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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “The March Homeward.”
Text: “Pursue; for thou shalt xureln
overtake them, and without fail recover
all." —I Samuel, xxx., 8.
There is intense excitement in the village
of Ziklag. David and his men are bidding
good-bye to In their families, and are off for
the wars. that little village of Ziklag tho
defenseless ones will be safe until the war¬
riors, flushed with victory, come home. But
will the defenseless ones be safe? The soft
arms of children are around the necks of the
bronzed warriors until they shake them¬
selves free and start, and handkerchiefs
and flags are waved and kisses thrown
until the armed men vanish beyond the
hills. David and his men soon get
through ward. Every with their campaign and start home¬
does night on their way home, no
sooner the soldier put his head on the
knapsack than in bis dream he hears the
welcome of. the wife and the shout of the
child. Oh, what long stories they will have
to tell their families, of how they dodged the
battle-ax! and then will roll up their sleeve
and show the half-healed wound. With glad,
quick step they march on David and his
men, for they are marching home. Now
they which overlooks come up Ziklag, to the last hill
and they expect
in a moment to see the dwelling places of
their loved ones. They look, and as they
look their cheeks turn pale, and their lip
quivers, and their hand involuntarily conies
down on the hilt of the sword. “Where is
Ziklag? Where are our homes?” they cry.
Alas! the curling smoke above the ruin tells
the tragedy. The Amaiekites have come
down and consumed the village, and carried
the mothers and the wives and the children
of David and his men into captivity. The
swarthy warriors stand for a few moments
transfixed with horror. Then their eyes glance
at each other, and they burst into uneon
trolable weeping; for when a strong war¬
rior weeps, the grief is appalling. him It seems
as if the emotion might tear to pieces.
They “wept until they had no more power to
weep.” But soon their sorrow turns into
rage, and David, swinging his sword high in
the air, cries: “Pursue, for thou shalt over¬
take them, and without fail recover
all.” Now the march becomes a
David’s “ double-quick.” stop Two by hundred brook of
men the
Besor, faint with fatigue and grief. They
cannot But go a step farther. They are left
there. the other four hundred men un¬
der David, with a sort of panther step,march
on ill sorrow and in rage. They find by the
side of resuscitate the road a hall-dead Egyptian, and
they him, and compel him to tell
the whole story. He says: “Yonder they
went, the captors and the captives,” pointing
in the direction. Forward, ye four hun¬
dred brave men of fire! Very soon
David and his enraged company
come upon the Amalekitish host. Yonder
they see their own wives and children and
mothers, and under Amalekitish guard. Here
are the officers of the Amalekitish army hold¬
ing a banquet. The cups are full, the music
is host roused, cheer the dance and begins. The Amalekitish cheer
cheer and over
their victory. But, without note of bugle
or warning of trumpet, David and his four
hundred men burst upon the scene, suddenly
as Robert Bruce hurled his Scotchmen upon
the revelers at Bannockburn. David and
his men look up.and one glance at their loved
ones in captivity and under Amalekitish
guard throws for them into a very fury how of de¬
termination; you know men
wiil fight when they fight for their
wives and children. Ah, there are
lightnings in their eye, and every finger
is a spear, and their voice is like the bout of
the whirlwind. Amidst the upset tankards
and the costly viands crushed underfoot, the
wounded Amaiekites lie (their blood ming¬
ling with their wine) shrieking for mercy.
No sooner do David and his men win the vic¬
tory than they throw their swords down
into the dust—what do they want with
swords now?—and the broken families
come together amidst a great shout of
joy that makes the parting scene in
Ziklag seem very insipid in the com
parison. The rough old warrior has to use
some persuasion before he can get his eli il l
to come to him now alter so long an absence;
hut soon the little finger traces the familiar
wrinkle across the scarred face. And then
the empty tankards are set up, and they are
filled with the best wine from the hills, and
David and his men, the husbands, the wives,
the brothers, the sisters, drink to the over¬
throw of the Amaiekites and to the rebuildmg
of Ziklag. So,O Lord, let thine enemies perish?
Now they are coming home, David and his
men and their families—a long procession.
Men, women and children, loaded with
jewels and robes and with all kinds of
trophies that the Amaiekites had gathered
up in years of conquest—everything and his now When in
the hands of David men.
they come by the brook Besor. the place
■where staid the men sick and incompetent
to travel, the jewels and the robes
and all kinds of treasures are divided
among the sick as well as among the well
Surely, the lame and exhausted ought to
have some of the treasures. Here is a robe
for this pale-faced warrior. Here is a pillow
for this dying man. Here is a handful of
gold for the wa-ted trumpeter. 1 really
think that these men who fainted by the
brook Besor may have endured as much as
those men who went into battle. Some mean
fellows objected to the sick ones having any
of the spoils. The objectors said: “These
men did not fight.” David, with a magnani¬
mous heart, replies: “As his part is that
goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be
that tarrieth by the stuff.”
This Thank subject God. is practically times suggestive to
me. in these a man e;>n
go oil on a journey, and be gone his weeks house ana
months, and come back and see un¬
touched of incendiary, and have his family
on the step to greet him, if by telegram he
has foretold the moment of his coming. But
there are Amalekitish disasters, and there
are Amalekitish diseases, that sometimes
come down upon one’s borne, making as took de¬
vastating work as the day when Ziklag
fir- There are 3 families ijeeif m mV congregation °
wnose whose noraeb homes have na\ e beea broken oiteu up No bat
ter;ng-ram smote in the door, no leonoclasu
crumffied the statues, no flame leaped. a#mdst
the curtains: but so far as ail tne joy and
srssSTssmrssi
or consumptions, or undefined disorders
came and seized upon some members of that
family, and carried them awav. Ziklag in
ashes ! And you go about, sometimes weep¬
ing and sometimes enraged, wanting David to get
back your loved ones as much as
and his men wanted to reconstruct their
despofied households. Ziklag in ashes! Some
of you went off from home. You counted
the days of your absence. Every day saemei
as long as a week. Gh, how glad aboard you were the
when the time came for you to go
steamboat or rail car and start for home!
You arrived. You went up the street where
your dwelling hand was, and iu the night behold! v-ou put it
your on the door bell, and,
was wrapped with the signal of bereavement,
and you found that Amalekitish Death,
which has devastated a thousand other
households, had blasted yours. You go about
weeping amidst the desolation of your once
happy home, thinking of the bright eyes
closed, and the noble hearts stopped, and the
gentle hands folded, and you weep until you
have no more power to weep. Ziklag in
ashes!
A gentleman went to a friend of mine in
the city him of Washington, and asked that
through he might get a consulship to
some “What foreign do port. My friend said to him:
you want to go away from your
beautiful home for, into a foreign port!”
“Oh,” he replied, “my home is gone! My six
children are dead! I must get away, sir.
t can’t stand it*in this country any longer.”
Ziklag Why in ashes!
these long shadows of bereavement
across this audience? Why is it that in al¬
most every assemblage black is the predomi¬
nant color of the apparel ? Is it because you do
not like saffron or brown or violet? Ob, no!
You say: “The world is uot so bright to us
as it once was;” and there is a story of silent
voices, and of still feet, and of loved ones
gone, and when you look over tho hills, ex¬
pecting only beauty and loveliness, you find
only devastation aud woe. Ziklag in asbes!
In Ulster County, New York, the village
church was decorated until the fragrance of
the flowers was almost bewildering. The
maidens cf the village had emptied the
place of flowers upon one marriage
altar. One of their own number was
affianced to a minister of Christ, who had
come to take her to his home. With hands
joined, amidst a congratulatory audience,
the vows were taken. In three days from
that time one of those who stood at the altar
exchanged earth for heaven. The wedding
march broke down into the funeral dirge.
There were not enough flowers now for the
coffin lid, because they had all been taken for
the bridal hour. The dead minister of
Christ is brought to another village. He
had gone out from them less than a
week before in his strength; now he
comes home lifeless. The wtiole church
bewailed him. The solemn procession
moved around to look upon the still face that
once had beamed with messages of salvation.
Little children were lifted up to look at Inin.
And some of those whom he had comforted
in days of sorrow, when they passed that
silent form, made the place dreadful with
their weeping. Another village emptied of
its flowers—some of them put in the shape of
a cross to symbolize his hope, symbolize others put in
the shape of a eroivn to his tri¬
umph. A hundred lights blown out in one
strong gust from t.be open door of a sepul¬
cher. Ziklag in ashes! because
I preach this sermon to-day, I
want to rally you. as David rallied his men,
for the recovery of the loved and the lost. 1
want not only to win heaven, but I want ail
this congregation somehow to I have go along responsibility with me. I
feel that a in
your arriving at that great city. I have on
other kabbaths used other inducements. I
mean, to day, for the sake of variety, hoping
to reach your heart, to try another
kind of inducement. Do you really want to
join the companionship of your anxious loved ones
who have gone? Are you as to join
them as David and Ins men were to join
their families? Then I am here, in the name
of God, to say that you may, and to tell you
how.
I remark, in the first place, if you want to
join your loved ones in glory, you must travel
tlie same way they went. No sooner had the
half-dead Egyptian been resuscitated than be
pointed the and way David the captors and his and the followed captives
had gone, men
after. So our Christian friends
have gone into, another country, and
if we want to reach their companion
ship we must take tho same road. They re
pented: we must They repent. They prayed; we
must pray. trusted in Christ; we must
trust m Christ. Hey lived a religious life;
we must live a religious life They were in
some t.'im-s ip-. 'ir.«dves T -now n-w“.-T
they are gone, there is a halo around their
names: but they had their faults They said
sometimes cast down. 1 hey were far from
arl n |one fe P S h thlt W
in’r some 6 thtags rnn 7 s in in us us til at are ax© now nw
nniv only tolerable II may be almost resplendent.
r ff£Tt££ nice them Z m EaSSESS taking a sunernal
not bo^ . , ri
perished; said: “I but Christ confronted them, and
am the wav,” and they took it.
I have also to sav to you that the path that
these captives trod was a troubled go'over path, and
that David and his men had to the
lame difficult wav. While these captives
irere being taken off. they said: “Oh, we are
so tired; we are so siek; we are so hungry!”
But the men who had charge of them said:
“Stop this crying. So on!” David and his
men also found it a hard way. They bad to
travel it. Our friends have gone into giorv,
and it is through much tribulation that we
Oved ones'"used to hale t oTtruggle! ho°w th.’i r
^ a ^ a ^dl'°^°r i, ^lM a t
wondered why there were so many wrinkles
on their faces. We did not know that what
wero called nfT.Kt.il, “crow's feet” on their faces were
Sin lit uli jj
5 von f 0
•ented hv Hie
>ver their early trials burials, their hardships
the accidents, the the disap
there^e^’so'nTanylmngrjTones dote” to^eed^tho
bereavement of morphin^dedded and unbroken tet^fgh^tly home
an circle?
K
with the rain of tears until they
needed spectacles. It was trouble that
made the cane a necessity for their ioumey.
Do you never remember seeing your old
mother sitting, on some rainy day, looking
out of the window, her elbow on the window¬
sill, her hand to her brow—looking out, not
seeing the falling shower at all (you well
knew that she was looking into the distant
past!, until the apron came up to her eyes,
because the memory was too much for her?
“Oft Stealing the big, unbidden the furrowed tear. cheek,
down
To’d iii eloquence sincere,
Tales of woe they could not speak.
“But this scene of weeping o’er
Past th s scene of toil and pain,
They shall feel diaire-s no more,
Never, never weep again.
“ Who are the f und er altar: ^
li ° n was a nd , tbe rf ' s P°^e came:
-These are they winch . came out of great
tribulation, ’ and have washed their robes,
dnjade them white jn the blood of the
t or »»E. ” n«r fri^nriK wpnf hv n natb nf
pistmmSmI! ,, , arsttWiSiSSif
positively battle for their companionship. sharp
David and bis men never wanted swords
and ______ invulnerable shields and thick breast
plates so much h^M«t'“tna^&^tbey^ne as they wanted them on the day
h e 1 ^
Lf thev
would have got their families back. I sup
ten-fold courage and energy. They said:
V £e”^h W 1 V |ia t
iu one teke non
or sword. We must win it.” And I have to
tell you that between us and coming into the
companionship of our loved ones who are
departed there is an Austerlitz, there is a
t w«wC^wm- er a a flesh| 0 witfTthe
the wiHi the war
Ml We have either to conquer our troub
les, or our troubles wiil conquer us. David
will either slay the Amalokites, or the
Amaiekites will slay David. And yet is not
the fort to be taken worth all the pain,
all the peril, all the besiegement ?
Look: who are they on the bright
hills of heaven yonder? There they
are. those who sat at your own table, the
chair now vacant. There they are, those
whom you rocked in infancy in the cradle,
or hushed to sleep in your arms. There they
are, those in whose life your life was bound
waiting "tao for the kiss “'JSTXSrSS of heavenly greeting,
their cheek roseate with the health of eternal
summer, their bands beckoning you up the
steep, their feet hounding with the mirth of
heaven. The pallor of their last sickness
gone out of their face, never more to be sick,
never more to he cough, old, never more to limp,
never more to never more to weep.
They through are watching Christ from those heights to set)
if you can take that fort, and
whether you will rush in upon them—victors.
They know that upon this battle depends
whether you will ever join their society. I'pi
strike harder! Charge more bravely! Ke
metnber that every inch you gain puts you
so much further on toward that heavenly re¬
union.
"If this morning while I speak you could
hear the cannonade of a foreign navy coming
through the Narrows, which was to despoil
our city, and if they really shoul 1 succeed in
parrying would our families before away from us, how
long we Every take we resolved to go
after them? weapon, whether fresh
from would Springfield be brought or old and rusty in the gar¬
ret, out: ami we would
urge on, and, coming in front of the foe, we
would look at them, and then look at our
families, and the cry would be: “Victory or
death!” and when the amunition was
gone, we would take the captors on
the point of the bayonet or under the breech
of the gun. If you would make such a
struggle for the getting back of your earthly
friends, for gaining will you not make as companionship much struggle
the of the eternal
of your heavenly friends? Oh, yes! we must
join them. We*must sit in their holy society.
We must sing with them the song. We
must celebrate with them the triumph. Let
it never be told on earth or in heaven that
David and his men pushed out with braver
hearts for the getting back of their earthly
friends for a few years on earth than we to
get our departed!
You say that all this implies that our de¬
parted Christian friends are alive. Why.had
you any idea they were dead ? They have
(inly moved. If you should go on the :Jd of
May to and a house found where one of your friends
lived, him gone, you would not
think that lie was dead. You would
inquire next door where he had moved
to. Our departed Christian friends
have only taken another house. The secret
is that they are richer now than they
once were, and can afford a better residence.
They drink once drank the out King's of earthenware chalice. “Joseph : they
now from
is yet alive,” and Jacob will Why. go up and see
him. Living, are they ? if a man can
live in tin's damp, dark dungeon of earthly
captivity, can ho not live where ho breathes
the bracing atmosphere of the mountains of
heaven Oh, yes, they are living !
Do you think that l J aul is so near n dead
now as he was when he was living in the
Roman dungeon? Do you think that Fred¬
erick Robertson, of Brighton, is as near dead
now as ho was when, year alter year, he
slept seated on the floor, his head on tho
bottom of a chair, because lie could find
ease in no other Hall position? Do you think
that Robert is as near dead now as
when, on his couch, be tossed in physical tor
tures? No. Death gave them the few black
drops tbat cured them. That is all death
does to a Christian-cures him. I know that
what I have said implies that they are living.
There is no question about that. The only
question t hi s morning is whether you will
men who fainted by the brook Besor. They
could not take another step farther Their
were sore; their head ached; their en
tire nflture was exhausted. Besides that,
they were brokel i-hearted because their
tomes were gone, Ziklag in ashes! And vet
David, when he comes up to them, divides
{’ he 8 P oils among them. He says they shall
have some ot the jewels, some ot the robes,
some of the treasures. I look over this
audience this morning, and I find at least
f? esor rue uiooit n-ook oYtonm o rear*. ySu xou feJf°2 leei as
it you could not take another step farther,
as though you could never look up again.
But J am going to imitate David, and divide
among you AH some glorious trophies. Here is
al '° be: D'mKS work together for good,
to those who love God.” cv rap yourself m
that glorious promise, nere is for your neck
tears^’Wwping may endure for-a night.
faithfifi'unto death 'and
f wlli ‘l 1 ? 6 a cro w n of life.” O ye faint
mg ones by th* brook Besor dip your bhs
tere<1 feet ,n tho running stream oi Cod s
mercy. Bathe your brow at the wells of sal
vation. Soothe your wounds with the bal
sam that exudes from tree* of lite. God will
not utterly cast you off, O broken hearted
m^. O broken-hearted woniau, fainting by
^^ eph ®H fl "'ys^. th *j cln’t'getTny’l^re
br d e
™ si c t] ' is ™trum.mt:so 1 will just
fcVwilfS; . Lote^ieel Mdlwifi .ms nhfv
reed g» He & Wl11 1 y I not H breal “ As far as
“As one whom liis mother comfortetii, so
you come down to tbo Jordan of death, you
will find it to be as thin a brook as Besor: for
Dr. Robinson says that, in April Besor dries
up, and there is no brook at all. And in
your last moment you will be as placid as
the Kentucky minister w ho went up to
God. saying, in the dying hour: “Write to
my sister Kate, and teil her not to be wor
ried and frightened about the story of the
horrors around the death-bed. Tell her
there is not a word of truth in it, for I am
there now. and Jesus is with me, and I find
good it a very happy for.(am way; not 1 because nothing I am a
man, not; am but a
poor, miserable sinner: but I have an Ai
migHty Saviour, and both oi if. 3 arms arc
around me.”
May «*veriasth.g."ovsL God Almighty through ^ Ur* blood of
the l i v bring 7 ** ti e
,
en
tered the presence of Christ, whom, not bav
{*?£•&?;*“*“♦'*“ ^ «•**
To subdue Niagara to the service oi
industry is d*™* the feat that Mr, Edward
PB .f to be* aWe to perform
ttI1 uer the liKluc^ment of a promised re
. Sfh°™pSSutonL P ri5-tbypt^
' . sure ou a system tlle of chains, plates and
hclt ' s “f" bc fof of tJ f st ;‘ ’
| each set of apparatus being calculated , to
j supply utilization sixteen hundred the horse power, oi
Jf the of great power
p 10 river can be economically effected,
the manufacturing advantages to Buffalo
* n d its vicinity will be almost mestima
ble.
RARE COFFEES
A Bolivian Variety Which Is
Distinctly Intoxicating.
Tn6 Oud 1 l£?0f" L-at 3nu IVlam
n>oth Liberian Java Species.
“Da you know,” said Joseph M.
Walsh, tho recognized tea and coffee
expert in Philadelphia, “that there is a
coffee almost as distinctly intoxicating
as alcohol? You would like to bear
, , 111 .. j Woll, it is very scarce and
como 3 from Bolivia, I have already
bad some of it and havo sent for more.
What I have had came from the Gov¬
ernor—I suppose that is what you would
call him—of Pocopilla, Bilivia. I had
it washed and wo mado several cups of
it. Tho coffee is distinctly intoxicat¬
ing. A swallow tiages throu rh one’s
veins from top to toe, aud several cups
would make a man feel very jolly, if
not absolutely hilarious Tho great
strength doubtless comes from proper¬
ties in the soil, as it i3 a known fact
some coffees from Honduras grown on
cocoa plantations possoss properties
similar to chocolato or cocoa. Wo have
had mats of coffee almost as narcotic in
large doses as opium,from being grown
near narcotic plants. Quoor, isn't it,
that one brand of coffeo should set
your nerves a-tingliag and another
should put you to sleep? I am inclined
to think that this new Bolivia coffee is
either a species of mesbol or pulque,
or was grown in soil used for
growing the latter. Somo coffee
coming from Costa Rica has a
peculiar liidey flavor whon roasted and
boiled, lhave sometimes wondered if
special vanilla, chocolato, lemon, ba¬
nana and other 11 ,vors coukl not be in¬
troduced in coffeo culture. Wo might
havo an after dinner eoffio and brandy
au natural beforo coff jo culture reaches
its full development!”
Mr. Walsh boro handed his listener a
light yellow bean, winch ho aaii was
known as tho “tiger cat.”
“This,” said ho, “is found n tho
very centre of tho Island of Java on the
Pamenoken Plantation, District o!
Krawan, and I think only thirty mats
wero over brought to this country. It
gains its name from tho fact that young
tiger U cats ' peculiar P to Java, ’ small, 7 ’ litho “ °
'mimals, aud fond . , of good , living. I
***. —*
growing five or six feet, and select
therefrom the best aud ripest of tho
, berries. T In the ., u first ^ placo tho « Paraono
ken Java is a straight, fine coffee of
excellent flavor and . strength, ., Then
tho selection of the choicest, ripest and
largest berries by those tiger cats makes
a still better name , for the ‘tiger-cat’
coffee. The animal cats the pulp,
In a sample pan beside “llgerC.it’ „
. -w- -Walsh’s office ' wai some coff e
brana so ° grotesquely mammoth i:i propor
tions as to merit the nnmo t Jumbo
coffee, but a small tag said Liberian
Java, and which is tho largest coffee
years ago some Li
benan coffoo was taken to tho Island of
Java by a Frenchman and planted. Tho
result was a largo bean and very light
green. The planting from this mado a
still larger and more yellowish bean,
known as Liberian Java. It is not very
much S0U - ]lt for > exco P t as a curio?ity
but it is from just such odd coffees that
B0m0 of tho S reatcat caterers lathe
».
Dolmonico male his cups of amber
coffee world-renowned. Ono day he
b °’‘s ht » —I* of S“ »«"
and had it roasted under his own super
•»."» 0ri -
cntal style, and it caught the fancy of
epicures. —[Philadelphia Record.
Independent Florida Indians.
Way down on Indian river, near
Melbourne, Fla., is an enterprising
colony, which two years ago had to de
P enc . * oa a forty-mile aril boat route for
their “ mail and ail freight as well. Their
P*>*ty !ltl c t<>y,a ls lwo ml e3 « r from tho 4 u
‘ '
Atlantic coast and has a mile of steam
erg and telegraphic . communication, .
Two mi!e3 from town one can hear
thc call of the panth r, wildcat and cry
0 [ th c sa ndhili crane, and there is aa
•*))•’. “> •”» “p °< • p"»
*«*• »»»««&•!>•* «<«•»!•*.
It is not an unusual thing for a man
at work on bis homestead in this vicin
ity to feel tho nearness of a humcr.
presence and look up to find a Seminole
Mta .)««.* bct.r. htau Wh,» ,«•
luted, tbo Indian says “How, how.” If
ia a m0od f ° r ta!kin " lle wUl ansWCr
v u for a whiIe ia lroken Eag ° .
lish, but wi-l leave . the
genera.<y you in
midst of your sentences. These Indians
ofton briag ia venison, and a few days
since one suddenly confronted us with
a good supply. Among other questions
ho was asked if Charlie Osceola was
now their chief.
“No—have no chief—he sleep long
sleep.”
They live in the everglades and do
pend on hunting and agriculture for
-ubsistonce. This section of Florida is
cot a swamp, ns some imagine, but a
low plane, covered with hillocks and
ranges of hummock land. The soil is
very rich. Tho Indians raise corn, hog*’,
cattle, potatoes, bees—ia short they
livo on tho fat of the land. Fresh fish,
oysters, boar meat and venison are free
to them. They celebrate the maturing
of tho crops by tho green corn dance.
If a white is present at this feast honors
are heaped upon him. Tho Indian says:
“White man first, Indian next, my dog
next, negro last.’’. They have negroes
who do their farm work, and this is,
porhaps, the socrot cf their success in
agriculture. They are not under the
caro of the government.—[Detroit Free
Press.
Experiments in Hypnotism.
At a late meoting of tho Bjrlin Mod
ical Society Prof. Virchow introduced
a French physician, Dr. Foldmann, who
mado some experiments in hypnotism.
A young man named Garrick offered
himself as a medium. After a few sec¬
onds of tho usual manipulations the
medium fell into a deep magnetic
sleep. He became perfectly apathetic
and motionloss. In tho stato of “sug¬
gestion’’ Dr. Foldmann showed the in¬
fluence of various medicaments on tho
medium, who took quinine for sugar,
smeking his lips with enjoyment, and
ha beliovcd ammonia to be perfume,
and smelt at it for somo time. Imme¬
diately afterward, following tho witl of
tho doctor, ho showed tho usual signs
of abhorrcuco of those bitter nn<l caus¬
tic substances. With tho same success
he ato a lemon for an apple. A pioce
of camphor held on his forehead had a
singular effect. Tho medium bent bis
body fur backward and had to Do heid
on his chair. A magnet canned a
dreamy state,during which tho medium
related his impressions as to event) in
tho street, in which In believed him¬
self to bo. Than tho medium obeyed
tho will of tho doctor in various ways,
shovelling snow, shitiag, falling, and
rising agaii with ono jump at tlio doc¬
tor's suggestion, and finally took a
pocketbook by forco out of Prof. Vir¬
chow's pocket). lie was then ordered
by Dr. Foldmann to reseat himself, and
soon woko out of tho hypnotic sleep
remembering nothing of what had hap
ponod. Two young physicians thon
spolto, declaring that such experiments
wore without scientific basis. They
believed tlia “suggestion” to bo proba¬
bly genuine, but as to tho other exper¬
iments, especially tho effect of medi¬
cines au l tho magnet, they thought
Ihey needed careful examination.—
London Now).
Hen I tli fulness of Various Occupations
Assuming tho normal average death
rate of tho community as the unit of
comparison, and calling it 1000, partic¬
ular occupations may bo regarded as
healthy or unhealthy, according as the
death rates among those pursuing them
fall above or bolow that figure. Tho
most healthy occupation appears to ho
that of ministers of religion, whoso rato
is 550. Next arc gardoners and nursery¬
men, 590; farmers and giuziers, 031;
agricultural laborers, 7G1; schoolmas,
tors, 719; grocers, coal merchants
papor, laco and hosiery manufacturers,
wheelwrights, shipbuilders and coal
miners, with all of whom tho average
death rate is under 775. The most un¬
healthy occupations arc the trades con¬
nected with tho liquor traffic and hotel
service, with which the death rale is
2205; following these aro general labor¬
ers in London, 2020; costermongers,
bankers and street sellers, 1879; inn¬
keepers, etc., 1536; and brewers, 1861.
After tho trades connected with alco¬
hol, tho highest rates are furnished by
tho patrons that involve tho breathing
of dust—other than coal dust—and ex¬
posure to lead poisoning. Tho death
rate among butchers is also high, 1170.
A Rival to Niagara Fails.
Labrador is said to p.ossess a water
fall that makes Niagara Falls insignifi¬
cant in comparison. It, F. llolmo,
who recently mado a tour of Labrador,
locates this full on tho Grand River,
which connects Lakes Petchikapou with
Goose Bay, at tho head of Hamilton
Ialet. Up this river 150 miles is Wim
mikapou L.k., »* thin, mile, Umimr
up the river is located the Grand Falls,
th * brCak " ° f * plat33U ’ th ° L%brador
table-land, 2000 to 2300 feet above tho
lake. Mr. Holme says the Grand River
is 1500 iect wide at the fall, and the
height of the fall is estimated to lx
nearly 2000 feet