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£tic itlontgomcrn iilonitor.
D. 0. SUTTON, Editor and Prop'r.
REV. DR. TALMAGE
THE IIIIOOKIAN DIVINE'S SIN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: ••Employ'incuts of Heaven.''
Text: “jVoir it came to jmss in the thir
■tie'll year, in the fourth month, in the fifth
•day of the month, ax I tens amon<) the eap
tives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens
were opened.”—Ezekiel i.. 1.
Ezokiol, with others, had been expatriated,
and while in foreign slavery was standing on
the banks of the royal canal which he and
other serfs had been condemned to dig by tho
order of Nelmcliiulnozzar —this royal canal,
in the text, called the river of Chebar; tho
illustrious exile had visions of Heaven. In
deed, it is almost always so that the brightest
visions of heaven come not to (hose who are
on mountain tops of prosperity, but to some
John on desolate Patnios, or to some Paul in
Wamertine dungeon, or to some Ezekiel
standing on the banks of a ditch he has been
compelled to dig—yea, to the weary, to the
heart broken, to those whom sorrow iias ban
ished.
The text is very particular to give us tho
exact time of tho vision. It was in the thir
tieth year, and in the fourth month, and in
the fifth day of the month. .So you have had
visions of earth you shall never forget. You
remember tho year,you remember the month,
you romemlK-r the day, you remember the
hour. Why may not we have some such
vision this morning, and it be in the sixth
month, and in the fourth day of the month?
The question is often s lentlv asked, though
perhaps never audibly propounded: "What
ure our departed Christian friends doing
now?” The question is more easily answered
than you might perhaps suppose. Though
there has come no recent intelligence from
tlie heavenly city, and we seem dependent
upon the story of eighteen centuries ago, still
1 think we may from strongest inference de
cide what an. the present occupations of our
transferred kinsfolk.
After Coil has made u Mature ho never
eradicates the chief characteristics of its
temperament. You never knew a man
phlegmatic in temperament to become san
guine in temperament. You never knew a
man sanguine in temperament to become
phlegmatic in temperament. Conversion
plants new principles in the soul, but Paul
and John are just as different from each
other after conversion as they were different
from each other before conversion. If con
version does not eradicate the prominent
characteristics of the temperament neither
will death eradicate them.
You have, then, only by a sum in subtrac
tion and a sum in addition to decide what are
the employments of your departed friends in
the better'world. You ore to subtract from
them all earthlv grossness and add all earthly
goodness, and then you are to come to tho
conclusion that they are doing now- in heaven
what in their best moments they did on earth.
Tho reason that sonnny people never start for
heaven is lieeause they could not stand it, if
they got there if it should turn out to Ik. tho
rigid and formal place some ]>cople photo
graph it.
Wo like to como to clmreli, but we w ould
Jiot want to stay here till next Christmas.
Wo like to hoar the Hallelujah Chorus, but
we would not want to hear it ull tho time for
fifty centuries. It might be on some great
occasion it would l>o |>o*sil>ly comfortable to
wear a crow n of gold weighing several
pounds, but it would be an affliction to wear
such a crown forever. In other words, wo
run the descriptions of Heaven into tig:
ground while wo make that which wui in
tended as especial and eolebrative to be tho
exclusive employment of Heaven. You
might as well, if asked to describe the habits
of American society, describe a Decoration
Day, or a Fourth of July, or an autumnal
Thanksgiving as though it were all tho timo
that way.
lam not gomg to speculate in regard tothe
future world, but 1 must by inevitable laws
of inference and deduction and common
sense conclude that in Heaven we will lie just
as different from each other as we are now
different, and hence, that there will be at
least as many different employments in the
celestial world as there are employments
here. Christ is to be the great love, tho
great joy, the great rapture, the great worsh p
of Heaven: hut will that abolish employment?
No more than loves on earth —paternal,
filial, fra ten al, con jugal love —abolish earthly
occupation.
In tho first place, T remark that all those of
our departed Christian friends who on earth
found great joy in the fine arts are now in
dulging their ta Urs in the sained reetion. On
earth they had their gln/bb st pleasures amid
pictures and statuary, an 1 in t lie study of tho
laws of light and shade and [leispeotivr.
Have you any idea that that affluence of
faculty at d ath collapsed and perished?
Why so, when there is more for them to look
at, and they have lo eivr appreciation of the
beautiful, and they stand amid the very
looms wh»rc tliQ sunsets and the rainbows
and the spring mornings are woven?
Are you so obt use as to suppose that because
the painter drops his easel and the sculptor
his chisel and the engraver his knife, that
therefore that taste, which he was enlarging
and intensifying for forty or fifty years, is
entirely obliterated? These artists, or these
friends of art, on earth worked in course
material and with imperfect brain and wit u
frail hand. Now they have carried their art
into larger liberties and into wider circum
ference. They are at their old hiis'imss yet,
but without the <at igues, without tic* limita
tions, w ithout the hindrances of the terres
trial studio. •
Raphael could now improve upon his mas
terpiece of Michael the Archangel now
that lie has so *n him, and could improve upon
his ninsterpie e of the Holy Family now that
he has visited them. Michael Angelo could
lietter present the Last Judgment after he has
seen its (lash and heard the rumbling batter
ing rams of i<s thunder. Exquisite colors
here, graceful lines here, powerful chiaros
curo here; but i am p< r-nailed that t he gran
der studios mi l tlse In i liter galleries are
higher up by the winding marble stairs
of the sepulchre, and that Tunv>r, nod Dol
man, and Hunt, and Rembrandt, and Titian,
and Paul Veronese, if they exeroiosed savin ;
faith in the > hrist whom they port rave 1 up
on the canvas, ore painters yet, but their
strength of faculty multiplied ten-thousand
fold. The reason that 110 t took away their
eye and their hand, an t their brain was that
he might give them something more limlxT,
more wieldly, more skilful, more multipli
tant.
I>o not, therefore, lie melancholy among
the tapestries, and the brie-a-brie, and tho
embroideries, and tho water colors, and tho
works of art which your departed friends
used to admire. Do not say: ‘ I am sorry
they had to leave all these things.” Rather
say: “I am glad they have gone up to higher
artisti" opportunity and appreciation.” ‘>nr
friends who found so mu h jov in the tine
arts on earth are now luxuriating in louvres
and Luxembourgs celestial.
I remark again, that all our departed
Christian frienls who in this world were
passionately fond of music nr- still regaling
that taste in the world celestial. The Bible
says so much about the music of Heaven
that it cannot all lie figurative. The Bibl
over ami over again speaks of the songs of
Heaven. If Heaven had no songs of its own
a vast number of those of i-arth would have
lieen takers up by the earthlv e migrants.
Surely the Christian at death does n >t lo
bis memory. Then there must be m illions of
souls in Heaven who know “Coronation,”
and “Antioch,” and “Mount Fisjjah," and
“Old Iliiiulrol.” The leader of the eternal
orchestra need only once tap his baton and
all Heaven will be ready for the hallelujah.
Cannot the soul sing? How often we com
pliment some exquisite singer by saying:
“Tinre was so much soul in her music.”
In heaven it will bo all soul, until the iiody
after a while comes up in the resurrection,
and then there will bo an additional heaven.
Cannot tho soul hear? If it can hear then
it can hear music. Do not, therefore, let it
lie in your household when some member
leaves for Ileaven, as it is In some households,
that you close the piano and unstring the
harp for two years, because the lingers that
used to play on them are still. You must
remember that they have hotter instruments
of music where they nro
You ask me: “Do they have leal harps and
real trumpets and real organs?” I do not
know. Borne wiseacres say positively there
are no such things in Heaven. Ido not know,
but I should not lie surprised if the God who
made all the inounta ns and all the hills and
nil the forests and ail the metals of tho earth
and all the growths of the universe—l should
not be surprised if He could, if He had a
mind to, make a few harps and trumpets and
organs.
Grand old Havdu. sick and worn out was
carried for the last time into the music hall
and there he heard his own oratorio of the
“Creation.” History says that as the orches
tra came to that famous passage: “I<et there
be light!” the whole audience rose anil
cheered, and llnydn waved his hand toward
Heaven and said: “It comes from there.”
Overwhelmed with his own music, he was
carried out in his chair, and ns he came to
the door he spread his hand toward the or
chestra as in benediction.
Haydn was right when he waved his hand
toward Ileaven and said: “It comes from
there. ”
Music was liom in heaven mid it will over
have its highest throne in heaven: and 1 want
you to utulorslatiil that our departed friends,
who were passionately fond of music here, are
now at tne headquarters of harmony. 1
think that the grand old eliurrh tunes that
died when your grandfathers died have ;J>m:
with them to heaven.
Again, 1 remark that those of our departed
Christian friends who in 1 his world had very
strong military spirit are now in armies Celes
tial and out on bloodless battle. There are
hundreds of people born soldiers. They can
not help it. They belong to regiments iu
time of pence. They cannot hear a drum or
fife without trying to keep slop to tho music.
They are ('hristiaus, and when they fight they
fight on the right side. Now when these, our
Christian friends who hail natural and pow
erful military spirit,entered Heaven, they en
tered the celestial army.
The door of Heaven hardly opens but you
hear a military demonstration. David cried
out: “The chariots of God me twenty thou
sand.” Elisha saw the mountains filled with
celestial cavalry. St. John said: “The
armies which are in heaven followed him on
white horses.” Now, when those who had
the military spirit on earth sanctified entered
glory, I suppose they right away enlisted
in some heavenly campaign, they
volunteered right away. There must
needs be in Heaven soldiers with a
soldierly spirit. There are grand parade
(lays when tho King reviews the troops.
There must be armed escort sent out to bring
up from earth to Heaven those who were
more than conquerors. There must lie
ei usa les ever being fitted out for some part
of God's dominion —battles, bloodless, groan
less, painless. Angels of evil to be fought
down and fought back. Other rebellions
worlds to be conquered. Worlds to be put
to the torch. Worlds to be saved. Worlds
to !>e demolished. Worlds to bo sunk.
Worlds to lie hoisted.
Reside that, in our own world there are bat
tles for the right and against the w rong where
we must have the heavenly military. That
is what keeps us Christian n formers si buoy
ant. >So foiv good men again -t so many bad
men, so few churches against so many grog
shops, so few pure printing presses against so
many polluted printing presses, and yet wo
tir ‘buoyant an.l courageous, because while wo
know that the armies of evil in the world are
larger in number than Hie army of th ■ truth,
there arc celestial cohort- in the air lighting
on our side.
I have not so much faith in the army on
the ground us 1 have in tile army in the air.
i), God! ojien our eyes that we may see them.
Tlie military spirits that went up from earth
to join the military spirits before the t hrone
—Joshua, and Caleb, and Gideon, and David,
and Damson, and the hundreds of Christina
warriors who on earth fought with fleshly
arm, and now having gone up on high are
coming down the lulls of Heaven ready to
fight among the invisibles. Yonder they are
—coming, coming. Did you not hear them
as they swept by:
But what are our mathematical friends to
do in the next world? They found their joy
and their delight in mat hematics. There was
more poetry for them in Euclid than in John
Milton. They wore as passionately fond of
mathematics as I’lato, who wrote over his
door: “I.et no one enter here who is not a■-
iiuainted witli geometry.” U’lint are they
doing now? They are busy with figures yet.
No place in all the universe like Heaven for
figures. Numbers infinite, distances infinite,
calculations infinite. The diilatic Dr. Dick
said he really thought that the redeemed in
Heaven spent some of their time with tho
higher branches of mathematics.
Some of our transferred and transported
metaphysicians—what are they doing now?
Studying the human mind, only under better
circumstances than they n*e<f to study it.
They used to study the mind sheathed in the
dull human testy. Now the spirit unsheathed
—tio’v they are studying the sword outsi to
the scabbard. Have you any doubt about
what Kir William Hamilton i-s doing in
Ileaven, or what Jonathan Edwards is do
ing in Heaven, or the multitudes on earth
who had a passion for metaphysics sanctified
by the grace of God? No difficulty in guess
ing. Metaphyics, glorious metaphysics, ever
lasting metaphysics.
What are our departed Christian friends
who are explorers doing now ; Exploring
yet, but with lightning locomotion, with
vision miscroscopic and telescopic at the same
time. A continent at a glance. A world in
■ a second. A planetary system in a day.
Christian John Franklin no rn.oie in disabled
I “Erebus” pushing t ward toe North Pole,
' Chrstian D“ Long no more trying to free
1 blockaded “Jeannette” from the ice.< 'lndian
! Livingstone no ncre amid African malarias
trying to riinkc revelation of a d irk con
tinent: tint all of them in the twinkling of an
eve taking in that w hi h was unapproachable.
Mont Blanc scal' d without alpenstock. Tin
I cora!Depths of the ocean exploit! without n
diving 1»-.||. The mountains nnfinrred and
i ojiened without Hir Humphrey Davy’s safety
lamp.
•Who* are our depart': 1 frit-n Is who found
thejr chief joy in study doing now? Stu lying
yet, but instead of a few thousand volume)
I on a few shelves, all the volumes of the uni
verso open I efore them geologic, ornitholo
gic, oonrhologic, botanic, astronomic, philo
sophic. No more ne«-l of lov't-n jars, or
voltaic piles, or electric batteries, standing
as they do face to face with the facts of
the universe.
What are the historians doing now? Study
ing history yet, but not the history of a few
centuries of our planet only, bnt the history
of the eternities—whole milleniums before
Xenophon, or Hero lotus, or Moses, or Adam
was born. History of one world, history of
all worlds.
What are our departed astronomers dofrg!
Studying astronomy yet, but not through t! •
dull lens of earthly observatory, but" with
MT. VERNON, MONTGOMERY CO., U.V., WEDNESDAY, SEI’TEMHER 7. 1887.
one stroke of wing going right out to Jupiter
and Mare and Mercury and Saturn and Orion
and the Pleiades—overtaking and passing
swiftest comet in their flight, Ilersehel died
a Christian. Have you any doubt about
wlmt Herschol is doing? Isaac Newton died
n Christian Have you any doubt about
w hat Isaac Newton is doing! Joseph Henry
died a Christian. Have you any doubt alsuit
wlmt Joseph Henry is doing? They were in
discussion, all these astronomers of earth,
about what the aurora borealis was, and
none of them could guess. They know now;
they have been out there to see for thorn
selves.
What are our departed Christian chemists
doing? Following out their own science,
following out and following out forever.
Binee they died they have solved ton thou
sand questions which once puzzled the earthly
lnlMirntory. They stand on the other side of
the thin wall of electricity, the wall that
seems to divide the physical from tho spiritual
world, the thin wall of electricity, so thin the
wall that ever and hiioii it seems to Ik> almost
broken through—broken through from our
side bv telephonic and telegraphic apparatus,
broken through from the other side by
strange influences which men in their ignor
ance call spiritualistic manifestations. All
that matter cleared. Agassiz standing
amid his student explorers down in Brazil
coming across some great novelty in the
rocks, taking off liia liat mutinying: “Gen
tlemen, let us pray; we must have divine 11
lamination; we want wisdom from the
Creator to study these rocks: He made them:
let ns pray." Agassiz going right ou witk
his studies forever and forever.
But what are th» men of the law, who iu
this world found their chief joy in the legal
profession—what are they doing now? Study
ing law iu a universe where everything is
controlled by law, from Right of humming
bird to flight of world —law, not dry and bard
and dredging, but righteous niul magnificent
law,before which man and cherub and seraph
and archangel and God himself bow. The
chain of law long enough to wind around the
immensities ami infinity and eternity. Chain
of law. What a placo to study law, where all
tho links of the chain are in the hand!
What are our departed Christian friends
who in this world had their joy in the heal
ing art, doing now? Busy at their old busi
ness. No sickness in heaven, but plenty of
sickness on earth, plenty of wounds iu the dif
ferent parts of God’s dominion to lie healed
and to he medicated. You cannot understand
why that patient got well after nil llio skil
ful doctors of New York and Brooklyn had
said he must die. Perhaps Aheieomliie
touched him—Abcreoinbie, who, after many
years’ doctoring tho bodies and the souls of
Jieoplo in Scotland wont up to God hi 1811.
Vrnnps Abereonibie iomlo 1 him.
I should not wonder if my old friend, Dr.
John Brown, who died iu Edinburgh John
Brown, the author of “Hub and Mis Friends”
—John Brown,who was usliumblo a Christian
ns he was skilful physician mid world
renowned author—l should not wonder if he
had been back again and again to sresomo of
his old patients. Those who had their joy iu
healing the sickness and the woes of earth,
gone up to Ileaven, are come forth aguiu for
benignant medicament.
But what are our friends who found their
chief joy in convorsution and in sociality
doing now? In brighter convocation there
uml in grander sociality.
What a place to visit In, where your next
door neighbors lire kings and queens. Non
yourselves kingly and queenly. If they want to
know more particularly about the first
Paradise, they have only to go over and ask
Adam. If they wunt to know liow the sun
and the moon halted, they have only to go
over and ask Joshua. If they want to know
how the storm pelted Kodo n, they have only
to go over und ask Dot. If they want to
know more about tho arrogance of
Human, they havo only to p,o over and ask
Mordecai. If they want to know how the
Red Hea boiled when it was cloven, they ha ve
only to go over and ask Moses. If they w ant
to know the particulars about the Bethlehem
advent, tecy have only to go over mid ask
the serenading angels who stood that t 'hri-t
--nias night i-i ■ in* balconies of crystal. If they
want to know more of the particulars of the
crucifixion, they have only to go over and ask
those who were personal siiectators while the
mountains crouched and the heavens got black
in the face at the spectacle. If they want to
know more about t lie sufferings of the Hootch
Covenantors, they have only to go over and
ask Andrew Melville. If they want to know
more about the old tilin' revivals, they have
only to go over and ask Whitellel'l, and Wes
ley, and Livingston, and Fletcher and Nettle
ton, and Finney. Oh! what a place to visit
in.
If eternity wereono minute shorter it would
not be long enough for such sociality. Think
of our friends in this world who were pas
sonately fond of (lowers turn'd into Para
dise. 'think of our friends who were very
fond of raising superb fruit turned into till*
orchard whereeueh tree has twelve kinds of
1 riiit at once, and bearing the fruit ull the
year round.
Wlmt are ear departed Christian friends
doing in Heaven —1,1 oso who < n earth found
their chief joy in the Gospel ministry? They
are visiting their old congregations.
Most of thoss ministers liuvo £<>t, their peo
ple around them already. When I get, to
heaven—as by the grace of God lam des
tined to go to that place- I will come ail I seo
you all. Yea, I will come to all the people to
whom 1 have minist :red in the Gos|»>l, and
to the millions of souls to whom, through the
kindness of the printing press, I am |iermittcd
to preach every week in this land and in
other lands -In tis coming from New Zea
land und Alls'ratia and iittei nio-t part* of
the earth, as well as from near nations, telling
me of t.he souls I have li**l|h-i1 ( will vi it,
them all. 1 give them fair notie *. Gurde*-
parted friends of tho ministry engaged in
that dele ■■table entertainment now
But wlmt are our departed < 'iristian
friends, who in all departments of usefulness
were busy, finding their chief joy in doing
good what are they doing now' Going
right, on with the w- rk. John Howard visit
ing dungeons; the dead women of Northern
and Southern battle fleMsstill abroad looking
for the wounded; George Pealasiy still
watching the poor: Thomas Clark
son still looking after the enslaved —
ail of those who did good on
earth busier since death than Imfore. Tho
tombstone not the terminus but tin* starting
post. What are our departed Christian
friends, who found thejr chief jov iu study
ing God, doing now? Studying Girl yet.
No n**e<l '>f revelation now, for unblanehed
they are face to face. Now, they can handle
the omnipotent thunderbolts just as a child
bandies the sword of a father come bank
from victorious battle. They have no sin.
nor fear consequently. Ktudying (.'hrist,
not through a revelation, wive the
revelation of the scars, that deep
lettering which brings it all up quick enough.
Ktudying the Christ of the Bethlehem cara
vansary, the Christ of the awful massacre,
with its hemorrhage of head and hand and
foot and side the Christ of the shuttered
mausoleum —Christ tho sa< rifiee, the star, the
sun, the man, the God, the God man,theman-
God.
But hark! the I**ll of the cathedral rings—
the cathedral )**ll 'if heaven.
What is the matter now: There is going to
be a great meeting in the temple. Worship
piers all corning tnrough tin* aisles. Make
room for the conqueror. Christ standing in
tlie temple. All heaven gathering around
Him. Those who loved the lieautiful come to
look at the Hose of Sharon. Thom who loved
music come to listen to His voice. Those who
were mathematicians come to count
the years of His ref Those who
were explorers come to discover the height
“SUB DEO FACIO FORTITER.”
nnd the depth, and the length and
the breadth of liis love. Those who had the
military spirit on earth sanctified, and the
military spirit in Heaven, eorne to look at
the Captain of their salvation. The astrono
mers conic to look at the morning star. The
men of the law eorne to look at Him who is
the Judge of quick and dead. Tho men who
healed the sick come to look at Him who was
wounded for our t ransgressions.
All different and different forever in many
respects, yet nil alike in admiration for
Christ, in worship for Christ, and all alike in
joining in the doxology: “Unto Him who
washed ns from our sinsin disown blood,
nnd made us kings anil priests unto God, to
Hun lie glory in the church throughout all
ng s, world without end!” Amen.
Ull) MARSHAL NEY ESCAPE.
I,
A Strange Story by nil Old North
C« rolinian.
Mr. Wiley M. Towsey, an olil
of Indianapolis, contributes an interest,
in*' chapter to the discussion iis to the
identity of Marshal Ney. In 1837 Mr.
Towsey resided in Mocksvflle, Davis
county, N. G. Hr says:
“1 \vns personally acquainted with
Peter S. Ney, and, notwithstanding his
tory says ho was suspected of treason
ntnt allot on Dec. 17, 1815, in the Lux
emburg Gardens, I uni strongly of tho
opinion that this P. S. Ney was tho
veritable most loved and honored of Na
poleon's Marshals. Tlie report was cur
rent and generally believed in Moclui
ville that a substitute was shot and Ney
made his escape. He was u l''roneliniiin
nnd evidently a refugee. Jle was rather
reticent as to liis past history; he, how
ever, took a (loop interest in French af
fairs. He was a great admirer of Na
poleon Bonaparte, and he loved liis son
(Napoleon II.) as he would a young
brother. Ho was so affected when he
heard of the death of the Duke of
Iteidlistudt that lie cried like a child.
Ney was supposed to be about 05 years
old, with hair ns white ns cotton. He
was rather above the medium height, of
muscular build nnd faultless physique.
As a fencer h<* could not bo excelled. I
saw him give an exhibition of his skill
in swordsmanship which made me shad
dor. A man stood before Ney perfectly
still. Ney manipulated tlie sword
around liis shoulders, neck, ears, and
head with sueLi lightning rapidity that I
could scarcely sec tho blade, lint could
hear it whi/,. Tho man became so ex
cited that lie 1 Kignn to tremble; so Ney
desisted. Ney told him there was no
danger if In* kept still, but a slight move
ment might cost him an ear. It wait
said that lie could pick oil a button
from ■”niun’s*coat with the point of liis
sword nnd not injure the fabric.
“In 1837 I was the leading hatter in
Moeksville. I made a line otter hat for
Mr. Ney. He wore n number 8, and I
had to imve n block made for his espe
cial benefit. That was the largest bat I
ever made or sold. Ney was a man of
rare intelligence and dignified hearing.
He was a man of some means, dressed
well and iu the latest style, lie taught
school, I thought, more for pastimo
than from necessity. He died some
years after and was buried ill the ceme
tery at Third Creek Church, in the
southwest corner of Rowan County, N.
C. I believe lie was tho vciitublu Mar
shal Noy.’’
A Field for Work Under Hie Sea.
A writer in one of our contemporaries
suggests the development of sub nmriuo
navigation as one of the works of the fu
ture. lie contrasts tlie amount of time
and thought which has I aeon expended
upon the solution of the problem of
flight with the little that has been done
in the other Held. Men have ever
shown themselves more anxious to riial
the birds than to cope wit li the element
of the fishes. Dicdaliis’ flight* from
Crete and the fatal melting of the wings
of Jearus, liis fall and death, are features
of one of the most fiimoi is legends of anti
quity. Bet we do not read of ihcdiilns,
or any other inventor of liis dav, eon
struet ing a sill) murine vessel. Yet no
der the waters all is peaee, where on
the surface the Hosting ship is ex|xx*ed
to the maximum wuv< action of the an
stable element. ’1 lie diameter of inista
bility disappears from tlie ocean at a
small depth, and thirty or forty feet
down it is the type of o fancy o! eon
ditious. The prediction i: formally
iiDid• -by the writer iii question that in
the future this mode of journeying will
lie extensively indulged Ml. 'Then Jules
Vern’s work will read like a prophecy,
and twenty thousand leagues nml many
times that, will annually lx- sailed un
der the sen. Hitch were substantially the
conclusions of our writer. Whether
they will be verified or not must i>c left,
vc fear, to future generations tv so •.
He was Burled Alive.
A horrible ease of franco lavs occurred
at Ndesfa, in Itussia, and, owing to tho
position of tin* person, has euiisrd con
siderable soriKulion. Major Majuro!)',
an artillery officer and A ide <!<• (lamp to
the (Jovernor-ieneral of Odessa, aged
35, died, ns was supposed, three weeks
ago, somewhat suddenly, and was in
terred forty hours afterward. Ilin fun
eral was marked by imieh military pomp
and by the presence of all Hie civic and
military notables.
A few daysugo, while the family vault
in th*' nccrojioljs was Is'ing renovated
for tin Russian b'eh dm Moils, the coffin
lid wok noticed to have been partly forced
open. It was immediately remov'd, and
♦ lie body was found face downward.
The fam-was dreadfully Inez" uted, nnil
the llesli gnawed from the hands. The
corpse v,as still bleeding, which con
firms the statement of a work man that
his attention was fust attracted by a
loise in the coffin, und the unfortunate
■lujor died only on the instant, of tho
ippulliug discovery.
Bcnoav in New York is becoming
known as Thirst-day.
TIIK MYSTKKIKS OF A DAY.
NOTAIUjK KVKN’TS WK I'lM)
COItUKI) IN Til 10 I*A4*lOllS.
The Ax-Ilainllc On Ml. Whitney
A Korea! or Teak A Freak of
lilKlitiiiiiK, Hie., lOte.
In obtaining tlie vast rich domain of
Ktirmuh the English (loveriiiiiont Ims
eomo into possession, among oilier lmt
urnl treasures, of immense forests of
teak, whieh, never very plentiful in In
dia, was becoming eoniniereiallv quite
rare, and consequently of inereased
cost, for industrial purposes. Os all the
woods prown in the East, this lias been
pronoimeod as, in some respeets, the
most valuable. This superiority con
sists in its ticiug neither too heavy nor
too bard; it does not warp nor split,
under exposure,no matter bow pr< donged
to beat or dampness; it eonbuns an es
sential oil whieh possesses the rare prop
erty of preventing the wood from •rot
tins under wet conditions, and, at the
same time, net as a preservative of iron,
and repels insects; it is, in addition, a
handsome wood, of several varieties of
color and grain, and takes a good polish.
Uni AH Rinkek, a farmer near Tnn
nersville, Pa., was cleaning bis saddle
horse on Friday when the barn was
struck by lightning and the horse in
staidly killed. Kinkcr was knocked
senseless to the tloor, and when ho be
came conscious was surrounded by
flames and all means of escape nearly
cut off. My a deniicrate effort lie man
aged to catch hold of the door sill and
drag himself from the burning building,
dust as he crossed I lie sill bis wife
rushed to his assistance, and dragged
him tea place of safety. Ilis clothing
was then abla/.e, and the heat from the
lire was so intense that. Mrs. Linker's
arms and hands weje blistered. The
watch in bis pocket, was destroyed by
the lightning, and three long gashes
were made in a new boot on bis foot.
Simnii'T I lonian's, of Ilartt ’minty,(fv,
was awakened from a> sound sh en the
other night, by the clammy touch of a
huge snake which crawled directly over
his face. Tim veplile's 1 icily felt like a
big icicle, according to the .Sheriff's ite
count, of Hie incident, and seemed to
lake at least an hour in passing. Finally,
to his great relief, the reptile drew its
slimy length away, and tlm Sheriff
struka light and tried to lit id it. Hut
the snake hud disappeared, and after a
few minutes’ search Mr. Roberts went
back to bed. In the morning the ser
vant., while making up the bed, found a
chicken snake, six feet. long, coiled up
between the feather bed and the mat
tress.
In Mexico hotels the “chambermaid,”
who is usually a man, does the work
about Ibis way : lie takes possession of
the key, unlocks tlm door and disap
pears. After a while he comes back,
turns down tlm bedclothes and goes off.
Tlm next, time lie comes in Im partially
completes tlm bed making, blit leaves ill
a great hurry, as if Im bad suddenly re
membered something. After tlm sixth
visit, the Mexican retires with his dust
brush, and it iH pretty safe to wager lie
will only conic back onco more, and that
to bring a clean towel. After be has
done this for an hour or two, Im is so
worn out that Im spends tlm rest of the
day in talking a siesta.
Mit. John Itrri'r.n, who died in Ogle,
Pa., recently, at, tlm age of H7 years,
was a noted citi/.eu of tlm place, where
he was best, known as “Old Johnny
Hippie.” Large stories are told of his
strength and agility. It, is said that
when lie was in his prime lie could kick
tinware from a store ceiling eleven feet
tilhivc the floor. Once, when rafting oil
the Monongalmla river, the raft was
wrecked, and he escaped by jumping
over twenty live feet, to a rock, from
which Im was rescued. Me would place
four and live hogsheads in a row, jump
out of the first into the second, and so
on to tlm last, then jump backward to
tlm first, with apparent ease.
A tuavei.ino sleight of hand man vis
itecl an Indian encampment near Lew
iston, Idaho, tlie other day. Seeing a
small dog he asked liowmileh they would
take for him. The Indians said they
didn't want to sell. “Him very good
dog,” said the magician, rubbing him
down the back, at each stroke taking a
handful of money from the end of his
tail, also from his mouth, ears and nose.
The Indians looked on in stolid silence,
but after tlie magician went away, they
took the dog down to the river and
dissected him. To their great chagrin,
they found that the sleight of hand man
had milked him of all the money.
An Indiana farmer, who told his boys
to burn every bumble bees' in-st they
found on the farm, and who was com
plaining at. the failure of his clover seed
crop, was surprised wlmii Maurice
Thompson the naturalist, said: “That
is why your clover seed fails you. Mum
ble bees make your clover s« ed.” It is
a fact that a strong nest of bumble Is-cs
in u big clover Held is worth 820 to the
owner; for these insects are the chief
agents in fertilizing the blossoms, there
by insuring a heavy crop of seed. In
Australia there are no bumble bees of
our kind, and they could not raise clover
seed until they imported some.
W Hill!am llalt! >ino, of New Haven
who died bust week on the day set for
his marriage, had previously said that
he should die on that day, but as Hie
hour for the ceremony approached lie
si-euad much better an<l bis friends
JmjMsl for a favorable turn of the dis
ease. He was propjied up in bed and
made the requisite responses with a
voice so firm that those who were pres
ent bit all the more encouraged. As
soon as it was over, however, all strength
si l ined to biive him. lie sank back on
bis pillow, lieeame unconscious, and
within two hours was dead.
An old cavalryman says that a horse
VOL. 11. NO. 27.
will never step on a man intentionally.
It is a standing order with cavalry that
should a man lieconio dismounted ho
must lie down and be perfectly still. If
lie docs no tin l entire company will pass
over him and he will not lie injured. A
lmrsc notices where he is going and is
on the lookout for a firm foundation to
lint his foot on. It is an instinct with
him, therefore, to step over a prostrate
iiiiiii. Tlm injuries eaused by a runaway
lmrse, are nearly always inflicted by the
iminml knocking people down mat not
by his stepping on them.
An Aiilianv burlier says that theroV
not half the danger in being shaved
from the public cups in a barlier simp
as in being brushed with the public hair
brush. lie says : “Half of tlie liaidness
in the world is eaused by the indiscrimi
nate use of brushes in burlier simps.
Muldiiess is iisuallv preceded by a scal
ing of Hie head. This is sort of disease.
When a burlier brushes a man's hair
whose scalp is diseased and uses the
same brush on a healthy scalp, what cm*
you expect. ( That is why so few women
are bald. They never go to barber
simps."
Oiiaiiiaii WiiEET.qcK, of Philadelphia,
hanged himself, leaving a fortune of
SIT>,O<H). Testimony recently taken be
fore the Register of Wills shows the cur
ious whims of the old man. A carpen
ter testified that Wheelock hired him to
put up a swing and cut a hole in the
ceiling so that when he swung his head
would go up through the hole. He had
holes cut in the wall into whieh he could
stick his feet, and also trap doors in tl.o
floor, lb- got the witness to buy him
$1,500 feet of inanila rope, which lie had
out. Into different, lengths, to use for u
swing.
"What do you call a full carl” win
asked the conductor of a street car in
Philadelphia. “Forty-two,” lie ans
wered promptly. “Twelve on each side,
provided there are no fat women oi
fashionable dames with big bustles,
that’s twenty-four. Nine straps on each
side alibi'd standing accommodation fol*
eighteen more." “Hut this ear him fifty
five in it now?" “Well, it's crowded
now, but. forty-two, not counting baskets
and bundles, is a nice, comfortable car
load, not b*o hard on the horses, — I'lnt/i
--dilphia Cull.
Tins was tlm way u country black
smith was seen removing that, portion
of an ax handle from the ax tlmt remain
ed in the eye, the break being close to
tlm iron. The wood could not Im> driven
out, and os nails bad been driven in at
the end, it could not, be bored out. lie
drove the bit of sharp <ilgo into some
moist earth, and then built afire around
the projecting part. Tlm wood was soon
charred so that it was easily removed.
The moist earth so protected the temp
ered part of the ax that it sustained lie
injury.
On Mount Whitney, the highest
mountain in California, at a level of 14,-
(KK) feet above tlm sea and 1,500 feet
above tlm timber line, where there is
no soil mid no moisture nave snow and
hail and ice. there grown a little (lower,
gaudy in colors of red, purple and blue.
It is culled Jacob’s ladder, and its fra
grance partakes of the white jasmine.
It, blooms alone, for it not only has no
florid associates, but there is no crea
ture, not even bird or insect, to lwp it
torn puny.
A writ a nob coincident . recently oc
curred in a divorce ease before a Massa
chusetts court. The defendent, Imre the
historic name of Daniel Webster,
'trangely enough the woman who sued
~-r divorce was t'atlu ; ne Lo Hoy,
which name was Itornc oy the second
wife of the great, New Hampshire orator
and statesman. Ho far as could be learn
ed, the plaintiff mid defendant are not
in any way whited to the famous people
whose 1111111114 they liear.
Bz»a M. Btu.es of Hltune,steles, N. Y.,
claims to lie the oldest Mason on this
continent, if not in the world. He bo
ciuim a Mason in September, 1817, in a
lodge held in Augusta, N. Y., and in
tli« following winter joined the Chap
ter of Koval Arch Masons in New Hart
ford, so lie has lieeli a Mason nearly
seventy years. Mr. Styles was !!l years
old, the 11th day of March lust, and is
hearty.
An kniimhii experimenter finds that
contrary to general opinion, a growth of
ivy over a house renders the interior
entirely free from moisture; the ivy ex
tracts every possible particle of moisture
from wood, brick or stone for its own
sustenance, by means of the tiny roots,
which work tlmir way into even the
hardest stone.
Poisonous Milk.
Tlie poisoning of at least twenty five
persons in a tenement house in New
York City by milk procured from a dairy
in Dutchess county is fresh proof that
the milk supply in cities should be snb
jeet to careful sanitary supervision.
Milk from tuberculous cows causes well
defined disease. Swill milk like that
which was furnished from the Hlissvillo
stables recently closed by Dr. Faison
raises the death rate among children and
may plant the seeds ofdiseu.se in adults.
Many an epidemic of typhoid fever has
been traced to milk procured from
dairies where sanitary laws were not
obeyed, but ill such eases the milk gen
erally serves ns a vehicle for carrying
poison drawn from a polluted well or
from contaminated air. The milk from
Dutchess county which bus caused so
much sickness appears to have contained
that obscure poison of putrefaction
known as tyrotoxicon, which has l>eeii
found in cheese and ice cream as well as
in milk. An inquiry concerning the
condition of the dairy from which this
milk was taken may throw some light
upon the circumstances under which the
poison was developed, and thus help to
solve a problem which engages the atten
tion of chemists.