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A 1 No Sabbaths. In a prise essay on tlie Saobaths, writ' ten by a jcurneyman printer, in Scotland, which, for singular power of language and beauty of expression, has never been surpassed, there jccnrs the following passage. Read it, andUhen reflect, lor a while, what a dreary and desolate page would this life presesjt, if the Sabbath were blotted out from our curriculum ; “Yoke-fellow 1 think how the abstrac- of the Sabbat h would hopelesalv en slave the working classes with whom w'e are identified. Think of labor thus go ing on, in our monotonous and eternal cycle, limbs forever wracked, ihe fingers forever straining, the feet forever plod ding, ihe biain forever throbbing, the shoulders forever drooping, the loins for ever aching, the mind forever restless— forever scheming. Think of the beauty it would efface, the merry-heartedness it would extin guish, of the giant strength it would tame, of the resources of nature it would crush, of the sickness it would breed, of the projects it would wreck, of the groans it would extort, of the lives it would make immolate, and of the cheerless gmves it would prematurely dig 1 Seetl'.em toiling and moiling, .sweating and fretting, grinding and hewing, weav ing and spiLiniiig, sewing and gathering, mowing and reaping, raising and build ing, digging and planting. striving and struggling—in the garden and in the field, in the granary and in the barn, in the farttwry and in the mill, in the ware house and in the shop, on the mountain and in the ditch, on the roadside and in ■the wood, in the city and in the country, out at sea. and on shore, in the days ol ■brightness and in the nights of gloomi ness. What a picture would the world present, if we had no Sabbath !” In the Proceedings of the Gram! Chap- i ter of Missouri, an amusing account is, given of the furniture of one Chapter that l had been officially visited. An axe box was found among the ruins, and brought up, with the names of the merchant who sold it and the manufacturers who made it, thereon. But the G, H. Priest proved himself to be tully equal to the emergeiH oy. He found no ke-/ necessary, a,s all the characters were plain, and, we infer, were not effaced, or nearly so, by time The merchants name was decided and explained to the candidate to be a tetra grammatioB ; IXL upon it stood in the interpretation given for 3,000; Pitts burgh was held to be a Jewish town, &c The humor of the account i.s racy, but it occurs to us that just here it was some what out of place, and that the work ought to have been arrested, even at the expense of the joke. But the Grand Chapter afterwards properly resolved against all this, and ruled that all the Chapters must provide themselves with the furniture necessary to give effect to the solemn and impressive ceremonies of the Chapter degrees.—Keystone. iAIleger, Bowlby & Co’s Condensed Eggs. Esquimaux Marriages. The marriage ceremony is performed curiously by the Esquimaux. W'hen a boy kills a poiar bear it is considered sufficient proof of his ability to maintain family ; he is therefore told to go and catch a wife. Watching his opportunity at night, he pounces upon a victim and attempts to carry her off; she however, struggles and shrieks until she has col lected round her .a group of sympathizers. She then turns 'iii^'on her captor, and bites and scratches until he is compelled to release her; then she darts into the crowd and attempts to escape. The ex pectant biidegroorr. follows her, but not unmolested. All the -old women take scourges of dried seal skin and flagellate him unmercifully as he passes, making at the s.tme time every effort to arrest him in his course. If, despite these little impediments to matrimonial bliss, he should catch his victim, the biting and ■scratching scene is renewed, and probability he is compelled to release her, and the chase, with dts .attsendant dis comforts^ is renewed. Should he over come ail obstacles, the third capture prove effectual, and the victim, ceasing her struggles, is led away amid the acclama tions and rejoicings of the assembled multitude. The prejudices against condensed milk have hardly been overcome when a B.a- varian firm puts condensed eggs on the market. The British Trade Journal, in noticing this new article of diet, says that it is prepared from fresh raw eggs by a process of desioation which, while effectual in removing all traces of mois ture, leaves the natural praperties of the egg unimpaired. It is only neoess-ary to add a due proportion of water to the egg powder to make it fit for cooking. The “active constituents” (are they young chickens?) of a dozen eggs ai e put up in a small tin can, and the Trade Journal thinks that when the people get the bet ter of “a perhaps not altogether inexcus.- able prejudice.” they will admit con densed eggs to be a valuable addition to the line of concentrated natural aliments. PUBLISHED AT, RALEIGH, H. 0. IS THE OLDEST AND LARGEST TEMPER• ANCE FAMILY NEWSPAPER IN THE SOUTH. Established in 1867. It now has a large and growing circulation, and nmnbors among its regular contributors some of tile best writers in the Stete: Rates of Subscription. SINGLE COPY, FIVE COPIES 1 Y'EAH, $2,00 “ “ 9,00 For further particulars, address, R. H. WHITAKER, Raleioli, N. C. Job Department. 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I have known of cases when a sudden alarm has upset a voung man just as he was about to propose, and changed the whole future .of two lives.— Detroit Free Press. Publiabed at Greensboro, N. C. Subscription Price, with post.age, $2,10. J. L. MICIIAUX, Editor, W. R. ODELL, Associate, The paper is now in its second volume, am. has a largo and growing circulation. At tlie same time that it is the Official Organ oftlie N. C. Coiifercnee, Methodist Protestant Churcb, sucli is its liberality and catholicity of spirit tliat it is snceessliilly reacliing out in all di rections and among all denominations of tlie State, and w herever it has appeared is received witli unexceptionablelieartiiiess and ap)iroval. One of the features oftlie Central rrutestard and whicli is part and parcel of itself is the brevity and spiciness of it.s articles, on whhdi account tlie leading newspaper man of tlie State pronounces it superior to all others. Tliose who know liim,really concede that there I is no appeal from his judgement, i A paper so eagerly solicit and so thoronglily i read, must also bean excellent ADVERTISING MEDIUM, Bishop Keener of the Methodist Epis- cooal Church South, has sailed for Vera Cruz on .a visit to tbs mission of that! I church in Mexico. I a fact wliich the jironipt and ve]ieattd answers to its advertisements abundantly proves. If you want a paperthat is readable, lively, enter taining and profitable subscribe for the Cen tral Protestant. If you have an advertisement wliich you desire should liave attentive con sideration. insert it in the Central Protestant. .Address the editors, Gieensboro, N. C. THE FAMILY VISITOR. It is a femarkable and most interest ing fact that -the yery first to which j the discovery of printing was appliedt w.as the piroduction of the Holy Bible, j This was accomplished at Menta between the years 1450 and 1455. Of the first printed Bible eighteen copies are now known to be in existence, four of which .are printed on vellum. Quality, not quantity, is the best se curity of a Masonic Lodge. Masonry character of man the committees of investigation to be to see that nothing which will degr.ade is ever permitted to pass the outer door. Lodges have been ruined by allowing the evil disposed to creep in through the aegligeot action of a committee whose re search has been so lax of one of the first principles of Masonry—Prudence. See that the outercourts are securely guarded at all times, then Masons will always feel proud to take the hand of those who have trod the same path with themselves, and do so without hesitStion or distrust. 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