; Wonders with Figures. A committee of the French Acade- tay has recently investigated the latest of mathematical prodigies, Jacques lnaudi by name, and a writ- er in the Revue des Deux Mondes pffers an interesting account of the pase. Inaudi, who is now 25 years old, is of poor family, and his child- bood was spent in taking care of Aeep. His extraordinary mathe- matical genius showed itself when he was 6 years old. His older broth- er had taught him to count, but so Par as Is known did not téach him the multiplication table. At that time neither of the boys could read. Within a year Jacques could multi- ly in his head numbers containing ve figures each, \ The older brother scon left home an a barrel-organ trip, and Jacques secompanied him, to collect the pen- as es and exhibit his skill at figures. Not long afterward a showman en gaged him, and he made his first Appearance in Paris. { His wonderful performances are in pddition, subtraction, multiplication, vigion, and the extraction of roots. When a problem is given to him he listens, repeats it, says, “I begin,” falls to muttering rapidly to himself, and presently says, “I am done,” and announces the result. While he is engaged in the calcu- lation nothing disturbs him, and he will answer questions and even carry pn conversation during the process— that is to say, while he is multiply- Ing in his head eight figures by eight figures, or reckoning the number of peconds in a given term of years, months, days, and hours! In the same way he will add in a few sec- pods seven numbers of eight or ten figures each, or extract the sixth or peventh root. : M. Binet, the writer of the Revue article, believes that the case fure nishes strong confirmation of the theory of “partial memories” —memo-= ries, that is, for particular classes of objects. Inaudi will repeat after you twenty-five figures, while an or« dinary man could not repeat more than from seven to ten. If letters are given to Inaudi, however, he can- not repeat more than seven or eight. It is believed further that his case Indicates the fact that there is such gs thing as an “auditive” as well as a “visualizing” memory. fnatical prodigies have professed to pee, mentally, the figures with which they had to do, while Inaudi invari« ably declares that he does not see, but hears them. This goes with his habit of whispering or muttering to himself during the operations, and it has been noticed that if he tries not to whisper he much longer in reaching his result. 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TALMAGE The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun- day Sermon, Subject: “The Golden Calf.” Texr: “And he took the calf which they had made and burnt fin the fire, and ground if to powder and strewed it upon the water and made the children of Israst drink of it."—Exodus xxxii., 20, People will have a God of some kind, and they prefer one of their own making, Here come the Israelites, breaking off their gold. en earrings, the men as well asthe women, for in those times there wersz masculine as well as feminine decorations. Where did they get these beautiful gold earrings, coming up as thay did from the desert? Oh, they “‘oorrowed” them from the Ezvptians when they left Egypt. Thess earrings are plied up into a pyramid of glitterings beauty. “Any more earrings to bring? says Aaron. None. Fire is kindled, the earrings ars malted and poured into a mold, notol an eagle or a war charger, but of a calf; the gold cools off, the mold is taken away, and the idol is set upon its four logs, An altar is built in front of the shining Then the people throw up their arms and gyrate and shriek and dance mightily Mount Sinai, and ho comes back and hears the howling and sces the dancing of these golden calf fanatics, and he loses his pas tionee, and ho takes tho two plates of stone ments and flings them so hard against a rock that they split all to pieces, When a man gets mad he Prvery apt to traak all the Moses rushes in, and he takes this eall melted all gut of shape, and then puiverizes it—not by the modern appliance of unitro- niter, or by the old fasnioned file, Hoe makes for the people a most nauseating draft, He takes this pulverized golden caif and throws it into the only brook which is accessible, and the people are compelled to drink of that brook or not drink at all, But they did pot drink all the glittering stuff thrown on the surface. Some of it flows on down the surface of the brook to the river, and then flows on down the river to the sea, and the sea takes up and bears it to the mouth of all the rivers, and when the tides set back the re. maids of this golden calf are carried up into the Hudson and the East River, and the Thames and the Clyde and the Tiber, and men go out and they skim the glittering sar- make another golden calf, and California and Australia break off their golden ear. rings to augment the pile, and in the fires of financial excitement and struggle all these theso things are malted together, and while wa stand looking and wondering what will come of it, lo! we find that the gokien calf _ I shall describe to you the god spoken of in the text, his temple, his altar of sacrifice, the music that is made in his templa, and then the final breaking up of the whole congregation of idolaters, Fut aside this curtain and you see the golden calf of modern idolatry. It is not iike other idols, made out of stocks or stones, but it has an ear so seasitive that it can hear the whispers on Wall street and Third street and State street, and the foot. falls in the Bank of England, and the flut. ter of a Frenchman's heart on the Bourse. It has an eye so keen that it can seo the rust on the farm of Michigans wheat, and the ine sect in the Maryland peach orchard, and the trampled grain under the hoof of the Ras. lan wan . omhe It is 80 mighty that it swings any way it will the world's shipping. It bas its foot on all the merchantmen and the steamers, it started the American civil war, and uader God stopped it, and it decided the Turko- Russian contest. One broker in September, 1589, In New York, shouted, “Ose hundred and sixty for a million! and the whole cone tinent shivered, This golden calf of the taxt has its right front foot ia New York, its left front foot in Chicago, its right back foot in Charieston, its left back foot in New Or. aclves with the blood of their own sacrifice, The musio rolls on under the arches; it is made of clinking silver and clinking gold and the rattling specie of the banks and brokers shops and the voless of all the ex. changes. The soprano of the worship is carried by the timid voices of men who have just begun to speculate, while the deep bass rolls out from those who for ten years of ini. quity have been doubly damned. Chorus of volees rejoicing over what they have made, {horusof voices walling over what they have lost. The temple of which 1 spaak stands open day and plight, and there is the glittering god with his four feet on broken hearos, and there is the smoking altar of sacrifice, new victims every moment on it, and there are the kneeling devotees, and the doxology of the worship rolls on, while death stands with moldy and skeleton arm beating tims for the chorus—‘‘More! more! more!” Some people are very much surprised at the actions of folk on the Stock Exchange, Indeed it isa scons sometimes that para- lyzes description, and is beyond the imag- ination of any ons who has never looked in, What snapping of flanger and thumb and wildest gesticulation,and raving like hyenas, and stamping like buffaloes, and swaying to and fro, and running one upon another, and deafening uproar until the President of the exchange strikes with his mallet four or five times, crying, “Order! order?” the fresh air feeling that he has escaped from pandemonium, What does it all moan? 1 will teil you what it means, The devotees of every heathen temple cut them- solves to pieces and yell and gyrate. This vociferation and gyration of the Stock ex- change is all appropriate. This is the wor. ship of the golden calf, But my must be broken up, as the behavior of Mows in my text indicated. There are those who say that this golden calf spoken of in my text was hollow, and mersly plated with friends, he takes up this golden calf, whica is an insult to God and man, and throws it into the fire, and it is melted, apd then it comes out and is cooled off, and by som» file, it is pulverized, and it is thrown into the brook, and as a punishment the pe pis are compelled to drink the nauseating stufl. So, my hearers, you may depsad upou it that God will burn and He will grind 0 pieces the golden calf of moderh idolatry, snd He will compel the people in their agony to drink it. If not before, it will be sy on the last day. I know not woere the fire will begin, whether at the Battery or Central Park, whether at Brooklyn Bridge or at Bush wiek, whether at Shoreditch, London All the Government secarities of the United first blast. All the money, safes and depos- the stip. be melted window will burst in the broker's ihe cry of “Fire” from the mountain I'he conflagration will burn out from in from the sea toward the land. New York Twenty-five thousand miles of conflagration! The earth | wrap itself rogad and round in shrouls What then will become of your golden cali? Who then 80 poor as to worship it? Melted or between the upper and the nether millstone of falling Dagon down, Moloch down, Juggernaut down, Golden calf down, But, my friends, every day is a day of world, Oh, this iz a mighty god--the golden English, and 82 Peter's of the Italians, and to picces the golden calf, Merchants of Brooklyn and New York and Loodon, what is the characteristic of this tims in whica we live? “Bad” you say. Professional men, what is the characteristio of the tunes in waich we live? “Bad.” you say. Though I should be in a minority of 1 venture the opinion that these are best times we have had, for the reason that God is teaching the world as never be fore that old fashioned honesty is the only thing that will stand, We have learned as never before that forgeries will not pay; that the spending of fifty thousand dollars a palatial city foie dence, when thers are only thirty thousand dollars income, will not pay; that the propriation of trust funds to our own one, +} the fap Pree Parthenon of the Greeks, and the Taj Mahal of the Hindoos, and ail the other cathedrals Its pillars are grooved and fluted with gold, and its ribbed riches are We had a great national tamor in the shape of fictitious prosperity. We called it Instead of calling it gold, and its vaults are crowded heaps of gold, and its spires and domes are soaring and its pedals are tramping gold, and its gold. Further, every god must have not only its golden calf of the text ia no exception. Its tars, but out of counting room desks and fireproof safes, and it isa broad, a loag a high altar. Tbe victims sacrificed on it are, innumerable. What does this god care about the groaas and struggios of the victims be- fore it] With cold, metallic eye it looks on and yet lots them suffer, Ob, heaven and earth, what an altar] What a sacrifice of body, mind and eoull The physical health of a great multitude is flung on this sacri. ficad altar. They cannot sleep, and they take caoral and morphine and intoxicants, Home of themystruggle in a nightmare of stocks, and at 1 okelock in the morning sud- deniy rise up shouting: “A thousand shares of railroad stock--one hundred and eight and a half, take it!™ until the whole family is affriguted, and the speculators fall back “rise’’ in something else, Toeir nerves gone, gone—they die. The clergyman comes in and reads the , Thay do not *‘die in the Lord"-the golden calf kicked em! The trouble is when men sacrifice them. sacrifice shemssives, but they families. [fa man by an ill course is determined og to ition, [ you will hava to him go; but he puts his wife and children in an equ toat is the amazement of the avenues, and ——— ———— S———————————— A ————— a swelling, It has been a tumor, and God is cutting it out—has cut it out—and the nation will get well and will come back to the principles of our fathers and grand- fathers, when twice three made six instead of sixty, and when the apples at the bottom of the barrel were just as good as the apples on the top of the barrel and a silk hand. kerchief was not half cotton, and a man who wore a five dollar coat paid for was more honored than a man who wore a fifty dollar coat not paid for, The orden calf of our day, like the one of the text, is very apt to be made out of bor- rowsd gold, These Israelites of the text borrowed ‘the earrings of the Egyptians and then melted them into a god, That is the way the goiden calf is made nowadays A great many housekeepers, not pay- ing for the articles they get, borrow of the sr, and the baker. and the butcher, and the dry goods seller, Then the re taller borrows of the wholesale dealer. Then the wholesale dealer borrows of the capitalist, and we borrow and borrow and borrow until the community is divided into two clesses—thoss who borrow amd those who are borrowed of —and after awhile the capitalist wants his money and he rushes upon the wholesale dealer, and the wholesale dealer wanta bis money and he rushes upon and the retailer wants his and we all go down together. There is many a man in this day who rides n a carriage and owes the blacksmith for the tire, and the wheel wright for the wheel, and the trimmer for the curtain, and the driver for unpaid and the harness maker for the bridle, and the furrier for the robe, while from the tip of the carriage clear back to the tip of the shawl potes that have a3 sigeze Blizjint 25 will be gone, Oh, thinis a fleeting world: itisadying worid! A man who By wor- shilped it all his da¥e, in his dyine moment fasortbed himself when ho sald, “Fooll foo! Qo 1 want yon to change temples, and to give up the worship of this unsatisfying and crual ga for the servics of the Lord Jesus Christ, {ere is the gold that wili never crumble, Hero are securities that will never fail, Hers ars baoks that will never break, Here is an altar on which there has basen one sacrifice once for all, Hers isa God who will com. fort you when you are in trouble, and saothe you wheu you are sick, and suve you when you die, When your parsnts have breathed their last, and the old, wrinkied and trembling hands can no more be put upon for a blessing, He will be to you ay your children go away from yon, the forever. He only wants to hold them you a little wails, He will give them back to you again, and He will have thom all waiting for you at the gates of eternal welcome, Oh, what a God He is! He will allow yon to ¢o ne #0 close this morning that you can the spectacle of a rejoicing father and re- and bow must all appaar when the world has turned to ashes and ths scorched parchment of the scrolls rm A FEAST IN ZULULAND. an Exciting Event. A dozen magnificent long-horned cattle were run into the kraal, and seven stalwart warriors followed them in, assagais in hand. Crowding the cattle in a bunch against the wall, warrior singled a victim, and with a mighty thrust plunged the keen, bright blade into the ani- mal's heart. Generally speaking, the swift, sure blow was but in twoor three cases the stricken animals avoided the death thrust, and, goaded to madness by the deep wound, made matters exceedingly lively for the Zulus for the next few minutes, chasing them frantically about the kraal until some well- hurled assegal brought them to earth. One big steer, horned a Mexan, kept his feet and fought till a dozen assegal blades were hurled buried in his body, and in his blind rushing he knocked over a couple of men, and ripped one very badly up the thigh. The whole affair was as exciting as a Spanish bull-fight. When they were all killed the crowd, who had been enjoying the fun from the kraal wall, hopped into the arena and as- in the work of skinning and cutting up. As many as could get around an animal assisted, and could scarce imagine a more barbar- ous spectacle than a horde of Zulus skinning and dissecting a dozen cows The blood was allowed remain in the flesh, and men, women and chil- dren were seen carrying off huge pieces of red, quivering flesh, slung over their shoulders, with the blood rickling down their sleck, dark skins to thelr heels. Children besmeared their faces and bodies for fun, and about each carcass a group of tall, black warrlors hacked and slashed, like the savages were, While the women boiled the beef in big iron shtained from Natal, the war. riors engaged in a big dance. You can never catch spirit of a Zuiu dance by merely hear ing it described, any more than you can realize the exhilaration of wine without trying it The warriors turned out about 300 strong on this occasion, and the dance took place on a level bit of ground outside the kraal. The whole community was gathered in a black mass, squatting in irregular ranks on the grass to sec After the beeves had all been cut up, the warriors retired to their huts. Then very shortly they one by out one sufficient, HK sisted one to they kettles ¢ $531 «Hh quite the gaws of war. 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