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DB. L\IMAGE'S SEHMON. i f < ?.?7- ? | ^ GREAT THRONG3 TO HEAR THE t; ** ELO UENT DIVINE, * . v s K . fllj Hundred Persons JIavo Joined Thin ^ Church Itcccntljr, Making- tho Total Vlembcnhl]i 4,000-?Tlio CoiiKropitloiiul *fltnginK Like the Volco of Mnuy Wutrri, Brooklyn, Fob. 18.?Over GOO persons have j Joined tho Brooklyn Tabornaclo, pastor tho Kov. T. DcWitt Talmagc, D. D., during the present revival, limbing tho communicant J t membership of this ehurch about 4,000. I'ro Lfetaior Henry Eyro Brown? rendomlnn orgaw ^wjIo, second sonata in 12 minor, by A. C5. Hitter. Tho congrcgatioual singing was llko tho voloo of ninny waters when tho jxistor gave out tho hymn: He that le.-uleth me; O, blessed ttiohcbt' O word* with Uoaveuly comfort fraught! Tho subject of Dj\ Till ma go's sermon win uTho Ransomed," and his text was I Cor inthian!!, vi, 20: "Yo are bought with n price." Your friend takes you through his \ aluatl" house. You examino tho arches, tho fresco, the gross plots, tho flsh ponds. tho conserva tories, tho parks of deer and you say within yourself, or yon say aloud: "What di 1 all this cost?" You soo costly apparel or you ffe.> a high mettled span of horses harnessed with ? silver and gold, and you begin to mnko an es timate of tho value. Tho man who owns a largo estate cannot instantly toll you what it is ull woilh. Ho says: "I will estimate ?o much for the house, so much for tho furni ture, so much for laying out the grounds, so much for the stock, so much for the barn, so much for tho equipage?adding up, in all making this aggregate." Well, my friouds, 1 liear so much about our mansion in heavon, about its furniture and tho grand surroundings, that I want to know how much it Is all worth, nnd what has actually been paid for it. I cannot complete in a month or a year tho mugnitieent calcula tion; but beforo I get through to-day I hope to givo you tho ilguiea. "Ye arc bought with n price." With sftmo friouds I went into I/>ndon Tower to look at tho crown jowejs of land. Wo walked around, caughtono ghmpso of them, and being in the procession were compelled to pnss out. I wish that to-day I oould tako this audicnco into tho tower of Clod's morcy and strength, that jlou might walk around just onco at least and seo tho crown jewels of eternity, bohold their brill ianco and ostiinato their value. "Yo are t>o tight with a prioo." Now, ,if you have a largo amount of money to pay, you do not pay it all at once, but you pay it by install ments?so much tho 1st of January, so much tho 1st of April, so much tho 1st of July, so much tho 1st of October, until tho entiro amount is paid. And I Jiavo to tell this nudi vnco that "You linvo been bought with a price," and that that prico was in different Installments. The first installment paid for tho clearance .of our scnls was the ignominious birth of Christ i'i l>>thle!iom. Though wo may never t>e carer ally looked alter afterward, our jruivont into tho world is carefully guarded, conic Into tho world amid kindly atten tion*. Privacy and silence aro afforded when 1Kh\ launches an immortal soul into tho world. J?von the roughest of men know enough to stand buck. But I haw to tall you that in villa ii) (Mi the nKfaft tho hill, there v. as a *f iipri'.td- wlien Jesus was bom. ?< accommodating only, iuu i.aiuj tomr^iiin piM|nri *?ro crowded; ami amid hoetlcm awl mule- I leers, and cnitiol drivers yelling at ?tupld boosts of burden, tho Mo&tlub appeared. JNo silence. No privacy. A better ndnpted place liath tlio eaglet In tho ojTio?bath tlio whelp in tlio lion's lair. Tlio oxilo of ? Lenvoii lleth down upon tfio straw. Tlio first night out fr6m the jvxlaco of heaven spent In an outliouso. .One hour after laying nslde jtho robes of heaven, dressed in a wrapper of ecsrso llnou. Ono would bnvo supposed that (Christ would have niado a moro gradual des ?ccnt, coming from lwuvou first to n half-way ?world oi great magnitude, thou to Ca-sar's palace, then to a merchants castlo In Gall loo, then to a prtvato homo In Bethany, then to a ilshormon'a hut, and Inst of all to tho ?table. No! It was ono leap from tho top to tho bottom. X/it lis open the door of tho caravansary in Bethlehom ami drivo away the camel*. Press ,pn through tho group of idlora and loungors. What, O Mary, no lightf "No light," ?oo says, "nave that wbloh cornea through the <loor." What, Mary, no foo<l)' "None," sho ?ays', "only that which is brought in t he sack on tho JoMVWoy." Lot tho Dothlohom woman ?tvho tm!i coma Jn hero with kindly a (Tint ion put back tho oorwjng from tho babe I hot. we 'may Ipok lipoii it. Look 1 look! Uncover your hoftd. Lot us kneel. ? Let all voices bo bushed. Bon of Mary I Bo? of God I Child of a day?monarch or eternity! In that oyo theglanooof a God. Omnipotence sheathed In that babe's arm. That voice to bo changed /rora tho feeble plaint pa tho touo that shall w?ke tho dead. Hosannal Hoeannat (Ilory ibe to God that JwuS came from throne to < tnmpfr that wo might rino from manger to ,throne, kttQ that all the gate* aro open, and tthot tho 4<k>r oi faonvan that onco swung this tray to lot JcsuA out now swings tho other ?way to lot u? in. Lot all the bollmen of beaven lay hold tho rope, and ring out tho fteWs: "Ilohold, I bring you glad tidings of great Joy, which? aholl bo to all people; for to-day ia bom in the olty of David, a Bavlour Which is Christ, tbo Lord P fl'ho socond, installment paid for our soul's rfeeraneo was the see he in Quarnntanhi, a ?nounteinouM reglrm fall of caverns, whore there aTO to this day-panthers and wUd leasts ct all ?ort?iM> that you must now, tho trav eller says, go there armed withknifocr gun or pistol. It wad there that Jesus went to . tfalnk and pray, and It waa thero that this monster 6t holl,woroaly, moro terrific than anything that prowled In that, country--Bo tan himself, mot Christ. Tho rose in the chock of Christ?that Public* Lentulus, in lite letter in the Retrmn senate, ascribed to Jomw?that had scattered its petals. Abstinence :from food had thrown him Into emaciation. The loUH<*t abstinence from food recorded In t>rofn?w hteltory kthflt of the cfew of tho ship Juno; for tww.ty-thrfco da^n they had nothing to eat. lint thitf sufterer had fasted a month *nd ten dnyi Iwfn* to brokO fast. Hunger must have a^pnined every filter of the body and grfawod tha stomach with testh of death. The thought of a jporsel of bread or meat mwft hare thrlllod the *Kxty With somothlng like ferocity. Torn out a pack of mou hungry aa ChrM: was admn M%d, and If they had strength, with one yell thoy wonld dovonr you m a lion a kid. It was in that piuig of hunger that Jesus was Aeewcted, itrid Batan said: "Now ohango theeo atones, which look like bread, info an actual supply *4 brend." Had the temptation come to yon or ree midsr ihoee circumstances, wo '> weekl havs .eyjed "Broad it shall bel" and f*?n almost impetfcut at the time taken for ?aastlcatlon; lmt with one hand beet ?beat tl that Napoleon or4e*e<| a coat of' mail ' ^.4 -.1. A t. ? MmA - - -- (1& .m.** .k k IVaI now yourself and let us try It;" and with shot after shot fix>m his own pistol tho ompcror found out that it was just what it pretended to be?? good coat of mail. Thon tho man received a large rowurd. I blesa Ood that tho same coat of mail that struck Iwek tho weapons of temptation from tho heart of Christ we may nil now wear ; for Jesus conies and says: "I havo boen Umipted, and 1 know what it is to bo tempted. Take this robo that defended mo and \tear it for yourselves. I will sec yen through nil trials, and I will soo you through all temptations." "But," says Satan still further to Jesus," "come and I will show you something worth looking at," and after a half day's journey they came to Jerusalem and to tho top of tho tcmplo. Just as one might go up in tho tower of Antwerp and look oIT u|>on Bel glum. >o Satan brought Christ to tho top of the tcmplo. Homo jxoplj at a great, height feci dizzy. and havo a strange disposition to jump: so Satan comes to Christ with a pow erful temptation in th^t very eri.is. Stand ing there nt tho top of tho temple they look ofT. A magnificent roach of country. Grain fields, vineyards, olivo groves, forests rnd r.tiva.'n:., catilo in t!ie valleys, Hocks on th?? hilN, and villages and ci;l< s and realms. "Now," says Sa tn:j, "I'll nuiko a bargain. Just jump oT*. I know it is a great v.ay from the top of iho Uaiple to tin* valley, but if you r.ro divine you ca*i Pv. Jump off. It won't hurt von. A':.; .!. v. i,; en'."h yon. Your Father will 1 oM yon. Ik side/-. I'll mako you a largo \ e it' you vi!i. I'll j:ivt< you Asia Minor, I';' giv. you India. I'll give you China, I'll giv you I'll give you Italy. I'll i:ive>?.u Ny::in, i'it give you Germany. I'll j-iv Von Britain. I'M giveyc-.j all the world." 'What a hum i Mat ion it inn-t have l>cen. Co ti>.:no:Tow morning and gel in an alter cation wi.h soir.e v:vt.-h crawling up from a p-iii j-ellar in the Fourth word, Kew York. "N??," you sav, "I would not bemoan myself by get'itr; info surh a contest." Then think of what the ICingof heaven and earth en dured when ho conic down and fought that great vreteli of h'-ll, r.ivl foir;ht him in tho wilderness ar.d on the top of tho temple. But I blcM God that in that triumph over tempta tion Christ gives unthe assurance that we also shall triumph. Having l.imsulf lieen tempted, ho Ls utile to succor all those who are tempted. In a violent storm at sea the mate t>!d a boy?for tho rigging had bccomo entangled in tho mast?to go up and right it. A gcntle mon standing on tho dock said: "Don't aond that t>oy up: bo will bedashed to death." The matosaid: "I know what I am uljout." Tho boy raised hlu hat in recognition of tho oriler, and then rose, hand over hand, and went to work; and as bo swung in the storm the pas sengers wrung their hands and exported to r,oo him fall. Tho work done, ho came down In safety, and a Christian man said to hiin: "Why did you go down In the foro eastlc l>eforo you wont up?" "Ah," said tho boy, "I went down to pray. My mother always taught mo before I undertook any thing great to pray." "What is that, you havo in your vest?" said tho man. "O. that is tho Now Testament," ho said, "I thought I would cany it with mo if I really did go overboard." How well thot. boy was pro tected! I coro not how great tho height or how vast tho depth, with Christ within us, and Christ beneath us, and Christ abovo us. and Christ all around us, nothing shall befall us In the way of harm. Christ Himself, having been in tho tompost, will deliver all those who put their trust In Him. Blessed be His glorious name forever. i no imm installment paid ror our redemp tlon was tho Saviour's sham trial. I enll it ft slinni trift.1?tbero has never boon anything qi; unfair .i.U. tho Tomb* court of NcwYork as was witnessed at the trial of j Christ. Why, they hustled Him into the court room at 2 o'clock in the morning. They gavo Him no timo for counsel. They nave Him no opportunity for subpoenaing wit nesses. The ruffians who wero wandering around through tlio midnight, of course they saw tho arrest and went into the court room. Rut Jesus' friends wero sober men, wero re spectable mon, and at that hour, 3 o'clock In tho morning, of courso they wero ut homo asleep. Consequently Christ entered ?lio court room with tho ruffians. Oh, look at Him! No ono to speak a word for Hint. I lift the lantern until I can look into His face, and as my heart beats in sym pathy for this, tho best friend tho world evor had, Ilimsolf now utterly friendless, on officer of tho court room comes upand smites Ilini in tho mouth, and I seo tho blood steal ing from gum and lip. Oh, it was a farce rf a trial, lasting only porhiips an hour, and then the judgo rises for the sentenco! It is against, the law to givo sentenco unless thero has been an Adjournment of the court bo twoen condemnation and sentenco: but wlmt cares this judgo for tho law? "The man has no friends?let him die," says the judge, and tho ruffians outside tho rail cry: "Aha! aha! that's what wo want?His bloo.l. Hand him out iioro to us. Awny with him! away with him! Oh, I bless God that amid all tho Injustice that may bo Inflicted upon us In this world wohavo a dl vlno sympathizer. Tlio world cannot He about you nor ahuso you as much as tboy did Christ, and Jesus stands to-day In ovory court room, In ovcry homo, in every store, and says: "Courage! Py nil my hours of maltreatment and abuse, I will protect tlioso who aro trampled on." And when Clnist forgets that 2 o'clock morning scone, and the stroke of tho ruffian on tho mouth, and the howling of tho unwashed crowd, then Ho will forgot you and mo in tho injustice* of lifo that may l>o initiated upon us. Homo of you want dollveraneo from your troubles. Owl knows you have enough of them. Physical troubles, domestic troubles, spiritual troubles, fbmiicilal troubles. You hftvo been gathering them up, some perhaps for five, or six, or seven years, and you liavo them divided Into two class**?those yop can talk about and thoso you cannot talk about; and as thoso grlofs aro tho most grinding and depressing whiolj you cannot mention, you get oondoleneo for tho things you can spook of, whilo yon got no condolonco for tho things that you cannot. In your school dayH you learned how to IkhuuI tho states and could tell what rivers and lakes and mountains ran through them. If you wero aslcod to-day to bound your worldly estate you would say it is bounded on tho north by trouble, and on the south by troublo, and on the east by troublo, and on tho west by troublo, whilo rivers of tears and lakGs of woe and moun tains of disaster run through it. What aro you going to do with your troubles? Why do you not go to the theatro aifc? have your mind abeorlxvl In some tragedy. "Oh," you nay, "everything I have seen on the boards of the stage Is tame compared with the tragedy ot p)y own llfol" Well, then, why do you not go to your trunks and closets and gather up ail the mementoes of your departed friends and put them out of sight, and tako down their pictures from tho wall and put in the frnmo a harvest sceuo pr some bright and gay ?|>o<itao1o? "Ah," yoy say, "If 1 should remove all thoso mementoes of my departed friends, thnt would not take away tho killing pictures that are hanging in thegallory of my own heart." Well, If that do?w not help you, why do yon not plunge Inlo iOoiety and try to wash off in worldly gay sties nil these amoilmente of tho soul I w0h," yon *ay, "1 have tried thatl but how I hear other children laugh when my ebiufron <>? ?? tfientl How can I me other : happy families whop my own bappy family lis broken up? Trouble, trouble!" But cro J you gain anything by brooding over youiP | misfortunes, by bitting down in a dark room? | by a comparison of tho sweet i?u4J\vith thej | bitter piveent? "No; that makes thinra ! worse." But I havo to toll you to-day tUOT the Christ of all sympathy preeento Himself. Is there anybody in this house that can get ! along without sympathy? I do not tliiuk I would livo a day without it. And yet there j aiv a great many who seem to get along . without any divino sympathy. Their fortune in tho counting room, or in the store, or in the insurauco company, takes wings and flies away. They button up a penniless jjockot. They sit down in penury whero once they had I allluonco, aud yet there is no Jesus to stand I by them and say: "Oh, man, them are ' treasures that never fail, in bauks that never break! I will talco care of you. I own tho cattle on a thousand hills, and you shall never wont." They have no such divine Saviour to say thut to them. I do not know bow they get along. Death comes to tho nursery Ono voice less in tho house hold. Oil" less fountain of joy and laugher. Two hands less to bo busy all day. , Two loot k*s to !>ound through tho lialL Shadow after shadow following through that household, yet no Jesus to stand there and say: I "I am tho shepherd. That lamb is not lost. I too!i it off tho cold mountains. All's well." Oh, can you tell me the mystery? Can you solve it? Tell mo how it is that men and women with aehes, nnd pains, and sor 1 rows, and losses, and exonerations, and lx> , renvements, can get along without a sym |iathi::ing Christ? 1 cannot understand it. But I come here to say this morning that if you really want divine sympathy you can | have it. There arc two or three passages of ; Scripture that throb wish pity and kindness ] and love. "Cast thy burden on tho I>ordand he will sustain thee." "Come unto Mo all yo ' who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rebt." Oh, thero nro green pastures where the heavenly shepherd loads tho sick | and wounded of tho (lock! When all tho ! other trees of tho orchard fail, God has ono I tree of fruit for his dear children. Though i the organ wnils out its requiem, there comes | afterward a gong, a chant, an anthem, abat | tie march, a coronation, a victory. Do you not want the sympathy of Jesus? I offer it this morning to every man and woman in this house; you need him. Oh, how much you need him! Thcro wns n chaplain in tho army wounded unto death. While lying thero on tho ilcld ho heard at a great distance off some 0:10 cry ing out in great pain: "Oh, my God!" and ho said to himself: "I am dying, but 1 think, perhaps, 1 could help that man. Although 1 can't walk, I'll just roll over to whero ho is." ?0 he rolled over in his own blood, and rolled over tho bodies of tho slain, and rolled 011 until ho came to whero tho other man was dying, and put, as it wore, his wound against that wound, and his sorrow against that sor row, and helped to alleviato it. And so it seems to mo that Jesus Christ hear* groan of our sorrow, tho groan of our poverty, tho groan of our wretchedness and comes to tho relief. IIo conies rolling over sin and sorrow to tho plaeo whero wo lie on tho battlefield, and He puts over ub tho arm of His ovorlast ing love; and I see that arm and hand are wounded, and as Ho puts that arm over us I can hoar lum say: "I have loved theo with an overlaying love." Oh, that you might foci this morning the power and condolence of a sympathizing Jesus! Further, I remark: Tho last great install ment paid for our redemption wiu the demise of Christ. Tho world has sixni manv dark days. About fifteen summers ago there was a very dark day when tho sun was ecllpaod. Tin fowl nt. nooivlny w?n* t/> the'** y.r.~ot?, kuA wo felt a gloom an we looked at tho astronom ical wonder. It was a dark <'ay in London w hen tho plague was at its height, and tho dead with uncovered faces were taken in open carts and dumped in tho trenches. It was a dark day when the earth opened and Lisbon sank; but tho darkest day since tho creation of tho world was tho day when tho enrnago of Calvary was enacted. It was about noon when the curtain l>egan to be drawn. It was not tho coming on of a idght that soothes and refreshes; it was the swing ing of a great gloom all around tho heavons. God hung it. As when tlioro is a dead one in tl?e houso you bow tho shutters or turn tho lattice, so God in tho afternoon shut tho windows of tho world. As it is appropriate to throw a black pall upon tho coffin as it pusses ulong, so it was appropriate that every thing should bo somber that day as tho gieat hearse of tho earth rollod on, bearing tho corpso of tho King. A man's last hours aro ordinarily kopt sa cred. However you may liavo hated or carica turcd a man, when you hear ho is dying si len.^o puts its hand on your lips, and you would Imvc a loathing for tho man who could stand by a death l>cd making faces and scof fing. But Christ in his Inst hour cannot be left nlono. What! pursuing him yot after so long a pursuit? You liavo been drinking his tears, do you want to drink his blood? They came up closely, so that, notwithstanding tho darkness, they can glut their revenge with tho contortions of Ills countenance. Thoy ex amine his feot. They want to fool for them selves whether those feot are really spiked. Thoy put out their hands and touch tho spikos, and bring thom back wet with blood, and wipe them on their garments. Women stand thcro and weep, but can do no good. It is no place for tender-hearted womon. It wants a heart that crlmo has turned into granitb. Tho waves of man's hatred and of hell's yongoance dash tip against tho mangled foet, and tho hands of sin and pain and torture clutch for His holy heart. Hod Ho not been thoroughly fastoned to tho cross they would havo torn Him down and trampled Him with l>oth feet. How tho cavalry horses arched their necksand champed tbolr bits, and reared and snuffed at tho ?blood. Had a Roman officer called out for a light bis voice would not have been hoard in tho tumult; but louder than tho clash of tho Bpears, and tho wailing of womanhood, and the neighing of the chargers, and tho bellow ing of tho cruciflers, there comes a voieo crashing through, loud, clear, overwhelm ing, terrific. It is tho groan of the dying son of God. Look I What a acenol Look, oh world, at what you liavo done I I lift the covering from that maltreated Christ to Jet you count tho wounds and estimate the cost, Oh, when tho nails went through Christ's right, hand and Christ's loTt hand that bought l?oth your hands .with all tholr power to work, and lift, and write. When tho nail went through Christ's right foot and Christ's left foot?that bought your foet, with nil their power to walk, or rttti, or climb. When the thom went Into Christ's temple?that bought your brain with all its power to think and plan. When tho spear cleft Christ's side?that bought /our heart with oil Its power to love, and repent, and pray. Oh, sinner, come back I If a man Is in no pnin, If he is prospered, If ho Is well, and ho asks you to come, you take your thno nnd you sny: "I can't, come now. I'll conio after a while. There Is no haste." |lnt |f he Is In want and trouble yoti say; "I j mu?t go right away, i must go now." To , day Jesus stretches out heforo you two I wounded hands, nnd Ho l>egs you to come. I Op and you live. Ntay away and you die. j Oh, that to Him who bought us, we might give all our time, and all our prayers, ami all ; our success! I would we could think of noth . ing else, that wo could do nothing eiae but I como to Christ, He Is so fair, He is lov is ?o good, I nmd His neck bo for ever." ill begin to lovo Id tako this audience and it aro.mfhio heart of my Lord W*^P?3 t'30 Atlantic cablo was lost, do yot|]^^Vn^>cr tbnt tho Groat Eastern and tho All^^Bvent out to llnd itf Thirty times tliey san^H& grapple two nml a liuif miles de??p iutBB^tor. After awhile thoy found tho o&blOM? brought it to tho surface. J<o sooner hAcfit been brought to tho surfaco than they lifted u shout of exultation, but tho cable.Klippetl back again into tho water and was luct. T^? for two weeks more they swept the w>th tho grappling hooks, and at last they f.ound tho cablo and brought it up In silence. "flwy fastened it this time. Then i with m eat eV'tetnont they took onoeud of tho | cable to the f hctriclans' room to soo if th'-ro : were really a,,y It, and when they saw a s\>ark n,ui knew that a message could j be ?-!it. then ie *"et'.v hat was lifted, and tho; revkcts fl.nv *i?d tho guns sounded until all i the \ cssclh on tll? expedition knew tho work I was done. anJ 'ho continents were lashed to- I geth'-r, Well- n,y friends, Sabbath after j Salitmth v,*e luive como searching down for ! your soul. \N'? luivo swept the sea with tho j gr.ippimg h<"?k of Christ's Gospel. Again j and n" run have thought you were at | th?> -;irfa< >1 and begun to rcjoioo [ ov i <, uir ' redemption; but at the in uncut of 0<>" gladness you sank back again into the world ?"d back again into sin. To di.y we come v'lh this Gospel searching for { v< *;r soul. Ujc apply tho cross of Christ lirst j to see whether t hero is any Ufo left in you,) while il! around the people stand, looking to se-> whether i io work will bo done, and tho angels ' f t;<, 1 ln'ad down and witness, and oh. it' i: >w we .'ould seo only one spark of lovo and l>o|*> an.1 faith, wo would sond up a sh.'iit that wo*jld bo heard on tho battlements o;' neaven, an ' two worlds would keep jubi lee l-ecause r.i>"uunHition is open between Chi i.-.r and tl p soul, and your nature that has Ixs.n simkt ? si'1 has been lifted into tho light and the i >>' of tho Gospel! NIrM Shelters for Outcasts. The town oo-.nu'il of I'nris hus lately opened several .-"cllers, each of which has ac commodation for several hundred outcasts. \V..pj.'ka"* arrive at theso homes, where Kiev nj;'l 'remain several days at a time, I1, U thorough overhauling in a bath, en .11-' t 'jj,' given a fresh ouVfit and a Innvl i>' .,nj. i here ait> three other night refuge. t<> /ho (Kuvre do l'Hospi tnlite '?? \uii. xtnblished in 1878. Thy work in k<>|i' up v< ! intflry contributions. It ro cejves .-.ist . H- <?>thiug, bread, and all sorts of crumbs 'in ? rich men's tables for dis tribution ij, -tuition to providing nightly lodgin.; (<>i il??? -'serablo it receives the con valescent I oin 'e^piUUs, and finds places for th'VM* ** .m are willing to work. Ln.st year it reccivxl tiO.UH) homeless creatures, many of whom reninim several consecutive nights, i )f the-41* -*?t>.?XXJ woro French, D.J21 German, 'i. 11'} lo' rian, 800 Swiss, 1)02 Italian and TO Kngtiili. O ver ?rt,000 plecos of bread and 15,0oo l.ow)< ?>f roup, or other rations, wero MirveU ant ' '""0 urtlole^j^P clothing distributed. Th* total oxpoMfHT $350,000. ?Now Jfork 8m'- , . * ?? Hound*. Over a I'reclptee. Recently tho 1 hanet Harriers drove their haro over a el iff ->" * he edge of Pogwell bay, and bul for the fortunate i ircumstanco that it was high water 'he five hounds which fol lowed puss over th" fatal verge must inevit ably huvo nffv>v tinX n Lelght of ,nrtre W^^las it was/l tlio poor brutes s *vam about and kopt their' w~..t. -i _... r M could, until a > manned at I'egwell, which r belief. Three of tho bounds i a fairly good condition, a o roach tho breakwater op iilf terrace, where ho was taatmen, and tho fifth was lioU lifted out of tho sea. On heads above w.it shooting punt w proceeded to the woro picked up i fourth was ul/io posite tlx West <i resetted l.v stmif only jiis: nliv a hot l>ath and 1 which might ha\ but from?or |?ci ho recovered. 'I landing the last; (tuned sufferer was put into I-orally dosed with spirits, o boon expected to kill him, hai>s by tho aid of?which io luckless hare was tho only victim of disnstejr.?Boston Transcript. Tlio Vii|i?p,t Typesetter. As youthful u compositor perhaps as is on rocord may I ottnd ot times at work upon The Callleooii R ho. Hho is Uio oditor'sdaugh ter, and may Ik, ?bout 7, possibly 8 years of ?ge.~Cor. Haw-nek Herald. Our lit t lo ? oin|?o!?ltor is in her 0th year, and no doubt Ik th? y lungest known in tho trndo. Sho wis the typf (the above "solid" paragraph is precisely as srf; by her). Justifies her own lines, but is riot yet able to empty her "sticks Incredible as it inny seem, the little typesetter <>rt?>n: sets from one to four stlck our "Vunucript, sometimes correct ing a shp in ourgrauunar or spelling, and is never as happy >ui when sitting at tho caso "holping pai??."|--Calllcoon Echo. American Apples Abroad. Last fall a Main? farmer put a letter In one of a lot of barrels of apples ho was packing, asking the buyer to wrlto to hbn. Tho other day he received a letter front an applo dealer Bradford, Knglnnd. who said that ho <Sad bought tho apples at auction in Liverpool. He wrote thoy wero a fair lo| 0f apples and sound, add ing: ?1 am eon?|li,ced there would boasav Ing in sendiiig Ameri 'anapples through: that fc, If tfcoy could die p^kod tight ns theso are. But if not packfKl properly tight they would would not do. '-H-New York Sun. 1>n<vtyery?l l?y the Sen, Tho ?t?-ong Southerly and southeasterly winds which haVo of late prevailed ofT I^.ng Branch have dr|VfM the curronts ?>o stronKly gnln-t the aho.v M to wash away the sand to great depth J'hiB Ims brought to light sev eral old wells b<llK ,li<klon ,jy tho AJi(, ftn Innumerable number of coins, rlng^, et<-., lost by iMthei-x during the summer month* ?New York Commerce Advertiser. ?hrf?w?l Old Chief. Tho Indians J|a the Digger reservation in Nevrnla had a (XgdnnCe a few evenings ago to which ...any yhltw wero Invited. A num ber of the,,, w? (? Hr)(1 wiln0KSO(1 the dance, hut upon ?tfemitlnj: ^ leave they found I he Old chief at the ,ioov, who told them that It coflt nothing to gc ltl( bnt lt wouM OORt ^ cents a head to (w r'stt. l'resone? of ,hn |rnlnvlted. There is m,?el ry,mplalnt on tho part of tho people who y? really fnvlto<l to the pr<*b dents olllcleh-.^eptlonsalwitt the presence of 1 thn uninvity,! vh<^||<>nio with rough clothea i and niftrch w?>nginHth their overcoat on their ni.i^4^?artfitly unconscious of the mi?rt ne^Jfr their conduct. Wa.sh I ngton Capital, m, . : ? n >n I?o*s. * tax of si* francs , on Watch dogs, j fr/TUcs on "ehlens do I thtoVvns that all tho > wfliclMwv! by their 1 lant wafoh dogs. Tho ' i ftnd ail dogs are or* Tr0>un* | WHAT THE PRESS SAYS Of People Wboiu the World In Genera) Known Something About. A son of Kit Carson resides in Los Angeles, and is struggling with poverty. Mrs. Logan Is hi roceipt of requests from various publishers to do literary work. Jay Gould ban just purchased a little plot of ground In Louisiana. It comprises 200,000 acres of sighing pines. Prlnco Albert Victor of Wales Las com pleted his Ski year, but is still one of the least known members of tho royal family. IIo seldom appears in public. Fredorick Krupp, tho son of the great gun m&ker wan to to got Into tho reichstag. He has takou the stump as a Nationalist. It is said that Mrs. Sawyer, a copyist in tho interior department offices, is "tho very coun terpart" of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, and has on numerous occasions been mistaken for her. Ex-Governor Davis, the new senator from Minnesota, is quite blind in one eye, "as tho result of having made too many sjxvchcs fac ing brilliant electric lights." Jamea Iloag, of Cedar Springs, Mich . is tho smallest man of his ago now living. Ho is 45 inches in height, weighs 70 pounds, and Ls 72 years old. Ho was l>orn in 1*15. Mrs. Grant's sympathy with tho project of erecting a monument in New York city to her late husband's memory i.s attested by her gift of $982.50 to the Grant Monument as sociation. Baron do Jeost, of Paris, noted all his life for his cruel treatment of all men and animals ho came in contact with, has !oft his whol* estate of $.">00,000 to tlio Society for tho Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals." Miss Emily Bartol, daughter of Rev. Dr. Bartol, of Uoston, lias completed tho studies which sho has boon making of Frederick Douglass, and will at oneo embody tlietn in a portrait. Somo friends who called on Madamo Mod jesk-\ tho other day at her hotel in Boston found her and her husband like Darby and Jain -sho playing solitaire, and ho with news paper and slippers. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes goes very rarely into sociotv now, anil attends no gen erul receptions, but he is exceedingly careful to acknowledge with somo neat phrase the in vitations ho declines. Mi*. Mary Murphy, of St. Louis, who eltpr.s to be 110 yeans old, is now cutting four tooth. She saj s tliat her mother lived to bo 112 years old, and cut. an entire set of teeth one year before she died. Mrs. Murphy's mind feels tho stress of her many years, but her appetite is unimpaired. J* W, Bookwalter, of Ohio, who has just returned from Europe for tho twentieth time, says: "From what I could boo I think tho Germans would whip tho French again Franco is full of soldiers, but they all ha'vo a boyish, smallish look, and make no great im pression on strangers." Capt. William McMiekan, of the Cunarder Umbria, a veteran and most popular ship master, a fow days ago completed his 102d trip across tho Atlantic without accident. Jan. 20 a nurso of $3,000 was presented to him as a testimonial on tho part of a number of his friends in New York. Mr. Jones Gilman Clark, who has jusv given $1,000,000 to found a college in Maxsa /i}lisett?, was born on a farm, grew up, got a $flttlo schooling, learned a trade or two, sold tinware of his own nmko to the peddlers, opened a rag aiul junk store, wjiich subst^ j QufctfUy beoairio a~ mtrdwa.ro tlUSro, went to California in 1H4D, made his pile in business, sold gold during tho war at tho war premium and invested in government bonds, subse quently mado lucky investments in real ostate, and is now worth nobody knows how much. Representative S. 8. Cox is recovering from his sovero Illness. In a privato dictated noto to a friend in this city ho says that ho suffered a million deaths, but was lifted through by two pictures, ono on each side of his bed, of a lifo boat going out and ono coming in. "Knowing," lio says, "that my system had already saved nearly 30,000 lives, I thought perhaps I could hold tho rudder and pull through." He adds: "I wish some good writer would show tho effect of such associa tions on human misery and happiness." "A private letter from Bill Nye to a Chi cago friend," says Tho Nows of* that city, contains the unwolcomo information that the popular humorist's health, so far from being improvod, seems to bo becoming poorer and pooror. In fact, Mr. Nyo writes that ho lias been compolled to abandon literary work al together, and ho fears that, if a chango for tho better doesn't sot in pretty soon, ho will havo to tako to his bed and surrender himself wholly to tho doctor's care. Ho is still at Ashoville, N. C., and ho intends to re main thero for tho winter. It is apparent that he iii very much discouraged about him self." Tho death has rooontly ^occurred of James Nicholson, tho last survivor of tho storm beaten iwwsengors of tho Forfarshire who were rescued by Grnco Darling. Ho novor forgot that awful night, whon, as ho and all In the rigging thought, an angol, with long, yellow hair flowing in tho wind appeared, pulling vigorously to their ship's sido through tho storm an<J drift; but ho very rarely spoke of it. II9, howover, had enough of tho sea, and for twenty-six yoars afterward ho drovo a locomotlvo on tho Edinburgh and Glas gow railroad. Ho was 71 years of ago and in tho omployment of an oil company when ho died.?New York Tribune. How to I'ronomtoe "Toboggan." IIow do you pronounce tho socoivl syllable of tolwggan? That's tho question for you to answer, pretty girl lookhiR like mi Esquimaux augel in your knowing outfit. If you make ifc rbymo with jog, prepare to have your Canadian cousin* laugh at you. Thoy pro noulioo the "o" like the "o" In "koI," that la to gay, as tho down onstor ^Ives It In "close" artd "most?" Hy tho way, tho coetumrs prepared for tho to1>oggan ulidos look more oh if do signed to l>o worn at tho Ruffrinn ice towers. The richest of heavy cloth, heavily trimmed with fur nnd fur trlinine<l caps, mako ono think of tho Nova, not of tho 8t. Lawrence. Kleetrlo Permutation t.ook. A now oloctrie permutation safe lock, says a contemporary, ha* just l>een brought out by a Ohlcagoan which differs materially from all other safe locks in tho fact thnt them la no orlflco to apeak of In tho door of tho safo. Tho dial ho* no connection In this Invention, except by electric wires, with tho body of tho snfo, nnd may lie on tho cashier's desk or re pose securely In his homo, freo from any vio lence of the burglar's hammer. ? Publlo Opinion. An Old Nnperstltlon. A Ooorgla nowspopor says that it used to bo tho belief among tho pcoplo that If ono built a houso and finished It, ho would not I livelong; but If ho loft any part Incomplete, I ho would livo until it wnn completed. It says that whon Governor Wilson Lumkln con structed tho stone mansion on tho hill over looking tho cometory at Athens ho loft ono window unfinished, and it so remains until faMlay. | ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. People in Barber county, Kan., will culti vate Kalian sunflowers for fuel. "Evcsology" is now chrouicled as faahiou1* latest fail. and it means tho telling of charac ter from the color of tho eyes.' A syndicate of Amsterdam bankers has purchased IKX) nquarr> miles of timber land In western Florida on which to found a colony of Hollanders. A Boston man threatens to build a yacht and name it Miles Staiulish, to race tho Brit 1st. Where did he get tho ideal The court ship of Miles Ktandish was not a yacht. There tire 18,000 operatives engaged in the shirt, cuff and collar tratio of Troy, N. Y., and the amount of their wages for a year amounts to nearly $7,000,000. At a tomjierauce meeting of one of the leading churches in this city a woman in the audience asked the sjxnikor if communion wine could not be weakened with water so as to prevent i?ersons from coughing after par taking of it. The latest English fad in Now York city is to use tho word "Town" instead of "City" or "New York" in addressing a letter. One young lady received an invitation to dinner, mailed to her two weeks before that was ad dressed in tho new style. The public debt of Canada has increased $7.r> a minute during tho wholo of Rir Jobn Macdonald's administration, allowing ton working hours a day and twenty-six working days to the month. A citizen of Dalton, Canada, who wai troubled l>v a soro throat, used chlorate of jxitnsh tablets, which he carried in a tin box in his trouses pocket. One day the box <?*. plodod and ho was badly blistered and hit ti-ousers were burned. Arizonians who thought they had convolv ed a Chinaman were greatly surprised, aftor they hail burned one of his idols, to find bitn worshiping another. IIo simply said: "Chin aman make velly sure. Me catcheo Jow and mo catcheo Melican god." One of tho shortest bills, if not the shortest, ever introduced in any legislature is that re cently presented by Mr. Orovor, of Maine, which rend: "Bo it enacted by this senate and house of representatives in legislature assem bled, as follows: See. 1.?The dog is hereby declared to bo a domestic annual. Sec. i!? Tlus act shall take offect when appro veil." This short sermon for boys comes from from Maine: A school teacher therosays that at ono timo ho had in his school soven "vul gar, prof alio and vicious Iwys," whoeo one aim in life seemed to bo to torment him. Ha recently visited thostato prison In Thomnston and found thrco of those boys thoro. Four others are in the reform school. Tho coyote is the enemy of tho jack rab bit, and used to keep his numbers down.. But some years ago a liounty was put on tho coy ote in California, and ho has since decreased and tho jack rabbit increased, until now the latter does groat damago to vineyards aiu] orchards. Ii is thereforo proposed to take the l>ounty olV tho coyoto and put it on the jack rabbit. A Itoyal Fire Laddie. Tho king of Italy, seeing from the Quirlnal tho flames issuing from the famous Chigl jwilaco, and knowing tho Odescalchl, hastened thither with three of his gentlemen in wait ing and not only showed his sympathy, but helped to bi-ing a little order out of the great confusion. The effect of his pi-esence and sympathy were such on the Princo Balthazar Odescal'hi, who is here known as a rail leal* ".Viiiynln ,"Vi.ix, 'in. Vi* vpyaMnti *w/ the king henceforth coases. Ho, an a mombor of the lower house of parliament, was only a fow days ago tnj> appointed on the committee to go to the palace of tho Quirinal to tender the customary Now Year's wishes to tho monarch. He re fused to bo present. Tho ovenlng of that day ho behold tho king coming to him in anxiety nnd in sympathy; anil lie now declares that his visit of King Humbert, under such cir cumstances, has reconciled him "to tho House of Bavoy." Furthormoro, tho prince said to soma of his intimates and equals who had condoled with him for his losses: "The damage can bo ropaired; but ono thing I con never forgot, and thut is this: the first person who mot me as my wife and children had reachod safety was King Humbert. "?London Court Journal. Memento of an Unknown Him*. A strango memento of an unknown rare Is tho gigantic stone imago from Easter island, now on tlio way to tho Smithsonian institu rion. This lonely islo in the Pacific is of vol canic origin, and in but elevon miles long and nix broad, and, from it* solitary situation, la seldom visited. Tho natives, but few in num bor, aro of tho Polynesian race, and were originally exceedingly hostile to tho few ? whites who visited them. But within the past twonty flvo years they have embraced Christianity under the influence of French missionaries. Tho island is owned by a Ta hiti firm, who utlllzo its fertile valleys for cattlo raising. The remarkable feature* which distinguish It from other solitary islands aro tho huge stone statues, to tho num ber of several hundred, which lie scattered al>ont. Thoy were chisoled with rude skill from tho lava in tho craters of extinct vol canoes, and transported to all parts of th? island, whnro they were set up, but most of them have sine? been overthrown by earth quako shocks. Home of thrao statues nra forty foet in height.?Prank Leslie's. Horn With ? flealskln. Now that, plated ware has l>ecome so plenti ful and cheap, the old expression, "born with a -diver spoon in his mouth," goes out of data. Hllver is not so tempting a thing as it used to bo, except when tho mlnff has struck It, al though solid silver still means an awful lot Wo might now soy "lx>rn with a gold spoon," and not mean very much. Fortunes aro grow ing so large that thore seems noextrava&anc* In tho supposition that the next century will soo them go Into tho billions of dollars. What was Vonderbilt's? $225,000,000; and It Would Ixi hard to put tho wealth of tho llothschild family with i((f ramification* on paper, lint everybody in America might without exag geration said to be born with a silver spoon as oomjwuvd with European communities. Hut the Kan Francisco girl has got out an expres sion which will probably prov i more exprca slvo than any. "Ye*," said a poor yonng lady, discussing the daughter of ft rich man, "Lottie was l?orn with a sealskin."?-flan Francisco Chronicle. Kpnlii'n City of Toledo. Mix centuries l>efore tho birth of-Christ the Jew* founded tho city of Tolodo, in Hpaln. 1 tomans, (lotlm and Moors successively struggled for its possession; and at last, after one of tho most terrible sieges in tho history of the middle ages, if. fell Into the hands of the Bpaiiiards. Attention Is now drawn to Toledo by tho fact, that the A lea Mr, or royal palace, which stood as ft rnin for centurlea, and which wos recently restored at a cost of $1,000,000, has been destroyed by Are. It la an education to all Intelligent men and wo men to come face with tlieeo magnificent types of architecture, l>oth ancient and mod em, with which Knropo al>ounds. and the de struction of nny one of them moy l>e looked ujxin as an event to b?> i\ grotted.--New Or leans Timos-Doinocrat,