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MOODY AND BANKET.
An Interview with one of the Evanoeliete in Aeto
York,
From the New Fork World.
In Appearance Mr. Sankoy scarcely
fills one's idea of an Evangelist, nor
indeed that of a sweet singer of Israel,
Mr. Sankey’B portion of the great re
vival lying in bis silvery throat. Bat
tire throat belongs to a large man—a
man npon whom the good things of.
this hfo scams to set well—apparently
thirty-five years old, with a oiear, gray
eye, and wearing dark Bnmside whis
kers of rather spares growth. F« is
simple in his manner, ready to converse,
but with the air of a man who speaks of
that which has no connection with him
self. Concerning their work he said:
■ “ Of oonrse we had no anticipation of
its magnitude. Oar oharoh was horned
in Ohioago, and while it was rebuilding
we determined to go abroad, possibiy
for fonr months, in response to an in
vitation of Mr. Pennifather and another
gentleman. We fonnd both dead. We
didn’t want to go about hunting other
men, so we determined to commence
ourselves, and went first to York, a
little, cold, cathedral town. We didn’t
do muoh at first. People thought we
were jnst two Americans hunting a sen
sation. It was not until they finally
began to have frith in us that we began
to suoceed; after that it was all easy,
and from the time we weut to New
castle our meetings were like a rollin'?
snow-ball, always moreaaing. Of course
London was the culmination.”
“What do you think of them your-
solf, Mr. Sankey?”
“ It is the spirit of the Lord, that is
all I can say. Such things were in times
past, why not now? People explain
them differently. Some say magnetism,
and some one thing and some another.
The only explanation we can give is
that it comes from the Lord. Men
couldn't do it. Just let them try it if
they think they could. Bat with the
Lord it is jnst the easiest thing.”
•‘Your labors don’t seem to have
wearied you?”
“That’s another evidence. Only
look: Both of ns in robust health,
constantly speaking and singing, and
not on ailment to hinder as.”
GREAT RELIGIOUS INTEREST.
“ As for what we’ve done, we know
nothing but that there has been a great
religious interest. Other people try to
sum up the resnlts. We know better
than to do that. We don’t say a soul
has been converted. Yon may make
professions. How do I know they are
tone ? We only know that the interest
increased nntil the last day. that it per
vaded all classes of people, from the
muoh changed. New York, Ohioago,
Brooklyn, Philadelphia, any of these
places may be our starting point.”
A Mastodon Fourteen Feet High.
From the Daboque (U.) News.
Prof. Woodman has now in his pos
session and is arranging the bones of a
specimen of the extract mastodon fam
ily, which are worthy of examination by
all who have any cariosity or interest
in nature’s wonderful productions. We
have all read of the mastedorv and have
fancied him to be ft mythical animal,
whioh they were imbedded, no donbt is
attributable the splendid state of pres
ervation in whioh the bones were
fonnd.
THE REPUBLIC OF NATURE.
A Land of no Clotho, no House), no Tool), no
Religion, and no Marriage.
Seventeen years ago Naroisse Pierre
Pelletier, the son of a shoemaker in a
small town in tne department of La
Vendee, went to sea, and after a few
, , . .. months was wrecked with a large cargo
out ao* anopportMtyr m_pn»ented to cf 0hiaege coolies. By miracle and
examine bones that will not only pnt
to rest anv doubts as to the existence of
the giant beast, but will give something
like an idea of what his monstrous size
most have been. The professor has
sixty-eight bones in all, and is making
search for the remaining ones, whioh
will constitute the whole skeleton. In
purchasing what he now has, he also
purchased the exclusive right to dig in
the ground for the rest, so that there is
but little donbt in a short time onr en
ergetic professor will have all the bones
of the largest animal ever found in the
bosom of mother earth. About a year
ago a German farmer, living at Welton,
twenty-five miles west of Davenport, on
the Ohioago, Book Island and Paoifio
railroad, in crossing a small stream, no
ticed something projecting from the
bank of the stream which excited his
cariosity. He procured « spade and
ormmenced to unearth it, and discov
ered, when he had it out, that it was a
huge bone of some kind, bnt what kind
was beyond his ken. His curiosity was
now fnlly excited, for he felt that he
had struck a bonanza of some kind;
perhaps the graveyard of some pre-Ad-
amio giants. He oontinned his explora
tions, and within a few feet of where
he fonnd the first relic of some departed
mountain of animal life, he found a
number of other bones similar in pro
portions to the first. The discovery
came to the ears of onr Woodman, who
is alive to anything that may reveal the
wonders of nature, particularly if it
comes from our own state, and he
opened negotiations with tbe old
farmer, whioh resulted in his beooming
the owner of the bones and of the right
to searoh for more. Among those he
now has are many of the prominent
ones, whioh will give an idea of the size
of the animal to whioh they belonged.
The shoulderblade, whioh appears as
perfect as if it came from the animal
yesterday, is three and a half feet long
by three feet wide, and when tamed np
presents & surface large enough for an
ordinary-sized family to dine on.
The lower bone of the hind leg, join
ing the knee with the foot, called by
promptitude he survived the brutality
of his own captain, the cannibals who
ate up most of the Chinese, starvation,
and more fatal tbirst, to fall into the
hands of a native Australian tribe.
In the settled portions of that conti
nent a native is as great a curiosity as in
this metropolis, but the aboriginal
races still have much to themselves the
parts next to the equator. This was
about thirteen degrees sooth, not far
from Torres Strait, New Gnina, and the
Lonisiade Archipelago. The savages
royal princes to the hod oarriers. The
Duchess of Sutherland came almost
every day. We know that excitement
had nothing to do with it. Everybody
gave that up in accounting for onr
numbers. We do not believe in it. Mr.
Moody always discouraged it. Oar
meetings were as quiet as those of any
well ordered ohnroh hero or there—as
(mite as onr conversation. No, it was
the Lord working through ns as instru
ments, by the foolishness of preaohing,
as the Bible says; mind, not foolish
preaohing.
“ The interest was universal. I don’t
believe there was a hamlet in England
to which we were not invited. We had
an invitation from Oxford, signed by
three hundred Btudents, bnt we oouldn’t
accept. We went tb Eton beoansewe
could get back. And, by the wav, it
was Eton that sought ns, not we Eton.
Eton students and the members of Par
liament asked us to go. We went and
had a quiet, impressive meeting, and I
believe did a great deal of good.”
“Bnt what will booome of all yonr
work now?”
•• Now, if it is of a man it will die,
bnt it iB left in the hands of the loeal
committee.”
“ But whal evidence did yen have of
its value?"
“ Nothing, only a great religious in
terest, unaccountable if it is not from
tbe Lord. We had not much inter
course with iedividnals, although we
reoeived letters from some and heard
from others, and through the inquiry
meetings.”
••You propose holding meetings
liere?”
“ Not until October. Mr. Moody has
gone to his home to rest, and will then
go to Chicago. I start Tuesday for my
home in Pennsylvania. Then I will
meet Mr. Moody in Chicago. We
haven’t derided yet what we will do.
We want to look about first. I find
already in two years this country is
naturalists the tibia, is abcut thirty-
three inohes long, about thirty-two
inches around its largest end, and is
heavy enough to load an ordinary man.
The parts of the backbone forming the
joints are from ten to twelve inohes
across; and one bone alone, belonging
to the foot, is twenty-eight inohes
around. All the other bones are of like
tremendous proportions. When the
bones forming the pelvis arch are placed
in position they form an opening from
two and one-half to three feet high,
whioh wonld easily admit the passage of
a barrel. The bones are all in a mag
nificent state of preservation. The
sockets in Borne of them are large
enongh for a wash bowl, and the small
est portion of the oolleotion is sufficient
to convey an idea of the great size of
the animal. It would be difficult jnst
yet to give its exact proportions, bnt a
comparison with bones found in other
places will enable us to judge. The
shoulder-blade of Dr. Warren’s masto-
non, fonnd near Newbnrg, N. Y., does
not appear as large as this one which
Prof. Woodman now has,* and the
length of Dr. Warren’s animal is ascer
tained to have been thirteen feet That
would make the length of Prof. Wood-
were very kind to the poor dying lad,
adopted him into their tribe, fonnd him
a valuable member of society, and were
proud of their possession. He acquired
titles of honor, inscribed npon his skin
and carried in his nose and ears, he
Irarnt to oarve canoes, and obtained an
acknowledged pre-eminence in strength,
skill, and counsel.
The tribe is a republic in the strictest
sense of the word, acknowledging no su
periority, and fortunately offering small
field for the ambition which leads to
higher political developments. They
have no olothes, except a fringe in the
ease of woman; no houses, except um
brellas extemporized oat of leaves when
it rains heavily; no tools, except bits
of hoop iron fonnd in wreoks; no arts
ani sciences; a very small vocabulary,
and an arithmetic stopping short at ten,
aqj! indicated by pointing to various
parts of the body. They have no relig
ion, no history, no social institutions,
not even marriage. Regarded from onr
point of view, life is there, one great
negative, and. the only wonder is they
get on as well as they do. The women,
however, go to the wall, as in all savage
life; they are the property of the
stronger, two or three at a time, and
are pnt ont of the way as a useless
horse is with ns, when no longer usefnl
or agreeable. This is animal life.
Naroisse Pelletier was quickly ab
sorbed in the now current of his exist
ence. He became a pure and simple
savage, and as mnoh forgot that he had
ever been anything else as if he had lived
in a long dream. He oonld not speak a
word of Trench; lost reckoning of days
and years; knew not his own age;
f ierohed on a rail like a bird; had rest-
ess monkey eyes; clave with strong in
stinct to his adopted fraternity, and
only remembered his relations as beings
of another world who must have long
since passed away.
Bat Naroisse Pelletier has returned to
life. On the eleventh of April in the
present year the John Bell schooner,
engaged in the beohe do mer fishery,
anchored at Night Island, a small island
off the northeast ooast of Queenland,
to whioh boats were dispatohed from
the ship in searoh of water. The sail
ors sent on this duty encountered in
the bash a party of aboriginal blacks,
with whom they found a white man,
who was like the blacks, perfectly
naked, and appeared to be completely
identified with them in language and
habits. The white savage was indneed
to enter one of the ships) boats, and
the John Bell brought her prize to Som-
merset, the settlement at Cape York,
where he was olothed and oared for by
the resident magistrate. The dream of
the long night is passed away and
is forgotten. To-day takes up the
thread of yesterday, and forgets the
gap between. Naroisse is already
A THRILLING SCENE.
A Rather Rescues his Child from the Clutches of
_ an Alligator.
B»nd<boro (Miss.) Democrat, July 31.
Last Saturday, about sundown, four
miles east of this plaoe on Biloxi bay,
occurred a scene calonlated to send a
thrill of horror through every human
heart, and to make even the boldest
tremble with fear. Two little girls,
daughters of Mr. ElamB. Blackwell,
living on the Black bay of Biloxi, while
bathing in the bay immediately in front
of his dwelling, were attacked by an
enormous alligator. The eldest, a girl
of about seven years of age. was hold
ing the youngest, an infant of two
years, in her hands, and was quietly
enjoying her bath, when snddenly her
little *
son’s fully equal, and its height would} readme French novels.
1 be about fourteen feet. Now that will j *
be considered a pretty fair sized ani
mal, and will rather eclipse ail onr
fancy stock of the present day for size.
Bnt what will be said when it is stated
that this animal, whose skeleton is now
under investigation, was only a calf ?
Yet this is a fact which is established
by the want of perfect ossification in
the joints, and at the end of the scap
ula cr shoulder-blade. There is no
question that it was a very yonnganimal.
What it might be at its maturity we
may guess, bnt can never know. It was
fonnd abont fonr feet from the surface,
in what geologists call the drift. From
all appearances the locality was the bed
of a stream, and to the fine sand in
e sister was snatohed from her and
borne swiftly from the shore. Terrified
beyond measure, and unable to render
any assistance to her unfortunate sister,
4jbe elder girl uttered a scream, which
N*ns quickly caught by the ear of the
father,who happened, aooidentily, to be
passing within thirty or forty yards of
the spot where his daughters were
bathing. Realizing, instantly from tho
tone of the voioe, that his children were
in some peril, bnt nnable to conjecture
its exaot nature Mr. Blackwell, who is
an active and athletic man, rushed
rapidly to their assistance, and arrived
at the spot jnst in time to discover his
little daughter being borne ont into
the bay by an alligatgr. Comprehend
ing the sconce at once, and nerved to
almost superhuman effort by the des
perate situation of his child, the ago
nized father leaped madly into the
water in pursuit of the would-be de
stroyer of his daughter, which was then
some twenty-five or thirty yards from
shore. The water for a distance of
forty or fifty yards ont into the bay
from the point where the children were
bathing, ranges in depth from one and
a half to two feet, and then snddenly
attains a depth of forty or fifty feet,
and both the animal (which by this
time had discovered the pursuit) and
the father seemed to realize that the
deep water immediately in front of
them onoe reached, pursuit and recov
ery would be alike impossible; both,
therefore, redoubled their efforts, the
one to reach the point, the other to
prevent it. In this struggle, although
sinking to his waist in the soft mnd at
the bottom at each bound, the father
was successful. He succeeded in grasp
ing his child by the arm abont ten feet
from deep water. The alligator, which
all the while held the child’s foot in its
month, percsiving itself overtaken, and
alarmed and confused by the boldness
of the assault, released its hold and
made its way rapidly into the deep
water in front of it. The father, com
pletely exhausted, raised his child ont
of the water, and perceiving that it
still lived, by desperate effort suc
ceeded in regaining the Bhore and de
positing the child safely in the arms of
its mother. The little girl is nnbnrt
with the exception of aconple of bruises
on its foot, made by the teeth of the
monster.
A Hint for Housewives.
An Inch of Rain.—Rain is caught
and measured in such a way as to give
what would have been the actual depth
of water on the surface if it had not
soaked in or run off. An inoh of rain is
of more consequence than would be
generally supposed. On an acre of
K nnd it amounts to 6,262,640 oubie
lief. This gives 22,622.5 gallons of
water, whioh wonld fill a cistern capable
of holding 360 hogsheads. Reducing
it to weight, it wonld amount to over
113 tons. A trough 120 feet long, 10
feet high and 3 feet wide, inside meas
urement, wonld jnst contain an inch of
rain from an acre of ground.
Mr. Stephen Green, a colored mam
living on Spring street, has been sotely
troubled for months past by a colony
of bed bags who were in the habit of
holding a moonlight banquet in his
house, with Mr. Green for the victim of
their sanguinary feasts. Last week he
came to the conolnsion that he would
not be a quartermaster’s department for
raiding bed bags any longer, and so in
vested in a box of vermin exterminator.
On the label of tbe box, whioh was so
big with fate to unnumbered hosts of the
enemy, were directions for the nse of
the poison, and among others was one
whioh directed it to be rubbed in the
cracks of the bed. This puzzled
Stephen. Ho could not understand
I why the poison should be nibbed in the
1 cracks. argued that the bugs did
not bite the cracks bnt himself, and,
therefore, if the poison was to go any
where it should be rubbed over his
body. So he annointed himself and
turned in. The following morning
when he awoke the bed was fairly black
with the dead and dying, and a second
experiment tried the next might resulted
in the same way. And now all the sur
viving bugs have fled the fatal spot, and
Mr. Green is happy.—Lexington (Ky.)
Dispatch.
—Perkins says a long yarn from the
pulpit has a sympathetic effect in pro
voking long yawns in the congregation.