The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-05
Talmage ON church ohoirs.

My chief objection to church cho
singing is that l am a firm believer
a congregation doing the singin
To Inc a singing church is always
triumphant church. If a congreg
ton is silent during the exercise.
partially silent, it is the silence
death. If when the hymn is give
out you hear the faint hum of he.
and there a father and mother
Israel, while the vast majority a.
silent, that minister of Christ who
presiding needs to have a very stror
constitution if he does not get tt
chills. He needs not only the graz
of God, but nerves like whalebone
1t is a constant source of amazemer
to me how some people with yoit
enough to discharge all their duties
the world, when they come into til
house of God have no voice to di
charge their duty of singing. l reall
believe that if all our churches woul
rise up and sing as they ought to sin
that where we have a hundred sou.
brought into the kingdom of Chri.
there would be a thousand.-T. Z
Watt Id17n0ge, IN Ladies Home Joul
nal.
They're All Like Those Wild ows.
An Arab woman when left a wido'
mourns her husband devoutly, BIT
like other widows, if she has the OF
portunity, she may be married agar
The night before her second maj
riage she pays a visit to her first hui
bands grave. There she kneels an,
prays him not to be offended. AS
she feels he will be offended
the widow brings with her a donke,
laden with two goat skins filed wit.
water. The prayer ended, she pro
ceeds to p our the water on tine gray
to keep the first husband cool upde
the circumstances about to talk,
and having well saturated hin
she then departs. -Erchange.
Mothers and Children.
"The mither's breath is aye sweet,
says a Scotch proverb. The sam
sentiment is less tenderly expresse
by a German and a French pre-
verb, Mothers truth keeps constan
youth"
Another Scotch proverb is illustra
tive of the influence of parental exam
ple:-"Trot feyther, trot mither, no,
can foal amber"
The idea expressed by the Englisl
proyerb, 1.-The crow thinks her ow.
bird the falrest, takes in German TIL
of Every mothers child is hand
or mo ape but swears he ha
the finest children
Every mother knows, though man,
heed not the fact, that unless shr
transfers some household duties t
the daughter she encourages her chill,
TO grow up in sloth and ignorance
An English proverb thus utters thu
warning:-''A light heeled. mothe
makes a heavy heeled daughter
Companion.
Effects of Musical Sounds on Animals
Sometime since,n says a CORES
oondent in american Naturalist, Z"
lad an ordinary tortoise shell ca
had a peculiar fondness for tn,
June known as 'Rode's Air One da,
CHANGED to whistle it, when withou
any previous training she jumped OF
my shoulder and showed unmistak
able signs of pleasure by rubbing he
1ead against mine, and trying to ge
near my mouth as possible. Ihav
5ried many other tunes, but with n,
Captain Noble, of Fores
Maresfield, England, ties
that he formerly had a ca
which displayed o corresponding sen
'itiveness, but it was only by plaintiv,
;unes that she was affected. WheI
such an air was whistled she would
climb up and try to get her mouth q;
as possible to that of tn
whistler. II used as a rule" say
Captain Noble, ito whistle The Las
Rose of Summer when / wished he.
% perform. l never could satisfy my
'elf as to her motive in putting he
to mine. The most feasibl,
conjecture that | was able to max
seemed to be that she imagined me t,
De in pain, and in some way tried
either to soothe me or to stop m,
vhistling."
Care of the Eyes.
Sit erect in your chair when read
ng, and as erect when writing as pos
'ible. If you bend downward you
lot only gorge the eyes with blood
ont the brain as well, and both suffer