MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 413, 28 November 1884, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

. «#■ ... A Timely Suggestion. They are expecting the minister to din•ner. «.'I S everything ready, my dear?" asked the head of the house. . ■ " Yes, he can come now as soon as he likes." \ ♦' Have you dnstod the family Bible ? \ " Goodness gracious ! I forgot that. ~ \> ■ How do you Lie ? DrTielaunay, an eminent French student, .writes tiHhe Paris Biological Society on the subject of dreams. The character of our drearas, he claims, is very much determined , ,by the position we occupy in sleep. The "most <? °" c *-'» 3 **" >lV ' c- '* "C-iyfogi perhaps, la on ■ 'the right side, and this appears to be the . - most natural method.for many persons object to .lying upon the side of the hpart, which, ; it has been more than once asserted, should have free action during sleep. Neverthless, Dr . . Dejaunay's statements hardly harmonize with this opinion. When one slee> s upon ■the right side, that is to say, upon the right >. Bide of the brain, Tone's dreams have marked and rather unpleasant characteristics These characteristics, however, are essentially those which enter into the popular definition of dreams. One's dreams are then apt to be illogical, absurd, childish, uncertain, incoherent, full of vivacity and exaggeration. Dreams which come from sleeping on the right side are, in short, simply deceptions. They bring to the mind very old or faint remembrances, and they are often accompanied by nightmares. Dr Delaunay points gut that sleepers frequently compose verse f - or rhythmical language while they are lying on their right side. This verse though at times correct enough, is absolutely without .. Henae.' The moral faculties are then atjwork, but the intellectual faculties are absent. On the other hand, when a person slumbers on his left brain, his dreams are not only less absurd ; but they may also be intelligent.- : They are, as a rule, concerned with . recent things, and not reminiscences, "Just as good as Divorced." A well-known Detroit clergyman, who has one of the largest congregations in town, as well as the largest capacity to ap- ' predate a joke, relates that one day re- ;•• - cently.he was called on to marry a couple. His, catechism of the prospective bride- '' groom was satisfactory and he then turned his attention to the lady. / \U MHave you ever been married ?" was asked. "Yes, sir." 'r,: - « Husband dead ?" , . « No, sir." " Are you divorced ?" " N-no-not exactly, but I'm just as good as. divorced. My- husband left me, and besides we never paid the minister for marryin 1 ns. In a Bad Way. The chatty Dunedin correspondent of the 1 CromweirArgus 'isays ;— ".Either Anglicanism is in badrhands'or it is a failure in Otago. 1% The Anglicans grow meaner than ever. This 1' l ! B^sßion' of Synod the country members have - : '-had to-go without their travelling expenses, and there were no funds to print a report of the proceedings. The parishes are all in arrears with their contributions to Synod expenses.; The church is without energyhalf "dead! Bishop Nevill is a failure. He is . • a wellmeaning man,but he has no enthusiasm and. his people can't get up any enthusiasm ''over him. Except in Dunedin, the clergy • have a 1 hand-to-mouth kind of existence, and ...are poor specimens of the penus pastor." The same writer continues on churches generally: . — " How do all the little churches exist here iri Dnnedin ? There are a large number of them one way and the other. Some of them have a queer life, I think. I do not suppose there is any less enviable occupation than that of pulpit thumper to some of the little religious coteries in this city and the Suburbs. The worshippers are poor, and the pastors have a hungry look. Not Jonsr ago in one of the little meeting-houses in aside ' 'street there was a soiree. Next day the pastor in his black suit and his belltopper spent the whole day in beating and cleaning the matting. ' He stood in the street, at the work, .proud of himself probably, and such a . dußty-clothed and dirty-faced clergyman was surely never seen before. Half-a-crown would have paid a hired man to do it, but half-crowns were scarce. Perhaps cleaning op after services and soirees ia part of. his contract. A Polite Qualification. ' ' 'He was polite, but diffident, and had got i entangled in conversation with a couple of young ladies, and was struggling along the best he could. , They ; were discussing the merits of different actresses. :' i.«<Y-yeß," he said, " Minnies. B is certainly a very c-clever. actress, but I — l think " she is one of the p-plainest women I ever ' saw, That is," he added politely, under the . vague impression that some qualification should be introduced . here, ''I— er— mean, of course, present company always excepted. ■■'■ ...•■'.' Tlie Bad and Worthless are never imitated or counterfeited. This is f especially true of a family medicine, and it - is positive proof that the remedy imitated is ' of the highest value. As soon as it had be a tested and proved by the whole world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best and most valuable family medicine on earth, many imitations sprung up and begau to steal the notices in which the press and the people of the country had expressed the merits of H. B. and in every way trying to induce suffering invalids to use their stuff instead, exDectin^ to make money on the credit and good' name of H. B. Many others started HOStrums put up in similar style to H. 8.. > ; with •variously devised names in which the words "Hop" or "Hops" were used in a way to induce people to believe they were the '.Bame as Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or cures, no matter what their style or name is, and especially those with the word''"H6p"or"Hops" in their name or in any way connected with them or their name, ate imitations or counterfeits. Beware oi them. Touch none of them. Use nothing but genuine American Hop Bitters, with a • biinch or cluster of green Hops on the white label', and Dr. Soule's name blown in the glass.' Trust nothing else. Druggists and '"-Chemists' are warned against dealing in : imitations or counterfeits'. HoY to conduct Prayer Meetings. ~ At the meeting o£ the Baptist pastors in Kew York the Rev. Dr Hiscox. of Mount Vefnon, N. -T., read an essay on "Howtc Conduct the Prayer Meeting." He said that they should be opened promptly ever if the .church was empty. He said thai the pastor might begin with prayer, and li -S dould'sing to start a little hymn, and as r-.fliß-TWOple came into the church he might •Skthem to assist. He continued that the vi MStdr Should not take up the whole time m •jvi&eaMngJrat' should give some one else a chance "I once knew a, minister," said he " who was: a smart man and had a fine yoic? for speaking, When he came to the

prayer meetiug his addresses were long anc covered all the grounds io be gone over, s( that when he concluded his speaking i was not necessary to say anything more, anc the people were timid and did not lik< to get up and speak after hearing suet eloquent addresses by their pastor.