A NEGRO'S SERMON ON THE FALL OF MAN.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 163, 24 May 1873, Page 3

A NEGRO'S SERMON ON THE FALL OF MAN.

' Pitman's M(ktht,v " has another copy of "Billy's Sermon on the ' Crintion and Fall of M:in.' "* Billy's sermon r.m thus "Do Lord, when he built de world, sat down upon a bery nice garden. lie had dia gnrdc.i fenced in and dug up, den he plant it clioc-k full ob fmit tree*. Den he take a lump of cl.n, which he i oil up between hi-, two hand* and «mt upon it ; den lie roll up more clay till he nuike it big as a nigger; dis he blow him brefon, an' sins 'Adam' 1 Den Adam open him e>es, Hiee/e, an' say ' Yoli ! ' Do Lord says (o him, ' You stop here an' mind my garden.' So Adam dig up de garden ; T but he feel bcry lonely when him go home to him cibin at night, and he tell de LoVd he nobody to speak to lior boil him damper, so de Loid one day send to the 'potheeary's shop around de corner and buj two pennuth ob Inudimm, which him gib to Adam ; den Adam fell asleep pound— bery sound. When him in dis beauty sleep de Lord cut out one rib ; dis rib ho take and roll clay round it till he make it as big as nusßus; dis he blow on. an' he say, 'EV Mismis Ebe she woke up, and tie Lord he say, ' Bery much good Den he kick Adam an' saj, * Wnke up ole hosa! ' Adam, he got up, rub him vyva, an' when he gee Mrs Ebe he *ay 'Oh '' De Lord say, 'Here Mrs Ebe, jour wife; 3on boil look after my garden.' So tings go on lubly. One summer cbenm' Mrs Ebe berr tiled, bhehab big Avash tint daj, an' she bery much tired, so she go for walk. Gom' down the lane leadin 1 away from de garden she meet a little old gemman in black, who says to her, ' Good ebenin, Mrs Ebe ; how do 3011 do dis ebenin ?' She say, ' Good ebeniw, Mr Debbil ; how >ou do ?' ' Dem apples look bery nice on dis tree,' w s Mr Debbil, ' dey good ?' ' Dunno,' sajs Mrs Ebe, 'de Lord say we no touch di» apple of dem tree.' ' You know why?' sa*id Mr Debbil. ' No,' said Mrs Ebe ; ' Well, den,' said Mr Debbil, " Dat bokasc dey Ins w inter apples, and he want to hab em all put away for hiaiself ; jet you Insto dem ; jou find dey best in allde garden. So Mrs Ebe she take jes one, an' she bite it, an' she say 'Yah' Adam, jou jes tas' dem apples.' So dey eat bery many of dem till dey git bery sleep) , and dey goto sleep behind de bush. Time by dc Lord came in de garden he bee lot ob de apples gone, an 1 he called out ' Adam \ou ben eatin' my apples; where be you an' Mrs Ebe? Adam he bay, ' Here, behind dis bush.' De Lord say, ' Come out den 1 ' Adam say, 'We can't come out.' De Lord say, ♦Why 3ou no come out 9 ' Adam say, ' Bekase wo got no clothes on 1 ' So de Lord get behind de bu«h an' kick dem out; he hab dem up to the garden wall, he take and toss dem boffober the wall, and he tell dem ' Dere! ]S"ow you .ics git out of my garden jou blackguards, an' get your own iibben ;' " " Dat," said Billy, with emphasis, " Dat. why we plaut dc sugar cane an' gadder 111 de cotton crop at the brow ob our sweat, when, if Mrs Ebe jes let alone de Lord's apples, we have num'n to do but jes strum the banjo an' cut de corn cake till bed tune."

The Lancet commeuts on the death of a .young lady last week at Exeter, named Wyndhnm, winch 'was caused by nitrous oxide gas having been administered to her, while undergoing a dental operation. Our contemporary says :— Tec facts teach another lesson bearing on the causo of death. The} show clearly that the assertion, so constantly made, that nitrous oxide gas does not affect the heart, is without foundation, for the first symptoms presented by Miss Wyndunder the influence of the gas was rapidity of the pulse, diminution of the volume. But the immediate cause of dentil was clearly paralysis of respiration. There was no obstruction of the air-passages, and the tongue was protruded from the mouth while she still respired; but, as Dr Drake observed at the inque»t, she was as powerless to breathe as though she had been immersed in water. The most important fe lesson of all afforded by this painful case is. that we huve yet a great deal to learn before we ha\c perfected nncesthes-ia. Towards such learning the rointroduction of nitrous oxide has lieen a serious check. Nitrous oxide, indeed, is not an anaesthetic at all. A true anmsthetic is an agont which suspends common sensibility without, by any necessity, interfering with tliobe organic processes on the continuance of >which life depends. Nitrous oxido acts, not in this way, but by suspending for a brief period one of the most important of the organic processes, that of respiration itself. For the reason named, the insensibility produced by the gns is afforded during an interval of partial death. Tlns'interval, transient, doubtful, dangerous, may allow an operator time for a short operation, and, the agent away, the suspended function may return. Usually the suspended function does return, more frequently, m truth, tlinn could be expected, but not always, as we now know by lamentable proof. Thiflks —Our lives, or rather their happiness and misery, are in a great measure made up of trifles, itwt as time 'is made up of moments. The discomfort of having to wait for a meal beyond its legular houi, of finding things ill prepared or carele«*ly done, of meeting slovenliness and discomfort where a little thought and pains might have introduced ease and even elegance, or of being brought up sharp at every turn bj want of punctuality or of method — these are ill» more difficult to bear than the (initiated imagine. Most, housei might be comfortable and elegant. Yes, elegant! For comfort consist! in finding everything where and ai it should be j elegance, in adding to what should be there that winch need not be there, but whose presence surprises, attracts, and gratifies. There is often neither comfort nor elegance in the richest mansions, while both arc found in the labourer's cottage. A jug filled with flowers, a neat white curtain, a couple of flower-pots, may affect what the Q) expenditure of hundreds of dollars has not achieved. Let it not bo said that thews are mere trifles, unworthy the attention of a Christian. Distrust the pretence of Bpintuality whose eye§ are too lofty for the common things of lift*. In the long catalogue of things to " think on " (Phil iv 8) they rank at any rate among the " whatsoever things are lovely." You say they are trities^nhen all the more they should not be neglected. But trifles though thov be, to neglect them is not a trifle, it is d breach ol plain dut\ . — Hearth aid Monte.

An English woman's experience in an American sleeping car is thus described : — Journeying from Boston to .Washington the authoress had her berth made into a bed, and divested herself of her outer garments, retired behind the curtain and slept till <u\-bioak. "I know,", she proceed?, "that at each en I ot the slocpiu^ car there was a toilet room, white m.ii l>lo basins :uul w.i»huig paraphernalia. I put my lii-.nl out between the opening ot the curtaiu to see if tin- place was unoccupied, when, to mv great amazement, what should meet m\ e\e all the way up ! and down the nanow corridor but stocking-.— no, I meaa | socked- -feet stiu^ling into boots ot the most decidedly i masculine peisuasum. As I was contemplating the pewu- ' bihty of threading my way through t'lis novel living hedge, | J came to the kuowiedge that I was the only lady in the | car, and that, unknown and protected, 1 had been passing the night in the most ignorant and reckless security w ith about twenty men ! In any other country this discovery | would ha\e been horrifying m itself, .md extremely dis- | agieeable fn its results, but shoit .us my oxpeiience of American cluv.ilry had been it w.is quite sufficient for me to know that I had absolutely nothing to feel uncomfortable about. Most of the gentlemen did me the honor to lgnoie my piesence completely, thereby making me feel very much nssuied. Those that did not neither stared nor spoke, but as the tiain slackened a1;a 1 ; the Jersey City station, two of them helped me down the steps of the platform, and one, taking my shawl, and the other my hand-bag, said, ' Allow me, madarae, to see you to the ferry,' whither they nccomp inied me, and bowed themselves off " A "Melbourne journal of the 22nd ult relates the following : j — ' Tin 1 bilrr is sometimes bit with a vengeance. The latest riclim of his own sharpness is the host of an hotel not a hundred miles from Melbourne. Thorp arrived at his house j a \oung man irom New Zealand, whose lather was known as. the squire m the English village in which the landlord saw the light of day. The sf r u-ger from Now Zetland produced a paper in which the death ol Ins lather \\ns announced, and in which it was stated that the son was entitled to £10,000. The heir confessed that ho h id no monet. and proposed that the landlord should lend him t': ; O'), promising to make a will in his favour in case hp -.Wild dip on Ihe pwigo home. The bargain was concluded, the mone; pud. md the will drawn ; but, instead of repairing on ship board the young man begun :i career of di-Mpation in Melbourne, the landlord being in nowise annom to put a -^op to lm Mcious courses At last an ltt u>k of il-liriu n lre>.ieni en-u<' '. A clojtor was called in, ami then'!-; (ho ca«p grow NprioiK, another wii sent for. Chloroform wis adnimi-tored, bit this and two medical iiipn wore too much for nny mortal tramp to stand, and so the pitient dipd Tlip landlord give on oh of the doctors a stiff rh-que, paid the iiin.'rnl expenses Without :i murmur, and e\en erected a handsome headstone over tne grave of his friend. lie then wrote to England, and enclosed the will in order to touch the fruit of his generosity. He had thrown his bivad upon the waters truly in vain. News came back that the old squire was alive and in good health, and it was then ascertained that the joungeter had himself caused the advertisement which wns to estabh-.li hn identity as an heir to be inserted in the paper. The landlord ha« now a supremo contempt for the * enmity ot the press, and look 9 upon hcir3 a* pure nn lineal creations of adventurous or impecunious brains." A Two-MrMTFs' Sehmon io You.no L\ Dins.— Ladies caged birds of beautiful plumage, but sickly looks — pale pots of ,the parlour, who vegitate in an unhealthy atmosphere, like the potato germinating m a dark cellar, why do you not go into the open air and warm sunshine and add lustre to your eyes, bloom to your cheeks, elasticity to your steps, and vigour to jour frames? Take exercise; run up the hill on a wager, and down again for fun; roam the fields, climb the fences, leap the ditches, wade the brooks, and after a day of exhilarating exercise and unrestrained liberty, go home with an appetite acquired by healthy enjoyment. The beautiful and blooming young lady — rosy-cheeked and bright-eyed — who can darn a. stocking, mend her own frock, command a regiment of pots and kettles, feed the pigs, milk the cows, and be a lady w hen required, is a girl that young men are in quest of for a wife. But you pining, screwed-up, waspwaistcd, doll-dressed, consumption-mortgaged, music-mur-dering, novel-reading daughters of fashion and idleness, you are no more fit for matrimony than a pullet is to look after ii brood of fourteen chickens. The truth is, my dear girl", you want less fashionable restraint and more liberty of action ; more kitchen and les» parlour ; more leg exercise ami less sofa; more pudding and less pinno; more frankness and loss mock modesty. Loasen your waist-strings, and breathe pure atmospere, and become something as good and beautiful as nature designed. Boot on the othkk Li:g. — "Talk on 'Change" in the Australasian thus comments: — Times are changed. They don't gouge out Jewish eyes in England now, nor do they test a Jew's bank account byjpulling his finger nails out with hot pincers. Hebrew s liavo sat in Parliament, there has been a Hebrew Lord Mayor of London and a Heb.rw Minister of the Crown. This equality is just what ought to exist. But are not the Hebrew newspapers making a little too much of the " passing away" of a daughter of the Kothschdds because she has condescended to mnrry the son of a Christian nobleman ? Isn't this (putting the boot on the other leg with a vengeance 9 The Earl of nardwieke with Ins friends must feel highly complimented at a mprriage with his son being contemptuously designated mesalliance. It is, of course, easy to understand the religious aspect of the matter to the strict Hebrew. May there not also be something of the feeling which prompts the marriage of cousins — to keep the cat-h m the famih ? "My daughter! Omy ducats ' Omy daughter ! Fled with a Christian ? Omy Christian ducats '" In its report of thp Easter sports at Napier, the Jlawl c's Bat/ Herald says :—": — " The wrestling was the best part of the day's entertainment. After a few hard contested struggles between the Cornishmen had been got through, a tall athletic Maori entered the lists. His Christian name was Hori ; with reference to his surname we are in ignorance. He evidently knew nothing of the science of the game, and j apparently did not trouble himself at all about it Whatever antagonist ventured to encounter him he seized hold of him without the least concern as to how or where his grip was taken, and by sheer strength laid him on his bank, in general almost without a struggle. One man he had seized hold of by the thigh and was on the point, to all appearance, of throwing him over his shoulder, when the stewards interposed to stop him The croud cheered Mr Hori with much enthusiasm, and none joined in the applau s e more heartily than the men from whom he hod won his laurels They went up to him and shook hands with him, and did all they could to express to him the sincere and fervent esteem which they felt for so distinguished a master of their art. They will be able to write home to their friends in England that thera are^ after all, wrestlers in the world for whom tho Cornishmen are no match. Non - Protkction of AonicrtTrKE. — The iniquitous operation of protection upon that industry which has, snys the Melbourne Argux, the first claim upon the consideration of the Government in bvery civilized countn . i« strikingly exemplified with respect to agriculture in the United States. It is tho most important and productive of all the sources of wealth, and furnishes employment to the great number of people. Nevertheless it is utterly unprotected. Not only so, but it is compelled to pay toll to tho manufacturing interests m tho Eastern States ; or, to state the case more accurately, 40 per cent, of the value of the agricultural exports of the Union are confiscated for the benefit of the privileged class. In the fiscal year ending 30t,h June, 1871, import entries into the United States wore of the declared value of 541,493,700 dollars. In part payment of these there were exported breadstuff's and provisions from the Western States of tho aggregate value of 103,000,000 dollars. Now, what do our readers suppose to be tho returns which the producers receive for their commodities, these be ing paid for by other commodities 9 Just 15,400,000 dollars worth of European goods ; the difference being swallowed up in the excessive railway charges which the exporter has to pay under a protective system, in freight out and home, and in the forty per cent, duties which the Customhouse levies upon his imports. Of course, this holds equally good with respoct to cotton and other Southern produce, excepting that the freights are much less in proportion to the value of the commodities transported. But it must be apparent that tho Louisiana planter, who ships cotton to Liverpool, and wishes to receive hardware, furniture, textile fabrics, pottery, or any other merchandise from England in return, must send £140 worth of his staple in exchange for pveryj £100 jworth of British manufactures ; tho difference representing the amount of which ho is robbed by tho Go vernment under the audacious plea of protei tmg " native industry " in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. And yrt we have read in the Nriv York Tribune and other protectionist newspapers, articles sovcrely condemnatory of brigandage in Italy, and sternly reprehending the Government of Victor Emmanuel for not putting it down with n high hand. But against brigandage on n splendid scale, by Act of Congress, they have not a word to say. Hi m vn Weights in the Old Woiu,i>. — It is stated that, upon thp average, boys, at birth, weigh a. little more, and girls a htrle less than six pounds and n half. For the first twelve yean the two sexes continue nearly equal in weight, but bejond that time males acquire a decided preponderance Thus, >omig men of twenty average 113 pounds each, while young women of twenty average 120 pounds. Men reach their heaviest bulk at about thirty-five, when their average is about 152 pounds ; but women Mow ly increase in weight, until fifty, when their average is about 129 pounds. Taking men nnd women together, their weight at full growth averages about twenty times as hpavy os tliev were on the lirst day of their existence. Men range from 108 to 220 pounds (the Tichborne claimant weighs 3GO pounds!), and women from 88 to 207 pounds. The actual weight of human nature, taking the average of all ages and conditions — nobles, clergy, tmkeis, tailors, maidens, boys, gills, and babies, all included — is very nearly 100 pounds. These figures aio given in avoiidupois weight ; but the advocates of the superiority of women might make a nice point by introducing tho rule that women be weighed by Troy weight — liko other jewels — and men by avoirdupois. The figures would then stand — -young men of twenty, 113 pounds ; }oung women of twenty, IGO pounds, and so ou. '

Some -senaation wa3 created in Walwortli-road and its neighbourhood on the 18th JPebruaiy, m consequence of the discovery on the pievious evening of a number of dead bodies of uewly-bom cluldicn in ft disused dead-house attached to tho former buiying-grouud of St. l'ctct'a Church. Walworth-ioad, and opinions weie voiyfieely expressed that a wholesale infantiinde bad he< a iroin<* on. ( ousUhle /obn Creaky, 01 "P, li\es in \\ tfil- | gai -street, Walwoith-ioad ana the y.rt'd attached to his i house abuts on St. Petei's churchyard wall In thus j.i'd I he kept a quantity of fowls, and cfn Monday evening one of ! them was misusing. Jie aftei wards jscei tamed th.\D afo \l ' answering the description of the one lost h\d licui oltei d | to a dealer m Camden-sti. i-t !>•. a boj who \>a^ employed, | about Hip churchyard, and IV |> ineuuaan xvpoa tbi3 returned j to his hon-e .md made hi-> «.iv 01' or the churchyand wall, j thinking to !i,id the missing lo.vl Uioro; but very different I were the objects that met hi» \iew. lie opened the door of I the old dead-hou->o, nnd there, partly covered over with timber and stones, he found sk small eollin-. each contained the body of a child, and an open box containing two others, all iv a high state of decomposition ; so much so that the box of only throe of them could be determined. The whole of them, with one exception, appeared to be newly-born infants, but one was about twelve months old. UM-orrt/AB QtorArioXb. — "We want some coals." — " They,called for the rates ajiun this morning." — " The waterpipes hare burst "— " Jane lias given warning " — "That poor child, Minnie, hasn't a thing to wear." — " The black-beetles arc wiir-i' tlwn cur." — " I've heard fro.ii m.tmmn, and she will be glad to come and stay with v- " — "Cook s.iys we 1 must have a ne»v kitchen grate"." — " Shall you mind turning out of your room on Thursday, dear ? It sadly wants cleaning "—"" — " Henry ' there's someone ringing at the front door bell. I know those, servants huve loft the dining-room window unfastened. Do go down nnd see if it's tho policeman." — " Please M', will you come up into the nursery, and speak to Master Arthur p I can't do anything with him." — " Is it j the drams •>" — "CM ll', the eat has got the cold fowl." — I " I cannot find my keys anywhere."-*-" Sly best dress is completely ruined."-—" Do you think, my love, the children look as if they wanted a change ? "—"" — " The 'swoops are coming in the morning." — •"Have you any silver?" — "Dinner will be three-quarters of an hour late,'dear." — " The girls think wi> ought to give a dance." — " There's no hot water, and tho kitchen flic's out." — '■ Hush, I think I hear the baby." Oms- Bail Railwvys.-— The importance of ar extremely cheap system of railway, capable of providing outlying districts with bitter means of reaching the existing lines, and of facilitating transit m towns has long been recognized by engineer-, and it appears that such a system has now been di>\ ised. Air Larmcrjet has just laid down at the Place dv Uoi ilc Rome, at the Trocadero, Paris, his one-rail railway, and Ltt ILon lie announces that tho official experiments of i'n ur sd'^v wero h'ghlv satisfactory. The invention appears to be identic il with that of Mr Addis, an English engineer, puictisi.ig in India, which was described a few Tears since The !ocj.notue neighs four tons, and has two wheels running bic\ele fash.on on the rail, two other wheels in the usual position, and v\ ith caoutchone tyres running on tho roadway. The engineer can throw the weight on the rail-wheels or road-whoels at pleasure, the latter increasing the bite and facilitating tl o absent of an incline : there ss lin 33 on the trial line. The rail weighs about seven kilos to the metre (lolb to the yard), and does not riso above the roadway. A speed irom 8 to 11 miles an hour is attained, the motion is smooth and pleasant, and no difficulty is experienced in turning very sharp curve?, the two loops at tho ends of the line (wu.ch is about a quarter of a mdc long) for permitting the train, consisting of the engine a.nd three carriages, to change its position ready for the retujjn journey, affording a very severe test. — Minina Journal. , ( - Quackkuy.— As a hit at the numerous quack doctors in the United States, the American Agriculturist gives the following recipu for getting rich :—": — " (ret from the medical dispensatories, or elsewhere, any simple stimulating compound or tonic, or take cheap spirits andjcolourjit, adding any cheap stuff to give it a medicinal taste. Adopt any name you choose, tho more nonseimcal or mysterious the better — one having an Indian, or Japanese, or Turkish sound will be all the better. Look out that the package, cpntenf s included, don't cost over five or eight cents. Assume for yourself a name, as near that of some noted physician as you dare go, and add to the end of it M.D., F.R.S., D.M X>.', &c. Write a long story about your great ae;e, experience', and success abroad. Imeut 50 to 100 or 1,000 wonderful cures wrought by your medicines, giving names in full, with residences, dates, &c , but be careful to not blunder into giving any real name of any person living iv the same place These matters arranged, advertise your medicines largely . Print and scatter circular-*, pamphlets, and pictures by the ton. Result — You w ill reach 3 multitude of weak, nervous, ignorant people, who are slightly ailing, or think they are. The) will take your stimulating or tonic preparations and 'feel better' ri^htawayThe* will belioe the} have escaped or been cured of some terrible disease (the symptoms of which you should take care to set forth vividly in .your circulars). } Hecneforth you Irivc not only a regular customer, but one who will sign jour certificates of cure as strong as you can write them, anil who will talk up the wonderful virtues of your medicines to Ihcrs. A friend, visiting in a minister's' family, where the parents were very strict in regard to the children's Sabbath deportment, i( was confidentially informed by one of tho little girls, "that sho would like to be a minister." " Why ? " inquired the visitor, rather puzzled to understand what had given the child so sudden an admiration for that calling. She was quickly enlightened by the prompt reply, " So I could holler on Sunday." Dr. Euight's Pho&phodyne. — Multitudes of people are hopelessly suffering from Debility, Nervous and Liver Complaints, Depression of Spirits, Delusions, Unlit ness for Business or Study, Failure of Hearing, SigUt, and Memory, Lassitude, Want of Powbr, &c, whose cases admit of permanent cuae by tho new remedy Phospliodjno (Oxonic Oxygen), which at once allays all irritation and excitement, imparts new energy and'-life to the enfeebled constitution, and rapidly cures every stage of these hitherto incurable ahd distressing maladies. Sold by all Chemists nnd Storekeepers througnut tho colonies, from whom pamphlets containing testimonials may be obtained. — Caulion: Be particular to ask for ]>r. Uright's Phosphodync as imitations are abroad; and avoid purchasing single bottle^, the genuine article being sold in cases only. — Adv