The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-26
GEN ERAL ITEMS.

worK mat work is one of the grandest Chris.
tian phenomena of the time. Take it on even
the lowest scale of valuation-from the fruit in
dollars 1t has borne for the Masters use-.nd Il
is magnificent. He has visited about one hmm
dred and sixty churches He has raised about
$2'Voo,ooo Tor the payment of church debts.
lie estimates that some $4,000, 600 more have
oeen raised or saved. in various WAYS. under
.he influence OF this work. And, and he has
constantly engagements out for about twenty
Saboaths, the enterprise shows no sign of con
cluslon.-Advdnce.
The efforts in behalf of the Chinese
IN New York have thus been in progress for
some years, period sufficient to note results
IL can be shown that they have proved fruitful
OF good. Hundreds of scholars have nassed
unoer instruction, the average attendance per
month being now more than 275 number
OF the learners of the most promise have been
sent to more advanced schools, while a dozen or
more have become simple. hearted disc;nIes If
Christ and united with different churches.
The several departments of mission proper
are maintained. instruction, mainly secular
is gwen every evening of the week except Sat
arday, and on Sundays at 230 P NJ teachers
from neighborlng churches give efficient aid
Inc evening OF the Sabbath is occupied with
gelist. 10'A'
MIR. William III. Vanderbilt has done
another handsome thing. Rev. DR.. Deems now
OF the Church OF the Strangers in this city. was
professor In the University of North Carolina
before the war, and since his settlement in This
city has been making occasional birthday con
| trioutlons to fund which the University has
called The Deems Fund" and applied to as
sisting struggling young men in pursuing their
studies Percelving the good that such a fund
would accomplish, Mr.. Vanderbilt sent DR.
Deems New Years present of ten thousand
dollars to be added to the sum already accu-
INFLATED. 1t was good and graceful thing. 1t
VIII gratify and help our friends in the South
The method taken is also kind compliment to
Or. Deems, whom Mr.. Vanderbilt's father trust
ed and loved-Ib
BIRDS WITH TEETH Odontorwithes.
or toothed birds, is the name which Prof Marsh
has gwen to a most remarkable class of extinct
animals, OF which he has discovered numerous
remains IN the cretaceous rocks of Kansas and
Colorado. The specimens so far discovered
have been grouped into three orders, of which
two are represented on our plains Of one of
these orders, the Hesperomis, an aquatic bird
had strongly developed limbs and a long Aexi
BILE neck, which must have made it good diver
and ready at catching fish. 1t had teeth
fourteen In the maxillary bone, and thirty three
IN the corresponding ramus of the lower law
! Inc wings were rudimentary or aborted a.
remnant OF the humerus alone existing but the
legs and feet were very large, so that Prof
|
ing been a carnivorous aquatic ostrich des
cended from reptilian ancestry, which is
strongly recalled by different parts of the skel
eton. The second order is that of odontotor
mae and consisted of small birds, reminding
us by their strong wings and delicate legs and
ieet OF the tents, like which they are probably
also aquatic IN habit" They had reptilian
skulls and teeth and vertebrae (which in their
blconcave structure recall those of fishes" The
third order is represented by the ArchnoDterur
OF Solenhofen, Germany. Prof Marsh believes
that the peculiar character of each of these
orders must have been united in some earlier
type, OF which no trace has yet been found. and
winch may have been almost as mu CHI reptile
as bird.
One of the Bishops, now high in
fame in this country, related pleasant story he.
lore ne entered upon his great Office saying it
was on himself, but was too good to be lost He
pictured disconnected pilgrim" in one of the
New England cities, who left his brethren in
some excitement of a local milf, and came over
INTO the congregation of which he was then the
rector. With all the superaboundng zeal of a
new convert he purchased an enormous PRAYER
book, with gilt clasps and morocco covers
bound so extensively, indeed, that he dared
not leave 1T behind him in the pew but took it
backward and forward in his walk to service
one day he met an old acquaintance in the for
saken parish, who accosted him with surprise as
going the wrong way. 90, do not attend ND
there any more" said the man; {" l 90 over here
70 Emmanuel Church" Then In some small
admiration Of the conscious manner of this an
nouncement, his friend continued: Indeed |
had not heard of that, but what have you under
your armY And the convert proudly replied :.
Why, that is my Letharqv F'-CTyist;qn NJ
Work. ~
GEORGE ELIoT.-(Two portraits |
There was very good portrait Of her in the ex
hlbltion last year at the Royal Academy. No
one who had ever seen her could mistake the
large head cher brain must be heavier than most
men 81, covered with mass of rich auburn hair
AT A hrst l thought her tall; for one could not
think that such head could rest on an ordinary
woman's shoulders. But, as she rose up. her
Inquire appeared of but medium height. She re-
celved us very kindly. In SEEING for the first
time, one to whom we owed so many happv
hours, 1t was impossible to feel towards her as a
stranger. All distance was removed bv her
courtesy. Her manners are very sweet. because
very simple and free from affectation
Justin Mccarthy said of her, "She is what we
IN England, call decidedly plain; what people
IN New York call homely; and what persons
who did not care to soften the forms of AN nm
pleasant truth would describe pr baby bv a
still harsher and more emphatic epithet her
lace, 1t IS said, not even being formed and illu-
minated by the light Of her genius"
QUAINT AND STRoNG-A writer in
the New York Observer gives this specimen of
Mr.. Surgeons styles
when man gets to cutting down sin. par.
| ing down depravity and making Ett1a Of f,t,ro