The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-14
Edited 9ntss and 9etps.

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ladies' home.
= Elizabeth Oady Stanton observes:
IF from no higher motive than the pres
ervation OF beauty, say to all girls in So
ciety, sleep!"
IT." says the Independent, eve
must choose between crow and carriop,
We choose the American crow; but it is
nothing to crow over"
Representative Patrick A. Collins, of
Massachusetts,, who has visited Salt Lake
City, says there are no Irish among the
Mormons, and few, il any, Scotch.
Paul Hayne, the South Carolina poet,
who recently died, once described
cyclone, which he viewed from the win
dows of his cottage, as "the untranslat-
ed blasphemies of hell"
=" The only canon of criticism, says
Longfellow, sin which I have full faith,
is that diffuseness is death to author
and reader" The Standard suggests
that it is also death to preachers.
= The jubilee OF Heidelberg Univer-
sity on the occasion of the five hun
dredth anniversary of it's foundation, was
celebrated with great eclat. Numerous
distinguished foreign visitors were pres
ent.
"a clergyman of this city," remarks
the New York Tribune, says that there
is wooden hell on one side OF his
church and brick one on the other
The people Of that church need not go
far to fight the devil"
Only little more than twenty five
years have passed since the Sunday
school system was introduced into
Sweden. Now there are 100000 Sunday
school scholars and 10000 teachers with
in the country's boundaries.
There is now circulating in China a
Chinese version of Pilgrims Progress"
illustrated by Chinese artists, representing
all the characters in the book in Chinese
costumes, and making the House Beauti-
full a Chinese pagoda.
The women are active ia all ranks
nowadays. Recently the Countess OF
Aberdeen, wife of the Viceroy of Ireland,
attended the annual meeting OF the Pres
byterian Sabbath-school Union in Dub
lin, and after distributing the prizes, ad-
dressed the young people present.
AT meeting of the American Uni
tartan Association held recently, resolu-
tions we're adopted relative to the death
of their missionary, Rev. Charles Ell. A.
Dali, after more than thirty years of
faithful service. Necessary action was
taken With a view to the continuance OF
the mission in India.
DIR. Buckley, editor of the New York
Christian Advocate, Gays in respect to
camp meetings: $50 thoroughly con-
WINGED that they are evil was the writer
by observing the effect in every direction,
that for twenty years, though often invit-
ed, he has refused to preach at or at
tend any camp-meeting that keeps open
gates on the Sabbath"
Mr.. s. B. Elkins says, in the North
american RevieaO, that in this very rich
world this nation stands the richest. Ac-
cording to Mullhall, since 1880 Great
Britain has almost trebled her wealth;
France has quadrupled hers; the United
States has multiplied in wealth six fold,
and at present we are growing nearly
four millions richer at sunset than at sun
rise each day.
Frances e. Willard, after addressing
temperance convention at Madison, was
asked which the women of the United
States would prefer first, suffrage
or prohibition. Miss Willard had been
waiting for some one to ask such ques-
ton and promptly replied, 81 will take
suffrage for women first, for il we once
get suffrage the liquor traffic will soon
look as if all the dynamite OF He'll Gates
shaft had exploded under it."
The Emperor of Russia, according to
the London Truth, is DESTROYS of form
ing a new sort of holy alliance for the
purpose of boycotting France, as pun
ishment for the expulsion of the Orleans
princes. 1t is proposed that the men,
bers of this solemn league and covenant
shall bind themselves not to visit Paris,
Cannes, Nice, or any place in France.
The Emperor of Austria. the King of
Denmark, the King of Sweden, and the
King of Italy, are all more or less favor
able to the Cars proposal.
The saloons Of Iowa claim that they
have discovered vulnerable point in
the Clark law, in that the Senate journal
does not show that it was read the third
time in that body. While it is true the
journal does not give in precise words
that the bill "was read third time"
yet under a general sub.head it gives
"bills on third reading" thus showing
that to be the order of business before
the Senate when the bill was taken up.
There is altogether too much keeping the
legislative journals by implication, but as
that reason would nullify all the acts of
the last legislature of Iowa, it is scarcely
probable that the supreme court OF that
State will declare the Clark law to be