Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 11, Petersburg, Pike County, 5 August 1892 — Page 4

• Good, Umt Glorious. following discourse, from among delivered during bis European , ia selected by Rev. T. DeWitt Talfor perusal* by his great congreI'of newspaper readers in AmeriThe test is: Ho that' someth from above Is above all.— John tat, 81. M The most conspicuous character of history stops out upon the platform. The finger which, diamonded with light, pointed down to Him from the Bethlehem sky, was only a ratification of the finger of prophecy, the finger of genealogy, the finger of chronology, the finger of events—all five fingers pointing in one direction. Christ to the oret-topping figure of all time. He is the’ Vox hnmana in all music, the gracefullest line in all sculpture, the most exquisite mingling of lights and shades in all painting, the acme of climaxes, the dome of all cathedralcd grandeur, and the peroration of all splendid lan- "* Greek alphabet is made up of twenty-four letters, and when Christ compared Himself to the first letter and the last letter, the alpha and the omega, He appropriated to Himself all the splendors that you can spell out either with those two letters and all letters between them. “I am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.” Or, if you prefer the words of the text, “above > all." It means, after you have piled up all Alpine and Hiroalays altitudes, the glory of Christ would have to spread its wings and descend 1,000 leagues to touch those summits. Pelion, a high mountain of Thessaly, Ossa, a high mountain, and Olympus, a high mountain; hut mvtholotrv tells us when the

giants warred against the gods they piled up these three ^mountains, and from the top of them proposed to scale the heavens; but the height was not great enough, and there was a complete failure. And after all the giants —Isaiah and Paul, prophetic and apostolic giants; Raphael and Michael Angelo, artistic giants; Cherubim and Seraphhn and Archangel, celestial giants —have failed to climb to the top of Christ’s glory, they might all well unite in the words of the text and say: “He that cometh from above is above all.” First, Christ must be above all else in our preaching. There are also many books on homiletics scattered all through the world that all laymen, as well as all clergymen, have made up their minds what sermons ought to be. That sermon is most effectual which most pointedly puts forth Christ as the pardon of all Bin and the correction of all evil, individual, social, political, national. There is no reason why we should ring the endless changes on a few phrases. There are those who think that if an exhortation or a discourse have frequent mention of justification, sanctification, covenant of works and covenant of grace, that therefore it must be profoundly evangelical, while they are suspicious of a discourse which presents the same truth but under different phraseology. Now, I say there is nothing in all the opulent realm of Anglo-Saxonism or all the word treasures that we inherited from the Latin and the Greek and the Indo-European, but we have a right to —‘•—marshal It in religious discussion. Chr&t sets the example. His illustrations were from the grass, the flowers, the spittle, the salve, the barnyard fowl, the crystals of salt, as well as from the seas and the stars; and we do not propose in, our Sabbath school teaching and in our pulpit addresses to be put on the limits. 1 know that there is a great deal said in our day against words as though they were nothing. They may be misused, but they have an imperial power. They are the bridge between soul and soul, between Almighty God and the human race. What did God write upon %, the table of stones? Words. What did Christ utter on Mount Olivet? Words. Out of what did Christ strike the spark for the iUumination of the universe? Out of words. “Let there be light,” and light was. Of course, thought is the cargo and words only the ship; but how long would your cargo get along without the ship? What you need, my friends, in all your work, in your Sab-bath-School, in your reformatory institutions, and what we all need is to enlarge our vocabulary when we eome to speak about God and Christ and Heaven. We ride a few old words ito death when there is such illimable re- ^ source. Shakespeare exployed 15,090 different words for dramatic purposes; : Milton employed 8,000 different words for poetic purposes; Rufus Choate employed over 11,000 different words for legal purposes, but the most of us have less than 1,000 words that we ean manage, less than 500. and that maks us so stupid. When we come tdyet forth the love of Christ we are-going to take the tenderest phraseology wherever we find it, and if it has never been used in that direction before, all the more shall we use it When we come to speak of the glory of Christ the Conqueror, wo are going to draw our studies from triumphal arch and oratorio and everything grand and stupendous. The French navy have eighteen flags by which they give signal; but those

eighteen flags they can put into 66,000 different combinations. And I hare to tell you that these standards of the Cross may be lifted into combinations infinite and varieties everlasting. And let me say to yonng men who ere after awhile going tc^preach Jesus Christ, yon will have the largest liberty and unlimited resource. You only have to present Christ in your own way. Jonathan Edwards preached Christ Puffin the severest argument ever penned, add John Bnnyan preached Christ in the sublimest allegory erer composed. Edward Payson, sick and exhausted, leaned up against the side of the pulpit and wept out his discourse, while George Whiteficld, with the manner and the voice and the start of an actor, overwhelmed his auditory. It would have been a different thing if Jonathan Edwards had tried to write and dream about the pilgrim's progress to the celestial city, or John Bunyan had attempted an assay on the human will. Brighter than the light, fresher than the fountains, deeper than the seas <*re all these Gospel themes. Song has no melody, flowers have no sweetness, •unset sky has no color compared with these glorious themes. These harvests of gmee spring up quicker than we can sickle them. Kindling pulpits with their Are, and producing revolutions vvjth their power, lighting up dying their glory, they are the thought for the poet, and fc thrilling illustration they offer the most t artist, and they are of the sky all enter direst

hut this robe of Christ, richer than that, the poorest and the xvanest and the worst may wear. “Where sin abounded grace may much more abound.” “Oh, my sins, my sins,” said Martin Luther to Stan pits, “my sins, my sins!” The fact is, that the brawny German student had found a Latin Bible that bad made him quake; and nothing else ever did make him quake; and when he found how, through ^hrist, he was pardoned and saved, he wrote to a friend, saying; “Come over and join us great and awful sinners saved by the grace of God. You seem to be only a slender sinner, and you don’t much extol the mercy of God; but we who have beep such very awful sinners praise His grace the more now that we have been. redeemed.” Can it be that you are so desperately egotistical that you feel yourself in first-rate spiritual ’ trim, and that from the root of the hair to the tip of the toe you, are scarless and immaculate? What yon need is a looking-glass, and here it is in the Bible. Poor, and wretched; and miserable, and blind, and naked from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, full of wounds and putrefying sores. No health in us. And then take the fact that Christ gathered up all the notes against us and paid them, and then offered us the receipt. And how much we need Him in our

sorrows; mc ».rt? muupcuucui ox vircumstances if we have His grace. Why, He mode Paul sing in the dungeon, and under that grace St. John from desolate Patinos heard the blast “of the apocalyptic trumpets. After all other candles have lieen snuffed out, this is the light that gets brighter and brighter until tlje perfect day; and after, under the hard hoofs of calamity, all the pools of worldly enjoyment have been trampled into deep mire, at the foot of the eternal rook the Christian, from cups of granite, lily-rimmed and Tinecovered, puts out the thirst of his soul. Again I remark that Christ is above all in dying alleviations. I havo not any sympathy with the morbidity abroad about our demise. The emperor of Constantinople arranged that on the day of his coronation the stonemason should come and consult him about his tombstone that after awhile he would need. And there are men who are monomaniacal on the subject of departure from this life by death, and the more they think of it the less they are prepared to go. This is an unmanliness not worty of you, not worthy of men. Saladin, the greatest conqueror of his day, while dying ordered the tunic he had on him to be carried after his death on a spear at the head of his army, and then the soldier ever and anon should stop and say: “Behold, all that is left of Saladin, the emperor and conqueror! Of all the states he conquered, of all the wealth he accumulated, nothing did he retain but this shroud.” I have no sympathy .with such behavior or such absurd demonstration, or with much that wo hear u ttered in regard to departure from this life to the next. There is,a common-sensical idea on this subject that you and I need to consider —that there are only two styles of departure. A thousand, feet underground, by light of torch, toiling in a miner’s shaft, a ledge of rock may fall upon us, and we may die a miner’s death. Far out at sea, falling from the slippery ratlines and broken on the halyards, we may die a sailor's death. On mission of mercy in hospital, amid broken bones and reeking leprosies and raging fevers, w$ may die a philanthrophist’s death. On the field of battle, serving God and our country, slugs through the heart, the gun carriage may roll over us, and we die a patriot’s death. But, after all. there are only two styles of departure; the death of the righteous and the death of the wicked, and we all want to die the former. * God grant that when that hour comes we may be at home! You want the hand of your kindred in your hand. You want your children to surround you. You want the light on your pillow from eyes that have long reflected your love. You want the room still. You do not want any curious strangers standing, around watching you. You want your kindred from afar to hear your last prayer. I think that is the wish of all of us. But is that all? Can earthly friends hold us when the billows of death come up to the girdle?

Can human voice charm open Heaven's gate? Can human hands pilot us through the narrows . of death into Heaven’s harbor? Can an earthly friendship shield us from the arrows of death and in. the hour when Satan shall practice upon us his infernal arehery? . No, no, no, no! Alas? poor soul, is that is all. Better die in the wilderness, far from tree shadows, and far from fountain, alone, vultures circling through the air waiting for our body, unknown to men, and to have no burial if only Christ could say through the solitudes: “1 will never leave thee. I will never forsake thee. From that pillar of stone a ladder would soar heavenward, angels coming and going; and across the solitude and the barrenness would come the sweet notes of Heavenly minstrelsy. Gordon Hall, far from home, dying in the door of a heathen temple, said: “Glory to Thee, 0 God!” What did dying Wilberforce say to his wife? “Come and sit beside me and let us talk of Heaven. I never knew what happiness was until I found Christ.” What did dying Hannah Moore say: “To go to Heaven, think what that is! To go to Christ, who died that I might live! Oh. glorious grave! Oh, what a glorious thing it is to die! Oh, the lore of Christ, the love of Christ!” What did Mr. Toplady, the great hymn-maker, say in his last hour? “Who can measure the depth of the third Heaven? Oh, the sunshine that fills my soul! I shal I soon be gone, for surely no one can live in this world after such glories as God has manifested to my soul.” What did the dying Faneway say? “I can as easily die as close my eyes or turn my bend in sleep. ^Before a few hours have passed I shall stand on Mount Zion with the one hundred and forty and four thousand, and with the just men made perfect, and we ohall ascribe riehea and honor, and glory, and majesty, and dominion unto God and the Lamb.” Dr. Taylor, condemned to burn at the stake, on the way thither, broke away from the guardsmen, and went bounding and leaping and jumping toward the fire, glad to go to Jesus and to me for Him. Sir Charles Hare, in last moment, had such rapturous vision that he cried: “Upward, upward, upward!” And so great was the peace of one of Christ’s dishis fingers upon the counted !* and was h's pla

which'the Lori, the righteous Judge, will give me in that day, and not to me only, hut to all them that lore His appearing!” Do yon not see that Christ is above all in dying alleviations? Toward the last hour of our earthly residence we are speeding. When I see the sunset I say: “One day less to live.” When I see the spring blossoms scattered I say: “Another season gone forever.” When I close this Bible on Sabbath night I,say: “Another Sabbath departed.” When I bury a friend I say: “Another earthly attraction gone forever.” What nimble feet the years have! The roebucks and the lightnings run not so fast. From decade to decade, from sky to sky, they go at a bound. There is a place for us, whether marked or not, where you and I will sleep the last sleep, and the men are now living who will, with solemn tread, carry us to our resting place. Ay, it is known in Heaven whether our departure will be a coronation or a banishment. Brighter than a banqueting hall through which- the light feet of the dancers go up and down to the sound of trumpeters will be the sepulcher through whose rifts the holy light of Heaven streameth. God will wateh you. He will send His angels to guard your slumbering ground, until, at Christ’s behest, they shall roll away the stone. So, also, Christ is above all in Heaven. The Bible distinctly says that Christ is the chief theme ot the celestial ascription, all the thrones facing His throne, all the palms waved before His face, all the crowns down at His feet Cherubim to cherubim, seraphim to seraphim, redeemed spirit to redeemed' spirit shall recite the Saviour’s earthly sacrifice. Stand on some high hill of Heaven, and in all the radiant sweep the most glorious object will be Jesus. Myriads gazing on the scars of His suffering, in silence at first afterward breaking forth into acclamation. The martyrs, all the purer for flame through which they passed, will say: “This is Jesus for whom we died.” The apostles, all the happier for the shipwreck and the scourging through which they went will say: “This is the Jesus whom we preached at Corinth and at Cappadocia and at Antioch and at Jerusalem.” Little children clad in white will say: “This is the Jesus who took us in His arms and blessed us, and when the storms of the world were too cold and loud, bmmrht 11s into this beautiful nlace.”

The multitudes of the bereft will say: “This is the Jesus who comforted us when our heart broke.” MaqJjwho had wandered clear off from God and plunged into vagabondism, but were saved by grace, will say: “This is the Jesus who pardoned us. We were lost <M the mountains, and He brought us home.” We were guilty, and He made us white as snow. Mercy boundless, grace unparalleled. And then, after each one has recited his peculiar deliverances and peculiar mercies, recited them as by solo, all the voices will come together in a great chorus, which shall make the arches echo and re-echo with the eternal reverberation of gladness and peace and triumph. Edward I. was so anxious to go to the Holy Land that when he was about to expire he bequeathed one hundred and sixty thousand dollars to have his heart, after his decease, taken to the Holy Land in Asia Minor, and his request was complied with. But there are hundreds to-day whose hearts are already in the Holy Land of Heaven. Where your treasures are there are your hearts also. John Bunyan, of whom I spoke at the beginning of the discourse, caught a glimpse of that place, and in his quaint way he said: “And 1 heard in my dream, and lo! the bells of the city rang again for joy; and as they opened the gates to let in the men I looked in after them, and lo! the city shone like the sun, and there were streets ol gold, and naen walked on them, harps in their hands, to sing praises with all; and after that they shut up the gates, which, when I had seen, I wished myself among them!” Bupplnni. The idea has been transmitted from generation to generation that happiness is one large and beautiful precious stone, a single gem so rare that all search after it is vain, all effort for it hopeless. It is not so. Happiness is % mosaic, compose! of many smal’.er stones. Each taken apart and viewed singly may be of little value; but when all are grouped together and judiciously combined and set, they form a 'pleasing and graceful whole—a costly jewel. Trample not under foot, then, the little pleasures which a gracious Providence. scatters in the daily path, and which, in eager search after some great and exciting joy, we are so apt to over look. Why should we always keep our eyes fixed on the bright distant horizon while there are so many lovely roses in the garden in which we are permitted to walk? The very ardor of our chase after happiness may be the reason that she so often eludes our grasp.—Farm and Fireside.

* The I.lttlc Things. How many of us, when we awake in the morning, resolve to do all the good we can, and going out, coming in contact with the world, forget to be pleasant, forget the smile, kind word and act. wanting to do some great act? Leaving the little things undone, the pleasant good morning, the gra&p of the hand, the thousand and one little things that seem so insignificant to us; yet to some one unaccustomed to kindness, how much it is to them no one but the Heavenly Father knows. Not a sparrow falls to the ground without our Heavenly Father’s notice; and remembering this, let each one of ns do all the good we can if we can not receive the applause of men because we foil to do some great act Let us receive the “Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over few things, I will make the ruler over many," and be more than content— Christian Standard. The Growth of Christianity. ♦ If we sum up the encouragements to hope, founded on the success of Christian work, the figures are as follows: Three centuries after Christ there were 5,000,000 Christiana Eight centuries * after Christ there were 30,000,000 Christians. Ten centuries after Christ there were 50.000,000 Christiana Fifteen centuries after Christ there were 100,000,000 Christiana Eighteen centuries after Christ them were 174,000,000 Christians. Now there are 450,000,000. The followers of the three religions— Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, all combined, are less in number than the Christians alone. Including the latest division of Africa amftng the European powers, about four-fifths of the land of the world is under Christian control.—U. 8. Army Chaplain. -Man is by creation a little lower Man by redemption ob

all others e l makes it the 1 taut iu the history of mankind is tho great progress that it has made In cheapening1 all kinds of products, 'The sole object of all inventions, machines and methods is to cheapen the cost of production. No one would be so fool* ish as to invent.a machine for the par* pose of increasing the cost of producing any article. The greater the saving that can be made in producing an article, the more value will be attached to the invention. It is for this same purpose—to put cheaper products in the hands of the consumer—that railroads have been run all over the civilized world, that canals have been dng to shorten routes of transportation; that telephones and telegraphs are made to connect all commercial cities and countries, and that banks of exchange have been established in all parts of the world. In view of this fact, recognized by all cc nomists and scientists, how silly sounds the following twaddle c-« cheapness from our leading protectionists statemeii: “I cannot find myself in full sympathy with this demand for cheaper coats, which seems to mo necessarily to involve a cheaper man and woman under the coats.”—Benjamin Harrison, in an address at Chicago in 1888. ‘“Cheap!’ I never liked 'the word. “Cheap’ and “nasty* go together. This whole system of cheap things is a badge of poverty, for cheap merchandise means cheap men, and cheap men mean a cheap country, and that is not the kind our fathers builded. furthermore, it is not the kind their sons mean to maintain.”—William McKinley, October 14. 1893. lion. Warner Miller says all rich men in New York are free traders, because they want their money to go as far as possible. . Cheap prices. “They know their free trade will give them cheaper prices and therefore are in favor of it. But the working people of America, and I include all you business men in that phrase, do not want cheap prices. Yon want high prices You have no sympathy with the ideas of these rich men with fixed incomes and yon vote in favor of protection for American industries.”—Speech at tho Business Men’s j Republican association, March 15, 1889. i “The attainmentof cheapness of com- , modities Is not tho best purpose'of tho I protective system.’’—The Manufacturer, j organ of the Pennsylvania Manufactur- ! era’ club, October 16, 1890. , “Cheapness is the fetich of the Eng* ! glishraan. Let ns then have done with this cheapness and with its advocacy.” —Harry Carey Baird, in Philadelphia, October 16, 1S90. “The cry for cheapness is on-Amer-ican.”—Henry Cabot Lodge, October 13,

ABOUT WAGES. Wage Reductions in Iron Mills - Statistics That it May De Welt to Keep. The following from the Iron Age of June 28, 1893, will give some idea of the enormity of the wage reductions proposed by the Won and steel manufacturers and presented in the form of an ultimatum to the Amalgamated Associa- . tion of Iron and Steel Workers: The price for bar rolling and heating, 8,240 pounds to the ton, has been cut down from 70 to 50 cents on a 2 cent card; for boiling, from $5.50 to $4.50; for j rolling common iron on plate mills from , 72 to 50 cents. Put in tabular form ' some of the reductions appear as follows: v Shinglin'/ 2,340 Healing Slabs and Shin- pounds. gling—Card Rates. Old Pate. Nets Pate. 2ebariron (rthammcrofl)..* 75 4 50 3c b ir iron (rehammrred).. 91 .65' 2c bar iron (charcoal). 82'i * 62 4 3c bar iron (charcoal). 1.01 82>4 L'eating 2 240 pounds. 50 70 570 3.13 4.35 3.20 ees 4.83 3 CO a io a is 353 4.33 2.40 353 230 255 310 247 2 13 2c bar iron.. 75 Sc bar iron. 1.00 Guide, KMnch, Hoop andCot-ton-Ti> Scale -Sizes. 7-32 rounds and squares_ 7.63 9-32 rounds and squares.... 5.15 5-l6half round....... 9.59 5, and H oval. 3 41 Nut Iron. 2?-94x!&jtl-18...... 1250 27-01x9-54. 1000 15-32x14. 4-70 19-3:x»4.... 4 25 Channel Iron. 2-inch and upward, base... 4 2.?0 >4x5-16and lighter.... 7.70 Hx5-ltiand lighter......... 9.50 T Iron 1^ andupwarl.. 323 IH. 470 Clip and Wagon Strap. f»........'S229 7-16 ..................;...... 4.10 5-16. 7.09, Ten-Inch Mill. 54 oval.... 8 SO Sx3-16 and heavier. 320 It is no wonder that 5,000 men are’ now out at the "Old Homestead” works of Carnegie,. Phipps & Co. and that many more thousands are on a strike in other iron mills Reductions have been numerous during the last few years in this “protected” industry, but never before has the situation been as precarious as how, when wages are reduced from 25 to 40 per cent and the life of the Amalgamated Association of Iron Workers is threatened. Tho iron workers may make a determined fight for a few months, but they cannot hold out against the tariff-fostered millionaires, who need never again think of their mills or of the men starving there, but can spend their time in their European castles and parks. The republican administration here is now attempting to have this untoward event ‘settled in some way until after election. It is possible that the barbed wire fence, the hot water hose and the numerous other equipments of these modern “protected castles” may bs laid away until after election. Of course the workingmen will all feel grateful s^nd vote for a president that can accomplish such results for them.

A Fervid Statement of Hard Fut The characterization of republican protection as a fraud is notan explosion of partisan wrath, hut the fervid statement of an incontrovertible fact The principal pretext upon which it is defended fully justifies the characterization. The country is asked to submit to the extortion for the reason that it increases the wages of American labor. That is the staple plea beenuse it is presumed to, be the most catching and appeals directly to the workingman’s vote. The history of nearly every branch of protected labor Bince the passage of the McKinley bill gives the He to that claim. There never was a time when American labor was so agitated by the wrongs inflicted upon it as it is to-day. There never was a time when dissatisfaction with the rate of wages was so great, when strikes and lockouts were bo frequent, when measures for selfdefense against the avarioe and injustice of employers were so common as they are at the present time. The workingman knows now if ho did not know in 1888 that republican protection is a fraud; that it harms instead of helping him; that it promotes the aggrandizement of the few through the impoverishment of the many, and that democracy offers him the only hope of delivery from his bondage.— Brooklyn Eagle, July 1,1388. —The rejected reciprocity timber is now the plank on - which Harrison relies to float him safely through the raffing warn raised % the »nti*tari£ ■tarro, , .I’,.,...

FASHION LITTER. 8«» end Pretty style# tor Summer Co# u ' turn##. (Special Sew York Correspondence.! The clinging skirts of the season re quire gome relief to break toe monotony of two' straight liaes, therefore use Is made of the lovely laces, creped silk inonssel&ine scalloped in points,

in se rtions of guipure, Irish point, and point de Genet and deep slashings with glimpses of feigned underskirts of lace, inuslin or accordion plaiting. New foulard silk dresses are made with shirts that oped on the sides over simulated skirts of silk m a telling one of the colors in the dress. A Frcneb toilet of white foul- ? ard with petit pois dots of

DiacK opens on cacn sura wvi a wuiula ted skirt of plain white silk over which falls a second skirt of black silk tnlle. The dross is trimmed with narrow black silk lace rnn together on their selvage edges and plaited into a full ruche. New black surah drosses are ricbl.v strewn with bright yellow flowers, scarlet buds, etc., and trimmed with black lace flounces laid over a color matching the flower. These gowns will be worn far into the autumn season. The China silk, cambric and pretty lawn shirt waists are delightful wear these sultry days and also most economical, for with these and a black silk and a blue English serge sheath skirt, well arranged and fitted, one can always present a fresh and dainty appearance Pale pink chambray blonses button hole stitched in white are a very popular fancy. Dressier styles are made of pink batiste with fine lace follinrr -f mm iVlA •>.

turn-clown collar and narrow wristbands. Yokes,cuffs and collars of Irish point embroidery make the pale pink, blue waists very smart “ in appearance. Other pretty hotweather blonscs ' are made of creamwhite India mull with full bishop sleeves and turndown collar, edged with slightly gathered frills of Valenciennes lace, a ruffle of the same extending down the front in jabot fashion. White Victoria lawn and lilac

waisus lor oruwary wear nave iuckcq yokes, and are Suished with a narrow edge of fine Torehon lace or Swiss embroidery. Corsages with nnn’s folds or crossed draperies are still in high vogue. Dresses of dove gray silk and crepon have lovely mauve silk gnimpes and sleeves trimmed with cut steel passementerie, In contrast appear vivid red guimpes and sleeves with white or black gowns, the bodice portion for youthful wearers, a baby waist With headed galloon forming bretelles or suspender's. Pale russet tints are still highly fashionable for boating and tennis. These

stand nest to navy blue in favor, and they are more serviceable than white or_pray costumes, but } they are made more dainty in appearance by white silk braid trimmings and a bloitse of white China silk. Russet shoes and long loose gloves of russet kid accompany these last mentioned costumes when V designed for vjk boating. India pisainull' dresses are supplanting

(hose of chiffon, being somevBiat more durable yet almost as airy. The mulls are very simple in style and are often made up ovef tinted batiste instead of silk. The batiste underskirt is gored in bell shape, the India mi'll falling straight over it from the be A. The lodice has a fichu drapery of the mull, edged with lace. White chamois skin gloves are worn with summer toilets, also pretty shoes in Spanish shape made of white canvas, tipped with white kid. The French coat from Paris of latest make is of dark cloth with mosquetaire re vers, deep collar and cuffs of pale gray, mastic or chamois colored c'etb, or the materials are reversed, show ing the facings, for instance, of dark moss green on a fawn-colored iacket. 0. D. F. THE NEWSPAPERS. Tax Paris Petit Journal has' n6w reached the enormous circulation of 1,250,000 copies daily. Tbs smallest newspaper in the world is El Telegram, published in Guadalajara, Mexico. It is four inches square. Nose of the leading London journals publish a Sunday edition, and an American paper which made an attempt to establish one in that city failed for a large sum. An Indiana paper found it necessary to publish the following correction: “For ‘Burglar Meeting’ in. the heading of an article in our last issue relating to the proceedings of- the town council, read ‘Regular Meeting.’ ” Two years ago', when the shah returned home from Europe, there were no newspapers in Persia, but he was so impressed with their value as agents in the spread of intelligence that he set about founding a few through a ministry of the press that he established. Now there are twelve. NOTES FROM CHINA. The Chinese gardeners are the most expert fruit growers in the world. Thx Chinese national debt is one of the smallest, amounting to only *88,600,000. Tbs Chinese have their tombs built In a semi-circular form, like a horseshoe, and the Moors use the same form in their architecture. The Chinese rasor has the shape of an isosceles triangle. It is made of rude steel and many of them are pounded up from worn-out horseshoes. Chinese annals remote as 2,000 B. C. speak of the cultivation of tea, and classify it almost as perfectly as is done to-day. It* virtues were discovered by accident. 'i

miPPPIPWm^ The hard seat is changed to a cushioned one. As Incandescent lamp apparatus, for exhibiting the Interior of boilers while under steam, his been invented by a German. AM engineer lias invented a device whereby the waste steam from locomotives, during their stop for water or cool, can be applied to pumping water and filling tanka. A KBW combination washer and nutlock for railroad use has recently proved itself very useful- The nut can bo released and tightened up with the greatest ease, and the washer can be rinsed frequently. A Pmi.ADEi,pmA optician makes a special summer thermometer which registers 10 degrees of heat less than the actual temperature, and he says that persons with vivid imaginations can keep cool with one in the house. A French engineer haa Invented a system of automatically stopping a train when an approaching one is on the same track. Levers, in front and behind a moving train, about a mile apart, are raised, putting a brajte on any locomotive that comes within that distance. __________ , SCIENCE WITH A RELISH. A Connecticut scientist calculates that there are 43,560,000 mosquito larva to an acre of swamp land. A Roman scientist, Dr. Fossenari, has successfully demonstrated that disease germs are almost immediately killed by tobacco smoke. Dr. John Tyndal, the eminent scientist, began his career in 1843 as assistant on the staff of the British ordnance survey at twenty shillings a week. M. Dameny has taken successive plu» tograpks of the lips of a speaker so that on arranging them a deaf mute, able to read from the motion of the lips, can understand thorn. Many cf the animals in the deep sea have no eyes and are therefore unaffected by the total absence of light Others have one hundred eyes and carry torches of phosphorescent light Capt. James, a quiet rancher in the foothills of Placer county, CaL, has been experimenting with the olive, and now makes the sensational, announcement that olives can be grown on our native willows by the ordinary process of grafting.

WORTH VISITING. The largest pyramid in Egypt is 146 yards high. It is asserted that the oldest building in the world is the tower of London. Persia has 'a race of pigmy camels who are. but twenty-five inches high and weigh but fifty pounds. Moscow’s famous broken bell is 23 feet in diameter and 31 feet 3 inches high. It weighs 443,773 pounds and is used as a chapel. The oldest armchair in the world is the throne once used by Queen Ilatafu, who flourished in Egypt 1600 B. C. It is made of ebony, beautifully carved, and is so hardened with age as to appear to be carved from black marble. A heavy plate-glass shade, ornamented with gold and securer locked to three staples set in the iniKle top of a pulpit in a church intfirussels, is said to cover one of the thorns which formed a part of the Saviour’s crown. CARING FOR THE NEEDY. A California bootblack gave three dollars and a half for a barrel of flour for the Russians. A man down in Georgia has built a number of houses which are occupied by widows free of rent. a A HosriTAi. has been founded at Paris by a Danish woman, with nurses speaking ^11 the principal languages. A “Home for the Dying” has recently been opened near London which i3 intended to shelter those smitten with fatal and ehronie disease. A special room in the Hahnemann hospital of New York is fitted up for sick saleswomen, another for sick and injured policemen and still another for firemen and patrolmen. GEMS FROM GEORGE ELIOT. A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes. • We hand folks over to God’s mercy and show none ourselves. The right word is always a powei and communicates its definiteness to our action. Who can toll just what criticisms Murr the Cat may be passing on us beings of wilder speculation?

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