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THE POWER OF A NAME. DR. TALMAGE PREA CHES DUR ING A DELAY OF THE SHIP. 'tbe Music and 38azicef Two si )Ira bles That Fit the rougue in, Evry via lect--vhe Imprtance Or Aproriate Appellations. QUEENSTOWN, JanI. 26.-While the steamer Aurania, from Liverpool, was lying in this harbor a few hours today waiting for the mails, many of the pas sengers wentashore. The Re. " De Witt Talmage, D. D., was awc the number, and took advautage < f the oppo tuni'y to preach. His subject was, "What is in a name?"and his text, Philiipians ii, 9: "A name which is above every name." The e.uinent preacher said: On my way from the 13oly Laud, and while I wait for the steamer to re same her voyage to America, I preach to you from this text, % hich was one of Paul's rapturous and etrthusiastic d. scripiions of the name of Jes.tus By common proverb we have come to be lieve that there is na.hing- ln a Inaee, avd s-, parents sometimes present their caildren fir baptism regardle:s of the Aameg~ven them, and n.)t thinking that that. particular title will be either a hindrance or a help. Strange mis take. You haYe no right to give to )our child a name that is lacking either in eup ony or in' morai mleating. It is a sii for you to call your child Jehioiakim or Ti lath-Pileser. Becau-e you yourself may have an exasperating name is no rea son why you should give it to those .who come after. But Lo W often we have seen some name, ftiIed wi-h jar gon, rattling down from generation to generation. simply because some one a long wbile ago happened to be afflicted with it Iositutions and enterpries have s:)m! imes -withouc ; utficien. de liberation 'aken tmeir nomenclature. Mlighty destinies have b-eeu decided by the signiticance of a name. There are men who all their life long toil anld tussle to get over the intluence of some unfortunate name. Wnile we ru.ty, -fiirough right1btehavior and Christian demeanor, outlive the fact that we were bepized by the name of a despot, or an intide, ora cheat, how much bet ter it would have been if we all could have started life without auy such en cumbrance. When I find ,heapostle, in my text and in other parrs of his a ritaog, breaking out in aset iptious of admiration in regard to the n mue of Jesus, I want to inquire what -are ssoe )f the characterit es of that ap Vellation. Arid 0, that the Savior himself, wthile I speak, might fill me with his own presenec, f r we never cau tell to ot6ers that which we have n t ourselves felt. Fir:.t, tbis name of Jesus is n easy name. Sometimes we are in roduced to people w% hoO name is .so long an unpronounceable that we have sharply to listeo, and to hear the name given to us two or three times, before we venture to speak it. But withiu 'ht first two years the little child claspE 6 e its hands, and looks up, anc' says, "Je sus." Can it be, amid all the families represented here today, there is oie hotus bold whbere the little ones speal of "father" and ' mother," and ". roth er,"' and "sipter," and not of the name which is a .ove every uana-?" &>'.e 17mes we forget the titie o! our ve-y best friende, and we have to pause *and think before we call th-- name But can vou imagine any freak of intelleot ia' wnkh you Could forget the'ior's designation? Inat word seems-to~ tit th~e~gt' every dialect. When tbe voice in old age gets feeble, and treintous, anc -indistinct, still this regal word has po tent utterance. J. au I love thy cheninlg name: 'T~ .s music to my ear Fain wonul Iis cundit o'ut so ioud That heaven and earth might hear till further: I remark it is a beau. tiful ame. You have notieed that it is impossiblc to dissociate a name - rom the person who has the name. S o there are names that are to me re p.~asive-I do not like to hear them while those very s.ames are attractive to vou. Why the difference? It ,i because Ihappen to know, persons bf those names v ho are cross, and sour, and nayish an querwhile the persons you used to know by thosE Awecamniot dissociate a name fromt heperson who holds the name, that consideration makes Christ's name so unspeakably beautiful. No sooner is is pronounced in your presence than you think of Bethlehem and Gethsem. ane and Golgotha, and you see the loving face, hear the tender voice, and feel the gentle touch. You see Jesus, the one who, though banqueting with heavenly hierarchs, came down to brafnet on the fish that rough men had just hauled out of Genessaret; Je. sus, the one who. though the clouds are the dust of his feet, walked foote. sore on the road to Emmaus. Just as soon as that name is pronounced in your presence you think of how the shining one gave back the centurion's daughter, and how he helped the blind man to sunlight, and how he made the cripple's crutcbes useless, and how he looked down into the babe's laughing eyes, and, as the little one struggled to go to hin, flung out his arms around it and impressed a loving kiss on its brow, and said: "Of such is the kingdom of heaven." Beau , tiful name-Jesus! It stands for love, for patience, for kindness, for forbear ance, for self sacrifice, for magnaunii ty. It is aromatic with all odors and accordant with all harmories. So:ne. times I see that name, and the Ih t ters seem to 'oe made out of tears. and then again the y look like gleaming crowns. Sometimes they seem to me as though twisted out of the etraw on which he lay, and then as though built out of the thrones On which his people shall reign. Sometimes I sound that word "Jesus,'' and I hear coming through the two syllables the sigh of Gethsem ane and the groan of Calvary; and again I sound it, an d it is a ripple with gladness and a ring with bosanna. Take all the glories of book bindery and put them around the page where that name is printed. On Christmas morning wreathe it on the wall. Let is trip from harp's string and thunder out in organ's dianason. Sound it often, sound it well,^ until every star shall seem to shine it, and every flower hall seem to breadhe it, and mountain and sea, and day and night, and earth and heaven acclaim in full chant: "Blessed be his glorious name forever. The name that is above every name." - --- 15name high over all, In heaven and earth and sky. To the repenting soul, to the ex hausted invalid, to the Sunday school girl, to the snow white octogenarian, it is beautiful. The old man comes in from a long walk, and tremblingly opens the doors, and hangs his hat on the old nail, and sets his cane in the usual corner and lies down on a c-ouch and says to his children and grand children: "My dears, I am going to leave you." They say: "'Wh.,, where are you going, grandfather?" "I am going to Jesus." And so the old man faints away into heaven. The little herself eu ycur lap ad savs: "Mam ma, I aut !o sico, I am so sick." And you put her to bed. and the fever is worse and woisC, un: il ,i o taid night she look- up into lur faee and sayZ: ".larmma, ki1 te gool-by. I am going away from you " Aud you say "My dear. wi r -re y.m toig, !ok A w -i ;h ., v ,: -i u;ozi;. IIIj *Jesus." Aid the r'i 'eck wrich you thought wa; the ;;ark o, the fever, only turns out to bh the carnation bloom of heaveu! Oh, yez: it is a sweet namespoken by the lips. Still farther; it is a mighty narae. Rothschild is a potent nane in the commercial worAd, Cuivier in the sci entific wirld, Irving a powerful name in the literary world, Washingion an ijiluential name in 1 he poli!ical w.rbi. Wellngtou a might y name iu tie mil itary world; bit tell me any name in alh the earta s- poierct to awe, and oit. and 0briii. and rvuse, and ajilate, and bless, as this name of Jesus. That one word unhorsed Saul, and flung Newton on bis face on ship's deck, and today ho!(is 400,00j.00-) of thre race with onnipotem, spell 'That namre in Englan'i today nen's in .r. tiau Victoria; ii (eruany, luoars mire hanu Emperor Williau!; mi Frtae, means more than Carnot; in Italy, meaus more ! hau Hlumbrt ofthe jrts ent or Garibaidi of the pas'. I have Seen a tlman bouni haud an i foot m ,in, Satai his hard task ma-ter, in a bondage from which vo htuman power coula deliver him, and x t-t at, the pronunciation of that on* word he dashed down his chains and marcbed out forever free I have seen a mau overwhelmed with disaster, the last hope fled. the lst Ight goue out; that name pronou:,ed in his hearing. the sea dropped. um cloils scatt.-med, and a sunburst of e eraai yladuess poured into his soul. I have seen a man hardened in intideiity, detiairt (if God, full of scolland jeer, jocose of the judgment. reckless of an unending eternity. at the mere pronunciation of that nam.ne bhlaoch, aird cower, and qua:iki-, and ray, and sob, and groan, and believe. and rejoice. 0, it is a mighty na At isutterance ne last wall of sinm wil tall, the last temple of supestitio'r e-rumble. the last Jngger naut of cruelty crash to pieces That name will first make all the earth tremble. and tnen it will make all the nations sing It is to be the password at every gate of honor, tt iasiga'a on every flag, the battle shout in every conflict. All the millions of the earth are to know it ine re I h rse k-f car naac :een iu ap caiyttie visio", and the black horse of death, are to .fall back .n their haunches, and the white horse of victory will go forth, mouted by him who hat; the moon under his feet, and the stars of heaven' for his tiara Other dominions seem to be giviug out; this seems to be eniargiug. Spain has 'rad to give up much f its dominion Austria i as been won derfully deleted in power France had to'surrender some of her favorite provinces. Most oft he thrones of Lne world are being lowere i, and imost of ths scepters of the world are beiug shortened: but ever. Bible printed, every tract distributel, every duuday school cia;s-taught, every school fouun ded, every church established, is ex tending the power of Christ's name. That name has already been spoken under the Chinese wall, and in SL er ian snow castle, in Brazil'au grove and in e:!stern pagoda. That natue is to swallow up all other names Thait empire is to abr: all oh r d.o;'ina tionS. All crimn- shall eis-- arnd a~c ;cet n'aude shrill fatl Eeturt.ingaj-ieee irf aijft he~r scale. Peace o'er tine war:d mie.r olive w.mr:t *'!. xin, And white r.obed in; 'ocenrce from hu-rve-' de~ scend. Still further: it is an enduring name. Yvu clamber over the lence of the graveyard and pull asi le the weeds, the tombstone That was the name of aman who once ruled all that town. The mightiest nasi s o1 the world have either peririhed! or are ;,erishing Gregory VI, Sancho of Spain, Gonrad I of Germany. Richard 1 of England, Louis XVI of France, Catbaritbe of Russia-mighty na ues once, t.hat made the world tremble; but nowv, norte so poor ari to do them reverence. and to the great mass of t he people they inean absolute~v nothing; they never heard o.f them Buu the ulamet of Jhrisn is to endure forever. It will be perpetuated in art, for tilere will he other Bellinis to depict the Madonuua; there wvill be other Ghirlandjos to re present Christ's baptism; there will be other Brozines to show us Christ visi ting the spirits in prison; other Glut - tos to appall our sight wit:. the cruei fixion. The name will be preserved in song, for there wvill be other Alex ander k'opesto wvrite the "Mers:ab," other Dr. Youngs to portray his tri umph, other Cowpers to smug his love. It will be preserved in costly and magnificent architecture, fort Pro-es tantism as well as Catholicism is vet to have its St. Marks and its Stt Peters. The name will be pre'served in the literature of . he wvorld, for aiready it is emnbalmed in the best books, and there will be other Dr. Paleys to write the -Erde.nces 'f Christianity, ' ant. other Ricbard Baxters to describe the Saviour's coming to judgment. But above all, .nd more than all, that name will be embalmed in the memory of all the good of earth and all the great ones of heaven. WVill the delivered houdmian of earth ever forgiet who freed him? Will the blindi r'an oi earth forget who gave him sight? Will the outcast of earth forget who brought him home? No! N->! To destroy the memory of that name of Christ, yout wouid have to burn up all the Bibles and all the churches on earth. and then in a spirit of univer sal arson go through Ihe gate of heav en, and put a torch to the temples and tbe towers and the palaces, and al ter all that city wa.s wrapped in awful conflagration, and the citizens came otut and gazed on the ruin-even then. they would hear that na in the thundier of falling tower and the crash of crumbling wal], and see it in wrought in the flying banners of flame and the redeemed of the Lord on high would be happy yet and cry out; "Let the palaces and the temples burn, we have Jesus left!" "Blessed be his glorious name for ever and ever. The name that is above ever1 name." Have you ever ma I& up your mind by whait namue you will call Christ when you meet him in heaven? You know he has -nanv names. Will vou call him Jesus. or the Anoi'ited One. or <he Messiah, er will you take some of the symbolical names which on earth you learned from your Bible? WVandering some day in the garden of God on high, the place a-bloom with eternal springtide, in finite lux uriance of rose and lily and amaranth. you may look up into his face and say: "My Lord, thou art the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valley.'' Some day, as a soul comes tu:> from earth to take its place in the firma ment and shine as a star for ever and ever, and the luster of a tus'full life shall beam forth tremulouis anid beau tiful, you may took tip into the face- of Christ and say: "My Lord, thou art a brighter star-the tnlmring star-a star forever." Wandering some day amid thme f.ut't tains of life that tos in th- sunlieht and fail in crash of pear! an d amethbyst. in golden and crystalline urn, anid you wander up the round banked river to where it first tingles it-i silvenr otn the rock, and out of the chalices of' love you drink to honor and everlasting hri-st and say: "My Lord; thou art ithe founlation of living water." Some <Lav, wandering amid the I an d sheep in the heaveiv pa- . ure- feed in by t he roceC, relO((ticing iI tLhe pr--ence of him who brought you At al I he w0oiish -wilderness to t tie -itp ol above. you may look up into hi- - . a i watchful eyet an~d .-iy: d -r d th'ou art tie shel-in ,i f the erlast ug hihLs But there is another name you may j select. I will imagine that heaven is dane Every throne has its king. Every harp has its harper. Heaven has gatnered up everything that is worth iavin-. . The treasures of th whole uuivcrso htv pourel b it>. Tne s og fult. 'The ranks fli. The mansin u fo H taven fall. 'Tie su hsal.se ati-e with spleiIudor the- doue. of t t te p.s, at huroish the goldeu s s into a b:all-, and he reflected back fiom the soul p-arlof the tweive ats, antil it shall be noou iu heaveil, noou on the iiver, tiom on the hill noon in al the valle s-higha non. Then the -noul may look up, graduily acn-cu-toinl g itself to the vision, sha-t ing the eyes as f: om the almost in r tera ble. sp-n dor -.f t le lojndaly .Iji: till tih Visioni cani endulre i th crying ou': "TNou art the sun hat never sets!" At this poit I am ,taggered with the thought that notwithstandiing all the charm ia the name of Jesus, a.d the fact that it is so easv' a name, and so beautiful a-name, anti so poleut a name, and -o -( tdu i tg a name, there are people wui , tid no charm in tbose two syllables. 0, come this day :,nd see whetLer there is anytning in Jesus. i I challenge those of you who are fat - ther from God to come at the close of this service and test with ine whether God is good anl Ch rist is gi acious, antd the Holy Spirit is omnipotent. I chal lenge you to coie. anid kneel down with me at the altar of mercy. I will kneel on one side of the altar and you kneel on the other side of it., and uen h. I er of us will rise up until our sius are r f rgivei, and we ascribe, in ; he words of the texi, all houor o te name -I Jesus-you pronouucing it 1 proinunc ing it-the name that is above'e erv name. Hi: worth If ali the tations knew. Suri- the whole evdta woul.1 loi him to 0 that God today, by the powrr of his Hoy Spirit, woulbi roll over you a visioa of that, t lessed Christ., and you would bgi ito weep and pray and be lieve and rejoi-n-. You have i eard of the warrior who wenlr out to figaht agains: Christ. He kneni he was in the wrong,and while waging au wr-r ar, row atruck him an-i he fell. IL pierced him in the heart, -nd lying tWere, his face to the sun, his life blood running away, he caugit a handful of the blood that was rushitag out in his right hand, and hel . it up before the sun and cried out: -'O Jesus, thou hast conquered!" And if to-day tue arrow of Goa's spirit pieieing your soul, you felt the truth ot what I tiave been tryi ug to proclaim, you wouii surrender now and forever to the Lord who b.>ught. you, Glorious name! I know not- whether you wlll accept it or t:M; but I will tell you one thing here and now, in the presence of ang-is and mn-I take him to be my Lord, my God, my pardon, my peae, my life, my joy, my salvation, my heaven!- "Bles-ed be his glorious maime forever. 'Ihe name that is-above ev' ry name." "Hallelujah! unto him ti.at sitteth upon the throne aid unto the Lamb for ever and ever. Amen and amen and amen." ODDS AND ENDS. The beauty of Catherine of Russia, it is said, consisted in her green eyes.| Eat only pure food, drink only purei liquids, think only pure thoughts, and keep your blood pure. The best whitewash for a cellar is made of lime and water only. The, addition of other things hinders thel purpose of keeping the cellar pure andI healthful.! An experimental train on a railroad in Pennsylvania made a run of nine ty odd miiles in about sixty minutes, some of the distance being run at the rate of nearly two miles per minute. It is significant thiat the winner of the mathematical prize of $300 at Bow doin is the best general athlete in the Maine colleges and one of the best baseball players. Fort Keogh, M. T., has the widest iange of temperature of any place on eart'h. Last summer the thermometer ranged from 120 degs. to 130 degs. above, while recenty it marked 65 degs. below zero, a total range of 195 dlegs. Candor is the seal of a noble mind, the ornament and pride of man, the swveetest charm of woman, the scorn of rascals and the rarest virtue of* sociability.-Bentzel Steman. That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the gseatest Praise, to mean anything at all, must be spontaneous and prompted by real approval of character or admira tion of excellence; otherwise it is as futile as a bubble that floats a moment in the air and is gone forever. The twenty-third anniversary of the Protestant China inland missions in London brought out the fact that there are now 328 protestant mission aries at work on those naissions; that the number of Chinese who had been, baptized duxdng the v-ear on a profes sion, of Protestant faith was 472, mak ing the nunmber now in church fellow ship nu connection with the missions Mrs. W. 31. Dills, of Springfield, M1o., is said to be tihe best judge of horseflesh ini that vcalley. Mrs. Dills is a southern woman, and( comes from tile blue grass, region of Kentucky, famed for its horses, its pretty giris and its whisky. Mrs. Dilis has not neglected her household du ties for huer stock farm, and she has reared an interestillg famiily. It is re markedi by one who has made somestudy of thle stubject that when sothern women are tihrownl upon their owni resources they- show all energy that used to be at trib~uted only to the daughters of New England. miss, Nelle Gould is an artist of ne menability, and her collection of bric a-brac, adorned by her own brush and penceil, is umuch admired. She is proba bly the richest heiress in America, and at her father's death wviii come in for twenty or thirty million dollars. Like her mother, she is not too proud to wait on herself. Sho does not mind riding in horse cars, and does not puit on nearly as many airs as tile wvives .of sonme of the men whlo serve her. Last spring she took to Atlantic City several little girls fr-om a New York charity hospital and cared for thenm withl great kindness and considera tion. M. Salaza, thle young Frenchl tenor and prizenman of tihe Conservatoire, about w-hose engagement theC authlorities of the Paris Grand Opera andl Opel-a Comique have been wrangling, was two yeai-s ago oniy a htumble shoemiak-er in a pr-ovincial towni. One (lay as he wvas going abott the- streets singing a passer by stopped hi, and asked him to call at thle for ir's hlouse. Thlis Saileza did, with the resultt that he at once abandoned shoe .,In fovr andi set to studying his se lez. Later oin heC (-teredi the~ Con si rvaltoireC. if the minister of line arts, w ithi whlomlie the II final awardl ill the mantte-r, shoulld decide, as seems prob al,. in favor of the Grand Oper-a againstI thne Opera Comque, there will be some :uger of Saleza unduly straining his moice, as it is as yet hardly powerful )F Pil AND PUFFN. aOSSIP BY THE LATE DR. MOTT CON AN SMCOKiNG. )ie. o the ~eed, a~tI Some of the itett. .tatesmeni. Author., anid Editors at the ;..hrineA---%1C Cot).1 ndviA. :special Corresponl(ne.] NE:W YORK, : ".-"It is a curious .hing," said the late Dr. Alexander Mott , short time before his fatal illness car cied one of the best all rolnd New York ,rs to the ether shore, "that we doctors carcly agree on the subject of tobacco. Because iicotinie is the active principle : the weed, is poisonous in its isolatedl form, the inference has been broadly drawn that the man who smokes or ehe ws must be injuriously affected. The ixnerience of mankind, however, does not conirmn the conclusion. Ask any consumi-r to state distinctly what kind of- pleasure or kind of injury the daily use of tobacco produces, or why he con tinues the indulgence, and not one in a hudred can give you a satisfactory an swer. Who ever heard a man say he en joyed smoking when lie couldnt see the smoke. (r atLributed his 'shake' in the morning to the smoke of the iight be fore -.Anotler )oint iworth noting," contin : the doctor, -is that geographicallati tude and constitution have much to do with the popular habit. In New Eng land, for instance, there is a large and conscientious body of men and womer who would suppress the use of tobacco if thev could by legislative enactment, while frou the cosmopolitan city of New York southward, one is brought in con tact = 2 - : most offensive forms. Chief among these is the cigar ette. It is but a short time ago that a ,ysician was suddenly summoned to attend one of the brightest young men in the metropolis. While saying good by to his hosts one evening he dropped ike a i'r !t7- l a succession ,f wpasnis, i - - co nrolabl mzus cular moti'*n, i hat lasted for nearly three weeks. The doctor had all he could do to save the young man-s life, and it will be months before he recovers anything like his former health. Inquiry devel oped the fact that on the day of the at tack heliad smoked forty of the poison ous pests. Now, if the nicotine stainseo often seen on the fingers of a cigarette smoker can so easj discolor the outside, what must be the effect on the more deli cate membranes of the throat, lungs and blood vessels. The truth is, more insidi ous harm i3 (lone to the system by the indiscriminate and habitual smoking of cigarettes than by the use of bad liquor. "This brings out another thought. There is danger in being miscellaneously polite. Among the patients of a friend of mine is a gentleman who is threat ened with the loss of his arm from poison which he is supposed to have absorbed by handling a cigar after it had been returned to him by a stranger who had borrowed it for a light. The latter was probably engaged in some business in which poisonous substances are used, and, neglecting to wash his fingers, hl .1 unconsciously left a trace of the poison that produced the disaster. If smokers could see the filth that sur rounds nine-tenths of the men and wo men who manipulate the weed, their careless and unclean habits, and-observe the nasty fingers and sometimes lips that put on the finishing touches of a -so called Regalia, there would be a larger demand for cigar holders, and instead of biting before lighting, they would use a. knife to clip the folded end. "There are, doubtless, cases," contin ued the doctor, "in which cancerous- af fections of the lips and malignant dis eases of the stomach are traceable to the abuse of tobacco, but I have found few among the records, compared with the extraordinary number of people in pub lic and private life who use the weed, that illustrate the idea of permanent in jury to persons in general good health, any more than would result from the in troduction into the system of other dele terious substances. Fancy your German philosopher wvorking out his pro~blems without his pipe!" Take some of -the best knowvn of our own people, especially those engaged in intellectual work; the majority are great smokers. James Gordon Bennett is ad dicted to cigars and cigarettes, and I happen to know, can use up a pile of them during a night. Charles A. Dana is an admirer of the brier root. Puxlit zer, Joe Howard, Willie Winter and Stil son Hutchins are exceptionally abstem ious, for most newspaper men smoke pipes. The night editors find in~ them their chief solace. Senator Sherman smokes the -best Havanas, but his broth er Tecumseh enjoys a dry smoke. Judge William D. Kelley, the pig iron protectionist of Pennsylvania, indulged in the habit for two generations. Gen. Grant, as- w.e all knowv, smoked inces santly, and is pointed out as :mi example f the evil; y-et he say-s in his memoirs that he tried for years after leaving West Point to actluire the habit before lhe wvas successful. Chauncey Depew formerly could get aay with t wenty or thirty cigars a day; now, his after dinner cigar is a luxury. Grover Cleveland enjoys smoking wvhile at work, and if you happen to mteet hinm on his travels. ten dhances to one but it will be in a snmoking car or on the siuok ers' side of a ferryboat. Bob Ingersoll is a famous patron of good eigars. but many of the reverend gentlemuen who occasionally handle him withIout gloves could smoke him out of house and home. "Raindolph, of lloanoke," wvhen hte went abroad, carried a barrelful of Pow hatan clay~ pipes and corucob pipes with cane stems. Henry A. Wise was an in veterate chewer of tobacco, and in his own homne ai iev('te of the pipe'. Alex. aner 11. Step'hens, of Gergia, would go to bed smokintg. and his long stemmed pipe was his nirst companion in theinorn ng. Andrew Jackson was famous for his corncob pipes, and Chief Justice Marshall for his snuff box and excellent MIaccaboy; while the records tt.. ui that the two A damnses, father and son, Clay and Wecbster, Calhoun, Bentoa, and in fact nearly all the early great lights of the rep~ublic, wvere addicted to theC use of tobacco in one form or another. Sta tistics show that the majority of our present legislators, state and national. have tie tobacco ap'petite, and that its increase during each succeeding genera ion is something for the consideration af the philosopher and phiianithropist. Actors, as a rule, are great smokers of :igars, although Edwin Booth prefers a pipe. The late John 3IcCullough possi bly added to his accumulation of brain roube by the excessive use of tobacco. Biy Florence, on his return from a uropean trip, is always sure to have a ot of handsomely carved pipes as souve airs for his friends. The late E. A. Bothsrn (Lord Dundreary) smoked like a himney, but John T. Raymond was ex ~eptionaly virtuous in this respect. The adies of the dramatic p'rofession princi ally affect cigarettes, bt on the sly, nany of thema do not disdain a fragrant :igar. The habit is becoming prevalent unog the fast young girls in the female :ollegs, and even fashionable Vassar night many a tale unfold if its solemn .valls could reveal the secrets of the rolicsome inmate.. us sweetneart. because in a nt or ai straction lie used her finger to stop his pipe; and whoever has read "The Cricket on the Iezarth" will easily recognize a smoker in Charles Dickens, when. spoak ing of Dot, lie says: "She W:sS out :md .ut the very best liller of a pip-, I should s:v, in the four quarters of tih globe. To $'e iwr put lhart chibby ult finger in the bowl, :nrdI In blow down the pipe to 'lear the tub, and when she had done so, affect to think hat there really was something in the tibe, arid blow . dozen times and hold it to hei- eve like e telescope, with a most provoking twist in her capital little face, as she looked down it, was quite a brilliant thing. As to the tobacco, she was perfeet ristress of the subject; and the lighting of the pipe with a wisp of paper, when the Carrier hiad it in his mouth-going so very near his nose, and yet not scorch ing it-was Art, high Art." The habits of famous authors in re spect to the use of tobacco are interest ing. Milton never went to bed without his unu:. a 'lass of water. Shake speare did not smoke, nor did Goethe, Shelley. Wordsworth, Keats. Addison had a pipe in his mouth at all hours. After his daily dinner, Hobbes smoked until after nightfall. Carlyle was a steady smoker for years. Tennyson has "pulled" at his pipe for nearly half a century. Sir Walter Scott smoked in his carriage and regularly after dinner and loved a short clay pipe. Byrou wrote about '"sublime tobacco." but in dulged in its use only moderately. Douglas Jerrold, Thackeray. Ba.ard Taylor, Lord Lytton, Lord Iloughitun and Campbell worked while puling ci gars or pipes. Neither Washington Irving nor Bryant used the weed in any way. Coleritlge, when cured of his opium habit, took to snuif, and Prescott, the historian, when limited by his physi cian to one cigar a day, drove ;-il over Paris to buy the biggest one he could find. Pur-.: -'o the subject. further from a professio:... point of view, the writer asked Professor Mott what in his judg ment were the best means of avoiding injury from the excessive use of the weed? "I should urge the smoker," he re plied, "to observe two conditions. First, the quality of the tobacco, and second, if pipes are used, the quality of the pipe and its stem. Nicotine takes its name from Jean Nicot, who introduced tobacco into France in 1560, and in its poisonous power is scarcely inferior to prussic acid. Some tobaccos contain about 2 per oent., others 6, and some nearly 7. It is rare, however, that a hundred pounds of the dry leaf yields more than seven pounds of nicotine. In smoking a hundred grains of tobacco, therefore, say a quar ter of an ounbe, it is possible to draw into the mouth two grains or more of the most subtle of poisons, but the proportion will vary with the variety, the' rapidity of smoking, the length of the pipe, the material of which it is made, and other circumstances. "In most oriental countries where smokig is a constant habit, the natives use long stemmed pipes in which the leaf burns slowly, added to which is a bowl containing perfumed water. or other liquid, through which the smoke passes, leaving behind a part of its poi& onous vapor. The reservoirs of some of the German pipes are death traps, be cause they retain the grosser portions o the tobacco, while the cigar discharg< directly into the mouth all that resulta~ from the combustion of the weed. You will understand, therefore, that a good pipe should be porous, like the Powha tan clay or corncob, with an ampht bowl that permits frequent cleaning, and wiha long stem of absorbent quality that will take up the gummy-like refu~se of the burned tobacco and the worst of the poisonous elements of the nicotine. Besides, a short pipe which discharges its fumes directly into the eyes andnos trils is injurious to the sight. "As to the qualities of tobacco, Qese depend on the honesty of the mnanu.c turer. Turkish is of course reckoned the best. The pure American, when un'a dulterated wvith sumac leaves, straw, tea, mullein and scores of other substances that are employed to increase bulk or add to the flavor, will rank next; but such a mass of filthy stuff is nowv being oisted on the community and sold by the aid of chromes and other arts of the advertiser that it is well nigh impossible a detect the false from the true. I do not pretend to be a connoisseur in these matters, however,'' concluded the doc tor, "and what I have mentioned are simply the facts familiar to all physicians who have studied the subject." F. G. DE Foswwt. Sir James Hector, New Zealand's fore most scientist, has been deploring what he describes as "the perfect athletic miania which has arisen in the Aus talias." To be a hero in the colonies now, he says, you must excel, not in brain wvork, but in the training of the muscles of the arms and legs. ODDS AND ENC&~ The circus elephant Empress was sold at auction in Philadelphia. She brought $1,700.. In a handful of clover plucked in his yard, Edward Koehler, of Bethlo hemi, Pa.. found fifty-four leaf stalks. Twenty-six thousand person s were present at the opening performance of Barnum'is show ini Lonidon. The conrtir~ual use of Persian insect powder will drive mroths away from furniture. Its frequren t renewaJ is ncessary until all are killed. The x:idow of the late. King Luis of Portugal will receive a yearly allow ance of $i4,000. whieb will b~e reduced one-half if she lives abroad. The electric bells of a certain hotel arec accomnpanied by, thme prinited in struction, "Press the knob if you want the waiter three tiain-s."~ Evange~list Mody :rtly received a draft for' n2,500 ftor 1in- -ove:Maniuent from a Cainadiant smu-i.reh-e tronverted a+ one of Ihis mneetin;i, At Cincirrnat i a horse backedIover tre bank andn~ fell down a~ dcivi ty of 100 feet, dragrgiin his ea riti divyer with himi. Thre driver d trit nt 'et int the water, but tire hoisi- phmured inic the river anid swan arr'-. taCvn tor, dletachling thre vehicte frm him in mridstreami. TIhrece meni being unabIle t) dri v' or Irg ar 40~ pon i pig ::t i pen ~ a) R~einod. Berrs conty Pa. they called ini tire arssismoae of Joh t Bii ru e, a giant in stren:. Ie t~ibr atey.- piced~ the kick ing por:: eu and carried it out unmaided. Irs. Blanrd, tirm poet anrd ovelit better known hs "E. Nesbtis d sribed as a very pretty wo.ma wi 'ithr soft brown eyes, and a deli-:eyof lotk dress anid carriage whieb belongr. tc tre old ;esthretic days., whichii in hr costmies at least, Mrs. Brland rev ivs Patti, the diviine sirk recei ves thet largest wages ever paid..n.ri....hur man or divine. Sireispd 50 every night she sings rin t Alber Iul, Lonidonr. Even with tis an d tre expenrditurre of 85.000O fo r each c(n cert. her m a nag~ers are able iil shus prifit of1 froim $2.,(00 to $3,00 pr idght. Fifty years ago there wvera probably1 n ot mioie thanii pt0.000i to 100r.00 atrio* s if frurit !aud ini Great iBritain. In 17, thre date of the iirmt r-lab.nl h. ord, it had ineseased to r:n-ry 170.000t acres; andh Mr. Writehad, a w'ell kronr authlority, esthnrat s the presenii The obrienair of th soutl Irane, AlI innur i is t)h! : . w'- n i :i ,n j U, iry "S 1 :L t t . ?lir 's tN -I. . Iou I, Ai n . Jo 11 l ist . 1,.. . I;. w t ....* .h . - -t. : n .. .. Is,' A ils' ;Iw I Iic iI'iii Iolf .4 ow' i q. . V1: I .-r w ri r vi-r e-tly wlt I lie h ot r, rih, I f G -org: T i -onda Win. Iir hush !r !~ h~a Mthfoor m-p B *u - a t ero :t- "ve 'T , I r- 3-her now 15':g.- t rib-I Il e oh , tr it i a (,h i t ni Yi r RTcl-n -i ci. w . i , -.v:.-pin . -a h 1.4uii ru ' r Fromz Te'(- teswee_ and4 Texats fliere cOns a s'bbing cry. A tlt amw I s:2- .li si ouiri 'ile 1t 1 en b : l western star F-'ali S-a:t th,- 114-- s ill hoenore-d in Southlurcl near anl far. E-achl (I es a v --o) trly Yr hii- weep;:iz 'e!r bis .rave I's fods were e'er dislhonored li h il ,o i ' r - &. l I br..Vt:. TIle pt-ri ori liii:.1 :; s Wit1h ink ofjustice'to Will bonied y Ii rli tittire Met ul.t to i n hi, due. Wincl:ester (Via) Times. liii Nc's IOve PoeFom. There is nothing that soothes and lull.e to rest the weary reader at. the end of a long letter, tilled chiefly with sati:ti.-, iil:e a sweet line poem that one tan readily understanc-a love poem-and so 1 give cne here that I lound in an ainum-an albuminous poem, as it were-which I wrote many' years ago, and found yesterday on th centre-table where I used to "'spark" but, where now, alas! she is anot her's. O my darling O my dariing Wilt you ever think of me? For my darling, for my dariing. I ,% ilt: times thikl of thee. A1:u t y laring, oh nry darling, When I ofttiwes think of thee It will be indeed a pieasure Jf icu erstwhili tuink of me. Thus ray aarliug, oh my darlii-g, 'hould you erstw' hile think o me, Wilst my darling, 4h my darling, I :-hall ofttimes think of thee, We will think about each other Tili the bright eternity. It i6 fun to write a poem While I pause to think of thee, For I know you'll not forget me While you pause to think of me Thu:, adown life's .unburntpathway Loiter I to think of thee, For I hope and trust that also You may sometimes thin k of m It is not so very wearing Oa the thinker, I can see, Ju.t LO think of you,nly darling, As you doubtless think of me, So, ray darling. as I stated, If your thoughts ae true ,to me I wiii do some heavy thinking, Oh ty darling,just for thee; And we'l th'uk about. each other 'l iii the bright eternity. BILL NYE. -Worth $5,000I.000 and only 10 year obii, says the New York Morning Jour nal. ['his is the state of affairs witi little 3.a shal l oberts, the son of thb la:4. miiiion.-iri Mairsihall 0. Ronerts He is the youngest mihionaire in towr> -Io a recent interview Powder!; says an enemy invente dthe story tha he er as a candidate for Governor o Penusvlvarnia. He has no desire t take ter inu politics, arnd would no under an~y circunisluce. :-o long as h was ut the head of the greatest labo organiza.:tionr in the world. The LoquaciIr yof Mme. s Ir 7.. n m:,' it t'o tic pa per It talks 'al ihrmgte:t !i~i:X mrIt'c *itl mu:-ic p 'erty; .. c I~n e o Spm i'n dsa t "I1. ;Ma.,arut-e .u. es are too bi, - China feels just now under the diree displeasure of heaven, manifested b; the late fir-e at the most sacred build ing of the empire, the "Altar o Heaven," at Pekm, and the breach be tween the emperor and empress. Thi young emperor was forced to marr' the neice of the empress dowager though he would have-preferred quit another wife; and, as . the unluoka young empress is scarcely equal to th< dignify of her position, Kwang-St refuses to see her, and has quarrele< with the empress dowager. Accord ingly the supjersiitiouLs Chrinese be lieve that the temple was burnt dowr as a judgment, although the fire was apparently caused by incendiaries. This sacred "Altar of Heaven" wasi a beautiful tripal circular terrace 0; white marble, with three roofs of bluE tiles, and close to the "Temple oj Heaven," or "Temple of Prayer for the Year." It was erected about the year 483, and was used for the annua) imperial spr'ing sacrifice in February. A bullock was then burnmt before the altar. while the emperor prostrated himself before the tablet of the su premet 't~er of thle universe, and after" wards beforo his ancestral taleMs, an ot-hrer bullock beiwrz killed for each emper'or cormmemrorated. Finally a 'prayer was recad fronm a scroll, which w.as subsequeumtly bur-nt upon the al tar, in orde'r tbat tihe petition might ascend in llame to heavcenr. The enm peror' will perfom the same ceremnony' niext sprinug before the rubed altar. London Graphic. A Long Sentence. Whethrer Mr. Gladstone is quite so good a manufacturer of sentences as Mnr. William M. Evarts can be decided perharps fr-om an examination of the open ing sentence of a speech deliver ed at Birmingham. He said: "Sir Charles For'ster an-d Gentlemen-It is a great thing anid a great pr'aise to any cons-tituency thiat it is able to mraintaitn thait stand ardof judgment and approba'tion and attachment which Walsali hras main tained for so long a period while r'ep nesented by Sir Charles For'ster, to whom I owe a dlebt of- gr-atitude 'for what he hnas most trutly called an unr swer-ving sup)port, but I may say a suppor't 'that did not derirve rts entire value even from its singularly decided character in reference to the pr'inci pies of liben-alismn, but -likewcise from the enltire chrar'acter and action of the man wino has been successful in mak in~g liberal p~'rinciples honored by the whole hourse in association ('vith active parliamerntanry ser'vice rernder'ed to'-the house of conunorns as such. without re spetct to party, w'chile at the same time hre has beenr one rc' doubt, as he has saidi himrself, of the most intellieent uphotlder-s of the pnrinciples of pak as beirng a necessary, though a seeon4 ?i, instr-ument for promoting the benefit and the woirk of the empire." 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