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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1901-7-18, Page 70 11 ;r Le )1 01 IS - *S. Lfl lie T- Cle iis it 111 us n, he )e- d, xe, 03 - rig nd of as on lio ng ck LT, ue he ck id, th it ona ral 5C0 the ied an ec- DU- th al - the Al - the ich xan )ut ra- as' the . di- eceeme th- ind 80 ti ea .ea, ?,00 eD. tem Lys Va2 ech nd, ,ble Led ;to (m- ean ttle gan add 1aet I oa erer eate Leos eel ffe0g DIFFICULTIES. Put Your Feet Into the Brim of the Water and Jordan Retreats. A despatch from 'Washington way; --Rev. Dr. Talmage- preached from the following. text : "And as , theY that bare the ark were come into Jordan and the feet of the priests were dipped, in the brird of the -wa- ter, that the water -s which came down from above stood and TQS0 up on a heal') very far eroin the -city Adam, and the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord' stood firm on dry ground ;in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israel- ites,paesed over 'on dry ground, un- til all the people Were passed clean over Jordan"—Joshua iii. 15-17. Net long -ago we saw Joshua on a forced marel., During:that tour we Bay hint CTOSS the Jordan, blow donee the walls of ,Jericho,-, .capture the city. Ai, demolieh five kings, the astronomy of heaven changed to give him time .enongli to comPleteler, whip out his enemies. The vanguard of his host, made iip of the priests, ad- vanced until they put their foot at the brinmof the river.; when immedie ately the streets, of jerusalerne .were no more dry than --the bed of that river. It was as i j11 the water had been drawn off, and then the damp- ness had been isoalredup with a -sponge, and then leya towel the road 'had' been 'vetped dry. Yonder go the:great arniemof the Philistirme; the hosts in Uniform; following them the wives, the 'Children, the flacks, the herds. The people look up at crystal wall Of -Jericho, as they pass, iand think Whitt, (in awful 'disaster 'would .came to ithem if, before they 'got to, the voppoeite bank of „tamer- • isle and -oleander and willows, that wall shotild nftl1 pon them, and the thought iliakesethe mothers hug their • children -closer to their hearts and to sweeten' -their, pace. Quick now ! Get them all iupon the bank—arnie ,warrierre, children, flocks, herds, and let this wonderful jor- idanic passage be completed forever. 'Seated this :Morning, on the shelv- ing of 'limestone, I look ofT upon the Jordan where Joshua' crossea un.der trimmilial march of eainbew woven out of the spray—the river which af- terwards became the baptistery .where Christ was sprinkled or plunged, the river where the borrow- ed ax -head miraculously swam at the prophet's order, the river illustrious . in the history of the world for hero- ic faith and 'omnipotent deliverance, and typical of scenes yet to trans- pire"'din your life and mine, Melees enough .to make us from sole of'foot to crown of head to tingle with in- finite g-la,cinesse Standing on the 'ihcene of that affrighted and fugitive river Jordan, 1 learn for myself 'and -for yon, that obstacles when they are touched, vanish. The text says r that ,when these -priests came 'down and touched the • edge of the water with their feet, • THE WATER PARTED, They did not wade in chin deep or waist ..deep, or knee deep, or ankle deep, but as eoon as their feet touch- ed the water, it vanished. And it makes me think that almost ,all the obstacles of lifeerecedeonlyete be ap- proached in order" to be -conquered: Diffieulties tOuched, vanish. It is the trouble,the adiefictilty, the obstacle there in 'the distance that meths :so huge •and tremendous. The apostles Jolla and 'Paul seemed to hate cross degs. The aposele Pala Said in Philippians : Beware of dogs," and John seems tonshut' the gate of heaven against all the canine species when he says : "With- • out are dogs." . But I have been -told that when these animals are furious and they come at you, if you .will keep your eye on, them and advance upon them ; they i11 retreat. So the inost Of the , trials, of life that • hound yeer eeteps, if you canonly get you' eye upon them, and •keep • your eye upon them, and advance upon them; crying ''Begone'lee., will • sink, and .cower.. ' • Again :, this Jordanic passage teaches me the completeness, of ev- • erythipg that God does. When God put an invisible da -m across the Jor- dan and , it halted, it would have been natural, Sou wouldsuppose,, for the waters to overflow the ree gion round about, so that great de- vastation would have taken place. But when God put a dam on in front of the river, he pu,t a dameon • either side of the 'river, so according to the text the waters halted and reared and stood there, not, °vela flowing the surrounding country. Oh , the completeness of everything that 'God does One would think if the water of Jordan had dropped until -it was only two or three feet deep that the Israelites „might. have marched through andehave come up on the other .bank with soaked and saturated garments, as inen come ashore froin a hipwreck, and that would have ,been a wonderful deliv- erance. So it 'would. But God does 'something better than that. One would • suppose, if the water had been drawn off from the 'Jordan there would have been a bed, of mud and slime through Which the, army would have to march. Yet here, im- mediately • God prepares a path through the depths of the Jordan. It is so dry the passengers do not even' get ,their Lcd dainp.• Oh, the completeness of everything that, God does ! Does he in.aka universe ? It 18 a perfect clock, run- ning ever since it was wound up, fixed stars the pivots, constellations the intermoving wheels, and ponder - Mee laws the weights and swinging peedulum ; the stars in the great dome striking midnight, and the sun with brazen tongue tolling the hour ef noon. The slightest comet has upon it the chain of a law which it cannot break. The thistle -down fly- ing before the schoolboy's breath is controlled by the same law that con- eols the ' sun and the planets. The roee push ,in your window is goyeen- ed' by theaseme principle -that egov- •, erne the, great, tree of. the universe, on which stars are ripening fruit, and on Which God will one day Put his hand and SHAKE DOWN THE FRU/Te A perfect universe -I No astrono- mer has ever, pionosed an amend meat, Does God make a Bible, it i a complete Bible. • Standing arnic its dreadful and delightful truths you seem to be iri the iniclst 01 a orchestra, where the wailiugs mire sin _and the rejoicings over pardoi and the martial strains of Victor make a chox•us hire the anthem o eternity: This book -seems to yoi an ocean of truth on every Wave 0 which Christ walks sometimes in th darkness of prophecy, 'sometimes 11 the ePlenclors with which he walke on Galilee Again: _1 learn froth thie ,Jorciani passage that between us and ever Canaan of success and prosperity thero is a river that must be passed 'Oh; how I should like to have soul of 'those grapes •on the other side,' said some of the Israelites to 'Josh "Well" said Joshuameeif yen want some 91 those graties, Wh delft you ,cress over and get them?' A river, of difficulty' betweeh us an everything that is worth having That which costs nothing is wort nothing. God .clid not intend thi wdeld, for an easy parlour -througl which Nee etre tehbe drawn in a rock ingechair,, but, we are to ,work oti passage, climb masts,' fight battles scale mountains, ford rivers. Go makes everything valuable difficul to get at for the same reason tha he puts the gold down in the mine, and the pearl clear down in the sea; itis to make , us dig and dive for them. We acknowledge this princi- ple in worldly things'. Would that we were wise enough to acknowledg,e it in religious things. Yon have bad scores of , illuetrations under your own observation, where Men have had it fest as hard as they could have it, and yet alter a while had it easy. Now the Walls of their home blossom with pictures. • Car- pets that made foreign looms laugh, embrace their feet, The summer wind' lifts •the tapestry 'about the window gorgeous enough for a 'Sul- tan. The silver on the harness of that The silver on the harness of ehat dancing span .• is petrified sweat drops. That beautiful dress is faded calico over whieh God put his hand approvingly, turning it to Turkish satin or Indian silk. Those dia- monds are the tears which suffering froze as they fell. Oh, theye is a reeer of difeeulity be- tween iis and every earthlyachieve- mentee , You know it -is-so in regard to the acquisition of knowledge. The ancients ueed to say that Vulcan struck Au -niter on the head and the goddess 'of Wisdom jumped out, il- lustrating the truth that wisdom comes by hard knocks. And so there, is, my friends, a tug, a jostle, a trial, a push, ' an anxiety through which every man must go before he comes to worldly euccesse" Now be wise enough to apply the ,principle in religion. Eminent Christian char- acter' is only attained by Jordanic passage. ' No man just happens to cured and their feundered knees THE sii-NpAy scHook straightened, and their eoughing dee, eenmere healed, free from the collar and the tight check-lthe and the tweeted bit, they shal, range in the celestial pasturage forever and for- ever. I do not say it is so, •bet I should not be (-Mended if I should and at last that not only all the Is- raelites get' through the Jordan but the best part of the brute creation get in after them, But whether that be SO or not there is one thing certain, Iget from ilr,$;. 'text, and that' is: We have a right to, expect our families to g� with us. , Sine of your Children have already GONE IJP TIIE OTHER 'BANK. s You let them down on this side •the 1 bank; they will be on tlie other side , to here you ep with supernatural n strength. r Every Christian will go over ere 1 shod. Those of us who 'were y brought up in the coun_tree remene- f ber when the summer was coming on in our boyhood daye, we always f longed for, the day whea wo could go e barefooted, and after teasing our 1 Mother. in , legard to it ,a good d while and she having, consented, we remember now. the delicious sense - o tion of the cool grass and the soft y dust of the road when we put our , uncovered foot down. Aad the time . will coxne, Vitheri., these shoes we wear e now --lest webe cut of the shdre, " places of this world—shall ,be taken - off, and with nasandaled foot, we ghalletep, into the bed of the river y With • foot untrammeled from pain. ' and :fatigue eve shall begin that east re that will be heaven. 1. pray ,foe all my dear people safe Jordanic pes- h journey. When with 'ene foot in s the bed of ehe river, and the other 1 foot on the bank we spring upward, LESSON JII,THIfiC QUARTER, INTER- NATIONAL SERIES, JULY 21. Text of the Lennon, Gen. vfli, 1-22. Memory Verxes, ::04:12--Goltlen Text, (2011. vi, S--Conintentary Prepared by the Rey. D. M. Stearns. As next week's lessen will take us t Abram, we may be said to have but on lesson, on the first 2,000 years of the world's history, foe the Previous two les - sous kept us at the begineing of the sto-, r,Y, Cala VICI Abel represent the two great lines leading on to antichrist and to Christ, .in being of the devil and Abel of God (I John iii 12) The Bible does not give us any record of Adam's nuniereue posterity, but just the two lines of tlie righteous and the unright- eous, mentioning softie promieent men la each, Abel, Seth, Enoch and Noah beirtu 'among the righteous of these first 2,000 years. The tendency in all ages since GI* entered ie 'away frem God, not towaed God, and after the 'fleet 16 centuries tbe testiniony orGod was that all flesh had corrented his way on earth (Lad that the ,imagination of the thoughts Of the heart of Man was only evil contimiallY (ehaP- ter vi, 5-12). He insteucted Noah to build an ark for the preservation of him- self and his family and some of all living . creatures Prone the impendieg judgment, revealing to Noah His determination to destroy all others, both man and beast, from off the face Of th.e earth. Noah did' just. as he was told, and probably during ethe space of 120 years (vi, 2), with no slims, Of a coming storm, continued to build his, vessel far from any, ma ani doubtless amid the scoffs and jeers of e ung,oilly world. We have the Mariner a their speech recorded. in Sob xxii, 15-1/ Jude, 14-16. In due eiine the arkheee 'finished just as God hael commanded an therefore perfectly fitted for that whic God intended. ilhe liiiiie cif His, inerc was reached, the time of judgment Come He called Noah and his family unto Hi lute the ark and then brought in unt Noah all the creatures He intended t save alive and shut him in, and after sev en days the storm began. ' e1-9. This brings us to the beginning o the chapter assigned for our lesson, an in the fourth verse we read that the arl rested upon the mountains of Antra just live mouths after the flood began After, this the waters decreased contin ually until ou the first day of the tent month the tops of the mountains, wer ,seen, and 40 days later, which.would b the tenth day of the eleventh. month Noah sent forth a raven and afterward dove. The raven, being an unclean bir (Lev. xi, 13-15),, could rest on any float- ing dead carcass, and therefore returue not to the ark; the dove, a clean bird finding no resting place, returned to th ark and makes us think of the 1101 Spirit as a dove, finding His first perfee 'resting place on Christ at His baptism ElaTO you the spirit of the raven or th dove? 10-12. Seven days later he sent forth rhe dove again, and in the evening sh returned with an olive leaf in her mouth • se Noah knew that the waters were abat ed. That would be on the seventeeut day of the eleventh month, or just nin months after the waters began to com upon tho earth. He waited yet ,ethe seven days and sent .forth the dove fo the third time, and she returned no more. 13, 14. One Meath and more did Non !still wait before the eurfaee of the earth was dry and nearly ,two months longer before the earth was dry enough to have him leave the Ark. On the twenty-sev- enth day of the second month of the six •hundred and first year of Noah's life was ,the earth dried, so that, counting the seven days that Noah was in the eel:he- fore the fain began (chapter .vii, 10), he was in the ark altogetber (Me year and 17 days, or seven Months after the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat. 1 What faith 'and patienee he had 1 oppor- tunity to display!, What quiet waiteig with God! The Lord had said, "Cove° thou into the ark" (vii, 1); so the Lord Iwas the first to' eater the ark, 'and He was with. Noah in the ark, Happy are ,those who end their joy in God and in His presence and are glad to abide with Him anywhere and as long as He ROYAL MOTHERS-IN-LAWe AS in Private Lite, Their Lot Not a Happy One, Medina history is full of the u iappy fate of dowager queene, The Position of inother-ia-law is always most difficult and delicate, and trebly so when motlier-in-law to a queen. It ie an open secret that the life of Empress Frederick, since o the death of her noble husband, has o been far from happy, The worst of all reusons-gliflerences with her im- perious son—has been. the cause of MUClY family friction, 'The Empress Frederick has always been too thoroughly English to be 'popular in Germany. Ilismarcle was her enemy,d an, working constantly against her, succeeded in estranging son and mother. Her preference for Sir atorell Mackenzie as her hus- band's medical adviser in his long illness Ives construed - into her desire, at any SOSt to her husband to enjoy the state and title of Empress. Hence, it was most scandalously as- serted, her opposition to the opera- tion proposed by the German sue - germs. *. - The 'young Prince—now Emperor— William was opposed by Bisiriamck to his mother. And when the brief reign of the Eniperor 'Frederick came to an end the rupttire became more `pronounced. Shameful were the -in- sults heaped upon her by the official press for her conduct iv the bett•othal of her daughter PrincessNictoria to Prince Alexander of Battenburg. THE leleEPE11011--WILleIAM 1 was further :incensed against his mother, by report that she had t spoken slightingly of the intellectual dullness and density of his young e't wife. William and his mother -were not on speaking terms for years ; even now they rarely, see each other. Y- For a long time the Court of Lie- n; bon was divided into two rival fac- , tions—the supporters of the Dowager " Queen Maria Pia, and , the Queen Amelie. It. was in this wise. The late King Luiz Was an easy-going f monarch, with a profound disinclin- e e.tion to 'manage State 'affairs. He e was glad, indeed, for his vigorous and strong-minded Queen to rule for him. . The present King Carlos, his son, h is of just the same mettle. When e Luiz died, his widow, Maria Pia, re - e tabled the reins of government. Her , son Carlos did not object, but his a Queen, Amelie, did. As imperious d and clever as her mother-in-law, Amelia ' determined to be Queen in more than name. But the Queen •I Dowager had rifled for the twenty- eleight yeats of her husband's reign. Y j She wouldn't resign readily. But, tjafter much quarrelling and bitterness • 1Queen Amelie had her way. Dow- ° I ager Queen Maria Pia was forced to retire and leave affairs in the hands 0 of her daughter-in-law. In the ; neighboring Court of Madrid, Dow- _ ager Queen Isabella II. repeatedly h attempted to interfere in political e and court affairs, until the present e Queen showed she would rule alone. ✓ AT ST. PETERSBURG, ✓ again, there is trouble between the 1Empress and Dowager Empress. To h gentle and refined. Alix of Hesse, daughter of our -own Princess Alice, the habits and customs of the Rus- sian' Court are wearisome and re- pulsive. 'It is an open secret that the Dowager Czarina was bitterly opposed to her son's marriage. She intended Nicholas to marry Princess Helene of Montenegro -,now Queen of Italy. He incontinently refused to do so, and wedded Mix of Hesse. Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were thus not on the best of -terms to begin with. Wide differencesarosef over the young Empress' dislike, Russian customs. - Soon after her accession she for- bade ladies of the Court to smoke. Now„ all ladies Smoke • in Russia ; the Dowager Empress herself is a great smoker. She took the decree as an insult from her daughter-in- law. War, more or less veiled, has since existed between then. In af- fairs of state 'the Dowager Empress insists on having -her way e the Erne press Alix has no thought save for het. husband and her two bonnygirls; the' Emperor is a devoted husband,' and, at the sa.rne time`, seeks his mother's advice oil -Matters of policy Botli'Dowager and Empress' appealed to the Czar, and he has thus the dif- ficult task of holding the balance evenly between his wife and his' mother. 5 ci I ask a question and there seems to come back an answer in heavealy echo. • -What, will you never be sick again?" "Never be sick again.," -What, will you never be tired again?" " Nevelt* be tired again." "What, will you never weep 'again?" "Never 'weep again." "What, will you never die again'?" "Never die again." Oh, you army of departed kindred, we hail you from bank to r u bank. Wait fos. When the Jor- dan o ea pal or us, aa . parted for you, COLTIC down and meet us half way betweenmthe willowed banks of earth and t'he paint groves of heaven. May ,our great -Hig,h priest go ahead 91 us and with, his bruised feet touch the waters, and thex•e shall be fulfilled the words of my text:. ''And all the Israelites passed over on dry grained, lentil all terdapne,ople evere Passed clean., over get good. Why does that man know se' much about the Scripture?'. He was studying the Bible While you were' reading ,te novel. He was on fire 'With the sublimities of the Bible while you were eound a.sleep. It was by tugging and, toiling and pushing and running in the Christian life that he became so strorig. In a hundred Solferinos, he learned how to fight. Th a hundred shipwrecks he learned how to swim. , • TEARS OVER SIN. • Tears. over Zion's desolation,- .tears, over the impenitent, tears ever graves, iatrde a Jordan which that man had to pass. " „Sorrow stains the cheek, .and sinks. the eye, and ,pales the brow and thins the hand. There 'are mourn- ing garnients in eery wardrobe. Theire are deaths in every family re- cord. All around us are the relics oe the dead. The Chrietian, has pits - sed this Red Sea of trouble, and ','�t he finds that there is the Jordan- of death between .him and heaven. He comes down to the Jordan of death and thinks .how many have been lost there. The Christian approaches this raging torrent, and as he nears it, his breath gets ,shorter and his last breath leaves him as he steps into the stream; but no sooner has he tenched the stream than it is parted, and he goes through dry shod while all the waters wave their plumes, .cryinge 0 death, where' is thy sting? 0 grave, where' is thy victory?" "God shall wipe away all, tears from their eyes, e' and there shall be no more death. , When I see „the, Israelites getting through Jordan and getting up the banks, and see their flocks and herds following right on after thein, the suggestion conies through my mind that PerhaPe "after' all, the best'i part of the brute creation may have! a chance. in the great future. , You I say: "Harmonize with that' theory the passage, "The spirit' of the brute goes downward.' " I can harmonize these two great, things a greed deal easier than I can harmOnizeethe an -1 nihilatien of the brute creatioa with the ill-treatment they here receive, , do not know but that in the clear atmosphere Of that other country, • there may be a bird heaven. I do not know but that on those fair hanks, there may be a lily heaven, an amarathine heaven, When I see a professed' Christian man abusing his horse, my cominon sense of jus- tice tells me that that horse ought to have a better time in the future than his driver' If really the jaded and abused car and omnibus horses of our cities have any better ()en- try to go to when- they leave this world—I do not know that they do, I do not know, that they -do, not -- but, ifethey •I1 ve ,etich country to go to, shoelde like to ,see them the moment when, their galled necks OVER J:1-1.11, WIDE WORLD. T' Interesting acts Gathered From the Corners of the Earth. Bees suck over 3,000,000 flowers to gather 11b. of honey. • There are 10,000 rniles of overhead telegraph wires in London. London people •eleend on. an aver- age $1.75 a year in theatre tickets. Eight out of every 10,000 Eaglish people emigrate every year. Six thousand people sleep in the open air he London every night. It is said that over $5,000,000 is spent by Londoners for flowers year- ly. , About 1,000 fishing -boats engaged around the British coast ,are named Mary. •- Liverpool, with ninety-nine people to the .acre, is the most crowded city in England. Ireland had 251 people to., the square mile in 1841. This number has now fallen to 144. The average duration of the reign of Engaish monarchs for the last 600 years has been twenty-one years. At a low -estimate, the manufac- ture and sale of dolls in Europe, of ell 'sizes, exceeds 20,00,0,000 per an -a num.. 1 A sinart brickina,ker can make 4,-1 000 bricks a day. A 16 -horse -power! machine Makes 30,000 in the same time. - If a cyclist were to ride round thel coast of England and Wales he would cover a distance of nearly 2,-: 1 500 miles The United Iiingdom produces only 40,000 tons of cheese out. of the 120,000 eaten every year by people of that country. 1 pleases! What matters it whether we 1 are going or staying, shut up in the ark ' or roaming ,the earth, if only we are where He wills? ' 15-17. At the command of God Noah builded the ark, at the command of God lie entered the ark* and not until God commanded did he leave the ark. Ho and all the living creatures with him are brought forth upon the new earth that they might be fruitful and multiply. It is q new beginning, for in II Pet. iii, 0, we read, "The world that then was be- ing overflowed with water perished." The people had perished,,but Noali came l'orth upon the same earth, perhaps ehanged as to its configuration. 18-20. "And Noah blinded an altar un- to the Lord.- His first act wae one of worship in God's appointed way—by sac- rifice; not the way 02 Cain, but of Abel God had commanded him to take iute the ark two of every kind of hiving crea- ture to keep them alive upon the earth (vi, 19, 20), but Jehovah (God in rela- tion to man as his Saviour and'righteous- nose) had mid that he should by sevens tele of all clean beaste and birds (yii, 1 3), and thus be had abundance for sacri- fice. The thought of sacrifice takes us back for a moment to chapter vi, 14, where we read that the ark which 're- served Noah and all creatures was cov- ered within and without with pitch, this, of course, to make it to float safely and preserve all in it. Bet the word trahelat- ed "pitch" and only here so translated is the very word elsewhere translated "atonement" or "reconciliation" and is surely suggestive of the great truth that there is no safety ft•orn ecinting judgment' 21, 22. "And the Lord smelled a Sweet savour" (margin'"a savour of rest"). In the next chnpter we have a full state- ment of the everlasting covenant with Noah and hiteseed and all creatures, of which brief mention is made in these two verses, and also of the token of the cov- enant, - . . cloud. en eve see the bow, We should remember that God looks upon it, too (ix, 16), and will never again bring; a flood upon the earth. Bet see II Pet. iii, 7-13, and soy if you believe these things or ere you, like the people of Noah's thne, among the scoff- ers? The many who helped Noah to build the ark and could have told all about it perished- tecaese they were not in it. You may understand fling God's Plan of redemption and be able to tell it and teach it and perhaps be fictive -1n some kind of matalled chure woo,but if yen are uot A C1Lriut liy UP blood you are One million two hundred thousand I pounds a year, is spent on English hospitals, averaging 5s. a day for every bed occ,tipied. Two of the greatest literary • Auctions of the Chinese are a clic- ' tionary of 5,020 volumes and an en- cyclopaedia in 22,937 volumes. , Out of an average annual loss tot, the world's shipping of 2,172 yes - eels, 94 are completely missing and , never heard of again. 1 Queen Victoria's collection, of lace ; was worth 8375,000. The Astor' family have $300,000 worth of lace, and the Vanderbilts $500,000 worth.; Physicians assert that baRed pota- toes are more nutritious than those cooked in any other way, and that I fried ories are the most difficult to 3, digest. Few ladies consider that ,they car- ; ry some forty or fifty miles of hair 1 on their head; the fair-haired may I even have to dress seventy -miles of threads of gold every morning. The largest Mont de Piete, dr, as we , designate it, pawnshop, in the I world is probably that on the Bou- levard Montmartre, Paris, which, it is said, receives in pledge over- 1,000 1 watches every day. • The head of the postal department at Gibraltar is 'a w,ornan, who has:. Occupied the, pesitioIl for ten years. 1 She receives a salary of 11550 , per alinttin being 1110 highest paid wo- inan in the post (Mice service, England ,blipoets Vegetablese froni all parts of ethe world to the tune of $16,220,.000 per annum, the foreign supply 'of potatoes representing an- nually i. • someehipg eever ' 87,500,000, and oriiemeebeing responsible for $3,- 9,00;000ee • HOW KNIGHTS ARE MADE. Quaint Cererriony of Investiture by the King. • The ceremony of inyeetiture is an exceedingly quaint one. In most cams the order followed was identi- cal; therefore that of a knight com- mander of the Order of the Bath may be taken as typical. ,On being admitted into the Royal presence, the knight commander to be invested made reverence to the king by bow- ing three thrietr—once on entering the throneeroom, another 'in the taiddle, and , again ,on' approaching Ids ma- jesty. • He then knelt on: his right knee. In conferring the . honor of knighthood the ,hing placed a sword on both the candidate's"' shoulders. The knight, for by that time he had become such, raised his right arm horizontally and his majesty placed his hand on the knight's wrist, who then raesed it to his lips.- While the knight still remained kneeling the king proceeded to his investiture by placing the riband and badgeof the order round his neck, and afterwards presented his hand to the knight, who kissee it, The ceremony being concluded, the knight would eise, and, retiring, make similar reverence aS that with which he was admitted. • We have heard many complaints of the ineuflicient size of state -rooms on ocean liners, says a conterupora- ry, but the record has 'been beaten by a raceme- passehger, who assured us that his •ONVI1 cabin ,waseso smelt that he had to go outside it in ore' der to change his mind. NATIONS IN THE sui,Ka CASES WHERE THEY HAYS "NOT SPOKEN" FOR YEARSt • ee-ei Austria and Mexico's "Tiff" LaSt, ed Thirty-four Years—Am- • erica and Britain. Tucked away in an obscure coraea of the daily Papers a couple or so ef' weeks ago was a tiny, paragraph, which said that diplomatic relations had been resealed between Austria and 1VICX1C0 for the first time since 1867. . To the mind of the average news- paper reader this would convey very little, for it is a fixed idea with most,' people that. the withdrawal of ars ambassador—the , "breaking off of dipleinatic relations''—is equivalent,' to a declaration of war.- This, is anything but the correct view, Great Britain, during the last reign, broke off diplomatic relations on oce casion with such important powers as France, Spain, and the United States, and yet, not a shot was fired as a consequence. A flutter of ex- citement, and some, rather wild gambling On -the stock exchanges of the world—where prices have a• nas- ty habit of fluctuatiog over a little thing like the withdrawal of an arn- leassador—were the only outcome oi the incidents. Austria had no representative in Mexico since the murder—or, as the Mexicans choose to call it, the, e(execution''—of the Emperor Maxi- milian, who was an Austrian arch- duke before Napoleon III. placed him on the throne of Mexico. The breaking, off of diplomatic relatione was Austria's war of showing her'. feeling about -that blood-stained dawn at Queretaro, when Maximil- ian died like a - SOLDIER AND A GENTLEMAN. Curiously enough, France was more forgiVing in the mattee, although the revolution overthrew one of the Emperor's cherished schemes, for it ,was in 1850 that France held out the olive branch. Austria's resent- rneht has thus lasted twenty-one; years longer, or thirty-four in all. With her fondness for interfering in other people's concerns, England has from time to time got herself, heartily disliked, and at no time was this the case more than during Lord Palmerston's regime, for ''Pam"-, .was possessed with the idea that it was Britain's destiny to set the world right. So, the affairs of Spain being in rather a disordered condi-' tion, the British Premier thought fit to instruct Sir Henry Bulwer-Lyt- ' ton, Great Britain's ambassador at Madrid, that he was to impress up- ' on Christina and her Ministers the necessity for a proper legal and con- stitutional form of government in the peninsula. 'Unfortunately, Sir Henry rather exceeded his instructions. . He' not only committed the blunder ,of show- ing the Spanish Queen and Premier Lord Palinerston's original despatch, but also published articlel founded on it in the Opposition pa- pers. The haughty Dons were up in arms directly. "The Cabinet cannot see without the most extleine surprise the extra- ordinary pretensions of Lord Pal- merston to interfere in the interne,' affairs of Spain," they wrote. More - than that, they returned Sir' Henry, Bulwer 'Lytton's 'despatches to him.1 IFeauvrtehesrp, Spain requested him tol • WITHIN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS, I adding grimly "there would be•inuchl to regret if this took place tool late." Lord Palmerston had to putl up with the snub, and handed his passports to Senor.Iseuri-tz, the then Spanish Ambassador in London. Owing to the mediation of the King> ofe the Belgians, diplomatic relations were resumed on August 4th, 1850. America had a fit of the sulks with Great Britain during the Crimean, war. Mr. Crampton was recalled1 from Washington at -the peremptory( , request of the Uoited States Gov-' eminent because -that British agent! had been enlisting American citizensi to fight the Russians: Attorney - General Cushing - was 'very cross; he called this action, a "flagrant viola- tion ,of our national rights." And so, for several years, the Trans -At- lantic cousins "didn't speak." People living can ,remember the wild panic which shook the bourses' when, on May 1.5th, 1850, el. de Lhuys, the French Ambassador, sud- denly left London. France 'and Eng- land were none too well pleased with eac11 other just about that time, and everyone assumed that the, sword was about to be drawn. The French Chamber received the news with shouts of joy; the Funds fell from 96e to 95.- lIoweVer, nothing ever came of it. ' 4 OLDEST TOWN IN ENGLAND. This is Norwich. There is not a straight street, ' nor in fact, a: straight house in the place ; every, part of it has ,the appearance of hava ing recently suffered from the visitaei -lion of an earthquake. Norwich, asi everyone knows, is the ce,ntre of the, salt industry. On nearly all sides of the town" ,a.re big saltworks, with' , their engines purapieg hundreds of thousands ofegallons of brine every, week. At te depth of some 200 or, 300 feet are immense subterranean lakes of brine, and as the contents of these are pumped away the upper. crust of earth. is correepondingly weakened, and the result is an occa-, 'sional subsidence. These subsidences have a "pulling" efiect on the near- est buildings, which are drawn ways," giving the town an upside down appearance. A man who 'has neVer had the toothache does not know the real pleasure there is in not having it. Why, John, she said in aetOnishe ment, hearing his language, 1 canh6 iariagine why your razor isn't sharp) I-Iow should You, he growled. Only yesterday 1trinuaed , a scrubbing - brush with et, end it worked beam- tifullea