Pike County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 15, Petersburg, Pike County, 30 August 1888 — Page 4

a recent Sabbath. It to not a new one, bavins been delivered elsewhere within the past two years. It to a good one, however and will bear repeating. His text was: Through a window, to a basket, was I let down by the walL-U. Cor. It., «. Damascus Is a city of white and glistening architecture, sometimes called “the eye of the Bast,” sometimes called “a pearl surrounded by emeralds.” at one time distinguished for swords of the best material called Damascus blades, and upholstery of riches! fabric called dqgtasks. A horseman by the name of Paul, riding toward this city had been thrown from the saddle. The horse had dropped under a flash from the sky, which at the same time was so bright it blinded the rider for many days, and I think so permanently injured his eyesight that this defect of vision became the thorn in the flesh he afterward speaks of. He started for Damascus to butcher Christians, bat after that hard fall from hto horse he was a changed man and preached Christ in Damascus till the city was shaken to its foundslion. ' \ The mayor gives authority for his ar - rest, aud the popular cry is: “Kill him! kill him!" The city is surrounded by a high wail, and the gates are watched by the police leet the °Clllclan preacher escape. Many of the houses are built on the wait, and their* balconies projected clear over and hovered above the gardens outside. It was customary to lower baskets out of these balconies and puil up fruit and flowers fiom the gardens. To this day visitors at the monastry of Mount Hlnal are lifted and let down in baskets. Detectives prowled around from house to house looking for Paul, but hto friends bid him now in one place, now in another, lie is no coward, as fifty incidents in hto life demonstrate. Bnt he feels his work to not done yet, and so be evades assassination. “Is that preacher here?” the foaming mob shouts at one floor. , “Is that fanatic here?” the police shout at another house door. Sometimes on the street incognito he passes through a crowd of clenched ftsto. and sometimes he secretes himself on the house-tops. | At last the infuriated popular? get on sure track of him. They have positive evidence that he to in the house of oq» of the Christians, the balcony of whose borne reaches over the wall. “Here he to! Here he to!” The vociferation and blasphemy and howling of the pursuers are at the front door. They break in. “Ketch out that Oospettier aud let us hang his bead on the city gate. Where to he?” The emergency was terrible. Providentially, there was a good stout basket In the house. Paul’s friends fasten a rope to the basket. Paul steps into it. The basket is lifted to the edge of the balcony on the wall, and then, while Paul bolds on to the rope with both hands, his friends lower away, carefully and cautiously, slowly but surety, further down and further dowr. until the basket strikes the earth and the apostle steps out, and, afoot mad alone,' starts on that famous i missionary tour, the story of which has | astonished earth and Heaven. Appro- ’ priale entry In Paul’s diary of travels: Through a window, in a basket, was I let down by the wall. Observe, first, on what a slender tenure | great results hang. The rope-maker who &twisted that cord fastened to that lowering basket never knew how modi would depend on the. strength of it. How if it had been broken and the apostle’s life bad been dashed out? What would bare become of tbe Christian Church? Ail that magnificent missionary work in Pamphilia, Cappadocia, Oaiatia. Mace- | doma would never have been -accomplished. All his writings that make np I so indispensable and enrhanttng a part | of the Hew Testameut would never hare J been written. The story of resurrection would never here been so gloriously told as be told It That example of heroic and triumphant endurance at Philippi, in the Mediterranean euroclydon. under flagellation, and at his beheading wonld' not have kindled the courage of teu thousand martyrdoms. Bnt that rope holding that bmket, how much depended on It! Bo again and again great results have hung on what seemed slender circumstance*. Did ever ship of many thousand tons

creating tbe >«u u»t» turn important passengers at had once a boat of leaves, from taffrail to stern only three or four feet, the vessel made waterproof t>» a coat of bilnmen and floating on the Kile with the Infant Law-giver of the Jews on board? What If tome crocodile ehotild crunch it* What if tome of the cattle wading in for .a drink thould tlnk it* Veaaelt of war aamtUow carry forty gnus looking through the port-hole*, ready to open battle. Rut that tiny craft on the Mile teem* to be armed with all the gnus of thunder that bombarded Hinal at the law-giving. Oa how fragile craft tailed bow math of historical importance! The parsonage at Epwnrth. England, Is on fire in the night, and tbe father rushed through the hallway for the rescue of hit children. Seven children are cut and safe 6n the ground, but one remains in the consuming building. That one wakes and, finding his bed on fire and the buildidg crumbling, comes to the window, and two peasants make a ladder of their bodies. one peasant standing on the shoulder of the other, and down the hit • man ladder the boy descends—John Wetley. If you would know how much depends on that ladder of peasanU ask the millions of Methodist* on both sides of these*. Ask their mission stations nil **otmd the world. Ask their hundreds of It*N>o»*nds already ascended to Join their l*ounder, -rj,„ would have perished but for L * living **-*rs of peasants’ shoulder*, j ■ -n English ss-ngtopped at Pitcairn Isb ' — -Jf years no mlssionmrr ana no ^ Und. this oasis of light amid a _ sndomf 8ix«y years bea Ship had met disaster, and one of i the sailors, unable to save any thing else, 1 went to hie trank and took out a Bible L hich his mother had placed there and ■ sun ashore, the Bible held in his teeth. ■ Ate book was read on all sides until the mrongh and vicious population were » evangelised, and a church was started, and an enlightened commonwealth established. and the world's history hss no more brilliant page than that which tells of the transformation of n nation by on* book. It did not seem of much importnaoe whether the sailor continued to hold ,\tbe book in his teeth or 1st it fall in tbe breakers, bat upon what small circumstance depended what mighty results! Pmotfeai inference: There are no tusigaUknnoe* in oar Uvea. The minutest thing is put of |a magnitude. Infinity is mads up ot infinitesimals. Grant things, an aggregative of small things. Bethlehem meager polling on n stir in the Bast' sky. One book la n drenched sailor's the evangelisation of a multitude. ot papyrus an the Nile freighted for all agea. Tbe fate ot in a basket Vet down from a he wall. Whit yon do, do If yen make a rope, tank* it strong for yon knew not how much may If for let it be __who may *aH In it. If . pet • Bible In the trank of jronr boy as he gees tram beam, let It be beard la year for it may have a mission as far

in the . HIM. I] .... It* mooring the ship of the Chn reh n°A^^notice'on^o^ould *ani «* recorded services, Who spun the rope? Who tied it to the basket* Who steadied the illustrious preacher M he stopped into It? Who relaxed not a tkaeole of the arm or dismissed an enkions look from hie face until the basket touched the ground and discharged Its magnificent cargo? Not one of their names han come to ns, hot there was no work done that day in Damascus or in all the earth com* pared with the Importance of their work. What if they had in the agitation tied a knot that coaid clip? What if the sound of n mob nt the door had led them to say i -Paul most take care ct himself, nnd we wilt take care of ourselves.” N >, not They held the rope, and, in doing no did more for the Christian Church than any thousand of ns will ever accomplish. Bat Cod knows and has made eternal ireoord of their undertaking. And they know. How exultant they must hare felt when they read his letters to the K>m nne. to the Corinthians, to the Oatstisns, to the Ephesians, to the Philippines, to the Coloss inns, to/ the Thessalcnians, to Timothy, to TituaMo Philemon, to the Hebrews, end when they heard how he walked out of prison with the earthquake unlocking the door tor him and took command of the Alexandrian corn ship when the suitors were nearly scared to death, and preached a sermon that nearly shook FeliX off his lodgment seat, 1 hear the men nnd women who helped him down through the window end over the wall talking in private over the matter, nnd enying: “How glad I am that we effected that rescue 1 In coming times others may get the glory of Paul’s work, but no one should rob us of the satisfaction of knowing that we held the rope.” There are said to he about sixt y-nine thousand mlntsters of religion in this country. About ffrty thousand 1 warrant came fromearly homes which had to struggle for the necessaries of life. The sons of rich bankers and merchants generally become bankers and merchants. The most of those who become ministers are the sons of , those who bad a terrific struggle to get their every-day bread. The collegiate and theological education of that son took every luxury from the parental table tor eight years. The other children were more scantily appareled. The son st college every little while got n bundle from home. In it were, the socks thst mother bad knit, sitting up late at night, her sight not so good as once it was. And there also were some delicacies from the sister’s hand for the voracious appetite of s hungry student. The father swung the heavy cradle through the wheat the sweat rolling from- his chin, bedewing every step of the way. and then sitting down under the cherry tree st noon thinking4o himself: **1 am fearfully tired, but it will pay if I cen once see that boy through college, and if I can know that he will be preaching the Gospel after I am dead.” The younger children want to know why they can’t have this and that as others do, and the mother says: “Be patient, mv chtldren. until your brother graduates, and then you shall have more luxuries, but we must site that bov through." The years go by, and the son has been ordained, end U preaching the glorious Gospel, and a great revival comes, and sools by scores and hundred* accept the Gospel from the lips of that young preacher, and father and mother, quite old new, are visiting the son at the village parsonage, and at the close of-, a Sabbath of mighty blessing, father and mother retire to their room, the son lighting the way and asking them if he coaid do any thing to make them more comfortable, saying If they want any thing in the night just to knock on the wall. And then all alone father and mother talk over the gracious influences of the day, and say: “Well, it was worth all wr went through to educate that boy. ll was a hard pull,' but we held on till the work was done. The world may not know it, but, mother, we held the rope, didn’t we?” And the voice, tremnlont with Joyful emotions, responded: “Tea, father, ere held the rop*; I feel my work is done. !f>w, bird, letteat Thom Thy servant depart in pear*, for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation.” “Pshaw!” s«rs th- father, “1 never felt so much like living in ray life n« now. I want to see what that fellow is going on to do, he hat begun ao well.” Something occurs to me quite personal. 1 was the young-st of a large family of children. Hv parents were neither rich nor poor; four of the sons wanted col - tegiate education, and four obtained it.

but not without gr-st home struggle. We never board the old .people say onto that they were dtniriii; tiwmulTKi to effect this, bnt I remember now that ray parent* alwmr* looked tired. 1 don't tbtnk that they er*r got reeled until they lhy down in the Sommerville Cemetery. Mother would alt down in the evening. and eay: " ••Well. I don't know what makes me feel sotireil !" Father would fall immediately to sleep, seated by the evening stand, overcome with the day’s fatigue*. One of the fonr brother*, after preaching the Gospel for about fifty years, entered upon his Heavenly rest. Another of the fonr is now on the other side of the earth, a missionary of ihe cross. Two of ns are in this land in the holy ministry, and I think all of ns are willing to acknowledge oar obligation to the old folks at borne. About twenty-two years ago the pne, and about twenty-four years ago the other, put down the hardens of this life, bat they still hold the rope. O, men and women here assembled, yon brag sometimes how yon have fonght your way in the world, bnt I think there have been help’ul influence* that yon never folly acknowledged. Has there not been some inBnenoe in your early or present home that the world can not see? Does there not reach to yon from among the Canadian hills, or Western prairie, or from Southern plantation, or from English or Scottish or Irish home, a cord of influence that has kept yon right when you would have gone astray, and which, after yon had made a crooked track, recalled yon? The rope may be as long as <nhirry years or live hand red miles long or tWW thousand but bantu that went ont of mortal sight loag ago still hold the rope. Ton want a vary swift horse, and yon need to rowel him with sharpest spurs, and to let the reins lie loose upon tbe neck, and to give a shoot to a racer, if yon are going to ride ont of reach of yonr mother's prayers. SV hr, a .ship crossing the .Atlantic in eeven days can't sail away from that. A sailor finds them on the lookout as he takas Ma place, and finds them on the mast as he climbs the ratlines to disentangle a rope in the tempest, and finds them swinging on the hammock when he turns in. Why not be frank and acknowledge it—the most of ns would long ago have bent dashed to pieces had not gracious and loving hands steadtty and lovingly and mightily held the r«pe. Bnt there roost come a time when we shall find oat who lowerad Paul in the basket, and greet them and all those who rendered to God a«*d the world unrecognised and unrecorded services. That is going to be one of the glad exoitements of Heaven—the hunting up and picking out of those who did good on earth and got no credit for it. Here the Church has been going on nineteen centuries, and this is probably the first sernfin ever resognising the services of the people In that Damascus balcony. Charles G. Finney said to a dying Christian: "Give my lows to St. Paul whan you t him.’’ When yon £rt" 11 meat hiss, as we will, I to introduce me to those who got him ont of the 1 We go into loag we will be able t< He*van, whan there is oas to prove that people is fall God will introduce as. Ton would not to guilty of the impoliteness of turns* friends la yonr parlor not introduced, anfi celestial politeness will demand that he mad* acquainted with all the What rehearsal of of stirring to givs it.

It it *WS calenlatM by earthly a—have passed, we (hail meat1 with more Heavenly cSlebritie* o tr entire mortal ated* we met Jlily celebrities, Many who made treat nolee of usefulness will sit on the fast seat sy the front door of the Heavenly tempi*. while right an within arm's reach of the Heareniy throne will he tnany Whs, though they cOnld hot Jifench thentseWes nr do grant exploits for God, neverthe' Css held the tops. Come, let ns go right Op and accost those on this Circle Of Heavenly throne* Sorely, they most hate kilted in battle a million men. Surely, they most have been buried with all the cathedral* sounding a dirge, and all the tower# of alt the cities, tolling the national grief. Who art thou, mighty o ne of Heaven ! *‘I lived by choice the unmarried daughter is an humble borne that 1 might take care of ray parents in their old age, and. 1 endured without complaints all their queruloosnees and administered to alt their wants for twenty years." Let an pass on round the circle of thrones. Who art thott. mighty one of Heaven! “1 waa for thirty years a Christian in* valid, and sale red alPthe while, occasion-1 ally writ ing a note of sympathy for those worse off than I. and was general confidant of all those who had trodble, and onee in awhile 1 was strong enough to make a garment for that poor family in the back lane.*’ Pass on to another throne. Who art thou, mighty one of Heaven! “I was the mother who raised a whole family of children for Ood, and they are out in the world. Christian merchants, Christian mechanics, Christian wives, and I have bad fall reward of all my toiL" Let ns pass on in the circle of thrones: "I had a Sabbath-school class, and they were al ways on my heart, and they all entered the kingdom of Ood, and 1 am waiting for their arrival. ” Bit whi art then, t ie mighty one of Heaven on thislother throne! “In time of bitter elocution I owned a house in Damascus, a home on the wall. A mss who preached Christ was honnded from street to street, and I hid him from the assassins; and, when I found them breaking in my boose and 1 could no longer keep him safely, 1 adrised him to flee for his life, and a basket was let down over the well with the maltreated man in It, and 1 was one who helped hold the rope." And I said: “Is that all!*’ And he answered; - ‘That is all. ” And while 1 was lost in amassment I heard a strong voice that sounded as though It might oijjk have been hoarse from many exp .sores, and triumphant, as though it might have belonged to one of the martys. and it said: “Not many mighty, not many noble are called, bat God hath choeen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty, and base things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea and things which are not to being to naught things which are. that no flesh should glory in Hts presence." And I looked to see from whence the voice came, and lo! it was the very one Who had slid: Throngs a window. In a basket, was I let down Sj the trail. Henceforth think of nothing as insignificant. A little thing may decide your alL A^Cnnarder put out from England for New York. It was well equtped, bat in putting np a stove in the pilot-box a nnil was driven too near the compass. You know bow that nail wonld affect the com

plus. The (hip's oncer, deceived by- the distracted compass, put the (hip tvo hundred mi ls off her right course, and suddenly the man on the lookout cried, “Land ho!” and the ship was halted within a few yards of her demolition on Nantucket shoals. A sixpenny nail came near wrecking a Cunarder. Small ropes hold mighty destinities. A minister seated in Boston at his table, lacking a word, put his hand behind his head and tilta back his chair to think, and the ceiling falls and crushes the table, and would have crushed him. A minister in Jamaica at night by the light of an insect called the candle fly is kept from stepping over a precipice a hundred feet. F. W. Robertson, the celebrated English clergyman, said that he entered the ministry , from a train of circumstances started by the barking of a dog. Had the wind blown one way on a certain day the Bpanlsh Inquisition would have been established in England; but it blew the other way. and that dropped the accursed institution, with seventy-five thousand tons of shipping, to the bottom of the sea, or flung the splintered logs on the rocks. Nothing unimportant in your life or mine. Three noughts placed on the right side of the figure one make a thousand, and six noughts on the right side of the figure one a million, and our nothingness placed cn the right eide may be aug-1 mentation illimitable. All the ages of time ami eternity affected by the basket let down from a Damascus balcony. KEEPING OLD LETTERS. Why Only Hans. Never Used. Can Come from the Habit. It is trouble, net good, that arises from I old letters. A package has fallen into my care to l>e disposed of as thought bast It contains letters, bills, receipts, some papers of value and others worthless. In order to sort the chaff from the wheat they must be carefully examined. Ah, what un-thought-of secrets they disclose— fanu ly t rouble* of which the world never dreamed; bitter heartaches where we thought all was serene; lore letters, sacred for their time sad place, ridiculous now; a whispered suspicion of slander upon a name we thought waa pure as snow, and we are left to woader whether it be true or false. Old letters. What can they be good tori Their mission is ended. * | “ 1 may like te read them while recovering from aa illness." says some one. Pshaw! aa If these would be tonic yon needed at such a time! Bettor for a breath of pure air. Wo are all prone to brood too -much at such times, and seed aowucb help in that direction Let this plea for the burfflinf of letters be a strong one Business toilers should he filed end labeled. Have a blink book into which to copy sock dates or extract* aa may be of value in the future for references. This can be done when lettore are -them and see the ashes. It le the ser instmBrwfOJ^JaP **•* It to the i Then born tain. They are feeling from friend to Mead, goad Ini time, but sometimes worse then useless in' the future. Every day brings ne w experiences. We an constantly chancing, and in man.,- cases would be ashamed of our own tetters written tea years ago. Oar fluid said: “When you pitch year teat let it be among the living, sot among the deed”—Sarah M. Balieu. <a HanJwjw. CHECK ON THIEVES. Its Library Ars Kept : Baa Francisco has aa excellent public library I ventured in recently to make Its acquaintance, and 1 found seated at the entrance a middle-aged maa who banded ma a red V cm “ Wtat to this fort" I asked. *! To get out with,” said he, with a smile. “TO get eat with!" I exclaimed, in i surprise. - “Yen,” be continued. **I* toe are have tor insuring the return of drawn for tending or reference wort; in the library reading-room When you get the bock you waat at the desk, you give up thin ticket to the librarian. She returns it to you when you again hand in the book to her. If yon should try to get out by me without your red ticket I should infer that yua had obtained a kook which you haul net returned, and whtelk yon might have ir your pocket. In this way we can to rand nay book and aa many books as he chooses aad yet be sura that he doesn’t leave without returning them laitofaetorily totte librarian." The plan to a uew oae to no, and it struck » aa being as ingeeiowi aa it to simple I never realised 1 came into Baa Francisco aa

-To ply with a cloth dry in the sun. —Mashed potato should smoothed on the topi as It heavy. Potatoes need a hot does almost every thing thtt to —Keep large squares of thick j hoard hung conveniently to slip | pots, kettles, stew dishes and • whenever you set them down; —If, before grinding the coffee, the berries are heated Or five minutest or until they take darker shade Of brown, the flavor ; Coffee will be much improved. —Candied Fruit—Boil small, pears or peaches (only one sort of fruit at a time), peeled Id One teacupful of water and one pound of sugar until ten* den Stand in syrup two days* drain and sprinkle Coffee sugar over each piece and dry in the sun. Or a Very fclo* oven.*-Good Housekeeping. ’ —The following is said to be: of benefit for ingrowing toenails. Heat a small bit of tallow very hot in a spoon, and pour it on the granulations. 1’fctn and tenderness are relieved at once* and if repeated frequently the edge of the nail will be exposed in a few days* and then can be cut away. —Enamel for Shirt Bosoms.—Melt together with a gentle beat one ounce of white wax and two ounces of spermaceti; prepare In the usual way a sufficient quantity of starch for a dozen bosoms; put into it a piece of this enamel the size of a hazel-nut. This will give clothes a beautiful polish, —For cleaning marble take one-half pound of soda and one pound of whiting. mix with warm water and stir to the consistency of cream. Stand this in a jar ln~ the oven over night; in the morning stir it and lay the paste about half an inch thick over the marble, previously well washed with soap and water: leave this on the marble for twenty-four hours, then wash again and polish with a soft doth. For very bad stains this process may have to be repeated twice. —Scotch Cookies—Beat two cups of sugar with one of butter and five tablespoonfuls of milk, in which has been dissolved one teaspoonful of soda. Beat two eggs quite light and add them. Mix two leaspoonfuisof cream of tartar with half a pound of flour and a tablespoonful of powdered cinnamon. Mix the whole together* adding more flour from time to time to make a dough. Roll very thin,* and bake quickly in large round cakes.

CONCERNING WHEAT. TartrtIra Adapter) to Different Portion* of the Country. It is quite well known that varieties that succeed well in some sections of the country prove unprofitable in others under different conditions of soil and climate. New varieties are also being constantly introduced, and it is desirable to learn when and where they succeed or fail in order that as little loss as possible may be sustained by making unnecessary experiments with sorts not adapted to one's own locality. Some interesting information of this kind is furnished in the reports of intelligent observers to the Agricultural Department at Washington. The Michigan Agricultural College reports that the Imported varieties— Genoese, white Crimean. Egyptian and Indian—grew vigorously in the fall, but were not sufficiently hardy to stand the winter. Extra early Oakley proved too tender for this latitude. The Diehl Mediterranean, a bearded variety, stood thick on the ground; no smut or rust: was ready for harvesting July I, the berry being plump aad hard. The McGhee white showed some rust on the leaves, but no smut, ripened unevenly. Missouri Experiment Station reports; The Crimean, a coarse wheat, mostly winter killed. The Indian and Egyptian ail winter killed. The Diehl Mediterranean stood the winter well and gave a good berry. The Genoese, a failure. The McGhee white gave a moderate yield of most beautiful wheat of light color with a pearly luster, and ripened June 16. From Pawnee County, Neb., the Sheriff wheat is reported as badly winter killed. The New York Experiment Station reports the Diehl Mediterranean is well adapted to this climate. Martin's amber is first-class. Genoese, white Crimean and Egyptian are failures. The Pennsylvania State College reports all the Imported varieties, white Crimean, Genoese, Egyptian and Indian, winter killed. The yield from one quart of McGhee seed was 23 pounds, Diehl Mediterranean. 60 pounds; Martin's amber. 13 ounces. All suffered considerably from the By. South Carolina Experiment Station reports the extra early Oakley a very early variety, and as admirable sort for this latitude.. Yield, about 30 bushels to the acre. McGhee's white is a week later and a good Southern wheat. The Diehl Mediterranean rather late, but made a fine yield. The Sheriff too latefor this latitude. The Egyptian CrK mean and Indian all killed by cold. Martin's amber about had tailed. Virginia. Ham [Hop School reports: * f&ai. Mediterrnncas seems to he the only wfcSAi^MS sure here. The Southern States generally report but little wheat sown, as It is not as successful as in higher latitudes and is almost invariably injured by rusk—M. r. World, The Nobility of Farm Life. The farmer may. if he will, lire a noble life. He is one of aciassof workers who needs very much to learn from and by the work of others. It is said that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before Is a benefactor to his race. But how much more of a benefactor is he who not only does this, hut teaches others to do it by his example and advice. A farmer who goes into a locality where agriculture is very backward, and by better cultivation of the soil treblesand quadruples the ordinary yield of crops aad patiently explains to inquiring neighbors how this is to be done, la a nobleman of the highest kind, aad equals the nobility of that Roman citizen who left his plow to head aa army against the invader of his country, aad when he had destroyed the fee of his nation returned again to his plow which he had left in the Mrrow. There are many such men who work humbly in their fields, doing good and successful work aad helping others to improve

the New half minre num- i of the aVefa| at nearly bar in a Alaska, DuIt to estimated that 113,0* MO people hive creased the Brooklyn bt opened fire years ago. Ita rac sources bare been s 3,338,767. tons about 613,800,000. M| Ige since it j to from all total cost Foh 8«n« time past a more®# in p rogress in Bt louia took; troduetion of the penny into trade and business in that the aieket has been the era ordinary use there. Ths Mead Arxkltxt, ef Chk* it has been to the in. use in Hitherto lest coin m the plan of a twenty-eight-* trhichwin be 830 fe*%» be occupy e plot of ground 80 feet will contain-?* roams, fitted f poses, end will havfi twelve ele utors. >, publishes •y building, lit, and mil square. It office purof a New Ys Tut manager of a agency says be could hire « gedians within an hour for vreek and expenses. Thesupj r so great nor the demand to sm l, to a greet deal of absolute su( sequence. i(ou than half amlUonim tered cur parts during the fl closed, exceeding the influx o! years except 1831, 1883 and 1 tide of immigration reached mark. Four-fifths of the nni at New York. Is theatrical undred trail dollars a was never end (here in cod> Vttd ring i fibyear just all previous «% when the to highest her arrived Trims have been twenty*^ of the United States, five o: elected at fifty-seven, and six of great office before the military men, past sixty, Two died very soon, and tii General Jackson, and he was when elected. A statement has been prt > Presidents whom were Stained that fty. Three oen elected, other was at sixty-one ared at Chicago showing that 14,333,230 w rds of press specials and other messages " atttie Chicago office of the 1 Telegraph Company duripg t June 10 to 36 inclusive while tt are handled tern Union week from Republican National convention was in t ssion. This is sn average of 3.073,084 w ds for each day, Sunday Included. IrwiU take 5,780 books of ge l the dome ef the Boston State-! book contains twenty sheets each sheet containing a tittle o< inches The sheets are so thin leaf to gild Each f' gold leaf, r0>» square hat 1,000 of them laid one on the other ms|.Jbut on inch in thickness. The gold is wit; n a carat of weighs 3>i pounds trey. Each pure and book is worth seventy cents gold leaf atone costs 14,063. so that the t will take fifteen skilled workmen six we re to do the job.

it maritime >the latest 6,388,000 in tons; the rom 2,000,years wore f them the at the UuejlT Britain is the groat nation in the world according reports. The total tonnage w» 1877 aryl in 1836 was 7,B2L0i steam tonnage alone had risen 000 tons to 8,960,000 tons. Thes years of depression, and dart total tonnage entering and okr ports of the kingdom rose fr tons to 53,780,000. Of the whoJ per cent. was British. The ce approaches nearest in shipping States, but all of this is dot ships. We have no merchant Americans are compelled to ether nationalities to cany t tions. ITUs should not bo. T time when we had a merchant to-day what ships we have worthy._ SOME STRANGE I NDS. Ax old musket lately fish*: out of the Ohio river bears the letters “ 1 B.,” and ia believed to have belonged to I iniol Boone. Prior. WBisshXBAFXh, of H< lelberg, reports the existence of an unit nse cavern filled with inflammable gas uic er the tows of Findlay, O. amount 75 itry which the United in foreign narine, and upend upon lir producers was a larine; but re not aeaA Reliable Remet . Allcocx’b Porous Blast*! never fat! to five speedy proof of their e cacyasthn 'best external remedy for Teak Back, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Self ica, Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat Pulmon jr and Kidaey Difficulties, Malaria, Dys| rets, Heart, Bpieen, Liver and Btomacl Affections, Strains, and all Local Pains They have been hi use ft over thirty years, aad their,value has b«i itttestedby the highest medical anthoritic as well an by voluntary aad unimper table testi motiials from thousands wit have used them. Ask for Alloock's, and 1<? ao explsns tier* or solicitation induce yo< to accept n substitute. BUY-_ POBK-New M; BS CON-deor I COTTON—Middling... M>csrvauc. WHEAT—No. t Rod CORN—Mo. * Mixed... OATS—Me t Mixed.

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