Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 29, 1876, Page 13

i THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY., OCTOBER 29, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGE 13 RELIGIOUS. Noonday Prayer-Meeting at Farwell Hall. The Story of Philip---The Work Laid Out for Christians. L] The Bev. Mr..Talmage and the #Christian at Work "---A Queer Way to Do Business, e #r. Spurgeon on the Subject of Ventilation in Churches. Notes and Personals at Home and Abroad---Church Sert- vices To-Day.- 5 FARWELL HALL. © . [HE NOONDAY PRAYER-MEETING fn Farwell Hall was an overflowing one, every gest being occupied, and quite a number - of * people standing up. 1t was led by the Rev. M. M. Parkhurst. As an opening, the hymn com- mencing “I need Thee every hour, mos graclous Lord,"” was sung. e The dafly lesson was Acts, viil., 26—i0,~—tle- story of Philip. & Prayer by the Rev. Dr. Curtis, of the Michi- gran Avenue Baptist Church, followed its read- jog. They anxiously desired God to reveal Himself unto them. They were inquirers, and wanted to know more of God—to learn of the truth which had an influence upon their cternal destiny. He asked the blessing of God upon the work of grace began in the city, returning thanks for the large measure of success already given, and asking that the work of His servants might be greatly increased. The hymn, “I love to tell the story,” was sung- 1t was announced that Mr. Moody would de- liver an address on - Daniel”” this_evening at 8 o'ddock in the Tabernacle, also that Mr. "Moody would meet, Mondey night in the Clark Street Methodist Church, “all those who had reason to believe they were converted at the recent meetings. Mr. Parkhurst spoke, taking as his text Acts, viii., 25, suggesting as the topic personal preach- ing of Jesus,—why, to whom, and the results. The thought prominent in his mind at this time, in view ol the grand work God was doing, was that 8 Christian who did not hear the angel of the Lord speak to him to do some specific work should go down before God and ask why. Christians were in their right places, and qualitied for their work and ready to do it, Ged would speak to them. A great many were ready to be sent to Jerusalem or Samaria where the cir- cumstances scemed to be propitious; but to be sent in among rugged rocks and deep dark de- files was not very welcome work. Philip had * learned to know God,—that when God spoke he 1must obey; and God encouraged him. He never sent one toa great task that He did not send a circamstance to help one. They did not believe enough in special providences, eliminating the superynman and divine, and thinking the work was to be done by themselves. God was manazing this campaien. He believed the Gospel was personally to be dpreacbe\i by every Christian. The command to “preach It was meant for every converted soul. A man secking Christ should give up his sins, and prayerfully and honestly search God’s Word to sce what it says. A man who did that would always find that God had some Philip to meet him and tell him what, to do. The Rev. Mr. Patton led in prayer, asking God to incline their hearts to do what He pointed out for them, and to go where He commanded, to the énd that there migkt be a rich and glorious bLarvest reaped. - ¥ y “He Leadeth me, Oh! Blessed Thought,” ‘Was 6uUDg. 3 A gentleman gaid that, to him, Philip was the D. L. Moody of the day. How would they feel if Moody was called into the desert to speak to one soul? Would they not think tbat the work would all go to smash{ The narrative of Philip taught a Jesson of obedience, and all should go E‘hcre God called them, without thinking about Another asked if they did not sometimes speak when they ought to_keep still. To him tuestory tanght them to_keep an eye on their neighbors until they understood \’.geh- circum- stances and the state of their minds, and then ‘sfim.km them the “fitting word.” The Bpirit idnot come until one was willingto obey Jesus, and submit to His will. As soon as they were ready to doso,and to enter upon the gork, just’so soon would God enter into their Another said two thoughts suggested them- selves tohim. One was that, when traveling, they should carry a Bible, and the other was they should be governcd by first impulses, and | {gt stop to let the devil get any advantage of em. Mr. Jacobs thought that they could speak not.h.lnimumse around them that would be more blessed of God than to preach to them as Philip preached to the emnuch,—that it was Christ that was in the Word, and that that was the place to find Llim. Mr. Youker believed that there was a great amount of labor lost, in the Churchby men button-holing men and speaking to them on the subject"of religion simply because somebody told them to doit. They should ask God, and i the Spirit impressed them, *Go.” No man had a right to go to his neighbor in his own Slren%t.h, unless God told him to go. It was Inbor lost if they did not get the command from the Head of the Church. = After prayer by the-Rev. Mr. Ravlin, who asked to convert the drunkards and lost *ject, .which finally resulted -Qct.' 12, 1876 men, the benediction was pronounced. DOUBTFUL CHRISTIANITY. THE OTHER SIDE OF TALMAGE. .The Dew editor of the Christian at Work, J. . Hallock, publishes in his paper the following story concerniug the Rev. Mr. Talmage, which 15 not at all creditable, if true: My connection with the Christian at ork is as follows: Dr. Talmage had repeatedly nrged me to look into fts aflairs, with a view of becoming its publicher. More than a _year ago, while athis Country residence in Suffolk County, Long Islund, which is alo my own native county, he grasped me by the hand ‘in the most cordial manner, and Buring our conversation he repcatedly remarked ¥ith great fervor that 1 was the Very man the Lord Resigned to become the publisher of the Clristian £t Work. During my visit to my old home in Suf- folk County, thut'summer. I saw him two or three times at his hiouse. lie always intimated his great desire that I ehould purchase the Christian at Vork and become its publisher, adding that he could work with me petter than any otlier mau. I was not dieposed to purchase the paper at that e, although through Talmage's inttuence Mr. emington, {is then owner, was induced to make me the ofter, Shortly after, Mr. B. R. Coryin, one of the offi- cers of Talmage’s church, and*a man wholly un- familiar with newspaper businesg, was made pub- lieher at Talmuge's request, and his adminictra- 2?; Pproved a total failure, financially and other- _1pald no further attention to the matter. Abont 8ix or seven months ago, Talmage's son came around to my residence with the following note from Mr. Talmage: Brookwyx, March 6, 1876.—DEA Mr. HALLOCE: Could vou calt at my house this evening before oF by & ®'elock? Ifnotat wlattime? Yours, etc.. 15.UxFoRD SreEET. T DE WITT TALNAGE. 1was at home, and told the bearer 1 would call around as requested. 1 went. He received me into his parlor, and with many_expressions of his fontinned high regard for me, he denounced ilhe ncial management of the Christian at Work, &nd aid they did not properly appreciate his ser- Fices, Afterward, at his request, I accompanied Rim to the residence of B. R Corwin, his publich- er. Mr. Corwin was not very well, and came into the parlor in his study-gown. ter int:oducing me we took our seats, and Dr. Talmage asked me if I could in an emergency get ::l an edition of the Christian at J¥ork next wet}h my own type, withour any sppearance of 3 break, having' Ell the subscribers furnished with th@r psper at the usual time. Ireplied that I €onld do 50 in an emergency, but that it would re- Quire great effort on my part, and I did not see Low anything practical conld ome out of it. He thensaid: ** Now, I willtell joumy plan, “You Shall ot once get out a papercalled Christian 1Vork. tisa better uume than Chrisfian at Work. I will beits editor. Yon shall be its publisher. We bave l#: ;nLh'e list of subscnbers of the Christian at s “Mr. Corwin added earnestly, and pointing toward Rdesk or cabiget, Yo, it In there—1 Save the entire list in that desk.™ 1wae astonished, but remembering that the pub- dsher was u novice, and that clergyimen were no- ‘toriously unbusinese-like, Iinformed them that1 conld ot conscientiousiy carry ont that pro- gmmmey S » Talmage responded: *¢Why, the list is mine. I Sreated it. These sul rs cre all my own. When Ifirst took the Uhristian at Work, they bed .conid not misunderstand us , an havean enor Tist of over 20,605, ™ 7 ki As the Christian at Tork bappened to bave been printed in the same room with one of my own pa- pers, before Talmage took it, I knew that under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation the circalation was much larger than it hus cverbeen since Talmage was connected with {7 Lut I think 1did not remark this at the time. T did remark that both the listand the name belonged to the Christian at Work Publishing Company, and not to private individuals. r. Talmage said {n reply: **Well, we will not have exactly the same name. We' will use the same clectrotype hesding with the omission of the little word *at;'" and added, ** Corwin can easily get it for you, 'Then, " said he, *‘we will fill out the subscriptions without charge with our new pa- ver, Christian Work, from Corwin's list. A3 the subscriptiony cxpire, ‘one sfter, anather, the sub- gcribers will all follow me, and we_shali have the entire list—not 500 eobecribers will remain with Remington. ! Tintimated that the Jaw might not allow us to {ake such a course even 1f the Gospel would, and left. * From this time onward Dr. Talmage has sent me repeated noles appoiating intervicws both at my oflice and elscwhere, and has uscd every means in hie power to fnduce me to purchiuse the Christian at Work, even offering to make an effort to_bring in fresh capital with me, and to absorbthe Mefho- cist newspaper in our new project. 1 communi- cated n few of thexe sentimentsto Mr. Remington, * when Dr. Talmage beeame very much alarmed, and wrote me a confidential note to be lesé communica- tive and to be ** non-committal.” Things went on in this way awhile, until he pro- posed o write o letter to Mr. Remington, appoint- | ing an intervicw between the latter and myself at Dis own house. _I suppose he wrote the letter, for 1soon afterward received the following note: Dear HaLLocK: Please be atmy house a lictle before 7 thlsgvening. 1 wrote Remington theletter we pro- Posed." Hie wiit De ire xu'%. D, We TALR A Iwent to Talmage's house as requested, found Mr. Remington there. queristsdnd On Friday evening, Sept. 20, Mr. A. Alford, representing Mr. Remifigton, called at my resi: dence, and told me I had bettey take hold of The Christian at Work. 1do mot know whether Mr. Remington knew of this visit ornotat, the time. Mr. Alford is a personal friend, and we were once officers of thesame temperance lodge, 1 dictated and he wrote a letter to Mr. Remington on the sub- An my taking the paper t Ahis” tine namely: on © Friddy, Oct. 6, in-the afternoon, 1 accidentally- met Mr. Talmage while crossing the City Hall Park. 1 had not seen him or communicated with him for long time. and I chok hands with him, remarking that he was the very man I wanted to see; and he mude a similar remark to me. 1 sald that1 was seriously thinking of purchasing the" Ghristian at T¥ork, and laughingly reminded him of a promise he once made mie to edit the_paper a year for noth- ing if I would purchase it. But'I remarked, . * ¢ Doctor I will not hold you to that promise. You shall have at least $2,000 in the first year, and perhaps more, if the profits should warrant.” e seemed very much pleased, and_ invited me to get into & Fifth avenue omnibus and talk the matter over with him, a8 he eaid he was going up town, I think to Twenty-second street. I told him I was in’ agreathurry, and he said, ‘*Very well. Iwill sec you again Monday, and we will talk the matter allover.” Late in the morning—perhaps near noon—the next Monday, Oct. 9, Lcalledat the office of the Christianat iork. Meeting their former adver- tising manager, Mr. E. P. Cone, at the door, 1 asked him to request Dr. Talmage to step onta moment. §oon asterward Dr. Talmage came out alone, and, taking my arm, said: *‘Let us go around 1o 'the Astor House and talk tius thin over." We went there. The Doctor looked ground for a small parlor where we could sit free from observation. ~ Finally he said: **Come in here.” And we went in and sat down, - I then put into his hands the following paper: & Ocr. 9, 1870.—In constderatlon of the fact thiat J. N. Taliock s futendlng foclcar the Girisiian 4t Fork on: tirely from debt, and put it upon a healthy cash-paylng basis, 1 do hereBy promise and agree with him, [n_con: sideration furthermore of the sum of two thousand (62,000) dollars, o be pald by bim to me in cqual month- 1¥ thstallments, to coutinue to furnish my sermoas, and ‘my serviccs as heretofore as edltor excluslvely of the Chratian as iFork, for one year from this date. Helooked over the paper and seemed pleased, and smid: **If you had showed me this one week ago, I would have signed it at once; asitis, I will give you a definite answer to-morrow. This is the only offer of compensation I ever made him. e pasted in the most cordial manner, und although e mentioned that he hnd other offers. he gave me not the slightest hint that he intgnded to accept hem. The result is known. At 6 o'clock, after the closing of the office, Mr. Talmage returned, 100k ontan editortzl, and put in one announcing his transfer to another journal. Atthe same time en advertisement was taken out and his own **an- nouncement” putin, the presses then being started according todMr. Talmage's secret instructions, given to the pressman during the afteroon, to ** run all night.” that his surrcptitions edition misht be worked off and, mailed to subscribers before the owners of the paper conld prevent it. . N. HALLock. - ‘revions PREACHERS AND PEOPLE. SPURGEON’S OPINIONS, The Londou Telgrapl; of the 4th fust. hus the following: Mr. Spurgeon took part yesterday in the pro- ceedings in conmection with the laying of the foundation-stone of a new hallin Georgia street, Chsmberwell, in which Ned Wright proposes for the fature 1o carry on the mission service, for which his present wooden and iron structure has become inadequate. There was a_very crowded attendance, and Mr. Wright seemed to have many .sympathizers, by one of the most liberal of whom, Mr. 2. A. Gray. the stone was laid. Icame here to-day, said Mr. Spurgeon, to heipa neignbor. The tine was when nobody wonldgro inside any place of WorsBip nnless he agreed with all that was gaid and done there; but we have now come to rejoice in diveraity of operations where we can see that they ‘are dirccted to the service of the same Lord. 1 believe there is not half as much ground for the snsiety people feel when they look at the various denominations in the Church as they sup- pose. I have known one place in a town as dead a8 death could be, and another place was opencd, and then both were filled. _[Hear, bear.}. Yormy part, if Ned Wright or anybody clse can run away Wwith my congregution—[a laugh]—they are uncom- monly welcome: but it will take them all their time, for Lalways think that if there is a new coach puton the rond the old coach should be Lorsed belter, 80 as to keep customers, [Great op- plause.] What we want to do is by some means to get the great mass of our people to hear the Gos- el. 1am always hearing it said the great problem l’m get the working classesto listen to the Gospel. 1 do not belicve that to be the problem at all, and I aeny altogether that the working classes of London attend less at the house of God than other classes in London. In proportion to their numbers they attend a8 well as any other class, At least that is my expericnce. People come to the Tabernacle, - snd when they sce the congregation coming out they ssy mo working classes’ go there, because they would not be 50 well dressed. But why should not a workingman wear as goud a suit of clothes as he possibly cun get? Doyou expect that on Sunday he would wear the same clothes in which, during the week, he is brick-laying or carpentering, in which he 18 up to his neck in dust, or in which he goes down a sewer? One of the first things I notice about a man when he turns from his evil ways, is that he gets o decent suit of clothes, and if ever he had sucn 4 thing before I am nfraid he was in the habit of leaving them rather long at his unele's, jughter,] 1 don’t believe any one in Europe could tell the difference between & workman in hig best_clothes and sny,other swell, [Renewed laughter.] I suppose two-thirds of my congrega- tioe at the Tabernacle are workingmen, and when- ever you have & vigorous, living church, you will find that tne bulk of it is made up of the very men whom it is £aid to be the problem to get to fo to the honee of God. There is a problem I should like to see solved, and that is how to get the peopie of the West End into church, becanse, althongh there are many places in con- nection with _the Church of England in which ~_the Gospel is ‘truly preached,: I muet fay I do. not call it going to the house of God when a_man goes to Witness proces- slons, and pomps, and showe. And I know there are hundreds of thousands of people living in the suburbs surrounding London, having large incomes and fine houses, who do not attend church any more than many of the avorkpeople do. Letus look at the_objections people urge to going out on Sundsy. Some say thtir clothes are not good enough, but theyare good enongh if they have been paid for. Puugbwr‘ 1 admit there are persons who should never goto church—those who wear boots that squenk, and ladies whose wmbrellas are always falling down witha snap. Then yoa find people who say they don't. go because of the heat and the bad air. Icouid indicate some places where they conld have three pows to. themseives if they liked [laughter] and plenty of air. To all sex- tons and chiapei-kecpersIwould give this wrinkle— open your windows often. [Laughter.] I often preach in couniry chapcls where the people get acked like herrings in & barrel [luughter], and I fave tried to get the windows opesed, but they would't, for they never had been opomed. [A Iaugh.] T went into one of these places once, and it was 80 close and_ hot that Iasked every gentle- man near a window to smash s pane or two. {Lan hter.] There was soona very grand smash ut then the beautifal fresh air streamed in. I puid the bill afterward like an honest man; but it was mnch better to do that than bear the cruglty of preaching in such anatmosphere, or forcing beople 1o listen When they were more disposed to slecp. There i§ & common complaint_that the preacher can neither be understood nor heard, and there is some truth in it. 1iwish some preschers who mum- take care of the children for a Sunday 2nd let the mother get ont. [Applanse.] As forthe husbands, I don't think they always take their fair tarn with their wives, for 1 sce some Christian men ont on Sunday whose wives never get out for a month togethier. 1 think, too, thut people have o good deal to do with the filling of the churches “and that they might bring friends when they could, and certainly when they found it necessaty to eay thegood man preachinghad his wits » wool-gather. ing, they ongnt only 10 say it out in the country, Wwhen there was no one within smile or o of them. Llll‘ghzer.] I'll tell yor what I often ind. When go into a street and usk for a chapel I am told it is round the corner by the Duke of anla, or the Marquis of Granby, or the Mother Red Cap; but I don"[ find that the churchesare conspicuous places. Don't let this happen to you. Advertise, ;h(r!b- ute handbills, for the life of business is black ink. You onght to distribute tracts—1 mean good ones —and if 1 knew where you could get good ones I rhould 1ell you, for they are gencrally soporific ar- ticles. [Langhter.] Mr. Spurgeon concluded, after an earnest cxhortation, by remarking that, as book numbers sold best when they were illustrated with plates, 60 in that meeting they were going to sce what could be done with plates. A handsome col- {:{:‘éflgl‘l]rls taken up, Mr. Spurgeon beginiing it RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. THE CHURCH IN GENERAL. In Servia there are forty-one convents and eight monks for every 100,000 inhabitants. The Bishops have been forpidden to ordain any more monks, and the Legislature is considering a proposition to turn the convents into schools of agriculture and forestry. A new Roman Catholic sisterhood has been organized in England, and hasrecerved the sanc- tion of the Pope. Its objeet is to provide homes and instruction for poor factory girls; and it is called “The Congregation of the Sisters of the Most Holy Cross and Passion.” It having been found impracticable to cele- brate Oct. 31, “ Reformation Day,” at the Cen- tennial grounds, it has been unanimously agreed by a meeting of Lutheran pastors in Philadel- - phia to recommend to Lutheran pastors and congregations such observance of the day as would be convenient to each. The Eastern Conference of the Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other States .-has arraigned one of its members for taking part in certainservicesat the Mount Vernon Orphanage, which is Lutheran, but belongs to no particular party. It is claimed that the close communion rule of the Synod has been violated. There are now reported to belld Protestant missionaries in Japan. In .Kobe a Japanese Christian is chaplain of the city prison, and the head of the Normal School for Women in Tokio isa Wesleyan. A large shop has been opened in Tokio for the sale of Bibles and other Chris- tian books in the language of the Japanese. Both the halls in the Horticultural Buildihg of Boston have been secured for the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church Coni,rmss,' ‘which begins Nov. 14. The Rev. J. H. Waterbury, of East.Boston, has been chosen Precentor. ™ Ef- forts will. be made to sccure the attendance of others besides Episcopalians. The proceedings of the Congress will be phonographically re- ported. The week extending from Nov. 12-18 will be observed by Young Men’s Christion Asso- ciations as a week of special prayer. It is ex- pected that the week will be observed. through- out the Protestant world. The American Christian ‘AgsOciations have named Sunday, Nov. 12, as/a-day of thanksgiving. The Ameri~ can and Cnenaadir)) Committees request pnszors to preach sprcial sermons on the morning of that day. o = 7 Spurgeon does mnot believe in ill-venfilated churches. One day he was preaching in coun- try chapel where the air was so foul-that he asked whether every gentleman who happened to be near a window swould have the kfi:dness tosmash one or two ,panesof glass. There was o d smashing of panes and a delightful oceession of fresh air. It is but rightto add that Mr. Spurgeon'paid the bill for damage done to the windows. . The Rev. Father P. Ryan, assistant pastor of St. Peter’s Catholic Church, corner of Poppleton and Hollins streets, delivered an interesting sermon yesterday morning, in whichhe adverte: to mixed marringes, or marriages the partics to which are of different religious faith. The effects of these marriages were often ruinous to the peace and happiness of families. The sub- Ject had received the serious consideration of the Archbishop and dergy of the diocese at a meeting held at the close of the recent annual rbtreat. Asa result, parish priests were mot now permitted to give absolution to s Catholic oung man who Wwas paying attentions to a rotestant young lady, or'to 2 Catholic young lady who was receiving the attentions of a Protestant young man, with a view to matrimo- ’(J;y' In cases where members of the Catholic hurch did contract such marrisges, they would be compelled first to receive the consent of the Archbishop before the Enrisb pricst conld marry them. 1t had also been determined that all marriages in the Catholic churches in this city must take place in daylizht.—Baltimore American. - A Baltimore clergyman named Morrison edits a Presbyterian papeér, in which he said some things which gave umbrage to a Tew of his fel- low-Presbyterians. They demanded a special meeting of the Presbytery to deal with the of- fending editor. But Morrison, who happened to be Moderator of the Presbytery, refused to call the mecfin%,‘ and the stated clerk had to call it. Then Morrison insisted that the meet- ing, not being legally called, was powerless to act on his case. His opponents lost their tem- er, and threatened to hand him over to the po- ice. The police, however, were not called in, and, after much excitement and unseemly dis- play of wrath, ihe meeting concluded with a benediction. Previous to the conclusion Dr. Morrison and his friends triumphed in the pas- sage of a resolution to the effect that, under the circumstances, the clerk had no authority to call the meeting. A litigiously disposed brother appealed from the decision to the Synod. The probability is that half of the time of the next meeting of the Synod will be spent in discuss- i;fwnezher the clerk was wright or wrongin ling the meeting. The litirious folks sa they will appeal to the General Assembly it they fail to get from the Synod what they call ustice. Toget a decision on a thing of this nd from the,General Asscmbly generallytakes about six years. By that time all involved in the quarrél may be dead. LAYING A CORNER-STONE. A meeting of delegates of the various socle- ties who are to participate in laying the corner- stone of the Rev. Father Carten’s church, on Thirty-seventh and Wallace streets. to-day, was held at Father Mathew Hall on Sunday last, when the following line of march was agreed upon: The societies will rendezvous at Canal- port avenue and Halsted strects at 1:30 p. m., and will start at 2 o’clock sharp, moving south on Halsted to Twenty-sixth street, cast on Twenty-sixth to Wallace, south on Wallace to the Church. The societies will rendezvous as follows: First Division—Nativity T. A. S., aid, Patrick Ruash, will form on Canalport avenuc, right resting on Halsted strect, on south side of strcet. Holy Family T. A. B, aid, Dennis Gleason, il formon Canalport avenue, in rear of Nativity. St. Patrick’s T. A. S., aid, Edward Hfl\'gfi',wi'll form in rear of Holy Family. St.James’ T. A. S., aid, John Dillon, will form in rear of St. Patrick’s. St. Pius, T. A.D., aid, J. H. Gill, will form in rear of St. James. Sccond Division—All Saints’ T. A. S. aid, John Fenlon, will form on north side of Canalport_avenue, right resting on Halsted street. St. John’s T. A. S., aid, Patrick O'Brien, will form in rearof All Saints’. St. Johws Sodality, aid, K 3L Burke, form in rear of St. John’s T. A. 8. A. O H., No. 2will form in fear of St. John’s Sodality. F. B. A., No. §, aid, Thomas Halpin, will form in rear of A. O. H., No. 2. PERSONAL. Bishop Oxend , the Metropolitan of Canada, who is Low Chureh, has prohibited the Rey. O. J. Prescott, Rector @t §t. Clement’s Church, Philadelphia, from- officiating in the Diocese of Montreal. Mr. Prescott isa member of the Society of St. John, Cowley, England, and has been celebrating a retreat at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, a Ritualistic Church, A consistory was held at the Vatican upon Sept. 29, at which- the Pope nominated six ble at a very great rate would get & new set of teeth. If men have anything worth being heard, they should speak out. 1 have heard of clergymen in Australia and Africa—I donot say in England {a laugh)—of whom it is said that when you bear them once you hear as much of them as yon want tohear. (Langhier.] Preachers use various kinds of English,—one with many-ey}labled words, the otber the Saxon their mothers falked, and which they themselves began to use when they praitied as children.. I heard a story once of a number of sailors who were playing cards up. aloft, and had a light for the pur- pose. ‘The Captain sent a midshipman totell them toput it out, and the midshipmun told them to **extinguich that Juminary. " Bot the sailors did not understund him. Then the Captain called ont, ““Douse that glim,” and out went the candle, Great laughter. ] I shonld not have said that, but should have tiken a mddle point, and sai “+Put ont that candle, 0ld boys.” [Langhter.] Believe *hlghfalutin " $3 too’ much uced in the N ‘We preachers shoul k 80 that people pulpit. L exoh it they taed to doco. Some men occasionally sizy away from commnnion because their wives havea large fam- fiv [2laugh), and these poor women cannot leave the children. T shoud like to whisper in the ears of ‘soihe Christian young woman that they might goand Bishops, among whom were Mgr. Zerpa, as Bishop of Merida, in Venezuela, and Megr. Gon- zales as Bishop of Ibarra, in Ecuador. Itis re- ported from Madrid that the Pope hus requested the Spanish pilerims, now on theirway LoKm_nu, not to question him upon the present excite- ment in Spain over the Religions Toleration act. Evangelist Hammond is at work in Philadel- phia in the Reformed Church in Seventh strect. A moderately Jarge congregation is in attend- ‘ance, but the attractions of the closing weeks of the Centennial are too great to make it probable that Mr. Hammond will draw. t crowds. Aiter the evangelist has_concluded a brief sea- son of labor in Philadelphis, he is to go to Wash- ington, to take up his work where he left it off some time 3go. : The Baptist Church is about to lose one of their oldest and most able ministers, the Rev. ‘uller, of Baltimore, Who seems to be Tproaing Hs end: He 1 a native of South appros ¢ é’nmlina and first entered the profession of the law, but left it for the Baptist ministry. Dr. Fuller s celebrated for his controversy with Dr: Wayland on the slavery guestion and, at a late date, with Archbishop Hughes on historical oints, in reference to the establishment of re- igious liberty in the United States. The American Sunday-School Union has some veteran missionaries in its cmploy. A. W. Corey, of Illinois, has been in the field fifty years. From 1845to 1876 in his fleld, 24,620 &chools had been organized, with 178,79 teach- crs and 1,260,954 scholars. Books, papers, ete., were placed in thesc schools to the amount of over ,000, and he estimated that 3,000,000 gersons received religious instruction in them. tephen Paxton, anotber veteran, in twenty years planted over 1,200 schools with 70,000 pupils. . A congress of persons who are desirousof in- troducing a ‘better -observance of Sunday in continental Europe Was held in Geneva, Switzer- land, in the last week of September.” Among the delegates were Lient.-Gen. Von Roder, - representing the Emperor of Germany; the Court-Preachers, Bauer of Berlin, Dobl of Carlsrube, and Wittich of Stutteart, likewise representing their sovereigns; Count Bismarck Bollem, late Governor of Alsace, Count By- landt of Holland, Dr. Hermann Von Tardi, of the Evangelical Church Council of ‘Austria, Gen. Ochscnbein Von Midan, and other persons of note from Switzerland and other countries. Last week Bishop Stevens (Protestant Episco- pal) ordained as Deacon Mr. Henry W. Lyle, o deaf mute, at Philadelphin. Scveral Bishops were present. The sermon by Bishop Stevens gave a historical account of the education of deaf mutes, and set forth the reasons for or- daining a deaf mute to the Deaconate to min- ister in holy things to deaf mutes. Interpreta- tions of the service and the sermon in the sign language were made for the large number of deaf mutes present in the congregation,many of whom had come from distant parts of the coun- try. . The Rey. Mr. Lyle will officiate at the ser- vices In Stephen’s Mission to the deaf mutes in Philadelphia. BREVITIES. A negro Methodist’s idea of ministerial quali- fications: “De new preacher is mo’ larnt dan Mistuh Boles was. But, Lor’ bless ye, sah, he hain’t got de doleful sound like Mistuh Boles had. No, indeedy!" A Brooklyn car-conductor took his wife to one of the fashionable churches, last Sunday, and her’countenance presented a curious study upon hearing him ring his punch-bell when the contribution-box was passed ,to him, “The Doy of Rest.”—Janet—“Hcch, Betty, an’ here comes your Granny jest cannily tou!™ Betty—** Oo,’ay, she always takes s muckle on a Saturdey nicht, jest to last her over the Saw- baath, for she’s far too relecgious a body to driuk sperrit o’ the Laird’s Daay."—Fun. It makes the new Pre:wher awful mad to be fumbling with the intricacies of a “front gate fastening, trying to geiin and make his first pas- toral call, to have the woman of the house turn the slats in: the window and call out, “We haven’t got no_old clothes to give away and there ain’t a cold vittle in the house!”—Bur- lington Haickeye. : Norwich Bulletin: It is_gratifying to notice that even the stringency of the times does not tempt ood men Irom the path of truth. A stranger was in town. yesterday trying to sell for a curiosity a boat-compass, which he stated had been in his family for over 500 years, and was reported to have been owned by Pontius, the pilot, though he frankly said he could not vouch for the last statement. g - There was once a farmer who was noted asa speaker or exhorter in mectings, on which occa- stons he was prone to tell how great a sinner he* was. It was all very well until, on winding up a long deprecatory harangue, a neighbor rot up and solemnly indorsed every word that Mr. Jones had said of himself.” Ashe sat down, Jones hissed out 1 a loud whisper: *You in- fernal rascal, just wait till arter meetin’ and I'll settle with you!” ° A mischievous quack in Altoona City, Pa., advised a fnung man with more hair than brain to use molasses water, the theory being that after the water evaporated the rebellious locks would coalesce and keep in place. He made his tollet of a Sunday morning, and, taking a prominent pew, concentrated the attention of all the flies'in the church, much to the relief and ediflcation of the congrcgation. After striking wildly about, and damaging & palm-leaf in undue vchemence, he made a break for the door, with the flies swarming about his well- seasoned poll. A little girl very much disposed to very posi- tive conclusions received her first strong im- ressions of death, when 3 years old, by the loss of a’good friend who had been living a while in her father’s family. After the funeral she was thoughtful, and suddenly broke out: “I don’t want to dic and be put in a box and beput in the ground.” Somegpe said to her: ““But the soul goes to heaven. “Don’t you want to go to heaven and be an angel?” She had scen pic- tures of angels that, for all_she knew, might be correct portraits, and the thoughbt was not con- soling. She replicd more positively than before: “T don’t want to be an angel, and have feathers like a chicken!” - The tramp printer is usually a dry cuss, as well in speech as for the want of liquid refresh- ments. The composing-room of the Boston Globe is reached by short flights of stairs, seem- ingly without end. One day a strange tramp staried for this room, snd, after a minute's climbing, inquired at one of the offices on the way up where the I.)gos were, The answer was, up several flights. On he traveled, and inquircd at another room. Up several flights, the reply came. Again he climbed, and again, and_azain he asked for the coveted iaformation. Up sey- eral flights. Finally, completely exhausted, the tramp reached the goal,—the jail, the boys think,—and, probably having in his mind Jacob’s ladder, sugzested by the stairs, he cau- tiously opened the compesing-room door, and, stretching his long neck out like an interroga- tion poiut, asked in the most solemn manner, “Is God in?? - * CHURCH SERVICES. PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. James Maclaughlin will preach this morning, and the Rev. Dr. Cooper, of the Reform- ed Episcopal Church, this evening, at the Scotch Church, corner of Sangamon and Adams streets. ~—The Rev. J. H. Walker will preach this morn- jugand evening in the Reunion Chureh, West Fourteenth street, near Throop. —The Rev. C. L. Thompson will preach this morning in the Fifth Church, corner of Indiana avenue and Thirtieth street. There will be a union Gospel service in the cvening, and a service by the Rev. Dr. Everts. —The Rev. Jacob Post will preach this .morning in the Dutch language, and this cvemng in En- glish, ot the church corner of Noble and West Erie streets. —The Rev. E. N. Barrett will preach this morn- ing inthe Westminster Church, corner of Jackson and Peoriz strcets. Sabject: *‘‘Counting the Cost.* S —The Rev. Dr. J. Monro Gibson will preach at the Second Church, Michigan avenue and Twen- ticth street, at 10:45 a. m.\ In the eveningthe-| congregation will unite with those of the First Presbyterian_and Michigan Avenue Baptist and Tnnilg M. E. Churches, when Dr. Gibson will preach. —The Rev. S. G. Hopkins, of Columbas, O., will preach st_the Eighth Church, ‘corner West Washington and Robey streets, at 10:30 2. m. CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. D. N. Vanderveer will preach this morning and evening in Union Park Church, cor- ner of Ashland avenue and Washington strect. —The Rev. E. N. Packard, of Eyanston, will ’;rmch this morning in the Leavitt Street Church. The pastor, the Rev. Gico. II. Peake, will preach at the union service at the Western Avenue 3. E. Charch in the evening. —The Rev. Dr. Stuart, of Milwaukee, will preach this morning in_Plymouth Church, ichi- gan avenue, between Tweniy-ifth and Twenty- sixth streets. Y —The Rev. E. F. Williams will preach at the Forty-seventh Street Church at 10:45 8. m. 2z —The Rev..B. F. Leavitt will preach at the Lin- coln Park Church, corner of Sophis and Mohawk streets, morning dnd evening. 2 —The Hav. L."T. Chamberiain will preach at the New England Cnarch, Delaware place and North Dearborn etreet, morning and evening. : BAPTIST, At The Rev. H. R. Stimpson will preach this morn- ing, and the Rev. N. F. Raslin this evening, in the Free Will Church, corner of Loomis and Jack- son streets, g —The Rev. N. E. Wood will preach this morn- ingand evening in the Centennial Baptist Charch, /| | corner of Lincoln and Jackson streets. —The Rev. J. A. Smith will preach at the Uni- serslly Place Church, Douglas avenuc, opposite Rhodes avenue, at 11 a.m., and the Rev. H. R. Stimpson will preach at 7:30 p.m. . —The Rev. Dr. Galusha Anderson will preach at the Second Church, corner Morgan and Monroe streets, at 10:30 a.m. ana 7:30 p.m. Baptismat the close of the evening sersice. . —The Rev. D. B. Cheney will preach st the Fourth Church, corner Washington and Paulina streets, at 10:30 8. m., and the Rev. Thomas Armi- tage, of New Yoris, Will preach at 7:30 p.m. on +*The Baptiats and the Bible. " —The Rev. J. D. Burr preaches this eveningat Tmmanuel Charch, 290 Orchard strect. —The Rev. Dr. Armitage will preacn at the Firat Church, corner Sonth Parisavenue and Thirty-first street, at 11 a.m. on ‘*The Bible and the Bap- tista.” In the evening there will be 3 union mect- ing with the Fifth Presbyterian and Michigan Ave- fwe M. E. Church, when Dr. Everts will preach. —The Rev. R. DeBaptiste will preach at the Olivet Church, Fourth avenme, south of Pollk street. The Rev. John Jumper, Msj.Ingalls, and Munday Durant will address the andience, on the progress of the Bible in the Indian Nation. 3 —The Rey. John Jumper, Chief of the Seminole Nation, and the Rev. Munday Dorant, a member of the Creek Indian Council and interpreter for Chief Jumper, with Maj. G. W. Ingulls, Superin- tendent of Indian Missions, will speak at the North Star Baptist Church, corner of Sen]lfi\vlck and Division streets, to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock, and at the Olivet Baptist Church, Fourth avenue, between Polk and Taylor streets, to-morrow even- ing at 7% o'clock. EPISCOPAL. The Rev. B. F. Fleetwood will preach this morning and evening in the Charch of the isin\;nhflnv, Throop strect, between Monroe sud s, —The Rev. Henry G. Perry will preach this morming and evening in All-Saate’ Chubch, corer of North Carpenter and West Ohio strects. ~—There will be services at the Church of the Ascension, corner of Elm and LaSalle strects, at 10:453. m. and 7:30 p. m. —The Rev. Luther Pardee officiates morning and evening at Calvary Church on Warren avenue, be- tween Oakley street and Westernavenne. < The Rev. E. Sullisan wiil ofielate morning and evening at Trinity Church, o 2 Sixth atrect and Michizan avenng, OC TRty —The Rev. D. F. Warren ofliciates this morning and evening at St. Mark's Church; corner Cottage Grove avenue and Thirty-sisth street, —The Rev. Dr. Locke will preach this morning and_evening in Grace Church, Wabash avenue, near Sisteenth street, —The Rev. Dr. Cashman will ‘preach this morn- ing and evening in St. Stephen’s Church, Johnson strect, between Taylor and Twelfth. —The Kev, W. H. Hopkins will preach this morning and evening fn St. John's Church, Ash- land avenue, near Madison street. —The Rev. G. W. Morrill will preach at the Church of the Holy Communion, Dearborn street, between Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth., at 10:45 a. m. anp 7:30 p. m. s —The Rev. L. Des Drisay will_preach at 7:30 p. m. at the Church of the Holy Communion, Dear- born-st., between Tiwenty-ninth_and Thirtieth streets. 'In the morning at 10:43 the pastor will officiate. 2 —The Rev. Francis Mansficld will preach at the Church of the Atonement. corner West Washing- ton and Robey streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p.m. < REFORMED EPISCOPAL. The Rev. W. E. Willlamson will preach this morning and evening at the Churchof the Good Sheg}:ert corner of Jones and Homan streets. —The Rey. R. II. Bosworth will predch this morning and evening in Emmanuel Church, corner of Hanover aud Tiwenty-eighth streets; and for Trinity congrezation at the Baptist Church in En- glewood at 3:30 this afternoon. —The Rev. Dr. Cooper will preach this morning, and the Rev. Jamea Maclaughlan this evening, in lllnmtgmel Church, corner of Centreand Dayton streets. —Bishop Cheney will preach this morning fu Christ_Cliurch, corner of Michigan avenue snd Twenty-fourth'street. There will be a praise- mecting in the eveningunder the dircction of Prof. W. L. Tomlins, ~Bishop_Failowswill preach this morning and evening in St. Paul's Church, corner of Washington and Ann strects. : —Bishop Faliows, assisted by the Rev. W. E. Willismson, will hold services in the Congrega- tional Church, South Chicago, at3 o'clock this afiernoon. —The Rey. J. D. Cowan will preach this evening in Wicker Park Church. METSODIST, Tho Rev. T D, Sicppard will preach at the Western Avenue Church, at 10:30a. m. In_the evening the congrezation will “unite with the Bap- tist, Congregutional, and Methodist congrezation in the meighborhood, when the Rev. George H. Peake, of the Leavitt Street Congrezational, will preach. —The Rev. S. T.' Adams will preach at Cente- nary Chureh, Monroe, near Morzan street, at 10:30 a.m., on *'Paying to God all the Tithes,” and at 730 b. m. on **Chistand the Young Ruler.” The Rev. John Atkinson will preacn s Grace Chureh, LaSalle and White streets, morning and eventng. —Bishop Harris will preach at Trinity Church, Indiana avenue mear Twenty-fourth ~street, at 10:43 3. m. —The Rev. S. MecChesney will preach at the Park Avennc Church, at 1045 3. m. and at 7:30 p. m, oo the Sullivan murder trial. —The Rev. Dr. W. C. Willing will preach at _the Langley Avenue Church, corner Thirty-ninth street, at 10:45 a. m., on ‘*The om of God,” and at 7:45 4 sermon to the yoang. UNITARIAN. —The Rev. Brooke Herford will proach in the Churchof the Messizh, Michigan avenue and Twenty-third street, this morning and evening. Morning subject: ** Effectusl Fervent Prayer, and Effectual Fervent Work.” Evening subject *“Tne Revival Preaching of the Blood Unseriptaral and Degrading. ™ —The Rey. d. T. Sunderland will preach this morning in the Fourth Church, Ellis avenue, near Thirty-seventh street. —The Rev. Robert Collrer will preach morning and evening at Unity Church, corner North Dear- born street and Walton place. —The Rev. Dr. Cravens, of Toledo, will preach at the Third_Charch, corner Monzde and Laflin streets, 3t 10:30 2. m. UNIVERSALIST. . The Rev. Sumner Ellis will preach this morning and evening in the Church of the Redeemer, corner of Washington and Sangamon streets. Kveming subject: % Whereln the Light of Our Great Paber- nacle Scems to be Darkness, " ~—The Rev, Dr. Ryder wil preach morning and evening ot St. Paul's Church, Michigan avenuc, between Sixteenth and Rightcenth streets, Morn- ing subject: ** The Atoncment of Christ.” Even- ing subject: ** Review of Dr. Patton's Sermon on the Bible in the Public Schools. ™ LOTHERAX. The Rev. Edmnund Belfour will preach this morn- ing and evening in the Church of the Holy Trinity, corner of North Dearborn and Erie streets. CHRISTIAN. The Rev. Z. W, Shepherd will preach in the morning at the First Church, corner of Twenty- fifth street and Indiana avenue, and at 3 p. m. In the Central Church, corner of Campbell avenue and West Van Buren strect. SPIRITUALISM. Mrs. Cora L. V. Tappan will lecture this morn- ing oefore the First Socicty of -Spiritualists in Grow's Hall, 517 Aladison street. Willlam Ellery Channing will lecture in the eveningon ** Fra- ternity of Discmbodied Souls.” MISCELLANEOUS. Elder H. G. MeCulloch will preach this morning and evening in the Tabernacle 91Soath Green street. —Christians will meet this morning in the chapel 318 West Chicago avenue. —The Rev. Dr. Hibbard will preach this morn- ing at the New Church Hall, cormer of Eighteenth street and Prairie avenue, and at 3:30 this sfternoon in the Temple, corner of Washington street and Ogden avenue. —The Rev. H. M. Paynter will preach this morn- ing at one of the regular Sunday Gospel meetings in Owsley's Hall, comner of Madison and Robey streets. —TThe Disciples of Christ will meet at 220 West Randolph street, £t 4 p. m. —Benjamin Franklin will be in attendance at the Friends' mecting, Twenty-sixth strect, near Indiana avenne, at 10730 a. m. and 5 p. m. —The Non-Sectarian Bible meeting will be beld st 149 East Randolph street, third floor, at2:30 p.m. The subjectof the lectare and discussion wwill be **The Kingdom of Heaven." CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. 0zt. 20—Trwentieth Sunday after Trinity. . XNov. 1—All Saints. CATHOLIC. Oct. 29—Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost. Qct. 30—Feria. Oct. 31—Vig of All Saints. Nov. 1—All Saiuts, Ne 4—St. Charles Borromeo, B. C.; aud Agricola, MM. ———————— Exceptional Hands at Cards. The number of strange and exceptional hands at cards which have actually been held is very large; but comparatively few of them are pub- licly known, cither because the players do not deem it worth while to put them in print, or because they lie buried in publications having a relatively small circulation. One is koown _as the ¢ Yarborough hand.”’ The (or an) Earl' of Yarborough once held & hand containing no card above a nine, and had resson to remember it on account of some heavy betting that was going on. Ever afrer that ne held himself ready to bet 1,000 guineas to onme ruinea against such o hand being held again. A practiced arithmerician — circulated that the real odds are somewhat larger than the Earl supposed ; and yet the hand has been held sufliciently often to” obtain for it a distinctive name. One whist-player noted that he held the king of hearts six times running, or in six successive deals. The odds azainst such a co- incidence can be exactly calculated, but we have not the figures “at hand. Another recorded instance relates to the game of bezique, not to whist; but it serves equally well as an illustration. Two Slnyzn cutting for deal both cut aces; they tried again and both cut kings; they both cut again & third time, and here appeared two knaves. As a bez- ique pack consists of only thirty-two cards—all the twos, threes, fours, fives and sixes being re- jected—the improbability of such a coincidence 18 not so great as in a whist-pack of fifty-two cards; _mevertheless, the odds are calculated to be five thousand to one against the occurrence of this particular event. A whist-plaver would some- times give much to know how many honors are beld by his partoer; a fact which, of course, in honorable contest, he can only guess approx- imately by the course of theplay. evertheless, calcalgtors, especially the mathematician Dem- oivre, have estimated numerous probabilities in connection with the four honors of cach suit. Such questions as_these bave been answered: No Xov. g the odds, inst the dealer and his \\px’::i having all e onors betrreen them 1’ &'And what against_their holding three honors, buAtnlmt. th?[omhi" #What are the odds against the other two players holding four, and abainst holding three?” Without going into particutars, the’ odds, in these supposed in- stances, range from thirteen against seven up to twenty-three against one. GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. The Man withthe Brooms==Whole= sale Matrimony. A Heavenly View---Her “Cause for Haste---Jonsonby’s Failure. The Widow and the Bouquet-=-A Romance of Cape Cod. EVE. Faint, timid, startled, Lare, ashamed, afraid, * She crouchés in the Garden. Al s still. Even the birds have hushed theirsongs. ~ The rill That langhed, and in the morning music made, Now hoarsely whispers low: **Behold yon here!” Alone she stands, nor dares to gaze below At that the water's limpid waves will show, — Alone, with all her nakedness and fear! Nay, something yet is kind; the vine she sees, And drags its wealth of blossom, leaf, and spraz, While trembling in a harried, frizhted way, She drapes herself with verdure to the knees, Andlooks! Ab, cruel sight! the sin is there— She blinds her own poor eyes, she still is bare! —4vugusta Von Bubria in New York Evening Mail. THE MAN WITH THE BROOMS. Oneof the old men who go from house to house selling two-shiiling brooms is a very fine old manp, and'he has *“odd streaks’ running through him. He doesn’t seek to enter a house by the front door, but softly and quietly slides aronnd to the side door to greet the servant girl. “No brooms to-day!” she opens the door. *‘Ah! my dear, but I have no brooms to sell. I bave & love-letter for you. She pricks up her ears at that, swings open the door, and he walks in and sits down. ‘ Ah—why—ah!” he ejaculates as he feelsin hispocketsfortheletter. ¢ Ah, Inowremember. The gentleman was going to hand it to me, but decided to mail it, fearing that I might deliver it to the wrong lady.” $What sort of a looking man?" she asks. ¢“Ah! Katy dear, you rogue you! Just asif he wasu't a perfect gent, with 'a dismond pin, gold watch, lotsof money? But you are worthy of him my dear—worthy of any gent.” “Idon’t know any such man,” she mused, but the old chap strikes in: ‘* Ah you beautiful deceiver! Of course you ‘won’t 1€t on to me, but I know a thing or two. He ought to be proud of you, for a finer face is not in Detroit. "And such beautiful hair! And such rosy lips! And such a form! Why, if you were only an inch_taller I should be{u:ve You were the Empress Eugenie “Oh! go’long!” replies the pleased girl, try- ing hard to blush. If sheis cross-eyed, stou] shouldered, frecile-faced, and pug-nosed flattery pleases her ail the more, and the firmer is her belief that he is speaking nothing but the solemn truth. “Noj; Idon’tcareaboutselling these brooms,” he remarks, picking up the dozen. “Youare of course acquainted with all tne aristoeratic fami- lies on Fort strect? » To be sure, you are. And you must know all the nicest folks on Lafay- ttte, Jefferson, and Woodward avenues, because they call here.on’ your aristocratic missus.” The girl won't commit herself, nad he goes calls outas she on: “This “forenoon, while I was selling a_dozen brooms to that high-toned Mrs. ——, on Wood- ward avenue, she asked me asa great favor to her to call on your dear missus, who is one of your warmest friends. I said L would. and with one of her sweetest smiles she added: ‘And don’t neglect to see that dear, darling girl in the kitchen, whose beauty is only equated by :f(ra‘ r’x:mil!sty and culture.’ That’s what she “Oh! pshaw!" replies the girl, her eyes sparkling like stars. “More than that said she, but I have not time to relate it. Icalled at her request, and hereIam. You might see the missus and bring her reply. My dealings arc entircly with the aristocracy, and I shnll%ehnppy toput the name of this family upon my book.” ‘The girl goes in, represents the need of new brooms in the strongest possible light, and a sale isinstantly cffected. “ And now, my darling,” says the old man as he s ready to depart, ‘that love-letter will probably reach you to-day. It doubtless con- tains a proposal of marriage. You will accept, a diamond “ring will be forwarded, and your home and fireside will fairly howl with joy for- ever more—good day.”. After days of pstient waiting for ‘“that let- ter," the girl slowly but certainly concludes that. the old man is a horse-thief and a liar, and she stops trying to look like the Empress Eugenie or anybody else.—Delroit Free«Press. . WHOLESALE MATRIMOXNTY. A very curious procession took place recently on East Second street. It consisted of thirts- two young couples, all of them dressed in the national costume of the Bohemian Czechs. The men wore short jackets, richly embroidered in red silk, and the girls, white skirts and crimson Jackets, with caps of green velvet, embroidered in gold and silver. The procession, which was headed by a small band and by & venerable pre- late in his full vestments, moved through Sec- ond street to Avenue A and then through Essex street to Broome street, where in the large hall of the building No. 237 a ceremony such as has never been witnessed before in New York took place. It was simply awholesale wedding of thiriy-two young Czechs with _thirty-two buxom lassies from the land of Nglpomukc, the patron saint of Bohemia. here i3 pmbnb?y no country in the world where the wedding ceremony is looked upon with more religious awe than jo Bohemia. The Czech colony in this city, consisting mostly of men and women engaged in the manufacture of ci- or in glass-blowing, has recently received strong accessions, pfinupnll‘¥ from Prague and the surrounding country. Notwithstanding the rostration of business, these Czechs nave sonfishcd more than ary other element of our forcign population. They are very thrifty; so- Der, and industrious, and they say that there is not 2 single Bohemian Empe' in the city. Some of the female cigar-makers of that nationality have relatively Jarge sums in the savings banks. They are a very energetic class of females and by no means unattractive in gersonsl appear- ance. There being no priest here able to per- form the nuptial rites in the Czech language, the.young couples that were ready to 5? married clubbed together and sent for the Right Rev. Bishop Habelezek from Prague to marry them at once. When the Bishop _arrived here a singular complication oceurred. The number of couples thot had sent for him was_found to be thirty-three. The Czechs consider thirty-three a very unlucky number,-and hence it was determined that only thirty-two couples should be married. ’l‘ht‘aly drew lots as to which couple should be exclud- ed, and the hapless lovers who were selected manifested their disappointment in a very lively manner. The Bishop consoled them by promis- ing to marry them soon. The wedding-cere- monies on Broome strect were quite impressive. After the service had been read, the older por- tion of the female audience, among whom there were many mothers of the brides and bride- grooms, burst into startling lamentations, while the grooms looked unconcerned, and the brides blushingly dropped their eyes. When the pre- late had glessed them, sait and bread were ‘handed round, and partaken of by everybody. The bridegrooms did not kiss their bridés, the Czechs considering it indecent even for hus- bands to kiss thefr wives in public.—New York MMercury. e A HEAVENLY VIEW. Mr. Simpson, out on Wright street, is an amateur astronomer, and has mounted in the back chamber of his honse a second-hand tele- scope, which takes fu objects with the greatest power and accuracy. When he saw in the newspapers, a few days ago, that the lost planet Vulean had been discovered again, Mr. Simpson became very much excited, and cleaned up his ola instrument carefully, and shut himself up in the back chamber 2s soon as night came on, and announced to his wife that he was * going to find Vulcan or bust!” For several nights he stayed up-stairs until 10 or 11 o’clock sweep- ing the heavens with his instrument in vain, and coming to bed at last tired out and very cold, muchto Mrs. Simpson’s disgust. Then came a sudden change in the astronomer’s course. He’d come to bed at 10 or 11 o'clock 88 usual, but, instead of being cold and depressed, he’d be warm and checrful—a. c!mnge which, he explained, arose from the fact that he 'was certain he’d a giimpse or two of Vulcan, and hoped soon to fix the fellow permanently, though, in response to the inquiries of his wite as to how Vulcan looked, his answers were cx- tremel(y vague and unsatisfactory. This condi- tion of things lasted for several nights, and then Mrs. Simpson became uneasy. She didn’t like Simpson’s actions. He showed, aftertea, too feverish an lnfle:‘{ to get at his telescope. Mrs. Simpson resolved to solve that mystery. She felt confident that Simpson's condition came from his astronomical vbservations, and she de termined to have 2 look through that telcswg: herself. Circumstances favored her. On t very next night after she had decided to foyesti- gatehsglaymn ‘was compelled to regretfally de- sert lescope toattend an important meeting of the Lodge, and Mrs. Simpson, at abou oclock, went up Into the chambn o o0 lizbt}g star-gazing on her own account. When she came to inspect the telescone she was a surprised woman. It didn’t polnt toward where she sap- posed Vulean must be. On the contrary, the instrument was very much depressed and seem- ed leveled in the direction of a tight dimly visi- ble three or four blocks "off. Mrs. Simpson glued her eyes to the thing and a minute [ater was dancing sbout the room madder than she had ever been in herlife. That telcscope just ook in thewhole interior view of a second-story room in a nice boarding-house, and that room Mrs. Simpson knew verv well. It was the one occupied by a buxom widow with whom she was nequainted. Mrs. Simpson gritted her teetk, broke in the glasses in each end of the telescop: with a dust-brush, and then went down stairs 1, walt for Simpson. He came in at last, and hi3 wife addressed him on the subject of Vulcan. ‘What she said about Valean and what_ske said about Simnson, and what she said about tha telescope, the world will never know any more than it will just how Simpson got a scar on his cheek; but that amateur astronomer is a changed man.—St. Louis Liepullican. JONSONBY’S FAILURE. A discussion in the Jonsomby house as to who should get up and light the kitchen fira terminated in favor of Mrs. Jonsonby, who got up and dawed Mr. Jon- sonby by the hair, and pulled him. over the foot-board, crowded lim out of the door, and jammed him down the stairs before be could get his eyes open. “If you would Iike to spend the winter in Bulgaria, dear,” said Mr. Jonsonby at the breakfast-table,. speaking as pleasantly as he knew how, and with a fainc glow of hope lighting his face, *I'will buy you a ticket and get vou all the clothes you wazt.”? And where is Bulgaria?’ demaunded Mrs. Jun- sonby, sharply. *It’s a famous European wa- teringz-place; heaps of company.there just now, 1 hear; most of ’em zoing to stay all winter,”” replied Jonsonby, with a dgum; sinking of the heart. Mrs: Jonsonby said she’d find out some- thing about the place before she decided wheth- er to go there or tothe Centennial, and Jon- sonby rose from the table and jumped thetown. —Burlington Hawkzye. HER CAUSE FOR HASTE. A woman abont 40 years old entered a butcher shop on Woodward avenue yesterday, and althongh there were several customers ahead of her she called out: “Tivo pounds of beefsteak, and be in a hwry about it.” “Presently, madam,” replied the butcher. “I can’t wait for no presently,” she con- tinned, twisting her shouldérs around. *1've felt something crawlingfup and down my back for the last 1ive minutes, and I've got to get home pretty soon or I shall yell right out on the street.”? It was unanimously resotved that she have the prefercnce over all others, but sn old fat man had his revenge on her. Just as she started out he remarked: =~ . . “If that's one of them tarantulzs, and I know it is, she's 2 dead woman beforc she can get the gate open.”—.f, Quad. A SLIGHT MISTAKE. v At a dinner party there were tio sisters pres- ent,—one a widow who had just emerged from ‘her weeds; the other not long married, whose husband had lately gone out to India for a short term. A young barrister present was deputed totake the widow down to dinmer. Unfor- tunately he was under the impression that his gnnner was the married lady whose husband ad just arrived in India. The conversation between them began with the lady’s remarking how- extremely hot it was. “ Yes, it is very hot,” returned the young barrister. Then a hngp_v thougnt suggested itself to him, and he added, with a cheertul smile, * But pot so hot as the place to which your husband has gone.” The look with which the widow answered this *happy thought ” will haunt that young bax- rister till the day of his death. ROMANCE OF CAPE COD. She was a fisherman’s widow. His smack had gone down in darkness 2ud tempest, and so had he. Morning, noon, ard night she paced the beach for some memento of him. She saw the shining sands stretch far away. She watched the sea-birds come and go. She heard the le- gend of the waves, and that wasall. And yet it wasn’t. One golden eve, with heaving breasi and startling eye-balls, she espied a bottle danc- ing toward her oa the billows. It came within her reach. She elutched it eagerly, chewed ont the cork, put the muzzleto her mouth, found not a drop of whigky in it, and dropped like a lifeless lump on the shore. And so they found her, working the sand with her toes. Finis.— Yarmouth Register. - THE WIDOW AND THE BOUQUELT. A pretty widow, whose husband has been dead several years, received a beautiful bonquet the other day. The man that sent it had been flyinz around her with an earnestness worthy of a dry-goads clerk, and it was with extra de- licht he Saw her pass bis store that evening with the bouquet of flowers in hand. “Am so pleased to see you with them.” said he,qmd a thousand lttle cupids dimpled in his smile. " %Yes,” she replied, “it was very kind inyoz; T always Knew you 1iked hiin; T am taking them to his grave. " Raleigh (N. C.) Sentind, TEMININE NOTES. Grace before meat,” as the young lady re- marked when she laced hersclf so tight she couldn't swallow. ¢ Some boarding .schools fit young ladies for keeping boarders after they marry and have a ‘husband to support. See here, wife, you indulge that boy too much. Heisaperfect mule.” 0, husband, please don’t accuse our boy of having an ass for o father.” The old man was silent. Enthusiasm !—Fern-Seeker—* Here! I say, I can’t hold on any longer! Hi! Oh! I'm falling! What is below?’ Fond Wife—* Onle{ dirty water, dear! But oh, stop! such a lovely *lns- trea!” If you fall on it Iahall never forgiva you."—Fun. The other night a West Hill man who had won five election bets, went home so elated that when his wife met him in the hall he hagged her so mgtnrons]{ that ehe had to tell kim it ‘wasn’t the hired girl before he would let go of her.—Burdette. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore says that girls are not particalar enough ubout the men they m ; but there is 8 woman over in Chelsea who Is 8o particular about the man she marries that she takes her sewing to his office, and sits there all aay till he is ready to go nome. A _charming and w«al_zl:msh woman deserts her husband’s roof. * That which most grieves me,” he said to a triend, “is that I cannot un- derstand why she should have flown, whether for this reason, or that, or the other.” *Oh,” says his friend, “make your mind easy. She has left you for the other.”’—Paris paper. At the fish market. ‘The lady is accompanied bg’ u lovely little girl. *“How much for thati” 0, what a sweet little angel of a child! ‘It is thirty sous, madam. .Ab, the darling! Let me embrace ft! The li ge of {ts mother!”? “Thirty sous? I will give yon twenty.” “Twenty! Get out of thut with your litle baboon '— Paris paper. ‘The Burlington fiend thus reports: * Last August a Dubugue widower prayed the mourn- erstonail him up in the coffin with his dead wife, and then he rode all the way to the grave in the hearse, skrieking and waillng, and jumo- ed into the firnve when the coffin was lowered. They thougl it his grief would drive him_to the Insane Asylum. 2y befare yesterday he was arrested for bigamy.” ‘The Sultan of Turkey recently sent the Em- chr of Morocco a present of eighteen women or his harem. It is extremely gratifying that this mode of making presents is not customary among the great men of this country. At the present price of bonnets and seal skin sacques, we should go West and prow up with ths country if any one were to present us with elghteen women.—ANorristown Herald. A Dubuque girl played “cope: n’ st & party the gmugnhl.gm, and yelled, an shrlekm and howled, and ran bebind the doorixn scratched the young man’s face in seven places, and upset a kerosene-lamp} and kicked over the lano-stool, and- screamed for the police, and Snany, when he kissed her just on the tip of tha ear, she fainted dead away, and sald uld never look any one in the face ogain, and they led the bashful, modest creature sobbing bome. The next day she ran away with a married light- ning-rod peddler, with & hare lip 2nd six chil- dren.—Bt ton Hawkeye. The Parricide Released. Asa Kittle, the blind boy who murdered his father and mother several who ears 8go, and has been an _inmate of &e Renns:jwmm York) County-House for some months past, was ,m!m from custody last Saturday. = His ‘brother, who resides in Stephentewn, has m. ised to provide for him, and as he is now - less, it was deemed best by the anthorities to relesse him. Thanks to the training he bas re- cefved since his eonfinement, his reason is pact- 1y restored.