The following advertisement in the Philadelphia papers caught many victims of late: — Attention, Sinners. A book that every sporting man should read; better than anything of the kind ever printed; three hundred pages and no trash. Price 50 cents. Sent postage free, by Wood & Co., 1385 Guard avenue." The scamp in Philadelphia who published this "ad." would Bend copies of the New Testament to his victims. The testaments cost him $4 a hundred. He received $50 for them making a profit of $42. At one time he received 1 00 applications per day. Now there does not seem to be anything very criminal in the selling of a New Testa ment for half a do'lar and complying with all the terms of his advertisement besides, but still the shrewd operator is in gaol waiting a trial for fraud. A brave coast-guardian named Thomas White rescued six little children at Ry hope, near Sunderland, England, the other day, where they had been caught in a cave by the rising tide. White had to descend a cliff seventy feet high by means of a rope and wada into the iave up to his chin, where he found the little ones huddlad to getker and washed by every incoming wave. The city of Moscow boasts the largest apothecary establishment in the world. It employs over 800 laboratory aud other as sistants, and dispenses daily a thousand prescriptions. A church in Orlando, Fla , having shown signß «f fulling on a recent Sunday, ihe congregation fled in a body, and a lochl paper, speaking of the incident, remarks that it occurred just aa the col lection was about to be taken up. — m^— *i— — — ■—— f i i ii — —

THE EVENING HERALD FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1886.
