The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-08-04
GENERAL ITEMS.

N61N GhAA Ii EIMS.
The Burmans, fearing the collanse
of the Buddhist religion, have asked the Vicerov
OF India to appoint Buddhist Pope, and he
has, of course, declined.
-Goldwin Smith has expressed the
opinion that since the time of Demostbenes
there have not been dozen orators in all the
world superior or even equal to the Quaker
statesman, John Bright
The Central Baptist declares that
controversy about immersion now exists only
among the alf-learned and the uncandid" To
this the Southern Christian Advocate replies.
We had a suspicion Of that kind ourselves but
we had too much regard for our Baptist friends
to say So"
Rev. DR.. Lathrop, pastor of the Bap-
tist church at Stamford, Conn, having offered
his resignation the pastors of the Episcopal,
congregational, Methodist, Universalist and
Roman Catholic churches have requested him to
recall 1t. This is one of the most remarkable
instances of Christian unity and sympathy on
record.
DIR. Hardy physician of France,
speaking of the decrease of population in that
country, says the only means to increase the
population would be to attract the Jews there
who are prosecuted in other countries But
perhaps there is another remedy, and that is for
unspeakable practices.
THE obituaries in the Bible il will be
noticed are very brief-sometimes onlv a line
or two-and. yet how much they contain. 1t
might be well for ministers to study these. and
so learn to condense. 1t is possible to say as
much In ten lines as is often said in half a col.
umn.
Professor Sayce, in his book on As
syria, says of the inscriptions which contain no.
tees OF Assyrian with the Jews that thew
are OF great use to Bible students. OF Senna-
cherib's attack on Jerusalem he says that what
ever was the cause of the defeat of the Assyrian
army 1t Is certain that the power of Sennache-
rlb never recovered from the blow it received
IN Palestine. No clue to the solution of the diff
hculty is afforded by native documents.
-THE MIEADo's SoN. N.-Tbs Crown
i,r.nce G. J2faA, Pliace Fuslinn, arrived il.
New York last week via Cunard stes mer I'm
6ra from Liverpool, accompanied by large
suite He has been in Europe sightseeing for a
year and will spend few weeks in this coun-
try inspecting military and naval discipline and
tactics. lie is to sail August 1lth from San
Francisco for Japan.
"A search is at present being made in
Austria and Hungary for the shield of Attila.
!, Inc anuquary Ihaly, Hungarian, has found
that IN the seventeenth century there was pre-
served shield said to be that of Attila Lately
he has found in the archives at Zips a hitherto
unknown register enumeratiDg the treasures
weapons, etc., which Ilona ZrInyi left at Mum
kacs In 1858, when she went to Vienna In
the list occurs the entry, 81 No. "a Attila
acelbo valo" (the shield of q ttila of steeD
Where the relic has got to is as yet unknown.
1t ls believed that the shield will with the other
weapons named in the register find its wav to
Vienna ultimately, and it is hoped that trace
may. be found by consulting the exchequer
archives.
"A goose that has been in the LIE
Clair family for forty-one years died in Western
New York the other day.
Excessive rope jumping caused the
death Of an eleven-year old Louisville girl
few days ago.
Daniel Stover of Galton, Ill, has an
undisputed record of 133 rattlesnakes killed in
the past four months. He has $50 rattles to
show for it. He also has killed 104 blue racers.
In America, as Mr.. Carnegie says,
:. 1t takes but three generations from shirt
sleeves to shirt sleeves" Fortunes are rolled
up and roll off with equal celerity.
Lightning struck an oak in Tippe-
canoe county, Ind, and tore it into splinters.
1t is said that each years layer of the growth of
the tree seemed to have been separated from the
other and split into strips abou5 half an inch
Wlue Alter completing Its work on the oak,
the lightning ran thirty rods along wire fence,
melting the wire IN many places and tearing
Zach post out of the ground
"A recent study of comparative
heights and weights among d.fferent classes of
population in Great Britain shows that the
criminal classes average no less than 45 pounds
In weight and AZ inches in height less than the
metropolitan police Compared with the gen
eTal population too, this class is seen to be 10
pounds in weight and inches in stature below
the average standing on about the same plane
In physical endowments as lunatiCs.
An Indiana messenger pigeon, sent
from Indianapolis to New Albany, 144 miles.
beat to the latter point telegram sent imme.
dlately after the birds Liberation. The wire
was quick enough, but it must be taken into
account that messenger boy was employed at
each end to facilitate matters.
Husband (handing mis- wife some
money!. There dear, is $50 and it has bother.
ed me some to get it for you think deserve
q little praise" WIFE: Praise You deserve
an encore, my dear
The STUND1sTs.-A religious move
ment IS creating much excitement in southern
Russia The "Stundists" who are members of
Lutheran body, now call themselves Evange-
lcal Christians and are making surprising pro-
gress among the peasant class In many viii
lagos the Orthodox churches remain empty.
while the meeting-houses Of the Evangelical
Christians are crowded. Dissent continues 10
multiply in Russia in spite Of every kind of
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