5 The Sermonas Delivered b the Brooklyn
+ Divine.
2
TEXT: “There. was silence in heavex
about the space of half an‘hour.”—Revelas
tion viii, 1. 3
~The busiest place in the universe is heaven.
It is the center from which all i
fluences
start. It isthe goal whic
good results arrive. The Bible represents it
as active with wheels and win, orchese
#rasand i ted,
arrest
‘was put u all the ndors. *‘Stop,
heaven?” ried ai dupont voice, and it
stop 'or iy utes everything
celestial stood still, “There was silence in
heaven for half an hour ”
_ ¥rom all we can learn it is the only time
heaven ever stopped. It does not stop as
other cities for the night, for there is no
might thera. It does not stop for a plague,
for the inhabitant never says, “I am sick.”
"© It does not stop for bankruptcies, for its in-
habitants never fail. It does not stop for
- impassable streets, for thers are no fallen
Snows nor sweeping freshets. What, then,
the destruction of Jerusalém: Mr. Lord
thinks it was inthe year 811, between the
~ close of the Diocletian persecution and the
“beginning of the wars by which Constantine
ned the Satori. But that was all a guess,
ugh a learned and
nit was and :1
hat
3 all wemay learn that God
and all heaven honored silence. The longest
and widest dominion (that ever existed. is
“that over which stillness was queen, ' For
~ an eternity there had not been a sound.
“World making was a later day ‘occupation.
For unimaginable ages it wi "2.4 ut
“werse. God was the only ng, and as
there was no one fo speak to there was no
mtterance, - But that sience has been all
broken up into worlds, and it has becoma a
meisy universe. Worlds in upheaval, worids
in congelation, worlds in ¢ afiagragian;
worlds in revolution. If geologists right
~—and 4. believe they are—there has not
been a moment of silence since this world
egan iis travels, and the crashings, and tae
splittings, and the uproar, and the hub-
dub are ever in pro
But when among the supernals a voice
cTieq, “Hush!” and for half an hour heaven’
was as honored. The full
of us have yet to
sever shook the world. Oftentimes, when we
are assailed and misrepresented, the’ might-.
dest thing to say isnothing,and the mightiest
thing to do is nothing. Those people
avho are always rushing into print to get
iemselves set right accomplish nothing bug
their own chagrin. Silence! Do right and
deave. the results with God. Among the
grandest lessons the world has ever learnei
are the lessons of patience taught by those
who endured uncomplainingly personal or.
«domestic or social or political injustice.
_ Btronger than any bitter or sarcastic or
wevengeful answer was the patient silenca,
The famous Dr. Morrison, of Chelsea, ac-
ished as much by his silenf pati
0 Lg ues
; enty-1i ve ye:
«ouch at two o'clock each morning. His
oursonsand daughters dead. The remain-
g child by sunstroke made insane. Tne
fl man said, *‘'At this moment there
ds not an inch of my body that is not filled
"with agony.” Yet, he was cheerful, trium-
sphant, silent, Those who were in his pres
aca said they foals as though they were in:
© g of ‘Heaven. :
b, the power of patient silence! Eschy-
us, the immortal poet, was condemned to
iting Something, Sua offended
11'the pleas in his behalf wers
until his brother uncoversd the
«on earth is silence if it be of the right kin
and at theright time. There was a quaint
old hymn, spelled in the old style, and onca
sung in the churches;
i race is not foraver got
By mm who {asteat runs,
Near, telby those peopell
That shoot with the longest gans. #
‘My friends, the tossing Sea, of Galilee
d mostito offend Christ by the amount
of 1 it made, for He said to it, “‘Be still?
Heaven has been growning kings and queens
unto God for many centuries, yot heaven
mover soppd a moment for any such occur-
rence, but Stotned sirty nutes for the
«<oronation of , ‘There was silence
in heaven for half an hour.”
Learn also from my text that heaven must
¥ “and active place, 0
ob that it.conld afford only thirty mn 3
©F recess, ' There have been events on earth
whole week: or whole year for
leday or Wi .£
© 4 eration. | If Grotius wasright
and this silence occurred at the time of the
i erusalem, that scene was so
Riclonged that the inhabitants
11d mot bave done justice to it
4n many weeks.
After fearful besiegement of the two for.
. ¢resses of Jerusalem—Antonio and Hippicus
«had been going on for a long while,a Roman
‘soldier mounted on the shoulder of another
soldier hurled into the window of the tem-
ple a firebrand, and the temple was all
/ aflame, and after coverin, ADS sacrifices
to the holiness of God, the building itself
became a sacrifice to the rags of man, The
hunger of the people in that city during the
legement was 80 great that assome out-
_ .daws were passing a doorway .and inhaled
* the odors of food, they burst open th
_ threatening the motnér: of the jhe dpo
with death unless she
she took them aside and showed them it was
hor own child she was cooking for the ghast.
& since
that seemed to demand a |
ey % £4
ix n |, priests ‘were destroyed on
A use the temple being gone
there was nothing for them to do. Six thou-
J le in one eloi were consumed.
7 There were one million one hundred thou-
sand dead, according to Josephus, . Grotius
toinks that this was the cause of silence in
heaven for half an hour. . If Mr. Lord was
tand this silence was during the Diocle-
tian p tions, by which eight hundrad
and forty-four thousand Ch: suff
dea
and. exposure, why did not heaven: listen
ghroughont at least one of those awfal years?
~ Nol Thirty minutes! The fact is that : the
celestial program
: Tacle tab it nn afford only one recess in all
\ 7 eternity and that for a short space. :
While there are great choruses in which
. all heaven can join, each soul there has a
story of divine mercy peculiar to itself and
it must, be a solo. How can heaven get
through ‘with: all its Tecitatives, with all
| 3t8 cantos, with all its grand marches, with
"all its victories? Brest, is too SE to
(utter all the praise, ‘my text heaven
spared thirty minutes, but it will never
‘again spare one minute, In worship in
rearthly churches, when there are many to
EE
how ‘wi eave) of rapidly en
i let ithe one Edy nd forty-four
h
Bill the one hi
So Cot ae olf po riumpha. of
; nly a ] e trium 0)
oy
brilliant’ gress: “1doy
tospare. Silence m heaven only
the canturi
from the.
minntes
aseBold
ave them food, and
me is socrowded with specs
ou-
! ven
1 would not have
‘ab the annou ncemen § but if adicaten Shirty
Ran a 2 z
of the greatly good and
useful that we will want to ses; gi of
Se inscrutable things of earth .we will need
; 80 many exciting ear! exper-
dences we will an to talk over, and all the
other spirits and all the ages will want the
same, that there will be no more opportunity
for cessation.
How busy we will be kept. in having J
pointed out to us the heroes and heroines -|
that the world never fully appreciated—the
yellow fever and cholera doctors who died,
not flying from their posts; the female
nurses who faced pestilence in the lazarettos;
the railroad engineers who staid at their
places in order to save the train though
er Go i aster miner, wh
0 8 er, wi
landing from the bucket at the bottom of
the mine, just as he heard the waters rush
in, and when one jerk of the rope would
have lifted him into safety, put a blind miner
who wanted to go to his sick child in the
bucket and jerked the rope for him to be
ulled up, crying, *‘Tell them the water has
urst inand we are probably lost, but we will
seek refuge ati theother end of the right gal-
lery;” and then giving the command to the
_ other miners till they digged themselves so
near out that the people m the outside
could come to their reseue, The multitudes
of men and women who got no crown on
| earth we will want to see when they get
their crown in heaven. I tell you heaven
will have no mere half hours to spare.
Besides that, heaven is full of children.
Stopped 1t for thirty minutes? Grofius an: - They are lu the vast majority, No child on,
Professor Stuart think it was at the time of |
guiet half an hour, and how: are you going
‘fo keep five hundred million of them quiet
half an hour. You know heaven is much
more of a place than it was when that recess | ¥
of thirty minutes ocenrred. Its population
gq ; «conta
centupled.
ouses down on tho East:
village reached mp only to Sands
street, as compared with what this great
Shy snowy Jou not so much difference be-
tween New York when al street was far
\up town, and now when Canal street is far
down town, than there is a difference be-
‘een what heaven was when my text was
written and what heaven is now. The most
‘thrilling Place we have ever been in is stupid
comp with that, and if we now have no
time to spare we will then have no eternity
an
My sabject also impresses ma with the im-
morality of a half hour. . That half hour
mentioned in my text is more widely known
than any other period in the calendar of
heaven. None of the whole hours of heaven
are measured off, none of the years, noné of
an Of the millions of azes past
ani the millions ‘of ages to coms not one is
especially measurel off in the Bible. The
half hour of my text is made immortal. The
only part of eternity that wasever measured
by earthly timepiece was measured by the
minute hand of my text.
Oh, the half hours! They decide every-
thing. Iam not asking what you will do
with the years or months or days
life, but what of the half hours.
the history of your half ‘hours and [ will
tell you the story of your whole life on earth
and the story of your whole life
The right or wrong things you can think in
thirty, minutes, the right or wrong things
you can say in thirty minntes, the right or
wrong things you can do in thirty utes
are glorious or baleful, inspiring or desper-
ate. Look out for the fragments of time.
They are pieces of eternity.
It was the half hours between shoein
horses that made Elihu Burritt the. i
blacksmith; the half hours between pro-
fessional calls as a physician that made
Abercrombie the Christian philosopher; the
half ‘hours between his duties as school-
master that made Salmon P, Chase chief
justice; the half hours between shoe lasts
that ‘made Henry Wilson vice president of
‘the Unifed States; the half hours between
canal boats that made James A, Garfield
president. :
The half hour a day for good books or bad
books, the half hour a day for prayer or in-
dolence, the half hour a day for helping
others or blasting others, the half hour be-
fore you go to business and the half hour
after your return from business—that makes
the difference between the scholar and: the
ignoramus, between the Christian and the
infidel, between the saint and the demon, be-
tween triumph and catastrophe, between
heaven and hell. The most tremendous |
things of your life and mine were certain
‘hours, ©: % 1} :
The half hour when in the parsonage of a
nister L resolved to become a
: become a preacher of the
Gospel; the half hour when nN first realized
‘that my son was dead; the half hour when
I stood on the top of my house in Oxford
street and saw. our church burn; the half
hour in which I'entered Jerusalem; the
half hour in which I ascenced Mount Cal-
vary; the half hour in which I stood on
Mars hill; the half hour in which tha dedi-
catory prayer of this temple was made, and
about ten or fifteen other half hours are the
ghief times of my life. You may forget the
nama of the exact or most of the im-
portant events of your existence, but those
half hours, like the half hour of my text, will
be immorial. :
I do not query what = will do with the
Twentieth century. Ido not JQuery what
you will do with 1892, but what will you do
with the next half hour? Upon that hinges
your destiny. And during that some of you
will receive the Gospel and make complete
surrender, and during that others of yon
will make final and fatal rejection of the
full and free and urgent and impassioned
offer of life eternal. Oh, that the next half
hour might be the most glorious thirty min-
utes of ou sarihiy « existence. bm n
‘ar back in a great geographer
stood with a sailor loo Eat a globe. that
represented our planet, ani he poin a
place on the globe where he thought there
was an undiscovered continent. That un-
discovered continent was America. The
‘geographer who pointed where he thought
there was a new world was Martin Bel
sailor to whom he showed it roy
. This
had picked that
out to you huother continent, yea, anoth
world, that you may yourselves find a ra;
world, and that is the world a
hopr of which we now study. Ob, set sail
for itt Here is the ship and here are the
compasses.
In other words, make this half hour, be-
ginning at teenty minutes to twelve by my
watch, the g est half hour of your life
and become a Christian. Pray for a regen-
erated spirit. Louis XIV, while walking in
the on at Versailles, met Mansard, the
eat architect, and the architect took off
8 hat before the king. ‘Put on your hat,”
said the kin
cold.” And Mansard, the architect, the rest
of the evening kept on his hat. The dukes
and marquises standing with bare heads be-
fore the king expressed their surprise at
Mansard, but the king said, “I can make a
duke or igre ps, but God only can makea
g » d Il say to you, my hearers,
only by His convincing andoonverting grace
can makea’ Christian, but He is y this
very half hour to accomplish it.
Again my text suggests a way of studying
heaven so that we etter understand it.
terni that we handle so
this masterpie
that amounts to anything ‘ean be kept
Tell he
in eternity.
‘the:
made it
out of the sea and set it
in the Sonn of the world’s geography. Oh,
ye who have been sailing up and down the
rough seas of sorrow and sin, let me poini
‘for the evening is damp and"
re oe Ee
more en we e only
minutes of itat a time. Now We lave 20me-
thing we can come nearer to grasping,
and it isa quiet heaven. When we discourse
about the multitudes of heaven it must be
almost a nervous shock to those who have
all their lives been crowded by many peo-
ple and who want a quiet heaven.
the last thirty-five years I have been
much of the time in crowdsand under public
scrutiny and amid excitements, and I have
sometimes thowght for a few weeks after I
reach heaven I would like to go down in
guiet part of the realm with a few
some
friends and for some little while try com-
parative solitude. Then there are thosa
whose hearing is so delicate that they get no
satisfaction when you describs the crash of
the eternal orchestra, and they feal like say-
ing, as a good woman in Hudson, N. :
d, after hearing me speak of the mighty
chorus of heaven. ‘That must be a great
heaven, but what will become of my poor
head?’ Yes, thishalf hour of my textisa
still experience, s
#There was silence in heaven for half an
hour.” You will find the inhabitants all
at home. Enter the King’s Palace and take
only a glimpse, for we have only thirity min-
utes for all heaven. *'Is that Jesus?’ ‘‘Yes.”
Just under the hair along His forehead is the
mark of a wound made by a buuch of
twisted brambles, and His foot on the throne
has on the round of His instep another mark
of a wound made by a spike, and a scar on
the palm of the leit hand. But what a
countenance! What a smile! What a
grandeur! What a loveliness! What
an overwhelming look - of kindness
and grace! Why, He looks as if
He had redeemed a world! But come on,
for our time is short. Do yousee that row of
palaces? hat is she Apostoiic row. Do
ou see that lon; S
glories?’ That is Martyr row, Do you ses
that immense. structure? That is the big-
t house in heaven; that is “the House of
any Mansions.” Do you see that wall?
Shade your eyes against its burning splen-
dor, for that is the wall of heaven, jasper
at the bottom and amethyst at the top,
See this river rolling through the heart of
the great metropolis? That is the river
concerning which those who once lived on
the banks of the Hudson, or the Ala-
bama, or the Rhine, or the Shannon
say, “We never saw the like of this
for ‘clarity and: sheen.” That is the
Chiat Tver of heaven—so bri ht, sO wide, Jo
eel ub you ask, _‘Waoers ara. tha
asylums for the. bla’ 1 answer, “Fas
inhabitants ars all young?” ‘‘Where are
the hospitals forthe lame?’ ‘‘I'hey are all
agile,” ‘Where are the infirmaries for the
d and deaf?! ‘‘Theyall see and hear.”
“Where are the almhouses for the oor
“They are all muitimillionaires.” ‘Where
are the 'inebriate asylums?’ * ‘Why, thers
are no saloons.” = *‘Whera are the grave:
yardsf® “Why, they never. die. | H:
Sows ‘those vards of gold and
amber and sapphire and see those
interminable streets built by the Archi-
tect of the universe into ' homes,
over the threshold of which sorrow
never steps, and out of whoss windows faces,
once pale with. earthly sickness, now look
rubicund with immortal health. ‘‘Oh, let
me go ina se them?” you gay. No, you
cannot There are those there who
go in.
would never consent: to: les you ‘come up.
on yy Lak mo ata
y here ‘in this place
where they never sin, where they never suf-
fer, where ‘they never part.” No, nol Our
time is short, our thirty minutes are almost
gone. Come on!’ We must get back to the
earth before this half hour of heavenly silences
braaks up, for in your mortal state you: ean-
not endure the pomp and splendor and reso-
nance when this half hour of silence is ended.
The day will come when you can ses
heaven in full blast, but not now. I am now
only showing you heavenat the dullest half
hour of all the eternities.. Goms on! There. is
something in the celestial a aT ;
makes me think that the half bour of silence
will Soon be over: Yonder are’ the white
ing hitched to chariots, and yonder
a harps as if about to |
are seraphs fingerin
strike then into symphony, and yonder are
conquerors taking down from the blue halls
of heaven the trumpets of victory.
Remembar, we are mortal yet, and cannot
endure the full roll of heavenly harmonies
and cannot endure even the silent heaven
for more than half an hour, Hark! the
clock in the tower of heaven begins to strike
and the half hour is ended. Descend! Coma
back! Oome down till your work is donel
Bhoulder a little longer Jou Burdens! Fight
a little longer your battles! Weep a little
longer your griefs! And then take heaven,
not in its dullest half hour, but in its
mightiest pomp, and instead of taking it
for thirty minutes take it world without
end. :
But how will you spend the first half hour
of your heavenly citizenship after you have
e in to stay? After your prostration be-
throne in worship ‘of: Him who
ble for you to get there at all,
I think the rest of your first half hour in
heaven will be passed in receiving Jour Tes
ward if you have been faithful. have a
strangely beautiful book containing
tures of the medals struck by the English
Government in honor of great battles; these
medals pinned over the heart of the re-
turned herossot L3he army on great eecasious,
the al fami resent; the rimean
hos id the Neth cross, the Waterloo
medal,
In first half hour in heaven in some
HE be honored for the earthly
struggles in which you won the day. Stand
up before all the royal house of heaven and’
receive the while you are an.
victor over
over dom infelicities, victor over me.
chani¢’s shop, victor over the storehouse,
victer ever home worriments, victor over
physical distresses, victor, over hereditary
depressions, victor over sin and death and
hell, Take the badge that celebrates those
victories through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Take it in the presence of all the galleries—
saintly, angelic and divine!
Tay orious war
They triamp] ney es
see ui A
d seize it with their eye.
How He Hoodwinked Her.
A celebrated German physician was
pnce called upon to. treat an aristo-
sratic lady, the sole cause of whose
somplaint was high living and lack ot
exercise. But it would never do to
tell her so, 80 his'medical advice ran
vhus: “Arise at 5 o'clock, take a
walk in the park for one hour, then
irink a cup of tea, then walk another
nour, and take a cup of chocolate.
Take breakfrst at 8.” Her condition
improved visibly, until one fine morn-
tng the carriage of the baroness was
teen to approach the physician’s resi-
dence at lightning speed:
tient dashed up to the doctor's office,
and on his appearing on the scene she
gasped out: “Oh, doctor, I took the
thocolate first.”
‘Then drive home as fast as you
san,” ejaculated the astute disciple of
Esculap, rapidly writing. a prescrip-
sion, ‘‘and take thisemetic.” The tea
"must be underneath.”
The grateful
satient complied. She is still ime
- oroving.
_ California produced the first ‘bars of
American tin from American mines,
worked by American machinery and dug
out by American miners at Temescal, San
Bernardino County. ha mad
i A Now Haven {Cona.) physicisa hav
1a to th a that clams prop
reaca of architectural .
ancs which
The pa-"
lifting & shovelful
ticular spot it
POPULAR SCIENCE.
A bee does not weigh the one-hun
dredth part of an ounce. ;
It is said that the grip this year par
takes of the nature of neuralgia.
Electric motors have been so greatly
improved of late that they will now pull
nearly 30,000 pounds.
Naturalists haye enumerated 657 dif-
ferent species of reptiles. Of this num-
ber 490 are as harmless as rabbits.
By a new system, compound sheets ot
platinum and gold are used to make cru-
cibles for use in industrial chemistry.
The Maine Cattle Commission has dis.
tovered tuberculosis in cattle from Mass-
achusetts, and has ordered that importa-
lion be stopped.
Steel smokestacks are being placed up-
» the locomotives of the elevated rails
toads in New York City, thus reducing the
weight from 800 to about 100 pounds.
An apparatus for purifying lubricating
oils coming from machinery has been
patented in Norway whereby the same
oil can be used many times at a trifling
expense. *
+ In order to photograph the flying in.
sect, the exposure must last only 1-25,-
900th part of a second. This the French
photographer, M. Marey, claims {0 have
accomplished by the aid of a new instru-
ment invented by himself. © Hé has also
photographed the blood globules circu-
lating in a vein.
Owing to the lack of penetrating
fove possessed by the electric arc light
n thick weather, its use in lighthouses is
not recommended. Inventive talent is
now being brought to bear in England to
ascertain a better composition of the
carbons, with a view to supplying the re-
guired rays for penetrating effect.
The effect of a recent explosion at
Rome in which 265 tons of gunpowder
blew up, has been observed on the bar-
ometer at the Roman College, which is
four kilometres from the magazine. The
increase of atmospheric pressure caused
by the sudden evolution of gases made
the mercury jump up 11.4 millimetres.
The recent rise in the price of cannel
coal has led the English gas companies
to look about for some other meais of
increasing the illuminating power of the
gas, This has been found in Russian
petroleum, from a light product of which
according to Mr, Weaver, a rich gas it
‘now being supplied in Kensington by the |'
local company.
An extraordinary result has been ob
tained by some experiments made in Eng-
land in signalling with electric lights
turned vertically to the sky. The light
of the Eddystone lighthouse can be seen
only 17% miles, and then on a clear night;
but a vertical beam of light of far less
power is visible just twice as far, with g
strong ebance of ‘its surmounting an or-
dinary fog. i. .
| Professor Krail,of Vienna, Austria, in
examining the bands of a mummy, pro-
bably of the age of the Ptolemies, which .
‘for the last forty years has been pre-
served in a museum, has found a strip of
linen with several hundred lines of Etrus,
can writing. ' In this text, which is the
longest ‘we possess in that language, some
words occur that are to be found in Etrus.
can inscriptions known fo us, but the
whole cannot, in the actual state of Etrus.
can studies, be deciphered.
Examination has shown that fish came
back to the stream where they were born
after having been out at sea for the win-
ter months. This is known by the marks
placed on them and by the general dif-
ference in the varieties of salmon and
shad which came to different streams.
This is not only a curious and interest-
ing fact, but an important one in the
consideration of the laws governing fish-
eries and fish culture, as it allows each
Btate to have its own system and provide
tor its own fish. or
i ——— I ———
Baffle the Counterfeiters.
“There is one featurejof United States
Treasury notes which counterfeiters find
impossible to imitate,” said a Treasury
official to the Man About Town, ‘‘and
that is the two blue silk threads which
you have noticed run lengthwise through
the bills. They are little over an inch.
apart, and though sometimes almost in-
visible they form part of every bill issued
by the Government. These threads are
put in the paper when it is made at the
factory, and as it is a penitentiary offence
for any paper manufacturer to make the
paper it is impossible for counterfeiters
to secure it. I never saw but one bad
bill that had asilk thread init, and
that only had one thread instead of
two, and was, therefore, easily detected
as spurious, It was quite plain from
the frayed edges of the thread that the
counterfeiter had split the bill, and then
putting the thread in had pasted the
two parts together again. The fellow
must have been very stupid not to know
that genuine money has two threads in-
stead of one.”—8t.' Louis Republic.
Dog Meat for Consumptives.
How long will it be before canine cut.
lets will be a part of the regular menu in
hospitals where pulmonary diseases are
specially treated? A New York woman
acknowledges that she fed her’ husband
on dog meat for months and effected a
complete cure, the good man believing
the while that the wife had discovered a
new and more palatable way of prepar-
ing mutton. This women is Mrs. Louise
Schwartz, of East Ninth street. This
was thirty-four years ago, and the hus-
band died without learning of the de-
ception his wife had practised on him,
but he lived many years, and was finally
carried away by a trouble that did not
affect the lungs at all. But a Brooklyn
German has gone a step further, he sells
‘essence of dog, or perhaps it would be
more proper to say extract of dog, at $1
a bottle, having rendered it from the
carcass.—St. Louis Republic.
II ears.
On the Eastern frontier of the Dark
Continent coal is so plentiful that by
of clay off any
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EGYPT'S NEW KHEDIVE.
The Career and Attainments of the
Young Prince Abbas,
The late Khedive of Egpyt, Tewfik Pacha,
who died in Cairo on January 7, left four
children, two boys and two girls, borne him
by his only wife, Princess Emineh, whom
he married in 187, His eldest son, Abbas
Bey, the present hedive, was rn on
Toe 14, 1874, and therefore will attain his
majority in six months.
he was educated by A. T. Butler,
who acted for several years as his tuto~ and
lwho has bee for a long while ingthe ‘da rice
of the late Khedive. It is this circumstance
which has given rise to the:too general be-
lief that the young Prince, having been at
first under British tuition, would prove to
an ophite to a still greater extent
than was father, Tewfik. But it is diffi-
cult to decide that question, for Abbas Bey
has not yet had an opportunity to show his
sentiments and his opinion about the politi.
cal affairs of his country. He has spent the
last three years at the Oriental Academy of
Vienna; and he speaks German and French
88 well ‘as ho speaks English. __
MERINO-SHEEP BREEDERS.
The Annual Meeting of the Association
Held at Steubenville,
Steubenville, Jan, 30—The seventeenth
annual meeting of the United States Merino-
Sheep Breeders’ association was held here
this week, with representativ s present from
half a dozen States. The work of the execu-
tive committee was approved, ard J. B.
Hewey selected as president pro tem.
‘W. B. Pollock, of Canonsburg, Pa., who
was a delegate of the National Delaine asso-
ciation to a joint meeting of sheep-breeders
with the World’s Fair directors, presented a
report, claiming that American breeders
were discriminated against, as there would
be considerable red tapé connected with
exhibiting. Exhibitions of Americans would
have to be done as individuals as against
English, Australian and Canadian sheep-
breeders who could exhibit by States or
counties. .
A Pennsylvanian here arose and said tha
in the committee of thirty appointed to
look after Pennsylvania's interests atthe
fair the farmer was not given half a show,
as the only granger on the committee came
from the Kast and that he hired his farm
workers, They. as an association, had
asked that a practical sheep breeder be
appointed, but their request was ignored.
e also thought they should exhibit as an
association, so that a good showing cold be
made: A committee of five was ‘then
appointed to look after their interests at the
fair. ' A resolution was also passed askin
that the fair be closed on the Sabbath an
that no liquor be sold on the grounds. It
was decided that all sheep to be registered
must be presented by July 1, 1892, and 1892
lambs by October 1, 1892.
The following officers were then elested:
President, T. Donaldson, Scroggstield,
‘ Ohio; vice presidents, . Arcuer, of
Burgettstown, P.., and Robert Perrine, of
Pattersons Mills, Pa; secretary and treasur-
er, J. A. B. Walker, of Enon Valley. Pa.;
member of executive board, James Buell, of
Independence, Pa.; of auditing board, W.
H. Buchanan, of West Middleton, Ohio;
George J. Graham, of Smithfield, Ohio, and
0. Watkins, of Maynard, Ohio: examining
sheep, James Glass, of Burgettstowm. The
session adjourned to meet in Steubenville in
January, 1893.
The greatest merino sheep raising inter-
ests in this district center around western
Pennsylvania, West Virginia and eastern
Ohio, within a radius of 100 miles,and many
prominent sheep raisers of the district werd
in attendance,
BAKER BALLOT LAW TEST.
Supreme Court Askad to Declare ths
Ballot Law Unconstitutional.
Philadelphia, January 30.—Application
was made to the supreme court for an in-
junction to restrain the commissioners,
treasurer and controller of this county from
putting the recently enacted Australian
ballot law into operation. ‘The petition is
signed by a number of prominent citizens;
and is a very lengthy one, setting forth a
number of legal reasons. The petitioners
are all Prohibitionists and claim that
because their vote fell below the 3 per cent.
required by the new ballot law it divides
the voters int)» two classes, making numbers
in the party groups an additional qualifica
tion for the free and equal execrcise of the
right of suffrage. It is also claimed that the
law is in violation of the bill of rights, and
petitioners pray the court to pronounce it
unconstitutional.
FIRES AND FAILURES.
At Centralia, Ill, Wells & Garrett's hard-
ware store and John Glorer's harness store
were burned. Loss, $25,000. The Guard
printing office was badly damaged.
The Chester, (8. 0.) cotton factory burned.
Loss, $220,000; insurance, $150,000. Over
200 operatives are thrown out of work,
At Duewest, 8. C., the Erskine college was
burned. Toss, $25,000, with out insurance.
At Kansas City, Mo., 3800 mules and 18
horses in Sparks Bros.’ mule market anda
stallion worth $2,000, were consumed by fire.
Loss, between $35,000 and $40,000; insurance
not known.
At Pine Bluffs, Ark:, a half block of busi-
ness houses were burned. Loss, $150,000;
insurance small.
At Chicago, a five story building, occupied
by the Chicago Crutch & Machine company,
the Illinois Broom company, and the Smith
& Bayne's Piano company, was gutted by
fire. Loss, $65,000. :
Vit A Wife Driven Insane.
© Bethlehem, Pa., Jan. 30—Mrs, Catharine
‘Johnson isa raving maniac by brooding
over the mysterious disappearance of her
husband two weeks ago. The couple are
: y moved Lore from,
" probably fatall
PENNSYLVANIA NOTES.
A Few Oondensations of Evants Occur-
ring Throughout the State.
Jacob Reikal, aged 65, while working ina
sawmill at Kremis, a small village near
Mercer, was caught in a belt and drawn
between a fly-wheel and boiler, where he
was crushed into a shapeless mass, He
leaves a wife and four children.
Miles Bradshaw, of near Beaver Falls, on
Monday nigbt had 70 sheep, valued at $400,
killed by dogs. ;
Beforeleaving for work Friday morning
an oil driller ngmed Stoner, living at yo
Junction, turned on the gas in the stove,
leaving his wife and child seeping in bed.
Shortly after fire broke out, and before the
neighbors could subdue the flames, both
mother and babe were burned to death.
They were found lying in bed, with the child
clasped in its mother's arms. RE
The Pain ertown eil field, about nine
miles southwest of Greensburg, is being de=
veloped succe-sfully. Itis known now that
an exceptionally fine grade of lubricating
oil has been found on the Futon farm.
Indications point to a good flow when the
well is completed. Great secracy is main-
tained by those in charge of the premises:
‘The oil, in its crude condition, is valued at
$6 a barrel. i
A lad named Michael McCloskey, aged & =
Joass, residing in Philadelphia, secared & ;
ottle containing about a quarter of a ping
of whiskey and drank thecontents He had
been a sufferer from valvular disease of the
heart, and the whiskey so stimulated the
action of that organ as to cause death. i
Alfred James, a missing Washington Soy. >
is supposed to'have perished by freezing im
the woods. y
License court convened at Clarion. Judge
Clark granted license to 38 out of 44 ap
cants, with an order that bars should be
closed by 10:30 p. m. :
A wire nail over an inch in length was
found imbedded in the liver of a chicken
killed at Rochester. ° oh
Bert Rush, a young man living at Farms
ington, Fayette county, was thrown from
pony Sunday and fataly injured. :
John Wentzell, of Greensburg, was
3tacked and fatally injured by a ferocious
0g. i
John Watkins, of Kamerer, Washington
county, accidentally shot himself through
the heart. ei
Tl @ 3-year~old son of James Montgomery
of Washington fell into the fire and was
burned to death.
Oliver Mackin was killed while felling a
tree within a mile of Johnstown, the
crushing his body. Ca
Senator Cameron has introduced tions
in the U, 8. Senate from over 200 towns in
Pennsylvania favoring the passage of a bill.
Sanonng oleomargarine to the laws of the
several States. a 2
Daniel Weller died on his farm, where he
was born, near Canonsburg, aged 81. :
leaves 11 children, 27 grandchildren and one
great grandchild, - ae
John MeClymods and his daughter, of
Darlington, were pethajs fatally injured in
a runaway accident at Beaver s Sa
Last week two children of the family of
John Cetz, a hotelkeeper at Landis Vi ;
died of diphtheria within half an hour of
each other, Friday two more of his children
died of the same disease. The first
children who died were buried at the same
time and the two who died Friday also will
be buried at one time.
3,
George R. Senter, employed at the e
chute, as struck by an engine at PR
and fatally hurt, Hori we
Mrs Davis, of Philadelphia; laid
| Sleeping infant on the open folding bed the
other day, and went about her duties in an:
other part of the house. While absent, her
little son loosed the latch and the bed cl 5
He did not know baby was in the bad.
Later the mother réturned and found her
baby dead, it haying been suffoca Se
Two dwellings on the Adair farm, Wash-
ing county, were totally destroved by fire,
The occupants lost all: their effects. Total
loss, $5,000, : ia
John Barr, recently released from the
Riverside penitentiary, was frozen to death
near Enterprise Wednesday night. Hehad
been drinking heavily and attempted to =
walk to the house of his sister,
On account of business engagements, Cap-
tain John ‘iorrison, State- TUrers
elect, has decided not to accept the cashiers
ship of the treasury tendered him after himy
election by State Treasurer Boyer. -
Robert F.-P. Pollock, of Marchard, killed
himself by the accidental discharge ofa gus,
while hunting. ba
An insane man, J. J. McFee, was stran-
led to death by a fellow inmate, O. A. Wil-
ams, at the Dixmont, iPa.) insane asylom.
Peter Ryan, & prominent f rmer living
near Connellsvi le, while crossing a bi pil
on the Southwest Penn road, was struckby
a train and instantly killed. He leaves a
wi ‘and six children. i
' Miss Allie Born, of Canonsburg, fell on th
slippery pavement and iractured her skull.
She is not expected to iive. :
The handsome Catholic church at Con-
nellsville was destroyed by fire, The build-
ng including contents, was valu d at nearly
insurance. The church was built in 1886,
and the building, which was the finest
church edifice in the country, alone cost.
,000. : iv
John Lafferty, aged 84 years, was foumd =
frozen to on a field adjoining his 9
residence at East Nottingham. i
Anthracite coal has been found in Berks =
county. Moh
Seymour White, a brakeman in the Al-
toona yards, wasrun over and instantly
killed by a shifting’engine. ;
George Leinbach, of Leesport, aged 40,and =
one of the wealthiest citizens in Berks
county, was killed in his stable by a vicious
horse. He was kicked on the temple.
Mrs. Edward Kensinger, of Altoona, was
atally burted Saturday eveningby
the exp losion of a lamp.
According to the firsi official reportof
Hoskins & McClintock, assignees of the
Messrs. Delamater, the er lies of”
theinsolvent bankers will not receive more
than 8 or 10 cents on the dollar. :
Near Erie, fire destroyed the Lone Fisher
man’s inn, a widely known summer resort
located on the bank: of Preseque Isle bay.
Loss, $10,000; insurance unknown. ; 2
An incendiary fire at Altoona destroyed
A.C. Mercer & Co.’s brick works. ' Loss,
$6,000; partially insured. : 3
THERE is no doubt that the noise
of ‘the city has been steadily increas.
ing for many years. It is perhaps fn.
evitable, and yet it is plain enough
that, if some restriction is not puy
upon the unnecessary turmoil, there
will be no such thing as residence
here, except to those unable to retire
into the suburbs. One easily be
comes convinced of the insensibl
wear and tear upon the nerves of a
the racket incident to the city by
noting the irritability it oc-asions
after the annual .return from the
country, when a term of rural qui
has taken us back to our normal sens
sibility. Oh, for the conveniences of
the city and the country’s opport
te At :
ties for r
$100,000, on which theré was only $25000