The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-05-18
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
The New York Chinese Young Mems
Christian Association starts with forty members
connected with Chinese Sunday Schools.
-Doctrinal topics will be excluded
from the Methodist Ecumenical Conference for
the sake OF harmony.
The Anti-Semitic petition was finally
handed to Bismarck with only 255, 900 sigma
lures instead OF the round million which the
agitators set out to obtain.
The Russian Cars seclusion at
Gatschina-a country seat about twenty miles
from St Petersburgh where his father enter
tanned the German Generals in 1S71-shows his
conviction that there is no safety for him in the
capital.
YOKOHAMA, JAPAN, April 21st.-A
scheme has been projected for building nearly
1000 miles of railway running to the western
and northern limits of the main inland. and
native company is being formed for the purpose
of carrying it out.
The annual rental of landin Ireland
amounts to e11,51S,392 During the ten wears
ending IN 1879 the Irish spent for Intoxicating
liquors an annual average of e13,S 1925, 1o2.
The Alliance vouches for this. Dur-
Courtney, of st. James church, Chicago in
catechizlng the children of his parish in regard
to the fasts recorded in the Bible. "asked the
question Who tasted forty days except Jesus p
Fancy his horror when the class with one voice
cried out Tdnner'"
-Seventy-on one thousand dollars per
annum, it is said, was the price paid by the Post
office Department under Gen. Brady's manage
ment' to insure the transfer of an empty mail
pouch back and forth once week between St
Louis and st. Paul by river.
Max Muller writes :-"Not till that
word barbarian was struck out of the dictionary
OF mankind and replaced by brother. can we
look even for the first beginning of our science.
This change was effected by Christianity HUI
n.n'lity is word which you look for in vain in
Plato or Aristotle; the idea of mankind MS one
family, as the children of one God, is an idea of
Christian growth"
The story is told by somebody, most
likely a Chicago man, that stranger in ST.
Louis, thinking he recognizes his coat on the
back of pedestrian, shouted, "Stop thief"
And about thirty of the inhabitants suddenly
disappeared down side street.
Joseph Cook says:-"I want SUI
premely such view of religious truth as shall
set me at rest about my irreversible record of
sin. L want such view of God as shall present
him as an atoning God and on whom can look
and, for has SAKE be at peace"
"A minister, writing from Kansas
CITY, Mo-, asks why it is that the Church has
grown so worldly? And then proceeds to saw
that one minister here sent his children to
dancing school, and another has had music and
dancing in his house." eve are not prepared
to believe they were Presbyterians) If the
question is limited to the congregations of the
two ministers referred to, the answer is, dane.
ing parson is not likely to be the leader of a
spiritually minded flock.
There is no longer hope entertained
by the fruit growers of Delaware of anv profit
from peaches in that State this season. Not in
tWenty-hv years has there been worse show
ing, and not only have the growers given up all
hope of having crop this season, but the belief
Is general among them that great majority of
the peach trees have been killed, while almost
all the rest OF them have been so injured as to
make them useless. Many of the most enter
prising growers are already making arrange
ment for planting new orchards to take the place
of the trees which they believe to be dead or
dying.-Gazette Special
POWER OF IMAGINATIoN.-The fol-
lowing incident is reproduced from Doctors
and Patients"
man OF science in Paris once prevailed on
the Minister Of Justice to experiment on a muir.
uereI VINO nau been condemned to death The
criminal was of high rank, and he was informed
that, in order to save the feelings of his family.
he would not be put to death upon the scaffold
but bled to death within the precincts of the
prison also that his death would be free from
pain. His eyes were bandaged, he was strapped
to table and at preconcerted signal four of
his veins were gently pricked with pin. At
each corner of the table was a small fountain of
water so contrived as to flow gently into basins
placed to receive it. Believing that it was his
blood he heard flowing he gradually became
weak and the conversation Of the doctors in an
undertone confirmed him in his opinion.
What fine bloodW said one. what pitv
this man should be condemned to die he would
have lived a long time" Hush" said the
other; then approaching the first, he asked him
IN low voice, but so as to heard by the crin
nal, How many pounds of blood are there in
the human bodyY' Twenty four you see al
ready about ten pounds extracted that man is
now IN hopeless state" The physicians then
receded by degrees, and continued TO lower their
voices. The stiffness which reigned in the
apartment, broken only by the dripping foun.
taIns, the sound Of which was gradually les
sened, so affected the brain of the poor patient
that although a man of very strong constitution.
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