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READING FOR THE SABBATII In the Last Pew. Bhe sits, bent o’er, with wrinkled face, Poor ami forlornly old; no grace Huioothee the sharp angles ot her form, long buffeted by life’s slow storm. All else around is flue and fair; The stained light falls, a golden glare, seeming mockery on her loose gray hair. The preacher, faultlessly arrayed, Tells how our hearts afar have strayed, And how ail souls should be content With these gpd blessings God has sent. And owcvof ali that self-poised throng Hangs on his words nor deems them long, And humbly thinks only her heart is wrong. She meekly mumbles o’er the hymn, Her eyes with age ami tear-drops dim; What can their gay world hold for her— This worn and weary worshiper? Now, rustling down the aisles In pride, They toss bright smiles on every aide; Nor does sbe know the beaus sucb fair looks hide. And still she sits with tear-wet face, As loath to leave that sacred place; The organ, with (puck thunders riven, Lifts her sad, trembling soul to heaven. She feels a sense of blissful rest, Her bony bunds across her breast the clasps, and slowly sighs: “God knoweth best.” One day, within some grander gate Where kinflp and ministers must wait, While she Hopes humbly for low place Far from the dear Lord’s shining face, Above the chant of heavenly choir These words igay sound, with gracious fire: “Well done, good, faithful servant, come up higherl” Religious Notes. TANARUS). L. Moody will begin a series of revival meetings in Baltimore on Sept. 15. It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.—Landor. There are said to be 076,250 Presbyterians on the long roll of the General Assembly of Canada. I study myself more than any other subject. It is my metaphysic; it is my physic. —Montaigne. There are 316 Jesuit stations and 175 places of worship under control of the same order in Madagascar. I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults. —Shakspeare. The Synod of China has five presbyteries, situated at Canton, Ningpo, Shanghai, Shantung and Pekin. Whatever you dislike in another person, take care to correct in yourself by the gentle reproof.—Sprat. The Non conformists are said to have 3,000 placeßof worship m Wales, and their annual collection amounts to $2,000,000. Queen Caroline wrote with a diamond on the window her palace: “Lord, make others great; keep me innocent.” A weeping Madonna, with spirit lamp, tubing and boiler in complete working order, teas recently sold at auction in Italy for $7. The income of the London missionary societies of all denominations amounts to some $7,000,000, The Bible and tract societies add over $2,000,000 more to this grand total. The New York Observer sees signs of growing hostility to Christian missions in Turkey, growiug out of jealousies which have their origin in the British protectorate of Egypt. The eldest son of General Sherman, who has been undergoing the rigorous Jesuit discipline for the last five years in Maryland, is poon to be transferred to a branch institution in the West. Let your religion be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine. A light-house sounds no drum, it beats no gong; yet, far over the waters, its friendly light is seen by the mariner.—Spurgeon. Dr. Deems has assumed the editorship of a newly projected monthly, called Christian Thought, the initial number of which has just been published. It is the organ of the American Institute of Christian Philosophy. The Rev. Mr. Doolittle, of North Branch, N. J., has adopted a novel plan for making the most of his vacations. He is allowed a month every summer, and is “saving them up” until he has enough for a trip around the world. Religion is like water in a barrel. If the barrel is well hooped it will hold its contents safely, but if there is the smallest hole anywhere the WTttePwill all leak out; and when it gets into the sand it can never be recovered. It will be always true. Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Boston, who is making a protracted stay in England, has been entertained at dinner by the Baroness Bordett Coutts and her husband at their home in London. The Archbishop of Canterbury was among the guests. Elam R. Jewett, of Buffalo, has given the Church Home, in that city, $70,069 as an endowment fund. One stipulation is that the managers shall expend SIO,OOO of the $70,000 in the erection of a chapel, to be called the “Ingersoll Memorial Chapel,” in honor of the late Rev. Dr. Edward Ingersoll. Dr. Vincent well says that if a child over five years old cannot go to both the preaching service and the Sunday-school, let him be taken to hear the sermon. In answer to the question how the children could be induced to attend public worship, he said a little parental authority might be used with advantage. The Rev. I). Parker Morgan, for several vears assistant rector of the Church of the Heavenly Rest (Protestant Episcopal), in New York city, has recently received and declined a call from Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, of Chicago. He preacned once in the Chicago church. He is now traveling in Canada. An anti-opium prayer union has been formed in England, whose members observe a weekly concert of prayer for the doing away of the opium traffic from India and the opium-smoking in China. The late Bvnod of China, in its meeting at Shanghai, recommended to all its churches and members to observe this concert of prayer. At the recent session of the British Wesleyan Conference Revs. E. E. Jenkins, M. A., and M. C. Osborn were reappointed missionary secretaries for another term of six yenr9. By request, Rev. John Walton, M. A., was appointed president of the new South African Conference for another year. Dr. Osborn continuesas theological tutor at Richmond College, Surrey. Professor Philip Schaff says that the Old Testament is still in the hands of the American revisers, who are preparing the American appendix; that is, selecting from all the readings and renderings which the British' revisers have rejected, those which they deem worthy of laying before the public for final decision. The revised Old Testament will probably be published before next spring. Then the convention of Canterbury, which originated the movement, will subject it to official judgment. The annals of the Methodist Church are richer in the lives of few more consecrated and useful ministers than of Melville and Gerehom Cox, one of whom will be forever remembered for his work in Africa, and the other for hia long, brilliant and useful service North and South. The lives of these brothers ha's been written by a daughter of one of them, and is to be issued during the autumn by James H. Earle, Boston. A feature of rare interest will he found in some of the portraits which will illustrate the volume. In a published card Mr. I). L. Moody denies the story thpt tjy apd Mr. Sajikey are no ioauar ahl 1a work in harmony, ami declares that if their lives are spared tli£*; wl n continue together in the. ’,„ooT they both love and enioy. Tfl6 Yecfcntly revamped tale About ML Sanfcey’s using his position as an evangelist in the interest of a reed-organ Company is also branded as false, Mr. Moody

declaring positively that during the ten years of their association Mr. Sankey has not acted as agent for any organ company, nor has he sold any organs on commission. The annual fete in honor of the Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon’s birth-day (forty-ninth) was celebrated recently at Stock well Orphanage, England. Two corner-stones were laid in the afternoon, one for a house for the superintendent, and one for a boardroom, all the present rooms being needed for the children, of whom there are at present 365. When these buildings are erected the orphanage will be completed. 'What Interrupted the Hallelujahs. Atlanta Constitution. During religious services at Barn urn’s, the other day. two negroes who were sitting on a fence heard the “singing” of a snake, as they termed it. Shouting was going on at the meeting, but the irreverent darkies shouted out: “You’d better stop dat shoutin’ and come out here and kili dis rattlesnake!” The meeting broke up instanter and the snake was killed. He measured fully six feet in length. Relic from Palestine. An interesting and, as it promises to be, important relic, has just been brought under the notice of the English exploration fund. It consists of pieces of skin, having written upon them in Phoenician characters portions of the Book of Deuteronomy and the commandments. It was recovered from a Bedouin tribe on the eastern side of the Jordan. It is supposed to be the same date as the famous Moabitish stone —801 B. C. The documents are in slips, the skin is dark and discolored, and the writing has ..o be brought out with spirits of wine. They have been examined by some of the most famous experts (Mr. Bond, of the British museum; Dr. Gensberg, Mr. Aldis Wright, of Cambridge; Dr. Horning, Van Starland and others), and if their genuineness be established they will probably lead to some important modifications of several passages of Deuteronomy. Leo XIII anti the Jesuits. A strange rumor has fouud its way into print to the effect that the present Pope Leo purchased his election by an agreement entered into with the Jesuits before the conclave. The rumor may be true or fake, but in the story itself these is nothing improbable. Wire-pulling, if not'so common, is at least as well understood in ecclesiastical a9 in political affairs. It is admitted on all hands that with the accession to power of the new Pope the influence of the Jesuit congregation began to increase, and it is notorious that they are no longer strangers to the Vatican. The staff of the famous order, so long banished from the Holy City, is once more to be domiciled in Rome. Pope Leo so far has shown himself quite equal to all the many difficulties of his position. It remains to be seen whether he shall be able to give full liberty to the Jesuits and at the same time preserve bis own liberty and independence. He is not likely to become the mere instrument, as the Cologne Gazette suggests, in the hands of this most ambitious and daring of all the orders of tne Roman Church. The reoccupation of the Convent of the Gesu will command very general attention. The Moabite Deoalogne. The following translation has been made by Dr. Gensburg of a portion of the writings on the Moabite stone in the possession of Mr. Shapira, of Jerusalem, and offered by him to the British Museum for $5,000,000: I am God, thy God, which liberated thee from the laud of Egypt, from the house of bondage. Y e shall have no other gods. Ye shall not make to yourselves any graven image, nor any likeness that is iu Heaven above, or that is in the eart h beneath, or that is in the waters under the earth. Ye shall not bow down to them nor serve them. lam God, your God, sanctify. In six days 1 have made the heaven and the earth and all that there is therein, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore rest thou also, thou and thy cattle and all that thou hast. I am God, thy God. Honor thy father and thy mother. 1 am God, thy God. Thou shall not kill the person of thy brother. lam God, thy God. Thou Shalt not commit iniquity with the wife of thy neighbor. lam God, thy God. Thou shall not steal the property of thy brother. lam God, thy God. Thou shalt not swear by my name falsely, for I visit the iniquity of the fathers upou ti e children unto the third and fourth generation of those who take my name in vain. I am God, thy God. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy brother. lam God, thy God. Thou shalt not covet his wife, or his man servant, or his maid servant, or anything that is his. I am God, thy God. Thou shalt not hate tliy broker in thy heart. I aiu God, thy God. These ten words God spake, RUNNING THE RAPIDS. A Trip from Cape Vincent to Montreal In a Seventeen-Foot Skiff. Montreal Star. W. J. Ballard, principal of a public school in Jamaieu, Long Island, arrived in Montreal on Saturday evening, having run all the rapids of the St. Lawrence in a skiff seventeen feet long, three feet nine inches in the beam. In conversation with a Star reporter he said: “I left Cape Vincent a week ago last Thursday with three friends. The Gallops didn’t amount to anything; a child could run them, but when we struck the Long Sault we had our hands full, I can assure you. We took the south side, where the current flows with lightning-like rapidity, so we just steered our boat and let the current currv us along. When we got pretty well down in the worst part of the rapids we ran ashore and I saw a glorious sight. The north and south currents of the Sault met just below, and the waves were piling on top of one another, rolling in a corkscrew manner and boiling in a way to make the bravest heart quake. But we got into our boat and had an exciting time for a few minutes. We had first to dodge a whirlpool and then keep clear of the ‘corkscrew waves,’ but we did it and came into Cornwall safe and sound. “When we struck the cedars I saw my companion looked a little anxious. Every few seconds he let a ‘Hi hi’ out of him, w’hich I interpreted ‘Pull your best,’ and I bent to my oar, while he threw all his strength into his paddle strokes, and we swept with light-ning-like rapidity through foaming, roaring, boiling swells. My boat is one of the best of the kind in existence, and went over the swells in a beautiful manner. One moment I w’as dh the brink of a wave looking down perpendicularly on the white face of my pilot, next moment our positions were reversed, and I was in the trough of the boiling w’aters. We had some pretty close shaves, but muscle and skill triumphed, and w*e came out of the rapids safely. We then ran the Cascades, swept through St. Louis, and ran the Lachine. The latter rapids don’t amount to much, however, and I would undertake to run them witli a boat-load of people without any pilot. Well, here I am safe and sound in Montreal, and can look hack With pleasure to my adventuroue trip down the rapids. “Last year I ran the entire length of the Susquehanna, 500 miles, coasted down the <Chesapeake bay, ascended the Delaware river, and thence home by canals, having traveled about 1,800 miles. A pretty good way to spend a vacation, I think.” Settling an Important Question. New York Life. The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says that “the boss fool was produced at the recent military reunion in Texas.” The edito; Q f the Chronicle must retract statement. He has beern \Ve have facts incur n which prove beyond the slightest doubt that Judge Hoadly has never been further south than Louisville. Mr. John L. I)alk, Indianapolis, says Brown’s Iron Bittern cured him of dizziness and the apparent dauger of paralysis.

TIIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2~, 1883.

PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. A Russian General’s Blunder. London Truth. It appears that General Orjevsky was so offended with a young officer in a drosky for overtaking his caleche, and passing with a rather off-hand salute, that he stopped him and ordered him to follow his superior to the guard-house. The lieutenant obeyed, after apologizing, and was locked up. A few moments later the officer in command rushed after the General and told him he had incarcerated the Grand Duke Michael, the Emperor’s first cousin. General Orjevsky collapsed, of course, and spent a bad quarter of an hour at Peterhof next day. An Incldev.t at Chautauqua. Correspondence Buffalo Express. There is without doubt a good deal of redtape in this ticket system, apropos of which a good story is told. A lady bought a $4 ticket, laboring under the delusion that it would admit her to everything on the ground, including the school of languages. Bhe soon discovered her mistake, and went to the gate to exchange her $4 ticket for a sl2 one. Naturally, she was not just at that moment in a serene and peaceful Chautauqua frame oi mind. While she stood waiting for the exchange to be made a man came up to enter and partake of the feast of reason flowing within. Upon learning that he had to pay an admission fee, he began to curse and swear in a way most lamentable to hear. The lady turned to him and said, sweetly, “Thank you, sir.” The Queen and the Heir Apparent. London Letter. Apropos of royalty, a good deal of curiosity is aroused by the promise of an early publication of “The Life of Queen Victoria,” by Sarah Tytler and Ronald Gower, the latter noble author acting as editor of the book. The illness of the Queen has revived the report of her probable abdication in favor of the Prince of Wales. Many persons who enjoy the privilege of knowing personally the monarch and the heir to the throne predict that the Queen’s will be the longer life of the two. No person, it is said, who has passed through the dangerous stages ot typhoid fever is ever properly afterward out of danger, the system being invariably left “weak and tenseless.” The Prince of Wales himself knows this vrell enough. No man is more careful in regulating his health. Although he attends many public dinners, he eats but little and drinks less. Asa rule, he dines in the middle of the day, principally off a chop and a glass of sherry. At night, whenever he leave* a public entertainment, he is careful to wrap himself up, and avoids running all risks of cold. Indeed, the “careful man” of the popular comic soug himself is not more careful than the heir to the English throne. „ An American Worth in Boston. Lewiston (Me.) Journal. About fifteen or twenty years ago a young lad whose body had grown so fast that as yet he wqs hardly able to handle it with grace, left Auburn, and got a ulace at Jordan & Marsh’s in Boston. In course of time this young man took to the hat and bonnet and dress department, developing for gowns a talent that would have been somewhat remarkable in the right sex, but which was simply prodigious in the male sex. The young man wns sent to Paris to study gowns. He did eminent service for his empiovers. On one of his visits to the French capital, Worth, noticing the young American’s talent, said to him: “Why are you at work for a small salary when you can go it alone on your own hook and be rich?” Worth said, “I will help you.” The young man returned to Boston, and in due season went into business for himself. He took chambers on Washington street, employed workmen and cutters, visited Paris twice yearly, studied style, slept style, ate and drank style. Year after year his business has increased, and now he is one of the forehanded. His gowns are bewitching; his prices are aristocratic; and now all Beacon street falls down and worships, saying: “Give me ! s gowns, or I perish.” All which shows that to do one thing better than it has been done is fortune —especially if that one thing be gowns. Senator Trumbull’s Two Troubles. Lecture of ex-Sergeant-at-Ariim French. Lyman Trumbull was another great lawver, and a good deal of a statesman. Like Fessenden, a debator, rather than an orator. A sharp man, distinguished by great acuteness of discrimination and accuracy of statement and of judgment. Not as strong a man as Fessenden, but in mauy traits like him. There was a time, while Mr. Trumbull was chairman of the Senate committe on judicary. that Benjamin Butler was chairman of tue judiciary committee of the House. It was during this period that a delegation from one of the Southern States visited Washington with a desire to secure the impeachment and removal of the federal judge of their State. They interviewed Mr. Butler as to the probability of carrying such a measure through that session. “I don’t know,” was Mr. Butler’s reply, “I am chairman of the judiciary committee of the House. The necessary action can be had here. But Lyman Trumbull is chairman of the Senate committee, and Judge Trumbull is troubled with two things—the dyspepsia, which makes him miserable, and a conscience, which makes him uncertain.” In these modern times there may be many others besides General Butler who would sneer at a Senator for being caught in Washington with a conscience, out there must be left some of the old-fashioned people who, in their simplicity, would honor tue man all the same. Demoralized by Marriage. New York World. Everybody in Brooklyn knows Judge “Tom” Kenna, the Adonis of the Brooklyn bench. He has just returned from his wedning tour, having married a Williamsburg belle well known in society circles. Naturally enough, the Judge has been a little bit nervous since his return. Yesterday he appeared on the bench to attend to a few delinquents. Edward Price, clerk of the common council, sat beside his Honor. “Pass me that pen, my dear;” said his Honor to Clerk Price, and then turned the color of his blond moustache as he noticed his mistake. Later on he asked Mr. Price what he should bring home for dinner, and still later informed him that he would oblige him by playing, “When you and I were young, Maggie.” As be consigned a female prisoner to Raymond street his Honor told her to “hurry up and put on her things, as the carriage was waiting.” A clerical-looking gentleman, who had got intoxicated, asked the mercy of trie cout. His Honor looked at the clerical gentleman. Then he fumbled in his pockets and said: “I believe I have forgotten the ring.” The court officers smiled, and the abashed judge was finally compelled to adjourn court amid the smiles of the spectators. As he left he placed Clerk Price’s arm within jiis own. Suddenly remembering himself he said: “By Jinks! this marriage business has completely flabergasted me. Come around to the house and have a bottle of wine. But for heaven’s sake don’t tell her how I’ve acted to-day,” A BRILLIANT BALL. Something for Peter Goelet’s Indiana Heirs to Think About. Newport Letter. The event of the fashionable season here was the ball to-night at the new mansion of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goelet, on the cliffs. It was in keeping with the magnificence of the establishment and the great wealth of

the young New York millionaire. Within and without the scene a brilliant one. Streams of manv-coiored Tights shone from the mansion, and the long serpentine carriage drive was brilliantly illuminated. The veranda was enclosed in walls of canvas and offered a cool retreat, with its inviting divans placed amid clustering plants and flowers for the wearied dancers. A ruby-colored light strep med out from the large oak-pan* neled hall, lyhicfi was used f° r the ball-i*oom. On either side of the massive oak portal were recesses filled with palms and exotics, whose exquisitely shaded foliage was continued to the broad staircase that curved upward to the balcony overhead and to the left of the entrance to the billiard-room. Near the staircase was an antique raised dais of oak, with divans covered with valuable ferns, contrasting with the spreading foliage. The drawingroom had ruby-colored bangings and furniture, with plants in the nooks, corners and fireplaces, and the mantlepiece was covered with a bank of cut flowers. The broad window In the tower was filled with variegated flowers and calladium plants, and the balcony was loaded with rare plants and vines. Qn the second floor a waving mass of ferns, palms and exotics concealed the musicians on the balcony. From the oak-paneled ceilings hung Eastern draperies whose silver and gold embroidery glittered and sparkled in the gaslight. The billiard-room was decorated red, the mantel being one blaze of rubycolored flowers and plants, and palms w r ere placed about the apartment. In the studio was a cluster of palms in the center ol the room. The mantel was one mass of white gladioluses, and the fireplace was tilled with plants. Choplin’s “Night” and “Morning” hung amid Eastern hangings and richly embroidered draperies. It was a work of art in every respect. Some of the bouquets held by the ladies were unusually large, and v:ere composed principally of the choicest roses and lilies oi the valley. Mrs. Goelet held a magnificent bouquet of pink hybrid roses, a rare variety. The favors consisted chiefly of large floral fans, the rose 9 being the rarest to be found. GIRLS AT THU BAT. They Catch the Ball In Their Aprons and Step ou the “Grouuders.” Philadelphia Press. The eighteen damsels composing Freeman and Howard’s “Young Ladies’ Athletic Base Ball Club” entertained about fifty spectator* yesterday afternoon at Pastime Park with a practice game. There were only sixteen of the players present. They were attired in blouses, tights and cotton sunshades shaped like Japanese umbrellas. The blouses, hose and hats of one club were edged and striped with blue calico; those of the other with red. Miss Williams, the captain of the “Reds,” wore a suit of oardinal-coiored material, and Miss Jennings, the leader of the other club, was attired in azure blue. The fifty spectators hung upon the fence to the right of .the stand containing the bats and water-cooler, and indulged in such interesting reflections as, “Hi, there, you’ll show your garters, Miss!” “Hoope! look at her skip.” Owing to the fact that both clubs were composed mainly of girls under eighteen years old, and to the further fact that they had begun to practice only ten (lays ago, the game was devoid of either interest or amusement. The girls threw the ball over the shoulder, and held the bat as though it were a fan. They caught high flies with the apron-attachments to their blouses, and stepped on such of the “grounders” as came within their reach. None of the young women were pretty. Two were as tail and thin as pike-staffs; when they ran they looked like giraffes. The rest were short, and graded all the way up from plump to fat. Toward the end of the exercises one of the pitchers became so exhausted that she rolled the ball to the batter, and the latter walked to the bases on strikes. Disinterested spectators think the clubs will become fairly proficient in the game some time within the next ten years. A QUEER STORY. A Stern Parent Who Married Off ITis Daughter Without Her Knowledge. Bt. Louis Post-Dispatch Lawyer. I heard a queer story the other day in which a gentleman who at one time adorned the bench, a charming young lady, his daughter, and a handsome widower figured. The two former are well known iu society circles here, and the last is a New York gentleman. For some reason the Judge wns anxious that his daughter should be comfortably settled in life by a good match, but the young lady persisted in remaining single. This summer they went East and made the round of the fashionable resorts. While on their trip they met a wealthy widower from New York, who traveled with them for a while, and to whom the old gentleman took a fancy. Ttiey became very intimate with each other and were almost inseparable. One lovely night, . together with a party of pleasure seekers, the trio were taking a trip up the Hudson. When the mirth began to wane, the Judge proposed a mock marriage just for the fun of the thing, and nothing would do but that the widower and the young lady should act a3 principals to the affair. They agreed, to amuse the party, and the Judge volunteered to find someone to perform the ceremony. In a short time he brought up a gentleman who tied the knot in remarkably good style, so every one thought. When most of the party had dispersed, the Judge turned to his daughter and widower friend and remarked that they were legally married, as the gentleman who had performed the ceremony wns a clergyman. They protested strongly, but the Judge insisted that they had better make the best of it. The gentleman refused to listen to any such proposition, and on his return to New York quietly instituted proceedings to have the marriage formally annulled. He said he had no objections to the lady, but he preferred to do his courting and marrying in his own way and with his own consent. The lady, who, of course, is placed in a very embarrassing position, has gone on a trip to the Pacific coast until the whole thing blows over. It is strictly on the quiet at present. Two Interesting Houses. London Land. Two of the most interesting houses in England, from a literary point of view, are about to be sold. Every visitor to Broadstairs knows “Bleak House,” which stands so conspicuously on the cliff at one extremity of the bended bow forming the sea-front of that charming little seaside place. In that house Dickens spent many a summer holiday, and within its walls much of his early work was written. It has become known as Bleak House by association only, for its reai name is Fort House. Lawn House, bard by, is also to be sold by Messrs. Friend, Vinton A Cos. This was another of Dickens’s holiday residences, which he occupied on several occasions before he took Fort House. A considerable portion of “The Old Curiosity Shop” was written at Lawn House. “Bleak House” is the more famous of the two seaside villas, and is one of the few “eights” of Broadstairs. Hero-worshiping Americans are very fond of taking a stealthy walk by night up to its gates and plucking mciuentoes from the pretty flowering trees in the garden which overhang the path outside. It was a colored preacher who said to his flock: “We have a collection to make this morning, and for the glory of heaben whichever of you stole Mr. Jones’s turkeys don’t nut anything on the plate.” One who was there says: “Every blessed niggah in de church came down wid de rocks.” ♦The man who knows nothing of Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham and her sovereign remedy for women is wanted for a juryman. The fact clearly proves that he does not read the papers.—N. 11. Register.

TIIE YOUNG FOLKS’ COLUMN. THE PUZZLE DEPARTMENT. [Everything relatlug to this department must be addressed to W. H. Graffam, west Scarborough,Cumberland county, Maine. Original contributions and answers to each week’s puzzles are solicited from all.] Answers to Puzzles. '“ No. 802—Madison, Jackson, Webster, Callionn, Lincoln, Sheruian, Johnson, Greeley. No. 803—Man grove, bau-ners, are-nose, tbein, nap-pen, py-romantic, by-ways, oMence, dodo, lug-rate, play-things. thiu B^n erß aro tlie ways of doing No. 804—Babylon. No. 805- C 08 8 A8 OiilEN T 8 I F T E R SET T L E ANE L h 8 STRESS No. 806— APPRAISAL AREN O S E ATTIC A II A A ABB ALI B r AMBA G E S ARGENTINE No. 807—Mince-pie. No. 80S- II HOT II A T E S HOTSPUR TEPID 6 U D R Original Puzzles. NO. 823. —DIAMOND. 1. A letter. 2. Au abbreviation. 3. A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Free-masons. 4. One who carries tile line in surveying, etc. 5. A genus of plauts. 6. Contrivances used iu looms for stretching the web transversely. 7. Slight wounds. 8. Is not (ohs). 9. A letter. Mausiiall, ill. Flying Dutchman. NO. 824. —DIAMOND CROSS. Upper Left—l. A letter. 2. A piece of work. 3. A peninsula of Europe; 4. An Insect. 5. A letter. Upper Right—l. A letter. 2. Aged. 3. A baser inetui mixed with a tine. 4, A deer. 5. A letter. Center— 1. A letter. 2. Termination. 3. Exasperated. 4. Thirsty. 5. A letter. Lower Lett—l. a letter. 2. A conjunction. 3. To pester. 4. A domestic animal. 5. A letter. Lower Right-1. A letter. 2. Nevertheless. 3. To long. 4. To endeavor. 5. A letter. Silver Lake, lud. Amos Quito. NO. 825.—ACROSTICAL BEHEADINGS. Behead the following words, and leuve abbreviations of States of the United States: I. Festivity. 2. A city in Brazil. 3. A railroad town in Indiana. 4. The Intelligent power in man. 5. To note. 6. A Turkish military title. 7. A small stream. 8. A Greek deity. 9. One. 10. A word of denial. Initials.— A certain kind of scholarship. W. W. May. Salem, Ind. no. 826.— cross-word. My first is in finger, but not in hand; My second is iu soil, but not in saml; My third is in pip, but not lit egg; My fourth is in starve, but not in beg; My tluli is iu ham, also iu meat; My sixth is in ankle, but not in feet; Mv seventh is 1 u hew, but not in chop; My eighth is in hip, but not in hop; My ninth is in send, but not in go; My tenth is in rake, but not iu mow; My eleventh is in sold, but uot in bought; My twelfth is in idea, but not iu thought; My whole is a good play. The Professor. Trader’s Point, Ind. no. 827. —diamond, 1. A letter. 2. Three-rounds of a garment. 3. The goddess of fire. 4. Habit. 5. An officer’s name. 6. To prepare. 7. A letter. Eastwood, Ky. Old Kentuck. no. 828. —square. 1. An English philologist. 2. A geographical name. 3. One, who has been a member of the Rump Parliament. 4. Most advanced to the state oi fitness lor use. 5. Actually existing. 6. Reduced to order from a state of confusion. Flying Dutchman. NO. 829.—SQUARE. 1. A building. 2. A grand division. 3. A hoof. 4. Pomes. Amos Quito. [Answers in three weeks.J Our Prizes. 1. We offer a book lor Uie first perfect list of answers. • 2. We offer a pack of address cards for the next best list. 3. We offer a late popular magazine for the next best list. Puzzles Answered. By Faitb, ludiauapolis, Nos. 802 to 808 inclusive. By Flying Dutchman, Marshall, 111., Nos. 802, (nearly) 804, 805, 807. By D. L. G., Toledo, 0., Nos. 802, 804, 805. 800, 807. By Edgar, Indianapolis, Nos. 802, 804, 807. Prize Winners. 1. Faith-“ Off the Roll.” 2. D. L. G.—A magazine. Foot Notes. W. W. May.—Matter ail used. Come again. D. L. G.—We hope to hear from you agaiu. The Professor.—The squares and charade are not available. Please keep trying. Edgar.—Let your visits be frequent. We hope our friends will keep this department well-stocked with fresh material. Dressed for Meeting, See my pretty rulHml dress! See my tieuty locket! ’Bpects I’m most a lady now, V’ause I've got a pocket. These down here are my new shoes That I walks my feet iu. Course it wouldn’t do to wear Copper toes to nieetin’. See my picture hankerfust, Sunda3' days I has it; I can blow a nose in church Most like papa does it. Papa’s bitohlu’ Jack aud Gray, An’ they keep a prancin’; Horses dou’f wear Sunduy clothes— They don’t know they’ie dancin’. Grandpa used to go with us, Now he’s gone to Heaven; Guess he’s at the angel church, Up where God is livin’. I don’t take no cake with me— Never think of eatin’; Don’t you want a nice cleau kiss, ’Fore we go to meetiu’l Conveniently. Boston Congregationalist. A lady went into one of the large stores in Boston, where there are a number of young girls who act as saleswomen, and asked to look at a boy’s hat. Not being quite sure what size she needed, she said, after looking at several, “I will look at a number six and five-eighths, if you can find one conveniently,” thinking the girl might have to search through a large pile of them, and regretting the trouble it was causing. The face of the young girl brightened, as she said with real gratitude, but w T ith a pathetic tone, “No one ever says to us, ‘lf you can find one conveniently.’ ” Alas, that we forget to be polite! We say he or she is hired to wait on customers, and we do not say, “Thank you,” or act as though we appreciated anything done for us. That person makes many tiriends who goes through life with a smile aud a kind word. A Rival to the Sea-Serpent. Minneapolis Tribuno. The story of a terrible fight between two monsters comes from Fargo. Old Joe Baker, who lives near Long Lake (a few miles from Fargo,) claims to have seen the affray. According to his story, he was going home the other night and on crossing a railroad bridge over a small stream he was startled by a sudden commotion in the water, and on looking in the the direction from whence the noise came he beheld, to his amazement, two huge animals that resembled lizzards in shape, lashing each other in a terrific encounter. He discribes the animals as measuring twenty feet from head to tail, with heads like an alligator aud eyes as red as fire.

Along the back of the “reptiles” was a fin that resembled a saw. They each had four feet, with long toes and sharp, long nails. His story is believed by the citizens and a large hunting party is being organized in order to search for the terrible “what-is-it.” SORGHUM CULTURE. An luteresting Talk with Prof. Wiley-New Processes for Extracting Sugar. Chicago Tribune. “The future of sorghum 13 full of promise,” said Prof. H. W. the newiy-ap-pointed chief chemist of the United States Department of Agriculture, to a reporter. “You are making some experiments this season, are you not?” asked the reporter. “Yes; we are trying to improve the quality of the sugar, and to prevent the waste which now takes place in its manufacture. The works at Champaign, 111., have been very successful, but we think we can do still better in these particulars I have just mentioned.” “What is the nature of your experiments?” “The first—the process ot diffusion—will begin as soon as the cane is ripe enough. The canes are cut diagonally into pieces ail eighth or sixteenth of an inch in thickness, placed in vessels—we have eleven in our diffusion battery—and treated with warm water or steam. The water passes into one pan and to the other, and by the time it reaches the eleventh it is saturated with sugar—stronger than the original juice of the plant, or nearly so. It doesn’t contain quite so much sugar to the 100 parts as the original juice, but by the process of diffusion the sugar has passed through the non-crystalizable bocties—the gums, starches, etc. —remain behind. The result is a larger percentage of available sugar. The mills leave from 25 to 30 per cent, of the juice in the cane, while the process of diffusion takes it all out. In other words, there is a saving by this process of from 20 to 30 per cent, in the amount of sugar obtained from the plant.” “How large a field of sorghum have you in Washington?” “We have sixty-four acres of cane growing, and it is looking very well. We shall begin cutting about Sept. 1, and run on for about two months. We are working the farm experimentally.” “What will be the probable yield?” “About ten tons of cane per acre. That will average about 12 per cent, of sugar to the weight of the cane, making about 2,400 pounds of sugar to the ucre.” “How does this compare with previous yields?” “It is superior to previous yields in Washington, and about an average with those on Western soil. In fact, it is a remarkable crop. I had the ground plowed and subsoiled in the spring with 400 pounds of superphosphate per acre, which gave it a splendid start.” “You are now in a position, are j T ou, to give serghum-making a fair test?” “Our preparations will result in a full, fair test, so that we can rely upon the outcome from a working point of view. We have had enough of theory. The object now is to get something practical—to see if we cannot lay down some rule by which the agriculturist can be guided in his work, so that so many people will not put money into things of this kind and lose it.” “You are conducting some other experiments, are you not?” “1 am carrying on another line of experiments—a chemical process for th* extraction of the sugar by combining it with barium, strontium and lime. The principle is this: Crystallizable sugar, when brought in contact with the hydrates ot these metals in solution, forms an insoluble compound with them, while all the other matters—the gums and non-crystallizable portions—do not combine or form soluble compounds. If von allow the insoluble sugar compounds to stand tiiey subside at the bottom, and you get a cake of sugar combined with these substances. This is put into a press and pressed dry. It can be kept as long as you please, and transported without deterioration. When you wiah to get the sugar out you pub it in a box and heat it up with water till it forms a solution like the milk of lime. Then you pass curbonic acid into it. That unites with the metals, forming carbonate:* of the latter, and sets the sugar free. The sugar solution is concentrated iu a vacuum pan and crystalized. By the way, 1 have come out to Chicago expressly to investigate au apparatus for the purification and concentration of the juice of the cane, known as tiie ‘continuous vacuum pan,’ which is said to work very well. The great object in the working of Northern sugar-cane is to put the process through as quickly aa possible.” “Do your experiments work satisfactorily as far as you have gone?” “They work out very well, indeed, in the small way we have tried, and promise good results for those to come.” “When will your report on these experiments be ready?” “It will be made about the middle of De* cember or the Ist of January, and will be issued as a special, which any person may have sent to his address free by applying to the Department of Agriculture.” The Defeat of the Appropriation Dill. Indianapolis Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer. When the last Legislature w-as near its close it passed the general appropriation bill; and then, in a fit of folly, reconsidered its vote and refused to pass the bill. John J. Cooper sat beside Speaker Bynum during the last hour of the session, and though Hon. Charles Jewett and lion. Horace Heffren, the leaders of the House, insisted on passing the bill the Si>eaker refused to recognize them. Senator McDonald sent an urgent request by Secretary of State Myers to the Speaker and members oil tbeir side of the House to pass the bill, and every senator of any prominence visited the House and urged tiie passage of the bill; but Cooper sat beside Bynum and the bill failed. Then it was freely charged that Cooper wanted to defeat the bill that he might have the entire revenues of State to lend for interest. Only a few days before that Mr. Shoemaker, w’ho was fighting Cooper on the Brown bill for the reor* ganization of the asylums, called my attention to the felony embezzlement clause of the treasury law, which Cooper was then vio* lating. But I am not passing on Mr. Cooper’s action with the Legislature, what he aid or did not do, but upon the fact that the failure of the Legislature to pass the appropriation bills left the entire revenues of the State, amounting to over $3,800,000 annually, iu the hands of the State Treasurer, who gives A bond of only $150,000. Before his term of office expires he will have over $7,600,000 in his hands. The Wealth of the Bonanza Kings, Chicago Nowa. Senator Tom Bowen, of Colorado, hag made a neat little raise by selling his Safi Juan mine to a New York syndicate fora trifle less than $1,000,000. He has been hard* up for a long time, although, for the past three years, prospectively a rich man. Only a month ago a Denver citizen was mildly complaining because he had to pay a note oj $2,500 which he had indorsed for Bowen. There is a good deal of rot and poppycock in all the talk about the wealth of the Colorado bonanza kings. During the senatorial struggle last winter the four candidates—Tabor, Bowen, Hamill, and Bitkin—were compelled to borrow money of the First National Bank in order to make their canvasses. And the sums borrowed did not altogether exceed $15,000. Yet Tabor alone alleged that his preliminary maneuvers had cost him close on to $250,000. Enterprising looai agentu wan ten in thfi Town for an arricle ttiat i* sura to soil, li vm dm i?* cists ami grocers preferred. Address Unmisr-m Food Preservative Company, 72 Kin.y atieot, Boston.