The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1892-05-11
ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

and adventuresome ideas and
schemes in the line of geographic
cal discovery for which Lisbon was
then headquarters. She possessed
fine education, and was widely
known as brainy, brilliant woman,
who was constantly urging her hus-
band on in the path which finally
brought him to the wonderful goal
with which we are so familiar.
While a girl, she made number of
hazardous VOYAGES with her father
in unfamiliar waters, and later
made geographical drawings, sew
eral of which were used with great
profit by Columbus when he had
won her for his wife and set out
upon his more important wander
ings on the great deep. There is
probably no picture of this brave,
talented woman extant, but certain
ly it would seem a gracious and
most fitting thing that her memory
receive some tribute at the forth
coming celebration"
In a recent issue of Great
Thoughts, the late DR.. Donald Fra
ser states briefly, "Why 1 am a
Presbyterian" He takes the right
ground, justifying Presbyterianism
from Holy Scripture and the testi-
mony of history. He called atten-
ton to the fact that all the Reform
ed Churches adopted Presbyterian
ism when they shook themselves
free from the Papacy, with the sin
gle exception of the Church of Eng
land. He laughs at the Anglican
who expects him to call his ecclesi-
astical community "The Church."
Why is that form of Church which
approved itself to the Reformed in
France, Switzerland, Belgium, Hol-
land, Hungary, and Scotland and to
the foremost reformers IN England
as we'll, to be reckoned a sect, and
that which England accepted under
pressure from the Court to be named
as the only genuine article? 81
scorn the assumption. I am no
more a sectary than is the Arch
bishop of Canterbury"
He says correctly:
with the single exception of
William Ill, who was a Dutch Pres
byterian, no Sovereign of Great
Britain has understood or appreciat-
ed the Presbyterian Church but
Queen Victoria"
The Chinese have a kitchen
god, which is supposed to go to the
Chinese heaven at the beginning of
every year to report upon the pri-
vate life of the families under his
care. He has just terminated a
holiday of that kind and is back
keeping watch OH the domestic ar.
rangements in his dominions. tits
painful to add that wives who feel
that they have been remiss in their
housekeeping smear his lips with
sugar before his annual departure,
to bride him into making favorable
reports in their cases.
An Italian scientist, who has
made the study of earthquakes his
speciality, is of the opinion that
seismic disturbances have a benefc-
ial effect on plant life and atmos-
pheric conditions of the country
visited by them. Last years earth
quakes in the peninsula, he says,
produced an extraordinarily rapid
termination of seeds and growth
of young plants and gave rise to lux
uriant vegetation i'm meadows, vine
yards and woods. He attributes
these results to increase of carbon
of dioxide in the air, of diffusion of
nutrient liquids through the soil
and to augmented electricity.
HOLSTERS will voluntarily de-
prive themselves of their great claws
if suddenly alarmed by some such
sound as that caused by the firing
Of a heavy gun above them A crab
seized while feeding by a greater
and stronger, viii continue its meal
while being itself devOured. A fish
torn and mangled by the hook, will
return in a moment or two to the
bait, with it's appetite unimpaired.
A blind-worm sand lizard, if uuex-
pectedly seized will snap its body i'm
twain, and glide away none Che worse
for the mutilation, to reproduce the .
severed substance
Within the past decade nearly
all the English bishops have
changed the form of their signature
into its Latin equivalent