The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-10-20

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lie reminds us of Simon the Tsnner.-Eps.l
Since the passage of the silver act
there have been coined IS, 1s9, $50 standard dol.
lars. Of these, 19,S86,443 are outside the
Treasury, and 4S.3O3,3o7 within its vaults.
Kansas is the geographical centre of
the United States, POS miles in width and 4O4
miles in length, containing 100000 acres, or
is larger than the whole of New England
England employs 424 first-class
States; we employ only about 81 ourselves
Leaving out the Cuban and Mexican trade we
employ only about 10 or 10.
Foreign
The ex-Empress Eugene has lust
purchased the Farnsborough estate in Hamp.
shire for 100000. Mr.. Thomas Longman, a
publisher, was the owner. The estate consists
OF about 257 acres with handsome trees and
grounds. Here she will build memorial
chapel, where will be placed the remains of her
late HUSBAND and son. She will remove from
Chiselhurst after the first of January.
The most pleasant piece of news for
the week is dispatch from India that King
Iheeoau, OF Burmah, is about to declare war
upon the British government of India. The
pleasant feature of it is that, if true, the British
will doubtless sent General Roberts to finish un
the splendid work of the Duke of Wellington
and make an end of that pestferous kingdom.
Ihere are as many reasons, moral, political, and
economical, why Great Britain should conquer
Burmah as there are that she should not con
quer and annex Afghanistan
j There is plan proposed to secure
the steamship Great Eastern. to run between
London, New Orleans, and Galveston, to take
out cotton and other products, and bring back
immigrants. 1t could be put to no better use
She is capable of holding a larger number
passengers by far than any other vessel ahoat
Heretofore she has proven a loss TO her owners
but he proposed plan may in the end prove
more profitable than any preceding venture.
AT last London has found lord
mayor who don't belong to the established
church. His name is Macarthur. He has
Just been elected. He is a regular old fashioned
Methodist, but rather quiet withal and one of
the staunchest disciples of John Wesley. In
this connection it may be stated that the Yves
leyans hold a sort of oecumenical council in
England next year.
Recently a large number of English
draft horses and many head of cattle and sheen
have been imported into the United States more
especially for American breeders All of the
animals are from the most noted English herds,
several of the horses dating their pedigrees from
PIRATE and Corsalr, two of the earliest sires of
IL,
ILL.,, was the purchaser of some of them. Texas
stock breeders intend to import lot of the
Polled Angus, short horned, short legged cattle
which make the best beef in the London mar
ket. The importation of stock from England
has been increasing within the past few months
western breeders being in the main the purcha-
sers.
1t was well understood at the time
OF the war between France and Germany and it
az nh
was urged and declared mainly through the in.
huence OF Eugene and her Fapal spiritual adj
vlsers AS late French paper saws "The
emperor was opposed to the war, but the EN-
press, 1t is said, would declare: This is nv
war She was therefore mainly responsible
for the calamities which resulted to the French
people and to France, but there is no one who
has reaped such bitter fruit from the war as the
Empress herself. There seems to be no end 10
the dregs OF her cup of sorrow-Ww York OBJ
serUer.
The Chinese Viceroy at Tentsin
has telegraph line in good working order con-
Meeting the Notifications upon the Peiho with
his headquarters at Tientsin. This is new de-
parture for China, and is the more significant "a
1t Is done without foreign intervention or infu-
ence.
"A STATUE IN HONOR OF ZwINGLE.-
1t IS proposed to erect a statue at Zurich in
nonoI Oh the retorner Iwlngle. Fifty five thou
sand francs have already been subscribed. and Il
is suggested that on the LIST of January 1891
the four hundredth anniversary of his birth the
statue be unveiled
When an Arab women intends mar.
rying again after the death of her husband. she
goes the night before the ceremony to nav
visit to his grave. There she kneeis. and pravs
him not to be otfended-not to be Jealous. As
however, she feels he will be offended or Jealous
the widow brings with her donkey laden with
two goats skins filled with water. The PRAYER
ended she proceeds to pour water on the grave
to keep the first husband cool under the frrita
ting circumstances about TO take place and bav.
ing well saturated him. she then departs.
"A GOOD WORD FOR REPUBLICAN
FRANoE.-Minister Noyes says of the French
Republic: " / am not able to see but that tho
Republic IS growing stronger all the time. It
IS Government that represses the people in
nothing, and it is difficult to show what thew
could rebel about. They have more liberty
than they ever had, and as much protection
Improvements are going on new buildings are
as plentiful as in Napoleon's best DAYS The
bookkeeping class and the foreign society in
faris may pine unreasonably for the pilded davs
o, the Second Empire yet even there very it
tie IS heard. The Government is sincere and
think ITS leaders are all honest men"
French literature is losing its hold
on foreign readers, argues Mr. Jules Clarotio