The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-10-26
GENERAL ITEMS.

equai 10 those OF Portugal and Madeira
There are 100000 cows in the
united States. This is more than are kept by
any nation in Europe Germany having the
highest, or S.962, 22l.
MIR. Isaac Taylor, in THE Athenoeunn,
says that the squeezes received of the Sloan in
scription shows that the form of the letters ia
not as antique as was at first supposed He
does not think 1T earlier than the seventh or
later than the sixth century B. C. He thinks
IL may oeiong to the closing years of the Jewish
monarchy and was constructed in preparation
TOR one of the latest sieges of the city.
Count Campeilo, the late convert
rom h0manism, has not the gift of preaching,
and he has therefore not been appointed 10 any
church minstration, but las been intrusted with
the direction OF the Protestant schools In Rome.
Bishop Dudley, of Kentucky, now
returning from Europe, speaks of the Church
81 Rome as the mistr IS and mother of Chris
tan caricature."
In the Episcopal Church of Central
zen, syivanla, out of atotal of eighty six church
es. fifty nine. or proportion Of nearly three
fourths, are wholly free.
"A Scotch minister went up to Edin-
6urgh once to prepare harmony of the Four
Gospels Sandy" said some one to humble
VI us, Wnere Is your pastor p
All, replied Sandy, "he's gone. up to Edin.
burgh to make four men agree who never fell
out"
The celebrated cypress tree that had
stood near the city of Sparta. Greece for over
$500 years, and was described by Pausanius 400
years before the coming of Christ, has been de-
stroyed by band of strolling eypsies. who
camped beneath it and left their FIRE burning.
1t was seventy five feet high and ten feet in d.
ameter near the ground The people of Sparta
greatly mourn its loss
-PECULIARITY OF CoLoRED WOMEN.
The Louisville Post says that negro women never
kiss each other. 81 In all my life have never
seen two genuine negro women kiss and have
often heard my father remark the same thing.
de was over sixty years old. and frequently
told us 1t was tradition through all his family
that the negro women never kiss. friend of
NINE mine who has been great traveller has visited
Africa and Hayti, has remarked to me the
strange TACT that negro women never kiss"
"A joint committee of the Colored
and African Methodist Episcopal Churches is to
meet IN Baltimore next February to discuss the
subject of the union of the two bodies These
are two of the three leading African Methodist
Churches of the country. The Colored Church
IS Southern. and an off-shot from the Methodist
Episcopal Church South
DR.. Henry Foster, of Clifton Springs.
n ? =, who built up the large and profitable
Sanitarium there, as the result of long wears of
labor, has made gift of his entire property free
OF debt, valued at from $500 900 to $500, 90, as
anltarlum tn be devoted to the gratutious
treatment of missionaries and ministers with
their families, who are dependent upon their
salary for support, and also of teachers and
church members unable to pay for treatment
Inc Board OF Trustees to whom the institution
Is conveyed comprises leading members of the
various evangelical denominations, the object
being wholly unsectarian.
DIR. Buckley, editor of the Christian
Advocate, while in Great Britain, in attendance
upon the Methodist Council, had an interview
with Professor Robertson Smith. He ends his
account of it thus =" The impression, as a
whole, Is that he is almost a phenomenon of
intellectual vigor and alertness, and that he is
thoroughly sincere that his views NAV perhaps
be safely held by him. but that logically fol-
lowed to tn 'ir last results, they would lead
many 10 the verge OF Rationalistic unbeief, if
not to the last fatal plunge"
1t Is reported by the Religious Tract
Society of London that more copies of the Scrip
lures have been purchased by the Spaniards
during the past twelve years, in proportion to
population, than by the French or Italians.
In the Synod of Geneva the Rev.
ilmothy Hill, Synodlcal missionary for Kansas.
showed how two hundred and fifty churches had
been planted in Kansas in thirteen years. He
pictured the dug-outs and sod houses of the set
tiers and the cities springing up in a night
where whiskey, gambling, and harlotry ran
riot; where there was no Sabbath, and how the
missionary effected all these
Here is weighty sentence from the
Ed.n6urgh Revie0, which was once an oracle
and still shows grand scholarship. The opinion
chimes In with 80 many already uttered that
we think 1t is coming to be the general iudg.
ment OF English speaking people. Here is the
sentence =" Every phase of New Testament
scholarship was represented in the n Testament
company, but the niceties of idiomatic English
appear to have found no champion"
DR.. Edward Beecher has been ex
aiming the statistics of colleges in this country to
ascertain how far they furnish ministers for the
churches. He has found that the State Univer-
stiles produce very few, while an array of facts.
gathered from DIR. Beecher's own observation
and the researches of others deeply interested in
the matter, showed that Christian colleges have
been greatly blessed with religious Tevivals
ana have been the spiritual birthplace of thou.
SANDS OF our most influential men" If the
UNCONVENTIONAL Colleges are not preserved and
endowed, with all their religious influence con
tinued, the outlook tor ministers in coming DAVIS
will be very poor.
ANOTHER REVISION DEMANDED
The Rev DR.. William M. Taylor, of the Broad
way Tabernacle, being asked by reporter of
tne Ioe7N1ng Post to what extent the Revised