The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-11-03
In the point OF population Londcn n
is the largest city in the world, Paris coming
next The population of London (registration
district in the middle of 1885 was 4,GS3 e28.


district in the middle OF 1885 was 4,GS3, ,92S.
Mr. Sankey places " Ninety.and
Nine" at TIE head Of the list of his hymns for
effectiveness upon hearers Next he places
Jesus OF Nazareth Passes By" and " Nothing
But Leaves"
Hereafter, Darmstadt, Germany.
will be poor place for the patent medicine
man. By municipal law lust passed. all such
medicines will be analysed and the ingredients
OF which they are composed will be made public
The Rev. Mr.. Dewar of Kingussie.
Scotland, says his manse is far too large and
grand, but it was presented by Mr.. George
Mackenzie, of New York and people must not
look gift horse in the mouth"
The largest organ. in the world has
just been completed and placed in the Lutheran
cathedral church at Riga. The colossal instru-
back to front, and is % feet high 1t contains
no less than 6,S26 pipes, distributed among l24
sounding pipes
The Rev. DR.. Howard Crosby re-
Gently addressed the New York Constitution
Club on the influence of the liquor interest in
politics. DR.. Crosby affirms that nine thousand
OF the twelve thousand hquor-deslers of this
city are foreigners If l remember rightly /
have noticed something of the same kind about
1hIIetuSlpulds AZ ISdSJ, WleQ 1 last Studied a
Philadelphia directory | saw that the proprie-
tors OF the liquor stores have names that did not
smack of the May flower and the Puritans.-Cor.
Presbyterian.
1t is conceded, says the San Fran
cisco Call, that the Lick telescope, when com
pleted and mounted in the observatory prepar-
ed for 1t at Mount Hamilton, will be the largest
instrument of the kind in the world 1t is ln-
derstood that the lenses have been successfully,
IN Dlyyn naad Ynltu 30 -
use In looking through this telescope it lie
reckoned that the moon will be brought within
thlrty miles OF the earth, and that discoveries
VIII be made on that planet to solve problems
that have heretofore been held to be unsolvable
In an article in the November
Century on Machine Politics in New York"
Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt says: " Preparatory TO
the general election of 1884, there were held
IN the various districts of New York CITY ten
hundred and seven primaries and political con-
Ventlons of all parties and of these no less than
six hundred and thirty-three took place in liquor
saloons-a showing that leaves small ground
Tor wonder at the low average grade Of the
nominees"
Paris has Dime Club, as it were,
that is more sensible establishment than some
far more expensive concerns. By paying half
franc no cents), one can wash his hands have
his boots BACKED his coat brushed, write letters
AOHN OH INC iedulHB continental and English
newspapers consult reference library, and use
a telephone. dime clnb would be good
thing for New York
The Gazette Auecdotique has col
lected list of the various places where Napo-
leon lodged between the time of his arrival in
Paris In 1884 and the year of his fall IN 1915,
which furnishes history in brief of his ascent
OF the ladder of fame. The gradations are /.
Part OF garret in the Ecole Nilitaire; .. A
cublcle under The roof of the Quai Cont g.
An attic In the Hotel de Metz Rue du Mail j.
A room IN the Hotel des DIots del Homme,
Rue des Fosses Montmartres s. small apart
ment, 10 Rue de la Michodiere :; 6 A room in
the Hotel Mlrabeau; 7. a mansion in the Rue
Neuve des Capucines 8. A mansion in the
present Rue de la Vlctoire 9. The palace of
the Luxembourg; 10. The palace of the Tui-
cries. The paper omits to mention Napoleons
quarters In st. Helena.
TRANSMISSION OF SoUND.-A train
of cars is plainly heard on the line of the Allan
tic and Pacific Railroad at The Needles for
distance of seventy-eght miles, to place called
Cottonwood Island. The discharge of the sun
rise gun at Fort Moave can be plainly heard at
Colorado Canyon, distance of hundred miles
Sounds can be understood in the narrows of the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado for distance Of
eighteen miles or, in other words, if a man at
one end shouts Bob !" the man at the other
end can plainly hear the echo. The whistle OF
Colorado steamer can be heard from f.
Dorado Canyon to Weavervlle the head of
navigation, a distance of seventy. eight miles
And if somebody tumbles a rock over the pre-
clPlce at Lees Ferry, you plainly hear the
echo down the river at Weaverville a distance
of thirty-sIx miles Popular Science Ne,cs
Whales do not spout water. They
spout vapor or breath. When whale spouts.
his spout hole as whalers call IL, Is always
above water. The enormous volume of the
whales breath, expelled suddenly into the dif.
ferent temperature of the air causes the whlte,
bush like vspor to remain Suspended for q mo.
ment-like the steam from a locomotive. The
only time whale spouts liquid ia when he has
been mortally pierced by 4 lance and then he
spouts warm blood The sound Of whales
spoutiDg IS like the roar Of a locomotive blow
ing of steam.
BOILING HARD WATER FOR DRINK
iSe PURrosEs.- Boiling Is perfectly whole
some treatment If the water be well erated by
vigorous agitation when cooled Pouring from
one vessel into another, from height sufficient
to send lively foaming throughout the water
in the lower receptacle, Is perhaps the simplest
effective method. IL may be repeated with ad-
vantage.
The Water authorities of Hartford,
Conn.,, have tried putting carp in the reservoirs
az scavengers, with a claim of good results. 1t
is sald they have cleaned out al the vegetable
growth from one reservoir in two years, and are
now attacking another.
Ministers nj Cbrisf sbou1d taka ,rest