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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
IKE BROOKLYN Um\E’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
Stab.ff-CT: “Other Sheep I Ha ve.”
Text: ''Other sheep I have which arc not
of this fold .”—John x., 10.
There is no monopoly in religion. The
grace ot God is not a nice little property
fenced oflE all for ourselves. It is uot a king's
park, gateway, at which wishing we look through a barred
the flowers and Joolt wo might the go deer m and and pluck
at the
statuary. It is a father’s orchard, aud (here
are bars to let down and gates to swingopen.
In my boyhood d ys, next to the country
schoolhonsa where I want, there was an
apple orchard lame of great who luxuriance, did gather owned the by
a very man not
apples, and they went to waste by scores ot
bushels. Sometimes the lads of the school,
in the sinfulness of a nature inherited from
oor first parents, who fell through the same
temptation, would climb over the fence and
S’snstjassfsswa
take after these lads and shout, “Boys, drop
guard over the Church of God. They have
God sa^ssrsssaasrssi would like to have all the people
come
and take the richest and the ripest fruit, a ud
the more they take the better He likes it.
But there are those who stand with a hard
and severe nature guarding the Church of
God, and all apples the time afraid that some will
get these when they really ought not
tohave them.
Have you any idea that because you were
baptized at eight months of age. and because
you have all your life been surrounded by
hallowed influences, you have a right to one
whole side of tho Lord’s table, spreading
yourself will out have so nobody haul else can sit there? for
You to in your elbows,
there will cornea great multitude to sit at
the table and on both sides of you. You are
M.erssaE (
Scotch °McDonKW, hills the Scotohmao, flock of has McDonald en the
has four a five great thousand sheep. held sheep,
or of
Some are browsing on the heather, some are
on the hills, some are in the vaUeys, a few
are in the yard. One day Cameron comes
hive over to McDonald and says: “McDonald, you
thirty sheep. I have been counting
them.” “Oh, thousand.” no!” says McDonald. “Ah!” “I Came- have
fouror five says
ron, “you are mistaken. I have just counted
them. There are thirty.” “Why,” is all the says sheep Me
Donald, “do you suppose that
So Christ comes. Here is a group hlrf of
SnsfhTre ST*. Melodist Is^a
Presbyterian fold, here is aBa-itist fold, here
is a Lutheran fold, and we make our annual
EfeeSHe EHEfffSyiSs says-^ 3 'You 0 have not
Ss ev£s±s£ valleys. Do think
and in all the you
Ke^cnThavT? 5 a mL 'ThereTa^fnml- numbS Other
mode no cm fold.”
Aesp have I whichareno^oi* -:
11 V taxi talks T tho toav sion
^»“r»He *rfo^
the idea that His people will come from all
^stances parts of the earth, from all cnajlttans ages, from all cir
from aU “Other
^lu^he 1
Bh^hM&many"Hi^heepamonl fiist nlace I remark the Heavenly
Miose who are at present non-churchgoers.
wdUin'da h
gEC”'Kwul;“i™?£S7' reminds of church those made skeleton up only plants r rh1 of
church you
from which by chemical pi eparation all tie
white and delicate ^nd
beautiful and finished. All that is wanted is
agJasscaseput over thcin. The minister on
SShrash eff th^dust^hat has 1 ai“
cumulated in the last six days of business,
and then they are as cold and beautiful and
dencatoas before. Every ing is ’
^cWtectme ^Another- 1 finished m-erything^ ainarinory, ' the
church is fika
rrhV^rrwmv^Wo^yTth^Ft git
‘Tlome in and yonc equipment Is
Here is the bath in which you are to
€ro^ y'ouv t^hf t e Ts heart, ttm here b^^ato is the
^ou are to put over your
sword vou are to take in your right hand and
fight dis battle with. Quit yourselves like
^Th'ere arc those here, perhaps, who say,
2&S3Zi£2iSaZ2t»£$ liSI&g S
HI'Z' tU thft isthat aregoinf to
the firstand you “Oh,”
become E the Lord’s sheep. iftXiSJ you say,
♦hfnlr^rfthafc a Vfu!Sn«
kind ” I know all about your
case I have been up and down the world,
I know why some of you do not attend upon
C /“ tortS. make another
■ ud announce
ment n regard to you, and that is, you are
not hour° only 1U God°is to become^he f^rffs dieep^but gracioiiy you
going to call you by
Thif°Sf-^°S„S t t
fold of Christ. This seimon snail not_be bc so so
preached to tlfem^bundrchs and thousands of
tones. The sermon that I preach now is go
ing to bechiefly for those who consider toetnc
fn^tlie fAivist-Sn °hous^ r a n^the chief employment of
fray foTth^wfo nponle here to-dav accustomed will be to
are not to
attend upon rSsL Christiansanctuari^t to minister ieces
oftheGospe^ofwhom^ehaveaUraad.^ on Mara why did-that brave
SeT P for plenty and preparing wkjtoj^done them food?
There Ah™hit was jat k^w on
0
braTO niib that there were
fad, pill a-y: . Yonder t isa nian. toe, y -
a to"” g in the
-wav oar bia’es brad
™u of the oarsmen. Then they come
Sdw“h^otttosea. m dfiwu.mm But thSTldr. hw-inr Ancient to the
?fc|i : T ^ vef
ng FuUnway, my lads! puff away !"
Tbly «® e «P. and ho HoH now
Stodri'stesdri Kow-dvems Thank vour hand, God.
Wp- Thank God, he is saved!
saved!” / ««"While - . „ •:
Ko there
^ £ TOm7OT“toWtoem, ^me^re.fwept raaclx them -and off
_swept off before we can
toere toere are ^ ypeiT ty** ®}*?* ^ace^o; - ^ ^
among -^
to 5“j* «me of
torfl Wtahfc^re i ^-T nStrf t^s - fold” '
the DEMOCRAT, CRAWFORDVIlsLE, GEORGIA.
lilliiBI OhWstian sympathizers aud de
vnnml#»d hv
vout men will carry you to your burial when
your work is done, and these words will ba
chiseled for your epitaph: ‘-Precious in the
smht of the Lord is the death of His saints-”
And all that history is going to begin to- of I
day “Other sheep have I which are not
this fold ” I
A oain r remark- th- Hsaveniv Shepherd
is L, to find many of His sheep among i I
th who are now rei-eters of Christianity Chris
, donot know how vou know-' can etoreject
ti Hy i do not whether it was
tbi-ough hearing Theodore Parker preach, or
w u e *w it was reading Renan’s “Life of
septic T „ n whether it was throiwh some
in the store or factory. Or it may be
_prabablyis ‘ 4.. the case-that you were dis
, ,.„u c j nn distrusted with
(’•i-ristianitv becau-e some man who pro
t d to be a Christian defrauded you, and
v,iv heinn-a member of the church, and you
taking him as a representative of the Chris
,■ relie-ion you said “Well if that’s re
want miy of it.’’
1 do not know how you came to reject
5fc,2'«s. , aas^r5. divine being although , s.aa
that Christ was a ssJs&i you
be true—I nevertheless think the earlier part
J tell ^tsx: mein regard
Uoy Nevertheless they to
vo ” „ that vou are an accommodating, you
an obliging person. If I should come to
£fe vou an a ask of vou a favor you would grant
it were naiwibfe It would be a joy for
/ to grant me a favor. If any of vour
riends ca me to you and wanted an accom
modation and you could accommodate them,
how clad you would lie!
N t eo j ne to ask ot you a favor. I
wan t J vou to oblige me. The accom mo la
tion w iU cost you nothing, and you will give
— eat happiness. Of course yon will not
deny me I want you as an expei iment to
stfndthetest .ho Christian diseardlt; relieion If it does not
if it does, receive
•,
fod I tkt a bottle et mehuhne tram nj
pocket and said, Here ' ,^5
sure will help you’.ithas cared fifty people
J ou w ? ul c J st ^ o?i V h?»L
denceAn it; . they toll me these edt
will fail me. Well, hav^io
as °. £ .vveii
^7 lt J ^ “I ‘
objection to trying; it, if It wifi K K any sat- .
fraction to'jou I wUl^try it. You*«*>*•
Now you ara sick tu ’ - ■ •
It ou are not happy. You laugh^sometimes
when you are nnscratii.e Ihereco.nesni es
»r t , avnI1 -f anv faith in it ”
of aceommodaUon let me in
fa-oduce vmt to the Lord Jesus Cn 1 st, the
m/Sth in Him WeU iw’will
r i iwsa
KdicodTSaVwo's^kiu|
ssffisras i ;zsss,z
ss ™ham iffszjgqx
Newton, philosopher 1, ke, the aph;
the as - m u
I,' a> - ^ v ni-e-iched—tbev , i V .v r ! *
d t » re ach—but they oomt* out arid
^“^fi^ris^as^ramfort the electrician’s wne, and mother^the pm- j
to all the veo- I
' ask to take the advice of clergy
io " ot you I
'->■ J l ^ ^« thH
y u yo said against the
Bible: it does not make any difference to me
are ^ p ronfinent hi seraiar affairs, as these
men dom i have mentioned and others who
™«edl“ 4 S''a i naturafskeotte » 1 ^"scoffed.
* k ®P r have
i d t kno w what the first word was that
I uttered after entering the world, but I
““ whenl'doubted
times doubted the exit
the divinity of
Christ, when I doubted the immortality of
the soul, when I doubted my own existence,
when I doubted everything. I have been
ouclu Wl’ma nothing new abmR it I
have come out from a great Sahara desert
mto the cam, warm, sunshiny land of the
haTbeenthera Yo°n c^teU me nothing
new other about condition it. of A,jd wh.ch I know you all do about not know the
anything—the peace, the comfort the joy,
IS
scoffing in regard to it. . .
.
fifty “.V~“ links, and when i ™.‘72 they ."?SSt had out
runi
t h eu there was nothing to touch tlie depth
X j
ot deor ^ he vvould bunt, amid the
bushes and the brakes ionger tor the lost j
had'thfddlrlnm
tremens twice be cannot be cured. They
s ny if a wu.nan has fallen from integrity
^^nnot bejeda^ned.^ A^ of rt«r. an
own"^^ “
“'SlitafeLa man
fa]Jen? Well, I cannot give you the
exact figures, but I can toll you at what
P" 1 ?®? and ninety Hmts. times? Whvdo’ /suv
tour luiudred and ninety Because
the Bible says seventy timw seven. Now fig
ur e that out, you who do not think a man
^fal^tour f Zr'tt
3red times, and yet be Why saved. Four hundred
and ninety tim^s! there is a great
^ ^of^toquTty
thev'irar? wiisheii'^ot ^ bjdy 1 and°w^hed > of
mind and washed of soul, and they are be
there is no chance for him.
perance pledge thing will to^do not save No you, but although God it
is a grant one can
! SSSf oStC
aprithecaryca:. mix. Put you trust in God!
After the church has cast you off. and toe
bank has eutyM off. and social cirries have
, J}
. faU off, at ^you off, and
mother has east yon your first cry for
! help God will bead clean down to toat ditch
! h?n“ime^hr^e
I a TteT Ly to ?n this
ib^ trembles so w.th dissipation they could
harfiy hold a hymn boo ,. 1 say to such if
! ye? ^Youw'iil ommuaioti yeT mwJ'of “ymL Tarry'toe
bo vril? j C acceptable through every!,Hy ths aisles, an t you
rSSSt be S' ^JT&S%TVtSt to bjeaj*
; eruxvi man. wholly c-onsecrated. Your buti-
Rlllgfl: know what the tvo^pel is. It ea,i scale any
height, it can fathom any depth, it can com- why
pass any infinity. I think one reason
there are not more people saved is we do
not^ swing the door wide enough open.
Now there is only one class of persons in ,
this house about whom I have any despond- i (
eney, and that is those wno have been hear
ing the Gospel for perhaps outward twenty, life thirty, moral, ;
forty years Their is .
but they tell Christ, you frankly have .not they trusted do not Him. lovetlie have j I
not been born again by the spirit of (Jod.
They are Gospal hardened. 1 lie Gospel has
no more effect upon them than the shining
of the moon on the city pavement. the
publicans and the harlots go into the king- .
dom of God before they. They went through, !
some of them, the revival of 3857, when 500,- I
000 souls were brought, to God. Some ot them
went through great revivals in individual
churcUos. Stilt unpardouel. unblessed, Gospel uu
saved. They were merely spectators. will hear that
hardened! After awhile we
they are sick,.and then that they ore dead,
and then that they died without any hope.
'isrtsszs,**.*-******
five sermons in five years. 1 his whole sab
are not Gospel hardened. The whole subject
past! Oh, the graves I stumbled over
Whither shall I fly? The tuture isso dark, so
dark, so very dark! God help me!
Oh, I am so gl id tor that last utterance I
That was a prayer, mid as soon as you be
gin to pray that turns all heaven tats way,
and God steps in, and He beatsmektho
hounds of temptation to the.r kennels and
He throws all around the pursued *out tne
covert of His pardoning mercy, i beam
something fall. What was it? It was the
bars around around the the rfuwpfold, sbeepfoid. the Ihe bars Heave of the nl y
fence fall, and the hunted sheep
Shepherd let them
of the mountain come brambles, bounding and m, others some
with fleece torn of the bounding
with feet lame from the dogs, but f
■*" 1 wb
©very *11, ^^tftionof-ttoy.who opportunity of salvation, but rejected had
mulwho wrote or dictated these words:
“Before you receive this my final state will
be determined. Iain thro wing my last stake
eternity, and tremble ana shudder for
the important issue. Oh, my friend, with
what, horror do I recall tho hours of vanity
^ bav0 wasted together; but I have a splen- and
d id passage to the grave. I die in state,
languish under a gilded canopy. I am ex
pIr f ng ousoft and downy pillows, servants and and am
fegpeetfuUy attended by my
himalf And which of these will bail.me from
at°Z“ntem^TI
bearing my just condemnation at a
supreme tribunal. Adieu!”
Revolutionary Widows.
The last Revolutionary soldier died
years and years ago. But the Revolu
tiouary widows are still with us. Twenty
venerable women whose husbands “fit
for American independence are carried
r£jsr« rolls. It is amazing
«*«» « «. At
the pretent time Uncle Sam is disbars
| ing §38,847 a year to the old soldiers of
I the w in-- K1.v n,.
old .soldiers of the war of 1813 an? iw
ing in pensions the snug sum of $1 M »3,
annually. When we get .town to
the Mexican war we find the survivors a
little the best of it . They draw §1,728 ,
027 « year. The Mexican War widows
creeptng „ ot $695,054. But the widows arc
up on the survivors. It will he
only a few years until the Mexican War
widows will be drawing more pension
way «?*•••»*» the pension laws work out At ;> if the
Pension Office this is well understood.
lt is cx P ,aincd ia a feW W ° rdS ' Thc ° W
pensioners marry young wires and leave
them their blessings and pensions. The
pensioners of thc Civil War will reach
their maximum in numbers eight or ten
years from now if 'there arc no more pen
siob laws enacted. But thc widows’list
will keep on growing for a quarter of a
century. Fifty years from now there
will not be a Grand Army man living.
Seventy-five years from now a grateful
Republic will still be reimbursing widows
for what their husbands suffered at
Gettysburg and Chickamauga. Women
are yet to be born who will beoo e
w - f lows of old soldiers and draw pensions
for their husbands’services in the war of
1861-5. , ,
£*,1 p*«,«,»'»• "XXJXtSS n*.
n»
figures will bo reversed in twenty years, §13
Xfincty-eic-ht thousand widows draw
a month. Last year the Civil War pen
sioners drew §71,877,619. 1 lie Civil
\y ar widows drew §19,006,857, total. more
than one-fourth of the magnificent
- Washington Letter.
\ „ Old Fable Bent Asunder.
storIcS of n ‘? theM
thair children into the , Ganges is all a
says a returned missionary. “I
never saw it done, or any one who
claimed to have seen it done, or, in .’to.,
ever heard there of its being done. It
is only in England and America that i
evcr heard of it. Children arc loved
there just as much as they a.c here.
Motherhood is honored more.
u The story 0 f men throwing them
selves into the Ganges in fits of religious
aldy^^originaUrd 5 CI frcmi^the fact^that at
t!lt; „ rea t festival held where the Ganges
emerges from the mountains into the
plain, called the‘Gate of God, in tho
were pushed^ and crowded into the IheGov- stream
by accident swept precautions away.
i ernment n0 w takes to pre
fiuch ^ualties. That such things
might easily happen you can see for
vourself when I tell you that I saw at
' 2,000,000
‘ ia 1864
hf . fc8tival over
1 people there, according to the Govern
meat estimate, at one time. When you
remember that this festival was to cele
brate the completed course of the con
stellations of the zodiac through the
heavens, and tiiat the ceremonial of
batbl j ns , \ u th : river was to be per
formed at a sign from the priests tiiat
the course of the constellations was
completed) you *-,11 wonder that such
«»»•
tent.”— Chicago Seat.
HUNTING ( i „.. BUFFALO. ,„L..
American . _ DcSCf t.
ail
Twib Small Herds of Buffalo
k Sighted in Wyoming.
T'to miserable mouths on a dreary
so gi Sent of Sahara, two bnllitJo hides,
DS ° d AOs , W = till Hie f , mioi i ort j, nun. orus 0 f the
w j]d L. i)W of the prairies. Till's in
bnei fe the history ot the . cxpljits , .. .<
nn e edition of great hopes organ
jze ’ Liunarie, A\ yonimy. last , Ail- ,
’ 111 UH . t . r j
s !nber to November. The party
inolu odd. C. Bobbin*. Jack nin Hill,
je r ai 4 K e n cv Willis Woodruff and
™ ».
^ j< t my capture the "'": hand or
pro was o
>.* «-**... ««■
|r ,j| no ,- t {, ,,, the Union Pacific ill the
-......
‘ - on t |, e Raraillie plains 1 a
bui ranch similar to the preserve Ot
< ’ Bes ,lcal Hunhn l, “ U1U1 CilV ' J has.
, , 0 iecl has been abandoned after
•
a t full ot incident.
ounlc oiLlight storms made trav
(> 1 u.-u-ult, and , thoy , were two weeks .
| tho desert was
yeaclnld. They skirted the northern
edge if v tho waste by , of , ICC III
way .......
tel .j u ,, then plunged into the ex pause
1
" St adventure tvns the meet.ng
0 f tel. lodges of Arapahoe Indians,
who had come out into the desert to
hold •feme sort of a powwow, The
reds ere friendly and told the hunt¬
ers otlake where they could camp
and b, r c ionably certain of sighting
the . , biflalo i . . hi y sought. so r i . Tile I be hliulers linn 11
travelit- directed and readied tho
ey crossed seventy
miles <f veritable ba 1 land—a broken
Count.- without vegetation and with
scarcelt any water. They remained
j here ei^ht days, hunting all the time,
j Dui iig breakfast the first morning
Hill sig ned a herd of buffalo with his
fu ld glasses. The bunch numbered
fifteen iim tl,. y were grazing quietly,
Before i he hunters could get into action
tlie gnu > had disappeared and was not
found o aii A few dav- later they
cany* magnificent hull, four
r - The In
chm g them. They shot to frighten
him off! and were altogether too suc¬
cessful' in this direction. Hill roped
one of the cow's. The animal w.-rieil
herself so that she died after being
“hog tied.” A buffalo will struggle
till completely exhausted ami rarely
recovers. The only other capture was
that of another cow, which soon suc¬
cumbed to the necessitated choking.
Bobbins satisfied himself that this
herd was not from the National Park,
as has been so often reported of late.
The Indians told him that in 1884 the
herd numbered 300. Three years later
it contained hut 100 and is now not
over 2' The reds killed many and
, the veu offer ffied during the severe
{ " inter 1889-90.
, Dm i ; their desert travels tlie bun
j ters . countered several herds of
wil(l l)tll , es . They were the regular
; Illllgl SfH|Iiall nlld 8p j rIt0ll aiul i ook
.
unkempt . then . . wmtci . . -
mg in i.ntt s.
R„bl,i n-. manager of thc expedition,
snvs ho has had enough buffalo hunt.
- ... ..... . ll ;« ..... ......"■
-rs... »«»«•■«> .........
Mntjc Cannon for Washington.
A histone property known as the
, Warwick farm, near St. Peter’s, Flies,
ter county, Penn., was sold the other
week. The old Warwick furnace
which .vas one of Hie chief attractions
of the iarm is conceded to have been
the firsi L in tl»c United States find was
1 ” a , t about the year 1766. At ...
t tills . furinace weie east , in . t
j cannon used in the revolutionary war
bv the |, jcoiltiiicnlal army, Although
u j 1 t b( ,,. tl j M operation 1 for some
i . ,, bmid.ntrs ...
of the , principal .
years, many
about Urn f uijmtRo ; art: kt|H sllcpdiiig
j,, ;1 gooiUtatc'of ’.ntifc’ pi e» i va?ion.
j lh? Va^ows -by. many
| pi .dc.horh-A having
j |>een se- iTled in that way by Hie man
a „ ers of thp fubtmee.in o’rilor to p re
t faffing into tlie hands of the
in 1 777. AtWUW < ’™«> *' » “ “
ington retreated witti’hls ti oops noi til
ir(l 0,,-ougli Chester fiounty, thus
^ MjtorUnl if0li furnace
expose}* j t oJlllc A* , n ercy Of the ienerny.
| tl 1876 several of th- se cannons were
, Jag np ;a..d sent to Philadelphia a, ex
, j i{g in ■ the centennial exposition.
Others Dave fieeussfiriflo Pao'i, Valley
Forge ! eipnwhcre'-as -kBA The,
; ; ,j -.fhr-'faraace’ iti 1777
aml tis* W’ ;1frv for he r:v veur
** i* now kept ’*i ‘tWvh*..tri ljidcpi ii
de • JLJl Philadelphia. — A-h ‘-igo
u id
J
The Most ltojietifnl Picture.
“ITliat impressed you most of all
that you saw in Europe?” I recently
asked a friend who had j«-t returned
from a year of trnvol extending from
Amsterdam to Naples, and taking in
tlie chief points of interest, in ling
land, Holland, Belgium. 1-Yanoe, tier
many, Switzerland and Italy, lie hes¬
itated a moment, and theu he said:
“The thing that really affected me
most, I think, was r. picture I saw in
Home. it wasn’t by liaphael or
Michael Angelo or Titian or Murillo;
in fact, it wasn’t a painted, but a liv¬
ing picture. Nor was it in a palace,
surrounded by luxurious accessories.
“It was just a simple little composi¬
tion in a homely cottage doorway—a
humble mother, sitting upon the top
step, winding into a ball a skein of
yarn that her boy, a sturdy little curly
haired fellow of seven or eight years,
held out over his two hands stretched
apart. There was a tender look in the
mother’s eyes and a contented, happy
expression in the face of tho child that
took me back forty years to a pretty
little home in a Massachusetts village,
where, in n doorway not unlike that
one, I sometimes sat with the*skein of
yarn over my outstretched arms, and
my dear old mother wound it into a
hall.
“I could not quite see my mother
and myself in these Italian faces, so
far as physical resemblance was con¬
cerned, in*' the content, the freedom
from cor old of that beautiful time
in life th\ never is half appreciated
until it is past. That picture, my
friend, of all that i saw. was what
impressed me most, None of the
royal pageantry 1 witnessed, none of
the miles of glowing canvasses 1
looked upon, none of the interesting
historical scenes 1 visited, presented
anything to compare with it.”—[New
York fxtar.
Perpetual Fire.
There exist still n few—-a very few
contrivances for this perpetual tire
in our churches; they go hy the naiuo
of cresset stones. The earliest I know
is not in England but in tlie atrium
outside tin- remarkable church of Si
Ainbrogio at Milan, It is a block of
white marble on a moulded base, now
broken, hut handed logo ter with iron.
It stands three feet ten inches high
and i two feet six inche in di ter
at top It consists i f ii Hid. sui m
r *. ■*<•**
depressed , eiij.-iiicc .
wiiien are nine
hollows. These were originally tilled
with oil and wicks were pi» ed in
them and ignited.
In England one is still in situ, in
the church of Lcwannik, in Cornwall.
There it is not far from the door. It
consists of a circular block containing
on its fiat upper surface, which is
twenty-two inches across, seven enp
like hollows lour and a half inches
deep. The stone stands on a rudely
moulded base, octagonal, and is in all
about two feet six inches high, in
Furness Abbey, among the ruins, 1ms
been found another, with five cups in
it; at Calder Abbey another, with six
teen such cups for oil and wicks. At
York is another with six such lire
cups, and at Stockholm another with
the same number, in a square stone
table. At Wool Church, Dorset, is
again another example lmilt into the
south wall of a small chapel on the
north side of the chancel, it. is a
block of Furbcek marble, and has in
the top live cup-shaped cavities quite
blackened with the oil and smoke. In
some of the examples there arc traces
of a metal pin around which the wick
was twisted.— fCornhill Magazine
A Poisonous Liquid.
The New York Telegram says:
f ( , w , r . p.rown-Scquard, w hose
,. . ()f , jfl . callH ,.q HW H i,ort-Iived a
sensation, is reported to have lately
nfonned the French Academy of’ 8ci
ence tiiat hy condensing the watery
vapor corning from the human lungs
he obtained a poisonous liquid capable
of producing aim' t immediate death.
‘The poison is an alkaloid (organic),
and not a microbe or series of mi
,. 1 . 1)i „. u . He, injected this liquid under
th(J hki „ fl rabbit, and the effort was
m . ir , a 1 without convulsions.’
|f this alari(lill g discovery doe, not
,| ihroura!f( , ,| 1(! prie fi.-e of kissing, it
ou( , llt at lend, to emphasize the ne,,--.
%;t fol . vcijkuing the upartmciifs ifi
-he public halls, theatres and ehnrches
(q,ei frequent.
Eyes Reveal the Horse's Temper.
The horse has no eyebrows The
appearance of much white in the eye
of a horse indicates a vicious nature,
boi :ause a high-tempered horse looks
constantly about, apprehensive of
danger or desiring to do mischief.
The quick motion of the eyeball in op
posite directions exposes an unusuuily
J 'if i surface of white, which thus be
s an evidence of tlie temper of
the animal.—[New York Journal
An Essay on Vo me*
I read a brilliant essay
On Fame tin 1 other day;
Tim scrim attacked the subject
In a most decisive way.
She said (for 'twao a woman)
That glory was a snare,
An ignis fatmis leading
through deadly swamps of care.
She likened it to bubbles
That tempt the childish eye,
Hut shatter soon as captured,
And into nothing tly.
The love of praise, she added,
Betokened silly pride.
And throve in natures little
And impudent beside.
And when this witty woman
Had quite demolished lame,
She closed iter brilliant essay,
And—signed in full her name I
J George Horton in Chicago Herald
HUMOROUS.
“lie was generous to a fault” when
the fault was his own.
When aerial ships come in wo shah
have tly time nil tho year round.
The wills of strong minded men
cannot ho broken until thoy die.
He—What, makes the dining roo o
so cold, dear? She—I think, love, it
must he the frieze on the wall.
Citizen—Did the amputation do the
man any good? Doctor—Oh, no,
but it was a beautiful operation.
Hearts with a Single Thought.
When a girl is in love she always .
thinks the young man is perfect, and
tie agrees with her.
Customer (entering hook store)
Have you “Thoughts of Women?’’
Clerk (absent-mindedly)—Yes, ma’in,
I’ve been engaged a week.
Father—“Is that stranger who calls
to see yon a mail of regular habitsV”
Daughter “Yes, indeed, pa. Ho «»■
rives every night promptly at 8.”
Sarah Bernhardt has tho reputation
of being very thin, indeed, but even
she cannot compare with tho excuses
some men limko when they stay oit*
late at night.
“This is a dollar store, isn’t it?”
asked Rustieus, as he presented him¬
self. “No, sir,” replied the toller so
vorely,“tiffs isabauk ” “Well, what’s
I he difference ?”
A story at hand, dese.ra love
seen, hetty. th< and heroine,
says: Gl¬ wooei with a will.”
That’s a good \V <> v e*i»“,dully it
jjoer w dm ami uie win is m t«w i
favor.
An Amazon River Phenomenon
Shortly after the tide had stopped
running out, they saw something corn¬
ing toward them from the ocean in i
long white line, which grew biggei
and whiter as it approached. Then
Ulur( , w . )8 a HOnnd lik() the rumbling
of distant thunder, which grow loudei
and louder as the white lino cairn
nearer, until it seemed as if the whole
ocean had risen up and was coming,
charging and thundering down upon
them, boiling over the edge of ties
pile of water like an endless cataract,
fi . om four to MVen iucl res high, that
i I spread out across the whole eastern
j horizon. This was tho pororocai
I ' When they saw it corning, tho crew
I ! became utterly demoralized, and fell
J to weeping and praying In the bottom
ot’ tin boat, expecting (hat it would
i certainly he dashed to pieces, nn<4
they themselves drowned, Tlie pilot,
however, had the presence of mind to
: heave anchor before the wall of \Vn
| ters struck them; and whim it did
strike, they were first pitched violent¬
1 left
ly forward, and then lifted, and
rolling and lo-xing like a cork on the
foaming sea it left behind, the tKif-t.
:
nearly tilled with water.
Bu( their trouble was i.ot ended;
for, before they had emptied the boat
two othei such seas came down ou
them ul short intervals, tossing the.to
in the same manner, and finally leav¬
ing Diem within a stone’s-throw of tb«
river-hank, where another such wave’
would have, lushed them upon the
sli ire. They had been anchored, be
fore Die waves struck them, near the
middle of the stream, which at lids
place is several iniies wide.
Oysters Grown Ready Packed.
Mr. .foe King, the oysterman, has
small keg of full-grown oysters which
is a curiosity, tinder favorable condi¬
tions oysters will attach themselves to
any convenient surface which is hard
and smooth. Samples of such growths
have been sent to the Sun office in end¬
less variety, and they have included
old hoots anil shoes fully encrusted and *
tilled with line xysters, bottles covered
with bivalves, crocks and pots of
them, utensils of all sorts full of thorn,
and even a clay pipe burthened with
three or four heavy shells; but it is
not often that oysters take the trouble
to pa< k themselves so closely amt eo
cleverly in a keg, handy for transpor¬
tation, as in the Joe King specimen —
fBaltimore Hun.
