The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1884-01-16

| "A directory OF American hei r
essess' has been published in London.
The London Times asserts that the
majority of ladies at an ordinary dinner party in
England never taste wine at all.
The Rev G. A. D. Tyssen. who some
months ago Joined the Church of Rome, has re-
turned to the Church of England.
Her doctors having advised her To
give up hunting and steeple-chasing the En-
press OF Austria is going to write poetry, and
print 1t too at her own private press.
In Berlin forty-eight people in every
I.ooo are Jews, and of every 1000 Jews 452 are
established in business, and of every 452 Jews
established in business 45l are in the cbean
clothing trade.
"A Jewish Rabbi in New York last
week said that there was one CITY in this conn
try cursed" with intermarriages hostile 10 tbo
faith. " Out of 227 intermarriages 40 of them
were OF jewish men to Christian women" He
deprecated the custom
One of the students in the Tn;vers;-
ty of Berlin is SO years of age. He is a Lutheran
missionary from South Africa, DESTROYS to pro-
mote the preaching of the Gospel by medical
practice y. e, benevolent) among the heather.
DE is said to be very bright student, m ost
anxious to become an efficient surgeon.
The Yankee says, "How-de-do ?"
the Frenchman, How dc you carry yourself?"
the Italian, How do you stand ?' the Dntcb
man, How do you fare ?" the Swede, {" How
can you p the Pole, art thou CAV ?" the Turk
May Allah prosper thee ?" and the Quaker,
Here is weighty thought from the
report OF a speech by the Bishop Of Oxford be-
lore lore church congress in Reading, England :
speaking OF moral victims" he said it is our
habit to think of them in warehouses; and he
hind prison bars, but we forget that there are
more OF them In stately dwellings, lingering on
beds OF sickness which their own vices have
maze tor them, or wasting selfish years in the
false glitter of rayless homes"
"A Reformed Episcopal Church has
been organized at New Westminster Rrit;sb
Columbia. About go individuals, most of whom
were members of the English Church have
signed paper agreeing to associate themselves
Oogether Tor Its maintenance, and sufficient
amount has been pledged to put the organiza
ZION on sound financial basis A call has been
EXTENDED 10 clergyman, and the new edifice
Is expected to be ready for use on next Easter.
-Zwingli and Luther were plagiarists
without knowing it. Said the former When
Luthers exposition Of the Lords PRAYER an
Peared 1t so happened that 1 had shortly before
preached from Matthew the same PRAYER.
Well, some good folks, who everywhere fo1nd
my thoughts In Luther's work, would hardly let
themselves be made to believe that | had not
written this book myself they fanced that
oeing AFRAID to put my name to it, l had set
that OF Luther instead"
The Home Journal says:-"Colonel
| lngersoll has moved into his new bonse in
washington, next door to Senator Sherman's
his FAMILY Is very charming one. Mrs. In
gersoll has wonderful tact as hostess her two
daughters are gifted the same way During the
minIer Iney give weekly receptions. Every one
with decent coat and gentlemanly manner is
welcome: But, somehow, the gatherings are
not satisfactory. The best people do not 90 to
Inc lngersolls. The spectre of atheism il over
that house: His family feel it, and the Colonel
hnds that he has not obtained friends or reputa
tion by his anti-Chrlstian assaults. CONSEQUENT
ly he is giving up lecturing."
AT the meeting of the ROYAL Society
held on the 9th inst. Professor Owen read a
paper on Is Primitive Man." with special refer
ence to skeleton discovered during the excava-
lions now IN progress at Tilbury Fort, at depth
OF % feet below the surface of the ground. The
nierences deduced are that the man lived in the
Palaolithic period" and that he had been of
great muscular strength. His forehead was low
and narrow, but the frontal sinuses were nro-
mlnent. The bed everything the remains CON
slsts, counting dSwnwards, of clay, mud and
peat, peat, mud, peat. and sand at the bottom
OF the mud, or rather at the beginning of the
sand, was the point where the remains were
found. "'-'
1t has been urged as an objection TO
the Postal Notes, that they are simply PAYABLE
to the bearers, and therefore if stolen the post-
office upon which they are drawn has no recourse
but to hand over the money for which they call
One oil our subscribers seems to have hit upon a
means OF making these Notes perfectly safe. On
the lower margin Of the Note he has written.
For the Presbyterian Banner" So that the
postmaster has no right to pay it to any other
party. Thus by writing the name of the person
or hfm to whom the money is to be paid on the
lower margin of the Note and prefixing it with
the word For" payment can only be made To
the one entitled to receive it.
The national mausoleum is full. It
IS said of the last two burials in Westminster
Abbey-those of Darwin and Spottiswoode-
that the collins were only few feet below the
surface For a long time there have been stories
! OF the disturbance necessary to the finding of
room for new arrival. Chaucer's grave was
molested to make way for Drydens, Ben Jon
sons bones fell out one by one into the grave
| prepared for Sir Robert Wilson, and came in
| sight again when grave was dug for John
Hunter. Addison lies upon the Duchess of
Albemarle, and upon HIM James Craggs.-Non-
cogormist, London.
The regular meeting of the Pregby-
terrain Ministerial Association. of Baltimore
was held Monday 9TH. One of the interesting
features OF the meeting was the presence Of one
/ OF the African boys who came to this country
IN 1873 to pursue course of study at the
Lincoln -, University in Pennsylvania. He gave