Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-17

ut least three days and picnic.
A committee Of ladies decorated the
Methodist church at Gardiner, Maine.
Among the notices they put on the walls
was the sfFste text: at is not good for
man TO be alone"
Captain Webb, the famous English
Swimmer, intends, it is said, to undertake
swimming through the whirlpool, rapids,
and the dreaded mselstrom belew Niagara
Falls, from which no one has ever yet
emerged alive.
While cleaning Baptist Meeting house
in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, recently,
the sexton found in the loft about two
bushels OF shells of hickory nuts which the
squirrels and deposited there last fall for
winter use.
Duke di Ripaldi, who has just died in
Rome, where he owned the Fornesina
Palace. began lite as scullion in Marshal
Nryaez' kitchen. he then became bar
ber. and then lover Of the vulgar Queen
Christina, who msde him a duke.
The Belgian Chamber Of Representatives
adopted by 81 votes to so the bill for the
abolition Of the privilege Of exemption
from service in the militia hitherto en-
joy by pupils at religious seminsries and
at institutions for the education Of teach
erS
Brother Jones is conducting revival
meetings in the Methodist Churches of
Savannah. This particular Jones is new
evangelist, and, although of somewhat
mesgre education, is powerful orator. He
is gathering in many converts.
Sweet are the uses of philosophy: As
they were discussing the melancholy days
of the Paris siege, said one of the company
TO DR. Ricord: DO you remember what
dresdfully poor meat we had TO put up
with during the SIEGE" True replied
the doctor, "but, then, you must remem-
Der there was very little Of it"
The Rev. DR.. Kittredge, OF Chicago, said
last Sunday in DR.. Cuyler's pulpit, Brook.
lyn, that sin vas never so bold as it is to-
day" and that the Church has kept back
the millennium" He believes, however,
that Christianity is largely on the increase,
and that fifty years hence there will be
100000 native converts in China, Japan
nj Persia.
Alta recent Sunday school picnic a thun.
der STORM -canr"+et, ana r1ggi'fhtnins
struck near. The good pastor called ou
assuringly: Don't be frightened. Go,
will be with Us in the storm as well as tn
aim" 81 know that, remarked a youn,
ary, with chattering teeth and tremblin.
vo ce, "but don't like to have Him com,
50 sudden"
, Captain Ebenezer Morgan, of Grotou
Conn.,, not long ago subscribed s25,OOO t
be used for securing genuine translation
OF the Bible from q Baptist standpoint
NOW be has bought the translator's library,
which the Baptists of this country had col.
lected after five years effort at the expen.
diture of s24O, 600, paying only SIS, 900, and
ne will present it 10 the Madison Univer.
sity, at Hamilton, y. Y.
A couple went up from Hungerford
FnwnshiD to lie Mars, a few days ago, to
be married. They qarreled IN the 'hoIeI
about the clergyman to be employed, he
fayoring methodist divine, while the lady
wanted q Congregational clergyman. The
upshot of the matter was that the lady
walked back to Huugerford Township aud
ii e man, after waiting day for her to re-
lent, also went home.
Mr.. Syurgeon, speaking the other day at
the Tabernacle, said he once heard of
monument in front of ! church on which
there was inscribed the name OF brewer,
thus: so and so, Esq, built this church
at his sole expense" Then followed a
uuotation from Hebrews. Some wag, how
ever, had scratched cut q part OF the in
scription and made it read: 80 and So
ESQ, built this church at his souls eN.
pense. Hebrews M"
The Able Moigno has formed q company
in Paris and has raised sl50,OOO for the p1r
pose of dragging the Red Sea and Bitter
Lakes in order TO recover the chariots, treas
; .ure, arms and other remains Of Pharoah ;
host, which he believes to lie there covered
with saline deposit. The research will be
prosecuted by divers. The expedition is
ready to leave MarseiIles, and is only de-
tanned by the outbreak Of cholera at the
Red Sea ports.
Some Of the Presbyterians Of the South
are as much in favor Of camp meetings as
the Methodists are. But il Is pity that
the Texas brethren who are about to hold
one of these gatherings did not take fancy
TO some locality with a more attractive
name than Alligator Creek. Last year q
meeting was held with marked success at
Hog Island, which Is not a very lovely
name, even if some of the Hog Islanders
were converted.
Bishop Clarkson has been Missionary
Bishop Of the Protestant Episcopal Church
in Dakota since 1865. He now resigns ow-
ing to the pressure on his health, the work
being entirely too much for any one man.
The missionary jurisdiction of Dakota ex'
tends over q field more than twice as large
rs Olio Enormous additions TO the popu.
lation have recently been made. A propo.
sition is now under consideration to divide
the field and keep two Missionary Bishops
nt work in it.
Drunkenness is frequent at many places
on Hawaii; both imported and home-dis-
titled liquors are used. 0kolehao Is a fay-
orite beverage at Kau. 1t is thought that
the most OF it comes from a place called
ksmaoa, near Kahuku. 1t is place which
affords fine opportunity for illicit distll-
ling, there being many caves and hiding
places on-ths old lava flows, and the Ii, from
which the liquor is distilled, abundant.
Some of the most prominent natives of Eau
are interested in the business.
According to London CITY missionary
in Westminster, the Duke of Westminster
has closed no less than twenty four public
houses on his Grosvener square estate