MISCELLANEOUS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 193, 8 November 1872, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

The union of Christian bodies does not appear to be so impracticable a thing in America as it is generally held to be elsewhere. A Church composed of Baptists, Methodists, Episcopalians j and Congregation! is ts, - has been formed in connection with Harvard University. A circumstance well worth takiug note of by our runholders, caine- to our knowledge a day or two ago. A sheep-far mer resident in tlris province, the quality of whose wool was well-known to the London buyers, had occasion, owing to alterations in his business arrangements, to change his brand ; the familiar mark being no longer recognised, the wool fell 4cl. per lb. in consequence.-— 5 Hawkes Bay Herald.'

Henry Fox Talbot lias investigated the Assyrian tablets in the British Museum, and finds on one tlie following account of the birth. and infancy of Sargjna, who was a legislator, conqueror and King of Babylon 14 or 15 centuries before Christ: "In a secret place my mother brought me forth. She placed mc in an ark of bulrushes ; with bitumen she closed the door. She threw me into the river, which did not get into the ark. The river bore me up and brought me tc the dwelling of a kind-hearted fisherman. He saved my life and brought me up as his own son." The similiarifcy to the account 01 the infancy of Mioses is very curious and suggestive. A coloured woman, probably the largest and heaviest person of her sex in the world, died in St. Louis, lately at the age of 51 years. The almost incredible statement is made that she weighed between 900 and 1000 pounds, was five feet 10 inches in height, and 28 inches across the shoulders, and that her arms were "30 inches in circumference. It took eight men and six rollers combined to lower her from the waggon into her grave. —' American Paper.' Some ladies in Texas were desirous of doing honor to the editor of a local journal, so they presented their hero with an embroidei'ed shirt, which contained a splendid history of Texas, aDd also pictures of the fruits and cereals of the state, worked all over it in red worsted. Now, this particular editor- had never worn a shirt, and supposed the brilliant specimen before him to be a banner for an approaching temperance procession. In his speech of thanks he [puzzled the lady donors by declaring that he would " fling it out ' for ever to the breezes of heaven, that they may kiss its folds, and till his hands palsied it should never be trailed in the dust." Being informed of the purpose of the gift I the editor wore it over his coat, to. the great edification of the boys of the town who followed him in regiments, studying the history of Texas "behind his back." Colonel Gorton has been distinguishing himself once more. It appears that two coal scuttles issued to Judge Fenton became unserviceable, and were consigned to the dust heap. Not shown in the* next return, Colonel Gorton came down upon Judge Fenton like " a wolf on the fold.' Tlie scuttles had been issued , to

the Judge; lie was responsible for them and lie had no right whatever to " expend" them, on dust heaps. In consequence of this, Judge Fenton had the scuttles fished out from their unsavory repository, packed them up carefully, adressed the valuable package to the Native Minister, and forwarded it with a bill of lading by steamer. The expense of the correspondence, freight and other charges upon these scuttles, has been about twenty times their value as old iron. And it is to look after such matters as these (says the ' Wellington Evening Post)' that Colonel G-orton ! is paid several hundred pounds per annum

"We can safely recommend a graduate of a newspaper office for almost any station in life, at least for all which require a very good knowledge of the peculiarities and characteristics of the human family. A man who can preserve the serenity of his temper, the sweetness of a christiae disposition, and an unflagging perseverance amid all the obstacles and difficulties which newspaper publication present, deserves to be ranked with Job for patience, Baxter for goodness, and the Iron Duke for nerve, ppvver, and ob T stinate determination.—"The Christian World."

Party spirit in Wellington, would seem to be both strong and bitter, with an unsavory dash of malice in it too, if we are to take the following from the ' Evening Post' of the 9fch instant as aii indication : " Straws serve to show which way the wind blows. This afternoon a messenger from the House was endeavoring to obtain on the wharf a box for the Hon. Mr. Vogel, but he lacked sixpence of the amount necessary to release the package from durance vile. The . unhappy messenger applied to several persons on the wharf'for pecuniary assistance, but immediately upon his stating for whom it was required, every person applied to, peremtorily declined fcti advance .one farthing."

If a writer in 'Nature' is correct in his views, the open Polar Sea, unless discovered soon, will exist no more. Land is said to be rising everywhere between the pole and the: fifty-seventh parallel ! and the greatest is at the pole itself. If the theory is true it offers us' a curious case of compensation. While the ocean is washing away Great Britain, and 'France, arid Holland, and New England, towards the north the continent's are encroaching on the sea. The. pity is that the process,cannot,be reversed, and Neptune- enriched at the expense of the frozen North, and to the gain of the more habitable: South.

The ' Wellington Independent' says : ] "As a Bitter political partisan, Mr. Rolleston stands facile princeps. the stinging sarcasm of Fox, the acrid of (3-illies, the vulgar insolence of Stafford, br the. slashing.criticism of Vogel, are mild, weapons compared with the vencmoiis, malice of Rolleston. That hon. member hunts down his political opponents with all the pertinacity and bloodthirstiness of • a beast of prey. Fortunately for them, his power for evil does not equal his desire. To carry out the simile, he. resembles the jackal more than ihe lion. "Last year Mr. Fox was the special object of the concentrated malevolence ; this year he favors Mr. Vogel with his delicate attentions. The other d'ty, for reasons best known to himself, he proposed to deny Mr. Vogel the usual courtesy of a forty-eight hours' adjournment while he attempted to form a Ministry. Mr. Stafford could do no less than rebuke the rancorous malice of his follower, who turned livid with disappointed rage at the rebuff. One follower, and only one, Mr. Rolleston had on this occasion, who cheered him to the echo, and he was one of whom any one may well be proud—J. C. Brown." Dean Stanley has uttered many good and charitable things when lecturing in Edinburgh; but when he pointed to David Hume and Robert Burns as Christian examples, and pronounced the martyrs of Scotland as bold but fanatical men, he said that which could be allowed to pass. Professor Rainy, of the Free Church College, immediately took up cudgels, and in a course of lectures replied to the dean with a cleverness and conclusiveness that critics allow to be most thorough. The lectures have been published. Some excitement has been caused in Presbyterian circles in America, by the Rev. T. L. Ciiyler, of Brooklyn, having with others placed his pulpit at the disposal of a lady paeacher, a member of the Society of Friends. Her preaching is said to have been most powerful, and brought tears to the eyes of many with whom such an occurrence was unwonted. A meeting of the Presbytery was called to consider Mr. Cuyler's action, and after a long discussion it was agreed that the practice of females preaching or praying in public is contrary to Soripture-teach-in£. Henry Ward Beecher has preached in oppositon to this opinion. _

A .gentleman of GKesterfieldr.w-lio ihad missed his umbrella for some time; a day or two ago found it in a conspicuous place on liis premises, with the following ihsrcipfeion pinned upon it:—This umbrella as prade lion my koonshehs ever , sin i stole him. —W.ii."

A kkw Cuke Foil a Cold, &c.— Should yon take a severe cold, and have a headache, or any other attendant.sensation, take a position facing the fresh air, and begin to breathe as full and deep as you can." When you have readied about 10 deep full inspirations; you will feel very much oppressed, and want to quit breathing deep ; let this feeling, however, be a reminder that you must continue'. you shall have breathed near 20 fall, deep inspirations, you will begin to gape inordinately, and feel somewhat more inclined to breathe. When you have breathed about 30 times, you will, perhaps, sneeze, the tears wiil start freely from your eyes, the dormant secretions from the glands of the throat, and dormant gasses from your stomach.; and if an ordinary attack, by tlie time .you have -inhaled forty of those deep, free full inspirations, you will feel entirely relieved of whatever the nature of your affection may have been. Should your attack be very severe and obstinate, and of a typhoid character, you may have to continue till you have breathed from 60 to 100, or even a greater number, of these deep, free, full inspirations.—This simple, costless, . and in fclie main,■pleasurable experiment, will, according to my practical experience, relieve 9 out of 10 incipient stages of disease requiring no vitalization. It will not cos g anyanything to try it, and you may rest assured it is ifceligio Phil. Journal.'

Industry.—A Hard Taskmaster.—-Al correspondent informs us that the Jiev. G-eorge Philip of the East .United Presbyterian Church, Saltcoats, has just had executed by a boy for £l a piece of work which, had it been given toa lawyer, would have cost £220. It was in this wise.— Some time ago the liev. gentleman, while addressing his Sunday-school promised to give £L to any. or all of them who copied out, in their own hand-writing the entire Old Testament, allowing a year to complete the task. This feat had just been accomplished by a boy named .Robert Millar, son of Mr. James Millar, builder, liaise street, Saltcoats, and it lias only occupied,him six months, i'uring ' the entire time the boy, who is . only eleven years old, has been attending school, so that the.necessary time must have been stolen from the hours of sleep or recreation. The. writing, says our correspondent,. is neat and clean, and covers 2600 pages, the size of each being 10 inches by and the weight of the paper used, 161b. The reward will thus do little more than pay for the paper used.

All worships are the radii of a circle, whose centre is the Eternal One. Much of the false hair to ladies is.cut from the heads of convicts and dead peo-r pie. The correspondent of tlie London 'Daily Telegraph'; gives w the, following account of, the origin of the 'jN r ew York Herald' expedition in search otV Livingstone : —" It was an idea of young Mr. Bennett, at that time staying in ParisHe telegraphed for Mr; Stanley, then resident in Madrid, and he, not knowing what business was in hand, left instantly, arrived at the G-rand Hotel Paris, at eleven of the night, and went at once ; to Mr. Bennett's room. That gentleman was in bed. 'Come in, sir! who are you ?' 'My name is Stanley,' answered the young correspondent. ' Ah. yes!' replied the JSTew York journalist; ' sit down—glad to see you. Have you any idea where Livingstone is ■?' 'JNI o!' ' Well, I think he is living and is to be found. Will you try to find him ?' ' Yes !' ' Grood ; you can liave an unlimited credit. Use your own means, carry out your own plans. Good night!' Mr. Stanley was a man.to. act upon .such, laconic commissions. With an almost ex-„ haustless fund of information,- of fertile expedients, determined, courage, and un- . ceasing perseverance, he is always ready, for duty, and therewithal-modest as;to his success." "■ Black and White.—During the : late civil war it was considered necessary inCynthiana to keep a few soldiers at- tHat place. One night two of them happened ; to stray into the church of the colored people just as an invitation to any one who were inclined to " come join the church." After lie had finished, these two soldiers got tip, walked forward, andpresented themselves - for admission;. .whereupon the preacher ; said : " Breddren. dis is a culled church, and I don t know as X se any-authority to take in white folks." At this point an elder uncle rose, in the congregation and ejaculated : " Takes- -era. in, Bruddsr Jilson, take em in. Dar skins is white, dit's •fact, but dar'hearts'is jis as;black as suak !•"