The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-04-29
GENERAL ITEMS.


Paris contains 10000, children of
both sexes, waits and strays, who are In need of
help from the benevolent societies.
The japanese post office, which is
ten years old, carried $4,000 900 letters and
transmitted 100000 kilograms last year.
Three hundred conversions are re-
ported in connection with the revival work in
the two Congregational churches in Fltchburg,
Mass o.
There are nineteen metals worth
more than $1,000 pound. The most valuable
Is vanadlum discovered In 1880, and considered
worth $4,000 pound.
The Council OF Brooklyn Congreqa.
tional churches refused to install Rev. S. Miller
Hageman as pastor of the Miller Memorial
Church IN Stuyvesant avenue BROOKLYN. l.. I
because he expressed disbelief in eternal punish.
ment.
The Abyssinian alphabet consists of
Zoo characters, each OF which is written distinct
Iy and separately. The labor required to write
an Abysslnlan book s. therefore, immense. and
sometimes years are consumed in the prepare
ton OF single volume.
Two hundred and fifty dollars would
seem small price to pay for having world
named after ones self. An Austrian astrono-
mer, M Pallsa, last year discovered six new.
small planets, and offers to name the very latest
found alter the person who first sends ESQ to
aid him In future astronomical work
The endowment of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary, at Louisville
KY has now reached the handsome sum of
10000, beside large amount still in notes
together with mortgages, and other things
which will be invested as soon as they can be
turned into cash
Thursday, May 81, is Old Tesla
ment Revision Day-when the Revised Version
OF the Old Testament will be issued The pub
llcation of the vouu is awaited with much in
terest and on that day like spectacle to that
OF May ~ four years ago will be witnessed
when pedestrians homeward, travellers by our
city cars and on the varous RAILWAYS and boats
were seen by hundreds each carrying volume
OF the same general appearance the Revised
New Testament. 1t would be odd If. avoiding
the faults OF the New Testament revisers, the
scholars employed on the Old Testament should
give us such an excellent revision that the pub
lic should take up with it and be satisfied with
III. such an event is by no means improbable
and 1t would do more than anything else to
cause revision of the Revised New Testament
80 that we might have two revisions of equal
excellence christian at Work.
"A SNEEzING CONGREGATIONS
the midst of the services in a Boston church not
many Sundays ago, the congregation were sud-
denly selzed with paroXysm of uncomfortable
sneezing: 1t started with small boys in hack
pew, and swept up towards the pulpit like q
cyclone 1t took in the deacons. it woke mn the
PdteUdm1ttds, 1t set the qartette off on a new
tune and finally reached up and took a firm
hold of the preacher. And when the whole As
sembly got well warmed up to the business
we are credltably informed that such an uproar
was never heard outside the barracks Of the
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to the pews In front and sneezed until it did
seem as II their heads would fly off For few
minutes every member of the CONGREGATION took
such lively interest in the proceedings that
they had no time to spare for Investigations
Finally the sexton finding himself disenpaped
TOR breath or two, ran out, opened the doors
and proceeded to look into the matter. The
cause OF the catastrophe was found to be a cargo
of pepper. which. during the previous week
had been stored IN the cellar. The enterprisipp
trustees had rented the place to grocer
Exchange.
The RIGHT TO PENJDEH. We hear
(says the Times good deal about the RICH, Of
the Amer to Penldeh, but what il the right of
Russia to that place We are told that IT. il
inhabited by TurComans. But is Russia the
only Power IN the world that has Turcouan
subjects The Amer has plenty of them be-
sides those who live at Penidth. and the claim
serve just well for Herat OF Kandabar or
valleys on the Indian frontier itself. Afghan.s-
tan Il not inhabited by u homogeneous popula
ton Of Afghans 1t is inhabited bv a GREAT
variety Of tribes and race, of whom the Afebans
are the dominant one. About their mastersbio
there Is no question, although it ia not Given
to every man TO command the allepiapce Of The
Afghans. Peujieh is Joined to Afghanistan bv
chain OF fertile and well pe1pled valleys. and
1T is separated from the nearest Russian posses
Hons by eighty or ninety miles OF uncultivatsd
aud unlnhabited country. Its inhabitants have
always paid taxes IN money or in kind TO the
Ameers of Afghanistan, except when they were
too weak. az often happens IN Oriental countries,
70 make their authority respected on the borders
Bnt until within few months no Russian had
ever exercised authority, or demanded taxas
or 50, much as set foot near Penideh and until
within year or two there were no Rn.s,ans
within hundreds Of miles of the place. To at.
tempt to throw the burden of proving his RIGHTS
on the Ameer IN such circumstances is abopt AZ
reasonable as to seize the Isle Of Wight and then