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REV. DR. TALMAGE'S DISCOURSE | i
LAST SUNDAY MORNING. i j
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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
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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