The herald., 1895-02-26
OUT-OF-THE-WAY FACTS

Virgil, during the summer season, filed
his house with butterflies.
Samuel Richardson wrote his novels
while attired in full-dress suit.
DR.. William NJ. Taylor, the pastor emer-
titus of the Broadway Tabernacle, died in
New York last week.
The Old South Church, at Boston, Mass,
recently celebrated its 225th anniversary.
1t is still active, last year contributing
to missions Sl6, 265.
The Emperor of Germany enthusias-
tically favors and urges the keeping OF the
Protestant churches of Berlin open at all
hours every day in the week.
The Meadvile Theological School was
the first in this country to offer to woman
candidates for the ministry the advan-
tages of a theological education.
1t was stated at a meeting in New York
not long ago that in the Empire State
there are nearly seven hundred thousand
children growing up without religious
training.
Rev. DR.. Theodore L. Cuyler celebrated
his seventy third birthday at DR.. Strings
Sanitarium, Saratoga, on Friday, Janu-
AIRY 1lth 1t was also the tiftieth year of
his ministry.
Joseph Cook began last week his twen-
tieth course of lectures at the Park Street
Church, in Boston. His general topic for
the season is Revvals, on which six lee
lures are announced.
1t was recently stated that the Pope had
declared against priests riding bicycles.
But word now comes through Monsigneur
Satolli that as long as the priests are dig
ntied and proper it is not likely the Holy
See will object.
The receipts of the American Board Tor
for the month of January were $74, 647,
against S75, 1896 for January, 1894. The
total receipts for the last five months show
decrease of 49, 700 over the receipts for
corresponding period of last year.
Sixty three years ago Daniel Webster
had Isaac Bassett appointed page in the
Senate. Fi'ty-two years ago the special
post tion of doorkeeper was created for him
and he has held it since. He now has the
distinction of having been in the service
of the Government longer than any man
living.
Colonel Hamilton Robinson of Indiana,
who is IS years old, is the oldest Odd
Fellow in the state and one of the oldest
in the Union. He is hale and hearty and
drove three miles through the cold from
his country residence to attend a recent
anniversary.
According to the income tax returns in
Prussia for the year just closed, there are
only two men in that country having an
income exceeding ST. 900 600. One of these
is Herr Krupp and the other is Baron
Rothschild whose incomes are given at
about ~, 900, 600 each, and there are but
453 incomes above $50, 600 year.
The motor bicycle recently exhibited in
New York has small hot air motor at
the rear which supplies the power for the
| propulsion of the wheel. The gas is ig-
| nited by an electric spark generated by
small cell of battery carried on the frame.
The bicycle is started by the pedals, and
by switching on the current by means Of
switch on the handle bar the gas power
| is instantly applied.
The Siberian Railway has been opened
| to Omsk, 1900 miles from St. Petersburg,
| and it is possible to go from one place to
the other in tour and half days. In
building part of the line the men had often
to carry their food with them, and some-
times had to be lowered in baskets in or
der to prepare the track. In draining a
bog sixty miles wide, both engineers and
| men had for some time to live in huts
/ built on piles, which could be approached
only in boats. Mosquitoes were SO plenti-
| iul that the workmen had to wear masks.
of which 1000 were bought for the pur-
| pose.
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