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booklet with engravings of sportsmen from ten states, and a dozen or 80 of the most fam- ous hunting dogs in the country, including (Hladstone, Croxtell, Dad_Wilson, 'Lit, Rod- origo, Bohemian Girl, Toledo Binde, Den Hill, Cincinnatus, Clarence, Jean Val Jean, Dad' Wilson, jr., Oscar and Rake. Tho re rods and pedigroes of all these famous canines are given Dr. G. I, Smder performed this woek a very sticcossful_operation on the pug dog S1r Rondo, owned by the Exberbart pug_ken nels. The dog was sufferiog from brain trouble and had beon for nearly a week o tively er Mr, Eberhart ind about con- cluded to put Sir Rondo to sleop with chlor form, but called in Dr. Snidet, and_now the dog Is all right again, knows his_friends and can tell when feeding time comes withoat looking at the clock. The bench show at Chicago given by the Mascoutah Keunel elub,promises to be neatly as lurge as that at New York. The premium list is very libe Tt begins April $ and ends April 1. March 33, En- tries mailed, postmarked 230, will get in Any intending exhibitors who' cannot attend in_person can make arrangements with Mer. ¥ hart of 2 Main street, to take their dogs to this show, as ho will be there in pe with a string of his pugs: also, o ous breeds for others. M, Eberhardt has o 1ot of premium lists of the show, which can e had by ealling on him, One man in Cineinnatd, Mr. Al G. Eber- hart, does not believe in so-called hydro- phobia, He has bred and handied dogs for jvo yeavs, and kas been bitten nearly dred times, and now carri os from dogs, He says: “If | 3 wnvestigated, most, if not all, of the cases of “mad dog’ that are so often written up in the papers i such & highly sensational sty Wwould prove_only to be a fit, due to somo Ro0d cause. © Worms in dogs aré the cause of ths of the deaths. Worms in puppies so fits, 1f you will treat all puppies for six to eight we v the direct cause of say dog, an absolute safeand certain cure is to at once apply your mouth to the wound, suck out the poison, spit it out and then sleop soundly that night, feeling certain that there is not the slightest danger of your ever go- ng mad.” Along t'.e Quarter Streteh. Sdith R. Monaco's great daughter isin to Baron Kose. Palo Alto has a fouled at Palo Alto. Livorpool is in tho swim with a crusade on pool room and betting clubs. overnor Stanford has changed “The stallion brought 15 ilver Sprag, by Guy Wilkes, aigned by James The Hot Springs winter mg wool. A financial frost w Lord (ieorge won the Lincolnshire handi- cap and carried of 1,000 sovercigns in a field of twenty-one starters v won the grand national stee- plechase orpool spring meeting. There were twenty-one staters. Tuo trotting hovse breeders’ association has secured an option on the Wallace Regis- e company outdit and is 1ikely to buy it. 1d Storms, the Chicago horseman, will sell his stable during the Washington park meoting. He is so 11l that he will doubtiess retire from the turf for good. Jockey Hill, the lightweight who rode for Honig, has boen ruled off at Gloucester for i : Island. * Hill_has been in too fraudulent races for his own good. ho couvention of the National Trotting Horse Breeders' association at Chicago, Anvril 22 next, will be one of the most notable on record. Kontucky witl send Major H. C. McDowell and L. 8. Broadhead as delegates. Poter Funk of the Standard stock farm, lost the other day the great brood mare, Lit- tlo One, by Corbeau, her dam, the dam of Faunio’ Robinson, 2:201¢, by Alexander's Norman. Little One was in foal to General Hancoek. Lung fever carried her off. She was worth §1,500. Joo Thompson, the Ummenscly wealthy? Australian sport who was going to revol tionizo turf affairs in America nd give San Francisco the greatest track in the states,has abandoned the plan, and what do you _think e is going to do! Make a book on the big tracks this season! Ed Geers will bave the largest stable of pacers this year that was ever sent down the nd circuit line. Among them will be Hal ointer 2:09%, Brown Hal 2:12%, Frank orteh 3:25%5, trial 2:17, Bob Taylor, trial :16, Complex by Dupléx 2:171¢, laline, by Mennesseo Wilkes, Storm 2:3213, Fred 2:26, and Lightwood 3:24, ‘The outlool for the passago of & pool bill y the New Jorsey logislature is getiing luor every day, says the Now York S ud it is almost a certainty that the E hoth and_ Linden assoclations will hold th spriug meetings at Dundee park. Just what flect the non-existence of & pool bill witl ave on tho Monmouth meeting it is hard to ay at this time, but the probabilities are that it will be carried on as usual. The T umpers andf the Punchers. Juke Kilrain's specialty company opens up in Baltimore next Monday night. “Reddy” Gallagher has _writcen the Cali- ornia Athletic club that be will fight Jim tall, *Snowball,” an eccentric smoke-colored U, Jvne put tosloep at Chioago by Paddy 'Brien in three rounds. George Strong, the colored feather-woight, pnd Bob Quade, a Kansas City pug, were gailed at Argentine the other evening. Billy Madden says: “Slavin_can whip not only MeAuliffee, but any man in the world. nd when he comes to this country remem- er my words." The Olympic club at New Orleans has of- fured a §5,000 purse for a_meoting betweon dack MeAuliffo and Billy Meyers, the Streator Cyclone, “Link" Pope, Billy Myers' prodigy, was knocked siily in twenty-five rounds by Mart Flaberty of Providence, at Leonore, I1l. Bbth Bro bantams. Billy Young, the champion lightweight pueilist of Virginia, will bo backed to mect ny 128-pound pugilist in America for 8500 a sido by Norfolk sports, The Choynski-Goddard mill at Sydney was ne of tho most desperate on record. ~ The ustralian won, but Choynski made one of ho gamest fights on record. Jim Daly, the Quaker pug, succeeded in standing up before Jos MeAuliffe during a sixcround mill near Harrisburg, Pa. The Mission boy weighed 210 pounds and Daly 262, MeAuliffe broke s kuuckle of his left hand in the fourth round and that doubtiess provented him from gaining a victory. Daly t the decision, although he was punished ar more than McAulifte. George Godfroy remains on tho Pacific coast to got & mateh with Choynski, who 1s ©ou his way home from Australia. Frankio McHugh's bond_was forfeited at Athens, O., last Tuesday. He failed to ap- pear to respond to the indictment against im. McHugh was in Clocinoat: and missed the train to Athens. Jimmy Jackson of New York has chal- Jenged any ninety-five pound boxer in the ‘world. Austiu Gibbons salls for England April 4 1o fight 1ill Reeder. An unknown pug—a veritable giant, they say—is in New York. He hails from Aus- tralia and has been & purser on a foreign steamship, Tommie Cavanagh, the Buffalo light Jveignt, has issued an invitation to Charley Yolkes, Lou Bezinah and Jack Bolan to step on tho tail of his coat. An Olla Podrida of Sports. The canoeing season opens avout May 1. Jack Carkeek announces his retirement droia the wresting arena. Miss Deane, an Austratian girl, scored 195 In u oricket mateh at Syduney. Princeton students are goin Jacrosse, although the team Fegular 'varsity organization, Pinhas Haunks, billed as o Persian prince, W oug of the ' veds in tho big New York ¥ace. Prince Haunka wasu't in it. The Princeton gun club has elected J, L. Williams of Tllinois presidont, and Wood- ford Clay of Kentucky secretary and treas- wrer, The Princeton tennis association will here- fter be controlled by the college students, &uho past the town people have been in the Trap shooting Is becoming more popular his spring in Now York, and there will bo uoh more of it between ten men teams than oyer before. W, C. Browp of Altoons and H. Tyson of Big Run are to meet ina match of thirty !::: for the checker champlonship of sylvania, new full brother just hands. will be cam- to revive will not be a THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATU‘R»’D‘A{(. MARCH 28, 1801. TWELVE TIMELY ~ RELIGIOUS TOPICS. Pablio Orucifixion Chosen by Ohrist $o Es- oupe Private Assassination SCIENCE SHOWS THERE- WAS A DELUGE. Died While at Prayer—More Back- bone and Less Theology the Need of the Times-Christian Work and Hopes. A Lost Legend, " " Bourditton, 8t. Wilfrid once, aware of love grown culd, And faith, but lukewarm in his northern fold, While ev'n the fow who falled not to be shriven P Sought less for pence than fearedto forfeit heaven, Announced for an approaching festival ings of infinite import to all And when the close-packed church expectant stood, Down fromi its place he threw the holy rood, Crying: “My brethiren, know that Arma- geddon Is fought aud lost! though led on By Michacl and his angels, were o'erthrown And Satan occupics the heavenly throne, All is roversed : "tis sinners who will d orth in heaven, while saints must burn in hell. alas! too zealous have I On_tho Lord's side!—no hop heaven But you. my brethren, I have little doubt, May yot find entrance, if you turn about. Only b edy, for I have sure word That Judgment day will be no more deferred ; And are on the way to bind ouse of God they find. while there is time! Forsake the poh; The saints of God, triven for me in rour scape-goat in the and on many a face, mug, smootk, acd sanctimonious, a grimace w'slowly, while the open sinuer's laugh- tor Rang loudly.from the rood-loft to tho rafter. Then, swaft as ants swarm from their thveat- ened neao, Or from the open pin-fold rusi op, Forth streamed the congregation, thick and fast, ) only fearing to be found the last. o chureh was empty, and St. Witfrid stood, Most grimly smiling, by the fullen rood ; When in a darkencd corner ho was ware Of some one kneeling, and a sobbing prayer: ar Lord Jesu! 1 have followed ‘Thee S0 long, and Thou has loved me. Let me be Thou art, Jesu! Rather will 1 dwell n With Ty’ foos i ieaven with T'hea in el Then cried St. name, Woman, that puttest my weak faith to shinme! I thought but to convict the careless herd Of vain religion by an empty_word, But now of thine example will I make A lesson that all sinners’ souls shall wale, Al suints’ rekindle; and the word of thine Shall to the earth in golden letters shine.” He stepped towards the woman; the whito head Lay on the withered hands; she knelt there, dead, Christ Selected His Made of Death. Discussion in theological circles has been avoused by a remarkable dissertation by Rev. Thomas Hill of Portland, Me,, published in the last number of the Andover Review on the deathof the Savior. The writer dis- cusses the proximate causes of tho crucifix- on and holds that Christ selected the mode of his death, choosing between sccret assas- sination and publicdeath on the cross. These ave tho conclusions of Rey. Mr. Hill: Seeing that the cry “Eli, Eli, lama sabach- thani” is the first lineof a familiar psalm, known to his Jewish hearers by that line, wterpreted by them as roferring to tho Messiab, and seeing that the very charge agaiust Jesus was that ho claimed to be the Messiah, I do not seo how those words from the lips of the sufferer, could possibly have failed of the effect of openly declaring bimself to bo the suffering Mes- siah, So far from seeming to his hearers to be u complaint that God had forsaken him, it must have scemed to every Jew within hear- ing to have been u dircct assertion to the contrary. Thera aro other considerations and some of them have decided weight, that go to coufirm the conclusions which I have al- ready drawn from tke narrativo of the Evan- getists. The accounts of the crucifixion (Matthew xxvii, 84, 48; Mark xv, 23, 86 Luke xxiii, 4, 43, 465 John xix, 26, 37, 98-30) indicate that Jesus was perfectly self- possessed, declinining totakean opiate, but accepting’ the wines without drugs,’ and thinking more of others than himself. He had deliberately chose that mauner of death, and he had not miscalculated his own strength to bear it; but, in the midst.of the cruel agouics of the cross, he with calm dignity referred his focs, aud with coura- geous consolation his friends, to the twenty- second Psalm. Of course, it is not for usto knowallithe reasons which made Him prefer public cruci- fixion to private assassination. But when wo observe the great emphasis with which the apostles speak of His redeoming us from sin by being Himself *‘made sin," treated ns accursed, for us, and when we see the tri- umphant’ career of tho church, under the banner of the cross, we get a partial light upon His choice. Again, when we observe how strongly not only the apostles but our Lord himself dwell upon the resurrection— His laying down His life that He might take it again, His being delivered for our offouses and raised again for our justification—we seo another reason why He wished a public] tested death, as a prerequisite to & public attested resurrection. Tho investigation of the causes which forced the Parisces to so sudden and so completo a change 1n their plavs has given me a new, and to my mind an_exceedingly strong argument for the genuineness and au- thenticity of Johw's gospel. Similar argu- ments havo been adduced by other_writers; us, for example, Edward Evarett Hale has pointed out that Matthew xxiii, 37, is utterly unintolligiblo except for tho licht poured upon it by the writer of the fourth gospel. I cannot conceive it possible that anything ex- cept truth in bis navrative should have made it furnish the key to so many and such curi- ously differing difficuities in'the other more traditional gos pels, Wilfrid: *Blessed be thy Methodist Politl Ofice secking, wire pulling, and log rolling in the Methoaist church are the subjects of a little volume published in Chicago, a collec- tion of the ovinions and experences of repre- sentative Methodist ministers of the Pacifie slope, western middle, southern, New York, and New Eneland districts of the church, as to the prevalence and corrupting influences of the methods of prictical politics in the churel’s ecolosiastical meetings. **Ecclesi- astical Politics fn the Mothodist Episcopal Chureh?” s the title. ‘The unanimous opinion of the contributors is that Methodist winis- ters have fallen into thepractice of unscrupu- lous scheming for advancement to high places in the church. Methodist conferences, the six ropresenta- tive miaisters agree, have become tho scencs of the mostopen and shameloss selfishness and political machinations. In short, preach- ers of o gospel that teaches them the “pre- ferring one another i nonor," are described us plotting with all the energy aud cuuning of “profane politicians” to socure ecclesins. tical preferment for themselves at the ex- pense of others. All the statements iu the book are made in such boldly vigorous lan- guuge as abounds iu the partisan literature of a palitical campaign, Tho reverend con- tributors call every spade a spade, and tho prinked with sudh phruses as: “Arts 100 low for Chiristians;” “bought, sold, swapped off, herded:” ‘conference bosses, “ecclestastical politicians,” “'minis- terual Wiro pullens” “heclers und clacquer of the general conférence,” and oven ‘‘tissue ballots.” “The trustworthiness of the hook Is vouched for by Dr. Charles Parichurst, who collected thoarticies in it origivaily for the Zion's Her- ald of Boston, aud_ gives the assurance that the writers “‘are the elect servants of the church, aud are prompted_ouly by the desire t insugurate a reform u this maiter.”” Their names are withbeld, merely “that the aiton- tion of the Methodiat church may be concon- trawed upou the coudition revealod rather | that than upon the persons who expose the situa- | tion."" Drifting to Agnosticism. Ttie views of Prof. Briggs are radieaily op- posed to the old belief of Prosbyterianism suys the New York Sun, That rests on the theory that the sceiptures aro a divine reve- lation, and that what fs contained in the bible s truo and binding upon meu, not be- cause it is demonstrablo to tho reuson or sus- tained by any traditional authority, but simply bocause it is in the bible, ~When, therefore, Prof. Briggs instructs his pupis the 'bible contains error no iess than truth, and_that the reason has the rignt to discriminato between the two, he shakes the very foundations of Presby- terianism and all orthodox belief. Hs makes the woason and uot the bible the judge and authority. Hence it would seom 10 be obligatory on the genernl assom- bly to declaro itself jo the premise question as to what shall be the pree f the Westminster Confession will 20 back to the presbyterics, and fore decision us to what the new creed i3 to bo will be delaved, perhaps for several years, Meantime uil sorts of teachings might be promulgated as Presbyterian under the sunction of the liborty of ~biblical criticism inculeated by Prof. Briggs. Mr. MacQueary himself might be put in a chair of the Union h al scminary, unless the assembly exercised its authority to forbid. The school might become a school for the teaching of the out-and-out agnosticism to which the doc- trines of PProf. Briggs so inevitably tend. There Was a Deluge Prof. Huxley’s latest exhibition, which is very amusing, 18 his doughty attack on the seriptural account of tho deluge, says the Cbristian at Work. He thinks it is very an- surd--altogethor absurd —because such a deluge implics o mass. of heaped up waters without any containing banks to keep or hold them fu their new position. % * * The Argyll, who is an authority in geol- ceds to show that Huxley is no at all, and that the supposition that waters must be heaped up without any banks to hold them in position in order to make o deluge, is not the way in which geology ac- counts for deluges. ~ Geology does not resort to uny such nonsense. It finds the cause of a deluge, generally speaking, in the subme gence of theland. * * % "It is geology that has established beyond question the conelu- sion that “there wis over some great part at lcast of the northern hemisphere, a great sub- mergence of the land under the waters of the sea,” making, in the first place, a portial deligo, a scientific fact; and in the second, the biblical nccount of the deluge (the best expositors do not claim that it was more thau partial) ousily enough _credible—notwith- standing Prof. Huxley's ridicule. Preparing a Living Sacrifice, | walks Bridgeswater, a quiet littlo Connecticut vil- Inge is in a state of agitation over a number of alleged faith cures an dOliver H. Jessup, awellto doresident of the place, has goue insanc over the craze. A number of the vil- agers have professed to have been cured of rious ills by simple faith and prayer, and 1 Jessup was taken sick he refused to allow his family to call a doctor, relying for his recovery solely upon faith cure advocates, who surrounded tis bed at all hours of th day and night. Jessup finally conceived the idea that the Lord required a human saeri- fice. He was left alono for a few minutes on Thursday, and he prepared to carry out his insane freak by constructing an altar from bis bedroom furniture, and piling about it a lot of combustibles. Then he seized his little granddaughter, atot of a few months, who was sleeping in the nest room, and placed ber upon the altar. A member of the fam- ily, attracted by the child’s cries, entered the r00m just as the insane man was touching a match tothe inflammable material. The child was rescued without _injury, but the house narrowly escaped destruction, and the crazy man nearly lost his life beforo he was overpowered and carried away. All Souls. M. D. Hatch in New York Sun. The lel"]vlcfl ‘was over, the church growing im, Though still from a window the western sun Touched the sur!)lmad choir, a3 one by one They passed me, singing tho closing hyinn. And from each, a8 they passed, I caught word, In the different tones of each fresh young voice, And one sang “Christ,” and another “re- Joico,” While still from another *‘peace” I heard, Till the great song died in majestic bars So each life, I thought, is a fragment here To make some new inessage of goodness clear, Till lite's. perfect hymn shall reach the stars., Died Whil: Praying. Mrs. Susan Taylor, eighty-five years of age, was found dead, kneeling beside her bed, at 201 East Twenty-second street in New York one afternoon last week. Mrs. Taylor was born in Kngland and has two sons, onea machinist in Philadelphin and the ofher a bookmaker who follows the races. Sho had heen boarding with Mrs. StellaRadclifte for soveral months. Her sons seem to have neg- lected their mother fn her old age. Mrs. Radcliffe says she had been in a praving at! tude for the past few days and refused to bo comforted. This morning she did not _como down to breakfast, and when Mrs, Radcliffe went to her room to call her for lunch she was knceling with her bands clasped as if in prayer. She died of heart disease. Ohristianity and srt, “Tho chief {nspiration of tho great painters has come from the Christian religion, says Harper's Bazar. , Tho successive scones in the life of its Divine Foundor which aro de- scribed in the holy book—the Babe in His mothor's arms, the ‘wise men visiting Him, the entry into Jerusalom, Christ with disciples—these have cnlisted the almost in- spired enthusiasm of the Raphaels, the Mur- illos, the Da Vincls, and have thus enkindled the devotional ardor of suceessive goera- tions of saints and martyrs. 1f the world owed no other debt to the Christian_religion thau for the art which it has stimulated, this alone would have vindicated its right to be. St. John of England, One of the most striking figures in religions history is that of John Wesley. The rocent celebration of his anniversary by the Ep- worth leagues of America, serves to give ndded nterest to the brilliant sketch of #St. John of En ? as tho writer, W. T. Stead, characterizes the revered founder of Methodism, which will appear in the first number of the American edition of the Re- view of Reviews. The strange contrasts and striking parallels between the lite of Wesley and that of Charles Bradlaugh, biography forms the other character sketeh of the April number, lend an unusual inter- est to both paper: Church Takes Up the Drama, It may be less strange than it once was to sec ministers at a theater, but it certainly 15 unusual for ministers o be amateur actovs, v the Congregationalist. However, Hans Heuwig's drama of Luther, in five acts, was enacted on the stage at Association hall, in Philadelphia, recently by the theological students of the Lutheran seminary at Mount Airy, dressed in medimval costume. Kov. Dr.'Sparth led a large chorus in singing reformation hymus. It was a success and the receipts were turned over to the orphans' home at Germantown. Perhaps the drama ht prove of real service to religion if actors could bo confiued to ministers and church choirs. Conduct Above Creed. ‘The great mass of mankind, in Protestant countries at (enst, havo been slowly, sileatly, but irresistably breaking away from the auchorage of dogma, says the New York Commercial Advortiser., As the veurs have gone by there has boen a wider and @ decper tendency to regard as unimportant what a mau professes to believe compared with what he doos and is. Let theologians protest as they may, the werld is fast coming 1o the point of ranking conduct above cread. Plans of Odventists, The eighteenth meeting of tho Seventh Day Adventist conference convened in Bat- tle Creek, Mich., inst Sunday. Tho chief business was tho ddoption of a resolution to appoint a committee for considering: the erec- tion of @ home for orphuns and aged persons. Such an usylum bas become u denomina- tional necessity and will no doubt be erected in tho near future. The lceality has not yet beeu decidod upou, but may possibly bo Bat- tle Creek, The International ~Sabbath School association ndopted & new constitu- tion In harmony with its advanced plan of work, A resolution was_sdopted recom- mending that the Battle Creele sanitarium train compotent porsons to eugnge in medi- cal missionary work, The fnternational | Tract society held/n meeting in the afternoon. Invocation for Rain Tn Thessaly and Macodonia it is customary 1 times of prolonged drouth to send o pro cassion of chitdren wround all the wolls and sorings in their neighborhood. At their he a girl adorned with fowers, they drench with water at each halting place while singing this fnvooation Perper all frosh bede reshien all this neighborhood ; By the woods, on the highway, A thou goest, to God now pray ; O, my God, upon the plain, Send Thou us a still, small raing That the fields may fruitful be, That vines in blossom we may see. Monk Ignatius. Last Sunduy Monk Ignatius began his work at the national capital by holding ses vices in the Masonic temple. At the mor ingsorvice Mrs, Harrison, Wwife of the pros dent, was amoug the hearers, There were a number of well known poople present, but tho mouk’s discourses excited littlo attention, Heo stated he had not asked permission of Bishoo Parelin, whose diocese Washington 18, because there was no reason why he should do so, Tho monk has boon taking part in revival services at s Metbodist church u Washington, Bishop Talbot. Bishop Talbot of Wyoming was in_Phila- delphia recently, and preached in St. Peter's church, wearing over his surplicen red aca- demic hood, such as is often worn by the English clergy. Twoaged ladies who wero interested histeners to his disconrse, began telling each othor how they admired him. “But,” said one, *I liked him 80 much more beiore he went o Wyoming; he didn’t wear that ridiculous red thing on his back then. “Oh, my dear,” replied her companion, *‘he doesn’t really like to wear it you know: but They wouldn’t listen toa man wh doesn’t wear gaudy clothes.’ More Than Backbone Needed. “The good preachier,” sald President Pat- ton of Princeton, at a luncheon of clergymen the other day, “has enough to do without oc- cupying his 'whole time getting out his church manual, He should aun also, to language to the times, It should glish of today. Wo want that kind f Englisk that is now so pat and full of pith, that is heard everywhere on the street, and which the newspapers have learned so well how ty use effoctively. Our theology should not_takoun the whole of our time Theology is all very goodin its way, as a backbone, but the man who should be all backboue, would not be very useful.” Noies, nes hades to be a place whero a porson Is continually tormented by con- scicnce, The Prosbyterian committee on revision has agreed to report progress and ask to be continued. There are nearly throe hundred Catholic Arabians in St. Louis who worship accoraing to the Maroaite rite, There are 15,000 Christian Brothers in the wvarious countries of the_globe. The mother house of the order is in Paris. The Congregationalist properly cites the genera! tributes to John Wesley as evidence of the izcreasing unity of Christians. Rev. Sabato Mori of Philadeiphia last Sunday completed a forty years ministry to the Portuguese Jewish congregation Mickve Isracl. Rev. William Morrison, formeriy a Presby- terian minister, was ordained to the deacon- ate, in Trinity Protestant Episcopal church, ‘Wilmington, Del. April 20 is the date for the annual diocesan conference of Massachusetts, at which time an clection of bishon, to succeed the late Bishop Paddock, will take place. St. Joseph is honored in the Catholic church as the patron of a happy death, The entire month of March is in an especial manner con- secrated to St. Joseph by the church. Father Cozza-Luigl, vico librarian of the , has plototyped the celebrat- ed Greek vatican Codex of the biblo, themost ancient exiscing, under tho auspices of the pope. According to Dr. W, H. Roberts, American statistical secrotary of the Presbyterian alli- ance, the Presbyterian and Reformed de nommations thronghout the world have 20,- 205,500 adherents. Rev. H. C. Swentzel of Scranton, Pa., has addressed a lettor to the presiding bishon of the American Episcopal church dectining the appointment_of missionary bishop to Japan, recently tendered him. Little wooden crosses, made out of the old gallery, are still sold by the vender at Shake- spearé’s church, Stratford-on-Avon, for a shilling, which monoy goos toward the church restoration fund. In Africa the number fof misslonaries ex ceeds 500, and the number of converts 400,- 000, inereasing by about 25,000 a year. Dur- ing the past five years Africa has furnished more than 200 marty Last summer & trial was mado of enlisting Yalo college students in mission work 1 New York, and it proved so successful that it has been determined to send, if possible, six men from the undergraduate department, to en- gage in mission work during the coming sum mer months. At the quarterly mooting of the Missouri state committee of the Y. M. C. A., held in Kansas City, it was decided to raise 8500 to assist in sending Myron A. Clark to Brazil for the purpose of organizing an internation- al assoclation in that republic. These are the figures whi Episcopal Advocate of Portland gives con- cerning the relative standing of the chure in Oregon: Methodist societies 211, mem- bers 10, Baptist, 106, 5,043; Presbyterian 70, 8,575; Episcopal, 22, 1,600; Congregation- al, 29, 1,619, Gracs Protostant Foiscopal church, New York, of which Rev. Dr. Huutinton is roctor, has twenty distinct organizations. 1t is served by six c a, inciuding tho rec- tor, and the iture for the year ‘was about $107,112—§ 3 being for parish expenses, and £74,600 for outside purposes. Russia's treatment of the Jews in hor do minions may react upon the character or the oficial reception accorded the czarowitz in some of the cities of this country. Heis ex- pected to reach San Francisco in about a woek and the Hebrows in that quarier are indignantly protesting agamst oficial honors to him. Rev. Albert J. Lyman, pastor of the South Congregational church, Brooklyn, N. Y., has refused an advance of ‘1,000 in his salary of £5,000 a year, on the ground that he thinks the church ought to spend the money in mis- slonary work in the neighborhood. Returns of the ministerial vote on the question of the admission of women as del gates to the general conference of the Metho- dist Episcopal church bave been received from twenty-two annual conferences, with the following result: For admission, G against admission, 786; majority against, 143, Righ salaries for some coveted city clergy- man are still high, while hundreds in the country continue to labor far wore for love than eash, Rev. Dr. Burrell, called to the Collegiate church of 'New York is to receive $15,000, and St. James', Chicago, is to pay Rev. Floyd Tompkins, at one time assistant at Calvary chureh of Now York, $),000 a year, While Congregationalists are plauning for a great interuational council in London with 300 delogates, Methodists aro Jooking forward o a similar gathering of 500 repeesentatives of their denomination in Washington next October. This s to be the second Methodist ecumenical _conferenve, the first one having been held in London ten years ago. Tho eastorn hemisphore is to send 200 _delogates, and the other 300 will represent North an South Am The conference is to con- tinue twelve days. I Lawrence Barrett was worth when he died about $200,000, This was all made within the last three of four years, since he engaged aud became manager 6f kidwin Hooth. It was only last Saturday that Tur Bee called at- tention to the fact that Mr. Barrott was the one promivent actor in America who nad bravely combated prejudice against American plays of & high order, and spent monoy lav- shiy on their production. In this. sense, more than by his porsonal prestive, as au actor will he be missed, His death will throw a large number of peo- ple out of engagements, as it had been his in tention to carry on a spring tour this season and Lo hiye tWo coiupanies out next year,ono sunporting Mr, Booth and snother %Il})pwu'!- ing nimself. ATl these contracts will be ab rozated by death: nor is it likely that Mr. Booth wiil care to star alone, THE PROSCENIUM AND FOYER. Labouchers 8ces Little in Admire, Ibsen to IN THE REALM OF THE MAKE-BELIEVE. Doings of the Men and W Who Help to Drive Dull Care Away—The Musical World. Mr. Labouchere, as might be expected, doos not like the Tbsen drama. He delivers himself upou the subjoct as follows: “If you huve seen one play by Ibsen, you have seen thom all A disagrocablo and nasty woman; an egotistical and preachy man; a philosophical sensualist; dull and dramatic dialogue, Alroady threo of Ibsen's plays have been performed in London, but not one of them has as yet beeu submitted to a can- did and unbiasea audience. They have been produced beforo packed honses and played by intelligont amateurs, The few independent persons who have sat out a play by Ibsen, bo beit “Pho Doll's House,' or the ‘Pillars of Soclety, or ‘Rosmersholm,’ have said to themselyes, put this stuff before tho playgo- ing public, risk it at an evening theatro, ro- move your claque, exhaust your attendanco of the socialistic and tho sexless, and then se0 where your Ibsen will bo. I havo nevor known an audience yet that cared to pay to be bored and the over vaunted ‘Rosmers- holm,’ bored even the lbsenites. Thoy turned round on the ‘Master’ and took excep- tion to his best literary work. 1t is the old dodge, 1f a ‘Doll’s Houso' fails, it is, *Ah! but you should see the *Pillars of Society ;' 1f the ‘Pillars’ totter, it is, ‘Wait till you see ‘Rosmersholm,! If the drama of suicide makes peoplo laugh, it is, *On the whole, I prefor*Hodda Gabler,'and 50 on until the end of the ch als have probably made as mach this season a3 combination Jack Barnes, the leading actor ation, says that the average net and Mrs, Kendal has boen "That would be, on a basis of thirty )00 over and_above all expens: jove, 15 aa unparallel- ed record for the present, season, and con- tinues to amaze those people in the company 1 experience did not extend ond the British Isles did . poor week in Baltimore, the worst of their season. Mr. Kendal was commenting on it one night. when he said “We consider this rather but what a_devil of a good we be at homo " Staart Robson has one fad. T Lins for years been o most persistent stamp collector, Years ago when the fancy first caught him he came as near being a bore to his friends and acquaintances as a man like him could be, The fever of the hunt has naturally worn away with the passing years, first because he has probably a_ specimen of about cvery over been printed, and, se s natural the ardor should cool off in time. _Still let him hear of a stamp in any part of the world he has ot got and he never rests until he places it among his collcction, ~ Mr, Robson has, it is believed,the fiuest collection of stamps owned by any privato person in the country. The Drosden correspondent of the Musical Courier says that “the young pianist Pade- rewsky made the sume success in_Dresden as he did everywhere else, His poetical inai- viduality at once won_tho sympathetic feol- ings of his audience. There 15 no Chopin in- eter, no Chopin dreamer. and poet, like Tho_sweetness of his touchon the piano recalls Sarasate’s on the violin. He alone has the powerto carry his hearers with bim into that dreamy world of his great Polish_compatriot, Chopin, where so few of those who murder 'him on the piano are able to enter, Paderewsky 1s thoroughly ovig- inal. Itis refreshing to listen to his por- formance, even when his passionate feelings seem to get the better of his inteliect.” “The Pharisee” was brought out last weelc at the Madison Square theater in New York. Theplay was made in London by Malcolm Watson and Mrs, Lancaster Wallis, and tells the story of aman who finds that his wife had led_an impure life before mar- riage, and for a time refuses to condone her uilt. The intercstof the play lies in this woman’s agony, and she oxcuses her dogra- dation by explalniug that her father was a gambler, and compelled hor to become a rich man’s property. According to the Berlin correspondent of a Brussels journal Wagner's works were played in all 87 times in Germauy last year. Tho performances were as follows: “Lohon- grin,” 243; “Tannauser,” 159 “Der Fliogende Hollander,” 1013 “Die Watkure,” 80; *‘Die Meistersinger,” 63; “(otterdammerung,’ 43; “Siogfried,” 41: '“Das Rheingold” 873 “Rionzi,” 81; “Tristan und Isolde," 30, and “Die Feen” (at Munich only), 9. The body of Heury Aveling, tho actor, was buried last Saturday, tho obsequies be- ing held at the house of Mra. Aveling, (Miss Mittens Willett) in New York. Ouly inti- mate friends wera invited to attend.” Mrs, ling decidod to pay no attention to the desire oxpressed by Aveling in a lotter he loft that sie be_debarred from attending his funeral. She tninks he was inspired by drink, and did not expross his true senti- ments. The Lovdon Sunday Times notes a *coinci- dence without procedent in tho history of English music,” the performance on the same evening, at three London theaters, of three such important and widely contrasted works s “Tho Golden Legend,” ‘Ivanhoe” and Gondoliers,” all of them from the pen_ of the same composer. Marie Wainwright will close her to April 25,and will return to New Yorl ci an elaborate production of *Amy Robsar September at Palmer's theater. This is the samo play in which the beautiful Adelaide Nillsson first made her famo hero. Manager E. D. Price says that Mrs, Carter will goout nextsea on in a new play by Bo: lasco, under Price's management. Fasciua- tiun {s no name for it when one considers that tho first stage experiments with this iuterest- ing young woman cost not less than $20,000. “Mr. Wilkinson s Widows,” will have its first performance Monday night at Proctor's theater, New York. It is an acknowledged adaption of tho K'rench farce called *‘Tho Late Mr. Toupine.” The last performance of Wagnerian opera for many long day was given at the New York metropolitan opera house on Friday evening last. *“Fristan und Isolde” was sung, and the artistsreceived a great ovation. Pauline Hall has mado an extvaordinary choice of an opera and of a part. Shef golug to play **Nanon,” and will take th title role herself. It has hitherto always becn done by a bright soubratte, There is not much diminution in the popularity of George R. Sims as a dramatist. A fortaight ago five differont London theatrs were playing pieces from his pen, Clara Morris is at home in Riverdale, N., Y. She cut her season down by two weeks imme: preceding Easter, believing that that there was not much money in it, auy- hov. Fred Perkins is to write the musiclfor Nellie McHenry’s new play-by Grattan Don- nelly. Ivwillbe tried this spring during a supplementary season. “Thermidor’ has been given at the French theater in St. Petorsburg, before a large audience,which ineluded the imperial fumily. Edwin Stevens, Joff 1’ Angelis and Edgar Smith of the Casino are known as Russell’s Comedinns, Not John’s, but Lillian's. Fred Leslio says be will visit Amorica on his return from Australia, aud will play a short season in New York at the Casino. Geraldine Ulmer has been en to Ivan Caryl), n young operatic composer. The wed- ding will occur on Mareh 0, May Howard, the burlesquo artist, will go into farce comedy next scason, traveling with the ** al Gas’ company. Frank Danfels, who s acquisitive sana thrifty, proposes hercafter to get up his own farce con " Fay Tompleton has gone back to beautiful Pyris and faithtal Osborne. vat Goodwiu will open his next season in an Francisco. Johu J. 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