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Ml tf & \}4 A pi it. rht^etoi itait R. 0. DUNN, Publisher. Terms:2.00 per year in advance. 1 QUEEN VICTORIA is quite a successful farmer, and has taken 447 prizes at English cattle shows. HE Emperor of Japan will visit Europe next year and may possibly be induced to take a run through the United States. R. GLADSTONE'S physician is put- ting still more restraints upon him and insisting upon his adopting every means of economizing his failing strength. THE lady who gave birth to the witty remark that females who fought strenuously for women's rights were generally men's lefts, wa's Mrs. Wills, a London lady, who died recently. IT does not seem to be generally know that the turkey was domesticat ed by the Indians long* before the dis covery of this continent by white men, but such is the case. ALGERIA is the greatest cork-produc ing country in the world, having 2,- 500,000 acres of cork forests, of which 300,000 are made to yield regular crops. The finest cork is ob tained from that province. THE founders of Phoenix, Ariz, "builded better than they knew" in naming their infant town. In some recent excavations there the ashes of prehistoric residents were found in closed in urns. Louis XAVTER, the French sculptor, says that the feet of American women are too small. And he was cruel enough to say this to a St. Louis re porter, who was going to write an arti cal on the big feet of Chicago. A N English railway carriage com pany is building for an Indian poten tate three superb railway carriages, which will constitute a palace on wheels. In the framework of each car riageis tobeused40 worth of teak, to resist the ravages of insects. R. MARY E. BRADFORD, the Ameri can Presbyterian missionary at Tabriz, Persia, who has done such noble medical work among the Per sians in the late cholera epidemic, is a native of Lexington, 111., and is only about 3 0 years old. G. VERE TYLER, author of the re markable novel, "A Prodigal Daugh- ter," is not, as is generally supposed, a man, but a very charming young woman of the same sort as Rives and a daughter-in-law President Tyler. THE oldest arm chair in the world is the throne once used by Queen Hatafu, who flourished in Egypt 1600 B. C. It is made of ebony, beautifully which lie does not hesitate to tell his lriends i-,-, is very uncomfortable, carved, and is so hardened with age as to appear to be carved from black marble. Amelie I ELECTRIC heaters are found to be ex cellent for use in conservatories on ac count of the absence of all unwhole some gases or vapors which might in jure the plants, simplicity of construc tion in the parts conveying the energy, perfect safety as regards heat, which can.be|regulated at will, cleanliness and convenience and rapidity in starting and extinction. R. BONOVIA is authority for the statement that the lilies which form the coat-of-arms of France were originally the emblem of royalty in Assyria.. The doctor also maintains i that the fleur-de-lis are not really flowers, but animals' horns which the Assyrians used to fix on trees in order to ward off the evil spirits, and simi lar to those horns which Neapolitans carry in order to ward off the evil eye. A SOMEWHAT rare and curious sight .was seen in Paris a few days ago. About 60 gipsy caravans were Jdrawn up in line, and, with their occupants about 500 in number, publicly disin fected. This measure was taken in consequence of discovery of five or six co#es of cho era among the gipsies, who had recently arrived from Bel gium And Prussia. g^The caravans were found to be in a most filthy {condition. Jl||i THE NEWS IH A NUTSHELL. DIGEST OP TH E NEWS* FROM ALL PARTS OF TH E WORLD. Ajyi Important Occurrences of the yr Past Week, Boiled Down and \7\v Arranged for Rapid |f *^v Reading. v fe^v#'^r &t Washington. Another circular regarding SgtJomntine regulations is issued to customa^offlcers by the treasury department. 4 William Potter of Pennsylvania and David P. Thompson of Oregon are ap pointed ministers, respectively, to Italy and Turkey. rr A special agent of the state department is found to have given the government false information regarding the seal industry of Alaska which is being used in the Bering sea controversy. The Belgian government, through its con sul, has protested against sending bnok the thirty-seven gloss blowers who arrived at New York en route for Pittsburg, and, pending a decision from the seoretarv of the treasury, they will beheld on Ellis Island. The increase in our exports of live cattle, beef and hog products continues. Last month we sent out live cattle to the value of $2,350,000, which was $250,000 more than last year. Our total exports of beef, hog and dairy products for the month were $10. 543,000, against $9,909,000 lor Ootober 1691. Assistant Secretary Spaulding has made a customs rulingof considerable interest toim porters and merchants generally. It is that a consignee at the port of first arrival of im ported merchandise shipped under the im mediate transportation act may properly designate the consignee at the interior port of destination, provided no other consignee is mentioned in the bill of lading. Accidental Happenings. George Grill and Lawrence Mayer were fastantly killed at Ft. Collins, Col., by the premature explosion of a blast in the 200- foot tunnel of the Greely mine. Fire destroyed the large furniture ware house of B. M. Howe & Son, Brooklyn. The building is a four-story brick structure 60x100. Beiore the flames were checked the building was gutted. The loss is $150.- 000 The establishment of the Kock & Loeb company, jobbers in willow ware and paper, was destroyed by fire at Milwaukee. Loss on the stock will probably reach $100,- DO O and on the building $10,000, iully covered by insurance. Thd Sissler building on Centre street Pottsville. Pa., was* completely destroyed by fire. The total loss is about $50,000 divided about equally between the follow ing: Pollock's Bon Ton millinery store Feigley, hatter Bre'z, photographer, and JXxyser, carpets, Personal Mention. The czar of Russia is the largest land owner in the world. The area of his pos sessions is far greater than France. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached a sermon re cently in which he attacked the old super* stition concerning Friday. This caused the Thirteen Club of New York to elect him an honorary member. Mr. Cleveland found time durins the in numerable duties of the campaign to be reg ularly treated by a massage operator. He has acquired an enormous amount of fat Mr. Fink, the Victorian ex-member of parliament who has just achieved the phe nonunal feat of failing for a million and a half sterling and offered his unsecured creditors the magnificent compensation of a haU-penny on the pound, is a Jew who began the battle of life as an assistant in a Melbourne furniture house. Dr. Leonard Ereeman, a prominent young physician of Cincinnati and one of the Cincinnati quarantine officer's, has been stricken with consumption. He is an enthusiastic student of bacteriology, and has been giving especial attention to the Koch cures for consumption, and it is sup posed that through the contact with the consumption Jgernis he contracted the dis ease. Among the Wicked. 6 of ex 9 HE fisherfolk of Bergen, in Norway, have for over 500 years inoculated whales with bacteria in order to kill them. The whales enter a firth near the town and are driven into a nar row bay. A net is then stretched across its mouth, and the whales shot with poisoned arrows. After a day or two they become sickly, and are easily dispatched. W. S. Dennis, the,firmoof Dennis Bros., Chambersburgof III. wh recently made an asignmeut, committed suicide by shoot ing himself twice through the head. Mrs. Marjaret was awarded $300 in a suit against Louis Gauss, a Huntington, Ind., saloon-keeper. Mrs. Marjaret's son bought whisky of Gauss and while intoxicated fell into the river and drowned. Kolla Bucher, a 13-year-old lad. suicided at Hicksville, O., by shooting liimself through the head with a rifle. He lost the power of speech bv illness when a mere child, and beanie despondent when his parents wanted him to attend school. Louis Marke, a passenger on the La Bounrogne, was arrested at New York, having in his possession sixtv-eipht watch es he was trying to smuggle from Switzer land. Eltham Hoover and George Dontsville, charged with stealing a valuable horse from Del Serame at Manitoba and selling it in North Dakota, were remanded to jail at Sarnia,* Ont, to wait for the arrival of Manitoba officers to convey them to Winni peg. A. M. Swarthout, a prominent and weal thy farmer, living near Lydon, 111., wa brutally murdered and his body burned on a straw stack. His two sons, John and Ernst, denv all know ledge of the affair, but they have been arrested and are believed to be guilty. William Williams, a Sugartown, Pa., farmer, bet $300 on Harrison and, of course, lost it. He had borrowed the ca&h, and his inability to pay it so preyed upon his mind that he shot himself. His family found him lying in his room with a bullet hole in his head, i From Other Shores. A divergence of opinion regarding the ex hibition of the works of the Swedish paint er Munch, has caused the disruption of the Berlin society of artists. Near the village of Peterlavay, Devon shire, Eng., William- Williams shot and killed Emily Doidge, who had refused his attentions, William Howe, his successful rival, and himself. It is stated in Berlin on reliable author ity that the emperor has assured Caprivi that he will not per-onally separate from him in the event of the defeat of the mili tary bill. jA% Breat- MfMi Six hundred houses have been destroyed by fire in the city of Tokio, Japan. The houses are mostly of! the cheap native variety, and, While much privation has been caused, ..theIloss, tof\ S property is not I The Sailors and Firemen a union ofEng land has issued a manifesto warning the public to avoid steamers that are manned by Lascars. The manifesto cays that re cent disasters have shown that Lascars are unable so stand rough weather. The police offiydney, N. S. W., while searching the house of the alleged baby farmers, found a bundle of long needles, wrapped in a blood-stained piece of calico. The theory of the doctors is that the babies were killed by having tbeir hearts or spines pierced with needles. The prohibition against the emigration of Hebrews that was enforced inRussJp during the cholera epidemic has now been withdrawn. A number of parties of emi grants has started lor Hamburg from various parts of the country, and other parties are making preparation to start. The presence ofthe Emperor Francis at the banquet given at Vienna to the czarewitch is niucn commented upon. His majesty had not been tendered such a state function since 1888. He was not present in the fes tivities in honor of Emperor William iu his recent visit to the city. A London cable says: Prince Louis of Battenburg, commander of the Royal navy, has been appointed naval advisor to the in spector general of fort works. The post, which is a sinecure, will add $4,450 yearly to his income. His appointment was due to the queen. Prince Louis desires to'again command a sea-going ship. He has beg ged off from the appointment to command the royal yacht which was offered to him. The adoption of a man's saddle by a num ber of ladies at Somerset House England is a prominent topic in society. It is start ling to see these ladies, attired in divided skirts, blouses and mannish hats, foremost in the hunt as they ride their horses. Some of them appear in long riding coats, boots and breeches. The most generally accented form of riding habit, however, is the divid ed skirt. The style meets with approving comment from the men. Officials of the bimetallic say that Mr. Balfour's silver speech boomed the subject beyond all precedent. The office of the league is flooded with'inquiries, especially regarding the coming conference at Brus sels. Members of the leasue are jubilant, and profess to believe that the recent dis cussion of bimetalism that caused a change of front on the part of many eminent Eng lish bankers, who hitherto ignored or op posed the question of silver coinage. Sporting? Trifles. President Noel, of the Crescent City club, it is said to have put up the sum of $90,000 to secure the Hall-Fitzsimmons and the Corbett-Mitchell fights which will occur in New Qileans. Budd Doble. the veteran reinsman, has bought the runner Artist, who will be used for a runner-up for Nancy Hank?. Artist was put after the mare recently at Sedalia and proved quite steady. The prospects of Joe Choynski getting on a match with anybody in the near future is very poor ina-much as there is no man in America anywhere his weight who could make a respectable showing with him. The fa'her of James Corbett, the pugilist, says that he had recently had a talk with his son, urging him to leave the ring for good. The champion, after much talk, agreed to retire after he had fought just" Once more, and he wanted that fight to be with Mitchel. William O'Connor, single skull oarsman, intends to organize a four-oared crew to row in the international regatta at Chicago next year. O'Connor will shortly visit St. John, N. and Halifax, N. S.. to select four strong, able-bodied fishermen who can row, and train and prepare thorn to row against any four from England, Australia and the United States. Railroad Circles. The Transcontinental association givea up the ghost. The operating department of the Great Northern is taking measures to have the western extension properly equipped with rolling stock by tue lime the line is com pleted. The gross earnings of 132 roads 'or Oc tober were $51,685,330, an increase of $937,- 665- ot 125 roads "from Jan. 1 to Oct. 31. $422,812,810, an increase of $23,822,415 of 74 roads for the fourth week of October $12,- 386,713, a decrease of $164,680 and of 13 roads for the first week of November $4," 321,632, an increase ot $27,939. The Political World. Important election contests are begun in Nebraska. The attorney-general-elect of Montana is a womanM^ss Ella L. Knowles. Congress at its cbming session will have to proyide for a largu deficit in the reven ues. It is claimed that Mr. Cleveland and con servative Democrats will prevent any rad ical tariff legislation. Chairman Carter advances an interpre tation of the meaning of the recent elec tion. With Vice President Stevenson's vote and without the Populists the Democrats will control the senate after March 3. Labor. Lowell cotton -manufacturers announce an increase in wages not to exceed 7 per cent. Providence manufacturers also grant an increase. The second Week of the English cotton lockout opens with increased prospects the trouble being long continued. There are 6,000,000 spindles still at work on lull time 750,000 on short time, and 12,600,000 are stopped. Miscellaneous Itesm. The court at Albany sustained the demur* rer in the case of Labor Commissioner Peck, of New York, and he was discharged. Several plate-glass manufacturers met at Pittsburg to discuss plans for the formation of a trust. Prohibition is a dead letter in Kansas, and the wide-open policy will "be adopted by the saloonkeepers. I? Six hundred men, at Grayson, Ky., made a demonstration against a sale ot lands seized under the railway tax law. The sale was postponed and peace restored. During the month of October there were only 4,691 steerage passengers landed at New York, the lowest number since 1877. In the same month in 1891 there were 36,- 798. j*, y? fr Burglara repeatedl|if6bbed G. W. Burn^s worth's store atWashington, O., and Burns worth armed himself and laid in wait. Two men entered the place and were fired upon. William Jones, ot Port Wayne, Ind., was killed. The National Wall Paper Company stockholders are to meet December 7 to consider an increase in the capital stock from $14,000,000 to $30,000,000. and also a proposed amendment to the company's charter to provide lor tlie issue ot debent ure stock to the total extent at $8,000,000, Another wrecking company ha9 started to dig for the treasure supposed to have been carried to the bottom of ng si.ind Sound, Off Port Morris, by the Etiglish man-of-war Hussar. This tjtne it is the third company that has begun a search for the Hussar treasure since spring, Union Theological Seminary has just been presented with $175,000. The gifc is to be used to complete the endowment of the seven professorships in the senunarv The doners are John Urdnby Brown* A. E. Dodge, D. Willis and Morris K. Jess OH mmmWMmw* __.. '^PI %Ql)EEN IDOLATRY. THE GOLDEN CALF OF UNIVER- SAL WORSHIP. The Modem Form of IdolatryAn Idol'Which Has N Meroy on Its,! XJcWJ^--Every Day a Dayy, I of Judgment, BROOKLYN, N. Y., SpecialThe sub ject of discourse chosen by Rev. Dr. Talmage for his first sermon after the national election was one peculiarly appropriate to the money-making spirit of the times. It was "The Golden Calf," the text selected being Exodus, xxxii., 30: And he took the calf which they had made and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water and made the children of Israel drink of it. People will have a god of some kind, and they prefer one of their own mak ing. Here come the Israelites, break ing off their golden ear-rings, the men as well as the women, for in those times they were masculine as well as femenine decorations. Where did they get these beautiful gold ear-rings, com ing up as they did from the desert? Oh, they borrowed them from the Egyptians when they left Egypt. These ear-rings are piled up into a pyramid of glittering beauty. "Any more ear rings to bring?" says Aaron. None. Fire is kindled the ear-rings are melt ed and poured into a mold,' not of an eagle or a war charger, but of a calf, the gold cools off the mold is taken away, and the idol is set upon its four legs. An altar is built in front of the shining calf. Then the people throw up their arms, and gyrate, and shriek, and dance mightily, and worship. Moses has been six weeks on Mount Sinai, and he comes back and hears the howling and sees the dancing of these golden-calf fanatics, and he loses his patience, and he takes the two plates-of stone on which were written the Ten Commandments and flings them so hard against a rock that they split all to pieces. When a man gets mad he is very apt to break all the Ten Commandments! Moses rushes in and he takes this calf-god and throws it into a hot fire, until it is melted all out of shape, and then pul verizes itnot by the modern appli ances of nitro-muriatic facid, but by the ancient appliance of nitre, or by the old-fashioned file. makes for the people a most nauseating draught. He takes this pulverized golden calf and throws it in the only brook which is accessible, and the people are com pelled to drink of that brook or not drink at all. But they did not drink all the glittering stuff thrown on the surface. Some of it flows on down the surface of the brook to the river, and then flows on down the river to the sea, and the sea takes it up and bears it to the mouth of all the rivers, and when the tides set back the re mains of this golden calf are carried up into the Hudson, and the East River and the Thame J, and the Clyde, and the Tiber, and men go out and they?skim the glittering surface, and they bring it ashore and they make another golden calf, and California and Australia break off their golden ear-rings to augment the pile, and in the fires of financial excitement and struggle all these things are melted to gether, and while we stand looking and wondering what will come of it, lo! we find that the golden calf of Israelitish worship has become the golden calf of European and Ameri can worship. THE MODERN CALF. I shall describe to you the god spoken of in text, his temple, his altar of sacrifice the music that is made in his temple, andthen the final breakfng up of the whole congregation of idolaters. Put aside this curtain and you see the golden calf of modern- idolatry. It is not like other idols, made out of stocks or stone, but it has an ear so senfeitive that it can hear the whispers on Wall street and Third street and State street, and the footfalls in the Bank of England and the flutter of a Frenchman's heart on the Bourse. It has an eye so keen that it can see rust o'n the larm of Michigan wheat and the insect in the Maryland peach orchard, and the trampled grain un der the hoof of the Russian- war charger. It is so mighty that it swings in any way it will the world ship ping. It has ib3 foot on all the mer chantmen and the steamers. It start ed the American civil war, and under God stopped it, and it decided the Turko-Russian contest. One broker in September, 1869, in New York shouted: "One hundred and sixty for a million!" and the whole continent shivered. Thi* golden calf of the text has its right front foot in New York, its left front foot in Chicago, its right back foot in Charleston, its left back foot in New Orleans, and when it shakes the world. Oh! this is a mighty godthe golden calf of the world's wo i ship. But every god must have its tem ple, and this golden calf of the text is no exception. Its temple is vaster than St. Paul's of the English, and St. Peter's of the Italians, and the Alhambra of the Spaniards, and the Parthenon of the Greek's, and the Taj Mahal of the Hindoos and all the other cathedrals put together. Its pillars are grooved and fluted with gold, and its ribbed arches are hover ing gold, and its chandeliers are des cending gold, and its floors are tas selated gold, and its vaults are crowd ed heaps of gold, and its sp res and domes are soaring gold, and its organ pipes are resounding gold, and its pedals are tramping gold, and its tops pulled out are flashing gold, while standing at the head of the tem ple.as the presiding, deity are the IIQOM and shoulders and ears and nostrils oi the calf of gold'. MUST HAVE JTS ALTAR. Further: every god must have, not only its temple, but its altar of sacrifice, and this golden calf of the text is no exception. Its altar is not made out of stone as other altars, but out of counting-room desks and fire-proof safes, and it is a broad, a long, a high altar. The victims sac rificed on it are innumerable. What does this god care about thegroans and struggles of the victims before it?/With cold metallic eye it looks on, and yet lets them suffer. Oh heaven and earth, what an altar! What a sacrifice of body, mind and soul! The physical health of a great multitude is flung on this sacrificial altar. They cannot sleep, and they take chloral and mor phine and intoxicants. Some of theai struggle in a nightmare of stocks, and at one o'clock in the morning sudden ly rise up shouting: "A thousand shares of railroad stock108%' take it!" until the,whole family isaffnghted, and the speculators fall back on their pillows and sleep until they are awak enen again by a "corner"'or a sudden "rise" in somethingelse. Their nerves gone, their digestiou gone, their brain gone, they die. The clergyman comes in and reads the funeral service: "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." Mistake. They did not "die in the Lord" the golden calf kicked them'" The trouble is, when men sacrifice themselves on tnis altar suggested in the text, they not only sacrifice them selves, but they sacrifice their families. If a man by an ill course is determined to go to perdition I suppose' you will have to let him go but he puts his wife and children in an equip age that is the amazement of the avenues, and the driver lashes the horses into two whirl winds, and the spokes flash in the sun, and the golden headgear of the harness gleams until Black Calamity takes the bits of the horses and stops them and shouts to the luxurious occupants of the equipage: "Get out'" They get out. They efit down. That husband and father flung his family so hard they never got up again. There was the mark on them for lifethe mark of a split hoofthe death-dealing hoof of the golden calf. Solomon offered in one sacrifice, a one occasion, 22,000 oxen and 120,- 000 sheep but that was a tame sac rifice compared with the multitude of men who are sacrificing themselves on this altar of the golden calf, and sac rificing their families with them. The soldiers of Gen. Havelock, in India, walked literally ankle deep in the blood of the "house of massacre," where 200 women and children had been slam by the Sepoys but the blood around about half this altar of the golden calf flows up to the knee, flows to the girdle, flows to the shoulder, flows to the lip. Great God of heaven and earth, have mercy! The golden calf has none. DEGRADiNQ WORSHIP. Still the degrading worship goes on, and the devotees kneel and Kiss the dust, and count their golden beada, and cross themselves with the blood of their own sacrifice. The music rolls on under the arches it is made of clinking silver and clinking gold, and the rattling specie of the banks and brokers' shops ancL the voices of all the exchanges. The soprano of the worship is carried by the timid voices of men who have just begun to specu late while the deep bass rolls out from those who for ten years of iniqui ty have been doubly damned. Chorus of voices rejoicing over what they have made. Chorus of voices wailing over what they have lost. This tem ple of which I speak stands open day and night, and there is the glittering god with his four feet on broken hearts and there is the smoking altar of sac refice, new victims every mo ment on it, and there ^,re the kneeling devotees and the doxology of the worship rolls on, while Death stands with mouldy and skeleton arm beating time for the chorus"More! more! more!" Some people are very much sur prised at the actions of folk on the Stock Exchange. Indeed, it is a scene s'ometiraes that paralyzes description and is beyond the imagination of any one who has never looked in. What snapping of finger and thumb and wild gesticulation, and raving like hyenas, and stamping like buffaloes, and swaying to and fro, and running one upon another, and dealenmg up roar until the President of the Ex change strikes with his mallet four or five times, crying, "Order! order!" the astonished spectator goes out in to the fresh air feeling that he has es caped from pandemonium. What does it all mean? I will tell you what it means. The devotees of eveiy heathen temple cut themselves to pieces and yell and gyrate. This vocif eration .and gyration of the "Stock Exchange is all" appropriate. This is the worship ot the golden ^alf. rr MUST BE BROKEN UP. But my text suggests that this worship must be broken up, as the be havior ol Mose3 in my text indicated. There are those who* say that this golden calf spoke of in my text was hollow, and merely plated with gold otherwise, they say Moses could not have carried it. I do not know that but somehow, perhaps bv the assist ance his friends, he take? up this golden call* which is an open insult to God and man, and throws it into the fire, and it is melted, nnd then it comes out and is cooled off, and by some chemical appliance, or by an old-fashioned file it is pulverized, and it is thrown into the brook, and, as a punishment the people are compelled to drink the nauseating stuff. So my hearers, yc may depend upon it that God will'burn and he will grind to pieces the golden calf of modem idol atry, and he will compel the people in their agony to drink ic. If not before, it will be so on the last day. ^g^ SE EVERY DAY A DAY OF JUDGMENT." ^But, my friends, every day a day of judgment, and God is all the time grinding to pieces the golden calf. Merchants of Brooklyn and New York and London, what is the character istic of this same time in which we live? "Bad," you say.\CProfesional men, what is the characteristic of thtf times in which we live? "Bad," you say.' ^Though I should be in a minor ity of one, I venture the opinion that ^TcSFr{5, ^rtTT fr V/* TP1 PfPPPPPPWPflPi^. these are the best times we have had. for tlie reason that God is teachingd the world, as never before, that old fashioned honesty is the only thing that will stand. We havev QUICK AT FIGURES. An Arithmetical Prodigy Who Per forms Some Wonderful Feats. Jacques Inaudi was born at Onor ato, in Piedmont, on October 13 1867, of a family in mode-t* circum stances. He passed his earlier yeari in tending sheep. At the age of six years he was taken with a passion fcr figures, and began to combine numbers in his head ile at watch over his flock. He did not try to give his cal culations a material form_by counting on his fingers, or with stones, but the whole operation was mental. He conceived numbers by the names which his elder brother had recited to him. Neither he nor his brother could read then. He learned by ear the numbers to hundreds, and exer cised himself in calculati ig with what he knew. Wben he had done his best with' these numbers he asked to be taught those above ahundred so that he might extend the sphere of his operations. He has no recol.ection of hi3 brother teaching him the multi plication table. At seven years of age he was capable of performing in his head multiplications of five figures. In a little while he started with his brother to wander through Provence, the brother playing the organ and. Jacques exhibiting a marmoset and holding out his hand. increase his receipts he proposed to the people he met to perform mental calculations for them, at the markets he assisted the peasants in making up their ac counts, and performed difficult arith metical operations in iJz^ & learned as never before that forgeries will not pay that the spending of S50,000 on country seats and a palatial city residence, when there are only $30,- 000 income, will not pay that the ap propriation of trust turtds to our wn private speculation, will not pay. We had a great national tumor, in the shape of fictitious prosperity. We called it national enlargement, instead ofcalling it enlargement, we mightjhave-- 1 better called it a swelling. It has been 1 atumor.andGodiscuttingit outhas I cut it out, and the nation will get well and will come back to the principles a^ of our fathers and grandf thers when %fy twice three made six instead of sixty, and when the apples at the bottom of the barrel were 'St as good as the apple on the top of the barrel, and a silk handkerchief was not half cotton, and a man who wore a $ 5 coat paid for was more honored than a man who wore a $5 0 coat not paid for. I want you to change temples, and to give up the worship ot this unsatis- "M fying and cruel god for the Lord Jesus' #-J Christ. Here are securities that will never fail. Here are banks that will never break. Here is an altar on which there has been one sacrifice onceforall. Here is a God who will comfort you when you are in trouble, and sootheyou when you are sick, and save you when you die. When your parents havebreathed their last, and the old, wrinkled, andtrembhnghands can no more be put uponyour headfor a blessing, he will be to you father and mother both, giving you the defense ot the one and the comfort of the other and when your children go away from you, the sweet darlings, you will not kiss them good-bye for ever. He only wants to hold th^m for you a little while. He will give them back to you again and he will have them all waiting for you at the gates of eternal welcome Oh' what a God he is! He will allow you to come so close this morning that vou can put your arm around his neck, ^while he in response will put his arms around your neck and all the windows of heaven will' be hoisted to let the redeemed look out and see the specta cle of a rejoicing ta:her and a returned prodigal locked in glorious embrace. Quit worshiping the golden calf and bow this day before him in whose presence we must all appear when the world has turned to ashes and the scorched parchment of the sky shall be rolled together like an historic scroll. 5 ie cafes. A manager engaged him to sive repre sentations in the cities. He came td Paris for the first tune in 1880, and was presented to the Anthropological Society by Broca, who wrote a brief note on the case.Alfred Binet, in The Popu'ar Science Monthly for No vember. Good Form In the Four Hundred. Nothing is in worse taste than to ap pear absent-minded in company. To be absent minded is to be thinking, and society has no use for people who think. Never congratulate the bride at a wedding. It is bad form. Con ratu late the groom and then assume a cultured, judicial air, ani in the low, well-modulated tones-of a benevolent divorce court judge mildly wish her happiness. ^j| Whendmingin aprivata house if yocf*"* fold your napkin it will indicate that you have no servants at home if you do not fold it the hostess will know that you have no sense. When taking your seat in a private house, or rising from it, never touch tho chair with your hands. This i imperative. Therea-on is that it is $ unnatural not to guide or help your self with your hands and anything A that is unnatural and idiotic generally is good form.N. Y. Herald. COCOANUT CREAMS.Take some- French cream and while quite soft add fresh grated cocoanut to taste add sufficient confectioners' sugar to mold into balls and tnenroll the balls ,in the fresh grated cocoanut. They may be colored pink with a few drops of cochineal syrup, also brown bv adding a few spoonfuls of grated chocolate then rolling them in urated* cocoanut. The th ee colors are very pretty together. The cocoanut cream* may be made into flat cakes an i cut into squares or strips.