Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-01

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 young deacon may not altogether appreciate Once month he may be original and preach 1 sermon of his own composition, but the
 manuscript must be sent to the bishop on the following day for examination.
 The last new fact in character reading is | the study of the finger mails, which are clas- sifed according to their shape and their
 color. If they are long and slender they
 show imagination and poetic feeling, artistic feeling and laziness. If they are long and 1 fiat they indicate good sense, gravity and l prudence. If wide and short they prove anger, obstinacy, rudeness and love of cong troversy. A healthy color means courage, iberality, health, happiness and virtue. Dry 1 and brittle texture is a sign of anger, cruelty I and fierce quarrelsomeness. The curved and clawlike shape proves hypocrisy and wicked Ress. Softness shows @ corresponding fee
 bleness of body and mind, and a bitten nail
 means dissipation and folly.
 l Until England checked the slave trade on | the east coast of Africa a while ago thou sands of people living near the great Lake i Nyassa were torn from their homes every year and sold into slavery in Zanzibar, Mad | agasear and other markets. The Universi- ! ties mission released many of the slave boys, and has been educating them in the mission l schools at Zanzibar, Mombass and ether places. These young men are now going back | to Lake Nyassa, where they are to be sta l toned in the towns along it's hundreds of miles of coasts to aid in the civilizing work | in A o+o 1 ing $15, ,000, is now building in England for their use. It is to be taken in small pieces
 to the lake, where it will be put together It I will leave the young men at the villages to which they are assigned, and will visit them at regular intervals, keeping up frequent communication between all important points on the lake. The Rev. MT. Johnson recently returned to England with some of the bright est of these young men, who are being fitted to run the steamers engine and to take sole charge of the vessel.
 After fourteen years the revision of the English version of the Old Testament is fin ished, and will be published next spring in several editions of varied size and type by the university presses of Oxford and Cam
 bridge. The work of publication advances slowly because the greatest care is necessary to avoid, so far as possible, every error. The
 new version of the Old Testament is said to differ from the King James version now in use more than the revised version of the New testament does. But the substantial differences are few. It is now admitted
 pretty generally that in literary form the revised version is inferior to the old and that will probably be found true of the Old Testament also. The work of
 the revisers will probably never supersede
 the form in which the Bible has been known
 to generations of Participating people,
 but it is, and will be, useful to all who make
 study of the Scriptures. The American committee have ordered @ memorial edition
 in four volumes, on the best paper and bound
 with special elegance, to be sent to anyone who contributes thirty dollars or more to the expenses of the committee.
 Congressman Burnes of Missouri, mem
 Der of the appropriations committee, thinks
 that some tariff legislation must be attempt
 ed this winter. ''We must,' he says, tteut
 this surplus, after while all the money
 in the country will be in the treas
 ury. My idea is that we ought to
 bring in bill which will cheapen some of
 the necessaries of life and at the same time
 cut off $50, ,000 or $4O,0O0,000 of taxes.
 We might put sugar, salt, lumber and barb ed wire on the free list. would be willing
 to vote for bill to reduce the sugar tariff one-half. We admit Hawaiian sugar free of duty, and can't see why the sugar of other countries should not be put on the same footing. The Spreckles monopoly controls all the sugar product of these islands. It is an
 enormous monypoly. It was Spreckles who paid for that gayly decorated train which ! bore the Blaine delegation from San Francis I co to the Republican convention. Blaine I was the man -Spreckles wanted nominated,
 and the sugar monopoly put up enormous 1 amount of money to carry the Pacific States ] for him. I do not believe that a bill such as suggest would open up the whole tariff sub ject."