CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES.

Dominical LetterG.Solar Cycle.27.Lunar Cycle, or Golden Number14.Roman Indiction7.Epact23.Julian Period6607.

The Jewish Era with their 5655th year commences the 1st of October 1894.

The Mohammedan Era with their 1212th year commences the 5th of July 1894.

MOVEABLE FEASTS.

Septuagesima Sunday, January 21.Low Sunday, April 1.Sexagesima Sunday, January 28. Rogation Sunday, April 29.Quinquagesima Sunday, February 4.Ascension Day, May 3.Shrove Tuesday, February 6.Whit Sunday, May 13.Ash Wednesday, February 7.Trinity Sunday, May 20.Quadragesima Sunday, February 11.Corpus Christi, May 24.Mid-Lent Sunday, March 4.Decoration Day, May 30.Palm Sunday, March 18.First Sunday in Advent, December 2.Maundy Thursday, March 22.Sundays after Trinity are 27.Good Friday, March 23.Christmas on Tuesday.Easter Sunday, March 25.

THE FOUR EMBER DAYS.

On the 14th of Feb. On the 16th of MayOn the 19th of Sept.On the 19th of Dec.

THE FOUR SEASONS OF THE YEAR.

Spring or Vernal Equinox, enters the 20th of March 9 o'clock, 56 min. in morning.Summer or Lunar Solstice, enters the 21st of June 6 o'clock, 1 min. in morning.Autumn or Autumual Equinox, enters the 22nd Sept. 8 o'clock, 25 min. in evening.Winter or Winter Solstice, enters the 21st of Dec. 3 o'clock, 6 min. in evening.

Morning Stars.--Venus, after February 16 until November 30; Mars until October 20; Jupiter, after June 4 until December 22; Saturn, until April 11 after October 21; Mercury, to January 29 from March 14 to May 20, from July 20 to September 3 after November 30.

Evening Stars.--Venus until February 16 after November 30; Mars after October 20; Jupiter until June 4 after December 22; Saturn, after April 11 until October 21; Mercury, from January 29 to March 14; from May 20 to July 20; from September 3 to November 30.

Planets Brightest.--Mercury, February 21, May 21, August 19, November 26; Venus, January 10, March 22; Saturn, April 11; Mars, October 12; Jupiter, December 22.

ECLIPSES FOR THE YEAR 1894.

In the year 1894 there will be four eclipses, two of the Sun and two of the Moon, and a Transit of Mercury over the Sun's Disk.

The first is a partial eclipse of the Moon, March 21, at 8 o'clock 27 minutes in the forenoon, invisible here. The beginning visible in the extreme west portion of North America, the Pacific Ocean and Asia, except the extreme west portion; the end visible in Alaska, the Pacific Ocean and all of Asia. The second, is an Annular Eclipse of the Sun, the 5th of April at 11 o'clock 27 minutes in the evening, invisible here, visible in Asia and west part of Alaska. The third is a partial eclipse of the Moon, September 14 and 15. The beginning visible generally in the western portions of Europe and Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, North and South America, and the eastern portion of the Pacific Ocean; the end visible generally in the extreme west portion of Africa, the Atlantic Ocean North and South America, and the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean.

TIMES OF THE PHASES.

Moon Enters Shadow September 14, 10 o'clock 35 minutes in the evening; Middle of Eclipse September 14, 11 o'clock 31 minutes in the evening; Moon leaves Shadow September 15, 12 o'clock 27 minutes in the morning; Magnitude of the Eclipse=0,231, (moon's diameter=1).

The fourth is a Total Eclipse of the Sun September 29, at 10 o'clock 6 minutes in the morning invisible in America, visible in the Indian Ocean, Africa and Australia. A transit of Mercury over the Sun's Disk November 10th visible here and generally in western portion of Europe, in Africa, North and South America, and the Pacific Ocean.

TIMES OF THE PHASES.

Ingress interior contact November 10, 10 o'clock 57 minutes in the Forenoon; Least Distance of centres 4'26" 8, November 10, 1 o'clock 35 minutes in the afternoon; Egress interior contact November 10, 4 o'clock 10 minutes in the afternoon; Duration 5 hours and 13 minutes.

Moon is called the governing planet this year.

CHARACTERS.--W. R. Ibach, Calculator.

THE 1st MONTHJANUARYHAS 31 DAYS.

Moon's Phases, &c.New moon the 6th, 10 o'clock 4 minutes in the evening; cold.First quarter the 14th, 7 o'clock 6 minutes in the evening; snow.Full moon the 21st, 10 o'clock 8 minutes in the forenoon; windy.Last quarter the 28th, 11 o'clock 45 minutes in the forenoon; cold.

Probable state of the weather.12 3 cold, 4 5 misty, 6 7 cold and windy, 8 9 snow, 10 11 clear 12 13 variable, 14 15 snow, 16 17 milder, 18 19 20 clear, 21 22 23 north wind, 24 25 26 coldest days, 27 28 variable, 29 cold, 30 31 snow.

The men who sneer at Christianity fail to recognize how largely they are indebted to the Gospel for all they have and are.-- Central Baptist.

The Stat: should suppress the demoralizing dime novel and the cigaret, and should forbid the young from frequenting the saloons and from putting themselves in the way of being made vagabonds and ruffians.-- National Baptist.

The wise teacher of youth avoids personalities, and is not given to sarcasm. He studies his pupil's characteristics and treats him accordingly. He never discourages his pupil, nor makes his studies a burden.

THE 2d MONTHFEBRUARYHAS 28 DAYS.

Venus is in Inferior Conjunction with the Sun on the 16th and passes Evening to Morning Star.

Moon's Phases, &c.New moon the 5th, 4 o'clock 41 minutes in the evening; clear.First quarter the 13th, 5 o'clock 39 minutes in the morning; stormyFull moon the 19th, 9 o'clock 13 minutes in the evening; cold.Last quarter 27th, 7 o'clock 25 minutes in the morning; rain.

Probable state of the weather.1 2 3 cold, 4 5 misty, 6 7 8 9 snow, 10 11 clear, 12 13 14 stormy, 15 16 fair, 17 18 19 cold and windy, 20 21 snow, 22 23 24 clear, 25 26 variable, 27 28 rain.

Honey bees never sting one another.

A bad reputation is a hard thing to lose.

An evil thought is the mother of an evil deed.

Going to heaven on a tombstone is risky business.

As soon as we form a habit we have a master.

Every tear shed in sympathy for others makes us better.

Every sin that is not forsaken marries and raises a family.

Remember that you are made out of the same kind of dust as all other people.

THE 3d MONTHMARCHHAS 31 DAYS.

Moon's Phases, &c.New moon the 7th, 9 o'clock 15 minutes in the forenoon; snow.First quarter the 14th, 1 o'clock 24 minutes in the afternoon; snow.Full moon the 21st, 9 o'clock 7 minutes in the forenoon; snow.Last quarter 29th, 3 o'clock 19 minutes in the morning; stormy.

Probable state of the weather.1 2 3 clear, 4 5 cloudy, 6 7 snow, 8 9 clear, 10 11 cold, 12 13 misty, 14 15 snow, 16 17 18 mild, 19 20 fair, 21 22 rain and snow, 23 24 clear, 25 26 mild, 27 28 29, windy, 30 31 rain.

Wants.

Wanted-An energetic barber to shave the face of the earth.

Wanted-A lady to wear the Cape of Good Hope.

Wanted-Locks for the Flordia Keys

Wanted-A wise man to teach the Seilly Islands.

Wanted-Some one to love the River Darling.

The religion of a good many people is like the fire in flint; it needs to be struck out of them.-- The Interior.

Our heaviest burdens are those we borrow.

THE 4th MONTHAPRILHAS 30 DAYS.

Saturn is in opposition with the Sun on the 11th and shines all night.

Moon's Phases, &c.New moon the 5th, 10 o'clock 56 minutes in the evening; frosty.First quarter the 12th, 7 o'clock 29 minutes in the evening; rain.Full moon the 19th, 9 o'clock 58 minutes in the evening; clear.Last quarter the 27th, 10 o'clock 17 minutes in the evening; clear.

Probable state of the weather.1 2 3 pleasant, 4 5 frosty, 6 7 8 misty, 9 10 warm, 11 12 13 rain, 14 15 16 clear, 17 18 19 clear and warm, 20 21 thunder showers, 22 23 fair, 24 25 cloudy, 26 27 28 29 fair, 30 variable.

How easy it is to admire people who agree with us.

It is a great deal easier to be contented without riches than it is with them.

The greatest blockhead is the one whose mistakes never teach him anything.

Any fool can ask questions, but it takes somebody who knows something to answer them.

It won't do a bit of good to whitewash the well curb so long as there is poison in the water.

The man who is not trying to make the world better is willing that it should become worse.

THE 5th MONTHMAYHAS 31 DAYS.

Moon's Phases, &c.New moon the 5th, 9 0'clock 38 minutes in the forenoon; showers.First quarter the 12th, 1 o'clock 17 minutes in the noon; rain.Full moon the 19th, 11 o'clock 39 minutes in the forenoon; showers.Last quarter 27th, 3 o'clock 1 minute in the morning; rain.

Probable state of the weather.1 2 clear, 3 4 5 rain, 6 7 8 warm, 9 thunder showers, 10 11 fair, 12 13 showers, 14 15 16 warm, 17 18 19 rain, 20 21 clear, 23 warm, 25 26 cloudy, 27 28 29 rain 30 31 pleasant.

Some Queer Wants.

Wanted--A skillful dentist to fill the teeth of a gale.

Wanted--A cook to prepare dinner on a mountain range.

Wanted--A stand up collar for the neck of the woods.

Wanted--A hat to fit the head of the Missouri River.

Wanted--A set of artificial teeth for the mount of the Mississippi.

Wanted--A crown for the brow of a hill.

Wanted--A sung fitting shoe for the foot of a mountain.

Wanted--Several hundred women to score the country.

THE 6th MONTHJUNEHAS 30 DAYS

Moon's Phases, &c.New moon the 3rd, 5 o'clock 5 minutes in the evening; fair.First quarter the 10th, 8 o'clock 10 minutes in the morning; variable.Full moon the 18th, 2 o'clock 3 minutes in the morning; cool.Last quarter the 26th, 4 o'clock 59 minutes in the morning; rain.

Probable state of the weather.1 2 3 fair, 4 5 thunder showers, 6 7 8 fair. 9 10 misty, 11 12 variable, 13 14 15 16 fair, 17 18 cool showers, 19 20 clear and cool, 21 22 23 fair, 24 25 cloudy 26 27 28 rain, 29 30 fair and warm.

The Orchard. What cheer is there that is half so good,In the snowy waste of a winter night.As a dancing fire of hickory wood,And an easy chair in its mellow light,And a Princely apple, ruddy and sleek,Or a Jenneting with its freckled cheek?That this eager world moves along so steadily, that it has so few catastrophies, that so large a part of its people are born correctly and live at peace and die in loving homes, is no small proof that religion is wielding an undiminished, rather a steadily increasing influence-- The Advance.

THE 7th MONTHJULY HAS 31 DAYS.

Moon's Phases, &c.New moon the 3rd, 12 o'clock 42 minutes in the morning; fair.First quarter the 9th, 5 o'clock 11 minutes in the evening; clear.Full moon the 17th, 4 o'clock 59 minutes in the evening fair.Last quarter the 25th, 4 o'clock 3 minutes in the evening, fair.

Probable state of the weather.1 2 fair, 3 4 5 thunder showers, 6 7 8 mild, 9 10 11 clear and warm, 12 13 cloudy, 14 15 16 rain, 17 18 19 fair, 20 21 cloudy, 22 23 rain, 24 25, clear, 26 warm, 27 28 29 warmest days, 30 31 fair-followed by showers.

Chaplain Mecabe tells a story of a drinking man who being in a saloon late at night, heard the wife of the saloon keeper say to her husband: "Send that fellow home. It is late." "No, never mind," replied her husband, "he is shingling our house for us." This idea lodged in the mind of the drunkard, and he did not return to the saloon for six months. When passing the saloon keeper in the street, the latter said: "Why don't you come around to my place any more!" "Thank you for your kind hospitality," replied the former victim, "I have been shingling my own roof lately,"

THE 8TH MONTHAUGUSTHAS 31 DAYS.

Moon's Phases, &c.New moon the 1st, 7 o'clock 20 minutes in the morning; rain.First quarter the 8th, 6 o'clock 2 minutes in the morning; rain.Full moon the 16th, 8 o'clock 13 minutes in the forenoon; variable.Last quarter the 24th, 12 o'clock 36 minutes in the morning; fair.New moon the 30th, 3 o'clock 1 minute in the afternoon; fair.

Probable state of the weather.1 2 windy and rain, 3 4 5 clear, 6 7 fair, 8 9 rain, 10 11 12 clear and warm 13 14 cloudy, 15 16 17 variable, 18 19 rain, 20 21 cloudy, 22 23 24 25 fair, 26 27 variable, 28 29 rain, 30 31 fair.

How Far a Child Travels.

Many a healthy man if he has to walk a mile or two complains of the exertion and fatigue. But few of us realize the distance covered by a healthy child, and how we grumble when we find that the little ones so soon need new shoes! A gentleman of Pittsburg recently made some curious experiments as to the distance covered by a child. An instrument fixed to the ankle of an 18-months-old baby showed that in the course of a day it had taken 6,483 steps, which, allowing six inches to a step, makes something like three quarters of a mile for toddler's ramblings.He next put a pedometer on his 9-year-old boy, which revealed the fact that the urchin daily traveled an average of about ten miles.

THE 9TH MONTHSEPTEMBERHAS 30 DAYS.

Moon's Phases, &c.First quarter the 6th, 7 o'clock 59 minutes in the evening; rain.Full moon the 14th, 11 o'clock 18 minutes in the evening; fair.Last quarter the 22nd, 7 o'clock 28 minutes in the morning; variable.New moon 29th, 12 o'clock 40 minutes in the morning; fair.

Probable state of the weather.1 2 variable, 3 4 clear, 5 6 7 rain, 8 9 cool, 10 11 cloudy, 12 13 variable, 14 15 16 fair, 17 18 thunder showers, 19 20 clear, 21 22 variable, 23 24 25 stormy, 26 27 rain, 28 29 fair and cool, 30 pleasant.

Newspapers of the World.The number of newspapers published in the world at present is about 37,000, distributed as follows: United States, 13,000; Germany, 5,500; France, 4092; Great Britan, 4000; Japan, 2000, Italy, 1400; Austria Hungary, 1200; Asia, exclusive of Japan, 1000; Spain, 850; Russia, 800; Australia, 700; Greece, 600; Switzerland, 450; Holland, 300; Belgium, 300; all others, 1000.

Which travels faster, heat or cold? Heat; because one can catch a cold.

THE 10TH MONTHOCTOBERHAS 31 DAYS

Moon's Phases, &c.First quarter the 6th, 1 o' clock 57 minutes in the afternoon; variable.Full moon the 14th, 1 o' clock 37 minutes in the afternoon; fair.Last quarter the 21st, 1 o' clock 52 minutes in the afternoon, clear.New moon the 28th, 12 o' clock 53 minutes in the morning; frosty.

Probable state of the weather.1 2 clear, 3 4 cloudy, 5 6 7 variable, 8 9 10 rain, 11 12 cloudy, 13 14 15 fair, 16 17 cloudy, 18 19 rain, 20 21 22 23 showers and cool, 24 25 variable, 26 27 rain, 28 29 30 frosty, 31 cold.

The Church must not rely up on mere expedients, nor be run without a definite aim, nor be operated without due preparation. She must wage her campaigns in Christ's name, and on distinctly Bible principles. She must honor God's Word, and ordinances, and ministry. She must get her membership into working, aggressive order, and must move steadily forward in reliance upon divine strength. She must utilize more largely and persistently her spiritual forces. She must depend more upon God and less upon man. She must ignore worldly principles and conduct her work as did our Lord and his Apostles.-- The Presbyterian.

THE 11th MONTHNOVEMBER HAS 30 DAYS.

Moon's Phases, &c.First Quarter the 5th, 10 o'clock 12 minutes in the forenoon; cold and windyFull moon the 13th, 2 o'clock 46 minutes in the morning; snow.Last Quarter the 19th, 9 o'clock 5 minutes in the evening; fair.New moon the 27th, 3 o'clock 51 minutes in the morning; rain.

Probable state of the weather.1 2 clear, 4 5 6 high winds, 7 8 variable, 9 10 cloudy, 11 12 13 snow flurries, 14 15 16 cold, 17 mist, 18 19 20 fair and cold, 21 22 rain, 23 24 fair, 25 26 variable, 27 28 rain, 29 30 mild.

One of the professors of the University of Texas was engaged in explaining the Darwinian theory to his class, when he observed that they were not paying proper attention. "Gentlemen," said the professor, "when I am endeavoring to explain to you the peculiarities of the monkey I wish you would look at me."-- Siftings.

One of those school examiners who like to ask "catch" questions put t'is not long ago: "What views would King Alfred take of Universal suffrage, of the conscription, and of printed books, if he were living now?" The ingenious pupil wrote in reply, "If King Alfred were still alive he would be too old to take any interest in anything."-- Exchange.

THE 12th MONTHDECEMBERHAS 31 DAYS.

Jupiter is in opposition with the sun on the 22nd, and shines all night.

Moon's Phases, & c.First Quarter the 5th, 7 o'clock 12 minutes in the morning; stormy.Full moon the 12th, 2 o'clock 42 minutes in the afternoon; mild.last quarter the 19th, 6 o'clock 12 minutes in the morning; stormy.New moon the 26th, 9 o'clock 16 minutes in the evening; snow.

Probable state of the weather.1 2 3 rain, 4 5 stormy, 6 7 8 fair, 9 10 11 cold, 12 13 14 mild, 15 16 17 north wind, 18 19 20 stormy, 21 22 cold, 23 24 misty, 25 26 27 snow, 28 29 clear, 30 31 fair.

The boy had been sitting there hours watching the bob on his fishline when the man came along. "What are you doing there?" said the man. "Fishing'," said the boy. "Got anything?" said the man. "Yep." "What?" said the man. "Patience," said the boy; and the man offered him $4 a week to come down to the rail-road ticket office and answer questions.-- Detroit Free Press.

Education ends only with life.

ALMANAC TALK

Divisions of Time.The ordinary or Solar day is measured by the rotation of the earth upon its axis, and is of different lengths, owing to the ellipticity of the earth's orbit and other causes; but a mean solar day, recorded by the timepiece, is twenty-four hours long.

An Astronomical Day commences at noon, and is counted from the first to the twenty fourth hour. A Civil Day commences at midnight, and is counted from the first to the twelfth hour, when it is counted again from the first to the twelfth hour. A Nautical Day is counted as a civil day, but commences, like an astronomical day, from noon.

A Calendar Month varies in length from 28 to 31 days.

A mean Lunar Month is 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, 2.87 seconds.

A Year is divided into 365 day.

A Solar Year, which is the time occupied by the sun in passing from one vernal equinox to another, consists of nearly 365 1/4 solar days, or 365 days 5 hours, 48 minutes and 49.7 seconds.

A Julian Year is 365 days. A Gregorian Year is 365 1/4 days. Every fourth year is Bissextile, or Leap Year, and is 366 days. The ERROR OF the Gregorian computation amounts only to one day in 3846 years.

Signs of the Zodiac.ARIES--The Ram, Head And Face; TAURUS--The Bull Neck;GEMINI--The Twins, Arms;CANCER--The Crab, Breast;LEO--The Lion, Heart;VIRGO--The Virgin, Bowels; LIBRA--The Balance, Reins;SCORPIO--The Scorpion, Secrets;SAGITTARUS--The Bowman, Thighs; CAPRICORNUS--The Goat,Knees;AQUARIUS--The Waterman Legs; PISCES--The Fishes, Feet.

The Moon's CapersWise people who claim to be acquainted with the man in the moon, tell us that we never see but oneside of that great reflector of sunlight. Is this because the man in the moon is so extremely polite that he will never be caught turning his back to the earth, which he constantly attends, or is he so suspicious as to watch us continually for fear that the mischievous boys of earth will some day build a tower that will reach up there and thus get an opportunity to climb on his back? Those who know most about this matter say that the moon revolves on its own axis, just as fast as it revolves around the earth, and so it happens that the same side is always turned towards us.

Many people have great confidence in the moon and therefore watch it as closely as the man in the moon watches us. They say that its points and positions have much to do with heat and cold, as well as with dry and wet weather. The moon seems to be a kind of spendthrift. It is not long after its first quarter that it gets full, and then it is not long until its last quarter is gone.

These are the signs of the moon used in the almanac:

New Moon, First Quarter, Full Moon, Last Quarter, Up, Down.

Forecasting the Weather.How many new bonnets and best dresses might be saved if only the fair owners could forecast the weather for a few hours! Although the following rules may not be definite enough for this use, yet they are of interest. They were sent to the Farmers' Club of the American Institute by a gentleman in New Jersey, and by their use, he says, any one in any part of the northern hemisphere, north of latitude fifteen degrees, can form a quite accurate opinion of how the wind and weather progressing for a hundred miles around him.

1. When the temperature falls suddenly, there is a storm forming south of you.

2. When the temperature rises suddenly, there is a storm forming north of you.

3. The wind always blows from a region of fair weather towards a region where a storm is forming

4. Cirrus clouds those which are thin 001717and long-drawn, sometimes looking carded wool or hair, sometimes like a brush or broom, and sometimes in curl-like or fleece-like patches-always move from a region where a storm is in progress toward a region of fair weather.

5. Cumulus clouds-which present the appearance of gigantic mountain crowned with snow-always move from a region of fair weather toward a region where a storm is forming.

6. When cirrus clouds are moving rapidly from the north or north-west, there will be rain in less than twenty four hours, no matter how cold it may be.

7. When cirrus clouds are moving rapidly from the south or south-west will be a cold rain storm on the morrow if it be summer, and if it be inter there will be a snow storm

8. The wind blows in a circle around a storm, and when it blows from the north the heaviest rain is east of you; from the south, the heaviest rain is west; From the east the heaviest rain is the south; from the west, the heaviest rain is north of you.

9. The wind never blows unless rain or snow is falling within one thousand miles of you.

10. Whenever a heavy white frost occurs, a storm is forming within onethousand miles north or northwest of you. Sel.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE

Important Events of the Year.--The division of parties on independent lines in considering silver legislation.

--Assembling of Congress in Extraordinary Session to Repeal the Sterman Silver Law.

--The Rev. Alex. Crummel, D.D., completed his fiftieth year in Holy Orders as a Gospel minister.

--The holding of the World's Fair at Chicago in commemoration of the Discovery of America by Columbus four hundred years ago

--Assembling of the Temperance Congress representing all the temperance organizations of the world, in the art building at Chicago.

--Meeting of the Parliament of Religions at Chicago, representing all the various religious faiths for comparison of views and declaration of religious creeds.

--Grand gathering and public parade of the Grand Masters Council and Eminent Representatives of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, at Philadelphia.

--Meeting of Board of Bishops and General Officers of the A.M.E Zion Church, at Washington Chapel, Chicago, and an immense reception in their honor, together with many able speeches of welcome and replies.

--The G U.O. of Odd Fellows celebrated the 50th anniversary of the organization of the first colored lodge, (Philomathean,) in the United States.

--First meeting of National Convention of the Colored Baptists of the United States, at Washington, D.C., where much ability, culture and character were include.

--As a member of the Harvard College football team, Lewis is honoring the race as much as many professional men in other fields. He is the great center rush of that team.

--Positive refusal of President Cleveland to summarily remove from office colored men holding prominent official positions, for the simple and sole reason that they were colored.

--Meeting of the Missionary Congress of the A.M.E. Church in Art Building at Chicago, at which many representative men of that and other colored church organizations were present.

--Observance of Colored People's Day at Chicago, at which a vast crowd assembled, and Hon. Frederick Douglass made the great speech which caused a leading Chicago paper to declare that as an orator only W.E. Gladstone, the great English Premier, stands today his peer considering their ages.

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--The nomination of two colored men for legislation honors in Cleveland, Ohio, by Republican conventions, one of whom being the talented editor H. C. Smith of the Cleveland Gazette.

--Annual meeting of the Afro-American Press Association, which was well attended, and many creditable papers, able speeches, and thoughtful resolutions were the result of the gathering.

--Miss Ida B. Wells visited England and Scotland, at the instance of the Emancipation League, and with telling effect for six weeks exposed the evil influence and diabolism of lynch law.

--Hon. George W. Murray, the only colored member of Congress, made his great speech in opposition to the repeal of the Federal election laws, during which he was warmly applauded, Oct. 5th.

--Mt. Zion Church, one of the strongest colored churches in Charleston, S. C., was blown down during a terrible storm and a loss of $15,000 sustained. A new $3,000 organ was among the losses.

--The Colored Knight Templars celebrated the 25th anniversary of their Grand Commandery at Washington, D. C., Oct., 10th. Mecca Temple Nubles of the Mystic Shrine, made their appearance.

--Another terrible storm whose ravages and force were chiefly felt on the gulf coast, was fearfully destructive. Over 2,000 lives were lost and many vessels wrecked.-- Nearly all those lost were whites.

--Livingstone College, Salisbury, N. C., held its decennial celebration, at which was reviewed the work of the college and its great progress under the leadership of the peerless race orator Dr. J. C. Price.

--Many new publications by the race were issued in 1893, chief among which may be mentioned "Voice from the South" by Mrs. A. J. Cooper; "Iola, or Shadows Uplifted" by Mrs. F. E. W. Harper; "Our Women" by Dr. L. A. Scruggs; "Life of Frederick Douglass" by Prof. J. M. Gregory; "The Cushite," by Dr. Rufus L. Perry; "A Colored Man's Reply to Bishop Foster" by Rev. I. L. Thomas, and the "Quarterly" Almanac.

--Meeting of the National Association of the Educators of Colored Youth, at Chicago, in the Art Building, at which the leading educators of the race were present and contributed to its success by learned papers on many live topics.

--Evans Chapel, the oldest colored Methodist church organization in the United States, was burned, having been founded by father Evans, the first Methodist preacher ever seen in North Carolina. His remains are deposited under it at Fayetteville, N. C.

--John Brown's Bible, used by him while he was in jail at Harper's Ferry, and having many passages bearing on the abolition of slavery marked by his own hand, has been sold to F. G. Logan, of Chicago, a collector of mementos of the famous agitator.

--A handsome eight foot statue to Wm. Lloyd Garrison, the great anti slavery leader, was erected at Newburyport, Mass. It stands on a ten foot pedestal. The occasion of the unveiling was made a holiday by the colored people of Massachusetts.

--The death of Dr. J. C. Price, President of Livingstone College, the most popular orator and ablest advocate of which the race could boast. He was a genuine race leader and possessed those qualities of head and heart that endeared him to all who knew him, of both races.

--An attempt to lynch a colored man at Roanoke, Va., by a mob, in spite of the presence of troops to protect him, resulted in the killing of eight of the mob and the severe wounding of many more--the severest blow yet administered to mob violence.

--A great National Convention of colored men, in accordance with a call by Bishop H. M. Turner, D. D., met at Cincinnati for the purpose of devising means to more speedily put an end to lawlessness and mob violence, and to suggest remedies for the same.

--Dr. Dvorack the great Bohemian Musician declares Negro Melodies the only original American music, whereupon Mrs. Jeanette M. Thurber volunteers to support several colored students at the Conservatory of Music, in order to develop race talent in that art.

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--A fearful storm on the coast, as well as at sea, which sank or disabled scores of vessels, destroyed over a thousand lives, mostly in the Beaufort section of South Carolina. The crops were almost totally destroyed. Chief among the lost were about eight hundred colored people.

--The appointment of H.C.C. Astwood as Consul to Calais, France, and C.H.J. Taylor as Minister to Bolivia, South America, by President Cleveland, marked the beginning of a new regime whereby colored men will represent this government at Foreign white Courts instead of colored solely.

--Mrs. Fanny Barrier Williams read a paper before the Parliament of Religions September 23 on "What can Religion further do for the Afro-American." The Chicago Herald states that the paper was as interesting as any ever presented before a similar body on the Afro American.

--A statue of Abraham Lincoln, erected in Edinburgh, Scotland, as a memorial to the Scottish American soldiers of our civil, war, was unveiled in that city Aug.21, in the presence of the municipal authorities, many distinguished guests, a number of Americans, and a large crowd of residents of Edinburgh.

--Hon. John M Langston boldly declared before an immense audience at Chicago, in favor of qualified suffrage, or the ability of a citizen desiring to vote, to read and write. This was the boldest, most daring, and unexpected deliverance from a man of the race this year. the objections are innumerable.

--The repeal of the Sherman silver act was passed after the most bitterand virulent debate that has been witnessed in the Senate since the abolition of slavery. President Cleveland and Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle favored repeal, and most of the Republicans were with them, while a majority of the Democratic Senators were opposed to repeal and in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver. The vote was 43 to 31 in favor of repeal, and all the country rejoiced over the settlement of the question.

--The courage of Basil Lockwood in rescuing so many government clerks by means of a ladder he supported from the top of a telegraph pole during the catastrophe at Ford's theatre, when so many were instantly killed by its collapse, makes him the greatest hero of the year, if not of the decade.

--Bishop B.W. Arnett, D.D, presided one day during the Congress of Religions, at the World's Fair, and acquitted himself grandly. Dr. Derrick made a glowing speech, while Bishops D.A.Payne, D.D., J.W.Hood, D.D.A. Walters, D.D., and H. M. Turner, D.D., were accorded seats on the platform.

--More men were lynched in 1893 than ever before in a single year, and many of them entirely innocent of crime. Mob violence has reigned supreme. Three men were incinerated after being otherwise tortured. Three were lynched because they did not tell where an accused relative was. The blood of the innocent cries out to Heaven.

--One of the most noteworthy events of the year was the passage of a special act by the Massachusetts legislature, both parties supporting it, denying barbershops the right to discriminate against patrons on account of race. The act grew out of the refusal of a shop to accommodate a Harvard College colored student--Lewis. The whole college supported Lewis and urged the legislature to such action.

Elections 1893.Thirteen states held elections on the 7th of November and were carried as follows:Ohio,Republican Majority,90,000Pennsylvania,Republican Majority,138,000Iowa,Republican Majority,40,000Massachusetts,Republican Majority,35,000Kentucky,Democratic Majority 30,000Virginia,Democratic Majority,50,000New York, Republican Majority,90,000Nebraska,Populist, Majority, 7,000South Dakota,Republican Majority3,000New Jersey,Republican Legislature13Kansas, County,Pop. 21,Rep.80Missouri,Democratic MajorityColorado, Woman Suffrage carried.

Of important cities holding elections, Indianapolis, and Chicago went Republican and St. Louis Democratic.

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Historical Facts Concerning the Race.--Bishop Theodore Holley, of the West Indies, was one of the first colored men to preach at Westminister Abbey. The fact was heralded throughout the world.

--The largest diamond ever found, the Excelsior, was produced in Africa, and is valued at $1,250,000. The finest diamonds in the world are to be found in African soil.

--In 1777 there was but one colored American Baptist preacher in the United States; now there are 8,682 ordained preachers, 11,987 churches, with a membership of 1,398,298.

--Benjamin Banneker published the first Almanac, which was highly commended by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, both of whom wrote interesting letters acknowledging its receipt.

--The earliest historical mention of a colored Baptist preacher is George Lisle, of Virginia. He preached in Georgia in 1777. In 1783 he went to Jamaica; there in 1793, he built a Dissenters' Chapel.

--Hon. Frederick Douglass made his first anti slavery speech in 1841, at Nantucket. He was then a fugitive slave. He afterward visited England, where his fervid oratory induced friends to purchase his freedom.

St. Cyprean, in whose honor a colored catholic church was recently named in Washington, was an African and the Arch-Bishop of Carthage. He was one of the earliest fathers of that church and lived from A.D. 409 to 458, a period of 49 years.

--As great as was John Brown, it must be admitted that N T. Turner did the earlier work in striking the blow of liberty for his race. The method of each were not entirely dissimilar. Turner was illiterate, but Brown educated and as desperately in earnest.

--Geo T. Downing, of Rhode Island, was the trusted and confidential friend of the great and able statesman, Charles Summer, and was with him when he died. He heard his last words to Senator Hoar, in referring to the Civil Rights bill, when he said, "Do not let the bill fail."

--The colored denominations of the United States are as follows: Methodists, several connections, 1,286,000; Presbyterians, 31,500; Catholics, 12,000; Disciples, 31,000; Congregational, 6,125; Episcopalians, 4,000; Baptists, one connection, 1,230,000. This does not include the colored Christians yet connected with and in white organizations.

--There are now enrolled in the colored schools of the country 1,309,251 pupils, and with many colored youths in mixed schools it is believed that the total of colored children now receiving an education in the common schools will reach 1,500,000--When we remember that it is only thirty years since it was unlawful in several states to teach a colored man or child to read and write, and that since that date 2,000,000 colored people have educated themselves, it is a remarkable showing.

--We have 354 students in the Medical schools of this country, 470 in the Theological, 72 in the Law, 500 in the College Department, 5,678 in the Preparatory, 3,945 in the Normal, 1,777 in the Academical and 2,104 in the Industrial schools,--making a total of 14,890 in all these departments of learning. Dividing them among the twenty states that they largely populate, we will soon have an army of young men and women numbering more than 700 to each of these states, prepared for the responsible duties of life in various professions, and to help in the great work of uplifting a race that has so frequently been accused of incapacity of higher mental and moral development.

Statistics of Missions.A painstaking statistician says that the number of communicants in missionary fields at the close of 1891 was 1,168,500, or about 4,000,000 adherents, exclusive of missions among Jews and corrupt Christian churches. The number of foreign agents is given at 7,539, of whom 5,994 are men, and 2,445 unmarried women; or if wives would be included the sum would be 10,539. Of native laborers there are 40,438, of whom 3.730 are ordained. The money contributions amount to $13,046,000. The number of societies is 304.

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Valuable Historical Events.--Envelopes first used for letters, 1839

--Almanacs first printed by Purback in 1457.

--Cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney 1793.

--Anti-Slavery Society (American)organized at Philadelphia, December 6, 1833.

--America discovered by Columbus, October 12th, 1492.

--John Brown executed at Charlestown, Va., December 2nd, 1859

--Cotton first raised in the United States in 16 1, in Virginia.

--Fort Donaldson, Tenn., surrendered to Grant February 16,1862

--Dred Scott decision of U.S. Supreme Court published March 1, 1857.

--American flag first used January 1, 1776, by Washington.

--First National Convention Free Soil party, Buffalo, N.Y., August 9, 1848.

--Gold discovered in California, 1848

--Insurrection of John Brown, Harper's Ferry October 16, 1859.

--First permanent English settlement in U.S., Jamestown, Va, 1607.

--Kerosene first used for illuminating purposes in 1826.

--Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House, Va, April 12, 1865.

--Liberty Party National Convention, Buffalo, N.Y., August 30, 1843

--First American Library, Harvard College, Cambridge, 1638.

--Military Academy, West Point founded by Congress, March 16, 1802.

--Missouri Compromise, restricting slavery to south of 36° 30', passed March 3, 1820; repealed May 24, 1854.

--Musical notes first used 1338, printed 1502.

--Edict of Nantes tolerating Protestants, April 13, 1598; revocation October 22, 1685.

--New Orleans captured by Admiral Farragut April 26, 1862.

--The phonograph was invented by Thomas A. Edison in 1877.

--Nullification Ordinance passed by South Carolina November 19, 1832. President Jackson denounces them December 10, 1832.

--First authentic use of organs 755, in England 951.

--Steel pens first made in 1803; gold pens first used about 1825.

--Philadelphia was founded by William Penn in 1682.

--Patent right law first enacted in United States April 15, 1790.

--Photographs first produced in England in 1802, perfected 1841.

--The Pilgrims fathers first landed at Plymouth Rock, Mass, December 21 1620.

--Postage stamps first used in England in 1840; in United States 1847.

--Pyramids first erected 2170 B.C.

--Passenger railroad first opened in the United States, the Baltimore and Ohio, 1828. First freight railroad, granite quarries Quincy, Mass, 1826

--First Convention of Republican party at Pittsburgh, Pa., February 22, 1856.

--Resumption of Specie Payments Act in U.S. approved January 14, 1875, took effect January 1, 1879.

--Richmond, Va., evacuated by Confederates April 3, 1865.

--Serf emancipation in Russia in 1861.

--Massacre of St. Bartholomew, August 24, 1572.

--First ocean steamer crossed the Atlantic from Savannah to Liverpool in May, 1819. Time occupied, 25 days.

--Sewing machine first patented in England in 1755, in America by E. Howe 1846.

--Sleeping cars first used in 1858; Pullmans in 1864.

--Statutes of the United States first revised and codified in 1873.

--Fort Sumpter Captured by Confederates April 14, 1861.

--First Bible printed by Faust and Schaeffer in 1456.

--Sunday schools first established by Robert Raikes at gloucester, England in 1781.

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--First Speaking Telephone presented at Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, 1876. Practically successful as a telegraph, May 14,1877.

--First book in English, printed at Cologne, entitled History of Troy, was published by William Caxton in 1471.

--First press in the United States was at Cambridge, Mass., Stephen Daye-1639.

--Insurrection against slavery in Virginia by Nat. Turner in August, 1831.

--Vicksburg surrendered to the Union army July 4, 1864.

--Washington inaugurated first President of the United States April 30, 1789.

--Battle of Waterloo, June 18, 1815.

--The Wilmot Proviso restricting slavery in the United states was introduced in the House of Representatives, at Washington, August 8, 1846, by David Wilmot of Pennsylvania.

Deaths of Prominent Persons During 1893.--Ex Secretary of State James G. Blaine, eminent party leader and statesman.

--General Benjamin F. Butler, leading lawyer, statesman and UnionGeneral.

--Bishop Phillips Brooks, great preacher, humanitarian and thinker.

--Justice L.Q.C. Laamr, Justice of the Supreme Court of the nation.

--Bishop John M. Brown, able and scholarly leader in the A. M. E.Church.

--Ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes, elected over Samuel J. Tilden President of the United States in 1876.

--General S.C. Armstrong, Union General and founder as well as promoter of Hampton Normal and Industrial School.

--Elliott F. Shepard, editor N.Y.. Mail and Express, lover of justice and fair play and great friend of the colored race.

--Mrs. Bishop J.P. Thampson, once President of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the A. M. E. Zion Church.

--Ex-Bishop W.H. Hillery, deposed Bishop of the A. M. E. Zion Church in 1884 after eight years' active service.

--Hon. W.D. McKoy, Minister and Consul General to Liberia.

--Edwin Booth, the greatest of American actors.

--Rev. J.F. Thomas, Presiding Elder in A. M. E. Church, Accidentally killed by moving train.

--Col. Geo. M. Arnold, soldier and race leader, killed in the excitement of the Ford Building disaster at Washington, while attempting to jump from a window.

--Prof. J.L. Battle, educator, government officer and bright leader.

--Senator J.L. Gilson, United States Senator from Louisiana.

--Senator Kenna, United States Senator from West Virginia.

--Lucy Stone Blackwell, distinguished abolitionist and Woman's Rights advocate, and loyal friend of the Afro-American.

--Dr. Thomas W. Springer, founder of Pythians in America.

--Justice Blatchford, Judge of the United States Supreme Court.

--Rev. L R Ferebee, Evangelist and pastor in the A. M. E. Zion Church.

--Mrs. Nathon Toomer, nee Eubanks, the wealthiest colored woman in the country.

--Dr. Spaulding, a leading colored physician, at Augusta, Ga.

--William W. Arrington, one of the most prominent farmers and leaders in the Baptist church in North Carolina--a man of large wealth.

--Mrs. Roscoe Conkling, widow of the great New York Senator.

--General MacMahon, the most noted of French Soldiers.

--Mrs. Marie Quintard, earnest friend of colored churches.

--Senator Leland Stanford, chief promoter of the Pacific Railroad, United States Senator and greatest American philanthropist. Gave $5,000 to Livingstone College, and $20,000,000 to Stanford University.

--Wiley V. White, father of Hon. Geo. H. White, the only colored District Solicitor in the country.

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--Mrs. Bishop J.J. Clinton, widow of the pioneer of Zion Methodism in the South.

--Mrs. Dr. L.A. Scruggs, wife of the author of "Eminent Colored Women."

--Mrs. McKinley, the mother of Governor Wm. McKinley of Ohio.

--Mrs. Wm. C. Whitney, wife of the Ex Secretary of the Navy.

--Prof. Charles L Reason, a distinguished educator and man of letters.

--Dr. J.C. Price, President of Livingstone College, eminent orator andmost eloquent advocate of the race.

--Rev. Haddaway, Chaplain of the National House of Representatives.

--Mayor Carter Harrison, of Chicago, assassinated by Pendergrast just at the close of the World's Fair, because the Mayor would not give him an office.

--Sinking of English Man-of-War Victoria, with commander and all on board, numbering about 500 men.

--Rev. N.J. Green, D D., Presiding Elder of the New England Conference of the A.M.E. Zion Church, and an able man and leader.

--Rev. J.W. Mills, Presiding Elder of the Georgia Conference, A. M. E. Zion Church.

--Rev. Dr. Greffith, Field Agent of the Baptist Church and a man of great executive ability.

A Very Old Family.

Bannister used to tell a story of his having been introduced, with Mrs. Bannister, to an elderly lady of exceedingly "high notions." After the presentation had taken place, the lady asked a wit of the day who was present:

"Who are the Bannisters? Are they of good family?"

"Yes," said the wit, "they are closely allied to the Stairs."

"Oh," said Lady Lucretia, "a very ancient family from Ayrshire, dates back to 1640. I am delightful to see your friends."-- London Tit-Bits.

Valuable Historical and other Facts.--Cotton was first exported in 1785.

--Baltimore, Md., in 1816, introduced gas.

--In 1890, 872,944 persons died in this country.

--The magic lantern was the invention of Roger Bacon in 1260.

--One half the population of Mexico are full blooded Indians.

--Spaniards never use tobacco pipes, and it is impossible to procure one in a native tobacco shop.

--The emerald was one of the favorite and probably the best known of precious stones possessed by the ancients.

--Since William the Conquerer there have been thirty-four sovereigns of England, of whom sixteen are buried in Westminister.

--The oldest horticultural association in Europe is the Royal Society of Agriculture and Botany of Ghent, established in the year 1808.

--The Lord Mayor is the only person--except the Queen and the Constable--who knows the password to the Tower of London. This password is sent to the Mansion House quarterly. It is a survival of an old custom.

--The Christian Endeavor movement, which began in 1881 with two societies and sixty-eight members, had on the first of the present year 23,565 societies and 1,413,900 members.

--In 1794 the first turnpike road was made, sixty two miles long, between Lancaster, Penn., and Philadelphia, so called because it was required to be so hard that a pike could not be driven through it.

--The name Veragua appears for the first time in history in Columbus's letter from Jamaica, July 7,1503, to Ferdinand and Isabella. Columbus took the name from the natives, who applied it to the country east of Admiral's Bay; but in the early part of the sixteenth Century the name of Veragua was given to the whole coast of Central America.

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--At the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church held at Washington D.C., President D.J. Saunders, D.D., of Biddle University, Charlotte, N.C., Rev. J.A. Savage and other leading colored Presbyterians were present and took leading parts in the debates.

--In some selection from various hither to unpublished letters of John Ruskin, quoted by "Poet-Lore," we find this characteristic sentence, "There is no way in which that verse--"The Fool hath said in his heart, No God'--was ever so completely fulfilled as in the modern idea that political economy depends on iniquity instead of equity."

--The oldest church existing in the University States is situated near Smithville, Va. It was built in the reign of Charles I., between the years 1630 and 1635, the brick, lime and timber being imported from England. The timber is English oak, and was framed in England. It is a brick structure, erected in the most substantial manner. The mortar has become so hardened that it will strike fire in collision with steel.

--The floating dock and the type writing are among the many important inventions that were hit upon by men who have made no attempt to patent their ideas. A photographer conceived the idea of the floating dock before the device was perfected and put into practical use, and a naval officer thought out a practical typewriter, was persuaded by friends to abandon his invention as a thing nobody could be induced to use.

--A London Newspaper has made up some interesting statistics concerning the human race. According to it there are 1,450,000,000 on earth, and there may be more. In Asia there are 800,000,000, who are crowded in at the rate of 120 to the square mile. In Europe there are 320,000,000, averaging 100 to the square mile. In Africa there are 210,000,000; in the Americas, 110,000,000, and in the islands, 10,000,000. Of the entire race 500,000,000 wear garments that cover their nakedness, 700,000,000 wear breech clouts and 250,000,000 go around unblushingly naked. Five hundred million live in houses, 700,000,000 in huts and caves, and 250,000,000 in the open air and under the sky, having no place to lay their heads.

--The Congressional Directory shows that there are twenty-two Representatives in the house of foreign birth. There is only one Negro. Ireland furnishes eight members, five of these being in the New York delegation. Germany gives, four Canada three, Norway two. Florida, with three Congressmen, has no native Floridians on the floor. Georgia furnishes five Congressmen to other States. Fifty-five members of the House have worked on farms, thirty-one have taught school, eight were printers' apprentices, four were sailors, two were telegraph operators, four have been blacksmiths, three have been shoemakers, and two carpenters. There are in the House eighty-seven graduates of colleges and thirty-one whose college course was cut off. Of the three hundred and fifty-six members two hundred and seven have practiced law. Forty-two members were in the Union army and forty-seven in the Confederate army.

Fights in the House of Representatives.

In the famous speakership contest of 1859, Potter of Wisconsin grabbed Barksdale of Mississippi by the hair with the intention of dragging him from his seat and pounding him, an intention that was frustrated by the fact that Barksdale wore a wig, which yielded to Potter's grasp, leaving Barksdale's bald pate shining in the gaslight.

It has always been asserted that Grow of Pennsylvania knocked down Keitt of South Carolina during the course of the same contest, though a version of the affair given to a correspondent by John Sherman not long ago represented the two men as merely calling each other "a black Republican puppy" and "a Negro driver," while John Covode stood with an iron spittoon poised above his head, ready to participate in an affray that did not actually come off.-- Buffalo Courier.

The Right Man in the Right Place.

"God's man, in God's place, doing God's work, in God's way, and for God's glory." This is given as Miss Geraldine Guinness's idea of workers needed in mission fields.

Religious and Other Items.

--The boast is made that in all the panic that has swept over the mining States, not one irrigation company has failed. After all, the world's prosperity rests on the cultivation of the soil. farmers can always have enough to eat. They are less affected by hard times than any other people; that is, if they own their farms.

--At a session of the Executive Committee of Foreign Missions, Southern Presbyterian Church, held in Nashville, tenn., the Rev. Dr. Chester, recently pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, Nashville, Teen., was elected Secretary of Foreign Missions to succeed the Rev. M.H. Houston, D. D., who resigns to engage in active mission work in China.

--The general minutes of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for 1890 show that there are in the Church 6,305,715 members an increase of 39,153. There are 5,368 traveling preachers--343 were admitted on trial during the year. The number of infant baptisms has grown in pace with the Church, having reached last 33,749 with 60,394 adult baptisms. The number of children in Sunday schools was 756223.

--Berlin is not the only great Protestant capital in Europe that sorely needs new churches. In Christiania, in Norway, there is an average population of 13,000 for each church, and in Copenhagen an average of 26,000 ; or, including the suburbs of Fredericksburg, even of 28,000. Should Copenhagen be supplied with churches only as well as Christiana is, the number of parishes would have to be increased from thirteen to twenty eight.

--During the six months, to September 1st, 1893, 185 colporteurs of the American Tract Society labored in thirty three States and Canada. They visited 78,651 families, circulated by sale and grant 53.090 volumes of Christian literature; addressed 2,824 meetings; found 6,035 families destitute of all religious books except the Bible, and 5,195 families without the Bible. They visited 11,892 Roman Catholic families, and found 16,110 Protestant families who rarely ever attend evangelical preaching.

--One of the results of the work begun in Braddock, Penna, three years ago among the Hungarian Slavs, has been the formation of Polish Christian church. There are probably over one million Poles in the country, largely employed in the mining regions. Those who come from German-Poland are largely Lutherans, and quite a company of them were brought under distinctly evangelical influences in their own homes, and furnish the nucleus of a very interesting and successful work, conducted by the Congregational Home Missionary Society.

--If the reports from Egypt have any basis we may expect extraordinary discoveries to be made in Alexandria, where it is said the graves have been found of the Ptolemies. With them are rich golden objects and writings. Egypt is a wonderful country to preserve the bodies of its dead. Only a few years ago there were found the graves of the most famous kings of old Egypt, and now we have Alexander and Cleopatra. And another report is of the discovery of the grave and skull of Sophocles.

--At the eleventh annual conference of the Wesleyan Methodist South African Church, recently held, it appears that during the past ten years the number of adherents has increased by fifty per cent, being now 58,998, including 36,367 full members, 15,219 on trial, and 7,412 in junior classes . The increase during the past year has been 6,689, the largest ever reported in any one year. The grant from the missionary society will soon cease, having already been reduced from $65,000 to $50,000. The income of the South African Missionary Society is now above $25,000, half of it being contributed to the natives.

--The publication of the statistics of both the Northern and Southern Presbyterian Churches shows that their united strength is 34 synods, 293 presbyteries, 7,780 ministers, 33,888 elders, 9,944 churches, 1,043,635 communicants, and a total of contributions amounting to $16,859,891. A comparison of the statistics shows that the number of ministers in proportion to the communicants is about the same in the two Churches, 002626though in the South it is somewhat larger than in the North; on the contrary, the number of additions by examination is proportionately greater at the North than at the South; so also the membership of the Sabbath schools.

--Bishop Thomas Bowman, the senior bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has just celebrated his 76th birthday. In a retrospect of his life he says that the class of seven in which he graduated in 1837 he had the least prospect of long life, and yet he is the only one of the class now living. He was converted at the age of fifteen, and never used tobacco or whiskey. He preached his first sermon in 1838. On account of his health he took a supernumerary relation for five years. He organized Dickinson Seminary, and served fourteen years as president of Asbury, now De Pauw, University. He has been a bishop twenty-one years, and during that period has been enabled to attend all his official work and much besides. A life worth imitating.

Triplet Maxims.Three things to do--think, live, act.

Three things to govern--temper, tongue and conduct.

Three things to cherish--virtue, goodness and honor.

Three things to contend for--honor, country and friends.

Three things to hate--cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.

Three things to teach--truth, industry and contentment.

Three things to advise--intellect, dignity and gracefulness.

Three things to like--cordiality, goodness and cheerfulness.

Three things to delight in--beauty, frankness and freedom.

Three things to avoid--idleness, loquacity and flippant jesting.

Three things to wish for--health, friends and contented spirit.

Three things to cultivate--good books, good friends and good humor.

Three things to shun--sin, Satan and selfishness.

Three things to follow--usefulness, holiness and humility,

Heirs to the World's Thrones.Austria--Hungary--Archduke Karl Ludwig, brother of the emperor. Born 1833.

Bavaria--Prince Luitpold, uncle of the king. Born 1821.

Belguim--Prince Philippe, count of Flanders, brother of the king. Born 1837.

Bulgaria--No heir.

Denmark--Prince Frederick, son of the king. Born 1843.

Germany and Prussia--Prince Frederick Wilhelm, son of the emperor king. Born 1882.

Great Britain--Albert Edward, prince of Wales, son of the queen. Born 1841.

Greece--Prince Konstantinos, son of the king. Born 1868.

Italy--Vittorio Emanuele, prince of Naples, son of the king. Born 1869

Japan--Prince Yoshihito, son of the emperor. Born 1877.

Montenegro--Prince Danilo Alexander, son of the reigning prince. Born 1871.

Netherlands-No heir. Queen a minor.

Persia--Muzafer-ed-din, son of the shah. Born 1853.

Portugal--Prince Luis Felippe, duke of Braganza, son of the king. Born 1887.

Roumania--Prince Fedinand of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen, nephew of the king. Born 1865.

Russia--Grand Duke Nicholas, son of the emperor. Born 1868.

Saxony--Prince George,duke of Saxony, brother of the king. Born 1832.

Servia--No heir. King a minor.

Siam--Prince Somdetch Chowfa Maha Vajirunnis,son of the king. Born 1878.

Spain--InfantaMaria-de las-Mercedes, sister of the king. Born 1880.

Sweden and Norway--Prince Gustaf, duke of Wermland, son of the king. Born 1858.

Turkey--Mehemmed-Reshad Effendi, brother of the sultan. Born 1844.- Youth's Companion, 1893.

Many God's.

India has 330,000 000 gods. Of these the greatest is the god of selfishness. All worship this one.

Beginnings of Christian Missionary Work in Various Lands.

Japan. Francis Xavier and his Roman Catholic followers enter Japan in 1549. Rom Cath. Christianity, was crushed in 1637. Over the graves of martyrs at Simabara was inscribed this warning: "So long as the sun shall warm the earth let no Christain be so bold as to come to Japan." May 2, 1859, the first missionary of the American Protestant Episcopal Church landed in Japan.

Mexico. Until 1857 only Roman Catholicism was tolerated. The first Protestant mission work was begun in 1825 by Rev. Dr. Brigham by the distribution of Bibles.

South America. The first Protestant church in any part of the new world was founded by a colony of French Huguenots at an island near Rio de Janeiro, called Coligny, in 1554. Some portions of South America prove what Roman Catholicism will do for people when left to itself for a long time.

American Indians. Up to 1646 a few desultory efforts had been made. From the days of Elliot, the Mahews and Brainerd, the churches have done a continuous work.

Sweden. The Swedes became Lutherans in the time of the Reformation, the Lutheran Church being recognized as the State Church.

Italy. A Christian Church was founded there before Paul was taken there as a prisoner. He had written his epistle to that church from Corinth in 1858.

Africa. Christianity entered Africa in the first century. The first Christian work of recent times was that of the Portuguese Rom. Cath. priests in the Congo region in 1490. Modern Protestant missions were begun by the English, Dutch, and Danish colonists who carried their religion there with them early in the 17th century. The first evangelistic effort for the natives was by the Moravians in 1736 in West Africa.

Australia. This field was entered by missionaries in 1795. It was visited by Dr. Clark, President of the United Society of Christian Endeavor in 1892. He said: "I have attended many consecration services in my life but very few that have exceeded in genuine spiritual power this meeting in the Cent nary Methodist Church (in Australia). The great audience room with its two galleries was crowded. The singing was magnificent."

Earth's Population.

Data are incomplete and the population of the earth can be only approximated. Dr. A. T. Pierson says the most carefully compiled statistic are probably those of E. G. Ravenstein, which makes the total population run from 1,467,920,000 to 1,479,729,000. Asia claims about 8,0,000,000; Europe, 360,000,000; Africa, 170,000,000; North America, 90,000,000; South America, 35,000 000; Australasia and the other island systems, 5,000,000; or if we divide the population into 150 parts, Asia has 84; Europe, 36; Africa, 17; North America, 9; South America, 3 1/2; the islands of the sea, one-half part.

Ravenstein reckons the increase from 1880 to 1890 at 6 per cent in Asia; 8.7% in Europe; 10% in Africa; 15% in South America; 20% in North America; 30% in Australasia. This places the lowest rate of increase in the most thickly settled portions of the globe.

China leads in density of population with from 200 to 400 to the square mile; Africa, Russia and the bulk of the United States bring up the rear with from 10 to 100 to the square mile; Asia may average 60, and Europe 100 to the square mile.

About one third of the race are well clad, about one half partly clad, and one sixth practically naked. About the same proportion holds as to dwellings, the best clad being the best housed and those most poorly clad are practically houseless.

The China inland Mission has 526 missionaries, and occupies 103 stations in 14 provinces of the Empire. Including outstations, there are 172 localities where the work is going on. They have 94 organized churches, with 3,038 communicants, 32 boarding and day schools, 7 hospitals, 13 dispensaries, and 13 opium refuges.

"The White City."

The most popular city in this land during the past year was the "White City" within the city of Chicago. It might have been much more popular but for the greed of its management which sought to ignore the fact that this is a religious country with a sacred day of rest and worship, commonly called Sunday.

Chicago deserves credit for her enterprise in connection with the World's Fair. Robert Graves tersely described the immense labors of three years in this wise:

"Three years age Chicago shouting in the capitol of Washington.

"Two years ago dredging and scooping as if she were constructing a canal.

"One year ago laying broad acres of floors and contracting for more work atop of them.

"Today the world at her feet."

At least fifty foreign nations and thirty-seven of their colonies helped to make the Columbian Exposition exceedingly rich and interesting.

The congresses held in such various interests were grand. To name the interesting features of this great Exposition would make a catalogue larger than this ALMANAC. Two things, especially, ought not to be overlooked.

The first was the great World's Religious Congress. The first of its magnitude and character.

The second was an exhibit which the management at first tried to suppress. It is the American Christian Sabbath. More than 25,000,000 citizens had asked by petition that the gates be closed on Sunday. One more weapon was left and that was used to glorious advantage. The people who had respect for the Sabbath stayed away on that day and the exhibitors who feared the Lord and loved his day covered their goods. This resulted in a grand exhibit of our American Sabbath, although legal technicalities interfered with speedy and absolute closing.

The man who knows that his house is built on the sand, always trembles when he hears it thunder.

Pointed Truths.

--Work makes companionship.

--The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

--Fear is a vassal; when you frown he flies; a hundred times in life a coward dies.

--The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained by merely counting heads.

--People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

--What we do upon some great occasions will probably depend on what we already are.

--Go where he will the wise man is at home, his hearth the earth--his hall the azure dome.

--Leisure for men of business and business for men of leisure would cure many complaints.

--Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

--Dead counsellor's are the most instructive, because they are heard with patience and reverence.

--In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear prosperity or adversity.

Y.M.C.A.

At the International Convention of Young Men's Christian Associations, at Indianapolis, reports were presented from 1,439 Associations, showing an aggregate membership of 215,809. They employ 1,185 paid officers own 284 buildings worth $12,591,000 and other property in excess of all debts (including buildings) to the amount of $14,208,043. An aggregate, of 2,582,365 young men attended the young men's religious meetings during the year, and 350,-000 the young men's Bible classes. In speaking of the growth and prospects of Association work among colored young men, it was stated that two missionaries now at work in Africa had gone from colored Associations in educational institutions, and five more were in training for the same field.-- Ind.

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Animal Statistics.

Russia stands at the head of the list in the matter of having the largest number of horses in the world--20,000,000. United States stands second with a horse population of 16,000,000. In proportion of the number of inhabitants, however, the Argentine Republic surpasses, as there are there more horses than people. From the latest accessible figures the Argentine Republic has five head of cattle to every man, woman and child.

Italy, with a population of 30,000,000 people, has only 720,000 horses; but has 1,500,000 mules and donkeys. Spain has one horse to every sixty people--about 3,000,000 horses. The "gay cavaliers" of Spain still ride on donkeys.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland have 2,000,000 horses.

The United States has a larger proportion of pigs to the human population than any other country. Ireland has always been considered the Utopia of the pig. The United States wears, however, the "Blue ribbon" as to the greatest number. She owns 46,000,000 swine.

Australia is par excellence the country of the sheep. The population is 3,000,000 people,and the number of sheep is 62,000,000--twenty sheep to every man, woman and child. The United States has a sheep population numbering about 47,000,000.

The United States and British India have about the same number of head of cattle--52,000,000.

Prices of Slaves.

Mr. Swam, of the Arnot Mission in Central Africa, writing of the ravages of the slave trade, says that at Katanga a boy of eight or ten years, brings about forty cents in our money; a young girl from $3 to $4; a woman from $1 to $2.20. Most of them are sold to Bihe traders or to Arabs from the east. They die in great number before reaching their destination.-- Miss. Rev.

A true friend is one who will not say: "I told you so" every time you take a wrong step and feel sorry for it afterward. -- Rams' Horn.

The World's Food for one Day.

The average healthy man eats nearly two and a half pounds of solid food in a day. Some races eat much more than others, but against this we can set the smaller consumption of children and the delicate members of civilized communities. Now, as there are, according to the most careful computations 1,497,000,000 human beings on the planet, we may include that 3,607,770,000 pounds, or about 1,610,612 tons of solid food are eaten every day the world over. With regard to the drink capacity of the human race, as the proper individual allowance is nearly two and three-quarter pints a day, we may take it that the above named quantity of food is washed down with about 4,017,888,000 pints of liquid in some form or another, that is to say, enough to fill a reservoir 144 yards long, 144 broad and 144 deep.

Church Union.

The churches are discussing both federal and organic union. The Methodist churches of Canada have united and formed " The Methodist Church Canada." The Presbyterians of the Dominion of Canada have done the same. In the United States some of the leading Negro Churches are uniting. There has also been manifested in late years in some Lutheran Synods a tendency to ward consolidation. Three or four years ago three large bodies were thus consolidated into the United Norwegian Church.

"The Methodist churches of various names all over Australia are conferring with a view to union," says the Missionary Review." In Sydney the representatives of the various bodies have resolved, by practically unanimous votes, that union is desirable. The name of the united church is to be "The Methodist church of Australia."

Studying Up.

Father--What is your sister doing?Boy--Studin' up for commencement."Is she poring over schoolbooks at this time of night?""No, sir; fashion magazines."

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"Romance of a Famous Rose."

Many flowers owe their names to famous people. Among the number are the dahlia, named for Dahl, a Swedish florist; the magnolia, for Magnol, a celebrated French botanist; and fuchsia, for Fuchs a distinguished German savant. But there is only one instance known when a man and a flower received a title a the same moment. How it happened is pleasantly told in the Wide Awake:

"When Niel, a brave French general, was returning from the scene ofhis victories in the war between France and Austria, he received from apeasant, who wished to honor the hero, a basket of beautiful pale yellowroses. One of the stems, which happened to have roots clinging to it, theGeneral took to a florist in Paris, in whose care it remained until itbecame a thriving bush covered with blossoms. Neil then took the plant asa gift to Express Eugenie. She expressed great admiration for theexquisite flowers, and, learning that the rose was nameless, saidsignificantly: "Then I will name it. It shall be The Mareschal Niel."""

A Ten Cent Show.

A tramp walked into a down town business office the other morning and glibly asked for a dime.

"You have about as much nerve as any tramp I ever witnessed," responded the head of the firm.

"Come off," said the visitor, "I'm no tramp. I'm an actor."

"Oh, you are? Well, in what line are you?"

"In summer, when there's plenty to eat and I can sleep out of doors it's comedy, but in winter when I'm freezing and starving it's tragedy," and on that he got a dime. -- Detroit Free Press.

Exceedingly not the Same.

A convert in the Shanshi Mission was asked how the Lord had changed his heart. He replied: "I cannot tell how it was done, but I know that my heart is exceedingly not the same."

Bible Translation.

Says Rev. Edward Gilman, D.D., "A hundred years ago there were barely fifty language in which the Bible had been printed; now some parts of it can be found in more than three hundred languages and dialects. The long list of new translations make since the founding of the British and Foreign Bible Society, in 1804, is an enduring monument of patient scholarship and resolute effort in one line of Christain endeavor. Thus far we have only begun to supply the world with this Book. It sounds well to enumerate three hundred and four languages in which men may read of Christ and His salvation; but in only ninety of the three hundred and four, is the entire Bible printed; and these ninety one half only, are the product of this century of missions. We count, then, two hundred and fourteen. languages which convey to men a part only of the revealed word, while the entire Scriptures are inspired and profitable to them. Moreover, fifty six of the two hundred and fourteen, have only a single portion of the Bible, a Gospel, or some other book, and one hundred and thirty-one of them have less than the New Testament. Not to speak of languages as yet unstudied and unwritten, there is a call during the present decade for competent scholars to go on and complete the translation of the New Testament in one hundred and thirty-one languages and dialects, and to carry on to its end, the translation of the Old Testament in more than two hundred languages."

A Debt to Missionaries.

"Among the debts that can never be liquidated is the debt which the science of philology owes to the missionaries of the cross. We have but to glance over the list of authorities on Asiatic, Micronesian, African, and American Indian languages to be assured that comparatively little has been done in any of them outside of missionary lines. Such names as Morrison, Doolittle, Hepburn, Caldwell and Elliot together with a hundred others, stand out in bold relief on the list of language pioneers." -- Prof. Homer B. Hulbert.

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A Word for Boys.

If we are to have drunkards in the future, some of them are to come from the boys who will read this. Well, here is a plan that is just as sure to save you from such a fate as the sun is to rise tomorrow. It never failed, it never will fail, and it is worth knowing: Never touch liquor in any form. This is the plan, and it is worth putting into practice. You don't drink now, and it seems as if you never would. But your temptation will come, and it will probably come this way:

You will find yourself some time with a number of companions, and they will have a bottle of wine on the table. They will drink and offer it to you. They will think it a manly practice, and very likely they will look upon you as a milksop if you don't indulge with them. Then what will you do? Will you say, "No, no; none of that stuff for me!" or will you take the glass with your common sense protesting and your conscience making the whole draft bitter, and then go off with a hot head and sulking soul that at once begins to make apologies for itself, and will keep doing so all its life? Boys, do not become drunkards!

A Gallant Remark.

It is said that this is not an age of chivalry. There is much evidence in hand to prove that whether the days of knight errancy have passed or not this certainly is an age of gallantry. There was much of this quality, for instance, in the young man who had but recently been married to a young girl, who, though short of stature, was a person of great beauty, who is reported to have said, "She would have been taller, but she is made of such precious materials that nature could not afford it."

This man would seem to have the qualities of mind and disposition to make any woman happy if he does not permit time to dim the luster thereof.

$30,000,000 of Northern money and $20,000,000 of Southern money has been spent on the education and evaugelization of the Negroes of the Southsince the war.What People Believe.

Under the title "Our Faiths," son gives the Church Missionary Society's estimate of the number of adherents to the various religious systems of the world. They are in substance as follows: Heathen, 874,000,000; Mohammedans, 173,000,000; Roman Catholics, 195,000,000; Greek Church, 85,000,000; Jews, 8,000,000;Protestant communities, 135,000,000. In other words, over one half of therace is heathen; 1 Jew to about 180; Greek, 1 in 18; Mohammedan, 1 in 9; Romanist 1 in 8; Protestant, 1 in 10, although Protestant Church membership amounts to only about 40,000,000. Over 1,000,000,000 human beings are without even a nominal Christianity.

Mohammedanism has more in common with Christianity than any other false faith. It accepts the bulk of the Old Testament, admits many patriarchs and prophets, and even Jesus among saints and seers. It is the foe of idolatry, maintains the unity of the Godhead as against polytheism, but claims that Mohammed is God's prophet.

The Greek church stands midway between Protestantism and Romanism, but leans strongly towards Rome.

Romanism, especially in South America, and some portions of North America, is only one remove from Paganism. In some parts of the world, under the light and influence of Protestant'sm, it is forced to a higher degree of intelligence and morality.

"Nowhere among men have any yet been found who have absolutely no form of religion, or worship, or conception of a duty."

--No man must come between the seeker and God; for the best of men are but men at the best. Not even the ordinances of religion can meet the need of the people, though they be God-appointed. They were meant to lead us to God, and not to be a substitute for him.-- C.H. Spurgeon.

The Protestant Christians of the United States are said to expend annually for religious work in our own land $80,000,000 per year, or $1.32 for the evangelization of each person, and in behalf of those in heathendom $4,000,000 per year.

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National Flowers.

England has chosen the rose as its national floral emblem. Scotland the thistle, France the lily, Italy the violet, Mexico the cactus, Canada the maple leaf, and Ireland the shamrock.

The Congress of the United States of America passed an act which declares that "on and after the 1st day of May, 1893 the official and recognized floral emblem of the U. S. A. shall be the flower commonly known as the pansy; named also the garden violet, heartsease, etc.

"2. That the national sentiment expressed in connection with this emblem shall be justice, liberty, union, culture and peace, and that the last three words, 'union, culture and peace' shall constitute the motto.

"3. That the inauguration of this emblem should be duly and fittingly celebrated on the 1st day of May, 1893 in connection with the opening of the World's Exposition."

This was done in many places.

The Largest Sunday-school in the world.

In June, 1893, the 88th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of Stock port (England) Sunday school was celebrated. The School register is said to bear the names of more than 100,000 scholars and 5,700 teachers. The Queen herself heads the list of its patrons. The first class is composed of ten divisions, fifty scholars each, of young men from fifteen years of age. The second class is similar to the first in everything except that its scholars are young women. The adult classes, male and female are even larger. Each has its own library.-- From J.G. Hodgkinson in Independent

Earth's Languages.

At least 3,065 Languages and dialects are known to exist. Dr. Pierson says, "the Bible has been translated into about 260 of them." Many of the languages of Pagan nations have been reduced to written systems first by Christian missionaries.

Our National Capital.

Few of us are sufficiently familiar with the migrations of our national capital in its early history to name even the places in which it has been established at different times. Congress was driven hither and thither at first. Wherever Congress was, there the capital was, and thither the political eagles gathered. Look at this list of places:

Philadelphia, from September 5, 1774, until December, 1776; Baltimore, from December 20, 1776, to March, 1777; Philadelphia, from March 4, 1777, to September, 1777; Lancaster, Pa., from September 27, 1777, to September 30, 1777; York, Pa., from September 30, 1777, to July, 1778; Philadelphia, from July 2, 1778, to June 30, 1783; Princeton, N.J., from June 30, 1783, to November 20, 1783; Annapolis, Md., from November, 1783, to November, 1784; Trenton, N J, from November, 1784 to January, 1785. New York, from January 11, 1785, to 1790, when the seat of government was changed to Philadelphia, where it remained until 1800, when it was finally removed to Washington.

Thus it is that nine different cities and towns have had the capital of our country.

Inadmissible.

The technicalities of the law are often too fine drawn for the lay unstanding. The Rochester Post-Express reports a case which sounds like a burlesque, but is said to be true. At a term of the circuit court in one of the up river counties, not long ago, a horse case was on trial, and a well-known "horseman" was called as a witness.

"Well, sir, you saw this horse?" said the defendant's counsel

"Yes, sir, I-"

"What did you do?"

"I jest opened his mouth to find out how old he was, an' I says to him, says I, 'Old feller, I guess you're purty good yet.'"

"Stop!" cried the opposing counsel. "Your honor, I object to any conversation carried on between the witness and the horse when the plaintiff was not present."

The objection was sustained.