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UKV. OIL TALMAGR. THE NOTED 1)1 VINE’S SUNDAY DISCOURSE. Subject: “The Dissipations of tlie Race Course,” Ts.xr: “Hast thou given the horsesfrhngth? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Ho pawetli in tho valley, and rejoiecth; he gooth on tumbet the armed moD. He mith arnoug tin* trumnets, ha. hn! and hesmollefh the battle afar off, the thunder of the can tains. and tho shouting.”—Job xxxix., 19, 21. 25. We have recently had long columns of in telligence from the race course, aud multi tudes flocked to the watering places to wit ness equine competition, and there is lively discussion in all households about the right ami wrong of such exhibitions of mettle and sneed, and when (here is a heresy abroad ♦hat the cultivation of a horse’s fleotnoss is an iniquity instead of a commonable virtue —at such a time a sermon is demanded of every minister who wou'd like to defend public morals on the one hand, and who is not willing to see an unrighteous abridg ment of innocent amusement on the other. In this discussion T shall follow no sermonie precedent, but will trive independently what I consider the Christian and common sense viewof this potent, all absorbing and agitat ing of the turf. There needs to be a redistribution of cor onets among the brute creation. For ages the lion has been called the king of boasts. I knock off its coronet and put tho crown upon the horse, in every way nobler, whether in shape, or spirit; or sagacity, or intelli gence. or affection, or usefulness. He is semihuman, scale. and known how to reason on a small The centaur of olden times, part horse and part man. seems to be a sug gestion of the fact that the horse is some thingjnore than a beast. Job in my text sets forth his strength, his beauty, his maj esty. the panting of his nostril, the pawing of his hoof and his enthusiasm for tlie bat tle. What Itosa Bonhenr did for the cattle and what Landseer did for the dog Job with mightier pencil does for the horse, Eighty eight times does the Biblespeak of him. He comes into every kingly possession and into every great occasion and into every triumph. It is very evident that Job and David aud Isaiah and Ezekiel and Jeremiah and John were fond of the horse. He comes into much of their imagery. A red horse—that meant war. A black horse—that meant famine. A pale horse—that meant death. A white horse—that meant victory. Good Mordeeai months him while Human holds tbe bit. The church’s advance iu the Bible is compared to a company of horses of Pharaoh’s chariot. Jeremiah cries out. “How ennst thou con tend with horses?” Isaiah says. “The horse’s hoofs shall bo counted as flint.” Mirian claps her cymbals and sings. “The horse and the rider hath he thrown into tbe sea.” St. John describing Christ as coming forth from conquest to conquest, represents Him as seated on a white horse. In the parade of heaven the Bible makes us hear the clicking of hoofs on the golden pavement as it says. “The armies which were in heaven followed Him on white horses.” I s’nould’not wonder if the horse, so banged, and bruised, and beaten and outraged on earth, should have some other place where his wrongs shall be righted. I do not assert it. but I sav I should not be surprised if after all St. John’s description of the horses in h°aven turned out not altogether to be figurative but some what literal. As the Bible makes a favorite of the horse, the patriarch, and and the prophet, and tlie evan gelist, the apostle stroking his sleek hide ami patting his rounded neck, and tenderly lifting his exquisitely formed hoof, and listening with a thrill to the champ of his bit, so all great natures in all ages have spoken of him in encomiastic terms. Virgil in his Georgies almost seems to plagiarize from this description in the text, so much are the descriptions alike—the description of Virgil and the description of Job. The Duke of Wellington would not allow any one irreverently to touch his old warhorse Cop enhagen, on whom he had riddpn fifteen hours without disr- ranting at Waterloo, and when old Copenhagen died his master ordered a military salute fired over his grave. John Howard showed that he did not exhaust all his sympathies in pitying the human race, for when sick he writes home, “Has mv old chaise horse become sick or spoiled?” There is hardly pathetic any passage of French literature tnore than the lamentation over the death of the war charg er Llarchegay. Walter Scott had so much admiration for this divinely honored crea ture of God that in “St. Ronan’s Well” ho orders the girth slackened and the blanket thrown over the smoking flanks. Edmund Burke, walking in the park at Bcaconsfteld, musing over the past, throws his arms around the wornnut horse of his dead son Richard, and weeps upon the horse’s neck, the horse seeming to sympathize in the mem ories. Rowland Hill, the great English preacher, was caricatured because iu his tamil v prayers he supplicated for tho recov ery of a sick horse, but when the horse got well, o,ontrary to all the prophecies of tho farriers, the prayer did not seem quite so much of an absurdity. But what shall I say of the maltreatment of this beautiful and wond°rful creature ot God? If Thomas Chalmers in his day felt called upon to preach a sermon against cru elty to animals, how much more in this day is there a need of reprebensive discourse! All honor to the memorynf Professor Bergh. the chief anostio for the brute creation, for the merev he demanded and achieved for this king of beasts. A. man who owned 400!) horses, aud some say 40,009, wrote in the Bible, “A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.” Sir Henry Lawrence’s care of the horse was beautifully Christian. “Ha says; “I expect we shall lose Conrad, though. I have taken so much caie of him that he mayeonio in cool. I always walk him the last four or five miles, and as I walk myself the first hour, it is only in the middle of tho journey we get over the ground.” Th© Ftt riok Hhopherd in his matchless “Ambrosial Nights” speaks of tile maltreatment of the horse as a practical blasphemy. I do not believe in the transmigration of souls, but I epunot very severely denounce the idea, for when I see men who cut and bruise and whack and welt aud strike an d maul and out rage and insult the horse, that beautiful servant of the human race, who carries our burdens and pulls our plows and turns our thrashers and our mills and runs for our doctors—when I see men thus beating and abusing and outraging that creature, it seems to me that it would be only fair that the doctrine of transmigration of souls should prove true, and that for their punishment they should pass over into some poor miser able brute und be beaten and whacked and cruelly treated and frozen and heated and overridden—into an everlasting stage horse, an eternal traveler on a towpat'n. or tied tc an eternal post, in epizootics! an eternal winter, smit ten with eternal Oh, is it not a shame that the brute crea tion. which had the first possession of out world, that should be last—the so maltrc-:i!ed fowl and by the rac came in the fh created on tho fifth day, the horse and tho cattle breathed on the morning of the sixeu dav and the human race not created until the even | ng or thoslxth day? It might to he that If any man overdrives a herse, or toons him when he is hot, or recklessly drives a nail Into the quick of his hoof, or rowels himlo see him prance, orso shoos him that his fetlocks drop blood, or puts a c -llar on a raw neck or unnecessarily clutches his tongue with a twisted bit, or euts nfr his hair until lie has no defense against the cold, or unmercifully abbreviates the natural defense against inscctilc annoy ri nee—that snob a man as that himself ride! ought to bo made to null and let his horse hut not only do our humanity and our Christian principle and the dictates of Cod demand that we kindly treat the brute creation, and especially the horse, hut I go further and say that whatever can be done for the development of his fleetness, and-his strength, and his majesty ought to be done. We need to study his anatomy and his adaptations, T am glad that largo books have been written to show how he can be bejit managed, and how hts ailments can he cured, ambwhat his usefulness is. and what his capacities are. It would bo a shame if in this age of tho world, when tho florist has turned the thin flower of tho wood into a gorgeous rose, and the pomologist has changed the acrid and gnarled fruit of tho ancients into the very poetry of pear and peach and plum and grape and apple, and the snarling cur of the orient has become the great mastiff, and the miserable creature of tho olden times barnyard has be come the Devonshire, and the Alderney, ami the Shorthorn, that the horse, grander than them all, should get no advantage from our science, or our civilization, or our Christian ity. Groomed to tho last point of soft bril, liance. his flowing mane a billow ot' beauty his arched neck in utmost rhythm of curve* let him be harnessed iu trappings and then driven to the furthest goal oatbins of ex cellence, and then fed at luxuriant and blanketed in comfortable stall. Tho long tried and faithful servant of the human race deserves all kindness, all care, all re ward. all succulent forageand soft litter and paradisaical pasture field. Those farms in Kentucky and in different parts of the North, where the horse is trained to perfection iu fleetness and in beauty and in majesty, are well set apart. There is no more virtue in driving slow than in driving fast any more than a freight train going ten miles the hour is better than an express train going fifty. There is a delusion abroad in the world that a thing must be necessarily good and Christian if it is slow and dull and plodding. There are very few goo i people who seem to imagine it is humbly pious to drive a spavined, galled, glaudered, spring halted, blind staggered jade. There is not so much virtue in a Rosinante as in a Bucephalus. We want swifter horses, and swifter men, and swifter enterprises, aud the church of God needs to get off its jog trot. Quick tem pests. quick horses? lightnings, quick steams; why not quick In the time of war the cavairv service does the most execution, and as the battles of the world are probably not all past, our Christian patriotism demands that we be interested in equinal velocity. We might as well have poorer ■ guns in our arsenals and clumsier ships in our navy yards than other Nations as to have under artillery our cavalry saddles and before our parks of slower horses. From the battle of Granieus, where the Persian horses drove the Macedonian infantry into the river, clear down to the horses on which Philip Sheridan and Stonewall Jackson rode into the fray, this arm of the military service has been recognized. Hamilcar. Hanni bal. Gustavus Adolphus, Marshal Ney were cavalrymen. In this arm of the service Charles Martel at the battle of Poitiers beat back the Arab invasion. The Carthaginian cavalry, with the loss of only 700 men. over threw the Roman army with the loss of 70, 000. In the same way the Spanish chivalry drove back the Moorish hordes. The best way to keep peace in this country and in alt countries is to be prepared for war.and there is no success in such a contest unless there be plenty of light footed chargers. Our Christian patriotism and our instruction from tho word of God demand that first of all we kindly treat the horse, and thea after that, that we develop his fleetness and his grandeur and his majesty and his strength. But what shall I say of the effort being made in this day on a large scale to make this splendid creature of God, this divinely honored being, an instrument of atrocious evil? I make no indiscriminate assault against the turf. I believe in the turf if it can be conducted on right principles and with no betting. There is no more harm in offering a prize for the swiftest racer than there is harm at an agricultural fair in offer ing a prize to the farmer who has the best wheat, or to the fruit grower who has the iaigest pear, or to the machinist who pre sents the best corn thrasher, or in a school offering a prize of a copy of Shakespeare to the best reader, or in a household giving a lump of by sugar all to the best behaved by youngster. all Prizes means, rewards means. That is the way God develops the race. Re wards for all kinds of well doing. Heaven itself is called a prize, “the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Je sus.” So what is right in one direction is right in another direction. And without the prizes the horse’s fleetness and beauty and strength will never be fully developed. If it cost 81000 or 85000 or 810,000 and the result be achieved, it is cheap. But the sin begins where the betting begins, for that is gam bling, or the effort to get that for which you give no equivalent, and gambling, whether on a large scale or a small scale, ought to be denounced of men as it will be accursed of God. If you have won fifty cents or 85000 as a wager, you had better get rid of it. Get rid of it right away. Give it to some one who lost in a bet, or give it to some great reformatory institution, or if you do not like that, go down to the river and pitch it off the docks, You cannot afford to keep it. It will bum a hole in your purse, it will burn a hole in your estate, and you will lose all that, perhaps 1000 times more—perhaps you will lose all. Gambling blasts a map or it blasts his children, generallv both and all. What u spectacle when at Saratoga, or at Long Branch, or at Brighton Beach, or at Sheepsheud Bay, the horses start, and in a flash $>50,000 or 8100,000 change hands! Multitudes ruined by losing the ■toot, others worse ruined by gaining the bet; for if a man lose a bet at a horse race’, he may be dis couraged and quit, but if he win the bet he is very apt to go straight on to hell! An intimate friend, a journalist, who in. the line of his profession investigated this evil, tells me that there are three different kinds of belting at horse races, and they are about equally mutuals,” leprous—by “auction pools,” by “French by what is called ‘•bookmaking”—all gambling, all bad, all rotten with iniquity. There is one word that needs to be written on the brow of every poolseller as he sits deducting his three or live per cent., and slyly “ringing up” more ‘ickets tbau were sold on the winning horse —a word to be written also on the brow :>f every bookkeeper who at extra in tueement scratches a horse off of tho race, tad on the brow of every jockey who siack ■tis pace that, according to agreement, an >ther may win, and writing over every udges’ stand, and writing on That every board o . ne surrounding fences. word ; “swindler'.’’ Yet thousands bet. Lawyer; bet. Judges Of courts bet. Members of th Legislature bet. Members of Congress bet. Professors of religion bet. Teachers undstt -erintendenta of Sunday-scho >ls, I am told. >e,. Ladies net. not directly, but through ugents. Yesterday aud every day they SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. they gain, they lose; ami this summer, while the parasols swing, aad the hands clap, and the huzzas deafen, there will bo a multitude of people cajoled and deceived and cheated, who will at the races go neck and neck, nock and neck to perdition. by all drive Cultivate tho horse means, him as fast as you desire, provided yqu do not injure him or endanger yourself or others, but bo careful and do not harness the horse to the chariot of sin. I)o not throw your jewels of morality under tho flying hoof, Do not under the pretext I)o of have improving the herse destroy a man. increasing not your catalogue name put down in tho ever of those who are ruined for both worlds py the dissipations of the American race course, They say that an honest racecourse is a “straight” track, and that a dishonest 3SSSS track surrounded by betting und race men betting women and betring customs is a straight track— I mean straight down! Christ asked iu one of sheep?” His gospels, “Is not a man better than a I say, yes. and he is better than all the steeds that with lathered flanks ever shot around tho ring at a race course. That is a very poor job by which a mau in order to get a horse to come out a full length ahead of some other racer so latnes his own morals that he comes out a whole length behind in the race set before you not realize tfco fact that there is a mighty effort on all sides to-day to get money without earning it? That is the curse of all the cities; it is the curse of America the effort to get money without earning it and as other forms of stealing Hre not re spectable, I they go this into these gambling prac tices. preach sermon on square old fashioned honesty. I have said nothing 3S3 !£: ST against their prostitution. Young men, you go into straightforward industries, and haV6 better bvelihood, and you will have larger permanent success than you can ever get by a wager, but you get in with aome of the whisky, rum blotched crew which I see going down on tho boulevards, SWATS–J. aud you -MeUS damned. • Cultivate the horse, own him if you can to owa Him, R,ll the sf>eod hn Las. if he have any speed in him, but be careful which way you drive. You cannot always tell what directive h man is driving in by the way his horses head. In ray boyhood we rode three miles every Sabbath morning to the country church. We were drawn by two line horses. My father drove. He knew them, and they knew him. They were friends. .Sometimes they loved to go rapid ly, and he did not interfere with their hap piness. He had ail of us in the wagon with him. He drove to the country church. The fact is that for eighty-two years he drove in the same direction. The roan span that I speak of was long ago un hitched, and the driver put up his whip in the wagon house never again to take it down, but in those good old times I learned some ihing that I never forgot—that a man may admire a home, and love .a horse, and be proud of a horse, and not always be willing to take the dust Christian, of tho preceding vehicle, and yet be a an earnest Christian, an humble Christian, a consecrated Chris tian, useful until the last, .so that at his death the church of God cries out us Elisha exclaimed when Elijah went up with gal loping horses of fire, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof.” TKE LABOR WORLD. Of 10,000 British seaman, sixty-six are l03t at sea every year. New York City’s street cleaning foremen are to ride bicycles. Union baiters announce that Union labels in hats must be sewed. A strike of thirty-seven boys in a mill at Taftville, Conn., led to 1400 men being thrown out of work. Tire great cotton mills destroyed by fire at Warren, R. I.. are to be rebuilt with greater capacity for turning out cotton cloths. , The employes of tho Taftvillo (Conn.) mills have received notification of a general increase of from live to ten per cent, in wages. the A Brooklyn railway corporation has set by sum of 810,000 to lie given out in re wards to employees who give tho best service. The Union of United Salespeople is agitat ing against Anns in Yorkville, New York City, who keep open late hours without ex tra compensation to their employes. The puddle mill of the Bethlehem (Penn.) Iron Company will soon begin to run double turn on both day and night shifts. A large number of men will be given work. Tbe gold beaters of New York City and Chicago are out on strike for an increase of wages of 85 a “beating,” or 812 a week, an increase of 81.80 a beating and 84.50 a week. The Indiana window glass factories have started their fires. Laborers, skilled work men and oflloo help go back at increased wages over last year of from seven to fifteen per cent. A considerable portion of the cloth hat and cap making industry has been trans ferred from New York City and other cities to country districts on account of strikes in the trade. The ’longshoremen of New York City are being organized by the Knights of Labor. They receive twenty and twenty-five cents organized. an hour, against forty cents when they were brass-making Birmingham, England, is the greatest in town in the world, and it keeps steady employment an average of 7000 brass workers. Paris, Franco, comes in a good second. Girl waiters in Smith A McNeil’s, tho big gest uniform restaurant in New York City, wear The a of white aprons and caps, former force of girl waiters refused to wear them and quit work. Sixteen artesian wolls wilt be drilled near HazletoD, supply Penn., by a coal-mining collieries. company to wator to its engines and The drought this season has caused distress in the mining villages. During tho past two weeks over 100 addi tional freight braketnon have boen employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, preparatory to the expected heavy truffle during the remainder of the year. The “cost-price restaurant” which is to be operated by a leading New Jersey manu facturing firm for its workmen is to bo inau gurated on the theory that well-fod people can do better work than starvelings. Miss Persky, an expert, said, before the So wages paid to girl coatmakors are from three to ten cents a coat. (Seven coats a day was hard work aud few women are able to ac complish such a task. The convention of the American. Federa tion of Labor will I c held in New York City December 9 to 22. Delegates representing will be a million working men and women present. Eminent leaders in the American Federation of Labor regard the re-election ol Samuel C.ompors as President of that body ‘ as certain. IVORY IN THE FAR NORTH* WONDERFUL STORT THAT A MINER BRINGS FROM ALASKA. -— Thousands of Tusks of Mammoths, He Says, Lie Witli Tlielr Bones Under Arctic Snow and Ice. Q EORGE ly enced most returned miner, graphic HUGHES, from who and Alaska, has an interost- recent- experi- gives a ing account of a discovery made by himself that may prove of fabulous «- 1 win r in ' Icite iat T 3t in that strange, iar away country, With several adventurous companions Mr. Hughes forsook the Kotteuaimin ing country of British Columbia a year for prospecting . tour for gold ago a in Alaska, being led on by the tales told b y J returned miners. Their experi- ^ ences were commonplace enongh, nn til at the end of a perilous trip down Yukon River Hughes was taken so ^ village * hftt the the right h , adc of tho , am P !lt ft uativ which , e on river, was called in t heir tongue Kwaqui huilette. Heprevaileduponhiscom panion8 *1 to leave him and continue their . trip. . . Ihis . was the ,, urgent, , more because the season was advancing, and if further delay was made every op E° rt r‘1 40 r*o« r t would to lost. Finally the friends yielded aDd left him in the village. Jn j.jj e couree 0 f some weeks Hughes – , began to , . learn a great , many of . the ,, T ln dians ways, succeeded in partially mastering their language, and was their traditions. Curtained From by tbe.recital his descrip- of tions, this tribe was one peculiarly different from those of Alaska which have come in contact with the new settlers. Hughes pays the highest tribute to their character, saying that as a rule they are pure minded, char itable and forgiving. Two faults are never condoned by them, lying and stealing, both being punishable by death. Mr.JHughes’s attention was attracted to the ivory ornaments which the na tives wore. Even the rude spoons and drinking cups were fashioned of the same material, and were kept in daily use in almost every household. In every village of Alaska, and the cus tom prevails among the Indians of the Western States, the totem poles are an important feature, and have varied significances beyond that of marking the respect and veneration of some great and distinguished chief or rela tive. Mr. Hughes noticed among things that these totems were profuse ly decorated with ivory. The ravens at the top had ivory beaks, and the eyes of the historic figures underneath were of the same material. So impressed was the prospector that he began questioning the natives to learn the source of their sujoply. The mystery became greater by their stories that the ivory came from a mine several days’ sleighing from there and over a route beset by innu merable dangers. The Indians went further into their explanations, and said that an ancestor of the tribe had discovered the place, and such quanti ties of ivory had been obtained that their wants had been supplied ever since. Later, when Hughfes became convalescent, a totem erected to tho memory of this old chief was shown him. He describes this as a most magnificent piece of handiwork. As they translated the meaning of the different figures with which the token abounded he saw that it was not a mere idol form of worship), but a his torical record. Each figure bore some relation to a historic event. One of these, representing a little squat ting man with fearfully dilated eyes and monstrous mouth, had an elongat ed nose, horrible in aspect, which Mr. Hughes recognized at once as the task of some pre-glacial ivory-bearing animal. With this knowledge he con cluded that tbe mystery of the “ivory mine” was solved, upon the theory that the natives had despoiled the body of some mammoth; yet the rea soning was not satisfactory, because of the great quantity of ivory in their possession, which could not have been furnished with a hundred tusks. Mr. Hughes thought so constantly on the subject that he became eager to solve the mystery, and, seeing his eagerness and gathering from his talk some idea of the real value of ivory, the natives themselves yielded to his desire to make the trip. Fully a week was spent in making the preparations for the journey. when the It was late in the year party set out, Mr. Hughes acting as chief and an aged man, who said he had madejpart of the journey, as guide. For two weeks the party pursued their journey, during which they passed within the Arctic circle. It was dau gerous to an extreme, They had perilous eneouuters with wild ani mals aud made difficult crossings of seams, rifts and hummocks in the ice and snow. They finally reached the spot ^hich was at the foot of a moan taid, which, Mr. Hughes thinks, was about twenty -fivo miles from tho Yukon River, in ft different route, The whole party suffered from expo sure, particularly Mr. Hughes, who was threatened with a return of his old comjflaint. parties into small After dividing the bands at this spot two days were spent in searching .. for . tho deposit. . T It was finally discovered by the old guide, who, with Mr. Hughes, had mounted upon a big hummock of snow to take a survey of the surroundings. Di« rectly in front of them was a large square depression. “Hal-kwa-su J” “There it is!" cried the guide. The descent was quickly made, and it was found that the artificial hole was now filled with snow, packed as hard and solid as ice. The work of clearing out the place occupied Boveral days, and than a marvelous sight was spread before them. Hundreds and thousands of tusks, white and gleaming with frost, were to be seen scattered through the skele tons of gigr.ntio beasts. A close in spection showed the remains wero those of the old mammoths, and it was easy to imagine that all wero stand ing on the former battle ground of these ancient beasts. This was evi denced by the fact that in some in stances the tusks of the animals would be found buried in the skeletons of each other. Mr. Hughes estimates that there must have been several tons of ivory in sight, and by digging around the edges of the excavation it was seen that the bodies wero evidently scat tered over a large plain. He tried to find a perfect skeleton, but failed, some of the bones either being broken or missing from each. The party took considerable ivory back with them, and Mr. Hughes disposed of his share very advantageously upon a return to civilization.—New York Herald. SELECT SIFTINGS. A machine paints wire fences. The thermometer was invented ir 1620. Beaver hats wero worn in the twelfth century. An Alabama father has taught all his children to read with their books upside down. A Baptist preacher in Georgia re fuses to baptise converts except in running water. People in Madison County,Kentucky, who have paid their taxes are entitled to be married free by the Sheriff. Frank Melrose, a supernumerary at one of the New York theatres, knows all of Shakespeare’s plays by heart. Geigersville, Ky., is the birthplace of a boy who was an inveterate to bacco chewer before he was a year old. The Khedive of Egypt has a four horse set of harness for use on state occasions which is mounted in gold and cost $11,000. An Arkansas hunter has a tiound that will catch his tail in his teoth and. roll down a hill taster than any other hound in the pack can run. A West Virginia man is so peculiar* ly affected by riding on a train that he has to chain himself to a seat to prevent his jumping out of the car window. A Minnesota girl of fifteen can dis tinguish no color, everything being white to her, and she is compelled to wear dark glasses to protect her eyes from the glare. Nail biting, according to a French doctor, is hereditary. Almost one-third of the French school children bita their nails, and the girls are worse than the boys. Perhaps the largest camellia in ex istence is at Plinitz Gastle, near Dres den, Germany. The tree is twenty four feet high and annually produces about 50,000 blossoms. A one-armed man who swings a scythe as fast as anybody, and a one armed woman who maintains her fam ily by taking in washing, are two o Palmyra’s (Me.) smart people. A rolling stone, left inside a sehoon er when she was built, was rocentlj found to have worn a groove nearlj through the planking. Its timeb discovery probably saved a vessel ant crew. E. E. Lander, of South Paris, Me * can attire himself in a broadcloth co‘t aged forty, boots twenty, breeds* thirty, carry a pocketbook 130 ye ,r ® old, and a gun about the same, fnd ride on old. a wagon wheel seveaty-jJ® years Of the four Nationalities makins u P the population of Great Britain t nL * Ireland, the Scotch are the heaviest men, the average weight bang* Scotch, 165.3 pounds; Welsh-63- 3 pounds; English, 155 pounds; trisb, 154.1 pounds. The most magnificent gift ove.'jU v611 by a subject to a sovereign Yas Middle ton Court iu the county :>£ sex, erected by Cardinal Vyolsey, ftmf * ST liplomatic judgment pre^nt it be et G- m to Henry VIII., >vben came apparent that the splendor o the building Uadawakenet that grasp* ing sovereign’s cupidity A Costly Auiolraph. When Adelina Patti favors! anyone uowadavs with extremi her riitogrJpn, df skee writes it at the top a of paper. Her reasonfor this 1 9 . once when she signed/t in subsequently too nii< of the sheet, it w<s coupled by the recipient MJGfpfomfee wth the to p nifieant sentence, )0i), and P at sight the sum 4 ( s.-Now !<** sented at her banter i Herald.
