FACTS ABOUT THE BIBLE.

1. In the Bb!e, 'Id <ii,,l .\', w T-ta- Eflpn's, th re are 3,586.473 hi« -s, 775, 693 w rd<^, 81 873 Ter.-e.-j, 1189 chap'era and 66 bo kg.

2. The longest bo< kis Ptalmp, which has 150 divisions. The shortest is 'I. John, which has one chapttr and thirteen verses

3 The longest chapter is 'be 119 h psalm, which has 179 versps The short mi is the 117 th Psalm wtrcb has two ▼erses.

_, The largest verse ia the 9'h verse of the Bth chapter ef lis'her. ! t has 90 words. The shortest is tbe 85'h verso of the 11th chapter of John It has two words

5. The Bth verse of the 118 th Fsalin is fhemiddle Terse of fha Bibl<>.

6. The 87th chapter of Isaiah and the 10 th chapter of 11. Kings are alike 7. Ii the 10th Psalm the Bth, 15th, 21st, and 31st vsrses ar» alike. 8; Ea»h verse of the 136 th Pfltlo* eatla alike 9. Esther is the only book in which the name of God i_ not found 10 The 21th ▼er_eof.be 7th chapter of F_ra contain all the letters of the al phafeet 11 The Bible contains no word of more thai, fix syllables

Extraordinary Marriage Difficulty.

Ib the villags of Dalton-le-Dale, a few miles from Sutherland, a lingular difficulty about tho marriage laws is causing an_i«ty to a considerable pro portion of the inhabitant.. More tha_ 600 of them, in fact, do not know whether they are married or no*, and, notwithstanding a long correspondence between the Registrar-General, th» bishop of the diocese, the local clergy, and others interested, no satisfactory solution of the question has ye. been discovered

There were 334 marriages solennisfit in tbe ancient Church of St Andrew, Dalton-!e-D»le, the legality of which has been questioned. The church date, back to the twelfth century. Within ita walls the villngera for j generation, have been baptised and i married, and as they passed away they have been buried beneath it» shadow. Hence, when a new church waa built, in 1876, at Murton, for the accomo dation of the population, gathered by the Murton Colliery, the old church at, which tbe services have been continued J wae.still much reEorted to for marringes, though tha new building became the' chief centre of parochial activity. Io May 1899, however, the Vicar(the Key. MOT Allen) received a letter from the Bishop of Durham's legal sec retary, which stated that the right to solemnise marriages in St Andrew's had been questioned by the registrar Gener al, and that therefore the bishop reques ted that there should be no more mar riages there. A little later the Ecciesi aetica! Commissioners informed the vi car definitely that the right to perform marriages, <fee, formerly belonging to the old church; had been absolutely transferred to ths new, and the bishop then suggested that the marriages which had bien _oiemn''s.d ia St Andrew's since the last opening of the new church a period of ovp.r twenty two years must be ratified through the Home sec retary. What steps will eventually be taken to remedy the difficulty it is irapossible to a^y, but the prevailing impression is .Ita' fchejß.egi-.rar General mvi* bs held rt sponsible for the continuance of the irregularity after 1893

A Danger to the United States

Tho most fateful and fatal thing to be considered in the negro problem is the fact that the younger generation of negroes, already the most criminal class in our population, the United States Census] says, have developed a mania -it _*n hirdly be called any thing else—for assaulting white women. It is a new crime. It was unheard of in slavory. The whole manhood ©f the South left their women in the handa of the negroes and went to the front during tbe civil war with the feeling that the women were safe in the hands of slaves. And they were safe, al though on many plantation* there were a hundred negro men and not a white nan within a mile.

We delivered the African man to the nation in 1865, orderly, fairly industrious, without vices, without disease, without crime. In the hands of the nation he has become disorderly, idle, vicious, diseased, three times more criminal than the native white, and one and a half times more criminal than the foreign white, including much of the scum of Europe ; and he was one-third more criminal in 1890 than in 1880 by the United States census,— Harper's Magazine

Lord Rosebery on Home Defence

__N ALARMIST SPEECH.

Daring a debate in the House of Lords on home defence, Lord Rosebery delivered a very alarmist speech. .No one, he said, can put his foot on the Continent of Europe without knowing we are surrounded by an atmosphere of hatred, unprecedented. I know it ia .aid on high authority that we are only hated because we are co strong, the argument apparently being that under former Governments we were feeble and beloved, but that now, because we are so strong, and because we have so vast a body of our national resources locked up seven thousand miles away, and because we have tbe prospect of another great body of our national resources being locked up still further away, because we are now so strong, we are now hated. What aasKrance have we that we *re so strong 1? The noble Marqui*' (Salisbury) words carry no conviction to my mind. The noble Marquis saya that we rely upon our paat history to gain v. a sense of security. Unhappy is the nation that relies upon its past history. Schemes have Been euggested to thia Hous**, but I have never seen the Commander-in- Chief, Lord Wolseley, present to give weight to these assurances. I am bound to say that one sentence from the Comcaander-in-Ohief assuring us that we are amply prepared for all con tingencies would give us more satis ( faction than a thousand speeches to j the Primrose League. j

THE ASH^URTOK (IHABBIA^! SATUftMY, BEPTEMB__R^2^, 1900

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