South-Western Presbyterian from New Orleans, Louisiana • 3

3 SOUTH-WESTERN PRESBYTERIAN. pensities are always taken for granted if The information is clearly valuable to he talks in praise of wine and appears a somebody, and it is suggested by Mr. be very critical about if. Some of his Preston, the well-known author of "Un- the blazing sun of July we produce ice by chemical means, rivaling the moat solid and crystalline production of nature. Oar Burgeons graft the skin from one person's arm to the face of another, and it aiheres and becomes an integral remarks savories: cf the most rtficel doors and stockades, the soldiers keep as ever watchful eye on them and drive them back to a safe distance.

On the uriv? to Seoul one is often reminded that bright eyes are watching bin from behind the tree3 or bushes as he passes along the road, but wos betide thea if they are THE PREACHER IN POLITICS. The action of the clergymen of the 3Iethodist Church in Iowa during the preeent campaign ha3 called wide attention to the questionable propriety of preachers taking an active part in par-tisan politics. The Iowa preachers cf claimed Money," that a muca wider prominence shoal 1 be given to such announcements than can poe9ibly be obtained through the medium of the (ia- epicureanism may therefore be ascribed solely to his temperate desire to find excuses for not drinking. lie was not a portion of his body. We make a mile zelle.

Tho numerous sums of money now discovered by the soldier, for ihey have judge of wines, though he pretended the Methodist Church tave pronounced of white pnatiDg paper, and send it on Rwaitiosr owners constitute ample procf i no hesitation ia pursuing them with the be. and or.ee allowed himself to lay uown in favor cf the Republican ticket, and la spool that a perfecting printing press that sumcient publicity not given to bamboo. unwinds and prints, and delivers to you the law about Burgundy against the lata It i r. EDUCATION the existence ot suca assets, wtuli many cases, probably, are sorely net d-d an observing correspondent cf a Chicago paper states that more than 100 active ministers cf that denomination are now distributing their eloquence on the stump for Sherman and the "straight ticket." The main purpose ot education is not folded and counted many tuonsaaas per ljora oeuon. hour.

Of a verity this is the age of in- A droll trait in Lim was that he spoke ventioo, nor has the world reached a enthusiastically about certain choice yet. Th- Ilou.e Journal wines, but he never decried any sort of liquor, even cin. a reason uh ones kvb It is also asserted that there were eightv- i -V wiii to promote success in life, but to raise Crown ultimately becomes the recipient 1 1 tue standard of lifw ltsed; and tais ob-of unclaimed assets, and in the oid davs, ,4 ject can be att.uned only bv those higher when kings were needy and the State! 0 'studies which eau forth the cowers ci treasury in a condition of chronic deole-1 1 Vu reason, moral feeling, and artistic taste. The inventive faculty is under the for "saviar sometbins kind about uUU iu. mj ucu j.

ja profe8sional educltio our aim g-vicg but scant notice that money ought rather to be usefulness in life than mere success, and we have great distrust of all theories of education that pnt sue- awaited claimants. But no such motive exists cow, and a very proper course most powerful stimulus, and its energy will go on producing and developing as long as it feels that pressure. It is, the thirst after riches. There is no quicker way of attaining wealth than by the invention of some useful machine or labor-saving process. Inventions will continue to multiply as long as this is would be pursued if a small portion of the money were jiiuicious 7 expended (hat eJucatioa vAmli be of kinJ brandy ia the presence of a person addicted to spirits would have bad a Mephistophelean ring if the subject of the observation had not been, humanly speaking, irreclaimable: "I could not speak ill of his only friend." I should call brandy his enemy," interposed a lady.

"Ah, well, a man hates his enemy the worse for hearing him wdl spoken off," was the mild retort. Temple liar. HOW IT FEEL3 TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Henry M. Burt, the White Mountain three Methodist ministers delegates to the Republican State Convention, and that they virtually controlled its actions, named the candidates, and dictated the platform.

This action of the Iowa Methodist preachers recalls the fact that, in the Spring of 1SS0, at a general conference of a higher clergy of the Church, a resolution was introduced by Bishop GiL Haven indorsing Grant for a third Presidential term, and warning the brethren against the treasonable designs" of the Democratic party. This resolution was tabled, not because a majority of those present were opposed to it, but because Senator Logan telegraphed that the passage of the resolu making known, tnrough the agency cf the leading newspapers, both in this country and in the colonies, the information that legacies await legitimate claimants, who, so long as the announcement is confined to the London are not unlikely to remain iu profound ignorance of the good fortune to which they are sympathy with the present age, and that it should by no means neglect to fit ita recipient for the struggle of life; bat we object to Professor Jevon's theory, because it puts worldly success before the pursuit of beauty and truth; and we should be sorry to see such theories find acceptance with American educators. WEASEL AND HARE. the case. But it ought not to be far- gotten that the successful inventions form a very small part cf those that are patented.

Ei. S. W. P. PHILANTHROPY OP MISSIONS.

editor, gives his experieace with lightning. Mr. Burt certainly had a narrow escape. He writes: "A little after 6ix o'clock Saturday Let those who hesitate about giving COREA. The presence of the Corean embassy givts renewed interest to the country and its rulers.

A secular daily has taa following: night I was ia my oflice (in the old Summit House on Mount Washington), and hatl just given directions to Darby about making up a form, when all at once I tion would injure Grant in ether quarters. Various other incidents could be noted to show that the Methodist preachers cf the North habitually dabble in politics and always align themselves on the Republican side. While, cf course, the preacher has the same political rights as any other citizen, still it would be a very proper thing for public opinion to relegate him exclusively either to the tulnit or the stump. lie has no their hearty support to missionary work read and ponder upon the following from the pea of Gordon Cumming, in writing of the island of the South Seas: Think of the sick buried alive; the array of widows who were deliberately strangled on the death of any great man; the living victims who were buried beside every post of a chief's new house, In early Summer, several years ago, we were ornithologizing in a beautiful clump of natural wood along a steep brae face, so well sheltered from the north and east, and with so 6'iony and southern an aspect, that it had been known to ns for year3 a the very paradise of all sorts cf singing birds ia the nesting season. As we sat on a mossy bank, watching a pair of giving the finishing touches to their beautifully round and cup-like nest in a ferk ma le bv a branch with tho bole of felt a tremendous blow in the back.

I could not imagine at first what caused it, but instantly I saw a ball of fire as large as a man's head directly iu front of me, not three feet off. It exploded with a tremendous seemingly as Soul, the capital of Corea, 13 ia the northwestern p-irt of the peninsula, and near the Sain, or Hau river, beiug about sixty miles from its mouth. The eld maps put it directly on the river, but recent vi-iU have proved that a town which is near it, and which is or. the river, was probably mistaken for Syonl when foreigners were not permitted tj approach near enough to determine its and must needs stand cla-piag it while i- 4: ii I i -3 1 Ii 1 I loud as a cannon, and then I knew what most have happened. My left leg seemed An 1 hn bound hand and foot and laid mouctai'i ash, at a height of some ut JI i twenty feet above the ground, wo heard to be co the fljor.

l. lue iijor. to act as rjiifrs waea a cnit xnree 01 my printers wer? in Ithe 100m at tho time, two sitting at the launched a new carsoe, and thas doomwd to a death of excruciating egony; a time tatile near me aud one branding up a ir.ii. 11... 4V 1.1 whea there was no eecurity for life or! i.

1 iiiu unucr vii. uo is.iur ua-i tua a shrill screaxt, and there was no difficulty in instantly recognizing it as the cry of a hare in aony. Making onr way down the steep, until wecmji t. th-j opening of a pretty little moss-carpeted glade, we saw a hare galloping about, bat already with a pace 1 1 skiu on one hnd torn up, auotaer was his own hour of dcoai might come; when 1 position. It is about an tiovir aud a nalf's walking distance away from the rivef.

The capital is a walled city, bai't at the foot of a range of inus, and the, site was evidently selected bs aiiordicg an easv aud natural means tl-friuse, the hiils King ia the rear aal the river iu frout. It is sai 1 to contain aiout six hundred thousand inhabitants, bat tua walls enclose several the area oj- whole tillages were depopulated, timply to supply their neighbors with frtwli without injury. At first I feit as though a ball had gooe throagu my body, aud -it IklUi U4 Ciii .11. wi 11 been a way. I might be a wholesome lessen if the voter determined to defeat a candidate whom a partisan preacher supported in speeches from the stump.

It is a notorious fact that the Northern Methodist clergy make politics a part of their business. There has not been a political campaign 6ince the crganizttion of a Republican party which these preachers have not teken a hand in and openly advocated Republicanism both ia their pulpits and on the stuirp. It is charged by intelligent Iowa journals that Methodism has ruled that State for mora ihan twenty years, and that it was almost impossible to get an office, great or small, unless the applicant was a member in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church. This is a lamentable fact, and proves conclusively that tte Church needs ta i ea ily sUgg-sriug aud unsteady, and cling-' iog firmly to tbs bare, with his testh fixed i 1 her neck just un.lc-r the ear, and 440, i.i.C i-tT, n.wuUi, UUU r. I 1 i l.M nut lose consciousness.

The young man imagine white men who can sneer at missionary work the way they do. Now you may pass from isla to isle, certain who could get oat cf the cilice ran to the cupie 1 by the houses, an after sur-hotel, the Sa-amit House, and told what rounding the town, ascer.d the hills and everywhere to lind the same cordial re- ception by kindly mea and womec. Every village on the eighty inhabited had happened. Help came immediately, I form a barrier along the topmost Jes. and I was removed to my room in tbe The city is divided int four nearly equal hotel and undressed.

Dr. Strong, a parts by two streets which tra-i medical student of Harvard, took my verse it at right angles turougo the cen-' casa in charge, and treated me with great tre. Upon tDese two street.s is carried skill. Ia the course cf two or three on the principal business of tue p.ace. The king is a young man of thirty-two, isies cas uuiu ior v.seti a nay cuurca and a house for its teacher or native minister, for whom the village hUo provides food and clothing.

Can you realize that there are nine hundred Wotleyaa churches ia Fiji, ar each one of which the frequent services are crowded by devoted congregations, that the schools II i 1 i- 1 his four legs gathered close together a 1 firmly pressed against her throat 30 that, with body thus contracted and bent, he seemed a mere bali of yellow-browaish fur as a weasel; and a he dug his teeth doeppr and deeper iato the wound, the poor hare now and again gave utterance to a piercing squeal that was dreadful to bear, partly because of its suggostiveness of the very extremity of terror and paiu, and partly because of its being so utterly out of chord with the gush of wild bird melody, bo jubilant and joyous, that filled the grove around. Sometimes the hare dashed herself against a tree or oa the ground, aai rolled over and over, hoping thus to shake off her tormentor, bat always the weasel retained his hold; and, iu a few minutes more, the poor hare must have hours I could begin to move my leg a very little. This (Monday) moruing I find myself quite comfortable, though I cannot walk without a cane, and my leg ming down in Iowa. We all remember what a grip Northern Methodism had on national affairs during the administrations of Grant and Haves, and Low insolently the Church conferences issued platforms as though they were political aud it i3 Oiiiy since the Summer of 1SS2, that he has actnallj been at tiie head of the State. Unlike most Eastern potentates, he has but oue wife, but at the same time be may have as many as he chooses.

pain3 me considerably. I caa assure are wtii auenueu, ana ine nrst sounu U. which greets your ear at dawn, and the'1. uaJ slant death, and fur one I do not care to so through another exporienea like it. 4 A 1 1 i .1 last at night, is that of hymn-singiog and the mot fervent worship, rising from each dwelling at the hour of family urujB 1 below the summit, we have very little prayer 'fear of being struck by lightning.

Ia NEW DESIGN FOR STEAMSHIPS. fact, for CO years no one has been hurt Gen. W. S. Rosecrans called at the I orhaJ sach a narrow escape from death.

yielded up her life to the rascal at her throat had we not interfered just in time, and for the present spoiled his little game. White-House in combanv with 13 au iaac lhtniag never conventions. Church influence of any kind is as dangerous in politics as cormo-rantcy or communism, and the citizen should try and stamp it out on every occasion. The present contest in Iowa has brought the Church influence out stronger than was ever before attempted in this country 6ince the colonies became sovereign States, and unless the tendency is checked it will continue to grow and become more violent and tyrannical as it strengthens. The Methodist Church, North, is i-adly ia Eeed of being sat down upon hard.

It is interfering with matters in no sense a part of its proper functions, and the people Ehould cry halt The political parson should go. Galceston Xeir. CapL Charles G. Lundborg, formerly of lu luo piacc, nuu i the roval SweJi navy, to invite the at-! saT 1 ao Eot uaye were Oae of the most curious circumstances in regard to tho king is that he has co name. He is simply known as "the king," and cot until he diej is a Dame given him.

H9 has the power to name his successor to the throne, aud that successor need not of necessity be the next of blood. Hi is never eeen by his people, and only leaves the palace precincts twice a year, aud thea for the purpose of performing raiigious ceremonies at a temple some half a mile away. In stature he is below the medium height; has a handsome, pleasant face, jet black hair, a light moustache and imperial of the saaoe color, a white complexiou, beautiful teeth, and the most noticeable of all, dancing black eyes that seem to be Prf nd fYmrrpaQ tn tue more surprised irom the fact tnat tention th what is described as a remarkably novel uotl1 the bolt came wf ha 1 no and important design for the construe-! th presence of an electric storm. It tioa of ocean steamships, to be utilized 1 beSna to raia a little' bat tbeT0 La for cruisers or speed, carrying a few guns I beea no hashes of ligatning. It was as cf great weight.

The most prominent startling as it would have been to get a feature of the design is that of so con-! thunder out cf a clear sky. You have probably heard of the impression of strncting the main body of the thip astern as to divide the water horizontally instead of veitically, thus providing for the use of twin screws of the largest propelling power, with their shaits safely supported within the phin's lower hull. a tree being found upon the bodies cf those killed by lightning. The same thing was noticed upon my back, and as there are lo trees upon Mount Washington it peems to me that the peculiar the It is claimed that ships may be built ac-1 appearance mast be the result of tn tha -nrnrvutP-l flit i t-1 Kid Eett.lDg IU tUO Smaller veins. 0 1 li made a rush at the combatants; but the weasel amply verified the proverb by showing that was wide awake and ready tor us.

Ha instantly dropped his hold of the hare and scuttled away ere we could reach him; though even as he retreated he turned his head over his shoulder, hissing fiercely, and, with a vindictive glare cf his little red eyes, indicating very unmistakably how savage he was at cur intervention ia a matter which, ia his cpicion donbtleee, did not concern us. Meanwhile the poor hare was lying panting on the grass, stariog wildly at us with large liquid eyes so filled with terror and alarm, that they seemed leady to start from their sock its. Lifting her in our arms, we carried her to the nearest barn, and washed her wounds and throbbing head with liberal spi ashes of cool, clear water an act cf kindness which revived her Afraid that if we set her at liberty anywhere in the copse the weasel might again fail in with her, we carried her to a considerable distance, auu let her go beide a wide stretch of bent and rushes, into which she dashed and disappeared with a speed that showed that, although terribly frightened, a3 she had good cause to be, there was otherwise not much the matter with her except the wound in her neck, which would probably soon INVENTIONS OP A HALP CENTURY The number cf inventions that have been made during the past fifty years is unprecedented in tho history of he world. Inventions cf benefit to the human race have been made in all ages since man was created; but looking back half a hundred years, how many more are crowded into the past fifty than into any other fifty since recorded history Tho perfection of the locomotive, and the now world-traversing steamship, the telegraph, the telephone, the audiphone, the sewing-machine, the photograph, chromo-lithographic printing, the cylinder printing press, the elevator for hotels and other many-storied buildings, the cotton gin and the spinning jenny, the will make upwarus of 21 knots per hour, and cross the Atlantic in 5, days. The design is commended by Admiral Ana-men, of the United States Navy; W.

H. Webb, of New York, and a number of other persons vouched for by Admiral Ammen a3 "the moet eminent shipbuilders and experts in oar country." laJf overflowing wita merriment. His state dress is of crimson satin, heavily embroidered with golden dragons, aud the dress of the noblest at court is of a dark green with a square piece of embroidery on tbe breast and on the back renresent-iug flying storks. lis is always accompanied by two immense who are also nobles. Up to the time of the presentation of General Foote, the American Envoy, in May last, the king had Been but one other foreigner, Mr.

Von Minister of Customs. It is tho latter's intention, as the gradual introduction of new will permit, to have the king appear in public among the people. He is already prepared for it, but it is questionable whetuer the people are quite ready or such aa innovation upon their old established customs. The queen's household is entirely MONEY GOIN3 A-BEGGING. The world abounds with persons wanting money, but is not often that money is found wanting owners.

This novelty, however, is occasionally revealed in the pages the London tiaze'if, a recent number of which contains a list of intestates who have left considerable sums of money or property to persons un known or not resi lin-T ithia the colony of the Cape of Good Hope." The total amount thus going a-begging is about and it is not utihkely to go reaper and mower, the steam thresher, the steam fire engine, the improved pro cess for making steel, the application of a-begging forever, or uut.l it becomes a DISRAELI AND WINES. How do you raansgs to keep so healthy he was asked by a dyspeptic fop. By dining off a sardine," was the anss-fcr, and there was some truth in this. To the end of his life Disraeli always ate very sparingly when alone, and thi3 enabled him to keep a good appetite for public occasions, thereby rebutting the presumption, which Lis pale face Crown windfall," if the fact that it is 6prata from that of the king, as, owing awaiting claimants is proclaimed only iu I to the customs of the country, she is sur- aa ofiict.il journal which is never seen by rounded by women and can only be seen 8 end i by women, one has never been seen Ly the general public from one year'i to another. For the information cf a foreigner, but is described In those concerned, we append a hat of very beautiful.

Ldfora the arrival of the suggested, that he was consumptive, this connection, some remarks of his the principal assets included in this Cape of the Amencaa Minister in Seoul the queeu hau expressed au ardent de-! sire to see her, but as yet she has not I done so, although she sent eiut of her about wioe may be mentioned. return: Hard drinking was in fashion duricg The children of the brothers and sis-his youth, and at public dinners mea tcr3 of Marcus Fried! ander, who let the bottle pass were hardly re (unknown heirs cf Hoary Joaa Spick, i laJies ia waiting to make a formal call 772 1C. absent heirs of Louise chloroform and ether to destroy sensibility in painful surgery casas, and so on through a long catalogue. Nor are we yet done ia the field of invention and discovery. The application of coal gas and petroleum to heating and cooking operations is only trembling on the verge of successful experiment; the introduction of the 6team from a great central reservoir to general use for heating and cooking, is foreshadowed as amorg the coming events; the artificial production of butter Las already created a consternation among dairymen; the navigation of the air by soma device akin to our present balloon would also seem to be prefigured; and the propulsion of machinery by electricity is even now clearly indicated by the march cf experiment There are seme problems we have hitherto deemed impossible, but are the mysteries of even the mo6t improbable of them more subtle to grasp than that of the ocean cable or that of the photograph or the telephone? We talk by cable with an ocean rolling between; we speak in our own voices to friends one hundred miles or more from where we articulate before the microphone.

Under STOMAPODS. The stomapoda collected by the Challenger expedition have been sent to Dr. William K. Brooks, of Johns Hopkins University, to describe and report them. The expedition was sent in the British man-of-war Challenger by the British Government, all over the world, and whs absent several years.

The stomapods are crastacea, and belong to a group of animals that masticate their food with their legs. Some of those sent are a foot long, while others are microscopic. They are from all parts of the world, but chieily from the Malay Islands, l'rof. Brooks has tso years iu which to describe them. The plates to illustrate the work will be made ia Baltimore, the printing and ail the other work done here, and the matter sent to England to be bound there as part cf the Government report The whole report oa the expedition will make twenty or mere volumes.

Hallimorr Sun. garded a3 gentlemen. Disraeli, who could never t-tand much wine, suffered a good deal from tlrs social usage, and Le set himself to study the demeaacr of mea who could drink without being the for it. Lord Melbourne was one of these, and he gave Disraeli a wrinkle, by saying: Yoa must drink if you don't talk; if you talk much yoa needn't drink, for people will think yoa are drunk and let you alone." It is obvious that the excitement of sooa alter airs, oote reached there. So closely were they guarded and concealed that no oae at the sav-3 Mrs.

Foote saw them. It is said that Coiean ladies are averse to calling, owing to the fact, that they do not wiou their calls returned, because ia that case foreigners might see the low position they occupy ia the tftcial scale and the degraded condition of their lives. Ia a word, the Corean wife, whether of high or low degree, merely occupies the position cf housekeeper and maid cf all work, having no social position whatever. Although the Corean women exhibit a great cum Eit to see foreigners, and can be continually seen peering from behind 11 iVmyot, 2o4 Thomas Tidmart-h (lasolveat), Is. Margaretha A.

Ferreira (stated to be married), 12 unfceown heirs of Tim Griffin, t'HG 8s. unknown heirs of Heinnca Halving, 003 15s. unknown heirs cf William Merjer, 211 Ss. unknown heirs of Thomas Weils, 302 Ss. 41; the maternal relatives of Samuel Parlby, 391 12s.

unknown heirs of Wdliam ore, 5i2 2j.9L; William Rand, of Saffolk (trustee), 420 oi. William Stuart Scott, G(J7 7s. 4 unknown heirs of maid J. Stewart, 700; absent heirs of Mary Ann Grout, 383 81. conversation must co-operate powerfully with the fames of wine in making the brain reel.

Disraeli, having noted this fact, went further into the subject by observing that a man's convivial pro-.