North Georgia times. (Spring Place, Ga.) 1879-1891, July 04, 1889, Image 4
KEY. DIt. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject s “Christ the Village Lad.” Text: “And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of Ood was upon Him." —Luke H.,'40. About Christ os a village lad I speak. There is for the most part a silence more than eighteen infancy and centuries manhood. long about What Christ kind of between boy a was He? Was Ho a genuine boy at all, or did there settle upon Him from the start all the intensities of martydom? little We have on this and subject only and a there guessing, a few surmises, here an unimportant ‘‘per¬ haps.” Concerning sides what have bounded whole that boy¬ hood on both we libraries of books and whole galleries of canvas and sculpture. But and pencil pen and chisel have with few lad. exceptions Yet by three passed conjoined by Christ the village evidences I think we can come to as accurate an idea of wbat Christ was as a boy as we can of what Christ was a* a man. First, we have the brief Bible account. Then we have tho prolonged account of what Christ was at thirty years of ago. Now you and have only to minify He that account somewhat you find what was at ten years of age. guine Temperaments temperament never change. A san¬ never becomes a phleg¬ matic temperament. A nervous tempera¬ ment never becomes a lymphatic tempera¬ ment. ambitions, Religion but it changes is the one’s affections and same old tempera¬ ment acting in a different direction. As Christ had no religious change. He was as a lad what He was as a man, only on not so largo a scale. When all tradition and all art an if all history represent Him as a blonde with golden hair I know Ho was iu boyhood u blonde. We have, beside, an uninspired book that was for the first three or four centuries after Christ's appearance received by many ns longed inspired and which gives pro¬ account of Christ’s boy¬ hood. Some of it may be true, most of it may lie li ne, none of it may bo true. It may lie partly built on facts, or by the passage of tho ages, some real facts may have been distorted. But because a book is not divinely inspired wo are not therefore to conclude that there are “Conquest not true Mexico” things in it. Prescott’s of was not inspired, hut wq believe it although it may contain mis takes. inspired, Mneaulay’x but “History of England” was not wo believe it although it may have been marred with many errors. The so-called apocryphal Gospel in which the boyhood lieve he of divinely Christ is inspired, dwelt upon I do not be¬ to and yet It may present facts worthy of consideration. Because it represents the boy Christ as performing miracles some have overthrown that wholo apocryphal that hook. But what right have you to say Christ did not poforni miracles at ton years of age as well as at thirty? Ho was in boyhood ns certainly divine as in man¬ hood. Then while a lad Ho must have hail the (lower to work miracles, whether He ilid or not work thorn, When, hav ing reached manhood, Christ turned water into wine that was said to bo tho beginning of miracles. But that may mean that it was the beginning of that series of manhood miracles. In a word, I think that tho Now Testament is only a small transcript of what Jesus did and said. Indeed, the Bible declares positively that if all Christ did and said were written tho world would not contain the books. So wo are at liberty to believe or reject those parts of the apocryphal lx>y Christ with Gospel which say that when the His mother passed a band of thieves He told His mother that two or them, Dumaclius and Titus by name, would be tho two thieves who afterward would expire on crosses beside Him. Was that more wonder¬ ful than soma of Chirst’s manhood pro¬ phesies that tho ? Or tho uninspired story spring boy tho Christ made a fountain from roots of a sycamore tree so that His mother washed His coat in the stream —was that more unbelievable than tho man¬ hood miracle that changed common water into a marriage beverage? Or the uninspired story that two sick children were recovered by washed? bathing Was in tho water where Christ had that more wonderful than the manhood miracle by which tho woman twelve years made a straight complete by invalid touching should have been tho fringe of Christ’s coat? In other words, while! do not believe that any of the so-called apocryphal Now Testa¬ ment is inspired, I believe much of it is truo: just which ils I believo a thousand books, just like ares Christ. divinely Justus inspired. Much of it was certain as tho man Christ was the most of tho time getting men out of trouble, I think that the boy Christ was the most of the time getting boys out of trouble. 1 have declared to you this day a boys’ Christ. And the world wants such a one. He did not sit around moping over what was to be, or what was. From tho wav iu which natural objects enwreathed themselves into His sermons after Ho had be¬ come a man i conclude there was not a rock or a hill or a cavern or a tree for miles around that Ho was not familiar with in childhood. He had cautiously felt His way down into the caves and had with lithe anil agile limb gained a (siise on nnaiy a high tree top. Ilis boyhood was passed among grand scenery as most all the great natures havo passed early life among the mountains. They may live now on the Hats, but they passed tho receptive days of ladhood among the hills. Among the mountains of New Hampshire, or the mountains of Virginia, or tho moun¬ tains of Kentucky,or the mountains of Swit¬ zerland, or Italy, or Austria, or Scotland, or mountains as high and rugged os they, many of the world’s thrilling biographies began. Our Lord s boyhood was passed in a neigh liorhood twelve hundred loot abovo the level of the sea and surrounded by mountains five or six hundred feet still higher. Before it could shine on tin- village where this boy slept the sun lmd to climb far enough up to look over hills that held their heads far aloft. From yonder height His eye at one sweep took in the mighty scoop of the valleys and with another sweep took in tin* Mediterranean Sea, nail you hear the grandeur of tho cliffs anil the surge of the great waters in His match¬ less sermonology. One day 1 see that divine brownod boy, the wind flurrying His hair over Hissun looking forohoad, standing on n hill top oiT upon Lake Tiburias, ou which at one time according to profane history arc, not four hundred, four thousand ships. Au¬ thors havo taken pains to say that Christ was not affected by these surroundings, and that Ho from within lived outward and independ¬ ent of circumstances. So fur from that be¬ ing true. Ho was the most sensitive and Ixiing that e cor walked tho earth, if a palo invalid's ■ weak finger could not touch ”is robe without strength going could out f rom Him, these mountains und seas net have touched His eye with¬ out irradiating His entire nature with their magnificence. I warrant that Ho had mounted and reth, explored them all tho Herman fifteen hills around Naza¬ among with its crystal coronet of perpetual snow, ami Carmel and Talmr and Gilboa, and they nil hnd their sublime echo in after time from tho Olivette pulpit. And then it was not uncultivated grandeur. These hills carried in their arms or on their backs gardens, groves, orchards, terraces, vineyards, branching foliages cactus, did sycamores. These out not have to wait for the floods before their silence was broken, for round through them them and and under over them and in circles them were pelicans, were ingales, thrushes, were larks, sparrows, were night¬ blackbirds, were patridges, were quails, bulbuls. were wero were Yonder the white flocks of sheep snowed down over the pasture lands, And yonder the brook rehearses to the peb¬ bles its adventures down the rocky shelving. Yonder are the oriental homes, the housewife with pitcher ou the shoulder entering the door, and down tho lawn in front children reveling among the flaming flora. And all this spring and song and gross aud sunshine and shadow woven into tbe most exquisite nature mat over breathed or wept or sung or suffered. Through studying the sky between the hills Christ had noticed the weather signs. and that a crimson sky that at night crimson meant sky !ry weather next day,and weather a before in the morning meant wet -light. And how beautifully Ho made use of t m after years as He drove down upon the lestiferous Pharisee and Sadduoee by crying >ut: “ When it is evening ye say it will be air weather, for the foul sky weather is red, and to-day, in the for morning it will be rhe sky is red and lowering. O, ye hypo entes, yocau discern tile face of the sky, but eanyc not discern the signs of the times.” 3v day as every boy has done, He watched the barnyard fowl atsightof over-swinging hawk dock her chickens under Jerusalem, wing and Jerusalem in after ! • ears He said : “ would O, I have gath low often red thee as a hen gathereth night He her had chickens noticed under her wing r By His mother by the plain candle light which, as ever and anon it was snuffed and thore moved wick put down on the candlestick, lieamed brightly through all the family sitting room ns His mother was mending His garments that had been rocks torn during bushes, the day’s and wanderings among the or years afterward it all camo out in the simile of the greatest sermon ever preached: ■“Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel but in a candlestick and it giveth light to all who are in the house, Let your light so shine.” Some time when His mother in the autumn took out the clothes that had been put away for the summer He noticed how the moth miliar flew ont and the coat dropped apart ruined and useless, and so twenty years after He in enjoined: heaven where “Lay neither up for •ourselves treasures moth nor rust can corrupt.” His boyhood all spont caroled among and birds bloomed and again flowers fifteen they years after as He cries ont: “Behold the fowls of the air.” “Consider the lilies.” A great storm one day during Christ’s boyhood blackened the heavens and angered the rivers. carpenter's Perhaps shop standing in the door of the Ho watched it gathering louder and wilder until two cyclones, one sweeping down from Mount Tabor and the 0 ™ r ™ Mount Carmol, met in the valley or JSsdraelon and two houses are caught in the fury and crash goes the one and triumphant “ 10 other,and Ho noticed that one had shifting eternal sand for a foundation and the other iui rock for basis; and twenty years after Ho built the whole scene into a peroration of flood and whirlwind that seized His audience and lifted them into the heights ofV of sublimity with the two great arm, thos and terroi, which sublime words I render, asking you as far as possible to for get that j ou ever heard them before: W ho soever heareth these savings of Mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man. which built his house the mion a rock; and the rain descended, and floods came, and the wluds blew ana beat upon that house; and it foil not; for it was founded upon a rook. And every one that honreth these sayings of Mine, and doeth J"' 1 "' 11 i' k ? U, ' d '! n f? a f 01S !i man, which built his house upon the sand; j and ™ u descended, and t,lie floods came, m V L j hf the aU< „,,H ^ Tf Lu ! C oL/ aIK * n £ i.„^ rea * ; at was ? 1 *S. fall ’ 0. rimitos simplicity, the treshnem lit HU (HimliloK and and iu Ba^^t^taa’aass the streams and heard tho nightingale’s call, and broken through the flowery hedge and looked out of the embrasures of the for tress, and drank from tho wells and chased the butterflies, which travelers say have al ways laudscape, been one and of talked tho flitting with the beauties of that pie from Damascus and Egypt strange Sapphoris peo anil and Syria, who ill caravans or on foot passed through His neighborhood, tho dogs barking at their ap preach at sundown. As afterward I He wasa perfect perfect man, in the time of which of speak He was foot, a sparkle boy, of with boy’s the spring rebound a boy’s tne a eye, tne of a boy’s lifo and just tne- opposite of thoso juveniles elastic, old who sit around I morbid and Ho un men at ten, warrant was able to take His own part and to take tho part of others. tliere In that wliat village of found Nazareth in ull 1 the am certain was is neighborhoods children, tho bully, of the who earth, that born terror strike, of seems to to punch, and to robust. bruise, to Tho overpower Christ who the after- less muscular ward in no limited terms denounced hypo crite and Pharisee, I warrant, never let such juvenile villain Impose upon less vigorous childhood and yet go unscathed and undo fended. At ten years Ho was in sympathy with tho underlings a* Ho was at thirty and thirty-three. uninspired information I want no further persuado inspired or to me that Ho was a splendid boy, a radiant boy, tho AV hnt multitudes between ten and fifteen years have found Him out as the one 6elp just suited by His own personal experience to a y noy. But having shown you the divine lad in tho shop. fields, 1 Joseph, must show you Him in the mechanic’s His father, died very early, Tempie immediately and after the famous trip to Hhn- thc this ted not «dy to support self but support Ills mother, and what that is some of you know. Thoro is a royal race of boys Ihoy ou earth now doing the have same purple thing, robe adroop wear no from crown. their They shoulders. no The plam chair on which thoy sit is as much unlike a throne as anything you can imagine. But God knows what they are dome and through w-liat sacrifices they go, and through all eternity God will keep paying them for their filial behavior. They shall get full measure of together reward, and the measure pressed They down, shaken running over. huve tlielr example in this boy Christ taking care of His mother. He had been taught the car iient^r s trade by His father. Tho boy had done the plainer work at the shop whilo His father had put on the finish nig touches of the work. I ke boy also cleared away the chips and blocks and shavings. work He while hemal the father hold the joined different them. nieces of In our day wo have all kinds of mechanics and the work is divided up among them But to be a carpenter in Christ’s boyhood days meant to make plows, yokes, houses, shovels, wagons, tables, chairs, sofas, made. and al most everything that the boy that had was learned the Fortunate trade, was it for, when the head of the family dies, it is a grand thing himself to have the child able to take care of mid help take cm-o of others. Now that Joseph, His father, is dead and the down responsibility this boy, of I family hear sup P° rt comes on from morning to night His hammer pounding, His saw vacillating, standing His axe descending, amid the His gun lets boring, and dust and debris of the shop I find tho perspiration gathering ou His temples and notice tho fa tigueof His arm, and as He stops a moment to rest I see Him panting, His hand on His side, from the exhaustion. Now Ho goes forth in the morning loaded with implements of work heavier than any modern kit of tools. Lifting, Under pulling.adjusting, the tropical cleaving, sun He swelters. splitting all day long. At nightfall He goes home. to the plain supper provided by His mother and sits down too tired to talk. W ork! workl work! You cannot tell Christ any thing ankles now bruised about blistered hands or joints aching rising in or the morning fingers tired or stiff when or laid down. While os boy as He knew you it all, He felt yet Ho a all. it all, suffered it The boy earponter! The boy wagon maker! have The Thee boy houso when full builder I in O Pilate’s Christ, wo seen grown police court room, wo have seen Thee when full grown Thou wort assassinated on Golgotha, but, O Christ, let all the weary artisans and mcchanicsof the earth see Thro while yet un (let-sized and arms not yet muscularized and with the undeveloped take Thy strength father's of juvenea cenco trying livelihood to family. place in gaining But, having the Christ for the the boy of seen the fields and tho boy in tho mechanic’s shop, I show you a more marvelous scene, Christ tho smooth-browed lad among the long bearded, white-haired, high forheaded ecele smstics of the Temple. Hundreds of thou sands of strangers had come to Jerusalem to keep hospital a great homos religious crowded festival. with After the the tents spread were all around the visitors, city wore to sbelter immense throngs of strangers. It was s two million S’rst.'H people have been known at Jerusalem for that national feast. to gather You must not ...... think of thoso settled. The ancient historian regions Josephus us spars jlj there in Galilee hundred say» were two cities, tne smallest of them containing fifteen thousand people. No wonder that amid the crowds at the time spoken of Jesus the boy was lost His parents, knowing that He was mature enough Himself, and agile .enough to take 'care oi are on their way home without any anxiety, with supposing that their boy is coming some of tne groups. But after, a while they suspect He is lost and with flushed cheek and a terrorized look thc-y rush this way and that, saying: He “Have you seen anything fair of my complexion boy? is has twelve years of age, of and blue eyos and auburn hair, Have you seen Him since wo left the city?” Back they go in hot haste, the in and out the pri vate houses and among surrounding hills, For three days they search and inquire, won dering if He has been trampled undor foot of some of the throngs or has ventured on the cliffs or fallen off a precipice. Send through all the streets and lanes of the city ana dismal among all “A the surrounding child! hills A lost thatmost chi’*!!” sound: lost Andlo, after three days they discover Him in the religionists great Temple, of all the Heated world. among The the walls mightest of no other building ever looked down on such a scene. A child twelve years old surrounded by septuagenarians, He asking His own qi usa¬ turns and answering theirs. Let me hatred nce you to somo of these ecclesiastics. This isth# great Rabbin Simeon 1 This is the venerable Hillell This is the famous Shammai. Theseare the SO ns of the distinguished Betirah. What can this twelve year lad teaoh tham or what questions can He ask worthy their cogitation? Ah, the first timo in all their lives these re ligiouists their have match. found their Though match and more He than so young, knew all roof about thoy held the famous that Temple wonderful under whose most discussion of all history. He knew the meaning of every golden altar, of every sacrifice, of every candlestick, of every embroidered curtain, of every crumb of shew bread, of every drop of oil in that sacred edifice. He know all about [tod. He knew all about man. He knew all about about heaven, for Heeamefrom Ho made it. He knew all this world, for it. He know all worlds, for they were only the sparkling morning heavenly dewdrops palace. Put. on these the lawn in front Bible words of His seven in „ of pnlnliasis . •* Roth hearing I am not so much interested in the questions Re they askod Ho H asked im as the in questions the questions not to asked in them. get formation from the doctors, for He knew it already, but to humble them by showing thorn the of height and depth and length Wni ilo ana the breadth their own ignorance. radiant boy thrusts the interrogation these self-conceited point, phil- they osopbe ' tUe r S forefinger with of the right hand to the put £,mple their thoughts vigor, ns though and to start would look upward into more then they am { then they would wrinkle their brows and [ben confess by their absolute incapacity silence or in positive the words inter to answer rogatory. With any one of a hundred ques pfar have imlked then., disconcerted Mem, 2,* 1 j*#***<?««»*»* ftSfSK vv SS*? oul ks } 1 Hci x has tlie right to ask .i them. Th e ‘ , Alasfor thestu ft! without inquisitiveness 1 *? Ghnstuke to ask 0t questions. Answer His your place U i sa to ,^* be bothered tiotjotli- with T,'.?- “ J’ ou are not able to answer i surieuder and confess your mcaimcity, as 1,0 imubt did Rabbin Simeon and 11,01 ^hamniai and tho sous of Botirah '™ on 11,11 splendid boy, sitting or standing d girdled a . garment the reaching from neck to an at waist, put them to 1 * wit s end. fl'f It learned is no disgrace to say: . ,S' V : doctors who Lhrist . tnat . day in tho Tomple “id not know or they would not have asked ,‘P* who questions. file only being in the u ”'' never needs to say: “I do ?°A. fact Ji that 1 "i".. they Is did not know Almighty. sent Keppler l’he ?!,. Guvier {md Columbus and Hmnboldt and to 1 ful< n .l the other a of ",‘lu the lr world s mightiest /!?,“' . as into their life-long explorations, D'leseope and microscope and stethoscojic Rl >e 1 , ' a 1 'f Vi, a Ijattery t ' 10 1 and }^ es all a ] e -lie onl scientific ^, ap asked • 1 a the door at f - ot mystery. Behold this Nazareuo lad asking questions, giving ever ltts Bin. ^ g ,^" while l I r ty see the earnest old theologians interrogation, standing around the boy Christ I am impressed as mensQ systems hi. of theoloev Hnlf r J t ^fLmed! to . Go/did t (i d fl^fi^di^ti^ what years before the small star on which we live , vas cl . eate(1 . i have liad mauv a sound sleep under ser mons about the decrees of God and the eternal generation of the Son and dis courses i j showing fair who Melchisedok that if wasn’t, minister and E V e begins a warning any over a sermon on such a subject in my presence I will put my head down on the pew in front and go into the deepest slumber I can ,. each . Wicked waste of time, thistrying to scale the luiscalablo and fathom tlieun fathomable while tho nations want the bread i ife and bo told how they can got rid of their sins and their sorrows. Why should you and I perplex ourselves about the decrees of God? Mind your own business and God W L !1 take care of His. In tho conduct of the universe I think Ho will somehow ma nago to get along without us. If you want to love and serve God, and be good and useful and g e t to heaven, I warrant that nothing which occurred eight hundred quintillion It is of years the decrees ago will of hinder God you a min n tc. not that do us any barm, You it is our own decrees of sin and folly. need not go any further You back this In history the than about Christ 185(1 years. died about see tkirty is year 188». three years of age. You subtract thirty-three from 1889 and that makes it only yeal . s ' That is as far back lui rred you u ot . d to go. under Something eclipsed oc CU on that day an SU n that sets us nil forever free if with our whole heart and lifo we accept the tremen dons proffer. Do not let the Presbyterian church or the Methodist Church or the Lutheran Church or the Baotist Church or (iny oi tll0 other evangelical churchoa spend auy time in trying to fix up old cre ods, nil of them imperfect, as everything roan does is imperfect. I move a new creed for aU t ; lc evangelical three churches articles of Chris- the tendom, only need f If in I had creed nnd no 0 any moro. a q the consecrated people of all denomina t ions of the earth on one great plain, and I bad voice loud enough to put it to a vote that creod 0 f three articles would be adopted with a would unanimous vote and a quake thundering and tho aye that make the earth heavens ring with hosanna. This is the creed I pro peso for all Christendom: Article First—“God so loved tho world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever belioveth in Him should not per ish but 1mvo everlasting life." Article Second—“This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus camo into this world to save sinners, even tho chief.” Article Third—“Worthy is tho Lamb that was slain to receive blessing and riches and honor end. Amen.” and glory and power, world without and But patching you go and to tinkering splicing up your old creeds and and interlining annexing plaining and subtracting will and adding and ex and vou lose time and make yourself Let a target have for creeds earth and fashioned hell to shoot of at. us not out human logy, and ingonuitiesbutoutofscriptualphrase- all the of bombardment 0 blazing all guns fron the port holes of infidelity and perdition will not in a thousand years knocked off the Church of God a splin tor as big as a cambric needle. What is most needed now is that we gather all our theolo gies around the boy in the Tomple, the elabo rations around tho simplicities, and the pro¬ fluidities ,-ian of around scholastic the clarieties, research the octogena around the un wrinkled cheek of twelve year iuven oscence. “Except you become as a lit- s&i&asyi httlecbJid cannot understand the you oMSfaSu HSU and the sons of Betirah ever did was in the Temple, ruddy to bend over the lad, who first made of cheek by the breath of'the Judean hills and on His way to the mechanic’s shim where He was soon to stopped be the support enough of His bereaved mother, venerable dialecticians long of to grapple with the the Orient “both hearing them and asking • them exclaimed questions.” Some Deus! referring Behold to the Christ God. have Ecce Others have exclaimed Ecce homo! Behold tho man. But to-day in conclusion of toy subject I cry, Ecce adolescens 1 Behold the Boy.' ... .~ —... ... . THE LOST ARTS. Buried Secrets of the Feats and Sci¬ ences of the Ancients. Notwithstanding invention and the great advance in manufactures of the present century in most respects, thore are many wonderful arts and sciences in whioh the anoients have never been equaled, and the secret of whioh has long sinco letters perished. the Catholic priests In the of who first visited China,which were pub¬ lished in Franoe 200 years ago, they re¬ late that they were shown a glass, trans¬ parent and colorless, which was filled with a liquid made by the Chinese, whioh to the observers appeared to be us clear ns water. This liquor was poured into the glass; then, looking with through it, it seemed to be filled fishes. of This the fluid, \yas not but owing the to glass any itself. peculiarity The to Chinese confessed that they did not make them, but that they were the plunder of some foreign conquest, many centuries before. Wendell Phillips, in his lecture on the “Lost Arts,” in speaking of malle¬ able glass, tails of a Roman, who in the age of Tiberius, bad bringing been banished, wonderful and returned to Rome, a cup. This oup he dashed upon the marble pavement and it was crushed, but not broken, by the fall. Although somewhat dented, with a hammer lie easily brilliant, bent transparent, it into shape but again. not brittle. It was He further states that the Homans obtained their chemistry from the Arabians, and that they brought it into Spain eight centurious ago. In tho books of that age there is a kind of glass spoken of that if supported by one end by its own weight, in u day’s time would dwindle down to a line line, so that it could be curved around one’s wrist like a bracelet. The art of luminous painting was known to the Japanese 900 years ago, and on extraot from one of their old writers has been translated as follows: “One Su Ngoh many years ago had a pioture loft of an ox. Every day the ox turned tho picture-frame sleep to graze, night. nnd re¬ to within it at This picture onme into the possession of tho Emporor Tai Tsungof the Sung dynasty (A. D. 970-998), who showed it to his courtiers, and asked them for an expla¬ nation, whioh none of them, however, could give. “At last a certain Buddhist priest said that, tho Japanese found somo na¬ creous substance within tho flesh of a certain kind of oyster they picked up when the rocks wore bared at low tide, and that they ground this into color ma¬ terial and then paiuted pictures witli it which were invisible by day and lumin¬ ous Tho by night.” that during tho secret simply was day the figure of the ox was not visible and it was therefore said that it left the frame to go grazing. In the year 1578 the twentieth of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, one Mark Sea liot, a blacksmith, made a look consist¬ ing of 11 pieces of iron, steel and brass, with a hollow key to it, that altogether wei ighed but one grain of gold, lie also ma ue a gold chain composed of forty three links, whioh ho fastened to the look and key. In the presence of the queen lie put the chain around tho neok of a flea, which drew it with ease; after whioh ho put the look and key, flea and chain, into a pair of scales and they al¬ together weighed but one grain and a Myrmocides, proficient an ancient carver, was so that lie made in ivory microscope chariot mechanism with an four wheels and as many harnessed horses in so sma 1 a compass that a fly might have hidden them all under its wings. The sumo artisan made a ship with all her decks, masts, yards, rigging nnd sails, which took up scarcely more room than the chariot. The silver sphere, “a most noble and ingenious performance," which was pre¬ sented to Sultan Solymnn, the magnifi¬ cent, by bis imperini majesty, Eerdiuan di, is mentioned by Paulina Jovius as showing and keeping timo with the mo¬ tions of the celestial bodies in their var¬ ious configurations. It was carried to Constantinople together by the twelve men and made thero put by artist that it. An ollicer named Cornelius Van Drab¬ ble once made an instrument like an organ that, being set in the open air un¬ der a warm sun, would plays airs of it¬ self without tbe keys being touched, but would not play in tbe shade. For this reason it is supposed that it was inclosed air rarified by tho sun that caused the harmony. Whitehead, made George ship, with an Englishman, a all the things per¬ taining table. to "All it, to move os if it sailed upon a hands were aloft, a woman made good music ou a lute, aud a little puppy cried iu the midship, all of which variety,” quaintly says an old author, “was very pleasant and divert¬ ing.” Proclns, whose fame in mathematics have equaled made that burning of Archimedes, glasses is said to iu the region of Anastasius Dicorus of such wonder¬ ful efficacy that at a great distance he burned aud destroyed the Mysiun and Thracian fleet of ships that had block¬ aded Byzantium. Tho Damascus blades, as marvels of perfect and steel, thoso have long been famous, even used in tha crusades are centuries as perfect to-day as they wero oight One ago. exhibition on in London could bo put into a scabbard almost as crooked as a corkscrew and bout every way with¬ out breaking. The point of" this sword oould be made to touch the hilt. The t article of traffic from Szechuan, China, just now seems to be slave Noah’s girls. ark They are very cheap. A great was seen floating down the river the other day, women looking out at all the windows. They wero Blave girls a mandarin was ti h tag "east. A Lost Citj. . The rushing waters of the Potomac city River, in the recent floods, destroyed a teat never existed—Jackson City— at the south entl of the long bridge, op¬ the posite Washington, D. C. The name of town has been in the mouth of com¬ ers and goers at the bridge since the ad¬ ministration of Gen. Andrew Jaokson, who laid the corner-stone of Jaokson City with much formality, and with a celebration that included all the military and civjc organizations of the three Dis¬ trict oitios. George Washington Parke CqsCis, Gen. Washington, of Arlington, the adopted the son of delivered oration. Tents were erected and the occasion was the only gala day that Alexander’s Is¬ land, on which Jackson City was found¬ ed, built ever had. Years ago a hotel was mar the bridge, and this was the only approach to a town that Jack son a roadside City ever inn. made. Lately It it was has for been awhile head¬ quarters of games forbidden in the Dis¬ trict. Long ngo the corner-stone was dug the up and its contents carried off, and and close of last week the rain came the flood undermined and ruined Jackson City. Teeth Drawn by Electricity. drawn People by can have their superfluous teeth in means of electricity, The process question is very simple, scarce any ordinary apparatus two-cell being battery, required with beyond vibrator an attachment. This attachment k a thin strip is mndc of metal vibrate fastened at the ends, which to a thousand or more times per second by the electric current. At each vibration the circuit is cut off and renewed again, the effect beiug to give a perfectly steady flow of the mys¬ terious fluid. The patient in the chair is given a-handle to hold in each hand, and the current is turned on gradually until it becomes painful. Then he is told to grasp the handles as strongly ns possi¬ ble, the electricity—having been switched off for a moment-is turned on again suddenly, h's forceps nnd simultaneously the dental surgeon applies tooth. to the The instant the molar is touched it, as well as the parts surrounding, becomes electrified and absolutely insensible to pain. Whin it is withdrawn from the socket, the subject of the operation feels not the slightest disagreeable sensation. A jerk and the tooth is out, the patient drops less the electric handles and ihe pain¬ affair is over. War on Saloonists. The Indiana Grand Lodge of Kn’ghts of Pfthias, recently in session at Indian¬ apolis, Ind., took a step which threatens to lead to great demoralization. A reso¬ lution was introduced declaring that saloon keepers should the not be eligible to membciship discussion awakened in order. The deal ensuing bit¬ a great of ter feeling, but the resolution was finally adopted loon by a and two-thirds friends vole. immedi¬ The sa¬ keepers their ately is appealed that to the Supremo onc-fourth Lodge. of the It stated nearly order in Indiana aro either identified with or in favor of tho traftic, and if the action of the state Grand Ledge is sus¬ tained, they will withdraw from the or¬ der. Quito a Difference. In the rod parlor of the While Houso at Washington, D. C., a photographer took a picture of four generations of the Harrison family. The Rev. of the Dr. Scott sat on the extreme right McKee group, Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. came next, and the famous Baby Benjamin gather¬ Harrison McKee completed the ing. The latter did his best to make the a flair a failure, and if it had not been for what is known as “the instantaneous process.” he would havo succeeded. There is a difference of eighty-eight represented years between the generations in the picture. Dr. Scott is 88 and Baby McKee only two years of age. A Reported Miracle. The celebrated Canon Wilberforcc, of London, England, writes to a newspaper has been that his belief in miracles strengthened himself by by a miracle of anointing performed and upon means prayer. “My internal ailment,” he writes, “was of such a nature that lead¬ ing surgeons declared it to be incurable except at the cost of a severe operat on. At last I sent for elders—men of God, full of faith—by whom I was few prayed pver and anointed, and in a weeks the internal The ailment passed pains entirely to away.” canon takes say that he was healed by “the Lord’s bless ing upon His own word.” Wliy He Hates ’Em. Miss Pyrte: “What makes you such a confirmed woman-hater, Mr. Olebach?” Mr. Olebnch: “Well, when I was a young man a woman made a fool of me.” Miss Pyrte: “And you never got over it.” The Patterson Mills Co., of Chester, Pa., is looking out for a Southern loca¬ dles. tion for The a spinning capital mill introduced of 10,000 spin¬ into the impetus city solccted will also will be $250,000, and industry great be given to an peculiarly adapted to the South. Are. you troubled with a sluggish, inactive liver? Are you bilious? Do you suffer from Jaundice? low tinge? Has The your blood complexion in its a sickly, through yel¬ the liver does not furnish the passage healthy action which should result from It. The Impurities are disordered stopped, condition, and clogging which up will the duct, can Be a results to health, unless produce scrl ous Brown’s Bitters your you take Iron at once. It will cure your biliousness and jaundice, and incite to healthy action tho sluggish liver. In the U. S. there are 275 ladies who are or¬ dained as clergymen and preach. Oregon, tho Paradise of Farmers. Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant crops. Best fruit, grain, grass and stock country In the world. Full information free. Address Oreg. Im’igr’t’n Board, Portland, Ore. SHOE XKT° x*. DOUCHsAB, BBOOHiTOKr, SCABS, DUtueed la the Race. two# Why aU should Dr. Pierces medicines not dia taer are doing, competitors they in amount or galea as Bin™ ore the only med( The police ot Paris forbid ihe employment of women in the cafes at the Exposition. Torrid J,fver. 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