Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 74, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1885 — Page 7

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY SENTINEL SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 1 1885.

ffr the Baad T SjnttneL TO A MOTniB.

XAnm On the Itn of Hr Only Child. EV M. C Ye, cotter, you wait for his footstep. And guze at bis enpty chair, Willie joor heart la bursting wlthangulsb. And btnds c.a?pe 1 la silent despair. How you cherish tie latt words tpofcea, vnen tbelizht was leaving hli cje. JLre you near rxedear Ennraar' he faltered. Then lurutdoa his aide 10 die. Bhould we call it dth. dear mother. To piss front tils valley of we To yen xaaiulon of Heavenly apleador. Where God axsllctb ar-und oa His fold? Your darllax 1 one of that number; He haz joined toe ansels choir. And is cow tinging grateful praises. While he plajs oa the golden lyre. Let all jour actions tend upward, "Where jour loved one is waiting for you. Forsct th!a false world with Its treasures. And you shall be one of Ills f aw. V7IT AJCI) PLCAHAMTU?. 7ten Clara was asked what she vroaid do if a nice young gentleman would ask: her hand in marriage, she naively replied: "I den't tbir,k I'd no." 'Where did ye say he war kicked, doctor?" "At the base of the pelf is, my dear woman." "Faith, he said it was in Murphy's saloon. I'll fix him far lyia' ter me." CoocspI Tben yoa think he atrack yoa with malic atoretbooght?" Witness (indignantly) "You can't mix me up like tbat, I re told yoa twice he hit roe with a brick." 'Did you ever kiss an old maid? ' asked Adonis of hi iriend. "Never," he replied. 'but! taatcd a persimmon." "Then tou know how -it ia yourself." New York JournaL RFrom the fall of man as related in the Catechism to the last overturning of an empire in France the question has bean mked by cynica in regard to all great catastrophes, "Who Is the woman at tne Dottom 01 it." "Have you embraced all the opportunities here offered you for the prosecution ot your studies? ' asked the doctor. And tne BOphoxnere blushed and he said he believed he had embraced them all except the cook, and she xras too big for him to reach around. If a Han wants to own the earth, what does a woxan want?" inquired Mr. Grap o! his bstter half, alter a little family matinee a few days a?o- ''Well, my dear," responded that lady in a gentle, smouldering tone; "to own tne man, l tuppoje."- Uoston l'03t. Ardent Lover "I have called, air, to ask yonr permission to pay my addresses to your daughter." Old Gent (somewhat deaf) 'Par for berdresees. Why, certainly, my dear eir. Here are the bills. He gave one glance at them acd fled. Philadelphia Call. An Irithman just landed was met by one of his compatriots, who after tbe usual salu tations observed: "Phwat'a yer politics, Pat?'1 "Ale politics, is it?" answered the emigrant, flourishing his fist as If he had a shilUleh. "Begorra, it's agin the gonvern merit I am." A schoolboy's sentence, "IJoritias," said the echool m?streas to a nine-year-old boy with two im posing freckles oa the kneci of his pants, "Horatins, p'eiae form a sentence with the word 'toward' in it, and write the eentecce on tie board." Horatins went to the blackboard and after much scratching of head and friction of Drain, printed with the cravon. in letters that looked like a lot of half feattered Shanghai chickens running after a piece cf dough: "I toward my trowsera. it Good In Arithmetic. I New York Sun. 1 Boss plumber (to small applicant for position So yoa would like to bacome plumber, little boy? Little boy Yoth, thir. Bess plumber Can you read, write and cipher? Little boy Yetb, thir. Boss plumber How much is ten pounds of lead pipe at ten cents a pound? Little bop Dollar theven-five, thir. Boss plumber I'll give you a trial. Sadly Decelerated by Cap Id. Boston Courler. 1 "Have you noticed how Mary D, hai changed oi later ' asked a stately beauty. caressing a diminutive black-and tau whose collar was ornamented with silver bells. "What's the matter with her?" was the query. "Why, yoa know she was married last week, and her maid informs ma that she has net fed her dog once since her marriage has scare I v noticed him, in fact. Sae actu ally seems to prefer the society of her bus bar d." l.'xclematicns of astonishment. A Bad Oase. I Chicago News.l 'Ioc!or I wish you would perscribe for my ncsband." "What ails him, madam? ' "Thafawhat I don't know. Whenever I aakhimfcra new bonnet or anything of tbat k'nd he is very hard of hearing, bat when I try to go through his packets In the morning the lifting of his trousers wakes him from a sound eleep." "If your huiband is deaf, ma'am. I think I can cure him." "Bat, doctcr wouldn't it be as easv to cure him if hearing so well in the morning. Ill Clear Conscience Chicago Tribunal A good story is told of a prominent lawyer who has figured conspicuously la all kinds of reform movements and prides himself greatly cn his integrity and his abhorrence of dishonesty in any form. Uis firm having of late become identified with a great many assignments on behalf of the debtors, he was asked a few days ago by a fellow-lawyer if he believed all these assignments to ba straight, to which he replied: "1 have no doubt that there is a good deal of crookedness in some of these failures, but my repetition is so high that men who have not a clear conscience don't come to me but 0 to my partner." A Considerate Hatband. (.Philadelphia CalL) Mrr. Minks, "I think it is too bad, Mr. blinks! Why can't a man be as considerate ot his wife a fw years after marriage as he was before? But I suppose it is too much to expect Men are all alike and care only for tberuielves." Mr. Minks "Ileally, my dear, I don't even kcow what you are driving at" Oh! no, of course not! Yoa don't even know that this is my birthday, and yet only a few years ago the date was engraven on your heart and you never failed to give a present, Why didn't you do so to-day, I ihould like to know?" "Because my dear I did not want to remind you of the painful fact that yoa were a year older." Lamb-Like Marj's Little Revenge, novated Railway Journal Mary was a buxom country lass and her father was an upright deacon in the Methodist Church of a Connecticut village. Mary's Tin of joining the boys and girls in n nutting party was frustrated by tne unexpected arrival cf a number of the "brethren" oa tfceir way to conference, and Mary had to stay at home and Ret dinner for her father's clerical guests. Her already milled temper "s Increased by the reverend visitors themselves, who eat about the stove and in the xrsy. Oce of the good ministen noticed her wrathful Impatience, and desiring to rebuke thaaicfnl manifestation, aald sternly: - Hary, wbat do you think will be your occopction In bell?"Pretty tauch the cms rj It Lion earth,"

the replied, teis."

"cooking for Methodist minisMaterial For Slipper. Sew York Sun.J A Chicago young lady was looking at some material for a pair slippers for herself. "I want something that is soft and warm," she remarked to the clerk, "woolen material, I should aav." "There is a piece of goods," replied the clerk, taking it from the shelf, "that I think would make you a very fine pair or sliposrs. We gcaiamee it to be all wool and a yard wide." Different Effects or Religion. I New York 8un.l Wife What a number of ladies there wai at church this morning wearing sealskin eacques. I counted no less ta&n twentyseven. Husband (who won't see the point) vo you think that is the proper way to occupy one's mind while at durch? I didn't notice a 'ngle one. Wife No one can scarcely b xpected to notice such things when one's asleep. A Pair or 8ad Deacons. Exchange, "This is a 6id, ead world," murmured Deacon Goodman, as he mechanically un locked the door of a corner cabinet. "Indeed it is, indeed it is," asssnted Dea con Betterman, sympathetically. "No joy is unalloyed." "True, very true," answered ixacon uoodman. as be put some sugar into two glasses ai d added some liquid from a b.'aok bot tle, "lou like yonrs this way, I suppose, brcther?" "Yes, yes," was the sad reply. "We all have to take the bitters witu the sweet." Medical Advice by T'en'ion. (Leonard's Medical Journal.) Husband My wife has a severs pain in the back cf her neck, and complains of a sort of sourness in the stomach. PhyMcian She has malarial colic. Husband What shall I do for her? (The girl at the "central" switches off to a machinist talking to a sawmill man.) Machinist to husband I think she is cov ered with scales on the inside about an inch thick. Let her cool down during the night. and before she fires up in the moming take a hammer and pound her thoroughly all over, and then take a hese and hitch it to the fir-plng and wash her out." Husband has no further need ot this doc tor. 11) e Maiden's Joke. IToldbyMiss Vassar at the cream cake counter. Chorus oi maiaens anicarin? tacmicivcs wua crcam-CaJte and snickering joyously "O, girls! Only just think! I saw him tc-day!" Tome expressions ot lncreuuuty ana inteiest "i ee. really and truly, vv by, l never was so Ouetratcd in all my life. I thought I really should expire. It was at the concert, and just in the midst of tho very s'narter that was really too divine lor anytmng, when I happened to look around jast to see who was there, and would you believe it? there he was just two seats behind me: I thought I should die; and, what was more, he saw me, too looked at me out of those snappin' black eyes of his till I felt the cold chills running np and down my back. "Well, I can tell you I didn't hear another bit of the music I couldn't think of anything but those lovely eyes of his. When we came out I walked as fast as I could really acd truly I did but I knew he was following me, and I turned down Fifteenth street wfcere it's quiet, and be came right up beside me and lifted his hat as bold as you please, acd said, 'Good afternoon.1 I thought I should expire on the spot. Bat I didn't show it a bit. I was just as cool as I am now. I merely said, -Good afternoon,' and hardly turned my head. Bat, all the same, I felt as if I was goiDg to drop on the Divergent. Then what do von think he bad the audacity to say to me?" Symptoms of intense excitement. Cream cakes are held stationary in mid-air "He asked me to go to the matinee next Saturday!" Chorus of "What did you say?" "Say? I didn't say anything. I just dropped down and expired on the spot." A TOUCHING INCIDENT. The Tearful Pleading of Ills Llttli Gtrl Induced Ulm to Hegt n Life Anew. A pathetic scene occured a few nights ago at a notorious up-town resort. It was a little giri pleading with her father. "Won't you come home now, father, please?'' she said. Her voice was low and childish, and the sweet upturned face was pale and quivering with some hardly suppressed emotion but the man toward whom tbe appeal and agony were directed took little notice of eitber. "Why do yoa bother ms?'' he said, impatiently. "Go home. I'll coma when I'm ready," and regaining with an effort his nuceitain balance he lelther. The girl looked after him wistfully, then, as his form was lost to her view in the crowded room, with a deep, despairing eUh ehe turned to leave the place. Outside the electric lights streamed full upon her Blender figure as she hesitated a moment before descending the step. One or two pollc2roen loitering near eyed her curiously, and some men hurrying in gave her a "quick, questioning glance, but no one molested or spoke to ber7 and slowly she went out from tbe glare aad dazz'.e into the Carkar street bevend. The night was cold and stormy. Au icy sleet was falling, driven in every direction oy the capricious and fitfai wind guest, and tbe lew pedestrians who were abroad hurried cn their way anxious to gain shelter. The girl alone appeared unconscious of the dia comfort of tbe weather. The rain beat npon ber, the fierce wind met her with a force against which she staggered, but she did not heed them. With r doubtful purple she walked slowly on.turning bick once or twice to look again at the place whence she had jost come, until the clock from the neighooricg tower indicated to her how late the henr was she storped altogether. "So late!" she murmured. "Oa! I can not g bene without him;" and now tbe turned if Uy and retraced her steps She pusei not a rxoment oa the threshold; evidently she feared her own reiolutioo. The doors yielded instantly to her touch, and once xrore sfce looked over the scene whose light and warmth and comfort were a little to her as the wind and rain outside. Hersaarch ing glances soon found her fither; for the moment he wes standing alone. and his daughter felt that the had one mora chance. Rapidly she gained his side. "Father, dear father," she began, speaking low but passionately. "I can not leave you here. I can not face mamma without yoa, she has waited eo many nights for your fcome-comirg, and the boars are so dreary without you. Oh, father," the child went on, gathering up aU her energies, as she saw tbat her listener was half-heeding her woria, "break away from this wretched place, come back to your home and mamma and me; we love you so dearly we can not live without you, and oh! it is all so different now from what it used to be." The childish voice was breaking. "Such a little time ao we were all so happy.' Here a sob almost choked her. She slipped her clinging fingers into the unresisting hand of the man who staggered at her tide. "Come back to us, father; come home with zse now," and the lears.no longer in her pewer to restrain, coursed down her Eale cheeks as she lifted her pale face to him, oiding his gaze with her wiatfal, pleading eyes. The man's features worked convulsively; he locked about him once half-desperately; then some better feeling swept over him.and, straightening himself up, he said, brokenly: I will go with you, Jennie," and, clasping clcsely the hand of his Little daughter, as If tbat frail suide were his chief support, the two together west out from the light, and glare, and dazzle oi the roller-skating rint foicver.

, TUE SUNDAY-SCHOOL.

International Ltiionn-By Henrr ST. Grant, D. D- March 13 Paul before Afjrippa. Acts 2: 1-1 H. Goi tzi Text nd I nid. Wbo art thou. Lri? And he raid, 1 am Jesus whoa thou persecuidit. -ctg 26:1 '). Two y ears have passed since Paul's rescue from the mob at Jerusalem acd hurried rea moval t4 Caeserea. He is still a prisoner, but just now there has been a change of govercoii. Porcina Festus has come into Felix's loom, a better man than Felix, bit not altogether firm in the administration of justice, as this tanative shows. Thetwentyfiith chapter, which we have passed over, diiclcses. the renewed attempts of the Jews' to pet pcf3ses3ioa of the Apostle, the proposal of Ff stua Uat he go beck to Jerusalem fo trial, an his appeal to Caesar. The right to auch an appeal belonged to every Itomn citizen, 4nd, save in extraordinary case?, it could net be overruled by any subordinate tribunal And so Paul has been r ox an del to prisoi j to wait an opportunity for his removal trf Rome. WhileU'aul Is thus waiting in bonds. King Agrippa.and Bernice make their appearance at Cassel. This was Herod Agrippa II., son of tbjit Heroi Agrippa of whose miserable deat4 we read in an earlier chapter (12: 2l-2.'i). 7y favor of the Roman Emperor he was Eowjtetrarch of a portion ot Syria with the tltM of king. Of him it is enough to know ttft he was heartless voluptuary. Nor was his Elster Bernics better than he. Few mere inf imous women have found a place in historl. These two have cotne to pay their reslects to the new Governor. And after sort e days it occurs to Festus to speak to them )f the prisoner Faul, the result of which is a request on the part of the king to hear ihe (nan himself. What have now to consider is the main part of Fiul's speech not only before these two vislllrs, but in the presence of a glittering a3seiiblage made up of the chief captains and principal men of the capital city of the province Tbe erJech has the form of a defence. But in purpose it was hardly that. Paul had appealed tCicsar, and to Ci'.sar he was to go. He bad me aim ever before him, and that was to presch Christ. It is easy to see that that wasfhis hia present aim. Addressing birctelf to his chief hearer, he did not forget the great company of Gentiles and Jew also before bijxi. Two unworthy thing? marked the manner cf his epti?ch. It was frank, courteous and manly. Agripp, au Idumean by birth, had a devout lie wc S3 for a mother; moreover his falber wfiS a rleid observer of Jewish rites. He couMnot, therefore, be otherwise than "expert m all the cus'onis and questions arrong tl;e Jews " Paul was happy to have steh a bearer, and so said. Bot he did not flatter hl;u with untruthful words. Another thing, in his manner, was the sympathetic way in which he put himself into lelaüons with his chief hearer. II claimed Itill to frtand by the hope he had learned fjom the fathers, es Agrippa micht be assurrJid to ao; be owned that he had himself iVice been a bitter opposer of Jesus of Nt ran jib, and yet had been made a disciple ar.d lt'eacber cf tbat earn Je-us; and so he dared hope that his teurer might yet be won to bim. But noav a number cf things in the matter of his p( ch 8hocld have attention. 1. No tbe Old h's claim that the religion cf Testament and of the Lord Jesus w in snbstanra one r. t ). grat promise had been nisde by pod unto the fathers. The remnant of tie twelve tribes chetished the hops of its fulfilment. It characterized tbe religion of tht fathers. Had ha surrendered that hope? M), he stood by it. It was indeed for this tbat tie was now being judged. For it was this jffbich made him a Christian. In Jesus anu his kingdom and the redemption completed by the resurection, the ancient promise as but fulfilled. Thus he did honor to the 01 Testament It was ths bud, cf which th gospel is the unfolding. 1. No'i) his wonder that any believer in the Jewilh religion could regard ihe reaurectiop of tije dead as an incredible thing Agrippa twas doubtless in sympithy a Sidduce. lioul would remind him that such marvels .ad not been unknown in ths past histcry o the Jewish race. Nor in the nature of (Illings was there anything incredible ia such risings. God c?.n oring bark bis Creatures to life. Jesus, iftaeSm of Gt J. nw2ht return to his f')raken bod v. Unteiief liss cow many objections to tie i iias S ioc cj.ilii prccJocs Jtrine ot the resurrection life. But tbe culties are imaginary, not u-tl. bet. his assumption that rejection of Christ is ioi blamelss because it is sincere ('J 11) Fi once verily thought with himself that le ought to do many things contrary to te name of Jesus. Nevertheless the heavenly Iroice had taught him that all this while he fas kicking against the goads: the piercing fjlmonitions of conscience and the Holy Spiilt. He thought he was doing God'a service, ile did that which he did in igno ance. He was earnest to madness in his opposition to Jesus. And yet i heie appears that his ignorance was net 1 ;ameless Gcd had beea urging him on kio the better way, and he had oeen resisting. oes this show that it ia not enough to be mor.-Jl, contcientious, religiously earnest, self-denying and zealous even? It dots. Beyord all this, one must search the 8crip tores for i'ie whole truth. Nor should he ns st the ircvidenci of God, and the divine Spirit. Jjach of our ignorance is sinfnL Ia it we are :Jot blameless. Light has come Into tbe world and they who love and desire it will not vsile in fatal darkness. 4. Not! what he teaches us respecting the nature argl reward of that change which the gcsrcl seks to effect (10 IS). "To open their eyesjand to turn them from darkness to lieht, aid from the power of Satan unto God." Sihh is tbe nature of the chang?: an enlightenifjg of the mind, and a renewal of the heart And life. Tbe dar ness is man's ignorancs of spiritAnd we find this in otber than d Jewish minds. How flow are ual things heathen a men to eec the trnstw the rightfulness of God's claims, rthiness of Christ as a Saviour, erishing need apart from him and our Nothing isso hard as to convince them cf sin. Tncii there is man's need of moral renewal. At; d what is that? It 13 in his subjection to fnother rule than tbat of God, h3 rightful ro'er. Satan bai usurped a dominion, and n?n are his willing subjects. They yield to bif Eolicitations. Heistbat prince whose dou'nion Christ would destroy. Now, in conversion, rrcn are- tamed both from darkness hi light, and from Satan's rule to obedience o God. "The regard cf this ereat change i3 "forpivines tins, and inheritance among them that Ire sanctified." Or we might, perhaps, bttter ray that this is a part of the charge itsdjf. By this change we coins under the emje of God, and Into all the riches cf His evessting kingdom. 5. Thenjwe should note what is implied with respet to the business of the Christian teacher anu' preacher. It is to open blind eyes, and tlrn men to light and to God. But elsewhere !e are taught that He never does this without aid. His part is to present the enL'ghteniug and moving truth cf the Gospel. This ii God's instrument in the great change. Iit the Holy Spirit must make it elective. Ii is He who convinces of sin and righUousnf.'s and judgment, and who so melts and t .oves the heart as to effect the change required. laACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. 1. Paulen chains, could still find opportunities to oreach Christ. 2. It is IJie courteous Christian who gains acces to rr.tn's ears and hearts. 3. Profii) ate men,' like Agrippa, suspect

food men are right, and therefore are ttrargely drawn to them. -L. Tbe hope of the resurrection is both a reasonable and blessed hope. 5. How wopderful the change wrought in tbe heart and life of Paul! Did any form of UDbelief ever produce tbe like cf it? C. It is harder to resist Gad's truth and Spirit than to obey. 7. God has a work for tbe convert to do, as well as a good for him to eojor (1G.) 8. It Is only by faith in Cnriat that the blsincs cf forgiveness and adoption cm becorxe curs.

VARIETIES. Straws ihow which way -the mint julep goes. To the victors belong the post-offl:ef -Life. 0Japanese law compels peop'e to sell i alive. They are vended in tanks. Bny vrhat thou hast no netd of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessa-ies. H crying babies had any sense, they would never take their mothers to matinees. The Jsckan would net hide his ean i hot cculd. He thinks they look well enough. A Connecticut jury p'aces the value of a man's ear at 2 000. The man wanttd $10,000. The King of Siam is not yet thirty yeirs of age, and ia credited with having 205 children. The newest application cf electricity is for eiectric lining to hatj to nuurish the brain. There are reported to b? 2 J,00?,000 people In Austro Hungary who never real a ne flaps per. Parwin rays blrd3 sing only for lovi. but this fact cevr occurs to a man who is wasted up by a carary at 1 a. m. "A g'gantic engine of national demoraliziticu," was Lcrd Beaconheld's deilultioa cf the tuif in one of his novels. The skull of Richelieu, carefilly preserved in a velvet case, is said to ha in the pceeession of a Paris publisher. Tbe olo3t known tree in the world, at Mount Etna, is hollow, and large enough to admit two carriages driving abrea3t through it. Teal flavored with cinnamon and cloves end sponge cake s'eeped in pine-apple rum ere among the German Kaiser's favorite diihts. A Hungarian Jew eent to a Vienna paper a grain cf wheat on which be had rittn 3(1 words taken from TUsot'a book oa YienEB. The largest tree in California, although dead acd fallen, has a traceable height of 4(J2 feet, and measures 112 feet ia diameter p.t its base. Patent medicines are estimated byalexding English journal of medical mätteis to cause the death of a hundred and fifty thousand persons every year. A New York confectioner eay3 that 20 p?r cent of all the candy now sold is white clay which looks like snpar. It comes from Statin Island and is called terra alb. Arcrdingto tbe official returns o! the Health Department of New York thre wn retorted in the ten years ended with 185 34 107 ca?e3 of diphtheria, cf which 1-3.CJ7 prr ved fatal. Women constitute over a quarter of 0rmany's agricoltnral laborers. In the la3t census 4,092 343 persons were returned as engaged in agricultural work, of whom 1,230,0M) we feuiaJef.re A Belgian editor recently insulted a rival editor in the morning, fooght a duel and killed him in the afternoon, and came out at t p. m. with a special evening edition de 80ribing the encounter. "13 the girl your son ia goinc to marry highly accomplished?" asked the younger cf tbe cider, "Highly accoplished? 1 echoed the elrer. "Well, I should sav bo. Sh is the best and most graceful skater at the rink. The Englishman who said that American girls aid not know w hat to do with their aims, certainly never had much experience in American parlors with tbe cas turned low. They 8re very accomplished in armatory exercises so we are informed. The United States has 17,000 dentists, who use a ten cf cold and five tons of other metals, and make 1,000,000 artificial teeth annually. Only one American in eighty is found to have perfect teeth, ai.d one third of the population make mere or less use of the artificial product. 7t2 average cost cf a marriage license id this cccntry is tl 20. Colorado, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Wisccrein. charge nothing; New Jersey, twelve cents; New York, twenty-five; Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont and Connecticut fifty, aod so on, up to Maryland, the highest of the lot, 150. Tbe kisssr bs been naught at 'tb.9 trick, but it wain't General Sherman or Governor Crittenden this time. The kisser wa an ingenious Invention of a spiritual medium performing in Philadelphia, who was exposed and is now languishing in jail, with his little imposture held as a mute bat eloquent witness against him. Statistics show that the butter product of Iowa increased from 27,512.179 pounds in 1S70 to 55,481,953 pounds in lSsQ. The pro acct for last year is estimated at 8; 451,737 pounds. It. is said, moreover, of this thrivirg State, that her gereial products l3t year excf eded in valno thp gold and silver product of the world for the came period. "Mamma. If I die would I be an angel?" ased littloEmma. "Yes, dear.'.' "Audit I'd die would I b an angel, too?" asked Jchcny. "No. I think not You are too wild." "To wild! Gocd golly, woman, that's just the kind what makes ths fastest flyin' angelf. Look at tbo wi'd birds, see hov fast they kin fly. I'll bet I could leave Emma away behind." Kentncky State Jouraal. A man, a &leUh, A rrcttv Kirl. Two horses pray. Avav they whirl, She nestles close; Uis rjeml am Kouud her wat&t goes, Drawn by love's cüarra. Tho ftldzh-belli rinz. The tun shines bright, The runners sin? O'er snow so white. Thronen Tillage street And couutrv roai Tbe trotter ilect Speed with iheir loal. A little hill, A slacreael rein, A qnlet thrill. A ßr-tree lane. A whisper low. A throb of bliss. A hw or o. And then a kiss. Saving Souli in Iowa. "Have you got any dynamite?" No. sir; we don't keep it. None of the regular stores in Chicago do. What did you want it for?" "Basmesa." "Weil, we haven't got any. What kind of business do you want it for?" "Church business." "What?" "Church business. You see, there's a bi? rivalry between two denominations in my neighborhood in the business of saving souls. Tbe one I belong to is getting left. The other fellows have got the bulge on us, and we held a church council last week and decided to blow up iheir concern with dynamite some dark night." "Where do you live, anyway?" "Oh, out in Iowa." Rev. Simon P. Richardson, when pressing elder in tbe Alabama Conference, at a quarterly meeting publicly announced his purpose to protract It. and said, "I desire no advice about the conduct of ths meeting from any man who doea not hold family worship, pay his honest debts, and pray in his closet three times a day." It is said he received no advice during the meeting.

SOCIAL GOSSIP.

If tbe sun shines, make the mo3t of it; if it rains, let it rain-. The first morning you forgt to be polite to your wife the honeymoon is over. He who is most low in making a promise :s the mcst faithful in the performance of it. It is now the fashion to braid the Langtry xnot ot hair worn low in the nape of the neck. There is no man so great as not to have Feme littleness more predominant than all h:8 greatness. The right to rebellion is tbe right to ek a higher rule, and not to wander in xners Jawlcssne3S. George Eliot, Thres things come not back tbe epoken word, tae sped arrow and ths neglected opportunity, say the Arabs. The only comfort th doctrine of "election" has is for the benelU of those wbo retard themselves as elected, and are sore to be saved. It was 8idney Sxith who poetically said that to sae the handwriting of an old friend was like the rrint on the sand seen by Robinson Crusoe. An eiteemcd contemporary says that woman's heart is always open to a smile. There are some men's mouths affected in the sa ne mannor, and to a greater degree. fGive not thy tongue too great a liberty, lest it take thee prisoner. A word unspoken is. like the sword in the scabbard, thine; if vented, thy sword is iu another's hand Christian Register: Jacob's old dream was rot an unreasonable one. li s Ansls did ret Uy to Heaven; they went patently up -ch round of the .'a icier, and they began at the boticm. Preachers say, do as I say, not as I do. But if a physici.-.n had the tame disease upon him tbat I have, and be Bhoald bid me do one thiDg end hp do quite another, could I belfeve him? Seiden. "Is ycur wife acquainted with the dead languages?" asked the Professor of a North Side man. "Maybe she is," was the reply, ' but the language she uses is entirely tao warm to have been dead very long." Except in cases ot necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant truths from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. Good breeding never forgets that amonr propre is universal. Helices. Silk wa3 never cheaper In Eogland than at t resent, owing to the heavy shipments from Chine, on account of the threatened war. As no war is threatened in Alaska the price cf seal skin sacqses has not beea affected, Minneapolis Tnbnne. 4 The growing pood of the world is partly dependent on uuhistoric acts, and taat thing are not si ill with you and me as they might fcave been, is half owing to the number who lived f-iithfally a hidden life and rest in unvisited tombs. Gerrge Elict, "What on earth can that mean? ' asked Hicks of Thackeray, pointing to an inscription over a doorway, "Mutual Loan Oüise." "I don't krow," answered the novelist, "cnle:9 it means that two men who have nothing spree to lend it to one another. "A day that fs too full usually holds many iccstii ruble dutie?, but its first positive one is wisely to choose what we will allow to be crowdtJ cut. That our strength shall baai our dp v, is a promise for the days hi God sends them, and not as oar pride, ambition, cr impatience makes them." It is said that a piece of lemon boand upon a corn will cuie it. The lemon mcst bs renewed night and morning. The proof is in the trying; bat how des this remedy aree with the well-known fact that a pieca of lemon has been known before now to corn" a man? WhenSydtey Smith was iaformel that his daughter' . marriage was aunoancad in i tit' London papers ui.der the heading of "Fashionable Intelligence," he exclaimed, with a infrry twinkle in hi3 eye. "How absard! Why, we pay our bills." Life of Sydney Smith. London Truth, disousslng Princesi Beatrice's reuralgia, recommends her to "try a pill of plain rhubarb and a glaäs of weak whisky and water every evening. This ia an old remedy and prob bly would be scoffed at by modern doctors, but it is alike a royal acd a radical road to a cure of rheumatism. For neuralgia there is only one receipt a dry climate." Two fliall be bom the whole wide worll apart, And speak in dulertiu tou&ues, una have no thought. Dich 'of tr.c otaer s bciiu, and no heel. An 1 tbcEe o'er unciionii ?cas to uuifuon lands hall CTyiS cscapluR wrerk, defying death. And. all rnceatci0U5'y, fnare every act, And bend each wdiiJ "ta; dtp to ttiis one eadi hp.t one lav out ot daran:)' hey snail ue:t And read life's meaning la each Cje?. On dit that if a parson would bathe tbe faco night and morning with hot watsr, wrinkles wou'd entirely disappear. Ia that case yoothful laces would be tba orderof Ihe duy,and a bedy would bs puzzled to tell the gracdructher from the grandchild. At present wrinkles are about the only landmark we have to steer by, the attire of a child of six and a dame of sixty differing so very elightly." Our honest convictions may be very wise, but it is tho occasion and method of our own utterance cf them which best prove oar own wisdom. If there is any worthy object in their uterance, it is theenlis;btenraentof others; and this will be secured in proDorticn as we have their ear and contideace. He who carries his vary ing heart upon h?s sleeve and utters all his mtnd, commands but small respect, and small is bis Inrlaence. Gill. A modern scientist has discovered that mental activity enhances physical beauty. He EBje: "A handsome maD, or woman, eitber, who does nothing, but lives well or Ftlf-indulgtntly, grows flabby, and all tbe ficelir.es of the features are lost; but the hard thicker has an admirable sculptor always at work keeping his fine lines in repair, 8nd constantly going over his face to improve the original desjgn." How little do men know of one another's lives after all! Broker William Hutchinson did business on Wall street as an old Dache lcr, acd died, and wm buried in the sup posed sanctity of single blessedness. Bat alter his death it was discovered that he had lived;at Red Bank as a married man under the came cf Austin, and had left a widow and grown chlidred there. He willed his es täte of a million dollars to the widow, and then made a second will leaving the bulk of his property to one of his marnea daughters, acd throne tbe tfght ever these two wills the truth has come out. I'Never throw anything away, my dear," Faid sn eld lady to a newlv made wife, "aalets you are quite aure you can never make any use cf it. I sacpoie von are wonderinz what I intend to do with the tops of the3e merino socks. Well, my dear, I am just arcing to jcin them together, sort of patchwork fashion, the red against the blue and vice vena, then Hneit'with a piece of thick cloth. Maybe my son has a rair ot old trous ers that I can rio up: thev'd be jnst the tbirß for it. When they're lined and bound with a bit cf red braid, them seeks will make as comfortable and pretty a cushion as you'd Wisn to eee, lor that rccker there, which has the most aggravating spokes that ever yen knew fcr sticking into a body's back." The Test. Christ's pure reli;lon by one test is knownIt Is not kept for taData days alone. hrou&ht out and worn to church, then laid away A spm nf trwi nr.rh wr.rt h f ir nr, dif But be who owns it feels with joyful pride. It need not be one moment laid asile. As lite tbe gold toe workman's toil re fines. The more its nsed the brighter still it alne?. -Mrs. E. V. Wlisoa. The lteat t)resel. Urs. A. E. DIckiQoa. She is the best dressed woman whose dress is so harmonious in itself and so in harmony with her personal appearance and manners that while the details are unnoticed, ths whole gives a strong and pleasing impression

of her Individuality the dress eoerxs a part cf hertelf.

The TTeH-Dre Md Woman. I America. Queon. The well-dressed woiaan a?ain knos not only what to wear, but whec. to wear it. In the summer forenoon yon w:ll see her in tue simplest cottons, a Cress absolutely plain and without ornament, wittont laces, fringes, decoration of ny kind. In winter at the same time die is equally plainly dressed in cloth. Later in the day she changes to smarter clothes for more ceremo nious duties. visits, a'tercoon parties, snd teas velvets and sllkr combined in winter, in summer rich gauzes ad costly lace. In theeveting, fordinner or hall, the mostchoice and splendid masterpieces of the dres maker's art are reserved; the richest stuff set off with the most elaborate embroideries and the rarest jewels. Bat withal, even in this the la3t gcigeous stage int which the modern chrysalis has developed, ostentation dis play is scrupulously avoided. The highest 8rt is t j conceal art: torse richest materials in compassing the utmost simplicity. There is do heaviness, do overlosdirg with ornament, vo meaaingless su peradded decoration. Tho attire of a per fectly-dressed woman is original withoat excentricity; personal to herself, yet following the latest fashien; attractive, yet undemonstrative developing to the utmost her pecu liar charms. The Givtr' lie ward. Who sires and hides the civm? hai r, Nor couats cn favor, fame or rrise, Bhall find Irs smallest gift outweighs The burden ot ih 6ca an 1 laud, V ho gives to whom has caneht been given, Ills eitt in need. tbrijh sall n eed As is tbe grass-b'ftde's wind-Klcwn seed, Is large as earth and rica as He veu. Fresh Fashion Fancies. From Half a dozen Fashion Papers. A twilight fabric of gray and light bro v.eo mingled as to give a changeable effeot. is combined with one of the same ground, showing half-inch strips of hunter's green and dark soft red alternately. This combination of plain and striped materials is pro duced in all the fashionable colors, the stripes being in varying widths. Fine checks, often showing threads of golden silk, are also a favorite style. A lovely little lace pin for an Easter gift consists of a Elender bar of gold, oa which is percbf d a tiny, plump chicken, jast hatched, in yellow brilliants, with a small ruby for the visible eye, which, with a cunning turn of the head, seem to be gazing at the golden egg-shell from which it has just emerged and which forms the heal of the pin. At a recent fashionable marriaga in London the bridttuiaidj wore long tulle veils Kreamirgfroni wreaths of yellow blos!oms. Their hoquets matched th?e and. a the restoftbeir dress was white, they must have lecked very spring like. Plaids will be largely employed as etrniturts for plain stuff. "Costumes of surah in any cf the lisbt spring shades of the plain material, matched with plaids ot the sme ehsde, mixed with brighter colors, are very attractive. Tbe Toreador Is the name of a new hat with high crown and carrow brim now fath:ocable in London. It koks very Spanish. It is pointe de gaze which is to trim the Princess Beatrice's wedding gmn. She is to have an apron aad flounces of it. Great bunches of flowers, all of one kind, are favorite bat and bonnet decorations this spring. The new water-cress green will rival scarlet eb a trimming for black lace bonnets this year. Yellow plays an important part in millinery and toilet acceesoiies this spring. Tbe new spring hats are very high in the crown and narrow in the brim. The new evening gloves are as long or longer than ever. Yellow flowers are very fashionable. Irish poplins are again in fashion. CEBIOUS. USEFUL AN SCIENTIFIC. A machine Is in use at Melbourne, Australia, for shearing sheep by steam. It operates in tic same manner as tne ordinary sbears, but cuts mnrli quicker and cleaner, without the least danger cf injuring the fleece cr the sheep. The graves of the dead in Cuba are like the houses of tbe living, glaring white, and their osly decorations are wreathes and cresses made cf shells and beans. In none of the cemeteries is there the slightest glimp3a of eilter lloweis er fcüage. Troffssor Ewing, of Dundee, has receive! a Government crant of 500 to conduct researches regarding minute tremors of the earih end slow movements of the horizm, wti e stationed at the top cf Ben Nvis, Scotland, The situation cf the B?n Nevis Obeuvaiory is admirably adapted lcr such werk. The first arrare.ment in Paris for supplyire private hou&ts with eieciricity for lllumir:iting purposes is now in working order, and liom all that is said concerning it there is every likellhocd tbat it will be extended. Those who initiated this project wisely obviated any necessity for kicking against the pricks of civic regulations by using as a motor for the dynamo-electric rxaohinesa gas engine which can legally be employed in cities. Stil covereo with living herb?g or wit'i such dtad vegetable matter as leave?, straw weed, dung, etc., save l'ofefsor E. Wolln, rner in winter and cojler In summ-r than I ara loll ULdtr similar conditions. Tae d:ll?eiice of temperature is greatest ia sumv. er end hr.at in spring aad aatumu. IUo soil beats ncie quici ly ia spriLg and coos mere quickly in autumn than that coyer-d w;lh liviLg cr dead vegetable matter. The flLCtnaticLS of temperature are much en aller in covered than iu bare s oil. An object of pity in our placs is a boy about fourteen years old, whose lej;s from the knees down are helpless. He has to walk cn his hands and knees. Yet he enjoys riding on a hand sled as well as any ooe. He uses a pole with a spike in the end, aad by sitting on the sled will, by the ase of his pole, reach the top of the hill almost as soon as the rest, and with the pole will guide himself down again. We have seen him push himself up to a big sled and catch on behind even while thehorsts are oa a trot Middleton Age. Taking all the facts into consideration, it appears clear to Mr. H. C. Sorahy that all tLe bright and beaut.ful tints ot leaves in autuf n eie nearly th'e earlier Etases of decomposition, and are due to the more or leas considerable triumph of chemical forces over the weakened or deetrosed vitality of the living plant. He adds that one can not but feel that this is a very unpoetical way in which to regard the magnificent tints of a Cne autumnal landscape, bat it is not less true than that the colored clouds of evening mark the departing day. Those desiring to check a tendency to cbesity mav now choose between four systems: 1. The original Banting, which consists of eating nothirg containing starch, supar, or fat. 2. The German Banting, which allowe fat, but forbids sugar or starch. 3. A Munich eysten, which consists of dressing in woollen clothes and ot sleeping between flannel blankets instead of cotton or linen sheets, and 4. The Schweninger system, which insists on an interval of two houis between eating and drinking. The Lancet's advice to hunting men who may be thinting to reduce their weight is "Do not try it." If. eays La Nature, one should write upon a eteet of white paper with chloride of platinum no mark would be visible, as the liquid is quite colorless. But hold the same sheet cf paper over the vapor of mercury, and the metal it received in the former operation will be brought out In dark tints. Several surprising effects may be produced by ctillzipg tbat fact. If the experiment be reversed not less marvelous results may be obtained. First expose a drawing or writing to the gases of mercury to charge tht lines with mercury. Then bring the drawing or

writlcg in contact with paper previously mi tilized with a tolntiorr ot platinum. aal tedrawlcgcr ritlng will be reproiuced upca it lice f r lice. , T e tub'.Ic 1 aths of V.nra ar sa:l to be tie finest in tbe world. Ire build't g itselt. ysthe Flih Hechanfc, is j.Uaad n t' heart of the city, anu incloses abasia 15 net in width b 57 feet n length, and a jirg Id Ctpth 10 12 feet. The enormous qnant'iT of Kprontftic'l In this taut urnnewel three times a day. The wuole euabUtbnent as accnmrutJtioa for 1,5 ) prens, ana is open from My I o o:t. 31. n1 from 5 in the mcrning Ufctil dusk. Ti e e s a!so a lath, restricted to ladies, ope 1 fro-n . ia ihe mining until 1 o i the Vienna ladies are est ccially good swimr. rs. Glass bas been in use fro n S3 remote a period of antiquity atu Lts eo mtirrntely associated itself with the progress ot clv;i ztion tbat it is not surprising to find improvements in Its manufactoft as oft a- th neceftity or them haslarisen. From re piintirgs found by Wilkinson at lieni-Hassan it appears that tbe a.Tt ot giess-b owing was known at lesst 3,2f 0 years ago. Sometimes new prccessea in draling with th rw materials have produced desirable and sometimes startling results. Pels said that some Anglo Gerrran manufacturers have recently turned cut class as hard fand touh as castIren, and tbat tbey intend to make of this hard acd comparatively light crystal stairs, street lamp-posts and gas jmd water pipes. It is thought that they cat make these and similar articles of glass 3 1 per cent, cheaper tba' tbey can rxake thexi of can iron. Industrial America. J A writer ia tbe Livng Church saye: "Ihere is a certain brcade :iingcf ihe Church, now pcpalar with a ceriat school of thinkers, whicb, l:ks ths go d-tlatei'j harunitriog oflbeirgot into leaf, secures a g it erin comprehension cf moresarfa:e, witu acures;ondirg loss cl s jlid sUeogth and value "

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