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.'. " -Vr-,'.v DITTALME'S SERMON THE MIDNIGHT REVEL. [Prenchcd at Monona, Wis.] Text: "In that night was Belsliaz.zar, the King of the Chaldeans, slain." Daniel v.. SO. Feasting has beon known in all ages It was ono ol the inu?t exciting times 111 English history when (Jucen l'.lizabeth visited Loxxi Leicester at Kenilworth Castle. The moment of her arrival was considered so important that all tlie clocks of tho castle wore stopped, so that th? hands might point to that ono moment as being tho most signiticaut of all. JSlio was greeted to tho gate xtivii uuaiiii^ iMiuuL's uuu torcnes tmci tne thunder of cannon and tiroworksthat sot the night ablaze, and a great burst of music that lifted the whole scene into perfect enchantment Thou she was introduced ii^a diuiug hall, the luxuries of which astonished the world; -100 servants waited upon tho guests; the entertainment, cost $,r>,0(M) oach day. Lord Leicester made that great supper in Kenilwortb Castle. Cardinal VVohey entertained the French ambassadors at Hampton Court Tho best cooks in all tho land prepared for tho banquet; purveyors went, out and travelod all the kingdom over to find spoils for tho table. The time came. The guests wore kept during the day hunting in the King's park, so that their appetites might bo keen; and then, in ths evenixtto the sound of the trumpeters, they were introduced into a hall hung with silk and cloth of gold, and there were tables aglitter with imperial plate and laden with the rarest of meats and a-blush with the costliest of wines; and when the Becond course of the feast came it was found that the articles of food had been fashioned into the shape <of men, birds and beasts, and groups dancing and jousting j arties ridinz against I ^ eavh other with lances. Lords and Princes I and Ambassadors, out of cups filled to i tho brim, drank the health, first of the i King of England and next to the ! King of Prance. Cardinal Wolsay prepared that great supper in Hampton Court JBut my text takes us to a more exciting banquet. Night was about to come down upon Babylon. Tho shadows of her 260 towers began to lengthen. The Euphrates rolled on, touched by the fiery splendors Of the setting sun; and gates of brass, burnished and jj'ittorinsr, opened and shut like doors of . ilanio. .The hauginggardens of Babylon, wet with heavy dew, began to pour from starlit flowers and dripping leaf a fragrance for rnianj miles around. The streets and squares were lighted for dance and frolic and promenade. The theatres aud galleries of art invited the wealth, and pomp, and grandeur of the city to rare entertainment*: Simno. riot and was-uil wore mingled in every street, and godless mirth and "outrageous oxoess and splendid wickedness carno to the ! ;Kiug'd ptUaco to do their mightiest dents of ! darkness. A royal feast to-night at the King's (alace! Hushing up to the gates ; [ire chariots upholstered with pro- j cious cloths from Dedan and drawn ' by firo-oyed horses from Togarmah, that rear and neigh in the grasp of the cnariotecrs, while a thousand Lords dismount, and women dressed in all the splendor of Syrian emerald, an i the color blending of agate, and the chasteness of coral, and the sombre glory of Tyrian purple, and princely . embroideries brought from afar by camets across the desert and by ships of Tarshish across tho sea. Open wide the gates and let the guosts come in! The chamberlains and cup bearers are all ready. Hark to the rustle of the silks and to the carol ol the music! fc'ee the blaze of the jewels! Lift the banners! Kill the cups ! Clap tho cymbals! Blow the trumjets! Let tu3 might go by with song and dance and ovation, and Qet that Eabylonish tongue be palsied, that will not say: "'O Kicc Belshazzar, live for ever!" Ah, my fr.'ends! it was not any common banquet to which these great people oatne. All parts of the earth bad seut tiheir richest viands to that table. Brackets an 1 chandeliers flashed their light upon -tankards of bur..i-X.-wJ 1J T-> " " uiouuu jjuiu. rruiis, ripe ana .luscious, in \ baskets of silver, entwiued with .leaves, plucked from, royal conservatories. Vases inlaid with emerald and xldged -with exquisite traceries, lilled *viith nuts tUrtt were threshed from forests of distant leauLs. Wine brought from the royal v.ats, foaming in the decanters au.l bubbling iu the chalices. Tufts of cassia and fi-aukincenso wafting their sweetness from wall and table. Gorgeous banners unfolding ia the breeze that came through the opened window,'bewitohsd with the perfume of hanging gardens. Fountains rising up from inclnsures of ivory in jets of crystal, to fall in clattering rain of diamonds and p?arls. Statues of misrhty men looking down from niches in the wall upon crowns J , and shields brought from subdued empires. J Idols of wonderful .work standing on pedestals of precious -stones. Embroideries drooping about '.the windows aud * wrapping pillats of cedar, .and drifting on tioer.s inlaid <witb ivory and agate. Music, mingling the thrum of harps, and 1be clash of cymba s, aud tlip blast of trumpets in ono wave of transport that went :rippling along the wall and bi\eathtng among the* garlands, and pouring down the corridors, aud thrilling the sou's of a thousand banqueters. The signal is driven, aud the.lordsand ladies, the mighty men aud women of the lanQ.eome muuuu tue ttu e. roar <out the wine! Let I foam anil bubble kiss the rim! Hoist every one his cap, and drinkto the senti;i;ent: "Oh, - King Iklsha/^ar, live for ever!" Bestowed headband and carca.net .of royal beauty ^lcam to the uplifted riha2ioee,! as .again and again and again they aite emptied. Away with care from the paJa.-.e! Tear royal -dignity to tatters! Pour out more wine! Give us more light,wilder music, sweeter perfume! Lord shouts to lord, captain ogles to captain* goblets clash, decanters rattle. QJhere comes in the obs ene song and the drunken J-Liccouph nnd tha slnverirm lu> and the eutfaw Of idiotic laughter bursting fromrtho ilips?of Princes, flushed, reeling, bloodshot; while mingling with it all I hoar; "Huzaa, .huzza, :for great Kelshazzarl" What is that on the plastering of the wodl? :1s it a spirit? Is it a phantom? Is it Gc>d( The music stops. The goblets fa'.l from the .nerveless group. There is & thrill. There is a-start. There is a thousand-voiced shriek <Jf horror. Let Daniel be brought in to read that writing. He comes in. He reads it: 1 ".Weighed in tho balances, and art found wanting." Meanwhile the A?syriana, who for two years had been laying a siege to that city, took advantage of that carousal, and icaine in. I hear tho feet of the conquerors on the palace stairs. Ma?*aere rushes in with ,a thousand gleaming knives. Death (bursts.upon the scene; and I shut the door of that .banqueting hall, for I do not want to look. 'There is nothing there but torn banners j and broken wnaths, and the slush of upset , tankards, and tli3 blood of murdered women. | and Uie.kicko 1 and tumbled carcass of a dead \ King. Kor in that night was Belshazzar j ylfl in ' L I learn from this, that, when God writes anything on the wall, o man had better read it as it is. Daniel did not misinterpret or modify the .handwriting on the wall. It is * all fuolishueig to expect a minister of the gospel to preach alwavs thiners t.hnf-. tlm like or the people choose. What sha)( I preach to you .to-day f Shall I tell you of the dignity of human natureShall I tell you of the wonders that our race has accomplished 1 ; "Oh, no!" you say, "tell me the message that came from OocL" I will. If there is any handwriting on the wall, it is this lo3son: "Kepent, acvept of. Christ aud be saved." I migbt talk ol a preafc many other things, but that is the message, and so I declare it. Jesus never flattered those to whom he preached. ,He said to lho*o who did wrong and who were offensive in his sight: "Ye generation Of Vipers! ye whited sepulchres! how can tye escapotho damnation of hell ?" Paul the Apostle preached before a man who was not ready to bear him preach. What subject did he.tanof Did he aay: "Oh, you are a good j mntl A. Vflrw flna ">?" 1 ' _ ? j tuau, a, vojy uouie mane Ho: ha preached of righteousness, to a man who was unrighteous: of temperance, to a man who was the victim'of bad appetites; of * the judgment to come, to a man who was unfit for it. So we must always doclare the message that happens to come to us. Daniel must road it as ft is. A minister preached before jJabio* X. of England, who wai James -W wis?* ; . ' '* - , / J ' \ | VL of Scotland. What subject did ho take Tho lviug was noted all over tho world loi beiug unsettled and wavering in his ideas What did tho minister preach about to this man wuo ?tu James 1. of England am Ja:ncj V'i. of iScotiaud? lie too!< lor his text James i.. o: "Ho tuat wavereth is like u wave of the sea driven with tho wind am. to^od." Hugh Latimer oneuded tho Kni{. by a sermon ne preached, and the King said 'Hugh 1-atitner, come and upologize." wisl, said iiugn Latimer. So tho day wai itppoiufcjOe a.uJ 'iio King's uiiapei wa: full of Lords anl Dukes, und the mighty mou and wutucn o. tue country, loi liut;h Latimer wns to apologize, iio Legal his sermon by saying: "llugu i-atimer, be think thco! 'inou urt in tho pretence oi thin* earthly King, wlio can destroy thy body liut uethsiik thee, Hujrh Latimer, t..at thoi art iu ttio urodeaco of tho li-ing of Heavel au.l earth, who cau destroy both body am! soul iu bell lire. Uh. King, cursed be tb> crimes!" J. Another lesson that comes to us: rher^ is a great difference between the opening oJ tho banquet of sin and its close. Young mau it' you had looked iu upon tuo banquet in tUt lirst few liour?, you would bave wishet you had been invited there un;l could sit a tho feast '"Oh, the grandeur of lielsliazzari feast," you would have said; but you lc dc in at the close of tho banquet and your blood curdles with horror. The King of Terrors has the.e a ghastliei banquet: human blood i-i the wine and dyinj groans are the music. Sin has made itself t xk.ing in the eai th. It has crowned itself. Il has spread a banquet. It invites all tb( world to come to it! It has hung in its ban quoting hall the spoils of all kingdoms anc The banners of all nations. It has strewr from its wealth the tables and floors anc arches. And yet how often is that banquet broken up and how horrible is its end! iivci and anon there is a hn ml writing on tho wall A King falls. A greet culprit is arrested The knees of wickedness Knock together, God's judgment, like an armed host, breaks in upon the banquet, and that night is Bel bhttzzar, the King of tho Chaldeans, slain. Here is a young man who says: ul can not sao why they make such a fuss about thi intoxicating cup. Why, it is exhilarating It makes me feel well. I can talk better think better, feel better. I cannot see whj people havo such a prejudice against it." A few years pass on and he wakes up and find; himself in the clutches of an evil habit whict he tries to break, but canuot; and he criei out: "Oh Lord God, help me!1' Itseems ai though God would not hear his prayer, anc in an agony of body and soul Jro cries out: biteth like a serpent and it stingeth like an adder." How bright it was.at the start How b!a?k it was at the last! Here is a man who begius to road French novels. ''They are so charming," he t>ays: "J will go out and see for myself whether all these things are so. " He-opens the gate of o sinful life. He goes in. A ninful sprite meets him with her wand. She waves her wand, and it is all enchantment. Why, it seems as if the angols of God ha.i poured out phiah of perfume in the atmosphere. As he walks on he finds the hills becoming more radiant with foliage, ?nd the ravines more resonant with the falling water. Ob, wbal a charming l&ndscaue he sees! But that sinful sprite with 'her wand meets him again; and now she reverses the wand and all tho enchantment is gone. The cup is.full of poison. The fruit turns to ashes All the leaves of the bower are forkec tongues of hissing serpents. Tho flowing fountains fall back in a dead pool stenchfu: with corruption. The luring songs become cursss and screams of de.-nonia; laughter. Lost spirits gather about him and feel fo: ihis heart, and beckon hiin on with: "Hail, brother! Hail, blasted spirit, hail!" H< 'tries to get out. .He comes to the front dotil wher? he entered and tries to push it back but the door turns against him; and ia th? jar of that shutting door he lie irs these \words: "This night is B.'lsha&ear, the Kim of the Chaldeans, slain!' Sin may opei "bright as the morning; it closes dark as th< UlgUl'. o. I learn further from this subject tha death sometimes breaks in upon a bauquer, Why did he not go down t ? the prisons ir Pabylou.' There were people there tha wouldliketo have died. 1 suppose then were menand wom?n in torture m that c.t} who would havo we.coined death. But h< comes Tto the palace, and just at thetimi when the mirth is dashing to the tipt.q Eitch, death breaks in at the banquet. Wi uve often seen thj same thing illustrated Heieisa young man just come lrom col lege. He is kind. He is loving. He is en 'thusiastic. He is eloquent. By one spring he may bound to heights toward which iuam men havo been struggling for years. A pro fession opens before him. He i3 establishef in the law. His friends cheer him. Kminen men encourage him After awhile you ma] see him standing in the American Senate, oj moving a popular assemblage by bis e.'o uuence. as trees are moved in a whirlwind Some night he retires early. A fever is 01 iliiin. Delirium, like a reckless charioteer seizos the reins of his intellect. Father an< mother stand by and sefc the tides of lit igoing out to the great ocean. The 1 anque is coining to an end. The lights of though and mirth and eloiuence are being extiu ^guifh?d. The garlands are snatched fron the brow. .The vision is gone. 'We saw the same thing on a larger seal illustrated at the last war in this country Our whole nation had been sitting at a na rtional lanquet?North, South, East ant West. What grain was there but wo crev 'it on our hill?* What invention was then but our rivers must turn the new wheel ant rattle the strange shuttle J What warm fur. but our traders must bring them fron tue Arctic if What tish but that oui nets must sweep them for the markets What music but it must sin; in ou: halls' What eloquence but it mus spsok in our Senates? Ho! to Jthe nationo banquet, reaching from mountain to moun tain and from sea to sea! To prepare tlia banquet the sheepfolds and the aviaries o the country sent their best troasurea Th orchards piled up on the table their 6weetoo fruits. The pres?e^ burst out with new wines Te .tit at that table came the yeomanry o New Hampshire, and the lumbermen o Maine, and the tanned Carolinian frotn th< rice swamps, and the harvesters of Wisconsin and the .Westell) emigrant from the pines o Oregon; and we were all ibrothres?brother at a banquet. Suddenly the feast ended What meant those ; mounds thrown up al Chickahominy, Shiloh, Atlanta, Gettysburg .South Mountain? What meant those goldei grain fields turned into a pasturing groum for cavalry horses? W'hat meant the corn fields gullied with the wheels . of the heav~i supply trail)? Why those -rivers of tears 'those lakes of blood? God was angry. Jus tice must come. A handwriting on the wall The nation had beeu weighed aud found -wanting. Darkness! Darkness! Woe tc the North! Woe to the South! Woe to thi East! Wo3 to the West! Death at the bnn quet! 4. I have also to learn from tho subjecl that the destruction of the vicious and o: those who despise God will be very sudden Tho wave of mirth had dashed to tha highest point when that Assyrian -army brol? through. It was unexpected. Suddenly, al most always, conies the doom of those whc despise God and defy tho law* of men. How was it at the Deluge. Do you suppose it camt through a long northwestern storm, so tha* people for days before were sure it was coin ing* No: I suppose the morning was bright that calmness brooded on the waters: that beauty sat enthroned on tho hills, when sud denly the heavens burst and the mountains sank like anchors into tho sea, that dashet clear over the Andes ?nd the Himalayas. The Red Sea was divided. The Egyptians tried to cross it. There could be no danger. The Israelites had just gone through; where they had gone, Why not the Egyptians? Oh, it was such a beautiful walking placo] A pavement or tinged siiollt and pearls, and on either sida a great wall of water, solid. There can ba no danger. Forward, great host of the Egyptians! Clap the cymbals and blow the trumpets of victory! After them! We will catch thorn yet and they shall be destroyed. But the walls of solidified water begin to tremble. They roclc. They fall. The rushing waters! 'The shriek of drowning men! The swimming of the war horses in vain for the shore! The strewing of the great host on the bottom of the sea, or pitched by the angry wave on the bra?h?a - ' ' ' ' V . ''- V. t battered, bruised and loathsome wre:dt! Slid- | * deuly destruction ea:ne. One hair hour before they could not havo believed it. i lam just setting forth a fa t which you I 1 have noticed as well a? I. Ananias coihoj to . i , the apostle. The apostle say--: "Did you j i i sell the laud for so much?" lie says: *'Yes." j I It was a lie. Dead! As qui.k as that! ] ; ; Sapphira, his wife, comes iu. "Hid you sell . : the lau 1 for so much"Yes."' It was a lie, ] L j and ?juick as that she was dead! ( rod's ;iudg- | 5 ' uients aro upon those who deipi :e aud defy ! j i llim. They oo:no suddenly. > j The destroving angel went throu**h Eirvpt. j ! Do yoa suppose that any of tli ??eople Knew > l I that he was coming? Did Ihev hear tin flap ? - j ui ijis grvui> wni^-i: / u: i\o: suatieuiy, ; i j unexpectedly, ho came. 1 j Skilled sportsmen do not like to shoot a J ' i | bird standing on a sprig ntnrby. If they a , aresk'lled, they pride tlicimoive-" ???i t:tking i jit on the wing, and they wait tiii it starts. ' ! Death is an old sportsman, and h i loves to ! take men Hying under the very sun. lie ' j : loves to take them on the wing \ j j Are there nuy here who aro unprepared , for the etornal world? Are there any hero j ; who 1 avo been living without God and with- ] I uut hope? Let me say to you that you bad bet6 | ter accept of the Lord Jo^us Christ, lest suds d.nly your iast chance begone. The lungs | j | will cease to breathe, the heart will stop. ; 1 The time will come when you shall go no ] j more to the office, or to the store, or to the j shop. Nothing will l>e left but death, and r j judgment, ana eternity. ( Hi, flee to God this J [ hour! If tlu-re be one in this prcsencowho t has wandered fur nwny from Christ, though 3 he may not have heard the <a!l of the gospel . for mauv a year. I invito him now to come I and be saved. Flee from thy sin! Flee to tho stronghold of the gcsj:el! [ To-Jay I in vita you to a grander banquet 1 than auy I have mentioned. My Lord, the ^ King, is tho bauqueter. Angels are the cupbearers. All the redo3med are the guests. The balls of eternal love, frescoed with light, ' and paved with joy. and curtained with unlading beauty, are the banqueting place. The 1 harmonies off eternity are the music. The * chalkes of heaven are the plate; and I am one of the servants coming out with both " hands filled with invitations, scattering them 3 i ever}*where; und of that, for yourselves, you might break the seal of the invitation and < ? read the words written in red ink of blood | 7 by the tremulous hand of a dying Christ: L "Come now, for all things are ready." s After this day has rolled by and tho night 1 has come, may you have rosv sleep guarded i by Him who never slumbers! May you 3 awake in the morning strong and welll But, f oh, art tbou a despiser of God? Is the coming night tlie last night cfn earth# Shouldest J thou be awakened in the night by something, thou knowest not what, and there be shadows floating in tiie room, and a. hand L writing on the wall, aud you feel that your | last hour is come, and there be fainting at 1 the heart, and a tremor iu the limb, and a 1 catching of tbe hreath?then thy doom 1 would be but an echo of the words of my > text: "In that night was Belshazcar, the | King of the Chaldeans, slain." ' An Editor's Coolness. ? Mr. McRoJotnts, now editor of the ; j Leeds (Eng.) Mercury, was at one time a 1 j reporter in this city. He was the most , | argumentative and, at the same time, the j calmest man that ever struck the town. . j He would stop work at a fire to argue. 1 j Mr. McRoberts was on his way home early one morning, when an American citizen suddenly popped tip with a pis' tol, leveled at his head and said: : "Throw up yer hands!" J "Why?" asked Mr. McRsberts, undisA. 1- - 1 t ilurocu. * j ''Throw"them up.** i i "Eat, what for?" t ( "Put up yer hands,'"'insisted the foot. j pad, slinking tte pistol. "Will you do ? j what I tell you?" s "That dipends," said Mr. Mclioberts. ; > "If ye can show uie any reason why I ! i should pit up ma hands, I no say bat 1 ^ what 1 weell; but yer mere re^uaist wad j be no justification fur me to do sae ab- j * i surd a'.thing. Noo. why should you, a ; \ complete stranger, ask me at this 'oor V? ! the mornin\ on a public street, tae put 1 i up ma handsc" ' "Dash you!" cried the robber, "if you i r don't quit gabbiri' and obey orders, I'll i " blow the top of your head off!" j " Whnat! Faith, man, ye must be oot | \ o1 yor heed. Come, noo. puir buddy," ' e I ?wr.d Mr. McRobGTts, soothingly, coolly j \ i catching the pistol and wresting it wu'h - a quick twist out of the man's hand, ; 1 ''come, noo, and I'll show ye where 1 e they11*tnke care 'o ye. Ilech! Dinna ye ' * try tae fech.t, or>ceod I'll shoot ye. By i i 1 the way, ye might as weel put up yer aan j j hands,-an' jist walk ahecd o'me. "That'? I it- Trudge away, noo " ^ And so Mr. McRoberts marched h.i? ! I' r man to :thc city prison and handed him . p over to Captain Douglass. t "Jt wuddna be a bad idea tae pit him I I in a strait-jacket," he said serenely to j t j the officer. "There's little doot but the : | ! buddy'e.dnft.'' | ? I Ana iie resumed nis interrupted home- , f | ward walk.?San Francisco Pout. b 1 It i? cuid that -the great glacier o! I Alaska ie moving at the rate of a quarter , s of a mile per annum toward the sea. The [ front presents a wall of ico some 500 feet , in thickness, its breadth varies from j j three to ten miles, and it is about one hundred and fifty miles long. Almost ! every quarter of an hour hundreds of ; tons of ice in large blocks fall into the I* sea, which they agitate in the most vio lent manner, the waves being such as to I toss about the largest vessels that ap- , nroach the glacier as if they were small \ boats. r * t i iiipariniii to .Mcreliaul Tailor*. ? M. von Keller & Co.. successors to Keller. " . & Huhi. at th-* old Cioth House. corner Arm ' * and Wil!iim St*., New York city, are doing r an extensive busines by means oV furnishing i J to the Merchant Tailoring trade thioughout ; J the United States, complete sample eollee- ! | j tions of their Woolens in season, and receiving i \ I and executing orders receive 1 through thn i ' i samples. Whenever rt style has been soldi out, ihey notify their customers to tfcut effect, ' j so that the par'ti-sboldinjc their samples are' 1 always properly informed a< to whicn styles ] ; they* can offer to their patrons. 'Hie Mer ; chant Tailor is thus placed in a position to i ' sliow a large veriety of styles without encnm- | ! bcring himsslf with a large utoek. "Wo un- : der fand that any Merchant Tailor desiring | such collection of samples can have Mine I : fro<? of cliftrifp. Aridpocc v/vn ! Kt-ilw & Co. , ! Last year $02,584,000 was piid by the property owners of the country to the insurance companies. In the five years ended December 31, 1885, the fire premiuma amount t.o the enormous tax of $413,501,000. \ 1 i . J 1 *' *' ' . * ' ; ' f , I #1/. \ -jc > y:... 1 ' ' '' " t V " I FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. The bulls vised in the Spanish bull Sights costs $400 apiece delivered in Madrid. v Over 100 works written within the pr.<t century have placed the time for i the beginning of the millennium between ! ISS5 and 185)0. ' I l; A Marechal Niel rose tree nt London, j nt., is a peculiar one. Oil one side the ! roses are erim on,and ontheother white, j c. The tree bus not been grafted, "budded," j ? ar tampered with in any mannei. j II Robert Smith, of Lexington, Ind., j lost his nice blavk hair as the result of j typhoid fever. Now his head is.eovered j ? with hair three inches long, very kinky ' f< like a negro's, but as white a* snow. ! n l")r. E. J Jancway, of New York Cit}', j a acting on the suggestion of a countyr ? practitioner, has given frozen milk to patients whose stomachs did not tolerate ice-cream, and speaks highly of its use in fevers. ^ To be a Roman citizen was a great b honor and privilege. The Romans were (a very liberal in granting this favor. First they gave it to all the free men of Rome; then to all the dwellers in the province s of Latium, in which Rome stood; then to all Italy; afterwards it was given to ^ many people in conquered cities and pro- t vinces. 11 ! a The mint julep is an old colonial \ lrginian drink. It was invented in Virginia f by a wealty planter, who had a company of friends at his house. A great liailBtorm came up; he gathered the hailstones, and on the inspiration of the 0 moment, concocted that beverage which we call mint julep. Its fame sprcid, but ] at first they never made it except when * it hailed. s The evidences of the presence of the Mound Builders in this country are almost everywhere, except, perhaps, upon tho Atlantic coast. They consist of mounds, sometimes of imposing size, and other earthworks so numerous that in Ohio alone there are, or were until quite recently, estimated to be 10,000 of the mounds, and 1,500 enclosures of earth and stcne, all evidently the work of the same people. Farmer Kroll, living near Hastings, Neb., got drunk on a quart of alcohol and scared his family nearly to death with his revolver. His brother-in-law appeared, sund, when Kroll flourished the pistol, slapped the drunken man's face sharply witsh his open hand. The man dropped as if shot, and never stirred again. The Coroner's jury thought the blow ''sent the blood and alcohol to KrolPs 'brain," and thus killed him. A ourious feature in the National Museum in Washington is the zoological section, or the department devoted to birds'-eggs. It has about 42,000 birds'' eggs .packed away in little trays placed in cases along the walls of the building. T3?e eggs in the collection vary in size from tbat'of the tiniest humming-bird to that of the giant bird, whose remains are found in Madagascar. There is a little egg-of a tiny humming-bird lying in a diminutive nest. The humming-bird ] that made the nest and laid the egg is ; Hie -smelliest bird in tne wKjrici. me i little egg has a length or long diameter " eff "threeitenths of an inch and a-short diameter of three-hundredthsof an inch. The neet is one-twentieth of an incii i morose-one way and 92-100 the .oilier. Newspaper Progress. The present number of newspapers -and ' periodicals in the United States is 14,100, a ^tain of 000 over the last year. In 1885 thetnot gain over the previous year wat 823. Avhich was 157 more than the gain this year. The most prominent examples ofigrowth are in comparatively new and sparsely settled sections, as is evinced l>y an incrense of 117 in Kansas, 25 pei ^ cent., of .the entire number of publications j _ imithe State; while in Nebraska there k an increase of 58, or 18 per cent, of the . whole. Massachusetts shows nn extraordinary increase of weeklies, 45, and a } diminution of 8 monthlies, indicating < growth dn the rural press, and decline in 1 magazines, necessarily published at so. cial centres. Illinois and Iowa exhibit * sua increasoof 48 and 44 respectively, and , Indiana only 5, althcjugh they are in the [ same geographical section, and have j similar characteristics. Other States J that denote marked newspnpsr progres, are xsew *orK, 3U; Michigan, SO; Wis- {, contin, 25; New Jersey, 28; Ohio, 21; 5 Minnesota, 21.; Missouri, 20; North Car- oliua, 17; Kentucky and Georgia, 1C I each; Arkansas, 15; West Virginia, 11; * Connecticut, 10; California, 9; Florida, 0; Maine, 5; Texas, 3. The District ol Columbia has increased 0; Vermont anil Maryland, 3; Nevada, 2; Virginia, 1. Little Delaware remains unchanged. The total number of dailies now published in the republic is 1,21C?an increase over J 1885 of 38. New York State has 4 more I dailies than lr.st year, find Pennsylvania j 3 loss. The increase in monthlies in this j State is 23, the largest by far of any State in tho union?another indication that the literary centro is steadily tending hither. There ligurers are taken from the "American Newspaper Directory."?Neus York Commercial. Electricity is now applied to the bleaching of cotton and linen fabric?. Tho color produced by Buckingham's Dye 'or. the Whiskers, is permanent and natural. To promote digestion, to keep tie body lealtby and the mind clear, take Ayer's pills, ' ' ' * l*e S-' s '; : j Xim ? * v-;.', ; ' }/v V ' s :i 'M.'.- 'A . V * v * . \ ' v' The virtues of St. Jacobs Oil, asprocluiiuftd I y millions of restored sufferers, shuuM iduce everyone to supply his household wtih ins great specific. It conquers pnin. "I>y their wjr'ts simi! ye kuowy.rthem"? ratchet;. * . '"It. >s jisharmless as it isetTeera^,"1 is what ; ?--aitl of I ted Star Cough Cure hy 1 >r. tf. K. ox, D. 1>., Analytical Chemist, \Vashiiigton, ?. C. Trice twenty-live cents. The Conservative Association of Belfast ! tvuc.ll'InHn, Ptxrl^S, I >% < v ?? .?? %-v ?.?> wiin..ou v?v/*ui umciiu u tupy ' f a resolution which they have adopted re- | retting that. ljord Randolph Churchill ami ,ord Salisbury had expressed disapproval of 1 lie conduct of the 1'eifast constabulary in ! lie recent riots. | For dyspepsia, indigestion, depression f spirits and general debility in their va- ' ions forms, ali>o as a preventive against! 2ver and ague and other intermittent fevers, i lio "Ferro-l'ho^phoratv'd Elixir of Calisaya," | lude by Caswell, Hazard <!c Co., New York, i nd sold by all Druggist", is the bent tonic; j nd for patients recovering from fever or | tiier sickness it has 110 equal. I11 hats the latest novelty consists in having lie crown different from the brim. If 3*011 are suffering from Chronic Cough, Ironchitis, Asthma, or Loss of Voice, Dr. liliner's Indian Cough Cure (Consumption )il) will relieve quickly?remove the cause nd cure. Price :i5c, 50c and $1.00. A high novelty is an Astrakhan bourette j j uiting in bright cardinal. j| Extraordinary but nevertheless true. Wo I " efer to the announcement of B. P. Johr b >11 !; Co., of P.i'jhmond, in which they proposo o show working and energetic men how to nake from $700 to ?2,500 a j*ear over and hove expanses. The more yeu cheque a spendthrift the aster he goes. IliiKft to ConoumpUvcH. Consumptives should use food as nourishing ( id uu1 uc null, ujju ill IX SL1UIKJ LKUtli Will DttSL | I igree with the slomucb and taste of the pa- , icnt. 1 Out-door exercise is earnestly recommended. I j f you are unable to take such exercise on < lorseback or on foot, that should furnish no ( excuse for shutting yourself in doors, but you j honld take exercise in a carriage, or in some < >ther way bring yourself in contact with the ipen air. 1 Medicines which cause expectoration must >e avoided. For flve hundred years physinans have tried to cure Consumption by using ,hem, and have failed. Where there is great lerangemcnt of the secretions, with engorgement of air-cells, there is always profuse exlectoration. Now Piso's Cure removes the engorgement and the derangement of the sejretions, and consequently (and in this way >nly) diminishes the amount of matter expectorated. This modieine does not dry up a X)Ugh, but removes tl?e cause of it. When it is impossible from debility or ither causes to exercise freely in the open air, ip&rtments occupied by the patient should be ? ventilated as to ensure the constant acces?ioo of fresh uir in abundance. The surface of the body should be sponged es often as every third day with tepid water ind a little soft soap. (This is preferable to uiy other.) After thoroughly drying, use Priction with the hand moistened with oil, Cod-Liver or Olive is the best. This keeps the i>ores of tbe skin in a soft, pliable condition, which oontributes materially to the unloading of mmsto matter from the system Dhrougn tiak organ. You will please recollect we cure this disease by enabling the organs of the system ito perform their functions in a nwrmal way, or, in other words, we remove j Instructions, while the recuperative powers i>f the system cure the disease. "We will here say a word in regard to a cough in the forming stage, when there is no constitutional or noticeable disease. A cough mayor may not foreshadow serious evil: take it in its mildest form, to say tlie least, it is a nuisance, and should be abated. A Cough is unlike any other symptom of disease. It stands a conspirator, with threatening voice, menacing the health and existence of. a vital organ. Its first approach is in whispers unintelligible, and at first too often unheeded, but in time it never fails to tnake itself understood?uever fails to claim the attention of those on whom it i alls. If you have a cough without disease of the the lungs or serious constitutional disturbance, so much the better, as a few doses of Piso's Cure will be all you may ueed, while if yrou are far advanced in Consumption, several bottles may bo required toetfect a permanent I jure. Talk of i nvying Jay Goulil his miillions? be is not even free: he is a regular bondman. How to Secure Health. SCOVILL'S K. A RS A PA R1 LLA AND STILLINUIA Jll HLOOD AND LIVER SYRUP will rertcre perfect liealth to the physical organization. It l?,. indeed, a strengthening syrup, pleasant to take, ami ban often proven lt??elf to be the b^st Blood Partner ever dia overed, effectually curing Scrorula, Syphilitic dlsinlern, Weaknessof the Kidneys, Krysipelan, Malaria, ill Nervous disorders and Debility, Bilious Complaint*, and all diseases Indicating un Impure condition of the Bloo<l, Liver, Kidneys, Stojuoch, etc. It orrects indigestion. especially when the complaint s of an exhaustive nature, having n tendency to leu >c? tne vi^or t?f the brain and uervuns fqrstcm. Policemen on their vacations feel very lonely. They miss their club. 1 have used fur,I bottles of 1l/U,^WCREAM "ream Balm a>,mrcC0\^1 ? n s i cle r .nyselM^^Mu^ 1 ured. I tniffered^^V^^Co/J^f ^ADl U) years from Ui A arrh and cafrr/m/pH^YFEVEft jjie c?Mk leadacJte and f/mMK' &? ^/9i ? tJie first reinedt/Hfe*- / SFA?" r^U hat afforded y/ lIajyinsdu, 1 4 Lake. Street, C'hi?iio, iu. WSr^>^ us*1 A particle Is nppliciI?P'5^-=? i,?>#? pV nto unch nostril and I^Lfl A^r ?F EVER trrtvutjle -to UK. I'ricc |r* * * mm 1 0 eta. by mall or at ilmgfrtet.o. Sonci for circular. ELY HHOTHI'IN !>-. ?? > ? 1 *"M,snirvr,VM?rKi', 1. D A T P M O Obtained. Semi xtanip for \ "t 0 Inventor's Guide. L. L'ixoJutf, 1 stent Lawyer, Washington, 1). C. DR KILMER'S *?i?P ttmt Cold, Cough,| 'tr1 ftn(1 'ffckJing in tbo Throat! V VW Arrest that Catarrh, HronAKLSJnk cbitist or Asthma. Tills KWlxBi Remedy relieves quickly. Cures permanently. It yrflUM!H?HI:HI prurents LHtliue, KigliC-Sweata AaadaUlMijM and death from Comuim pi Ion. BmnjllOVH ra^I'repanxl DC DH. KILMKH'S oierKKMRT, DiiiKbainton, N. Y. I^'ttcreof inquiry anirwrml. Guide to Health ( Sent Free). ^^ESY0U^^t7j^jSol^bTjBrB?rl?U^^ jvLj3LJa.XjI]Nr Magazine For larga nr until game??ll iEui, Tba itrongcit thootlcp ri wconuy gr<?rmnlrt<l, and th? only ahroloUly ?*< till* on lbs I BAI ^AItU GALLERY, 8PORTI.VQ AND TARGET JlluUraUd Catalogue. MARXIN FIRE AI iSsncs Km>? c?no!an nnUM Don't mute yoor money on a gu Usipeil witb lh? abovt U .h.f.iMf.io. ' " m .. V < A. ?- -4' ' v ' : /A , ' mm, ^^BROWS BITTERS Combining IRON trlth PUKE Y EG ETA III,K TONICS, quickly and completely CLEANSES and ENRICHES THE BLOOD. Qtiickcns the action of tho Liver and Kidneys. C!t:ars I tie complexion, makes the skin Hmooth. It duos not 4 Injure tho teeth, cause headache, or produce conHtlpation?ALLOT1IEIC IKON MEDIUM* )?>. Physicians nnd Druggists everywhere recommend it. Mil, Y. Adamb. l'.W UiniH iy St.. Balto.. Md? uyi: " I hud a bud coat) of Scrofula xvhicb caused an erup1 ion of thu skin on my fnra. I wiih pernar.rtp'l to n Xr jwn'? Iron Bittera. Four bottles have completely curod mo." Mrh. M. w. Sale, filo S. Pine St.. Richmond. Va., ntys: " My littlo boy wiis FutTering fr.cn a very serious attack of blood poisoning nnd tho doctor not benetitinK liim in tho least, I tried Brown'* Iron Bittern. Two bottles cured him. although hiii blood waB in a torriblo state. It i? coittinly t treat tonic and puriHor and 1 heartily recommend it. Elaine Bloxiiam. Ploasant Dale. W. Va.. say,,: " I Uavo usod Rruwn'n Iron Bitten* for Chronic Koroma? bo pronounced by my physicians? with most beneficial olfect. I cordially recommend it " Mr. Mai.tin McRae. Lumber Bridgo, N C., mys: " I had a humor in my blood, something like Tetter or King Worm. Brown's Iron Bittern has cured ine." Uonuine has above Trade Mark and crossed rod lines on wrapper. Take no other. Made only by UUIIWN CHEMICAL CO., UALTIMOKK. .Mil. Ph to Soldlero & Heirs. Send stamp PpncinriQ f,,r ciuuum. <.01.. u bin? I GllwlUHw HAM Att'v.Wa hlii|;ron,. D.c. CURES ALL HUMORS, From a common Blotch, or Eruption, to the worst Scrofula. Salnrhcum. MFever.?ore?,? Scaly or Ronglt Skin, In short, all diseases caused by bad blood are conquered by this powerful, purifying, and Invigorating medicine. Great Ealing UU cera rapidly heal under its benign influence. Especially has it manifested Its potency'in curing Tetter, Boao Rash, Bolls, Carbuncles, Sore Eyes. Scrofulous Sores and Swellings, Hip-Joint Disease. White Swellings, Goitre, or Tlilclt Neck, and Enlarged Glands. Send ton cents in stamps for a large treatise, with colored plates, on' Skin Diseases, or the same amount for a treatise on Scrofulous Affections. "THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE." Thoroughly cleanse it bv using Dr. Pierce's Golden Aedlcal Discovery, and good digestion, a fair skin* buoyant spirits, vital strength, and soundueis of constitution, will be established. CONSUMPTION, which is Scrofnlona Disease of the Lpngs, is promptly and certainly arrested and oured by this God-given remedy, if taken ueiore iuu jaw huiutcs 01 ue uiHtaw are reacnea. From it? wonderful power over this terribly fatal disease, when first offering' tbia now celebrated remedy to the public. Dr. Piercti thought seriously of calling it his " Consumption Cure," but abandoned that nam* as too limited for a medicine which, from ita wonderful combination of tonic, or strengthening, alterative, or bJood-clconsing, anti-bilious, pectoral, and nutritive properties, is unequaLed, not only as a remedy for consumption of tba llinM hiif fnr all CHRONIC DISEASES * or TUB !; Liver, Blood, and Lungs, If you feel dull, drowsy, debilitated, hart sallow color of skin, or yellowish-brown spots on face or body, frequent headache or dlzxW ocas, bod tasto in mouth, internal beet or chilli, . ... alternating with hot flashes, low spirits an<f " gloomy borcbodings, irregular appetite, and coated tongue, you are suffering from India geation. Dyspepsia, and Torpid Liver* or "Biliousiioita." In mauy caw.'s only part of these symptoms are experienced. Aj a remedy for all such cases, Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery has no equal. o For Weak Lunn, Spitting of Bloody SbortnoM of Breatlt, llroiicliitiSj Severe Congha, Coninmpilon, and kindred affections, it Is a sovereign remedy. Bend ten cents in stamp* for Dr. Plerceg dook on uoosumpuoD. soifi Dy iiruggliti, PRICE $1.00, . World's Dispensary Medical Association, Proprietors, 663 Main St., Buttalo, N. Y. LITTLE ?'?vkp?fi2?v5 ?V pi\\e1B ptt.i.b ANTMIVLIOV9 and ( ATSMKTIC. Sold by OruKgiait. 25 cents a vuii. M fc$500 REWARD jHfc is offered by the proprietor* Vf/HUl of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy wO f for a case of catarrh which they mm t. cannot cure. M \ rf If y?u have a difcbu^e from Rmu /-Jf the nose, offensive or othertSFy wise, partial Ioab of smell. taste, or hearing-, weak eyes, dull pain or pressure In head, you tiave Catarrh. Thousands of coses terminate in consumption. I*. Sag-e's Cat a nun Rujipy cures ttya won* cases of Catarrb, "Cold In tlio Head,** and Catarrhal Headache. M eenta S700 to S250Q,:wot5 expenso, can l?e made working for us. Agents preferred who can furnish their own horses" und give their whole time to the business. Spare moments ma}' be profitably employed also. A few vacancies in towns nml cities. d. r. duninnuA <v uu., 1028 Main St., Richmond, Vn. I Pimple*. Blotches. Bculy ?r Oily Phlri, Blemlahea and all HUln OUeuir* Cured and Complexion Beautified by Beesoo's Aromatic Hum Sulpbor Soap,. Sold by Druggist* or nent by mall on wclpt of I 25cents by WM. OREVDOPPBL, Manu-0 factnrer* 20SNorth Front St, fblladalplila. Ha. I bbbbhbmS H N U?33 air to fmrprMo; how; much 1 aa*'%-rl >u quality and price on Engine, Saw-Mill, Grist-Mill, CottonGin, Feeder, Condenser, Cane-Mill, . Machine ^OU ^ra?j^othwr Covington, On* fcfflBEiftf BE8T ^ fla nuulo. < nuukiu v T n**IiEfrvTorM?rnowaw B*ad *7, j V > iM? CO., New llaven, Conn* [ E Rwa^BS