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0 t-REY. DR. TALMaGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: "The Healing Touch, . Txt : " Who toucfied Me ." Mark v., 31. f A great crowd of excited people elbowing each other this way and that and Christ lix the midst of the commotion. They were on he way to see Him restore tc complete health dying person- Som tbought He could rect the cure ; others that He could not. At iy rate, it would be an interesting exped ient. A very sick woman of twelve years Invalidism is in the crowd. Some say her name was Martha ;$thers say it was Veronica. I do not know what her name was, but this s certain, she had tried all styles of pure. Every shelf of her humble homo had medicines on it. She had employed many of Ithe doctors of that time, when medical science was more rude and rouarh and icrno )rant than we can imagine in this time when the word physician or surereon stands for potent and educated skill. Professor Light foot gives a list of what he supposes may have been the remedies she has applied. I Bupposo she had been blistered from head to foot and had tried the compress and had Used all styles ot astringent herbs, and she had been mauled and hacked and eut and lacerated until life to her was a plague. Be eide that the Bible indicates her doctor's bills had run up frightfully, and she had paid money for medicines and for surgical attend ance and for hygienic apparatus until her purse was as exhausted as her body. "What, poor woman, are you doing in that Jostling crowd? Better gohomeandtobedand Tturse you r f lisorders. No ! Wan and wasted and faint, she stands there, her face distorted with suffering, and ever and anon biting her 4Jp with some acute pain and sobbing until her tears fell from the hollow eye upon the faded dress, only able to stand because the crowd is so close to her, pushing her this way and that. Stand back ! Why do you crowd that poor body? Have you no consid eration for a dying woman? But just at that time the crowd parts, and this invalid comes Almost up to Christ. But she i3 behind Him, jand His human eye does not take her in. jBhe has heard so much about His kindness to he sick, and she does feel so wretched ; she thinks if she can only just touch Him once it jwlll do her good. She will not touch Him on the sacred head, for that might be ir reverent. She will not touch Him on the hand, for that might seem too familiar. She says : "I will, I think, touch Him on His coat, not on the top of it. or on the bot tom of the main fabric, but on the border, the blue border, Mie long threads of the fringe of that blue border ; there can be no harm in that. I don't think He will hurt me. I have heard so much about Him. Besides that, I can stand this no longer. Twelve years of suffering have worn me out. This i3 my last hope." And she presses through the crowd etill farther and reaches for Christ, but can not quite touch Him. She pushes still farther through the crowd and kneels and puts her finger to the edge of the blue fringe of the border. She just touches it. Quick as an electric flash there thrilled back into her Shattered nerves, and shrunken vein3, and exhausted arteries, and panting lungs, and withered muscles, health, beautiful health, rubicund health, God given and complete health. The 12 years' march of pain and pang and suffering over suspension bridge of nerve and through tunnel of bone instantly halted. ; Christ recognizes somehow that magnetic end healthfuf influence through the medium of the blue fringe of His garment had shot out. He turns and looks upon that excited crowd and startles them with the interroga tory of my text. ; Who touched Me?" The insolent crowd in substance replied : "How do we know? You get in a crowd like thi3 and you must expect to be jostled. You ask us a question you know we cannot answer." But the roseate and rejuvenated woman cams up; and knelt in front of Christ, and told of $he touch, and told of the restoration, and Jesus said: "Daughter, thy faith had made thee whole. Go in peace." So Mark gives OS a dramatization of the gospel. Oh, what a doctor Christ is ! In every one of our house holds may He be the family physician. Notice that there is no addition of help to Others without subtraction of power from ourselves. The context says that as soon as this woman was healed Jesus felt that virtue or strength had gone out of Him. No ad dition of help to others without subtraction of strength from ourselves. Did you never get tired for others? Have you never risked your health for others? Have you never Ereachod a sermon, or delivered an ex ortation, or offered a burning prayer, and then felt afterward that strength had gone out of you? Then you have never imitated Christ? Are you curious to know how that garment of Christ would have wrought such a cure for this suppliant invalid? I suppose that Christ was surcharged with vitality. You know that diseases may be conveyed from city to city by garments as in case of epi demic, and sb I suppose that .garments may ibe surcharged with health. I suppose that 'Christ had such physical magnetism that it permeated all His robe down to the last thread on the border of the blue fringe. But in addition to that there was a divine thrill, there was a miraculous potency, there was an omnipotent therapeutics, without which this 12 years' invalid would not have been in stantly restored. Now, if omnipotence cannot help others without depletion, how can we ever expect to bless the world without self sacrifice. A xoan who gives to some Christian object until ho feels it, a man who in Li occupation or profession overworks that he may educate his children, a man who on Sunday night goes home, all his nervous energy wrung out by active serviee in church, or Sabbath chool, or city evangelization, has imitated Christ, and the strength has gone out of him. A mother who robs herself of sleep in behalf of a sick cradle, a wife who bears up cheer fully under domestic misfortune that she may encourage her husband in the combat against disaster, a woman who by hard saving and earnest prayer and good counsel wisely given and many years devoted to rearing her family for God and usefulness and heaven, and has nothing to show for it but premature gray hairs and a profusion of deep wrinkles, is like Christ, and strength has gone out of her. That strength or virtue may have gone out through a garment she has made for the home, that strength may have gone out through the sock you knit for the barefoot destitute, that strength may go out through the mantle hung up in some closet after you are dead. So a crippled child sat every morning on her father's front step so that when the kind Christian teacher passed by to school she might take hold of her dres3 and let the dress slide through her pale lingers. She said It helped her pain so much and made her so happy ail the day. Aye, have we not in all our dwellings garments of the departed, a touch of which thrills us through and through, the life of those who are gone thrilling through the life of those who stay? But mark you. the principle I evolve from this subject. No addition of healteh to others unless there be a subtraction of strength from ourselves. He felt that strength had gone out of Him. Notice also in thi subject a Christa sensi tive to human touch. We talk about God on a vast scale so much 'e hardly appreciate His accessibility God in magnitude rather than God in minutfce, God in the infinite rather than God in the infinitesimal bat here in my text we have a God arrested by a suffering touch. When in the sham trial of Christ they struck Him on the cheek we can realize how that cheek tingled with pain. When under the scourgim? the rod struck the shoulders and back of Christ, we can re alize how He must have writhed under the lacerations. But here thero la a sick and nerveless finger that just touches the long threads of the blue fringe of His coat, and He looks around and says, "Who touched Me?" We talk about sensitive people, but Christ was the impersonation of all sensitiveness. The slightest 'troke of the smallest finger of mman disability makes all the nervos of His head and heart and hand and feet vibrate. It is not a stolid Christ, not a phlegmatic Christ, not a prooccuppied Christ, not a hard Christ, not an iron cased Christ, but an exquisitely sensitive Christ that my text unveils. All th things that touch us touch Him, if by the hand of prayer we make the connecting line between Him and ourselves complete. 3Iark you, this invalid of the text might have walked throusrh that crowd all day and cried about her suffering, and no relief would have come If she had not touched Him. When In your prayer you lay your hand on Christ you touch all the sympathies of an ardent and glowing and responsive nature. You know that in telegraphy there are two currents of electricity. So when you put out your hand of prayer to Christ there are two currents a current of sorrc w rolling up from your heart to Christ and a current of com miseration rolling from the heart of Christ to you. Two currents. Oh, way do you go un helped? Why do you go wondering about this and wondering about that? Why do you not touch Him? Are you sick? I do cot think you are any worse off than this invalid of the text. Have you had a long struggle? 1 do not think it has been more than 12 years. Is your case hopeless? So was this of which mv tezt is the diagnosis and prognosis. "Oh," you say. "there are so many things between me and God." There was" a whole mob between this invalid and Christ. She pressed through, and I guess you can press through. Is your trouble a home trouble? Christ shows Himself especially sympathetic with questions of domesticity, as when at the wed ding in Cana He alleviated a housekeeper'3 predicament, as when tears rushed forth at the broken dome of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. Men are sometimes ashamed to weep. There are men who if the tears start will conceal them. They think it is unmanly to cry. They do not seem to understand it is manliness and evidence of a great heart. I am afraid of a man who does not know how to cry. The Christ of the text was not ashamed to cry over human misfortune. Look at that deep lake of tears opened by th."5 twe words of the evangelist : "Jesus wept !" Be hold Christ on the only day of Hi3 early triumph marching on .Jerusalem, the glitter ing domes obliterated by the blinding rain of tears in His eyes and on His cheeks, for when He beheld the city He wept over it. O man of the many trials, O woman of the heart break, why do you not touch Him? "Oh," says some one, "Christ doesn't care for me. Christ is looking the other way. Christ has the vast affairs of His kingdom to look after. He has the armies of sin to over- i throw, and there are so many worse cases of trouble than mine He doesn't care about me, and His face is turned the other way.'' So His back was turned to this invalid of the text. He was on His way to effect a cure which was famous and popular and wide re sounding. But the context says, "He turned Him about." If He was facing to the north. He turned to the south ; if He was facing to the ast. He turned to the west. What turned Him about? The Bible says He has no shadow of turning ; He rides on His chariot through the eternities. He marches on, crushing scepters as though they were the crackling alders on a brook's bank, and toss ing thrones on either side of Him without looking which way the fail. From everlast ing to everlasting. "He turned Him about." He, whom all the allied armies of hell can not stop a minute or divert an inch, by the wan, sick, nerveless finger of human suffer ing turned clear about. Oh, what comfort there is in this subject for people who are called nervous ! Of course it is a misapplied word in that case, but I use it in the ordinary parlance. After 12 years of suffering, oh, what nervous depression she must have had ! You all know that a good deal of medicine taken if it does not cure leaves the system exhausted, and in the Biblo in so many words she "had suffered many things of many physicians and was nothing bettered, but rather grtw worse." She was as nervous as nervous could be. She knew all about insomnia, and about the awful ap prehension of something going tc happen, and irritability about little things that in health would not have perturbed hr. I war rant you it was not a straight strok 3 she gave to the garment of Christ, but a trembling fore-arm, and an uncertain motion of the hand, and a quivering finger with which she missed the mark toward which she aimed. She did not touch the garment just where Bho expected to touch it. When I see this nervous woman coming to the Lord Jesus Christ, I say she is making the way for all nervous people. Nervous people do not get much sympathy. If a man breaks his arm, everybody is sorry, and they talk about it all up and down the street. If a woman has an eye put out by accident, they say: "That's a dreadful thing." Everybody is asking about her convalescence. But when a person is suffering under the ailment of which I am now speaking they say ; "Oh, that's nothing. She's a little nervous, that's all," putting a slight upon the most agoniz ing of suffering. Now, I have a new prescription to give you. I do not ask you to discard human medica ment. I believe in it. When the slightest thing occurs in the way of sickness in my household, we always run for the doctor. I do not want to despise medicine. If you can not sleep nights, do not despise bromide of potassium. If you have nervous paroxysm, do not despise morphine. If you wants to j strengthen up your system, do not despise I quinine as a tonic. Use all right and proper medicines. But I want you to bring your insomnia, and bring your irritability, and bring all your weaknesses, and with them touch Christ. Touch Him not only on the hem of His garments, but touch Him on the shoulder, where He carries our burden, touch Him on the head where He remembers all our sorrows, touch Him on the heart, the center of all His sympathies. Oh, yes. Paul was right when he said, "We have not a high priest who cannot be touched." The fact is Christ Himself is nervous. All thos8 night3 out of doors in malarial districts, where an .Englishman or an American dies if he goes at certain seasons. Sleeping out of doors so many nights, as Christ did, and so hungry, and His feet wet with the wash of the sea, and the wilderness tramp, and the persecution, and the outrage must have broken His nervous system ; a faet proved by the statement that He lieed so short a time on the cross. That is a lingering death or dinarily, and many a sufferer on the cross has writhed in pain 24 hours, 48 hours. Christ lived only six. Why? He was exhausted be fore He mounted the bloody tree. Oh, it is a wornout Christ, sympathetic with all peo ple worn out. A Christian woman went to the Tract House in New York and asked for tract3 for distribution. The first day she was out on I i r f ii taking an intoxicated woman to the station house. After the woman was discharged from custody, this Christian tract distributer saw her coming away all unkempt and un lovely. The tract distributer went up, threw her arms around her neck and kissed her. The woman said, "Oh, my God, why do you kiss me?" "Well," replied the other, "I think Jesus Christ told me to." "Oh, no," the woman said, "dont you kiss me. It breaks my heart. Nobody has kissed me since my mother died." But that sisterly kiss brought her to Christ, started her on the road to heaven. The world wants sympathy. It i3 dying for sympathy, large-hearted Christian sympathy. There is omnipotence in the touch. Oh. I am so glad that when we touch Christ Christ touches us ! The knuckles, and tir. limbs, and the joint3, all falling apart with that living death called the leprosy, a man is brought to Christ. A hundred doctors could not cure him. The wisest surgery would stand appalled before that loathsome pa tient. What did Christ do? He did not am putate ; Ho did not poultice ; He did not scar ify. He touched him, and he was well. The mother-in-law of the Apostle Peter was in a raging fever brain fever, typhoid fever, or what, I do not know. Christ was the physi cian. He offered no febrifuge : He prescribed no drops ; He did not put her on plain diet. He touched her, and she was perfectly well. Two blind men come stumbling into a room where Christ is. They are entirely sightless. Christ did not lift the eyelid to see whether it was eataract or ophthalmia. He did not put the men into a dark room for three or four weeks. He touched them . and they saw every thing. A man came to Christ. The drum of his ear had censed to vibrate, and he had a stuttering tongue. Christ touched the ear, and he heard : touched his tongue, and he articulated. There is a funeral coming out of that gate a widow following her only boy to the CTave. Christ cannot stand it. and He nuts His hand on the hearse, and the obse- i A 1 T iLLimo lull: a lcouiivuvu . 0 my brother, I am so srlad when we touch Christ with our sorrows He touches us. When out of your grief and vexation you put your hand on Christ, it awakens all human remi niscence. Are we tempted? He was tempted. Are we sick? He was sick. Are we perse cuted? He was persecuted. Are we bereft? He was bereft. St. Yoo f Kermartin one morning went out and saw a beggar asleep on his doorstep. The beggar had been all night in the cold. The next night St. Yoo compelled this beggar to come up in the house and sleep in the saint's bed, while St. Yoo passed the night on the doorstep in the cold. Somebody asked mm wny that eccentricity. He replied : "It isn't an eccentricity. I want to know how the poor suffer. I want to knew their agonies that I may sympathize with them, and there fore I slept on this cold step last night." This is the way Christ knows so much about our sorrows. He slept on the cold doorstep of ?n inhospitable world that would not let Him in. He is sympathetic now with all the suffering and all the tired and all the perplexed. Oh, why do you not go and touch Him? You utter your voice in a mountain pass, and there come back 10 echoes, 20 -echoes. 30 ochoes perhaps weird echoes. Every voice of prayer, every ascription of praise, every groan of distress has divine response and celestial reverberation, and all the galleries of heaven are filled with sympathetic echoes and throngs of ministering angels echo, and the temples of the redeemed echo, and the hearts of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost echo and re-echo 1 preach a Christ so near you can touch I nim iuulu X-Lim yiiu um auu s-- rva7-r?nn onrh TTi-i xvith vonr trouble and get comfort touch Him with your bondage and get manumission. You have seen a man take hold of an electric chain. A man can with one hand take one end of the chain, and with the other hand he may take hold of the other end of the chain. Then 100 persons taking hold of that chain will altogether feel the electric power. You have seer: that ex periment. Well, Christ with one wounded hand races noid ot one end" or tne electric cnain of love, and with the other wounded hand takes hold of the other end of the electric chain of love, and all earthly and angelic beings may lay hold of that chain, and around and around in sublime and everlast ing circuit runs the thrill of terrestrial and celestial and brotherly and saintly and cherubic and seraphic and archangelic and divine sympathy. So that if this morning Christ should sweep His hand over this audience and say, "Who touched Me?" there would be hundreds and thousands of. voices responding: "I! I! II" SG0EES KILLED. Farm Houses Buried in a Landslide in Norway. A serious landslide has occurred at Yaer dalen, Norway, just north of Trondhjem, where a number of farms were recently buried under an avalanche of slime. An extent of land, five kilometres by ten, in the Levanger Valley, became dislodged and slid down on the soil below, destroying twenty-two home steads and fifty cottages. A vast area was flooded and it was feared many had perished. The missing included Tessem, President of the district and his fam ily ; Road Inspector Kostad and his family. and about 100 others. The Government sent 400 soldiers to the locality to assist in the work of rescue and to preserve order. REVENUE RECEIPTS. An Increase of $6,937,0S7 for tho First Ten Months of the Fiscal Year. Reports made to John S. Miller, Commis sioner of Internal Revenue, Treasury De partment, show that for ten months of the present fiscal year ending April 30 the col lections from internal revenue sources aggregated $132,432,156, an increase over the corresponding period of last year of The principal items are : Spirits, $78,526. 445 : increase. S3.741.130 : tobacco, $26,743,- ; 187 ; increase, $1,000,391 ; fermented liquore, 25,648,393, increase, $1,337,(523; oieomar gerinc, $1,414,944 ; increase, $306,464. The receipts for April were 271,003.07 lees than for April, 1892. ENDED THEIE LIVES. A Mother and Daughter Oppressed by Poverty Commit Suicide. Oppressed by poverty, a mother and her daughter ended their lives with poison at their home near Norristown, Penn. Mrs. Agnes Burton and her daughter lived at North Wales and were very poor. The daughter earned $5 working in a web fac tory, and this was the main support of the two women. Worn out by their efforts to make a living they determined to die. From the meagre evidence before the Cor oner, it seemed that the mother first gave strychnine to her daughter and then took the poison herself, and both died in a short time. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Jajtts E. Mranocc the actor, died at Cin cinnati.. Ohio, asred eighty-three. He was bora in Philadelphia, lie was Americas oldest actor. The Local Directory of the World's Fair decided act to open the pate on Sunday, in order to give the Natienal Commission mor ? time to consider the question. C. S. Boozas, a leading business man of St. Paul, Minn., committed suicide by leap ing from a bridge into the Mississippi. Thx officers of Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage's Brooklyn Tabernacle met the church's crea tors at the Bible House, New York City, and came to an agreement. $90,000 was sue tracted from the church's debt, which now amounts to only $160,000. Dr. Taimacre and the creditors were officially declared to be delighted with the result. The Directors of the National Bank of De posit, of New York City, actinsr under the ad vice of the Clearing House Committee, de cided to put the institution into liquidation. State-Commander Cleart, of the Grand Army of the Republic, ordered that Noah L. Farnham Post, of New York City, should be disbanded, because it passed resolutions de claring that any man who sought a pension unless suffering from disabilities incurred in the service was guilty of conduct calculate to injure the good men who are willing to give their lives for their country. Henrt W. Holcojir and Albert W. Holt were drowned near the breakwater at New Haven, Conn. The Elmira (N. Y.) National Bank has closed its doors. The bank failure was the result of the recent financial troubles of Colonel D. C. Robinson. A. A. McLeod has resigned the Presidency of the Boston and Maine Railroad. The forest fires that have been raging in the vicinity of May ford, N. J., culminated in the destruction of the immense cranberry bogs of Joseph Hinchman at Taunton. Sev eral thousands of acres of good timber and many valuable cedar swamps have been burned. The loss is estimated at 200.000. J axes Reii.lt, a jeweler, fifty-one years of age, of Williamsburg, N. Y., dropped dead in his home while his three sons were brawl ing and fighting. South and West. Geoboe Langfelt, who married Millie Lane a short time ago and moved to Marietta, Ohio, killed his wife at Farkersburg, W. Va.. by shooting her through the head and then committed suicide. A little spark and a strong southwest gale resulted in a destructive fire at Sagiaaw. Mich. In four hours the work of years or toil was destroyed, and the fairest portion of Saginaw left a mass of smouldering ashes. The fire destroyed 1,500.000 in property. There was a bad accident at the Woman's Congress at the World's Fair. The tempor ary flooring of WTashington Hall, in tho Art Institute, gave way and 150 women fell eitrht feet. Nobody was killed, but scores were in jured, some of them seriously. Rev. James Mackey, pastor of the First Methodist Church at Lampasas, Texas, while delivering the morning sermon, dropped dead in the pulpit from the bursting of a blood vessel in the head. At Spokane, Washington, Frank Johnson was charged with threatening to kill his wife. Rather than face the accusation he killed himself in the court room. Vice-President Adlai E. Stevenson was a special guest at the World's Fair and a big crowd followed him into the various build ings. The Swi33 exhibit at the World's Fair was closed by the Swiss Commissioner because of the arrest of one of the exhibitors by Umtod States customs officers. Tornadoes did great damage to property in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, and at Louisville. Ky. ; three men were killed and several injured at Cleveland. The World's Fair National Commission voted to adopt the Judiciary Committee's minority reDort in favor of Sunday opening. William Sullivan, the Leech murderer, has been lynched at Cirone. Mich. The Exchange Bank in Tingley, Iowa, has suspended, and the cjishier, Robert Bennett, has left for parts unknown. Deposits were received up to the day of closing. Depositors were badly victimized. Washington. The President and Mrs. Cleveland gave a reception at tho White House to the members of the Presbyterian General Assembly. The President has appointed Kerr Craige, of North Carolina, to be Third Assistant Postmaster-General. The pulpits of the Presbyterian churches in Washington were filled while the body was in session by commissioners to the General Assembly. The President made the following nomina tions : Owen McGarry, of Tennessee, to be Secretary of Legation of the United States at Santiago, Chile ; Michael J. Hendrick, of New Hampshire, to be Consul of the United States at Fallsville, Canada. Tee President has appointed ex-Governor John D. Long, of Massachusetts, a member of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy in place of Governor William McKinley, of Ohio, who was unable to serve. The Navy Department has issued the long expected order regarding the assignment of Admirals. Admiral Gherardi is ordered to command the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Admiral Walker to go on three months' leave, Admiral Benham to command the North Atlantic Sta tion, and Commodore Erben to command the European Station. Secretary Herbert assigned Commodore Oscar F. Stanton as commander of the South Atlantic station. President and Mrs. Cleveland enter tained the Infanta Eulalio at a State dinner in the White House. The President appointed Samuel Black well, of Alabaijfat, Third Auditor of the Treasury. The friendly mediation of the United States, exercised through Secretary Gresham, has averted a serious rupture between the Governments of Japan and Corea. Secretary Carlisle decided that foreign exhibitors at the World's Fair cannot import into this country free of duty food products for their own consumption. The case came ap on the application of certain exhibitors from Java to import such products for their use. Other foreign exhibitors had also pre ferred like requests. Foreign. A xiw ukase has been issued expellinsrthe Hebrews from the Asiatic provinces of Rus sia. The Italian Ministers resigned their port folios on account of the budget. Brazilian Government troops were drawn into an ambuscade in Rio Grande do Sul and then routed by the insurgent force. Advices from Japan say that the volcano Bandaisan ha3 become active and that wide spread disaster has been caused by its eruptions. Eurraoa Wrtxrix, of Germany, Iwsl a statement that he is in suprea.e commani of the army only in time of war. Implying that he will not cwree the soldier vote. The Brazilian war veasej Almiraate Bar roo was wrecked nrar Ras Gharcb, a port ta the Gulf of Suez, and is a total low.. Thk demonstration of the Irish National League In Great Britain In Hyde Park, Lon don, was aa enthusiastic affair. About 250, 000 persons were present, and delegates at tenid from all branches of the Luru in tho United Kingdom. PsKxica Giclitti has returned to power in Italy, bavins formed a Cabins which, with two exceptions, is the sauie as the old one. The 'pidesiic of smallpox is increasing la Gothenburg, Germany. Twenty-four per sons have already died from th dises-, and the schools and the colleges ar cioed for fear of Infection. PK0MINXNT PEOPLE. Liec-tenant Peart proposes to start for th North Tole in July. The late Duke of Sutherland made and signed ninety-two wills. Tee Duke of Edinburgh wears a geld ban gle fastened with a go!d lock oa Us left wrist. Brics" PoMF.r.or is sixty yars of age. Twenty-five yt ars ago Lis writings were read all over the country. The Duoho-r of Edinburgh speaks and writes five lans-uRge.- English, Russian, German, French and Itihaa. JThe income of the Duk of Voragua is 675.000 a yt-ar. and he mak's that amount by raising Lulls for the Spanish arena. Emperor William, of German v. well grounded in classical .and urrt iit French and is a great reader of French poets. A memorial to the lato Jay Gouid is to to erected at his Mrtupkvy?. RoxStirv, IMaware County. X. Y., in tho shape of a Presbvtrian Church. President Cleveland uses the very tiniest of stub pens stuck into a massive ho!dr. and his handwriting is i-mil and very distinct. Mrs. Cleveland writes in fine large charac ters. Dn. William Everett, who has len sent oj Congress from Massachusetts, is one of the best classical scholars in the country. He can quote offhand from almot any of the classics. Yoshi Hoti, the eldest son of the Japanese Mikado, who is coming to the World's Fair, is only fourteen years old, but is said to be aa precocious as most American youths at twenty. Representative Bailey, of Texas, will no longer be tho ''youngest man in Con gress." That distinction will bo vested here after in Thomas Settle, of North Carolina, Who Is twenty-eight years old. John BcnRouons. the author, has ten acres of grapevines on his country estate overlooking the Hudson. Tho preparation, of the fruit for market he scrutinizes as care fully as ho does a proof-sheet of one of his new books. City Lierarlan John Taylor, of Bristol, Tenn., who died a few days ago. learned th trade of a blacksmith when a youth and ele vated himself by his own talm"ts and energy. Ho was an authority on historical and anti quarian subjects. President Dole, of Hawaii, has found time to write an article on the higher criti cism of the Bible for "Tho Mai le Wreath." He is deeply interested in the investigations of modern Biblical scholars, and kctps him self weil informed on the subject. The King and Queen of Greece live in very simple style, cheerfully adapting their ex penses to the impecunious plight of the coun try, an,i bis majesty often "boards the tram" (street ear) when he wants to run down to the port (the famous Tineus) at Athens. Recent advices from England state that Miss Frances Willard, the temperance advo cate, is entirely broken down in health. She has been prohibited by her physicians from returning to America until fall, and It seems they are much concerned for her life. Pope Leo XIII. spends most of his morn ings in the Vatican cardens catching birds with nets, a sport which he practiced when Bishop of Perugia, and of which he is particu larly fond. Hundreds of birds are caught every morning and distributed among th hospitals and tho poor. THEEE CHILDREN EURNED. A Dog Aroused by Burglars Overturn a Lamp and Sets the House on Fire. While John Downey, an engineer on the Delaware, Laka wanna and Western Railroad was on the road some one tried to effect an entrance to his house in Buffalo, N. Y. nis wife and five children were asleep on the upper floor. At about 4 o'clock Mrs. Downey was aroused by the noise of some one trying to open the door. She got up and lit the lamp. At that mo ment tho dog, which had been sleeping at the foot of the bed, aroused himself and sprang toward the window, prowling at the in truders. -He knocked the lamp to tho floor and the hous-? took lire. Mrs. Downey, the baby and the eldest child escaped, but the other three Alice, nine years ; John, seven years, and Frank, five years of age were suffocated before help arrived. Mr. Downey had no knowledge ot the accident until he came home to And his wife silting in the ruins of the house, with the charred bodies of her babies in her arms. She refused to give them up until she fainted from exhaustion. The dog returned to tha house and tried to waksUie sleeping children, but in vain. NEWSY GLEANINGS. The gold reserve is again intact. Cleveland, Ohio, reports a house famine. Brookv:lle, Fla., has a ealored fire com pany. Crosijy County (Texas) grasshoppers are ruining crop3. Minneapolis, Minn., make? 105,000 barrels of flour weekly. A waterspout did great damage at the town of Buffalo Gap, Texas. Chicago has abolished the teaching of German In the public schools. There are 67,119 postofflces in the United Stafc-z, 3156 of which areJjPresifleritial." IMMIGRANTS THIS YEAR. Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics Issued. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that during the twelve months ended April 30th, 82,368 immigrants arrived at the ports of the United States. Of fhis number, 14,380 were from Italy, 12.224 from Germany, 9271 from Sweden and Norway, and 920 from Ire land. The number that arrived during the corresponding period of the preceding year was 78.006.
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