the Philadelphia Record. “Selkirk’s Lookout” is a ragged mountain draped in foliage, thinning toward the last rounded peak, and in 1868 the tablet, which forms an illustration, was placed in its present position upon the mountain’s side at

TABLET ON JUAN FERNANDEZ ISLAND.

a point judged to be sacred for many a weary month of the forlorn exile’s solitude. Scratched and cut about it are to be read the names of innumerable nonenties who have since visited the spot. Nothing is sanctified, no tract of ground too celebrated or too sacred for Smith, Jones and Robinson. Given a stump of lead pencil, and they would gleefully inscribe their historical names in the holy of holies, together with the date and their addresses in Peckham Rye, Brixton, or elsewhere. But while denying such as these the satisfaction of their names in print, we may copy the memorial. Thus it runs:

* In Memory of J ALEXANDER SELKIRK, : A Native of Largo, in the County of Fife, : I Scotland. : Who Lived on This Island in Complete : Solitude for Four Years and jfour Months. He W\. landed from the Cinque Ports Galley, 96 T>jh, 16 Guns. A. D. 1704, And Was 2’aken Off in the Duke, 1 Privjceer, Feb. 12. 1709. ; I Hi Died Lieutenant of H. M. S. Wey- • i .month, a. D., 1728, ; • Aged 47 Years. This Tablet Is Erected Near Selkirk’s Lookout by . Commodore Powell I And the officers of H. M. S. Topaze, ! A. D. 1868. ’

Selkirk’s cave is also a point of interest, though it may be doubted whether there is much more thon an imaginary connection between this

cavern and the solitary sailor. The history of Juan Fernandez presents new features of particular interest. The island was discovered in 1593 by the Spaniard whose name it bears, and between that date until its occupation by Spain in 1750 appears to have been little more than a sort of headquarters for the bold buccaneers *ho roamed all the Pacific over. Juan Fernandez passed to Chili when Spain lost her South American possessions and from 1819 until 1835 her new owner used the islet as a penal settlement To-day Chilian sportsmen—amateur and professional —wander upon Juan Fernandez seeking and slaying seal or sea lion when opportunity offers.

Motto to Coat-of-Arrns.

The art of composing the motto was subjected to severe rules. The “body” and the “soul” were required to be in such relation to each other that the “soul” should invariably explain the “body.” The legend must be concise, neatly turned and ingeniously suggestive—like the “Desdlchado” of the disinherited knight in “Ivanhoe.” It had always to be applicable to the person as well as to the material object forming the “body,” and it must not be drawn from things unknown, nor must it be too enigmatic or too facile, too humble, or, above all, too arrogant. Again, it was essential that the figure should be agreeable to the eye, and its idea to the mind. Finally, the device was perfect only when the “body” was unique and the “soul” or motto in a language which was not the mother tongue of him who bore it. The motto ought not to contain more than eight syllables. That of our Order of the Garter, “Honi soit

qui mal y pense,” contained only seven; that of our Kings, “Dieu et mon droit,” only four. The device of Leo X. was a yoke with “Suave” for the motto —“The yoke of the Lord is sweet.” That of Henry 111., King of France and Poland, two crowns on the earth and one up above, with the motto, “Manet ultima coelo;” that of Charles V., the pillars of Hercules, and the legend, “Ne plus ultra.” Devices went out of vogue in the seventeenth century, and now survive only in the coats of arms of the older families, where the reader, if he be so disposed, may study them at leisure, and examine how nearly they approach the ideal embodied in the foregoing rules.-All the Year Round.

Feminine Extravagance in Dress.

One hears a great deal about feminine extravagance in the dress and its deterrent effect upon the marriageable young men, who shrink back in terror from the altar when they consider what it costs to dress a girl according to the dictates of modern fashion. Therefore it is in.teresting to read of a certain Miss Phraser’s new gown, made in the year 1676, which cost $1,676, and Wf which it is recorded: “It frights >ir Carr Scoope, who is much in love with her, from marrying her, saying his estate will scarce maintain her in clothes. ” Verily there is nothing new under the sun. Not in centuries has there been made a gown so resplendent as that worn by the Medicis Queen, whereon were embroidered 3,200 pearls and 3,000 diamonds. And what belle in the last cycle has been arrayed so resplendently as that Mme. de Montespan, who were at a grand court festival “a gown of gold on gold, broidered in gold, bordered with gold, and over that gold frieze stitched with a gold mixed with a certain gold, which makes the most divine stuff that has ever been imagined. ”

What’s In a Name.

Miss Sawyer, who is poor, was introduced at a lunch party to Miss Taylor, who is rich, and was coldly received. Miss Sawyer is bright and knows her own antecedents, and Miss Taylor's also. She was unbashed and spoke cheerfully: “I’m so glad to meet you. I’ve often wanted to. It's so funny, my name is Sawyer and my grandfather was a tailor, and your name is Taylor, and your grandfather was a sawyer. Mine used to make clothes for yours, and yours used to saw wood for mine.”

No More Hand-mirrors.

Dressing tables with plain glass wings movable on hinges to any angle are shown and are a great help to dressing the hair. The hand glass is quite superseded by them. The wings come attached to quite inexpensive tables, and when not in use can be folded back out of the way. England’s pension list for the past year foots up the insignificant total of $38,000,000, showing what small potatoes she is compared with th? country with a pension roll of nearly five times that sum.—Boston Herald.

OUR BUDGET OF FUN.

HUMOROUS SAYINGS AND DOINGS HERE AND THERE. Joke* and Jokelet* that Are Supposed to Hare Been Recently Born—Saying* and Doing* that Are Odd, Curious, and T anyhable— The Week's Humor. . Let C> All Laugh. Seeing is not always believing. For instance, we see liars frequently. The diamond has the most sparkle, but the window-glass does the most good. The passion some women have for attending auctions is a more-bid taste.—Siftings. Of all queer sights in a court-room the cross-examiner is the querist.— Yonkers Gazette. The British attack took all the spring out of the Sofas of Sierra Leone.—Lowell Courier. The reason those people succeed so well who mind their own business is because there is so little competition. Our experience in Western society has been that everything is very pleasant until the singing begins.— Atchison Globe. The King of Italy is not much over five feet in height; Uncle Sam, also, is rather short at present.— Philadelphia Ledger. Customer—That’s a queer shaped piece of pie. Looks something like a turnover. Waiter—No, sir; it’s a left-over.—Good News. The only time a man can perfectly control himself under excitement is when he is hunting a burglar.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mrs. Norris—Do you mind my having a dressmaker in the house next week? Mr. Norris (craftily)— No; not if she's pretty. Customer—“ That’s a queer-shaped piece of pie. Looks something like a turnover.” Waiter—“No, sir; it’s a left-over.”—Good News. One of the times when a woman has no mercy on a man is when he comes to her store to buy a bonnet for his wife.—Ram’s Horn.

“Bilkein’s is a strong face, or I’m no judge of physiognomy. ” “It ought to be. He and his whole family are living on it.”—Buffalo Courier. Original sin was the cause of the fall of man, and now when a man falls it is the cause of a good deal of original sin.—Binghamton Republican. After the meet: Miss Harkaway—“And how did you get on after the first fence?” Mr. Newe-Nimrod—-“Oh, I—er—got off at the first fence.” —Tid-Bits. “There are a good many idle roomers about,” said the boarding-house mistress, quite a number of whose victims were out of work.—Yonkers Statesman. Mr. Wickwire—“l have had such a queer*humming noise in my head all day. ” Mrs. Wickwire—“Why don’t you try a little machine oil?”—lndianapolis Journal. Pike—l hear that a number of ballots were thrown out in my district as defective. Dyke—What was the defect? Pike—Cast for the wrong candidate. Auntie—lt isn’t good form to hold your fork in that way. Little Niece— Auntie, do you tlpnk it is good form to stare at folks while they are eat' ing?—Good News. He—Did you ever hear that Jagson's wife speaks two languages? She—Yes. He—What are they? She—The one for company and the other for Jagson. Bluster—Do you mean to say that lam a liar? Blister—l hope that I could not do so ungentlemanly a thing. But I see you catch my idea. —Boston Transcript. By permitting smoking only as a reward for good behavior, the Belgian prison authorities have been able to weed out a great many petty troubles.—Philadelphia Ledger.

A iurglar who was seized as he was entering the second-story window tried hard to get off on the plea that be belonged to a hook and ladder company.—Lowell Courier. “I must say that our union men work like lightning,” says the jocose general manager. “How is that?” asked the proprietor. “They rarely strike twice in the same place.”— Truth. The white folks spend a great deal of time and money trying to curl their hair, and the colored people patronize every peddler who sells a decoction warranted to take the curl out.—Atchison Globe. Young Wife—What is baby trying to say, dear? Husband—Give it up. He seems to be trying to manufacture a word about twenty syllables long. Young Wife—lsn’t that loVely! He’ll be a great scientist some day!—Puck. Sunday- school Teacher —“And the dead arose from their graves and appeared to many ” Undertaker’s small daughter (giggling) “Then they must have looked awful funny. Yon know the shrouds only go halfway 7 ’round. ” —J udge. Two ladies in a trolley car were discussing a young gentleman friend. “Has he any talent for drawing?” asked one. “Of course,” said the other spiritedly, “he told me he once drew a beautiful turkey at a raffle.” —Philadelphia Record. He—“ You say there are no flowers for thte dinner table! Where are the chrysanthemums I sent home?” She —“Oh, George, don’t speak so loud; you might hurt Bridget’s feelings; she didn’t understand what they were and has cooked them in milk!” —Life.

A Beggar’s Stratagem.

A Paris beggar has been living very comfortably by hanging himself. He would choose a tree where young children were playing, string himself up, and groan to attract their attention, so that they would run for help. He would be cut down and restored, and a letter in his pocket would explain his attempted suicide by a statement of his destitution. He knew how to attach the noose so is to avoid strangulation.

ANARCHY’S WEAPONS.

Bomb* Used In Pari* and in Barcelona Spain. Dynamite bombs are the weapons used by anarchists in their warfare on society. Of two notable bombs,

that used recently by Anarchist Vaillant in the French Chamber of Deputies, when over two score people were injured, and the bomb hurled by Jose Codina in Barcelona, Spain, when over a score of people in ttye Lyceum Theater were killed, we print illustrations. The Valliant bomb was merely a tin can charged with solutions of different acids. The interior contained nails, which, when the explosion occurred, were scattered through the building wounding many.

A CASE HANDLE BOMB.

The bomb thrown in Barcelona was manufactured by Anarchist Sorasol, now under arrest, and was a good specimen of mechanical art. Among the extraordinary methods employed by the anarchists to • destroy those against whom their enmity is directed are canes and umbrellas that hold concealed in their handles a deadly bomb, quite small, it is true, but with sufficient power to destroy. The plan is to take the cane or umbrella into the theater, store, or stock exchange and lay it upon the floor or counter. The setting of it upright in its natural position will cause it to explode with fatal result. The explanation is that the head of the cane holds two glass vessels oblong in shape, and each tilled with an explosive liquid harmless in itself so long as it is kept away from the other. The cane is carried by the anarchist in perfect safety by being held horizontally. But when lifted

WEAPONS OF ANARCHISTS. [VaIllant's bomb. The Barcelona bomb.]

up and placed against the wall the fluid in the upper bottle runs into the lower, and the explosion takes place.

WEATHER AND DISEASE.

An Important Investigation on the Effects of Climatic Conditions. Secretary Morton has opened a new field of usefulness for the weather bureau in directing that it shall col; lect data respecting the relation between certain climatic conditions and the prevalence of certain epidemics of disease, such, for instance, as the present visitation of la grippe, says the Philadelphia Record. That such relation does exist is something more than a matter of moral certainty. The archives of medical science both at home and abroad teem with evidence showing the public health is largely dependent upon atmospheric conditions; but the investigation of the vitally important subject from the meteorological standpoint, and on a comprehensive national scale —which in time might readily develop into an international system—could not fail to let loose a flood of light from a new quarter upon a question of importance to human health, happiness and progress. Indeed, it is not impossible that the sanitary researches of the weather bureau might constitute in time its most valuable function in a specific sense if not in the popular estimation, and it seems likely, too, that its evolution in this direction might be practically accomplished with little if any appreciable enlargement of its expenditures.

Succeeds Gen. Grant.

The new Assistant Secretary of War, Joseph Bodwell Doe, who succeeds Gen. Grant, resigned, was born

GEN. J. B. DOE.

orator, a man of fine executive ability, and of attractive personality. He first became connected with the Natioial Guard of Wisconsin in 1878, and his new appointment raises him to a position next to the highest in the whole War Department.

Origin of Fashions.

Mrs. Newrich —I never can remember how many cards to leate when calling. Old Gentlemen—The rules are very simple, madame. You hand one to the servant, and then on departing leave as many cards bn the plate as there are adult mombers of the family, adding two of your husband’s cards, and occasionally dumping in a few for good measure. Do not be niggardly in dealing out cards, as that suggests vulgar poverty. “I am ever so much obliged. Are you Mr. McAllister?” “No, madame. lam Mr. Bristol, the card manufacturer."—Puck. The weak point in the testimony of the man who claimed before Justice Blume, of Chicago, that he owned a disputed goat by alleging he brought him up on a bottle was the presentation of the bottle ih court. The idea that the animal would not have eaten the bottle after drinking the milk was so ridiculous that the goat was given to the other man, who claimed to have picked him up derelict on the pewawee, a pronunciation of prairie that is humbly commended to the folklore societies as rich in bidden philogical significance. Great and novel theories of the origin of all animals, including goats and men, have been built on less basis than may be contained in that.

AN ACT OF HEROISM IS FOLLOWED BY DIRE RESULTS. Edward Donnelly Save* a Life Almost a* the Cost of Hi* Own—After Years of Suffering He I* Restored to Health—Hla Story a* Told to a Reporter of th* Auburn Bulletin. • [Auburn (N. Y.) Bulletin.] It is on record that upon a chilly April day, a few years ago, an eight-year-old boy fell into the East River at thefcotof East Eighth street, New York, and when a.l effort i to rescue him had failed, Edward Donnelly, at risk of his own life, plunged into the water and, when him-.elf nearly exhausted, saved the boy from drowning. It was a humane and self-sacrificing deed, and received de. e.-ved commendation in all the newspapers. There is a sequel to this accident, however, which thus far has not been published. It is to the effect that Donnelly was paralyzed is a re ult of the cold’ plunge ana came near dying. Auburn people have known the family since bis wife was Amanda Grantman and his sister Mrs. S. D. Corry, of 21 Moravia street. Donnelly himself describes the rescue aid the result: “I was general foreman of the F. A. Mulgrew Saw Mills, foot of Eighth street, New York, on the East River. It was cn the 2uth of April, 1869, that the boy fell into the ri.er, and I rescued him from drowning. At that time I was in the water so long that I was taken with a deathly chili, and soon became so stiffened up and weak that I could neither work nor walk. For some time I was under treatment of Dr. George McDonald, who said I nad Locomotor Ataxia. He finally gave me up, and on the Ist of June, ia92, my wife and I came up to Auburn. “When the disease first came upon me the numbness began in my heels, aid soon the whole of both my feet became affected. There was a cold feeling across the small of my back and downward, and a sense of soreness and tight pressure on the chest. The numbness gradually extended up both legs and into the lower part of my body, I felt that death was creeping up to my vitals. I was still taking the medicine (“It was lodide of Potassium,’ said his wife), and was being rubbed and having plasters put all over my body, but with no benefit. “1 sent to the Chas. H. Sagar Company, the popular Auburn druggists and chemists, at 109 and 111 Genesee street, and got three boxes of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pill and began taking them. In three weeks’ time I was so improved that from being helpless, I was able to help myself and to get up and go to work, and to walk every day from No. 74 Walnat street, where I then lived, to Osborne's New Twine Factory, Seymour and Cottage streets —more than a mile—where I was then employed, but all the while I was taking Pink Pills. “Then Dr. Patchen, of Wisconsin, uncle of my wife, and who was here on a visit, began to poo-hoo at mo for taking Pink Pills, and finally persuaded me to stop taking them and lot him treat me. When he returned to the West he left a prescription with Dr. Hyatt, of Auburn, who also treated me. But their treatment did me no good, and after a while the old trouble returned and I was getting bad again. Then I began to take Pink Pills; have taken them ever since, am taking them now; have taken in all nearly 20 boxes at an entire cost of less than $lO 00 (my other treatment cost me a pile of money), and again I am well and able to work. “If I was able I would at my own expense publish the virtues of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills to the whole world, and especially In Naw York City, where I am much better known than I am here.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills t<v Pale People wltliout doubt mark the beginning of a more healthful era. They were first compounded by an eminent practitioner, and used as a prescription for many years in general practice with almost incredible success. They are now given to the public as an unfailing blood builder and nerve restorer, curing all forms of weakness arising from a watery condition of the blood or shattered nerves, two fruitful causes of almost every 111 that flesh is heir to. These pills are also a specific for the troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, all forms of weakness, chronic constipation, bearing down pains, etc., and in the case of men will give speedy relief and effect a permanent cure In all Cases arising from mental worry, overwork or excesses of whatever nature The pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price (50 cents a box. or six boxes for s2.so—they ara never sold In bulk or by the W 0) by addressing Dr. Williams Medlcln* Ca. Schenectady, N. Y., or Brockville, Ontario.

A cultivated taste marks a woman or elegance and relinement as decidedly as a knowledge of classical literature does a gentleman: and there is nothing in which female vulgarity is more clearly shown than in want of taste. This is an axiom that we think will not admit of dispute; but it is a question how far taste is natural, and how far it may be acquired. A delicate taste must, to a certain extent, depend upon the organization of the individual; and it is impossible for any rules to be laid down which will impart taste to persons entirely devoid of it. But this is very seldom the case with women, as it is one of the few points in which women naturally excel men. Men may be, and probably are, superior to women in all that requires profound thought and general knowledge; but in the arrangement of a house, and the introduction of orna-mental-furniture and articles of bijouterie, there can be no doubt of the innate superiority of woman. Every one must have remarked the difference in the furnishing of a bachelor's house and one where a lady presides: the thousand little elegancies of the latter, though nothing in themselves, adding, like ciphers, prodigiously to the value of the solid, articles they are appended to.

in Janesville, Wis., in 1855, and for the past three years has been at the head of the States militia, having been appointed brigadier general by Gov. Peck. He is a lawyer by profession and is a forceful and eloquent

The Corinth Canal has not been often mentioned in the European papers and Bourses since its opening. It k oks as if the Hellenic Company was not satisfied with the receipts from the tolls of its waterway. But this would •be a wrong view of the enterprise, for it could not be expected that the merchant marine wou.d suddenly change its habits and use the Corinth Canal. The principal object to be desired in an undertaking of that kind has-been gained It was to prove that this new waterway was safe and well built This has just been demonstrated by the successful passage through it of an Italian man-of-war of great draught, coming from Trieste, bound for the Levant.

An English sparrow met a curious and untimely death in London recently in trying to take a drink of water from the famous Temple fountain. A gold fish, ■it is declared by witnesses, jumped up and seized the bird by the leg. A second fish did likewise by the bird’s other leg, and between them the sparrow found a watery grave. Four State prisons, those of Connecticut, Michigan, Montana and Washington, use deprivation of religious privileges as a punishment.

AN AUBURN MIRACLE.

Woman’s Taste.

A Great European Canal.

Curious hate of a Sparrow.