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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.