The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-05-16

/ q nog quantity now used is certainly enor-
nous. Ino1sff the consumption was 49,
229 pounds in 1863 it was l14, 213 pounds.
Such is the cupldity Of the male nurses
in Paris Hospitals, stimulated BY dealers in
hair, the moment female patient dies her
whole head Of hair is cut off, One male
nurse at the Hotel Dieu is said to have made
900 francs BY selling the hair and teeth Of
dead patients in his ward for dentists are
as eager purchasers of corpses' teeth as
hair -dressers are Of corpses' hair.
A girl seventeen years Of age attempted
to commit suicide, by drowning, few days
since, in Paris. Her sweetheart had for
saken her. The first words she uttered
when che recovered her senses were: "Mon
| Dieu how cold Che Seine is p The boatman
who rescued her stood near, and exclaimed:
"Ah! my little darling, it has nobody to
warm its bed"
An American letter writer in England,
having intimaled that Mr.. Sturgeon was
aiming to form a new sect, to be called after
his own name, Mr.. Sturgeon says, in reply,
in the columns Of TIE Scord and Tro,sel,
"Thsre is no word in the world so hateful
to our heart as that word Spurgeonism, and
no thought further from our soul than that
Of forming . new sect" ..5s.
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Religious and Educational.
--Inoessant takers generally exhaust
their fund Of knowledge sooner than they
are aware.
| Religious opinions and religious feel
ings form highly important part Of the
mental character.
/ "A gentleman will have no occasion to
appear naughty in order to preserve . dig
nifty Of manners.
Whoever desires that his. intellect may
| grow up to soundness, to healthy vigor,
must begin with moral discipline.
The Rev T. e. Bt John, D. D., pastor
Of the, Universalist church, at Worcester,
Mass, has accepted 81, 900 call from Chi
cago.
The Baptist State convention at Macon,
Ca, has unanimously resolved. that it is in
expedient to attempt to form any union
with the Disciples.
The exaltation Of talent, as it is called,
above virtue and religion, is the curse Of
the age. If divorced from rectitude, talent
will prove more Of demon than god
! NO matter how deeply laid have been
the plans OF the criminal, or how des-
perately executed, detection pursues him
4 like . bloodhound, and tracks him to his
| fate. g4ra #5e
TO surround anything, however mon
! strous or ridiculous, with an air Of mystery,
is to invest it with secret charm and pow
er Of attraction, which to the crowd is ire
sistible.
The most ignorant class of respectable
females in society, are those incessant,
careless, loose readers-especislly Of trashy
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all for excitement.
The Southern Methodist Conference, At
New Orleans voted on the 9th, to change
the name Of the church from Methodist Epis-
copal Church South, to simply the Metho-
dist Church.
The time for holding the proposed New
England Methodist convention has been
settled to commence in Boston, Mass, on
the 5th of June next. The convention is
expected to hold three days and close with
June I.
The corner stone Of new Methodist
Episcopal church at Ithaca, N. T., was laid
on Tuesday last, in the presence Of 15C
clergymen and large concourse Of people,
but on Friday night some thief moved away
the cap stone and stole the box and its con.
tents.
We have seen in our time sundry con-
temptible parish transactions towards their
pastors, but one of Connecticut parish
where a subscription paper was recently
started for the support Of preaching, and
laid first before the minister for his SUBJ
scription, as a member of the parish. He
subscribed twenty dollars; no other one
subscribed IS much. His pay that year
! was less than four hundred dollars, includ-
ing his own subscription:
The italicised words in the King James
translation Of the Bible are not emphatic
words as some people seem to suppose, but
are so printed in order to indicate that they
are supplied by the translators, to perfect
the expression. The habit Of emphasizing
such words in reading sometimes leads to
! absurdities,-as in the case Of the schoolboy
who read the 9th verse of the 18th chapter
of lst Kings thus: And he spake to his
sons. saying. Saddle me the ass. And they
saddled him."
AT the University Of Notre Dame, 1t
South Bend, Indiana, a most solemn and
imposing religious ceremony will take place
on the 3lst Of May next. At least some
twelve Bishops, and among them Archbish-
ops Spaulding and Purcell, have accepted
the invitation to be present and take part
in the ceremonies Of blessing and erecting
upon the dome Of the University Of Notre
Dame, colossal statue of the Blessed Vir-
gin Mary. It is expected that the ceremony
will eclipse every thing Of the kind which
has ever taken place in the United States.
Washington, Madison, Monroe, Harri-
SON, Tyler, and Taylor were Episcopalians;
jefferson, John Adams and John Quincy
Adams were Unitarians; Jackson, Polk,
and Lincoln were Presbyterians; VanBuren
was of the Dutch Reformed church. The
surviving presidents are Fillmore, Unitar-
1 ian, Pierce, a Trinitarian Congregationalist,
till recently he has Joined the Episcopal
church; Buchanan, an EpiscopaliaA during
his term Or Office, but is said to have Joined
the Presbyterians this year; and johnson
is Presbyterian.
"A singular incident has taken place at
Neuchatel, in Switzerland. At the death of
merchant in that city, on the credit side
| Of his book the name of "God was found
to be inscribed for q considerable sum. No
| one knew Of such creditor, and Oh inves
tigation evidence was obtained that deceas-
ed, who was man Of great piety, had
opened an account to the Father Of All,
and entered to it each year share of his
profits. The clergy have claimed the sum
on the ground that they represent God up
on earth, while their demand is opposed by
the authorities Of the canton.
Dean Swift was once travelling through
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