Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 3, Number 40, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 5 January 1882 — Page 6

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. —The largest increase of Baptists since 1870 has been in the fifteen Southern States, where the gain is 761,418, mostly among the colored people. —Seventeen female missionaries have been sent by the Church of England Missionary Society to India to labor among the Hindoo women. Four of these have been there before. —Miss Calista C. Kinne, now living SrOswego, N. Y., in her eightieth year, is claimed to be the oldest lady schoolteacher in the State. She commenced her vocation in Worcester, Otsego County, at the age of sixteen. —London has a population of four millions and a half. Os this multitude only 60,010 are church members, and only 200,000 are regular-attendants at religious services. Os the working population it is stated, on as good authority as the Bishop of Litchfield, that only two per cent, are found in church. —President McCosb, of Princeton, lately remarked that there is a decrease in the number of college graduates who go into the ministry, and the Rev. Lyman Abbott adds: “There is a decrease in the quality. Some of the best men go into the ministry, but the average, whether measured by the popular standards of college classes or by recitation, is uot high.”—As an illustration of the general spread of elementary education in Japan, an inspector of prisons has reported that during the past summer lie found all the children attending the prison schools for four or six hours every day, while the adults attended in the evenings and ou Sundays. In the chief penal settlement in Tokio he found :100 boys learning rapidly, and was pleased to note in the senior-class that the boys were learning ciphering with European figures from one of their own number. —Some of the friends of the late President of the Pennsylvania Railroad have determined to perpetuate his memory by the erection in Philadelphia of a church, to be called “The Thomas A. Scott Memorial Church.” the pews of which shall be free. It is intended to lie mainly for the use and benefit of the employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad and their families, and the organisation of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, coiner of Thirty-fifth and Spring Garden streets, could probably be utilized for this purpose, as it owns a lot very desirably located,’ and the congregation is largely composed of employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad. It is proposed to raise $00,01)0 to build this memorial church. The Prophetic Goose-Bone. The readings of Uie goose-bone indicate a motley winter. There will lie a good deal of snow and a few cold days, but no protracted cold weather. In the month of December there will be no very cold weather. During the last of' the month there will be a few days When good tires will be cheerful and overcoats comfortable. It will be an exceedingly disagreeable month for outdoor work, with snow or rain every day or two. The. probabilities are for a wet, gloomy Christmas. This kind of weather will continue on through January, with a few cold days sandwiched between rain and snow. About the middle of January there will be a few clear, cold days, when the mercury will go down below zero. The 15th and Ifith of Januafy will be as cold days as any experienced in this latitude. The latter part of the month will lie wet and gloomy. There’ will be more genuine winter weather crowded into .the little month of February than in December and January, but there will not be any intense cold. With the exception of the few days about the middle of January, it Is not likely that the mercury will, go far below zero. The goose-bone has long been an honored weather prophet. In some of the itiaek counties of Kentucky the farmers make all their arrangements in accordance with the predictions of the goosebone. In some localities the goose-bone is laid aside, labeled with the year, and it is said that one old farmer in Breathitt County has the bones extending back for more than forty years, and "in all.that time it is asserted that the bone has never been mistaken in the weather. To read correctly the winter of any year, take the breast-bone of a goose hatched during the preceding spring. The bone is translucent, and it will be found to be colored and spotted. The dark color and heavy spots indicate cold. If the spots are of a light shade and transparent, wet weather, rain of snow may be looked for. There are a good many people all over the country who pin their faith to the goose-bone. Os all the weather prophets it is tlie must honored. The little ground-hog disgraced himself long ago, and now very few people ever watch Candlemas Day, and hogs’ melts are no longer trusted in. A few years ago, when Tice and all human weatherprophets predicted the most 'severe ( winter ever known, the goose-bone told of a mild winter. The future unrolled just as the bone said it would, and poor old Tice had to change his predictions every day. The goose-bone never changes, artffsQever fails. The Posiere pdrter has examined three bones, one from Southeastern Kentucky, one from Jefferson County, and one from Laporte, Ind. They are identical to one another, and the reading here given will "be found the same on the nreast-bone of any goose hatched last spring. Cut this out, lav it aside for reference, and as you crowd up close to the fire on the 16th of January, you will be convinced of the great power of the goosebone.—Louisville ( Ki /.) Post.

A Talk About Children. “Children are an heritage of^ the Lord,” saith the psalmist. “As arrows in the hand of the mighty. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.” ~~ Public opinion has changed on this, as on many other subjects, since King David’s day, and a large family is now by no means universally accounted a blessing. * ■ In truth, people generally seem disposed to regard as nuisances all children not their own. Boarding-house keepers will none of them; persons with apartments to let “ prefer adults;” servyauts resent the presence <jf otpre than one in families • seeking “ papers keep in standing type advertisements styling them “ incumbrances,” and the question “What shall wo do with our children?” seems in dange- of taking rank with the Chinese as one of the social problems of the day. Napoleon I. declared the chief want of his country to be mothers, meaning, it need hardly be said, that France lacked nothing so much as citizens trained by good women—mothers who knew their duty and did it. Nor can such training begin too early. An eminent divine was once asked by a mother when she should begin the education of her four-year-old boy. “ Madam,” was his answer, “if you have not already begun, you have lost those four years. From the first smile which beams upon an infant’s tebeeks your opportunity begins.” ISot are such.influences less powerful phyaicAlly than mentally and morally. High medical authorities affirm that the foundation of the health or ill-health of j most adults is laid in the nursery. Late i hours, irregular meals, improper food, j and other carelessness on the part of those who have charge of them in childhood, are the primary causes of many ! of the nervous diseases so frequent among American men, aud especially j among American women. For this j mothers are chiefly responsible. Much, it is true, depends on the material it- | self. Not even the most, expert workman can fashion a Sevres vase from common clay. Yet his -it is to choose the form into which lie will mold his lump of clay. And none the less is he bound to do his best, that some unforseen chance may possibly mar the work to which he has given his utmost care, j How many women live in history of whom tiie world would hawk known nothing but for their children: Those who worthily wear the crown of mother-, hood are ever those who prize it most, and none save siteh as have wept in its darkness kriow how black a shadow a child's coffin may cast over a household. J Children have their rights, which older persons are unhappily prone to ignore, and chief among these is the right to be children. Men and women in miniature, copying the airs and graces of their/elders; Uirting and gossipping, dancing at parties when they should be sound asleep in their cribs; is this what the fashionable world has to offer us in exchange for the natural, light-hearted, healthy boys and.girls of half a century, ago?/ . H./t-house fruits and vegetables may be most costly, and ripen earliest, but do they'not lack the rich, full flavor of thipr congeners grown in the open air, with the sunshine glowing in their cheeks and the freshness of earth’s dews in their juices. j Therefore, do hot dress the little folks in garments too costly for the wearer to play in. nor impose unnecessary restrictions upon them. Try to make their childhood as happy as possible—a season of which they may tell their children in days to come, when perhaps the grass will be growing over your grave. Let yourself down to their level now and then; it will do you no harm, and give them pleasant memories of you hereafter. The father who never rbmps with his boy will find it difficult to secure the confidence of his grown-up son; the mother who has no sympathy for the baby crying over a broken doll may live to see her daughter turn to others for comfort. Those who would win the confidence of their children must begin the work in their babyhood; never deceiving them, and remembering always that “ example is more powerful than precept.” It is useless to. tell a child not to do a thing which he sees you do daily, and every parent is more or less the model .on which the character of the chill is formed. The elaim of. parental infallibility is also a dangerous one to assert. It .may be a little mortifying, yet it is better to acknowledge— S“ Mother didn't know” “ Father was mistaken” —than to insist you are right when your child knows you are wrong. Humanity is fallible, and it is to be doubted if the most conscientious mother does her whole duty toward her children. True, I have known a complacent old lady fold her soft hands and contentedly affirm that she had always done her duty by hers, and that if thgy turned out badly she should hold herself in no, sense responsible. But such self-satisfaction is rare, and the best of us have cause- to mourn over sins of omission and commission every day of our lives. Yet those whs strive prayerfully and earnestly to “ train up their children in the way in which they should go,"’ taking care to walk themselves also in it before them, have God’s promise that their labor shall not be in yain .--Cor. Christian l/nion. — A solid polished brass pulpit has I been erected in -Bt. Luko’s Church, j Philadelphia, “To the glory of God ' and the living memory of Joshua Lip- ■ pinoott, who died October 2, 1880.”’

FACTS AND FIGURES. —Oregon had 100,000 tons of wheat for export this year. —The highest speed made in canceling letter stamps by hand has been 250 a minute. —A turtle captured lately in the St. John’s River, Florida, weighed 600 pounds and was six feet in length. —Over 100,000 canary birds are yearly sold in the United States. The price this year per dozen, wholesale. —Of over 760,000 square miles of timber lands in this country the South embraces 460,000, or nearly two-thirds. —A citizen of Central New York is of twefiryHgp factories, and is one of the largest cheese manufacturers in the country. His annual prbduct amounts to 45,000 cheese. \ —The silk trade of Lyons, France, nclw occupies some 120,000 looms, of which only 80,000 are within the city. Including those who work in the silkworm establishments there are8()0.000 persons employed in the Lyons silk trade. In 1787 there were but 80,000 and 18,000 looms. \ —ln Charleston, S. C., the business of turpentine and rice factors has so materially extended that it has been found necessary to erect a mammoth barrel factory in the city limits. This year, according to existing contracts, 100,000 barrels of 300 pounds capacity will be required for the rice crop alone. —Chicago handles about one-third of the entire forest products of the vast pineries of the Northwest. Millions of acres of timber lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, lowa and Illinois are tributary to her market. The entire product of these* pineries last year in manufactured lumber amounted to about 5,750,000,000 feet, and, according to the best estimates at this date, the production for the present year will show an excess of at least twelve per cent. —Mr. G. Fasoldt says, in a letter to the American Journal of Microscopy: I have ruled plates up to 1.000,000 lines to the inch, one of which-was purchased by theHlnited States Government at Washington. These plates show lines truly and fairly ruled, as far as lenses are able to resolve, and above this point the spectral appearance of the bands in regular succeeding colors (when examined as an opaque object) shows, beyond doubt, that each band contains fairly ruled lines up to the 1,000,000 band. I do not believe that 1 will ever attempt to rule higher than 1,000,000 lines per inch, as front my practical experience and judgment, I have concluded that that is the limit of ruling.

WIT AND WISDOM. —lt is scarcely surprising that the age is so full of falsehood whim such a vast number of words arc compelled to pass through false teeth. — K. Y. Commercial Advertiser. —“Housekeeper” r-Wo do not know why plum pudding was so named unless it was because it contains everything, from dirt to nightmares, except plums. Yonkers Gazette. —This is a Young Lady. She is sitting at a Piano, and will soon begin to sing “Empty is the Cradle, Gone.” Run away quickly, children, and perhaps ybu will miss some of it. — Chicago Tribune Prifncr, —Old Abram’s wisest remark: “Es do descendants objle rooster what crowed at Peter was ter make a noise ebery time a lie is told dar would be such a noise in de world dat yer couldn’t lieah de hens cackle.” —Arkansas Gazette. £ —Who is this Creature with Long Hair and a Wild Eye? He is a Poet. He writes Poems on Spring; and Women’s Eyes and Strange, unreal Things of that Kind. He is always Wishing he was Dead, but he wouldn’t Let anybody Kill him if he could Get away. A mighty good Sausage Stutter was Spoiled when the Man became a Poet. He would Look well Standing under a Descending Piledriver.—Denver Tribune Primer. —A Providence man recently had an experience. He was smoking a cigarette, and threw it away, but- retained a mouthful of smoke. A servant girl just from Sweden entered with a pitcher of ice water just as he let the smoke escape from his nostrils. She thought ho was on fire inside, and immediately deluged him with the water. It was very funny, but you can’t make him believe it.— Boston Post. —“ Minnie” wants Jo know “ who sets the fashions?” Well, we don’t want to boast, dSafisyijrJ appear unduly conceited, oivtnat sort of/thing, but the fashion of wearihjV—ir'Spi'ing overcoat, flavored at the elbows with benzine, clear through the Christmas holidays and along into next February—we set that one “ ourself.” We don’t know who set the others, as that is the only one we are deeply interested in, just now. —Burlington Hawke ye. —This is a modem courtship in a nutshell: The lights Were so bright that they seemed garish, and the parlor of the McWishes was radiant of the past decade. Eulalie, the pride of the family, just making preparations for celebrating her nineteenth birthday. Old Bullion making an evening call. “My dear Miss McWish. There is indeed a disparity in our ages. You havi youth and beauty. I, years and wealth, llut I trust there can lie some reciprocity between.us?” “Indeed, my U'gir Mr. Bullion, wealth is not to be despised. Neither is old age —and delicate health." The last clause in an undertone. A kiss that was like the rattling of an old parchment against a satin cushion closed that bargain. We’ll bgt the old man outlives her.— New Ha ytsfi Ueoister

Coal Transportation on Western Riven. the subterranean pit ot the producer and the furnace of the consumer there stretches, not the parallel metals of the railway nor the terraoed levels of a canal, but the devious channels of two great rivers, the Ohio and Mississippi. Thousands of miles of tortuous water-course, a varied gauntlet that must be run by the coal-transport-ing fleets that issue from the portals of Pittsburgh, aptly termed the “ Gate City of the W est.” A gauntlet of shifting “ bars" of treacherous shoals and whirling and vexing cross currents, where meander-* ings and reversions of course so follow one another that the greater river seems to write its superabundant S’s up and down the latSi, and the lesser Ohio seeks to describe its O’s in water loops throughout the thousand miles of its entire length from Pittsburgh to Cairo. These are but the spring and summer ‘difficulties to be surmounted by the inland navigatorWinter multiplies them to a fourfold de. gree. Out of the Alleghany, whose sources lie within sight of Lake Erie, ■ there pour at intervals during the winter months swift-moving glaciers of ponderous ice-cakes, drifting southward to their dissolution at the rate of six miles an hour. Or it may be that this stream and the Moriongahehv—as well the Upper Ohio—arc silent under solid fields of ice. Then let sudden thaw or genial rain release the imprisoned streams, and acres of ice up and carry destruction to coal-flee ts-mooreiL at or near Pittsburgh, awaiting a favorable stage of water. Then a hundred beats of a healthy pulse would mete out sufficient time for the destruction of enough coal to light and heat a city for a month. * So much for the dangers surrounding the river coal trade of Pittsburgh; now us to the nature and extent of the trade itself. It is, in the first place, a trade which the most ambitious railway can not absorb. Nature’s highway is here supremo, and time loses its monetary value as compared with the cheapness of transportation by-water. To send a ton of coal front Pittsburgh along those two thousand miles of waterway afid deliver it at New Orleans costssl.3o, or about five cents per bushel of seventysix pounds. The freight-hungriest railway could not allord to carry coal more than one-tenth that distance for the same price. This extreme cheapness it is that has called into being this trade, that has caused its 1 growth, and that will perpetuate its existence though the continent tie cobwebbed with railways. The river transportatiijp of coal has de-veloped-to stftdi mi extent that whereas in 1844 the coal from, seven acres of Pittsburgh coal seam was floated from that city, there was left, year before last, a dark echoing void of 720 acres under the smiling farms of the Keystone State.— G. F. Muller, in Harper's Magazine.

An Adventure With Road Agents. “Were you ever stopped by road agents?” I asked the driver. “ Yes, bv the Allison gang. That was down in Texas, though. We had a coach full of passengers, a heavy mail, and a big package of money by express. I had the money under mv cushion and the mail bags piletlup behind me. . We were stopped in a place where the horses had to walk, as is generally the case.” “Do you drivers always stop when ordered?” “Yes; if we didn't we’d get bullets through our heads, or be maimed for life, without receiving any compensation from the company or passengers.” “How did the gang operate?” “Allison stood at the heads of the leaders with a pistol pointed at me. His confederates ranged alongside of the coach, covering the passengers. Allison knew me by sight. He shouted, ‘Hands up, Frank!’ ‘lf you won’t tinhitch any of my horses,’ I replied. ‘ All right, we don’t want your horses.’ Then I held up. The passengers were ordered out in line, with hands up, and thoroughly searched. The robbers went through th<4. baggage in the boot, taking some Sarc'els, and then asked me to throw own the mail bags to them. ‘I can’t do that; if you rob flic mail you will have to get the bags yourselves.’ They then climbed up, tossed the bags down, cut them open, and took such letters as they wanted. ‘ Have we got all?’ asked Allison. All that’s worth having, I guess.’ .The thousands of dollars I was sitting upon fairlv burned me at this time, but! looked the robber.coolly in the eye. ’“One of the gang now began unhitching my leaders. ‘Stop that,’ say! Allison, ‘ no one shall touch Frank’s horses.’ Then turning to me he said: ‘We are going now, Frank; in ten minutes you can drive on.’ ” —-V. Y. Sun. —A movement is on foot in Birmingham, England, for erecting amonument to John Bright. It is proposed that the monument shall consist of a column, which shall be the highest of its kind in the country, and that the funds shall be provided by national subscription; also that the foundation stone ' shall be laid on the 10th of August, 1882, when MiBright will have been member of PaVTiament for Birmingham for a quarter of a century. j —The men employed in the tunnel now being constructed under the bed of the Hudson River have of late become subject Jo a peculiar and painful ailment that is thought to result from the compressed air, by the aid of which the tunnei is being constructed. The complains is a sort of curvature of the spine, and tliose attacked with it are bent up like a half-open jaoknife, and suffer excruciating pain.

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