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r e l 1 / The Church Temporal. Chicago has two German Congrega- >aal churches. The Rev. C. B. Galloway has been chosen to succeed Dr. Parker in the editorship of The New Orleans Christ- •ian Advocate. The Rev. James D. Eaton, of An dover, is to goto Chihuahua, Mexico, as a missionary of the American Board, but his departure is postponed till October. He regards the field there as a very promising one. The Maine JJiiiversalists at their annual convention passed a resolution declaring that it would be wise for the State of Maine to provide for the addition of at least $100 worth of books to the library of the Slate prison. The rector of St. Paul’s Church, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, who be lieves it is bad air and not poor ser mons that make people inclined to Bleep in church, has had an ingenious ventilator placed in the church, and now expects the undivided attention of his congregation. The Rev. George O. Barnes, the Kentucky evangelist, is preaching suc cessfully at Dayton, Ohio. His method of preaching was deemed rather tor- bidding at first, but is now liked. There have been some “conversions.” Several persons suffering from disease have presented themselves to be healed. Mr. Barnes has stated that for fourteen months none of his family have used medioine; “if any new disease or sick- xetyfr-oocujred, the oil of prayer, trus tsIg in Jesus Christ as the sole pby- toian, was all sufficient.” A Hindoo paper, published in Ben- d, speaks as follows of the excellence • the Bible: “It is the best and most Coellent of all Euglish books, and tfere is not its like in the English taguage. ^s every joint of the sugar cate, from the root to the top, is full of sweetness, so every page of the ^ible is fraught with the most precious ist^uction. A portion of that book Id yield to you more of sound lity than a thousand other trea- on the same subject. In short, if erson studies the English lan- vwith a view to gaining wisdom, r js not another book which is j^orthy of being read than the Secretary of State Frelinghuysen re cently received a letter from the Rev. Dr. A. J. Kynett, of Philadelphia, suggesting that foreign governments be warned of the nature of Mormon- ism. In reply Mr. Frelinghuysen, whose letter has j ust been made public, states that such a warning was given by William M. Evarts, while Secre tary of State. Mr. Frelinghuysen then continues: “As to my individual views, an expression of which you in- —yite in connection with certain sugges tions concerning Mormon polygamy, I am compelled to refer you to my speeches while in the Senate, the pub lished record of which may be conve niently examined upon that point. I may, however, assure you of my hearty sympathy with any movement which has for its object the eradication of such evils as are prac'iced by Mormons, and the elevation of our people to a higher planeof morals, consistent with „•* the broadest Christian ideas. What ever influence, therefore, I might be able to exert, either as a private citi- ** sen or in my official capacity as Secre tary of State, toward the accomplish ment of that desirable end, would not be spared in thet direction.” Well Timed Humor. Indian remedies for bringing out Jew hair will be regarded with dis trust by a man who has been once scalped. “My wife and I started out after our marriage with the determination that we would not both get angry at the same time,” said Blobbs. “We have succeeded in doing so pretty well, but my turn has not come yet.” Our little Caddie, four years old, was wised by ansAer of having lost er memory, and the child looked be wildered for a moment, and then light seemed to dawD upon her, for she ex claimed: “I dess I know whut .mem ory is. It’s the ting I fordet wiv.” i There is probably no animal that will, with the assistance of the farmer, make more manure in the course of the season than the hog, especially if his nos« remains untrammelled, but Which ^probably might not aid the fattening process. The oehsufi'bureau of Japan reports for 1§8a nearly 900,000 births and y0,000 deaths. Choice Selections. Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything. New Faiths. New? So, O Lord,Thy tender mercies are, So freshly blooms In heaven each evening’s star, New? —yet lrom everlasting Truth Is true; Ever, of old, the wise Thy wisdom Snow. Newly man’s plummet sounds tne gracious deeps, Clearer his eye may catch the glorious steeps; ’ris the same monntain-trp serene above, The earn still ocean of etirrai love. We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past er rors and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experiences. A Memory. A modest flower was blooming, ’Midst some rank, and noxious weeds. And Its sweets were almost smothered, By tbelr stalwart stalks ai>d leaves, But the rain would drop upon it, And the d* w drops la.ll around It, And refresh It, and revive it, And help It to endure— Their poisonous roots and foliage And atmosphere impure. Just so we sometimes And A spirit, pure, refined, ’Mid rougher natures thrown, Which are as weeds o’er grown, And towering high above them, Would crush, and bruise, and wound them, And delight to keep them down. But God’s holy Spirit helps them To torgive their taunts, and j iers, To pass on, and not resent them Or heed their scorn and sneers, And His Son sends dew and rain drops To cheer them an i refresh, Gives leaves, and buds, and blossoms, Then folds them to His breast. Josephine James. A Little Child’s Prayer. Mother—“Come, dearie, put dolly away now, for it’s time to say your prayers and goto bed.” Little Girl—“Make dolly say she p’ay’rs, too ; me has to p’ay all time.” Mother—“Ouly twice a day, dearie, and you ought not to be too lazy to do that when God watches over you every minute of the day.” With a resigned expression, the lit tle one b c gan : “Now me Is doin’ fast sleep, P’ay Dud soul to teep; Me should die—” Suddenly pausing, the little one looked up with a yawn, and asked : ‘Tan’t rest of it do till mornin’, mamma?” > Mother—“Oh, no, my child; you must say it or God won’t hear any of it.” With a despairing sigh the child dropped her head again and contin ued : “Dod b’ess papa, mamma, dammas and dampas, sisters and budders, and big kitty and little kitty—and—my— dolly—and—” The little voice suddenly became idaudible, and the mother, after wait ing a moment, sail gently : “Well, fluish, dearie.” The half-sleeping child continued : “Mouse run in nls hole to spin, Miss pussy pass’ by and her peep’d in De window—” “But, my child,” interrupted her mother, “you musn’t say that in your prayers.” Little girl—“Oh, Dod, p’eas don’t listen no more: me so s’eepy, Amen!” Colonel Ramsay’s Anecdotes. Time, indeed, seems to have wings, when blithe Balcarres Runsay is found writing that he began his mili tary career some forty years ago. It seems only the other day that he was quite a young captain in the 75;h regi ment, and yet that must be over thirty years since. In 1845, at a little dinner which the author gave at the Coventry Club, now the 8t. James’s, he invited Prince Soltykoff to meet the French Pretender. The next day the Russian magnate expressed surprise at the curiosity which Prince Louis had ex pressed about the strength and consti tuents of the Muscovite army, and when Colonel Ramsay met Prince Soltykoff after the Crimean war, the two agreed that this questioning had a very practical purpose. Three years later, when Prince Louis was some what under a oloud, owing to his abor tive attempt at Boulogne—the “Rag” was the only club that opened its doors to him—young Ramsay was much thrown into his company. “Often,” he writes, “have I sat late into the night with him quite alone ; when, after showing me relios of his mother, Queen Hortense, he sat playing with a dog which had been his com panion in the prison at Ham, or look ing dreamily Into the fireplace, sel dom speaking, but every now and then soliloquizing and talkiftg of what he would do when he was Emperor of the French.” Some of the most interesting and amusing experiences rec >rded in these volumes are those which happened to the author when he was a mere lad, traveling about the Continent under ■ 1 >( i charge of a to tor- It was at the Villa Salvlati, then belonging to Mr. Van- sittart, but which afterwards came i ito the possession of Grisi, that the young scapegrace had an adventure with the great Cata'aui. Prince Puniatowaki having begged the famous cautatrice to fav.»r the company with a song, and she got up from her seat and 'iioved to- waid the piano. But before reacning it she changed her mind, and returned to nerseat without looking behind her. “In uiy anxiety to hear the great singer,” says the Colonel, “I deposited an ice-cream, red and rosy, on her chair, which I had not time to remove before she plumped down on it. The wtather being very warm and the fair prim a donna’s garments of the thinest texture, the sensation was evidently a vivid one. She jumped up, exclaim ing, ‘What is this ?’ and then saw L er white muslin dyed red. ,1 was stand ing by with my mouth open, petrified with terror, when the fair songstress opened upon me such a volley of choice Tuscan vernacular that I fairly fi d. Jumping out of a low window, 1 es caped and never stopped until I found myself within the walls at the Porta Sm Gallo.” While stopping at Treves, the lad tat next a Prussian general of cavalry, who related to him how that George IV. once gave a dinner to all the Prussian < ffleers at H mover, and made them all drunk with the excep tion of the narrator himself. Bo pleased was the “first gentleman in Europe” with the Bacchanalian prowess of the one exception, that he presented him with a carriage as a to ken of his Royal appreciation. Losing A subscriber The editors of a deservedly popular newspaper in this city have not been able to understand why Mr. Dobson, one of their oldest sub.-cribers, and a man of great respectability and almost total baldness, Clime into the counting room the other day and ordered his par per stopped. It has transpired, how ever, tnat the night before Mr. D >baon, on taking up his paper after tea, as was his custom, observed a paragraph about two eclipses of the sun which were to occur this year, and began to read.it to.his family. The article was very interesting, and Mr. Dubson finding the days of his youth recalled by it, when he had seen numerous such celestial phenomena, laid down h>s paper when he had read half way through the account and began to tell the children how they would arrange for the display. The children were much elated, of course, and then Mr. Dobson got some window glass and showed them how to smoke it, and the youngsters got smut all over their noses as they looked through the ob scured fragments, and Mr. D )bs< n himself blistered his finger and ihumfo by taking up a red hot piece by mis take for a cool one. After half an hour of this sort of recreation attention was given to the conclusion of the article. Then Mr. Dobson read that the only places where one could see the eclipse w -re situated in remote section of Asia and Africa. Thereupon he said he would not take such a paper any longer, and the very next morning he stopped -his subscription. Which shows that a newspaper cannot be too careful in the arrangement of its facts. Rebuked.—There is nothing more worthy of consideration and respect than good advice—from the right per son and at the right time. But people who make a business of urging their own views upon others, without proper regard for the feelings of their hearers, or without caring whether circumstan ces or conditions favor their doing so, deserve the rebuke given by the artist to the clergyman in the following story : A jovial artist was painting the portrait of a clergyman, who felt it in cumbent upon him to give the painter a moral lecture during one of his sit tings. Somewhat in awe of the artist, he began rather nervously, but as the kuight of the brush painted away without any sign of annoyanoe, he gathered courage as he proceeded, and finally administered a goodish sermon. He paused for a reply, and confessed afterwards that he never felt so iusig- nifleant in his life aB when tbe artist with the urbane but positive au thority of his profession, merely said,— “Turn your head a little to the right, and shut your mouth.” To kill lice on chickens one of the best remedies is to dissolve an ounce of carbolic soap in a quart of warm water and with this thoroughly wet the head and neck of the ohicken. It dries soon and 1b harmless. Old fowls should be thoroughly duBted with in sect powder. CLEANING T3E WAY EOS MAMMA. "Whv ar*> you out in the cold?” I said, Looking dowu on his brown and bare curly bead. ‘I should think you’d be close In the house to. day. rnstead of out here clearing snow away. 0 look, Just, lo k, how the cold wind blows! And your cheeks are as red as the reddest rose.” He ’ooked up as I spoke, and brightly replied, Tn tones filriy g owing with love and pride: “Pm e'earing the way for Mamma’s feet— For this cold wet snow they mu* t never meet; And I must be doing It quloklv too, Or she will bee lining before I am through.” And to werk he went with a zeal so keen That he soon bad the pathway entirely olean, * My mamma, von know, is no 1 very well, \nd I love her Just morethan I ever can tell— So I try to help her a- muoh as T cm, Thou-h I can’t do much, ’cause I’m not yet a man. “Butshesavs I’m her comfort, her precious .1ny, And I do help her some, though I’m only a bov There are many things that a boy, you know, Can do very well— such as cleaning < ffsnow. But th t Is not hall what I’m going to do When I gr -w as big and as strong as you. “I intend, wherever her tender feet go, fo r move the stones, for I love her so, 1 am going to free her palhway through life Of «ll its hardships and of all Its strife. t am going to make her as fi ee from care As lhe gay wild lark upon the air. “ and still above all [and here, forsooth, Histone would convince you he spoke the tru'h] — And slill above all, I’ll st«y by her side, And never leave her for sweetheart or bride Like the snow I have swept from her path on this morn, Will I sweep from her life-path the trouble some thorn; And, tbo’ the long years to eternity swell, I will still love her more than I *m able to tell.” Jkey N. .Morris, What a Menagerie Costs. An untrained elephant at the age of 28 to 30 is wor h $10,000, and a perform ing elephant $45,000. The value of a male lion is about $2,- 000, and of a female $1 000. A fine specimen of the royal Bengal tiger is worfh $2 500. The female is much less valuable. The striped hvena is rated at $500, the spotted at $200. A south American panther costs from $100 to $200. A male is worth about twice as ‘iiuch as a female. The prices of sea lions range from $100 to $200. S±als cost from $300 to $400. A polar Pear is worth $1,000. Black bears can be bought in any number for $100 each. A poonah b^ar, from Hindoostan, is worth $500. The South American tapir costs from $600 to $8 10. The co«ts of a rhinoceros is from $6 000 to $10,000. The value of the hippopotamus is from $3 000 to $5,000. A giraffe eighteen feet high is worth $25 000. Cvnels cost $300 to $400. The sacred cow can be purchased for $700 or $800. Tne z^b'-a is worth $700 or $800. A gazelle costs $1 000; a nylghau, $1 5< 0; an elan i, $3,000; and a hart- beest, $3 500. The ordinary oryx costs $1,030. *The llama is valued ai $500. The yak, from Siberia and Tartary, ranges from $1 000 to $1,500. The one bltsbok In this country cost $3 000. The oudode, a strange-looking beast from the North of Africa, costs from $600 to $800. Kangaroos are rated at from $500 to $1,000. The price fixed for ostriches is from |2,000 to $2 600. The prices of the different kinds of birds range from $5 to $100. The big snakes are worth $200 to $500. Monkeys are valued at $50 to $200. Some of the largest menageries are worth $1,000,000. A small one would cost at the lowest estimate $50,000. . r I Heat and Cold. Ths Beaultc of Some Inter eating Observations. It is the unanimous testimony of natives of the British Isles emigrating to Canada that the cold of our winter is much more easily endurable, degree for degree, than is tbe oold of Great Britain and Ireland. So, too, the resi dents of the Canadian Northwest de clare that a temperature of 40 below zero is endured up there with quite as much indifference as is the ^ero tem perature in Ontario. In the Nineteenth Century Prof. Frankland gives interesting results of investigations conducted by him into the causes and extent of tne difference in the climates of town and country. He lays much stress upon the influ ence of the color of the surroundings in modifying the cold of the air. As everybody knows there is a great dif ference in tha nature of the heat from an open fire and the heat from a stove. The heat from a fire pisses through the air of the room without warming it, and is then reflected back from the walls and furniture. A stove, on the contrary, warms the air directly by contact. Hence it is that a draft is unendurable in a room heated by an open fire, because it is a stream of cold air that is brought in contact with the body, whereas in a stove-heated room the moving air is warm and the draft is not felt. Now, outdoor climate is made up of these two kimls of heat. The oue is a counterpart of the open fire heat, and may be called sun- warmth ; the other resembles the heat from a stove, and is properly described as air-warmth. The winter-warmth as we get it is that resembling the warmth from an open fire; the winter- warmth in a snowless country is simi lar to that derived from stove-heat. The greater the proportion of the sun-heat that is absorbed by the sur roundings, the less is the portion re flected into the air, and the lower i» the temperature of the air. The power to absorb heat depends almost entirely upon the color of the object. Prof. Frankland gives notes of experiments conducted by himself with the object of showing the heat-absorptive powers of various substances. From observe- tions taken at the same place and at the same moment he found that the amount of sun heat reflected by dif ferent objects differed extremely. Thus, at the same moment when white paper and white linen reflected 116 degrees Fahrenheit of heat, black, silk and black merino reflected 84 de grees and 80 degrees respectively. At the same time a thermometer held above snow marked 111 degrees, and one held above green grass marked 88 degrees, above parched grass 95 de grees, and above gray rock 88 degrees. Tbe author gives this instance: A* 1 BeJlagio, near tae sea level, he found a sun warmth of 72 degrees most op pressive, while on the summit of the Diavolezza Pass, though the sun- warmth was 107 degrees, he experi enced a sensation of delicious coolness. At Bellagio, however, the real tem perature of the air was 83 degrees, whileon the Diavolezza the air-warmth was only 43 degrees. Th:*: great differ ence between the sun-warmth and the air-warmth at the two places arose from the fact that at the latter place he was getting reflected heat from the snow, while at Bellagio the dark soil was absorbing the sun-heat. The re flected heat was, like that of a fire or of a Canadian winter, exhilarating and bracing; the air-warmth, like that of a stove or steam-pipes was de pressing. The author then goes on to apply these lessons to practice. People who live in countries where at any time of the year heat is deficient shouhtobiiild a wall twenty or thirty feet high on the north, east, and west sides of Jhe grounds, whitewashing the inner face of the wall so as to reflect the heat. If on the northern shore of a body of water, the house should be in such a position that the sun can be seen from sunrise to sunset reflected in the water, then it will get heat reflected there from, not otherwise. The soil should be light colored. Yellow sand or gravel reflect heat very well. With these conditions, powerful sun-warmth and a bracing air*might be secured. If we want tbe air of our streets to be warmer, all we have to do is to whiten the houses. Of course it follows that if we want cool streets we must darken our houses ,* and the question arises whether the semi-annual blackening and whitening of all the houses should not be made compulsory upon the conscript fathers of all reputed health resorts. Prof. Frankland says that, praoti cally, the color of a house makes no difference to its inside temperature, exoept with respect to the roof, the color of which makes a very great dif ference. In bright sunshine slates become so hot that the hand can scarcely be borne even on their inside surfaces. Whiten the same slates, and the inside remains cool. As to internal coloring, the author says thpt the tints of wall-papers and furniture do not oause muoh difference in the amount of fire-heat received and radi ated. We regret having to make a statement so favorable as this to the sombre wall-papers now in vogue. It is not to be doubted, though, that dark wall papers do absorb, aud so waste light, if they do reflect as much heat as white papers; and we trust their reign will be short.