The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-06
Curious Method of Pro-
noting Bible Study.
Proverbs anl Verses F0retell
Manner of Death.
a fatal Age for Genius--FOreigners
are Uninventive--COfIee.

A class OF Biblical students in ST Louis
has inaugurated a novel plan to extend
the reading of tho Bible. Applying the
Soctrine of foreordination 10 the belief
hat for the birthday of each person there
.sa biblical proverb, these students claim
that the verses which follow in the chap
ter where the proverb is found exemplify
character and foreshadow important
events in ones life. as well az the nature
of his DEATH The tragic passing OF Gen.
John :. Fullerton of St Louis, who was
killed in railway wreck in Maryland, Is
the latest citation OF these students made
in support of their theory. The Blhllcal
proyer5 of his birthday, December y Is
found in Proverbs NJ q, $50 10 the ant,
thou suggard; consider her ways and he
wise - This is said To have indicated
that Gen. Fullerton was directed TO fol-
low the course which brought him wealth.
Then follows in the 10th and llth verses
the foreshadowing of Gen. Fullerton
death The former says: Yet little
sleep "A little slumDer, n little folding OF
the hands to sleep, and this they say,
is intended to demonstrate the manner In
which Gen. Fullerton unconsciously pre-
pared for his death on the fatal Pullman
car. The several following verses arc
claimed TO have indicated some OF the
generals characteristics. and finally, In
the fifteenth verse. is foretold the terrible
death Gen. Fullerton suffered. IL reads:
"Therefore shall his calamity come sud
denly: suddenly shall he be broken with
ont remedy. While in his sleep Gen.
Fullerton met his death. These students
claim that there is n Biblical proverb for
every day i'm the year, and that upon 1t
hangs the destiny of every person born on
that day; that the death and life of every
great man has been foreordained.
Among men and women OF genius there
seems to be a strange fatality connected
with the age of 81. Some of the most
renowned characters OF the world have
died on reaching that limit, including
Dante, the Italian poet; Hugh Capet,
King OF Frence; Henry VIII, King of
England; Henry Nv, Emperor of Germany;
Paganini, Italian violinist; ALEXANDER
Pope, the English poet; George Sala,
English orientufist; Murcus Aurcffus,
Emperor of Rome; Frederick I, King of
Prussia; John Hancock, American states
man; Maria Louisa, Empress of France;
Philip Messenger, English dramatist:
Saladin, the great sultan of Egypt; Robert
Stephenson, English engineer; Scipio
Africanus, Roman general; Helvetius,
French philosopher and author; Henry III,
the first of the plantagenet line; the elder
Pliny. Roman naturalist and author
Julius Caesar; Charles Kingsley, English
author; Juan Prim, Spanish general and
statesman; Henry Knox, American revo-
lutionary general; Thomas Mfilin, Ameri-
can patriot; Won Tromp, Dutch admiral (,
Abraham Lincoln; Marryat, the novelist; !;
George Whitefleld, English founder of
Calvinistic Methodist; Robert Dudley,
Earl of Leicester, favorite Of Queen Eliza
beth; Johann Gasper.Spurzheim, German
ia. Il IL
III, Emperor OF Germany.
A comparison Of the different methods
of doing what is practically the same
thing in various parts of the world is
both interesting and amusing to the
thoughtful observer. On an American
ferryboat the import is well known of
the ting, ting" or Jingle jingle, " of
the bell bv which the man in the wheel
house communicates with his fellow
mortal in the engine room. On the
Thames however, il would 10 considered
practically impossible 10 convey iniorma
tion in this manner, and the captains Of
tho small paddle steamers on that stream
stand on the paddle boxes and sing ont
Ease 'erv' Back err" etc, apparently
20 nobody in particular, while these in.
teresting remarks are promptly repeated
in sbrill tones by a small boy into speak
ing tube which communicates with the
lower regions. On the Seine, in France
this process Is simplitied, and "A largo
trumpet shaped mouthpiece flares out in
front of the man at the wheel and he
yells his commands into this funnel, the
other end of which is supposed TO reach
the engineer. The large steamers on tho
Rhine, in Germany, are controlled, not
by the usual wheel placed in wheel
house forward but by very large wheel
on vertical axis, placed right amidships
upon an elevated platform or bridge,
and several men pass the handles from
right to left, or upon occasion trot around
in circle, and IL would doubtless bo
considered n serious temptation of prov
idence or at least a reflection upon the
fatherland, IL anyone were to attempt TO
construct a Rhine steamer with the ordi.
nary form OF string gear.
The genuine Mocha coffee, dealer says.
comes only from the province of Yemen of
which Mocha H. the principal place ON the
sea coast. No coffee is grown i'm Mocha.
Something over 10 600 tons Of coffee are
annually exported from Mocha, but no
small part of 1t is not the product Of
Yemen, but Is grown I'm the East Indies
and sent 10 Mocha, whence IL is rcshipped.
either as received or mixed with the
Arabian product. OF the coffee sold under
the name of Mocha, Aboth in.England and
the United States, very littlc is grown
In Yemen. Some, as has hcen said, comes
from the East Indies, and other portions
come from Africa. and even from Brazil
"A British writer declares that nOt a ker-
rel of the best Mocha coffee ever gets
further west than Constantinople all the
best grains are picked out for use nearer
home, and only the pale shrivelcd and
broken seeds are left 60 reach any foreign
shore.