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Finding "Girl” in the Bible.
lIOW A MISSIONARY OBTAINED FREE BOARD
AND LODGINGS.
An Kngllsh town missionary, a short time
ago, related a remarkable incident. There
was a lodging bouse in his district which he
had long desired to enter, but he was deter
red from so doing by his friends who feared
that his life would be endangered. He be
came at length so uneasy that he determined
to risk all consequences and try to gain ad
mission. So one day he gave a somewhat
timid knock to the door, in response to which
a coarse roice roared out: “ Who’s there ?”
and at the same moment a vicious looking
woman opened the door and ordered the man
of God away.
“ Let him come in, and see who he is and
what he wants,”’ growled out the same voice.
The missionary walked in, and, bowing po
litely to the rough looking man whom lie had
just heard speak, said :
“ I have been visiting most of the houses
in this neighborhood, to read with and talk
to the people about good things. I have
passed your door as long as I felt I ought to,
for I wish also to talk with you and your
lodgers.”
Are you what is called a town mission
ary ?”
“ I am, sir,” was the reply.
“ Well, then,” said the fierce looking man,
“ sit down and hear what I am going to say.
I will ask you a question out of the Bible.
If you answer me right you may call at this
bouse and read and pray with us and our
lodgers as you like; but if you do not an
swer me right, we will tear your clothes off
j r our back and tumble you neck and heels
into the street. Now what do you say to
that ? for I am a man of my word.”
The missionary was perplexed, but at
ength quietly said:
“ I will take j’ou.”
“ Well, then,” said the man, “ here goes.
Is the word girl in any part of the Bible ? If
so, where can it be found, and how often ?
That is my question.”
“ Well, sir, the word girl is in the Bilbe
only once, and may be found in the words of
the Prophet Joel, iii. 3. The words are:
‘And sold a girl for wine, that they might
drink.’”
“ Well,” replied the man. “ I am dead beat.
I durst to have bet five pounds you could not
have told.”
“And I could not have told yesterday,”
said the visitor. “ For several days I have
been praying that the Lord would open me a
way into this house, and this very morning,
when reading the Scriptures in my family, I
was surprised to find the word girl, and got
the Concordance to see if it occurred again,
and it did not. And now, sir, I believe that
God did know and does know what will come
to pass, and surely his hand is in this for my
protection and your good.”
The whole of the inmates were greatly sur
prised. and the incident has been overruled
to the conversion of the man, his wife and
two of the lodgers. —American Wesleyan.
Contentment.
BY 808 BURDETTE.
Be contented, ray son. You need not be
satisfied with what you are; you don’t want
to live without ambition ; so long as you live
strive to be something better, and higher and
stronger to-morrow than you are to day, but
don’t worry ; don’t fret. AVear your ready
made clothes with the air of a Prince, until
you can do better ; cat your twenty-five cent
dinner with the manner of a man who is ac
customed to fare sumptuously every day on
coarse dinners, and likes this sort of a thing
for a change. Keep the sunshine in your
heart and it will shine out of your face. The
world is always grateful to a sunny-tempered
man. just because he is good enough and
gracious enough to live in it. Laugh, my
son, if your stomach is so empty that you can
not tell whether your pain is in 3'our liver or
your back-bone ; wear your hat jauntily if it
is so full of holes that you can’t see the grease
and weather stains that cover it; speak
cheerily, though you have to wear your over
coat every time your shirt goes to the laun-
dry. It won’t be an easy thing to do right
along; the days will come when a good in
dulgence in the “blues” would seem like para
dise ; there will be hours wlieu you would
rather swear than laugh, when you would
rather growl and wail than look pleasant;
there will be times when, in spite of your
strength and manhood and good resolutions,
you will go away by yourself and groan and
bury your face in your hands and cry like a
girl; I know it, son. But don’t make a habit
of it, and don’t let any one see you do it. It
is a dangerous luxury, and should only be
indulged in at very long intervals and on rare
occasions. Cultivate contentment; if you
have no gloves, put your hands in your pock
ets ; if your coat is out at the elbows, back
up against the fence ; if you have no hat, 3’ou
will not become bald. And when prosperity
comes—not if, but when—you will be prouder
of 3 T our good nature in the dark day's of ad
versity, my son, than you can bc of all the
honors, and all the fame and position that
prosperity and success can bring you. Never
worry', son ; don’t fret; it will make 3'our face
thin and your hair turn gray.
Cora Norwood’s Wax Doll.
HOW' TIIE PRAYER OF A LITTLE MAINE GIRL
WAS ANSYVERED BY EXPRESS.
The United States Kxpress Company, on
the night of December 17, carried over the
Erie an express package destined from Chi
cago, 111., to Bucksport, Me., which has a
singular romantic history. A little girl who
knits gloves wrote a note and placed it in one
of the pairs of gloves before sending them off.
It was as follows :
“I am a little girl only eight years old.
My name is Cora Norwood. I live in Bucks
port, Me. I knit these gloves for 8 cents a
pair. I wish the gentleman who buys them
would send me a wax doll for a Christinas
present, as I have none and want one very
bad.”
The note was found in the glove by a firm
in Chicago, who had bought a quanta of
them. They immediately purchased a splen
did wax doll and forwarded it to her by the
United States Express. The way bill was
filled out in regular form as follows:
“ Consignor, Keith Bros. & Cos., Chicago,
111.” “Address, Cora S. Norwood, Bucks
port, Me.” “Collect—nothing.” “ Propaid
with love.” Remarks : “Be happy.”
Across the face of the way-bill was writ
ten : “The letter pasted on this way-bill is
a request found in a pair of gloves, and this
box contains the desired wax doll, being the
gift of the omployos of the firm selling the
gloves.
“ Please let this way-bill go through and
be delivered withthedoll. Those who handle
the wa3'-bill may endorse on the back their
Happy New Y r ear.
“ B. Sciiermeriiorn, Agent,
“Chicago, 111.”
“ December 16, 1879.”
Across the back of the wa) r -bil! were writ
ten the good wishes and Christmas con
gratulations to Cora of those through whose
hands the wax doll passed on its way to
Bucksport.
How Postage Stamps are Made.
In printing, steel plates are used, on which
two hundred stamps are engraved. Two men
arc kept hard at work covering them with
colored inks and passing them to a man and
girl, who arc equally busy at printing them
with large rolling hand presses. Threeoftheso
little squads are employed all the time,
although ten presses can be put into use in
case of necessity. After the small sheets of
paper upon which the two hundred stamps
are engraved have dried enough, they arc
sept into another room and gummed. The
gum used for this purpose is a peculiar com
position, made ofthepowderofdricd potatoes,
and other vegetables mixed with water, which
is better than any material, for instance,
gum arabic which cracks the paper badly.
This paper is also of a peculiar texture, some
what similar to that used for bank notes.
After having been again dried, this time put
on little racks, which are fanned by steam
power for about an hour, they are put in be
tween sheets of paste board and pressed in
hydraulic presses, capable of applying a
weight of two thousand tons. The next thing
is to cut the sheets in half; each sheet when
cut, of course contains one hundred stamps.
This is done by a girl with a large pair of
shears, cutting by hand being preferred to
that of machinery, which method would
destroy too many stamps. They are then
passed to two other squads, who in many
operations, perforate the paper between the
stamps. Next they arc pressed once more,
and then labeled, and stowed away in an
other room, preparatory to being put in mail
bags for despatching to fill orders. If a
single stamp is torn or in any way mutilated,
the whole sheet of one hundred stamps is
burned. Five hundred thousand are burned
every week fron this cause. For the past
twenty years not a single sheet has been lost,
such care has been taken in counting them.
During the process of manufacturing, the
sheets are counted eleven times.
Lucky Day®.
It was deemed highly important among the
Anglo-Saxons that a child should be born on
a lucky day, on which the whole tenor of his
life wa9 supposed to depend, for in their
opinion each day had its peculiar influence
upon the destiny of the newly-born. Thus
the first day of the moon was preferred to all
others for the arrival of the little stranger,
for the3’ said “ a child born upon that day
was sure to live and prosper.” The second
da} r was not 90 fortunate as the first, as the
child bern on that da}' “ would grow fast, but
not live long.” If he were born on the fourth
day of the moon, ho was destined to be a
great politician; if on the tenth, a great
traveler; and if on the twenty-first, a bold
marauder. But of all the da}'s 0/ the week
on which to be born, Sunday was by far the
most lucky, and if it fell ou the new moon
the child’s prosperity was destined to be un
bounded. Friday was an unlucky birthday,
not only because it was the day of the
crucifixion of our Lord and Savior, but be
cause, according to Anglo-Saxon calculations,
Adam ate the forbidden fruit on a Friday,
and was also expelled from Paradise, and
died, and descended into bell on that day.
A Swift Witness.
Tom Gains was what you call a swift
witne9#. When Tara wa* for a fellow he was
for him all over, and he was so friendly anc
confiding the Judge didn’t know what to do
with him. Last court Lawyer Branham put
Tom upon the stand to prove that a drinking
man couldn’t remember what he did when he
was drunk. Tom had taken about two drains
that morning and was feeling splendid. He
swore .straight out that he could not.
The Judge didn’t like that. 110 didn’t
like witnesses who were so willing and
familiar, and so ho put a few questions to Tom
from the bench.
" Mr. Gains, weren’t you drunk yosterda}',
(Sunday)?”
“ Tlioy say I was, your Honor.”
“ And you don’t remember it ?”
“ It’B sorter like a dream, your Honor, but
I do remember I was awfully sick last night.”
“ llow are you now, Mr. Gains?”
“ I am tolable well, I thank you, Judgo.
how do you do, yourself?” and Tom bowed
humbly, for he thought the Judge was kindly
inquiring after his health.
When the sheriff” had quictod the general
hilarity, the Judgo said : “Mr. Gains, you
were drunk yesterday, which was Sunday.
Now, where did yon find your whiskey ?”
“ In the jug Judge—right In the jug.”
“ Well, sir, where was the jug ?”
“ Under the fodder stack, Judgo ; I always
keep it there, or in tho shuck pen ; and, if
your honor ever passes that way, It’s a free
thing to—
“ Mr. Gains, )’on can retire, sir, I believe
you are the same man. who, about thirty years
ago, testified in this court house that Jim
Wilkins bit his own ear off.”
“They say I did, Judge, but yon know I
was drunk, and of course I don’t romember
it. You was defendin’ Jack Boozer for biting
off Jitn Wilkins’ car, and you told me that in
the scrimmage Jack shoved Jim up agin the
sharp edge of the door and cut it off”; but I
got drunk and forgot what you told me, and
1 ’sposc I did swear that Wilkins bit his ear
off himself, and it wasn’t so onreasonable
nohow, for lie had the awfullest mouth that
ever was seed—didn’t he, Judge ?”
“Mr. Gains, I told you to sit down, sir.
Mr. Sheriff, givo mo the names of those
gentlemen who are so hilarious ; I’ll sco if I
can’t stop their merriment. Brother Branham,
put up your next witness.”
Severe Winters in Europe.
Snow is recorded to have fallen in Rome
during: forty days in the 396th year beforo
the Christian era. Nearly eight centuries
later the Black Sea was frozen ovor for three
weeks. In 608 the vines are stated to have
boen destroyed by frost over a large portion
of France. There is a tradition, again, that
in 860 snow and intense cold prevailed ovor
Europe for six months, even the Adriatic be*
ing frozen. In 574 the Bosphorus could be
crossed by the ice on its surface. The same
weather was followed bj r epidemics and
famine, to which a third of the population of
Franco is said to have succumbed. In 1163
the Po was frozen over, and wine congealed
in the cellars. The winters of 1323 and 1408
were extremely cold. In the former year the
ice-bound surface of the Baltic was used as
a thoroughfare for six weeks, and in 1408
nearly all the bridges of Paris wore carried
away by the blocks of ioo floating in the
Seine. The Clerk of the Parliament of the
day declared himself unable to register the
decrees, owing to the ink freezing in his pen
in spite of the large fires kept burning in his
ofllco ! In 1468 the weather was so severe
in Flanders that the frozen wine had to be
cut with hatchets. Ten 3’ears previously a
force of 41,000 men encamped on the Danube.
In 1504 anti 1607 there were games and bon
fires on the Thames at London ; and 1684 is
memorable as the year of the great fair held
on that river, which was covered with ice
twelve inches thick. Thirty years later
another fair was held on the same river in
mid-winter, and yet another in 1740. The
years 1766 and 1789 were notable for intense
cold throughout Europe. Hard winters pre
vailed in Europe in 1829, 1840, 1846 and
1849. Since that last date several very cold
years have occurred.
The Boomerang.!
Jhe boomerang is a weapon of tho Austra
lian aborigines, and in tho throwing of it they
are very dexterous. It consists of a piece of
hard wood, with the curl of a parabola, and
is about two feet long, two and a half inches
broad, one-third of an inch thick, and round
ed at the extremities. One side is flat, the
other is rounded, and it is brought to a blunt
ish edge. It is discharged with the hand by
one end. the convex edge being forward and
the flat side upward. After advancing some
distance, and ascending slowly in the air with
a quick rotary motion, it begins to retrograde,
and finally falls to the ground behind the
thrower. A weapon of similar form, but
wanting the return flight, has been found in
use among savage tribes both in India and
Africa. The surprising return-motion i3 pro
duced by the bulged side of the missile. The
air impinging thereon lifts the instrument in
the air, precisely as by hitting the oblique
bars in the wind-mill it forces it to go round.
The Australians arc very expert in hitting
birds with it, the animals, of course, bping
behind them, and not aware that they are
being shot at. • - ■
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General News.
Switzerland is this winter almost one mown*
taiu of snow; trains, itoaroboata and
graphs have been in a chronic state wf inter~
ruption.
In a law suit at Rushville, Ind n involving a
question of paternity, a baby was put in ovtr
dence, in or*ler to show its resemblance to
the alleged father.
The Lancet recommends light colors for
cold weather, as they do not part with heat
easily, and says that this is why the polar
bear has white fur.
An Indian at Orleans Bar, Cal., killed .
white man when frenzied with whiskey..
Some miners tied the murderer to a tree and
used him as a target for rille shooting uutlk
lie was dead.
In Queensland, Australia, tho splendid!
wheat crop lias had, in many cases, to be cut,
for fodder by reason of the rains. Tho ooi
onies are tlui9 distressingly sympathetic with,
tho mother country.
A one-legged man of Tallahatchie,
routed eighteen acres of land last year aud.
gathered forty bales of cotton from it. His:
name is Thomas McCinney, ex-Trcasuror *f‘
the county, lie did nearly all the work him
self.
A Ht. Louis woman amused herself with a*
revolver as she remarked to a companion,.
“Give me a pinch of snuff or I’ll blow a hole
clean through you.” The snuff was refused,
and the hole was promptly made by a bullet,
with almost fatal effect.
Some of tho English slaveholders in Brazil*
find themselves in a bad fix. They hare
been holding slaves who ought, according to*
law, to have been long since manumitted, and!
the Brazilian Government decrees that thoy
must give to each man wages for the wholo.-
period of such detention.
A submarine diver was In the Grant pro
cession at Philadelphia. Me stood on a plat
form wagon, wearing his huge brass helmot.
rubber suit, and heavy leaden plates. The
weight was very burdensomo in tlieair, though-,
just the thing for water, and he lias sinco
died from the effects of it.
Tho unusual cold in tho north of Europe
has sent southward immense flocks of wild'
ducks, making for tho less inolement quarters,
of tho Pontine marshes in Italy. They are
seen and heard passing over Rome in the
early morning, flying low, and have affordodt
such abundant sport and spoil that they aro..
cried about tho streets in quantitica-
A Chicago thief shaved off his moustaohe.
after robbing a lady in tho strocts, and by
that means made it impossible for her to,
indontify him when lie was arrested ; but ho
could not long resist the desire to look his.
best, and three months lator, when the now
moustache had grown like tho old one, she
recognized him in a crowd, and ho has boon t
convicted.
A man had a tooth extracted by a Chicago,
dentist, and expressed regret for the loss,
A girl whose jaws were ovorcrowdcd with teeth,
entered the office to hnvo two of them tak*
out. Tho dentist suggested tho experiment
of trnnsfering ono of these sound teeth to tho.
vacancy of the man’* month, and the oper.
tion was performed with enooese, the tooth
growing fast and firm in ton day*.
Absolute safety from Indian attaoks majr.
be had in crossing tho prairies by taking ths
mail coach. Indians have never been known,
to molest or attack a mail coach unless when
flrod upon by some foolhardy passenger. In,
all the late Indian troubles the mails have
passed regularly without interruption and,
often right in sight of the red skins. Rod*,
haired men are safe. They are regarded as,
children of the sun, and it is said that none,
was ever scalped bj r an Indian.
Reuben Boyce, a Texas stage robber, was,
in jail at Austin. His wife rode to the pris-_
on on a race horse, and asked if she could?
take a basket of provisions into her
cell. Permission was given. Tho jailer*
when he thought her visit had lasted longj
enough, opened the cell door and orderodj
her out. Boyce came instead, brandishing!
a revolver that had been carried to him
the basket, and made his way to tho fast
horse, on which lie rode away,
Dennis Mehiggin was drunk in Springfield?
on Saturday night. 11 is wife particularly,
desired him to be at home and sober on Sun-,
day, became there was to ho a family re?,
union at dinner. She hit upon tho expedient
of having him so that ho would bo.
compelled to sober off iu a cell, and be liber.,
ated in the morning. Sho provided herself
with money to pay a probablo fino, and waa
at tho police court when it was opened ; but
during tho night Dennis had hanged himselL
Prince Milan of Servia. who entertains, as
is well known, the most extavagant notions,
about tho divine right of kings, became re
cently greatly excited at a reunion at htß<
palace, while advocatinnor the unlimited pre
rogatives of his order, and addressing his.
Prime Minister, Dr. Ristick, who
to differ with him, exclaimed with much heat
of manner i “Ristick, if I order you to jump,
into the sea, von will certainly plunge, in,
head foremost.” Dr. Ristick bowed respect-,
fully, and moved towards the door. “Whith,
er are you going. Ristick?” inquired his high
ness, bending his brows in displeasure. “ Youij.
Highness will pardon me..” replied the astute,
statesman, “I am going to learn to swim.”
The expense of a trip around the work! is.
calculated by the Railway Age. ou the basis
of 180 days at $849 for first class and S6O&
for second class accommodation. Under
first head are included these entries; Netf
York to San Francisco. $129 ; sleeping cat
$22 : meals on the road, $lB ; San Francisco,
to Sidney, $200; expenses in Sidney, "S4O-;
Sidney to Melbourne, $25 ; expenses in Mel
bourne, S4O ; Melbourne to Adelaide, $25 ;
expenses in Adelaide. S4O ; Adelaide to Lon
don in sailing ship. $2-25 ; England to New.
York. $75. It is admitted, however, that n
little extra money will not come amiss. No
allowance is for expenses in England.
NUMBER 34.