The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-06-07

eminent minister of the Free Church of Scotland.
=" The meanest Job 1 ever under
took" unused Colorado man. was that Of
apologlzlng to widow on behalf OF vigilance
committee, which hanged her husband by mis-.
take. 1t was hard to find Just the excuse that
would satisfy her"
The people of Geneva, Switzerland,
spend more money for wine than for bread.
The expenditure is 800 francs per head Of the
whole population.
1t is stated that there will be large
peach crop In Georgia this year. Having rail
road connection with Georgia, Cincinnati. and
vicinity, hope to receive a-share of the crop.
The growth of missionary contribu-
tons from $4,000 to $1,000 has been an ad.
vance in Home Missions from $3.50, 826 to s26.
~ 90, and in Foreign Missions from $745, us
to $2l ,740O56.
Rev. DR.. Brown, of Bedford, Eng
land, who has been visiting New York, is the
pastor of the church of which John Bunvan
was the leader, and which had but FIVE minis
tiers besides,
AS the Mount Vernon church of
boston says Come" instead of 60" to the
Chinese 1t is not strange that they are filling
up inc : sunday School class, which now num-
-Russlas material loss in consequence
OF the anti Jewish movement already much ex.
ceeds SIoo'OOOO 900; and the indirect loss is also
very heavy. The effect on the public finances
Is very severe and the Minister of Finance
threatens to resign, should there not be change
of policy. '--De'
PEACE AND WAR.-Rev. Mr.. Pullman
estimates that the cost of single war vessel
would build $50 churches of better cbaracf bor
than the average church building to dav."
Our " vessels would therefore represent % 900
churches
1t may interest our readers to know
the estimated incomes of few wealthy New
orkers VIM. H. Vanderbilt, seven and a half
millions OF dollars; Jay Gould, six millions
Coy: Morgan, half million Russell Sage. one
million b. l. Stewart nearly a million Robert
and Ogden Goeet, quarter of a million each
James Gordon Bennett, six hundred thousand
1he estate OF A. L. Stewart, one million; w. K.
d no cornelius vanderbilt, and D. G. Mills two
hundred thousand dollars each.
When the Duke and Duchess OF
Albany left Windsor, while they were still
Wlthin the private grounds, the bridegroom's
three brothers and Princess Louise and Princess
Beatrice ran across a part of the lawn incIosed
within bend of the drive each armed with
number OF old shoes, with which they pelted
the happy pair" The Duke of ALBANY re-,
turned the ire from the carriage with the
supplied him by his friendly as
salIants, causing the heartiest laughter bv
well directed shot a6 the Duke of Edinburgh.
In the Supreme Court of Rhode Is
land, last Saturday decree was entered divorc
ing Catharine Chase Sprague from William
oprague, giving Mrs. Sprague the custody of her
three daughters, and permitting her to resume
her maiden with 1aoT,o I, r.
for alimony if she chooses. Mrs. Chase resides
at Washington, and is finishing life of her
1ather. 1t Is proposed to remove the remains
OF Chief Justic Chase from Washington to Gin
cinnati.
CLERICAL CANDIDATING.-Our local
columns have lately contained reports of a
church IN one of our Massachusetts, towns
which has Installed pastor after nine wears
Intellectual quest. The hundred and FORTY can.
didates had been heard, and the final settle.
ment was accomplished over the protests of a
minority, which broke up one council on the
score OF technicalities and endeavored to pre
vent the action of the second. Restlessness and
the critical habit grow upon such a congrega,
ton, until 1t clamors for fresh candidate each
Sunday very much as the Roman pooulace
used to shout for new victim in the arena.
Spiritual barrenness and an absence of religious
activity are as sure to attend such system as
night is to follow day.-Boston Journal.
-INvIsIBLE INK.-Father John Ger
ard, of the Society of Jesus, who was confined
at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign. was in
the habit of writing letters in orange or lemon
juice to his friends. Lemon Juice has this prom
erty, that what is written in it can be read in
water quite as well as by fire, and when the
paper IS dried the writing disappears again
until 1T Is stepped afresh, or again held to the
hre. But anything written with orange mice
Is al once washed out by water and cannot be
read at all In that way and if held TO the fire
though the characters are thus made to appear
they Will not disappear so that a letter of this
sort, once read, can never be delivered to anv
one as If 1t had not been read. By means Of
this orange juice correspondence with the aid of
Jealous friends outside, he affected his escape
from the Tower in 1897.
FAMINE IN ASIA M1NoR.-The fol-
lowing sad intelligence is found among the items
of the dailies
Large districts Of Asia Minor are lust now
suffering from a famine as grievous as the one
which compelled Jacobs sons to visit Epvpt in
search of corn. Mr.. Bartlett, an American mis-
sionary near Cesarea reports eighty out of 100
families in single village as in absolute want
in the middle of April with three months to
wait before the harvest, which had failed for two
years past. In many other villages there il
equal restitution, and the people are living
mainly on a kind of weed used for greens. boiled
with a slight sprinkling Of cracked wheat
Even this wretched supply was likely to give
out
NIAGARA FALLS is to be put to
doing something. Says the Christian Weekly: