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VINO PAYS MOODY IN BOSTON,

The Bosten Globe, in answering the
old question, Who pays Moody and
Sankey? ?" says
Mr.. Moody and Mr.. Sankey have gen.
erous friends in Chicago who thoroughly
believe in their work, and, being men of
means and influence, pay their necessa-
~ expenses. These Chicagoans sent the
evangelists to England and Scotland and
paid their expenses there, and have con-
tinued to do so since. Thejc expenses
are not as large as would be supposed,
owing to the liberality of friends in the
various cities visited. In this city, for
instance, Mr.. Henry F. Durant, con-
verted lawyer of ample means, residing
at the Highlands, invited Mr.. Moody
and family to take up their abode at his
house during their stay here. The invi-
tation was thankfully accepted, and thu.
Mr.. Moody is provided for 50 far as his
temporal wants are concerned. The
proprietors of the Hotel Brunswick in s
like manner invited Mr.sSankey aud hi:
family to reside at that spacious and ele
CANT hotel, free of charge, during theil
stay in Boston.
Thus is Mr.. Sankey provided for, anC
thousands of people who are ready to &C
commodate either one of the evangelist
wioh their families, if need SHOULD arts,
therefor, and would consider it a grea
privilege to do so. Excepting th'
/ Chicago friends, these men have no sourc
of revenue, and it is stated repeated,
that they refuse gifts of money from al
sources. The question of finance, so ia
as Mr.. Moody and Mr.. Sankey were con
cerned, never came before the committe
in any form, it being understood tina
the workers came without money ant
without price. In regard TO the tabeI
nacle expenses, these figures are given
Cost of the tabernacle, S50,002: runnin
expenses for four months, SO, 000-maB
ing the total amount of money expende
| S75, 700. To pay this sum it is estimate
that from all sources, including tn
'1ree-will Offering" there have been re
ceived $4,000, thus leaving a deficit {
$40 600
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MRS. RIRER'S DELUSION.

Mrs. Biber's house was built upon 4
reclaimed marsh below Centre station,
Oakland, Cal, and her husband was in
a cold, wet graveyard. Her heart was
true to him and to the four cherubs ne
had left behind him, the oldest fourteen
and the youngest in the cradle. A white
card outside the door proclaimed that
the widows property was for sale. ON
January p, good-lookng man of
pleasant address, alfred in Il coarse
check shirt and caTas pantaloons,
rough coat and army brogans, called and
offered to buy the house. He said he
was a miner who had begun digging as a
son of toll on the arid plains Of Arizona
and now was worth $4,000. He was
lonely and solitary and wanted to settle
down and have home She sighed,
made touching reference to the wet
cemetery and to the four cherubs, said
that she too, was lonely and solitary,
and sighed again. He said he would
buy the house, and then went out to get
his supper. In the evening he returned,
and she entertained him with fathomless
signs and desultory conversation after
the manner Of Mrs. Nickelby He asked
her to marry him, and she said she
would. The next day-it was Wednes-
day-they went to San Francisco and
were married. For two days she was
happy, Notwithstanding the ominous re-
mark of one.of. the cherubs who had
surreptitiously examined his stepfather's
pockets. He amt dot no dold in 'em"
On Friday her brother-in-law discovered
that her husbands~as .dnatic from the
Napa insane asylum, who had a wife in
Fruit Vale. and whose Arizona mines
were the inflated currency of diseased
imagination. She turned him out. On
the next day the lady from Fruit Vale
called to say that Mrs. Biber was the
fourth widow with landed property who
had been deceived by the crazy miner.
Mrs. Biber sits in thH parlOr over the
reclaimed marsh, sits by the window and
counts the pools of water on the moor
land, sits by the hour and thinks of the
moist cemetery, sits and weeps and
scolds the cherubs.
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INTERESTING pHEN oMEN4 ~ 49,;

On March l Mars will pass Jupiter,
near the point the sun reaches at his ex-
tremes southern declination, but this
sight will not be as interesting as the
former, as Mars viii be nearly over
Swallowed by the superior brilliancy Of
Jupiter.
But the astronomical event Of the
year will be the opposition of Mars,
which will occur on the FIFTH Of Septem-
Der. This happens once in little more
than two years, but owing to the ell
lipticity of the planets orbit a greater
degree of brilliancy is presented when
opposition and perihelion occur together,
as in the case this year, Mars coming to
perihelion Aug. q and TO opposition
fifteen days later.
During the monthso of August and Sep
TENDER the fiery little planet will blaze
nearly all the night, wsth brilliancy
rivaling that of Jupiter itself Opposi-
tions of Mars are valuable for determine
ing the suns distance, by means of the
planets horizontal parallax, being FOL
this surprise inferior only to transits OI
Venus. The comparative movements OF
Mars and Saturn viii be interesting, the
former passing Saturn on the twenty,
seventh of July, retrograding past him
on the twenty-sixth of August, and final.
" passing him on the third of Novem.
Der in direct motion again, Saturn be
ing in retrograde motion ali the time,
On the ninth of November Venus and
Jupiter will again be in conjunction
being about three hours distance from
the sun. They will not, however, be
nearer than about TWO and one-half de-
grees, Venus being at her greatest hell.
eccentric latitude south, and Jupiter but
little past his descending node. During
the months of September, October and
November the four planets, Venus
Jupiter, Mars and Saturn, will all be
visible in the evening sky, forming in
the first half of November two pairs
Venus and Jupiter, low in the southwest
and Mars and Saturn high in the south.
east, about eight or nine degrees below
the equinoctial, sight as beautiful as il
is rare.
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There was once q very clever and
learned gentleman, but an infidel, who
was travelling among the mountains and
valleys of Wales. He came TO a roadside
cottage in a lonely, lovely spot, and, as he
was very tired and thirsty, stopped to
ask for drink of water. 1t was little
girl he spoke to, sitting at the cottage
door with a book on her knee. She in
stsnty rose and said Will you not
have cup of milk, sir, for YOU are hot,
and the cold water would hurt you %
He was very much pleased with her
kindness, and thought he would like n
little chat with her. So when she came
out with the milk, he said 90 see you
are getting your lesson there, my dear "
No, sir" he answered, II am only
reading"
Why, what book ?''
The bible, sir"
What" said he, half smiling to him
self, as he gave back the cup, "do you
like that book, then ~
For moment the little maiden did
not answer for surprise then, lifting her
bright eyes to his face, she said " Why,
sir, thought that everybody loved the
Bible"
The gentleman babe the child good-by
and slowly rode along. No one knew
what he was thinking of then; but years
after when he had become true and
humble christian, he used To tell OF that
little Welsh girl, and say And 1, too,
now that understand what the Biblei :.
am almost as ready to wonder at my
question as she was for every one who
really knows it must surely love it, too. ("
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impossible to procure genuine Madeira
now"
"They say there is none" another
woman chimed in.
There was only one man present at the
lesson, and there was quite atitter as his
deep sonorous voice broke in upon the
female squeaking with the Portentious
query, "What onion do you prefer, Miss
Corson?"
sThe red onion" she replied really,
and an expression ofglad relief stole over
his troubled face. He was evidently
egoing for the red onion henceforth.
The greatest interest centred IN the six
kinds of omelettes made by the cook
under Miss Carson's supervision. As
they came out delicate, dark golden
color. the spectators cried Oh
smacked their lips and presently tasted
them again and again until they slowly
but surely disappeared. SOyer, the great
French cook. was right when he asked,
ssWho is there who can make a perfect
omelette?" Our New York society
women may we'll perfect themselves in
the art of making omelettes when they
have before them the bright example of
the beautiful duchess of Marlborough,
wko frequently boosted that she made
omelettes better than any woman in
England, and that she had 50 spoiled the
great duke that he could not eat om-
elettes made by hands other than hers.
''BEARDING OYSTERS
Miss Corson's omelette opera was in
troduced by an oyster overture, when
one of the attentive pupils asked whether
she bearded oysters. Miss -CCl@d1I
who, like many others of her sex, has no
objection to boards, declared that the
process of ''bearding" oysters( cutting off
their dark hirsute fringe was peculiar TO
England, and she did not seem TO be
willing to introduce this antibeard prac-
tice into this country.
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Lenchn Soils.

In an agricultural talk to farmers,
Prof. johnson said: "The presence of
an abundance of stable manure in such a
soil enables it TO hold a much greater
proportion OF the rain that falls upon it;
less rain runs off into streams; there IS
less teaching of plant food; at the same
time there is more plant drink. This
point can only be appreciated when we
know that the evaporation of water
through the leaves of crops amounts to
five million pounds per acre every season,
and must 60 on whether there is rain to
supply it or not"
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The London Globe says that single
copies of English newspapers very rarely
reach any OF the 5000 Englishmrn in
Russia to whom they are addressed.
They stick at the censor's office, and are
either sold for waste paper by the clerks
or used for cigarette slips by the POrters
Every November a catalogue is issued by
the postmaster of the district-the CEN
sor's confdant-- of the papers admitted
into the country. You select and send
the money 10 the postmaster. The Times
alone of English dailies is regularly de-
livered. The Daily News was not till
this year allowed admission, and the
Daily Telegraph is still denied, except a
single copy for the czarovitch. All the
papers and serials are liable to reach you
more or less mutilated. Punch is so ex.
ceptionally maltreated as to be fire.
quently sent in letters.
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1NF1 UENoE or MAN ON CLIMATE.

The London Evening Standard OBJ
serves: "The influence of man upon
climate has been a favorite subject of
late years, and it has been demonstrated
that, by cuttingdown forests and drain
ing the soil, man can materially change
the climate of country, sometimes TO
his advantage and sometimes TO his det-
riment. Some recent experiments have
shown the extent to which woods viii
affect the rainfall. We read in Bieder-
mann's Centralblatt that the most recent
exRaSiments have been undertaken TO as
certsin to what extent the rainfall may
be affected by frs and pines. Two OBJ
servatories were established for purposes
of COMPASSIONATE one over a clump of
pinus sylvestris some forty feet high,
and the other over a bare sandy plain
three hundred metres (three hundred
and twenty eight yards) distant from the
wood. and at the same height above the
level of the ground Twelve months
observations showed that of the total
rainfall within that period, ten per cent.
more fell over the trees than over the
bare sand three hundred metres distant
from them. This result is regarded as all |
the more surprising since experimentsofa
precisely similar nature in the case of oak
and beech woods had given an excess of
five per cent. only in favor of the wooded /
site of observation. Further, the mean
state of saturation of the air over the
wood was found to be ten per cent. high
er than of that over the bare expanse of
sand, the former holding much more
water in solution than the latter. The
ground, too, under the trees retained far
more water than the exposed earth, the
from the sorface, thanks In
Is shade of trees and moss, being only
ne-sixth of that outside their friendly
heller. The moral of all this seems To
9 that we should plant pine and fir {
'rests in sandy and chalky districts, not (
My to encourage the water to come
own, but to keep it in position when it s
as fallen, and to assist to prevent
oods"
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Gods Hiding-PIace

In the days of the Reformation there
lived learned divine in Germany named
Brentius, of Wurtemburg. His godly
zeal had at last aroused his enemies, VINO
one day sent band of soldiers to seize
him when they thought he would be of
his guard. The soldiers entered the town,
bit Bfentius had time to flee; not, how
erer, without their perceiving him, and
they chased him through several streets.
He was enabled to outstrip them little;
then, turning quickly into a lane, he
found his way up fight Of stairs, at
the top of which was a rickety ladder
leading up to the hay-loft. He was soon
among the hay, concealed and still. The
soldiers ran hither and thither, and, on
coming to the stairs, sought for him,
even poking up the points of their bay
onets through the boards of the hay-loft,
to see if any one moved. Brentius kept
still, only shrinking back to escape the
touch of the bayonets, till the soldiers
turned away, concluding that no one was
there.
So far this was a good hiding place,
but how was he to live if he continued
,ere? The same Lord who had guided
His servant to this retreat, sent him food;
or every morning, during fourteen days,
hen came to the hay loft and laid an
90 in the hay, which furnished Bren-
ius with sustenance sufficient to keep
i'm alive.
After fourteen days the supply failed,
nd he was compelled to leave this shell
er. and accordingly he cautiously de-
cended into the street He found that
he soldiers had just left the town; 50
hat his friends had now full time and
pportunity to get him conveyed away
lfely to another place.
How many ways has God of protecting
lis own people who trust in him!-
,ortdrestera Christian advocate.
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An omele,tc luasiaee.

An "omelette MATINEE" says the New
York Herald, was the great attraction at
the cooking school at No s St. Mark
place, recently. The matinee was at
tended by about fifteen or eighteen wo.
men, evidently belonging TO the most in
telligent class of New York matrons and
housekeepers. While the fashionable
ladies were prorhenading on Broadway in
the joyous sunshine these conscientious
wives were glad to bear the confinement
ola kitchen in order to improve their
husbands dinners. The bill of fare con-
sisted Of meek turtle soup, boiled bass. a
la maitre d'hotel, with potatoes. roast
quail stuffed, and omelettes (ham oyster.
Parmesan cheese, mushrooms. fine herbs
and preserves Very often there were
colloquial interruption. One OF the
auditors, for instsnce, desired to know
whether a small or large calfs head |
made the bes>nock turtle soup, to which |
the cook CURLY replied, 'fsmalI are de |
best"
linen the question came up whether
sherry or Madeira was best for mock
turtle, and Miss Corson sageIy decided it
In favor OF the sherry aThe Madeira
you buy Is only sherry, after all.n said
she, who evidently knows the tricks of
the grocers. Its only sherry with =
Madeira-iixe nayoring in it. It's almost
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| read, the other day, notice in one
of the religious papers of a father who,
one beautiful Sabbath morning. took his
little child out into the fields for walk;
the little child ran ahead, while the
father lay down to rest. Every now and
then the child would run up to the
father, with flowers in its tiny hand cry
ing, " Papa papa! see, pretty" The
man fell asleep, and when he aworke the
child had disappeared he called, but got
no response, and, becoming very much
frightened, went to Il hill near by and
called again he then went to the edge OF
a precipice, a short distance off, and look
ing down, saw the mangled remains OF
his child lying on the rocks beneath. He
ran and found the life had left its little
body. Oh, how he pressed the little
form to his heart, ana accused himself OF
being its murderer, for the child was
killed while he was slumbering that
child fell over the precipice while he was
unconscious. Now, my friends, there
are hundreds and thousands of parents
sound asleep, while THEN sons and daugh-
tiers are wandering down to death and
ruin.-D L. Moody.
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nov 10 CONTROL 4 aOr.


\ woman with long chin and other
marks OF personal beauty called at the
Central station at an early hour and in
PRODUCED herself to Biah as a widow
woman and the mother of a twelve-year-
old boy whom she could not control.
Cant control him, eh?" unused the
old man, as he scratched his head. "What
is his worst feature %
"Well, I can't keep him in nights"
she replied.
Cant Ell? And you want to know
what I'd do if he was my boy?"
eyes"
"Well, I'll tell you, madam. In the
first place I'd order carload of railroad
iron. When got it I'd lay the boy on
the floor on his back, and then I'd pile
the bars this way and that way. and
across and up and down till had four
tons holding him down, and then I'd sit
down on top the heap and ask him If he
felt like whooping around"
"But isn't railroad iron quite costly?"
she cautiously inquired.
well, it's good deal cheaper than
it was, madam, but if you can't afford to
try that plan why don't you get an auger
about four feet long and bore it through
your boy, and into the back door,
at might kill him, Mr. JOY"
: every likely, but isn't it better for
you to kill him now than for him to
wander out west in his middle age and
be choked to death with a cheap rope ?''
"Then you would kill him now, would
you?"
81 would "
al don't see how can, and yet it may
be the best way" she said, and the tears
fell so fast that she dropped her veil and
went out.--Detroit Free Press.
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Popularity.

The popularity Of Messrs. James S. Kirk &
CO.'S soaps, manufactured in Chicago, Is
shown by the unprecedented sale which their
goods have reached during the year 1875. This
Dy lar Is the largest soap manufacturing con.
Germ IN the United States. producing and sell
ing IN all parts of this country, from the Red
River OF the North to New Orleans, and from
Portland, Me, TO San Francisco, 25,00O,0 0C
pounds annually. No so-called greases enter
INTO these soaps. Only pure refined tallow and
vegetable oils are used, containing no adul
teration. Fair and square weights always re
liable This is why their soaps are so popular
with all good and economical hOuseseepers
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ENIGMAS.
some Of the Best-A Neat One by Fog
Royal Riddtes-Bishop TiIIer-
FORCES Sumner

Royal Riddtes-Bishop WiIIeJ-
forces Sumner.
One vancouver consists in taking the
letters of word, adding or subtracting
from themsand seeing in what way the
meaning becomes changed thereby. Of
this kind is the enign& 'My first two
letters area man, my first three a woman,
my first four brave man, my whole a
brave woman" This is a really excellent
analysis of the liberal constituents of
Herotine. The following example is at
trlbured 10 Charles John Fox, and Is
without much difficulty seen TO relate to
glass:
Mhai is pretty and useful in various ways,
no II tempts some poor murtais 10 shorten thelr
Take one letter from II. and their will appear
" mar youngsters admire ey'ry day in the year,
ltke Two letters from il, and then without DOUBT
Gu are What that is, il you don't ind II out.
Canning's enigma is very neat on the
effect OF adding the letter rs" to the word
''cares"-conyerting a plural into sin
gular, troubles into a pleasure. One OF
the best enigmas of this class was by
Lord Macauley, on the word-but we
will leave the discovery of the word to
the ingenuity of the reader:
Cut OF my head. and singular l am;
/ Cut OIL my tail and plural ! appear;
at oil my head and tail, and, wOnderous leat,
Although my middles lsit, there's nothing. there
I What is my head, cut off2 \ sounding sea-
| What is my tail, cut oil A rushing river
| and IN their mighty depth fearless play,
/ Parent OF sweetest sounds, yet mute ior ever.
The initials 4 EIO L formed an enig-
ma that lasted during many years Of the
reign of Frederick the Third, elector Of
Austria ana+~nperor of Germany, in the
fifteenth ces-ury. They We're inscribed
on public buildings, on regimental flags
on the backs of books, and on the imPe
rial plate. A solution was found among
the emperor's papers, after his death, II
German and Latin; and sufficiently
boastful it was:
Allies Erdreich list G.serreich unterthGn,
Austri,e est imperare Orb universe.
Another form of O L enigma Is tina
clever production which was for Ions
time attributed to the late Prof. Whew
ell, but which is now said 10 have beer
due to Rev. r. Egerton Warburton, al
though the reply may have been Whew
! ellis. 1t is based on the near identity o
sound between "cipher" and ''sign for,
on the fact that cipher stands for zero
naught, 0, or nothing; that cipher is ais
A motto or monogram; and that the ez
clamation O oh , is shaped nearly lik
the cipher 0. A lady is supposed to AS
for your cipher and motto, and you repl.
as follows
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heart as tender as ever beat, and John ;
heart, when yeu came close to him, We
anything but tender, yet they were Do'n
saints, for all that Erasmus was tne
most fascinating man ofhis day Luths,'
to look at, one of the best. Goldsmlsh
was pulp of rare sweetness almost !"
the core; johnson had goodness uii-
speakably different, but quite as good J"
one of the knottiest and hardest sheii7
that ever was seen.
The field is the world and the reaper
are angels; and in vastness and varie's
the harvest is the same yesterday, to-da!
and forever.
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1HE OLD BACHELORS LATTE END

Let us glance at the latter scenes.
Even he has his day. When people find
that he will not marry, and that he is
getting on in years, they gradually drop
him" He ceases to be asked TO parties,
and naughty beauties turn up thier
noses whep he supplicates for their favor.
He may not lose caste at the same time
that the bloom Of youth is robbed from
him, but when he begins to enter upon
the regions of the sere and yellow leaf his
fiatterers drop away. He sees younger
rivals upon his heels, and has to make
room for them. The old ties that rem
dered life dear TO him snap, one by one,
and none form to take their place. Not
being engaged in any work of usefulness,
he has to fly to his club for companion
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THE HARVEST OF HUMANITY

Men differ in their ways and their ma
ture, as the grains and fruits of earth.
If man be sharp and hard on the sur
face we cannot quite believe in his good
ness. Others, again, are all aweet until
YOU get at their heart, where you will
find bitterness and hardness you never
expected.
Peter had forbidding outside with a
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DoN'T call doctor, If suffering from
rheumatism, govt or neuralgia, but send TO
your druggist for bottle of Durang's Rheu-
matte Remedy, and just so certain as you
take it, just so sure will cure follow. 1t
never has and never can fail to cure the
worst case, if the patient is not beyond the
reach OF medicine. Sold by every reliable
drup ist
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MORE than fifty years have elapsed
since Johnson's Anodyne Liniment was first
invented, during which time hundreds OF
thousands have been benefited by its use.
Probably no article ever became so univer-
sally popular with all classes as Johnson's
Anodyne Liniment.