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haig.em Georgia pl KVt.RY THVRSVAY. I'HOltaUlToß* They here at last invented something fcew. albeit very gni>-~>nir. in the way of • <-ir< u- performance in Europe. I* U P pear that the i*t<-t freak of female < ir' ox rider there i« to hold a living python outatretehed in their hand* aa they awing around the -awdnat. Front seat* are not at a premium. The 'log* are having a hard time of it If they should rise in their might, all get mid and atta' k their present enemy, man. the chance* would lie in their favor at flrat. A well known dog fancier in New York sent to a pajarr the following statist i'* concerning the number of < a ninea in and mar the metropolis: New York city, 800,000; Brooklyn, 150,000; Long Island City and Bliaaville, 10.000; WeaUheater county, 50,000; Hole,ken and suburbs. 15,000; Jersey City and auburni, 15,000; Newark and suburb*, 150,000, Staten Island, 20.000. Aged and able old horaes are the result of human rare and usage. Thia is ex cnpliflcd from an English amin en- fol low*: “A gentleman bad three horses, which severally <li«-«l in hia possession at the age* of 35, 37 and 39 year*. Ihe oldest was in a carriage the very day ho died, strong and vigorous, but wax car tied off by a spusni'slii colic to which he wax subject. A horse in use at a riding school in Woolwich lived to le- 40 years old, and a barge horse of an English navigation company is declared to liuvo been in hi* 02d year when he died." The Ht. Louis Globe Ik inirrat lihh Iwcn compiling tom* interesting figures con earning the num tier of prisoners in the country now serving terms for embezzle mrnt or forgery. Th<•«*<• Mtntistics reveal the Homrwlmt surprising fact that New York prisons contain only seven. Ohio, on the other hand, has sixty -two; Kansas, forty four; Indiana, thirty . Massachusetts, twenty-six, aud New .Jersey, eighteen. The natural pride that a New Yorker should take in su< h a condition of affairs is rudely shoikifl by the Troy Time*, which snys that New York ‘•financiers’* are not punished; they go to Canada. The average man knows, perhaps, a •core of inm'cts familiarly by name ; he has more or less knowledge, perhaps, of a hundred, and he sees in thest* a won derful variety of forms and colors. But the resources of nature are vastly greater than any one realizes who has not made a «|H*cial study of some branch of natural history. Think of Dr. Kiley’s collection of North American insects, which is said to contain 20,000 species, reprtn nted by more than 115,000 pinned siMcimcns, and others preserved in alcohol or by other methods. Ht* has given this collection to the National museum, where all who care to do so may study the fruits of hi* Ul»or. A traveler in New Mexico gives a glow fag d escription of the country through which a new road passes, and tells of the Seven Cities of the Chico valley w hat al most reads like the romantic explorations of the meml»crs of the Smithsonian In stitute. lb* says that there arc to dav in that valley ruins of large buildings five stories high, and ftnmcof them in such an excellent state of preservation that the ma sonry ami plastering an* lotiking as new ami frefah as though done but a few years instead of centuries ago. These build ings are popularly sup|x>sed to be of Aztec origin, but, strange to say, there b at present no historical account of them or of their builders. Aa to the silver Mediling and golden wedding most of us know about those anniversaries, but here now is something new in the same pleasant line -a bit about a crown-diamond wedding. The crown-diamond anniversary is the sixty fifth, and such an anniversary was ob served a short time ago at Maebuell, in the Island of Alsen, Having completed their sixty fifth year of wedlock, Claus JacolMcn and his venerable s]a>use were solemnly bleaaed by the parson of their ]«arish. and went for the fifth time in their long wedded life through the form of mutual troth plighting More the altar at which they had for the first time been united before the Imttle of Waterloo was fought. The united age of the couple is 178 years. Some interesting facta concerning the relative vitality of males and females are shown in the forty sixth annual report of the English register general. In each 1.000 living persons there ar. 457 mal. x and MS females; but for every IM fe males 103 .1 males were kirn. At even age of life the death rate was lower in the females, and the difference is greater in early years. In both s. xe" a diminished death rate is taking place This is more marked in females than in males, at all ages. The improvement is especially noticeable in women upto forte-five, and in men to thirty five. The mean expec tation of life of a male at birth is 41.35, and of a female 44 «2 years. The annual expectation of illness is, counted by days nearly the same in both texes. ! “Cranmrr. of Colorado,' a* ho M popularly called, i* probably the most extensive cattle-raiser in th'- world. Hi* rattle are all branded with three circles, the three ’ irrle brand he calls it. Once he wax (it a cattle convention, and while I conversing with a party of friends one of them happened to mention the nam< !of Shakespeare. “Sliak<‘«]>eare?” ob served Cranmer, “where have 1 heard that name Morel What kind of u i brand does he unc on hi* cattle? The question of insanity and its greater W less prevalence to-day as compared with former times, appears to be far from settlement. Th'- fact that cases which were considered hopeless fifty year* ago are now often cured means that person* who would have died under the treat ment then without the knowledge ever la-coming general that their complaints were of the brain rather than the l>ody j are now added to the table of statistic* as j lunatics. The great increase in the num ; Ist and perfection of asylnms also swells the number of the recorded insane and aids in com plicating any attempt to judge ' whether the brain troubles are really, as it is often asserted, on the increase among civiliaed nations. B|*-aking of how ocean steamship companies are annually defrauded, an officer of one of them says in an inter view : ‘ Every person who ha* ever crossed the Atlantic has noticed several elegantly attired gentlemen who nt times would wander haughtily among the steerage passengers, condescend to con verse with the intermediate |K‘ople, and on fine days invariably promenade the hurricane deck. No one knew who they were; no one had ever seen them eat anything, and the passengers, one and all, discussed the mystery of ‘where those fellers hung it out every night ! ’ M ell, these same gentlemen obtain nil this freedom and luxury by simply buying a steerage t icket and boarding during the : voyage in cither the carpenter a or I boatswain's room.” The telephone has liecome an indis pensable means of communication between I the civilized countries of the old and new world, and to show the use each country is making of the invention the following table is given: (lennany 13,000 England, over 12.000 France, alamt 10,000 Italy 7,000 Sweden 11,000 Switzerland 5,000 S|xiin, estilnabsl 1,100 Holland 4,000 Belgium 5,000 Ruwia 3,000 Austro-Hungary 4.500 Byway of comparison it may be of in terest to add that the number of tele phones now in use in the United States is estimated at 250,000. The lowa courts have made an import ant decision regarding the civil rights of ; colored people. A negro who was re fused admission to a place of amusement because of his color appealed to the law, when the circuit court held that it did not appear from the averments that plaintiff had any legal right to enter the place of amusement. The supreme court affirms this ruling and says: “The act complained of by the plaintiff was the withdrawal by the defendants, as to him. of the offer which they had made to ad mit him, or to contract with him for ad mission. They had the right to do this, I as to him or any other member of the public. This right is not bast'd upon th 1 ' fact that he belongs to a particular race, but arises from the consideration that neither he nor any other person could de mand as a right under the law that the privilege of entering the plate be accord ed to him." Beaching Great Bepths. It has been found difficult to get cor rect soundings of the Atlantic. A mid shipman of the navy overcame the diffi culty, and shot weighing thirty pounds carries down the line. A hole is lx,red through the sinker, through which a rod of iron is passed, moving easily back and forth. In the end of the bar a cup is dug out and the inside coated with lard. The ; bar is made fast to the line and a sling holds the shot on When the bar which extends Mow the ball touches the earth, the sling unhooks and the shot slide's off. Tin 1 lard in the end of the* Imr holds sonic of the sand, or whatever may be on the bottom, and a drop shuts over the cup to keep tlw water frxmi washing the sand e>ut. When the grounel is reached a shex'k is felt as if an electric current bail passexl through the line.— lndtpendmt. Agrt'eably Nettled. Together in the gloaming they stooei, the lov ing pair, A charming Boston school ma'am ami a s outh of stxvpisli air He> whis|x<rexl ''lXsarest maiden, I love you as my life. Ami tusk you. as I've askeel before, will you become mv wifef’ ‘"lhear John." the- maieien answered, I love yexi. it is true. But ere- I answer, there's a question I wenild JHlt tee you: Are yon willing 1 shMl rule the house- when I lee*e-cme vour wife' If net. them. John, ajxu-t must lie my path and yvurs m life-. FUr. being a disciple of the Lucy Blackwell whool. I in tirmly of . pi mon that tlw woman ought to rule." John laugt-.0l ami sill. "Just as vou will; I know you won’t he cress; So long as you become mv wife I can- not whe's the boss." " Tis well." the- nuuden whispered, “I know we will not quarrel. Though I insist on wearing the bifurcates! am parel." I —Boston Courier. ' DR TALMAGE'S SERMON. COSTUME AND MORALS. • ftev Dr Talmage cboao for his sixth dis ronrse in the series upon the "Marriage Ring the theme, “Costume and Moral*. The text was "Moreover the Lord said. Be ■ aiu«e the daughter* of Zion are haughty and I walk with stretched-forth necks ami wanton eyes, walking an i mincing as they go, nnd making a tinkling with their feet, in that day the lord will take away the bravery of then tinkling ornaments al out their feet, and their <-auls and their round tires like the moon, i th<- chains, and the lira—lets, and the mufflers, the rings, and nose jewels, the changeable uits of apparel, and the mantles, and the v. unples, ami the crisping pins, the glasses, aud the tine linen, and the hoods, and the | veils.”— Isaiah ill., 16, 18, 19, 21, 22. The pastor said: This is a Jerusalem fashion plate. It putt us back 2,5'J'J years and seta us down in an am-ient city. The processions of poople are moving up and down the streets. The season is at the height of the fashion. While sen sible men and women pass along without at tracting our attention on those streets, my text calls attention to the daughters of Jerusa lem who go leaning far forward, leaning very far forward, somir h forward thatit is unnat ural teetering, wobbling, wriggling, flirting, or as my text says, "Walk with stretched forth necks and mincing as they go.” In an astounding style they have arranged their bonnets and their veils and their entire ap parel, and they are going through th'- street* taking more of the pavement than they are entitled to sw< eping along with skirts which my text descriliea as “round tires like the moon." See! that is a princess. Look! that is a Damascus sword-maker. Look! that Lx a Syrian merchant The jingling of the chains, the flashing of the heedlian is and thee.xibitionsof the universal swagger attract tlie attention of the prophet Isaiah and he brings his camera to bear upon the scene and takas a picture for all Where is that scenes Vanished. Where are those gay streets? Vermin covered popula tion jiass through them. Where are the hands, the necks, the foreheads, the shoulders, the plate that sported all that magnificence’ Ashes! Ashes! That we shoubl all be clad is proved by the opening of the first ward robe in Paradise with its apparel of dark green. That we should all be beautifully and gracefully appareled so far as our means may allow is proved by the fact that God never made a wave but He gilded it, or a tree but He garlanded it with blossoms, or a sky but He studded it with stars, or allowed even the smoke of a furnace to ascend except it lie scrolled, and arched, and turreted, smd tower<sl and domed, and pillared in outline of indescrilnbl ■ gracefulness. When I see the apple orchard m the springtime and the autumnal pageantry of tne forest, I come to the conclusion that if nature ever does join the church, while she may boa Quaker in the silence of her worship, she will never be a Quaker in the style of her dress. Why the notches on a fern leaf? Why the stamen in a water lily! Why when the day departs does it leave the folding doors wide open so long when they might io quickly closed I On a summer morning I have seen an army of a million spears each adorned with a diamond of the first water. I mean the grass with the dew on it. When the prodigal got back his father not only put a coat on his back, but put jewelry on his hand. Christ wore a beard. Paul, the bachelor apostle, affected with no sentimentality, ad mired the arrangement of a woman’s hair when he said, “If she wears long hair it is a ?;lory unto her.” There shall as certainly be ashion in heaven as on earth, only a dif ferent style of fashion. It will decide the color o." the dress, all the populatio i in that land w earing white. I say these things as a background to my sermon so that you may know that 1 have no prim, precise, prudish or cast-iron theories in regard to human ap pa el; that the fact is that the goddess of la bion has lift'd a throne, and at the sound ing oi the timbrels we are all expected to bow down and worship. There are thousands of victims smoking on the altar in her temple. Four people in the organ loft stand while there drizzles down some cold music that freezes on the ears of worshipers. I have noticed that there are as many masculine victims as femenine. Men sometimes make easy tirade against woman as though she were the chief worshiper at the shrine, ami I have no doubt that in the more conspicuous parts of the pews some have al ready turned and looked at the more retired parts iif the jiews. a prophecy of a generous distribution of the sermon to others. But what I sav to day shall be as appropriate for one end of the pew as for the other. Men are as much thedisciples of fashion as are women, althouugh they may sacrifice on a different |»rt of the altar. It is the wine suppers of the clubhouse, or the yachting expeditions, or the cigars. That is their fashion. Om\hun dred million dollars’ worth of tobacco smoked and chewed up by the men in Ameri ica every vear. That is their sash- ion. In England a man was left (750,000 as a fortune. He went all through it He sent his agent to all parts of the world to gather up the rarest luxuries for his palate and sometimes he had a dish that would cost $::oo or S4OO. After a while he Eot down to his last guinea, and with that he ought a woodcock, had it well dressed and cooked, sat down and ate it, gave two hours to digestion, then walked out on Westminis ter bridge, leaped into the water and died, doing on a large scale what you have seen people do on a small scale. Men are asjmich the victims of fashion as are women. It is not through any superiority of simplicity they do not have the same attire. Such appendages vould lie a blockade of all business. What would the long sashes and the trails three or our yards long do on the stock market! But there are men who sacrifice themselves in these directions, and someof them have boots so tight they cannot walk in the paths of righteousness, and others buy anparel they never pay for, or go through the str ets great stripes of color, animated ckeckboards. Isay these things liecause I want to show you that 1 am impartial m the discussion, and that the sexes according to the language of the surro gate’s office shall “share and share alike.” If God will help me. I mean this morning to set b. tere you wliat are the evils of improper dress, and also of the excessive discipleship of fashion. I state what the most of you know to lie true when I declare that much of the womanly attire seen in society to-day is the cause of the temporal and eternal dam natiou of a multitude of men. There is a shamelessness in what is called high life that calls for most potent protect. In some di rections there seems to be a strife to see how near they can go to the edge of indecency without falling over The tide of masculine dissoluteness will never be stopped until much of the bold ness of womanly attire ceases aud there be complete reformation in manv directions. I am in full sympathy with that officer of the law who in Philadelphia last winter, or win ter before last, at a levee went up to a so called lady of S]iarse and incompetent apparel and told her she must either leave the house or habilitate herself immediately. It is high time for the good women and’ ths sensible women to either protest in behalf of the dig nity of their sex, and if the women of the houA'hold do not understand the terrible extreme to which this evil has gone, then let husbands implead their wives and fathers prohibit their daughters. The evil is terrific and overshadowing. I charge much of this evil ujxm the American stage As I do not go to theaters I am obliged to take the eviden-e of actors and managers, men every where known for ther genius, such men as John Gilbert. Mr A. M Palmer. Mr. Daniel E. Bandmann. who have recently declared and within ten days, that the evil’of undress is blasting the theater: that institution which many oonsider a school of morals, the supe rior ,>ithe church aud the forerunner of the milletmium Mr Palmer says: “The bulk of the performances on the stage is degrading aud pernicious. The man agers strive to come just as near the line as ®ible without flagrantly breaking the law. There never have been costumes worn on the j stage of this city, either in a theatre, hall or dive, so improper as those that clothe some of the chorus in recent comic opera produo- U And he goes on to say, in regard to female “It'S not a question of whether they can sing, but just how little they will consent to wear ” Mr. Bandmann, who has been twenty-nine years on the stage and appeared before all nationalities, says: “I unhesitatingly state that the tastes of the theatre-going people of America to-day f. of a coarse anil vulgar nature. The Hindoo would turn with disgust at such exhibitions which are sought after and applauded on the stag'- of this country. Our shop windows are full of and the walls covered with show cards awl posters w hich should Is- a disgrace to an enlightened country and an insult to the eys of a cultured c< mmunity. ” Mr. Gilbert says: “Such exhibition is a disastrous one to the morals of the commune tv. Are these proper pictures to put out for the public to look at? to say nothing of the propriety of females appeanng in public in dress like that It is shameful. I am Obliged to take the testimony of these actors and managers and friends of the then tr„—testimony confirmed by the board fences anil the show windows presenting pictures snowing the way the play actresses suppose those are accurate pictures. It they are not they are swindles, getting people into the theatres with the promise of spectacular nudity that they do not perform. If those pic tures are accurate they show the damnable cos tumes of play actresses. If they are false pictures then thev swindle the pub.i". . ow, mv friends, all this familiarizes the public mind to improper apparel. Your common sense tells vou that. All that depresses pub lic conscience as to what is allowable and as to what is right. The parlor and the drawing-room are to-day running a race with the theatre and the opera bouffe. and thex’ are nearly neck and neck in the race, and though the parlor and drawing-roonr may be a little behind now, thev are catching up very fast, and the probability is that by the time they pass the stand they will be nearly even—the opera bouffeand the parlor—that one-half of jiandemonmm will <-lap their hands liecause the parlor is ahead, and the other half of pandemonium will clap their hands because opera bouffe is ahead. I charge you in the name of God. oh, Christ an woman, neither by style of dress nor ail justment of your apparel a'lmimster to this awful evil. Show me the fashion plates of any city from now back to the time of Louis XVI. of France, or Henry VIIL of England, and I will tell you what were the morals of that age, or that year. There is no exception to the rule. Modest apparel the sign of good society Immodest apparel the sign of a contaminated and depravea society. But my friends 1 not only reprehend the boldness of fashiona ble indecency, against which pulpit and platform and printing press ought to hurl their red-hot anathemas, but I also reprehend costliness of costume beyond cur means. When I say that you cannot dictate to me and I ennnot dictate to you, fo r I do not know what your means ar?.. Bi tth is dress ing beyond one’s means is an evil illimitable and ghastly. Arnold attempted to S?ll this country in the time of the Revolution. What for* To get money for his home war irobe. The attemnt to keep showy wardrobe and great establishment is taking many more burinees manto ruin than all other cause combined. Go into the history of the pa.' fifteen wars anil see how many in this way have been led to the watering of stock, or as bank president, to perjure them-elvei about assets, and business men in various depart ments conspicuous, going down in their at tempt to keep up great home establishments and splendid wardrobe. Why should we go to those cases when you and I know scores of men and s<'oresof women, who are at their wits end from January to December in the attempt to keep up as great establishments neighborsand as splendid wardrobes. Our politicians at Washington may theorize until the<*xpiration of their official terms about the best way of bettering the finances of the country; but I tell you plainly that until we, the people of America, learn to put on our heads and backs and hands and feet no more than we can pay for, the evil will go on. There are young men in banks and stores on limited salaries, in this attempt to keep up a great wardrobe, almost dead in the effort to provide the diamonds and the cashmeres and the apparel far beyond their capacity to fur nish, and they have nothing left except that which they spend for their cigars and their wine suppers, and they die before their time, and they want us ministers of the gospel to come and preach about them, as though they were the victims of early piety. High-toned funerals they will have, with silver handles at the side gloriously polished, and afterward it will be found out that even the undertaker has been chealed out of his legitimate e.xnmses. Do not send for me to preach such a man’s funeral sermon, for I will blurt out the whole truth and tell that he was strangled to death by his wife’s ribbons. It is deplorable—this nation Is being dresswl to death. You are not surprised that a public building in New York cost millions of dollars more than it ought to have cost xvhen you find out that the man who gave out the con tracts paid ss,<rio for his daughter’s wedding dress. I have been told that for years gone by cashmeres of SI,OOO worth have been no rar ity on Fulton street, or Broadway. New York. I have had it from good authority that there are s,OOO women in these two cities who expend on personal array $2,000 a year each. What are men to do in order to provide such xvardrobe beyond their means? There is only one thing they can do. Steal! That is the only respectable thing they can do! Tens of thousands of business establishments during the past twenty years have foundered on the wardrobe. Temptation comes in about this way: A man naturally thinks more of his own family than of anybody else’s family, and when they spend the whole evening de scribing the superior array of the family across the street—jxiople they cannot liear to look at—the father and the’ husband is put back upon his pride of family and upon his gallantry, and while he does not actually tran-late his feelings into plain language he goes into extortion and i.-sung of false stock, and skilful penmanship in the signing of other men s names at the foot of promissory notes, until they all go down together—the husband to the penitentiary, the wife to the sewing machine and the children to be taken care of by those who are called the “poor relations.” Oh, for some Shakespeare to write the tragedy of human clothes. Act the first of the tragedy- Plain but beautiful home. Enter the newly married couple. Enter all simplicity of man ner and behavior. Enter as much happiness as ever enters a home. Act the second: Dis content with circumstances, end enter jeal ousy, enter envy. Enter desire for display. Act the third: Enlargement of expenses. Enter queenly dressmakers. Enter French milliners. Enter all kinds of costlv expendi tures. Act the fourth: Tip top of society. Enter the princes and princesses of New York and Brooklyn life. Enter all magnifi cence of plate and equipage. Act the fifth ■ Winding up of the whole affair. Enter the assignee. Enter the sheriff. Enter the creditors. Enter humiliation. Enter the wrath of God, and enter the con tempt of society, and enter Death. Drop the silken curtain on the stage. The farce is ended and the lights are out. Will you for give me if I put in tersest shape the truth that there are thousands of men in America who must forge, and lie, and perjure, and swindle to pay for their wives’ dresses ! I will say it, whether you forgive me or not Excessive discipleship of costume and worship of the world are the foes of Christian beneficence. and I tell you what you know before that the simple fact is men and women put so much money on their houses and their stables and their equipage and their dress that thev have no money left for making of the world better or alleviating human suffering. The Christian man cracking the back of his Palais Roval glove enclosing his hand tight enough to put a pennvinthepoorbox. V\ omen at the story of the Hottentots weening copious tears into pocket handkerchiefs and putting two cents under the dollar bills so far that no one £ UO '"J > V 1 was « gold Piece. One hundred dollars for incense to the goddess of fashion. Two cents for God. Is not the Lord generous to give us ninety- cento out “ .t-iniv as it ever was-the timing i nineto‘^nte e ?ut n os a doUar' 1 ten x cents for ourselves and one cent for God. I believe that w the reason a. great many men have failed in busmesa When t t^ 3 L h prosperity they gave nothing to God ISr they did not give the tenth. After a while God said: That man has declined to let me have the tenth part of a dollar, while I gave him the ninety Now, I will take the whole dollar and I will give it to the man or woman who will be honest With me.” I declare'tod»y that one of the greatest evils abroad is the fact that men and women have nothing to give to God because they bestow so much upon per sonal adornment and sacrifice so many things to their own appetites. I charge upon this evil also much of the destruction of public service. In many of the churches people go just as they go to the races to see which will come out ahead, the o ening parts of many services taken in the di» u»i<>n atout wardrolie. wondering where that man got his cravat, «>d *ffiat store that woman patronizes Men and women dying, yet before three worlds strutting like peacocks, all absorbed in them selves, taking up the hymn book and my soul, and stretch thy wings, Thy better portion trace, Rii toward Heaven, thv native place. I cry out in the words of the Episcopal prayerbook: “Good Lord, deliver us ” More than that, this evil belit tied the intellect. ou know that in for than thinking on questions of cos tume or of worldly preferment? I haveseen men on the street whose elaboration of ap parel implied two hours’ preparation After uinan has gone through that process for sev eral years, which one of McAllister’s magni fying glasses will lie powerful enough to dis cover his character with the naked eye. (’an vou imagine anything more pe littling for a woman than to have her mind constantly on questions of costume. they all end in idiocy. I have seen men at summer watering places . m thr discipleship of fashion untill they were hollow of ckest and meagre of limb and sallow of cheek and had no animation except when thev flow across the room to pick up a lady’s fan simpering along the corridors the very com pliments they simpered twenty years ago. But I have not touched the chief evil, it keeps multitudes out of heaven. The nrst thunder from Sinai declared: ‘Thou shalt have no other gods before me, and som** of you will have to decide between the goddess of this world and the Christian s God. Heaven he.s a great manv beautiful seats, but not one for a devotee of this world- That place is for those who thought more of their souls than of their bodias. Why, if some of you got there, with your extrava gant fondness for the world, you would be putting a French roof on the house of many mansions,” and introducing the patterns of Butterick’s Delineator. Give up this world, or give up heaven. What would you do stand ing oeside Lady Huntington,whose joy it was tr build chapels for the poor i or beside that •oman in Boston, who,in Faneuil Hall on New fears Day fed 1.500 children of the street,and then as a sort or doxology, at the close gave each one a pair of shoes? or beside these modern Dorcases who have consecrated their needle to the Lord, eternal rewards coming for every stitch they take? Oh, the stupen dous wretchedness of these devotees of the world. Why, you will always find some one who has brighter array, or more palatal resi dence, or lavender kid gloves of tighter fit. You buy this and wear it, aud you will be sorry you did not buy something else and wear that. Then all these frets will bring crows’ feet to your temples before they should come, and when {ou die you will have a miserable time. have seen those sons and daughters of the world expire, and I never saw one die well. Their apparel was all put away, never to be seen again. There they lay on the crumpled pillow, all the trappings off, and just two things bothered them. A wasted life and a coming eternity. I tried to pacify them, but they were so exhausted in the disciple ship of the world that they could not ap preciate the Gospel. When I knelt by their side to pray they mumbled in their regrets for the past, saying: “Oh, God; oh. Go I; oh, God!” The two ghastliest deathbeds on earth are, first, the man who dies with delirium tremens. Seeon lly, the woman who dies who has been a disciple of fashion. Oh, my friends, in the last great day we will have to give 411 ac • count for what we wore as well as for the re pentances with which our souls have been ex j ercised. There we see coming up Beau Brum ; mel of the last century without his cloak, like ! which all England got a cloak, and without his cane, like which all England got a cane,and without his snuff-box, like which all Eng land got a snuff-box—he, the fop of the age, 1 particular about everything but his m orals. Aaron Burr, without those letters which he showed with pride down to old age, proving his early wicked gallantries.' And Absalom without his hair, and Marchioness Pompador ' without her titles, and Mrs. Reynolds who was the bell of Wall street when that was the centre of fashion, without her fripperies of vesture. And then they will go away in great haggardness to eternal expatriation, while among the queens of heavenly society will lie Vashti; who wore a modest veil before the bacchanals, and Hannah who annually made a coat for Samuel at the temple, and Grandmother Louis, the ancestress of 1 Timothy, who imitated her virtues, and Mary, who gave Jesus Christ to the world, 1 and many of you.the wives and mothers ana sisters and daughters of the Christian church, who will through great tribulations enter into the kingdom of God. Christ declared who would make up the royal family of heaven when he said: ‘ ‘Whosoever doth the will of God the same is my brother and sister and mother I” She Wanted a Japanese Kiss. There are two little Japanese boys, i ibout five years old, at the Japanose tillage in Madison Square Garden, New York. They afford a great deal of amuse ment for visitors, being very jauntily ■ dressed and weanrig wooden shoes. The other day a little American miss of about : their age was greatly struck by their 1 appearance and followed them about \ -rherever they went. Her mother called her several times, but she followed • on with infatuation, and when close to one of the little Japs she suddenly threw her arms about his neck and endeavored to plant an American kiss on his lips : The horror-snick -n mother nearly faint ed. A Japanese relative was about to drag away the innocent victim, but was spared the trouble as the little fellow stoutly resisted the kissing and actually pushed the pretty girl away. It is doubtful which was the more exasper ating to the mother, the kissing attempt of her child or the refusal of the Jap enese boy to submit to it. Her vexation had to give way to the laughter of mo*e who witnessed the scene. Thb late Miss Katherine Bayard hsd Oscar Wilde introduced to her when that young man was in Washington. It was in the afternoon, and two brilliant social events were to occur that evening, •‘"aid she: “Mr. Wilde, will you go to reception to-night?” “ Well/’he replied, “if 1 am not too much fatigued after my lecture.’’ A thort pause followed, and then he said: “Miss Bayard, of course you will be at the reception?” “Well ” came the answer, “if I am not too fa tigued after your lecture. BE KIND. Oh, be kind to those who love youl Grieve no human love away! Twine it tenderly about you, Let it bless you day by day, Tho’ the sunlight now may dazzle, Life has many a clouded sky; Hoard your treasures of affection, You will need them by and by. Oh! be kind to those who love you! Give them gladness while you may Here to-day, to-morrow’s sunrise May behold them pass away. Lavish love on all around you; Smiles and sunshine freely strew And, like bread ujion the waters, They will yet return to you. —Lillie Sheldon, in Inter-Ocean HUMOR OF THE DAY. A smart boy—Just after a whipping. Even the honest farmer will water his stock.— Call. Better an empty head than one with a .told in it.— Life. There is one thing that is always pretty sound about a church, and that is the bell. No man should complain about his lot —unless it be a lot of old rubbish.— Hut Springs Neu>». A philosopher says that the best way to avoid getting into debt is to die young. —Boston Budget. THIRTY-TWO DEGREES. The way to school the small boy hatetli. On learning, turns his back, and skateth. —Life. If a passion, like love, grows by what | it feeds upon, there is no doubt the wish i is fodder to the thought. —A«m> Orleans I Picayune. It costs |IO,OOO to convert a South Sea ; cannibal to Christianity, and then he is only worth |9 a week in a dime show.- | Fall Biver Advance. IN CANADA. The firelight dances on the walls, My heart throbs with love’s elation, When like a cat my darling squalls— “ Ouch! Dear, don’t squeeze my vaccina- , nation!” —Burdette “I want the music of the ‘Mikado,” 1 : said a little boy, entering a New York music store. “For singing, or for the piano?” “I don’t want it for either. I ■ want it for my sister.”— Siftings. Dio Lewis says that we busy, high pressure “Americans should go to bed at 9 and rise at 5. Such things make us tired. How can a man get out of bed four hours before he lies down?—Brook lyn Eagle. We see by the burning of a cigar store in Chicago nearly a million cigars were I smoked up at one sitting. Did it make anybody sick? you ask. You bet, simple one. It made the owner of the store sick. —Burdette. Another of the old settlers is gone. We had a piece of him at our landlady's , table this morning. Immediately beneath ’ the epidermic formation from his back we found a piece of eggshell, bearins the legend, “Laid 1849.” — St. Pai. Herald. A standard target for American ride men has just been adopted by the clubs | of the United States, which have had the , matter under discussion for several months. We hope it is large enough to protect the indiscreet cows and pigs that I wander about the various ranges.— >■ Post. • A Great Hop Field. A Tacoma (Wyoming Territory) cor- : respondent of the Cleveland Leader says: I “At the rear of the house appeared to me a rare scene. Here stood acres of Imp vines, wonderfully luxuriant in growth, and falling in rich brown festoons from y poles eighteen or twenty feet in height. From these messes of vines not a single hop had been picked this year, and they | were now laden with their scaly fruitage. 1 From the leafy crown on each pole | dripped a shower of glistening drops, 1 producing all over the field a ringing pit-pat as they touched the ground, while above them, exhaled under the increasing heat of the sun, rose thin clouds of shin-1 ing vapor. On every hand tall trees | hemmed the clearing in. There wereonly | two dwellings in sight. One of these > stood across the river slightly obscured by mist. As everybody knows, the ex- .' cessive dampness of the sound country is due to its position between the Great Sei and the Cascade Mountains. The vapors H exhaled from the ocean, not being able, 9 as they roll inland, to surmount these I mighty summits, are turned back, con- a densed and precipitated to the earth a 9 plentiful rains, fogs and mists. “I hav ( said that from these sixty-three I acres of h.; not a bale has been markewß this season, no:’ will be. ‘Why is tho: ■ Simply because the price of hops this.wß at the picking season was too low to pa’ ■ for harvesting. The owner had sunk se'-M eral thousand dollars in the cultivate: S of his crop. The picking and curing® would add several thousands more to"-® amount, and, as he believed, from tbi® tendency of the market, would put noth® ing in his pocket. So he let the acrij 9 fruit hang. Further along the season;: ■ will fall to the ground and the mot? ■ with it. Next spring both will plowed under, the combination form::-'® one of the most unique fertilizers f■ employed. It turned out, however, wb too late to harvest, that the market i'■ proved a little, enough so that something■ like $2,000 might have been put in b?->® hud the ingathering taken place, hy'm year’s crop on these same acres sold:’’ nearly $14,000. From this may be formed some idea of the loss i tained the present season. “The average yield of hops per acre 2 g any of these extremely fertile valleys from 1,800 to 2,000 pounds. In speein ’ B favored locations it amounts up to 3.0”' | pounds, while on thin soils it may dr” ® to 1,000. Bull against Buck. A remarkable fight occurred recent 1 : ■ on the farm of the Hon. Oscar Turner Ballard county between a large Durh-'g; bull, belonging to Col. Turner, and J® buck weighing over 200 pounds. ®yß were found in the forest dead, only a t | feet apart. The bull had been g or “ three times by the buck, the last thr-y ■ entering »the animal’s heart, and ffij; C, have killed him almost instantly, “y B deer was dreadfully bruised, though t- B skin had not been cut through. B ground where the fight occurred was c® B up by the feet of the animals. — Ls>w r - 1 Post.