Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1886-07-02
TARIETfES.

gious man, was once asked why he put
students fIom the very first to the
study and analysis of the most difiiclt
parts of the Sacred Scriptures. BE
cause" said lie, "there is nothing else
like it, in any language, for the devel-
opnent of mind and character"
One thought, one scheme, nurtured
ceaselessly for term of years, made
the keynote of every meditation, the
lever of every action, must result in
the insanity or monomanla OF him who
thus plans OF 5roods and Graves. This
Is as natural as that damned-up waters
shonld breed pestilenee and the concen-
trated form of comparatively harm
less essence be deadly poison.
The crying sin of American society
is that it is "too young" therefore crude.
Conversation parties are huge games
of Irritation, or else stupid to boredom.
Our girls firt with more grace and
and safety, dance more airily, dress
better and look prettier than any other
young women on this planet As a
rule, they cannot talk. They lack
ballast and tone.
DR.. Christian Kalka, who died at
Copenhagen recently, was celebra-
ted theologian and ecclesiastical histo-
rian. His History of Denmark Dur
ing the Reformation is classic, and
he was the president of a committee
of divines who published revised
version of the Bible in Danish.
The death is announced of Peter
Reid, a well.known Scotch journalist,
in his seventy seventh year. He was
the originator of the newspaper press
in the extreme north of Scotland, hav-
ing founded the John O. Groat Jour
nal in 1886.
NJ De Lesseps, who is about to
leave Paris for Panama, said, in an
interview with the Gaulois concerning
the Isthmus Canal: 81 do not anticipate
any future obsacles. The period of
experiment is past, and only that of
execution remains. Every one of the
contractors will have his work finished
on the 31st of December, 1883. I
shall sail through the canal on that
day."
The Gar of all the Russlas is the
latest notable recruit to the army of
amateur photographers. He has had a
complete apparatus sent out to him,
through the medium of the Russian
embassy in London, and, it is reported
greatly bores his personal attendants
by his pertinacious attempt to ''take"
them
Princess Isabeau, who recently in
herited &l,o00,0oO from her mother,
keeps in her Persian palace twenty
dogs and twenty cats, that, being fed
to the full.agree very happily together.
She is going to found home for the
aged and INDECENT of both races.
Senator Chas y. Van Wyck, one of
the millionaire club of the Senate,
though so immensely rich, is popular
amoung the working classes. During
his last campaign he made himself
good with the populace by riding
around in an old buck board wagon
At the close of a certain session of
Congress, when John Davis and Daniel
Webster were Senators in Congress
from Massachusetts,, Davis asked Web
ster if he could suggest any books that
it would profit him to read during the
vacation. eyes" said Webster, 81 am
going to read the dictionary" Read
the dictionaries.-N. Y. Advocate.
But we have thought it right to pro-
test against the tendency to seek pan
acea for the maladies of the time in the
uprootins of established human laws,
rather than in an earnest, unfaltering
effort to remove the abuses by which
the benefcence and beauty OF those laws
are obscured. Christian Journal.
Virginia is moving on in the temper
ance question. A bill for license is be.
fore her Legislature and the preachers
Of the old Conference are moving in
the matter. Brother Laferty is para
graphing the subject and everything
shows an arousement of the solid con-
servatism of "old virginy 20. P I.
The proposed change of time for
Thanksgiving from the last Thursday
in November to the second Wednesday
in October, is receiving favorable re-
sponces from the Governors of the va
rious States
Attorney general Garland furnishes
the Jefersonian simplicity for the Cab
met, and the New York and New
England members furnish the magnifi-
cence.
Mr.. Tennyson admits that he once
tried for six weeks to be a vegetarian,
but slipped on Christmas roast pig.
The value of John Calvin's property,
when he died, was about S625. His
annual stinend. it IS said. was never