"DARING BANK ROBBER. A Reckless Bandit $1200 in Ohio. Secures After Killing a Farmer, He Shoots Two Others and Escapes. A reckless bandit of the Jesse James order | entered the Keystone Bank at Columbus Grove, a small town near Lima, Ohio, about o'clock on a recent day and shot the cashier and another man, terriorized the whole town, and escaped with $1200 that he took from the | bank seven inches tall, of heavy build, with full face and small black moustache, He worga black alpaca skull cap, long alpaca sack coat, blue striped trousers, and no vest He appeared to be about thirty-five years | old. He jumped off a freight train that morning, and going to the hardwars storas of John Crawford asked to see some revolvers, He selected two and asked the storekeeper to load them, When Mr. Crawford had done #0, his customer coolly pointed the pistols at Lis head and said, “I'll pay you in cold lead if you want me to." He then left the store a... went to the Keystone Bank near by, 7T. J. Maple is castier He had opened the bank as usual in the moming. A heavy business was ex- pects, and he had taken out $1200 in gresn. oks and had placed them near the paying teller’'s window, To protect money lying on the counter a plate glass about two feet high runsaround the top of the desk Sitting on a chair in the lehby was O. LL, Byford, a big, strong man, and courageons, is chair was tilted back, and he was chat ting with the cashier, who wis not yet busy, Suddenly a man enterad the bank. In each hand he flour shed a revolver, He cast his eyes wildly about the room, and without + word began shooting. The first ball flow harmlessly through the air and lodged in the wall above the cash der's head Before Mr. Maple could make a move to secure the revolver that was always kept in bis desk for such an emergency a second shot shattered the bones of his right arm. Another shot followed, and the cashier fell Cram his chair, pierced in the side. Turning to Syford, the desparado spoke for the first time, #nd in foul language ordered him not £0 stir or he would meet a similar fate. At this juncture William Vandemark ape peared on the scene. He was a prominent farmer living in Union Towaship, He bad driven into town that morning with some bogs and received a check on the bank for bis money. The desperate man without a word faced the old farmer and levelled his revolver. The unfortunate victim had turned haif way around when the ruffian fired The ball struck him ia the side just above the thigh, and passed almost through his body. He fell bleeding and senseless, Still Syford sat horrified and spellbound That evening Vandemark died. With his cevoivers the robber broke the plats glass and shoving his arm through the ragged aperture raked all the money amount tog to about $1200 and thrust it into the side pocket of his long sack coat. By this time several peopie had been attractad by the sounds of the shots, The desperado realized that it was tims for him to be moving. Again brandishing his revolvers be piv A out on the street There was a wild soattering on the part of the people. No one was looking for thieves and mun derers, and there was not a weapon in the crowd, One poor fellow failed to ges out of the way in time, Heury Buck fell plerced by a ball from the sevolver that already scored two victims, The robber fired several times and sbhoutel: “I'm a second Jesse James ™ The fellow ran down an alley and was last seen disappearing into a big cornfield at the “age of town 7. T. Maple, a brother of the cashier came to Lima, and the local police and citizens from there and all towns near by went in fruitiess pursuit of the robber It has Po learned that after the chase was given up that night the man stopped with some laborers building a pipe line abe it two miles enst of Beaver Dam, and sat the crossing of the Lake Erie Railroad at a point one mile west of Bluffton He went into a pasture and stole a black mare, four miles enst of Biuffton, and fol. lowed a farmer and his family home who bad been attending a show, With the ready revolver he compelled them to get him a meal. The stolen horse was tied to the branches of a tree by & rope balter during his stay at tals place, and an attempt Was made to buy a buggy and harness or even a bridle from the farmer, but in vain BRINGING DOWN RAIN. First Results of the Government's Experiments in Texas, A special from Midland, Texas, to the Dallas News says that the rainfall expedition from the United States Department of Agri enlture reached Midland and have so far made two successful experiments, The News Fapartar interviewed one of the party, who poh “Saturday and Monday last part of the rais-making apparatus ouly was set up and the preliminary trial made simply to test the efficiency of the special blasting powder which i« heing manufactured at the grounds from material brought with us. Several bombs were ex ploded by means of electrical dynamos Although this powder is very powerful, we were by no means confident that the explo. sion would have any practioal effect upon the meteorviogionl conditions. However, about ten hours after the explosion clouds gathered and a heavy rain fell, extending many miles “We do not think the explosions actually Pogue) she storm, as they were not on a rge enough but they were undoubt. edly inmstrumen mm precipitating the moisture which the clouds brought to that locality and greatly increased the intensity the storm and the quan. tity of the rainfall, which was greatest in the immediate nm the place of operation, We will continue eautiousty to make tests as to the density of the atmos har in Shis pastieular locality, so that our | be adopted to meet ever , and when wo have sufficiently “satisfied ourselves upon these similar points the decisive experiment will be made, This will not coeur for several dave.” FOREIGN EMIGRATION, Journeyings of the United States Commissioners Abroad. The Commissioners appointed by the Uni. Ls ma The man is described as about five feet | NEW G. A, R. COMMANDER. Sketch of the Career of Captain John Palmer. CAPTAIN JOHN PALMER, Captor John Palmer, who was elected by the Assembly at Detroit Commander-in- Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, was born on Staten Island, N, Y,, March 23, 1542, and removed in early manhood to Al bany, where he has been twice elected Com- mander of the New York State G. A. R.,, and has also been Senior Vice-Commander- fo-Chief. His four vears' sagvies during tins war es tablished his record is a gallant soldier and an efficient officer, Comrade Palmer enlisted in Company B, Nipety-first New York Vol- unteers, September 10, 1861, and during his continuous service with the regiment mn camp an: fleld was successively promoted from private to Corporal-SBergeant, Ser. geant-Major, Second and First Lieutenant, Adjutant and Captain, Captain Palmer isa charter member of Lew Benedict Post, G. A. R., of Albany, which wis organized in 1867, and during {ts existence has spent over $50,000 in charity. He has been commander of the post five times, and he presided at the National En. campment of the G. A. R. held at Dayton, Ohio, while Senior Viee-Commander-in- Chie He was coairman of the committee ap- printed at the national encampment to visit ‘resident Cleveland and the heads of the departments in Washington in the interest of the veterans of the war, It was through | the exertions of this committees that many | Veterans were retained in the public ser- Vice Captain Palmer has carried on the busi. ness of boss painter at Albany for many yours, MRS. JAMES K. POLK DEAD, The Wite of the Tenth President Dies at Her Home in Nashville Mrs, James K. Polk, the tenth President of the United States, died a few mornings ago in Nashville, Tenn. wife of Bhe was in good health until a few days previous, when, ob returning from a short drive, was taken suddenly il She was eighty-seven years old. The bells in the city were tolled throughout the afternoon Mrs. Polk was born September 4, 1508 at Murfreesboro. She was married to Mr, Polk | when still in her teens, and had lived con | tinuously in Nashvile except when in Wash. ' ngton, during the Congressional career of her distinguished busband, and while mis | tress of the White House. For the past fifty years she had lived in sedlusion President Polk left a very large estate at the time of his death, which was kept ® gether until the Civil War, when nearly everything was destroyed or lost Mrs. Polk's income kept dwindling until a half dosen yemrs ago, when she found herself nearly penniless A bill was then introduced in Congres to grant | to the widow of President Lincoin a pension of $5000 a year. It lacked one vote in the Ben- ate 10 secure ite passage. That was the vote | of Senator Howell E. Jackson, of Tennessee. | He offered to vote for the bill provided it | was 80 amended as to give annual pensions of 83000 to Mrs. Polk and to the widow of President Tyler, as well as to Mrs. Lincoln, and the bill became a law Since that time Mrs. Polk had lived on this pension President Polk loft one of the queerest wills that was ever left by an intelligent man. Everything was given to his wile, and at her death was to be transferred “to the most deserving member of the family bearing the name of Polk” the decision to be made by the HSiate Legisiature The HNearest relative until recently was State Treasurer Polk, of Ten posse, to whom It was supposed the estate would o. It will bs remem. beredd that a few years ago be be came a defaulter to a In amount and | fled the country, finally dying in Mexico, | His dishonesty cut lum sod his family off, ant just how the matter will be settled is now a mystery. There are no other deserv- ing members of the family Rearing the name of Polk, and vow that Mrs Folk is dead the courts will have to decide the matter, Masor R. Humsr, of the Kansas Live | Stock Commission, says he thinks it is a con- servative estimate to say that the of Kansas will sell within the pext year $100, | products 000,000 worth of stock and farm raised this year--that THE MARKETS, 33 KEW YORK. Milch Cows, com, to good. , 25 00 @45 ¢ Calves, common to prine... 3 ® SRAGD. «111s vvsansrssnsinase 40 Lam EE EL :] Hoge=~ldve, ....civivvnienes Dressed. .ooio0000004s Flour—City Mill Extra. .... Patonts. . cossssssses Wheat—No. 3 Red. covcrsnss RyoBtate ......ooissnvnse Barley —Tworowed State, . . Corn—Ungraded Mixed. .... Oate<No. | White. ..ocoeees Mixed Western. ...... Hay—Fair to Good. .covvses Straw] Rye.ccoisness Fant ity Bteam,..oiiinee 8 ES = Es “Ors oO 282] UBIJTI_ ER JEEITIRERL IERIE \, a 3H Westorn, ..ooovein Eggr—State and Penn, BUFFALO, RE EE ore Ww 181 8838s CAREER EE CAAA AER] Ad Outn—No. Barley—No. 2 Bie Timah, orbs i Clover, Sees Hay Fair Rasen spsssssnsnhb ow ¥s gxagsesas - -— Btraw—Good to Prime... ... Butter—Pirsts,,.oooccassess Laat ht A Ad hhh Ed SES REE | {ather, Thomas Chalmers, in | sour of the history of the Free Church of i ar fly kite, | the fields bow | with angelic escort, i more | looking for a heritage of tears’ | shouidst be foreboding? | board? “REV. DR. TALMAGE, ————— THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN DAY SERMON, “The Sin of Trouble” Subject: Borrowing Text: * Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." —Mutthew vi., 34, The life of every man, woman and child is as closely under the divine care as though such person were the only man, woman or child, There are no sceldents As there Is a law of storms in the natural world, so there 1s a law of trouble, a law of disaster, a law of misfortune; but the majority of the troubles of life are imaginary, and the most of those anticipated never come. At any rate, there is no cause of complaint against God, See how much He hath done to make thee happy: Hix sunshine filling the earth with glory, making rainbow for the storm and halo for the mountain, greenness for the moss, saffron for the cloud and crystal for the billow, and procession of bannered flame through the opening gates of the morning, chaflinches to sing, rivers to glitter, seas to chent, and springs to blossom, and over. powering all other sounds with its song, and overarching all other splendor with its tri umph, covering up all other beauty with its garlands, and outfashing all other thrones with its dominion-delivergnce for a lost world through the Great Hedeomer I discourse of the sin of borowing trouble, First, such a habit of mind and heart is wrong, because it puts one into a despon- dency that ill fits him for duty. I planted two rose bushes in my garden Fe one thrived beautifully, the other perished, | found the dead one on the shady side of the house. Our dispositions, like our plants, ned sunshine, Expectancy of repulse is the cause of many secular and religious failures. Fear of bankruptey has uptorn many a fine busi ness and sent the man dodging among the note shavers, Fear of slander and abuse has often invited all the long beaked vultures of scorn and backbiting po of the misfor. Wines of life, like hyenas, flee if you courage yusly meet them How poorly prepared for religious duty is s man who sits down under the gloom of ex pected misfortune! If he pray, he says, “I jo not think I shall be answered.” If give, he says, “1 expect they will steal the noney.” delen Chalmers told me that her the darkest he Scotland, and when the wom of the land wemed to waigh upon his heart, said to the *hildren, “Come, let us go out and play pall nd the only difficulty in the play was that the children could not keep up with their father The McCheynes and the Summerfields of the church who did the most good, cultivated sualight. Away with the borrors. they distill poison, they dig graves, and if they could climb so high, they would drown the rejolcings of heav wit sobs and walling You will bave nothing but misfortune in the future if you sedulously wateh for it. How shall a man catoh the right kind of fish i be arranges his loe and hook and bait to catch lizards and water serpents’? Han for bats and hawks and bats and hawks you will on | find, Hunt for robin redbreasts and you will find robin redbreasta. Ope night an eagle and an ow] got into a flercs battle: the eagle unused to the night was no match for an owl, Which is most at home in the darkness, and the king of the air fell helpless; but the worning rose, and with it rose the sage: and the owlsand the night hawks and the hats taine a second titne 10 the combat: now, the mgle, in the sunlight, with a stroke of his talons and a great ory, cleared the air, and | his enemier, with torn feathers and splashed with blood, tumbled into the thickets, Yeo are the children of light, Iu the night of de. spondency you will have no chance agains i Four enemies that Sock up from beneath, §, trusting in Gol and stag ‘ing in the sun- { shine of the promises, you shall “renew your youth like the eagle Agnin, the habit of borrowing trouble is | wroug beonuse it has a tendency to make us overlook present blessing. To slake man's thirst, the rock is cleft, and cool waters lean nto his brimming cup. To feed his hunger down with bending what, and the oattle come down with fall uiders from the clover pastures to give him milk and the orchards yellow and ripen. casting their Juicy fruits into his ag Alas that amid such exubsrance of blessing man should growl as though he were a soldier on half rations, or a sailor on short allowanos; that a man should stand neck deep in bar veuls looking forward to famine. that one should Tesi the strong pulses of heaith march ing with regular tread through all the ave pues of life and yet tremble at the expected assault of sckness; that a man should sit in his pleasant home, { arfal that ruthless want will some day rattle the broken window sash | with tempest, and sweep the coals from i the | the Him who cwus all the harvests should ex- | pect to starve; into by hearth, and bread tray, pour that a man hunger fod that one whom God loves and surrounds with benediction, an 1 attends and hovers over with than motherly fondness, should be Has God been bard with thee that thou Has He stinted thy Has He covered thee with rags’ Has He spread traps for thy feet, and galled thy cup, and rasped thy soul, and wosoked thee with storm, aud thunderal upon thes with a lite full of calamity? If your father or brother coms into your bask where gold and sliver are lying about you do not watch them, for you know they are honest; but if An entire stranger come by the safe you keep your eye on him, for yoy do not know bis designe. Bo some men treat God; not as a Father, but a stranger, and sct susplo fonsly toward Him, ss though they were afraid He would steal something. It is high time you began to thank God for your st blessing. Thank Him for your child happy, buoyant and bound ing. Praise Him for your home, with its fountain of song and laughter, Adore Him for morning light and evening shadow, Praise Him for fresh, cool water bubbling trom the rock, leaping in the casonde, war ing in the mist, falling in the shower, dash. ing against the rock and clapping its bands in the tempest. Love Him for the gras that cushions the sarth, and the clouds that curtain the sky, and the fol that waves in the forest. Thank Him for a Bible to a howing down of their brighter, experi. ences. 14 on. ing God's service when they Are borrowing trouble, and borrowing it at hry pat oath, Which ds always A Sure pros y. : iz i s : i, : Heh i 5 i | Hall, who | smooth sailing Is the evil thereor,” Do pot ware notes that are far from due, Do phot on vour counting desk the financial anxieties of the next twenty years, The God who has taken eare of your worldly occupation, guarding your store from the touch of the incendiary and the key of the burglar, will be as faithful in 1501 as in 1881, God's hand is mightier than the machinations of stock gamblers, or the plots of political demn- Rogues, or the red right arm of revolution, and the darkness will fly and the storm fall dead at Hix feet, Bo there are persons in feeble health, and they are worriel about the futurs, They make out very well now, but they are both ering themselves about future pleurisies and rheumatisms and neuralgine and fevers, Their eyesight is feeble, and they are wor- ried lest thoy entirely Jose it. Their hearing is indistinet, and they are alarmed Jest they become entirely deaf, They felt chilly wo day, and are expecting an attack of typhoid, They bave been troubled for weeks with some perplexing malady, and dread become ing lifefong invalids, Take care of your health now and trust God for the future Be not guilty of the blasphemy of asking Him to take care of you while you sleep with your windows tight down, or eat chicken salad at 11 o'clock at night, or sit down on a cake of ice to cool off, Be prudent and then be confident of the sickest people have been the most useful. It was 80 with Payson, who died deaths daily, and Robert used Lo stop in the midst of his sermon and lle down on the puipit sofa to resi, and then go on again, Theodore Fre. Hoghuysen hal a great horror of dying till the time came, and thea went pescefully, ake care of the present and let the future look out for itself, ‘Sufficient unto the day Some | in the evil thereof.” Again, the habit of borrowing misfortune {| I= wrong beeause it unfits us for it when it We cannot always have Life's path will sometimes tumble among declivities and mount a stesp aud be thorn plerced. Judas will kiss our cheek and then sell us for thirty pleces of sliver Human scorn will try to crucify us between two thieves. We will hear the iron gate of the sspulcher creak and grind as it shuts in our kindred, But we cannot get ready for these things by forebodings. They who fight imaginary woes will come, out of breath, into conflict with the armed disas- ters of the future, Their ammunition will have been wasted long before they come under the guns of real misfortune. Boys in attempting to jump a wall sometimes go so far back in order to get impetus that when they come up they are exhausted: and thess long races in order to get spring enough to vault trouble bring us up at last to the dreadful reality with our strength gone Finally, the habit of borrowing trouble is wrong because it is unbelief. God has prom. ised to take care of us The Bible booms with assuranoss. Your hunger will be fed your sickness will be alleviated ; your sorrows will be healed God will sandal your fest and smooth your path, and along by frowning crag and opening grave sound the voices of victory and good cheer. The summer cl that sem thunder charged really their bosom harvests of wheat of corn, and vineyards purpling press. The wrathful wave kiss the feet of the great storm walker, Our great Joshua will command, and above your sou! the sun of prosperity will stand still, Bleak and wave struck Patmos shall bave apocaly pti and you shall bear the ory of the elders, and the sweep of wings, and trumpets of salva tion, and the voice of Hallelujah unto God for ever, Your way may wind along dangerous bri- die paths and amid wolf's howl and the scream of the valture, but the way «till winds upward till angels guard it, and trees of iife overarch 1, and thrones line it. and crystalline fountains ‘eap on it, and the pathway ends at gates that are pear’, and strevts that are gold, and temples that are always open, and bills that quake with per petual song, and a city mingling forever Nablath and jublies and triumph and coro nation actually does come ads ORrry in and shocks for the wine win vison, Lat plessure chant Ler siren song, Ths vot the sang Tor me To weeping it wili tars o'r ong, For thie i» beaven's decree Ba (here » 8 song the ransomed sing, To Jesws, thelr exalieod king, Wilh joyfal heart and tongue, Ob. that's the song Tor me Courage, my brother! The father does pot give to his son at sehool enough money to last him several! years, but, as the bills for tuition and board and clothing and books come in, pays them, So God will not give you grace all at ones for the future, but will meet all your exigencies as they come Through earnest prayer, trust Him, Put everytaing in God's hand, and leave it there, Large interest money to pay will soon eat up a farm, a store, an estate. and the interest on borrowed troubles will swamp anybody “Sufficient unto the dav is the evil thereol SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL Paris is soon to be lighted, ss to its streets, almost entirely by electricity. A cubic foot of aluminum weighs 157 ds. A cubic foot of copper weighs 58 pounds. The most recent steel mils have a higher percentage of carbon and the steel produced is harder. Some remarkable experiments in talk. | ing with monkeys by aid of a phono graph are made public. At Wilkesbarre, Penn., the electric | Hghts and long days have reduced the price of gas from $1.50 to $1.60 per thousand. PennsylvMia makes fifty two out of every 100 tons of rolled iron in the United States, and sixty-nine out of every JOO tons of steel mils, Professor Gardner has decided to Africa to engage in the uncongenial but scient'fic study of the Ilsaguage of monkeys in their native state, In the Isls A of Cuba great progress bas been made in establishing electric light plants. This is notably the case in Havana, where the central station Las & capacity of 600) lights, A military force on the march seems to suffer less from what is popularly knows. as sun-stroke than civilians walk. ing our crowded etroets or engaged in mercantile and mechanioal pursuits, Some plants appear to be able to grow and develop in total darkness. A com. mittee of Royal Horticultural Society has been told of hyacinths that developed colored flowers, although prevented by | Isheth, but fo | shall give unto you | the question in Isa. iv, 2, | spend money for that | And your labor for that which satisfleth not? | Henrken diligently unto Me, gnd eat yo that | | blind were to go | SABBATH SCHOOL. | INTERNATIONAL L¥SSON AUGUST 28, Fon Lesson Text: “Christ the Bread Lite,” John vi, 20.40 - Golden dext; John vi, 84 -Com- mentary, ot 2, “Jerusanswered them and said, Verily, | verily, 1say unto you, Ye ssek Me, not be Cause yo saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled." Having fed the hungry thousands He sent His disci ples away by boat across the ses while He went away alone into a mountain to pray. Later He went to them walking on the sos in the midst of a great storm, and as soon as | they received Him into the boast they wers | at the land. Next day the multitudes re turn across the sea seeking Him, and baving | found Him they ssk, “Rabbi, when camest Thou hither? 27. “Labor not for the ment that unto everlasting life which ment which which the Bon of Man We are reminded of “Wherefore do ye | which is not bread? pers endureth | which is good, and let your soul delight itself in intoess.” Also Pe, xiii, 5. “My soul shall be satisfied, as with marrow snd fatness “For Him hath God the Father sealed.” | This is given as the reason why the Son of | Man is qualified to give the meat which en- | dureth “A. “Then said they unto Him, What shall we do that we might work the works of God?” He spoke of giving them enduring mest as His gift. They talk of doing something. so they and so blind are we to God's way. How much had they done in the matter of being fod a Httle while before on the other side of the sea’ oouid they do and no more in obtaining this enduring meat, 9. “Jesus answered and said unto them This is the work of God. that ve n Him He bath sent doing the works of Yod, work of God, work through not control, Him J edge of Just »0 much reference believe on whom ‘bey spoke of He speaks of the its impossible tor God to mstroments which He does To believe on Him is to receive ni, 13), and no amount of knowl Him will give life apart from re ceiving Him as God's gift to us #0, *1 said, therefore, unto Him What # showest Thou, then, that we may se and believe Thee! What dost thou | work” It t soemn possible that those cently witnessed the multipli- ¢ Jonves and two fishes to fend men could for a sign, or had seen 0 many of His {osm does nak “What dost seen enough Are heart is waxed [ bearing, and uid i be cone rn their eves Lhey and veris they st wo bear i ben “Our Jaderstand, an Jl rs id eat manna in the Jowert; as it He gave them bread from beaven to ent Beminding Him that in the wilderness the peog fed with fARLA every day, and doubtless saying in ; their bearts, “You fed us yesterday, it is true, but now feed us again to-day, as Moses hus they proved that the is writtes i" Were aid our thers testimony JESUS COBOEIrRInE them Him with lood for was only ther ros because bodies verse 36 that they sought He fed them “Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, | say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from beaven; but My Father giveth you the trae bread from heaven.” He would direct their thoughts not to Moses, Bor even to the Father in heaven. This He alwars did 8. “For the bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven and giveth hte anto the world Bread is mentioned in this chapter sixteen thimes, and at least ton times it refers to the True Bread. By considering 2.8 0 8 4], 4 MM BL 8 and atext, it will be seen that He is Hime I'roe Bread, and that we are to eat reat His flesh and drink His blood s Wheth, by comparing verses 54 will be soon 10 mean that are to on Him, for there are not WEY of obtaining oternal life ; M. “1hen said they unto Him more give us This bree d al the well who sad walter, that { thirst not to drawn” chapter iv, 15 of natural they think only of natural bread, Our temptation is to think more of the gifts than of the giver, and to be ever asking Hise (or that which we have in Him B. “And Jesus sald unto them, 1 am the bread of life, he that cometh to Me shall Dever hunger, and be that belleveth on Me shall never thirst.” Continuing the thoughts of the last verse that He i» our forgiveness, Our peace, our ssurance, our salvation, read such words as Eph, 4, 6 7:60 34; 1 Timi, 19: Jes, xii. 2 and do as the people did with the words of Hezekiah, rest yourself upon these words (11 Chron xxxii. & and You will know the meaning of this'verse of our lesson Hunger and thrist” is a phrase embracing all individual needs and unsatis fled desires of man, in all their variety. MH. “But lid unto you, That ye also have soon Me and believe not.” “There are some of you that believe not.” Ye will not come to Me” ye would not.” “In returning and rest shall Ye be saved. and ye would not.” “They de sed the pleasant lend; they believed not Risword.” “They could not enter in be oause of unbelief™ verse 64; cha Matt. xxili., 87; len. xxx, 15; Ps evi, Himself, but vers their « self the Hin (verses 55-4 and 4 bedievs we two Lord, ever Like the woman “Sir, give me this neither come hither she thought only walter, and | & young woman Jumped v., ¥; | 2; | BELECT SIFTINGS. Paper linen defies detection. A novelty in men's hats is a facsimile of the *‘stove-pipe” made of straw, An aged traveling scissors grinder has died in Indiana, leaving sn estate valued ut $21,000, In California there is a spring from which rises such poxious gus that one whifl of it will extinguish life, A Philadelphia woman has just dis. charged a debt of three cents, which she bad owed for forty-three years, William Woodwand, of Baltimore, now ninety years old, has been a Sunday | school teacher for seventy-two years, A piece of crown land on Pall Msll, London, has just been leased at s rate | bused on a selling price of &2,500,000 | per acre, Ww. i Va., recently, into the river and brought to shore two men who were Near Parkersburg, | drowning. It is said that the five leading hotels at Saratoga, N. Y., take in an aggre. gate of $2,000,000 a month during the | busy season. at tae and The hailstones which recently fell Arkansas City, Ark., were about shape of a common soda biscuit nearly as big. A fifteen-year-old Virgima school girl recently wrote a poem which contained 250 lines, each line commencing alter- nately with M snd R, and from which the letter I was entirely omitted, A ‘“‘berdash” was a names anciently given in Eagland to a sort of neck dress, and the person who made or neck dresses was called a “‘berdashe,” hence the present term *‘haberdesher.” sold such Dr. Hazard, of Alleghany City, Pean., has organized a league for the extermin- ation of the sparrow, Each member must kill fifty virds. The doctor hopes to see the destraction of 750,000 birds in Alleghany Couaty in the next three years curious He has acquired an appetite for live bull- frogs, and swallows them with the same ease he would swallow the most dainty His name A man with one of the propensities lives in Shelton, Conn most morsel that ever was cooked. is John Stowe. tree has canyon, A sequoia been found in King's River in the Nevada in range, whose original diameter exceeded forty feet, but hss been re- luced by fire to thirty-nive feet. his is larger than any of the gigantic trees discovered in California by seven feet. The finest display of gold or silver plate the German Kaiser saw on his recent trip was in Amsterdam, where he was dined by the Queen Regent of Hol- land. The service, which is worth $150, 000, was originally made in London for William and Mary, but was earned to Holland after that king's death, over a century ago. Brown, a stepson of J. M. Shaw, of Lafayette, Ga., is said to be cut out for a snake charmer. He is not afraid of rattiers, When be finds one, if it isin the right position, he will seize it with his naked hand Ly the neck just below the head. If it is not, he will whip it until it is cowed, aad puts its bead under its body A ———— The Eagle as an Emblem. In ancient mythology the eagle was believed to carry the souls of the dying to their abode on Mount Olympus, and was called the Bird o. Jove. The eagle was first taken as a symbol of royal power by the ancient Etruscans, who bore its image upon their standard. In the year 87 B. C., a silver eagle, with expanded wings. poised on the top of a spear, with a thunderbolt held in its claws, was adopted as the military stand ard to be borne at the head of their legions by the Romans. At the time of Hadrian a golden eagle was substituted for the silver one. A two-headed eagle moun | was adopted by the Byzantine emperors as a symbol of their control of both the ! east and the west. The double-headed eagle of Russia was adopted on the mar- riage of Ivan I. with a Grecian princess of the eastern empire; that of Austria | was first used when the Emperor of Ger- “How cften would 1. and | | many took the title of Roman emperor. The national standard of Russia bears a | black eagle, that of Poland a white one. Napoleon I. took a golden eagle for his standard, model of pure gold, and bear | ing a thunderbolt, after the pattern of the eagle of the Romans. This standard { was disused under the Bourbons, but { was restored by a decree of Louis Na- | poleoa in 1852, 1% feenis £03 : TLE The eagle was first used on American coins in 1788, on cents and half cents issued from the Massachusetts mint. It was adopted in the plan of a national col as a design u all coins and RS silver dolls A dollar and quarter. The design of the | eagle was at one time suggested for the | national flag, but was abaudoned. Di troit ree Press, cs on — Supplying Cold Alr.
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