"Fish," says Dr. W. W. Godding, of Washington, "has for years enjoyed the reputation of being rich in phosphorus and hence adapted to the growth of brains. How such a notion originated I do not know; perhaps because stale fish shines with a phosphorescent light in the dark. As a food, fish is richer in water than phosphorus, and to feed it to children, expecting thereby to grow them into philosophers, would be on a par with the scholar who boiled his dictionary in milk for supper, hoping thus to acquire the language. As a matter of fact, physiological experiments, often repeated on a large scale, rather negative the popular idea of the value of fish as a 'brain food.'"—Selected.
AN EGYPTIAN FUNERAL.
A FUNERAL in Egypt is indeed a strange sight, and the first one the visitor sees astonishes him very much. At the head of the procession marches a corporate body of the blind and a certain number of men, who proceed at a quick step, singing a most jubilant air, while swinging themselves from right to left. Behind them comes the funeral car, or rather a sort of bier, bearing a great red shawl in which the body is deposited. At the extremity of the bier, on a perch, is placed the turban or the tarbouch of the defunct. Two men carry the bier. They follow with such spirit the movement of the head of the procession that the corpse, rocked in every direction, seems to jump under the shawl that shrouds it. The women bring up the rear, some on ass, some on foot.
The first row is formed of weepers, or rather screamers, who send forth toward heaven at each step the shrillest tones. The weepers hold in their hands a handkerchief, with which they are not solicitous of wiping their eyes perfectly dry, but which they pull by two ends behind their head with a gesture that would be desperate if it were not droll.
On the arrival at the cemetery they take the dead body from the bier to cast it into the grave. The grand funerals, however, take place with much more solemnity. An important personage is hardly dead in Egypt, before his acquaintances and friends hurry to the house; during one or two days they eat and drink at the expense of the dead, or rather his heirs, indulging in the noisiest demonstrations.
When the hour of the interment arrives, a scene of the wildest character is produced. The slaves and women of the household throw themselves on the corpse, and feign a determination to hinder it from passing the threshold. The lugubrious tragedy is played conscientiously; they snatch away the coffin; they belay each other with blows, and the most violent and frightful clamor is heard.
At last the procession leaves the house and repairs to the cemetery, preceded by camels loaded with victuals, which are distributed to the poor, hurrying in crowds along the road. All along the road the mourners and friends of the family fight for the honor of carrying the bier for a moment, and thus it passes or bounds from hand to hand, amid the most frightful disorder. The interment ended, everyone returns to the house of the dead to recommence festivities.—Christian at Work.
The Drink Curse in India
In a letter to A. S. Barnes & Co., a native Hindu writes: "The Hindus of India are a proverbially sober race. Alcohol is not even known among their higher classes. For instance, I am a grown-up person of forty-one, and up to this time I have not seen other kinds of liquors excepting beer, port wine, and brandy, and these, also, I have seen either at Englishmen's tables or as prescribed by doctors trained under the English system. My parents, who are the other side of sixty, have perhaps seen none of them. This sober race the Englishmen are fast demoralizing by spreading the drink curse far and wide. My feelings amount almost to agony when I contemplate this. But we are helpless. We have no hand over our laws, consequently we can not control the evil. Native public opinion has pronounced itself with unmistakable unanimity against the Government policy, but no heed is paid to it,—the consideration that seems to be paramount with the Government is—'Revenue.'" Is not this pathetic?—Union Signal.
CARE OF THE TEETH.
WITH the utmost personal care teeth will decay some; and they ought to be examined at least once a year—better every six months—by a competent dentist, and if any decay appears have it filled at once. It is a great mistake to neglect a decayed tooth until it aches and then rush off to the dentist to have it filled. The filling will be far more painful and expensive than if it had been done when the cavity was small. The condition of the teeth has a great deal to do with the beauty of the face; and a great amount of ill-health is no doubt caused by decayed teeth.—Selected.
Whisky Caused the Rebellion
WHISKY has much to answer for, but here is a new count in the indictment, made by General Daniel E. Sickles:—
"The War of the Rebellion was really a whisky war. Yes, whisky caused the Rebellion! I was in the Congress preceding the war. It was whisky in the morning—the morning cocktail—a Congress of whisky drinkers. Then whisky all day; whisky and gambling all night. Drinks before Congress opened its morning session, drinks before it adjourned. Scarcely a committee-room without its demijohn of whisky, and the clink of the glasses could be heard in the Capitol corridors. The fights—the angry speeches—were whisky. The atmosphere was redolent with whisky—nervous excitement seeking relief in whisky, and whisky adding to nervous excitement. Yes, the Rebellion was launched in whisky. If the French Assembly were to drink some morning one-half the whisky consumed in one day by that Congress, France would declare war against Germany in twenty minutes."
Health and Temperance.
THE BEER AND WINE THEORY.
It is the theory of not a few opponents of the saloon that the way to diminish the evil effects of intemperance is to substitute beer and wine for alcoholic beverages. We have never had any faith in this theory. In the first place, the tendency of both wine and beer is to promote the appetite for the stronger drinks, as is clearly demonstrated by several facts. For example, to name a few, the number of saloons licensed to sell beer and wine only is very small in proportion to the number licensed to sell both distilled and fermented drinks; absinthe, a destructive alcoholic liquor, is taking the place of wine in France, the land of champagne; the alcoholic evil became so great in wine-producing Switzerland as to compel the Republic to take stringent measures for the repression of the traffic; and the greatest beer country in the world has not been able to prevent increased consumption of spirits. It was only a few weeks ago that Bismarck, in making his great speech before the Reichstag, refreshed himself at frequent intervals, not with the national drink, but with brandy.
In the second place, there is plenty of drunkenness in beer, and it is a question whether it is not quite as deadly a foe to the physical and mental man as rum. In the third place, the beer theory has been abundantly proved a delusion. The English Beer Act of 1830 was expected to do wonders in the way of driving out the stronger drinks and furnishing the people with a "wholesome beverage." The Duke of Wellington, who was a special advocate of it, declared it a greater achievement than any of his military victories. And so it was, in one sense. It destroyed more people than the duke's armies ever destroyed. Sidney Smith was also a supporter of the bill; but subsequently he lost confidence in it.
"The new beer bill," he wrote, "has begun its operations. Everybody is drunk; those who are not singing are sprawling. The sovereign people are in a beastly state."
If there are any reputable people in England to-day who have confidence in the beer theory, they do not assert their confidence. We notice, on the contrary, in the Contemporary Review, for January, in an article by Francis Peek, author of "Social Wreckage" and other studies, this incidental reference to the beer act: "The establishment of beer-shops, intended to stay the consumption of spirits and drunkenness, in the end vastly increased both." The writer of these words is not classed among the temperance fanatics in England. It is disinterested testimony.—Selected.
SECULAR.
—A general flood prevails on the upper Missouri River.
—Marian Harland is to edit a new illustrated magazine called the Home Maker.
—Negotiations are said to be in progress to settle the Alaskan boundary on the British line.
—Over 3,000 have signed the pledge in Jeffersonville, Ind., under Francis Murphy's labors.
—Sixteen persons were drowned off Bari, Italy, March 14, through the capsizing of a pleasure boat.
—Mormon elders are at work in Botetourt County, Virginia, and are very successful in making converts.
—Simon Cameron, at the age of ninety, is touring in Florida in company with the Duke of Newcastle.
—A dispatch from London dated March 15 states that a severe snow-storm and gale prevailed in Scotland.
—The funeral of Emperor William, of Germany, was held in Berlin the 16th inst., with imposing ceremonies.
—The ladies of Alleghany, Pa., are organizing a boycott against the stores which keep open Saturday evenings.
—March 14 the steamer Japan collided with and sunk the pilot-boat Starbuck and five men were drowned.
—Two fraudulent election judges, named Clark and Best, were sentenced in Baltimore, March 17, to two years in jail.
—The number of people killed on the railroads in this country the past year, is said to be 613; number injured, 1,806.
—Hundreds of horses are dying in New York and vicinity from disease induced by overfeeding and lack of exercise during the storm.
—New York proposes to present the city of Paris with a statue of Washington in return for the one of Lafayette given by France in 1876.
—The steamer City of Exeter was sunk in the Bristol Channel, the 12th inst. Number of lives lost not known. Only one seaman escaped.
—A tenement in New York burned the 13th and twenty families had to run for their lives, losing all they had, the building being entirely consumed.
—The Inman steamer, City of New York, was launched on the Clyde the 15th inst. She is the largest vessel in the world except the Great Eastern.
—The Baltimore Press recommends the licensing of locomotive engineers by Congress as a method to prevent accidents and a positive preventive of strikes.
—Two Mormon elders were tarred and feathered by the indignant inhabitants of Winchester, Ohio, the night of March 14, after which they were chased across the Ohio River.
—A fire occurred on West Water Street, Milwaukee, the 15th inst., which consumed property to the value of $425,000. Another in Philadelphia at the same time caused a loss of $340,000.
—It is reported that the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company has decided to supply large quantities of seed wheat on three years' credit, to farmers along its lines in Kansas.
—The Cattle Trust of Denver has just closed a contract with the French Government for 150,000 head of beef cattle annually for their army supplies. Shipments will begin as soon as possible.
—A passenger train and a freight train collided on a branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Huntington, Mich., the 12th inst. Three sleeping cars were smashed to pieces, and four persons killed.
—A wedding party of sixteen persons returning from church at Neesatz, Hungary, March 14, started to cross the ice on the Danube in carriages and when half way across the ice gave way and the entire party was drowned.
—A fast mail train went through a trestle, seventy-five miles south of Savannah, Ga., March 17. The entire train was demolished except the engine, which remained on the track. The number killed is reported to be 23, and 34 injured.
—It is reported on good authority that there is a marriage engagement between the crown prince of Russia and the daughter of the German emperor. If true, this will strengthen the late appearances of friendship between the two courts.
—The marriage of Prince Oscar, of Sweden, to Miss Munck, a lady of private rank, was consummated at Stockholm the 14th inst. By taking this step the prince renounces all rights, prerogatives, and titles as a member of the royal family, and becomes a common citizen.
—The U. S. consul at Tangier, being now supported by the presence of a war-vessel, has demanded that the Sultan of Morocco afford satisfaction for his treatment of American citizens within two weeks. The representatives of other powers are urging the Sultan to accede to the demand.
—Thos. Nast, the famous caricaturist, was defendant in the San Francisco police court, March 12, on a civil complaint brought by his partner in his Northwestern tour which did not terminate financially to mutual satisfaction. The suit was dismissed for want of jurisdiction of the court.
—The Pope has sent a letter to Emperor Frederick in which he expresses deep sorrow at the death of the monarch, who had the kindliest feelings toward the Catholic Church, and thanks the present emperor for the peaceful tones of his proclamation, which prove that the son cherishes the sentiments of his father.
—Henry Bergh, celebrated as the founder and president of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, died in New York, March 12, at the age of sixty-five years. As a result of Mr. Bergh's work, similar societies have been organized in thirty-four States, and the anti-cruelty law has been adopted in thirty-seven. The work has also extended to Canada, Cuba, and South America.
—A conductor on a Mississippi railroad refused to permit Roderick Lowry, a nephew of Governor Lowry, to ride on the Governor's family pass, which resulted in a row, and also in exposing the fact that the Governor is guilty of a misdemeanor under the State laws. It appears that he holds passes on all the roads in the State, the penalties for which are severe. The railroads too are liable to a fine of $5,000.
—A storm struck the Atlantic States, March 11, and prevailed for two or three days, which exceeded in severity anything known in that region for many years. Business was almost entirely blockaded; telegraphic communication was cut off between many of the principal cities. In New York, all kinds of traffic was paralyzed. Many marine and railroad accidents were caused by the storm, and several persons were frozen to death in the snow.
—An organized gang of boy-burglars and thieves has been discovered in San Francisco, and several have been arrested and brought to court. They have a "den" stocked with a large supply of the literature usually found with such characters. Their leader bears the significant title, "Bob Terrier;" and a junk-dealer received their goods and paid them barely enough to buy cigarettes, novels, and the necessary food, keeping them through fear of the police from making any protests.
—Serious charges are made concerning the treatment of convicts employed in working a mine at Coal Hill, Arkansas. They are to the effect that the warden permits and encourages the most brutal fighting among convicts; that convicts have been whipped to death, or left at the post, to suffer for hours without attention. The details as given in the coroner's report, are shocking in the extreme. The warden fled while investigation was pending, and a reward is offered for his capture.
—The great strike of engineers and firemen which was inaugurated on the "Burlington" railroad still holds out and is extending to other lines throughout the West and Northwest. Business and communication are seriously interfered with. Efforts are being made to settle the matter in the courts, with but little prospect of success. Both sides are confident of final victory, but the odds so far appear to be in favor of the strikers. Meantime the whole country suffers, and the suffering is aggravated by each day's delay.
News and Notes.
By Editor
RELIGIOUS.
—Free-will Baptists and Campbellites will again attempt a fusion.
—Dr. Meredith's Bible class in Brooklyn is attended by 1,500 people.
—The Baptist mission in a single district in China has 55 churches all self-sustaining.
—The Presbyterian women of India raised last year $8,000 in cash for home missionary work.
—Mr. Moody has sent three educated young men to Japan to carry on evangelistic work. They sailed January 30.
—Rome, which had no public schools while it was under the direct control of the Pope, has now 15,000 of its children attending the public schools.
—One-third of the churches in Maine are closed for want of support, and one-half of the people are non-churchgoers; out of 1,362 churches, 417 are vacant.
—"Pilgrim's Progress" has just been translated into a language spoken in Upper Guinea. This is the eighty-first translation of the work into a foreign tongue.
—The erratic theology advanced by the professors at Andover Theological Seminary is not having a favorable effect on the prosperity of the institution, inasmuch as the attendance of students is materially diminishing.
—The obstacles preventing the union of the Presbyterian Church, North and South, which was attempted by a conference last summer, are now made public, and appear to be on the question of negro communicants and political differences. The former was compromised by granting colored people separate churches, but the latter is not yet disposed of.
Appointments.
By William M. Healey
SAN DIEGO QUARTERLY MEETING.
THE quarterly meeting of the San Diego church will, Providence permitting, be held in the new meeting-house, corner of Eighteenth and G Streets, beginning Friday evening, April 6, and continuing over Sabbath and first-day.
As there are a number of our people in this part of the State so situated that they cannot have the ordinances elsewhere, we cordially invite such to be with us on this occasion. We desire to see a general rally of the Sabbath-keepers in San Diego County at this meeting. W. M. HEALEY.
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NOTICE is hereby given that a special meeting of the stockholders of the "Rural Health Retreat Association" (a corporation), will be held at the principal place of business of said corporation at the Rural Health Retreat Building at Crystal Springs, near St. Helena, Napa County, State of California, at the hour of nine o'clock, A. M., of the 6th (sixth) day of April, 1888, to consider the following propositions, viz. :—
First—To increase the capital stock of the "Rural Health Retreat Association" (a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of California), from the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000).
Second—To amend the Articles of Incorporation of the "Rural Health Retreat Association" (a corporation formed and existing under the laws of the State of California), by adding a subdivision to be known as Subdivision 6th of Article II of the original Articles of Incorporation. Said Article II reciting the purposes for which said incorporation was formed, said subdivision 6th to read as follows, viz. :—
Sixth—To purchase, acquire, collect, and convey, ten (10) inches of water out of what is known as "Bell's Canyon," on Howell Creek, from a point just below a hydraulic ram belonging to W. A. C. Smith; located in the N. W. ¼ of the S. W. ¼ of Sec. 6, T. 8 N., R. 5 W., M. D. M., or other available points in this section; and Sec. 1, T. 8 N., R. 6 W., M. D. M., to conduct the same along such route or routes as are deemed most feasible and practicable (according to careful surveys made by the Company's engineers) to the said Rural Health Retreat, and to supply said Rural Health Retreat with all necessary water for the purposes of consumption, manufacturing, and irrigation, and also to supply the inhabitants of said village of Crystal Springs and vicinity with water for irrigation and domestic purposes, and to sell the water, and collect rates for the sale and use of the same.
Dated, Crystal Springs, Napa Co., Jan. 30, 1888.
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THE UNITED STATES IN PROPHECY.
By Uriah Smith
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