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PEACE ON EARTH. BlEY. TALMAGE'S SUNDAY SERXON. AR Exposition of the Advantages of Peace over Discord. TEXT: "Who laid the corner-stone thereof, 'When the morning stars sang together" Job xxxviii., t, 7. We have all seen the ceremony at the lay ing of the corner-stone of church, asylum or Masonic temple. Into the hollow of the stone were placed scrolls of history and im prrtant documents to be suggestive if one or two hundred years after the building should be destroyed by fire or torn down. We re nemember the silver trowel or iron hammer that smote the square piece of granite into sanctity. We remember some venerable man who presided, wielding the trowel or ham mir. We remember also the music as the choir stood on the scattered stones and timber of the building about to be con structed. The leaves of the notebooks flut tered in the wind and were turned over with a great rustling, and we remember how the bass, baritone, tenor contralto and soprano voices commingled. They had for many days been rehearsing the special programme, that it might be worthy of the corner-stone laying. In my text the poet of Uz calls us to a grander ceremony-the laying of the founda tion of this great temple of a world. The corner stone was a block of light, and the trowel was of celestial crystal. - All about and on the embankments of cloud stood the angelic choristers, unrolling their librettos of overture, and other woris clapped shin ing cymbals while the ceremony went on, and God, the architect, by stroke of light after stroke of light, dedicated this great cathedral of a world, with mountains for pillars, and sky for frescoed ceiling, and flowering fields for floors, and sunrise and midnight aurora for upholstery. "'Who laid, the corner stone thereof, when the morning stars sang together?" The fact is that the whole universe was a complete cadence, an unbroken dithyramb, a musical portfolio. The great sheet of im mensity had been spread out, and written on it were the stars, the smaller of them minims, the larger of them sustained notes. The meteors marked the staccato nsaes, the whole heavens a gamut, with all sounds,into nations and modulations, the space between the worlds a musical interval, trembling of stellar light a quaver, the thunder a bass clef, the wind among trees a treble clef. That is the way God-made all things. a per fect harmony. But one day a harp string snapped in the great orchestra. One day a voice sounded out of tune. One day a discord, harsh and terrific, grated upon the glorious antiphony.! It was sin that made the dissonance, and that harsh discord has been sounding through the centuries. All the work of Christians, and philanthropists, and reformers of all ages, is to stop that discord and get all things back into.the perfect harmony which was heard at the laying of the corner-stone when the morning stars sang together. Before I get through, ifI am divinely helped. I will make it at sin is discord and righteousness That thingrin general are out of tune is as plain as to a musician's ear is the unhappy clash of clarionet and bassoon in an orches tral rendering. The world's health out of tune: Weak lung and the amosphere in collision, disordered eye and noonday light in quarrel, rheumatic limb and damp weath. in ttruggle, neural gias, and pneumonias, and consumptions, and epilepsies in flocks swoop upon neighbor hoods and cities. Where you find one person with sound throat, and keen eyesight, and alert ear, and easy respiration, and regular pulsation, and supple limb, and orime diges tion, and steady nerves, you find a hundred who have to be very careful because this, or that, or the other physical function is disor dered. The human intellect out of tune: The judgment wrongly swerved, or the memory leaky, or the will weak, or the temper in iamable ,and the well-balanced mind excep tional. Domestic life out of tune: Not only here and there a conjugal outbreak of incom patibility of temper through the divorce courts, or a filial outbreak about a father's will through the Surrogate's Court. or a case of wife-beating or husband poisoning through the criminal courts, but thousands of fam-I :ilies with June outside and January witi Society out of tune: Labor and capital;! their hands on each other's throats. Spirit of caste keeping those down in the social scale in a struggle to g-e; up, and putting those who are up in anxiety lest they have to come down. No wonder the old plancforte of so ciety is all out of tune, when hypocrisy, and lying, and subterfuge, and double dealing, and sycophancy, and charlatsnism, and re venge have for 65.000 years being banging away at the keys and stamping the pedals. On all sides there is a perpetual shipwreck of harmonies. Nations in discord. Without reatizing it, so wrong is the feeling of nation for nation that the symbols chosen are fierce and destructive. In this country, where our skies are full of robins and doves and morn ing larks,we have for our national symbol the fierce and filthy eagie. as immoral a bird as can be found in all the ornithological cata logues. In Great Britain, where they have lambs and fallow deer, their symbol is the merciless lion. In Russia, where from be tween her frozen north and blooming south all kindly beasts dwell, they choose the growl ing bear; and in the world's heraldry a favor ite figure is the dragon, which is a winged sernent, ferocious and dreadfuL. And so fond is the world of contention that we climb out through the heavens and batz one of the other planets with the sprtof battle, and call it Mars, after the god ofwar. and we give to the eighth sign of the zodiac the name of the scorpion, a creature which is chiefly celebrated for its deafly sting. But, af ter all, these symtols are exnressive of the way nation feels toward njation. Discord wide as the continent and br-idging the seas. I snppose you have noticed how warmly in love dry goods stores are with other dry goods stores, and how highly grocerymen think of the sugars of the grocerymen on the same block. And in what a eulogistic way allopathicand hommeopathic doctors speak of each other, and how ministers will sometimes put ministers on that beautiful cooking in strument which the English call a spit, an iron roller with spikes on it, rad turned by a crank before a hot fire, and then if the min ister being roasted cries out against it, the men who are turning him say_: "Hush, brother! we are turnmng this spit for the glory of God and the good of your soul, and you must be quiet while we close the service with: "Blest be the tIes that binds Our hearts in ChrIstian love." The earth is diametered and circumfer, enced. with discord, and the music that was rendered at the laying of the world's corner stone, when the morning stars sang together, is not heard now; and though here and there, from this and that part of society, and from this and that part of the earth, there comes up a thrilling solo of love, or a warble of worship, or a sweet duet of patience, they are drowned out by a discord that shakes the earth. Paul says: "The whole creation groaneth:" and while the nightingale, and the wood lark, and the canary, and the plover, some times sing so sweetly that their notes have been written out in musical notation, and it is found that the cuckoo sings in the key of D, and that the cormorant is a basso in the winged choir, yet sportsman's gun and the autumnal blast often leave them ruffled and bleeding, or dead in meadow or forest. Paul was right, for the groan in nature drowns out the prima donnas of the sky. Tartini, the great musical composer. dreamed one night that he made a contract with Satan, the latter to be ever inthe com poe's service. But one night he handed to Stan a violin, on which Diabolus played such sweet music that the composr was awakened by the emotion and trie to repro duce the sounds, and therefrom was writtens Tartini's most famous piece, entitled the "Devil's o " a dream ingenious but faulty, for all melody descends from heaven, and only discords ascend from hell. All ha treds, feuds, controversies, backbitings and revenges are the devil's sonata, are diabolic fugue, are demoniac phantasy, are grand mnarch of doom, are allegro of perdition. But if in this world things in general are out of tune to our frail ear, how much more so to ears angelic and deific. It takes a skilled artist fully to appreciate disaureement of sound. Many have no capacity to det a defect of musical execution, and, though there were in one bar as mjany oirenses against harmony as could crowd in between thie lower F of the bass and the higher G of the soprano, it would give them no discom fort, while on the foreheadl of the educated artist beads of perspiration would stand out as a result of the harrowing dissonance. While an amateur was pertormmng on a paoand had just struck the wrong chord, John Sebastian Bach. the immortal com poser, entered the room, and the amateur . ..mmbaramzent, and Bach rushed past the host, who stepped forward to greet him, and before the keyboard had stopped vibrat ing, put his adroit hand upon the keys and changed the painful inharmony into glorious cadence. Then Bach turned and gave salu tation to the host who had invited him. But the worst of all discords is moral dis cord. If society and the world are painfully discordant to imperfect man,what must they be to a perfect God? People try to define what sin is. It seems to me that sin is get ting out of harmony with God, a disagree ment with His holiness, with His purity,with His love, with His commands; our will clash ing with His will, the finite dashing against the infinite, the frail against the puissant, the created against the Creator. If a thousand musicians, with flute, and cornet-a-piston, and trumpet, and violoncello, and hautboys, and trombone, and all the wind and stringed instruments that ever gathered in a Dussel dorf jubilee, should resolve that they would play out of tune an:d put concord to the rack, and make the place wild with shrieking, and grating, and rasping sounds, they could not make such a pandemonium as that which rages in a sinful soul when God listens to the play of its thoughts, passions and emotions discord, lifelong discord, maddening discord. The world pays more for discord than it does for consonance. High prices have been paid for music. One man gave $225 to hear the Swedish songstress in xew York. and an other $625 to hear her in Boston, and another $650 to hear her in Providenee. Fabulous prices have been paid for sweet sounds, but far more has been paid for discord. The Crimean war' cost $1,7C0,00,0003, and our American cival war over $9.500,00,000, and the war debts of professed Christian nations are about $15,000,000,000, The world pays for this red ticket, which admits it to the saturnalia of broken bones, and death ago, nies, and destroyed cities, and plowed graves, and crushed hearts, any amount of money Satan asks. Discord! Discord! But I have to tell you that the song that the morning stars sang together at the laying of the world's corner stone is to be resumed again. Mozart's greatest overture was composed one night when he was several times overpowered with sleep, and artists say they can tell the places in the music where he was falling asleep and the places where he awakened. So the over ture of the morning stars spoken of in my text has been asleep, but it will awaken and be more grandly rendered by the evening stars of the world's existence than by the morning stars, and the vespers will be sweeter than the matins. The work of all good men and women and of all good churches and all reforn. associations is to bring the race back to the original harmony. The rebellious heart t,) be .ttuned, social life to be attuned, commercial 'thi-s to be at tuned, internationality to be attuned, hemis pheres to be attuned-but by what force and in what way? In olden time the choristers bad a tuning fork with two prongs, and they would strike it on the back of pew or music-rack and put it to the ear and then start the tune, and all the other voices would join. In modern or chestra the leader has a complete instrument, rightly attuned, and he sounds that, and all the other performers turn the keys of their instruments to make them correspond, and sound the bow over the string, and listen, and sound out over again, until all the keys are screwed to concert pitch. and the dis cords melt-into one great symphony, and the curtain hoist-, and the baton taps, and audi ences are raptured with Schumann's "Para dise and the Peri" or Rossini's "Stabat Mater" or Bach's "Magnificat" in D, or Gounod's "Redemption." Now, our world can never be attuned by an imperfect instrument. Even a Cremona would not do. Heaven has ordained the only instrument, and it is made out of the wood of the cross, and the voices that accompany it are imported voices, cantatrices of the first Christmas night, when heaven serenaded the earth with "ilory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will to men.' Lest we start too far off and get lost in generalities, we had better be-in with ourselves. got our own hearts and life in harmony with the eternal Christ. Oh, for His almighty spirit to attune us, to chord our will with his will, to modulate our life with his life, and bring us into unison with all that is pure and self sacrificing and heavenly. The strings of our nature are all broken and twisted, and the bow is so slack it cannot evoke anything me! lifuous. The iustrument made for heaven to play on has been roughly twanged and struck by influences worldly and demoniac. 0. master hand of Christ, restore thi. split and fractured and despoiled and unstrung nature until it shall wail out for this sin, and then thrill with divine pardon. - . The whole world must also be attuned by the same power. A few days ago I was in the Fairbanks weighing scale manufactory of Vermont. Six hundred hands, and they have never had a strike. Complete harmony between labor and capital, the operatives of scores of years in their beautiful homes near by the mansions of the manufacturers, whose invention and Christian behavior made the great enterprise. So all the world over labor and capita will be brought into euphony You may have heard what is called the -'An vil Chorus,'' composed by Verdi, a tune played by hammers, great and small, now with mighty stroke, and now with heavy stroke, beatmg~ a great iron anvil That is what the world has got to come to-anvil chorus, yard stick chorus, shuttle chorus. trowel ~chorus, crowbar chorus, pickax chorus. gold miine chorus, rail track chorus, locomotive chorus. It can be done, and it will be done. So all social life will be at tuned by the Gospel harp. There will be as many classes in society as now, but the classes will not be regu lated by birth, or wealth, or accident, but by the scale of virtue and benevolence, and people will be assigned to their placas as good, or very good, or most ex cellent. So also, commercial life will be attuned, and there will be twelv-e in every dosen and sixteen ounces in every pound, and apples at the bottom of the barrel will be as sound as those on top, and silk goods will not be cotton, and sellers will not have to charge honest people more than the right rice because others will not pay, and goods ivi11 come to you corresponding with the sample by which you purchased them, and coffee will not be chickoried and sugar will not be sanded, and milk will not be chalked and adulteration of food will be a State's prison offense. Aye, all things shall be at tuned, Ele.-tions in England and the United States will no more be a grand carnival of defamation and scurrility, but the elevation of righteous men in a righteous way. In the Sixteenth century the singers, called the Fischer brothers, reached the lowest bass ever recorded, and the highest note ever thrilled was by La Bastardella, and Catalini's voice had a compass of three and a half octaves, but Christianity is more wonderful,for it runs all up and down the greatest heights and the deepest depths of the worlds necessity, and it willbcompass everything and bring it in ac cord with the song which the morning stars sang at the laying of the world'scorner-stone. All the sacred music in homnes and concert halls and churches tends toward this consumn mation. Make it more and mor-e hearty. Sing in your families. Sing in your places of business, If we with proper spirit use these faculties, we are rehearsing for the sies. Heaven is to have a new song, an entirely new song, but I should not wonder if, as sometimes on earth a tune is fashioned out or many tunes, or it is one tune with the varia atio:ns, so some of the songs of the redeemied may have p laying through them the songs of earth, and how thrilling as comning through the great anthem of the saved, accompanie-i by harpers with their harps, and trumpeters with their trumpets, we shouid near some of the strains of Antioch, and Mount Pisgah, and Coronation, and Lenox,and St. Martin s, and Fountain, and Aiil and Old Hundred. How they would biring to mind the praying circles, and communion days, and the Christ mas festivals, and the chur-ch worship in which on earth we mingle11! I have no idea that when we bid farewell to earth we ar-e to bid farewell to all these grand oldl Gospel hymns which melted and raptured our souls for so many years, Now, my friends, if sin is discord and1 righteousness is harmony, let us get out of the one and enter the other. After our dreadful civil war was over, and in the summer of 1869, a great national peace jubilee was held in Boston, and as an eider of this church had been honored by the selec tion of some of his music, to be rendere:l on that occasion, I accompanied him to the jubilee. Forty thousand people sat and stood in the reat Coliseum erected for that pur ose. ?housands of wind and stringed in itruments. Twelve thousa'A trained voices. The masterpieces of all ages rendered, hour after hour, and day after day- Handel~s "Judas Maccabeus," Spohir's "Last Judg ment," Beethoven's "Mount of Olives," Haydn's "Creation," "Mendelssohns '-Eli jah' Meyerbeer's "Coronation March," roll ing on aijd up in surges that billowed against the heavens. The mighty cadence within were accompanied on the outside by the ringing of thie bells of the city and cannon on the commons, in exact time with the mu sic discharged by electricity, thundering their awful'bars of harmony that astounded all nations. Somemesa I bowed my head and wept. jSometimes I stood up in the enchantment, and sometimes the effect was so overpower ing I felt I could not endure it. When all the voices were in full chorus, and all the batons in full wave, and all the orchestra in full triumph, and a hundred anvils under mighty hammers were in full clang, and all the towers of the city rolled in their majestic sweetness, and the whole building quaked with the boom of thirty cannon, Parepa Rosa, with a voice that will never again be equaled on earth until the archangelic voice proclaims that time shall be no longer, rose above all other sounds in her rendering of our national air, the "Star Spangled Ban ner." It was too much for a mortal, and quite enough for an immortal, to hear, and while some fainted, one womanly spirit, re leased under its power, sped away to be with God. 0 Lord, our God, quickly usher in the whole world's peace jubilee, and all islands of the sea join the five conti nents, and all the voices and musical instruments of all nations combine, and all the organs that ever sounded requiem of sorrow sound only a grand march of joy, and' all the bells that tolled for burial ring for resurrection, and all the cannon that ever hurled death across the nations sound to eternal victory, and over all the acclaim of earth and minstrely of heaven there will be heard one voice sweeteer and minghtier than any human or angelic voice-a voice once full of tears, but now full of triumph-the voice of Christ saying: "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." Then at the laying of the top stone of the world's history the same voices shall be heard as when, at the laying of the world's corner-stone,"the morning stars sang togetbar." Sound Sense for the Girls. The girl of the period seems to be a trifle more sensible than her sister of the last decade. Her boots are not quite as pointed at the toe, and their heels are not as distinctively "French." She does not as ambitiously emulate the camel in the wearing of a hump upon her back, and she has discarded the -rats" and cushions which erst were wont to make her coiffure into the semblance of pillows and bolsters. Un fortunately, i wever, she does not vet realize that beauty is inconsistent with a pinched waist. Admirable as the wasp may be in his humble capacity as an insect, there seems to be no legitimate reason for a young woman's modeling herself upon his figure; but the young woman in sists upon doing so. She is wont to express the most fer vent admiration for the Venus of Mi!o; but even at the moment when she stands rapt in contemplation of the grand creature she finds it difficult to draw a full breath, so tightly inclosed is she in corsets. - Napoleon I., who had as much com mon sense as military ability, was dis mayed at the revival of the corset in 1S12. He said to an eminent physician in regard to it: "This wear, born of coquetry and bad taste, which murders women and ill-treats their offspring, tells of frivolous tastes and warns me of an approaching decadence." Said the last ling of France, in an epigram which should have stung his sub~ects into common sense: "Once you met Dianas, Venuses or Niobes; nowadays, only wasps." Beauty is always to be revered and sought after, and the woman might be forgiven who, by torturing herself, really attained true loveliness; but when she attempts to improve upon nature she merely defeats her own ob ject. It is no more possible for her to enhance her charms, save by healthful living, than it is for a river to run up ' hill. The unnatural is always the ugly; it is but another name for deformity. The human figure in the shape of a wasp is as truly deformed as if its spinal col uin described a semi-circle. The Do;'s Saie of Smell. Every one knows more or less of the marvels of a dog's sense of sruell, but I witnessed an instance of it the other day which, in spite ok all I knew about it, astonished mec. A long line of car riages was standing in front of a store on Madison street, and as I was pass ing a small black-and-tan pet dog rant out of the store. He held up one foot and looked bewildered for a mo ment, and then ran to the carriage at one end of the procession, and smelled the hoof of the right fore foot of one of the horses. He then went to the second carriage and smelled the hoof of the right fore foot of one of its horses. Then he took the next car riage, and then the next, until he had taken the fifth carriage, when lie nim bly jumped into it, enried himself up on the seat, and went to sleep. That was his way of lindirg out~ which was the carriage of his mistress, who soon afterward came out of the store and got into the same carriage. The fact that the horse's hoof was made of horn and that it had been plunged into all sorts of mire all over the streets was nothing to him; that particular hoof smelled differently to him from any other horse's hoof in the world, and no other smell could be applied to it which would efface this peculiar smell. This illustrates another fact that is not so often noticed, that a dog's percep tions through his eyes are very imiper feet and often misleading. I have seen a dog that never relied on his eyes to identify his own master, but would al ways smell him first, and then showed in an~ instant that confidence was es tablished. If dogs ever converse, their usual remark to each other at the close of the day is not "What have you seen'" but "Well, what have you smelled to-day?"-Chicago Journal. The Pirate's Soni. The little story that we arec goiug to tell is about a Pirate's son~ and how lie turned out. It is very- sad to have a' boy turn out difterent f roms what his arents desire or expect- -to take great pains with his education e~nd then haveI him go square back on his bringing up. Once there was a Pirate who had in only son. He doted oin the boy1, anid wanted hinm to grow up and become~ a credit to his parents, so lie spa~red no expense on his education. He not only tutored the boy at home but sent himn to one of the best piratical schools in the countr-y six nmonthis in the y-ear. He furnished hinm with the "Pirate's Own" library, and introduced him to the society of the most distinguished buccaneers in the neighborhood, whose conversation any boy might profit by, but all to no avail, The more that fond parent tried to lix him in the path that would lead to piratical success the more the boy would strive to thwart his wishes. When he should be learning the quickest method of scuttling a ship or cutting a throat, that boy would be ds covered in a corner immersed in a Sun day-school book, and he would steal away from the society of the most in structive corsairs to attend the meeting of the Young Men's Christian Assoca tion. It is easy to guess the result of all this. The boy continued to disre gard th~e teaching, the remonstrances and even the threats of his father, per-I sisting in following what he weakly called a worthy career, until he finally broke that poor Pirate's heart, bring ing his grey hairs down in sorrow to EXTRAV'AGANCE IN DRESS. BY ANNIE E. MYEnS. It is to be hoped they will some time tire of ringing the changes about wom en's extravagances and follies. It is as worn-out a subject as the terrible mother-in-law. There is just about as much basis of truth in the one as the other. One paragrapher holds up his hands and walls his eyes over the ruin ous cost of the average woman's dress, wails that her jewels would bankrupt any man, groans over her laces and is positively lachrymose over her gloves and shoes. One has gone so far as to say: "Show me his wife's wardrot( MASCULINE FADS. and I'll tell you how much he is a de faulter." All nonsense! Show me a man's wine bill; let me know what brand of cigars he uses, if he is under suspicion. The cost of all the trinkets and drap eries with which an honest wife de lights to environ herself will never cause him embarrassment. The man who loves his wife well enough to with her to shine and excel among their so cial surroundings is not going to black en her fame hopelessly by making her husband a thief. A pretty woman loves pretty clothes as naturally as a flower blooms or a bird sings, and the man who can not hold up that end of the contract has no right to make matrimonial engage ment-- with them. There are plenty of good, homely women who will be thankful for smialler favors to maka such men happy. Most men start out in double bar ness with this idea, but are spoiled in the running, and - the wives are to blame. Ti.o wise woman recognizes this and doesn't allow it. If she needs a new riding habit, one of those hand some but plain short skirt ones, she asks him for the money to buy it. She does not scrape and skimp herself of other necessaries to surprise him by riding out with him looking trim and neat in a gown that cost in his eyes nothing. Any man with a mathe matical mind will soon do his figuring from such premises in about this way : If one gown cost no dollars, how many, gowns can she get for no dollars more ? Answer: All her gowns. Thus many best intentioned men are spoiled by the best intentioned wives. 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The man who has been successful in excit ing the present momentary interest in the subject is, like most successful agitators, an Irishman. He claims to have discovered a cipher running through the Shakesperian plays which proves them to have been writ ten by Lord Bacon. It is also claimed that there is a cipher in the epitaph on the moss grown tombstone, which, properly inter preted, leads to the same conclusion. This age shows a decided inclination to pry into mysteries. It can make no difference to Shakespeare now whether the world believes he wrote the plays that bear his name or not. The plays are immortal. Ignatius Donnelly cannot rob us of these grand works, even though he should succeed in robbing Shakespeare of his glory. Were it not for donbting Thomases many of man's great accomplishments would never have been brought to successful issue. Men have be.n stricken down without warning. Doubt put in motion the investi gation which ascertained the cause. After the discovery of the cause, the world was ignorant of any remedy with which to stay the terrible slaughter of humanity, and med ical science said it was impossible. Doubt led the way to the light, and t% arner's safe cure solved the, seemingly unsolvable prob lem. Its friends tell us with conclusive proof that the unsuspected kidney disease befouls the blood and causes most of our diseases! For years the heart was looked upon as the most important organ of the body, but doubt led to further inquiry, which developed the fact that the kidneys are the real blood-puri fiers of the system and those organs now at tract the first attention of the careful prac titioner. It is now a recognized fact that if they are put in a healthy state by the use of that remedy possessing such wonderful curative and cleansing powers most of the prevailing diseases of the system will be easily overcome, since their causes will be re moved How unimportant, in comparison with such problems, is the present discussion as t) the authorship of Shakespeare I MINOR MENTION. Miss Lilian Olcott is writing a life of Sardou. The coffee tree, in its native state, often grows to the height of twenty to thirty feet. White lalacs are first choice for bridal nosegays, with Lilies of the Valley a good second. Avoid causes of irritation in your family circle; reflect that home is the place to be agreeable. There is in England a society conduc ted by ladies for the promoting of long servi' e among servants. Valuable prizes are iiven. Wax flowers were frst introduced in to England by the mother of Mary Beatrice, wife of .James II., as a present to her royal daughter. Mrs. Jessie P. Barnes, of Brooklyn, has been elected a member of the facul.ty of Washington College, Irving, Cal., to take charge of the department of music. Countless knights were slain before St. George won the battle. In the bat tle of life we are all going to try for the honors of championship. Mrs. Dr. Ellis, an American lady, is physician to the Queen of Corea. She has appartments in the royal palace at Seoul, and receivcs an annual salary of ten thousand dollars. The value of three things is justly appreciate I by three c'asses of persons The value of youth by the old, value of health by the deceased, the value of wealth by the needy. Whole cloves are now used to exter minate the merciless and industrious moth. It is said they are more effectua as a destroying agen't than either tobacs to, camphor or cedar shavings. Hannah More, who exercised a great and unsurpassed influence for good over 'our grandinothers' minds, and who was an eminent authoress in the best sense of the word, was a plain woman. An interesting prize competition wa opened a thort time since in 'Week and Leisure' for the greatest number of in stances of distinguished mna of whose mothers anything favorable or unfavora ble is known. Among the recent graduates of the Women's Medical College in New York city is Kin Yamei. a Chinese gi, who had taken the highest position in the class. the is an acc-omplished scholar, able to converse and write accurately in five languages. Quecen Victoria is mourning the death of an old nurse, 31iss Skerritt, who re eently passed away at the mature age of ninety-four. 31iss Skerritt had seen service under Queens Charlotte and Adelaide, and had nursed Queen Vic toria, the Prince of Wales and other' royal children. A new periodical, 'Woman,' to appear weekly, has been commenced. The first number ia each month will contnin '.ursing Notes,' and articles of special interest to nurses, extracts from medical journals, reports of nursing associations, etc. 'The rest of the paper is devoted to reports of meetings on women's subjects and philanthropic work. In Finland, according to Bayurd Tay lor, the women resent as en insult a sa late upon the lips. A Finnish matron, hearing of our Engiish custom of kiss ing, declared that did her husband at - tempt such a libarty she would treat him with such a box on the ears that he should not readily forget, 'Bisvigum' is a newly coined French word. It is compounded of the words 'biscuit, viands, legume.' and is used to designate a new kind of c.:mposite food recently introduced in the French army by General Boulanger, and which can be canverted into a soupl or a stew ac cording to the taste of the eater MIrs. Sarah Jacques Small, who died recently at Bowdoinham, .le., aged one hundred and four years and eight months, when well in'o the nineties, spun over three hundred skeins of yarn and wove twenty yards of cloth, ali wcol. In the last years of her life she knit doubble mittens and stockings enough for a regiment of men. She was a great worker :1ll her cysighit failed at about one hundred. I have sometimes thought that we cannot know any man thoroughly well v. hile he is in r-em feet health. As the ebb-tide discloses the real lines of the shore and the bed of the sea, so ieeble ness, si.:kness and pain bring out the real character of a man. For Tears he pushed away the hand that was reach ing for his heart-strings and bravely worked on until the last hour. I do not doubt that his will and cheerful cour age prolonged his life many years. Garfield. P. T. Barnum has just purchised an enormous amount of re .1 estate in L'ridge port. (Conn It consists of a great tract of land situated in the centre . f thme city, and includes five churches, the old court house, six livery stables, t..ree bank buildings, all the stores on the west side of Main street and more than one hundred residences and dwellings. The property is worth over $6,000,000 3Mr. Barnum's grandson, Clinton H.F Seeley, will at once erect a large brick block on a portion of the unoccupied lan4 included in the purchase. A peasant living in Touraine lately in herited a fortune of $80,000, and in stead of remaining among his native plains he came to I aria and bloomed out as a nabob. M. Luzard-for so he was called-hired a spacious suit of rooms on the Boulevard Montparnasse and took in as a partner a young woman. This female heaped herself liberally to the good things in the parvenue's house, and with the aid of a male friend from the other Boulevaids, whom she passed off as her brother, stole $1,000 or 1,500 and some jewels from her wealthy pro tector. The accomplices had taken the precaution before robbing the unsophis, ticated Luzard to tie him to a bed-post and to gag his mouth. The nabob was discovered in this dangerous and undig nified position by his concierge, but his two interesting friends have not yet been found. Weak lungs. n pitting of blood, consumption and kindred affections cured without physi cian. Address for treatise, with 10 cents in stamps, World's Dispensary Medical Associa tion, ' Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. Handsome women without religion are like handsome flowers without perfume. Heine. "I Don't Want Relief, But Care," is the exclamation of thousands suffering from catarrh. To all such we say: Catarrh can be cured by Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. It has been done in thousands of cases; why not in yours? Your danger is in delay. Enclose a stamp to World's Dispensary Medical Associa tion, Buffalo, N. Y., for pamphlet on this dis ease. Thorough knowledge of domestic economy lessens expenditure. An Important Arrest. The arrest of a suspicious character upon his general appearance,movements or companion snip, without waiting until he has robbed a traveler, fired a house, or murdered a fellow man, is an important function of a shrewd de tective. Even more important is the arrest of diseasewhich, if not checked, will blight and destroy a human life. The frequent cough,loes of appetite, general languor or debility, pallid skin, and bodily aches and pains, announce the approach of pulmonary consumption, which is promptly arrested and permanently cured by Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery." Sold by druggists. Endure, do not find fault with shat can not be helped. ITCiyNC PILE.-.Sypmptoms-Moisture: in tense itching and slinging: worse by scratch ing. If allowed tu continue tumors form, which often bleed s ad ulcerate, becoming very sore. SWAYNE'S OINTMENT stops the itching and bleeding. heals ulceration, and in many cases removes the tumors. It is equally licacious in curing all Skin Diseases. DR. 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During the past ew months the K-Wren Remedies have jumi - ad into popular use, and everybody who uses them has but one thing to say, viz.: That they are the greatest and most magical remedy for oughs, Colds, Asthma, Catarrh, Bronchitis, and all forms of throat and nasal diseases ever liscovered. See advertisement in another col umn of this paper. Consumption Surely Cured. To the Editor:-Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy REE to any of your readers who have cor. sumption if they will send me their Expres. and P. O. address. Respectfully, T. A. SLOCI U1. M.C., 1 1 Pearl St., N. Y Ofrer No. 1y1. FREE:-TrO fERCHN~Trs Ostv: A genuine eershaum Smoker's Set (live pieces),in satin lined plush case. Address at once, R. W. TAN sILLr & Co., 55 Srtt Street, Chicago. ROYAL GL~UE mends anything! Broken Chi a, Glass,~ Wood. 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As for instance, take the case of Captain Sargent S. Day, Gloucester, Mass., who writes April 16. 1881: "Some time ago I was suffering with rheumatism. I used a small portion of St. Jacobs Oil and was cured at once. I have used it for sprains and never once have known it to fail. I will never be without a bottle." Captain Day also re ceived a circular letter, and in reply und date of July 1, 1887. he says: "I used the Oil as stated and was permanently cured of rheumatism by its use." During the inter vening six years there had been no recur rence of the pain. Also a letter from Mr. H. M. Converse, of the Warren (Mass.) Herald, dated July 9, 1.S7, as follows: . "In response to yours of June 22, would say that in 1SSOny wifehad a - severe attack of rhceutatism in shoulder and arm, so that she could not raise her hand to her head. A few --- applications of t, -- Jacobi Oil curedlher permanently, and she has had no return of it.." Another case is that of Mr. R. B. Kyle, Tower Hill. 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