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POPULAR SCIENCE.
M. Lavard found in Nineveh a magn.
Scent lens of of rock crystal, which F.
David Brewster considered a true opd
cal lens and tho origin of the micro
•cope.
The electric he.dlirtt to, loconotlv.
teems to be a permanent institution. J
. several , roads , . . ,
. on running in
is in use
Cincinnati and Indianapolis,and isbein,
used , experimentally . , ., surburban ii* tram
on a
of the Illinois Central at Chicago. Th
light is wonderfully far-reaching am.'
vivid.
The forecasts of the weather bureau of
f„„c. were verified l,»t i» .m«:
cases out of every hundred, the per
centage having speedily risen from
eightv-one in toSl to eighty-three e in
1882 and to eighty seven iu 1883. Oui
of 189 alarm signals sent to tho ports.
128 r-o were inn. fully mi,.), verified, HriMu,, twentv-four muin were
fairly correct, thirty-seven were inco: _ -
reef > and onlv J two o irales were not fore
seen.
A remarkable effect of low tempera
lure has been pointed • out to the Gins
g ow Philosophical society. At abojt I
122 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, the
flesh of animals . sachas mutton, becomes
i
so exceedingly hard as to ring like
porcelain when struck, and it mil)
readilv rcauity be be crushed crusnea to to aline a line nowder powuer. ,
More singular still, microbia living in 1
the flesh before freezing have been seen
alive after thawing, even after an expos¬
ure of one hundred hours to the intense
cold.
It is said that, the seas of the Austral¬
ian coast are heavier than anywhere else
in the world. For hundreds of miles
black, beetling cliffs, from lour hundred
to six hundred feet high,extend without
an opening of any kind into which a
distressed ship might run for safety.
Round tip b .sc of the. cliffs the crested
hills of angry waves surge and roar,
swept nlong’with terrible force by winds
born at tire southern pole, and which
careering over thousands of miles of sea,
have encountered land here for the first
time.
A reputable scientific authority quotes
the statement that, by careful estimate,
a spider ate four times its weight for
breakfast, nearly nine times its weight
for dinner, thirteen times its weight for
supper, finishing up an ounce, and at 8
v. At., when he was released, ran off in
search of food. At this rate a man of
100 pounds would require the whole of
a fat steer for breakfast, another with a.
half dozen good sheep for dinner, and
two bullocks, eight sheep and four hogs
for supper, with about four barrels of
fresh fish as a lunch before going to hir
club banquet.
A Soap Mine in Wisconsin.
In the central portion of this State in
Waupaca county, says a Milwaukee let¬
ter, a new industry 1ms sprung into ex
istence. Near the shores of the Waupaca
river, a few miles south of the town of
Wcyanwega, some men digging a cellat
discovered a stratum of a peculiar kind
of clayey soil. Some specimens of tht
strange material wore thrown out, and
a farm house was built over the excava
tion then made. Later, an English lan
boiet , at wot k on the ., tarm , belonging , , tv
the honse found lhe pile of strange look
‘
nig soil " Inch had been thrown out, and ,
nl' er examining it, declared it to be a
valuable . , , , substance , . for , scouring gold ,, and ,
silver ware, such as lie had seen dug in
t certain part , of , ,, England. , , Experiment ., . ,
were at once made, and it was found
that , the , substance . would ,, do , just what , ,
the Englishman claimed, and a gentle j I
man named Scoville purchased the house |
from under which the substance w |
taken . , aud , „ twenty . acres of r land . j surround j
ing. Scoville interested some Oshkosh J !
capitalists in the matter, and they pur
chased the right to dig all of the mater
ia! on His land, paying Scoville therefor
-8 ),000. They also engaged Scoville to
dig and prepare the material and ship it !
to Oshkosh. In the latter place it is
being put up in small packages for pol- i |
“ . ........____ purposes, and a soap is . , being . j
manufactured also with the now ingredi
cut as ... the , i...... chief substance of ... it. j
A Soc ; e ! y far lhe Suppression of Slang.
1 he society formed by young women
of Cleveland for the suppression ’ 1 of slan- ‘ 14
is meeting with considerable success,
and its fines are promptly 1 paid 1 bv mem
-
bers, lhe revenue going . to the associated
charities of the citv. The list of tabooed
■
exprcssions is as follows:
You are another. Prettv J nearly •'
Gilly. loumakeme tired
Crank. A'ou make me weary.
Gosh. Snide.
Just boss. Slouch.
Cheese it. Allee samee. i
Monkeying. Bet your life. 1
You can't. Give it up.
Nasty thing. Great heavens.
You are crazy. Oh, mercy. j |
You tramp. Cheese the racket j
You poor thing. Too, too. j |
You nuisance' Chalk it down. I
A’ou arc a slouch. Too thin.
Such a gal. Rats.
Don't mention it. Not much.
AY hat a nerve. Chestnuts.
I should smile. La la.
I should remark. Ah ' here, stay there |
I should snicker. Tata. i
I should titter. Jitn dandy.
1 should murmur. Just great.
I should giggle. Proper caper.
I don't have to. Say nothing.
Hardly ever. Sure. ,
Give us a rest. AVhat a picnic.
!
A German scientist has drawn atter
lion to the fact that the Sutlej, one
the great (dreams of British India.
prohablythe swiftest large river in the
world, having a descent of 12,000 fo«
in 180 mites, ’ an average ef « about «««>«<• *iat- •**» ^
seven feet per mile.
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1SERHQH BY TffliGS ,
The Corn Crib.
Text, Genesis xliii.. 3: “Yo shall not see
out ghastly famine hi Canaan. The cattle
moaning ii. the stall. with Men, women and Not ehil
tn*ii awfully white hun " r. the
"ailing of one crop for one summer but the
foiling ,» of all the crops for seven years. A
nat|( dyingfm . ]., ck „ f t i, a t which is,o com
inon bn your table harvest an 1 field so little appreciated; mill and
the product price of of and and grist anxiety and
oven; the s.v.*at
struggle—'bread! Jacob, the father, has the
last report from tho flour bin and he finds
that everything is out, and he says to his sons:
Jgff (act SfjTASBS there great S crib ‘JT in Egypt. &
was was a corn
The people of Egypt have been large y taxed
in all ages, at the present time paying between
seventy aud eighty per cent, No of their pro¬
ducts to the government wonder in that
time they had a large corn-crib and it was
full, 'i o that crib they came from the re
: «wns around about-tho.se who were tarnished
-turn* paying for tile coni in money; when
the money wm exhausted paying for the torn
sheep and cattle and horses and camels;
and when they wore exhausted then selling
their own bodies and their families into
slavery.
The morning for starting out on the
erusado tor bread lias arrived. Jacob gets
Ins family up very early. Rut before >ho
alder sous start they say something that
makes him tremble with emotion from
head to foot and burst into tears. The
lact was that these elder sons had once
^^been lord of tho corn-crib treaMmmvhatVoSghly,^ supplying them with
c°>m, but saying at the close of the interview:
-‘Now, you need not come back here for any
than more com unless you bring something better
money—even Ait! your younger brother Ben¬
jamin.” Benjamin—that very name was
suggestive died of all tenderness. The mother had
at the birth of that son—a spirit coming
and thought another spirit going—and tho very
of partin'., witn Benjamin must have
been a heart break. The keeper of this corn
nb nevertheless says to these older sous:
“There is no need of your coming up here any
nnve.for corn, unless dsiriing.” you can bring Benja¬
min, your father's Now, Jacob and
nis what family very it much needed bread; but
a The struggle would be to give up this
son. < inentals are very demonstrative
in their grief, and 1 hear the outwailing of
tiie father ns these older sons keep reiterating
in his ears the announcement of the Egyptian
tord: “ Ye shall not see my face unless your
brother he with you.” “Why did yon tell
them you had a brother?” said the old man,
complaining father,” they said, and “he chiding asked them. “Why,
j us all about our
amily, and we had no idea he would make
j any ‘No use such of demand asking on me,” us said as he the has father, made.” “I
i
’annot, X will not give up Benjamin. ” The
fact was that the old mau had lost wife and
hiUlrcn; and I have been told that wdien there
Luts been a 1) -reavement iu a household and a
child taken, it makes the other children iu
the household more precious. So the day for
departure horrors was adjourned and adjourned.
•Still the of tho famine increased, and
louder moaned the cattle and wider open
cracked the earth and more pallid became
the checks, until Jacob in despair cried out to
his sons: “Take Benjamin and be off.” The
older sons tried to cheer up their father. They
said: “We havo strong arms and a stout
heart, and no luma will come to Benjamin.
We'll see that lie gets back again. Farewell,”
said tho young men to the father,in a tone of
assumed good-cheer. “F a r-e-w o-l-l!” said
tiie old man; for that word has more quavers
iii it when pronouned by tiie aged than by the
young.
Well, the bread party—the bread embassy
—drives up in front ot the corn crib of Egypt.
Those corn-cribs are till d with wheat ami
barley and lorn in (lie husk, for modern
travelers Egypt, tell in these there lands, is both in Canaan and
us corn t here correspond¬
ing with our Indian maize. Huzza! ‘The
journey is ended. The lord of the corn-crib,
who is also the prime minister, comes down
to these arrived travelers and says: “Dine
with me to-day. How is your father? Is this
Benjamin, I demanded?” the younger The brother, whose pres¬
ence travelers are intro¬
duced into the palace. They are worn and be
dusted of the way, aud servants come in
with a basin of water in one hand and a
towel in the other and kneel down before
these newly arrived travelers, washing off the
dust of the way. Tiie butchers*and poulterers
and caterers of the prime ministers prepare
the repast. The guests are seated in small
groups, two or three at a table, tiie food on a
tray; all the luxuries from imperial gardens
anti orchards aud aquariums and aviaries are
brought platter. there Now and are filling the chalice and
is the time for this prime mm
ister if he has a grudge against Benjamin to
show it. Will he kill him now that lie has
him in his hands? Oh, no! This lord of the
-orn-crib is seated at his own table, and
looks over to the tables of his guests;
and ho sends a portion to each of them, but
tends a larger portion to Benjamin, or, a,
Bible quaintly puis it: “Benjamin’s mes
was five times so much as any of theirs.” Be
,uiok and send word back with the swiftest
-'arnel to Canaan to old Jacob that Benja
nin is well; all is well: he is faring sumptu
ously; the Egyptian lord did not mean
•nil "nt dyr Jife^ and when death; he announced but. he meant deliverance that
tons on
iay; wether 'Yeshall with not see my tace unless your
be you.’”
^Voll, my friends, this world is famine
,tro. k of sin. It ders not yield a single croj
a.'solid satisfaction, it is dying. It is hunger
bitten. 'the 'a t that- it docs not, cann ‘
food a man’s heart, was well illustrated in the
life of the English comedian. All the world
honored him—did everything for him
that the world could do. He
applauded was applauded United in England States. and
iu the He
rou d tin nations into laughter. He had ao
equal. And yet, although many people sup
! !l, ud him entirely happyand that this world
was completely satiating his soul, he sits
down and writes: “ I never iu my life put on
a nmv hat that it did not rain and ruin it. I
never went out iu a shabby coat because it
Choice was raining and thought all who had the
would keep indoors, that the sun did
not burst forth in its strength and bring out I
with it alt the butterflies of fashion whom I
knew and who knew me, I never consented
to a cept a part and acted, out of kindness to
another, that 1 did not get hissed by the pub
lie and cut by the writer. I could not take
a drive for a few minutes with Terry without
broken, overturned though and friend having my elbow-bone
my got off unharmed,
I could not make a covenant with Arnold,
" h ich f thought was to make my fortune,
without , making lus instead, than in an in
credible space of time—1 think thirteen
months—I earned for him twenty thousand !
pounds and for myself one. I am persuaded i
that it 1 were to set upas a beggar, every
one in my neighborhood would leave off eat
ing bread.” .
That was the lament of the world’s come
diauand joker. All unhappy. The world j
did do, and everything yet in for his Lord last moment Bryon that he it asks could j |
friend a
to come and sit down by him aud read
as most appropriate to his case the story of I
“The H eeding Heart.” Rorrigiano, the ;
sculptor, executed after months of care aud |
carving “ The Madonna and the Child.” The I
royal body that family looked came in and admired it. Every
ac it was in ecstasy; but |
one.day, ration, because a ter ail he that did toil and all that admt- j I
not get as much com
pensatioa ior his work as he had expected, I
lie tome a m illet and dashed the exquisite sculp
ture into atoms. The world is poor compeusa- j
tion, poor satsfa eiort, poor solace. Famine, j
famine mall the earth; not for seven years, |
tint for ivO I. Rut. blessed he G.*l, there tsa
gi a’ corn-crib. The Lord built it. It is
n» r mother land. It is a large place An I
onset once measured it and as far as I can
caUulate it iu our phrase that corn crib is
Row miles long and I.50J broad and 1.500 I
itl ' i fuIb 1 " ood i°r all nations, j
- Uh,- say the people, “we will j
start right
away and get tins supply for our souls” But
stop a moment, for trum the keeper of that • |
corn crib there cocas this word ex^pt savins- yo^
“You shall „■>: see mv fare
brother he with you. In other words there i
is no such thin- as wttins from hmnn unites ^ i
do,, and c abort and e-nia! lhe LoTd
bring with us our divioe Broths the !
\ ! butoSm^iuh uJ^vteeJre^
all the graiuti ieg of heaven will swing open
the King i d at the tal.le; and while the
Loni ot heaven is aoporUoniag from his own
table to other tables He will not forget us
and then and there itwulbe found that our
Ben jamin’s mess is larger than all the others,
for so it ought to be, “Worthy is the Lamb
that was slain to receive blessing aud riches
ami honor ami glory and power.” Every frank
1 want to make three points. acknowledge
and common sense man will
himself to be a sinner. What aro you g. ing
to do with your sins? Have them pardon* of God. 1,
you say How? Through the mercy God?
What do you mean by tho mercy of
Is it the letting down of a bar for the ad¬
mission of all without respect to character?
He not desorilied. I see a soul coming up to
the gate of mercy and knocking at the corn
crib of heavenly supply; alone?” and The a voice sinner from
wil bin says: Are vou re¬
plies: “All alone.’ Th) voice from within
says: “you sh dl not sea my pardoning face
unless yourdivine brother the Lord Jesus be
with you.” Oil, that is the point at which so
many are discomfittfd. There is no mercy
Irom God except through Je.us Christ.
Coming with him wo are aorepte l Coming
without him we are rejected. Peter the put high it
right in his great sermon before
priests when he thundered forth: “Neither is
there salvation in any other. There is no
oilier name given under heaven among man
whereby wo may be saved.” Oh, anxious
sinner, oil, dying sinner, oh, lost sinner. All
you have got to do is to have this divine
Benjamin along with you. Side by side of
coming to tiie gate, all the storehouses
heaven will swing open bufore your anxious
soul. Am I right iu calling Jesus enough Benjamin?
Oh, yes; Rachel lived only long to
give a name io that child, and with a dying
kiss she called him Benoni. Afterward
Jacob changed his name and he called him
Benjamin. The meaning of the name she
gave was “Son of my Pain.” The meaning
of lhe name tho father gave was “Son of my
Right hand.” Aud was not Christ the son of
pain? All the sorrows o t Rachel in that
hour when she gave hor child over into lit©
ban Is of strangers was nothing compared
with tho struggle of God when lie gave up
his only son, the omnipotent God in a birth
throe! Ami was not Right Christ Hand. appropriately Did not
called son of the
.Stephen look into heaven and see him stand¬
ing at tho right hand of God? And does not
Raul speak of him as standing at tha right
hand of God making Son intercession for usi
Oh, Benjamin—Jesus! of Rang! Bon of
Victory! The stirred deepest emotions sound of our of souls that
ought to be To-night at tho
nomenclature. iu your prayers
plead his tears, his sufferings, do it his all tho sorrows,
liis death. If you relus© to corn
cribs and the palaces of heaven will bo bolted
and barred against your soul, ami a
voice from the throne shall stun you with the
announcement: “You shall not see my face
unless your brother bo with you.”
My text also suggests the reason why so
many people do not gef any real comfort.
You meet ten people, nine ef them are in
need of some kind of condolence. There is
something in their health, or in their state,or
in their domestic condition that demands
sympathy. And yet IhemoBt of the world’s
sympathy amounts to absolutely molhiug.
l'eople go to the wrong crib or they go in the
wrong way. When the plague was in Rome
a great many years themselves ago, there were eighty with
men who chanted to death
tiie litanies of Gregory the Great—literally
chanted themselves to death—and yet it did
not stop tiie plague. > And all tho music of
this world cannot, halt the plague of the hu¬
man heart. 1 come to some one whoso it.il
•ments are chronic and I sav: “In heavon
you will never be sick,” That does not give
you much comfort; what you want is a
soothing Lost power have tor your present distress. I
children, you? I come to you,
tell you that in ten years perhaps you will
meet those loved ones before tiie throne of
God. But there is but little condolence in
that. One day is a year without them, and
ten years is tx small eternity. What you
want is a sympathy now—present help. I
come to those of you who have lo.^t dear
friends and say: “Try to forget them. Do
not How keep the departed them always in your mind. ’
in the can you lorget and when every figure
carpet, every book, and every
picture and every room calls out their name.
.Suppose 1 come to you and say,by way of st$, con
tloleii o: “God is wise.” “Uh,” you
‘that gives me no help.” Suppose I come to
you and say: “God irom all eternity has ar¬
ranged tins trouble.” “Ah,” you say, “that
does me no good.’ Then I say: “With the
swift feet ot prayer go direct to the corn
crib for a heavenly supply.” You go.
Yon say: “Lord, help rue; Lord, cum
fort me. ” But no help yet. No comfort yet.
It is alt dark, What is the ma ter? I have
found you ought to go to God and say: “Here,
oh, Lord, are the wounds of my soul and I
bring with mo the wounded Jesus. Let His
wounds pay for my wounds, His bereave¬
ments for my bereavements, His loneliness for
my loneliness, His heart-break for my heart¬
break. Ok,*God, for tho sake of the Lord
Jesus Christ, the God, the man, the Benja¬
min, the broth r—deliver my agonized soul.
Uh, Jc.-us of the weary foot, ease my latigue.
Oh, head. Jesus of Jesus the aching head, heal my aching
the Oh, of the the Bethany sisters, roll
away stone iroin door ol our grave.”
That is tho kind of prayer that brings help,
and yet how many of you are getting no help
m all, for the reason that there is in your soul,
perhaps, a secret trouble. You may never
have mentioned it to a single human ear, or
you may have mentioned it to some one wiio
is now gone away and that great sorrow is
still in your soul. After Washington
Irving was dead, they found a little box that
contained a braid of hair and miniature and
the name of Matilda Hoffman, and a mem¬
orandum ot her d-it.li and a remark some
thing blank like this: “'lhe world alter that was a
to me. I wont into the country, but
found no peace in solitude. I tried to go into
society but I found no peace into society,
i Here has been a horror hanging over me oy
night and by day and I am afraid to be alone. ”
How many unuttered troubles at this hour!
No human ear lias ever heard that sorrow.
troubled sou!, 1 want to fell you that
there is one salve that can cure tho Wuiinds
of the heart and that is the salve made out of
the tears of a sympathetic Jesus. And yet
some of yoa will not take this solace; and
you try chloral and you try morphine and you
try strong drink anil you try change of scene
and you try new business assoeia
tions. and anything and everything
ratiier than to take the Di
vine gested t tompanionship and sympathy sug¬
by :ho words of my text wueu it says:
“ \ on shall not see my face again unless
brother be wiih you.” Oh, that all might your
derstan i of and'depth tin
something breadth the height
and length aud and immensity and
affinity of God’s eternal consolations I
I go further and find in my subject a hint
as to why so many people has fail of heaven. Wo
are told that heaven twelve gates, and
some people infer without from that fact that all the
people wiiI but go in reference totheir
past life; what is tho use of having a
gato that is not sometimes to he shut? The
swinging of a gate implies that our entrance
i ;to heaven is conditional, it is not a mone
tary condition. If we come to the door of an
exquisite concert we for are not surprised that
we must pav a fee, we know that tine,
onrtliiymusicisexpensivo;butnlltheorato- heaven
lies of cost nothing. Heaven pays
nothing for its music. It is all free. There
is nothing to be paid at that door for en
trance; but the condition of our getting into
heaven is our bringing our divine Benjamin
along with us. L)o you notice how often
dying people call upon Jesus? Itisthe usual
payer offered more than all the other prayers
One put together: congregation “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
ot my when asked in the
closing moments of ?jJ. his k life, “Do you know
y “k ° U tiCK>i V*.*’ bya ye Lord ”r Jesus you ’ Uod bloss
' • - recelvo
spirit,” closing and he was gone. Oh. yes; in the
moments of our life we must have a
Christ to call upon. If Jacob’s sons hadgone
up toward Egypt and had gone with the very
finest equipage and had not taken Benjamin
should along with them, and to the question they
have been obliged to answer: “Sir, we
didn’t bring him, as father could not let him
go; we didn’t want to be bothered with him ”
A voice from within would have said: “Go
away front us. You shall not have anv
of this supply. You shall not see my face be
cause your brother is not with you. ’’ Audit
we come up toward the door of heaven at
last , though we come from ail luxuriance and
brilliancy of surroundings, and knock for ad
mittance, and it is found that Christ Is not
with us, the police of heaven will beat us
back from the bread-house,saying:- “Depart,
Jowarf ^yptTad tost^US °n«fc h C
war .L,,i,i if they l ad wpeihied exoen lwl their last snekel; i
if ZSZ ofTt^and^
Sa’ Beniamin t'C'j min w« was with with thi them, all .TTu the f store- ?" nd
An'l , mV*'* T" S T,' bt
g °P* n ' f ” re
by lataI f ‘» s,,a,ty we “ay be
, 1
‘
and fa!f into too ^
V.....it seems that all the corn-cribs of
^ ^^ionla^d^
U* B>ace, seated at His table,
i ; . , ^ —".tc?*!t tmd
• .rs seated at their table,
tondted. and
i’V. ’ seated at our table.
‘' U>1 sua.l pass a portion from hie table to
ours, ami than, while we think of the fact
we be
of His soul ftu l been satisfied, aadnot at
all jealous iw'L if it be loimd that our divine Ben
jamin’s is liv times larger than all the
rest. Hail anointed of the Lord! Thou art
famine -SXna. « * u banquets Christ spread, or
If there were two
and to one of them only you might go,
you might stand and think for a
good while as to which invitation you had
better accept; but hereit is feastingor star
vation. If there were two mansions offered
and you might have only one, you might l
think for a tong while gift saying: and perhaps “Perhaps I hr
had better accept this
better paK accent that gift,” ’and hut it is a choice bo
tween of light hovels of despair.
If it were a choice between oratorios you
s&m^taggz:£2 fearwpRj&rWBs
soil into the harbor or drive on the rocks'
What shall "e destiny of all my audi
through and the puly thjs mormon source of hasstownyoyo^ supply . *ttd yet some n^
y thev Wl te them
as ** 1JU ^ 1 1
pocket certificate _ from the throne of F v heaven
a
warrantuig that they would have a hundred
years yet in winch to discuss this question
and iloi l.io A. Tiieie isbut a step between
>ou tin 1 death. i lune is bat a stop boi.ween
y<,u and the loss ofc an eternal soul. And so
1 m e. you and put my ban l on your shoul
der, and I beg you to accept Christ records-the and pre
Ii'c f<>r heaven. Oh, the two
io drd mat ..,i earth ami the record mail® in
Icc van. Oh what a tremendous moment this I
s,d mercy ciormg. Spirit Messenger his angels last
r ‘t'. "-tur y \\w Holy ceasing
P* ,l H> > h i ho irt. 1 h9 shadows of the efcei -
cm! world dropping; wh'lo lor some the
ranari. s of t.o l are shut and the eternal
.amino lias b run. “Are shall not see my
la, 1 .' < x cp; your brother be with you.
<>r IT Hudson " Bay. „
The Exploration
In in the the month mm. tli of ot February l toniarj last last are- a v
port was laid before the pailiamenc ot
( anada detailing the results of an expe
dition dispatched by the government of
that country particularly for the purpose
‘ nf
ol ... inquiring into the navigability of
Hudson strait and bay, and, at the same
time, of gathering information concern
ing the resources of that region, and its
availability ns a field for settled habita
tnni. i his report . represents . the ,, first ,
properly organized attempt that has ever
been made to pierce the secrets of Hud
son bay for the public benefit.
It. iv lg at first blush i i. 10 u n „ 00 f ,r V, nm^pr.
stand why this mighty expanse of water,
occupying the peculiarly important posi
tion that it.does, should remain for so
many - generations comparatively /•,. unex
plored, , wholly unutilized, , except as
and
hunting ground for a tew New Bedford
whalers, or a liiedum of easy communi
* half dozen
cation betwen some
Company. Although f called «.,»*- a bay, it ,«”,v is
really an inland sea, 1,000 miles in length
by 000 in width having thus an area of
about 500,000 square ah miles, or quite h half
t.iat .i . ol • . tfie ’ Mediterranean. „. Jt j. diains . • an
expanse of country spreading out more
than 2,000 miles from east to west, and
1,500 from north to south, or an area of
Intolt.m.J».lc
waters feeders which . take their rise
pour Mountains the and
in the Rocky on west
in Labrador on the east, while southward
it stretches out its river-roots away below
t.ie forty-ninth parallel which until sends the} tap the
snme lake-source a stream
into the Gulf of Mexico. Despite its dis
tance n irthward, its blue waves are never
bound by icy fetters, and its broad gate
way to the Atlantic is certainly naviga¬
ble four months out of tho year, and
possiblv all the year round to properly
equipped steamships. Its depths abound
in finny wealth, from the mammoth
whale to tile tiny caplin, its shores are
serrated by numerous streams, some nav¬
igable for long distances inland, and all
stocked with the finest of fresh-water
fish, and clothed as to their banks with
valuable timber ready for the lumber
man’s axe. Its islands are rich in miu
era! ore of many kinds. The country
whose margin its tides lave is well
adapted for pasturage, while all around
the region swarms with animals and
birds whose flesh or fur renders their
chase a highly lucrative employe ’~‘.t.—
I’opular Science Mordhlu.
Elephants Like Human Beings.
An , elephant , , , is . nobody , , , s fool , , says a
tram r m the Bridgeport JScws. They re
very like human beings, borne of them
are good natured and some are ugly.
I Lev re just like children. When 1 have
them out m the morning for dress re
hearsal they’re as quick as cats, minding
almost before the word is out ot my
month, but m the afternoon they are
gaping tins way and that, doing every
thing but attending to business, because
they know that I won’t strike them be
fore a crowd of spectators. They hate
to take medicine, too, unless it has a lit
tie of the “craythur’ m it. Are ele
plianu ever sick? Oh, yes; they often
nave the colic. When they begin to
doulfle up I give ’em a dose of five or six
gallons of rum and ginger. About five
gallons of rum and wlnsky are prescribed
lor the chills. Solid drugs are given in
pills. A pill eight inches in diameter
and containing $(i worth of quinine does
llut ln.siness for a cold, while a pepsin
pill is given when one gets off his feed.
1 gave Jtino over $50 worth of quinine
in one fit of sickness. They don’t like
pills as well as the whisky, and it’s a
situation Sometimes we cut out the mid
(ily of a turnip and put the drugs inside
the vegetable.
Pierce anil the Poker Players.
An “Old Stager’ tells the following
story to the Washington correspondent
of the Cleveland (O.) Isa-ter : "It was
on a hot July evening away back iu the
fifties. Two Senators and myself were
seated with our coats off in the rooms of
Senator Clemens of Alabama, having a
quiet game of poker. It was a game of
five-cent ante, an 1 the coins were lying
on the ta^le, when a gentle knock was
heard at the door, Senator Cleme s
yelled out in a stentorian tone, ‘Come
in." Prank and the door Opened and in walked
Pierce, then President of the
l nited States. As we saw him we all
pn-hfit our chairs back from the table
and arose to put on our coats as a mark
of respect, but President Pierce said,
Don’t disturb yourselves, gentlemen. I
have just come in to make a social call
upon my friend Mr. Clemens, and I do
not want to interrupt your game.’ No
one stirred, anti Mr. Pierce sat down and
chatted a few moments with us and then
aro.-e to go. As he left the room he
asketl some questions as to how the
game was going, and said, "I am very*
font! os cards myself, anti I wish 1 could
stop an i take a hand with you, but I
have other engagements, aad it will not
be possible.’ With this he left. Such
an action in this day would be remarked
up n all over the country. In 1850 it
w** accented as a matter of course."’
PLAGUE-STRICKEN PLYMOUTH.
iow pusLi % I =fe^ iRBcTED to
Chester {.V. 1'.) Corrcnpondene* Mianapoli,
S ntincl.
“Judge,” said a young lawyer to a very ,
lecassiul senior, “Tell me the secret of your ,
' hut ‘'S'VSS^lXXrr. I will it to 1, condition . 1,1. that 1
; give you on
you pay all my bills during tk s session of
court.
Agreed, sir,” said the , junior . .
“Evidence, indisputable evidence- f
the month the Judge lemi. ,
At end of the
ad the young man ot ins promise.
“i recall no such promise.
“Ah, but you made it.
“Your evidence, please' witnesses,
And the judge, not having any
lost a case for once I
most successful because always backed by
d ° you usor
“I lisplay, reading matter and paragraphs
cabinet
andEto^
wo
publish 1 Vannot we have thousands like them
wh iell wo use. ‘Why not?’ Let me
tell you. ‘Warner’s safe cure’ has probab’v female
been the most auo6es«f al me -'Heine for
diaorders ever rt . :i , 0V ered. We have testimo
, ual , froal ladi ,. s of the highest fliom. rank, but Like- it
wollld be indeii , a te to publish lawyers, clergymen,
wis0 many statesmen,
| ^ oc tors 0 worldwide fame have been cured,
;jut W0 can OI ,iy re fer to such persons in the
most -ti(d5s ^ uait i e d terms, as we do in our reading
ai ”
, “Are tbes? reading articles successful?”
“When read they j, make such an impression
, )at wh the Vv days > 0 f ill health draw
nigh they are remembered, and Wamer’ssafe
,-ure is used ”
| <4 NTo sir. it is not necessary now, as at first,
to do such constant and extensive advertising.
A meritorious medicine soils itself after its
merits are known. We present just evidence
enough to disarm skeptics and to impress the
merits of the remedies upon new consumers.
We feel it to be our duty to do this. Hence,
best to accomplish our mission of healing the
^ w<j haw t() USQ (h , reat u„ s . a rticle style.
, p e0 p; e WO u’t rea 1 j.lain testimonials.”
“Yes, sir, thousands admit that had they
not learned of Warner’s sa e cure through
this clever style .they would still be ailing
and still mioovenshing ’. th “mseive3 in feoito
unsu , vess , ul . a . litio l:n . s .- It WO uld do
your soul gord to read tiia letters of thanks
giving we gut from mothers grateful Warner’s for the
! perfect success which ntt -n.ls safe
uro when used for children, an l the sur
prised jj gratification wlncli men an 1 women of
0 er years a id impaired vigor, testify to tho
youthful feelings restore i to them by the
same means.”
j ‘«»«e S 0 ™ 1 eff «? ts permanent?” .
1 Ot all tuo cases of ki.i-ioy, liver, urinary
: and female diseasdi we have cured, not two
per cent, of them report a return of their
disorders. Who else can show such-a re
cord?”
“U hat is the so ret of Warner’s safe cure
! £J. permamntly reaching so many serious dis
devs 5’
* i will explain by an illustration: The
little town of Plymouth, Pa,, has been
I plague stricken for several months because
; j s.’ss^a sz'xrsrjssn
physical ail the blood well-being. If poisoned polluted by and disease,
becomes every
organ is affected and Hus great danger
threatens ever,, one who neglects to treat
hi inseif promptly. I was nearly dead my
se if of oxtreme kidney disease, but what is
now Warner’s safe cure cured me, and I
know it is tho only remedy in the world that
can cure such disorders , for I tried every
it tho worid SS.SJSK.SS&l only by restoring the kid
t ,,
noys and liver can disease leave the blood
and the system."
A celebrated sanitarian physician once
success 0 f Warner's safe cure is that it is sov
erign over all kidney, liver and urinary dis
eases, which primarily or secondarily make
up the majority of human ailments. I,ike all
T ^itands
deservedly high in Rochester, and it is cer¬
tainly matter of congratulation that merit
j has lieen recognized all over the world, and
that this success has been unqualifiedly de¬
served. Rii.N Point.
A Newfoundland Doy.
There seems to be a sort of love be¬
tween dogs and children, and every
caper of the animal intere.-ts them to a
remarkable degree. A short time ago,
i while sitting upon the piazza of the La
Pierre Hotel at Ocean Grove on the New
i Jersey coast, I witnessed a dog incident i
j which, if I had not seen it with my own
| eves I could n >t have believed possible,
Two little boys and a Newfoundland dog
had a running match around one of the
squares opposite the hotel. 'I hey started
from tlie seashore and ran with the fleet
ne>s of young deer. The first heat was
won by the dog, who manifested great
flight by baiking and wagging his tail
a mid shim's of laughter from the little
'
felimv s d(>8e at his hee ls. i lien a second
^ contest took place, and when they
came
arullnd nEain one of lhe p oys was ahe ad
; twenty 'boy f.et, the dog followed and the
ot her was behind, Just as the first
*b 0 ]| y turned the c< rner be stumbled aud
fe fl at f . n hig stomach. The dog was
running at full speed, and tumbled over
j the ,b boy. Quick ss thought he turned
t0 e bov, lifted placed his paws under his
i flrm8 and him upon his feet The
sight of the dog, standing on his hind
feet, with the bov erect in I is paws, is
; something to lie long remembered. I\,
! cap the climax, the dog then picked n .
t h e bay’s hat in his mouth and scampered
offin a pi vful manner, and the bov had
j a hearty laugh and shout and joined in
the chase
BrR.VED Ui>.—John Bergormever, ot
Holmeaburg, Pa., secreted $1,800 it
Winds and 8200 in gold in the eushioi.
of a ehatr in his house. The heat of
the stove -pipe set the wood-work of the
room on fire, and the chair, which stood
SAtS’KS’ffil&Kfc
Don’t Discharge your Doctor
tii But tell him frankly you are
mi getting desperate. Perhaps he
will review his treatment, and
M •/up* 1 advise a trial of
. Ayer's
l max "A, Sarsaparilla.
In this case, as in many others,
the change worked wonders : —
lr Three years ago I suffered greatly from
U Liver Complaint. General Debility, Los*
U-: of Appetite, and Headache; my stomach
kw was disordered, and. although I ato
__ sparingly, of carefully selected food, I vva*
<sr i was iu constant troubled distress with sleeplessness, from indigestion. and be¬ I
came so emaciated and feeble that I was
\ A unable to leave my room. After remain¬
ing in this reduced condition over a
o ;* cm month, medicines doctor’s and prescribed receiving consent to no for benefit me, trial 1 ot from obtained Ayer’s the
_____ my a
i Sarsaparilla. Before I had finished the
first bottle of this medicine I began to im¬
v] cc prove. By its continued use the troubles
with my liver and stomach gradually dis¬
appeared. and my appetite and strength
returned. After taking eight bottles my
health was fully restored, and I am again
able to attend to my business.— Isaac D.
Yarrington, Bunker Ilill at., Charlestown
Copyrighutd District, Boston, Mass.
For all diaorders of the Blood, use
Fref*xed Ayer’s Sarsaparilla.
by Dr J. C. Ayer St Co., Loweil, Maw. Sold ly Drugfciet*. Price $1; m bottle., $3.
A Little Pharisee.
^ our
nue * ‘ /• t t l iat ma
.
bne is a gm aua natural i ->*u part of ag . .
itiB not as a ■
ce When girls grow
j ie( . j^ air or j, er tongue.
conceit. to-— ome
. the
along in a man s life and . knocks knocks ' C n
ceit out of him. Tlie child h
oetreiully instructed in praying Most .
t ( .i,;| l ( lrcn are They y are taught in early
- ■ in that
life that they have an inn influence e
direction and it never forsakes the ,
although they may cease all exercise oi
it, ll.is i his child chtId ^ lias been ^ to d whom to
pray for and heir . doJ So
»
«*«•*•■*»” loe ** C»Q
“Hear mb,” said a forty line Puff to a
Standing Ad. aoolumu long, “Here you
are yet. I always find you in the same »
old place. What are you doing ?” “I
am making $1,500 a year for the Paper,
replied the Standing Ad. “What are
you doing?” "Me? Oh, I am whoop¬
ing it up hot ior a mau who borrows
the paper aud advertises on the fences.”
A FORCIBLE ARGUMENT.
"What is the matter, James? What
makes you limp ?” inquired Smith.
“Had a disagreement with my boss
the other day. I struck for more
wages. ”
did he do? Did . , he agree
“What
to it ?”
“No; he kicked.”— Graphic.
ejgsatsssr&xi teacher the fa^t that for a very lon^ *
his is
i 010 Dr. Pierce’s ‘‘Gohleu Medical Discovery
iias been the prince of liver correctives and
blood purifiers, bei ig the household physician
f the poor man, and the able consulting phy¬ all
sician to the rich patient, and praised by in all
or its magnificent service and efficacy
liseases of a chronic nature, as malarial
toisoning, ailments of the respiratory and di
;estive systems, liver disease, and in all cases
vhere the use of an alterative remedy is indi¬
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Sleep:—Tho tliief that robs us of our time,
giving us health in exchange.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac
Thompson’s Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c
Clouds:—The curtains of light, as sorrows
are of joy.
_
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When you speak to a person, look him in the
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Oellmt© Diseases promptly,
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three letter stamps for large illustrated trea¬
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Fool:—One who shows his folly and doesn’t
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_
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cured bv using Juniper Tar Soap, made by Caa
nelh Hazard A Co.. New York.
Wlicn you retire to bed, think over what you
have been doing through the day.
An Only Daughter Cured of Consumption.
When death was hourly expected failed from and Con¬ Dr.
sumption, all remedies hating accidentally
H. James was experimenting, he
made a preparation of Indian Hemp, which
cured hisnnly child, and now gives this reeijie
on receipt of st amps to pay expenses. Hemp
also cures night sw, a s. nausea at the stom¬
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Good company and good conversation are the
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Enter* at all
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It does not injure the cause headnolie, or
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Father T .1. IlErLL.T, the patriotic, and scholarly
Catholic Divine, of Arkansas says:
“I have used Brown’s Iron Bitters with the. prreat
est satisfaction for Malaria, and as a preventive of
Chills and like diseases, and will always keep it on
hand «s a ready friend.”
Genuine hag above trade mark and crossed red lines
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via, Headache and Toothache, Burns a Scalds,
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would require a week by any other method, The
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and packages, liquid The Sue., or 24 trial 2oz. package, when
reduced to form, will fill bottles, which
arc worth at retail, Agents ran coin money sell¬
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