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FORBIDDEN HOMY.
SERMON BY REV. DR. TALMAGE
IN THE TABERNACLE.
Depleting and Injurious Hooks of the
Period The Popular Tinte for Pure
ZJterature la Poisoned by tbe Scum of
be Publishing House.
Brooklyn, Oct. 10. "Seven hundred and
eighty -one thousand three hundred and six
teen dollars and twenty-four cents have been
paid cosh down in this church for religious
uses and Christian work during the nineteen
years of my ministry said the Rev. T. De
Witt Talnmge, D. D., in answer to the mis
representations that have been going through
BOtne of tbe religious papers depreciating the
work of the Brooklyn Tabernacle. After
giving out tlio hymn:
Our God, our help in ages past.
Our hope for years to come.
Dr. Talmage preached a sermon, the subject
of which was "Forbidden Honey," the text
being I Samuel xiv, 43: "I did but taste a
little honey with the end of the rod that was
In my hand, and Jo! I must die." Dr. Tal
tnage said :
The honey bee is a most ingenious architect,
, a Christopher Wren among insects, a geome
ter drawing hexagons and pentagons, a free
booter robbing the fluids of pollen and aroma,
a wondrous creature of God, whose biography,
written by Huber ami Swammcnlaui, is an
enchantment for any lover of nature. Virgil
celebrated the bee in his fable of Arista?us,
and Mose, and Hamuul, and David, and Solo
mon, and Jeremiah and Ezekiel, and St.
John used the delicacies of bee manufacture
as a Bible symbol. A miracle of formation is
the bee: five eyes, two tongues, the outer hav
ing a sheath of protection, hair on all sides of
its tiny body to brush up the particles of
flowers; its flight so straight that, all the world
knows of the bee line. The honeycomb is a
palace such as no one but God could plan
and the honey bee construct; its eHl
sometimes a dormitory, and some
times a storehouse, and sometimes a
cemetery. Thesn- winged toilers first
make eight strips of wax, and by their nnteu
tue, which are to tliem hammer, and chisel.
And square and plumb line, fashion them for
use. Two and two, these workers shape the
walL If an accident: hapjK-u they put up
buttresses or extra beams to remedy tbe dam
age. When about the year 1776 an insect,
before unknown, in the night time attacked
the- beehives all over Europe, and the men
whoTbwned them were hi vain trying to plan
something to keep out tbe invader that was
the terror of the beehives of the continent, it
was found that every where the bees had ar
ranged for their own protection, and built
before their honeycombs an especial wall of
wax, with port holes through which the bees
might go to and fro, but not large enough to
admit the winged combatant,' called the
Sphinx Atropos.
Do you know that the swarming of the boes
:1s divinely directed? The mother bee starts
for a new home, and because of this the other
bees of the hive get into an excitement which
raises the heat of the hive some four degrees,
rnautlMy"'uiu9C"die unless they leave iheir
hmtd ,aparttients, and they follow . ihe
' timelier bee and alight on the branch of a
tree, and cling -to each other and hold on
until a committee of two or three have ex
plored the region and found the hollow of a
tree or rock not far off from a stream of
water, and tliey here set up a new colony,
and ply their aromatic industries, and give
themselves to the manufacture of the saccha
rine edible. But who can tell the chemistry
of that mixture of sweetness, part of it the
. very life of the bee and part of it the life of
tbe field?
Plenty of this luscious product was bang
ing in the woods of Beth-aven during the
time of Saul and Jonathan. Their army was
In pursuit of an enemy that by God's com
mand must be exterminated. The soldiery
were positively forbidden to stop to eat any
thing until the work was done. If they diso
beyed they were accursed. Coming through
the woods they found a place where the bees
bad been busy, u great honey manufactory.
Honey gathered in the hollow of the trees
until it had overflowed upon the ground in
great profusion ot sweetness. AH the army
obeyed orders and touched it not save Jona
than, and he not knowing tbe military" order
about abstinence, dipped the end of a stick he
bad in his hand into the candied liquid, and
as, yellow and brown, and tempting, it glowed
on tbe end of tbe stick he put it to his mouth
and ate the honey Judgment fell upon him,
and but for special intervention he would
have been slain. In my text Jonathan an
nounces his awful mistake: "I did but taste
; a little honey with the end of the rod that was
In my band, and, to, I must die." Alas, what
multitudes of people in all ages have been
damaged by forbidden honey, by which I
mean temptation, delicious and attractive,
bat damaging and destructive.
Literature fascinating but deathful comes
In this category. Where one good, honest,
healthful liook is read now there are one
hundred made up of rhetorical trash con
sumed with avidity. When tbe boy in the
cars comes through with a pile of publica
tions look over the titles and notice that nine
out of every ten of the books are depleting
and injurious. All the way from New York
to Chicago or New Orleans notice that ob
jectionable books dominate. Taste for pure
literature is poisoned by this scum of tbe pub
lishing house. Every book in which sin tri
umphs over virtue, or in which a glamour is
thrown over dissipation, or which leaves you
t its last line with less respect for the mar
riage Institution and less abhorrence
for the paramour, is a depression
of your own moral character. The
book bindery may be attractive, and
the plot dramatic and startling, and the style
of writing sweet as the honey that Jonathan
dipped up with his rod, but your best inter
ests forbid it, your moral safety forbids it,
your Uod forbids it, and one taste of it may
lead to such bad results that you may
have- to say at the close of the experi
ment or at the close of a misimproved
lifetime: "I did but taste a little honey with
the rod that was in my hand, and, lo, I must
dir
Corrupt literature is dcing more today for
the disruption of domestic life than any other
cause. Kiojiemeuts, marital intrigues, sly
correspoiidenco, fictitious names given at
postoffice windows, clandestine meetings in
parks, and at ferry gates, and in hotel par
lors, and conjugal perjuries, are among the
damnable results. When a woman, young
or old, get her head thoroughly stuffed
with the modern novel she is in ap
palling periL But some one will say: "The
heroes are so adroitly knavish, and the per
sons so bewitching! untrue, and .the turn
of tbe story so exquisite, and all the charac
ters so enrapturing, I cannot quit them."
My brother, my sister, you can find styles of
literature just as charming that will elevate
and purify and ennoble, and Christianize
while they plfease. The devil does not own
all the honey. There is a wealth of good
books coming forth from our publishing
bouses that leaves no excuse for the choice of
that which is debauching to body, mind and
oul. Go to some intelligent man or woman
and ask for a list of books that will lie
strengthening to your mental and moral
eecditiou. Life is so short awl your tiite for
improvement so abbreviated that you can
not afford to fill up with husks and cinders
and debris. In the interstices of business
that young man is reading that which will
prepare him to be a merchant prince, and
that young woman is filling her mind with an
intelligence that will yet either make her the
chief at taction of a good man's home or give
her an independence of character that will
qualify her to build her own home and main
tain it in a happiness that requires no aug
mentation from any of our rougher sex. That
young man or young woman can by the right
literary and moral improvement of the spare
ten minutes here or there in every day, rise
head and shoulders in prosperity, and charac
ter and influence above the loungers who
read nothing, or read that which bedwarfs.
See all the forests of good American litera
ture dripping with honey. Why pick up the
honeycombs that havo in them the fiery bees
which will stiiij: you with an eternal poison
while you taste itl One book may for you or
me decide everything: for this world or the
next. It was a turning point with me when
in Wynkoop's bookstore, Syracuse, one
day I picked up a book called "The
Beauties of Ruskin." It was only a
book of extracts, but it was all pure honey,
and I was not satisfied until I bad purchased
all bis works, at that time expensive beyond
an easy capacity to own them, and what a
heaven I went through in reading his "Seven
Lamps of Architecture" and his "Stones of
Venice" it is impossible for me to describe,
except by saving that it gave me a rapture
for good books and an everlasting disgust for
decrepit or immoral books that will last me
while my immortal soul lasts. All around
the church and the world today there are
busy hives of intelligence occupied by authors
and authoresses, from whose pens drip a dis
tillation which is the very nectar of heaven,
and why will you thrust your rod of inquisi
tiveness into tbe deathful saccharine of per
dition! Stimulating liquids also come into the cate
gory of temptations delicious but deathful.
You say: "I cannot bear the taste of intoxi
cating liquor, and how any man can like it is
to me an amazement." Well, then, it is no
credit to you that you do not taste it Do
not brag about your total abstinence, be
cause it is not from any principle that you
reject alcoholism, but for the same reason
that you reject certain styles of food you
simply don't like the taste of them. But
multitudes of people have a natural fondness
for all kinds of intoxicant. They like it so
much that it makes theni smack their lips to
look at it. They are dyspeptic, and they
take it to aid digestion, or they are annoyed
by insomnia, and they take it to produce
sleep, or they are troubled, and they take it
to make them oblivious, or they feel
good, and they must celebrate their
hilarity. They begin with mint julep
sucked through two straws on the Long
Branch piazza and end in the ditch,
taking from a jug a liquid half kerosene and
half whisky. They not only like it, but it is an
all consuming passion of body, mind and soul,
and after a while have it they will, though
one wine glass cost the temporal and eternal
destruction of themselves, and all their fami
lies, and the whole human race. They would
say: "I am sorry it is going to cost me, and
my family, and all the world's population so
very much, but here it goes to my lips, and
now let it roll over my parched tongue and
down tny heated throat," the sweetest,' the
most inspiring, the most rapturous thing
that- ever thrilled mortal or immortal. "
To cure the habit before it comes to
its last stages, various plans were tried iu
olden times. This plan was recommended iu
the books: When a man wanted to reform be
put shot or bullets into the cup or glass of
strong drink one additional shot or bullet
each day, that displaces so much liquor.
Bullet after bullet, added day by day, of
course the liquor became less and less until
the bullets would entirely fill up the glass and
there was no room for the liquid, and by that
time it was said the inebriate would be cured.
Whether any one ever was cured in that way
I know not, but by long experiment it is
found that the only way is to stop short off,
and when a man does that he needs God to
help him. And there have been more cases
than you can count when God has so helped
the mau that he quit forever, and I could
count a score of them here today, some of
them pillars in the house of God.
One would suppose that men would take
warning from some of the ominous names
given to the intoxicants, and stand off from
the devastating influence. You have noticed,
for instance, that some of the restaurants are
called "The Shades," typical of tbe fact that
it puts a man's reputation in the shade, and
his morals in the shade, and his prosperity in
the shade, and his wife and children in the
shade, and his immortal destiny iu the shade.
Now, I find on some of the liquor signs
iu all our cities the words "Old Crow,"
mightily suggestive of a carcass, and the
filthy raven that swoops upon it. "Old Crow!"
Men and women without numbers slain of
rum but uuburied, and this evil is pecking at
their glazed eyes, and pecking at their bloated
cheek, and pecking at their destroyed man
hood and womanhood, thrusting beak and
claw into tbe mortal remains of what once
was gloriously alive but now morally dead.
"Old Crow!" But alas, how many take
no warning. They make me think of
Caesar on his way to assassination, fearing
nothing; though his statue in the hall crashed
into fragments at his feet, and a scroll con
taining the names of the conspirators was
thrust into his hands, yet walking right on to
meet the dagger that was to take bis life.
This infatuation of strong drink is so mighty
in many a man that, though his fortunes are
crashing, and his health is crashing, and his
domestic interests are crashing, and we hand
him a long scroll containing the names of
perils that await him, he goes straight on to
physical, and mental, and moral assassination.
Iu proportion as any style of alcoholism is
pleasant to your taste, and stimulating to
your nerves, and for a time delightful to all
your physical And mental constitution, is the
peril awful. Remember Jonathan and the
forbidden honey in the woods of Beth-aven.
Furthermore, the gamester's indulgence
must be put to the list of temptations deli
cious but destructive. I have crossed the
ocean eight times, and always one of tbe best
rooms has, from morning till late at night,
been given up to gambling practices. I beard
of many men who went on board with enough
money for European excursions who lauded
without enough money to get their baggage
up to the hotel or railroad station. To many
there is a complete fascination in games of
hazard or the risking of money on possibili
ties. It seems as natural for them to bet as
to eat. Indeed, tbe hunger for food is often
overpowered with the hunger for wagers, as
in the case of Lord Sandwich, a persistent
gambler, who, not being willing to leave the
dice table long enough for the taking of food,
invented a preparation of food that he could
take without stopping the game namely, a
slice of beef between two slices of bread,
which was named after Lord Sandwich. It
is absurd for those of us who have never felt
the fascination of the wager to speak slight
ingly of the temptation. It has slain a mul
titude of intellectual and moral giants, men
and women stronger than you or L Down
under its power went glorious Oliver Gold
smith, and Gibbon, the historian, and Charles
Fox, the statesman, and in oldeu times fa
mous senators of the United States, who used
to bo us regularly at the gambling bouse all
night as they were in the balls of legislation
by day. Oh, the tragedies of the faro table!
I know persons who began with a slight
stake in a ladies' parlor, and ended with
the suicide's pistol at Monte Carlo. They
played with the square pieces of bone with
black marks oft them, not knowing that
Satan was playing for their bones at the same
time, and was sure to sweep all the stakes off
on his side of the table. The last New York
legislature sanctioned the mighty evil last
1 spring by passing a law for its defense at the
race tracks, and many young men in these
cities lost all their wages at Coney Island
this summer, and this fall are borrowing
from the mouey tills of their employers or
arranging by means of false entry to adjust
their demoralized finances. Every man who
voted for the Ives pool bill has on his hands
and forehead the blood of these souls.
But in this connection some young converts
say to me: "Is it right to play cards? Is there
any harm in a game of whist or euchre?"
Well, I know good men who play whist and
euchre and other styles of game without any
wagers. I bad a friend who played cards
with bis wife and children, and then at the
close said: "Come, now, let us have prayers."
I will not judge other men's consciences, but
I tell you that cards are, in my mind, so as
sociated with tbe temporal and eternal dam
nation of splendid young men, that I should
no sooner say to my family: "Come, let us
have a game of cards," than I would go into
a menagerie and say: "Come, let us have a
game of rattlesnakes," or into a cemetery,
and sitting down by a marble slab, say to
the grave diggers: "Come, let us have a game
of skulls." Conscientious young ladies are
silently saying to me while I speak: "Do you
think card playing will do us any harm?"
Perhaps not, but how will you feel if in the
great day of eternity, when we are asked to
give an account of our influence, some man
shall say to you: "I was introduced to games
of chance in the year 1887, in Brooklyn, at
your house, and I went on from that sport to
something more exciting, and went on down
until I lost my business, and lost my morals,
and lost my soul, and these chains that you
see on my wrists and feet are the chains of a
gamester's doom, and I am on my way to a
gambler's hell." Honey at the start, eternal
catastrophe at the last.
Stock gambling comes into the same cata
logue. It must be very exhilarating to go
into Wall street. New York, or State street,
Boston, or Third street, Philadelphia, and de
positing a small sum of money, run the risk
of taking out a fortune. Many men are do
ing an honest and safe business in the stock
market, and you are an ignoramus if you do
not know that It is just as legitimate to
deal in stocks as to deal in coffee, or sugar,
or flour. But nearly all the outsiders who
go there on a little financial excursion lose
alb The old spiders eat up the unsuspecting
flies. I had a friend who put his hand on
his hip pocket and said to me in substance:
"I bave there the value of a hundred and
fifty thousand dollars." His home is today
penniless. What was the matter? Wall
street. Of the vast majority who are victim
ized you hear not one word. One great stock
firm goes down, and whole columns of news
papers discuss their fraud, or their dis
aster, and we are presented with their
features and their biography. But Where
one sucb rauious firm sinks five hundred un
known men sink with them. The great
steamer goes down and all the little boats
are swallowed m the same engulf ment.- Gam
bling is gambling, whether in stocks or
breadstuffs, or dice or race track betting.
Exhilaration at the start, and a raving brain
and a shattered nervous system and a sac
rificed property and a destroyed soul at the
last. Young man, buy no lottery tickets,
purchase no prize packages, bet on no base'
ball games or yacht racing, have no faith in
luck, answer no mysterious circulars pro
posing great income for small investment;
shoo away tbe buzzards that hover around
our hotels trying to entrap strangers. Go
out and make an honest living. Have God
on your side and be a candidate for heaven.
Remember all the paths of sin are banked
with flowers at the start, and there are
plenty of helpful hands to fetch the gay
charger to your door and hold the stirrup
while you mount. But further on the horse
plunges to the bit in a slough inextricable.
The best honey is not like that which Jona
than took on the end of the rod and brought
to bis lip, but that which God puts on the
banqueting table of Mercy, at which we ore
all invited to sit. I was reading of a boy
among the mountains of Switzerland ascend
ing a dangerous place with his father and the
guides. The boy stopped on the edge of the
cliff and said: "There is a flower I mean to
get." "Come away from there," said the
father, "you will fall off." "No," said he, "I
must get that beautiful flower," and the
guides rushed toward him to pull him back,
when they beard him say, "I almost
have it," as he fell 2,000 feet Birds of
prey were seen a few days after circling
through the air and lowering gradually to
the place where the corpse lay. Why seek
flowers off the edge of a precipice when you
may walk knee deep amid the full blooms of
the very Paradise of God! When a man may
sit at a king's banquet, why will he go down
the steps and contend for the gristle and
bones of a hound's kennel?
"Sweeter than honey and the honeycomb,"
says David, "is the truth of God." "With
honey out of the rock would I have satisfied
thee," says God to the recreant Here is
honey gathered from the blossoms of trees of
life, and with a rod made out of the wood of
the cross I dip it up for all your souls.
The poet Hesiod tells of an am
brosia and a nectar the drinking of
which would make men live forever,
and one sip of this honey from the Eternal
Rock will give you immortal life with God.
Come off of the malarial levels of a sinful
life. Come and live on the uplands of grt co
where the vineyards sun themselves. - Oh,
taste and see that the Lord is gracious. Be
happy now and happy forever. For those
who take a different course the honey will
turn to gall. For many things I have ad
mired Percy Shelley, the great English poet.
but I deplore the fact that it was a great
sweetness to him to dishonor God. The poem
Queen Mab" has in it the maligning of the
deity. The infidel poet was impious enough
to ask for Rowland Hill's Surrey chapel that
he might denounce the Christian religion.
He was in great glee against God and tbe
truth. But be visited. Italy, and one day on
the Mediterranean with two friends iu a boat
which was twenty-four feet long he was
coming toward, shore when an hour's squall
struck the water. A gentleman standing on
shore through a glass saw many boats tossed
In this squall, but all outrode the terror ex
cept one; that in which Shelley, the infidel
poet, and bis two friends were sailing. That
never came ashore, but the bodies of two of
tbe occupants were washed upon the beach,
one of them the poet A funeral pyre was
built on the sea shore by some classic friends
and the two bodies were consumed. Poor
Shelley! He would have no God while he
lived and he probably had -no God when he
died. "The Lord knoweth the way of the
righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall
perish."
In Process of Fattening.
Customer (in Chinese laundry) Does that
dog belong to you, John!
Celestial Yep.
Customer Are you fond of dogs?
Celestial When hungly, dog belly good.
New York Sun,
PEOPLE WHO ARE KNOWN
To the Whole World of Newspaper
Readers Interesting Items.
Queen Victoria has made such progress in
Hindustani that she is able to give orders in
.that language to the two Indian servants in
her service.
Mark Twain sent to Caroline B. Le Row,
the teacher who collected the examples given
in the book "English as She is -Taught," the
check for $250 paid him by The Century
company for his reviewing article.
Miss Braddon is about to bring out her
fiftieth novel. Her husband has made 60
much money by publishing her books that he
has retired from business. There is a wicked
story afloat that after beginning the publica
tion of her books, when she was a spinster,
he found that he owed her a pile of money
whicu be couldn't pay, so be proposed a com
promise in the shape of marriage, which the
novelist accepted.
A man of unusual "prondnence" died tbe
other day at his home in Austria. It was the
giant, Joseph Wiukelmayer, who measured
8 feet 3 inches in height and appeared iu
many a European dime museum. But his
lungs were apparently not able to stand tbe
great rariflcalion of the ail in the elevated
strata he was compelled to breathe, and he
succumbed to tuberculosis.
Erastus Corning, of Troy, the famous iron
founder, never thinks of going into his con
servatory to examine his bsautiful orchids
without first lighting his pipe, which is a
large and beautiful meerschaum, heavily
mounted with solid silver, and a stem made
from a jasmine grown in his own conserva
tory. ; .
F. Marion Crawford, the novelist, and poet
of Philadelphia's recent centennial, is a man
of many accomplishments besides his literary
gifts. He is a good musician, being able to
accompany bis own songs on either piano or
guitar. He is a rare linguist, and an athlete
of acknowledged power. Although the pen
is the instrument by which he is known to
the world, he is equally accomplished in the
use of the fencer's foils. ' Mr. Crawford is of
American parentage, but he was born in
Italy, and has just taken up his permanent
residence in that country, in the Villa Craw
ford, overlooking the bay of Naples.
Claus Spreckels, of California, who . has
been termed the Sugar King of the Sandwich
Islands, is a German who began life in the
west as the keeper of a grocery store. He
was an expert cluimist, and invented some
new process for refining sugar. It was esti
mated three years ago that he made 600 bar
rels of sugar a day, each barrel worth $30,
thereby giving him an income of $6,570,000 a
year. His wealth is now estimated at $25,
000,000. Mr. Spi-eckels is an old man, but he
is still very active and energetic. He speaks
with a strong German accent, is simple in
his dress and domestic in his habits. -
Ed Scheffelin, who sold :out the celebrated
Tough Nut mine in Arizona for something
like a million dollars, wears his hair iu long
ringlets and is somewhat eccentric in his
dress, but he has a big Heart, aud those who
know him well say that a worthy charity
never appealed to him in, vain. . Up to the
time he old the Tough ftuthe" had "been a
bard working miner and knew nothing of
the ways of tlje workb ,. Wth the proceeds,
of - the sale be went to San Francisco to enjoy
his honestly acquired riches. He bad deter
mined to have the best of everything, and
registered at the Baldwin hotel. When meal
time came he sought entrance- to the dining
room m nis shirtsleeves. The sable door
keeper told him he must put his coat on b$f
fore goirg in. Ed got mad - at this infringe
ment on his private rights and long estab
lished custom, and exclaimed: "I guess you
don't know who I am, you black rascal."
"Dat don't make no odds, sir," The honest
miner was riled clear through and through
and sent for Landlord Pearson. The latter
told him he must finish dressing before going
to eat, no matter who he wife. Mr.' Scheffelin
is a man of observing qualities, and he has
not been slow in adapting himself to his
changed circumstances. He has good busi
ness sense and although anything but stingy,
takes good care of his fortune.
"Jenny Lind," said Miss Emma Thursby to
Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton recently, "is
living on a lovely street in London called
'The Boltons,' and her house, which is cov
ered with graceful vines, is shut in from the
noisy city by trees and fragrant flowers. But
the famous singer is a suffering invalid now,
rarely seeing one, and when American re
porters call, as they do now and then, they
are met at the door by a faithful old servant,
who has watched over her mistress for thirty
years past, and who delivers this brief but
grateful message, 'that Jenny Lind wishes
them to say that she will never cease to love
the American people with all her heart' One
of Jenny Liud's most intimate friends and
neighbors is Mine. Albani, who lives with her
husband just across the street from the
'Swedish Nightingale.' Albani's voice? No,
I don't think it in any way phenomenal, but
she has gained a great success because she has
always been an earnest worker, and then she
has chosen for her home the best city in the
world for a singer London. Why do I not
go there myself? Ob, I am too good an
American to be willing to live abroad, and
then in any case I could not endure the Lon
don climate. . You see I havo just won back '
my health, and I do not want to lose it
again."
i An Extraordinary Blind, Header. v
The gift of "tongues" has hitherto been
considered a special blessing communicated
by the spirit of pentecost But a peasant of
Western hausen, in the kingdom of Wurtem
berg, Germany, is reported to be possessed of
that gift now. The girl is 19 years old aud
reported to be sound and hearty every morn
ing, but hardly do tbe shades of evening
begin to fall when she is attacked by nervous
twitchings. In that condition she is troubled
with a knack of mind reading, and if asked
questions in tongues she does not understand
while the sun is shedding his full light upon
her she will answer in the same tongues dur
ing the hours of darknees. Less remarkable
is the darkness in which her medical attend
ants profess to be regarding .the true in
wardness of her condition. She is also re
ported to shed her hair periodically, as four
footers will do in summer time, and to crow
a new periwig as regularly. So the medical
men are dumf ounded at the phenomenon.
Chicago News.
The Reward of Notoriety.
"Since my husband was mixed up in that
divorce case," said Mrs, Cant well, "he has
made more money by literary work than hU
ministerial fees amount to."
"Indeed!" exclaimed Mrs. Cobwigger.
"What kind of literary work does be do, may
I ask?"
"Why," replied the good man's better half,
"ho writes those unsolicited testimonials for
soaps and patent medicines." Judge.
. ' Fiddles for the Trade. : '
A French maker of violins declares that tbe
fiddles be makes for the trade cost him ninety
cents apiece, and that he is satisfied with the
profit earned by selling them for $L12 apiece.
Thousands of these are exported yearly from
France and Germany. Home Journal.
The Chinese government has ordered 1,500
gross of bottled beer for the Chinese navy.
The Terrors of tlio Aphis, j
"Do you see that speck on this slide?
The reporter closely examined the glass
slide of the microscope, j The eye unaided
by the lens could I distinguish absolutely
nothing. i i j
"Now look through this tube."
The reporter gazed through the long tubes
of the big binocular microscope. On the
slide there was plainly to ,be seen, instead of
a single speck, a collection of monsters, who
were crawliiignround on the glass uneasily,
as if out of their natural element" I
"See their long legs, peculiar eyes and
ferocious appearance," observed the entomol
ogist, in whose .uptown office the research
was being made.. "Those are aphides or
plant lice. The aphis only weighs ,l-100th of a
grain. Its life is short and its habits are de
structive in the extreme to all kinds of plants,
particularly those which are reared indoors."
"What is so remarkable about them?'
"I was coming to that They are among
the most fecund creatures in the world. They
breed with almost ' miraculous rapidity. I
will illustrate. A heavy man will weigh in
the neighborhood of 2,000,000 grains, two
billion times as much as an aphis. Well, in
ten broods, if nothing were done to destroy
them, how much do you suppose the offspring
of one of these minute creatures ; would
weigh V j
"I have no idea," i
"Of course we have no way of absolutely
determining that matter, but judging from
tbe increase of a single aphis in a given
length of time, and estimating what would be
accomplished in ten broods, we estimate that
they would weigh as much as 800,000,000
men weighing 280 pounds each or one-third
the human population of tbe globe." j
"Lucky their increase is checked." I
"I should say it was. They would destroy
in one year every particle of vegetable mat
ter in the world, and create a famine equaled
only in its destructiveness to the deluge it
self." New York Mail and Express.
tost While in Quest of Gold.
It was over fifty years ago that Father De
Smet, with a number of missionaries, visited
the Black Hills county and discovered gold.
Traces oi their path have been found by the
hopeful prospector whose little earthwork is
always in sight. A huge tree was felled a
few miles from here, and in the very top of
it was found a huge log chain. , The tree had
grown completely around it Father De
Smet and party ore supposed to have camped
at this point and the chain was hung on a
sapling and forgotten. The tree grew, ant,
when the chain was discovered by white men
the tree had attained its mammoth propor
tions and carried the relic of De Smet's camp
with it. - ; I - - ' ; .
A message from the past was unearthed a
few days ago by Louis Thome, a Swede quar
ryman. He was excavating a number of
largo rocks from a gulch and pried up a huge
flat stone. It rested against a giant oak and
the deep imprint on the tree proved that
years and years had rolled by and no living
thing had disturbed this locality, j With
three or four blasts he removed the stone
and found underneath a smooth piece of lime
stone about two feet square. It was covered
with moss aud teuiment, and must have beeu
eight feet mnder ground. Mr. Thorne-eare-lessly
threw the rock on the bank, and in the
morning, upon returning to his work, noticed
that it was scratched on one side. He tried
to decipher the hieroglyphics, but was unable
to do so. An application of soap and water,
with the assistance of a magnifying glass,
brought forth the following inscription:
"Got all the gold we could carry our ponys
all got by the Iudians I have lost my gun and
nothing to eat and Indians hunting near."
Upon further inspection the reverse side
bore this inscription: i
"Came to these hills in 1833 seven of us De
Lacougt, Ezra Kind, G. W. Wood, T. Brown,
R. Kent, William King. All dead but me.
Ezra Kind killed by Ind." Dakota Cor.
Philadelphia News. I ! j
Transformed into Highland Chieftains.
The transformation of severely correct
gentlemen, faultlessly arrayed in London
clothes, into Highland chieftains is daily
taking place before one's eyes. When tbe
Scotch gentlemen, er even Englishmen hav
ing places in Scotland, come up here they
immediately put on kilts. In the morning,'
when they are shooting or tramping over the
nioors, they wear woolen kilts and carry a
hunting knife, instead of the regulation dag
ger, in their stocking leg. But in the even
ing they appear at dinner in tartans of beau
tiful style, with a jeweled dagger sticking out
of their right stocking leg. " i
Not only the gentlemen, but their upper
servants, put on kilts, aiid, if anything, the
change in the servants is more startling than
in the masters. Mr. Panmure-Gordon is a
great landed proprietor up here. His coach
man, who was one of the most immaculate
jebus hi London, sitting upon tbe box as rigid
as iron, and looking as if he were made at the
same tune and of the same stuff as the car
riage, came up to the Highlands., and suddenly
turned into a Highlander, and a rampageous
Highlander at that, and wheezed, and blew,
afid puffed at the bagpipes like a Trojan.
It was really alarming to see him beading tbe
Gordon pipers. The Highland fling is as
popular as the Highland dress, and the Prince
of Wales' sous dance it beantif ully, as indeed
their father and the Duke of Edinburgh did
before them. The Prince of Wales, even now,
with middle age aud adipose upon him, can
dance the Highland Ming gracefully, "loupin "
aud "schreechin' " with all bis might and
main. Scotland Cor. Boston Transcript
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Mrs. Iiogau and Gen. Sherman.
"Logan didn't come in there," cried Gen.
Sherman to Mrs. Logan the other night, as
he caught sight of the representation of Lo
gan's brigade charging to recover De Grasse's
battery in the battle of : Atlanta eyejorama.
"No; tbst isn't where Logan came in. He
came down the line of that railroad and
struck in 100 yards to the left of that" "He
came in just there," said Mrs. Logan, firmly.
"He described the position to me often. That
corresponds exactly with the description. He
came down through the ravine and crossed
that bridge inexactly that position."-Tbe
tears welled up into Mrs.- Logan's eyes as she
said this, her lips quivered and she stood
transfixed to that part of the railing which
overlooks the splendid likeness of her hus
band. . Gen. Sherman was about to reiterate
bis first statement when Gen. Alger led him
away, requesting him not to talk to Mrs. Lo
gan about the battle. Detroit Journal.
Lotteries in Germany.
Lotteries of .every description are common
in Germany. There is, an agricultural so
ciety at Corbach, in tbe principality of Wal
deck in Rhenish Prussia, that raises funds by
sucb a yearly lottery. At the last drawing,
a fortnight ago, the great prize, an immense
ox, was won upon share 3,423. Al Jewish
dealer with share No. 3 bud como out with a
blank'. But that ox sorely .tempted him. He
could not resist, but added the figures 423 to
the 3 upon bis share, went, claimed and got
the ox delivered to him; Immediately after
the possessor of the genuine share claimed bis
prize and the covetous wneak was sent to the
penitentiary for twelve months. Chicago
News., ;; ' j-. . ' I :. j'
Thero are 337,000,000 people in Europe, ac
cording to recent estimates. !
; Detection of Counterfeits.
Photography has long been considered tbe
faithful confederate and trusty ally of coun
terfeiters and forgers, but it cannot be looked
upon in that light any longer, as M. Gobert,
of the Bauque de France, has succeeded in
converting this art into .a most effective de
tective agent His process consists of taking
a greatly magnified photograph of the sus
pected coin or document, on which any
erasure or defect can then easily be detected.
An interesting example of the success whicu
can be obtained in this way is given in La
Nature, from which we abstraot tbe .follow
ing account: , i
"Some time ago a check for 1,106 francs,
drawn in favor of a Mr. Rochu, was pre
sented for payment at a Parisian bank and
was to all appearances perfectly genuine, the
signature being undoubtedly correct, and no
erasures or alterations in the amount could
be detected. The suspicions of the bank
manager were, however, aroused and the
check was forwarded to M. Gobert for ex
amination, who made a photographic repro
duction of it as explained above. It was then
discovered that the check had originally been
drawn in favor of a Mr. Suller, and for 110
francs, the name and amount being easily
readable under the sew writing. Probably
equally good results could have been obtained
by chemical means, but photography has the
advantage of not injuring the fabric of the
check. False coins are detected in much the
same way, an enlarged photograph of both a
genuine coin and the suspected one being
made, and the two then compared. Scientific
American. i
Made Old In. an Instant. I
Mary Harmon, daughter of a farmer, was
engaged to be married to Jacob Eberlein,
who followed the Harmgns from Pennsyl
vania a short time ago. About six weeks
ago the young couple came to the city. ; One
of the young man's friends worked in one of
the electric light establishments and they
went to see the machinery. While passing
through the shop Miss Harmon received a
severe shock of electricity and fell to the
floor. In a few minutes she recovered suf
ficiently to be removed from the place and
was taken to her home. Medical aid was
summoned. For four days the girl lay para
lyzed. Then she regained the use of her
limbs but immediately began to lose flesh.
The hair on the left side of her head turned
gray and began falling out After four
weeks she was able to be about and able to
attend to most of her household duties, but
in that time she had been transformed from
a young, handsome girl into a feeble old
woman. Her form, which had been plump
and rounded, is thin and, bent and the skin
on her face and body is dry and wrinkled.
Her voiee is harsh and cracked and no one,
to look at her, would imagine that she was
less than 60 years of age. The physicians
claim that the electric current communicated
directly with the principal nerves of the
spine and left side of the head and that the
shock almost destroyed their vitality. New
York Tribune.
She Pawned Her Teeth.
It would be difficult to find any sort of per
sonal property that was not, under the pres
sure of unforeseenjni-cumstances, at some
time or other pledged ror the payment of
debt' But : that a woman should pledge her
teeth is certainly something entirely new. V It
happened the other day at a suburban pleas
ure resort of the city of Frankfort-on-the-Main,
Germany. A young couple had en
joyed a good supper aud were about leaving,
wheii the male half was shocked to find that
his purse was gone. He walked up to tbe
hostler, told him of his dilemma, and begged
of him to let him go, promising that the
money : should be sent the next day. The
landlord said he would detain the couple
bodily until the bill was paid. Then the fe
male half the couple advanced and beg
ged of the landlord to grant her a private
hearing, which be did. .There, in the back
room, the lady pulled out of her mouth a
splendid set of teeth in gold and offered it
as a pledge for the payment of the bill. That
act of heroism struck the sordid soul of the
publican to the quick, and he allowed the
couple to depart after the lady had replaced
the teeth into her mouth. He received the
money next day. Chicago News. j
Preparation of Gold Beaters Skin. .
The article known to commerce as gold
beaters' skin is the large intestine of the ox
prepared by a laborious process until a thin,
firm and very elastic surface is the result
The article is used chiefly by gold beaters,
who place the sheets of gold to be beaten
for gilding between tbe skins and apply reg
ular pressure in the form of blows from a
heavy hammer. It has been proven that a
gold beater's skin can bear the blows of a
twelve pound hammer for a year and still
leave the membranes in good condition. The
skins come in parcels which represent tbe
large intestines of 400 oxen. The process of
manufacture is long and unhcalthful, the
strongest disinfectants being always employed
in order to protect the workmen. The in
testines are first partly purified to diminish
the adhesion of the membranes, which 1 are
separated and the outer coating removed,
cleaned and dried and pressed for the mar
ket Detroit Free Press. f
' The Tip System In New York, j
"Is has been prejty hard for Americans to
get used to the tip system, but it is pretty
firmly planted in New York now. It is no
wonder that waiters expect it, and carry out
neat little schemes to fish the small coins
from your pockets. Many of them have to if
they mean to live at all. "They only get from
$8 to $12 a week. " The girl waiters in some of
the .places get less than that It is tip or
nothing, you see. It's a shrewd, small scheme
of the proprietors to make the people pay
their employes.. Ttey payraominal wages
and encourage the waiters to take the rest
out of the customers, just as the sleeping
car companies pay the porters $15 a month,
and turn them loose to gouge the other $70
out of the traveling public." New York
Commercial Advertiser Interview with Club
Man. ' . : . j
: Penny Sheet Music. s j
; The penny song sheet business in New York
city is confined to a couple of firms. When
the music dealers publish a new song they
permit these firms to reproduce the song,
without the music, in their penny sheets, thus
creating a demand for song aud music. Tbe
business, so one who is in it said, is not profit
able just now, perhaps because songs can be
bought so cheaply with music attachment
New Youk Sun. if '
A Kiss Among Ancient Komans.
Among the Komans, if a man kissed bis
betrothed, she gained thereby the half of his
effects in the event of his dying before the
celebration of their marriage. If the lady
herself died under the same circumstances,
her heirs or nearest of kin took the half due
to her. A kiss was regarded very seriously
by the ancient Romans. Chicago Times.
Mustaches and the Eyesight.'
There is a theory that the absence of a
mustache impairs the eyesight. Bjrt at a
recent shooting match in New York two oi
the best marksmen were clean shaved men.
i
The umbrella trade iu England last year
was practically knocked out by the drought.
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stand, deposits a sediment .
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