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Religion and the Press.

1t is good sign Of the times, says the
British Weekly. that religious associations
are increasingly making use of the press.
At recent meeting of the Welsh Congrega-
tional Union it was agreed to furnish re-
ports to the English press, and an author
lied reporter was chosen. What conserva-
tive Great Britain is slowly doing nimble
America has done long done. Our churches
and preachers know the value OF printers
ink, and hail the great dailies as their most
powerful allies. Hypocrisy in relig-
ion and corruption in politics lear the press
more than they dread the devil. The press
is day OF judgment left at the door every
morning. The Pope is great reader of
newspapers. He devotes three or four hours
each day to them. He wants to understand
for himself the drift of the times. The man
who guides either church or state nowadays
must call the press into his cabinet.
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Gems From Different Authors.

Gems From DineFent AuthoFss
wHATEvER's lost, it first was won-EEizo B.
BTol0nin0.
KNOWLEDGE bloweth up, but love buildeth
up.-Bdcon.
DEATH and love are the two wings that bear
man from earth to heaven.-MichdeI Angelo.
OF nothing you can, in the long run. and with
much lost labor, make only-nothing ng-CGrlvLe.
WE are nearer neighbors to ourselves than
whiteness to snow or weight to stonea-MoTs-
tdtone.
ONE sole God; one sole ruler-His law; one
sole interpreter Of that law-Humanity.-
Mdzzinj.
EVERYTHING Is twice as large, measured on
q 3year-old's 3foot scale IS on 30year-old's
6foot scale.-O. ". Holmes.
LIFE is short, and time is swift
Roses fade and shadows shift.
THERE is doubtless great deal of bad
preaching; but it is not denied that, in nine
cases out Of ten, If the preaching Is bad. the
listening is worse.-E. 8. PeM
DENUNCIATIoN of sin and the promise Of
pardon; the fame which consumes and the
light which consoles-is not this the whole Of
the cOVenant2-Ldn1e
Oh womanI whose form and whose soul
Are the spell and the light of each path We
pursue;
Whether sun'd in the tropics or chilled at the
pole,
If woman be there, there is happiness too.
Thomas Moore, on leaving Philadelphia.
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est. Did you ever see her, or hear about
her?"
81 have never seen her." was the reply;
"bat have often heard Of her, and shall
tell you the story.
'In an enchanted forest, whose trees tower
to the clouds, stands a castle built OF pure
gold, and having the doors and windows set
with precious stones. In this castle resides
the beautiful Princess Rossllnd, whom
wicked magician carried from her home, and
keeps as prisoner. Here the beautiful Prln-
cess must stay, never growing any Older
until some one is brave enough to face the
horrors of the Black Forest, as 1t is called,
and rescue her. The Princess does not
waste her time in grieving, but tries to be
patient and is always hoping for delv-
erer. When she sings. tho wild animals
crowd about the castle and never tire oi
listening to her sweet songs.
After hearing this story. little otto was
silent for some time, and then he cried:
''Wben am larger shall be brave enough
to ride through the enchanted forest, ana
Ghali rescue the Princess Rosslind.
From that time the thought OF the en-
chauted Princess was never out OF his mlno,
and be tried in every way TO become strong
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16
Do NOT Worry,

About the hardest of achievements is to
live without fret and worry in the midst of
uncertainty. A business man doesn't know
how this vital venture is going to turn out
A housewife is placed in such circumstances
that her position tomorrow is utterly un-
forseeable. What shall be done? Let to-
morrow alonel Attend to the nearest duties.
Above all, don't chafe. You will need all
your vitality, perhaps, and all your courage,
to meet those dreaded contingencies. But
nothing wastes vitality, nothing depletes
courage like apprehension. Provide, if you
can. If you can't, go on calmly in the
round of present occupation. Tackle to-
morrow when it becomes to-day. Don't cross
the bridge till you come to it. This is what
Christ meant when he said: ''Take, there
fore, no (unbelieving) thought for the NOR
row, for the morrow will be anxious (re-
vised edition) for ITSELF Sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof"
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SUNDAY THOUGHTS
ON
MORALS MANNERS
BY A CLERGYMAN.
WRITTEN ron THE DrsrAroH. ]

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATCH.I
The worldwide prominence Of the work
ingman's question is at once attested and
emphasized by the recent course Of Kaiser
Wilhelm in calling an International Con-
ference on industrial matters, and in invok-
ing remedial legislation in the immediate
interest of German laborers. 1t becomes
more and more plain that we are upon the
eve Of stupendous social changes. The
doctrine of the Golden Rule is going through
the world. The principle of the Declara-
tion of Independence is bound to revolu-
tionize society. Kings are at a discount in
both Americas; they will soon be relegated
to museums of history In Europe. They
will only survive as bric-a-brac.
Not only so. Monopolists are doomed.
The firm of Grab, Hoard & Co., is near
bankruptcy.
Bone and skin, two millers thin,
Would starve US all, or near it;
But be 1t known to skin and Bone
That Flesh and Blood won't bear It.
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SHE GOT RID OF TIE BORE.

Scheme Of a DamseI Who Sells Cigars in
New YOrk's State House.
Albany Journal
The coy damsel who sells cigars in the cor
ridor between the Senate and Assembly
chambers is up to snuff. One young man an-
noyed her by his attentions. The other day
he hung about the cigar case. Four other
young men came along, greeted the bore and
stopped. Taking advantage of the situa-
tion, the young woman drove her hand in
one OF the boxes Of cigars and said, as she
prohereo handful: ibid you say i'm
ported cigarS7" The bore footed the bill,
81 %, and now simply mods as he passes the
stand.
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Upright Men in Downright Earnest.

"We need. nowadays" exclaims Spur
geon, the great English preacher, upright
men in downright earnest, who say what
they mean, and mean what they say. Cheat
ing in trade, cheating in religion, cheating
in talk, must not be put up with any longer.
Old Father Honesty is the man for our
money. None of your painting and gild-
ing, give us the real thing. There would be
great fall in sheepskins if all the wolves
were stripped; but stripped they ought TO be,
the rascalsi Let each one of US begin to
mend the world by putting of every bit of
sham that we may have had about US. Off
withsthe trumpery 6nery Of pretense. Show
the smock-irock, or the fustian jacket. and
the clump boots, and don't be ashamed"
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A ChrI.tInn Hnu.enife.

'T wonder who lived last in this house, :"
said gentleman to his better half as they
took survey in company of the house they
had just moved into.
IT don't know" replied she; ''but the
lady, whoever she was, must have been
Christian"
"What makes you think so?'' asked he.
why. was the reply, "she left no rub
bish in the cellarl"
Not bad guess; for that housewife evil
IDENTIFY practiced the Golden Rule.
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Roman Cnthollc Prorreaa.

HOfmsn's Catholic Directory for 1890
tabulates the following interesting fac Is
There are In the united States s5 dioceses,
including 4 vicarates-apOstOlic. Of these
IL are archepiscopal and 7S episcopal sees.
There are 8, 463 priests, z, 420 churches, 2, 716
stations. 1859 chapels, 2,2O2 orphan asy-
lums, with 22.761 orphans; 80 theological
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16
An EniacanaIIaI.a.

Here is an Episcopal joke, which is also q
good lesson. in elocution. The Bishop Of
Peterborough, in addressing number of
candidates for ordination. said: "You will
do well not to gesticulate much. shall
never forget raw-boned Irish curate once
had, with hands like legs Of mutton. I can
see him still working up to peroration or
leaning over the pulpit. with outstretched
palms, as he exclaimed: Paws, me breth-
ren paWsP"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16
THE FIRESIDE SPHINX
A Collection Of EnigmatGal Nuts for
Home Cracking.
Address communications for ebfs department.
to E. R. CHADBoURN. Les0tst0n. Maine.
923-THE SAILORS GUIDE.
EDITH ESTES.

924-"wRITE ME DOWN AN ASS"
Your citizens an ass
Erter of his right,
And 30 We have a class
To guard him day and night;
Tis with these we have to do,
80 we'll pass them in review.
First comes the greater as
Pirant in the ranks;
He, others to surpass,
Renounced his youthful pranks.
See the difference in pluck,
And the tickle goddess Luck,
You've then the greatest ass
Ailant ever foored;
The heud by which, alasl
The well-6red man il bored.
Yet, in medltative mood,
He can prove that God is good
The thirds the greatest ass
1stance in fight;
He mingles In the mass,
And turns it into flight;
But ambitious after fame,
Which consumes him in its flame.
Then comes the greatest ass
ASSN ever seen;
He, partial to glass,
The toDer's can tell in,
When the blend the shape assumed
OF being banned and doomed
The fifth's very ass
Idious artisan;
OF glossy hair he has
Made Lucy q sedan.
When he tackles mountain ash
He can turn it into cash
The lasts q solemn as
Trologer Of eld,
Who in each plant that was
A starry orb bef1eld;
But the gOrmandizing beasti
OF fast he made feast.
". WILSON.
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Two Centuries Old.

The Oldest newspaper in Great Britain Is
Berrow's Worcester Journal, which was
founded in 1890, but is not yet foundered.
Indeed it has just celebrated its bi-centen-
ary. Among the agents who sold it in 1779
was Robert Raikes, who, in less than two
years from that date, established his famous
Sunday school. A connection with the
press makes one alert.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16

sem;naries, with 1881 students; 126 colleges
and 6S2 seminaries; 3,2o7 parochisl schools,
with 654, ,838 pupils. The total (estimated)
Roman Catholic population OF the Republic
is 8, ,301, ,367.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH.I

NE evening
when little
Otto, tired
with play,
had climbed
upon his
grsndfath th-
er's knee, he
said:
"Grandpa,
- sobool tn
day the chill
Idren were all
talkingabout
a beautiful
Princess,
who lives in
q golden cas-
tie in an en-
chanted for
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Natn sumcisnr Onsns..

Philadelphia Record.l
Snow we are one. " said the bride, as they
were leaving the church.
"Yes." said the practical groom, "but it
requires two railroad tickets to take Ms to
Washington, just the same"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16

We find the following lines in the j
chant Traveller. They contain more tr
than poetry:
A fashionable woman
In fashionable pew;
A fashionable bonnet
OF fashionable hue;
A fashiona BILE mantle
And a fashionable gown;
A fashionable Christian
In a fashionable town;
A fashionable prayer book
And fashionable choir;
A fashionable chapel
With fashionable spire;
A fashionable preacher
With fashionable speech;
A fashionable sermon
With fashionable reach;
A fashionable welcome
At the fashionable door;
A fashionable penny
For the fashionable Door;
A fashionable heaven
And q fashionable hell;
A fashionable Bible
For this fashionable belle;
A fashionable kneeling
And fashionable nod;
A fashionable everything;
But no fashionable God.
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A RIVAL FOR BRODIE.
Tommy Burns Making Record Of Bridge
Jumping in England.

Jumping in England.
Newcastle. Eng, Chronicle.]
Yesterday afternoon, in the presence OF
some 900 people, Tommy Burns dived from
the Victoria Bridge. at Stockton, into the
Tees. Tommy" claimed that he dived
from Runcorn Bridge (said to be 30 feet
high), swan to the Liverpool Landing
Stage (ls miles), then ran to London, diVed
from Loddon Bridge, and ran back TO Liver
pool, all in the space Of nine days.
Tommy" appeared on the bridge in an ac-
robat's suit, and took the water from the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16
HI. FIra Raonpa.

Philadelphia Record.]
"Here goes my fire escape, " said Mint
employe, holding an envelope.
"Whst is it7'' asked his companion.
'"'My resignation"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16
927-HALF sOUARE.

1, A variety Of trap-rock. z Ornaments
(oba). g. A coloring matter. 4 A city Of
Texas. 5. A tumor on the eyelid. 8. Certain
measures. 2. Metallic earth. 8. New England
(abbr.). 8. A letter. MINNIE SINGER.
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To whole IS to stay, or remain;
And good for the second is plain;
A measure is three,
As you clearly can see,
30 no further 1 need to explain.
BITTER SWEET.
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Q3O-rRANsPosIr1oN.

930-TRANsPosIrIoN.
In war, tits those who one
To fight as well as run
Who gain name.
Are known to fame
After the fight is done.
The leader Of a ttOo
Should have a reckless crew,
Who will not quail,
Who will not fail
In danger firm and true.
BITTER SWEET.
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929-DIAMoND.

L A letter. q Thus name. g. Heals. 4. Hoops.
s To prune (obs) 8 Currency. Z. Oficers in
monasteries- & PlacerS 8. Agitates. 10. God
dess Of the morning. IL A letter.
AsPIRo.
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center arch Of the bridge. Diving from the
parapet he turned somersault in bis de-
scent, entered the water with clasped hands
head foremost, and soon reappeared on the
surface. The hero of London and Runcorn
bridges performed few antics in the water
and then, swimming down the river little
distance, was picked up in q boat and sub
sequently driven in cab to his hotel.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16

s1s-"The Horse Fair" (By Rosa Bonheur.I
9lO-Dais, said, aids
$40
There once lIveda man on as torrida
Shore
As ever was known. And as horrid
Bore
AS ever had sister
Was this curious Mister
Montgomery Lister.
But the place where he lived was not Florida.
92l-Pallet.
Rehabilitation.
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925-KNIGHT's SPRING.
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No Fashionable God.

We find the following lines in the Mer-
chant TrGUelIer. They contain more truth
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-04-04
Difference In six Cord Cotton.

When the sewing machine came
into the market as the great thread
consumer, unreasoning in its work
and memorable in its demands for me-
chanical accuracy. six cord cotton
had to be made in place of the old and
rougher three cord, it being much
smoother. AS thread numbers were
already established, they were not al
tered for the new article, and No. 60
six cord and No. GO three cord were
left identical in both size and number.
To effect this the six cord has to be
made Of yarn twice as fine as that de-
manded in making the three cord va
riety. The No. 60 six cord is made of
six strands of No. 120 yarn. The three
cord spool cotton is the same number
as the yarn is made Of. Six cord spool
cotton is always made from yarn
double its number. Thread is a simple
thing, but, simple as it is, there are
1000 kinds of it and each kind goes
through hundreds of different pro-
cesses.-St. Louis Republic.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-04-04
How She Behaved.

The negro makes us laugh because
he will say things which he should
have left unsaid, and say them with.
out the least intention OF giving of.
Tense. An admirable illustration OF
this sort of humor is given in Har.
per's. Briefly told it is as follows:
Samson, the colored j%anitor Of an
apartment house in which Mr.. and
Mrs. Robinson occupy a fat, is moi
treated by their Irish cook with the
Difference which he thinks due to his
position.
One morning when, at the going up
and down of the coal scuttle, Samson
had been worsted in a wordy encounter,
his wounded dignity could stand it no
longer. Stopping Mr.. Robinson on
the front stairs, he complained to him
of his sharp tongued servant.
What Samson wished 10 say was
that the girl assumed as much author.
ity as if she were one of the ladies OF
The house. What he did say was this
''Mr. Robinson, that girl Of your,
has ordered me round, am yelled al
ne down the elevator shaft, an
blowed me an jawed me antil you'd
have thought it was Mrs. Robinson
herselfI'
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-04-04
A bachelor Entertains.

The reception given by Peter Marie
to the Thursday Evening club at his
old fashioned residence in West Nine,
teenth street was by far the most re.
markable and interesting entertain
ment of the season. The surprise OF
the evening was the exhibition of por
celain portraits of thirteen ladies be.
longing TO the Thursday Evening club,
disposed in a very quaint and ingen'
ious fashion and hung on the walls OF
the drawing rooms.
An immense four leaf clover, stand
ing perhaps four feet high. reckoning
the stem, and three other clover leaves
boasting the ordinary number of pc
tails, were the foundation. The fouI
leaf clover was hung in the rear draw
ing room, while the three leaf clovers
embellished the walls of the drawing
room in front of the house. On the
thirteen petals thus formed and on
the background of the ivy whereof
these immense elovers were made the
pictures of the thirteen women were
placed and surrounded by light swans
down, which showed strongly and
effectively in contrast with the dark
green Of the ivy. The whole affair
was well conceived and admirably ex'
ecuted. The portraits were artistic.
ally done. and the clover leaves were
exceedingly strik ig and effective
decorations in themselves. New York
World.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-04-04

Jack Sheppard" by the way, was
graduated from Harvard collegetw TWEEN.
ty-five years ago, since which time he
has been engaged necessarily in crime
or in expiation Of it. He is a fine
looking man, with a well bred man
ner.
II came from Boston q year ago."
he said in court, ito try to make an
honest living. Igot work on the Bow.
cry at Sc. so a week, but the detectives
found me out and ! had TO leave. Dur
ing the Centennial ! bought some
photographs TO sell, but | was a 'sus-
picious character and had 10 get away
from the city. / could not do honest
work unmolested. Do you blame us
for being thicvesf'
The judge said he was always will,
ing 10 help a man reform, but under
the law he was compelled To sentence
the speaker TO five years in the peni.
tertiary. New York World.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-04-04
An Heiress I'm Chicaso.

Chicago has some mean men in her
directory. One Of them is lawyer
who holds forth in an Office in the
Tacoma building. The other day one
Of the scrub women who polish the
floors over there received a letter from
1.-THE old country" In II was a money
order for. $50, sent by her sweetheart.
She did not understand il exactly. and
abe appealed to the lawyer in question
10 interpret it for her. He told her
what il was, and then, through the
exuberance Of a Chicago attorneys
imagination, he told the elevator boys
that she had been left O legacy Of
10000. During the rest Of the day
the elevator men and janitors made
love 10 the scrub woman, much TO her
amszsment, and they IN still under
the impression that she Ia an heiress
and IL Q pretty good girl 10 tie up TO.
Meanwhile the lawyer y chuckling.
Chicago Herald.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-04-04
tmbidexterity.

Tue sword exercise in which the
Roman soldier was practiccd trained
him To use the weapon rs skillfully in
the left hand as i'll the right, 80 that
ia ease of injury TO either arm he
could still defend himself. The pains
then taken Ia make an efficient soldier
should NOW In taken t. make of every
youth au efficient workman. This can
be done only by giving 10 the left
hand equal ease and ssrcnglh with the
right.
There are many kinds of work in
which the laborer finds a decided adj
vantage from AN occasional shifting of
hands. Ii rests him almost as much
as it would to stop working. This is
the case where the strain ome mostly
on M hand, as it does in using the
hoe. Ii is much the same with the use
of the spade, the rake and the pitch
fork, the AK, the saw and the hammer.
Again, there a r places where two
can work together more comfortably
and more effectively if one of them
can use the implement lefthanded.
By lefthanded use is understood the
putting the left hand forward upon
the handle of the AK, the hoe, the
shovel, and 50 on.
In Telling a tree two choppers can
work together if they stand on the
same side of the tree. To stand to-
gether they must chop n lefthand,
ed, the other righthanded. Were
they TO stand ON opposite sides of the
tree it would be di icult To tell just
where the tree would fall. So, too, in
shoveling a pile of dirt, two persons
can work together until the last shov.
elful is taken up if they use the shovel
in different hands; otherwise they
cannot.
This training belongs TO the home.
II is most successfully given in the
early years Of the chHd; but as each
tool and implement is first put into
the hands of a boy he should be are
fully practiced in the different waysoi
handling n.-Youth's Companion.