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<Tolumln;i §rnfinrl. HA KI.KM GEOKHJA pVRI.IiURD KVr.UY HH RUD A >'• SAllarcl «*> AlUinaon. 1-ROHUKTUkX. All breeding farm* In thin country pnlr fa MBpariwm with ftenxtor Htnnford’n 4t Palo Allo, < •!. Tw . hundred and forty nine brood marex are in the trot ting ntud and twenty nine in the thor oughbred department. At tne head ot the trotters is Electioneer, and Monday wr upiea the arm'* p'»st among the run - ■ere. __________ The Chinese in California must be ac cumulating wraith, howerer deficient thrv may be ,n influence. A Chinese syndicate recently offered |2,000,000 for th< Palace Hotel in Sen Francisco, and were prepared to pay |2,500,000, but finally concluded that the investment would be an unwise one at the present time. ___________ The combined capital of the firm of the Hothschilds is now .'placed by ]>er' •one who pretend to know at the sum of <1,000,000,900, one half of it gained Within the last twenty-five years, and the whole of it in scarcely more than a century. Ihe founder of the family and Sts fortunes, Mayer Anselm, »u a poor clerk in a Hanover banking house. | The preeent Congress contains ninety Awo former Federal soldiers and sixty six Confederates. Those who receive a eollegiate education number 138. There are three graduates of West Point. <*ue flenntor and forty four Itcpresentatives •re not over forty years of age. The two oldest men in Congress are Senators Morrill ami Payne, bom in 1110. Mr. Wait, Os Connecticut, was born in 1811, and is the oldest lloprostmtativc. The youngest Senator i< Mr. Konna, of West Virginia, who is thirty seven. The youngest Representative is Mr. I.a Fol lette, of Wisconsin, who is twenty- A leading publishing house states that when n manuscript is received it is turned over to a "reader,’' who, after examin ng it carefully, returns It with his opinion as to its merit or lack of merit. Jf a reader returns ajnanuscript with a strong endorsement, the merits of the work are considered from a commercial point of view whether it is likely to sell, how much it will cost for pro duction, etc. Frequently the uiunii script Is turned over to a second reader, sometimes to a third. If all say, "This is a strong work; think it will pay you to publish it,” or words to tint effect, of course tueir recommendation goes a long way in the question of publication. A man was seized with an epileptic tit in the street In New York the other day, whereupon a kindly disposed policeman darted into a neighboring grocery and asked for u handful of salt, which he forced into the poor fellow’s mouth. The operation was approved by some of the qiectators, who complimented the police man upon his knowledge of "just what to do” in such eases. “Os all pop «lar remedies,” says a physician who was on the subject, "that of •linking a man with salt just becau-o he has a lit is the inoat senseless ami burbar •us In some cases it would do acri >us in jury, an>l might cause death. Ilystera epileptics are troubled with a choking ten-atlonand spa-modic contractions in the throat, which interfere greatly with brv thing and swallowing. To crowd •alt into it is a foolish and ignorant pro ceeding.'' A Boston .(drsrtiwr correspondent as ■rrts that "the citizen ot the I nited States ia surprised and disappointed to tn-i h>w small a ]mrt hia great country b r'M >8 ln ’be life of the eastern coast of South America from t ape St. Roque to Cape Horn The Yankee colony in the various cities consi«t- almost exclus ively of those connected with the legs tions and consulates a mere handful of Individuals. There arc some few en gaged in business of various kinds, with now and then a clergyman, ship char.d mt, naturalist, professor, or dentist, and the officers of the initial States ships in the different harliora are an important element. The triumphs of American eti terpriee are more of the past than the present. You will still see Baldwin locomotives and old fashioned cars on soma of tho railroads, though the loco motives are fast being supplanted bv those im|>orted from England snd tier many, and the cars are made in the country itself. Stephens.vi horse cars hold their own, and some of the com ponies are managed by Americans, who have made considerable money out of them In Rio the New York ferry boats ply across th,- bay. The Bell telephone is generally us»d, but the management is now principally m the control of local org»ni.'atioas. Agricultural implements and sewing machines fr >m the I nited (states have a very go- d sale and Wai tham watches aa > find purchasers. The great life insurance Companies f New York have their advertisements over the country, and as their officers are in large and elaborate buildings it is to bi sup posed they are living a profitable bust nesa” Several very severe cases of trichinosis have occurred recently —all traceable to eating raw pork ham. This, it appears, ia a favorite dish with Hermans, and whole families snd their guests have been severely affected by this disgusting dis ease. Some of the patients are expected to die, but most of them are likely to recover. The warning to cook thor oughly all kinds of pork before eating is very obvious. So much diseased pork comes into the Chicago market that there is danger of its being cured as haina or bacon and scattered over the country. All diseased pork should be sent to the soap factories. Referring to an announcement that at a recent exhumation in a Was tern ceme tery the body of a woman was found turned to stone, the Louisville A'ewi ssys: "Petrification of the body ol a warm blooded animal never has been known, and it is quite safe to say never has takeu place The condition of the body which leads to such a misconcep tion is not that of petrification, but of sajionification. It is explained that nitrogenous tissues give off ammonia, and this, attacking the fats in the body, produces adipocere, a hard form of soap, The writer, when at the New Oilcans fair, saw a barrel of [Kirk labeled, ‘Found floating in the Mississippi in an advanced state of petrification." lining skeptical as to the capacity of rock to float, he chipped off a piece and found that the hog, like the human bein'.’ under like circumstances, Ind merely turned to adi pocere. ” The wild horse of the plains and Rocky mountains is pretty much a thing of the past. Nevertheless, a few isso latcd herds arc said to be occasionally found. A Montana writer says, in sub stance, of th'-se isolated bands, that, with the wild horses a stallion is at the head, and is the lender ol every herd, 1 having such full control over them that I no band of cowboys are able to drive a band of horses so fast or so well as a stallton can. All in the band are so thoroughly afraid of him they keep in a bunch, and their speed is guaged by his own, he running behind with his heal low, scarcely above the ground. He ad vances quickly on the hindermost one-, giving them a sharp bite on the lump, I thereby giving them to understand they must keep up. Should one turn out he follows him, much after the fashion of | a shepherd dog, and runs him back. ' Until his band arc out of sight in the I mountains be keeps this up. Here they scatter in all directions, in ravines, can- ; one and inaccessible places, so that when j the rider arrives at the place he last saw them he Is mortified to find his own horse almost axhausted and the herd so scattered that he must give up the chase in disgust. It has often l.ecu remarked that dogs j in the country, though they abound in every larui yafd, do not get mad aud i kill people by their bite, as is sometimes I the case in cities. "The only reason wc can imagine for sue'.: a difference,” re marks the llii/uw, “is that country dogs ire petted, while city dogs, when allowed to go loose, are often pelted. The na- i tural depravity of num shows itself in . mauy boys in tormenting and torturing 1 dogs and cats. If kindness to animals were inculated ofteuer in churches and schools the average of the people would ) be greatly improved, as is already the , rase in many places where Bands of Mercy have been formed. But it may be said, If cruelty to dogs causes hydro phobia, why should not cruelty to cats do the some? and the answer is that it does. The bite of a mad cat is probably as dangerous as that of a mad dog, and the same may be said of the bites of other animals when in a state of furious excitement. It was the bite of a chained fox, excited by punishment, that killed one of Canada s first governors, the Duke of Richmond, if dogs cannot be protected from persecution in cities they should either be banished or confined, and th c fewer of them the better. Pasteur’s success in curing hydrophobia by inocu lation, if fully establisho.l. will be an t important point gained by patient in vestigation; but whether or no, so long as bitten persons believe themselves to bi- cured there will be much fewer .leatlis. it is the constant apprehen sion ot a dreadful death which aggra vates, if it docs not in many instances cau-o. the diseased called hydrophobia, or something that cannot be distiu gui'hed from it.” Thc Spider ('tire. S iders were formerly considered to l>e a cure in rural districts tor agues. Some years ago a lady in lieland was famous for her success in curing people thus affected. it appears that the only n:e in i e she employed wa, a large spider rolled up in treacle. I'he patients were ignorant of ihe contents of this novel bolus, to that*imagination had nothing to do with the matter. In Eng land. also, the sp-.der bas been called in »s an ague doctor. in l.ineo’nshire tlio creature was treated very much after the sbo e mentioned Irish fashion, being rolled up in paste and swa lowed; but eLewhere theaniinil is put into a bag and worn round the neck. A half eagle of the year 1815 has just been added to the exce lent collection of American coins at the mint in Philadel- \ phis ; SSOO isthe value of eacliof the three S|-eeimer.» known to be in this country - DK TILIAGE’S SERMON. DUTIES OF HUSBANDS TO WIVES. Tbs theme of Dr Talmage « fifth sermon in J>« eerie. upon the Mar riage King’ was ‘Duties ot Hu-stiands to Wive..'* The text was: . .. “Alai ban- went cut to meditate in the field at eventide, an I he lifted up bis ey<w. and saw. and bell'll:!, the cani’-l* aracoming. —Gen<-si> xxiv. >*J. A tiridal ]uig»-ant ->n the back of drome daries The camel has often been called til shipof thedew-rt. It'- -naying motion iu the dietan « reminds one of a veasel rising un i falling with th- billow* Though awkward. ho.v imposing these creatures as they move . along through ancient or modern timer, carrying 4<X) or 4,000 passengers from Bagdad to Aleppo, or from Basara to Dam aw-us. In my text there is a caravan. A’ou notice the noiselew tread of th- broad feet of the csmel and the velocity of the motion, and the gay comparison of saddle and girth, and the green awning that shelters the travelers from the hot sun, and the hilarity of the mounted raunengers. and you cry out, “W ho are theyr Isaac has been praying for a wife, and it is time he had one. for he isforty vearsofage. His servant ha-Been sent out ■ind ha. lieen divinely <iir <-ted und has se lected Rebekah, and with her companions and her maidens she is on the way toner new home, carrying the blessing of all her friends. Isaac is out in the field meditating on the pro posed passage from celibacy to monogamy, and be looks up ami he sees a sjieck against the sky. and then he sees a group of js-ople advancing, and then he finds out that the greatest earthly blessing that ever conies tea man is coining in that gay caravan. The drivers shout to the camels, ‘ ‘Kneel 1” and the camels kneel, and the bride puts her foot on the neck of the stooiied lieast and dismounts and greets Isaac, who was as worthy of her as shy was worthy of him. "And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at eventide, and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and behold,the l camels were coining.” In this fifth discourse on The Marriage Ring having spoken to you among other things about the divorce of a lifetime com panion, I shall this morning take it for granted, oh, man, that your marriage was di vinely ai-ranged, and that the camels came from the right direction and that they ar rived at the right time, and have brought to vou your intended consort, the one intended for you as a consort, a Rebekah and not a Jezebel And I shall proceed to give you advice as to how you ought to treat your wife, and my ambition is to tell you more plain truth that you ever heard in any previous three ! quarters of an hour in all your life. First of all, I charge you, realize the responsibility in having taken her from the custody, the care, the homestead in which -he was sheltered. How n.ii"h ‘‘onrage you must have had, how mu< h ( onfklenee in Voutsi If. to have practi cally said to her: “I will L>e to you mon', than your sash-.-r or mother, more than all the iriends you ever had or ever can have. I feel mynelf comjietent to a 1 you through • life. I know vou arc an immortal being. I feel myself ompetent to defend you and to make you happy. Come with me. Though your prrspnt home is bright and comfortable, and though in one room is the arm-chair in which you were rocked, and in the garret the cra dle in which you were hushed, and the trun dle bed in which you slept, and in the sitting room are the father and mother who got wrinkled-faced and stooped-shouldered and dim sighted in taking can* of you, come with me. I will be to you more than all the world lieride. You can trust me.” It is annoying that any of us had the sublimity of impudence to ask such u transfer from a home estab lished to one con jectured and unbuilt. Would not 1 be considered a daring and haz ardous adventurer if I should go to one of the piers in the North river, and without any knowledge of navigation, and at a time when there was a lack of shipcapt&ins and offer my services and propose to take a vetsel across the ocean to Havre or Glasgow, saying; “All aboard I haul in the plank, swing out now into the darkness aud the tennh'st.” With no knowledge of navigation that ship would never be heard of. Butthat is the boldness of every man who proffers marriage. He practically say’s, “all aboard now for a lifetime voyage. 1 will take you through all the cyclones and the tempests and the hurri aues of life in safety. I will run clear of all the rocks anil icebergs. 1 have no exjicrieuce. I have no s?a chart, but 1 will see you through all the voyage of this life. I know there have been ten thousand shipwrecks on this very r route, but don't hesi tate. Tut, tut, now, no crying; brides mustn't Cry at weddings.” In response to all that, the woman practically says. “I have but one life to live, and I entrust it all with you. My arm Is weak, but I rely on the superior strength of yours. I have but little knowl edge of the world, I depend on your wisdom. 1 put my body, my my soul, my time, my eternity in your ke ?ping. I make no reserve. Even my name I surrender for yours though my name is suggestive of all that was honorable in my father nn.l all that was gcxul in my moth r. and all that was pleasant iu my brothers :url sisters. I join you in a journey which shall not end except at the edge of your grave or mine. Ruth, the Moabite, was not more thorough iu her self abnegation than I am when I take her tremendous words the nathos of which centuries have not cooled: ‘Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from fol lowing thee, for* where thou guest I will go, where thou lodgest 1 will lodge, thy people shall l»e my people and thy God iny God. \\ here thou diest will I die, and there will 1 be buried. The Ijord du so to me and more also If aught but death part thee and me Side by side in life, side by side in the burying ground, side bv side in heaven. Before G<xi and man. and putting my immortal soul into my oath, I swear to you eternal fidelity.” Now, how, my brother, ought you taeat her? You ought to treat her well. You ought to treat her better than any being in the universe except your God. Her name ought to be to you sweeter music than anything that Chopin, or Bach, or Schumann ever composed. Her eves, though swollen with three weeks 1 of night watching over a child in tsarlet fever, ought to be to you more attractive than a morning. After the last rose petal has iade.l from her cheek, after the last feather has dropped from the raven's wing in her hair, after h t fa<-e is crowed and re n oised with as many wrinkles as there a:v giave-i over which she’ has wept, you ought to lx* able truthfully to say to her m the words of Soloman's song! “Behold, thou art fair, mv love, behold, thou art fair,' and perhaps she may answer in the words of matchless Robert Burns, the only man who •ver had pen or ink or head or heart thefr could write it: John Anderson, my Jo John, We climb the hill together, And many a canty day we had with one an other. Now we mu.t totter down John, Rut hand iu hand we'll go. And sleep together at the fort, John And«*!-sun, my Jo. If anv.nv' assiiil her name you will have Lan I work to control your teiiqx'r, and if vou sti ike hen down the sin will not be unp&rdou able. Wuh as much surrender as the uni verse has ever seen, except that of the Son of God for your salvation and mine, she has a first mortgage on your bodv, mind and soul and the mortgage is foreclosed, and vou no more certainly own your two hands and Jpur two eyes th-in she owns vou. The longer the journey Rebekah makesand the greaterthenskof the expedition on the back ot the camels the more certainly is Isaac found to so loyal aud sympathetic and true. >ow gentlemen, pay your debts. You so» Move in fcroe of a contra 't.and you are readv to meet a contract after vou have made ft. II vou pledged kindness and attention and faith- Tulnws and have not fulfilled those promises those pledges inducing one into conjugal iMutm i'ship and failing in your promise, vou deserve to have suit brought arainst you for obtaining goods under false pretences, and you deserve to be mulcted in a large amount of damages. Review all the fair and beautiful and splen did and glorious things you promised liefore marriage awl refle t to-day whether you have kept your faith. “ Oh." you say, “ that was all romance and »entim< ntalism and a joke; that's the way they all talk.” My brother, how would you like the plan tried upon you! Suppose I am interested in We.teru land, and I fill your mind with roseate speculation. 1 tell you that the farm I want to sell you is already laid out for a city, and that there is a depot near by, so that all the crop# may be easily transported, and that eight or ten capi talists are about to put up splendid buildings near the spot.and that the climate is delicious, and that the land is so high thei e is no room for malaria, and that every dollar you plant will grow up into a bush containing ten or twelve dollars, and my speech glows with enthusiasm until you rush out with me to an attorney, and wo have the papers written, and we have the cash i>aid down and the whole thing finished. Yon bid good bye to your friends at the I just; you leave your at tractive home hero; you take a railtrain aud ride many days; you get out at a quiet de pot and then T>y wagon you go thirty miles through a wilderness aud you arrive at your new pin -o. You see a man seated on a wet log in a swamp, shaking with his fif teenth attack of chills and fever. You ask huu who he is and he tells you he is the real estate agent for that region. You say, “Where is the new depot!" He says, “It will be built out here if the company secure their right of a tract in next winter's legisla ture.” A'ou :ay, "Where are the ten or twenty capitalists who are going to build splendid houses! Whore are they going to put those houses " He says, “They are going to put them in the low land next to the woods after the water is drained off.” You say to that real estate agent, “Where is the city laid out in this quarter!” and with chat tering teeth he says, “If you’ll wait till this chill’s off I’ll show it to you on a map in my pocket” You lodge that night in the hut of the real estate man and you pray for everybody except for me. More fortunate than most jrnople who go out on such expedition you have money enough to get back. You come np to me all out of breath with indignation and say: “You —you swindled me out of everything. Whatdoyou mean by deceiving me about that Western propertv!” “Oh,” I say, "that’s all romance, that's all sentimentalism, that’s a joke, that's the way they all talk 1” I would be more excusable in decreiving you than the man is who takes a woman from comfortable surroundings and puts her amid surroundings which he has never taken any care to make attractive, giving up her father's house for n dismal swamp of married experi ence, treeless, flowerless, shelterless, comfort less, godless. It would not tie so bad in me to cheat you out of a farm as it would be for you to cheat a woman out of the happiness of a lifetime. Have you fulfilled your contract? Men of business have in their fire proof safes a pack of contracts. Sometimes they take j this pack of contracts out and read over what the party of the first part and the party of the second part bound themselves to do. .Have vou forgotten your contract! Thou you had bet ter buy or borrow an Episcosal prayer book, : for though all denominations of Christians j have different forms of marriave ceremony, I the marriage ceremony in the Episcopal i prayer l ook is the essence of all intelligent ; ceremonies when it says: “I take thee to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold from I this day forward for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, mi sickness and in health, to love and to cherish until death us do part, I accord ing to God's holy ordnance, and thereto [ I pledge thee my troth.” Have you ! kept the contract! Gentlemen, fulfil your contra-ts. Think of what you promised ; before marriage, and whether or not you have ; fulfilled your promise. Do not get mad, but 1 just make comparison in your own mind j now. Before marriage perhaps you spent your evenings with your betrothed. Since i marriage perhaps you spend all the evenings I away, except when you have the influenza j or some othe r sickness, and the doctor tolls ! you it is not safe to go out. Before marriage ! you were full of interjections of adulation, , and since marriage you think it is silly to say anything in praise of her, though she j ought to be more attactive to you now ; than ever, since the struggle of lite has lie- 1 come more severe and your relation is the more sacred by the baptism of tears—tears ' over losses, tears over graves. Compare the ' way you used to go into the house before i marriage with the way you go into the house after marriage. In the former state when ; you went into the ho use you were a dstilla tion of smiles, you were all politeness, you , were as pleasant as a peach orchard in bloom week. Now some of you go into the ! and you put your hat on the rack and : with a scowl you say: “Lost money to-day.” j You sit down at the tea table and begin to criticize the way the food is cooked, and you shove back from the table before the rest are done and snatch up the evening news paper oblivious of all that has been going on during the day. The little children are in awe at the domestic autocrat. Bubbling over with I tin they are, but they must bequiet, or with healthful curiosity, but they must ask no questions. The wife has had annoy ances in the nursery, in the parlor, in the kitchen until her nerves are full of nettles and spikes. You provided the money for the food and wardrobe and you feel you have discharged your obligation, doing not ling for the good cheer, for the intellect ual improvement, for the moral ente.'i.iin.nfnt of your home, although at the longest it will lost only a little while. My brother, you have no appreciation of the fact that your children will soon be grown up,or in their sepulchres.and you willhaveno more opportunity to influence them, aud the wife will soon bo through with her earthly mission and the home in which you live will go into other hands, and you yourself will be i gone. Do you realize that what we do for our I homes we must do in a very short space of j time! Marriage is an affectional bargain. ) In some lands people purchase their wives j with dollars, or cattle, or sheep. In one land : a man mounts n horse and rides swiftly d >wn to where th*r- is a group of worn - i a:i! !i ■ seize ; o.i ■ by th? h.iira'i l lifts her struggling an 1 resisting to the horse's i back, and if he gets to the jungle before her I brothers come up she is bls lawful wife. In another land the man is beaten by the pro posed bride with a club, and if he resists the floating and if he cries out he is rejected, but if he endures the pounding and clubbing with out any resistance, or without any complaint she is his lawful wife. By courage, by skill, by absurdity, marriage is decided in some lands; but here in this Christian load marriage is an affectional bargain in which the man promises pro tection. support. companionship and love. Are you fulfilling your bargain! I tell you what you all know that some men seem more interested in the wives of others than in their own. How many a man there is who will allow his wife to carry upstairs a heavy scuttle of coal and then clear the width of the parlor with one bound to pick up some other lady's pocket handkerchief. There is an evil I have seen under the sun and it is common among men, namely, husbands iu flirtation, f The care and attentions and kindness they ; ought to put upon their wives they put upon the wives of others. They smile, they are coy anl are arch, and with a manner that se ms to say.“( )h.if 1 was only free from that old drudge at home. What an improveueat ycu would be on my present surroundings'. ’ And la* ■ at night th > man goes to his prosaic home whistling and hilarious and finds his wife is ' *a’o:i- There are thouseudsof men whoare not positively immoral who need correction in *aat direction. Oh. it is meanness im measurable for the husband by his behavior Vj practically say: “Y'ou can't help yourself. I will admire whom I wish to admire and I will go where I wish to go, and I will stay as long as I wish to stay and I defy your critfeistn.” That is devilish. Whv did you not put it in the bond, you domestic Shy lo k* Why did you not have it understood before you wore p‘. uu cd husband and wife that she should only have a i?art of the divi dend of your affection? And when timeerased some of the bright lines, from her face, and erased some of the lithenass from her form you would have the reserved right to pav obeisence to cheeks more rubicund and fi'nire lither or more agile, and when you demanded the last pound of her patience and her endur ance. you could then have tapped with the , on the eccentric marital cxi.i .w -i bi,nilW L ‘tto“m.Xnr Iteb- kn'li had under stoivl where she was alighting sh- would ha vo or lore I the camel drivers totunithe ‘“la'an bn. k towanls— Flirtation is always the f. ini lation either of dishonesty or ii.--. A married man who indulges in it is 1 either a fraud or a rake. I care not how high ■ up such an one may be in society, or much sought after, I would not gn ea three cent piece, though it had been three tunes clipped, for the virtue of a masculine or a feminine flirt. The best thing for a multitude of men in all parts of the United States is to go home and apologize for past neglects and Bright- nup their old love. Take out the <dd family Bible and read the record of the mar riage day Go to the drawer of the bureau containing the relics aud take out the box .-ontaining the trinkets of your dead child. Take the yellow letters that were written be fore vou were one, review the joys and the sorrows in which you have mingled, and then put ail these on the alter for fuel, and with a sacral coal from heaven, rekindle the ex tinct light. It was a blast from hell that blew it out. It will be a gale from heaven that fans it into a blaze. Oh you broken marriage vows, speak out. Mv brother, take her whom you have prom ‘ ised to love and protect, take her into all your hopes, your plans, your successes, your defeats, your ambitions. Tell her every thing. Go arm in arm into places of arnuse ' ment and over the piazza of summer water ’ ing pla-.-e, and up the ruggod path of life, and ' down into the ‘lark caverns of trouble, and when ill- one tremble: on the way let the other be reinforcement. Do not pass your self off as a single man practising gal lantries. After fifty years of age do not in women’s society try to appear young mannish. Interfere not with your wife's religious nature, and put her not In the awful dilemma in which hun dreds of Christian wives are put by their hus bands when asked to g* v* placi-s or to do thin-.-- which t:i-v cairn -t co m-ientio isi v do. i -in I c.i -m-’e fli te ‘idol c .v.-.-n 1.-.ah.,' co and ■ 'i..*.l - h i-'o-m I. Tha is a’. 1 a a fi, I dih- uulu. W tail on ■ - v o':< 1 iriy-it | I ,'i» « "VV.! I ! •'.llll i I umifti- sa-h cirr i •- Sn.t:! 1 i>e i .al Ihi Cji <>r i >va! t» mv h’.isba iu.' J saiu. ••v_,ii tPII y<>ur Irulwil that tint tha j nn»l if h b« the right I sort of a man von sav he is, he I will sir. ‘be ky.J tof'cul and thm you will !i c !<>• a! to me?’ : Do ”- A '’ ask your v. if •to i comp» o;ni'i* !?"'■-cH b’- to auj mace ! whit h»h » cannot cons ’irntioiisly £uto. You 4o not want to make your wife less ot a Christian. My brother, there will be a time when you will want the help of all her i Christian resources. When you rememl>er what influence your mother had over you, ' certainly you do not want the mother of i your children to set a less godly example. Oh, it pleases me bevond my capacity to state it when I hear an un- converted, worldly man say of his wife, not thinking it would ever come to her ears, ‘’that is the mo<t godly woman alive; her .?»»In s. i;a p u n tual rel.uke to my nuholhi s : you ctHil'.ln‘i aether t» do a wrong thing; I hop ■ t'i** children all take after her an 1 not after me; if there is any heaven at all she will g » there- sure.” Ah! that Ls a eulogy worth i dling of on ‘'arth and in h. a ven, and there are more men brought to God by just such faith fulness than by almost any other influence. It is not the dingdong ing about the subject of religion that brings a man to the kingdom of God. It is the fact that he knows in his own soul that his wife is inspired by higher motives and consoled by higher consolation, and moved by higher principle than those that console aud help and move him. There is no arguing that down, there is no scoffing that down, there is no caricaturing that down. You need not tell that man there is nothing in re ligion. He has it at his own table, he has it in every room in the house, the reality of the Christian religion. It has lived there as well as professed there. Oh. my brethren—for we are having a plain talk this morning—l am not speaking perfunctorily, but as a brother to a brother; you are here for an h jreit purpose aud I am here for an honest purpose—do you not really think it would be better for you to join your wife on the road to heaven f You have a happy home you tell me. How'much happier it would l>e it' you were both religious, in sickness what a com fort. In reverses of fortune, what a wealth. In death, what a triumph. God intended you, i my brother,to be the high priest of your home. Go to your home to-day aud take the family Bible, and gather all the family that are liv ing around you, and those who are not living w ill hear of it in a flash, and as ministering spirits will hover, father and mother de parted, child, all your celestial kindred will nover, and then having read a chapter of the Bible, kneel down and m ay. If you cannoG think of any prayer I will give vou ouo: Lord G\xl. I surrender myself to Thee and this beloved wife, and the. e dear children; for Christ’s sake forgive all the past and help us for all the future. We have lived on earth together, may we live forever together. Amen, and amen!” Dear rne, what a stir that would make among your best friends on earth and your best friends in heaven. Joseph 11., the emperor, won the unbounded love of his subjects by his kindness and his philan thropic behavior. He abolished serfdom. He established toleration and he lived in the happiness of his subjects. One day, he was going to Ostend to declare it a free port. He was at the head of a great procession. He saw a woman at a college door in great dejectment. He dismounted and he w’ent to her and asked the cause of her grief. She told him that her husband had gone to Ostend to see the emperor and hid declined to take her, he being an alien and not under standing her loyal enthusiasm and how that it was the great desire of her life to s *e the ruler whose goodness and greatness had won her unspeakable admiration. She said; “The disappointment is simply to me unbearable that! can't seethe emperor.” The emperor took from his pocket a box set with diamonds around his own picture and he gave it to her. and when she saw the picture it revealed to her to whom she was speaking. She dropped on her knees in reve.-enoe and clappad her hands with joy, for that she had seen the em’ t )eror. Then the emperor incmired the name of her husband and where ne would probiblv be in Oxten I, and that man was im prisoned for the three days of the emperor’s visit at Ostend. So when the man got back to his cottage he found that his wife had seen the emperor and he had not seen him at all. Oh; my friends, in many of the homes of Christen dom through the converting grace of God the wife has seen the king in His beauty and He has bestowed upon her the pearl of great pri *e, while the husband is an alien from the covenant of promise, without God, without hope iu tb? wort I ami imprisoned ia worldli ne san 1 sin. ()h that this day they would arm in arm go and visit th? king—the one not only higher and greater than any Joseph ot earthly dominion, but high over all in earth :ind air and sky. His touch is life. His voice is music. His smile is heaven. A Valued Confidential Cleek.—l ' heard of a clerk once in a dry goods store who was smart and quick and a splen did manager, and all that, but he got up pity and bigoty, and put on corseq uential airs until he was very disagreeable, and he took occasion to say to his associates that the concern couldn’t possibly get along without him. So the old gentle man, who was the senior partner, called him in the office one day, and says lie • ! “Mr. Jenkins, you have been very effi i cient, and we appreciate your services but I hear that you have repeatedly aa -erted that if you were to die the con cern couldn’t possibly survive it, and thi« has worried me no little, for you, like all men, are liable to die very unexpectedly and so we have concluded to experiment ! while we are all in health, and see if the i concern will survive. So you will please eons ide r yourself dead for a vear, and we ; will try it”— Constitution. ' CLIPPINGS FOK THE CURIOUS. A.i Indian and a Chinaman are part ners in the stationery business in ( Nebraska town. A foot-pound is a force which will raise a pound one foot, and 33.000 9 f these foot-pounds make one horse power. A new industry has sprung up M New Orleans. Heads of large fish are dried and sold for table and mantel ornaments. A pearl as large as a pigeon-egg Wil , shown in Paris recently. There we r , 114 others in the bivalve from which it was taken. Prof. Binz finds that coffee is an at solute antidote to alcohol, if it betaken in a sufficient quantity. Dogs satur. ated with caffeine could not be made drunk. The divining rod is still believed in, and used in some parts of England It is said to have been successfully used a short time ago in finding water on the premises of a brewer, where digging and boring had failed. An Italian astronomer declares that the planet Mars is peopled by intelt gent beings, who are trying to attract attention from dwellers on this planet. He is now engaged in making experi ments with a view to discover what the messages mean. Statistics show that dogs go n»». no oftener in dog days than at any other time. If anything, the number of cases is somewhat greater in spring. The bite of a rabid cat is more surely fatal than that of a rabid dog. It is a mis take to suppose that a rabid dog fears or shuns water. In the early stages of the disease it drinks freely. Later it delights to seek the water and plunge its nose in, but is unable to swallow a drop. A joint or gimmal ring was ancient ly a common token among lovers. It was generally made of two or three hoops, so chased and engraved that, when fastened together by a single rivet, the whole three formed one de sign; the usual device being a ring. When an engagement was contracted, the ring was taken apart, each spouse taking one, and the third one being presented to the principal witness of the contract. Cattle on the Track. “Do we try to avoid killing animals We do when it is possible,” said an old engineer. "But if it is impossible tn stop the train before reaching them it is dangerous to lessen the speed, for when a train is moving slowly a big, Healthy steer is sometimes enabled to derail it. If I see 1 can’t stop before leaching the animal I pull the throttle wide open and let her go. In going around a curve one night eight miles from Davenport, on the Rock Island. I saw a steer standing on the track. He did not move, but looked straight at the headlight. I opened the throttle and the next moment hit him. I felt the jar. He was literally chopped to pieces and the particles of flesh cov ered the headlight, so that I could not see until the next station was reached. The engine was covered from the pilot to the tender with blood and pieces of flesh." "The worst animal to encounter on a railroad track," continued the engi neer, “is sheep. Even if they are on the outside of the fence they will vent ure on the track when the first opening is reached. And the one that takes the lead is followed by all the rest. Hogs make a bad mess. I hit a drove one day while running fifty miles an hour. Realizing I could not stop before reaching them I let the engine have all she could take. There was a slight jar and a moment later the porkers were flying in every direction to the sides of the track and over the engine. As the animals began falling the fire man sarcastically remarked, ‘Pork is coming down.’ That engine was the bloodiest and dirtiest ever taken to a shop. They were two days cleaning it”— Davenport (la.') Gazette. Cotion’s Mauy Uses. Nothing about cotton need be wast ed. The libre having been separated, the seeds are again “linted,” all the cotton adhering to them being removed and sold to the cotton men. Then the husks are removed and used for fuel in the furnaces on the premises. After the seed is ground, cooked, and pressed, the oil being extracted, the refuse forms an oil cake, which L’ shipped in large quantities to Great Britain for food for cattle. Last of all, the ashes have a virtue of their own, and are sold at a high price. The oil goes to Chicago to make but ter and lard; to Cincinnati, where an illuminating oil is made from it, and to an Eastern city to be made into pure olive oil for salads. It is already taking the place of lard in cooking, greatly to the advantage of every body. Inferior grades serve as the ba sis for the best seaps.— York