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■a TALMAGE'S SERMON. ■ aUGHTER of the bible. ■ fest: "Then wm our mouth fillo I wi h Tsalni. (, xxvi., "He that in the heavens shall laugh."—Fsaiin ■*■ -eight times in the Bible is leferen e H,.;. to this configuration <>f le ituivs uml Htii. k expulsion "t breath which we .-nil Somcti nos it is ls.ru of the suh- Hiin< nuil sometime of the midnight. <some- Hmes it stirs the sympathies of angels anil nil's *he eaehinnation of devils. Hll healthy people laugh. Whether It please t , j r nleases God depend'U|>on win n we laugh Hud at what we laugh. I , ropose this morn- Kig to speak to you on the laughter of Ihe iiainelv. Sarah's laugh, or the Kept Irinin: David’s laugh, or that of spirit- Kal exultation; the fool s laugh, or that of Kuful merriment: God's laugh, or that of Bivine indignation: Heaven’s lau.h, or that K, eternal triumph. Scene: An oriental Ken: the occupants.old Abraham and Sarah, Krolnbly wrinkled and decrepit. Three Kuests. one of them the Lord Almighty. To K P nay these old people for their hospitality, ■tod promises Sa:ah that she shall lie the an- Ke.-tress of the Lord Jesus Christ. IShe laughs ■n God’s face. She does not believe it. Af frighted at what she has done she says she Kid not laugh. Then God retorts with an Kiuphasis that silences all discussion: "but Khou didst laugh.’’ And that sceptical laugh ■of Sarah s has had its echo in the scepticism ■of all the ages. Gcd says He will ac complish a certain thing. People sav: ■‘l don’t believe it can lie done; I don’t lie ■jeve it will lie done.” People laugh at the ■miracles. They say ‘ the miracles are con ■tiary to the laws of nature, and therefore Khev are impossible.” What is a law ■of nature? It is only God’s way of ■doing things. Ordinarily yon cross ■to Now York on the bridge, To gmorrow you decide to go by Wall St eel ■ferry. You formed your habit: you have la right to change your habit. I or- Idinariiy enter the church by this ■door (indicating.) Next Sabbath morning 11 might enter it by that door (indicating:. I formed my habit. I have a right to change ravhabit. A law of nature is Goi's habit. His way of doing things. If He has a right to form the habit He has a right to change it whenever he chooses to chan re it. It is an awful thing for us to laugh back in the face of Gm!, and say: “You can't do what You said You would do;'’or. “You won't do it.” God the Bible is true, it is all true. Bishop Colenso laughs. Herbert Spencer laughs, John. Stuart Mill laughs, some of the German universities laugh, Harvard laughs softly, some of the American institutions, with long rows of professors seated on the fence between Christianty and infidelity, laugh softly. They sav they did not laugh. Ah, that is Sarah’s old trick! For God thunders from the Heavens, “thou didst laugh.'’ The Gar den of Eden was only a fable. Noah’s ark wa-an impossibility for it could not have h ‘id two of each kind. The pillar of fire by nightvakonly the “northern lights.” Jacob's ladder was only horizontal and picturesque clouds. The sea parted only because the wind blew a great while from'one direction, violently, and the sea could not help but separate. The ten plagues of Egypt were only a brilliant specimen of jugglery. The destroying angel smiting the first born of Egypt was only cholera infantum become epidemic. The gullet of the whale by pot i tive measurement is too small to swallow a prophet. Sun and moon did not put them selves out of the way for Joshua. The blind, the lame, the halt, who were cured in Bible times were not cured by supernatural power but by great skill of surgery. The resurrec tion of Christ’s friend was only a tableau. Christ and Lazarus and Mary and Martha only acted their parts well. Lazarus was not dead. He only played dead. He was not resurrected. He only played resurre-ted. My friends, there is not a statement in that book or a theory in that book, or a sentiment in that book, or a fact in that book but has been disputed and laughed at by modern sceptic ism. Here is King James’ translation. I be lieve it to lie a perfect Bible, Now let me tear out all those portions of the Bible which modern scepticism would have me tear out Where shall we begin* “Well,” says some man. Ta—e out all that about the creation and the settlement of the world ” There goes Genesis. “Well,” says some one, “take out next all that about the miraculous guidance of the Israelites in the wilderness ” There goes Exodus. Says some rnan: ‘’There are things in Deuteronomy an 1 the Kmgs which are not fit to be read. ” Away go Deu tTonomvrnl the kings. Some man says “ Take that out which is only the fable of Job’s writings.” Awav goes Job. Some man says, “take out that from the New Testament which declares the divinity of Jesus Christ. ’ Awav go the evangelists somebody says: “That is absurd 'in the work of Revelation about a man with the moon under his feet and a sword proceeding from his mouth.” Away goes Revelation. We have a few pieces left- what ehall we do with them? Some man savs- "I don't behove a word of the lx>ok from begin ning to end. It is all gone now. Oh do you not think we had bett w keep the Bible a lit tle longer Inta t? It hasdone pretty well for a geol many years; then there are some old people who like to hold it on their laps, and there nre ihddren who like to read its stories. If the Bible is to lie put awav in the dark corner of some city library, the Koran on one side and the writings of Confucius on the other per haps we had better keep one copy for our selves torn e might have trouble and we would want the delusion of its consolation and we might die and we would like to be iler.ided with the storv of high residence in the pifjsence of God. Gh, it is' an awful thing to throw hack God's revelation into His face, and sav: “I don’t b?- heve it.” After a while, the day will come when people will sav, “I did not laugh. '’ Thea all the hypercritiei-nis and the caricatures and the sneers at the Bible will be brought into judgment, and amid the ro king of everything beneath, and amid the flaming of everything above, God will thunder from the heavens. "That thou didst laugh.” The rnosttas-mating laughter at Christianity that i e s er heard was Theodore Parker. I sat in the na 11 in Huston and heard him make many of the passages of the word of God seems absolutely ndicnlons.and that man wentlon laughing at our holy Christianity until he came to s.c. and then h- said: "My lifehasbeena failure; dome<ieaily_ a failure, I have no children; socially a failure, fli y treat me like a pi i ate on the str et; professionally a failure, for I know but one minister who has adopted my sentiments. ’ For twenty-five years that man laughed at Christianity and Christianity has ever since lieen laughing at him. Oh it is a ™ e ? n , ,'PS to go into a man’s house and s.eal his g io;ls, but the most gigantic burglary of the cmturiei is the attempt to take away these treasures of the soul. Os all i ■ laughter on earth or hell ever heard the mi anest laughter is t le sceptic's laugh—pr >- P'-'-mg to take our only cons lation in trouble an l oar "Uly p’llow in death and give us as a suirstitute absolutely nothing. 1“ e PP, xt lu ighterof the Bible that I notice 1 avid s laugh, or that of spiritual exulta , He says: “Then was my mouth filled klughter. ’ You know he sometimes got Ti .* n ’ h e was n * times very melancholv. i.t j Le rose up and in some chapters he ■ alls I', f° nr nr five times to sing a I* 11 ? 11 " L . It * s not merely the er.,s-°£th e tips with him; it is a demon hC? 'i that ,a “ ei “t* bis bfxly and all lm>. hS!' P.’“ u " as m y mouth fll’.e I with -uicirfi friends, if this world is ever i 1 " , ’ 0 ' 1 *t wiil l e because Chris imh ’7 le «an<l laugh more. The horrors ’ >lre a poor l«it to fish with. People do = nt a D!orb i<l Christianity. I know ® I,®”!* 1 ® morbid in feeling that nr’.’ enjoy a funeral. They go ’rav» th ° friends. "tase a corpse and then steal L tj . ‘he ce netery. But 'ra r‘ l -“ nia i- ,or| t-'' of healthy people, all •hL” ?r e Pl*. enjoy a wedding better than -i- < a « kunal. and if you make religion > e -urai and he?.rs-likeyou make it repub I sive. 8o I say. plant rose of Sharon along the walks of the church, an I i columlUne to run on the wa ll of the church I and let there be a smile on the lip, ' and let there b? holv lamibter in th? i soul. I think that a Christian is the only man who ha>a right to untrunnneled glee, lor he is promisei that ail things are for the best in this world, and he is on his way to a delight wh < h it will tak* all the procession - with palm b"an dies, and all theorche'tras liarjx‘d and < ymba’.e lan I trumpted, to express Ke | •• i<<e pvrrnvnvd again I sav rejoice. The merriest laughter f have ever ' heard has lieen in the sick room of G< dear children. Theodosius was put upon i the rack for Christ’s sake. He gave uu . aceonnt of it. afterward and said: “When I I was put on the rack I suffered awfellv, but a • young man in white came with a soft and (*omfurtable handkerchief and wiped my forehead, and my sufferings wore alleviated. | and it was au actual punishment for me to Ik taken off the rack, for as soon a* all the suffering was gone the angel was gone. ’ And last Friday night standing by dying l»ed of a Christian, I said to him: What word will you send to the church service wh re Lam going to-nightf* and. ral- I lying all his energies, and his face shining i like heaven, he said: “Tell them to be of good cheer.” “Oh, 1 ’ says someone, “I have j so many troubles, and so many sicknesses, and so many persecutions, and so many trials; that doctrine won't do for me.” Have you it any worse than Paul had it* Driven out. perse cuted. tried, spit upon, slain. Yet, hear him say: “Sorrowful yet rejoiciug.poor yet mak ing many rich, having nothing yet possessing all tnings.” Why, sometimes, my friends, there is more religion in a laugh than in a groan. Anybody can groan, but to laugh in the midst of trial and ]>erserution and s i (Tur ing, it takes a David, a Daniel, a Paul, a mo iern heroine to do that. The next laugh of the Bible that I shall mention is the fool's laugh, or the expression of sinful merriment. Solomon was very qui kat a simile and when he makes a com parison every bo ly catches it right away. ; Solomon, what is a fool's laugh like* He ah i swors: “The crackling of thorns under a ' rot.” The kettle is swung, a bunch of brambles is put under it, a t rch is applied, there is a great blaze and a big noise ! and a solutter. and a quick extinguish ment. and it is darker than it was Ix'fore. A I fooi's laughter. The most miserable thing on earth is a bad man’s fun. Ten men in a bar room and an impure joke starts at one end of the barroom, and crackle, crackle, crackle it eiomenr or Happiness. I hey all feel bemeaned, tor they have wives, mothers, daughters at home. I have not any faith in either a man’s I Christian character or common morality, who either tells or laughs at an impure joke. Men j and women are no better than their conver sation. It you love to tell or love to hear impure jokes it is because you are depraved, i et there are men who call themselves gen tlemen who indulge in impure conversation, and laugh at impure jokes; and I have been told that in womanly circles there are ■ those who call themselves ladies, yet who tell impure storks, or laugh at them when they are told. They are half harlots, incipient Magdalens— I under powerful temptation they would become waifs of the street. Beware of man or woman who tells or laughs at an impure joke. It is the fool’s laughter, “the crackling of thorns under a pot.” So also all merrinwnt that is made at th' frailties, nt i the misfortunes,of others. The caricature of a lame foot, or a curved spin *, or a blind eve ;or a deaf ear. God will write ‘it 1 out in judgment either to you cr your ehll Iren. Twenty years ago I saw a man very skillfully mimic his neigh- ; bor’s lame foot. He did it with wonderful skill. Not long ago. th* son of that skillful mimic ha 1 his leg amp itate I for the very in firmity that the father had caricatured in the i neighbor years ago. I do not say it was a i judgment of God. You can say what you p.ease. But I say beware, look out how you < ari attire the infirmities of others. It is the fools laughter. So is also all th'‘merriment that is arouse ! from di-sipa’ion. that starts from the drinking re-taurantor from the wine cup of the social circle, 1 he simpering and the sat urnine gibberish, the laughter at nothing. > which you sometimes he tr after the wino has I taken its eflect in the social circle or in the club room. It is all the laughter of the fool. v\ hen I was a lad & book was published called “Dow Junior’s Sermons.” It had a large ; circulation; it made everybody laugh: it was considered a very witty and funny thing. I had a copy present d to me in my childhood. i 1 read it. The whcl: book was a caricature of the church, of the ministry, of the Biblean iofth Day of Judgment. Oh.how the world laughed at it. The commentary of , the whole thing is that the author of that j book not ago died in poverty, shame. : debauch. Kickt>l out of decent society and under the curse of Almighty God. I charge on the young p: ople of this congregation, in the presence of Almighty God, have nothing to do with th se sty es of mirth that I have been speaking of. It de spoils the character. If your lips are not pure it is because your heart is rotten. , The next laughter of the Bible that I speak ; of is God’s laugh of indignation. The Bible | says: “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh.’’ It says in another place: “The Lord shall laugh.’’ In another place it says: “I will laugh at your calamity.” With that demonstrat ion God meets great sins and wick edness. Here is a man building up his vil la iir'es. Jt seems as if he has beaten the Lord because of his sue e-sful schemes. I can show you men in Brooklyn and New York now who are going right , on building up their villanies, and they seem to be successful. But wait. After awhile I the pin will get out of the ma hinery of j wiekednesss or the fatal secret will be told ' and everything will go into demolition. The . crash of the ruin will be the reverbera tion of the wia h of God’s indi Wall street is agn at place for good men and for bad men. There are no better men in the world than you will find in Wall street ami no worse men. A fraudulent man of that street’says: ‘‘l mean to get a million ! dollars and I <lon’t care how I get them.” 1 Reckless of all the laws of honesty, he goes ahea 1 and he gets his He goes on and begets his #2OO,O<K). He gee; on until he i gets his *.VX),OOO. Now,” he says. "I have but one more stroke to make and then I'll , have my million.” He gathers together all his resources. He visits everything on one grand throw. He loses. He fails. He has nor. act ually enough money of his own to pay his car fare home. What is the matter* You say, “great stir in Erie railway stocks.” or, “great stir in Western Union,’ or, “great stir in ■ Illinois Central,’’ or you charge it to this j speculator or that speculator. They all I guess and they guess wrong. I will tell you what was the matter. He that sitteth in the Heavens laughe 1. A man in New York, years ago, resolved to be the wealthiest man in the city. He left his hon est work as a chairmaker, went into politics, got elected to the city councils and in ten years stole from the city government $15,- ’.MKHJOO, He held th • Legislature of th • State i of New York in the grip of his right hand, j After a white suspicion was arous d. The (Jiami Jury brought in an indictment. The whole' Jan I stood aghast. Th it man who expected to put half of New York in his vest pocket gees to Ludlow Street jail, goes to Bia-kwell’s Islan 1, escaping prison crosses the ocean, is rearrested, comes ba k, ' is reimprisoned and dies there. Why? He that sitteth in the heavens laughed. Rome was a great empire. She had Horace and Virgil among herpuets; she had Augustus an 1 (<n Tantine among her cnip.-rors. But why | the deiaced Pantheon* why the broken waits of the Coliseu n* why the fort rn turned into a cattle market? Why the architectural skele ton -of her ac picducts? What is that thun der? You say it is the battering rants coming against her walls. No. What is that quiver. ng* You sav it is the tramp of hostile legions. No. The quivering and the roaring are ' the outburst of the laughter of a of a defied and insulted Heaven. Rome defied God an IHe laugh dh *r down: Tlfthes defie 1 God and He laughed h»r down; Babylon de i tied God or.d He laughe I her down. Oh, there is a great difference between God’s smile and (rod’s laugh. The smile.it is eternal beatitude, it is th • bells of h aven 1 itriking a wedding peal. The smite of God. itisinetsth of May. the apple orc liar da in full bloom. Go I smiled when David sang, an I Miriam clapped the cymbals, and Han nah imide the garments for her son, and Paul prea died and Sr. John kindled wish apoca lyptic vision! But oh. the laughter of God may we never hear it! It means pun ishment f>r our sin, it means wast ing away nn ler His in lignation. God wants us to live in Hit smile. Heroines down from Heaven. He c a us. He begs us to com » from our sins into Wghteousness. He come unto this world in the jterion of Christ. He takes up the Tins of the world and He puts them on one si o ilder. and He takes up the sorrows of the world and puts them on the other shoulder, aud thou with this Alp on one side and this Himalaya on the other. He climbs up the sleep just outside the city of Jeru salem to achieve our redemption; put ting th j jmlm of on? hand on one spik ‘ and aid putting the palm of the other hand on another spike. He stretche 1 forth His hands bespotted with His own blood and He gesticulates and says: “Look and live, look and live: with the crimson veil of rny sacrifice I will cover un all your sins; with my dying groans I will swallow up all your gn ans, look and liv. look and live.” If a man turns from that, then God*< voice changes its intonation aud it comes through the first chanter < f Proverbs like tip simoom of the desert and says: “Because I called and you refused, and streti hed out my han 1 and no man regarded, an I yet put at naught all my counsel and despised my renmof, therefore I will laugh at your ca lamity. Oh, this-day by turning unto God through Jesus Christ let us decide that wo will live forever iu the light of His smile.and c? ape foreve • the thund-u' o r ti e luu h of His indignat on Another laughter of the Bibb- and the last one I shall mention—is the Heavcnlv laugh, or th * one of eternal triumph. Christ said to his disciples: “Blessed are ye that ween now, for ye shall laugh.” That takes away the i lei that we areiorever in Heaven to lie sing ing long-moter psalms. Thu formalistic and stiff notions of some people in re card to Heaven would make mo miserable. \\ l eu (’hrist says to His d s i» las “bl ‘-se i are ye that weep now, ye shall 1 nigh,” I know that h ‘aven is not only going to be a place of worship. Imt als >a magnificent.sociability. What, will the ringirg laughter go till around th“ circles nf the re teemed * It will. Christ says so. “Ye shall lau-di.” It will be a laugh of congratulation. If we meet a friend who has met with wh it we call good fortune, and he has come from poverty to great ri hes. or ho is fr om some dire sickness, we gra«n hh hand< and we Hugh, and we congra ulato him, and wh m we get in heaven we will meet our friends who on earth had a hard time of it.and t > one of them we will sav: “Whv .the last time 1 raw you. v<> i Mere clown with six weeks of low intermittent fever. Now. how well you look. Immortal health on your cheek and eye. 1 congratulate you. ’ It will be the laugh of congiatulation. To another one we’ll we say :“1 own in the world we saw you limping along with rheumatism, now you have the strength and the tleetness of an inimurtai athlete. I congratulate you.” It will bo the laugh of congratu lation. We will meet friends who failed in business. They went from i ani • to panic and from d sister to disaster in this world, and we will mee t them there and we will congratulate them. It will Ik the laugh over th?irsuccess, and they will say: “Ye;, yea, this is my thron •. th s is mv mansii n, this is rny eormianio.i dim, this is nrv (.’heist, this is my God.” La igh of congratulation. And it will be also a laugh of reunion. The perceptions quickened, our knowl edge improved, we will know each other at a iiash. Gh, how much those who have been t*n years in heaven will have to tell us about their ten years of celestial resi dence. Oh. how much we will have to tell them about the ten years of th *ir absence from earth. And there I think George White tie d and John Wesley will give a laugh of contempt over their earthly misunderstand ings. And there I think Tonlady and Charles Wesley will give a lauch of contempt over their earthly misunderstandings. The two farmers that for twenty yeans quar relled about a lino fence, in the Inavenly country will give a laugh of c ontempt over their earthly quarrels. Ex emption fr >m all sorrow. Immersion in all joy.. We sh ill laugh. Christ says so. Wo shall laugh < )h. what a thrilling satisfaction to stand on the wall of heaven and look down at Satan and see him cag *d and chained, and fed that we are forever free from his clut-hes. Jush think of it. You knowhow the Frenchmen « h *ered m hen- Napoleon the Great came ba'*k from Elba. You know how Englishmen cheered wlu n Wellington came ba k from Waterloo. You know lu>w Amer leans cheered when Kossuth came from Hungary. You know how Rone cheered when Pompey le turned from victory over 90) cities, and every cheer was a lauah. Put oh, the grander mirth and the mightier gladness when we shall see the snow-white ca. airy troop of Ileiven moving through the streets, Christ in the red ••oat. as described in Re/elation, on a white horse riding on and all the armlo-. of Heaven on white horses. Uh. when we hear th ? click of the troops of that cavalcade we will shout and we w.ll laugh. Doesnot thi< sub ject, men and women immortal, make your heart b *at quick with joy. because so soon we are to enter that great jubilee* We prav God that when we get through M ith this m < rid and are going t> leave it we may have sum ‘thing of the belief of the dying C hristian who said be saw in the sky at tl e time he Mas dying the letter “W,”and jM*ople standing by his dying bed said, “u hat do you suppose it means,’’ after ho had tol I them he had seen the tetter “W.” “Well,” ho said, “it can mean only one thing, ‘W’ stands for ‘welcome.’”, Anl so when mo leave this world may it be “W” in the sky an 1 “W” at the door of the mansion, and “W” on the throne. Welc >me, wel ome, welcome'” I preach this sermon this morning because I have five prayerful wishes—that you mav «*e how mean a thin® is the laugh of scepti cism, that you may see how bright a thing is the laugh of Christian exultation, that you may see how hollow a thing is the laugh of sinful mirth, that you may see how awful a thing is the laugh of God's indignation, and that you may se * what a raptnr »us and rubi cund thing i*s the laugh of eternal triumph. Oh, my Lord and my God, fill my soul with this rapture. Avoid evil. Choose the goo 1. Be comforted. Be comforted. “Blessed are ye th it weep iiom\ for ye shall laugh, ye shak laugh!” Com mi serai ion. Mrs. A—“l was reading to-day about the dreadful slaughter of our song birds. One case was where 75,000 were killed. Isn't it dreadful?” Mrs. B—“ltis, indeed. Wl.atdid they kill them for!” Mrs. A—“ The papers say they were kiitel to d< orate ladies’ hats.” \| rs< d —“Oh! well, that isn’t a great many, after all. considering how in my hats* there are in the wor.d. But is it really tr e that the b’rds are becoming s ar e? I - u ss I'd better lay in a sto k before the price goes up.”— IMon Tran- H( I'l pl. , Modesty in the Blue Grass Region. A storj’ that Jacob Twad lie, who has been blind from birth, can tell the color of a horse by the touch, comes from Steubenville, Ohio, and is marked ’ relia ble” by the newspapeis which print it. A blind citizen of Hart county can tc’.l the color of a man’s nose by srne’ling the cork to the family jug. but a Kent ickian never thinks of rushing into print, with these little things.—Cummer •i/A. 1 am not in favorof writing obituaries. In my mind they are fooli h. Uo*kl people do not need them, and bad ones do not deserve them. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. The steady shrinkage of glaciers in the Swiss Alps has caused severe losses to many of the peasantry by the drying up of pastures formerly moistened by glacial rills. Rain water is stored in the moss mid herbage of the woods, to be consumed by the vegetation during the dry season. A striking illustration of this fact is given in a forest on the western coast of the Caspian sea, where the vegetation is very luxuriant, although it never rains except in the fall and winter. A remarkable variation has been ' ob served in the stature or the inhabitants ot France. If .a line be drawn diagon ally across the country from Manche to Lyons, the people of the northeast of the division have an average height of five feet 6.6 inches, while those on the south west side average only five fevt 4.6 inches. A French scientist has propounded a new theory of the formation of coal. II« believes it is produced by the sinking of floating islands like those which now oc cur on many lakes and rivers, and which are conspicuous on the Upper Nile. These islands are composed chiefly of turf, which, being swallowed up by the water, becomes fossilized at the bottom. The lowest temperature at which the seeds of common cultivated plants germ inate has been determined by Mons. Ih-ll riegel. Barley and oats were found to start in soil having a temperature of 35 degrees; rye and winter wheat at 32 de grees; Indian corn at. 48 degrees; the turnip at 32 degrees; flax at 35 degrees; I the pea and clover at 35 degrees; the bean and lupin at 38 degrees; asparagus nt 35 degrees; the carrot at 38 degrees; find the beet at 40 degrees. Prol. Germain See, the eminent French physiologist, declares that man is omniv orous, and is destined to live on the ele ments furnished by the three kingdoms of nature. He cannot mainta n robust health on moat alone as food, nor can lie live on vegetables alone. The practice I of pure vegetarianism is simply impos- 1 sible, and the so-called vegetarians nre compelled to make up the deficiency in their food by consuming a quantity of such animal substances as milk, eggs and butter. From the mineral kingdom must be had pure water, which can be replaced by no other fluid. “Taking the greatest depth of the J ocean as five miles and the height of the highest mountain as five miles above the level of the sea,” says the Engineer, “and remembering that the globe itself has a I diameter of 8000 miles, the comparative insignificance of all the surface inequal ities of the earth is at once forced on our attention, but it is better seen if we tfike a circle sixty-six feet in diameter, having on its surface a depression of one inch, or a globe one foot in diameter with a groove on its surface one-sixteenth of an inch in depth, which would represent on a true scale the greatest inequality of mountain height and ocean deep on the surface of the earth.” Origin of the Whale. Professor Flower remarked, pertinent ly to a description by Dr. Struthere in the biological section of the British asso ciation, of the Tay whale, that the whale carried its pedigree on its own body and iu every part of its structure. It had been thought that mammals might have passed through au aquatic and marine stage before they came to the land. But observations of the anatomy of the w hale showed that this could not have been the case. There could be no question what- [ ever that the whale had been derived J from a four-footed animal. It was a ■haracteristic of a mammal to have a hairy covering. Whales were at one time thought to be an exception, but it was shown, in almost every one that had been examined, that at some period of its life it must have had a a rudimentary covering, which was gen erally fonnd in the neighborhood of the upper lip; that covering was functionlesa and often lost before birth. Another re markable feature was the teeth. All these whales were furnished w ith a set of teeth, rudimentary but complete, and not characteristic of the fish, but of a more completely developed land mammal. 'l’hese teeth entirely vanished at an early period, sometimes before birth; and they were entirely funetionless. A Mother’s Sacrifice. “Now, Eliza, listen to me and pay at tention, for on these few words may do jend your future happiness.” “Yes, ma.” “When Henry comes this evening anc you pass him the pie, watch his couiite- Jance closely.” “Yes, mu." “If be trembles with joy, ask him how be lik<-s your cookery. But if he shud ders, just mention casually that you.' jiother always attends to the pastry.” “Oh, ma! how kind of you.” “Don't mention it. He will hate me, kut when I livc»with you after mvrriag ill jvill be explained.” -Call. Floral. “Maud, dear, why is a gardener UP your cheeks?” “No, John! you know I never Cfti juess conundrums. 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