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NORTH GEORGIA TIMES.
G. N. KING, !■ Proprietors.
S. B. CART! SB. t
REV. DR. TALMAGE
THE BBOOKLYH MVIHE’S SUN
BAY SERMON.
Subject: “The Baptism of Fire.”
Test: “Hone of these things move me.”—
Acta xx., 24.
The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, V. D.,
preached fle, his first at the Brooklyn Academy of Mu.
the Brooklyn sermon after the destruction of
Thbanaute by firs. Mia au¬
dience was of vast size, and public interest
was extraordinary. The opening hymn was:
God moves In a mysterious way
His wonders to perform.
He plants His footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.
Dr. Talmage’s subject was “The Baptism
of Fire," and he said:
But, Paul, have you not enough affliction
to move you? • Are you not an exile from
your native land? With the most genial nod
loving free for nature; have you not, in order to lie
to celibacy? missionary Have journeys, given yourself
you not turned away
Jrom would the have magnificent crowned worldly illustrious successes genius? that
Have endured your
you not the sharp and stinging
' neuralgias, been like a thorn in the flesh? Have
you not mobbed on the land, and ship¬
wrecked on the sea; the sanhedrim against
you, the Roman Government against you, all
the world and all hell against vou?
“What of that?” says Paul. “None erf
these things move me!” It was not because
lie was a hard nature. Gentlest woman was
could nevermore not easily bear dissolved into'tears. Ho
even to see anybody cry, for
in the midst of liis sermon when he saw some
one to weeping and her break sobs aloud, “What mean ye
weep to mine heart? for I am
ready Jerusalem not to be bound onlv, but fclso to die at
for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
What then did Paul mean when he said,
“None of these things move me?” He meant,
“I will not be diverted from tho work to
which I have been called by any and all tho
adversities and calamities.”
I think this morning I express not only my
own and little feelings child but belonging that of every man, woman
to the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, comforted or that was converted there, or
toward the there, or blessed there, when I look
blackened ruins of tho dear and
consecrated spot and with an aroused faith
things in a loving God, me.” cry out: ' None pf these
When move
I say that, I do not mean that wo
have no feeling about it. Instead of stand¬
ing here to-day m this brilliant auditorium,
it would be more consonant with my feelings
to sit down among the ruins and weep at tho
words of David: “If I forget thee, O Jerusa¬
lem, Why, let let my right hand forget her cunning.”
me say to the strangers here to-day
in explanation of the deep emotion of my
flock, we of religious had there in that building sixteen
years revival. I believe that a
hundred thousand souls were born there.
They shall came from all parts of the earth and
we never see them again until the books
are there opened. baptized, Why, and at sire those t our'children were
altars our young
men and maidens took the marriage vow,
and out of those gates we carried our dead.
When from the roof of my house last Sun¬
flames, day morning I said: at “That 8 o’clock I saw our church in
is the last of the Witt build¬
ing from which we buried our De on
that cold December day when it seemed
all And Brooklyn it wept just with hard my for household.”
was as you to
give up your Why, loved like ones as for us to give
up ours. the beautiful vines
that still cover some of the fallen walls,
our affections are clambering all
over the ruins, and I could kiss the
ashes that mark the place where it
it, once I stood. Why, think now that I think of
pile, cannot of it as an inanimate
but os a soul, a mighty soul, an
indestructible had soul, soul. I am sure that majestic
organ a for we have often heard it
speak soul and of sing and shout and wail, and when
the that organ entered heaven I think
Handel, and Haydn, and Mozart, and Mon
delssohn, welcome it. and Beethoven were at the gates to
So I do not use the words of my
text in a heartless way, but in the sense that
we must not and will not bo diverted from
our work by the appalling disasters whioli
have befallen us. We will not turn aside one
inch from our determination to do all we can
for the present and everlasting happiness of
all the people whom we may be able to meet.
“None of these things move me. None of
these When things I move you."
looked out through the dismal rain
from the roof of my house and saw tho
church crumbling brick by brick and timber
by that timber, work I said in to Brooklyn myself: “Does this mean
my is ended? Does
this terminate my association with this city,
where I have been more than twenty years
misfortunes?’ glad in all its prosperities, And still and sad in all its
a small voice came
to me, a voice that is no longer still or small
but most emphatic and commanding, through
pressure telegram of hand, and newspaper column, and
and letter, and contributions say.
ing: "Go forward?’
1 have made and I now make appeal to all
Christendom to help us. We want ail Chris¬
tendom to help, and I will acknowledge the
receipt with of every contribution, hand. We great or small,
my own want to build
larger church, and in which better. We want it a national
nations find people home. of The all creeds contributions and ait
already may in make a hearted church
sent a small
forever spectacle impossible. for angels and Would not if, I in be a church sorry
men a
built by Israelites and Catholics, us well as
all the styles of people commonly called evan
, gelicah I should, instead of the banner of the
Lord God Almighty, raise a fluttering rag of
small sectarianism? If we had three hundred
thousand dollars we would put them all in
one great monument to the mercy of God.
build. People ask I on all it sides all depends about what we shall
answer, on the contri¬
butions sent in from here and from the
pf the earth. I say now to ail the Baptists,
that wp shall have in it a baptistery. I say to
nil Episcopalians, heretofore at we shall communion have in our table services
as opr por¬
tions of the Liturgy. I spy to the Catholics
we shall have » cross oyer the pulpit pud
probably dists, on the tower. sing there I say dike to the Metho¬
we mean to the voices
of nations, mighty thunderings, to preach I say to ail denomi¬
wide heaven we mean and a religion as
as said as good as God. We
have we had a total loss. But there was
one exception. The only things we save
were the silver communion chances, for they
happened to be in another building, and I
take that fact as typical that wo are to be
lu communion with all Christendom. “I be¬
lieve in the communion of saints!"
Insurance I think, if companies all the Brooklyn should firemen and all
search among
those ruins on Schermerhom street, they
would not And a splinter large as the tip end
of the little finger marked with bigotry.. And
PS it is sail} that the exhumed bricks of the
standing wails 9f Bpbylon for Nebuchadnezzar, have on them the letter N,
I declare to
you that if we ever get a new church the let¬
ter we should like to hav8 on every stone
and every timber would be the letter
C, for that would stand both *or Christ and
the Catholicity. old church The last Friday two night, words I uttered of in
on some you
may The remember, two words were that I “Hallelujah! utter Amen!” most
. now as
expressive after of the my Baptism feelings in this Fire, our first Hell* aar
Vtoe of are
SPRING PLACE. GA.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1889.
Amen! “* onoot thes6thiugs move
V \ e aro kept i» this mood by two or three
considerations. , The firstfs, that God rules.
know. Ip. what It way has tho church took fire I do not
nmgs. Weli, the' beeiv'charged Lotd controls on the the light- light
.
ky SSPr He before managed oul^electricians them several thousands
JE The years Bible indicates that, though were they born. flash
down the sky recklessly, God builds for them
a road to travel.
Xu the Psalms it is said: “He made a way
for the lightning and thunder.’’ Ever since
the tirno of Benjamin Franklin the world has
been trying to tame the lightnings, and they
seem to be quite well harnessed, but they
occasionally kick over the traces. But
T6tce<W»d though we cannot- master great natural
Can and does, and that God is
our Father and best Friend, and this thought
gives Wo ns confidence.'
are also reinforced by the increased
consolation that conies from fraternity of
sorrow. The people who, during the last six¬
teen years, sat on the other side of the aisle,
whose faces were familiar to you, but to
whom you had never spoken—you greeted
them this week with smiles and tears as vou
said: “Well, the old place is gone.” You
did not want to seem to cry, and so you swept
the sloeve near the corner of the eye, and
pretended it was the sharp wind made
four eyes weak. Ah! there was noth¬
ing the matter with your eyes; it
it was is your impossible soul bubbling sit for over. I tell you that
to years around the
same church fireside and not have sympa¬
thies iu common. Somehow you feel that
you would like those people oa the other side
of the aisle, about whom you know but little,
prospered saved. You and feel pardoned and blessed and
as if you were in the same
boat, and you want to glide up the samehar
bor and want to disembark at the same
wharf.
If you put gold and iron and lead and
zinc in sufficient heat, they will melt into a
conglomerate mass; and X really feel that
last Sabbath’s lira has fused us all, grosser
and finer natures, into one. It seems as if
we all had our hands on a wire connected
with an electric battery; and when this
church sorrow started it thrilled through the
whole circle, aud we all folt the shock. The
oldest man anil the youngest child could join
hands in this misfortune. Grandfather said:
“I expected from those altars to be buried-,”
and one of the children last Sabbath cried:
house.” “Grandpa, Yea, that place was next to our own
fident in this time we by are the supported of Christ. and con¬
cross
That is used to the fire. On the dark day
when Jesus died, the lightning struck It from
against above, and the flames of hell dashed up
it from beneath. That tearful, pain¬
ful, hang tender, blessed cross still stands. On it
we all our hopes; beneath it we put
down all our sins; in the light of it we ex¬
pect Within to sight mako of the rest of our pilgrimage.
such a sacrifice, who can feel
he has it hard? In the sight of such a sym¬
bol, darkness wlio can be discouraged, however great
the that may comedown upon him?
Jesus lives! The loving, patient, sympathiz¬
ing, earth, mighty Jesus! It shall not be told on
or in hell, or in heaven, that three He¬
brew children had the Son of God beside
them in the fire, and that a whole ehuroh was
forsaken by the Lord' when they wen*
through wide. a furnace about two hundred feet
O Lord Jesus! shall we take out of Thy
hand tho flowers and the fruits, and tho
because brightness and the joys, and then turn away
Thou dost give us one cup of bitter¬
ness to drink? Oh, no, Jesus! we will drink
it dry. But how it is changed! Blessed Je¬
sus, what has Thou put into the cup to
sweeten it? Why, it has become the wine of
heaven, and our souls grow strong. I come
now, and place both of my feet deep down
into the blackened ashes of our consumed
that church, I and felt I cry out with an exhilaration
naver since the day of mv soul’s
emancipation, Lord Jesus Christ!” “Victory! victory 1 through
our
. Your harps, yetremblingsaints,
Loinl to the praise of love divine
Bid every string awake.
We are also re-enforced by the Cath¬
olicity that the I Academy have already to-day, referred to. because We
aro in not
we have no other place to go. Lost Sab
bath morning at 9 o’clock we had but one
church; disposal. now we have about thirty, all at
our Their pastors and their
trustees say: "You may take our main
audience rooms, you may take our lecture
rooms, you may take our church parlors,you
may baptize in our baptisteries, and sit on
our anxious seats.” On! if there be any
larger hearted ministers or larger hearted
churches anywhere than in Brooklyn, tell mo
where they are, that I may gc and see them
before I dje. The miUeuium has come. Rec¬
ite keep wondering when it is ooming, It
has oome. The lion and tho lamb lie down
together^ and^thetiger eats straw like an ox.
old time bigots, with their swords, fight¬
ing through that great fire on Scher¬
merhom. the street last Sabbath. I am
sure swords would have melted, and they
who wielded them have learned war no more.
I can never say a word against any other de¬
nomination of Christians. I thank God I
never have been tempted to do it. I cannot
bo a sectarian. I have been told I ought to
be, and I have tried to be, but I have not
enough material in me to make such a
structure. Every time I get the thing most
and done, all there is comes a fire, or something else,
gono. The angels of God shake out
on this air, “Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace, good will toward men.”
I do not know but I see on the horizon the
first all denominations gleam of the morning organization, which shall unite
in one dis¬
tinguished times. It only then by tho the locality Church as of in Tnyatira, apostolic
was
and the Church of Thessalonica. Church and the
Church of Antioch, and the of Laodi
cea. So I do not know but that in the future
ply* history, distinction and not far locality, off either, and it maybe of creed, sim¬
the of York, not
as Church of New the Church of
Brooklyn, of Charleston, the Church the Church of Boston, of Madras, the Church the
Church of Constantinople, the Church of
America.
My dear brethren, we cannot afford to be
great severely foes divided. Standing Christianity, in front of the
of ow common we
want to nqt on the whole armor of God and
march down in sdlid column, triumph! Shoulder to
shoulder lone commander! erne
’’o'thought! combat maintain;
Arise, the to
Arise, nnd pat thy foes to flight.
We also feel reinforced by the thought
that we are on the way to a heaven that can
never burn down. Fires may sweep through
other cities—but I am glad to know that the
New Jerusalem is fireproof. There will be
jio engines be rushing temples through those streets;
there will no consumed in that
city. Coming to the doors of that Church,
we will find them open, resonent with songs,
and not cries ot fire. Oh, my dear brother
and sister! if this short lane of life
comes up so soon to that blessed place, what
is the use of our worrying? 1 have felt a
Taylor, good many times sailor this preacher. last week He like Father
the got in a
long sentence while be was preaching one
day, and lost himself, and oould not find bis
way out of the sentence. He stopped and
said: “Brethren, I have lost the nominative
of this sentence, and things are gene-ally
mixed up, but I am bound for the kingdom
anyhow." And daring this lost week, when I saw the
rushing myself: to and “I fro and the excitement, I said
to do not know just where we
shall start again, but I am bound for the
kingdom anyhow.” I do not want to go
just yet I want to bo pastor of this people
until I am about eighty- nine years of age,
but I have sometimes thought that there are
such glories ahead that I may be persuaded
to go a little earlier—for instance, at eighty
two could or have three; but I really think that it we
in for an appreciation of what God has
reserve us, wo would want to go
into stepping the glories right out of the Academy of Musie
of the skies;
Ah! that is a good land. Why, they tell
me that in that land they never nave a heart
ache. They tell me that a man might walk
five hundred years in that land and never
our 888 ^^ friends ar , or who 1 I ea r have a ^gb- left They and tell me that
their feet are radiant ns the gone and there, that
they take ns sun,
nold of the hand of Jesus familiar
ly, and that they open that hand aud see in
the palm of it a healed wound that must
have been very cruel before it was healed.
And they toll me that there is no winter
there, cold, and that they never get hungrv or
and that the sewing girl never wades
through the snow bank to her daily toil, and
that he clock never strikes twelve for the
night, See but only twelve for the day.
that light in the window. I wondnw
who set it there. “Oh!” you say: “My
father that went into glory must nave set
that in the window.” No; guess
• “My mother,
again. who died fifteen years
ago there.” in Jesus, No; I think must have set that light
darling little child, guess that again. last You say: “llv
for the summer I tut
away resurrection, I think sho m ist
have set that light there in the window.” fo
will guess again. Jesus set it there: anil He
day keep it burning until She the
latch of we the put door our finger on
home and go in to be at
forever. Oh! when my sight gets b ick
went. in i^th, When put on in mv the eyelids lest weariness that sweet I < innt nt
take another step, just ca
that doorsill. When help me put my oot
on my ear catchd no
more the voices of wife and child, let n i go
right stroke in, to have my deafness cured by the
the strings of the with harpers the authems whose of fingers the free fly *ver
Heaven never burns down! The fins of
the last day, that are already kindled in the
heart of the earth, but are hidden because
God keeps down the hatches—those internal
fires will after a while break through the
crust, and the plains, and the mountains,and
the seas will be consumed, and the flatties
will fling their long arms into the skies; hut
all the terrors of a burning world will do! no
more harm to that heavenly temple than tho
fires of the setting sun which kindle up the
window glass of the house on yonder hill wp.
Oh, blessed land! But I do not want to go
there until I see the Brooklyn Tabernacle re¬
built. You say, “Will it bo?’ You might
ns well ask me if the sun will rise to-morrow
morning, lands or its if bead. the next spring will put gar¬
op You and I may not tlo
it—you and I may not live to see it; but the
Church of thousand God does legs. not stand on / two legs
nor on a /
ia? How I did the Israelites somebody get through havs ths Red
and said: suppose “There may come
is no need pf trying; you
will get you*" wet; eU—M'iil spoil V our 1
2^Sr drown - ty
a n yourselves. ho
eve i , *Es?" s?s tea
it? Did they go back? No. Did they
go to the right? No. Did they go to
the left? No. They went forward in
the strength of the Lord Almighty; and that
is the way wo mean to get through the Red
Sea. By going forward. But says some one:
"If wo should build a larger ehuroh, would
you be able with your voico to fill it?’ Why,
I have been wearing myself out for the last
sixteen years in trying to keep my voice In.
Give me room where loan preach the glories
of Christ and the grandeurs of heaven.
Forward! We have to march on, breaking
down all bridges Throw behind us, making retreat
impossible. impedes away your knapsack if it
your march. Keep your sword arm
free. Strike for Christ and His kingdom
while you may. No people ever had a bettor
mission than you are sent on. Prove your¬
selves worthy. It I am not fit to
be your leader, set me aside. The bright¬
est goal on earth that I can think
of is a country parsonage amidst tho mount-,
ains. But I am not afraid to load you, V
have I have some dollars; physical they aro at your dispori!.
long good I health; it ia your,''as *aoul;
as it lasts. have enthusiasm of
I will not keep it back from vour service. I
have some faith in God, and I shall direct it
toward tho rebuilding of our new leril spiritual
house. Come on, then. I will you.
Come an,, ye aged men, not^yet passed over
^ middle
into life, the harness promised all land. Yon men faculties in
this entorurise. Young your busjrioas put tho fire to of
Into man, Let
your soul this work. women conse¬
crate this their persuasiveness will and preparing persistence to
cause) and they be bene¬
dictions wr their dying hour and everlasting
rewards; ; and if Satan really did burn that
Taberr ale down, as some people sa!y he did,
he will fnid it the poorest job he ever under
took. o)ii
to Good-by lips v throw Tabernacle. kiss I put my departed fingers
my a«d a to the
church. In the lost day, may we be able to
meet the songs there sung, and the prayers
there offered, and the sermons there preached.
felt Good-by, the Gospel old place, where and some of us Orel
peace, others heard ths
last message ere they fled away into the skies)
Good-by, welcome Brooklyn Tabernacle erf 18TS! But
though our new church. (I see It as plainly
as it were already built!) Your
gates wider, your songs mere triumphant
of your the ingatherings ashes more glorious. waiting Rise out
and greet our vision)
Burst on our souls, oh day of our church's
resurrection! pared for tho B/ hour your altars may we be pre¬
when the fire shall tnr
every man’s work of what sort it is. Wel¬
come, Br ooklyn Tabernacl e of 18901
General John B. Bowman says in the
Kansas City Times: “It is my opinion of
that doubling irrigation tho population will be the of means State
coming every
and Territory within the ten
years. I further believe that in the
East, where the rainfall is heavy, but
uncertain, irrigation will ultimately be*
resorted to in older to insure greater
regularity of crops. Four-tenths of the
area of the United States, not including
Alaska, require irrigation. This terri¬
tory includes parts of California, Texas,
Knnsas, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, all
of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Wyom¬
ing, Montana, and portions of Dakota
and Washington. Through this vast
territory there flow a number of streams
with narrow valleys capable of cultiva¬
tion. In these valleys settlers have
taken up their %bode, cities have been
built, and now the ory is for more room.
The room is there, and the sunburned only thing
needed to make the broad
plains vie with valleys is irrigation. method
The sentiment in favor of this
of reclaiming lands is growing strong,
nnd I predict that ten years will w itness
a revoluti on.”
_
It will pay you to advertise with us.
PECULIAR FISH.
Different Species Capable of Fly¬
ing, Walking and Climbing.
which Leave Their Native
Element to Lay Their, Eggs.
waasomething like two years ago,”
“*hys a writer in,the New York Herald,
while sitting on the dock of one of our
European steamers and looking quietly
into the water of the Gulf Stream, 1
suddenly saw a creature of some sort
with wings. It came, apparently, ou l
of the ocean and immediately took a
complacent attitude in mid-air. It was
a fish beyond dispute and I accounted
for its conduct from the fact that a
huge fish of a much larger kingdom
darted to tho surface of the water in
eagei pursuit of this frightened creature.
At first I thought the tmy fish was safe
from the chase, but in less than two
minutes it dropped back into the sea.
Hardly had it touched the water when
it again bounded in another direction,
and it was soon evident that it was
again followed. When this aggravated
pursuer came to tho surfaca I saw it
was none other than a huge dolphin.
I watched the sport very attentively for
some time, but as our steamer was los
ing sight of it j saw an albatross com¬
ing toward the fleeing fish. The acute
eye of the b'ird had espied the tiny fish
and ha 1 come to rob the dolphin of its
prey.
‘‘The litt'e creature was not aware of
its double danger, and by its frantic
movements kept sailing along,endeavor¬
ing to escape finny enemy, Death
beset it in all directions, ‘when at last
the albatross was «pon it, and the fish
conscious of only the danger behind,
fell right into the claws of the bird.
‘‘Naturalists claim that the fish does
not fly, sail^; But simply leaps from tho, water
*nd aiong caiaBdir?hBTOve' ^n its membAiioas.
wings, 'I , ?S5s' ' for' I
have seen the fish on many occasions
leave the water and fly along further
thau it could possibly do if it did not
fly. And, too, I have seen them flap
their winglike fins, change their course,
and fly against a strong wind. This
evidence, it seems to me, is far more
reliable than that of hundreds of natur¬
alists. A man may not be sharp- sight¬
ed enough to see the flying fish flap its
wings; nevertheless, I have often seen it
done, and nothing can change my
mind. ”
That keen observer, Grant Allen,
forcibly declares that tho flying fish does
actually fly. Of tho flying fish there are
at least twenty species and in appear¬
ance gjrcatly resembles the horring, with
large, bat-like wings. They will not
leave the water unless threatened by
an enemy. Their speed is not rapid,
although they can easily keep ahead of
a steamer going at the rate of twelve
knots Wei fan hour.
are told there are fish that walk,
which; are more numerous and more
variable. Many of them leave the water
from choice rather than necessity. Oae
kind ia particular leaves its native ele¬
ment whichjto iji search build of nest. leaves and It lays twigs its with
a eggs
and wjatches with great care until they
are seeing hatched. There is another when on
there is danger of its pond dry¬
ing up and leaving it to die takes in a
supply of water and embarks on a tour
of inspection. In a body they start
through a forest with as much boldness
as a, body of men. Their bodies are
coveted with sharp spines, so they are
not desirable eating for the animals of
the fdrest, and consequently are allowed
to past unmolested. Some unmistaka¬
ble idptinct tells them where to find
water, sand their march always results in
reachirp a much larger body than that
which ^hey have just left.
Ther: is abundant proof to convince
the moi; sceptical that a fish can actual¬
ly run. There is a species in South
Amend that have large and prominent
eyes, w iich they have the power of
rolling 1 ack and forth at will, As you
thrust y bu hand down toward one it
turns its great eye with a rather comical
•xpressi in, and just as you are about to
pick it tip away it runs out of your
reach. Rut unless disturbed they march
slowly along until a pond is reached,
when they jump in and stay.
Another interesting kind of fish is
called thp climbing perch. They ac¬
tually leave the water at intervals and
by means of two spines ascend into the
treetop. i What their object i» in so do¬
ing cannit be accounted for, unless it
ia to search for insects.
Vol. IX. Hew Series. NO. 41
These are but a few of. the fish vshioh
leave tho water for a time. The coin
njon eel often travels considerable dis¬
tance in searching for more and deeper
water. Eels have been found under
stones that have been dry for weeks,
yet when plaosd in water signs of life
are immediately made manifest. Those
eols are very interesting fish and ‘no ono
has been able to distinguish between the
male and the female, hud but little, ip '■
known about their mode of reproduc¬
tion; yet each springtime Bwarms ..of
tiny eels arc seen to swim up the fresh
brooks, showing that they have bten
born.
How Egyptians Water their Crops.
The summers in Egypt, in Syria and
in Asia Minor are almost rainless. In
such climatcs'the necessity of irrigation
is obvious, and the loss of the ancient
means of furnishing it helps to explain
tho diminished fertility of most of the
countries in question. In Egypt evapor¬
ation and absorbtion by the earth are so
rapid that all aununl crops Require irri¬
gation during the whole period of their
growth. As fast as the water retires by
the subsidence of tho annual inundation
the seed is sown upon tho still moist,
uncovered soil, and irrigation begins at
once. Upon the Nile to-day, just as it
was thousands of years ago, one still
hears the creaking of tho water-wheels
through the whole night, while
the poorer cultivators occasionally
ply tho simple “shadoof,’ 1 or
bucket and sweep, laboriously raising
the water from trough to trough by as
many as six or seven stages when the
water is low. The bucket is of flexible
leather, with a stiff rim, and is empted
into the trough, not by inverting it like
a wooden bucket, but by putting the
hand beneath and pushing the bottom
up till the water all runs out over the
brim, or in other words, by turning the
vessel inside out. Tho quantity of
water thus withdrawn from tho Nile is
|6®or»ois. directly from Most the of thj^is evaporated
surface or tfiA super
ficial strata, but some moisture perco¬
lates down and oozes through the
banks into the river again while a larger
quantity sinks till it joins the slow cur¬
rent of infiltration by which the Nil*
water pervades the earth of the valley
to the distance, at some points, of not
less than fifty miles.
A Remarkable Fight,
The cliy of Constantino in Algeria
has been making a remarkable fight
against the crickets, which threatened
to strip the town of every bit of foliage.
These pests, which have boon trying for
two years to turn Algeria into a desert,
invaded the town in a cloud, and in a
few hours they were devouring all the
gardens, and even the interior of the
houses, tho hospital and the prison
swarmed with them. It is well known
that the particular insect which is
afflicting Algeria does not fly high. In
order to keep out fresh arrivals the
citizens lost no time in surrounding the
entire town with a fenco of cotton cloth
about six feet high and over 36,000
feet long.
As soon as they had cut of! the sources
of re-enforcements, every man, woman
and child began to devote exclusive at¬
tention to the enemy within the walls.
Business was almost entirely suspended,
and lawyers, merchants, magistrates,
Jew bankers, laborers, Mohammedans
and Christians all went eagerly to
work to kill crickets and save th*
gardens. The insects were killed by
the hundreds of thousands, and the
bodies of the slain were swept into
the river and carried out of the city.
The town had no other thought oi
business as long as there were any
crickets to be killed. At last the
bnemy was completely vanquished, and
the half-destroyed gardens were saved
from further injury. The war kept
the towu busy for nearly a week.
Died as He Wished, Fishing.
Colonel John Walker, of London,
Canada, who died while on a salmon
fishing trip at Gaspe, Quebec, Canada,
recently had fulfilled in a remarkable
manner the wish he uttered when his
friend, Sir John Rose, of London, Eng¬
land, dropped dead in the act of firing
at a stag in Scotland a few years ago.
Colonel Walker then said at his club:
“When my time comes Ihope I may be
catching a 28-pound salmon.” A letter
received from Gaspe with details of hi*
illness, says he was stricken with paraly¬
sis just after catching a 24-pound fish.
He never rallied. Colonel Walker was
well known throughout Canada.— New
York World.
The Stage Coach.
Tarnished and battered and old.
Heartlessly hidden away,
Left to the math and the mold,
Darkness and dust and decay.
This was the pride of its day.
Now all its glory is o er—
Faded and vanished for ays;
Gone are the driver and fourl
How shall its story be to'd?
What shftll a song of it say?
Once it was brilliant ps gold,
Once it was gilded and gay.
Fine in their festal array,
- Many the bride that it bora
Now are thoy wrinkled aud gray;
Gone are the driver nnd fourl
’Long through the heat and the cold,
Ever from May until May,
Over the highways it rolled.
Time has now made it his prey.
Never a stately display,
Never a dash as of yore,
Never a swing or a sway;
Gone are the driver and four!
Oyer Rush new roads with that rattle men aud lay
we roar.
Only sweet memories stay;
Gone are the driver and fourl
—fiissell Clinton in Harper's.
HUMOROUS.
A police court might well be called a
fine institution.
A horse may pull with ail his might,
but never with his mane,
A knotty problem—The highest pos¬
sible speed for ocean vessels.
The electrician is a good soldier. He
knows how to charge a battery.
When tlio barber talks too much, his
stories are generaly illustrated with
cuts.
Visitor—Why do you call your dairy
“India Rubber? ’ Farmer—Because it
ha3 such a good spring.
Beggar—A thousand thanks, my good
sir, for the splendid coat you have given
me; but I cannot wear it. It would
ruin my business—not a soul would give
me a farthing 1
The nrohln sadly now puts by
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Takes up his hooka
A floating newspaper paragraph says
that a lady, aged 80. has just been tak¬
ing piano lessons. Even the old and
feeble can get square with their neigh¬
bors when they go about it right
The dentist’s daughter hears her
father approaching: “Oh dear, Edward,
here comes my father. If he should find
us together hero we are lost. Oh, ho is
coming! You will have either to ask
for my hand—or let him pull out a tooth
for you. ”
Scene, tho garden of a country villa.
—Passerby (at the gate): “Gardener,
what is the matter up at tho house—
that terrible screeching?” Gardener
putting his hand to his ear to listen):
“I can’t make out exactly. Either the
lady is practising singing, or some vile
animal has got into the hen-house.”
Do Cats Count
After reading a!l the accounts of tho
interesting experiments lately performed
on the famous “Sally,” I am persuaded
the following incident may not be with¬
out a certain interest to some readers of
Nature:
About two weeks ago the cat of a
dairyman in this neighborhood gave
birth to throe kittens. Next day ono
of them was removed, during the moth¬
er’s absence, and drowned. On return¬
ing from a. foraging expedition, and
discovering her losi, puss immediately
set out in search, presumably, of the
missing one. All her efforts in this di¬
rection, of course, proved fruitless; but
evidently determined to at least make
up the right number, she did so, curi¬
ously enough, by carrying off, from its
nest close by, a young hare, not more
than a week old. This sho is at present
suckling side by side with her own kit¬
tens. In new of these facts the above
question very naturally suggests itself.
— Nature.
His Heart on His Right Side.
Frank Havens, aged 38 years, dropped
dead recently at Council Bluffs, Iowa.
A post mortem examination disclosed
an abnormal arrangement of the vital
organs. The heart was on the right
side, the apex lying against the second
rib. About two quarts of blood sur¬
rounded the heart. The liver was on
the left side of the abdomen and the
stomach on the right. His lungs were
only one-third the normal size, aud
were pressed upward. How the man
could have lived any length of time
after birth seems a mystery to the sur*
geons. The coroner’s jury returned a
verdict that death resulted from a rup¬
ture of the heart-