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The United States is the first nation in
the world’s history to have three cities of
over a million each.
Vessel agents and mariners on the
■Great Lakes are urging the establishment
of a branch hydrographic office on the
lakes to look out for the vast maritime
interests centered there.
The movement in favor of Roman in
stead of Gothic typo is rapidly gaining
ground in Germany, notes the Chicagc
Herald. Many medical and scientific
periodicals are printed in Roman charac¬
ters.
Cotton production in the Unitec
States has increased 280 percent. durin|
the last twenty-five years, while the con¬
sumption of cotton products throughout
the world increased only 117 per cent.
The natural result has been, comments
the Philadelphia Record, that the pric<
of the product as well as the wages of
the workmen have beea reduced.
California has a law that is meant te
prevent train wrecking, and it seems t<
be pretty effectual. It provides that any
person who places dynamite or any ob¬
struction on any railroad in the State, o
does anything with the intention o
wrecking any passenger, freight or othe
train, or attempts to rob a train, shah
be guilty of felony, punishable witt
death.
Here’s another exasperating develop
ment in the working of the Chinese ex
elusion act, discovered by the Chicagc
Herald. A Chinaman in jail in Tucson
gave an explanation of the attempted
exodus of Chinese from Mexico into the
United States. He said that one China¬
man who wa9 recently arrested for ille¬
gally entering the United States from
Mexico aad was taken to San Franciscc
had first seat home all his savings ot sev¬
eral years’ woik in Mexico and then de¬
liberately crossed to the United States
that he might be captured and sent home
to China at the expense of the United
States.
The growth of the Argentiue Repub
lie in the past thirty years lias been re¬
markable. According to recent statistics
«„e p„ P „„,o n o,,ue «p» M ,c i, »o»
4,000,000. as against 1,359,000 in 1861.
There are ... 6,000,000 Urea
cnltleaUoa, where ip 1681 there were
b». 4M.000, -1 while 1. that year
road la .he coo.try .here are now ore,
8000 «»-!.^operation, ,»d 6000 »,re
including the great transcontinental
route, in course of construction. The
pubac debt has pretty vigorously, ,
grown
too, however. It has increased from
$17,000,000 to $613,000,000.
Says the New York Mercury: The
English exchanges are just now busily
■engaged in suggesting ways of making
village life attractive and keeping rural
young men and women at home. There
as here, the cities are drawing away
from home the sinew and bloom of the
country and agricultural life suffers
the change. This was the experience of
Italy after Rome became a great city,
and all France is suffering now because
Paris has a world of amusements to offer.
It begins to look as if the tendency of
population to the towns were irresistible,
and as if the world must prepare to ac¬
cept the fact that farm life is becoming
discreditable in the eyes' of the energetic
of both sexes.
Says the New York Herald: “Copies
of the Government weather chart were
issued yesterday to the Normal College,
the College of the City of New York and
to fifteen grammar schools, in order that
pupils in the schools of this city should
receive some general instructions in mete¬
orology. The idea is a good one, and il
should be adopted in the public schools ol
all cities where daily weather charts are
issued by the Government Weathet
Bureau. For all students of geography
and physical geography a knowledge of
afinospheric laws aad movements is in¬
dispensable. But this knowledge can be
obtained only in s vague and fragmentary
way without the use of charts showing
the actual daily progress of cyclones and
anti-cyclones across the continent, and
to extent over the adjacent oceans. ”
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REV. DR. TALMAGE
THE BROOKLYN DIVINES SUN -
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “The Island of Patmos.”
Texts : "When** had discovered Cy.
prvs we left it on the left hand.”—Acts xxi.
8, and "I. John, was in the isle that is called
Goodby, rZ S h ’ - Egypt! p 0Vel r, tiOn Although I';*!' interesting .
and instructive beyond any' Holy country in all
the world, excepting the Land, Egypt
was to me somewhat depressing. It was a
post mortem examination of cities that died
tour tnonsand years ago. The mummies, or
wrapped up bodies of the dead, were pre
^ the Res U f rection
day, tne Egyptians departing this *K life , want
!irf«hi» J?*^L P l t> S °ir b 1 es e if “Jj® that Jr^P “ t ey in ^ as ould K°od be condi- pre
““"Si®when 'h they were called „ again to oc
? en Pharaoh comes to
U he “ nd » hls looking as I
saw his mummy in the museum at Boulac,
Un j* ul 'ng tenant,
The Snhinx t° m « a stern monstros
itv sfxty^wo hi^h 0 n/°„ C £ O r6d
te W * b t one hun
(1 r-pf] a ml tort vth min an/thfl and havlug
the head of dAJfta a thl 7 °l a bo?;.
de^rt We stX c^d h6 ?n aU
to it With a ©“years l h
looked down upon thousands of
earthly history, Egyptian Roman civilization 1
Grecian civilization, civilization,
upon the rise and fall of thrones in
numerable; the victory and defeat of the
armies of centuries. It took three thousand
years to make one wrinkle on its red cheek.
It is dreadful in its stolidity. Itseyeshave
never wept a tear. Its cold ears have not
not for P Jy when^h^ measured it'in^he
first century. !t wil! care nothing for toe
“nance ?n thekst c°eiiturv ^Pertubabie coun
tenanceintbe last century.
life^ Thi^Bihte^p Ernie promises 7 romTs“s e it it. UP The ihe he mission- m ? ° W ° f
Lansing ^nndilg sounding a a re^ resurrection
trumpet above those slam empires. There
will be some other Moses ot the'banks rfthe
Nile good*moi-als'ToThe^iegrlfdeiT^ There will be some other
teach Instead
ot'a destroying angel to Slav the firstborn of
Egypt shake everlasting the angel of life the New his Testament will
from wings over a
nation arrival born in a day. When, soon after mv
in Egypt, I took part in the solemn
and tender obsequies of a missionary from
our sepulchers own land, of’ dying fathers, there far away sJw from the
her and around
her the dusky and weeping congregation of
those she had come to save, I saui to mvself- type’
“Here is self sacrifice of the noblest auee’i
Here is heroism immortal. Here is a
unto God forever. Here is somethtag
grander which thrills than the the heavens. pyramids. Here Here is that
sateVhewoTlT” is a speci
men of that which will yet
Goodby, Egypt! This sermon finds us on
the , steamer Minerva in the Grecian arebi
pelago, the islands of the New Testament
and islands Paulinian and Johanniau in their
reminiscence. What Bradshaw's directory
road is to travelers guide is in Europe, travelers and it what the rail
to America, the
Book of the Acts in the Bible is to voyagers (Jos
in the Grecian, or, as I shall call it, the
that pel archipelago, The Bible geography of
region is accurate without a shadow of
mistake. We are sailing this morning on the
same waters that. Paul sailed, but in the
aged. opposite He direction sailing to that southward which Paul vov
was and we
northward. With him it was Ephesus, Coos
Rhodes, Cyprus. With us it is reversed and
it is Cyprus, book Rhodes, world Coos, Ephesus. There
is no in the so accurate as the
Divine Book.
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the utmost that can be done with Sands fw
beautification of earthly scenery.
The steamer had stopped thfship during Is the nieht
and in the morning was quiet as
island of Cyprus. In a boat, which the na
tives instead rowed of sitting standing down, up, as when is the custom
as we row we
were soon landed on the streets where Paul
and Barnabas walked and preached Yea
when at Antioch, Paul and Barnabas got
into a fight—as ministers sometimes did and
sometimes do, for they all have imperfec
tions enough to anchor them to this world
till their work is done, I say—when because
of that bitter controversy, Paul and Barna
bas parted, Barnabas came back here to
Cyprus, which was his birthplace. Island
wonderful sometimes for history! by Persia, Ithas by been Greece^ the prize bv
won
Egypt, by the Saracens, by but the by Crusaders.
and last of all, not by sword pen and
that the pen of the keenest diplomatist of the
century, Lord Beaconsfield, who, under a
lease which was as good jewels as a purchase Victoria’s set
Cyprus among the of
crown
wj&sr&siffi si,gr»“r
than 0X 00 * '. 6 st J rred U P, ^e
whilh <i clm P enougb h t to K 6 * 1 a tear bottle in
mourner a b® d his tears thou
ioi° year sa -°- which bofore
Christ was born . lighted the liat feet island of gome of
P-°° Cyprus r ., P f„ has l “ enough I s to set an a antiquarian
wild. The most of its glory is the glory of
the past, and the the clouds typhoid otfocwstsVaatt'^ten fevers that swepj
its coast, and
blacken its slues (though two hundred thou
sand dollars were expended by the British
empire in one year for the extirpation of
these noxious insects, yet tailing to do the
work), and the frequent change of govern
men tal masters hinder prosperity. of the to
But when the islands sea come
God Cyprus wifi come with them, and the
ngncultural and commeic al opulence eclipsed which by
adoimed it m ages past will be
the agricultural and commercial and relig
i| US ™«w? PbS +° f )* e a Ses to come. Why is
the world so stupid that . it cannot see that
nations are prospered m prospered temporal in things religious lu
proportion as they are profitable not only for
things. Godliness is
individuals, but for nations. Quustions of
tariff, questions of silver bill, questions of
republic or monarchy have| not; so much to
do with a nation s temporal welfare as ques
tions of religion. Give Cyprus to Christ
give England to Christ, give America to
Christ, give the world to Christ, and Hewiil
«ve them all a prosperity unlimited. Why the
ta Brooklyn one of the queen cities of
earth? Because it is the queen cities of
enurcbes.
Blindfold me and lead me Into any city
of the earth so that I cannot see a street or
fnto al ?h °Th^eV,«' then lea<ls
bandave K a from^^*^ jny cye-. i!i anfl h T I will Jin m ^n tell e you the
from wads wh„t T«virJ cities ^^JhonHiaa A ?t Ut , ;°. n 1 S6cra <S T^at te' 1
’
is thnnta that VL l m j terature
’ ,
It is its govern
nAil* sclel ^ ce ^ lts
nrosneritv 1 m ‘ P ° nd
Go'u'wT^fhn • * a "Tf ’ b0
altar of rWnh m
watermark of the world’s triumphant, happiness all The
Christian religion other
interests triumphant. The Christian relig
,U1 ° ther * n teres j; s iow down.
Sol thought on the tl evening . of that day we
stepped from the filthy streets of Larnaca.
V yi>rl ’ a ’ onto the boat took us back to
tho steamer Minerva, which like had already im
begun , to paw Be the waves and then a courser moved
aad patient to gone, islands of we this Gospel on
up among the
aral ?'P e > a g°
Night came down . on land , J and sea and the
voyage became to me more and more sug
gestive and solemn. If you are pacing it
alone a ship’s deck in the darkness and at sea
is a weird place, and an active imagination
may conjure up almost any confront shape he him will, by
aad it shall walk the sea or
the smokestack or meet him under the cap
tain’s bridge. But here I was alone on ship’s
deck wonder in the that Gospel the archipelago, populous and with do you the
sea was
past andtbatdown the ratlines Bible memo
ries descended? Our friends had all gone to
their berths '
“Captain,” I said, "when will we arrive at
the Island of Rhodes?" Looking out from
under his glazed cap, he responded in sepul
chral voice, “About midnight.” Thouo-h ilcon- it
would be keeping unreasonable hour.-,
eluded to stay on deck, for I must sea
Rhodes, the one of of the islands missionary associated with the
name the greatest
world ever saw or ever will see. Paul
Sitasssns
the ™ rld has become
This?sW has had a wonderful history.
With six thousand Knights of St. John, it at
onetime stood out against two hundred
T^ rl ^ S u nde r ‘‘ Soly ™ a11 th ?
Magnificent.” The city t had . . three thousand
j tatue:s - which a ,P d a statue to Apollo called been Co
lossus, . has always since con
sidered one of the seven wonders of the
W ° m ' “ WSS tWelV ® J6ai ' S in buildi “ S and
wa ? sevent y cubits high, ana had a winding
Shlnw^' prostra^fced by an earthquake. y T S
f ?^ nme bundred years,
be converted to other
Snrwwf’o^i 1 tb f , thousand 5! eta ’ weighing seven
hundred and twenty i pounds, was
Hwnv° n Und DOt r re P® lr r Ca ™ ltted -H e a f nd g? ca ashore, J Tied
bntrtm ^ S A, vf(. adS A d ,° WQ k*” the 6 J boats dls show come
u bring three pas
H^fa^^ti a iiv^fJ h U ^ ldS C>f 6arS ° C
rS e0ll P sed K by the # few u hours or
A* Ts I sto^L^ i PP on n?h B dee k of tbe „• Min
T ^ T°t l h P , “u wher0 ta ®'
^‘tecTthaTthe mustZve a ..
world o
some TT kind * ’ It is 18 to » me me an aa infinite infinite pathos- nathos
9? , lossus not oa ^? Rhodes, but the
C0 , ‘ 0S tV ul ma ?J, P arta o£ t!l 9 earth. This is
onl y the world’s blind , reaching up and feel
mg a l ter Uod - Eoundered human nature
raast have a the supernatural statues and arm to of help heath- it
^ s “ 0le * images
® udom ai ’ e attempts to bring, celestial forces
“own mto . human affairs. Blessed be our
? ar ? that we !piv e heard of an ever present
pod,and that through Jesus Christ He comes
mt0 °? r he ? rt ; s and oar homes, and with
m °!' e £han fa£ berly and motherly all interest
Bnd affectlon . Me is with us in our strug
?if and bereavements and vicissitudes.
9, J s needs something higher than the
9° , los ? us ’ aud th « da y Wl11 C0 “ 8 when the
” au was 5 i !I V mg wdea ha
salled into the , harbor of Rhodes, T , , shall take
W e move ' U P through this archi
T
^ ‘he’plaaet? “em!».
S ^“""SeW^ 'S^ATS T '^
5^3 - SffttS&'SSZ
when I remind you that the Island of Salamis
produced Solon, and that the Island of Chios
P roduc e<* Homer, and the Island of Samos
Produced Rvthagoras, and the Island of Coos
^Th^SSod that I longed to see
more than any other. I can afford to miss
the princes among the islands, but I must see
ttie l[ ‘ n » o£ the archipelago. The one I longed
to see is not 80 man y miles in circumference
as Cyprus or Crete or Paros or Naxos or
MRylene, but I had rather, in this
rough the Grecian archipelago, sea
that than all the others; for more of the
g lor *esof heaven landed there than on all
the islands and continents since the world
s£ood - As we come toward it I feel my
P, uls9 : s quieten- “I. J e ha i was in the island
tha Is ca lled Ratuios.” It is a pile of rocks
tweil ■ ty-eight . miles in circumference. A few
°yP resses and inferior olives pump a living
? ut ° £the ear£h > aad °“ e P alm tre6 spreads
ffs foliage. But the barrenness and gloom
and loneliness of the island made it a prison
to t the banished evangelist. stand his ministry.
Domitian could not
q nd cne day, under armed guard, that min
'ster of the Gospel stepped from a tossing
ss a°3ir.
raptures of a coming eternity. Is it not re
markable that nearly all the great revela
tions of music and poetry banishment—Homer and religion have
been made to men in
and Milton banished into blindness; Beeth
oven banished into deafness; Daute writing
his “Divina Commedia” during the nineteen
years of banishment from his native land;
Viator , ihigti'T’Wifedg > country lhs J "'L9s'"M1s3rab!es” the island
exiled from home and on
0 £ Guernsey, and the brightest visions of
the future have been given to those who by
sickness or sorrow were exiled from the
outer world into rooms of sufferin crA Only
those who have been imprisoned had great y revela- very
hard surroundings have
tions made to th»m
Bo Patmos, wild, chill and bleak and ter
nblewasthe best island in all the archi
pelago, the best place in all the earth for
divine revelations. Before a panorama can
be successfully seen, the room in which you
sit must be darkened, aud in the presence of
John was to pass such a panorama as no
ma n ever before saw or ever will see in this
world, and hence the gloom of his surround
tags was a help rather than an hindrance,
All the surroundings of the place affected
st. John’s imagery when he speaks of
heaven. St.John, hungry from enforced
abstinanee, or having no food except that at
which his appetite revolted, thinks of
heaven; and as the famished covered man is apt with to
riream 0 f bountiful tables
luxuries, so St John says of the inhabitants
of heaven "They shall hunger no more.”
Scarcity of fre«sh water on Patmos and the
hot tongue of St. John’s thirst leads him to
admire heaven as lie says, "They shall thirst
no more.”
st - John hears the waves of and the each sea wildly
has dashing voice, against all the the rocks, together make wave
a and waves
a chorus, and they remind him of the multi
tudinous anthems of heaven, and he says,
“Thev are like the voice of many waters.”
One day, as he looked smooth, off upon the it is sea, to-day the
waters were very as
while we sail them in the Minerva, and they
were like glass ’ and the sunlight seemed to
whitest MX, 8 * andttf andasbt -
tha^hrnhan^^/via'th^n^h^f^v, * r. k; „ 130 ' 11 9 “f° n
“As“a ! sefol
of heaven and describes them
glass mingled with fire ” Ye** seated in the
dark cavern of Patmos though homesick and
hungry and loaded with Domitian’s anathe
mas, St John was the most fortunate man
on earth because of the panorama that
passed before the mouth of that cavern
Turn down all the lights that we mar befc
ter see it. The panorama passes, and lo! the
conquering Christ, robed, girdled, armed the
flash of golden candlesticks and seven stars
in His right hand, candlesticks and stars
meaning And light held up throne and and light Christ scattered. it,
there passes a on
and the seals broken, and the woes sounded,
and a dragon slain, and seven last plagues
swoop, and seven vials are poured out, and
the vision vanishes. And we halt a moment
& rest ^om the excitiu g spectacle. Again of
the panorama moves on before the cavern ________
Pa tmos, and John the exile sees a great city
representing all abominations, Babylon tow
erecl, P alaced - templed, fountained, foliaged,
sculptured hanging gardens, suddenly going
S °[ asW ^ the pipers cease to pipe,
a trumpet, andtha
a f f b smoke, and the horror fill the
, ?n f ?**?!? and be ? e £ th ar °
rallenl’’ a “u And n wL we wt halt a ASn'ZA = ain i to rest < ^ from allen V the la
-
cavern atv,™™™ of „n“to}Fn be f oro the
Uneof white an^Sf chargersgalloping lih ^elrfafi’the torouriijh!
brtata bits heaven^ of
earth conquered and all Doxology.
And we bait again to rost from the sneofa
cle - Again the panorama passes before the
cavern of Patmos lTfted and John the / exile sees
great thrones thrones 0 martyrs
thrones of apostles thrones of Dronhets
thrones of ^ patriarchs and a throne hie-hor
than a11 on b ich Jesus sits, and ponderous
books , are opened, their leaves turned over.
paling the names of all that have ever
lived, the good and the bad, the renowned
and the humble, the mighty and the weak,
and at the turn of every leaf the universe is
in rapture of fright, and the sea empties its
sarcophagus of all the dead of the sunken
shipping, heavens and the earth gives way, moment and the
vanish. Again we rest a
fr 2 m *he spectacle.
The panorama moves on before the cavern
of Patmos, and John the exile beholds a city
° f f old . aud a river more beautiful than the
Rhine or the Hudson rolls through "oa it, Either and
^uit trees bend their burdens
bank, and all is surrounded autumnal by walls in
which the upholstery of forests, ages!
and tbe suaris - and of all the
and the glory of burning worlds seem to be
commingled. And the inhabitants never
breathe a sigh, or utter a groan, or discuss
a difference, or frown a dislike, or weep white, a
tear. The fashion they wear is pure
and their foreheads are encircled by gar
lands, and they who were sick are well, and
they who were old are young, and they who
were bereft are reunited. And as the last
figure of that panorama rolled out of sight
I think that John must have fallen back into
his cavern nerveless and exhausted Too
much was it for the naked eve to look at
Too much was it for human strength to ex¬
perience. My
should friends, I would similar not wonder vision if after you
have a very
awhile. You will be through with this world,
its cares and fatigues aua struggles, and if
you have served the Lord and have done the
dyingbld^we 110 It'otten^has lean
a Patmos
h^ S /“T^ ^
»£•'» Rutber
of his
’ST**5^, IS?" with see
have
Nnw°r SJ, ^ a
j enjoy ^} I Now I rejoice’ 01< S* 1 feed on^nanna"
tu Ldeemen giorydwXth
Glory in Immam
h th dymg be l been
made a Patmos
You see the time will come when you will,
oh, child of God, be exiled exiled to your last Patmos. sick
ness as much as John was to
You will go into your room not to come out
again, for God is going to do something
than better He and grander and There happier will for be such you
has ever done!
visions let down to your pillow as God gives
no man if he is ever to return to this tame
world. The apparent feeling of uneasiness
and restlessness at the time of the Christian’s
departure, real distress. the physicians It is say, unconscious is caused and by
no an
involuntary movement, and I think in many
cases it is the vision of heavenly gladness too
great for mortal endurance. It is only
heaven in on the
You see your work will be done and the
funs there for will your be wings departure will be at hand, wings and
over you and uu
sissmsss sarss”^;
hiss sleep will years be ago will beat foreheads, your side and their will
on your and you
see gardens in full bloom, and the swinging
open of shining gates, ’ aud will hear neai voices voices
long In ago hushed. Christian
many a departure that vou
have known and I have known there was in
thing the phraseology indicated of the the departing ones so ne
that reappearance oe
those delusion, long deceased. It fact. is no delirium Your no
but a supernal glor
ifled loved ones wul hear that you are about
to come, and they will say in heaven: “May
I go down to show that soul the way ud?
May that soul I be the celestial escort? pillow?” May I wait for
at the edge of the Aad the
t on that ..,-n mi^Ion.’^An , lTr Jl Ar U tS aif yolr
glorified will brethren the wili and come althou down aultoev those in
be in room, -n
health standing around you may 7 he ir no
voice and see no arrival from tiie heavenly ^
world, you will see and hear. And tiie mo
meat the fleshly bond of the soul shall
break, tha this erv will be: "Follow me 1 Up this
way! By gilded cloud, past these straight stars,
straight V for home,straight for glory ’’ g
for God
As on that day in the Grecian archipelago
Patmos began to fade out of sight I walked
to the stern of the ship that I mtabt keep my
eye on the enchantment as ion" as 1 could
and the voice that sounded out of heaven to
John the exile in the cavern on Patmos
seemed sounding in the waters that dashed
against the side of our ship, "Behold the tab
ernacle of God is with men, and He will
dwell with them, and they shall be His peo¬
ple and God Himself shall be with them and
be their God; and God shall wipe away nil
tears from ttieir eyes, and there shall be no
more death, neither sorrow nor crying, the
neither shall there be any more pain, for
former things are passed away.”
TO REMOTE BLACK HEADS.
Never Make the Mistake of Pinching
Them Out.
On Twenty-third street, yestorday,
walked one of the prettiest girls in club¬ towr
—the daughter of a well-known
man. light
Tall, slender, with dark eyos and
hair, few passed that did not turn to look
at her. Her complexion seemed like t
rose leaf when seen at close range. At a
little distance her face looked clouded—I
hate to say it—dirty. The cause of this
was blackheads. Her delicate chin and
the base of her Grecian nose wore sifted
full of these beauty-destroying of for in talking pests.
She was conscious them,
she frequently put her gloved hand to
her face and had that restless way of
wriggling the face out of focus with hex
vis-a-vis that always means either shy¬
ness or facial blemish.
One of the most fruitful sources of
‘blackheads" is the veil.
A woman will throw aside a white veil
after two or throe wearings because it
looks soiled. She will wear a black one
a month, not realizing that the meshes
have become saturated with dust and
.exhalations disastrous to a delicate skin.
This by constant friction is rubbed in
(ill it is settled deep in the pores and
sealed there by a black speck. powder
Another source is washing off
with water instead of cleansing it with
creams.
The latter softens the tissue and ex
tracts the foreign substance from the
pores. The former makes a hard mortar
like paste which settles tightly into them.
Did powder, a soiled powder cloth or
puff, an uncovered puff box, neglected the
perspiration, are all conducive to
same end.
Street dust is of course unavoidable,
but it is much less harmful taken straight
to the skin than through a veil. On en
tering the house after a soothing long walk or
shopping should tour, immediately a pure applied and cream al¬
be
lowed to remain for some time to take
lut the heat and loosen particles of dust,
ifter which the face should be bathed
.ightly in soap (very little soap) and
warm water, and powdered afresh.
As to removing blackheads, the one>
;liing not to do is to squeeze them out. i
This lias an effect similar to drawing made
lails out of wood. The pores are
arger and remain open, taking in a
.arger supply next time. of and
A scalding lather soap with water
ind light swift circular motions a
soft toothbrush or.fine cloth is the way
to treat these pests.
for Repeat the operation The every evening he
five or six days. water must tile
is hot as it can possibly be borne,
ihe soap rubbing absolutely pure, the till lather good thick;
must continue sense
says: “Do not rub any more this time waish or
fou will break the skin.” Do not
>ft the lather. Let it remain on till
Horning. The skin will show red as a
)eet each time, but that passes in a few
noments and does not harm the skin in,
;he least. '
If six times do not prove sufficient,
nake it seven, ten, fourteen. If any
inal stubborn ones remain, moisten a
rery fine cloth with Holland gin and rub
■ound aud round till they disappear.—•
New York World.
The Air’s Transparency.
Unlike fog, liaze commonly occurs
.luring an unusually dry state of the
lower stratum of air. In considering its
cause, it has been suggested that the
small quantity of non-transparent matter
required to produce the dimming effect
should always be borne in mind, iff the
eye can observe the change that -fi ornes
over a drop of water when the fifty
millionth of a gramme of fuchsine |is in¬
troduced, possibly a weight of suffice water or
dust not much greater would for
visibility^ in a column of air 1,000 feet
long. dust The particles air is at all degree times difficult charged
with to a to
realize! The purest air tested by Mr.
Atkins when making his measurements
mi the top of Ben Nevis contained cubic about
34,000 dust particles to each inch,
which would give 35,232,000 particles to
every cubic foot, or 35,232,000,000 to a
horizontal column of a thousand feet.
1 his being the case, it is manifest that of a
condensation upon a small proportion
these or a momentary adhesion [produce by elec¬
tric attraction would suffice to
the optical effect called “haze” ok “hazi¬
ness.”—[St. Louis Republic.
t
Sinking of a Sea’s Bottom.
Scientists tell us that, counting from
the sea level, the lowest body lot water
on the globe is the Caspian islea. For
centuries its surface lms been gradually
settling down until now it is eighty-five
feet lower than that of its neighbor, the
Black Sea, which also lies far ibelow the
level of the ocean. The comlinon con¬
clusion has all along been thaj the Cas¬
pian was merely but losing its waters by
somo have shown means, this recent investigations be [the
not to case.
records Soundings of made and compared with
hundred soundings reveal made the mop astounding than one
fact that years ago greuj,
there is still as a depth of
water as existed then. This] loaves but
one hypothesis that would seem to bc
lenable—the bottom of the is/much Caspian Sea
is ulation actually sinking. There [relative spec¬
in scientific circles to
wlmt the final result will be.-4-[Nevv York
Telegram. /
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