The New York herald., 1879-12-28
CHAT BY THE WAY.

There is desire which Is more hkey TO De Iatai
than any other known to medical science. and yet
we cannot remember to have seen it mentioned in
any book of pathology. We even afraid that
there scientific name by which it is known. but
in the expressive vocabulary Of everyday life it is
called "wind on the BRAIN.
There is many financial genius in this world who
has discovered three four ways in which the ma
tional debt can be paid as easily as necromancer
finds handkerchief in loaf OF bread. who has not yet
succeeded in finding one way in which his own
debts can be paid. Theories are beautiful things.
but healthy bank account is far more satisfactory.
The necromancer yet pulled handkerchief
out Of loaf without having first put it there and no
man ever paid his honest debts without having
worked for the money to do it with.
The papers.are constantly telling us how to live
on So week. 1t is undoubtedly very difficult
problem. but by means the most difficult The
world would be far wiser and happier If brill
liant genius would only tell us how to get the 50.
tits bad habit to sand the sugar before you go to
family prayers. Wait until the service is and
perhaps then you won't do it.
II a mans word is not as good as his bond the
best thing get without either. If this can't
be done look well to the bond and treat the word
as though it had never been spoken.
There is no happiness which will compare with
that which comes to o man whose bills are oil hon.
estly paid.
1t is not necessary to threaten bad man. for his
own deeds threaten him with worse punishment
than you infict.
Don't be suspicious Of everybody. The man who
is everlastingy looking for evil ind the greatest
quantity Of it in his own life.
If man has nothing to do you may be pretty
sure that Satan is looking out for an employe and
will soon find one.
Biblical quotations should be accurate. A little
boy when asked about Scriptura characters said of
Hagar that Abraham turned her into the desert.
.where she became pillow of salt in the daytime
and pillow of fire at night"
The desire find the ten lost tribes Of Israel has
again REQUIRED. Scholars looking for them in
every corner of the globe. Perhaps they like
poor Sheridan, who said that he hoped they would
be found, because he had borrowed money of the
two tribes which we know all about until he had
lost his credit and the now tribes would. as the
comedy has it, "help him out considerable"
The little girl quite right who said she had
bcen converted and knew it because she felt all the
time like giving the best things she had to her sis
ter little more of that kind of conversion would
do older people no harm.
DIR. Talmage is the great religious puzzle of the
age. o kind of holy conundrum. which most people
give up. Some of his late utterances have been
peculiarly significant. He left his native land with
a shadow on his character but his theology.
Whatever he might be as man. 1t was conceded
that he was thoroughly orthodox Now that he has
returned he declares that any mans theology
ia rood enough IL tho man does his ''level BEST.
Hottentot comes within this rule, for he
certainly "lives and moves and does his "level
best" to have 'his being for supper-some prisoner
whom he has captured. and who is served up in
roasted or boiled condition for the victors evening
meal. Does Talmago contemplate q trip to Africa
with al ic
he trying throw the Presbytery of the scent and
compel them to arraign him for hercsy and stop
talking about his character? 1t Is said that Socrates
once chopped off the tails of his dogs. and when
asked the reason why he shrewdly answered that
he did 1t in order to compel the people to change
their topic of conversation; they had been
talking too much about himself but thereafter they
would talk about the dogs tails. Is Talmage tho
owner of a dog and is he swinging the shining blade
above his caudal extremity? Why has the orthodox
so suddenly become heterodox2 As scent the
morning air convinced that man of Tai
mage's calibre can't be cabined, cribbed. confined
within the narrow limits of Presby yterianism. and
that il will be better to leave under the charge
of heresy than under the stigma Of certain loose
ness in business transactions and the soft impeach-
ment of untruthfulness
There are great many people in the world who
are bound by the close ties of blood to the who
said that had laid two shillings. for himself
and one for the Lord. but that tho he had in
tended for the Lord had been lost in unfortunate
speculation.
Don't make Sunday tho worst day OF the week for
your children. 1t is not necessary to give them per-
mission TO kick football in the front entry. blow
up the back yard with gunpowder; neither is it
necessary to compel them to sit with long faces,
hating the very word Sunday and wishing it were
Monday. That child had had n bad theological edu-
cation. and her home was by means religious in
its best sense who said she wished she could be a
minister because he could talk much he pleased
ON Sunday and 'holler' in the pulpit.
How pleasant IL must DO to constantly have a dis
agreeable thing say aud to be able to say IL just in
tina nick OF time. There those who have pecu-
liar knack Mt this OF thing for instance, tho
little boy who said to the nervous old lady who
riding his donkey through dangerous pass:-
"AIa'am, that very donkey threw q woman off last
year just at that corner ahead OF us. and she
killed." Then ho added. with tho sympathy which
characterizes such people. II hope ho won't do tho
same thing to you. ma'am." 1t is SO easy to get
through hard place in life when has cheering
companion of this kndi 1t is l.ko going into sick
room ana telling the sufferer that you knew n man
once who had the disease but not half so
badly and that he died In three days. Such things
make one determined to get wel however. just for
the pleasure he will havo in returning tho compli
ment
There is q certain namby-pamby sentimentalism In
some folks religion which is moro like spiritual
mush than anything else. 1t always seemed to
| that true religion was manly, athletic sort of
thing. and that its prominent characteristic was
that IL doubled mans nghting capacity. and gave
| him the victory over himself. We heard, however.
of somebody's saying. the other day. that he prayed
to the Lord. and lie took away tho appetite for