The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-08-25

1t Is a case where one can do nothing but sym
pathize. But many besides ourselves will we
are persuaded, feel very deeply for the broken
hearted grandfather IN his trouble.
Rev. DR.. S. V. Leech, pastor of the
Washington Street Ep scopal Church, where the
daily union prayer meetings are held coe. not
believe that religion and advertising mix Rival
railway companies and other concerns have
several times distributed advertisements in the
church pews. DR.. Leech had the handbills
swept out of sight before the opening of the
meetings. He says that this style of advertising
reminded him of the Holiness Eating House. "
at Philadelphia at the Centennial, where were
displayed on the walls such signs as these
Behold the Lamb-Lamb Chops 25c." " The
OK knoweth lis owner-Tenderloin steak, 2Oc."
How oft would l have gathered thy children
together as a hen gathereth her brood under
her wings-two fried or boiled eggs, l0c."
Entertain angels unawares-lodging SOC "
The feeling an ong the Mexican masses
Is very bitter against Americans. They are de
hant, and say 1t will be an easy matter for their
country to whip the United States. They have
somehow brought themselves to believe that the
firing OF the first gun would be signal for the
Southern States to come to their assistance to
revenge themselves upon the Northern States
Tor the disastrous outcome of the great civil war
They likewise feel convinced that England
WOuiu dI OuCe take lnelr part ana DlOCkad6 the
Atlantic and the Gulf ports of the United States
Secretary Bayard in speaking of the Cutting
case, said that he had no doubt whatever that
the Mexican authorities would do what was
right in the matter. He did not think the mass
ing of Mexican troops near Paso del Norte had
any hostile significance but was more than
likely movement against local insurgents. At
the War Department it was learned that no ad
ditionsl troops have heen ordered to the Next
can frontier. and no apprehension of trouble is
entertained.
WILD ELEPHANTS. We see the
statement that the preva ent belief that wild ele.
plants are decreasing in India is a delusion
They are now quite as numerous as they have
ever been at any period within historic times
There is every reason why this should be the
case. They are not now liable to be shot for
their ivory or for sport, nor to be caught by the
cruel and wasteful methods of taking them in
pitfalls, from which not more than twenty per
cent were brought out alive, whilst their haunts
are now preserved to great extent from Jungle
fires During the eight years ending in March
of 1888, there were captured by the authorized
officials IN portion of the Caro- hills some fifty
miles by twenty, no fewer than twelve hundred
and eighty eight wild elephants and this area
Is only small percentage of the large tracts of
elephant country equally we'll stocked There
Is no danger, under present regulations, of the
Asiatic wild elephant becoming even scarce,
much less extinct
The Holste COW, Clothilde, owned
by Smith. Powell & Lamb. Syracuse, n. Y,
closed her six-year old record last night She
has given during that time a little more than
$4,000 pounds of milk, or about 70 pounds a
day.
That is a high sounding title assumed
by a society of negroes of Norfolk, Virginia,
The Union State Grand Tabernacle of the I'm
perial Order of Gallilean Fishermen" 1t is i'm
| possible, comments an exchange, to believe that
people with such noisy name could catch any
hsh.-PresbytertG Journal
"A Cincinnati morning paper. pub
fishes the story of Charles Russell, a laborer
finding last week, while attending a boulder
crushing machine in the street. diamond
weighing 822 carats, said to be worth over
| 100000 The conjecture is raised that it was
the diamond lost at Blennerhasset Island in
1905 by Mrs. Clark, who visited there with
Aaron Burr, as described by Burr in a published
letter to his daughter, the theory being that the
stone became embedded in boulder, which was
afterward brought to Cincinnati for paving.
AT concert at the Peabody, in
Baltimore, the other day, while performer was
playing one of Bachs fugues, a gaily dressed
young girl turned to a music-loving gentleman
next to her, and said in an ecstatic whisper
Aren't Ba(Dch's fugies just lovely ?" The
gentleman dryly replied: Beautiful" The
young lady kept on chattering about e Batch
fugiesn much to the disgust of the man Al
last she came close to him, and said: Is Batch
composing stll?" No, madam" replied he
gravely, &" it is probable he is decomposing
The young lady said never word.
AN INSECT JUMBO There il
now to be seen at the Liverpool Museum liv
ing specimen Of one of the giants of the beetl
world, male Dyna8tes typhon, which measure
about four inches in length, and which was cap
tured near Rio de Janero early in June am
presented to the museum by Mr. Frederick
Taylor, of Rainhill. These beetles, notwith
standing their enormous size and ferocious ap
pearance, due to the horns growing from tn,
head and thorax, are perfectly harmless, sub5ist
Ing during their larval state on rotten vegetaol
matter. The specimen under notice is feeding
freely upon fruit of the banana This is tn
only specimen Of these large beetles ever seel
alive in Liverpool.