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HEAVEN'S BEGINNING. MISCONCEPTIONS AND PROBABILITIES AS TO THE FUTURE STATE. A Sermon by Kev. J. B. Hawthorne at the First Baptist Church In Atlanta-What the Bible and Season Teach-Different Notions Tbat Prevail. If I go and prepare a place for yon. I will come again and receive yon unto myself, that where I am ye may be also.-Joh a xiv, 3. These were the comforting words which Jesus spoke to his disciples just before his crucifixion. To. those who had journeyed with him through the years of his earthly ministry, and who had received his saving grace and expe? rienced the blessedness of the closest communion with him, he was the dear? est object in the universe. The thought of separation from him was almost un? endurable. It extinguished their fond? est hopes and filled their hearts with the loneliest anguish. As his presence had made their highest joy, the loss of it would make their bitterest grief. Knowing this, loving them with the tenderest affection and moved with the profoundest pity for their sorrow, he assured them that he would provide foi the gratification of their supreme de? sire. "I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am ye may be alst. V An impressive feature of divine reve? lation is the lack of particularity in reference to the fntuie state. It gives ns only the outlines of the great unseen. It assures us that another and an end? less state of being will succeed the pres? ent. It teaches us that on the threshold of that other life there is a judgment, and that in that judgment there is a separation of the righteous from the wicked, th? former going away into everlasting blessedness and the latter into everlasting punishment. It tells us that the presence and love of Christ will make the eternal felicity of one class, and the absence of it the eternal wretchedness of the other. These are the eternal verities which revelation has placed beyond the realm of doubt and speculation. These are the out? lines of the world to come. As to what lies between them we are at liberty to exercise our reason and imagination. THE BEAL BEAVEN. Men who not only believe heaven to be a reality, but cherish the hope that it will be their final and eternal home, can scarcely avoid discussing many questions about it upon which revela? tion is silent. They desire to know where heaven is. Is at one of the lar f ger planets of our solar system ? Is it in the dim faroff milky way? Or is it the great central orb of the universe? They desire to know what heaven is. What does it look like? What object within the range of mortal ken does it resemble ? What shall we do in heaven? What un? dertakings shall engage our enlarged and unfettered faculties? What will come in to satisfy our desire and need of activity when we are forever beyond the realm of earthly pursuits? With whom shall we keep company there? What language shall we speak? What music shall we sing? What raiment shall we wear? How much of what we know and feel and enjoy in this life can we carry over into that other life? We cannot take our houses and lands and money. Our sensuous pleasures, our social distinctions and our political ! offices and honors must be left behind. But may we carry with us the inno? cent loves and pure friendships which we cherish here? Will the genius and knowledge and skill of the painter, and of the musician, and of the poet, and of the orator be transferred to the next life and the next world? The absence of light upon these sub- I jects does not distress the intelligent Christian. Having Christ as his ever? lasting portion and companion, he is confident that no element of blessedness will be left out of his heavenly inherit? ance. If we have received Christ as our Saviour; if we have seen him as our substitute under diivne law, bearing ! our sins in his own bcdy on the tree ; I if we have felt the transforming power j of his grace making us new creatures j in him; if vc? have received the spirit of adoption, and as loving, confiding I children lean on his breast. look up in- ! to his sweet, benignant face and bask in j his smile, we realize that heaven is simply to be with him forever. 4 * Where 1 am ye may be also.M We ! are with him here and now, but in ! the next life we shall be with him in ? a deeper and larger sense. There we | shall have a clearer sight of him, a j closer communion with him and a | more perfect knowledge of every at- j tribute of his being and of every ele- I ment of his history and work than it j is possible for us to have in this life, j where, even in our moments of highest j exaltation and rapture, we see only I "through a glass darkly. " Ther? is much in our "hymfiology that j will mislead if we are not intelligent readers of the Bible. We sing of "go- j ing to heaven when we die," as if it ; were a foreign realm and in no way j connected with the present world and j the present life-as if it were a distant port to which we set sail after the jour- , ney of this life is over. All this is ! misconception. Heaven is simply the unfolding and enlargement of the life j which we now have in Christ. The i new and everlasting life begins with I regeneration, repentance and faith. | Heaven is that part of it which comes ; after death. That will be the best part of it, because then it will be a life of i absolute harmony and communion with j Christ. Unfettered by flesh and freed from sin, there will be nothing to dim j the soul's vision of him whom it loves j supremely, and nothing to prevent the ! most intimate and perfect fellowship j with him. The point I wish to emphasize is j that the heavenly life is a continuation i of the present Christian life. It is a ? life begun not in the next world, but in this world. Jesus said, 4 4The kingdom of heaven is within you." It is with? in us in the seed form. After death we shall have that kingdom within us in full development. When'fbu'Sing,''''! want "to go 1 heaven when I die, " yon give expr?s sion to a desire for which there is n warrant in the word of God. If yo want heaven, you mast find it befoi yon die. "Going to heaven" is simpl going to Christ. All that constitute heaven is in him. To know him is t have eternal life. "He that believet on the Son hath everlasting life. " Tha life is a present possession. The pres ent enjoyment of it is imperfect, onl; because immeasurable difficulties rec der present communion with Chris imperfect We taste heaven now as w see Jesus-"through a glass darkly.' After death, when we "see him as h< is" and "face to face,", we shall hav heaven in all of its ineffable fullnes and glory. I am quite familiar with the objec tions that have been urged against thi view. It is claimed that we conf?n? celestial enjoyments to a comparatively narrow range when we say that heavei is simply to be with Chi ist, and lov< him, and praise him. Mr. Beecher wa? quite rebellious at the idea that heavei is a place where God, in the person oi Christ, sits upon a visible throne anc requires his myriads of saints and an gels to spend eternity singing songs anc blowing trumpets to his praise. He thought th^re would be a very weari? some monotony in such a service. The Scriptures do not support any such view of heaven, and I do not know of any intelligent Christian who holds to the conception which Mr. Beecher so vigor? ously repudiated. IT WILL NOT DESTROY OUR IDENTITY. The Bible does not teach that the solitary occupation of the redeemed in heaven will be singing songs and blow? ing trumpets to the praise of God. The man who believes that it does is a crazy literalist. In revealing to us the real? ities of the future life the inspired writers were compelled to use imagery -figures of speech. In no other way could they give us an idea of supersen suous and divine things. Their picto? rial representations of the future state of the redeemed were meant to teach us that the worship of God there, as here, is the highest and most satisfying act of the human soul. Where is it that our souls are in closest touch with God? Where isTit that we are the most conscious of the divinity within us? Wheie is it that our spiritual faculties experience the best illumination and the highest and sweetest exaltation? Where is it that "heaven comes down the soul to greet, and glory crowns the mercy seat?" It is where we worship God "in spirit and in truth. " It is in the secret cham? ber of prayer, where we speak to God, and God speaks to us in the still small voice of his spirit. It is also in his holy temple, where every faculty of the soul is lifted up and enraptured by the in? spirations of sacred music, and the con? secrated spot on which we stand is trans? formed into a Mount of Transfiguration. Now, think of these blessed experi? ences multiplied and intensified a thou 8andfold, and you will at least ap? proximate a right conception of the sublimity and the satisfying rapture of heavenly worship. But in that better life we shall do more than speak and sing God's praise. Death will not destroy our identity. We shall be the same beings in the next world that we are in this. We shall have the same intellectual and spiritual faculties, and when these faculties are exalted and expended, as they doubt? less will be after they cease to be fet? tered by their earthly environment, we shall engage in loftier and more diver? sified employments than have ever oc? cupied us here. Complete absorption of a man's faculties in the service of Christ in this' life does not restrict his energies or render his movements mo? notonous. Whose faculites were more thoroughly concentrated and riveted upon a single object than William Ca? rey 's - the consecrated cobbler-w ben he undertook the work of converting In? dia to the faith of the gospel? Of all th men who have lived in the nineteenth century, I know not one whose life was less restricted than Carey's. There is nothing that so quickens, ex? pands and exalts a man's mind, and nothing that gives such amplitude, va? riety and power to his life, as the inspi? ration of that grandest affection called *'the love of Christ. " Now, if there are such range and variety of activity to be found in the service of Christ on earth, how much vaster the range and greater the variety in the same service contin? ued in heaven, where the field is infin? itely broader and grander, and every object, from the beauty of the crystal seat to the majestic glory which crowns the Saviour's brow, fires the redeemed soul with the loftiest aspirations ! The novice in Bible study is apt to i be confused by the variety of the image- j ry which is employed to set before us the felicity of the celestial world. He | is apt to be confused especially by the ! fact that the images used for this pur- ! pose, "if taken in a natural sense, are quite incompatible with each other." ! In the one place heaven is pictured as j a great city with high walls. In anoth- \ er place it is an open country with trees | and streams of water-a country re- I sembling the land which God gave to I the ancient Israelites. SOME DOUBTS DISPELLED. There are no discords and ' divisions in heaven. Why? Because Christ is love, and all beings there take their i law and temper from him. Nothing I that defileth or maketh a lie can enter heaven. Why? Because he is the gate- I keeper, and he is pure and true. In : heaven there will be no sickness, no ! care and sorrow for anything, no blight- ! ed hopes, no disappointment, no anxious ; forelooking, no fear, no wounded affec- . tions, no heartaches, no remorse, no un- j satisfied longing. Why? Because Christ ! is there, and "in his presence there is ' fullness of joy." We have enough in having him. We shall be satisfied when we awake in his likeness. This view of the subject disposes of all such questions as, "How can I bo , happy in heaven if I tako with mo | th?r?'the"memory of my own wrong- ; doings and of the cares and struggles and griefs of loved ones left behind me?" or, "How can I be happy there and ] ?now that an impassable gulf separat me forever from my father, or n mother, or my wife, or my child?" A snch problems will dissolve and disa pear in the ineffable light of Chrisl visible presence. To have Christ our everlasting portion is to have eve: element of happiness. This doctrine makes large room f tho differing notions that men ha1 abont heaven and their differing d grees of sensibility to the next world, find some Christians who have sn< constant and blessed fellowship with J sus here, and who are so bnsy with tl Christian duties of this life, that th? are but little inclined to think aboi heaven. The most godly, active, hun ble, self denying Christian that I kno today is a woman who, during an ii timare acquaintance of many years, hi scarcely spoken to me about what is 1 come after death. She so enjoys tl Master here, and mind and hands an heart are so constantly and earnestl engaged in his work in this lower work' that she has but little opportunity c inclination to think of what her stat will be in the world above. Other tra and faithful Christians derive most c their comfort and happiness and mos of their inspiration for duty fror thinking of the glory that shall be re vealed to them when mortality is swal lowed up of life and their feet treat the crystal pavement of the eternal city Some of God's people cling to one as peet of the heavenly state and some t another. What feature is most pleas ing, inspiring and comforting to ns i determined largely by our present tem perament, condition and environment If a believer is having a lifelong strug gie with poverty, it will be a swee consolation to him to think of an eter nal residence in a country of plenty and where he will never again have t< grapple with such questions as: "Wha shall I eat? What shall I drink, an< wherewithal shall I be clothed?" A Christian woman, wasting away undei a long and painful illness, pointed witt skeleton hand to the sky and said, "There I shall be well." A DESIRE AND A HOPE. Southey was wont to speak of heaver as. the homo of sanctified genius, where gifted spirits hold exalted fellowship. He longed to see and converse with Shakespeare, Dante and Chancer. The ruling aspiration of John Foster was tc explore the secrets of the spiritual uni? verse. His sublime soul was restive under the limitations of the present life. It was like a courser panting to lean the barrier; like an eagle dragging at its chain, beating the bars of its prison and longing to soar above the clouds. He thought of heaven as a place that will give free and ample scope to his truth seeking and wonder loving spirit. Take the Christian to whom home and family are very dear, and who, when far away in a strange land or on a trou? bled sea, is accustomed to sit alone in the twilight and sing "Home, home, sweet, sweet home! Be it ever so hum? ble, there's no place like home!" and you will find that his fondest concep? tion of heaven is that it is tor those who have been exiles, strangers and pil? grims here, a home of infinite rest. God has planted in my own breast an almost boundless admiration for hero? ism-especially moral heroism. My favorite study has been the biographies of heroes. In selecting men to be my companions I look first for courage courage to know and speak and act the truth. In a world of trimmers and time servers and place seekers and moral cowards my heart bounds with ecstatic joy when I find a man who holds himself immeasurably above the dastardly principle that "we must do in Borne what Romans do." Having this intense admiration for courage and this passionate fondness for brave men, it is a feast to my soul to think of heav? en as the gathering place of God's he? roes. And no intelligent Christian can read the eleventh chapter of Hebrews and John's ?'escription of the glorified martyrs without admitting that this conception is true. I want to see brave old Noah, who for more than 100 years withstood the ridicule of the whole world. I want to see Moses, who had the sublime courage to step down from the wealth and splendor and power of a prince-an heir apparent to the throne cf Egypt-and identify himself with tbe afflicted and enslaved people of God. I want to see those apostles who, when sentenced to be whipped and threat? ened with death, stood before the court which condemned them and said, "We will obey God rather than men." I want to see Paul, whom neither bonds nor imprisonments nor stripes, nor the fury of m?s, nor the wrath of kings, could conquer. I want to see Polycarp, who could not bc constrained even by the torture of flames to deny Christ. I want to see Martin Luther, who faced the wicked vengeance of papal Rome without a tremor. I want to see the old Bedford Baptist John Bunyan, who would lie in jail "till ^ioss grew over j his eyebrows before he would surrender ? his right to preach the gospel without the license of the king." Neither man nor angel could depict the rapture that will fill my soul if through God's mercy 1 shall be per? mitted to sit down in the kingdom of heaven and look into the faces of such men. But my admiration for these ? heroes will not blind me to tho fact that it was Christ in them that made them bravo and faithful unto death. They were conquerors through him, j and all tho glory of their achievements will merge into the imperishable glory that encircles his brow. In that best abode Christ is all and in all. Without his presence nothing there could render us happy. It is the light radiating from bis face that makes all the beauty and all tho bliss of heaven. Blessed Saviour! Giver of all good! Thou . art of all thy gifts thyself the crown. Looking Up. Nearly 11,000 women have registered in Boston, a substantial increase over last year. The woman in Deerfield, Mass., who sued the assessors for refus? ing to register her has obtained $42.04 damages, and now all tho other Deer- ! field women aro registering. School BL frage in Massachusetts is looking up. -Exchange. GOVERNMENT BONDS. SOME BUYERS FORGET TO COLLECT INTEREST OR PRINCIPAL. Some Interesting Information Expressed In Large Figures-Tbe Difference Be? tween Coupon and Registered Bonds. How Interest Piles Up. A number of snug fortunes are lying in tbe United States treasury waiting for somebody to step up and claim them. This money is due on bonds long ago called in. Some of them have never been cashed by the holders. On the "old debt," which embraces all loans made to this government up to 1837, $121,000 is still owing. Since that date more than ?1,000,000 has accumulated, being uncalled for by the persons en? titled to it, either through negligence or for other reasons. * A considerable fraction of this great sum is now held by the treasurer of the United States in the shape of checks. Interest on registered bonds is paid by check, but as people are constantly changing their addresses it not infre? quently happens that track is lost for awhile of an individual bondholder. Un? der such circumstances the quarterly in? terest checks are retained as they?fall due and in the course of time pile up. They are kept for an indefinite period and are good forever. There are such checks in the treasur? ers office now which have accumulated during more than 10 years. On the oth? er hand, knowing that they are always good for the money they represent, peo? ple often keep these interest checks, put? ting them away and hoarding them, jr^t as if they were so much cash. Only the other day a batch of 40 checks for ?1 each was received at the treasury. The owner had simply put them away as they came in year after year. The millionaire is commonly repre- ? sented as engaged in clipping coupons j from bonds. This is an egregious error, j Bich men, as a rule, do not hold coupon bonds. Such bonds are not safe prop? erty. They are always payable to bearer like treasury notes. If lost, the govern? ment will not replace them. According? ly, for the sake of security, people are constantly exchanging them for regis? tered bonds. The sum total of coupon bonds is now about $70,000,000, mostly in the hands of small holders. Registered bonds are rich men's prop? erty par excellence. At present about ?200,000,000 worth of them is held by private individuals. Of this great sum ?87,000,000, or not far from one-half, is owned by 1,000 persons, roughly speak? ing, whose holdings average ?80,000. The names of these fortunate individ? uals are kept secret by the treasury. Some of the fortunes possessed in this shape are enormous. Among the great? est holdings are those of the Vander bilts. Old William H. Vanderbilt had ?45,000,000 in registered bonds at one time. About 20 years ago ?40.000 worth of the consols of 1865 and 1867 were stolen in Havana. The thief altered them by erasing the name from the face and sold them to ignorant persons. They were for ?1,000 each. Ever since then they have been coming in to the treasury through banks and otherwise. Of course they were useless to the holders, being registered and only payable to the orig? inal owner. The original owner lost nothing, of course. All he had to do was to notify the secretary of the treasur}'. ^riving an affidavit and a bond of indemnity, and the stolen consols were replaced. That is the advantage of registered bonds. The number of such bonds that have been lost and stolen is astonishing. A list of them, numbering nearly 1,000, is printed and circulated by the govern? ment. It is called the ''caveat list" and is de- ' signed to warn bankers and others j against accepting securities of the nnm- j bers mentioned. Some time ago a report came from Indianapolis of a bond that i was said to have been destroyed. Affi- \ davits, etc., being furnished, a new one i was issued to replace it. Ten years later j that identical security was forwarded to j the treasury from Holyoke, Mass. It had been found in a lot of waste j paper at a paper mill. There was no ; question of fraud in this case. The own- j er lost it and supposed that it had been j burned. I A great many bonds called for re- j demption 20 years and more ago have i never been presented for payment. Some j of them have doubtless been put away and forgotten. It is imagined that oth? ers have been lost at sea together with j their owners. The quantity of gold and ! silver in coin and bullion sunk from wrecks in the ocean amounts to many \ millions of dollars in the course of a cen- | tury. Only about ?2,000,000 worth of bonds j is possessed by comparatively poor per- I sons, and these in sums of ?500 or less. j About 30 years ago Uncle Sam lent a ; lot of money to help build various trans- ! continental railways. It was understood i that the companies would refund the ! cash as soon as they got well started. ? There is little likelihood that any cen- ? siderable part of it will ever be paid. ! There is still owing ?64,000,000 of orig inal indebtedness, plus ?70,000,000 of in- j terest. To raise this money for the use of the railways, the government issued bonds at difieren ttimes from 1865 to 1869. They were to run for30 years at 6 percent. The treasury is stiil paying this big in? terest, which is more than twice what the loan is worth today.-New York World. _ Children In Demand. A private letter from Tecumseh,Neb., speaks of the great demand there is in that region for children to "bring up." "Here in the west,"says tho writer, j "is certainly tho placo to find homes for tho waifs of your big eastern cities. Not long ago a lot of little wanderers were brought to Tecumseh. Tho day that they wero to arrive was duly ad? vertised in tho paper, and though the weather proved very rainy the demand for tho children was greater than the supply. They all went into good homes. " j -New York Times. OLD AND NEW COINING. A Modern Press That Is to Do the Work In the Philadelphia Mint. Thestrikirjgof medals in the coiners' department of the United States mint has for years been by means of the screw and fly press. The screw in this press is 6 inches in diameter, and there are three threads with a pitch of three inches. The double lever attached to the head of the screw is 13 inches in length, or 6>? feet either way from the center of the screw, and upon the ends of the arms are mounted balls weigh? ing about 150 pounds. Three men are employed in the work? ing of the press-one to arrange the blanks to be struck upon OE between the two hardened steel dies, while one at each end of the lever furnishes the power to raise the screw and then by a rapid movement cause the same to descend to the work, they being careful at the proper moment to step inside to avoid being struck by the recoil of the lever. Two and a half revolutions of the screw give with all the force the men can im? part a blow or pressure equivalent to 250 tons. In the striking of a 4 inch diameter medal some 50 or 60 blows are neces? sary to complete the medal. The blank, which becomes hardened by the force of each blow, must be annealed. Each time consequently the amount of labor bestowed makes the cost of such medals quite' high. , Some 19 years since the idea was con? ceived that the introduction of hydraul? ic pressure would be more satisfactory and produce better results, both as to cost and execution. The trial was then made on an ordinary hydraulic press, such as is used for forcing the wheels of a locomotive on the axle, made at the machine works of William Sellers & Co. An accident occurring in the burst? ing of the steel collar, by which the then coiner of the mint was injured, had a dampening effect upon the scheme, though the idea never met with encouragement, until some two years since, when an opportunity was offer? ed to make a test of the pressures re? quired to make the varions coins. This being so satisfactory and having gain? ed the conclusive knowledge that for years had been only guess work, it en? couraged the revival of the idea, and plans and estimates were framed for a press that should have a capacity of striking pressure equivalent to 2,000 tons. The contract for this press was award? ed to Messrs. William Sellers & Co. at a cost of $7,000. The designs having been approved, the press was completed in September, and upon trial at the works the result was mest satisfactory. The dies used upon the trial were those of the 4 inch General Grant medal. The blanks were submitted to a pres? sure cf 1,000,000 pounds, and the sec? ond pressure after the annealing of the blank almost finished the medal. One blank, upon which the pressure was ex? erted three times in succession, was found to be more than was necessary. The press is complete in detail and symmetrical in design. It is an arch-or oval in form, the base and head being heavy iron castings, the whole being secured by two cast steel bands 4 inches thick and 6 inches wide. These bands were submitted to a strain of 3,000,000 pounds each before being put in place. The ram is located in the upper or head casting and is placed in a steel case. It is 25 inches in diameter, and the maxi? mum pressure of 4,000 pounds a square inch gives on this area the pressure of 2,000 tons. There is a graduated de? vice-attached by which any desired pres? sure can be secured and held for any length of time. Experiments will soon enable the person in charge of the press to determine the amount of pressure re? quired for the various sizes of medal. The movement of the ram up and down is simply by the pressure of the oil from the tank, situated about 15 feet above the room, the maximum pressure being supplied by a thin throw pump and is only exerted during about the last half inch of the stroke of the ram. The power to drive the pumps is sup? plied by means of a 7>?' horsepower Eddy electric motor of a slow speed type. For the annealing of blanks there is a small gas oven, and it is very satis? factory. It has been demonstrated by the experiments already made that the j pressure of 20,000 pounds per square inch is required to canse such metals as gold, silver and copper to commence to flow or become fluid. Very interesting results are expected frmn the install ment of this plant, which will add so j much to the advantage of the govern- : ment.-Philadelphia Telegraph. The Skull Attributed to Sophocles. The supposed skull of Sophocles found by Munster in a tumulus ll stadia from Dekeleia has now been examined by Professor Virchow of Berlin. The skull, it may be remembered, was taken from j the skeleton of a very old man, with a cane by his side, an alabaster vase and j other things. This skeleton was one of j four found in sarcophagi, two of which I were of marble. Sophocles was 90 when j he died in 406 B. C., and the skull cor- ! responds with his age. It is of the long j type (Index 73.3), and there is a remark- j able irregularity between the right and left hemispheres. The left temporal suture is nearly obliterated. The fore? head is broad, the face narrow, high featured and slightly prognathous, while j the nose is narrow and the capacity is low (1,340 cubic centimeters).-London : Where Do Flowers Go? I wonder where all the flowers sold go to. We see florists' wagons flying about ' town with high stepping horses and liv- I eried servants. We read of florists giv- j ing elaborate dinners to each other and j of dudes going into the business, yet we rarely see flowers carried either at the opera or at the ball. Perhaps, after all, j it is the sweetest way to send women I cut flowers, which they can enjoy in the j privacy of their own boudoirs. I have | heard of one girl who has so many hun dred violets each morning to float iii and | perfume her bath-and violets at 6 and 7 cents apiece! But that is one of those j stories written to bo read and not to be j believed.-Cholly Knickerbocker in New j York Recorder. I FAMOUS SPENDTHRIFTS. An Austrian Couple Who Spent Over S35.OO0.000 In Ten Years. The Princess Ypsilanti, who died in Vienna recently, belonged to one of the oldest families in Austria and was born in Vienna on March 12, 1845. Her fa? ther was the late Baron Simon Sina von Hodos und Kizdia, and her mother a member of the famous Roumanian fam? ily of Ghika. Baron Sina was the son of George Sina, the wealthiest banker in Vienna. Baron Sina received on his father's death 90,000,000 florins, or $45,000,000. This immense sum was divided on the death of Baron Sink among his three daughters, each receiv? ing nearly $15,000,000. One of the daughters married George Mavrocorda to, a member of one of the noblest fam . ilies of Greece. The second married the spendthrift Due de Castries, a relative of the late Marshal MacMahon of France. The third daughter, Helene, on Nov. 23, 1862, when she was but 17 years old, married Prince Gregor}7 Ypsilanti, a native of Epirus and son of Demetrius Ypsilanti, whose valorous deeds during . the Greek revolution made the name of Ypsilanti famous throughout the world. During the siege of the city of Nauplia Demetrius, with a small body of Greeks, one night sallied forth and attacked the enemy, creating such terror among the Turks that they raised the siege the nert day. Prince Gregory Ypsilanti was the Greek envoy in Vienna for many years. He was a man of independent means aside from the great fortune brought to him by his wife and served his country for honor alone, refusing all compensa? tion for his duties as its diplomatic rep? resentative in Austria. Prince Gregory Ypsilanti died in Pa? ris on Feb. 20, 1886, and was succeeded as head of his family by his eldest son, Prince Emmanuel, who is now a lad of 16. Three weeks after his death the bankruptcy of the princess was an? nounced, to the amazement of the aris? tocratic circles of Vienna and Athens. Prince Gregory had been a man of ap? parently quiet and retiring disposition, but he and his wife had managed to get rid of $25,000,000 in 10 years, and the widowed princess found herself $4,000, 000 in debt.-Philadelphia Telegraph. Wood Working Machinery. Some ingenious devices in wood work? ing machinery have lately been brought forward, in especial a boring mechan? ism to be used in making holes for blind nailing in hardwood floors, the working being entirely automatic-that is, tht stock is carried forward by a fluted roll and is stopped by a cam at proper dis? tances from the boring of holes by the bit, which works horizontally, the board being carried on an angle. An? other most useful and novel arrange? ment in this line is a hard wood, flooring machine which takes the rough stock, planes it on both sides and matches it. There are five cutting cylinders, the first having a flexible bar, which allows of the free passage of irregulari? ties in stock and insures the presenta? tion to the cylinders of a uniform sur? face, this being followed by top and side and bottom finishing cylinders. The side finishing cylinders are equipped with a weighted chip breaker bar which prevents splintering tho stock. There are six feed rolls of 9>? inches diame? ter, and the back roils are placed be? yond the last cylinder, thus carrying all stock clear through the machine.-New York Sun. She Was the "Biler." Topnoddy made up his mind that he was not going to be trampled on any longer by his wife, so when he went home at noon he called out imperiously: "Mrs. Topnoddy, Mrs. Topnoddy!" Mrs. Topnoddy came out of the kitch? en with a drop of perspiration on her nose, her sleeves turned up, a dishrag in one hand and a rolling pin in the other. "Well, sir," she said, "What'li ye 'ave?" Topnoddy staggered, but braced np. "Mrs. Topnoddy, 1 want you to un? derstand, madam," and he tapped his breast dramatically, "I am the engineer of this establishment!" "Oh, you are, are yer? Well, Mr. Topnoddy, I want you to understand that I"-and she looked dangerous-"1 am the biler that'll blow up and fling the engineer over into the next garden. Do ye 'ear the steam escaping, Topnod? dy?" "Yes," said Topnoddy meekly. And then he inquired if there was any assist? ance he could render in the housework. -Spare Moments. A Mean Man. There is a man in Philadelphia so mean that when he is asked to join in singing "Old Hundred" he churns off "Ninety and Nine" instead. He says he has got to make 1 per cent anyway these hard times.-Texas Siftings. Your Best Young Man. '4 You can't always just tell what your best young man is going to develop in? to, "said the girl in the blue jacket. "Now, I know a young man, and when I first met him I said to myself: 'At last! Here he is! A real live man without a fad. ' And I was happy in the thought that he wouldn't talk foot? ball or theosophy to me. But it didn't take me long to find out my mistake. Of all the fads I ever heard of that man's fad is the very worst. "He does tricks with cards and can juggle things, '' continu?e! ""the*" girl in the blue jacket, as her eyes grftfi bright and her cheeks pinkish. "At luncheons he fishes his handkerchief out of my muff and finds his gloves in my jacket pocket. If you hand him a glass of water, he'll turn it upside down and ask you blandly why the water doesn't run out. At home he makes life miserable forme, and when he goes away I call in the girl and have her sweep up the rem? nants of the teacups that he breaks. He balances parasols, guitars, vases in fact, everything that he can find-on the end of his nose. I can't do any? thing with him. I am trying very hard to make him angry so he'll quit call? ing, but he is so absurdly good natured that I fear 1 shall never succeed."-St. Louis Renublic.