The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-08-10

Why, where in the world did you get
that?' she asked; I've been looking for
1t for six months!"
In Boston there are two buildings, one
called the Parker Memorial" and the
other the Paine Memorial. One per-
petuates the memory of Theodore Parker,
and the other the memory of Tom Paine.
The Parker" is well matched with mort
cages, and the Paine" building was
saved in an extremity by an admirer of
Paine, who lived in California, and has
been turned into "dance hall" On
the other hand, it is asserted that those
churches in Boston are most truly flour
ishing and influential for good, not only
In the new district, but in the older parts
of the city, which cling the most closely
and faithfully to the evangelical standard
OF the New Testament. - PRESBYTERIAN.
A Keokuk woman, not feeling very
we'll, concluded to purchase a family
medical book, and find what was the
cause of her illness. That was three
years ago, and since then she has not
seen a well day; and what is still worse,
she has got to have thirty-five more dis
eases before she finishes the reading of it.
DIR. Thomas Chalmers was a very bad
writer. He used to write home to his
parents, but when his letters arrived
there they could not be read. His
mother used to say, Never mind, Just
let them lie tae DOR Tam comes hame,
and he'll read them tae us himself
The GREAT WEsT.-A few facts of a.
general character will illustrate these.
two points. The total wheat production
OF this whole country in 1880, amounted
in round numbers to 49O,OOO,OOO bush
els. Fully one-half of this great Weld
was produced west of the Mississippi.
The total corn produced for the same
year amounted to more than billion
and half OF bushels; and of this two
fifths grew in the New West. The cot
ton crop, worth more than three hundred
millions of dollars, amounted to nearly
SIX millions of bales, and of this yield the
States and Territories west of the Mis-
slsslppl contributed nearly one half. The
salnyh fisheries Of the Pacific and of the
Columbia River, in 1879 amounted, it is
SAID on reliable authority, to more than
fifteen millions of dollars. The product
from this single fish was twenty-five per
cent greater than all the products of all
the fisheries in the whole United States
IN 1870. One eminent metallurgist es-
Inmates the entire mineral production of
the New West to have been in 1880 one
billion of dollars, and he gives the items
which make up this vast aggregate.
The increase of population in our most
rapidly growing States cas-. of the Mis-
slsslpPi has seldom, if ever, been greater
than 10 per cent in any decade; but the
increase in the region west of the Mis-
slsslppi during the last decade, amounted
to 81! per cent, and probably 40 per
cent OF this increase took place during
the last five years.
If facts like these do not suggest
boundless resources. and represent stu
pendous material progress, how shall we
express them?
That the census of 1900 may show a
population in this region of fifty millions,
is the prediction, not of wild enthusiasts,
but OF many intelligent and thoughtful
men who are best acquainted with the
history and capabilities Of this portion of
country.-Cor. ~ Y Evangelist.