The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-12-27
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GENERAL. ITEMS.


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s+-Daniel Murphy, saidto be the largest
land iewper in the world, recently, died atSsn
State; 5000 900 in the State of Durango, Mexico,
and large tracts in Arizona. 1912. 10 EniaBi
=w7!s Fashion" has changed it's decree in
London, it is said. Instead Of running towards
g Ritualisnn," the current has veered towards
Br6ad-churchisna. Dean Stanley will be canon
lzed, and not Dr. Pusey.i 1sD lHtof ni .ssp 81
Take care girlsi "A Professor in
Jefferson College, Philadelphia, says that the
habitual use of larsenion" for the complexion"
causes the clearness of the skin it produces at
dition.
They had what is sc called :" SECULAR
ti''ttrat2 the other day in Port Jerpisy Orange
Co., N. Y. over the body Of the late John Graen;
Of that village. John G. Mills read an ex .aot
from Shakespeare, in the place of the Bible, and
T =. 3; Fowler, OF the Union and Farmer made
| an address. .4hiaIom siul 9m rus 7fbsc
| The brain Of a mulattoI who died re.
Gently in Cincinnati was found on a post-morr--
tenn examination to weigh sixty-onel ounces.
There are lon record but two brains heavier
than 'this--Cuviers weighing sixty-fo1r and
ohe-third ounces, and Abercrombie's sixty three
ounces, The dead man was. not considered
| bright ''' '4.lI 9n buH ,Iih-i
President Washington's grand-ne.
Phew, DIR. Lawrence Washington, who was a
rebel during the war, died recently in England
leaving his family poor in money, but rich in
relics of the great general d Among these pos-
sessions several letters and interesting docu-
nents, the saber he used in the Revolution, and
1.-THE silk rep suit he wore at his first inaugura-
i ton q, '.1 % %, a'+i hh.J PHI
I The changes of fifty years in the
! cost of living are illustrated by copy of the
bill pres ented to President Jackson for board
| during his inauguration. He stayed at wls&t is
now Wizards and was charged $5 for 4 days
! board .h ii thought five cigars, which cost him
Twenty-Five cents his breakfast on the last day
cost fifty cents, and the entire board bill for the
| week amounted to only $3.50.
I From PRAYER MEETING TO DEATH.
On Thursday night last, at Upton Station, near
Altoona Pa, Mr.. Parks Ler1aine and his two
sisters, Flora and Alice, were killed on the rail
4 way. They were returning home from PRAYER
meeting, walking on the track They stepped
'oh the track to avoid passing train, and in
DONG SO were run down by an engine on the
other track. They were all young and dhmar-
! ried, --1 ~ .i...-.',.
Mr.. Gladstone has given expression
to the thought of many other minds In regard
to the confusion and uncertainty which seems
TO prevail in all departments of thought in our
day when he terms the present state the melee
of systems, dogmatic and undogmatic, revealed
and unrevealed, particularist, pagan, secular
antt-theistic, or other, which marks this age"
LII is reported that " the Sacred Con-
gregation Of Rites in Rome has decided that
candles alone, aid not gas, must be used on the
| affairs. The candles also must be good wax
Candles and none of your tallow dips The
custom, says good authority was borrowed from
4 the temples of Pagan Rome and these again
borrowed 1t from temples in Babylon and a
Chaldean Liturgy" '.-o ag.o- ce.0 Lo
j The great social Industrial and
political fact in our day is the unceasing emigra-
i ton from the Old World to the New. 1t is not
II without its financial advantages for a compe-
tent writer estimates the capital in money and
!. valuables taken away from Germany by each
j, emigrant at not less than $i0S, and during 881
. there landed in the United States 24s, 1928 Ger.
man emigrants, causing transferform Germany
TO this country,of over twenty-five millions 10
money and property. 1t is estimated that Ger
, many has lost during the last sixty years and
mainly during the last thirty, in emigration
nearly twice the amount Of the enormous ran.
som paid by France TO Germany as indem-
= nifty IN 1871" But this is accompanied by
changes in the land into which this stream il
poured--social changes. political = changes
changes in the religious habits, customs and
thoughts of the people. The nation can Absorb
the coming peoples, but the fresh infusion may
! dilute the strength of the national character
/ Home Missions are the prime necessity in Amer.
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d not seer 30 trodtbis Mr. Spefgeon.a 1Is 81 nbt
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