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READING FOR THE SABBATH -They Hare Taken Away the Lord.” L They came in the early morn. The tender sisters, to find Hun: They found but the bne.u clothes That He left in the toiub behind Him. And one. seeing only the garn in which she had lovingly arrayed Him, Crawl, “They have taken the Lord, And I Jtuow not where they have lata Him-" 11. T go to the parish church. And my arms and my heart are reoobing Forth for the oruettted Christ, And l lons for the good oW preaching: But I seek in vaiu for the Hock Who of old would have loved and obej'ed Hun. They have taken away my Lord, And I know not where they have laid Hlui. Ht. They hall Him King of the Jews; Or they mock, and deny, and deride Him. Alas! There is unite upon earth That I should desire beside Him. They have taken Him out of the heart. And in gorgeous purple display’d Him. They hove taken away my Lord Andi know not wuere they have laid Him. IV. They cry in the street, from the dawu To t lie dark, “He is here, wo have found Him.” 1 ask for the risen Christ, And they show me the linen that bound him. Tbe infidel press, uud tbe men Who of old would scourged or betrayed Him, They have taken awav my Lord Aiid I know uot where they have laid Him. The Belter Land. *1 hear thee sneak of the better land. riHHtcnlt’er its children a happy band; Motliei! O where Is that radiant shore? •mall we not seek it, and weep no more? Is it where the dower of the orange blows, Aud the fireflies glartce through tho myrtle bough*?” —“Not there, not there, my child!” “Is it where the feathery palm-trees rise. And the date grows ripe under sunny skies? Or ’midst the green islands of glittering seas, Where the fragrant forests perfume tiie breeze. And strange, bright birds on their starry wings. Bear the rich hues of all glorious things?” —“Not there, not there, my child!" “Is it far awnv, in some region old. Where the river* wander o’er sands of gold? Where the burning rays of the ruby shine. And the diamond lights up the secret mine, And the pearl gleams forth from the coral strand?— Is it there, sweet mother, that better laud?” —“Not there, not there, my child!" “Bye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Bar hath unt heard its lieep songs of joy: Dreams cannot plot tire a world so fair— Morrow and death may not enter there; Time doth not breathe on ita fadeless bloom. For beyond the clouds and beyond the toiub, —lt is there, it is there, my child!” ■ —Felicia llemaus. Religions Notes. Grace Episcopal Church, New York, is to have a $50,000 spire. The proper motives to religion are the proper proofs of it—Bishop Butler. Voltaire’s old mansion is now used by the Geneva Bible Society as a repository. The truer we become, the more unerringly we know the ring of truth.—F. W. Kobertlon. Govern vour thoughts when alone and your tongue when in company.—Thomas a-Kem pis. What is sadder in our reflection, and yet what more frequent than our unconscious farewells!—George Eliot. The expenses of the election and institution of Bishop Benson to the primacy of England amounted to $150,000. .in, 1878 thorn wore but pstants, while the Catholics are reduced to 758. He that seeketh forgetfulness of God in this life will reap the reward of being forgotten by him in the world to Seymour. Let us not despair of saving men addicted to strong drink. Drink is strong, but the Bon of God is stronger than strong drink. —Moody. The Non-conformists of Wales have erected 3.000 places of worship, and annually raised toward all objects the large sum of $2,000,000. The Australian Baptists support a mission in Mynierising, northeast of Bengal, India. Nine Garos were baptised in the mission last year. Tbe Baptist Missionary Union is compelled to close its fiscal year with a shortage of $30,300. The Home Missionary Society is short about $45,000. Rev. James Smith, of the Baptist mission, at Delhi, India, is on the eve of returning to England after nearly forty years’ missionary work in that country. The Rev. Phillips Brooks writes from the Himalayas that he has not seen anything so high a.s those mountains since he last visited a certain ultra-ritualistic church in Boston. Sunday is very largely a working dav, like the rest of the week, in Bohemia; but an earnest movement to make the first day of the week a day of rest has been started there. Rev. George Williamson Smith, I). D., rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Fourth avenue, Brooklyn, has been elected president of Trinity College, Connecticut. The Presbyterian missionaries in Alaska have extended their fields of labor, and have been the means also of increasing tho mail facilities among the Hydnh, Hoonyuh and Ohilcot tribes of Indians. All common things, each (lav’s events, Thin with the hour lein and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. • Lnugfellow. A little boy in South Carolina, who is greatly interested in foreign missions, raises canary birds and sends the proceeds of their lale to the Southern Presbyterian Board. In this way he has given nearly SIOO in the last three years. The love of Christ is like, the blue sky into which you may see clearly, but the real vustTiess of which you cannot measure. It is like the son. into whose bosom vou can look a little* way, but its depths are unfathomable. —M’Cheyne. The Presbyterian says that the demand for tbe Shorter Catechism is steadily increasing, find at the same time that the demand for the Child’s Catechism, for very young children, lias so advanced that the yearly sales now reach 70,000 or 80,000. The memorial statue to William Tyndnle, tbe translator of the New Testament and martyr to the truth, representing him in his doctor’s robes and holding an open New Testament in his right hand, will soon be pluced •>n the Thames embankment, London. Thirty-six thousand ministers furnish spiritual instruction and consolation for the peo- *.#! of England and Wales. About 28,000 of nese ministers belong to the Church of England. For every 500 of the population iere is a place of worship of some kind or other. We need to change our standards. Men nst be honored in proportion to their virtes, and considered rich by the measure of their integrity. Life is so much winded that i loses the divine idea, which is, not the number of a man’s days, but the character of uia life. The remarkable revival which commenced last October at Basie, and spread to suiroutiding districts, is more than maintained; it increases in intensity us the numbers increase. jEvgry tiling in quiet and orderly about it; •he hulls are crowded, and an earnest spirit of prayer ami implicit trust prevails everywhere among the attendants. “in Now York,” writes a well-known corfespondent, “i was once shocked to hear a

mother say to hier daughter (and she was a very estimable woman, too), ‘I wish you to be confirmed at Grace Church, because it is a more fashionable church than Ascension. I should be very much ashamed of you if you married a poor man. I should be ashamed of myself and unworthy of your father’s confidence if I allowed any girl to be better dressed than you are.’ ” There is living in this county an old lady who has read through the Bible at least fifty times. She once read it through in fifty hours, reading two hours each day for twentyfive days. As an unbeliever, she began to read it through curiosity, but bad not finished reading it for the third time before she became a firm convert to its truths and doctrines.—Athens (Ga.) Banner. Mr. Moody thinks that ministers in this country should exchange pulpits often with the brethren in England, “say for six months at a time.” “It is only a short trip across tbe ocean, and it would do much to stir up the people of both lands.” “Why.” said Mr. Moody on Sunday, “I could have preached in Queenstown on Sunday, in the morning, and in New York on the following Sunday.’ l Professor Robertson Smith, the leader in “higher criticism,” is not successful as a Bible-class teacher in one of the Edinburg churches. A writer in the Christian World (London) says; “When it was begun, in November, the number attending it nearly filled the area of the church. I was therefore surprised on looking into it, on a recent Sunday, to find only about twenty-five persons assembled.” President Eliot,of Harvard, thinks it would be a groat improvement in the relation between minister and congregation, “if the minister were frankly allowed sometimes to comment upon a fresh book instead of preaching a sermon, sometimes to read other men’s sermons instead of his own. and, in general, to direct his hearers in good reading, and bring them to know something of the minds and works of the leaders of the race, living aud dead.” In the recently published autobiography of the lute Bishop *E. O. Haven, we find the following: “When a few weeks old. the ‘census man’ called to take the number of persons in the household. My mother, after mentioning my father and herself and the three other children, and perhaps the nurse, held me up and said, ‘Here is another, that we haven’t named yet.’ The man looked a few seconds carelessly, and exclaimed, ‘Ah! he won t live a week; I guess we won’t count him.’ and made no entry in his book. So far as J know, 1 am the only person then living in the country that was refused a place in the census of 1820. Really, all accurate statisticians ought to notice, in making their calculations, that the population of the United States for 1820, instead of being 0,638.131, as usually stated, was really 9,638,132, or subsequent censuses should be proportionately diminished.” The Rev. Dr. Angus, of London, believes that the Protestant church is able to have the gospel preached to every creature within ten years. He says: “Under the least favorable conditions we might need 50.000 preacher?, and their support might need from ten to fifteen millions a year. It seems a great company, 50,000 preachers, and yet it is not more than 1 per cent, of our evangelical church members. England sent as many men to tbe Crimea to take a single fortress, and to keep up for a few years a Mohammedan despotism. Ten times the number fell on each side in the American war to set free three or four millions of slaves. Cannot 50,000 redeemed men be found to win back the world for Christ? It seems a great sum—a hundred and fifty millions in ten years—yet it is less than £3 a year from each member of the evangelical churches of Europe aud America.” A Consistent Life. unt! iux7iru:iv inllin l1 if, .... took his market-basket on his arm and went to Faneuil-hall market to get provisions for dinner. He was followed and watched, as he often was. bv a young man who was the chorister of the Universalist church. The minister soon came to the fish market. Here Dr. Beecher picked up a fine-looking fish and asked the fisherman if it was fresh and sweet, “Certtiiiily," replied the man, “for I eaueht it mvself yesterday,” which was the Sabbath. Dr. Beecher at once dropped the fish, saying. “Then I don't want it,” and went on without another word. The young man who was watching him was instantly convinced of the minister's honesty and sincerity in practicing the principles which he preached, became a regular attendant and a true convert, and ior more than a quarter of a century was known as Deacon Thomas Hollis, the druggist. He was a prominent official in the Jortlindox church and a valued director in tiie benevolent and charitable institutions df the city until his death. Sir. Beecher’s Advice to iits Choir. Friday Night Talk. I am very happy to see so many of you and to express satifaction wilh your singing. Your voices are well knit and I have no doubt you will do better and better. I do not regard singing as a mere musical utterance. I regard singing as tbe wings of instruction. There are two means by which a congregation is lifted upward in devotion—by pro.er lyrical and by prayer didactic. For one the congregation depends on me, and for tbe other on the choir in the form of music. You are as much a minister as I am, and in some respects you are more so. I pray once at a service—you sing two or three'times; and all tiie day five or six times. Almost all (lie hymns are direct addresses to tiie throne of God. There must be nothing improper or shocking in me; neither must there be in you. Suppose I began a prayer, "O Dord!" and then began twisting and pulling something out of my pocketaud nudging someone near me. Why. the congregation would become so shocked that they would never come to hear me again. See how irreverent and shocking such conduct in a choir is, unless the music is to be only a noise to cover up something in the church—the shutting up of seats or the getting of hats, or tiie whisper, “I’ll meet you at such a pluce.” Singing ought to be the most devout and religious element in worship. The choir is set conspicuously in the congregation, and tbe eyes of all are constantly seeing you. All I ask is that those who sit in the choir behave with the same decorum as though they sat in tiie congregation. I don’t mean as stiff as wax candles, but witli seeming propriety and solemnity. What is not proper in tiie is not to be permitted in tiie choir. I hope that, singing together, you will he knit together, and that this religion will become finally tiie jov of your life and your comfort in sicknessond death. Whatever I can do to help you I will do gladly. I am delighted with tiie prospect, and hupa your singing will be acceptable to pur people and to God Himself." A Question of Practicability. WsHiiingtou Post. During the discussion of the temperance issue at the Methodist ministers’meeting in Cincinnati, on Monday, it was remarked that there is not a leading seculur paper in the Rtnte that supports the proposition to prohibit the liquor traffic in Ohio. This is not strange. Secular newspapers, sensibly conducted, do not waste their time and strength in trying to do impossible things. They have learned by experience that the liquor trade can be regulated, but cannot be destroyed. A Long-Felt Want. New York Graphic. A Brooklyn Sunday-school class bad just finished singing “I want to be an ungel. Anil witli the angels stand." when the teacher, observing that one of the boys bad not contributed bis voice to swell tin* sacred refrain, said: “And you want to be on angel, too, don’t you. Wiilie?” “No,” resumed Willie, “not right away. I want to he a circus-rider a good deal, first)”

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1883.

SPRING AND SUMMER STYLE, French dresses ore again nude with the high puffed sleeve. Orange and flame colors in vanishing effects arc seen in many of tbe new silks and novelty goods. Silk mitts will be again worn this summer in plain solid bilk, in black and all the stylish new shades of the season, The new fraises and ruches for the neck are very wide and full, and are nearly a yard long, so as to form a jabot down the front. Bonnet3 and hats may be of absolutely any shape, from the tiny capote—which is really little more than a cap—to the broad-brimmed or laige, high-crowned head gear, or the pointed and puffed French poke, the latter being now filled up with close ruohings of tulle, edged with gold or silver thread. Every article of wear as the spring advances seems to increase in size, except perhaps the hoot. Plaids are getting large, crinolettes threaten an increase of dimensions. hats take on more circumference, and the flower patterns on brocaded silks, satins, and sateens arc some of them large enough to cover the back of any ordinary-sized woman. Sleeves are worn even more and more tight, and the only exception to this rule appears in the slashed sleeve, which in evening ordemi-toilette dresses is puffed at the shoulder, slashed open to display lace or satin of a different color, and finished off with siik lacing cord. This sleeve has a corresponding puffing at the wrist, the lace or satin being gathered in such a way as to fall slightly over the hand. It is reported by dressmakers returning from Paris that in lieu of the toumure or crinolette. French modistes are introducing the old steel and pliable whalebones, which are run into the hems of the ruffles of a skirt which fits the figure closely in front and at the sides. In the back the ruffles begin about eight inches below the waist, extending aud slightly enlarging all tbe way down to the bottom of the skirt. Wrappers are once more a favorable garment for home wear, and very tasteful, cool, clean looking matinees are made of the cheap prints, with tiny spots or large polka dots on a white ground. Ladies who object to loose wrappers, and young ladies who do not wear them, make instead these simple morning dresses with a short round skirt, with a single deep flounce or two narrow ones, and a long half-fitting sacque edged with a ruffle and worn with or without § belt. The most fashionable of the white toilets worn this summer, instead of being relieved by the usual colors of rose color, blue or mauve, will be enlivened by the newer shades of French terra-cotta, tea rose, shrimp pink and the like, and a leading toilet will be one of white nuns* veiling or vigogne, with broad sash and other satin ribbon trimmings of pale primrose yellow, with primroses in the corsage and hair, aud necklace and chatelaine of amber beads. Summer Dresses. rblludelphia Press. Very pretty zephyr ginghams come in robes with plain material for the overdresses and stripes for the skirt. These are put up iu boxes, and are accompanied by a plate to show the manner of making. Polonaises are much worn for such suits, still many ginghams are made up in what may well be called the standard style for wash dresses, viz.: a short round skirt with one. two or three flounces at the foot, a long, round overskirt draped by means of tapes run in casings into a short wrinkled apron in front, and falling in full, soft puffs at the back. The bodice for the dress may be either a round, full waist iuith-O. „ bkpa^orj coat-tail, the sides sloped on the hips and pointed front. The taste for emulated edges, i. e., edges cut into tabs or points, reaches to ginghams, and some very effective dresses have Jersey basques, with- the edges cut out and bound with solid colored ginghams, white overskirts and flounces are finished to match. One of the laws of fashion is that the lower skirt must be trimmed to match the overskirt—it is no longer in good taste to put lace or embroidery on the overskirt and plain flounces on the under; tbe latter must also be edged with the trimming. The dress should, however, always have a narrow rufle with plainly hemmed edge set at the foot under the flounce, in order to protect the lace or embroidery thereon. White nainsooks ami Victoria lawns are of many kinds, from the plainly-made dress with tucks for the sole trimming, to the elaborate robes made almost entirely of embroidery. or trimmed with Oriental, Russian, or Medicis lace by the piece. costumes, with round shirred waists, full puffed sleeves and plain round skirt, formed of a single deep embroidered flounce, are liked for young ladies and misses. The handsomest white dresses are either almost entirely composed of lace, or else are all of the new open-work embroideries, with barely enough plain material to hold them together. Summer Underwear. .Brooklyn Onion. A few words as to underwear as the change of season comes on may have an interest, epecially as the ‘subject has received a good deal of attention lately, and several varieties of make can be highly recommended both for health and comfort. The latest novelty is the sleeveless vest, which has a rib finish round the arm-hole, aud is especially suitable for wearing with the fashionable tight sleeve. High-necked vests, both in gauze and gossamer, are made in the same way. Combinations of vest and drawers in similar materials huve very much to recommend them, while one cannot speak too highly of the Swiss knitted shapeless vest, witli square neck, which is perfectly elastic and fits like an outer skin, absorbing the moisture of the body and yet affording no restraint or extra warmth. Vests of netted silk are in every color, white, pink and lightblue being mostly worn. They are shaped to the figure and nre exceedingly comfortable, For less expensive wear, haibriggan mixed with silk answers every purpose, while raw silk vests are increasingly popular. Children’s underwearjis a mat ter of serious consideration at the season of the year when they nre perpetually overheating themselves. The best adapted for all purposes are unquestionably tbe combination gauze or gossamer vest and drawers, which are suitable both for boys and girls; they are very light in make, and, while they fit loosely to the figure, do not add any sensible weight to the clothing. A Revival of the Train. New York Evening Post. Every dress now pretending to any elegnnee must huve a train, if it be for indoor wear. But there is one advantage about the trains of the present. Nearly all are made adjustable, so that if tbe short skirt is fnily trimined, it answers for calling or the promenade; while for evening the addition of a train will give it. a grace and finish that it would otherwise lack. The train falls from the waist in pleats, which are attached to a band tlmt fastens around tbe waist at pleasure. The train ia fastened again to tbe sides of the skirt by means of buttons or safety books half way down, the fastenings being lmi under tbe kilt or flounce. Avery pretty dress made this way bad a detached train and bodice of satin brocade, while tbe skirt was composed of bluck lace ruffles over black silk. Tbe front of tbe bodice was somewhat singularly devised, being cut into fine points or narrow V's. fhespaoes between being filled in with black lace. The sleeves match tlio bodice in style, and reach the elbow only, tiie widest part of tbe V being at the top of tbe arm. Tiie neck and sleeves Mre both fin- ■

ished off with thread lace French thread no-w forming a trimming for everything, from bonnets and hats to fine underlines A Widow’s Fine Downs. New York Letter In Washington Star. Some dresses of extraordinary beauty were made recently for a widow of thirty, who is about to enter the matrimonial state a second time. One was of irony satin with long plain train embroidered in a rich scroll pattern with pearls, white jet and heavy silk down the sides and round the bottom, which was edged with a narrow triple pleating lined interiorly with a double pleating of lace. The front was cut out in leaves, to a triple series, embroidered and laid over flounces of pompadour lace, the width diminishing toward the bodice, which formed a very deep point, and the hoilowa of which upon the hips were filled in with embroidered leaves, below which were deep paniers of the lace. The bodice was cut square, embroidered in front, and surrounded with a standing fraise of exquisite lace. The sleeves were formed of a single puff of satin and double fall of lace, the lower one descending over the elbow. Another dress was a very delicate combination of shrimp pink with a lovely brocade on a tinted ground. The bodice of this dress was cut in one with the train. \vhich 4 was trimmed with irregular f ills of lace at the sides and softly puffed at the back. The entire front was covered with a net-work of pearl embroidery as light almost as lace and forming barred sections divided by twisted ropes of small seed pearls wiiicb cost as much in time and labor as jewels. Paris Faaliious New York Herald. The latest Paris colors are “rotten gooseberry,” “decayed oranges,” “faded roses” and “grocers’ blue,” tiie latter being the color of the blue paper in which sugar is v,rapt>ed. Auctions are the Paris fashion. Yellow bonnets are still in favor in London. The chic perfumes in Paris are amber, peau d’Espagne, mousseline and jonquil. The Cost of Dressing. London Society. A few years ago a lady acquired some fame in England by teaching her sisters how to dress upon £ls a year. A Parisian lady, now writing to the Gaulois upon asimilar subject, though with less economic views, places the sum total required at the modest figure of £1,900. And this presupposes the poxsession of a good wardrobe and a well-filled jewel case. TREASURES OF AN ACTRESS. Edwin Booth's Present to a Patriotic “First Old AVoiuan." New York Letter. There are old women, and old women. The old women of the stage are not as old as they make up to be. Take Aunt Louisa Eldridge, for instance; she lias been playing old women’s parts I don’t know bow long, yet I never meet her on the streets that I am not taken aback to see her look so young. At the closidg of Booth’s Theater on Monday, Aunt Louisa was engaged to play tbe part of Lady C'apulet, a weak-minded old scold, not at all in her line. As the nurse, Aunt Louisa is fine, but she has no sympathy with Mother Capulet; and. though she took the part out of good nature, she didn’t play it witli much spirit. In the green-room, however, sue was quite herself. When I went in to say goodbye to the old place I found her there with a mysterious box in tier hand, “1 want to show you what Mr. Booth gave me in London,” said she. “You know I was over there* w.un te was acting, and ho used to run me übout being such an nmoi.w..., —• a. —.j earrv mv flag around and hang it up in my room wnerevei i went. Well, one day Mr. ami Mrs. Booth, poor thiug, ami Edwina called on me. and when they left Mrs. Booth handed me this box and aaid: ‘This is jb. present from Edwin.’ As soon as they were gone I cut the strings and opened the box; on top was a card: To Aunt Louisa, with the compliments of Edwin Booth,’ and here is what was inside,” and Mrs. Eldridge shook out a pair of black silk stockings with tiie American Hag embroidered on tiie instep. “I was awfully pleased at this attention from Mr. Booth, and as I was going to the theater that night I bought a bunch of flowers for him. After I got in my box I wrote on a card and tied it to tbe bouquet; ‘Witli Aunt Louisa’s compliments. I’ve got ’em on.’ Wiien he went off he said to Mrs. Booth: ’Mary, Aunt Louisa's here, and site’s got ’em on;' and he told her that he hardly dare look at me, for fear I’d stick my feet over tiie box of tiie railing for him to see. Bless my soul! tiow long ago it seems. Mrs. Bootli dead, Mr. Booth off in Germany, and poor Ertwina engaged to be married, aiid her betrothed not yet well enough to marry her," and Aunt Louisa put the toe of one of the precious stockings to her eye. “Hasn't young Vaux recovered yet?” I asked. “No, poor fellow. He lias never been right since he was smothered with gas. You remember. He didn’t turn it all off in his bed-room, and when they found him in the morning he was quite insensible. He was sent to Europe to Edwitia, but he didn’t, seem to know her. and lie lias been pretty had ever since. Sort of dusted. It is an awful blow to Edwina." And well it may be. Too Budden. Detroit Free Press. At the last meeting of the Lime-kiln Club Professor Toinkay Williams, chairman of the committee on astronomy, introduced a resolution to the effect that tbe Lime-kiln Club held that if the moon was inhabited at ail it was by the colored race, and that every bouse was furnished with a piano, and every head of a family had a trotting horse and money in the bank. “It am too sudden, Professor, altogether too sudden.” replied Brother Gardener; “let de committee on astronomy fust be sartin dat de moon am inhabited. Git de lay of de land. Find out wheder de people run to terbocker, cotton orco’n. Kinder peek aroun’ a little and diskiver it It ain’t cheaper to slide down bill dan to keep a boss an’ buggy. De clia’r declars de resolusluin outer order!” Conquering the Clocks. London Globe. A noteworthy triumnh of technical nrt, once not considered reliable by the most careful and accurate workmanship, hits just been achieved in Berlin. Charles Y., after much experimenting with clocks, cumo to tiie conclusion that a man could "no more bring two pendulums to beut in unison than tiie heads of a million men under a single hat." but what the Spaish monarch failed to do has been done by a German watchmaker, who allow s in Hit shop window no fewer than, six clocks all beating time with their pendulums synchronously. Construing Latin. Hartford Coltrant. Told by a Wuterburv teacher—lt was in a Latin class, and tt dull boy was wrestling witli the sentence, Rex Digit, which, with u painful slowness of emphasis, lie had rendered "The king flees.” But In what other tense can the verb fugit bo found?” asked tiie teacher. A long scratching of the head, and n finnl answe r of "I’erfect,” owing to a whispered prompting. “And how would you translate it then?” “Dunno.” “Why, put a ‘lias’ in it." Again tiie tardy emphasis drawled out; “The king lias fleas.” Burnett'B Coooaine WILL SAVK Tint lIAIR, Ami Keep it In a Htrong amt healthy condition beonuse.it will stimulate the reals of the hair ana restore the natural aotlou upon which lie growth (lcpoima. Burnett's Flavoring Extracts are absolutely pure. I

THE YOUNG FOLKS’ COLUMN. THE PUZZLE DKPAIiniEVT. (Everything relating to tula department must t>o addressed to W. H. GrutF.im, West .S:*.arborough.Cumberland county, Maine. Oritrin.il contributions ami answers to each week’s puzzles are solicited from all.l Answers to Puzzles. No. 690. E D APT Y E 3 EPHODELA* TOWA 8 A T DAI L Y II I 8 L Y E A DIRT Y E A R and 8 T Y A 14 T Y 8 No. 691.- 8-0 U C H O N-tt C-O O K A T 0-0 A—C ELBA M-A P-A ROQU E-T E-L L I P 8 £-8 No 692—Valedictory. No. 693—1. B rock; 2. P-l;i9h; 3 A mack; 4 A-gave; 5. A-bate. No. 694—Victor EinmuuuoJ No. 093 O A R T ALT A R ORTO L A N TAL O N KAN N No. 696MO L E OM E N L E A I) EN D 8 No. 697—(Customer. No. 693-1. iH-ell; 2. S prod; 3. L-ac, 4 E-pact; 5. 6 pool. Original Puzzles NO. 713—GROSS WORD. In Saros, but not tu moon; In castor, blit not in spoou; In Sol, but uot iti sun; Iu myriad, but not iu one; In Soicii. but not in Aitair; lu “Dipper,” but not in “The Bear, * iu Coma, but uot in hair. My beautiful whole, so gracefully curved, lu the soft summer sky will soon be observed. Attica, Ind. Wi Lla. NO. 714—TRIPLE ACROSTIC. (Five-letter words.; 1. Hot ftnd fiery. 2. Benefactor. 3. To quibble. 4 Poems. 5. Manages insolently at will. PRIMALS—A serpent yf several species. Centrals— Ruined. Finals—a ringlet. Amos Quiio. Silver Lake. Ind no. 715—t-cßOss-word In shoot, tint not in aim. In Uurt, but not in lame; ln sni-ep, but not in mutton. Iu eater, but not iu glutton; In money, but uot in rich, In stand, but not in hitch; Not hi edit, out In edition, My whole is tne name of a politician Plainfield. v. t. no. 716—square. 1. Favor. 2. A kind of rampart or fortification. 3. To suit. 4. To skip. 5. Entrance. CicEko. Violet. NO. 717.* BIBLE BLANKS. (Fill the blanks with the proper names, and tell where the passage may be found ) The burden of . Howl, ye ships of-—; for it is laid waste, so that there :s no house, no entering in; from the land of it is revealed to them! Bo still, ve inhabitants of the isle; thou whom tne merchants of . that pass over the sea, have replenished. And by’ great waters the seed of—, the harvest of tne river, is her revenue; aud sue is a mart of uatiousUncle Will. NO. 718—CROSS- *.’ORD. 1. In home, but not in rest; 2. In east, but uot in west; 3. In ear, but not in mouth; 4. Iu east, but not iu south; 5. In ouiou, but not iu beet; 6. In roud, but uot in street; 7. In toot, but uot iu blow; 8. Iu hear, nut not in know; 9. Iu stanza aud in verse; Search Webster through and find ft curse. B. Off. no 719—numerical enigma. Am composed of l:* letters My 1. 2,3, 4. 5,6, 7, Bis tne uumo tun quid. My 9.10. 11, 12, 13 must farmers keep. My whole Is a flower. Bloomington, Ind. e. j. s. NO. 720— SQUARE. 1. A farm implement; 2. A girl's name; 3. A hard substance; 4. Spines of com. u. T. (Answers in three Weeks.) Our Prizes. 1. We offer “Vixen” for the best set of ans were this week. 2. We off.fr “The Michigan Mask” for three months for the best puzzle ot auy kind. Puzzles Answered. By Faith, Indianapolis, Nos G 92,693, 695, 696. 637,693. By bet, Indianapolis, Nos, 692, 693, 696, 697, 698. By E. J. 8 , Bloomington, Nos. 692, 694, 696. Prize Winner*. 1. Faith—A hook. 2. Not won. 3 E. J. B.—a magazine. Foot Notos. Wi Lla writes splendidly. U T. will please favor us with a “fresh supply.” E. J. 8. says: “I thought I would try my hand at puzzles once more. We do not get our Journal (Weekly) till baturday, aud I do not have very loin: time to work and get answers iu time. But. I suppose if I succeed I must persevere. I would liae to get some of the premiums.” We are glad to have E J. 8. return. A little premium is awurde her this week. George Eliot's Hands. Tenth’s Companion. George Eliot was not a beautiful woman, but she bad beautiful bands, one of which was a little wider and pi umper than tbe other. In conversation with tier friends she would explain this peculiarity. It had a pleasing and honorable significance. When she was fifteen years of age she began (to use her own affecting words) “to be acquainted with the unspeakable grief of a last parting in the death of her mother.” Soon after her elder sister married and removed to anew home, and then her brother Isaac (the “Tom” of “The Mill on the Floss”) did the same. Being thus left alone with her father, who carried on a farm and lived in a rather large house, she became his housekeeper and general assistant. This was her own choice, ns her father was in liberal circumstances, and offered to hire a competent woman. He was dotinglv fond of his daughter, whom he used to call his “little wench,” using an ancient English word which was still employed in remote country places as a term of endearment. The future authoress, the first genius of her age. was now initiated into practical life and labored for some years chiefly with those beautiful hands of hers. She was dairy mistress, housekeeper, gardener’s assistant, seamstress and occasionally even bore her part in the harvest field, without ever quite laying aside her books, and in winter studying hard. She would point, in late years, to her broad right hand and mention with some pride that its breadth bore testimony to the great number of cheeses nnd pats of butter she had made and assisted to make in her earlier life. She spent five years in this way before her father gave up his farm and office to his son. How much she derived from her prncticnl experience no reader of her works need to be told. Besides strengthing her mind and giving her an essential part of education it supplied her with the raw material of many of her most vivid and life-like scenes. To Persons About to Commit Suicide. London (Bobo. It is a good rule to postpone suicide, nt least, sav, for a period of twenty-four hours. Had Herr Hundtmann. the member for Hamburg iu the German Reichstag, done this, he would probably have been alive to-day. But he yielded to the news of nil impending business failure, and the telegram which came on the following day, stating that the crisis hod been met, only arrived in time for the inquest.

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Louis Express, daily 10:55 pm BRIGHT WOOD DIVISION. ® r 'j} v 4:09 am 2:o>pm Bttilv 6:00aiu.... 3:45 pm Uoily 6:55 am 5:25 ptu Daily 10:50 aiu.... 6:05 pm Pittsburg. Cincinnati <Sr St Louis Depart—New York, PniladeTpiuu, vv usllingtou, Baltimore and Fittsburg Express, daily, 4:3sam Dayton and Columbus Express, except Sunday 11:00 ain Richmond Accommodation 4:10 pui New York, Pliiludeiphm,Washington, Baltimore and Pittsburg Express, daily, s. h ... s:lspm Dayton Express, exc’pSuuday 5:15 pm Ai rive —Richmond Accommodation, except Sunday 9:55 am New York, Philadelphia,Washington, Baltimore and Pittsburg Express, daily 12:00 m Columbus and Dayton Express except Sumluy 5:45 pm New York, Philadelphia,Washington, Baltimore and Pittsburg Express, daily 10:35 pm Dayton Express, daily except Sunday 10:35 pm CHICAGO DIVISION VIA KOKOMO, l\, C .t ST. L. U. tt. 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Depart—Mali and Cairo Express 7:30 am Vincennes Accommodation.. 4:00 piu Arrive— Vincennes Aeonmindallun ..10:50 aiu Mai! and Cairo Express 5: to pm GUANP lIOTKL.7 I.VLiANAPOLrS. IND. Passenger ©levator and all modern convert fence*. Leaimg Hotel of the city, and urinßiy hrst-c'.Hss, Ittttes, #2.50, $3 and $3.50 P’jr d.*%y. The latter iticl idinir bach. UEU. F. PFINGBT, Proprioto>