Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-20

I ioNt! | know that each morrow | Bringeth sadness and sorrow To some of the suffering children of earth, l Nor would repine,
 Though this lot should be mine, l For sorrow oft giyeth to holiness birth. | But mourn that each day, | As it hurries away
 And is lost in the dark gulf of the past, | Finds the spirit purer, The slow faith no surer. | The faults just as many and great as the | last. '' An! I would we were lowly, Free from thoughts all unholy Doing good wheresoe' CT our destiny lead Making earth more like heaven, | Or like the first Eden,
 Ere sin on our fair world it's dark mantle | spread. 'sa | Ohi thou who art holy, We would be thine solely: Oh! help us to live as thy children below; Make us patient and loving, Keep our wild thoughts from rowing. l On this Lenten-tide, Father. thy blessing T. bestow.
 S. E. c. Birmingham, Ash Wednesday. Mrs. Lorenzo Woodruff and Miss Lewis of Montgomery are spending a few days with Gen. and Mrs. Fred $. Ferguson at | their home on the South Highlands. * The ladies of the First Methodist church will give missionary tea this CThursday) afternoon from to 6 o'clock at the home of Mrs. A. B. Vandegrift.
 
 Mrs. Ida Hill Casey of Atlanta, Ga., is the guest of Mrs. John w Sibley, corner of Thrtieth street and Highland avenue. South Highlands.
 Rev. pr. P. T. Hale will deliver an un-' usually interesting and instructive lec- | ture, ;,...Travels Through the Holy Land," | tomorrow (Friday) evening at the South side Baptist church for the benefit of l that church. The lecture will be illus l trated with eighty stereopticon views, sixty of which have never before been
 seen in our city.
 The Gentlewoman says: ''We are to cast aside our pet superstitions in regard l to opals The tide has turned, and now opals are considered lucky instead of ,unlucky stones.' London society is mak- ! ing an especial point of wearing opals now, and the jewellers of New York have been buying the stones extensively of | late from every known market. The new est and prettiest jewelry shows opalS | in every kind of setting, and they are so exquisite it seems strange that any su- perstitions but those of love and hap pness should have ever clung to them" The first photographs seen in the south l tdkeI WtiIl lIt .HcW I6ll diSSoNciSu Dy | Professor Roentgen, called the "X' rays were made by Prof. A. F. McKissick of Auburn, Ala. Professor McKissick is young man, progressive and investigat- ing, and after reading the accounts of the discovery by Professor Roentzen and the successful tests made by Edison de- | termined to experiment in the same field, with the aid of several students Profess or McKissick is professor of electrical | engineering at Auburn. He succeeded in making a few wonderful pictures of articles photographed through certain
 thicknesses of wood, leather, flesh, etc. The result of Professor McKissck's ex- periments is another feather in Auburns
 cap and is gratifying indication of the elevated, up-to-date standard that ob- tains at Auburn college. The pictures were developed in Atlanta from mega tives carried to that city by Professor McKissick. as he had no appliances for finishing them at Auburn. Alabama has scored another triumph. Miss Julia Leach will reach Birmng- ham the latter part of this week and will be the guest for several days of Mrs. William A. Chenoweth, on Highland avenue. Miss Leach has visited our city several times and has many friends here who will gladly welcome her upon her return.
 Miss Anna Morrow will give a hand some card party next Saturday afternoon at her home on Eighth avenue, as the following invitation to many of her friends indicates:
 Miss Anna Louise Morrow. Saturday,
 February 22, o'clock Euehre. An swer."
 As we Birmingham folks feel quite an interest in the art of decoration and din- ner giving, the following telegram to an exchange will be enjoyable Of course we have no cabinet members living in this part of the country, but we all de- sire to know how this class of humanity behave when they go so far away from home as Washington. Secretary Hoke Smith is Georgian, to be sure, but he has certainly learned several new "dots" since entering upon "grten fields and pastures new" After reading this ac- count our president and his cabinet ap-
 pear very human and far less oppressive to average men and women who don't live in Washington and who don't give
 dinners with such realistic decorative ac- compartments: Washington, Feb. 15.-President Cleve-
 land went on another ducsing trip to-
 night. Mrs. Cleveland accompanied him
 this time. They left the White House at
 an early hour and returned very late,
 without any ducks, but thoroughly sat
 isfed with the nights sport. It was en-
 joyed also by the entire cabinet, for every
 one of the presidents advisers saw him
 as he held gun in his hand and watched
 three ducks floating on the water The
 gun was about'7 inches long and the
 ducks were of paper-mache.
 "The water was in an artificial lake,
 which had been built in the center of Sec
 retary Hoke Smiths dining room table,
 and filled with not only ducks, but small
 live fish of the kind which the president
 loves to catch. Besides the toy gun there
 was at the presidents plate miniature
 fishing rod in order that he might enjoy
 himself if the ducks got away. Every
 thing was planned to make him happy.
 Usually cabinet dinners are very for
 nal affairs, but it was the secretary of
 the interiors turn to give one tonight,
 and Mr. and Mrs. Hoke Smith decided
 to provide few novelties. They de-
 signed a sure-enough lake which was 10