The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 10, 1890, Page 6

SCHOOL AND CHURCH. —A Woolsey professorship of Bibli- cal literature has been established at Yale. —Princeton was the outgrowth of the Log College of Rev. William Tennant. —St. Bartholomew’s Protestant Epis- caps! Church of New York city has a Chinese club of over 200 members. -—The Presbytery of Oregon has finally decided that all candidates for a license to preach must abandon the use of to- bacco in all forms. —The president of a Presbyterian college for freedman in South Carolina informs the church, through the annual catalogue, that among the pupils are 121 Presbyterians and 138 Christians. —The Peter's pence for 1889 yielded to the Pope thirty tt nd dollars less than in 1888. The legacies bequeathed to the Pope during the year amount to seven hundred thousand dollars. —A permanent scholarshipo! being raised wholly people of Alabams Normal and In good proportion ha in cash. -—On the are now 100,000 adherents, 000 pupils. Religious books have been translated into 35 dialects of the section. —The destructn by fire of the Uni- versity of Toronto removes perhaps the finest educational institution in Canada. Its libraries and museums were very fplly equipped, and its buildings the best of the kind in the Dominion. —The corner-stone of a new college for women was laid recently at Mont- clair, a few miles out of Denver, Col. The building will cost about $200,000, and the cottage plan, instead of dormi- tories, will be adopted for boarding ar- rangements. It is a Baptist institu- tion, and isdesigned to be for the West what Vassar is to the East. —Dr. Amelia B. Edwards is reported to have said respecting her impressions of America: “That which most sur- prises and impresses me is the number, size and importance of woman’s col- leges, the enormous forward movement for education for every body, and the universality and activity of women’s clubs.” —The library of Cornell University possesses an Oriental manuscript writ- ten on palm leaves, consisting of 195 strips or leaves, each seven by one and a quarter inches, fastened together bya cord passing through a hole in the center each leaf. The writing is done on each side of the leaves by etching the characters with a sharp instrument on the palm leaves, which have been after- ward rabbed over with a bleck pigment. WONDERFUL PUPPETS, They Are so Jeinted as to Execute the iMost Surprising Movements. M. George Betrand, a talented paint- er, s pupil of M. Bonnat, who some years ago exhibited a large picture called ‘Patrie,” which had a great suc- cess, has given up painting in order to devote his attention exclusively to the construction of life-size puppets, whieh are so jointed as to execute movements of the most surprising kind. The Figaro newspaper, which has taken the inven- tion under its patronage, brought to- gether yesterday an influential audi- ence to see and hear the first represen- tation. The figures produce a striking effect on the spectator, whomight imag- ine them to be the characters ina tale ot Hoffmann taking form and life. A violoncellist plays an air full of ,sentimsnt and spirit; four dancers, carefully dressed after the fashion of the opera, execute a ballet. A clown plays with artistic skill on the violin, and a Spanish couple—the male dancer with tambourine, and his partner with castanets—go through the most varied ‘ Spanish dances to the tune of the Espana of Chabrier. The movements, the gestures, even the expression of the faces, are marvel- ously life-like. The exhibition was most successful. It was unanimously applauded by those present. Curiously enough, I have never ‘heard the pictures of M. Bertrand so much spoken of as I have since he took to mak- ing puppets. I may add that M. Jules Simon, who was present at the enter- tainment, received quite an ovation in recognition of his personal” success at Berlin.—Londor Time's Paris Corre- spondent. INTERRUPTED MEMORY. Two Remarkable Cases Recorded by His- torical Authorities. From an article entitled ‘A Study ot Consciousness,” by Professor K. S. Wood, in the Century, we quote as fol- lows: “During the Centenial Exhibi- tion ajbig, burly Scotchman was brought tothe hospital unconscious from sun- Stroke. I plunged him into] a mass of slush and water and piled great Masses of ice upon his head. As he gradually struggled back to conscious- ness, his first sensation was that he was packed away in an ice-box and doomed. When he came more fully to himself his first inquiry was: ‘Whoam I? I said: ‘Who = yous This he could not answer. For four days;thatiman lay in the hospital, apparently perfectly tional, wondering who he was. . time his (friends were searching, and detectives looking for him all through Philadelphia. At last his recollection came back, and he was able to give his name. &s ae years ago in one of our South- rn cities aman wag seized b; lice and taken to a es told the following story: ‘I know noth- ing who I am or where I came from. All T know is that I found myself on the railroad platform a short time ago. 1 a neighboring drinking-saloon; a con- sequent attack on me by the roughs led to my arrest by the brought to the hospital. know; who Iam lean not tell” this case the hospital Rot found out who the man was.” During all this a hospital, where he then drifted into a hall and heard a temperance lecture;? goaded into fury by the eloquence of the speaker, I rushed out and began to smash the windows of police and my being | This is all I) ; At the | the extent of his ions?” time of the publication of the report of | ad, Veeaty acl authorities had | NOISES OF THE NIGHT. Calls and Cries Which Bespeak Animated Nocturnal Life. There is always something abroad— some creature of the fields and woods— which by its voice or movements is be- trayed. Just as in an oid rambling house there are always strange noises that can not be accounted for, so in the bye-paths of nature there are innumers- ble sounds which can never be local- ized. To those, however, who pursue night vocations in the country—game- keepers, poachers and others—there are always calls and cries which bespeak life as animate under the night as that of the day. This is attributable to va- rious animals and birds, to night-flying insects, and even to fish. Let us track some of these sounds to their source. “When comes still evening on, and twi- light gray hath in her sober liv’ry all things clad”"—then it is that the white owl comes abroad. Passing the remains of an old baronial hall, its piercing screech comes from the dis- mantled tower. Here the owls have lived time out of mind, and we have seen and rd them, asleep and awake, through every hour of tne day and night. It is unnatural history to assert—as Mr. Grey asserts—that the barn owls ever mope, or mourn, or are melancholy. Neither are they grave monks, nor an- chorites, nor pillared saints. A boding bird or a dolorous! Nonsense; they are none of these. They issue forth as very devils, and, like another spirit of the night, sail about seeking whom they may devour. The barn owl is the “screech” owl of the bird literature; the brown owl the true hooting owl. This species is found in old and heavily-tim- bered districts, and it particularly loves the dark and somber gloom of resinous pine woods. But the barn owl is only the precursor of new life— life as animate under the night as that of the birds and butterflies under the day. We follow the path by the river, and on through the meadows. Among the nut-bush tops a bat is hawking for night-flying insects. Great white moths get up from the grass, and go looming away through the darkness. A bend in the stream brings us to a quiet river reach with brown pebbles cand a shailow. A sentinel heron, that has been standing watchful on one leg, rises and flaps languidly away down the river reach. The con- sumptive figure of the gaunt bird stands by the stream through all weathers. He knows not times nor seasons, and is a great poacher. In the wind, when he takes his lone stand, his loose, flutter- ing feathers look like driftwood caught in the bushes. He reminds one of the consumptive! But, unlike him, has wonderful powers of diges- tion, and, withal, an immense capacity for fish. Woe to the luckless mort or trout thet comes within reach of his formidable pike, or the attack- ing peregrine that he attempts to im- pale on his bill. The heron is es- sentially s wanderer, and like Words- worth’s immortal leech-gatherer, he roams from pond to pond, from moor to moor. Herons come and go by the same routes; and night after night have we flushed our fisher from the self-same shallow. The peculiarly wild whistle of the curfew comes from out the night sky, and swifts screech for an hour after darkness has fallen. We are now by the ‘covet side, and a strange ‘‘chur- ting” soundcomes from the glades; it approaches nearer and nearer un- til a loud flapping is heard in the bushes. The object ap- proaches quite closely, and it is seen that the noise is produced by a large bird striking its wings together as they meet behind. Even in the darkness it may be detected that each wing is crossed by a definite white bar. The bird is the goatsucker or nightjar. Had we it in our hand, should see that it was a connecting link between the owls and the swallows, having the soft plum- age and noiseless flight of the one, and the wide gape of the other. Theobject of the noise it produces is probably to disturb from the bushes the large night- flying moths upon which it feeds.— Cornhill Magazine. A PENURIOUS BANKER. An Amusing Anecdote Dlustrating His Kemarkable “Nearness.” On April 21, 1836, James Wood, one of the wealthiest private bankers in England, was buried. He was noted for bis penuriousness, and a good story illustrating this trait in his character is told. One Sunday before going to church he gavea little boy, who acted as his servant. a chicken to be roasted fordinner. The cooking process began, and as the bird was turned and basted the savory steam which arose whettéd the boy's appetite and he ventured to rub his fingor on the breast, which was being gradually browned, and apply the finger to his mouth. The taste was de- licious. He became hungrier and bolder, and picked away a mor- sel of the chicken’s breast, then another and another, and before he realized what he was doing the ger being appeased, he saw his fault. ing his master, he thought of hiding. he saw a small bottle with the awful label “Poison” upon it. he resolved to end his days then and there. He drained the bottle, and rage. Ina short time the old banker returned, ready to enjoy the chicken and his glass of brandy and water. PO-| Great was his surprise when he saw that both the chicken and boy had dis- appeared. On making search he found floor with the empty bottle by his side. drunk, for the bottle had contained “Poison” to prevent the servants from j drinking the liquor. | the boy is not recorded. —Chicago News. Sudden Change of Terms. “Snukes an embezzler? What was “Only about twenty doliat.” “Is that all? The miserable thief!” —Chicago Tribune. whole bird had disappeared. His hun- and, trembling at the prospect of meet- On entering a closet adjoining the room death much, but bis Baal Wax er thought he was safe from his master’s the youthful cook lying on the pantry The mystery was solved. 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The little birdg flew in all directions for protection, some of them getting almost beneath our very feet. “A marksman of our company shot eleven of these sparrow-hawks, notwith> standing the uneven motion of ou? ship and the constant whirl of the birds overhegd. When opportunity offered they caught up these little creatures from the deck, carried them away ia their claws and killed them at once, either by sticking their bills into the slender necks or by striking their heads against the edge of a mast. But our sportaman appeared on the scene every time, like a very Nemesis, and shot the berpies down. 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Book of testimonial xa Potter Bre BRICK LIVERY STABL Au ample supply of Fhaeto:s, Drummer Wagons, &c. = This is one of the best equipped§ bles in this section of the state, First Crass Ruias y NIT At any hour, day or night on most reasonable terms. Fa desiring to put up their ho when in the city will find this 7 barn the most convenient in ~ MENS TRUATIO GREAT. Ae 500. TO evasito Rega AN EXTRAORDINARY WILL. How s Polish Gentleman Prolonged the Suspense of His Heirs. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; and rich men well stricken in years so often cause during their lives the fond» est hopes of their prospective heirs to be indefinitely deferred, that there is positively no excuse for their continus ing to do so after death, like a late in habitant of Warsaw, M. So—. This gentleman died six years ago. He had confided his last will and testament to M. B—, his executor, at whose house the friends and relatives gathered to- gether after the funeral to learn their fate; but they only heard the inscrip- tion on the envelope read, which was to the effect that the seal was to be broken on that day twelve-month. This was sad news to many of them whose cred- itors were restive and threatening; but possessing their souls, their interjec- tionsand adjectives in patience and in silence, they went their several ways. In 1885 they were all punctually at the trysting place once more. Breathless was the silence—like unto that de- scribed in the second book of the Eneid, when Venus’ son was about to tell his thrilling tale. M. B—— broke that silence and the seal solemnly and ten- derly, and found inside of the en- EQUITABLE LOAN AND INVESTM ASSOCIATION OF SEDALIA, MO. CAPITAL STOCK, $2,000,000. This association issues a series]: month, on payment of membership ot One Dollar per share. We pay cash Jividends semi-annu on Paid Up Stock. We loan money anywhere in Misso Parties desiring to make investments interest or to procure loans will do tosee J. H. NORTON, Agent, QButler Mos: Or Address R. C. SNEED, Sec’y., Sedalia. Mo Time Table.) L. &S DIVISION. TRAINS RUNNING NORTH. No. 304, passenger 4:47 a velope a somewhat smaller inclosure| ‘‘ 312, local $:30- sealed with an identical seal, and| ‘‘ 302,passenger 315 Pe bearing an identical superscription; “This seal is to be broken this day twelvemonth; not before.” Itis to be hoped that the spirit of that departed citlzen, if hovering at all near the spot, was not within earshot of the uncourtly TRAINS RUNNING SOUTH. No. 301, passenger «¢ 311, local ‘* 303, passenger St. L. & E.{DIVISION. rose up and dispersed; nor was the dis- covery of the year following of a nature to soothe the angry feelings of the im- patient relatives, who met once more un- der M. B——’s hospitable roof. Briefly, year after year, the kith and kin of that rich man gathered together and “quoted seripture” at the practical joker of the other world, heartily wishing him back again in this one for the nonce. The will proved to have seven seals, the last of which was broken a few days ago, when it was found that the rich man’s property was divided into four equal parts, one of which was to be equally distributed between bis nieces | and nephews, another was left to the children of a former wet nurse, a third | was given to his friend and executor, M. B—,, and the fourth was directed to be invested till the year 1910, when it is to be handed over to that one of the |, < x nephews who is blessed with the most | Painting. soon. Boninem Cowra, ea numerous progeny.—St. Petersburg Cogs | fursished : een laines en eight London News i i logue nadreee pica a ig io ejaculations which that announcement oe 343 CES bere oe Fe elicited, as the disappointed audience 344 E. K. CARNES, ee .K. 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