conclude, then, that there is no " if " in the Christian life, except the "if" which is concerned with the present moment. Your article on Isaiah has haunted me. It was said, I think, that there were two Isaiahs, and that the hrst one was expecting a deliverer; hence, he wrote, "For unto us a child is born," etc., and that this passage had been applied in a spiritual sense to Jesus. Is the fifty-third chapter a prophecy of Jesus. or is it applied only in a spiritual sense? Did either Isaiah prophesy of the coming of Jesus? C. M. P. Isaiah ix., 6, 7, refers historically to the birth in the prophet's time of a national prince and deliverer. The prophet seems to have thought only of that. But his grand expectation, though not fulfilled in the national history, is on its way to fulfillment in universal history, in the royal ascendency of Christ as a spiritual king (John xviii., 37). Hence we take it as applicable to Christ, in a fulfillment larger than the prophet's thought. Isaiah liit. primarily referred to the people of Israel as the servant of Jehovah (see lii., 13-15), suffering for the object which Jesus described in saying, "Salvation is from the Jews" (John iv., 22). This mission of the nation was realized in the highest sense by Jesus, as the Great Son of Israel, and representing Israel as the typical servant of Jehovah (see Acts iii., 13, 26; iv., 27, 30, R. V.). Hence the whole chapter, with the last part of the preceding chapter, is anticipatory of Jesus, though not so in the immediate thought of the writer (see I Peter i., 10, 11). Will you kindly oblige me, and perhaps at the same time many other readers, with a few suggestions regarding the conduct of an annual reunion or rollcall of the members of a church, suitable, for instance, for a city Presbyterian church comparatively young in years? Naturally, the object is to bring about greater unity among the people, and enhance sociability. "P." The first requisite is to bring everybody out. For this there must be some kind of entertainment. A very successful kind is a plain supper, at an early evening hour, with short addresses on desirable topics immediately following. Or the hour may be later, with a musical entertainment, followed by speakers, and concluded by a light collation. For the speaking employ home talent, with perhaps one or two invited friends, and see to it that nobody is long-winded. You must have a bright-minded chairman, and a good introduction committee to make people acquainted. Let shy and retiring people be specially invited. 1. Is feeling saved a test of being saved, or does the proof rest wholly on faith and works? 2. If true faith necessarily leads to good works, why is it necessary to preach good works? 3. How does modern scientific theology view the doctrine of election? Does it accept any of the dogmatic theories? 4. Is there any book on the Old Testament corresponding to Vincent's "Handbook to the New Testament "? J. K. B. 1. The proof is wholly in the facts of character and conduct, as the evidential fruit of a saving faith. 2. Because faith, being immature at first, is subject to the law of development, and in need of exhortation and guidance to its appropriate works, in the doing of which it is developed and strengthened. 3. It finds no fault with the substance of it, but only with some forms of stating it. It objects to the idea of an election to be God's favorites. The true election is to God's service. 4. We have not discovered any. The nearest approach to it, and that not very near, is Dr. C. A. Briggs's " Biblical Study" (lastedition). 1. What are the points of superiority (if any) of the "International" Bible over the "Oxford" Bibles? 2. Which would be the best edition of either to put into the hand of a child of ten, who is very anxious to have her own for Sunday-school use? I wish her to become familiar with R. V., but very few teachers seem to use it, and I sometimes think very few of the ministers, save now and then one of the younger ones. 3. Are the "Reference" Bibles of as much use under the newer methods of study? L. D. 1. We have sent you pamphlets by which you can judge. 2. It is better to give such a child a book which she will grow up to, and never need to discard for a better. The Revised Version is decidedly preferable. The "Oxford" supplies either version; the "International" only the old version. 3. Perhaps not actually used as much, but there is no reason why they should not be. 1. Do verses 7-10 of the Second Psalm refer to Christ? 2. At what period in the history of Israel do students think it was written? A. 1. Verse 7 is quoted in Acts xiii., 33, Hebrews i., 5, and v., 5, and verse 9 in Revelation xix., 15, as referring to Christ and fulfilled in Christ. A similar pas sage (Psalm cx. 1) is quoted by Christ (Mark xiii., 36, 37) as referring to himself, and as an utterance of divine inspiration. Admitting this does not require the further admission that the psalmist himself was aware of it. No one, however inspired, knows all the bearings of what he utters. The immediate historical reference was to some royal prince of Israel expected to become a world-conqueror. 2. The date can be only roughly given, as previous to the Babylonian exile. 1. Will some one kindly give the name of author of "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world," or where this quotation may be found? 2. Will you also suggest some interesting book of travels in the "Holy Land" that would prove helpful to a few invalids who are unable to attend service at church, or to assimilate heavy sermons, yet are hungry for a morsel of the bread of life? M. D. 1. We do not know. 2. Manning's "Those Holy Fields: Palestine Illustrated with Pen and Pencil" (Religious Tract Society, London; procurable by any bookseller), Thomson's "The Land and the Book," and Van Lennep's " Bible Lands: their Modern Customs and Manners Illustrative of Scripture" (Harper & Brothers, New York). 1. Kindly advise me what is the best edition of the revised Bible, giving notes and helps similar to the Oxford edition, but having the results of later scholarship. 2. Also, what history of the Bible, or Hebrew history, or history of the Old Testament, would be most helpful as a reference-book for a class of girls from thirteen to fifteen years? O. E. L. 1. If you have the latest edition of the "Oxford" with the Revised Version, we do not know that you can do better. 2. For pupils' use perhaps Blackie's "Manual of Bible History" is the best. The teacher who possesses Stanley's "History of the Jewish Church" will find in it much interesting matter for use in the class. In your judgment, what is the best book for the family devotional hour, with daily Scripture readings and a brief prayer? F. R. L. We have seen none which, on the whole, we like better than the Rev. R. W. Clark's "The Church in Thy House: Daily Family Prayers for Morning and Evening" (Thomas Whittaker, New York). G. W. C. H.-We do not expect to report the lectures at Union Seminary on Christian Worship. No full report of them is expected in any paper. We are, however, reliably informed that they will undoubtedly be published later. We should add to our list of editions of Washing ton's Farewell Address Riverside Literature Series No. 24 (Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston); 15 cents in paper covers, 25 cents in cloth. A friend of mine has an oil painting which bears the name "H. Delacroix" in the corner. It is a scene in Egypt called "View in Jeddah, Egypt." She is very desirous of finding out anything about "H. Delacroix," and we have both hunted, but to no effect. The painting was bought at the "Henry De Vere" sale. The catalogue mentioned that Delacroix took medals at the Paris Salon in 1880, 1884, and 1887. This is all that we can find on the subject. If any reader of The Outlook can give us any information, or tell us where we may get some facts concerning "H. Delacroix," we shall be very much obliged to you. A. M. S. A subscriber to The Outlook is desirous of obtaining the words of a bit of a poem, " Children's Rules for the Family Table." I can recall only the following: "In silence I must take my seat С. Н. М. During August some one inquired for the poem beginning, "Lion of Judah! From Brahm and from Buddha," quoted by the Rev. Mr. Aked, of Liverpool, England, in introducing some of his lectures at Chautauqua Assembly. I have the poem, and will be glad to send a copy to the person asking for it. WILLIAM G. LIGHTFOOTE. Canandaigua, N. Y. "W. S. J." will find the stanza in Matthew Arnold's "Obermann Once More." These are the exact words: "In his cool hall, with haggard eyes, J. L. R. T. Will The Outlook kindly ask its readers if any of them can supply the whole hymn of which this is one stanza: "What is the thing of greatest price Κ. Η. Can any one inform me who is the author of the following lines, quoted by Mrs. Humphry Ward in the closing paragraphs of her last story, "Sir George Tressady"? "Oh! what is this that knows the road I came; the flame turned cloud, the cloud returned to flamethe lifted, shifted steeps, and all the way!" Α. Τ. Τ. Will some one kindly inform me where Washington spent the autumn of 1780? He was at Morris ROYAL BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure. The Eugene Field Memorial The committee having in charge the subject of a suitable memorial to the late Eugene Field has decided to divide the fund created equally between the family of the late Eugene Field and the fund for the building of a monument to the memory of the humorist and poet of childhood. In aid of the fund the committee has prepared for sale a volume called " Field Flowers," containing many choice selections from Mr. Field's writings, illustrated by drawings voluntarily contributed by over thirty famous American artists, and with a cover design by Mr. Stanford White. By these voluntary offerings of Mr. Field's friends it has been made possible to publish a thoroughly artistic and tasteful book at the extremely low price of one dollar. It may be had at that price from the Eugene Field Monument Fund, 180 Monroe Street, Chicago (ten cents extra for postage). A New Trade School at Hampton Institute, Virginia If it is true that "there is a crisis at hand for the colored people" in the fact that they are being pushed out of the trades, surely the Hampton School is doing its full share of preparation for that crisis. The new Armstrong and Slater Memorial Trade School, a building in the simplicity and convenience of its plans perfectly adapted to its purpose, is being rapidly pushed to completion, and will be ready eady for use in a few months. Here instruction will be given in mechanical drawing and in the trades of carpentry, wheelwrighting, blacksmithing, painting, bricklaying, and plastering. Similar courses will be given in their respective shops in other trades, notably in printing, tailoring, shoemaking, harnessmaking, engineering, and the machinist's trade. Already twenty boys have entered the school, although for the present they are obliged to get their training in the various shops already established. Other applications are coming in daily, making it evident that the colored people appreciate the splendid opportunity now offered them. With these new advantages the school is able to offer such a systematic course of train ing that any student of ordinary intelligence may become a skilled workman in his chosen trade, perfectly competent to train others in a shop of his own. A more complete system of sloyd has been introduced into the primary department by a teacher from the Sloyd Training School in Boston. After a course in sloyd and manual training, the student enters the trade school, to pass from that into the shop, where he may work at his chosen trade until, at its completion, he receives his certificate. The total number of students enrolled in the four departments of the school-the normal, trade, agricultural, and domestic science departments-is 575. Of these 135 are Indians, the remainder negroes. Besides these there are 300 children in the primary day school. In line with the improvements already noted are important changes in the domestic science department, and the fitting up of the boys' gymnasium, which is to be in charge of an instructor trained in the Harvard gymnasium. The formal opening of the trade school will take place on the 18th and 19th of November, the exercises continuing two days. The School's Board of Trustees, as well as the Slater and Peabody Boards, will send representatives. Many prominent men and women, interested in the progress of the Indian and negro races, will be present, while among the from the market-place to the cathedral. He is very pleased to hear, as he shoots through the crowd, "Bravo, Mr. Dean, bravo!" We wish success and freedom from accident to all clerical riders on the bicycle. - The Churchman. The Lake Mohonk Conference A summary of the proceedings of the Conference will be found elsewhere. The platform was as follows: We, the members of the Mohonk Indian Conference, in this its fourteenth annual meeting, gratefully recognize the progress made by our country during these years in the intelligent comprehension of the Indian problem and its equitable solution. The Century of Dishonor we trust is passed. The Indian has friends to watch over his rights and bring him the blessings of education and religion, while our Government, in its legislative and administrative branches, seeks the same object. The main principles are settled, and the main lines of policy have been adopted. It is admitted that the Indian is a man; and it is coming to be admitted that he must be treated sike other men. Our government is seeking to give all Indian youth an English education; the spoils system has received a deadly blow; and we are trying, as fast as is prudent, to put every Indian family on its own allotted land. But the right direction already secured needs to be maintained, and, while on the road to self-protection and citizenship, the Indian requires the protection of law, and the guidance of those who love him because he is a brother man. Accordingly we make the following recommendations: 1. That the tribal system be abolished everywhere as soon as possible, and the Indian incorporated into the citizenship of the States and Territories. 2. That, accordingly, Indian agents be dispensed with wherever possible, especially where the Indians have been settled on their own allotments; and that, where it is necessary to retain an agent, preparation be made for his withdrawal in every possible way. 3. That legislation should protect the Indian against the land-grabber, the gambler, and the liquorseller; and particularly that Congress should pass the liquor bill approved by Commissioner Browning, or some other bill equally stringent. We further recommend that special attention be paid to the subject of marriage and divorce among the Indians so as to bring their family relations under the laws of the States or Territories within whose bounds they Arnold Constable LCo. HOSIERY Plain & Ribbed Real Balbriggan Hose and Half Hose, Embroidered and Lace Silk Hose & Half Hose for Evening Wear. "CARTWRIGHT & WARNER'S" speakers will be Bishop Potter, of New York; Indian youth so long as they are the wards of the Celebrated Underwear President Gilman, of Johns Hopkins; Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee; Morris K. Jesup and William E. Dodge, of New York. A delegation from the Episcopal Convention meeting in Norfolk on the 17th is expected on the opening day. The 750 applications this year for admission to the Hampton School indicate a growing sentiment among the colored people themselves in favor of industrial education. To meet this demand, Hampton needs more than ever the warm support of her loyal friends. General Armstrong's words were never more true than to-day: "Hampton must not go down. See to it, you who are true to the black and red children of the country, and its just ideas of education." * The Bishop and the Bicycle That energetic and somewhat radical Dean, Dr. Fremantle, of Ripon, has taken to the bicycle. Mrs. Fremantle does not use the wheel, but the Dean himself, gaiters and all, goes out with his two stalwart sons. An interviewer has obtained the following statement from Dean Fremantle on the subject of cycling: "As a diversion to the thoughts of a busy man it has great advantages, and need not take up so long time as most forms of exercise. To the clergy it is specially useful. If the weather and the proficiency of the rider tual, industrial, and moral training of the Indian, are such as to enable him to ride without getting too much heated, the cycle should be useful both in parochial visiting and in going to a distance on clerical duty." We are told that this dignitary is often cheered by the people as he "scorches" down the steep hill Men's Llama Wool and Silk Mixed Underwear. Men's Golf and Bicycle Hose. Ladies' Golf and Cardigan Jackets. Broadovay L 19th st. A Matter of Taste NEW YORK That people who have tried different chocolates prefer WHITMAN'S Instantaneous Chocolate to all others. It is distinctively delicious distinctively pure. reside. 4. That the Indian agents should not be removed because of a change of Administration. Further, we commend the admirable methods of the present Superintendent of Indian Education, and we desire that he may be retained to carry out the plans that he has inaugurated. 5. That the Indian schools eventually, and as soon as is expedient, be incorporated in the school systems of the several States and Territories, the United States paying the expense of the education of the Nation. 6. That the work of surveying the reservations should as speedily as possible be completed, so that Indians may be enabled to locate their claims. 7. That Indians on reservations should not be allowed to connect themselves with shows traveling about the world to exhibit the savagery from which we are trying to reclaim them. That appropriations should be promptly made by Congress sufficient to provide tor the education of all Indian youth of school age; also, 8. That the anomalous and deplorable conditions in the Indian Territory should be remedied. Convinced that this can be done with justice to all parties, we desire the speedy passage of the Curtis Bill which passed the House at the last session, with such modifications only as will promote its efficiency and enable the Dawes Commission to introduce the Indians of the five civilized tribes to the full rights of American citizenship. The utter failure of these tribes to protect the rights of citizen Indians in the tribal property lays upon our Government the obligation to enforce the fulfillment of the trust which the tribal Governments assumed in behalf of the individual members of each tribe; and the duty of protecting life and property in the Territory devolves upon the United States. 9. That it is of immediate importance that the natives of Alaska be put under the protection of organized Territorial law, and be prepared for citizenship. 10. That, co-ordinate with the work of the Government in providing the best facilities for the intellec must be that of the preacher and teacher of religion. We therefore urge all Christian people vigorously to reinforce the work carried on by their missionary societies during this brief transition period until the Indian shall be redeemed from paganism and incorporated into our Christian life, as well as into our National citizenship. 25 CTS. Your grocer has it in 1 lb. and lb. tins. PISO'S CURE FOR 25 CTS. About People -King Alfonso of Spain is now ten years old. It is expected that next year he will read the speech at the opening of the Cortes. He comes of age, according to the Spanish Constitution, when he is fifteen years old, and the Queen's regency, therefore, has but four years to run. -The eminent English Judge, Sir Henry Hawkins, celebrated his seventy-ninth birthday the other day. On November 2 next he will have completed twenty years of judicial service, and in this respect will have surpassed the veteran Vice-Chancellor Bacon, who retired at the age of eighty-six. -Dr. George Henry Emmott, Professor of Roman Law and Comparative Jurisprudence in Johns Hopkins University, has resigned his chair in order that he may accept an appoint ment to a chair of law in University College of Liverpool, which is associated with Victoria University. The trustees have passed a resolution recognizing his services to Johns Hopkins University. -The late Mr. Allingham used to walk with Carlyle in the evening, when Carlyle would "rave at everything and propose nothing." One evening, on returning to the gate, Mr. Allingham ventured to say: "I have lis tened to you with great pleasure, Mr. Carlyle, "Al but I do not entirely agree with you." lingham! Allingham!" returned the injured sage, " you always will have the last word!" -The walking-stick which Queen Victoria has found it necessary to use during the last few years is a staff of oak, originally made for and presented to Charles II. by a citizen of Worcester. When the Queen first used it, it had only a plain gold top, but in after years she required something better to support her, so there was added a queer little Indian idol, which formed part of the booty of Seringa patam. -Bishop William David Walker, of the Missionary Jurisdiction of North Dakota, who has been chosen Bishop of Western New York, is the tallest man in the House of Bishops. When Phillips Brooks was Bishop of Massachusetts, he was next in episcopal stature to the giant of North Dakota. Bishop Walker is well known here, having been vicar of Calvary Chapel for several years before his elevation to the episcopate. -King Prempeh's throne, footstool, and umbrella, which were captured by the British force during the Ashantee war, have been presented to Queen Victoria. The throne, an elaborately carved armchair, apparently of European construction, is studded with numerous round-headed nails. The footstool is of barbaric design, and the voluminous folds of the deposed West African monarch's great umbrella are adorned with a curious device. -In 1847 a Lieutenant Maclagan joined the Madras division of the Indian army, and in 1852, after applying himself diligently to the duties of his profession, studying lan guages, and eventually becoming interpreter of his regiment, retired. This Lieutenant Maclagan and the present Archbishop of York are one and the same person, and besides his pension he now draws a salary of $50,000 a Surely an Archbishop drawing a Year. Desurely tary pension is unique in the annals of the Church. mili -The Duke of Marlborough's first gift to his wife after his home-coming was a little Blenheim spaniel. It is traditional in the ducal house of Marlborough that every Duchess shall possess as her constant companion one of these small dogs. The reason for this is that at the battle of Blenheim the first Duke was attended by a pet spaniel, which never left his heels for a single moment throughout the fight, and that after the battle Sarah, the Duke's celebrated wife, adopted the brave little animal and would not be parted from it again. -By invitation of the President and students, Booker T. Washington, the colored Principal of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, delivered an address recently before the Faculty and students of Trinity College in North Carolina. Although Trinity College is an old Southern white college, and this is the first time he was ever invited to address a Southern white college, Mr. Washington says that he and the half-dozen colored citizens who асcompanied him were treated with the greatest courtesy, and his address was received with marked enthusiasm. As he left the college grounds the students assembled on the campus and gave him their college yell in a most hearty manner. -While Bismarck was living at Frankfort, early in his career, he was one day at a public table with a friend when two young ladies who sat opposite began talking to each other in the Lettish language. From their manner it was evident to Bismarck that they were talking about him. It happened that he had once made a visit to Courland, one of the Baltic Provinces, and had picked up a few Lettish phrases. When the ladies had talked and laughed for some time, therefore, he whispered to his companion: "The moment I say something to you in an unintelligible tongue, take a key from your pocket and hand it to me." The young ladies kept on, and suddenly Bismarck said in an unconcerned tone to his friend: Dohd man to azlek." The second man at once produced a key. The young ladies from Courland looked at their opposite neighbors, then at each other, and, blushing violently, rose and left the room. -The Prince of Wales, it is said, does occasionally crack a joke over his mother's propensity for giving away India shawls. At the Henley regatta he was on a steam launch with a merry party, engaged in scrutinizing the other craft on the river. Their attention was especially drawn to a boat containing a pleasure party, one member of which was an elderly lady bearing a remarkable likeness to the Queen, and she seemed bent upon doing all in her power to heighten the resemblance. One of the company on board the launch approached the Prince and ventured to draw his attention to the lady in question, jocularly suggesting that it was the Queen viewing the regatta incog. 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The Week The Business World The sensational feature of the week was the continued rise in the price of wheat. The rumors of extended crop failure in India are confirmed. One report states that relief must be organized on a large scale to keep the people of many districts from actual starvation. We have already noted the shipment of wheat from California to India; new cargoes are to be sent at once. The wheat production elsewhere than in India will be small. The price in the markets of Europe has advanced steadily of late. Here and in Chicago the dealings have been very large, and the upward tendency continued throughout the week. December wheat has touched 86/1⁄2 cents; on September 9 it was 6838-an advance of over twenty cents. The exports of wheat and flour for the week ending last Thursday were 4,156,817 bushels, a gain of 100,000 bushels for the week, and an excess of about 1,500,000 bushels over the exports for the same week last year. The sudden and rapid rise in price is exceptional in recent commercial history, but no more striking commentary on the general recent condition of prices could be cited than that 78 cents should be regarded as a phenomenal price, when, not very many years ago, $1.25 or even $1.30 was touched more than once. If present exceptional conditions continue, the next week will probably see wheat speculation on a large scale. Corn and oats have risen in sympathy with the wheat movement. Cotton crops are larger than had been expected, and the dealings the past week have been extensive, prices, notwithstanding the great supply, holding their prices very well. Wool, iron, and staples generally show little change, but there is at last an upward rather than a downward tendency. Business failures, as reported by "Bradstreet's," were 279-12 less than the week before, but 26 more than for the same week last year; October on this point will not have so deplorable a record as the first nine months of the year. Gold imports continue, and the Government gold reserve is about $123,000,000. The New York banks' weekly statement showed enormous decreases in deposits and legal-tender holdings -$4,789,600 for the first, $5,571,000 for the second. The immense shipments to the interior and decrease of gold importations are given as the reason, and some authorities assert that there is large hoarding of gold. The unfavorable bank statement had a depressing effect on the stock market, but on Monday of this week the influence of the rise in wheat was felt favorably in the stock market, which had before been dull and fluctuating. Rates for loans on commercial paper were from 8 to 10 per cent., with little business being done. The official returns The Baltic Canal Traffic for the North Sea and Baltic Canal during the first working year are as follows: 7,531 steamers, of which 642 belonged to regular lines, passed through the canal. Two hundred and sixty-six German and two foreign war vessels also made use of the waterway. The sailing ships numbered 9,303, of which 8,477 were German. Among the ships belonging to other nationalities were 3 Belgian, 164 English, 547 Danish, 6 French, 63 Dutch, 30 Norwegian, 174 Swedish, and 56 Russian steamers; while the sailing vessels included 20 English, 265 Danish, 2 French, 318 Dutch, 30 Norwegian, 162 Swedish, and 28 Russian. The total receipts from steamships amounted to 680,825 marks, and from sailing vessels to 216,626 marks, making a total revenue of 897,451 marks-a sum which falls far short of the official estimate of 5,000,000 marks. capital has already been subscribed. The exhibition will be opened on May 5, 1897, and will continue open for about three months. Its objects are thus described in the prospectus: "To promote and fosterindustry, science, and art, by inciting the inventive genius of our people to a further improvement in arts and manufactures, as well as to stimulate commercial enterprise, by inviting all nations to exhibit their products, both in the raw and the finished state. Samples of the products for which this and the other Australian colonies have become famous will be exhibited, with a view to increase the development of their natural resources." Similar exhibits are expected from Great Britain, Europe, America, India, Canada, Japan, China, the Cape, and the other colonies, to which the Government of Queensland has forwarded an official invitation to grant their substantial support to the undertaking. A fine art section will form a department of the exhibition, and for the accommodation of the art treasures and the historical objects a special block of the building will be reserved. There will also be a woman's industrial and an artisan section. A New Tanning Process We have received a copy of Bulletin No. 38 issued by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, at College Station, Brazos County, Texas. The bulletin gives a very interesting account of the plant Canaigre, which, it has recently been discovered, possesses so large a proportion of tannic acid that it can be employed as a substitute for bark in the tanning industry. The experi ments which have been conducted in Texas have attracted wide attention there, since it is believed that the cultivation of canaigre will be the means of establishing and fostering the tanning industry in the State of Texas. Most of the hides produced in Texas are now sent out of the State, chiefly into New England, for tanning, and the manufactured leather is shipped back for sale to Texas. If it is possible to develop the tanning industry in a large degree in Texas, a great part of the cost of freight and shipment on manufactured leather would be saved to the consumers in that region. For this reason the experiments with canaigre-which, by the way, belongs to the same family as the common dock-are valuable and worthy of consideration. Blocks of Tea as Currency In "Cassier's Magazine" for October there is an interesting article by F. F. Prentiss, entitled "Engineering Notes from Japan and China." In his description of the customs and business methods which prevail at Foo Choo, China, "what Mr. Prentiss says of the form of currency used at Foo Choo and in the contiguous territory has special interest at this time in this country. 'The tea business,' writes Mr. Prentiss, seemed to be in the hands of the Russians. They have here two large factories for making tea-cakes. The tea is ground fine, almost to a powder, and then, by powerful hydraulic presses, is forced into blocks that are so hard that it is impossible to break them without a blow with a hammer. These are sent North through the great Chinese wall into Mongolia and Siberia, and pass current as money. In many localities it is the only currency used. As the blocks leave Foo Choo they weigh the same to an ounce, and the fortunate merchants do not have the vexed American money question of 16 to 1 to disturb their dreams. As the money circulates around, however, pieces are chopped off to replenish the teapots, and the blocks depreciate in value in proportion to the chunks taken.' This novel currency has at least the merit of honesty, as it passes for its intrinsic value, measured by a fixed standard." Improvements have been made Wood Fiber in wood fiber by Otto H. Schwartz, an architect of Mu nich, Germany, which he claims give to such fiber a special adaptation and value as a building material, and well worth the attention of all who are interested in building and architecture. The substance is made of wood fiber 1 impregnated antiseptically in combination with a mortar stucco, manufactured by a new and peculiar process, or in combination with a mortar of Roman cement, and has proved, says Le Echo Forestier, of great strength and durability. The necessity of constructing partition walls in upper stories when they do not exist on the lower floors has led to various inventive resorts for supporting such walls either by means of cast-iron pillars or with iron beams. Very light materials for partitions are also used, such as walls of iron, wire, laths of cane, etc., but to all these, it is claimed to have been proved by abundant experiments, the planks, the slabs, and even the wainscoting of the Schwartz wood fabric are superior. Furthermore, they are described as being incombustible, able to be worked in the same manner and with the same tools as ordinary wood, and are bad conductors of heat, cold, and sound. Agriculture in Hungary We find a report presented by Dr. Murel Szilagyi, inspector of steamship navigation, to the Congress of Hungarian experts just held in Budapest, summarized in the New York "Evening Post." It indicates some of the means by which it is proposed to enable Hungarian agriculture to compete successfully with other corn-producing countries. Dr. Szilagyi, who is recognized as an authority on Hungarian navigation and economic development, states that more than three-fifths of the total Hungarian exports consist of raw materials. In recent years these have greatly fallen in value, cereals, for example, now realizing, on an average, little more than half the prices that were obtained at the beginning of the eighties. In consequence of this change the balance of Hungarian foreign trade has become more unfavorable from year to year. In 1890 the exports exceeded the imports by 44,500,000fl., while last year the excess of imports over exports reached 39,000,000f., Hungary thus receiving 83,500,000fl. less from Austria and other countries than she did five years before. According to Dr. Szilagyi, Hungary is not in a position to support such a deficit for any length of time. Of the various factors involved in the price of corn he directs special attention to the extraordinary cheapness of maritime freights. He argues that the only way in which Hungary can avert a crisis is to counterbalance the effect of these ocean freights by a speedy development of her inland navigation. He suggests that an understanding should be entered into with Austria for an early realization of the projects for connecting the Danube with the Oder and Elbe by canals. Nearly 86 per cent. of the total Hungarian exports go to Austria and Germany. It is, therefore, evident that the system of conveyance by water should be perfected and extended. Ecclesiastical Wit Ecclesiastical wit and readiness are often of a wery high order. Few things have been better than Sydney Smith's famous recipe for the proposed wooden railing around St. Paul's : "If the Dean and Chapter would only put their heads together, the thing would be done." Equally severe was the episcopal criticism on an ambitious choir performance. "It reminded him," said his Lordship, "of the verse in the Psalms "-here the organist became expectant, and the vicar assumed an expression of conscious merit-" where it says, 'The singers go before and the minstrels follow after." On a similar occasion another Bishop is said to have thoughtfully remarked that he now understood why, in the Prayer-Book, a distinction was made between "choirs and places where they sing." In connection with singing it is again a Bishop who is credited with having rescued a whole drawing-room from the profoundest abysses of social confusion. A lady had been asked to sing, and in accordance with invariable custom declined. "They must excuse her; she wouldn't be so cruel; positively, she really couldn't sing." But to no purpose; they took it as exemplifying that It is the witness still of excellence To put a strange face on his own perfection -or professed to and as a result the blushing siren complied. Surely never was such a performance held! Not one note had even a faint relation to the tune; an eminent traveler was heard to murmur something about red Indian war-whoops; near and distant cats thought it a challenge from some formidable rival, and joined in the chorus with superfeline energy. At last it ended, and dead silence reigned. So appalling had been the performance that even the most conventional of compliments refused to be uttered. But the Bishop was equal to the occasion. Going up to the astonished songstress, he thanked her for complying with their request, adding, with a courtly smile and tactful intonation, "We shall know what to think another time, my dear Miss So-and-so, when you tell us you can't sing." London Standard. The Making of Pins There is scarcely a woman living who does not use the common and every-day pin every day more or less, but few, however, ever think how it is made, remarks the "Dry-Goods Economist." To complete a pin it has to go through many hands before it is ready for the consumer. It is a very delicate article to handle, and the cost of building the machines to make it is the greatest outlay. The wire from which these pins are manufactured is specially prepared, and comes to the factory on large reels very much like gigantic cotton spools. The wire is first turned through eight or ten little copper rollers. 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