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THE NEWS,
Box 870. Toccoa,Ua.
the great preacher.
Life and death of rev. henry
WARD BEECHER.
Karly Struggles—lievelopment of III*
Liberal View* on Religions Matters.
The Brooklyn Kcan<lal—General Review
of a Moit Eventful Career.
Ilenry W ard Beecher, whose death and
funeral service* have lately drawn the atten¬
tion of the country, inherited from his parents,
Lyman and Roxana Foote Beecher, the two
greatest blessing* of an earthly nature—a
pel fectly sound body and a cheerful dispo¬
sition. It was remarked from the start
that in body, mind and disposition ho
was almost a perfect blending of both
parents, while his nine brothers and
Bisters—for it was truly a patriarciial
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family—partook more of the father’s or the
m»»i u. r’s nature. Tlie family was thoroughly
American. Iu 1033a yeoman named Andrew
Wind and a widow, Hannah Beecher, came
to New Haven in the same vessel from Eng-
land; from the latter lioxana Foote, from the
former L\ ni in Beecher, descended, and these
two united i.i marriage Sept. ID, 1 ?.*>, Jocafc-
ing first at East Hampton, L. I., ami after-
w.,: d crossing to Litchfield, Conn. Henry
Ward was their eighth child.
The family was not, only thoroughly Ameri-
Can, but also thoroughly Calvinistic—thor-
oughly New England in blood, faith and
inaimcrs. It was a family of talent, too. If
Henry Ward 1 ud died in infancy, the name
of Beecher would stiil have been enrolled for-
ever i in American history; his if he had be*>n a
bAvycr or a doctor, father would have
held a still higher rank as the great
pi t idler than lie now does as Dr. Lyman
I> >• if**. Noted as ho was in his time, he is
now lowntosnos; young Americans chiefly
ns ii,.. fa h r of the great Brooklyn divine.
A <1 cmi *nt as other members of t he family
w fk-'v separate walks, their eminence is
mut ative obscurity, and they are
- ‘ - e 1 to merely as the brothers or
,onry Ward. To this general state-
is one brilliant exception—the
. of Harriet F eclier Stowe will shine
ic great o:i” of earth and she will
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1 u ; ; * is read and human hearts beat in
sympathy with the oppressed. For it was
Iu i pen that rouse*I the heart and conscience
Oi the common jieoplo against slavery.
1 he children of Dr. Beecher were reared in
n rather strict, old fashioned way. Festivals
for children, fancy toys and story books were
unknown in the Connecticut of that day; but
they had a severe moral training, and with it
much freedom in the open air, in the woods
and the fields. Of this exjierience Mr. Beecher
said; “I think I was well brought up, be-
cans ■ I was let alone. Except here and there,
I baldly came under the parental baud; but
I know where the sweet flag was, where the
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hickory trees ^ere, where the chestnut and
the sassafras ami the squirrels were_so I had
n world of things to do.” The good effects of
this close familiarity with nature a m ear in
all of Mr. Beecher’s piixluctlons. When Henry
was but three yeai-s old his mother died, and
little more than a year after bis father mar-
l ied again. The now mother did all a moth-
er’s part to the children and Henry Ward
always spoke of her with the utmost rever-
enoe; but be confesses that she was a woman
to be veuemted rather thau warmlv
Airly loved, and
strangely severe and sotemn kind He con-
fesse^l that he could not open his heart to
her, and often felt his emotions chillevL The
family discipline was somewhat less severe
than was usual at that day in New England,
but there was strictness enough. Especially
were the children trained to habits of truth¬
fulness; duplicity in any form was the one
unpardonable offense in a true New England
household.
» was while he was attending a mat he-
Statical school, which his father had per-
sanded him would be necessary if he went
to sea, as he at one time wished to do, that
Il- nry Waul Beecher professed religion and
uuiteil witli his father's cliutch in Boston.
All his thoughts now turned toward the min¬
istry, and as soon as he could prepare there¬
for he entered Amherst college.
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His classmates were not impressed with his
scholarship, but in the debating club he soon
took high rank. He also became an enthusi-
a- st on the subject of phrenology, and was
very early distinguished as an ardent speaker
against slavery. Here, too, his religious views
underwent a peculiar change. Dr. Lyman
Beecher was .Uen tho great orthodox divine
of New England, and Henrv Ward has rec-
orded tho tcrriblo stifiggles h*s own mind
went tlirougn in revising and finally reject¬
ing some of tho harsh features of tho old
creod. After his graduation in 1834 he
followed his father’s family to Cincinnati,
where Dr. Beecher had become a professor in
Lane seminary. He entered at once upon
the study of theology in that institution, but
as the divergence of views between him and
his father became more marked, he fell into
another state of deep depression. Ilis older
brother had just withdrawn from the min¬
istry on the ground of unbelief in the stan¬
dards set up, and for a season Henry Ward
suffered great darkness aixl confusion of
mind. From this he emerged with an en-
tbusiastic conviction of the truth of (he more
liberal views ho had previously held only
tentatively.
The congregation at Lawrenceburg, Ind., of
which he was first made pastor, was poor; the
lower part of the town was subject to over-
flows, and there was sickness and want of
energy. But Mr. Beecher acted as his own
sexton, and by enthusiastic devotion to duty
ivas building up a church when he received a
call to Indianapolis. In that city, he says, he
dropped the study of theology and began the
®^ ut ly °f mankind; the effect on his preach-
' vas so marked as to attract wide
attention - IIe became a magnetic and
P°P ldar preacher. He had married just
before leaving Cincinnati, and in Indianapolis
be and his wife led very active lives for a
* ittJe ovcr seven y ears > " lien lie received his
c ? n and made his last change to the Plymouth
Congregational church of Brooklyn, with
" bicli his name and fame have been identified
for nearly forty years. On Sunday, Oct. 10,
1847, Iie preached his first sermon in Brooklyn,
^en a city of 60,000 people, with but two Con-
& re gatioiml churches and thirty-nine of all
ot J® His r denominations. first sermon at Plymouth created a
8ei,sation - Jn be declared with extreme
P la, nness bis i>osition on all the leading
natlonal . Questions—slavery, the Mexican
war, temperance and other issues; but as to
theology, contented himself with saying that
^ e *bould strive to make his preaching “a
nduistr . y of Christ.” He was publicly in¬
8talled pastor Nov. 11, 1847, and in the
nex t ten years Plymouth church grew rapidly,
£ r ©w to l>e not only one of the great churches
f" lb41> ) al ‘ d » Beecher a great suffered center his of first liberality. severe
dlll ess» which left him enfeebled for a long
S” le ’ and iu 18 f° the socl ©ty s©nt him to
Europe, where , he remained three months.
JJ taat is next £ re at visit work there m England was in 1863, which when made he him did
dear to all Union loving Americans. This
^" no P lace to relate that wonderful story.
S u ffi'‘ e it to say that American statesmen
ci'edit him with having “converted the
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British jveople to a just view of the American
Civil War.” Mr. Beecher himself always
| <K) ^ ed experience u P° n this of as his the life, most though try- he
^ ad t* 2 © 11 very active and prominent in the
an ti-ria v ery agitation preceding the war, and
ha<i fou 5 ht for freedom of speech in the dark-
*** l,oul ' s ; one of tlie gatherings he ad-
d,VSSrt ^ * u England he said: “The uproar
would come ou and drown my voice—then I
would wait and S et iu fiv © minutes or so.
The , * e P orte, ' s would get that down. Occa-
Bionall y I would see things that amused me
and laugh outright; the crowd would stop to
I was laughing at and I would sail
1° with a sentence or two.”
Mr. Beecher returned home to be welcomed
returning Amencan had ever been, and
to remain for nine years the great representa-
tive American, the honored patriot, the iu-
fluential politician and the one pulpit orator
whose life was an almost constant ovation,
Then came tb© great cloud upon his fame,
which had lifud, indeed, but was not entirely
cleared away even at his death. Iu
this space it can only be touched
u,x>u ty a large volume would be needed
to ^ ive tl,e details of the “Great
Brooklyn Scandal” of 1872-75. It was em-
pbutiealJy a Brooklyn scandal, not exclu-
sivcly a Iiecehi r scamlal; for its destructive
fury made havoc in many circles, sundered
lifetime friendships, destroyed the peace of
families, tynkrupted business men, jioisoned
schools and churches and wrought a moral
desokuion which eveu now we canuot esti-
Devoted to News, Politics, Agriculture and General Progress.
TOCCOA, GA., MARCH 18, 1887.
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A ecorations. ,
' * a a, iy view we can of it, some
J* I,®*, e , 1x1611 crufell y wronged; place the
f man y peopie have per-
K . trat , t treachery and some
the most unblushing perjury. In fact, the
6a ' emn S conclusions which logically follow
any verdict are so depressing that many good
men shrink from them and refuse to make up
their minds at all. But in spite of this blot
Henry Ward Beecher will live in American
history as one of the really great men of his
age. We do well to honor him as a patriot,
orator and friend of tho oppressed, ignoring
any pei’sonal weakness; his monument is in
the hearts of millions, and his career will
long remain as a bright chapter in tho history
of Brooklyn.
The steadfast devotion of Mi's. Beecher to
her husband and family is well known. She
was a teacher before marriage, and was noted
for conscientious devotion to duty. It is not
too much to say that the funeral of the dead
pastor was unique. In accordance with his
wish, flowers were everywhere—the very pall
was covered with flowers, and no near friend
wore mourning. There was a private service
at the house Thui sdaj-, and on Friday a pub¬
lic service at Plymouth church, where the
floral decorations were the most profuse. The
body lay in state part of Thursday, all of
Friday and part of Saturday. Nearly 100,000
people viewed it.
CHARLES W. FOSTER.
The Versatile Humorist „ of The Omaha
" orld>
Charles W. Foster, the humorist of The
Omaha \\ orld, is very generally regarded as a
new writer, his paragraphs and dialogues in
that paper having sprung into popularity at
the moment of their first appearance, but the
fact is that ho was trained for the work by
years of arduous and responsible service in
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CHARLES w. FOSTER,
Press, News and Call of that city; and
during this long term as a general
worker had no opportunity or desire to give
his humorous faculties full play. In The
News and The Call he conducted “ funny col-
minis ” which were widely quoted, but man¬
agerial responsibilities prevented him from
doing himself justice. On The Omaha World
he is not thus handicapped, and hence the
marked difference in results. He is a devoted
student of human nature. Mankind is his
hobby. Given a chaiacter and an occa-
fi° ib n would 3t 3S Be eaty natural for him for to that guess character what
to do - ^ r - Foster’s humor is thus full
°* revelations, his little surprises seeming in-
exhaustible. Born and reared in the anthra¬
cite coal and canal regions of Pennsylvania,
spending many of his early years in mining
towns, he had the double advantage of asso-
ciation with people of the highest refinement
and personal acquaintance with characters
such as could only be found there. For
months he was one of the denizens of a min-
ing district, one-lialf of w hose inhabitants
were arrayed against the other, the law abid-
ing portion tying drilled and uniformed in
regular military organizations and many
places being practically under martial law.
Following his natural bent, he did his best to
probe the cause of dissaffection to the
bottom, often taking long tramps through
the gang infested forests at night in
hopes of adding to his stock of information,
the points publicly presented being apparently
of little moment. Men were being shadowed,
beaten and shot seemingly without motive
and a reign of terror bail begun, which con-
tiuued with little interruption for years.
From such scenes he was suddenly transferred
to an academy iu a large city. After a few
years he returned to his mountain home at
Mauch Chunk, Pa., revisited the mining
towns and w as then sent to Dio Lewis’ gymn-
astic school near Boston, where outside of the
hours of exercise he had nothing to do but
study the universal Yankee as he exists in
New England. After preparing for college,
entering and remaining a few terms he
abandoned the classics and spent sev-
eral yeai-s in business pursuits, which
took him into adjoining states and
threw him among people of every imaginable
sort His journalisticexperience in Philadel-
phia embraced every duty which a newspaper
worker can be called on to perform, an i led
him into ail grades of society, from the fre
queiiters of the lowest dives and denizens of
the most revolting slums to the visiting
wearers of coronets and their cultured
American hosts. His rcportorial duties for-
tunatcly happened to extend over the Centea-
nial Year, and. being at the Exposition daily,
lie acquired a familiarity with national traits
and customs only po& ibie to the carefully ob-
serving traveler. It will be seen, therefore,
tliat The Onnba Woi'lU man has not achieved
popularity nt a hound. He has labored as
only journalises can or will labor at his
chosen profession, and his bright sallies are
but the glintings of sunshiny drollery along
the rough but diversified hedges of wide ex-
perieace.
the most trying de-
partmeuts of jour-
nalism, his writ-
ings showing in
every line the
broad scope of an
“all around news-
paper man.” He
served for fifteen
yeai-s on Philadel-
phia papers, begin-
nin « 08 a reporter
ulfcimate] y b ©-
condu g successive-
ly the managing
editor of three daily
publications, The
THE CALHOUN MONUMENT.
It Will lie ITnveiletl at Charleston on
the 26 th of April.
The 26th of April next will t>e a day of im¬
portance in Charleston, S. G'., for on that date
will there be unveiled the monument to John
C. Calhoun that has been made by Mr. Albert
E. Harmisch.
Calhoun was a great figure in the history
of South Carolina, and, indeed, his name is
written in large characters upon the pages of
the annals of the nation. The movement tc
erect the monument was set on foot in 1854,
when eleven ladies met, formed an associa*
tion for the purpose of raising funds and set
to work - By the end of the >' ear 5^,000 had
been raised, ami canvassers were sent out tc
augment this sum. By 1860 it had been ill-
creased to $20,000, and the monev came
from rich and poor alike. Then came the
war, and of course there was a cessation of
efforts in behalf of the fund. But it was not
lost in the general wreck of fortunes which i^
accompanied * the struggle, ’ and ana this this hanov happy , e-
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suit was due to the intelligent zeal of Mrs. M.
A. Snowden, treasurer of the association, and
in 1880 the market value of the securities in
which the money had been invested was $.54 -
194.77. Four 3 'ears before this time rhe actual
work of building the monument was resolved
U P° 31 ' Thirteen gentlemen of Charleston were
made a commiteee, with Maj. Henry E.
Young chairman, and the contract
was made with Mr. Harnisch to ex¬
©cute the statue and design the ped-
estal for $44,000. The contract called
for a bronze statue of Calhoun, to be placed
on a peuestal of Carolina granite, and four
allegorical figures of Truth, Justice, Consti-
Bition and History. The figure of Calhoun is
fourteen feet high, and represents him ad-
dressing the senate. Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar
will make the dedicatory address. The moiiu-
nient is placed in Marion square, opjiosite the
South Carolina military academy, on Cal-
houn street.
MR. ALFRED SULLY.
Sketch of a Railroad Man 4VI»o Has Slid*
denly Become I’l oininent.
Alfred Sully has not been especially
prominent before the American public until
lately. But his reported deal with Mr.
Robert Garrett for a controlling interest in
Baltimore and Ohio railroad—that mag-
nificetit heritage of the Garrett
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Alfred sully.
railway service. He was educated ior
law and was duly admitted. In 1871
he became counsel for the Davenport
an d St. Paul Railroad comp tiy, but occupied
this post but one year. From 1S77 to 1SSO
he was counsel for the New York and Man¬
hattan Beach Railroad company, and held
a position on the directorate of this road
from 1877 to 3883. From 1879 to 3S83
8© was secretary and member of the execu-
tive committee of the Indiana, Bloomington
and Western Railroad company, ami was
later made vice president of the same com-
pany. Hehasalsoatvarionstimesbeencon-
nected with the financial and executive de-
partmeuts of the Long Island City and Flusb-
Big Railroad company, the Ohio and South-
©}‘ !1 Railroad company, the Central Iowa, the
^ e ' v York, Susquehanna and Western,
and other lines. Mr. Sully has a keen,
shrewd, strongly marked face and keen
©y©s.
A Prairie Yacht.
The prairie yacht, which should not by any
means be confounded with the prairie
schooner of emigrant days, is about the
strangest sailing craft of which there is any
record. Dr. H. M. Wheeler, of Grand
Forks, D. T., is the genius who conceived tlie
^ ., °f , sbmmmg . ovei- the s.j ov r covered
P a!ns °f the west b\ the aid of the omd, and, 4
a ftbe picture wffi make apparent, he mod-
^ 1S machine on the ice yachts of the
- lu dson. ike chief difference between
* lie icc 3 'acht and the prairie yacht,
mdeed, is . that whereas the runners of the
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brought him into
the people’s view,
and his every ac¬
tion and his every
characteristic is
likely to be scrut¬
inized with the
closest attention
for some time to
come. Alfred Sully
was born in Ot¬
tawa, Canada,
May 2, 1841. It
was not until he
was 30 years of age
that he went into
thI prairie yacht.
former craft are thiu and metal shod, the
runners of the latter are practically tobog-
gans. Dr. Wheeler’s yacht is lid feet long,
with a beam of 14 feet; her mast is 20 feet
hmg au<l is provided with fenders, which raise
telegr aph wires so that the yacht may pass
under them when they are encountered. The
main boom is 22 feet long; gaff, 12 feet; jib-
boom, 11}' feet; frame, 2 by 8 feet, set ver-
ticallv. The runner planks are 0 inches apart
12 feet long by 2 feet in width. There ij
plenty of land for prairie yachting in Dakota
and, especially to the north, plenty of snow.
1 he sport must be very exciting.
“Pet” Names in London.
The use of “pet” names is said to lie the
cause of much trouble in London. {Several
ladies of position have been married recently
under sobriquets that do not bear the slightest
resemblance to their baptismal names. And.
more curiously, jieople attempt to ignore or
vary the designations of their ancestors who
bore Christian names that are not considered
fashionable now.—Chicago Times.
WILLIAM T. COLEMAN.
A Kentuckian Who Has Become a Cali¬
fornia Millionaire.
The New York San has in its day aimed to
start many booms. Among them is one for
\\ illinm T. Coleman, of California, for the
presidency. What it will amount to remains
to lie seen, Mr. Coleman was born in Ken¬
tucky. The Louisville Courier Journal has
this to say of his father:
“More than forty years when the
est of Kentuckians,
taking Clay as an
example, wero
farmers, one of tho
best farmers in
central Kentucky
was Napoleon Bon-
apart© Coleman, of
Harrison county.
He represented
that county from
1828 to 1831 in the
legislature, when a
man might belong
to that body and
be esteemed by his
neighbors a gentle-
man. By the way,
numerous other members of the Coleman
family in Harrison became legislators,
and all were accounted honorable men.
N. B. Coleman was likewise a lawyer of
prominence, having an office in Cynthiana.
His remains were placed in the neat little
cemetery near that place. It is the son of this
gentleman who is suggested for the presi¬
dency.”
W illiam T. Coleman was a pioneer on the
Pacific coast, buying 43,000 acre s, including
the site of San Rafael, the capital of Marin
county, which city
by him afterward,
shade trees on ‘S
of Sau Rafael,
now a pleasant resort for those who desire a
constant wavm ^treat winds and of a San change Francisco. from the Mr. cool Cole- and
man has large and controlling interests in the
salmon canning establishments of the Pacific
coast, besides which he has valuable gold
mimug stocks, an interest in one of the few
hoi ax mines m the Tjnitcd States, and men-
New Sw v \ ork in and London. t“ f“ i"' His success cb in ^». man-
aging all these varied interests marks him as
u man of wkU. e«cnt.ve ability. He i»a
larueil man, with a son, also net it led, m
business m ban Francisco, and another sou,
younger , just returned from study and travel
in Europe.
The fortune of Mr. Coleman is estimated
variously at from $3,000,000 to $20,000,000.
Sharing the Profits.
The plan of sharing profits among the cm-
ployos of productive establishments is re¬
ceiving more and more attention from em-
ployers of labor, and the announcements of
the intention to carry on business upon this
basis are constantly increasing in number.
If the system grows in popularity at its pree-
ent rate of increase in two or three years
m p re it will perhaps te found to have sup-
ph pd a solution to some of the most vexatious
of labor problems.—Boston Herald,
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM.
How the Sunday Opeuing Plan Is Pro¬
gressing.
When the question of opening the New
York museums to the public on Sundays was
first proposed it had many less adherents than
it has now. At that time—several years ago
—even those citizens inclined to liberalism felt
very delicate about handling the Sun¬
day question. It was an untried and
seemingly dangerous experiment, a com¬
plete change from old customs, opposed
to old laws and old sentiments. Since
then, however, the public has either
grown a long way toward the Sunday open-
ing or it has grown nearer to them. Perhaps
its progress was helped along by the success
which met the introduction of music into
Central park on Sundays. This is now an
established Sunday amusement, and a de-
corous one withal. “Sunday,” say those^vho
favor Sunday opening, “is the laboring
ma]Q,s da >'- Art and music are educators;
no ^ only educators, but apostles and makers
proselytes. There is no way during the
wben t wa ‘ “ l 1
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°™ e togetuei. On the otucr hand it is
heal that the proposed innovation will tend
to greatly increa-e the desecration of the
Fai/bath, which the opponents of the plan
already too general in New York.
J? eviojjolitan Moseum is almost
inat is, aii admission fee of twenty-five cvnts
011 - '^ 1( “y^anu i ucsitays,while the
. - .i* mum > i.o enaige is maoe. It i*
suuateil m one of the most l>eautiful parts of
Central pai'k, almost directly opposite the
Obelisk, that Egyptian monolith that cost
one of the Vanderbilts $1GO,OCO to bring to
this country. The Museum building Ls of red
brick, with white marble trimming's. It does
not pp^ent at all a handsome appearance, the
:^ le of a rebitecture tying urn,upmove, and
the marb.c tninmnp are stained w ith the
Io * ,ae of Tbe building, however,
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TOCCOA NEWS
JOB OFFICE
We are Prepared to Print
LETTER HEADS,
BILL HEADS,
NOTE HEADS,
STATEMENTS
CIRCULARS.
LAND DEEDS,
MORTGAGE NOTE
MARRIAGE LICENSE, &C.
is not flllish(M C as a new wing is
^ added on the side shown in
the P lotar ®- Th ^ basement floor contains
f co ^ ect * 011 of laces* tapestries, etc., caleu-
^° attract and hold the admiring eyes of
Iady visiton \ There is also on this floor a
ni °st interesting exhibition of Mexican and
^bdian art. On tlie first floor the statuary
fillds room - Handsome cases, containing col-
Iections of rarc old Rlass and silver ware, are
run ^ etI aroimti the room, and at one end are
a nund>er Indian tombs and idols. Tho
actors ’ monument to Edgar Allan Poe is at
^he main entrance to the floor.
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METUOPOLITAX MUSEUM OF ART.
Above are the galleries of paintings, tho
east devote*i to the old masters and the west
to tho modern school. Between these two are
long cases of rare pipes, snuff boxes, cutlery,
porcelain ware. etc.
And the people w ho go there are as varied
as the objects to bo found therein.
There is the bright, bustling school girl,
striving to crowd a whole day’s work into
half an hour. Tho open eyed, smudge
faced street gamin, with his ever
ready criticism. The young iierson whose
education has been neglected and who finds
this an awful boro. The cultured young lady,
who has been there time and again, who
always gushes over the same “ Madonna and
Child.” The professional artist, with his
quiet appreciation or condemnatory expres¬
sion of countenance. The old connoisseur,
the park policeman, the nursemaid, tho
baby, the unemploj-ed young man ami
the retired old one, all flock here Oil
the free days. For lie it known, the i*»y
days are favored by my lady in her car-
l iage, who disburses twenty-five cents on Mon¬
days and Tuesdays for what she could view
gratis on other days- Some things are rushed
by, some are dwelt before for an hour. In
some is found a reminiscence of the country
lane, or the stretch of sea shore of childhood’s
•lays. Here, in a pictured face, may lxi t,ko
counter! eit presentment of living countenance
there the perfect expression of something we
have dreamt or thought. The old Bibles,
too, with their gaudily colored and impossi¬
bly formed prophets and good men, are often
and curiously viewed.
The museum has increased greatly in sire and
interest since it found its present abiding place
i i Central park. Formerly it occupied quarters
the museum had visitors in a week ^
vate philanthropy took the strugglunr worhl travel infanV
to its arms. Foreign consuls,
aesthetically inclined merchants and dilet-
tante bankers, who found recreation and
pride in scouring the earth for the^ artistic trea^ troas-
ures, generously dumped
into the vacant OI . i . 2;
merely loaned, while- others have been mfta
and bequests witbin'it, outright. All is not tmod that
i., conteme,!
gay , f lom gran d to mediocre, its rontents
range.
Many of the directors of the museum are
averse to opening it on Sundays, while the
board of aldermen has issued a resolution in
its favor. No matter how the question is de¬
cided the institution, while not equaling the
Corcoran Art gallery and one or two other
collections in some particular department, i»
without doubt the best in our part of the
world.
A Serl-ms Difficulty In Annam.
The French company which is putting tele¬
graph lines in Annam finds itself confronted
with a serious difficulty. Recently one of the
lines ceased working, and a party was sent
out to locate the break. At the gates of an
Aunamite village the Frenchmen were met
by an amiable deputation of the inhabitants.
“Wo are very poor,” said the bead man of the
village, and. we have felt it necessary to take
the wires ou the poles in our territory and
sell them; but in order that your excellencies
need not be subjected to any inconvenience,
we have replaced the wire by the neatest
bamboo rods that we could find, all neatly
fitted together. We trust that you are satis¬
fied with the change.”—Boston Transcript.
George C. Milo's Skull.
hen George C. Miln, the Chicago preach¬
er, gave up the pulpit to go on the stage-
many of his friends made him presents
Among these was a skull whose cheek bones
'vere abnormally large. Miln asked tho
donors where they got the ghastly relic. Ho
was told that the skull once held the vicious
brain of a murderer who was hanged for bis
crime; but not one pr< etsed to know the
felon’s name or the manner in which the
skull was obtained. Mr. Miln has since made
many efforts to discover the nr,me of the
murderer, bufc without success. He uses tho
skull when he plays Hamlet.—New York
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“Do you believe in witchcraft, Mr. Pon-
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until . 1 met responded Pon-
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On an average 30XM) books a year are
now pu ,.. ls , ,
S*rer S mi«n» Concernl.^ Cate
Tliero are numerous quaint superstitions
connected with cats: "Blood from a black
cats tail will cure tits.” “To cure a felon.
bold the finger affected in a cat's ear for a
qua iter of an Lour each day.” “If a man
swallow two or three cat’s hairs they will
cause him to faint” “If one dreams of lighte
ing with a cat that scratches him he will be
sick or in affliction.” The belief nothingbut^ that cots
“suck the breath” of infants is cat^mouth
“suf^rstition,” the formation of a
being such that the thing is an utter uiipossi-
bility.—Cosmopolitan.