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am in VOL. 29. ,?no:i. PULASKI, TENN., JHURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1887. THE LASKS V fv- i - 11 1-J - f (I! 'f:! 0 it' THE FLYING YEARS. REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE'S NEW YEAR SERMON. iVe Should Not Measure Our Year by Our Sorrows, but by Our Joys For One Stalk of Klghtshado there aro Fifty Blooming Marigolds and Harebells. Erookltn, Jan. 1. This morning at the taliemacle tho llev. T. Do Witt Talmage, D. D., expounded sorao iassages of Scripture concerning the longevity of tho patriai chs. Ho gave out tho hymn beginning: My days are gliding swiftly by, Anil I, a pilgrim stranger, Would not detain them as they fly, Tilose hours of toil mid danger. His text was GetuKis, xivii, 8: "How Old Art Thou?" Tho preucher said: Tho Egyptian capital was the focus of the world's wealth. In hhips and barges there had boon brought to it from India frankin cense, and cinnamon, and ivory and dia monds; from tho north, marble and iron; from Syria, purple and silk; from Greece, some of tho finest horses of the world, and some of tho most brilliant charioti, and from all Uo earth that which could best pleasa the eye, and charm the ear, and gratify the taste. There were temples aflame with rdd sand Btono, entered by tho gateways that were guarded by pillars bewildering with hiero gly. hies, and wound with brazen serpents, and adorned with winged creatures their eyea, ond beaks, and pinio:is glitter ing with precious stones. There were, marble columns blooming into white. Dower beds; there wore stone pillars, ut ile top bursting into the shajm of tho lotu ben in full bloom. Along tho avenues, ed with sphinx and fano and obeli.sk, there were princes who came in gorgoously uphol itered palanquin, carried by servants in scar let, or elsewhere drawn by vehicles, the snow white horses, golden-bitted and six abreast, dashing at full run. There wero fountains from stone wreathed vases climb ing the ladders of the light. You would hear a bolt shove and a door of brass would open like a flash of tho sun. The surrounding gardens were saturated with odoi-3 that mounted the terrace and drippel from the arbors, and burned their iiiecjtsc in the Egyp tian noon. On floors of mosaic the glories ot Pharaoh were spelled out in letters of porphyry and beryl and flame. There were ornaments twisted from the wood of tam arisk, embossed with silvor, breaking into foam. There were footstools ina.de out of a single precious stone. There were beds fash ioned out of a crouched lion in bronze. There were chairs spotted with tho sloek hides of leopards. There were sofas footed with the claws of wild beasts and armed with the beaks of birds. As you stand on the level beach of the sea on a summer day and look eithor way and there are miles of breakers, white with tho ocean foam, dashing shore ward; so it seemed as if the sea of the world's pomp and wealth in the Egyptian capital for miles and miles flung itself up into white breakers of marble temple, mauso leum and obelisk. It was to this capital ond the palace of Pharaoh that Jacob, the plain shepherd, came to meet his son Joseph, who had become prima minister in the royal apartment Pha raoh and Jacob meet, dignity and rusticity, the gracefulness of the court and the plain tnannei-s of tho field. The king, wanting to make the old countryman at ease, ami seeing bow white his beard is and how feeble his step, looks familiarly into his face and says to the aged man: "How old art thou?" Night before last the gate of eternity opened to let in, amid the groat throng of de parted centuries, the soul of the dying year. Under the twelfth stroke of the brazen ham mer of the city clock the patriarch fell dead, and the stai-s of the night were the funeral torches. It is most fortunate that on this road of life there are so many milestones, on which we can read Just how fast we are going toward the journey's end. I fool that it is not an inappropriate question that I ask to-day when I look into your faces and say, as rha raoh did to Jacob, the patriarch: "How old art thou?" People who are truthful on every other subject, lie about their uges, so that I do nob solicit from you any literal response to the question I have asked. I would put no one under temptation; but I simply want, this morning, to soe by what rod it is we aro measuring our earthly existence. There is a. right way and a wrong way of measuring a door, or a wall, or an arch, or a tower, and bo there is a right way and a wrong way of measuring our earthly existence. It is with reference to this higher meaning that I con front you, this morning, with tho stupendous question of the text, and ask: "How old art thou?"" ,' Thero are many who estimate-their lifo by mere worldly gratification. When Lord Dundas was wished a happy New Year, ho said: "It will have to be a happier year than the past, fair I hadn't one happy moment in all the twelve months that have gone." But that has not been the experience of most of us. W e have found that though the world is . -lasted with t,ui, it "-yery bright and benu iful place to reside in. We have had joys numerable. There is no hostility between " ae gospel and the merriments and tho festiv Ities ot life. I do not think that we fully i enough appreciate the worldly pleasures God f gives us. When you recount your enjoy ments, you do not go far enough back. W hy dv you KO back to the time when you were an infant ia your mother's arms, look ing np into the heaven of her smile; to those days when you filled the house with the uproar of boisterous merriment; when you shouted as you pitched the ball on the play ground; when, on the -cold, sharp winter . night, muffled up, on skates you shot out over the resounding ico of the pond? Have you forgotten all thoso good days that the Lord gave youf Were you nover a boy? Were you nover a girl? Between those times and this, how many mercies, how many kind nesses the Lord has bestowed upon you. How many joys have breathed up to you from the flowers, and shone down to you from the stars, and chanted to you with tho voice of soaring bird, and tumbling cascade, and booming sea, ond thunders that with bayo nets of fire charged down the mountain sidel Joy! Joy! Joy? If there is any one who has a right to the enjoyments of the world it is tho Christian, for God has given him a lease to everything in the promise: "All are yours." But I have to tell you that a man who estimates his life on earth by mere worldly gratification is a most unwise man. Our life is not to be a game of chess, it is not a dance in lighted hall, to quick u!o. It is not the froth of an ale pitcher. s not the settlings of a wine cup. It is not banquet with intoxication and roystering. ft, is the first step on a ladder that mounts Xinto tho skies. Or the first step on a road that 1 LI" I J,' J tl.wr au. a ' ....... world we are only keying up the harp of a rapture, or forging the chain of a bondage. And standing before you, to-day, with life on the one side and death on the other; song n the one side and groaning on the other; mansions on the one side and dungeons on the ther; heaven on the one side and hell on the other 1 put to you the question of the text: "How old art thou?" Towards what destiny .51 3 i" I fi ! ! 2 ? I . - --2 imm i $HS 11 f i ! M J f i 3 f Si tiff !j fl m Jff i I If I! 1 1 i p I M 11 IsmM if JHU h'--oLv I v Jf2 f sllIgIJI' -fl fa ii IT? i;sSrf !lgL3llf are yon tending, and how fast are you get ting on towards it? Again, I remark that there are many who estimate their lifo on oarth by thcirEorrow and tbrir misfortunes. Through a great many of four lives the ploughshare hath gone very deep, turning up a terrible furrow. You havo been betrayed and misrepresented, and set upon, and slapped of impertinence, and pounded of misfortune. The brightest lifo must have its shadows, and the smoothest path its thorns. On tho happiest brood the hawk pounces. No escape from trouble of somo kind. While glorious John Milton was losing his eyesight he heard that Salmasius was glad of it. While Sheridan's comedy was being enacted in Drury Lane theatre, Cum berland, his enemy, sat growling at it in the stage box. While Bishop Cooper was sur rounded by tho favor of learned men his wife took his lexicon manuscript, the result of a long life of anxiety and toil, and threw it into the fire. Misfortune, trial, vexation for al most every one. Pope, applauded of all tho world, hau a stoop in the shoulder that annoys him so much that ho has a tunnel dug, so that be may go unobserved from garden to grotto o-cd from grotto- to garden. Cano, the famous Spanish artist, is disgusted with the crucifix that the priest holds before him, because it is such a poor speci men of culture. And so, sometimes through tasto and sometimes through learned menace, and sometimes through physical distresses aye, in ten thousand ways, troubles come to harass and annoy. And yet it is unfair to measure a man's life by bis misfortunes, be cause where thore is one stalk of nightshade there are fifty marigolds and harebells.; where thero is ono cloud thunder charged there are hundreds that stray across the heavens, the glory of land and sky asleep in their bosom. Because death came and took your child away, did you immediately forget all the five years, or the ten years, or the fifteen years in which she came every night for a kiss, all tho tones of your heart pealing forth at the sound of her voice or the soft touch of hor hand? Became in some financial Euroclydon your fortune went into the breakers, did you for get all those years in which the luxuries and extravagances of life showered on your path way Alas I that is an unwise man, an un grateful man, an unfair man, an uupliilo. sophie man. and, most of all, an unchristian man, who measures his life cn earth hy groans and teal's, and dyspeptic fit and abuso, and scorn and terror, and neuralgic thrust. Again, I remark that there aro many people who estimate their life on earth by the amount of money they have accumulated. They say: "The year 1806, or 1870, or 18S0 was wasted." Why? Made no money. Now, it is all cant and insincerity to talk against money as though it had no value. It is re finement, and education, and ben thousand blessed surroundings. It is the spreading of the table that feeds your children's hunger. It is the lighting of the furnace that keeps you warm. It is the making of the bed on which you rest from care and anxiety. It is the carrying out at last of you to decent sepulture, and the putting up of the slab, on which is chiseled the story of your Christian hope. It is simply hypocrisy, this tirade in pulpit and lecture hall, against money, as though it had no uses. It is hands, and feet, and sails, and ten thousand grand and glorious enterprises. But while all this is so, he who uses money, or thinks of money as anything but a means to an end, will find out his mistake when the glittering treasures slip out of his nerveless grasp, and he goes out of this world without a shilling of money or a certificate of stock. He might better have been the Christian porter that opened bis gate or the begrimed workman who last night heaved the coal into his cellar. 3onds and mortgages and leases havo their use, but they make a poor yardstick with which to measure life. They that boast them selves in their wealth, and trust on the multi tude of their riches, none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him, that he should not see cor ruption. "Wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to ot liars. " But I remark: There are many I wish there were more who estimate their life by their moral and spiritual development. It is not sinful egotism for a Christian man to say : "I am purer than I used to be. I am more Consecrated to Christ than I used to be. J have got over a great many of tho bad habits in which I used to indulge. I am a great deal better man than I used to be." There is no sinful egotism in that. It is not base ego tism for a soldier to say : "I know more about military tactics than I used to before I took a musket in my hand, and learned to 'present arms,' and when I was a pest to the drilling officer." It is not base egotism for a sailor to say: "I know how better to clew down the mizzentopsail, than I used to before I had ever seen a ship." And there is no sinful egotism when a Christian man, fighting the battles of the Lord, or if you will have it, voyaging towards a haven of eternal rest, says: "I know more about spiritual tactics, and about voyaging towards heaven, than I used to." Why, there are those in this pres ence who have measured lances with many a foe, and unhorsed it. There aro Christian men hero, who havo become swarthy by hammering at the forgo of calamity. They stand on an entirely different plane of character from that which they once oc cupied. They are measuring their life on earth by golden gated Sabbaths, by pente costal prayer meetings, by communion tables, by baptismal fonts, by hallelujahs in the tcmpla They have stood on Sinai and heard it thunder. They have stood on I'isgah and looked over into tho Promised Land. They have stood on Calvary and seen the cross bleed. They, can, like Paul the Apostle, write on their heaviest troubles "light," and "but for a moment." Tho darkest night their soul is irradiated, as was the night over Bethlehem, by the faces of those who have come to proclaim glory and good cheer. They are only waiting for the gate to open, and the chains to fall off, and the glory to begin. I remark again : There are many and I wish there wero more who are estimating life by the amount of good they can do. John Brad ford said he counted that day nothing at all in which he had not, by pen or tongue, done some good. If a man begin right, I cannot tell how many tears he may wipe away, how many burdens ho may lift, bow many orphans he may comfort, how many outcasts he may reclaim. There havo been men who have given their whole life in the right direction, concentrating all their wit and ingenuity, and mental acumen, and physical force and enthusiasm for Christ. Thsy climed the mountain, and delved into the mine, and crossed the sea, and trudged the desert, and dropped at last into martyrs' graves, waiting f or the resurrection of tho just. They measured their lives by tho chains thoy broke off, by tho garments they put upon nakedness, by the miles they traveled to alleviate every kind of suffering. They felt in the thrill of every norve, in the motion of every muscle, in every throb of their heart, in every respiration cf their lungs, the magnificent truth: "No man liveth for himself." They went through cold and through heat, foot blistered, cheek smitten, back scourged, tempest lashed, to do their whole duty. That, is the way they measured life by the amount of good they could do. Do you want to know bow old Luther was; how old Richard Bax mi MMlM MM i 1 I. m m l I iiiiiimp m MiwMMiMMlMMMMMMWBM,MMIMIlMMSSSSSSSSSSSSSSWMllSnflSSgSSMMnSSMSMSSnWW ImiSiIimSr Mlllll i I PlIUHlBII M I SMfBSTT BMMHHSMSMBHMSMHIIMaMMH ter was; how , old Philip Doddridge Wast Why, you cannot calculate the length of j thoir lives by any humaa arithmetic. Add j to their lives ten thousand times ten thousand j years and you havo net expressed it what they have lived or will live O, what a standard that is to measure a man's lifo by! There aro thoso in this house who think they have only lived thirty years. They will have lived a thousand they have lived a thousand. Thero are those who think they are eighty years of ago. They have not even entered upon their infancy, for ono must become a babe in Cln-ist to begin at alb , Now, I do not know what your advantages or disadvantages are; I do not know what your tact or talent is; I do not know what may be tho fascination of your manners or tho repulsivenoss of them; but I know this i There i3 for you, my hearer, a field to culture, a harvest to reap, a tear to wipe away, a soul to save. If you have worldly means, conse crate them to Christ. If you have eloquence, use it on the sido that Paul and Wilberf oroo used theirs. If you have learning, put it all into the poor box of the world's suffering. But if you have none of these neither wealth, nor eloquence, nor learning you at any rate havo a smile with which you can encourage the disheartened, a frown with which you may blast injustice, a voice with which you may call the wanderer bck to God. "Oh," you say, "that is a very sanctimonious view of lifol" It is not. It is the only bright viuw of life, and it is tho only bright view of death. Contrast the death scene of a man who has measured life by the worldly stand ard with the death scene of a mun who has measured lifo by the Christian standard. Quinn, the actor, in his . last moments said: "I hope this tragic scene will soon be over, and I hope to keep my dignity to the Jast." Malherbo said in his last mo ments to bis confessor: "Hold your tongue! Your miserable style puts mo out of conceit with heaven." Lord Chesterfield in his last moments when ho ought to have been pray ing for his soul, bothered himself about the proprieties of tho sick room and said: "Give Day boles a chair." Godfrey Kneller spent his last hours on earth in drawing a diagram of his own monument. Compare the silly and horrible departure of such men with the seraphic glow on the face of Edward Payson, as he said in his Jast moments: "The breezes of heaven fan me, J flpat in ft sea of glory." Or, with Paul the Apostle, who said in bis last hour: "I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have kept the faith. . Henceforth, there js laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lexd, the righteous judge, will give ma" Or cwuare it with the Christian death bed that you witnessed in your own household. Oh, my friends, this World is a false god I It will consume you with the blaze in which it accepts your sacrifice, while the righteous shall bo held in everlasting re membrance; and when the thrones have fallen, and the monuments have crumbled, and the world baa perished, they shall ban quet with the conquerors of earth and the hierarchs of heaven. This is a good day in which to begin a new style of measurement. How old art thoui You soe the Christian way of measuring life and the worldly way of measuring it 1 leave it to you to say which is the wisest and best way. The wheei of time has turned very Swiftly, and it has hurled us on. The old' year has gone. The new yearfcas come. For what you and I have been launched upon it, God only knows. Now let me ask you all: Have you made any preparation for the future? You have made preparation for time, my dear brother; have you made any preparation for eternity! Do you wonder than when that man on the Hudson river, in indignation, tore up the tract which was handed 1 him, and just one word landed on bis coat sleeve the rest of the tract being' pitched into the river, that one word aroused his soul It was that oue word, so long, so broad, so high, so deep, eternity! A dying woman, in her last mo menta, said: "Call it back!" They said What do you wau..' "Time," she saidrl J ' I "call it back 1" Oh, it cannot be called back I We might lose our fortunes ond poll them back ; we might lose our health and perhaps recover it; we might lose our good name and get that back; but time gone is gone for ever. Some of you, during the past year, mads preparation for eternity, and it makes no dif ference to you really, as to the matter of safety, whether you go now or go some other yeor whether this year or the next year. Both your feet on the rock, the waves may dash around you. You can say: "God is our refuge and strength a very present help." You are on the rock, and you may defy all earth and hell to overthrow you. I congratu late you. I give you great joy. It is a happy New Year to you. I can see no sorrow at all in the fact that our years are going. You hear some people gay: "I wish I could go back again to boy hood. " J would not want to go back again to boyhood. I am afraid Tmight make a worse life out of it than I have niade.' You could not afford to go back to boyhood if it were possible. You might do a great deal worse than you have done. The past is gone Look out for the future! To all Christians, it is a time of gladness. I am glad the years are going. You are com ing on nearer home. Let your countenance light up with the thought. Nearer home. Now, when one can sooner get to the center of things, is he not to be congratulated? Who wants to be always in the freshman class? We study God in this world by the biblical photograph of Him; but we all know we can in five minutes of interview with a friend get more accurate idea of him than we can by studying him fifty years through pictures or words. The little child that died at 6 months of age knows more of God than all Andover, and all Princeton, and all New Brunswick, and all Edinburgh, and all the theological institutions in Christendom. Is ii not better to go up to the very headquarters of knowledge? Does not our common sense teach us that it is better to be at the center than to be clear out on the rim of the wheel, holding nervous ly fast to the tire lest we bo suddenly hurled into light and eternal felicity? Through all kinds of optical instruments trying to peer in through the cracks and the keyholes of heaven afraid that both doors of the celes tial mansion will be swung wide open before our entranced vision rushing about among the apothecary shops of this world, wonder ing if this is good for rheumatism and that is good for neuralgia, and something else is good for a bad cough, lest we be suddenly ushered into a land of everlasting health where the inhabitant never says: "I am sick." What fools we all are to prefer the circum ference to the center. What a dreadful thing it would be if wo should be suddenly ushered from this wintry world into the May-time or chards of heaven, and if our pauperism of sin and sorrow should be suddenly broken up by a presentation of an emperor's castle sur rounded by parks with springing fountains and paths, up and down which angels of God walk two and two. We are like persons standing on the cold steps of the National picture gallery in Lon don, under umbrellas, in the rain, afraid to go in amid the Turners, and the Titians, and the Raphaels. I come to them and say: "Why don't you go inside the gallery?" "Oh," they say, "we dont know whether we can get in!" I say, "Dont you see the door is open?" "Yes," they say, !but we have been so long on these cold steps, we are so attached to them we don't like to leave. "But," I say, "it is so much brighter and more beautiful in the gallery, you had better go in." "No," they say, "we know exactly how it is out here, but W6 don't know how it is in thore." Oh, let us be glad that we are one year nearer the scene that explains all and irradiates all! In 1835 the French resolved that at. Ghent they would have a kind of musical demon stration that bad never been heard of. It would be made up of the chimes of bells and the discharge of cannon. The experiment was a perfect success. What with the ring ing of the bells and the report of the ordnance, the city trembled and the hills shook with the triumphal march that was as strange as it was overwhelming. With a more glorious accompaniment will God's dear children go into their high "" residence, when the trumpets shall sound and the last day has come. At he signal given, tho bells of the towers, ond of the lighthouses, and of the cities, will strike their sweetness into a last chime that shall ring into the heavens and float off upon the sea, joined by the boom of bursting mine and magazine, augmented by all the cathe dral towers of heaven the harmonies of earth and the symphonies of the celestial realm making up one great triumphal march, fit to celebrate the ascent of the redeemed to where they shall shine as the stars for ever and for ever. With such anticipations, we can look back without a singlo regret upon the flying years, and forward with exulta tion to the time when the archangel, with one foot on the sea and the other foot on the land, shall swear by Him that liveth for ever and ever, that time shall be no longer. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Farmers on the Pacific coast are busily en gaged in plowing. A board of trade will shortly be established Jn the city pf Chihuanua,""iIexicQ. Tho failure of Campanini's vpico is said to be owing to his indulgence in whisky and seltzer. It is alleged that parties in Oregon are can ning dog salmon, which are worthless. An Oregon paper mill gets paper stock and jute butts from Calcutta for the manufacture pi manilla paper. The bachelors at Ltlo, Neb., have a club, and they wear safety pins f or badges?. Some New Yorkers are preparing to estab lish coffee houses upon the model of those in London. Several influential Georgia citizens are mak ing an effort to have the legislature establish a state labor bureau. The Canadian papers predict an enormous emigration of young men and tenant f armers from the old country to the Dominion. A farmer of Now Hope, Cal, who planted 600 acres in potatoes has had such an abundant crop that he calculates it will yield him The Scotch shawl, instead of OTercoat, and the Highland cap and streamers make a fash ionable costnume worn by some New York society young men. The publishers of The Century Magazine say that the sales of that periodical have in creased over 30,000 copies a month since the life of Lincoln was begun. M, Galignani's home for broken down men pf letters is nearly completed, and this leads to the inquiry, Who wants to found a home for American poets? A perfectly white buzzard is the curiosity of which Union Springs, Ala., boasts, and the residents of that town are so proud of it that no one will shoot at it. Jay Cooke, who is now 65 years old, is still an active and energetic worker. He has an pt&ca in Philadelphia directly over the bank which' he conducted during the war. Consumptives will think twice before seek- taS a curo m tha glorious climate of Cali- ; 1 4.1 .1 4.1 t. o -i j fornia, when they read that an 8-year-old child died at Vallejo a few days ago of con munption. The North Star Toboggan club, of Grand Forks, D. T., claim to have the longest arti ficial slide in the world. The trestle is 900 feet long, with a fall of 20 feet in 100 for the first 800 feet A Fagillst's Objection. Some recent denunciations of pugilism have revived in print the speech John L. Sullivan made when the authorities of i.'ew York city interfered with bis joint debate wih Paddy Ryan: "The dudes lay each other up playing football, and the women go out and watch 'em pound each other. They killed two jockeys in pne week at the Brighton Beach races; but the man thai I licked tla woi'st in Madison Square garden was around drinking run the same evening as chipper as a bull terrier. It ain't a square deal. Chicago Tribune. A Curious Sponge. At Apalachicolo, Fla., is on exhibition a curiosity in the shape of a sponga There are fifteen prongs of hollow sponga reaching put like the arms of a devilfish in every conceiv able direction from the coned-shape natural stand of cpral upon which the main body of tho sponge rests, and there are fine particles of coral in each arm or sucker, leading many to suppose from its appearance that if lelt alone these arms would eventually have petri fied and perhaps turned to coral. Chicago Times. Collision Proof Railway Car. A patent has been obtained by a gentleman of San Francisco for what is claimed to be a fire and collision proof railway car. It is made wholly of iron and steel, and the weight will range from sixteen tq twenty tons for ordinary passenger coaches, mid from twenty-two to twenty-five tons for sleepers. The floor is a single sheet of metal, and the roof also a single sheet The beams are of rplled steel. Chicago Herald. Through a Snow File, Up on the Elkhorn valley road, during the big drifts of the late storm, an engineer says he took a mile a minute, shoot at a huge snow pile and dug a hole through it without jar ring bis headlight Stopping at the next sta tion he found the engine's front and sides coated with blood and hair. An investiga tion showed that sixteen head of cattle had been snowed in and ten of them were killed. Chicago Herald, London's Jubilee Tower. f.' It is intended to construct a largo tower in London in commemoration of the jubilee year ot Queen Victoria's reign. This tower is to be 410 feet high at the extreme top, from which may bo seen eight or nme coun ties. It will overlook every other structure yet built in London. It is proposed to set the structure at the top of Oxford street, where the ground lies high. New York Sun. a Heroie Dissipation Young men who do not belong to tha idle class, and yet will go to balls and parties, "turn in" directly after dinner, sleep tUI 11, then take a "bawth," dress and appear on the field of battle at 1 2 as fresh as daises. This is what I call heroic dissipation. Cor. Boston Herald. HOW TO EAT WISELY. What Food Is Best Tho Three Great Sources of MiHcUief Meals. As a universal rule in health, and with very rare exceptions in disease, that is best to be eaten which the ai etite craves or the taste relishes. 'Persons rarely err in the quality of food eaten; nature's instincts are the wisest regulators in this respect The great souraes of mischief from eating are three quantity, frequency, rapidity, and from these come the horrible dyspepsias which make of human life a burden, a torture, a living death. By eating fast, tho stomach, like a bottle being filled through a funnel, is full and overflowing before we know it But the most important reason is, the food is swallowed before time has been allowed to divide it in sufficiently small pieces with the teeth; for, like ice in a tumbler of water, the smaller the bits are the sooner they are dis solved. It has been seen with the naked eye that if solid food is cut up in pieces small as half a pea, it digests almost as soon, without being chewed at all, as -if it had been well masticated. The best plan, therefore, is for all persons to thus comminute their food, f o even if it is well chowed the comminution is no injury, whilo it is of very great import ance in case of hurry, forgetfulness or bad teeth. Cheerful conversation prevents rapid eat ing. It requires about five hours for a com mon meal to dissolve and pars out of the stomach, during which time this organ is in cessantly at work, when t must have repose, as any other muscla or set of muscles, after such a length of effort Hence persons should not eat within less than a five-hours' interval The heart itself is at rest more than one-third of its time. The brain perishes without re pose. Never force food on the stomach. All are tired wheij pigh,t comes. Every muscle of the body is weary' and looks to the bed; but just as we lie down to rest every other part of the body, if we by o hearty meal give the stomach five hours' work, which in its weak state requires a much longer time to perform than at an earlier hour of the day, it is like imposing upon a servant a full day's labor just at the close of a hard dky 's work. Hence the unwisdom of eating heartily late in the day or evening; and no wonder it has cost many a man his life. Always breakfast before work or exercise. No laborers or active persons should eat an atom later than sundown, and then it should not be over half the midday meal. Persons of sedentary habits or who are at all ailing should take 'absolutely nothing for supper be yond a single piece Of cold stale bread and butter, or a ship biscuit with a single cup of warm drink. Such a supper will always give better, sleep and prepare for a heartier break fast, with the advantage of having the exer cise of the whole day to grind it up and ex tract its nutriment Never eat without an inclination, Hall's J ournal pf Health. ' Coffee Taverns in New York. There has been a good deal of talk lately about setting up coffee taverns in New York on the plan now common in London. None of the papers seem to be aware that our Ger man fellow citizens have been a good many years ahead of us in this commendable, work. Ever since I owned my own time iu New York I have been familiar with certain cozy quarters over on the east side, where, at the price of a dime one may linger an afternoon away over a cup of coffee and more papers and magazines than one can get through by the hardest kind of reading. Thousands of men who never enter the beer shop while away their evenings in these places. Chess or dominoes help literature to eke the enter tainment; out, and one can munch cake or biscuit or bread and cheese, if one is hungry. The same sort of places in other sections of the town would undoubtedly gather a profit able clientele. But, like these, they must be attractive in appearance and comfortable in their appointments. The handicap to philan thropic experiments of this brder with us is that we make them ugly and cheap looking. Men do not like to be reminded that they are regarded as too poor to have any elegance wasted on them. You must give them as cheery a welcome as the barroom does if you want to convert them to coffee. Alfred Trumble in New York News. A Story Without Endj We are half a mind to begin to write a story that may never end, founded on facts that are ever obvious. Hippodromus, taking his morning walk in the streets of Lucignano, comes upon Theodectes, a laborer, and says to him: "Why are you always ot work?" Theodectes answers: "I am always at work to get money to buy food to give me strength to do more work that I may get more money to buy more food to get more strength to do more work to get more money to buy more food to get more strength to do more work to get more money to buy" Tais is the be ginning of the story without end, and the Lfacts on which it is founded, they are with out end also. Winsted (Conn.) Press. A Mechanic's Success. Some years ago & mechanic near New Haven was riding in a railway train and was jolted and jarred as in the early days of travel passengers were apt to be. He didn't fret and fume as the other passengers did, but began to study and experiment with a view to making a spring that would reduce the jolting to a minimum. He at last suc ceeded, and his spring was adopted by every railroad in the country. He is no longer a poor young mechanic. - His name is Carlos French, and he has just been elected to con gress from the New Haven district From "Lobbyist to Porter. Pinckney Robertson, a bright mulatto, who during reconstruction day in South Car olina was a power in politics there, and, while lobbying at the state capital, held four dif ferent clerkships, each one paying him $6 a day, is now a porter in Atlanta at $1 a week. New York Sun. The Once Famous Singer, It was reported that Alice Oates, the once famous comic opera singer, is dying in want in Philadelphia, but this story is denied. Al though she will not probably live long, she is surrounded with every comfort and has many friends to care for her. New York Graphic. A Ballad Composer. "Harrison Millard, the ballad composer, says The New York Sun, "is frequently seen at the 'at homes' of ladies who hold weekly gatherings. Ho is a tall, well built man, with grayish hair, and is celebrated for a rather languid manner that many young men envy." A Canine Candidate. Campbell county, Dakota, politicians will set up a better class of candidates next time. An intelligent pointer dog run by tho indig nant citizens on an independent ticket lacked only three votes of being elected district at torney, Chicago Herald. A Snnken Treasure. Twenty-one years ago tho steamer Brother Jonathan went down ou the Oregon coast with $2,000,000 in specie on board. Various unsuccessful efforts have been made to get the money, and now another effort on an elaborate scale is to be made. CURIOUS ELECTRICAL PHENOMENON. A Strange Meteorological Occurrence In Venezuela An Official's Account. Tho following brief account of a recent strange meteorological occurrence may be of interest to your readers as an addition to tho list of electrical eccentricities: During the night of the 24th of October last, which was rainy and tempestuous, a family of nine persons, sleeping in a hut a few leagues from Maracaibo, wero awakened by a loud humming" noise and a vivid daz zling light, which brilliantly illuminated tha interior of the house. The occupants, completely terror stricken. and believing, as they relate, that tho end of the worldtfcad come, threw themselves on their knees and commenced to pray, but their devotions were almost immediately inter rupted by violent vomitings, and extensive swellings commenced to appear in the upper part of their bodies, this being particularly noticeable about the face and lips. It is to be noted that tho brilliant light was not accompanied by a sensation of beat , d though there was a smoky appearance and a peculiar smell. The next morning the swellings had sub sided, leaving upon the face and body largo black blotches No special pain was felt until the ninth day, when tho skin peeled off, and these blotches were transformed into virulent raw sores. The hair of the head fell off upon the side wliich happened to be uudernealh when the phenomenon occurred, tiie same sido of the body being, in all nine :ses, the more seri ously injured. The remarkable part cf the occurrence is that the bouse was uninjured, all doors and windows being closed at the time. No trace of lightning-could afterward be observed in any part of tbe building, and all the sufi'erers unite in saying that there was ho detonation, but only the loud humming already mentioned. Another curious attendant circumstance is that the trees around the house showed no signs of injury until the ninth day, when they suddenly withered, almost simultan eously with the development of the sores upon the bodies of the occupants 'of the house, This is perhaps a mere coincidence, but it is remarkable that the same susceptibility to electrical effects, with the same lapse of time, should be observer in both annual and vegetable organisms. ' ' I have visited the sufferers, who are now in pne of the hospitals of this city; and al though their appearance isi , truly, horrible,' yet n is liopea that la no case wul the in juries prove fatal. Wabnm Cowgiix. U. S. Consulate, Maracaibo, Venezuela. Scientific Amecan. " Santa Barbara's Celebration. The people pf Santa Barbara, Cal., have been celebrating tbe centennial of the mission at that place. A feature of the festivity was the procession, which surpassed in pictur esque grandeur anything of the kind ever witnessed on the coast Four thousand peo ple joined in the procession, while nearly 10, 000 spectators witnessed it The procession was beaded by a band of horsemen amfoimej (tiiil tu-med similar to the Spanish cavalry of a century ago. Following were carts such as were used in early times, loaded with rude wooden plows and other implements used by the natives, and drawn by oxen. There were in the procession a number of Indians, some of whom were 80 years old, while many par ticipants were "dressed in' the Spanish cos tumes prevalent in the olden times. The pro cession represented different -stages of pro gress during the past century in dness and in, the improvements of agricultural and me chanical implements, and presented an im pressive scene. Chicago Herald. Chinese Pheasants a Pest. There is talk of introducing a bill at the next session of tho Oregon legislature to re peal the law prptecting the Chinese pheasant shipped to' this country by Judge O, N,' Denny. ' Both hunters and farmers have grievances against the foreign birds, which, they claim, are becoming a pest The former claim that the Chinese pheasants have driven all the native grouse and pheasants away, and but few can be found where a few years ago they were as thick as crows in a cornfield. The farmers say they Infest grain fields and make short work of growing crops. Cleve land Leader. Kalamazoo's Celery Business. It is reported that the celery raising busi ness, for which Kalamazoo has become famous, i3 being largely overdone there. Every inch of available marsh land has been converted into celery beds, and the search for more land continues. It is not alone tho quantity raised that hurts the business, but tbe quality, which is deteriorating on account of the anxiety of the growers to get as many stalks outhe market as possible, There .is talk of organizing an association of growers to limit the quantity and keep up the quality. New York Sun. A Practical Joke. They were laying bow mains in the town of B ' , and tho workmen had left an im mense length of pipes lying end to end in the principal street A tramp rolled one of tho pipes away from the rest and crept in to take. his night's rest Here he was discovered ty a couple of students who were passing that way in the small hours, and they rolled the pipe with its lodger back into its place. Imagine delight of tramp next morning at having to crawl the distance of about a mile lief ore emerging into the fresh air. Fliegendo Blaetter. ' - There was a Dead Silence. "A"" box of chattering young folks in the Chestnut Street opera house, the other even ing, so annoyed Miss Ward, who was playing in "Tho Queen's Favorite," that she paused, walked close to the box, and said in very sar castic tones: "Perhaps we are disturbing these ladies and gentlemen. Shall we discont tinuef ' There was a dead silence, and then the play went on. There was no more chat tering in that box that evening. New York Sun. " Discovery of a Geyser. Two hunters from the Bad Lands, D. T., report that they discovered an immense gey ser of fire about 100 miles west of Bismarck. They say that tho flames came right out of the earth and rose at least 100 feet into the air, and that the snow was melted for a quar ter of a mile around the flame, It is claimed, that there are burning coal veins underlying this section of the Bad Lands, and that they account for this fire geysw. . lloyal Newspaper Writers. The Princess Louise has made sevej(il draw ings for The Youth's Companion to illustrate an article on "Salmon Fishing on the Casca pediae," by the Marquis of Lome. ' They use the money which they receive for their work in helping poor English and Scotch families to emigrate to Canada. Brooklyn Eagle. Losses by Insects. It is estimated by thoso who have made the subject a study that the losses occasioned by insects injurious to agriculture in the United States reach tho enormous sum of $400,000,000 every year. Chicago Times. CONCERNING PROMINENT PEOPLE What the Newspapers Say of Noted Hen and Women. - , . Charles Francis Adams leaves $1,250,000. ' The president is said to receive nearly 50,- 000 letters a day. . :. . Mmo. Fatti is to be paid $150,000 for her six months' singing. . " -, Eato Field is giving elaborate dinner par ties at the Arlington, in Washington. Jesse Grant has been appointed superin tendent of the proposed Topolobaropo rail road in Mexico. lime. Nevada Palmer has become a promi nent figure in the Paris salons, and. her re-: ceptions are the rage. ' - George Alfred Townsend after dictating for some hours to a stenographer found out that the fellow was insane. '."" ; Queen Victoria has ordered a tea set of fifty pieces of Burmese ware to be made for her ly a Now Bedford, Mass,, manufacturer. Miss Catherine Impey, a prominent leader in the temperance cause in England, has been advocating tho consumption of hot lemonades in Boston. Jay Gould has bought a pew in a Presby terian church at Now York, and the para graphists are making it the subject of most of their squibs. Mr. Browning found thot the palace iq Venice which he proposed tx) purchase was iu hopelessly' bad repair, and accordingly backed out of the bargain. Mine. Boucicault, of the Bon Marcho, Paris, is the Peter Cooper of her time. She has pensioned her employes royally and distrib uted her bounty like a princess. - ' - Within the last twenty years Mr. George Washington Childs, A. M.,of Philadelphia, has presented over 200 big and. valuable Bibles to churches, schools and societies. The resemblance between Attorney General Garland and First Controller Durham is 6aid to be so great that they can be distin guished only by the different ways in which they crease their hats, , Gen. Hoke, now at the head of the now Georgia, Carolina and Northern railroed, was a major general in tho Confederate army at 27 years of age. When the war wa over he wanted to go to New York and sturt fife anew. He had no suit but his old gray uni form, and he had this dyed by an old servant, while his mother covered the buttons with pieces of an old bombazine dress. . Mesmerizing a Den of Lions. . A frightful scene has just taken place at Dijon. A mesmerist, M. Torcy, accompanied by his subject, a cataleptic young person, named Mile. Lucia, entered a cage of lions in Signor Salva's menagerie. The animals seemed at first quite stupefied on seeing strange, persons before them) but they soon began to show their molar broadsides and to prepare for action. M. Torcy lost no time, and having sent Mile. Lucia into a magnetic trance he told her to fix her gaze on the beasts and to place her arms before them, which she did with perfect impunity. She was then plunged into a catalctjc tit, her body, was. stiffened and her feet and ' legs fastened to two stools. The animals, goaded, by the keepers and by vigorous thrusts from M. Torcy's sticks, were made to jump several times over the young woman's body. This inhuman exercise was continued until Uw audience, wound up tq the highest pitch' of terror and excitement, owing to the ominous growling of the infuriated lions, cried out, "Euougb!" The three actors in this extra ordinary scene were loudly acclaimed Jjy tbf) spectators. A Cool and PI a iky Man. Albert C. Crocker, superintendent of wells for tbe Chartiers Gas company, was inspect big a well five miles from Hickory, Pa., the other evening, when there was an explosion of gas and his left foot was blown oil just above the anklo. It was pitch daikj and' no lanterns are used, about' ihe yell, so that Crocker could not see how badly he was hurt Ha found that he could not "walk, but he had no idea that his foot was off. He was assisted into a buggy and driven over the rough roods to Hickory, when it was seen that his foot was gone. By this time he had lost alincfct every drop of blood in his body, but ha was coo) and plucky j ha sent a man back for the missing foot, ordered the doctors to bind up the wound until a Pittsburg surgeon arrived, and while waiting for him quietly breathed his last . Frequency of Left-IIandcdness. Dr. Louis Jobert has published a work on the cause oud frequency pf left-handedness. No purely loft-handed race has ever been discovered, although there seems to be a dif ference in different tribes. Seventy per cent I of the inhabitants of tho Pendjab use the left nana Dy preiereuce, anu ine greater numrjer of tho Hottentots and Kushniei) of South Africa also use the left hand iu preference to the right 'Dr.. Marro, as a result of his study of criminals, has discovered that from 14 to 23 per cent of those who have been convicted of crime were left-handed, the highest ratio among people of all classes beiiij? oply pipe in tho hundred. ---Medical Record M. Pasteur's Noble Wife. M. Pasteur was tho recipient of distin guished honors in his journey to Bordighiora, where ha is to spend a few weeks In recrea tion for tho first time in nearly four years. The mayor of Nice and the Bureau de la Societo Medicalo met him at the station and presented him with a magnificent bouquet of roses. The distinguished savant replied, not in his own name, but in tha name of his wife and family, and declared that when he often flagged from overwork his wife stimulated him to pursue his scientific studies and work out the problems he had in view. Chicago 1 nbune. , Wintering Quail Several gentlemen of Maine have leased propose wintering several hundred quail to be liberated iu duierent sections of the state in the spring. The barn floor is covered with sand and gravel, in which the birds dust to keep free from virmin; trees are arranged around the walls and upper part of the barn to prevent the birds from killing' themselves by flying against the boards, and an attend ant is to feed and water the birds daily. A Tricycle for Goat. "Twenty Doctors" is the titlo of a pamphlet published in Loudon by a man who, from JS$G8 to 1885, was a cripple from rheumatic gout Ho tried nineteen doctors and experi mented with all the moans of cure or relief known to tho profession. Then came No. 20, who put him on a tricycle. He was in agony. and some of the nineteen told him that he would die. But No. 20 said," "stick," and ho stuck, and is now quite well. A good adver tisement for the tricycle makers. Mahogany in India. Mahogany is being rapidly introduced into every part of India whore it promises to thrive. The seeds sown have germinated re markably well, a single pound planted in greenhouses in the southern districts having yielded between 8,000 and 4,000 plants. It is thought quite probablo that the world may some day look to India Instead of to America for its mahogany. Beaton Transcript SOME PACTS FOR VEGETARIANS. Physical Condition of Flesh Eaters Flstk ' EaUnff. Habits of the Civilized World. A vegetable diet is 400 or 5C0 per cent chcai i er than tbe same amount of food derived from the flesh jf animals. ' . - '"" '-i ,v ? j The aliimals which for power of oiiduranc - and rapidity of. motion; are valued for .but ' service derive tie whole of their strength and nutriment frdmthe vegetable kingdom; such are the horse, the camel; tiio'elcpiiant- j lae physical condition of many flsh eatere- shows that tha blood itself is loaded with im purities and in a state of dooompositiou, and that persons .whose blood Is ia this impure i state aro liable, on very slight exposure, chill, etc., to be attacked with 'dangerous iUness. , Tlmtthiscondition is caused by flesh eating is' shown from the fact that it is quickly changed by the adoption of a vegetable diet . , ' The fleth eating habits of the so-called civ ilized world render necessary tho stttins i apart of a whole class of men for tha per formance of the degrading and brutal izinjr oiHoe of slaughtering animals for food. ? ; Were it not for the larire quantities of veg etables consumed by flesh eaters disease would ensuo in every case. Vegetables suppSy tho salts of the blood. , The peasantry of all nations abstain from animal food wholly or in part from Neces sity. Their vigor 1s greater than thut of any other class in every country. , Meat js the moat costly of all foods, and i among civilized races tho struggle for lit rages to so fearful an extent that human beings shorten life by tho effort they make to' save it. i Tho average age of man should be a cent ury. Tho majority of human beiiigsdie before they are half as old. The longest lived lire those who feed on cereals, ;' . . , - i V egetarian diet, by contributinz to tha physical health of man, improves likewise bis moral condition, besides conducing in no small degree to the healthy development of tue intellectual faculties; since it must nat urally follow that by" rendering tho instru ment wear anii pure, the acts of lifo will bo materially elevated, also being identified with that which is" clear and pure. Laura O. Hol lo way ia "Buddhists' Diet Book." ! .. . Railroading In Muxico. , ' ' The expenses of railroading in the hot cli mate of Mexico aro great Wooden ties have but a short life, cracking in the dry season and rotting during th,p rainy months;. bridge timbers and piles also wear out: rapidly. rrvint oars -must be pointed -frequently to prevert drying and cracking, and oven tha substantial Pullman cars shrivel under this exposure. Fuel constitutes a largo item of outlay. Mesquite roots are burned on the Central road ;- pine cut along ta route is used on the Interoceanioj aiyl Hbe Vara Cruz com pany feeds tie engines on coal blocks that -are brought from Wales as ballast The decay of ties will in time necessitate a serious outlay on the Central road, for wooden sleepers cost here $1 each. It is evident that iron ties are a necessity iu Mexico, and they are hist wil ing into use. The climate. tyivXs to preserve tho rails ami Jron, bridges, provided the latter b&sapo the torrents of the rainy season. ' ; J " Engineers command better wases here than they do in the United States, for -only that lnuuceuient brings them iiern. The cnernl staffs of the road are also vwll- paid, but tha section handswljQ are peons, work for small wages, Tho natural and projier tendency dn all the roads is to employ Mexicans when t ho right men can be obtained. This, policy helps to protect tho property c ouMdo lor porations doing business hero. Springfield . 1 , . .W i .. . How Death May Come. As tho great physiologist Bichat observed many years ago, death may como nt last n any one of three different ways: By failura of the heart, the lungs or tho brain. 'S'h first named is, hi fact, the .ono thM always shows that life is extinct, tk K,ng.a. the heart koeps going', tho circulation u kept up, and all' parts are nourished. When breatliiiifj ceases no more oxygen can reach tho blood. ana ine latter no longer nonrishai any fai t as it should; the brain no louger sands its ih: tlucnce to the heart, and it has no further, itt centive to keep cm working. If injury tolha brain should happen, or fon:o risii inttrfurd with tho- outfiqvf pf rerve force; thort tbeT lungs no,, longer ta';e m fresh air, and the. heart ceases its work. So, finally, all. modes of death result in the cessation of tho heart beats, and the life of the body stoiis withii twoor three minutes after complete failure. of this great force-pump to continue its" action.1 -ou xjouis ymuietiJeniocraE. - r " j There has been an unusual eruption pf lit tlo, Shivering pet dogs on our streets lately, They are queer, nondescript figures. With bin eyes nnd sharp snouts, and look as jmiHi liko rats as anything clso. They como from old and Now Mexico, and, though there tiro several varieties of them, hairy aud hairier, there is no particular variation in their" fra gility and utter usolessncs. The fanciers assure me that they never live long in our climate. This addition to tho list of in ten-na tional pets is probably duo to the opening of M.'T..nA.l t . r.i. l.- . - - iiuuwu uujfujiuiueuuuii wilu luexieo. xour ists buy tho little brutes as curiosities, a'l residents ship them to friends in the states ns souvenirs. Alfred Trumble in- New York News. . ,. . . . f Iteady for a Crash. '- j ' - t Everybody in England is raising money, In fact, with a viow to an armed crash ' ju tha spring. Churchill is going to ask for a bfs supplementary vote of credit soon after par Lament meets to increase tho navy and forti fications of Aden. Cyprus und Port Hamil ton, and give the government a full hand fdr hiring cruisers if the necessity urines. Thero will also be a proposal to augment the Indian army. It is not likely that there will be' much opposition to theso projects, since It is recognized by all parties that a stormy time is ahead. Chicago Tribune. ,; , .... -, i - Banqueting Gen. Sherman. Now that Gen, Sherman has come to lfew York to live, he will proliably bo seen at most of the public banquets, for ho is an ardent lover of that sort of thing. He is a good eater, a moderate drinker and a fluent speaker. He has no end of anecdotes at his tongue's end. The general is brimful of good fellowship, and he loves to oat and drink and smoke and fight his battles over again m tho company of good friends. New York Times, ' A Very Fuuny Appeal.. . ; ' Anecdotes of tho irrepressible Cel. Fair- man, who came to the cold northwest to kindle the spirit of art among an unculti vated people, still abound. Whilo in Paris the colonel once displayed a painting on one of the prominent boulevards with the follow ing inscription under it: "Rejected by tho jury at the academy. Now let tho people judge." Paris laughed itself sad over the very fumiy appeal. Pioner Press 'Listener." Clairvoyance Explained. " Many "wise people have indulged in wlso speculations as to how so-called hypnotic per sons are apparently able to soe through opaque objects. Scientist Burgson, who in vestigated ronio boys who could read the number of a pafs when a book 'was ' held open, but with the back toward them, came to the conclusion that tho subject saw the numbers rvllucted iu his own eyes. Now York Commercial Advertiser. ITEMS OF INTEREST. - . yew York'.t spent $;00,000 on iU canal this year. ' " - France and Mexico have concluded a treaty of cotiuiierce. - The power for the electrical railroad at To ronto costs only t'' a diy. Tho Simnisli cor tea has authorized an out lay of J45,000,!0 for now war vessels. Lucky" Baldwin's California ranch con tains 50,000 acres aud employs il"i0 men. It is believed that tho Chinese in Calif onus "sal b" from ?1,0L)0 to f 1,000 in silver dollar every week. - , An. angry controversy is in progress In England over tho question, "jJo Women if a ve Soulsr , . ... . i Capitalists' in Australia are talking of loy- mg a cnblo to British Colombia at- ft cost o2 $10,000,000. , . Tho public has naid for Apnlotou's Ameri can cyclopaedia in its various editions includ ing annual supplements, nearly $15,000,000. It is rdjuored in Londou Uinta now half penny daily morning iqx'r will make its ap pearance in that city on tho 1st of January. Tar us a fuel for ocean steamers is about to be experimented upon, by i Cicrmun who lion jiisii ucfceu u uovei MiriKLcy ior icu j'uijn'. A colored 'citizen ot Coribtb, Miss., has a skin that is so huixl and thick that he coil walk on coaht-uf file without xperieucing any pain.. . , , , , The coining illusion will be the antipodes of the Vanishing Lady.' Out f a small egg, whk-h grows gradually larger and larger be fore tho eyes of tli3 spectators, will bo pro duced a uvmg giiL , There is on ' extraordinary demand for photographs of Archer. Ono firm of photog raphers in London aswrfe that they, could have sold 10,000 copies had they been ready. and it will bo months boforo the supply in equal to the demand.. '- - Tho Arab horses which tho sultan of Mus cat recently sunt to Queeu Victoria are valued nt $17,000. The miscellaneous bric-a-brac which her ma jsty will send to tho sul tan aro vnlued at fliOO, lenviug a not profit of $14,500 in favor o( tho queen. . AceoAlinsr to local lwners tho trade in alio- louo shells at Sun Diego, Cal., has almost ceased. A dealer who used to receive 1,000 tons of them every year from tho coast of lower California, and shinned sixty or seventy tons-by overy steamer, says the caprice of fashion and an overstocked market have 1 de stroyed the business. . . " . Tho Fog-n of New York. The American metropolis ha3 never de veloped the "pea soup" fogs of London, and all good citizens devoutly hope it uever may. A visitor to JNow orlt may see hansoms and tailor Inade gnwus and other English inno- ratlonsj but be will not see a Loudon fog. Npither will ho believe itt its density until he does see it Nevertheless Now York gets up -some very fair fogs, it the expression may be used. - loose who iiatronize the many ferries rapidly luaru the discomfort of a fog. ' T ho fogs of New ork are of several kind. In the winter, when the floating ice on the water is'melting, there is apt to arise dense, white.. fosr, which usually appears before dawn and remains all day. Then there is tho intermittent fog,. which will suddenly coma mi In the niorning nnd lifts lietore noon. -A fog will occasionally come on without nam ing late in tho afternoon, "The rivers ami bay are, crowded with craft of 11 kinds. Which are caught quite unexpectedly in a dis- agrocalilo urodicumcut. No mists ti-ustworthy class of men. exists tliau-the hard worked pilots of New York, ami accident are re markably rarovr-Now', York. Mikil and Ex press, ( ' ; . - I ,'' Education pt JVrson. '. There ia quite a irago jn OBuglAnd at present! ' oryourlaHitb.to tq' hospitals to lean nursing? Iwtufbi three or six months they 'generally tire of ii ami kmro, instead of going on aud qualifying themselves to take an lnde poudtint potiitidJwuidni well paid one. When duiedical iiyiu-hu ilHughtera nnd little to louve peijii, sayjyan: jihjiuu journal, How much Letter itbu)d bo to educate one for a tnuW Instead 'lotting her join the ovet . crowdudlanliJ of Rovcrnwsos. Only lately th.ei-QiWas-nireip'cUentorrnr, in a town in tho north of. England, for a well educated lady to tako a pot t .in a, prl y'atu lunatic asylum, where bur sole.du byjyou Id bu to king and play to tho Tiiinntes, and to 'soo' that the nurses did their duty tt luht' ami tho remuneration was jiinebnioi-e t!nn lrnwt ladies receive as com , pauions.-"r Chicago Tribune. , f. f t-" i ' ' ' . ' ' In' tho. niutter of lighthouse Illumination " cijxa-iiiK'iits iHijwur 'to show that, while tho , Vlwtrfc are lilit is iuioi-o absorbed in propor tion IbatugSs or oil'lu;lit, as it posses through foj,. still itgrcnter intensity enables it to pvnetrate much Llurthcr than those. Tho Ut-rUn' cpro icoiUobs, manufactured by Bio- - mwjs, have been found to operate best, tho coro oeni( m graiuuie. unaiiie wuoio, in vestigation tints far renders it upparcnt that. forfcttliuary purposes of lighthouse, lllumiiia tiouY mineral 'oil possesses superior edvnn rtages,, and tint for salient or prominently projecting , headlands and very powerful lighW 'electricity "is superior. New York Sun.- ; ; . " i a redestilasilsm In I'rlnon. ' r I: A. White., the man who was arrestee! more, than a year ago on a charge of manu facturing counterfeit Krazllian money, is do VuWpirtg power us a pedcKtrinu scarcely loss -'wonderful than-h0 shewed when his energies 'worwdirwrtcd.toi-umlnir out nit counterfeit notes.' Ifc1siii-j5l at fit. Charted awaiting t.i-iul nfl s fnnr fbivn ne-o 1m uwwioti !. ."walk" into which the coits open, and began wanting oacic ana iortn and counting the dis taneo; hoovered.' The first day he. walked sixteen 'wiles. - Each succeeding day ho has increased the distance, and he is now walking more than thirty tuUo a day. St. Louis Ito publicau. , , - , I .'i, '"V A Curious Gun. I ,L jC. Nichols, general baggago agent of tho Missouri- Pacific ltailway conqxany, lias in bis possession an old gun made of copper, and, from Its looks, evidently made by some .old boclAwoods blacksmith, presented to him by "Uncle Bob" Gardner, of Cbetopy, I. T. It is a perfect curiosity, and Mr. Nichols claims that it is ths first gun ever made on the six shooter Order. It has six chamliers, tbe revo lution of which U mode by a huge lever ex tending the entire length of the Iturrol, and is shot by cap and ball. Tho oflYtnrive weapon Weighs' forty pound lit Louis Republican. -.T,.',:.T ' ' : . : ! f. J i ' A Wall Street Theory. , It Is a Wall street theory that the present era .of vast bidividiiul fortunes is tho result of extraordinary conditions that are tiouud to pass away. . They extst only in this country, aud it is believed that, law or no law, fifty ycarsj hence there will be few or no fifty millionaires In the United States. New Or leans Times-Democrat , Diphtheria from a Goat. A doctor who attended a Brooklyn family in which two children died of diphtheria lust week says ho has traced the infection to a goat that had com from a family where children wore just recovering from the stuns disease.