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% famous" bedrooms? THE SLEEPING APARTMENTS OF SOME NOTED WOMEN. Queen Victoria's Bedroom is a Simple Apartment?Mrs. S. V. R, Cruger's Couch 19 Like a Great White Swan. VICTORIA, Queen of England, is said, according to the New York World, to be very particular about lier bed, and to have a deep-rooted objection to changing from one couch to another. Her bedroom is a very simple, unpretentious one, and almost any woman in the land can boast a sleeping apartment quite as good as that of the Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India. The heavy bed, with its canopied top and curtains, for keeping out draughts from the royal sleepers, several chairs, a thick warm rug, a great table of carved mahogany, some good pictures, including a portrait of Prince Albert, complete the apartment in Buckingham Palace in which Her Majesty Blumbere. Mrs. S. Van Rensselaer Cruger, of v^wl- io Tnlipn Ciordon in > the literary world, has one of the most artistic bedrooms in America. The crowning glory of the room is the bed, which is a representation of a swan. Each feather is exquisitely carved in the white enamelled wood by hand, and the proportions are wonderful in their exactness. A canopy of white silk falls from the tall, slender neck, adding to the beauty, concealing none of the lines - Ml IJfJ , it! 411 ~ Mmh/fUh ' I |' liiili i ii1' f THE GREAT WHITE SWJ and carving. The coverlid is of rich white satin, ruffled with filmy lace. Mrs. Crnger has pillows on her pretty bed, and these have day slips of satin much befrilled with lace. The heavy monogram on the coverlid and pillows is done in white, and there is not a touch of color about the whole affair. The color scheme of the room is dull pink ; the walls, carpets and hangings are of this exquisite tint. The dressing table, with its quaint chair, the framing of the tall cheval glass and tbe carved woodwork of the colonial mantelpiece are of glistening white enamelled wood. A few choice watercolors and some bits of rose-flecked china give a homelike look to the room. Lillian Russell rejoices in a sleeping apar'cment which suggests nothing so much as a great pearly pink seashell. Hf,r little single bed is of brass, but scarcely a trace of the glittering metal can be seen, so much of mother-ofpearl has been used. Not only in in lay, but to cover the pillars and bars has the gleaming substance been used. The draperies are of white silk bolting clotb, painted in pink morningglories and delicate arbutus, lined with palest pink satin. Soft white lace over pink satin forms the covering for the bed and for the hard, round bolster, and falls on both sides almost to the white velvet carpet. The dressing table is of pink enamel inlaid with wreaths and cupids of mother-of-pearl, with faint tracries of gold. The oval-shaped mirror is framed in a wreath of porcelain morning-glories, the hand mirrors are of mother-of-pearl, set with jewelled monograms. All of the brushes and toilet belongings are of gold and the exquisite sheeny pearl-like substance. The dressing chair matches the toilet tabic in coloring and ornamentation. It is a quaint little affair, with etishions soft as down. There is no back, of course, so that the maid can brush Miss Russell's golden curls with all ease and dispatch, but the arms are broad and curving, and upon these ! the singer rests her dimpled elbows and avoids much of the fatigue of j toilet-making. Mrs. Frank Leslie's sleeping-room is almost Puritanical in its exquisite j neatness and plaiuness. Over the little cinrrlA brass bedstead linnirs a crucifix of ivory, which is ft work of art iD its matchless carving. A rug of I soft silky Persian weave covers the floor of the tiny apartment, and n single chair completes the furnishings. The toilet table and all of its belongings are in the little dressing room which opens oft* from the bedroom proper. On certain anniversaries Mrs. Leslie's dainty brass bed presents a sombre appearance, for it i* draped in black; the sheets, down coverlids and pillows are nil covered with silk of inky blackness. Mrs. Burton Harrison, the writer, who was Miss Constance Cury, of the ' famous Virginia family, has her bedroom furnished with the quaint old mahogany furniture in which her great-grandmother delighted. The roomy old bed would make two of any modern creation, and the four tall carved posts reach almost to the ceil ing. By the bed stand the quaintlj carved steps, which used to be neces sary to success in reaching the sofl embraces of the feather bed. A tal chest of drawers surmounted by s small looking glass, 6ome quaint olc spindle-back chairs and pictures f hundred years old and more, complete this quaint room. Miss Cameron, the eldest daughtei of Sir Roderick Cameron, has a mosl perfectly appointed suite of apart ments in her father's country house, Clifton Berley, on Staten Island. The bedroom is a perfect example of the First Empire style of furnishings, and the mahogaDy bed, dressing table, chairs and desk show the beautiful shape and decoration of that period. Electricity as a I'oison Detective. A new method of determining the presence of metallic poisons in the body after death is to pass a current of electricity through it, discomposinq the torsion and depositing the metai ? Tf. ia flftir On ULltJ UI lUC ClQUfc* WV4V.0. -w that in cases of antimony, lead, copper, mercury, etc., this method will detect the presence of as small a quan tity of the metal as one-thousandth oi a grain.?San Francisco Examiner. Remarkable Collection of Shoes. The Queen of Italy is said to have a remarkable historic collection of shoes. It includes the shoes worn by Mary Stuart on her way to execution, the shoes of Joan of Arc, Marie Antoinette. Ninon de Lenclos, Queen Louise, etc. ; also a collection of shoes of various countries which has an ethnographic value.?New York Po6t. MADE >^3. S.^YA A Sovel Sulky. A horse lover in Hartford, Conn., according to the Courant of that city, has devised a sulky that may accomplish wonders in the development of J i.?u.-__ i ? T* n speed 1U irubbiu^; liuioca. X|> 10 a. n?un odd-looking arrangement, as may be seen from the picture printed herewith, but its conception is based upon several very important considerations. In running against time the horse should have as nearly absolute freedom of wind and limb as possible, besides being relieved of draught. In other words, he should be as nature designed him, and the inventor of this sulky claims that it more nearly accomplishes that end than any device yet made known. As shown in the cut, the driver's seat is over the horse's hips, with the wheels a trifle in advance of the middle of the animal's body. The central upright, extending from the wheel to the seat, is on a slight incline and must necessarily help propel the wheels, thus reducing the draught to the minimum. A surcingle supports and steadies the shafts, and straps running from it to the pockets that inclose the ends of the shaft keep the sulky from running faster than the horse. THE ODD LOOKING SULKY. The only necessities in the way of harness aro the breastplate, the surcingle and the bridle, leaving the utmost freedom to the shoulders and the chest, as well as to the lungs by reason of less tighteuing of the girth. If the horse rears or otherwise misbehaves, the sill Icy must go up with liini, and if he makes a sidewise movement, he must land the sulky where he lauds himself, with no danger ol dishiug the wheel. The inventor says that no "training down" of overweight will be ueees snry when his vehicle is used, as the heavier the weight, within a reason able limit, the more easily the vehieh will be propelled. He also says tlia a horse may be more easily controllei . from the new locution of the seat thai when the driver sits back of anil i tritle lower than the horse. One of these sulkies is now build ing, and several horsemen, who bav seen the plans, think very favorabl; of it. Placed end to end in a continuou line the streets of London would ex tend from the Mansion House acros the entire continent of Europe an | beyond the Ural Mountains into Asia GOTHIC HOUSES. r . Plans for a Residence In Tills Style t of Architecture. 1 (Copyright 1895.) ! The Gothic or pointed and Grecian or horizontal are really the foundations 1 of all styles of architecture ; when we ; epeak of buildings being Swiss, Italian or Gothic, or any of the nurner [ ARCHITCCT3.N.Y. I , one well known styles, we mean that L the spirit of a particular class has . been seized upon and not that there t* has been a slavish imitation of distinguishing peculiarities. One of the most interesting of all of the styles is the Gothic. Highly as this is revered now, and greatly as the early cathedrals are admired, it was at one time held to* be an unworthy departure from the strictly classic standard. The word Gothic itself was first used by the architects of the Renaissance as a term of renrnaeh for all medieval stvles. It was , i ? j, a synonym for barbarism. The style was a natural growth, a modification N RENT33ELAER CRU5ER. of older styles and an adaptation to changed conditions. Various poetic explanations of its origin have been given. It was said to | *w,l| Ji U i 'PSRCHII J40V200-1 HALL p iVo'xijg'^ ^ 1 3 I i^'cricSro- | (5 j a r VERAMDA ? rj) H?A. &'0- WiDCyP 1 ' ^.fgl RK i ; FlRST riOOPL, Viot*o Vioon directlv from nature. ? l-.N, J ^ , and people pretend to see in its pointed . arches and the ribs of the vault an imitation of the overarching branches of trees. So, too, they say, the pillars of the Gothic aisle were suggested by the trunks of an avenue of stately trees. Appropriately enough, the first Gothic building erected in the United States was a church?famous Trinity Church, New York, built in 1840. Since then it has been the prevalent style for church architecture. | The design illustrating this article is a modified Gothic, and a detailed description of it is as follows: General dimensions: Width, exclusive of veranda, 37 feet 2 inches; - depth, not including veranda and pari lor bay, 54 feet 2 inches. j'l? bed.r. I & roc m 1 i j -a*? j -=|[hall |4'0")t i5'3" ;j Dl FL- yJ | b~o r 1 i i if'o-k^o'o" | 1 |! L J i ? Vs Second Floor. s j Heights of 6tones: Cellar, 7 feet; A first story, 10 feet; second story, 9 i- j feet; attic, 8 feet 6 inches. Exterior materials: Foundation, first and second stories and gables, brick. Roofs, slate. Balcony floors covered with leaded tin. Interior finish: Three coats plaster, hard white finish; soft wood flooring a&d trim. Main staircase, oak. Kitchen and bathroom, wainscotted. Picture moulding in principal rooms and hall of first story. Panel backs under windows in parlor and diningroom. All interior woodwork prain filled, stained to suit owner and finished in hard oil varnish. Colors: Trim, including cornices, casings, veranda and balcony posts, rail?, etc., dark green. Sashee, red. Brick work painted buff and pencilled and speckled to imitate mottled brick. veranda floors ana ceiling ana outside doors oiled. Accomodations: The principal rooms and their sizes, closets, etc., are shown by the floor plans. Cellar under whole house with inside and outside entrances and concrete floor. Two rooms and hall finished off in attic; remainder of space floored for storage purposes. Inside Venetian blinds to all windows of first and second stories. Bathroom with full plumbing in second story. Brick-set range, sink and boiler in kitchen. Large bay window and open fireplace in parlor and bedroom over same. Cost, 86200, not including mantels, range or heater. The estimate is based on N<vw York prices for materials and labor. In many sections of the country the cost should be less. Feasible modifications: General dimensions, materials and colors may be changed. Cellar may be reduced in size or. wholly omitted. Three washtubs may be placed in laundry in Aflllo* T*W?tiVk1 a alirl 1 r?r?> rlnnrc mftV V)A V^CiJOi. JL/VUiyiV OlAUAUK V.VW4W . ? j made to connect dining room and hall and parlor and dining room. Additional bedroom may be finished off in attic, or attic may be left unfinished but floored for storage purposes. This design is presented as an example of what may be done in the embellishment of a residence in Gothio or pointed style. The Height ol Clouds. The very highest clouds, those called cirrus and cirrostratus, rise to the average height of about 30,000 feet. A second class keep at a height of from 10,000 to 23,000 feet above the earth, while the lower clouds usually float at a height seldom exceeding 5000 feet. Ihtbe case of the last-mentioned class of clouds the lower surface may be at a height not exceeding 3000 to 4000 feet, while their towering summit will be removed from the earth by not less than 16,000 feet. Professor Moller says that the vertical dimensions of a cloud will often ex ceed 10,000 feet, and that he has ob served those which he had every rea son to believe were not less than 25,000 feet thick. ?St. Louis Republic. New York Priuks a River a Daj. The volume of water that flowr through New York City every doy vio the new aqueduct is equal to a rivei 100 feet wide and three feet deep, running at the rate of a mile an hour. If the full capacity of the aqueduct were used it would represent a similar | river 165 feet wide.?New lorfc Weekly. North Carolina's Biff Gold XugjeT. For a small colored boy to pick up a chunk of gold weighing eight pounds, or about that, worth just about 82000, is rather unusual good fortune. That is exactly what Jupiter Debarry, of North Carolina, did ? week or so ago, and the nugget is now in Wall street, pays the New York Journal. Moreover, the biy'f regular occupation is picking up nuggets. A little syndicate of Wall street speculators got hold of a piece of property in North Carolina last winter, where nuggets of pure gold lie around loose on the ground, and they have people employed regularly, on daily wages, picking up the valuable metal. This particular one, shown in the picture, is the largest found up to date, but Jupiter Debarry and the other colored youth in Stanley County are vastly excited over the prospect of finding more and bigger ones. There are plenty of smaller ones found from time to time, but they only serve to keep up the excitement. mi? -- ?? -LUO piuiure xs au cauui uuuiud i 6ketch of the remarkable Debarry nugget. It is as rough on top and on tin bottom as it is along the edges, and the outline sliowa how rough that THE MOXSTEK JfrtJOET. is. It weighs 101 ouuce.s and is more than ninety i>er ceut. pure gold, so that, gold being worth an ounce, the value, roughly sneakiog, is almost $2000. | The shape is too irregular to describe, but the measurements arc I u.itilv Tlif> tiniro?t is 11 little over fr-ix and a halt iuciits in length ami five and a hnit inches in width at the widest place. The broader enl is also the thicker, and measures three aud three-quarter inches from top to bottom, while the smaller end is only about an inch thick. Originated lhPk;Ouc I'ricc" System. John A. Warren, the old Boston dry goods merchant who died on last Friday, is said to have been the tirat. dealer in that city to adopt the "one price" system of selling goods. It was considered a great innovation, and everybody predicted that Mr. Warren had made a mistake. Previously each merchant had set his own price for an article, and the customer had to y-ay it or beat him down.?New York Sun. REV. DR. TALMAGE. KW went u Paris a SUNDAY'S SERMON IN THE NEW J*0?*, J YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC. week. 1 ing g'la doors, Subject: "Salvation." altars t. bo man holy w Test: "Seek ye the Lord while Ho may be 'ound.~-Is.Uh (?., 6. 2l??l Isaiah stands head and shoulders above lleving the other Old Tes'.ament authors in vivid de- Oh, i scriptiveness of Christ. Other prophets give the la^ an outline of our Saviour's features. Some It was of them present, as it were, the side face of Elemei Christ, others a bust of Christ, but Isaiah than tb gives us the full length portrait of Christ, metapl Other Scripture writers excel in some things the wi ?Ezekiel more weird, David more pathetic, you wa Solomon more epigrammatic, Habakkuk and at more sublime?but when you want to see search Christ coming out from the gates of prophe- eternal cy in all His grandeur and glory you involun- Whei tarily turn to Isaiah, so that if the prophe- there a cies in regard to Christ might be called the That Is 'Oratorio of the Messiah" the writing of the Bit Isaiah is the "Halleluiah Chorus," where all stances the batons wave and all the trumpets come conver TaoHaVt woo ft man nlAlrAH nn mit- nf unconT Insignificance by Inspiration. He was known Rise ar nnd honored. Josephus and Philo and but the Sirach extolled him in their writings. What John I Paul was among the apostles Isaiah was Anxioi among the prophets. advice My text Amis him standing on a moun- Ob, i tain of insrjlration, looking out into the fu- anxiou ture, beholding Christ advancing and anx- said to ious that all men might know Him. His The co voice rings down the ages, "8eek ye the "Then Lord while He may be found." "Oh," says "Oh," some one, "that was for olden times." No, what I my hearer. If you have traveled in other Bible/' lands, you havo taken a circular letter of read hi credit from some banking house in New the dyi York and in St. Petersburg or Venice or want. Rome or Melbourne or Calcutta, you pre- for a d sented that letter and got financial help im- Oh. b mediately. And I want you to understand book ti that the text, instead of being appropriate I ren for one age or for one land, is a circular let- church ter for all ages and for all lands, and where a man ever it is presented for h?*lo the help comes. I reply "Seek ye the Lord while Ho may be found." have n I come to-day with no hair spun theories the ori of religion, with no nice distinctions, with brougt no elaborate disauisitlon, but with an urgent we are call to personal religion. The gospel of we are Christ is a powerful medicine. It either empha kills or cures. There are those who say: "I law of would like to become a Christian. I have that w haan nrnJHnir a whilfi for the richt a sick kind of influences to come," and still you with a are waiting. You are wiser in worldly Whe things than you we In religious things. If come c you want to get to Albany, you go the Grand purpos Central Depot or to the steamboat wharf, see pec and having got your ticket you do not sit cal abc down on the wharf or sit in the depot. You sermoi get aboard the boat or train. And yet there man it are men who say they are waiting to get to but an heaven, waiting, waiting, but not with in- pardor telllgent waiting, or they would get on board the pri the line of Christian influences that would Come i bear them into the kingdom of God. me to 1 Now, you -know vory well that to seek a voice thing Is to search for it with earnest endeav- manne or. If you want to see a certain man in than s< this city, and there is a matter of $10,000 Ah, th< connected with your seeing him, and you It is 1 cannot at first find him, you do not give up hande< the search. You look in the directory, but from tl -cannot find the name. You go in circles souls s where you think perhaps he may mingle, and noness having found the part of the city whore he But lives, but perhaps not knowing the street, text, you go through street after street and from LorcL 1 block to block, and you keep on searching that? for weeks and for months. To-mo You say, "It Is a matter of $10,000 whether To-nig I see him or not." Oh, that men were as Oh, if persistent in seeking for Christ! Had you three c U?ll t?nn ttaii 1 rl 1 r\r\ rw a fiin j OUV-IitUl (unb >wu nvuiu . have found Him who is the joy of the for- with a given spirit. We may pay our debts, we may manne attend ohurcb, we may relieve the poor, we awful may be public benefactors, and yet all our It Is cc life disobey the text, never see God, never in one, gain heaven. Oh, that the 8pirit of God diseasi would help me, while I try to show you, In tratior carrying out the idea of my text, first how to physic seek the Lord and in the next place when to the pa seek Him. pie en< I remark, in the first place, you are to seek had ca the Lord through earnest and believing could prayer. God is not an autocrat or a despot now. j seated on a throne, with His arpas resting o a soiritn brazen lions and a sentinel pacing up and crisis, down at the foot of the throne. God is a Thei father S9ated in a bower, waiting for His chil- stance dren to come and cljmb on His knee and get certaii His kiss and His benediction. Prayer is the very rl oup with which we go the "fountain of living them water" and dip up refreshment for our Theyr thirsty souL Grace does not come to the lage 01 heart as we set a cask at the corner of the grouni house to catch the rain in the shower. -It is made a pulley fastened to the throne of God, which was at We pull, bringing the blessing. camo I I do not care so much what posture you a man take in prayer nor how large an amount of is a ch voice you use. You might get down on never < your face before God, if you did not pray comes right inwardly there would be no response. A ge You might cry at the top of your voice, and Gettya unless you had a believing spirit within your off up< cry would not go further up than the shout was tl of a plowboy to his ox;ett. Prayer must be Now o believing, earnest, loving. You are in your the otl house some summer day and a shower comes such a up, and a bird, affrighted, darts into the whole window and wheels about the room. You the em seize it. You smooth its ruffled plumage, is just You feel its fluttering heart. You say, ''Poor forces thing, poor thing!" Now, a prayer goes out on the of the storm of this world into the window matter of God's mercy, and He catches it, and He Thei feels its fluttering pulse, and He puts it in Ieavin] His own bosom of affection and safety, you wl Prayer is a warm, ardent, pulsating exercise, are no It is an electrio battery which, touched, heavei thrills to the throne of God. It is the diving times i bell In which we go down tuto the depths of year t< God's meroy and bring ufr "pearls of great entire price." There was an instance where prayer journii made the waves of the Gennesaret solid as time t stone pavement. Oh, how many wonderful heaver things prayer has accomplished! Have you will he ever tried It? In the days when the Scotch SVby Covenanters were persecuted and the enemies Have 3 were after them one of the head men among that it the Covenanters prayed: "Oh, Lord, we be grasp; as dead men unless Thou shalt help us! Oh, acclde Lord, throw the lap of Thy cloak over these no! N Soor things!" And instantly a Scotch mist cldent eveldped and hid the persecuted from their barrasi persecutors?tho promise literally fulfilled, hosts "While they are yet speaking I will hear." longer Have you ever tried the power of prayer? the pal God says. "He is loving ana faithful and pa- are bel tient." Do you believe that? You are told teen y< that Christ came to save sinners. Do you ment c believe that? You are toll that all you have nearer to do to cet the pardon of the gospel is to | afraid ask for it Do you believe that? Then come far as i to Him and say: "0 Lord, I know Thou the go; canst not lie. Thou hast told me to come hearts, for pardo* and I could get it. I come, Lord, are be< Keep Thy promise and liberate my captive you co soul." undert Oh, that you might have an altar in the been b parlor, in the kitchen, in the store, :n the soon b bam, for Christ will be willing to come again towarc to the manger to hear prayer. He would do it n come to your place of business as He con- precioi fronted Matthew, the tax commissioner. If Oh. i a measure should come before Congress that of Chri you thought would ruin the Nation, how you Your h would send in petitions and remonstrances, sunriss And yet there ha3 been enough sin in your tion as heart to ruin it forever, and you have never hind C remonstrated or petitioned against it. If cher? your physical health failed and you had the tion h? means, you would go and spend the summer man b< in Germany and the winter in Italy, and you beauty would thick it a very cheap outlay if you in wha had to go all round the earth to get back pronot your physical health. Have you made any the one effort, any expenditure, any exertion for The i your immortal ami spiritual health? fully gi Oh. that you might now begin to seek there e nftor Ond with earnest nraver! Some of you but the have been working for years nnd years for we ma; the support of your families. Have you eternit given one-half day to the working out of harden your salvation with fear and tremMiug? Take You came hero with an earnrst purpose, I time to tako it, as I have eornc hither with an earnest time w purpose, and we meet fneo to face, and I tell a innu | you, llrst of all, if you want to flud the Lord said to you must pray and pray and pray. think t I remark again, you must seek the Lord pardon through Bible study. The Bible is the new- The oh est book in the world. "Oh," you say, "it twenty was made hundreds of years ago, and the ?the J learned men of Kin? James translated it felt the hundreds of years ago." I confute that idea things, by telling you it is not five minutes old when since tl I God by His blesse l spirit retranslates It into said tli the heart. If you will, in the seeking of the me pra way of life through Scripture study, implore man, " God'e light to fall upon the page, you will with m And that these promises are not one second down s old, and that they drop straight from the soul to throne of God into your heart. upon h There are many people to whom the Bible man's 1 does not amount to much. If they merely spark < look at the outside beauty, why. It will no with hJ more lead them to Christ than Washington's be forg farewell address, or the Koran of Mohammed, may tx I Shaster of the. Hindoos. It 1b the In- I ght of God'a word you must get. I D p to the Charoh of the Madeleine in lJ nd looked at the doors, which are the wonderfully constructed I ever saw, iould have staid there for a whole mt I had only a little time. So, hav- Q need at the wonderful carving on the I passed in and looked at the radiant ind the sculptured dome. Alas, that y stop at the outside door of God's ord, looking at the rhetorical beauties of going in and looking at the altars | | [flee and the dome of God's mercy and an that hovers over penitent and besoulsl ny friends, if you merely want to study ti 73 of language, do not go to the Bible, not made for that. Take "Howe's its of Criticism." It will be better te Bible for that. If you want to study iyslcs, better than the Bible will be itings of William Hamilton. But if mt to know how to have sin pardoned last to gain the blessedness of heaven the Scriptures, "for in them ye have r, Hfe." J* a people are anxious about their souls, re those who recommend good books, m i all right. But I want to tell you that se kla 4a fKa VvaaI* ouaVi rt 1 tinrt. "W AO UIO UWl IV UiiUOi OUVUVUVUUii. Baxter wrote "A Call to the Unted," but the Bible Is the best call to rerted. Philip Doddridge wrote "The T1 id Progress of Religion in the 8oul," so > Bible is the best rise and progress. , Uigell James wrote "Advice to the * is Inquirer." but the Bible is the best to to the anxious inquirer. C :he Bible is the very book you need, a and inquiring soul! A dying soldier his mate, "Comrade, give me a drop!" mraiie shook up the canteen and said. 10 3 isn't a drop of water in the canteen." j" said the dying soldier, "that's not tl1 want. Feel in my knapsack for my c< ' and his comrade found the Bible and lm a few of the gracious promises, and ing soldier said: "Ah, that's what I There isn't anything like the Bible -? ying soldier, is there, my comrade?" N lessed book while we live! Blessed rhen we die! , iarK again we mnst sees troa tnrougn [Ordinances. "What," say you, "can't ^ be saved without going to church?" ^ there are men, I suppose, in glory who ever seen a church, but the churoh is lained means by which we are to be it to God, and if truth affects us when alone it affects us more mightily when u! in the assembly, the feelings of others sizing our own feelings. The great t* sympathy comes into play, and a truth ni ould take hold only with the prasp of T man beats mightily against the soul a1 thousand heart throbs. q you come into the religious circle, inly with one notion and only for one oi le?to find the way to Christ. When I 01 >ple critical about sermons, and criti- 81 >ut tones of voice, and critical about ? lie delivery, they make me think of a ? l prison. He is condemned to death, U' officer of the government brings a u. i and puts it through the wicket of son and says: "Here is your pardon. S( ind get it. "What! Do you expect si take that pardon offered with such a JQ as you have, with such an awkward w r as you have? I would rather die tl > compromise my rhetorical notions." 3 man doe* not say that. He takes it. tl lis life. He does not care how it Is tt 1 to him. And if to-day that pardon t be throne of God is offered to our P hould we not seize it regardless of all 0 entials? & I come now to the last part of my It tells us when we are to seek the is "while He may be found." When is ii Old age? You may not see old age. a: rrow? You may not see to-morrow. B ht? You may not see to-night. Now! a I could only write on every heart in cj iapital letters that word N-O-W?now! s an awful disease. I hoar people say it toss of the head and with a trivial ei ir, "Oh, yes, I'm a sinner." Sin is an si disease. It is leprosy. It Is dropsy, a jnsumption. It Is all moral disorders r< , Now, you know there la a crisis in a }. Perhaps you have had some iilosi of it in your family. 8ometimes the ian has called, and he has looked at tlent and said: "That case wa3 slm- c sugh, but the crisis has passed. If you llnd m? vAatrtrrfav or this mornine. 1 have cured the patient. It Is too Tate The crisis passed." Just so it is in the 0 lal treatment of the soul?there is a y ,-e are some here who can remember In- P 3 in life when, if they had bought a 1 property, they would have become ' u lea. A few acres that would have cost g almost nothing were offered them, a efusedthem. Afterward a large vilr city sprung up on those acres of n 3, and they see what a mistake they f? in not buying the property. There p i opportunity of getting it. It never a -ack again. And so it Is in regard to * 's spiritual and eternal fortune. There a anoe. If you let that go, perhaps It a comes back. Certainly that one never ? back. ntleman told me that at the battle of tl burg he stood upon a height looking a )n the conflicting armies. He said it ? le most exciting moment of his life, si ne army seeming to triumph and now ? ler. After awhile the host wheeled in tl > way that he knew in live minutes the d question would be decided. He said lotion was almost unbearable. There such a time to-day with you?the of light on one side, the forces of death other side, and in a few moments the A will be settled for eternity. in .? Hmn TtrM/th m?rr?V hAA flAt for ? port. If you are on board before that 111 get a passage for heaven. If you ri it on board, you miss your passage for u 1. As in law courts a case Is some- n idjourned from term to term and from > year till the bill of costs eats up the u estate, so there are men who are ad- P ag the matter if religion from 11 o time and from year to year until a. ily bliss is the bill of costs the man ,cl ive to pay for it. defer this matter, oh, my dear hearer? J? rou any idea that sin will wear out; 11 will evaporate; that it will relax its 8 that you may find religion aa a man P ntally finds a lost pocketbook? Ah, 31 fo man ever became a Christian by ac- ? or by the relaxing of sin. The em- . sments are all the time increasing. Tho ^ of darkness are recruiting, and the |c Jon postpone this matter the steeper 11 will become. I ask those men who P fore me now whether in the ten or flf;ars they have passed in the postpone?f these matters they have come any God or heaven? I would not be to challenge this whole audience, so r they may not have found the peace of jpel, in regard to the matter. Your . vou are willing frankly to tell me, A :omLng harder and harder, and that If " me to Christ it will be more of an n aklng now than it ever would have a efore. The throne of judgment will e set. and If you have anything to do ? 1 your eternal salvation you had better v ow, for the redemption of your soul Is js, and it ceaseth forever. [f men could only catch onu glimpse r, 1st, I know they would love Him! rj eart leaps at the sight of a glorious j or sunset. Can you be without emo- ti the Sun of Righteousness rises be- it alvary and sets behind Joseph's sepul- ^ He is a blessed Saviour. Every Nais its type of beauty. There is Ger- *. jauty, and Swiss beauty, and Italian , and English beauty, but I care not t land a man first looks at Christ he inces Him "Chief among 10,000, and s altogether lovely." diamond districts of Brazil are tareuarded, and a man does not get in xcept by a pass from the Government, > love of Christ is a diamond district g( y all enter and pick up treasures for y. "To-day. if yo will hear His voice, ty i not your hearts." el . fhn liinf nf th? tort that I have no i dwell upon?the hint that there is a y hen He cannot bo found. There was (-1.' in this city eighty years of ago who l'1 a clergyman who came in, "Do you st hat a man eighty years of age can get icd?" "Oh. yes." said the clergyman. 1 man said: " "I cau't. When I was years of age?I am now eighty years . Spirit of God came to my soul" and I al i importance of attending to the?* aj: but I put it off, I rejected God, and in lien I have had no feeling." "Well," <30 e minister, "wouldn't you like to have 20 y with you?" Yes," replied the old lie hut it will do no good. You can pray N< e if you like to." The miuister knelt iu ind prayed and commended the man's God. It seemed to have no effect im. After awhile the last hour of the ife came, and through his delirium a )f Intelligence seemed to flash, and VB Is last breath he said, "I shall never th iven." "Oh, seek the Lord while lie wi > found!" i " ; C-. ' lS' t ** . Vwr?-'Jvl"^3 :K> ^ -v:^^ . CAIAIW II FRANCE. '' 0 vsr a Hundred Persons Drowned oy a Bursted Reservoir. OSS ESTIN!ATLLM\T $10,000,000. ie Disaster Occurred at Tioazxy and ?? Large Tract of Coantrr Was Inandafed ?Half a Dozen Villages Suffered? Searching for the Dead?Farm House* Swept Away and the Crops Rained. The reservoir on the dvke of the canal at juzzy, near r^pium, fiou^c, is0*0 reepinsr away many houses with their folates. The flood quickly subsided, and a arch for the bodies of the dead was imediately made. The disaster occurred at five o'clock a. m. tie rush of water through the villages was ' sudden that there was hardly any chance ' escape, and many persons were drowned their beds. The number of deaths exleded 130. The Bouzzy reservoir fed the southern anch of the Eastern Canal. The water folwed the valley of the Aviere. The sudden scretion of the canal burst its banks, and le water ooured from it over six mile^ of mntry until the channel was emDty. The torrent, hemmed in by high hills, ' ished down the valley like a bore, sweepine * le villages mentioned, and after a course of n miles emptying into the Moselle at onexy and Chatel. Every house at Bouzzy was demolished; id very few remain at Le s Forges, where lere are 1400 inhabitants. At Uxegney renty-three persons were drowned. Every lllding was destroyed at Darnleulles, where le population number eou. Notwithstanding the fact that Nonexy is ?n miles from the dam. many of the inhkbimts of that place had not time to reach the pper portions of their dwellings before the >rrent was upon them. Many farmers iroughout the valley are ruined, and a large amber of families are without food or clotfc'es. he damage caused by the flood is estimated : 810,000.000. The Bouzzy reservoir had a capacity of 000,000 cubic metres. The torrent carried ET bodily some of the houses in the villages t Bouzzy, Darnieulles, Uxegney and Domrres, and swamped many others, besides Bmolisbing walls, bridges, roads, crops and irm buildings. A large part of the valley is ttle more than a morass, with timbers and prooted trees protruding from the mud. Much damage was done to the villages at >me distanc* from the dam. As the flood vept down the valley it gathered an im.ense quantity of timbers and tree trunks, hich were thrown against the buildings in le lower neighborhoods. Part of the Bouzzy tavern was found on le bank of the Moselle, eleven miles dis-. ' int. The exact cause of the break is not nown. Some think the defect was in the lan of the structure, which was vertical there assert that the dam, though orlginUy strong had been cracked for years. The little Aviere brook, which ordinarily i but seven feet wide, has been converted ' ito a lake a mile and a half broad. Soldiers nd workingmen from the Department of oads are burying cattle and sheen as rapidly 3 possible to prevent disease. Hundreds of ircasses were put underground. ~ The masonry on the Bouzzy dam was begun 1 1879 and finished in 18S4. It wasstrengthaed in 1839. The dam was 550 yards long', Ixty-six feet high, and the same thickness , t the base. It was built against vertical ?ck and on sandstone. A REMARKABLE SCENE IN COURT. ">? atherlne Nolan Triumphantly Acquitted of the Charge of Murder. The trial of Catherine Nolan on the charge f poisoning her brother John in Water ford ras concluded in Ballston, N. Y., the jury andering a verdict of not guilty. ^ She and her sister Elizabeth were therepon discharged from custody. There was reat excitement in the court room upon the nnouncement of the vemict. Juror Goff mounted the Judge's bench, lade a speech and called for contributions Dr the friendless, penniless and homeless risoners. Instantly bills fluttered in the ir and silver rained intc Catherine's lap, rhile Foreman Goff pleaded. Such scenes re sometimes described in novels, but judges nd lawyers declared that they never had een one like it in real life before. The Jurymen were among the first to put heir hands deep into their pockets. Counsel nd experts followed. The opposing counsl contributed also, and even the Judge himelf sent a crisp "V to the bewildered girl. loses and pinks were torn from the bouquet hat Catherine had carried and every juror" ecorated himself with one. . WATERMELON PLANT PEST in Unknown insect Hag Attacked th? Patchej in Southern Georgia. Reports from an authoritative source have sached the Agricultural Department that an nknown insect has attijeked the water telon plants in Southern Georgia, and now lreatens to destroy that product. The deartment at once despatched Assistant Entolologist D. W. Coquillet to the spot to make thorough investigation. He will make a lose study of this new pest and experiment l remedies for its eradication. This insect > said to be a small black bug that eats off le plant Just below the surface of the Mimrt Thla industrious little worker ap aars also to have a co-partner in evil in the lape of a white worm that injures the root t the young plants. The Southern railroad companies, who, uring the season, transport thousands ot >us of this piodact, have joined the farmers i urging the department to interfere and revent the spread of the ravage, if possibles. AIR OF SLUMS IS COOD. rofessor Billing* Upsets All Exlstlnc Notions About Ventilation. Philadelphia was selected by the National cademy of Sciences as its next place of leeting. The Barnard gold medal was warded to Lord Rayleigh for bin discovery f argon in the atmosphere. The Watson ledal was presented to Seth C. Chandler for is researches iu astronomy. A paper by Dr. John S. Billings evoked jnsiderable discussion. Dr. Billings held lat in exhaled breath no conditions of disise exist and no poisonous bacteria aro jntained. The breath even of a consumpve is not dangerous. It is never in the air self that such disease spreads, but in the ust from sputa. The whole theory of the ?per w?s subversive of accepted ideas of jutilation. Dr. Billings went so far as to iy that, aside from iahaling poisonous orinic matter, breathing the pure air of the ountains secures no special immunity from sease over breathing the air of the slums. Electric Cars Stopped by Eels. kt New Loudon, Conn., the new organ of James's Episjopul Church was stopped rice by eels iu forty-eight hours. The ectric street cars over the city wen? obliged i suspend runuing, as the power did not orl: ou account of eels. Ail tile trouble is tused by these fish getting iuto the supplypas and shutting off the water usea in. eam boilers. Caught SIS.OOO Worth of .^tursMn. Tho richest sturgeon catch ou record oug the Delaware was that of a few nights jo when owr 3JU mousterlish were brought to Milford, Dei. Tho biggest we.,aed 0 pouuds, and many uf thein were a jovo 0 pouuds each in weight. Tho Delaware tieruieu, iu this catch, earue.l jyOOO, aud jw Jersev llsueruien were equally successL * Killed Him AVhlle He Slept. Milton J. Schweigert, foreman on tho Sainnah (Ga.) Evening Bulletin, was shot rough the heart and killed by his wife. Ho is asleep. Mrs. Schweigert is said to be sane, and is under arrest. \