Glanres at the tireat World Through
the Medium of Oar Kxchanaes.
A British medical journal now says
white is a warmer color than black.
Rome, Ga., is bowling over its sew
directory, and the compiler of it has
fled to the mountains. Prominent
church members and business men ap
pear as barkec*i>erß.
Henry Buckle, the historian of Eng
lish civilization, played chess as a pas
time, but sneered at the notion that
chess was any test of intellectual ca
pacity, and classed it as a special gift,
like pianoforte playing or fiddling. He
knew the world and bis experience was
that the intellectual average of pianists,
chess-players and fiddlers is not high.
A Rochester robin has built its nest
on the main frame of engine 340 of the
New York Central railroad, between
the left forward driving spring hanger
and a cross brace. The engine runs
daily between Rochester and De Witt.
The bird kept faithfully at work, as
ciicumstances permitted, and, having
completed the nest, she now occupies
it, even when the engine Is running.—
Ithaca Journal.
“In civilizing negroes the great draw
back,” said Bishop Beckwith, “is to be
found upon the rice plantations. There
the negroes are the most wild, and
there they are less susceptible to the
civilizing influence of the whites. The
trouble there is the grog shops. At
every cro-s-road where there Is a plan
tation you will see a little shanty where
whisky is dispensed. There the negroes
who woik hard for six days will spend
all their week’s earnings for liquor.
There they congregate all day Sunday,
and it demoralizes them.”
Rev. Father O’Haran, pastor of St.
