The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, August 21, 1890, Image 4
THE TALMACE SERMON.
The Brooklyn Divine Preaches on the
"Summer Vacation."
The Temptation* Tlmt Arc To Be Met
With nt Summer Iluortt.
Text: "Come ye yourselves apart into a
tesert place and rest awhile."?Murk vi., 31.
Hero Christ advises Ilis apostles to take a
vacation. They have boon living an excited
as well as a useful life, and Ho advises that
tbey get out into the country. I am glad that
for longer or shorter time multitudes of our
people will have summer vacation. The railway
trains are being laden with passengers
and baggage on their way to the mountains
and the sea shore. Multitudes of our citizens
are packing their trunks for a restorative
absence.
The citv heats are pursuing the people
with torch and fear of sunstroke. The long
silent halls of sumptuous hotels are all abuzz
with excited arrivals. The crystalino surface
of Winnipiseogce is shattered with the
stroke of steamer, laden with excursionists.
The antlers of Adirondack dear rattle under
the shot of city sportsmen. The trout make
fatal snaps at the hook of adroit sportsmen
and toss their spotted brilliance into the
gamo basket. Already the baton of the
orchestral leader taps the music stand on tho
hotel green, and American life puts on festal
array, and the rumbling of the tenpin alley,
and the crack of the ivory balls on the green i
baize billiard tables, and the jolting of tho
bar-room goblets, and the explosive uncorking
of champagne bottles, and the whirl and
the rustle of tho ball-room dauce and tho
clattering hoofs of the race courses attest
that the season for tho great Americau
watering-places is fairly inaugurated.
Music?Bute and drum and cornet-a-piston
and clapping cymbals?will wake the echo J3
of the mountains.
Glad I am that fagged out American lifo
for the most part will have an opportunity to
rest, and that nerves racked aud destroyed
will find a Bethesda. I believe in watering
places. Let not tho commercial firm bogrudgc
the clerk, or the employer the journeyman,
or tho patient the physician, or tho
church its pastor a season of inoccupation.
Luther used to snort with his childreu; Edmund
Burke used to caress his favorite horse;
Thomas Chalmers, in the dark hours of tho
church's disruption, played kite for recrea
tion?as I was told by his own daughter?
and tho busy Christ said to tho bus}* apostles,
'nniirt into n (lrvrt
WJUO JC JVUICV..W v ?
place, and rest awhile." And I have ol>- .
served that they who do not kuow how to !
rest do not know how to work.
But I havo to declare this truth to-:1ay,
that some of our fashionable watering place?
arc the temporal and eternal destruction of
"a multitude that no man can number," and
amid the congratulations of this season
and the prospect of the departure of many
of you for the country I must utter a note
of warning?plaiu, earnest an 1 unmistakable.
The first temptation that is apt to hover
In this direction is to leave your piety all at j
home. You will send the dog and cat and i
canary bird to bo well cared for somewhere |
else, but the temptation will bo to leave
your religion in the room with the blinds
down and the door bolted, and then you will
come back iu the autumn to find that it is
starved and suffocated, dying stretched on
the rug stark dead. There is no surplus of
piety at the watering places. I never knew
any one to grow very rapidly in grace at tho
fashionable summer resort. It is generally
thecase that the Sabbath is rnoro of a carousal
than any other day, and there aro
Sunday walks and Sunday rides and Sunday
excursions.
Elders and deacons and ministers of religion
who are entirely consist ont at homo
sometimes when the Sabbath dawns on them
at Niagara Falls or tho White Mountains
take the day to themselves. If they go to too i
church, it is apt to bo a sacral parade, ami
the discourse, instead of being a plain talk
about the soul, is apt to bo what is called a j
crack sermon?that is, some discourse pickod j
out of the effusions of the year as tho 0110 ,
most adapted to excite admiration; and iu j
those churches, from tho way the ladies hold j
their fans, you know they aro not half so |
much impressed with tho heat as with tho j
picturesqueuess of half disclosed featur s. !
Four puny souls stand in tho organ loft and
squall a tune that nobody knows, and wor- :
shipors, with two thousand dollars' worth of j
diamonds on tho right baud, drop a cent
into the poor box, and then the boncdic- j
tion is pronounced and tho farco is ended. !
The air is bewitched with "the world, the
flesh and the devil." There aro Christians j
who in three or four weeks iu such a place
have had such terrible rents made in their |
Christian robe that they had to keep darning !
it until Christmas to get it mended! Tho I
health of a great man}' people makes an annual
visit to some mineral spring an absolute
necessity; but take your Biblo along with
you and take an hour for secret prayer every
day, though you bo surrounded by guff iw
and saturnalia. Keep holy the Sabbath, >
though they denounce you as a bigoted Puri- !
tan. Standoff from these institutions which
propose to imitate on this side tho water tho |
iniquities of olden time Baden-Baden. Let
your moral and your immortal licalth keep
pace with your physical recuperation, and re- |
member that all the waters of Hathorne and *
sulphur and chalybeate springs cannot do i
^ you so much good as the mineral, healing,
perennial flood that breaks forth from the 1
f~: ''Rock of Ages." This may bo your last sum
mer. If so, make it a fit vestibulo of
e' heaven.
| Another temptation around nearly all our j
F watering places is the horse racing business.
' "We all admire the horse. There needs to be
a redistribution of coronets among the brute I
creation. For ages the lion has been called j
uKiug of beasts. I knock off its coronet ]
and put the crown upon the horsj, iu every |
way nobler, whether in shape or spirit or j
sagacity or intelligence or affection or usefulness.
He is semi-human, an 1 knows how '
to reason on a small scale. Tho centaur of 1
olden times, part horse and part man, seems j
to be a suggestion of the fact that the horse
is something more than a l?east.
But we do not think that the speed of the
horse should bo culture 1 at the expense of I
human degradation. Horse races in ol-ljn '
times were under the ban of Christian pee- j
pie, and in our day the samo institution has |
come up under fictitious names, and it is i
eauoa a "summer meeting," almost suggestive
of positive religious exercises. Audit
is callo-1 an "agricultural fair," suggestive
of everything that is improving in the art of
farming. But under those deceptive titles
are tho samo cheating anl tho same betting,
the same drunkenness and samo vagabond- i
ago, and tho samo abominations that were I
to bo found uu Icr tho old horso racing sys- j
torn.
I never know a man yet who could glvo I
himself to tho ploasures of the turf for a j
long reach of time and not bo battered in
morals. They hook up their spanking learn,
and putonthoir sporting cap, and light thoir
cigar, and takotho reins, and dash down tho
road to perdition. Tho great day at .Saratoga
and Long Branch and Cape May, aud
noarly all tho other watering places, is tho
day of tho races. Tho hotels are thronged,
nearly every kind of oquipago is taken up at
uu almost fabulous price, au 1 there are
tnanv rosiioctahlo nvviln ininrr1tn>r vvifli 1
jockeys an.l gamblers ami iibertincs and
loul-mouthed men an 1 flashv women. Tin
bar tender stirs up the brandy smash. The
bots ruu high. The greenhorns, supposing
nil is fair, put in their money soon enough
to lose it. Throe weeks before the race
takes place tin strngglo is decide 1, an 1 the
men in the secrot know on which steed to
bet their monoy. The two men on the horses
riding aronud long before nrrnngod who shall
beat.
Loaning from tho stnn l or from the carriago
aro mou and womon so absorbed in tho
struggle of bono and musclo and mettle that
thov mnko a grand harvest for tho pickpockets,
who carry ofT tho pocketbooks and
portmonnaies. Men looking on see only two
horses with two riders ilying around the
ring, but thero is many a man on that stand
whoso honor and domestic happiness an l fortune?white
name, white foot, white Hankare
in tho ring, racing with inebriety, an I
with frand, and with profanity, an.l with
ruin?black nock, black foot, black flank.
Keck and neck they go in that moral Epsom.
Ab, my friends, have nothing to do with
horse racing dissipations this summer. Long
ago tho Euglish Government got through
looking to tho turf for tho dragoon an l light
cavalry horse. They found tho turf depreciates
the stock, and it is yet worse for men.
Thomas Hughes, tho Member of Parliament
and the author, known all tho world over,
hearing that a new turf enterprise was being
started in this country, wrote a letter in
which he said: "Heaven help you, then; for
of all tho cankers of our old civilization there
is nothing in this country approaching in unblushing
meanness, in rascality holding its
high head, to this belauded institution of the
British turf."
I go further and speak of anothor tempt a
tion that hovers over Iho watering places,
and this is the temptation to sacrifice physical
strength. Tho modern Bethosdii was
meant to recuperate tho physical health, and
yet how m ny come from tho watering
places, thcii health absolutely destroyed I
Now York and Brooklyn idiot- boasting of
having imbibed twenty glasses of Congress
water before breakfast. Familios accustomed
to going to bed at 10 o'clock at night
gossiping uutil 1 or ii o'clock in the morning.
Dyspeptics, usually very cautious about their
health, mingling ice creams and lemons and
lobster salads an 1 cocoanuts until tho gastric
juices lift up all thair voicos of lamentation
and protest. Dolicato woaion and brainless
young inon chassezing themselves into vortigo
ami catalepsy. Thousands of man and
women coming back from our watering
places in tho autumn with the foundations
laid for ailments that will last them all their
life long. You know as well as I do that this
is tho simple truth.
Iu tho summer you say to your good
health: "Good by; Iamcoing tobavoagood
time for a little while. 1 will ba very gla I
toseoj'ou agniu in tho autumn." Tuen in
tho autumn, when you are hard at work in
your ofiloo or shop or counting room, Goo I
Heal Hi will come and say, "Good by; lam
going." Yon say, "Where are you going?"
"Oh,"" says Good Health, "I am going to tako
a vacation! It in a poor rule that will not
work both ways, and your good health will
loavo 3'oit choleric, and splenetic and exhausted.
You coquetted with your good
health in tho summer time, and your good
health is coquetting with you in the winter
time. A fragruont oC Paul's charge to the
jailer would t>o an appropriate inscription
for the hotel register in every watering place,
"Do thyself no harm."
Another teaiptation hovering aronu I tho
watering placo'is to tho formation of hasty
anl lifelong alliances. The watering places
are responsible for more of tho domestic infelicities
of this country thau all the other
things combined. Society is so artificial there
that 110 sure judgment of character can be
formed. Those wlio form companionships
amid such circumstances go iuto a lottery
where there are twenty blanks to 0110 prize.
In the severe tug of life you want more than
glitter and splash. Life is not a ballroom
where the music decides the stop,
aul bow and prance and graceful
swing of long trail can make up
for strong common sense. You may as
well go among the gayiy painted yachts of a
summer regatta to find war vessels as to go
among tho light spray of the summer watering
place to fiud character that can stand the
test of tho groat struggle of human life, i >
Ah, in the battle of life you wauta stronger
weapon thau a lace fan or a croquet mallot!
Tlio load of life is so heavy that in order to
draw if you want a team stronger than one
made up of a masculine grasshopper and a
feminino butterfly.
If there is auy inan in the communit y that
excites my contempt, and that excites the
contempt of every inau and woman, it is the
soft-handed, soft-heade I fop who, perfumed
until the air is actually sick, spends his summer
in taking killiug attitudes and vraving
sentimental adieus and talking inlinitesiaial
nothings, and liuding his heaven in the set of
n lavender kid glove. Boots as tight as an
inquisition, two hours of consummate skill
exhibited in tho tie ci a flaming cravat, his
conversation male up of "Ah's"' and
"Oh's" and "He-hee's." It would take five
liuudred of them stewed down to make a
toaspoonful of calves'-foot jelly. There is
only one counterpart to such a man as
that, aud that is the frothy young woman at
tue watering p ace, her conversation made
up of French moonshine, what she has ou her
head only equaled by what she has on her
back; useless ever since sho was born, au I to
be useless until sho is dead; and what they
will do with her in tho next world I do not
know, except to set her upon tho banks of
tho ltiver of Life for all eternity to look
Bweotl God intends us to admire music aud
fair faces and graceful step, but amid tho
bcartlessness and tho inflation and tho fautnstic
influences of our modern watering
places bowaro how you mnko life iong coven
mts!
Another temptation that will hover over
the watering place is that of baneful literature.
Almost every one starting off lor tho
summer takos some reading matter. It Is a
book out of tho library or off thebook stand,
or bought of tho boy hawking books through
the cars. I really believe there is moro pestiferous
trash read among the intelligent
classes in July and August than in all tho
other teu months of the yoar. Men and women
who at homo would not be satisfied with
- I l- il.-i. . a. 11.. _M.I? T 1
H UOOlv LlKltf was llMli I? ocudU/iv, j. 4WUUU
sitting on hotel piazzas or under the trees
reading books the index of which would
niako them blush if they knew that you
l;new what the book wax
Would it not be nn awful thing for you to
bo struck with lightning some day when you
had in your hand one of theso paper covcrci
romances?tho hero a 'Parisian roue,
the hcorino an unprincipled flirt? chapters
hi tho book that you would not rea l to
your children at tho rate of one luindroJ
dollars a lino! Throw out that stuff
from your summer baggage. Aro there not
good books that are easy to read?books of
congenial history, books of pure fun. books
of poetry ringing with merry canto, books of
lino engravings, books that will rest too
mitid as well as purify the heart and olovato
the wholo life? My hearers, thoro will not
be an hour between tbfs anil tho day of your
death when you can atforil to road a book
lacking in moral principle.
Another temptation hovering all around
our watering places is tho intoxicatiug beverage.
I am told that it is becoming woro
fashionahlo for women to drink. I care not
how well a woman may dross, i! she has
taken enough of wmo to flush her check and
put glossiness on her eyes she is intoxicated.
She may be handed into a $2303 caViago and
have diamonds enough to confound TifTany3
?she is intoxicated. She may be a graduate
of a great Institute and tho daughter of
Pome man in danger of boiug nominated for
tho Presidency?sho is drunk. You may
have a larger vocabulary than I have, and
you may say in regard to hor that she is
convivial," or she is "merry," or sho is
"festive," or sho is "oxhilerated," but you
cannot with all your garlands of verbiage
covor up the plain fact that it is cui oldfashioned
casa of drunk.
Satan has three or four grades down
which ho takes men to destruction. One
man he takes up, and through one spre#
pitches him into eternal darkness. That is a
rare case. Very seldom, indeed, can you
Grid a man who will be such a fool as that.
When a man goes down to destruction
Satan brings him to a plain. It is almost
a level. The depression is so slight that
you can hardly see it. That man does not
actually know that he is ou tho down
grade, and it tips only a little toward.
uurituvss?just a uu:e. .ivnu uie nrsc mue
it is claret, and the second mile it is sherry,
and the third mile it is punch, and the
fourth mile it is nle, and the fifth mile it is
porter, aud the sixth mile it is brandy, and
then it gets steeper and steeper, an 1 tho mau
gets frightened and says, "Oh, let me get
off!" "No," says tho conductor, "this is an
express train and it does not stop until it gets
to the Grand Central depot of Smasbupton."
Ah, "look not thou upon the wine when it is
red, when it giveth its color int.be cun, when
it moveth itself aright. At the last it bitctb
like a serpent and stingeth liko an adder."
My friends, whether you tarry at home?
which will be quite as safe and perhaps quite
as comfortable?or go into the country, arm
yourselves against temptation. The graco
of God is the only safe shelter, whether in
town or country. There nro watering places
accessible to nil of us. You cannot opcu a
book of tho Bible without fluding out sonio
such watering place. Fountains open for
sin and uncleauliuess; wells of salvation;
streams from Lebanon; a flood struck out of
the rock by Moses; fountains in tho wilderness
discovered by 11 agar; water to drink
and water to baihe in; tho river of GoJ,
which is full of water; water of which if a
man drink ho shall never thirst; wells of
water in the Valley of Baca; living fountains
of water; a puro river of water as clear as
crystal from under the throne of God.
These are watering places accessible to all |
of us. Wo do not have a laborious packing i
up before wo start?only the throwing away {
of our transgressions. No expensive hotel
Lills to uav: it is "without inoiiev and with- !
out price," No Ion; and dirty travel before !
we get there; it is only one stop away. In!
California in llvo minutes I walked around i
and saw ten fountains, all bubbling up, aud '
they were all different. And in five minutes j
I can go through this Itible parterre and find j
you fifty bright, sparkling fountains bub- {
bliug up into eternal life.
A chemist will go to one of these summer i
watering places and lake the water and ana- j
lyzo it, and tell you that it contains so much '
of iron, and so much of soda, and so much of i
lime, and so much of magnesia. I como to
this Gospel well, this living fountain, mil j
analyze the water, and 1 find that its ingredients
are peace, pardon, forgiveness, '
hope, comfort, life, heaven. "Ho, ever}* one
that thirstcth, come yon to this watering
place!
Crowd around this Bcthesda to-Jay! Oh,
you sick, you lame, you troubled, you dying
?crowd around this Bcthesda! Step In it!"
Ob, stop in it! The angel of the covenant today
stirs the water. iVhydoyou not step
in it? Some of you are too weak to take a
step in that direction. Then we take you up
in the arms of our closing prayer and plunge
you clean under tlio wave, hoping that the
cure may be as sudden and as radical as with
Captain Naaman, who, blotched and carbuncled,
stepped Into the Jordan, and after tho
seventh dive came up, his skin roseate complexioned
as the flesh of a little child.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
i
The fastest time made over an electricstreet
railway is twenty-five miles an
hour.
It. is proposed to phonograph the songs
of birds and afterward write them down
in score.
About 4500 species of wild bees are
known, of wasps 1100, of which 170 and
sixteen respectively live in Britain.
The electric spark lias been photographed
by means of a special camera,
in which the sensitive plate rotated 2500
times a minute.
A luminous buoy has been invented,
the light for which is produced ,by phosphuret
of calcium, and is visible'two aud
a half miles away.
Electrically deposited copper is so chuctile
that it can be drawn down until it
resembles the finest hair, and this, 'too,
without annealing.
One of the most elaborate collections
of beetles in the world ds owned by/the
Prince Regent of Bavaria, who is anlcuthusiastic
entomologist.
It is said that the shores of France, are
sinking so rapidly that in twenty centuries
the French capital will have.become
entirely submerged.
A new utilization of a waste product
is the making of a valuable paste?nu; effective
substitute for gum arabic?from
the straw boilings that accumulate iivths
manufacture of paper.
Thunderstorms are said to >be more
numerous in low latitudes than-in high,
and one reason given for their/being less
destructive in England than itisomc other
countries is the dampness of viie climate.
The reason given why birds do not
fall from their perch is because they cau
not open the feet when the leg is bent.
Look at a hen walking and see it close
its toes as it lifts its foot and opeu them
as it touches the ground.
It has never hitherto been lound possible
to make a drilling machine which
would drill square, hexagonal, oblong
and octagonal holes in metal, but such a
tool has finally been devised, and its appearance
at an early day has been promised.
We lose two pounds of water in the
twenty-four hours by perspiration, and
the more we perspire the cooler wc become.
There are 27,000,000 pores on
the surface of our bodies, which, if placed
in a line, would extend twenty-eight
miles in length.
The fact that the waves in the North
Sea differ in shnpo when caused by a
northeast wind under high pressure from
those caused by a southwest wind with
low barometer, is considered as a proof
that the air in an anti-cyclone is a dcor-ondinrr
nirrent and the air in a cvclonc
7 v
an ascending current.
American naval officers who have
adopted the cholera belt in the tropics
fiud it so beneficial that they often retain
it in all latitudes. It is simply a broad
band of flannel worn night and day the
year around tight about the waist, so as
to protect the stomach from sudden
changes of the temperature. It is an excellent
preventive of stomachic disorders.
A distinctive feature of insects of the
grasshopper family is the manner in which
they produce sound. The sharp, stridulating
noise with which the air resounds
all through the day and far into the midsummer
night is produced by the rubbing
of the still edges of the wing covers
against the basal joint of the hindmost
pair of legs; or, in some species, by rubbing
the edges of the wings against each
other.
Dr. Charles W. Dulles, a prominent
physician of Philadelphia, holds to the
opinion that there is hope for consumptives
and that medical science will be
able soon to control the disease. In a
recent paper on the subject lie pointed
out that while in England half a century
ago there were 55,000 deaths nnnually
among 15,000,000 people, there are at
present in a population of 40,000,000
but 14,000 deaths due to phthisis.
The fcmporaturo of snow at different
depths has been investigated by Signor
Christoni. He finds that the variations
in temperature of the lowest layer, next
to the ground, arc extremely small,while
the uppermost layer has often considerably
higher tempernturc. The tempera
lliru IIllUllllUIIl Vi Hit- <ui-iuj<;i iiU.vt uio
saow was always lower than that of the
uppermost snow-layer, while an air-layer
about twenty inches above the snow had
a higher temperature than the layer onetwo
inches above the snow.
The " Yellow Day."
September 6, 18S1, is well remembered
in New England and parts of Now
York and Pennsylvania as the "yellow
day." Southern Canada look ou. some
of the characteristics noted in the States
above meutioncd, the yellow in the ntmosphcre
having a more greenish cast,
which accounts for the Canucks referring
to it as "tlio crrccn day." In the morning
the sky had the appearance of being
clouded, but as the sun rose it was plainly
vision.-, and of the color of bnvss.
About midday a much darker yellow appearance
prevailed; everything except
leaves and grass had the intense yellow
look, they appearing of a rich, velvety
green. The cause of the phenomenon,
which lasted but one day, has never been
satisfactorily explnined.
' Bird of Death."
A man known as the "Bird of Death,"
employed in the Vienna (Austrin) General
IIo'iplUl, met with a singular fate in the
charge of his grewsome duties. His
name was Alvis Paxes. lie was about
fifty-live years old and of hcrculcau
physique. For thirty-three years he
carried all the corpses from the mortuary
chamber; hence the weird name given
hi in. He died of blood-poisoning,
caused by handling the body of a patient
who died from an infectious disease.
Some years ago he sold for cash
his own body to a museum manager and
spent the money in drink. Ilis body
was handed over to the purchaser.?
Cincinnati Enquirer.
English capitalists have just purchased
a large area of chalk rock land near
Yankton, South Dakota, aud propose to
invest $5,000,000 capital.
' CUKIOUS FACTS.
| The while rose is the favorite flower
in France.
There arc now'70,000 widows in India
under nine years of age.
A few days ago 8000 watermelons
were destroyed in a Georgia railroad
wreck.
It is saidtthat Asa Low, of Springvnlc,
has the shortest name of any pc rson in
3Iainc.
It is not an unusual sight to see
seventy-five acres of a California vHieat
field covered with wild geese.
A sign over the office counter in he
leading hotel of Leadvillc, Col., reads:'
ilDogs boarded at $40 a month."
Constantinople, Turkey, is believed to
have founded the first hospital in the
world, as wc now understand a hospital.
A census enumerator discovered a fam
jlv of ten children in San Francisco,
Cal., who were all clubfootcd and knockkneed.
In the Sultantof Morocco's stables are
five horses for his own use and seven
hundred for the use of his family and
servants.
There arc fourteen pages in the United
States Seuate. They serve for four years
each, being eligible only between the
ages of twelve and. sixteen.
There nnc seventeen bathrooms in Mrs.
Thomas A. Scott's residence, on South
Ritteuhouse Square, Philadelphia. The
house contains as many suits as an ordinary
hotel.
A very wise citizen of Chicago, who
was seeking a boarding-house, went first
to a good meat shop and 03kcd the proprietor
to tell him the houses to which he
sold the best meat
A horse-tamer advises that a runaway
horse be allowed.to go fifty-yards. Then
tighten the line3, say "whoa!" and it he
does not respond, to give a strong jerk on
the right-hand rein, and sny "whoa"
again.
The largest plate of glass ever cast in
the world was drawn from the auncaliog
furnaces at the Diamond Plate Gloss factory
at Kokomo, Ind., recently. It i
measures 145x195 inches, weighs 2000
pounds, and is perfect in every particular.
A tradesman named Meckers was found
recently in a street of Eastbourne, on the
English South coast, with seven long
nails driven deep into his skull. He was
removed to a hospital in a dying state.
1 ue aoctors say 11 IS >1U iistuuiaiuug wuov.
of deliberate suicide.
Mrs. Ambrose Crouch, of South Jack- i
son, Mich., 1ms been keeping a tab on
her family, and finds that during the
past ycnr she has baked for them 2368 1
cookies, 19S8 doughnuts, 217 cakes, 267 I
pies, 81 puddings and 793 loaves of
bread. Her family is not large, cither,
except as to appetite.
A newly married Hindoo girl is inter- '
dieted by custom, when living under her
husband's roof, from talking to ang but
her younger sisters-in-law or brotliers-in- i
law. A suicide has been committed by ,
a little Hindoo wife in a village in Burd- |
j wan for the pathetic reason that she could I
find "no one to talk to or play with."'
The University of Berlin, with its j
C000 students and scores of famous pro- ^
feasors, has a capital of but $750,000.
Its largest endowment, that of the Count- |
ess Rose, is only $150,000. Ncvcrthc- (
less it is the seat of the highest German |
learning, and claims to have the ablest
corps of instructors of all the world's |
schools. j
i At Mrs. Somebody's sumptuoiH dinner 1
party in the suburbs of New York the '
I other evening canary birds were liberated 1
I from their cages and flew about she din- '
1
| ing-room during the feast, evidently embarrassed,
if not scared. This "fen- ,
turc"comc3 fromLondoo, where Colonel |
North, the "nitrate king," had it first at
his regal banquet at the Hotel Metropole.
IntelUgent Spnrrows.
In a certain country town the English J
sparrows took possession of the cives and
the attic of the court house, built their (
nests there and fought nnd propagated ,
with tireless and noisy energy. One day
in the spring came a butcher bird nnd
lighted on a tree near the court house.
Before the arrival of the butcher bird,
perhaps two hundred sparrows were
hopping and dying about in peace, if not
in quietness. In an instant they had all
disappeared. Not one could be seen.
You would not have known that there
was a sparrow in town, had it not been
for an occasional subdued chirp under
the eaves of the court house. Now, I
probably none of these little scamps had I
ever seon a butcher bird before. But I
some instinct told them that he meant !
mischief, and, not sianding upon the
order of their going, they went at once.
For tv.-o days the butcher bird made his
home in that tree, killing several robins,
but not a sparrow. They, line Brer
Rabbi';, lay low. On the third day a
1 * * OAnrfhAiien flltrtf tliA Itllfrhor
bird. The sparrows must have bccu
watching the proceedings, for their dead
enemy had hardly touched the ground
before every one of them were there, too,
foraging with appetites sharpened with
a tro days'fast. They paid no attention
to this man with the gun nor to the
butcher bird, but just went industriously
to v?ork filling their little crops. Now,
what other bird has so much discern
ment? How did they know their enemy
was dead? and, further, how did they
know that the same weapon which had
killed him wouldn't be used to kill them?
They did know both things in some way.
If for nothing else but their smartness,
the sparrows ought to be encouraged
by a smart people like ourselves.?New
York Star.
The Cats of PribyloT Islands.
It should not be omitted to state that
there are no reptiles of any sort, mosqui- I |
tees, or house flies on the Pribylov Isl- j
ands, off the coast of Alaska, although i
those objectionable creatures are found i
pretty nearly everywhere else in tho
world. There are not even rats there,
though mice have have been brought in
ships and have propagated enormously.
~ . - 1 I :
Uats, too, nave ueeu nupuiwu uu? uu<\.
increased to a most astonishing extent.
Feeding upon sealflesh they have grown
much shorter and thicker of body than
cats in this part of the world; their tails
have become abbreviated, and thev have !
multiplied beyond all counting. So serious
has the night concert problem become
on the Pribylov Islands that periodically
the natives make raids upon tho
cats, with the result of temporarily diminishing
their numbers. It is said that
a night upon St. George's or St. Paul's is
one incessant and inexpressible caterwaul.?
Chicago Timet.
A GYPSY ON DREAMS.
fiend This, Tlion Go Homo and Eat Too
Much ChoeMr.
According to the Gypsy, to
that you bathe in clear water is a sign
that you will enjoy good health; if
muddy, the death of relatives or friends.
To see a bath, anger; to take a warm
bath denotes happiness; if you take
one either too hot or too cold, domostio
troubles. If you undress without going
into the water yon may expect
troublo, but it will soon pass away; a
sea bath is a sign of honor and an increase
of fortune.
If any one dream that he or sho is
ascending to heaven, or is alrcndy enjoying
its delights, it shows that, some
joyful event is to happen, such as the
birth of an heir to childless people,
good fortune to those who nro poor,
distinction to the wealthy and high
honors to the ambitious. If lovers
hnvn annlt o rlrnom if-, fnrnfnlla an aarl^j
MUIV WUVH W 4V V?.J
marriage under the most auspicious circumstances,
and that their wedding
will bo attended with troops of congratulating
friends, who will showei
presents upon them. On the othet
hand, to dream of seeing hell denote;
that the dreamer's life is a bad one,
nnd is an intimation to him of reformat
tion.
To see a coffin in your dreams signifies
that you will soon bo married and
own a house of your own. This is a
dream girls are ulways wishing for,
says the gypsy book.
If any one should be so unfortunate
as t-o dream that he or she was present
at a happy and jolly wedding it denotes
that they will attend a funeral; it will
pot necessarilyije at the burial of either
of the persons you dreamed you saw
married, but you will undoubtedly bo
called to mourn some friend or relative.
To go to weddings when one is wido
awake is exceedingly pleasant, but we
i hould be careful how we dream about
them. To dream of being married
yourself foretells your death.
For a girl to dream of raking newlymown
hay is a sign she will be married
before the hay is eaten. Young fellows
who dream of raking hay with
their sweethearts had better get ready
their necks for the matrimonial noose,
as they are past praying for. If a man
.1 1..
Hi cuius IIU 19 LUU11UCU 1U a jsuouii Ui
jail it shows that he will have honora
or dignities conferred upon him, aa
such dreams go contrary wise; if his arrest
and imprisonment worries him it
only 6hows that he will be the more
delighted with his new dignities. This
is an excellent dream for politicians and
office-holders, as the jail is what they
would naturally dream of.
For a girl to dream that she was so
sleepy in church as to nod toward the
minister, is a sign she will have a young
parson fcr her husband; if a young man
dreams this, he will beapt to make up to
the minister's daughter, provided his
position warrants it, and if not, that he
will marry a girl noted for her piety.
To dream of a widow signifies a reward;
to dream you are a widow portends
death or disappointment To dream of
x widower denotes strife or quarrels.
A fox is a sign of thieves; to dream
!>f fighting with them, shows that you
tvill have to deal with some cunning
memy;tokeep a tame fox signifies
that you will love a lewd woman, or
have a bad servant who will rob you.,
A. number of foxes, false friends. If
rou dream that your mouth is stopped
jy a gag, it denotes that you will soon
thereafter be kissed by a pretty girl.
To a young girl such a dream predicts
lliat she will see some gentleman who
[akes her fancy, and perhaps will fall in
love with him. . :
If yon dream yon are pleased with a
pretty chambermaid, milkmaid, or any
ilean or nice-looking young girl whose,
Dccupation carries with it the title of
maid, it is a good omen, for it predicts
in excellent match, and plenty of
children. It also foretells, in many,
cases, that the dreamer will marry u
ich wife. For a married woman to
Iream this is a sign she will have
[rouble with servants.
A Warrior Bold.
A lawyer gave a dinner party, after
which the gentlemen retired to smoke
md chat. All at once he got up, took
down a sword which formed part of a
trophy, and, brandishing it in the air,
Bxclaimed: "All, gentlemen, I Bhall
never forget the day when I drew this
blado for the first time!"
Tray, where did you draw it?" said
an inquiring guest.
"At a ruffle," was the lawyer's rejoinder.?Summit
(N. F.) liecoril.
It is remarkable how a boy who will
walk four miles through the timber
alone to go to a party gets scared at the
darkness in the wood-shed.
The American miss who marries a
'oreign count hopes to become a "Conness
So-and-so," but usually ends with
being a Miss-Fir.?27<e Merchant
Traveler.
Warm
Weather
Causes
That Tired Feeling.
To b9 Strong, Take
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A remedy for soa sickness?Travel by rail.
P&iiwWiBS
PROMPTLY CURED BY
% ^?v Maywood, Knns.^
,/W J I suffered two years
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[ -" I y"V doctors failed to help
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Carlisle, Pa., February 11.1888.
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JOHN' U. SHEAFKR.
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