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% MAUNA LOA. fHE GREATEST VOLCANO IN THE WORLD IN ERUPTION. Description of the Giant Mountain Whose Lava Streams are Pour ins Toward the Sea—The Fright at Hilo. jy <f\\NLY i five years since Mauna Loa wss cov — ering its northwest cjgjfes V^ ern slopes outflow with an of i L eQOnnoU9 lava. It is again in eruption, and its lava streams are flowing east and north¬ east. Mauna Loa, says the New York gun, is the greatest volcano in the world. ... > Via-. • *.**" . M. .^ r a® ■ •*#*- t T- * jmbb .fi ' lii£n •<y m LilM t £ \\ m te mm m & v I jr ’'ffvVW "*55Kgs* q* 4 swi ; iST's? A LAVA STREAM LEAVING THE CRATER. It is almost in the centre of Hawaii, the largest island in tte Hawaiian archipela¬ go. The greatest elevations of the big island are all active volcanoes, and their onormous craters are now and then full of boiling lava. The other islands are also pitted with craters, but piutonic phenomena are very feebly displayed in them, and are chiefly revealed only by the appearance at the surface of hot springs. The volcanoes of these lesser islands have lost their prim¬ itive force, and most of their craters And lava streams have become indistinct and arc covered with dense vegetation. It is evident that volcanic fires in the •western part of the archipelago became extinct many centuries ago. Mauna Loa means “the great moun¬ tain.” It rises by long and very gentle ilopes to a height of about 14,000 feet. The fact that its slopes are so long and gentle shows that its lava streams have always been what they are to-day, so completely liquefied that they flow easily for a great distance and spread over Ihe country many miles away from their out¬ let. If they were of a more solid char¬ acter they would not travel so far from their vent, and the mountain would have far steeper slopes. The mountain rises 3000 feet above ° f Tegetatinn - Auanuiv is by a group of craters, specially by the natives under the name of Mokuaveoveo. It is an immense symmetrical abyss, with its longer axis in a north and south direction. At the centre of this immense cavity is the primitive crater, which has a diameter of about a mile and a half and a depth of over 1000 feet. It is still the most active of Mauna Loa’s craters, and lofty buttes of scoria, some of them volcanic ▼ents and others extinct, are lifted high above the bottom of this tearful abyss. To the north and south of this greater crater are terraces on which are many volcanic vents, and others are scattered along the sides of the great depression. "When Mauna Loa becomes fairly active there is little rest for the people of the island. The sight at night is one of the most magnificent spectacles that » z am } Li mm A STREET IN HILO. can bl . _ eu, as <ie great mountain belches , columns of flame and smoke, while streams of redhot lava flow down the sides. The lava streams some¬ times pour down one side of the moun¬ tain and sometimes another. In 1843 a great lava river flowed far to the north¬ east and divided into two streams at the base of Mauna Kea, which they partly surrounded. In 1880 another stream, escaping from the same part of the big crater, spread its burning flood for six days in the same direction, until it had deposited on the surface of the island 700,000, 000 cubic metres of material. In 1852 a stream flowed down the eastern flank of tbe mountain to the cultivated coast regions and destroyed a number of villages. The great craters of the summit, how¬ ever, are not the sources of the largest volumes of lava that are carried seaward. Most of the lava comes from orifices that are far below tbe great dome of the vol¬ cano. It was thus that in 1855 a flood of lava, pouring out of ao onAce that opened on the northeast side of the mountain, swept toward the sea until it reachsd the outskirts of Hilo, stopping at a time when all the people in that lit¬ tle town believed tbat theii homes were doomed. This lava stream covered 200 square miles of territory. It had an average depth of 100 feet, and its vol¬ ume would nearly have built Vesuvius. Three vear3 later a great orifice opened six miles to the north of the big craters of the summit, and the stream that poured out of it flowed to the sea, and balf filled the Bay of Kiholo When Mauna Loa is in a quiescent state it is a favorite resort for tourists, Everybody who visits Hilo takes the reg¬ ular tourist stage line or a mule or private conveyance for the top of Mauna Loa. It is a lovely journey. The richness of vegetation is seen along the route, and as the road winds to the upper slopes of the mountains a grand view is presented of the country and the sea beyond. A comfortable house on the road up the mountain, known as the Volcano House, has long been maintained for the accom¬ modation of travelers. The slope of the mountain is so gradual that it takes, along the usual route up the mountain, twenty miles of travel to gain an altitude of ‘J500 feet. The sight the tourist wit¬ nesses when he reaches the top and looks down into the enormous abyss of Mauna Loa with its bubbling lava, its rising smoke and fumes, and the hissing of steam as it escapes from a hundred vents, is one never to be forgotten. Several years ago Captain C. E. Dutton, ot the Ordnance Corps of our army, made a careful study of the Hawaiian volcanoes. He said that a moderate eruption of Mauna Loa represented more material than Vesuvius had emitted since the destruction of Pompeii. After the big eruptions there is generally per¬ fect quiescence for some years in all parts the mountain. One of the pictures shows a street in the pretty town of Hilo, on ihe northeast coast. The telephone is a great institu¬ tion in this town, and, as the picture shows, the underground system of dis- mm I THE VOLCANO HOUSE. posing of the wires has not yet been in¬ troduced. The news from Hawaii is that Hilo is again threatened by the outpourings from Mauna Loa. When the great eruption of 1880 threatened Hilo the inhabitants concluded that there was no hope of saving their ll+Me village. The stream was making straight for Hilo. Iu the last days of its flow, however, its progress was much less rapid. Still it kept pushing on at the rate of 300 yards a day. All the portable property in the town was packed up, and the people prepared to move at a moment's notice. The lava stream split into two large branches and seemed to be about to encircle the town. The two arms had reached the outskirts of the village when suddenly, without any pre¬ monition, the flow stopped aud the movement was not renewed. Yegretablc Malformations. Passing below ground, there are more abnormities to be found than most per¬ sons are aware ot. The peculiar con¬ ditions that attend the subterranean habit favor monstrous growths. Not long ago a cluster of sweet potatoes was brought to me. Some were all red upon the surface, others were all yellow, and some were one-naif red and the other side yellow. The Irish potato is fertile in its Ireaks. Seemingly not content with the underground situation, pota¬ toes sometimes appear upon the branches among the leaves. Occasionally a potato when planted whole will develop other new and small potatoes beueath the skin and out of sight, which only calls to mind how a hollow turnip may have its cavity filled with an after-growth of foliage, only to be discovered when the root is cut in two. Sometimes the abnormal growths bear a strong resemblance to some other ob¬ ject very far from the one really shown. Thus the illustration shows what might well for the human hand, but it is H $ m mt A HAND-LIKE EAR OF CORN. nothing more or less than an ear of corn with the grain removed. Instead of ending in the usual way, it has become branched, thus giving rise to the “fingers,” while the lower portion of the cob makes a fair-shaped “wrist.” The engraving is made from a photograph recently sent from Missouri.—Popular Science Monthly. Weight ol the Soil. The weight of a cubic foot of dry loamy soil is estimated to*be about ICO pounds. The more sand and gravel tbe heavier the soil; the more vegetable matter the lighter it will be. Some peat soils weigh as low as thirty pounds per cubic foot. Few soils ordinarily culti¬ vated will weigh less than seveny-tive pounds per cubic foot, The soil on au acre (43,500 square feet), to the depth of one foot, will weigh about 3,000,000 pounds or 1500 wagon-loads of one ton each.—New York Voice. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A new belt of natural gas has been struck in Ohio. In Europe there are rather more than 100 women to 100 men. The death rate in this couutry from tuberculosis, or consumption, is on the decrease. The apple contains a larger percent¬ age of phosphorus than any other fruit or vegetable. Out of a total of 513 known species of animals in Africa, 472 of them are to be found in no other country. A 2000 horse-power electric locomo¬ tive has just been finished at Baden, Turich. It is the largest in the world. Over the whole world the proportion of the sexes is about equal, but in sepa¬ rate parts of the world it varies greatly. An Englishman has invented a new system of electric mains whereby one wire of the present three-wire system can be saved. An Austrian engineer proposes to carry passengers from Vienna to Pesth, Hun¬ gary, by an electric locomotive at the rate of 123 miles an hour. The Victoria Railroad Bridge over the St. Lawrence at Montreal, Canada, is two miles long, cost over $5,000,000, and contains 10,500 tons of iron and 3,000,000 cubic feet of masonry. An electrically controlled machine which will effectively stamp 30,000 let¬ ters iu an hour is one of the interesting inventions that has been adopted in the United States Postoffice Department. ' Th united capacity of all the plants now in operation in the world for re¬ fining copper by electrolysis amounts to nearly one hundred tons of copper de¬ posited per day of twenty-four hours. Many years since, apples were packed in barrels from which lime had just been emptied. On opening them in spring, they were nearly all sound, while the game variety not thus packed was badly rotted. H. Devaux has been making experi¬ ments with the sense of taste in ants, in course of which he found that while fond of sugar they dislike saccharin, and even refused sugar when mixed with saccharin. Dr. Murray, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, estimates the mean, height of the laud of the globe to be 1900 feet above sea level. Humboldt’s estimate placed the same level at only 1000 feet above high water mark. By the transfusion of artificial or chem ical blood in her veins the life of Mrs. Louise Christian, of Lyon Mountain, N. Y., has been saved. She had been very ill for a long while and was apparently about to breathe her last. What is claimed to be the largest wire nail machine ever built in the United States was finished recently by a Green point (N. Y.) firm, and shipped to a nail concern at Everett, State of Washington. The total weight of the machine was 12^ tons, and it is capable of making nails weighing a half-pound each at the rate of one a second. Nails of any desired length can, however, be manufactured by simply adjusting the feed. A comparative estimate, made by an English engineer, as to the cost of train lighting by gas, oil and electricity, in¬ dicates that oil varies from one to two cents per lamp per hour, compressed gas costs one cent per lamp per hour and electricity one-half cent per lamp per hour, while the cost of plant was about five per cent, less for electricity than for gas. This will be a welcome piece of news to railroad companies. The su¬ periority of the electric light in giving more uniform illumination and not foul¬ ing the air commends it, irrespective of any question of expense. The Stormy Petrel’s Endurance. During a recent trip across the At¬ lantic the passengers on one steamer had a vivid illustration of the endurance of the stormy petrel. Shortly after the ship left the Irish coast two or three of these birds were sighted at the stern of the ship. One had been caught at some previous time, and its captor tied a bit of red flannel or ribbon round its neck and let it go. The bit of red made the bird very conspicuous, and it could be easily identified. That bird, with others that could not be so easily distinguished, followed the ship clear across the ocean. Rarely, during the day time at least, was it out of sight, and if for an hour or two it was lost to view while feeding on the refuse cast overboard, it soon reap¬ peared, and the last seen of it was with¬ in a few miles of Sandy Hook, when it disappeared, perhaps to follow some outward-bound steamer back to Ireland. When the fact is considered that the ibip, day and night, went at an average ipeed of nearly twenty miles an hour, the feat performed by the daring traveler can be better appreciated. Wnen or how it rested is inexplicable.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Strange Canyon. George W. Dunn, the veteran natur¬ alist of California, has returned to San Francisco from a strange canyon in the Tactillas Mountains. Lower California, where he went recently to secure some rare plants, nolauas and seeds of the blue palm. He says that the canyon has never to his knowledge before been explored by white meu, and that its declivities are altogether more rough and frightful than any he has seen on the Pacific coast, though he has traveled much. About two thousand Cocopah Indians were there gathering the fruit of the palms and pine nuts. They reached it, as did Mr. Dunn, by going down the almost perpendicular sides of the Tantillas Range. The drop is 5240 feet in three miles. Dead Indian ponies and horse skeletons lined the way. The formation from the bottom of the terrible canyon to the saw-toothed backbone is dean and pure granite. Along the canyon is a tumbling cascade of pure mountain water, and on either side for miles are groves of tbe pretty blue palm.—Boston Transcript. REV. DR TALMAGE THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬ DAY SERMON. Subject;- “The Sunshine of Religion.’ Text: “Her ways are ways of pleasant¬ ness''— Proverbs iii., 17. You have all heard of God’s only begotten Son. Have you heard of God’s daughter? She was tiorn in heaven. She came down over the hills of our world. She had queenly step. On her brow was celestial radiance. Her voice was music. Her name is Religion. My text introduces her. “Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.” But what is religion? The fact is that theological study has had a different effect upon me from the effect sometimes pro¬ duced. Every year I tear I out another leaf from four leaves my theology left—in until other words, have only three brief or a very and plain statement of Christain belief. An aged Christian minister said: “When I was a young man, I knew everything; when I got to be thirty-five years of age, in my religion; ministry I had only a hundred doctrines of when I got to be forty years of age, I had only fifty doctrines of religion; when I got to be sixty years of age, I had only ten doctrines of religion, and now I am dying at seventy-five thing years of age.and there is only Jesus one I know, and that is that Christ came into the world to save sinners.” Aud so I have noticed in the study of God’s word and in my contemplation of the character of God and of the eternal world that it is necessary for me to drop this ,iart of my belief and that part of my belief as being nonessential, while I cling to the one great doctrine that man is a sinner, and Christ is his Almighty and Divine Saviour. Now I take these three or four leaves of my theology, and I find that, in‘ the first place, and of dominant religion. above all others, is the sunshine W hen I go into a room I have a passion for throwing open all the shutters. That is what I want to do this morning. We are apt to throw so much of the sepulchral into our religion and to close the shutters and to pull down the blinds that it is only through here and there a cre¬ vice that the light streams. The religion of the Lord Jesus Christ is a religion of joy in¬ describable and unutterable. Wherever 1 can find a bell I mean to ring it. If there are any in this house this morn ing who are disposed to-hold on to their melancholy service and gloom, let them now depart this aefore the fairest and the bright¬ est and the most radiant being of all the universe conies in. God’s Son has left our world, but God’s daugher is here. Give her room. daughter Hail, princess of heaven! Hail, of the Lord God Almighty 1 Come in and make this house thy throneroom. In setting forth this idea the dominant theory of know religion is one of sunshine. I hardly where to begin, for there are so many thoughts that rush upon my soul. A mother saw her little child seated on the floor in the sunshine and with a spoon in her hand. She said. “My darling, what are you “I’m doing getting there?’ “Oh ” replied the child, W ould God that a spoonful of this sunshine.” with gleaming to-day I might present you a chalice of this glorious everlasting First Gospel sunshine! of all, I find a great deal of sunshine in Christian society. I do not know of anything more doleful than the companionship of the mere fun makers of the world—the Thomas Hoods, the Charles Lambs, the Charles Matthews of the world—the men whose entire business it is to make sport. They make others laugh, but if you will examine their autobi¬ ography down in their or biography soul you will find that there was a terrific dis¬ quietude. he Laughter is no sign of happiness. 3 manaic laughs. The hyena laughs. The loon among the Adirondacks laugn. The drunkard, dashing his decanter against the wall, laughs. There is a terrible reaction from all sinful amusement and sinful merriment. Such men are cross the next day. They snap at you recognizing on exchange, or they pass you, not worldly society you. Long ago 1 quit mere for the reason it was so dull, so inane and so stupid. My nature is voracious of joy. I must have it. I always walk on the sunny side of the street, and for that reason I have crossed over into Christian society. 1 like their mode of repartee better; I like their style of amusement better. They live longer. Christian people, I sometimes notice, live on when bv all natural law they ought to have died, 1 have known persons who have con¬ tinued in their existence when the doctor said they ought to have been dead ten years. of Every day of their existence was a defiance the laws of anatomy and physiology, but they had this supernatural vivacity of the Gospel in their soul, and that kept them alive. Put ten or twelve Christian people in a room for Christian conversation, and you will from 8 to 10 o’clock hear more resound¬ ing glee, see more bright strokes of wit, and find more thought and profound satisfac¬ tion than in any merely worldly party. Now, when I say a “worldly party” I mean that to which you are invited, because un¬ der all the circumstances of the case it is the best for you to be invited, aud to which you go because under all circumstances of the case it is better that you go, and leaving the shawls on the sacond floor you go to the parlor the to give formal salutation to the host and hostess, and then move around spending of the the weather, whole evening and iu in apology the discus¬ for sion treading on long trails, and in effort to keep the corners of the mouth up to the sign of pleasure, and going around with an idiotic lie-he about nothing, until the colla¬ tion is served, and then after the collation is served going back again into the parlor to resume the weather, and then at the close going hostess at and a very late hour to the host and had delightful assuring evening,and them that you have a most then pass ing down off the front steps, the slam of the door the only satisfaction of the evening. Oh, young man, come from the country to spend your days in city life, where are you tell going to spend your evenings? Let me you, while there are many places of in¬ nocent worldly amusement, it is most wise for you to throw your body, mind aud soul into Christian society. Come to me at the close of five years and tell me what has been the result of this advice. Bring with you the T7 oung man who refused to take the ad¬ vice and who went into sinful amusement. He will come dissipated, shabby in apparel, indisposed to look any one in the eyes, moral character eighty-five per cent. off. You will come with principle settled, countenance frank, habits good, soul saved and all the inhabitants of heaven, from the lowest angel up to the archangel and clear past him to the Lord God Almighty, your coadjutors. This is not the advice of a misanthrope. There is no man in the house to whom the world is brighter than it is to me. It is not the advice of a dyspeptic—my digestion is perfect; it is not the advice of a man who cannot understand a joke or who prefers a funeral; ft is not the advice of who a wornout man, but the advice of a man can see this world in all its brightness, and. consid¬ ering myself competent in judging what is good cheer, I tell the multitudes of young men in ibis house this morning that there is nothing in worldly associations so grand and so beautiful and so exhilarant as in Christian society. talk about I know there is a great deal of the self denials of the Christian. I have to tell you that where the Christian has one self denial the man of the world has a thou¬ sand self denials. The Christian is not com¬ manded to surrender anything that deny is worth him¬ keeping. But what does a man of self who denies himself the religion sin; Christ He denies himself pardon of he de¬ he denies himself peace of conscience; nies himself the joy of the Holy Ghost; he denies himself a comfortable death pillow; Do he denies himself the glories of heaven. not talk to me about the self denials of the Christian life 1 W Here there Is one in the Christian life there are a thousand in the life of tie world. “Her ways are ways of pleasantness." Agai*l find a great deal o* religious sun¬ shine inCTwristian and divine explanation. To a great rniruv people life is an inexplica¬ ble tangle. Things turn out differently from what was supposed. There is <v.iseiess wo¬ man in perfect health. There ishomindus trious and consecrated woman a complete with invalid. $30,000 Explain that. There is a bad man of income. There is a good man with $800 of income. Why Is that? There is a foe of society who lives on. doing all the the damage he can, to seventy-five years of age, and department) here is a Christian father,'faithful in every of life, at thirty-five rears taken away by death, his family left helpless. Explain that. Oh, there is no sentence that oftener drops from your lips than this: “1 cannot understand it. I cau not understand it.” Well, now, religion comes in just at that point with its illumination and its explana¬ tion. There is a business man who has lost his ent re fortune. The week before he lost his fortune there werr twenty carriages that stopped at the door of his mansion. The week after be lost his fortune all the car¬ riages you count on one finger. The week before financial trouble began pjople all took off their hats to him as he passed down the street. The week his financial prospects were under discussion people just touched their hats without anywise bending the rim. The week that he was pronounced insovlent people just jolted their heads as they passed, not tipping their hats at all, and the week the sheriff sold him out all his friends were looking in the store windows as they went down past him. Now, while the world goes away from a man when he is in financial distress, the re¬ ligion of Christ comes to him and savs: “You are sick and your sickness is to be moral purification; you are bereaved; God wanted in some way to take your family to heaven, and He must begin somewhere, and so He took the one that was most beautiful and was most ready to go.” I do not say that I religion explains everything in this life, but do say it lays down certain principles which are grandly consolatory. You know business men often telegraph in ciphers. The merchant in San Francisco telegraphs to the merchant in New York certain infor¬ mation in ciphers which no other man in that line of business can understand, but the merchant in San Francisco has the key to the cipher, and the merchant in New York has the kev to the cipher, and on that in¬ formation transmitted there are enterprises involving Now hundreds of thousands of dollars. the providences of life sometimes seem cipher, to be a senseless God rigmarole, that a mysteri¬ cipher, ous but has a key to and the Christian a key to that cipher, and, though he may hardly be able to spell out the meaning, he gets enough of the meaning to understand that it is for the best. Now is there not sunshine in that? Is there not pleasure in that? Far beyond laughter, it lS Vii ?“! for hfr^ JOJ ? There ’Taer? are are tSt-I teai s whieh wmcn arl are eternat eternal m distillation. There are hundreds of people in this bouse who are walking day by day in the sublime satisfaction that all is for the best, all things working together for good for their soul. How a man can explanation get along is through mystery. this life without the to me a What! is that child gone forever? Are you never to get it back? Is your property gone forever? Is your soul to be bruised and to be tried forever? Have you no explanation, no Christian explanation, have and the yet religion not of a maniac? But when you Jesus Christ in your soul, it explains every- under¬ thing so far as it is best for you to stand. You look off iu life, and your soul is full of thanksgiving to God tnat you are so much better off than you might be. A man passed down the street without any shoes and said “I have no shoes. Isn’t it a hardship that I have no shoes? Other peo pie have shoes; no shoes, no shoes,” until he saw a man who had no feet. Then he learned a lesson. You ought to thank God for what He does, instead of grumbling for what He does not, God arranges all the weather in this weather world—the well spiritual the weather, the moral as a-, natural weather. “What kind of weather as I like.” “What do you mean by that,” asked the other. “Well,” said the farmer, Lord, “it will be such weather as pleases the ’"“ohTthe suMhfne^t^suusm^ of'Chris tian explanation! Here is some What one bending over the grave of the dead. is going sLwupo e n?h n e S °tom°b" ? oTnof^e ler- The vices read at the grave? On, no. falls chief consolation on that grave is what from the throne of God. Sunshine, glori of This Bible and of our religion iu the climacteric joys that are to come. A man who gets up and goes out from a con cert rieht after the ooening ‘before voluntary has been played, and the prima donua sings, or before the orchestra begins, has a better idea of that concert here have only tue first note of the eternal orchestra. We shall in tnat world have the joy of discovery. W e will in five minutes catch up with the astronomers, the geolo¬ gists, the scientists, the ptiilosophers ot all age= who so far surpassed us in this world, We can afford to adjourn astronomy ana ‘wLllUherna^rbeUerap paratus and better opportunity. sciences far to I must study these so as and saving the souls of others,knowing that in one flash of eternity we will eaten it all. Oh. what an observatory in which to study tefescope^but 4 by supernatural viion ; and if there’ be something stroke doubtful of the 10,000,000 miles away, by one wing you you ^cu£' catching "andaTnn it all in le* time flash Tan of l tell you, one Aud geology 1 What a place that will be to study geology, when the world is being botanical ^nfpX ^ U froS the corolla! What a place to study architecture, amid the thrones and the St. palaces Paul’s and the cathedrals—St. Mark’s and roox “'Krt'Z.^irt.yoaeould earth, going around U» tour of the whole as others have gone, but you have not the time; you b&ve not the means, You will make that tour yet during one musical pause in the eternal anthem. I say these things for the comfort of those people who are abridged in their opportunities—those people work, to whom life is a humdrum, who toil and pie have; how I would fill my mind and soul myteSs 4 'You ? ^goin?toLe^>«sRy matriculate into vet Death will only you the royal college of the universe. What a sublime thing it was that Dr. Sr dTm'g 0 moments ( ! ftr0 A "e l^ked up he said, “It opens; it expands; it expands." Or as Mr. Topiady, the author of “Rock of something fsffiatrasffsssass supernatural, “Light?’ and then as he came on nearer the dying moment, his countenance more luminous, he cried, “Light!” and at the very moment of his de¬ parture lifted both hands, something super¬ cried, natural in his countenance as he “Light?’ Only another name for sunshine. Besides that we shat! have all the pleasures of association. We wdl go right up in th« front of God without any fright. All our sins gone, there will be nothing to be fright eued about. There our old Christian friends will troop around us. Just as now one of your sick friends goes away to Florida, the land of flowers, or to the south of France, and you do not see him for a long while, anil after a while you meet him, and the hollows under the eyes are all filled, and the appetite has come back, and the crutch bis br-ei thrown away, and he is so changed you hard ly know him. You sav, “Whv, I never saw you look go well.” He says: “I couldn't help but be well. I have been sailing these rivers and climbing these mountains, and that's how I got this elasticity. I never was so well.” Oh, my friends, your departed loved ones climate, are only away for their health in a better and wheu you meet them they will Hie so changed you will hardly know them— they will he so very much changed, and afy-r awhile, when you are assured that, they will are your friends, “Why, your where departed friends, you say: is that cough? Where is ‘tnat paralysis? Wtiers is that pneumonia? Where is that consumption?” And he will say: “Oh, I am entirely well! There are no sick ones in this country. I have been ranging these hills, and hence this elasticity. I have been here now twenty years, and not one sick one have 1 seen—we are all well in this climate.” And then I stand at the gate of the celes¬ tial city to see the procession come out. and I see a long procession of little children with their arms full of flowers, arjd then I see a procession of kings and priests moving in celestial pageantry—a long procession, but no black tasseled vehicle, nt) mourning group, and I say “How strange it is 1 Where is your Greenwood? where is your Laurel Hill? where is your Westminster Abbey?” And they shall cry, “There are no graves here.” belfries And then of listen for the tolling belfries of the old heaven, the old of eternity. I listen to hear them toll for the dead, but they toll not for the dead. They only strike up a silvery chime, tower ring to tower, east gate to west gate, as they out, “They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light' on them, nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” Ob, unglove your hand and give it to me in congratulation on that scene’ I feel as if I would shout. 1 will shout halleluiahf Dear Lord, forgive me that I ever com¬ plained about anything. If all this is be¬ fore us, who cares for anything but God and heaven and eternal brotherhood? Take the crape off the doorbell. Your loved ones are only away for their health in a land am¬ brosial. Coma Lowell Mason; come, Isaac Watts, and give us your best hymn about joy celestial. What is the use of postponing our heaven any longer? harp Let let it begin thrum now, and and whoso¬ who¬ ever hath a her it, soever hath a trumpet let him blow it, and whosoever hath an organ let him give us a full diapason. blessed, moving They crowd in cavalcade down the of air, tri¬ spirits Their chariot wheels whirl in the' umph. Sabbath sunlight. They Halt, come. ar¬ mies of God! Halt until wears ready to join the battalion of pleasures that never die. i ° h - friends, it would take a sermon a* Io »<? ^ « eternity to tell the jovs that are, to us. I just set yedisciple>bf open the sunshiny door. Come in, all the world who have found the world a mockery, Come in, all ve disciples of the dance, and se e the bounding feet of this heavenly worldly glad¬ ness. Come iu, ye disciples of amusement, and see the stage where kings are the actors, and burning worlds the foot lights, and thrones the spectacular Arise, ye dead in sin, for this is the morn j n g 0 f resurrection. The joys of heaven submerge our soul. I pull out the trumpet stop. In thy presence there is a fullness of j Q y. at thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore, Blessed are the saints beloved of God; Washed are their robes Io Jesus's blood; Brighter than angels, lo! they shine, Their glories splendid and sublime. My soul anticipates the day. Would stretch her wing and soar away To aid the song, the p aim to bear. And bow the chief 011 Burners there. Qh, the sunshine, the glorious sunshine, the everlasting sunshine! Trades That Effect the Teeth. Quicksilver miners follow the most unhealthy trade in the world. The fumes tion <>< and ***** the system ^ becomes «=»••« permeated w ith the metal, the teeth of the untortu nate meQ d r0 p ou t, they lose their appe tite, become emaciated, and, as a rule, seldom live longer than two years, Chloride’of lime, employed by bleachers,. frequently destroyslthe enamel and dem tine of the teeth. But phosphorus, used 80 largely in the manufacture of lucifer ma tches, affects a verv large number of persons, wmnen, girts snd child,™ greatly preponderating. People affected who by wor k i n soda factories are th e teeth becoming soft and tfanslucaatj they break off close to the gums. Doctor Hesse, of Leipsic, states that bakers are mjelv to suffer from carious teeth ou ac "«»«or thsftor entering the month during work, collecting on and around the teeth, where it decomposes and gen erate9 an ac jd destructive to the dentine. —Yankee Blade. |{ a( j a Beard and Hated Doctors. Matthew Robinson (Lord Rokebyj, a prominent but eccentric Englishman of i a gt centurv, became famous for his l° n ff beard and bis proaouncM kMrt medical practitioners. In regard to the former it is said that upon one occasion when j to aa election be stopped at an inn where the country people, who had assembled from miles around, took him f()r a fufV an d through this mistaken idea almost worried “me Lord” to death, His dislike for physicians was carried to such an extreme that he left a codicil to his will which was to the effect that a f avor ite nephew was to be disinherited should be (the nephew) in the last illness' of the lord let his sympathies cause been him t Q gen d for a doctor. This having mjw j e known to the nephew when his o»cte, needless th. to tart, add he. allowed to go*J»M., that person It <* 8 gp i r it; to take its flight without calling in any tlie gurgical fraternity.—St. Louil Republic. «* The Peculiar Death of a Workman. James Bordley, of Chester, lost his has an appliance lor loading coal into cars through chutes. Bordley was oa top of a 400-ton pile of coal, and when the chute was opened be was sucked coalcov- into the chute and seventy tons of ered him over. Twenty men worked for an hour to move the coal pile, but when fjord ley’s body was recovered Lite was The Age of Turtles. The age of turtles, like the age of some excellent women, will never be known. In many parts of the country boys cut their initials on the shell of the tortoise, with the date, and then, watch for them in later years. At Hatboro, iff Pennsylvania, one was found with L.' W., 1833, cut on the shell. Mr. Levi Walton, wbo cut tbe lettering, is still living, but the slow going turtle will probably outdo him in tbe race of life —Meehans’s Monthly. j