The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-10-14


ton of Brooklyn have one of the handsomest
buildings in the United States. Last week it
was dedicated. Drs. Cuyler, Hail. Behrends,
Thomas, and others, taking part in the exercises
MIR. ID. w. McWIlliams one of the legatees of
the estate of Frederick Marquand, presented the
building to the trustees. He said that Mr. Mar
quand was long interested in the work of the
Association and twice tried to afford it assist
ance, In getting permanent building, but the
Association was not ready at the time to accept
the conditions. But after his death his legatees
determined to erect the building if an endow-
ment fund of $l50,000 was raised. This had
been done, and the building had been paid for
out OF Marquand's estate. The deeds and keys
were then handed over to the trustees.-Illde-
pendent.
DRIVING A BICYCLE WITH STEAM
Hundreds of bicyclists and 1000 other persons
gashered in the Roseville Rink, in Newark, N.
j., Friday night, to witness the performance of
a steam bicycle invented and exhibited by L.
d. Copeland, of Arizona. The bicycle was of
the star pattern, with small wheel in front
and, attached to the front bar, was a vertical
brass boiler, heated with gasoline. A dainty
engine was mounted on the bar above the boil
er, and had a stroke of three inches, with CYL
lnder one and one sixteenth inches in diameter
beloN the engine was spherical reservoir hold
ing quart of water, and above it a cylinder
holding as much gasoline. A round belt COM
munlcated the power of the engine to thirty
inch wheel attached to the wheel of the bicvcle
The engine made $50 revolutions of the one-aud-
a halt-lnch crank in a minute and nine of these
revolutions turned the large wheel once A lt-
tie steam gauge showed sixty pounds pressure a
lew minutes after the fire had been started. and
leaplng into the saddle, Mr.. Copeland rode
swiftly aronnd the ring for twenty minutes. The
inventor said the engine would run for an hour
without renewal of water or gasoline and that
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twenty pounds to the weight of the bicycle. He
has retained the pedals on the machine, and he
used them as an auxiliary TO the engine when he
pleased.
Officers of the Salvation Army at
Nanticoke Pa, were last week, fined 81 each
for obstructing the highway. They refused to
pay tie fines, and were sent to jail for six hours.
= a bowling mob surrounded the prison and en-
deavored to tear 1t down. The whole police
force was called out and with difficulty saved
the building and dispersed the crowd" The
were released and paraded the town
with nearly thousand followers. A delegation
OF the National A. sociation of the Local Preach
ers Association visited Mayor Low, of Brook
lyn, last week They were accompanied by
two female officers of the Salvation Army, and
called to complain of the i'll treatment to which
tne latter organization was subjected at their
place of assembly. Mayor Low said that when
ever any one is acting under permit from the
authorities he shall be protected. If it took the
whole force OF the city 70 do it. He subsequeD
ly Informed the Police Commissioner that Il
practice of disturbing the Salvation Army must
be prevented even if one hundred special Off
GERS had to be sworn in to do it. However some
Of the operations of the Salvationists may be
disapproved, these outrages against them should
be prevented. d.-Presbyteria Journal
Herr A. Diesterweg, writing in the
DeutScher Kolonialzitung bears decisive testi-
mony to the efficiency with which the laws
against selling intoxicating drinks 20 the peo-
pie are executed by some of the native chiefs in
a frlca. In Bamangwa,o and Sechele's
kingdom, the sale of spirituous liquors to
subjects is forbidden under penalties which
amount to something more than a hundred dol
lars. In case the offense is repeated the trader
Or the seller, whoever he may be- must leave the
country, with but little chance of getting per-
mission to return. Ofenses by subjects Of the
chief are subject to equally strict penalties The
whites, however, are allowed to indulge their
tastes for strong drinks as freely as they please
so long as they do not tempt the natives The
laws apply only to the white mans liquors for
the native stimulating drink kind of mild
beer, IS comparatively harmless.
The agitation of the question of Dis
seems to increase rather than
diminish in England and Scotland The Bsh-
op OF Exeter, following the example Of several
Of his colleagues, has issued a pastoral on the
subject, in which he says that in the persistent
attacks on the Established Church '' the past
and the future are alike mlsrepresented, and
there Is real danger that action injurious to
the Church, and yet more injurious to the State
of England, may be assisted by men who ought
to be among the staunchest upholders of both
and who would be such if they understood the
truth OF the matter" He therefore, urges that
every effort be made to give the people a sound
er knowledge as to the source and history of the
Church endowments and the disastrous conse-
quences which would follow dsestablishmeut.
He recommends lectures aud tracts, among 9TH
er things, and says
Questions relating to the temporalities of
the Church do not seem to me subjects for the
pulpit and the house of prayer, but for the plat
form and the schoolroom while, on the other
hand, ] am sure it is the bounden duty Of the
clergy now to teach th cir people in public and
in private on Sunday and on working day, the
solemn responsibility Of having vote and Of
acting truthfully and honestly in respect Of that
vote so that employers and employed alike may
exercise their political rights faithfully before
God, according to their own conscience and
convictions. Above all, at this juncture are we
bound, as witnesses for truth to testify that our
God is the God Of nations, as well as OF individ-
uals and of families that he deals with nations
as nations, and that of nations a. Of persons it
s true, Them that hoI or me / will honor and
they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed
A National Church is the expression Of national
fidelity to God. "-Iadependent.
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VIM. M. Evarts is credited with re-
torting, when some one spoke Of his long