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S Smion - po NEWSY GLEANINGS, ENGLAND needs rain CANADA has 5,250,000 people, Turnre are 57,730 pension agents, Five British regiments wear kilts, Postoxa, Cal, has 120 artesian wells, ITALY bas an army of 1,200,200 men, INFLUENZA is again raging in Berlin, St. Lous has twenty-eight railroads, Maxy Pittsburg horses have the grip, SiLveR has been found near Peoria, 11), Tre war cloud is rising up again Europe, Caxapa will drill 45,000 militia this year, PrrroLeuM has been Ind Farxens' spread, struck at Goshen, Alliance co-operative stores THERE are 208 740 railroad bridges in the United States, Paris monks will leave for Algeria to fight the slave trade, ONLY 2044 foreigners have been naturale ized in Mexico since 1825, YeLrow fever is raging at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, ina virulent form AUSTRIA'S changes in Government make her practically a republic will EvipeNce has been adduced showing that a Matia society exists in London KASNBAS'S output of coal last year was 50,- O00, (0K) bushels, valued at £5 200, 000 THE present number of country is Italians in this estimated at about 300,000 Tae Fops expresses his satisfaction the Parnellite defeat in Sligo, Ireland In California now a man convicted of wrecking a train may be punished by death NATURAL gas has been reported : recent discoveries in the Argentis lie. A ARGO of over been Republic over 00 half<bred England from the horses has Argentine RErorrs from Italy are that the and lemon crops will be reduced fully five per cent ROR saventy- DusugQue Q (lowa) physicians rep use of Koch's Monia Cases, successful LEADING statesmen und diplomats pean capitals re d the As serious Fue Arkansas without making an World's Fair. Tae French mercial attaches to bassies and legations, Tae Duke of Marlborough has | American trotting horses for bre poses at a cost of $20,000, politi Government will the stails MR 15 binese in ten years of 3451, Presien italia nauls In Rupint has teleg: the United with calmness and prudence IE Naw e of E ise sted felogntos seopal barch v that the ri Arona we States since tl is one LAND is discriminatin fAshermen against allowing the former free bait whil the Iatter Tue sy in the Texas State Treasury as been counted in the pr eof a mittee of the Legislature to be $2 430 (58 in cash and county bonds Fhe amount is $1.5 Yad, (00 for it PROMINENT PEOPLE. Ture Govern w-General of Canada costs the people of that Dominion nearly $1,000, - 000, Couxy Leo Torsror, the Ruossian author, reads, writes and receives his friends in his bedroom ANDREW CARNEGIE has givena § » Orkney Islands NENATOR-ELECT Pal man of only moderats being estimated to be w Ex-Exrenon companied by visited Queen Vict hi is Coust 8S bassador in | in, rep his post is untenal and b Eaux Passa bas been avan sent to th Bagam valued coast Itbrings a xt £90 000 PAsTEUR, the for his would Ome Fron minde uently for 111 not rex wont ness rot nd him o ApeLaipe Risront NEAriy seventy vears beautiful woman, H graceful and her v Italian a but re is straignt ng and « she is ear SQUIRE BrasiLey, of Aberdeen, married more than r within t sighty-tw Ohio MAWAY « ver ne vi "he Bquire years o mie avd hearty SEXATOR W asus Minnescta, has $O many Soandinas } i% nastitusney that he has decide visit Norway and Bweden this sum study the stock Dr. Wax, I. Hanus Commissioner of Education, is a tall, straight and rather thin man. His beard is short and all gray. He speaks rapidiy and easily and is a very entertaining talker Enxesr Horsuxa, the writer the United States new Australian rr whose work is becoming very popular in England, is a mere boy in years, not yet having reached the age of twenty-one. He began to write stories in despair of making a Success in mercantile life THE late General Albert Pike was an un known man when he first got into the maga zines, He was a ploueer in the wilds of Arkansas when his “Hymns to the Gods” published in Blackwood s Magazine, excited the admiration of literary Europe Joux Srernnssox, of New York, built the first American horse ear, than eighty years old, but still vigorous and energetic fis mind is yot busy with inven. tions, and he can accomplish as much work in a day as a man many years his Jusdior Mes. T. DEWITT TaLMAGE is a busy wo man, most of her time being devoted to help ing her husband in his literary and pastoral work, She takes entire charge of her hus band's mail and is frequently up soon after day-break to open it. Many of his letters she answers herself, Born the parents of Congressnan Mo. Kinley are living at the old hore in Canton, Ohio, aged eighty foar and eighty two re poctively 0 Congressman is the baby of the family, at the age of fifty-four. He has a brother who is Consul at Hawaii, and the two brothers have not met in fifteen years Fraxx Brooxrow, the author, dictates all his novels at the rate of 1000 words a morn. ing. Ho has the sntire plot of the novel, with its dramatic situations and sven por. tions of the conversations, mapped out in his bead before he has 8 word of it put on paper, He is a dark-faced man, with jot black Pair aad dark eves, Hospenr 1, King of Italy, was born March 14, 1844, and was the eldest son of Victor Emanuel, the first King of United Italy. He sucoceded his father in 187% Ie married in 1805 his cousin, Margherita, daughter of Ferdinand, Duke of Genoa. The heir apparent, Victor Emanuel, Prince of Naples, was born in 1809, who Is more | PATENT ANNIVERSARY. The Contennial Celebration at Wash. ington Opened by the President, The opening session of the Congress of Inventors and Manufacturers of Palented | Inventions, in celebration of the beginning of the second century of the American patent system, was hold a few afternoons ago in the Academy of Music, Washington, President Harrison and a lsrge number of wrominent men who have been selected as Tice-Presidents of the Congress occu pied woats on the stage. The hall was filled with a representative gathering of the inventors and manufacturers of the country. Mr, Thomas A Edison, Mr. Alex. ander Graham Bell, Mr, Geo, Westinghouse, Mr. Gatling, and others whose names are well known in the annals of invented achievements, bave co-operated with the Executive Committees in making the celebration worthy of the event, It was nearly “G3 Pr MM when the President, accompanied by Becretary Noble, FPostmaster-General Wanamaker, and Private Secretary Halford entered and took his seat on the stage, Senator Platt, Senator Daniel, Assistant Secretary Bussey, Commissioner Mitchell and Commissioner Wright entered soon afterward. The Presi dent was introduced as the Chairman of the meeting by the Hon, John 1 1, Chairman of the Executive Committee, When apy which he was greeted had subsided ered a short ad: ross The President the Sunderland to prays At its conclusd President sald that urgent affairs remaining at the meeting, and after calling to the chair Necretary t left the hall, Carroll D right, t United States Commissioner ke upon the sub ject of the relation « Vel n to labor: Commissioner of FPaten hell on “The Birth and Growth of + Al an Patent NSystam:” Jus } } is recog w bench of entury of Pat. ent law § from the time 14 Eng- land grants : Ve 3 ies tO Yarious pereon Corian articles, with ving been the inventors time; and Robert 8B. Tay Ind., on “Epoct Making Ameri Senator Platt ed | ailernoon sessi inven tion and Advance ee —— A DOUBLE SUICIDE. Contennial the lause he deli n called the ( upon the Rev Dr open ingress with Noble, the Preside who nized as the paten Dé n the the Suprem Life Arms Tired of Die in Other's Two Women Fach ¢ wo Over he heart ie, and they ware 5. Bet wsuslly bad loy's bed room voor them a place Their bats hung on a post near by loaks had been neatly folded and serve head rests and to each cloak was pinned n to various friends. Une letlar expres the any rea Death is sweet an ad] the desire that they be buried in None of the l except thal we profer it to life” MEN BLO the sllars ve r the act, —— -— Resulting in Three Deaths ley's nitroglycerine works, hall a rom Petrolia, Ohio, blew up on a re i cent evening. How the osion occurred will never be known as workinen instantly killed i ware Albert Bradley, James JAI L ze Dermand Bufficient of the men's remains found to identify them. The head and a part of the legs of ware found about five the scene of th The five acres wore have hoe side of the ne of them hundred yards from hich the building was situated is hiterally covered with small pieces of bones and flesh, and the remains of the three already identified could be put ina bushel basket. Where building stood there is a hole about fiftzen feet deep and thirty foot wide caused by the foros of the explosion. There were thirty quarts of nits glycerine in the building oe— the Tex Secretary of the Navy has made ine quiries regarding the condition of the old ironclads, and it is found that six of them the Nahant, Jason, Montauk, Nantucket, Passaic and W randotte uld be put in fighting order within thirty days at an ex petse of $10. 000 each, - o— Tue latest report Indian Affairs says that there are dians who are church members f the Comm THE MARKETS, 15 NEW YORK. Booves. ...oovvvivnins TIL Mileh Cows, com. 10 good. Calves, common to prime. 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Hay—Falr.......ccoo00000018 212 » Strawdjood to Prime, ..... ow Butter Firsts Ye WATERTOWN (MASS) CATTLE MARKEY Bast -Diuited walght....... i a 7 es vo weight. ..oiiaie = My, Lambe, ..o.oviiviniirinsinns 5 p- we, Hoge—<Northern, ... coves 48 4% PHILADELPHIA, Flour Pesan, sssnsaes 4 BB Wheat--No, 9 April. 1 18 Corn-No, IM April... Th Onta—Ungruded White... = OAAAON, vas holiidna ees -— ° TTT: SLT 4 85 1 184, Thy 140 LJ REY. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON, Subjcoet: "The Plague of Crime” Text YAU the waters that river were turned to blood,’ 20. Among all the Egyptian plagues none could have been worse than this. The Nile is the wealth of Egypt. Its fish the food, its waters the irrigation of garden and flslds, Its con- dition decides the prosperity or the doom of the empire. What happens to the Nile hap pens to all Egypt. And now in the text that great river is incarnadined Itis a red gash across an empire, In poetie license we speak of wars AH turn the rivers into blood But my text is not a poetic license, It was a fact, a great crimson, appalling con lition described The Nile rolling deen of blood Can you imagine a more awful fo The modern plague which nearest were in the Exodus vii, orre sponds with that is the plague of « rime in | for bloodshed carnage, It bruises and cuts and strikes down and destroys, Iti vals in the blood of body and soul, this of erime rampant for ages, and never or more rammant than now The annual police reports of the I examine them as t we than Dante's Inferno, and all Chr as well as 1 « Lo awe ent and tremendous If you want thi “Plague of Crime y stop there kinds of per wed to con the public eriminals You ought surpri portion all our cities It halts It shrinks from no not » 6m VOTINETS ne duty y peveral make up a Phe y take ship munities iminais w Europs the forty Careers te cities pay al of taxes a vou the ariminal the board of thief that SOI Man that, it tou cuffs and the are we maki cuffs and the sects to say and 0 Are ar mean to g we there mean and shoe lasts t Ly We want n day Rociety nn the fact that it fering, and that i: y proclaim re than serm " ist impress tl nny Is attempting to ref and elevate thems. The majority of crim als suppose that society hae a grodge aga them and they in turn havea | They are harder in hoart and more ate when they come out of jell than = they went wn. Many of the people wi to prison go again and y and Bome years ago, of fifteen hundred pris who during the year had been in Sing Bin four hundred had beens there befor in a house of correction in the country, where during a certain reach of time there had been five thousand prople, more than thre thousand bad been there before So, in ons case the prison, and in the ot! i correction, left then just as bad as they were befor LJ The secretary of one of the benevo societies of Now York save a lad fifteen years of age had spent three years of his life in prison, and he sald to the lad, “What hav they done for you to make you better?’ “Well” replied the lad, “the first was brought up before the judge he sald, You ought to be ashamed of yourself,’ And then | committed a erie / os no their pWiadge again ity infur r the house lent sald, ‘You recal’ And afltera while | committed some other erime, and | was brought before the same judge, and he said, “You ought to be hanged That was all they bad done for him in the way of reforma- | tion and salvation, “Ob” people are incorrigible ou my, “these wppose there are hundreds of persons thisday lying in the | | mw! They are the past of society, and they prison bunks who would leap up at the prospect of reformation If society would only allow them a way into decency and ectabllity, “Oh” you say, "I have no patience with these rogaes.” | ball suffocated and (nfuriated, | men, | knows,’ Oh, they will pay you when they get ont | they keep moving around time 1} | ny their bands on in again, and 1 was | brought up before the same judge, and he | run loose, or which would sit ix the gallery of a court room weeping because some hard. hearted wretch is brought to justice: but | do say that the safety and life of the com. mwiunity demand more potential mfluences in behalf of public la In some of the city prisons the air ix like that of the Black Hols of Calcutta visited prisons where, as the air swept through the wicket, it almost knocked me down, No sunbght, Young men who had committed their first crime among old offenders. 1 saw in one prison a woman, with a child almost blind, who had been arrested for the crime of poverty, who wis waiting until the dow law could take her to the almshouse, where she rightfully belonged; but she was thrust {n there with her child amid the most abandoned wretches of the town. Many of the offenders in that prison seipt on the floor, with nothing buts vermin-coversd blanket over them. Those people crowded and wan and wasted and I said to the you stand it here? God one man, ‘we have to stand it ‘How do said Wh they burned down house they will burn thre They will strike deeper the nasnssin's knife. They are this minute’ plot ; worse burglaries Bome of the city jails are the best places | know of 0 manufacture footpads, van bonds and cutthroats Yale College is not » well calculated to makes scholars. nor Har vard =o well calculated to ma r Princeton so sologians, as many of our 1 to make criminals All that those men know of erime after they Have dungeon for thine, Batani n cannot teach In the in tench and » es there | st one Ake scien well ealculated to make JRL Are on i w 1 Wary INGINgs ] men ge and deatl Knew £2 BN Non nl ) 3) prison ref arms unto me ar effort t nesd to con es i Barroots iY when eternity o their hands’ a while sinoke the best ¢ ciothes and m but | bave not yoyo wn to the prison, the diows ail r eo leat 1 they « mshouse. or st "™ 5 y slaty [ this cluster of cities annually between two and three hun \ thousand jod rthe most part he poli riod igings. F eo two and thres hundred thourand ody gs are farnished to able bodied men and people as able to work as you and | When they are recoived no fuse they are thet omen Aare ne police station be f they £0 to some onger at repeats station and so They got thelr stealing what they oan the fromt bassment spreading the bread in They will pot work the counutry districts, food at house doors while the servant is the back basement Fimo and again, in | they bave wanted hundreds and thousands of laborers. These men will not go. They do not want to work to see whether they wanted to work, | of. fered to pay them well for it. | have heard the saw going for about three minutes, and then | nant down. and lo! the wood, but no stand wm the way of the Lords poor who who ought to be helped, and must be helped, and will be helped, While there are thousands of industrious men who oannot get any work, thess men who do not wan! any work come in and make that plea. 1 mm in favor of the res toration of the old fashioned Whipping post I not I have | , : : crowded in I have tried them, 1 | | have sot them to sawing wood in my esllar scant bill of fare that Paul wrote out for the Themsalonian loafers, “If any work not. | neither should he eat.” By what law ol | God or man ix it right that you and 1 should | toll day in and day out, until our bands ar | blistered and our arms ache and our brair i gets numb, and then be called upon to sup port what in the United States ura about two million loafers. They are a very danger ous class, Let the public authorities keog | thedr ayes on them. Again, among the uprooting classes I place { the oppressed poor. Poverty to a certain extent Is chastening, but after that, when it drives a man to the wall, and be hears his children cry in vain for bread, it sometimes | makes him desperate, 1 think that there are thousands of honest men laserated into yaga bondism, There are men crushed under { burdens for which they are not half paid, While there is no excuses for criminality, even in oppression, | state it as a simple fact that much of the scoundrelism of the com munity is consequent upon ill-treatment There are many men and women battered and bruised and stung until the bour of de spair has come, and they stand with the ferocity of a w beast which, pursued until It can run no longer, turns round, fosming and bleeding, to fight the hounds There is a vast undergrount! fo that New York l is appalling and hamefu # Vi and stenine. wit} re faction § own the stairs w h wet and decayed with fiith and at the i i you ii t » victim bed, wie ares 11 darker inntern of the breath of fr erally ontents upo it i yours woken sewer hem and they lie the swimmin There the en, children (rod INCK "hese pla ead per unaeriving ter's field arte then there a Sings” =a lags against us; and What othe Oh.” she rapilad i 1 mean by that We hear or sss anything good nday morning tll Satur Sunday on when Ones and then ng Doarer Hin Oh, » i weaker (rod bad = g the futur had such a | shoud t wonder if they deal etter time than we In make up for the fact that they bad tine here. It would be just like Jowus th SY Come up and take the highest seats suffered with Me on earth; now be glorified with Me in beaven™ Oh, thou wer of Bethany! Oh, thou Have mercy on the poor of these Y on (ne { the ng dying Une « starving tiem!’ Re great hed this sermon for four or eal reasons: Because | want you who are the uprooting classes of wo Because | want you to be more lisoriminating in your charities. Because I want your open with generosity, and your bands open with charity. Be cause | want you to be made the sworn friends of all city evangelimation, and all pewsboyy' lodging houses, and all children's ald societies, and Doroas societies, under the skilliul manipulation of wives and mothers end sisters and daughters; let the spare gor ments of your wardrobes be fitted to the limbs of the wan and shivering. 1 should not wonder if that hat that you give should come back a jeveeled coronet, or if that gar ment that you hand out from your wardrobe should mysteriously be whitened, and some. how wronght into the Saviour's own robe so inthe last day He would run His hand over it and sme, '] was naked and ye clothed Mo That would be putting your garments to glorious uses Hat more that that, I have preached the | sermon because 1 thought in the contrast kindly God had might that thou- I have § five § to know "ty | | at the warm | faces of your vey and that then you would burst into tears at the review of God's goodness to vou, snd that you would to your room and Jock the door and kneel | and sa 1 have been an ingrate; make CABBATIH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR APRIL 19 Lesson Text: “Jonah Sent to Nine veh," Jonah §, 1-17 Golden Text: Jonah ii, Commentary “> —— Having learned from previous lemons how both the ten tribes and the two, with but few sxceptions, wander from God and wor. ship idols, we are now for a few weeks to consider God's efforts 10 win them back to Himself by His servants the prophets. Aud wo begin with the first Hebrew prophet or missionary ever sent to the Gentiles 1. “Now the Word of the Lord” This name is first found in Gen. xv. 1, and last in Hev, xix. 13, and the key of it is in John iL, 1. It is only found twice in this prophecy, but in Jeremiah it begins twenty chapters and is used forty-seven time, while in Kzekiel mr chapters and is used nnnon WO sll prop! Jonah the son signifies ad wine twenty-fo y times. Itiso ‘Came unt saving Jonah name does not give Ve ma ling upon Jesus (Matt we not m Lo ave ns His name is found at is prophecy of od. La i este men’ H nim tw ke J prophesied abs 1k ne f ih of the so MERC OS Ww the Its and ) Toot thers al that wa Ansan bal sha caim nat wut suffe hte us’ and yet there are nineteent oe, in the very who say Donen tity ne re ghtened onler and tench and : be though thus believing in a God of jes wisdom than the heathen in darkest Afric sailors of the days of Jonah me up and oast me forth e soa be calm unto yom: I know that for my sake this great tem. : y . is is convinced his ready accept the oconssquencoss to die that those whom he has mY be delivered He mira of Jesus, ready to die one who he had not brought into in trouble by their hat sin is a pb unishment for sin is not to * Upon Yom trouble nds us by « wable, but whom b wn sin, He coune to save ! Nevertheloms the men rowed hard to to the land, but they could not ™ This Inbor was well meant. They were sorry for Jonah: they did not wish 10 be the means of his death, but their well m off orte were all in vain, for Jonah must suffer for his sin 14. “Wherefore they cried unto the Lord ® It is not pow “every man unto his god.” as but unitedly they ery to Jebovw the God of heaven, earth and sea, the I of the Hebrews 15. “So they took up Jonah and const him forth into the soa A the sea ceased from her raging.” Symbolically the sea repre sents nations, and dations in tumult (Rev, xvil, 15; Isa. vidi, § Why may sot Jonah represent Israel, and his individual disobedis ence their national disobedience, on account of which they are now cast forth into the son of nations, and are swallowed up by the monsters of ungodly governments (Sam, vil. 3:17). ma due tine $0 be cust forth from wll nations upon their own land, there to be pationally converted, and then spread the iad tidings of salvation to all the Gentiles. 16. "Then the men feared the Lord axe beadingly, and offered a sacrifices unto the Lord, ard made vows” Jeb wah, God of heaven, Whom Jonah feared was the same jong afterward as God manifest in the sh stalled the storm on Galilee (Luke vill, 1243, wnd these men, seeing His great power in he storm, and in the son ovasing from her Wag are led to worshin Him by saorition and vows, It Jooks as if they had really bee ome believers in the true God, 15, “Now the Lord prepearsd a groat fish to swallow up Jonah.” He is as abie to pre aren great fish nea wind or a pourd or a worm. 1 see no difflenity in believ ne that ghis fish war specially propared Tor this pur. Lose, as the words imply Ur it may have bring nt ant in verse 5 God A Do nd. three and three nights” radon iho 1 hr i Wd he
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