University of South Carolina Libraries
I I . . JBHnHae Spring- and HHMT ;i I Hummer HR,. EPSTIIT'S, I RL I KO Main Street. Colombia, S. C. just returned from orthern Markets with a IHflnB A -* TT,^ Iice line of L'lotmng, naw, it's Furnishing Goods, J ?? ' A r V " nks, Valises, Satchels, Etc.,- equal to any se in the State. am prepared to offer ? bargains this season ng bought for cash which s me great advantage my competitors. For s, ' * qualities, and low s, I can astonish the old young, big and little, and poor. I can sell 's, Youth's and Boy's B^' Clothing cheaper than the B/v'' The citizens of Lexington WL are especially invited to exB amine my stock before purI B chasing elsewhere. ThankHL. king you for your past liberal |P^^9P^ronage and soliciting coitfthuance of *m,nL --v,, 0 r-.C L.-; I am very respectfully, L. EPSTIX. (Successor to Philip Epstin, under Columbia Iiolel Block,) Sept. 7-tf ?? 1IAAV 1% A 11III An lift Musi ruruLAit te; , ^INSTRUMENTS }> -ANDI1YIH KiCEIHS, ?A EE AT? - - M. A. MALONE'S. Saperior goods from factories of largest productions, with immense capital* and greatest reputation. drfSp^^^PSSSSSSSSSSSsHSEHSJBi J If you W.nt a New Piano at $250, $36o. $350, $40tf, $450 to $000, I can supply yon. I take second-hand Pianos in part payment for new ones, giving me a stock of secondhand Pianos which j can sell cheap. If you want Parlor Organs at $55, $65. :$75, $85, $100.and upwards, I can accom *-a-. ? imoaaie juu. If 50a want an Organ i'or church or Sab<batb-?ehoot at $55, $80. $87. $ll3 $100, ?125 to ?260. will prQcare one. Special disconnto lo churches and ministers. The tfa-rorites, viz; Eiv-y running Maw Home tfjui Domestic, also White and D.ivis Sewing Machines Can supply machines i from $30 to $60, aii warranted. Can sup- j ply yon with needles, parts, attachments or oil tor all makes of maehifcetf. I have the best equiped M^.ic House in this seetioa of the State, and co'rnpettitiou, quality considered. Call on 3m for | Tterms, etc. Office, Poat<?j?ee Block, >192 Maiti Street. COU7MBIA, S. C. rA. M ALONE, Proprietor. ae^O?-Ssi f mmmmmmmmmmmmammaaamummammKmam TABERNACLE SERVICES, b ; I REV. DR. TALMAGE'S DISCOURSE | i LAST SUNDAY MORNING. i j ] Nothing Haphazard About the Bible?Su- | perfluities a Hinderance Rather Than a 1 Help?We All Have Fiugcrs L'nouijh. ! The Most Ueaatlfdl Foot. Brooklyn, Sept. 23.?The Rev. T. De Witt Taimage, D. D., preached in the 1 Brooklyn tabernacle this morning on the i subject, "Superfluities a Hindemnce." Several ocean steamers arrive in pore Sunday mornings, and many of the passenger.?, browned by the sea come directly from the wharf to the Brooklyn tabernacle. The great congregation, led by Professor Ali's cornet, and accompanied by the organ, at which Professor Browne presides, joined in the ojxmiug hymn: We a re thy people, we tby care. Our souLs and all our mortal frame. What lasting honors shall we rear. Almighty Maker, to thy name? Dr. Talmage's text was 1 Chron. xx, G, 7: "A man of great stature, whose Angers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand and six on encn root, and he also was -the son of the giant. But when he defied Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimea, David's brother, slew him." Malformation photographed, and for what reason? Did not this passage slip in by mistake into the sacred Scriptures, as sometimes a paragraph utterly obnoxious to the editor gets into his newspaper during hi3 absence? Is not this scriptural errata? No, no; there is nothing haphazard about the Bible. This passage of Scripture was as certainly intended to be put in the Bible as the jiassage ''In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," or "God so loved the world that he gave j^s^only begotten And I select it for my text frxlay because it is charged with practical and tremendous meaning. By the people of God the Philistines had hven conquered, with the exception of a few giants. The race of giants is mostly ex i met, I am glad to say. There is no use for giants now except to enlarge the income of museums. But there were many of tliem in olden times Goliath was. according to the Bible, eleven feet, four ami a half inches high. Or, if you do not believe the Bible, the famous Plinv, a secular writer, declares that at Crete, by an ?.? 1.? ? mftnniiiput was broken eari.'Kjutfwc ? open, discovering the remains of a giant forty-six cubits long, or sixty-nine feet | high. So, whether you prefer sacred or profane liistorv, you must come to tho conclusion that theio were in those olden times cases of human altitude monstrous and appalling. David had smashed the skull of one of these giants, but there were other giants that the Davidean wars had not yet subdued, and one of them s tat ids in my text. He was not only of Alpine stature, but had a surplus of digits. To the ordinary fingers was annexed an additional finger and the foot had also a superfluous addendum. He hud-twenty-four terminations to hands and feet where others have twenty. It was not the only instance of the kind. T\. rp..r,;or tlrt? learned writer, says that j tl jy each liand. Maupetius in his^SSjKa ' letters speaks of two families near | Bet-lip similarly equipped of hand and foot. of which I can believe, for I have seen two cases of the same physical superabundance. But this giant of the text is in battle, and as David, the dwarf warrior, had dispatched one giant, the brother of David slays j thi3 monster of my text, and there he lies after the battle in Gath, a dead giant. I Ilis stature did not save him, and his ] superfluous appendices of hand and foot did not save him. The pi'obabilitv was that in the battle his sixth finger on Ids hand made him clumsy in the use his weapon, arid his sixth toe crippled, lii? gait. Behold the prostrate and malformated giant of the text: "A man : great of stature, whose fingers and toes ! were four and twenty, six on each hand, i and six on each foot: and he also was : the son of the giant. But when he de{ fied Israel. Jonathan, the son of Shiuiea, j David's brother, slew him.'* Behold how superfluities are a hinderanco rather than a help! In all the bati tie at Oath that day there was not a man j with ordinary hand and ordinary foot and ordinary stature that was not better off than this physical curiosity of my ! text. As physical size is apt to run in j families the probability is that this | brother cf David who did the work was ; of an abbreviated stature. A dwarf on ! the right side is stronger than a giant on ; tlu> wrong side, and all the body and j mind and estate and opportunity thai you cannot use for God and the betterment ! of the world is a sixth finger and a sixth toe, and a terrific hinderance. The most I of the good done in the world, and the j most of those who win the battles for the right, are ordinary people. Count the fingers of thei r right hand and they have just ! five, no more and no less. One Dr. Dull among missionaries, but tliree thou?uid nv??ionaries that would tell you ; they have only common endowment. I One Florence Nightingale to nurse the sick iii conspicuous places, but ten thousand women who are just as good nurses, though r\ever. heard of. The Swamp < Angel was a big gun that during the war I made a big noise, but muskets of ordinary caliber and shells of ordinary heft j did the execution. President Tyler #nd iiis cabinet go down mo roioniac one ' day to experiment with tlio Peacemaker; a great iron gun that was to affright j with its thunder foreign navies. The i gunner touches it off one] it explodes and leaves cabinet ministers .dead bn the deck, while at that tiruejafi tip and down j <puy coasts were cannon of ordinary bore i able pj bo the defense of the nation, and ready at the first touch to waken to duty. The curse of fbe yvorld is big guns. 1 JJter the Politicians pho have made all j the noise go home hoarse frojn angry discussion on the .evening of the first I Monday in November, the next .day the \ ! people "with the silent ballots will settle everything, and settle ft right, ft million of the white slips of paper they drop making about as much noise as the fail of an apple blossom. Clear back m the country today there are mothers in plain apron, and shoes fashioned on a rough ias? by the shoemaker at the end of the lane, rocking ,i)a^es that are to be the Martin Luthejs, and the Paradavs, and the Edisons, and the Bi'imarcks. ftnd the Gladstones, and the Wellingtons, aftd the George White- j fields of the year 1936; and who will ' make the Twentieth century so bright i this much lauded Nineteenth m ! comparison will seem a part of the dark ' ages. The longer I live the more I like j common folks. They .do the world's j *work, tearing the world's burdens, weep- j ing the world's sympathies, carrying the | world's consolation. Among lawyer? we see rise up a Rufus Ornate, or ft , William Wirt, or a Samuel L. Southftnd, j society would go to pieces to-morrow j if there were not thousands of common i lawyers to ,s?3 that men and women get their rights. A Valentine Mott or a Willard Parker rises up eminent in the medical profession. but ] .viuit an unlimited sweep wouia inuemonia, and diphtheria, and scarlet 'ever, have in the world if it were not .'or ten thousand common doctors. The ; >ld physictui in liis gig rolling up the lane of the farmhouse, or riding on liorsehack, his medicines in the saddlebags. arriving on the ninth day of the j fever, and coming in to take hold of the j pulse of the patient, while the family, i pale with anxiety, are looking on and | waiting for his decision in regard to the 1 patient, and !tearing him say: '-Thank ; CJod, I have mastered the case, he is J getting well.'" excites in me at; admira- j tion quite equal to the mention of the j names of the great metropolitan doctors, ! Pancoast or Gross cr Joseph C. Hutchin- j c.Anor'iho nast. or the illustrious living j men of the present. Yet what do we see in nil departments? People not satisfied with ordinary spheres of work and ordinary duties. Instead of trying to see what they can do with a j hand of fivo lingers they want six. Instead of usual endowment of twenty j twenty manual ant I pedal addenda they j want twenty-four. A certain amount of j money for livelihood and for the supply ! of those whom wo leave beltind us after we have departed this life is important, for we. luve the best authority for saying: "Ho that provideth not for his own, stud especially those of his own household, is worse than an infidelbut the large and fabulous sums for which many struggle, if obtained would be a hinderanee rather than an advantage. The anxieties and annoyances that those have | whose estates have bscome plethoric can only be told by those who possess them. It will be a good thing when through your industry and public prosperities you can own the house in which you live. But suppose you own fifty houses and you leave all those rents to collect and all those tenants to please. Suppose you have branched out in business successes until in almost every direction you have investments. The lire bell rings at night; you rush up stairs to look out of the window to see if it is any of your mills. Epidemic of crime comes and there are embezzlements and abscondings in all directions, and you wonder whether any of your bookkeepers will prove recreant. A panic strikes the financial world, and you are like a hen under a sky full of hawks and try ing with anxious clpci: to get \uiu overgrown chickens safely under wing. After a certain stage of success has been reached you have to trust so many important things to others that you are apt j to become the prey of others, and you j are swindled and defrauded, and the anxiety you hud on your brow when you were earning your first thousand dollars is not equal to the anxiety on your brow now that you have wen your three hundred thousand. The trouble with such a one is he is spread out like the unfortunate one in my text. You have more fingers and toes tlian you know what to do with. Twenty were idjgful, twenty-four is a hindering -sertluity. Disraeli says that ?-* king of * Poland abdicated ' his Pthrone. and joined the people and became a ported to carry burdens. And some one asked him why he did so and he replied: <4Upon my' lienor, gentlemen, the load which I quit is by far heavier than the one you see me carry. The weightiest is but a straw when compared to that world under^ winckjBBlabored. I have slept for me who am so welt it tfbuld be m.: .: ness to return to court." "Weil,'-' iays somebody, 'such overloaded persons ought to be pitied, for their worriments are real and their insomnia and their nervous prostration are genuine." I reply that they could get rid of tho bothersome surplus "by giving it away. If a man has more houses than ho can carry without vexation, let him drop a few of them. If his estate is so great he cannot manage it without getting nervous dyspepsia from having too much, let him divide up with those who have nervous dyspepsia because they canot get enough. No! They guard their sixth finger with more care than they did the original five. They go limping with what they call gout and know not that, like the giant of my test, they are lamed by a superfluous toe, A few of them by large charities bleed themselves of this financial obesity and*monetary plethora, but many;pi' them hang on to the hindering superfluity till death, and then as they arc compelled to give the money up anyhow, in their last will and testament they generously give some of it to the Lord, expecting no doubt that He will feel very much obliged to them. Thank God that once in a while we have a Peter Cooper who, owning an interest in the iron works at Trenton, saiu to Mr. Lester: 4T do not feel quite easy about the amount we are making. | Working under one of our patents, we liave a monopoly which seems to me something wrong. Everybody has to come to us for it and wo are making money too fast," So they reduced the price, and this while our philanthropist was building Cooper institute, which mothers a hundred institutes of kindness end mercy all over the land. But the world had to wait five thousand eight hundred years for Peter Cooper. I am glad for the benevolent institutions that get a legacy from men who during their life were as stingy as death, but who i!i their last will and testament bestowed money oil hospitals and missionary societies; but for such testators I have no respect. They would have taken every cent of it; with them if they could, and bought up half of heaven and let it out at fuinous rent, or loaned tho money to celestial citizens at 2 per cent, a month and got a corner on harps and trumpets. They lived in this world fifty or sixty years in the presence of appalling suffering and want and made no ! effort for their relief. The charities of such people are for tlie most part'in "paulo-post future" tense arid they are going to do them. The probability is that if such a one in his last will by a donation to benevolent societies tries to atone for iiis lifetime closefistedness, the heirs at law will try to break the will by proving that the old lpan was senile or crazy, mid .the expense of the litigation will about leave in the ftrarjrers* hands what was meant 'for the American Bible SOpfety. Oil, ye overweighted successful busings /pen, whether this sermon reach vour ear or your .eye, let pie say that if yon are prpsRareu #up an Ait(ies about keeping or investing these tremendous fortunes, I can tell you how you can do more to get your hegjt!) back and your spirits raised ^than by drinking gallons of bad tasting water at Saratoga, Homb^rgor Carlsbad?give to god and liumHnitji&iVu theSlbJp 10 per cent, of all your income, aud it will pi&kn a new man of you, and from restless walking of the floor at night you shall have eight hotus sleep without the help of bromide of potassium, and from no appetite you will hardly be' allle to waif y.our regular meals, and your wan cheek wfii fill up, and when you die the blessings of those who but for vo^ would have perished will blooity all ov?* your grave with violets, if it be spring,^ gladiolus, if it be autumn. Perhaps some of yo?j will take this advice, but the most of ?<ou will not. And you will try to cure ij^ur swollen hand by getting on it morcafingers, and your j I f ' riieumauc root by getting on it nu? vj toes, and thorn will bo a sigh of reli? li when you arc gone out of the world j, and when over your remains the minis-i ter recites the words, 4-Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." persons who have keen appreciation of the ludicrous will hardly be able to keep their faces straight. But whether in that direr lion my words do good or not. I am anxious that all who have only ordinary equipment be thankful for what they have and rightly employ it. I think you all have, figuratively as well as literally, fingers enough. Do not long for hindering superfluities. iag in the presence of this fallen grant of my text and in this post-moW<*r?i examination of him, let ns learn how much better off we aro \v;th just the usual hand, the usual foot. You have thanked God for a thousand things, but I warrant you never thanked him for those two implements of work and locomotion, that no one but the infinite and omnipotent j 1 1 ... ?,T,\ I (iOU COllld nave ever piuiiiK-u the hand and the foot. Only that soJ- ^ dier or that mechanic who, in a battle or through machinery, has lost them, knows anything al^out their value, and only the Christian scientist can have any appreciation of what divine masterpieces they are. Sir Charles Bell, the English surgeon, on the battle field of Waterloo, while en-1 gaged in amputations of the wounded was so impressed with the wondrous con- I struction of the human hand that whef ! the Earl of Bridge water gave $40,000 ft,essays on the wisdom and goodnes?of God, and eight books were writteirSir Charles Beli vrroto his entire book Ci the wisdom and goutiness of God as djpl-jyed in the human hand. The tw^y.seven bones in hand and wrist wi^ cartilage:; j and ligaments and phases of the j fingers all made just J&dy to knit, to sew, to build up,Jo pull down, | to weave, to write! to plow, to I pound, to wlieel, to battle, to j give friendly salutation! The tips of its fingers are so many teWapfi offices by reason of their sensitfeness of touch. The bridges, the tunnel-, the cit; * the whole eartli arc the vic^es of ti. nand. The hands aro not dumtbut often speak as distinctly as the iips. Ijfttli our hands wo invite, we repel, we ^pte, we entreat, we wring them in ?*f 0r clap them in joy. or spread tliem?tbroad in benediction. The maiformat^ 0f the giant's hand in the text glori^ the usuai nand. Fashioned of God ^ore exquisitely and wondrouslv tha^uy human mechanism that was e\ contrived, I charge you use it for Co^tfd the lifting bf the world out of its m<td predicament. Employ it in the cuidi'e work of Gospci handshaking. Yooan see the hand is just made for U?. Four fingers just set right to torn your neighbor's hand (irvvniir thumb net so as to \SJUW VW? -clench it on ft other side. By all its bones, and joiti and muscles, and carti- ^ lager., and Ligr^nts, the voice of nature joins with t*yoice of God commanding you 10 shal tends. The custom is as old as the Ire,'anyhow. Jehu said to Jahrr-^" r-r' thine heart right as my heart is witi ine heart? If it be, give me thine ha " When hand3 join in Christian sah ion a Gospel electricity thrills acrosy^^pnlm from heart to heart, and dom the shoulder of one to the sh$<Wpf the other. ? Sliake bands all With the timid and for "VVagement, shake hands, * ,\d and in warm hearted* With tadkess child started on he needs to strength, and to taller, beds your to defame can where door of^nurcheswhe^^jHPQHH shake /hands. Let pulpitsnakeBtml with pew, and Sabbath day shake hand with jweek day, and earth shake hand wiiii neaven. un uie strange, Uji might y, the uu defined, the mysterious eke eternal poser of an honest band shaking. Tlie difference between tkesi times and the millennial times is tha now some shake hands but then all wil shake ^utnds, throne and footstool, across seas cation with nation, God and man church militant and church triumphant Yea; the malformation of this faller giant's 1'oot glorifies the ordinary loot for which yl fear you have never onc< thanked Gckl. The twenty-sir bones oi the foot are\the iidmirution of the anat omist. The \arch of the foot fashion eci with a grace Vand a poise that Trajan': arch at BeneVentum, or Constantino': arch at Rome, or arch of Triumph at the end of ClVamps Elysees could noi equal. Those mrche3 stand where they were planted^, but this arch of the foot is an adjustable arch, a yielding arch, a flying arcj-h, and ready for movements innumerable. The human foot so fashioned as/lo enable man to stand upright as no otflier creature, and leave the hand that would otherwise have to help in balancjing the body free for anything it chooses. The foot of the camel fashioned for th/te sand, the foot of the bird fashioned for the tree branch, the foot of the hind|fashioned for the slippery rock, the foot J of the lion fashioned to rend its prey! the foot of the horse fashioned for tire /solid earth, but the foot of man mau p to cross the desert, or climb the tree, or scale the cliff, or walk the earth, or gc anywhere lie needs to go. With that ilivine triumph of anatomy in your possession, where do you walk? In what path <bf righteousness or what path of sin have you set it down? Where have you left lh.' mark of your footsteps? Amid the perTi*factious in the rocks have been found Aire mark of the feet of birds and beasts ok -housands of years ago. And GotJ cai\ trace put all the footsteps of your iife&hne. ami those you made titty years'ago . ire as plain as those made in the last; soft weather, all of them pertrificd for the judgment day. Oh, the foot! L divinely honored not only iF? its construction but in the fact thPt God represents himself in the Bible ^ having feet : "The clouds on fse this ^'t his feet.;'1 "Darkness was under his / vtr "'Hie earth is my footstool." Ai. 1 representing cyclones and euroclydons whirlwinds and hurricanes as winded creatures, lie descrilx??. Ijimself as pacing his foot on these monSipiVpf the jvajking from pinion to pinion, sa\^Pg: "He walker! 1 upoty the wings of the wind." "Thou hist pur all things gnder his feet," cries the psalmist. Oh, the foot! Give me the autobiography of y??ur f??t from the time sienpifd out of the cradle until toij'ay ahd f will ieU your exact character hoW:and what arc your prospects for the world t o come. That there might be mo doubt about the Oct that both these pieces of divine mechanism, hand and Pii,j, .bplong to Olj'ist's service,' l>otli hands of Christ tincl both feet of Christ * were spiked on the cro?. Right through the arch of both his fort to the hollow of j his footstep went tlie ircn of torture, and j ;Ycm the palm of his hand to the back ! pf ;t. and there is not a rmscle or nerve or bone among the fweriy-seyen l>ones qt hand and wrist, pi among?the . twenty-si"? bones of thefoot, but it belongs to him now and brever. Charles ?;V *j ?!&&*? joint or ?r'* t. J , soi hi'.' -lU ?^ la* r.-'.ol: . fvv '?<10 Jperdii!l>^ i on "^v>\, caif oiiv rattle Ol ; ,ril NVOV* , .;? the son1- W when tho j ? \let '-ie ; eoUtt'O*; Mv |ie said: : *'K.'";* ! | i jP \nd a woman \vli,> h? M rivalry rave A.lul rJ1 . Jfl^vomcn rosolvy^to question^ to'^Ki of all the /bonus was mtracthe, and sh^'Say-. '-The. m^Blx^aatifal of them all \s hy- one kha^Rye relief to my necesiities\ raid ar. "aKso said her wrinkles dial rag\ a.id jleT Decrepitude and her body di^a^U^d, an* in place thereof stood the Christ who'ong ago said: 'Inasmuch a:s ye did it laone of the lcar: of these ye did it to ni?'. and who. to jnivchasj the sendee of o^hand and foot here on. varth or in resurretion state, had his own hand and foot Iterated. 1J Tho -JLitili.- I,a:::!)V' Clary. ?Irs. ilary E. TynV, the original ary whose little lamb iiad followed h< to school one day, is raid Living at Siiierviilc, Mass., a vjgt>n ds old lady ^ 80 years. To a reporter of The Sstcn Globe she recently gave the true vtsion of the world famous v erses. Thelamb ! was raised by her from the day ff its birth, ics mother having deserted t. It followed 'Tory everywhere she wcr. and diet! i:i her arms, having lieen gefd by a cow while i'oHo.wiug Mary alJjc they j bam. Tlie tliree criminal veras wer/ i written by one John 1 ioqistone.4?voiinh man of the ntdghborhoc^H^irxtfcS for college, but two more verses added afterward by a Mrs. Towo4:i,i_ From the fleece of her lamb Mry? j two pairs of stockings. The^'" -were raveled out, and sold in small biQ tied to a card wiui Mary's autograph-i written on it, and sold for tha fund coli^tnj to save tho Old South church, Aloaon. Two bundl ed ddJais were raW; ia this way.?Harper's '--j- ho Fccc. Tpfco daughters of a wea!t:r Alleghany ciInzeii. like their sisters the .world over, want&l a fairer ooiSpieedon fcio.ii nature gave tlioS^v.Reconlly they read somewhere that the juice of watermelon smeared over the lace, to re:Wn dining the right, produced the des;3tt effect. The}* lost 110 time in procuringVmeioo. They smeared the juice all <*r their regular and really pretty featur? They plastered on two or three coatsj^j ro. tired. The morning came. <* sad morning! The mirror was theirMt tention. Ancj, oh horrors! ihcMs.cs?. looked like a cranberry-marsh. . au?, red, poisonri). Thiy wE^B^r n[A|i|wi paragraph. ^ jr of the newest things in fans is o Hli a smelling little in the stick, and smelling bo^iie a little very stro; H^Knmonia. ^ A tract of laifd containing 1.000,0 ""acce^ih Aroostoejc county. Me., has be: s sold for $1,000.00^ The deed record: 2 contains 25,000 words. ' A Blackfoot Indian recently covered distance of ninety miles per day for fo; 3 days on foot, and his sole diet was dri< 1 l>eef. The trouble with the white man * that he lives too well. A well known American publisher sa; that the works of Charles Dickens ca [ hardly be brovght out fast enough I keep up with tie demand, while reprin [ of Thackeray riardiy pay for the papt P used. The atmosphere on the English char [ . nel was recently rarefied to such a dt i gree that objects between thirty an ; forty ruilas .fror* Dover and Foikeston t could clearly ie distinguished with th nakfiijjjre. > The popular dread of green on ac : count of suspicion of arsenic in its com l position sceut to have disappeared it' om Can believe tlVrejx)rt that green is to b< jthe fashional/tfcolor for the winter, auc will ap{?;ar n wall paper, draperies anc 1 ribbons. Tiio telejionc was allowed to be usee on Sunday or the first time in London a few weeks ago. The managers of the ' company, i is said, had grave doubts 1 about the tsult of such an innovation, but the l.vgo use that was made of the 1 . privilege r.iislied them. Fishernn seeking sea bass olT the coast of Xoierev, CaL, came upon a gigantic sinlili, and succeeded in capturing it the, enveloping it in about 100 ftSfhoins of'net. It weighed 4.000 jwunds. sod Forts were made to preserve it a*d s*ul it to San Francisco, but they farhjl. ^; The thhfyf -ilia tiiree heaviest rifled guns ed* ixide in this country is nearly comply, the ordnance foundry of the S< Sostotn Iron Vv'orks. Tire lirst gun of cast iron, the second of ,-gastUj hooped and tubed with steel, "* and tlikun now in the foundry is like the seqKl^ general tiling do not like waterjventhough tliev are good swimmers. A *n ^ayf?n' N. d., has a large pitcselthat is an exception. Tilis anim#uk?s wate; even more kindly than I spani'vl.' He will go into the j water"* ins own account ana seems to enjoySt hugay. Like a (lug lie will brin^nck a slick thrown in the water. j Tlij ??aid to be J consiircting a lire pbf sees! car at Bo | I (oitr^vhich will coifch uoihitig that can I burn except the iVplStery, and even j that is constructed f uninl/aihmaLle material. Not only! munity from fire, h:ii aii increase in stygtlu a decrease in ; the Habihty to teles*,* and a diuuou- i tion of dead p. expected to be | aocie of tpe good fesxt^s of the new car. j Twenty-live lively c^.adiles recently j escaped into the river t,e from an Afri- I can sailing vessel. Tl, crocodiles nyp j thought to be en.ioviijgljeh new home j vary itwich. but the Goran small boys j j u 110 live along the bank# the river are j i ur.hanpy because they cit go in swjut- ' ming. tl The statistical crank a.? let himself j Lose again: una now turnup with the int'oi motion that the sea sic resort; dur- ' | i:ig the summer have had < average at- | | tendance iof. twenty-eigh|yoiuen to j ! every msd. There iias. iJed. been, a ' 1 i-11 -jj^Vtic scarcity of men at all tne re- ; many of the bails the ludi- | j aoos^Rpectacle of a set composed cf one j rdora^Bmu seven girls is common, and the j i ts. .^et is not infrequently danced by j i" ^R'hile there lias been no falling off in | increase of feminine medical practi- j '"l^Kners, tlie growth for the last three i * "V^Rontiis would probably have been larger ' ; f^iiad not a goodly number of the medical ' 1 neophytes been diverted to the study of ! 1 the sister art, dentistry, which has re w ceatly gained many recruits from the ( rj sex. In New York particularly the num- j ? ! ber of women matriculating at dental j > colleges is rapidly growing. | . A Canal Across Italy. jfl It is, proposed to commence a car.aj|^F upon the western shore of Italy, juaP j above Civita Vecchia, at Castre, and^^t | cut tiirough to Fano on the easten^^to i Adriatic shore. A glance at theor of Italy will show that in this lin^J aP lakes are met, those of Bolsena ai^flp two | imeao, and it is proposed to Tras- j j two lakes, thus securing the are^F11 these j I tivaticn. The length of the<mr TCU}~ i ; be about 100 miles, the widtb^^3* j yards, and its depth is to MT , IC i yards, so tjbat ships of any^r6 about 13 even men-of-war, will ba^tonnage, and j throhgh it. The cost c^F v3 t0 P^3 reckoned at o00,000,00(jF: *^0 caRal is ?20,000,000. It is e?c *raR5S? that is, work could be compljFlnated *bafc the r ?,~.???,?^ted m five years ; i.ou! The Italian jomnaio mo 1'ou -interested in the project and are tj?ing up ^ ma^er \varm?}, anc^ ''jl the fact of the long i sea passage i oun? t-ae south coast of Italy and up tne sm)riny Adriatic to Trieste and \ 3511231:yremembered, certainly the canal w ?^ Jpo of immense service to the \vaOxj or #socjiiern Eurooe.?London l- igaro. a \jM Aucieut Seat of Learning:. Vv ni;cj jyiojy college at Williamshurg^#'.,^ after paying been closed for a ;n/er of years, is lo be reopened this ? / the education of young men. lJc school was founded in IG93, and to Harvard, which was founded in /GoS, is the oldest college in the United > < /Slates. Among the list of its alumni / were Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James } Monroe and John Tyler, Chief Justice i | Marshall, Gen. Winfield Scott, Peyton Randolph, first speaker of the federal congress; John Randolph, of Roanoke; t Edmund Randolph, secretary of state un- j der Gen. Washington; besides many governors. congressmen and cabinet officers, lis buildings were much damaged and somo of them destroyed during the civil war, and its endowment fund, invested in securities that had greatly declined in value, left the old college in a condition of helplessness, so that it was forced to il clcseits dcors. Additional funds have been raised, and it is to take on a hew lease of life.?New Orleans Picayune. X MEN OF NOTE. 3? 7 Personal Items from the Newspapers. What It Is to Be Famous. The chief reason' for Moltke's resigna- g, lion, expressed in his letter to Emjieror William, is that 4 ;at my great age I am fti no longer able to mount a horse." ai John Tod, a Scotchman who has just cj_ published in Edinburgh a book entitled Bits About America," says that Amer CJ ican women hawj-great jx>wer of #ex- J pressing what they mean. Ex-Governor Knptt, tof Kentuqky, lfas .-not read a book that has been published 10 _ within the last fifteen years. He reads 8{. the newspapers' oiily yvtien ^yoh^L^fesays/nat the old books are ^ ^^ynaturaJization papers b tve been-jssued is | | the Rev. Luke F. Walker, a Graduate of the Indian sc!\ool at Vkirlisle, Pa. He is a full blooded redskin, but has completely severed his tribal relations^ ... , ne A Richmond paper tells' of a local in Beau Bruminel of half a century ago '.vho would be a formidable, rival of Berry Wall were he alive today. He 00 was the best dressed man of his day, aod sn when he died left a legacy of seventy' ed one pairs of trousers to his heirs. The home of Maurice Thompson, the.; n poet, at Cravvfordsvihe, lud., is a dark?' ir gray house of a dozen rooms, deep set in *1 a little grove of maples, and looking into is a broad, beautiful street, 011 the other i side of which is a well kept park of five rs acres, set in trees and carpeted with blue n grass. to The king of the Belgians, who has lieen ts visiting plain Mr. Mackinnon in Scot>r land, is a very quiet man, and he preserved his incognito so well that his royj. ally was not suspected. He went about j. in knickerbockers and hob nailed l>oots, (j and it is said that iie didn't look the e least bit like a king, e Chief Justice Fuller is the smallest man 011 the supreme court bench. He is 3 feet 0 inches in height and weighs 123 pounds. Justice Gray is a giant Q- compared to Fuller, Ixhng 0 feet o inches % in height and weighing nearly 300 1 pounds. Justice Harlan is also a large j man. being two inches over six feet in height and weighing 230 pounds. I That wondi rful pianist. Josef HofL j mann, Las grown stout and sturdy since . j he left New York. Ilis return next year ( ; will bo eagerly looked forward to by . I lovers of the phenomenal in music. It I turns out now 'that a great many stories 1 I ni.?- .......-1.. ....... ?iiu were anxious j ^ to devote a hundred thousand doliars to I . the boy's musical education, p'oilaiithro- | i pists who were bound to prevent his c j playing at any cost, etc., were"pure ini vention. Lf is said that the late Charles Crocker, a i the California millionaire, was never so ti ! happy as when enjoying, the fun to be . ; got out of his enormous wealth. It is ; told of him that lie enjoyed with the tl keenness of a boy the fun of running up the price of a picture or bit of bric-a- ' brae that a fellow millionaire was bid- w ding 011, and that he was equally weil tc pleased if the other had to pay a big . round snm for it, or if it was knocked I down to him after the other had chased it up info the thousands of dollars. John Lucas, the head waiter who died at Saratoga the other day and left a for( tune of $60,000, used to scorn an ordi- ^ | nary fee. although lie did not hesitate to re mete out punishment to any guest who g, failed t<? render tribute. On ouo occasion a lady put *;?. into his hand and said: "1 vv.uit a !?Hw> r?W.u a-, J: , m me uiii- QQ ing room than this one, so near the pantries." Lucas threw back tho rnone}' "? and shouted out, angrily: "If vou think yo will win tny good will you arc mis- j ,f taken." It took a fee of at least $20 to 1 secure (i??y favoritism from hiu?. po Enoch Pratt, who gave to Baltimore the free library that bears his distin- \ guished name, recently entered upon his | 81 st year hale and vigorous in body and mind. Jh\ Vratt, whose name will be linked, *ih. that of Johns Hopkins as a teaefactor. did not wait for the uucer- j ou tain operation of a will, but gave tho li- chj brary building and the. ground it stands on (valued at $.-.'.">0,000} and his personal yhyek tor nearly $850,000, upon the city al? yf Baltimore agreeing to give $50,000 a year for the support of the institution, which has had the incalculable advan- gee tago of his personal guidance thus far. jn?t( Detroit can be pi*oud of Joseph L. Hudson and not make any mistake about it. In 18TG the clothing firm of R. Hud- toai / / / son cc son, ono or^ - g\u, compromise^^ttie largest in Michipaid sixty cents^^Kl with its creditors and lifter the faiinn^Von the dollar. Not long and Joseph the old gentleman died, the businessHudson, th.e son, carried Ho soon prc^^porward as well as lie could, business ^Vved that there was the right stood ori^Hncttlo in him. lie gradually after st'lid ground again, and now, of the ^^^Iv-e years, lias paid every dollar thipercent, indebtedness?someHe l^Wover $20,000?of the original firm. thcJHuis I^'d interest money, !uo, on all ^M^Vsuuis since the date of the failure, gone to no end of trouble besides to jiBck the creditors out. east and west. lie Was just paid the last debt, that of a poor Fv.idow in New York city, who was the i last to be found, and returned to his : home completely happy. No one would I predict now that his business will not double in a year. John \V. Bookwalter has beou one of the most interesting characters in NewYork lately. lie is a quiet, reserved looking man of medium stature, broad forehead on which big, iron gray brows stand out in bold archaa-Jj' i i-i M rwyay^r eyes and thickjjxrfclio^ iron gray hair. Mr. Book winter, who was the Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio some years ago. does not look over fifty years of age, if so old. In conversation ho is as charming as he chooses to be, and, while a persistent bachelor, he is a great fv> in enninftr trKnn ??? > *?? uw ucai lU His collection of Japanese antiquities is said to be the Gnest in the world. At his homo in Springfield, O., where ho has made and is making an enormous fortune out of the manufacture of water j wheels, Mr. Book waiter had collected art treasures from all over the ancient anil 1 modem world. Souio years ago he i brought most of his collection to New { York and stored it. Some of it is now on exhibition in the Cincinnati centennial. 1 Among his treasures are white cashmere g shawls eighteen feet long and ten feet wide, which can easily be drawn through 1 an ordinary linger ring. t A Lady's Testimony. a a The Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.: a GENTLi'MhXOc e of mv lady enstoners, who was sorely i.fifllcted with ^ hettmalism Smd weak back for a long icue, has been completely cored by g he use of Swift's Specific. T. C. Lewis, 209 Texas St. Shreveport, La., June 15tb, 188S. ^ Ci The following certificate speaks for tfc self: Office of tbe Rnby Gold Grate! to liuing Co., 320 Sausom St., Sa* ca 'ranciscn, Cal., November 12th, *87 Tl Tie Swifl Specific Co, Atlanta, Gaio Sirs:?Having for the past four or co vo years been troubled with pimples pr id blotches ou my face and body, it* id finding do relief in Bay of tbe sti iemically prepared soaps and tnedi- evi ues prescribed tot me by physicians, te( concluded to.Uy your S, S. S. ?bi % v.-**"*" medy, and faavef found great relief yei tbe same, fuur^ottles clearing my cat it> entirely. I dbeerfnUy recommend th< tfrnfedif i u e li ^ Su iflition that I been in. You col - -T . __1 testimonial to the meritsofthe^S^gr S. remedy. Very truly yoars, Alfred P. Robinson. ;Treatis> on Blond acd Skin Diseases mailed (?^e. The Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. if Gtacsfolaess. Nature will be generally be found to be one of the best teachers of gracefulness. No artificial rules can teach us the exact amount of force reqaisite for various montions and attitudes we assume. The infant in bis innocent glee, and the child in his bouDdiDg sports, ore seldom ungraceful. It is when we contract an ! excessive self-conctousness, aud think 1 more of the appearance we make than 1 of the objects we desire to accomplish, that we become the most ungraceful The shy aud bashful man Imows not how to manage bis hands and feet, because-be is thinking so constantly on them; but if he would a withdraw his mind from bis own ap- 11 pearauce, &Dd fix it upon the best ^ neaus of. accomplishing bis parposes, i more natural macuer would pervade * fc lis Hctious, aud be would lose much >f his awkwardness. sc The principle reason why education re nd culture confer grace of maimer is to hut they teach us the best wav i re i use our powers so as to ecouomise ^ beir force; and leading us out of our- :. , dves, they rivet our attention cn bat is before us, rather than trying 10 ) supersede her. ^ CO! ^ _ ? consumption Surely Cured- \ "si : a9 To the Editor :?Please inform No V >ur readers that 4 have a positive Jy rnedy for the above named disease. the f its timely use thousands of mil pelesa cases have been posinaoentiy did red. I shall b$ gkd to Rend two Wi ttleg oi liny remedy free to any of 1 an ?r reacts who have consumption the thev will send me their express and j fori st office address. Respect folly. j con T. A. Stpcxw, HI. 0 | nui 181 Pearl Street, New York. Make yonr home the b; ighteet place earth if you would charm yonr f Idren to the high path of \ trine, ! 1 rectitnde, and religion. Do not ays turn the blinds the wrong way. ren] : the light, which puts gold on the corr! iti&n. and spots tl)e pansy," pour ! 19 1 > your dwellings. Do not expert little fuet to keep step to, ? ?*re rch. . * aud '. ^5 < v A Voice From the Grave. A good in any colored Republicans in the Southern States- voted for Geo. John A. Logan for Vice^Presideot. four years ago, and it is to be prei so mod, therefore, that the J entertained seine degree of confidence Ifi him as a friend of tbeir race and in hie ability as a statesman as well. It t-honld interest these colored voters, at least, to kuow what were Gen. Logan's views on the most important question, for them, iu the present campaign, which relates to the effect of the high protective tariff on the welfare of the colored people in general. Oq April 18, 1870, Gen. Logan ' osed this significant language in Oon-gTt-rtv'firs-crpty?to sOTne assertions made by Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania. "Now, when Ibe gentleman, who seetn8 to be lhfl nrntoMn* in ?* IU OU especial maimer of the great labor interests of this coootry, speaks of (bit protection beiog the protection of the labor of this coon try, I ask him: Does not every farmer and mechanic in this broad land make nseof iron in ill kmds of labor? The 4.000,000 iien that have been freed recently ire laborers, are producers, not man* if&cturere. They are not me# of ikilled labor; they evidently are not nen who are protected. And then here are the meD in the Northwest vho produce corn, wheat, oats, pork ud beans, &c.; they are producers k nd con earners, and are not protected, A nd it is they who pay this large mount of money into the pockets of he manufacturers of this article. And 'hen a gentleman stands opon this^fl I oor and tells me that ibis high, thinflBBH straordinary high tariff is for th^^^H^f rotection of the laboriog'men, I im that I do not understand in possibly substantiate This is frank and plain from so a as true dow have been no laborers of a word that fall fow?.y.;kbey tdeutly are gpt the be ogaicst ) whole ored^j I cul action, ahae5tffl89PWHQ|^^^^^^^H| formed friends and neighbors ' * '' W^T' vi.T<- V {PgL- ' ingly.?News and Courier, . * ' , ? - *> Advice to ICothen. Mrs. Winslow's Soothihg Stbup shoold always be need when children are catting teeth. It relieves the little sufferer at once; it pvpifoies natural, quiet sleep by reliefi## the . child from pain, and the little cherub awakes as "bright as a button." It is very pleasant to taste. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all paio, relieves wind, regulates the bowelt, and is the best known remedy ~~ for diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other causes. Twenty*-"" ive cents a bottle. June 27?ly. Laughing at Love Letters. X Why do people, old and yotmg, nd cf all sorts and conditions* rash a crowds to the courts sod almost raael over each other's beads to hear >ve letters read, and then go home d laugh at them as if they bad >nnd something unique in the way [ fuu ? Why do grave men and >ber women skip all the sensible ading in'a newspaper if it happens contain a love letter, and hating ad that, laugh at it as if it were the test and best of Gilbert's operatic kes. Ten to one if all the old trunks all the old garrets were called to ire up their treasures they would uvict these grave men of juafr such lliness," if they please to call it so, that which excites their risible*, i mao or woman was ever tboroogbin love?and not to hove been >re, we are informed, is to have 3eod some happiness, at least?* * ' k" ? - - - ic i say sua do "siiiy tbiogtf? iv, then, does everybody feel m*h irresistabte indication to darkle . $4 1 t *'jS i manuscript love making of as an- _ tunate whose letters get into th* ir*s and papers ? Why riuienle a versal trait? ' y* \ *1 ?,? \ J Pimples en the Face wt* an impure state of the blood j| I arc looked upon. by many with % ijicinri. Ackei*a Biood Elixir jgyll J ore all imparities and leave-- r a plfxiou smooth and dear. TheW ? lathing that will so thorough'" d np the coostitntion* purify and Jj ngthen the whole system. Sold ,? [ guaranteed by W. P. wB