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Rev. 1)r. Talmage Tells How You May Keep
Your Children From the Poor House.
A despatch front Washington says: es and breaking „bridges aacl funeral
e -Rev. 1)r. Talmage preached from pa
rocessions. Are you so certain that
• the followieg text : you W'e, going 1.4o live ten or twenty
'Let him appoint, officers over the years that you can warrant your
lanel, and take up the fifth part of household any eomfort after you go
the land ef Egypt in the seven plent- far away from them ? Besides that,
0011S years." --Gen. xli. 81. the vast majority of anen die poor !
These were the words of Joseph, Iwo -only two out of 0 iltular°d
the Presideat of the first life insur- succeed in business. Are you very
saw. 'Pharaoh had ft decant that of the two ? Rich one day-Peor the
distracted him. He thought a, next. Besides that, theVe are men
stood on the banks of the river who die solvent who are insolvent
before they get under thei!ground, or
before their estate is settled. I-Iow
soon the a.uctiOneer's nmilet can
knock the life out of an estate ! A
inau thinks the property worth 51-5,'
000; under a forced sale it brings
$7,000. The business man takes ad-
vantage of the crisis, and he com-
pels the widow of his deceased part -
once company that the world. ever certain that you ur° going t° b° 011°
Nile, and saw coming up out el the:
river seven fat, sleek,. glossy eows,
mid they began to browse in the
thick grass, llothieg frightful about
that. But after them, coining .up
out of the same river, he saw seven
COWS .tilat were gaunt and, starved,
and the Worst looking cows that had
Over been seen in the land, and in
• the ferocity of hunger they devoured ner to sell out -to him at a ruinous
their seven fat prede • •cessors. PI
lax_ price, or 'lose
aoh the K-ing, sent for Joseph to :de-
cipher these midnight hieroglyphics.
,Joseph Made short work Of it, and
intimated that the seven fat . cows
that cattle out of the river were.
seven years with plenty to "eat, the
se -Yen emaciated cows that followed. &LYS that, he smokes up in cigars,.
. them were seven years with nothing '?snd• drini`s (-1°Fn in Wine' and ex -
to eat. "Now," said Joseph, "let pendS in luxui•ies enough money
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US taltel'one-fifth of the 'corn „rap of have paid the preinitun on :a. life in -
the seven prosperous years, and keep. surance pOlicy. 'Which 'would 'have
dt as a Provision fen- the seVen. years kept his landlY from beggary when
hiniself down ihe Strictest °Con -
only until he can meet this Christian,
neceSsity. You have no right to . the
luxuries of. life. 'until you have made
sueli prevision. adinire what was
said by Dr, Guthrie, the great Scot•L
tish preacher. A few years before
his death he stood in a public meet -
Egyptian life insurance company ing. and declared: . -When. 1 eame to
had ' of dollars as assets. Ed inbu rgh the people. sometimes
Alter a while the dark days came, laughed at my blue stockings and at
'and the whole nation would have I. looked like a coinnion'ploughanan,
my cotton unibrella, and they said
starved if it had not been for' tho and they derided me beeause I lived
proVision they had made for the fut-
ure. But now -these .suffering fam-
,ilies have nothing to do but to 'go
and collect the amount of their
nut, says some one: I am a man
of small ineans, and I 'can't a.fiartl
to pay the premium." Tl-aat is.sorne-
times a. lawful and a genuine excuse.,
and there is no ,a.raswer to it; but in
nine co.ses out of ten when 0 man
NEED, LARGER INCOME NOW,
Long Ago $50,000 a Year Was
Sufficient in London Society.
The London Spectator, dIsceesing
the new standard of wealth in recent
years, remarks that ;Litt- year,i age
an income of ,E10,000 was aeeount-
ed sufficient to inoint'lin 11° gOOd
0/100 in society. Disraeli„ one of
the keenest observers of society, de-
clared that an income of ,C,S000 was a
veritable Aladdin's lamp but wealth
now begins with an income ofZ20,000.
yearfy, which, if the possessor lives
up to his position, does -not leave
him as free from money cares as
though he was really rich. Tne
country house, hired shooting, a
London house, a wife's and dough -
dress a moor in Scotland and
six weeks' yaclitin,” leave little. free
cash anti nothing''for improvement.
Many expenses which the rich incur
without thinking must be avoided,
and at the end of the year 'the pos-
seseor of 511011 i11001110 Wili thiult
whether this Or that 'could not be
economized.
This is true, assuming that in ad-
dition to•X,20,000 a year there is in-
herited the "plant" of luxurious life
but in the case of a man, starting an
society' with an income of £20,000
and no plant he is for poorer. Pur-
chasing and installing himself in
suitable town and country houses
must cost £1.30,000, reducing his
free income to £11,000.
As he aPproaches 50 years.of age
allowances for his sons' pensions and
other claims will inake a still furth-
er reduction. He will be well fed
and lodged, but will .Worry regard-
ing the osition Of his children and
will be anxious in a shame -faced way
that his sons do not seek for tune-
less brides.
The Spectator does not think that
the truth of this is based upon. lux-
uriousness or wastefulness peculiar
to to -day. Such luxuriousness and
wastefulness existed equally former-
ly, but the increase in the number
of rich men has caused an increase
in the price of everything that the
rich seek, especially fine houses and
furniture. Opportunities for sport,
such as rich man.'s fishing, cost from
£2,000 to £1,000 annually.
There is no proof that vice has in-
creased. Gambling certainly has
not. Wastefulness seems greater be-
cause more money is wasted, but
proportionately it is no greater.
Our grandfathers did not chronicle
everything, while newspaper adver-
tisement of to -day is responsible for
much of the appearance of made
luxury in European society.
The Spectator thinks that a spec-
ial evil to -day is the increased in-
clination to gratify impulse without
reference to old restraints and a
certain reaction against goodness,
Which - Contains more intellectual pes-•
simism and less defiance of heaven
than such movements have usually
THE FLYING MACHINE.
in which there Shall be no corn Crep.''is dead. A man Ought t° put'
The King took the counsel, and
appointed Joseph, because of his iii-
:tegrity and public spiritedneSS, aS
'the president of the undertakiag.
,The farmers paid one-fifth of their
income as 0 premium. In all the
towns and cities of the land there
were branch houses. This great
in a house 101 which I paid thirty-
five poUnds. rent a year,. and Often-
times I walked when -,I would have
heeu very glad uo have had a ca
life policies. The Bible puts it in bit, ' gentlenien I did all that he‘
I •
a short phrase: "In the land of Egypt • cause wantea to .pay the premium
'there was. bread." I say this was !on a life insurance that would. keep
,thc. first: life insurance company It my family copilot:table if I should
,was divinely organized. It. had in 11 die." That I take to be the right
all the advantages of the "whole lifeexpression 'of• an • honest, intelligent
plan," of the "Tontine plan," of the Christian man. *
",i•eserved endowineet plan," and all The utter indifferenca'of •manY,peo•
ple -on . tidS. 'iniPortant" silblect ac-;
the other good plans. ' • • • • ' • •
But wimt does the Bible saY in I counts for much of the crime and
regard to this subject? If the Bible the, pauperismu. of this day. Who are
favors the institution 1 will favor these children sweeping the crossings
it ; if the Bible deaouaces it r will de- ‘ with broken broom, and begging of
nounce it,. In addition to the fore- 1 You a penny as you go by? Ah,
cast-- of Joseph in the text, i call 1 they are the :victims of want. -.1,1
your attention to Paul's comparison. 1 raanY of the , cases the forecast of
liere is one nian who through neglect I Parents and grand -parents who
fails to support his family while he i might have prohibited it. God only
lives or after he dies. Here is an- knows h°w they struggled to do
other man who abhors the Scrip- right. They prayed until the tears
tures and rejects God. Which of fr°z° on their cheeks, they sewed on
the sack until the breaking of the
day, but they could not get enough
money to pay the rent; -they could
these men is the worse ? Well, you
.say the latter. Paul says the form-
er. Paul says that a man who ne-
glects to care for his household is not get enough money to decen y
clothe themselves, and one day, in
more obnoxious than a man who re -
that wretched home, the angel of
jects the Scriptures. "He that pro -
purity and the angel of crime fought
videth not for his own, and especial -
a great fight between ' the empty
13,- those of his own household is
bread tray and the fireless hearth,
worse than an infidel,"
and the black -winged angel shrieked:
, ‘.,-whell Hezekinh was. dying the in- "Abel I have won the day+,''.
Sunctieh eame to him ! "See thY Says some man: "1 believe what
house in order, for thou shalt die
• and not live." That injunction in
our day would mean : "Make your -
11111 :
settle your accounts ; make
things plain ; don't leave for them
notes that have been outlawed, and
second mortgages on property that
will not pay the first. Set thy
house in order." That is fix things
so your going out of the world may
make ,as little consternation as pos-
sible. 'Sc the lean cattle devour-
ing the fat cattle, and in the time of
plenty prepare for the time of want.
The difficulty is, when men think. of
itheir death they are apt'to think of
lit only in connection with their spir-
itual welfare, and not of the devasta-
tion in the household which will
come because of their emigration
from it, It is meanly selfish for then that same 'woman going out
you to be so absorbed in the heaven with helpless children at her back to
to which you are going that you for- struggle for bread in a world where
get what, is to become of your wife brawny muscle and rugged soul aro
and children after 37011 ''go. You can necessary -I say, if there be anything
go out of this World not leaving more pitiable than that, I don't
them a dollar, and yet die happy •if know What it is: end yet there are
you could not provide for them. You good women who are indifferent in
can trust them in the hands, of the regard to their husband's duty in
God who owns all the harvests and this respect, and there are those pos=
the herds and the flocks ; but if yott itively hostile, as though a life in'
could pay the, premium on a policy surance subjected a man to some fa-
tality. There is in this city to -day
a very poor wonaan keeping a small
candy shop, who vehemently opposed
the insurance of her husband's life,
and when application had ,been made
for a. policy of .510,000 she frustrate
ment house in a back street. When eci lt• She wonld never have the
they are out, at the elbows. and the
knees the thought of your splendid
robe in heaven will not keep them
warm. Ulm minister may Preach a
splendid sermon. over your remains,
you say, it is right and Christian,
and I mean sometime to attend to
this matter." • My friend, you are
going to lose the comfort of your
household in the same way the sin-
ner loses heaven by procrastination.
I see all around me the destitute
and Suffering families of parents who
meant. some day 16 attend to this
Christian duty. During the process
of adjournment the., man' gets. his
feet ,wet, then comes a chill and a de-
lirium, and the doleful shake of the
doctor's .11e.ad and the. obsequies. -If
there be anything more pitiable than
a woman delicately brought up, and
on her marriage day an indul-
gent father given to a man to whom
she is the chief joy and pride of life
until the moment of ids death, and
THE SUNDAY
SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUG 4.
Text of the Lesson, Gen. :till. 1-18. Gol-
den Text, Math. vii, 1.
Abrant Went up out of Egypt
to Bethel, unto the place of the altar
which he had made there ht first,
and there Abram called on the name
of the Lord ; such is a brief imm-
mary of these 'four versee. We 'do
not read of any altar in Egypt, for
there Abram, was out of fellowship
with God, thinking of his own per-
sonal safety rather, ihan the glery
of God: If you have wondered
from God,' and neglecte ,the altar
and allowed anything co .einto be-
tween God and your soul, return to
Him as quickly as possible, for noth-
ing can make lip for lack of fellow-
ship with Mm, and He is saying,
"Only acknowledge thine iniquity ;
turn, 0 back -sliding child, for I am
married unto you." (Jur. iii, 13, 11:
Ro. vii, 1). His wife and Lot and
all that he had were affected by his
wanderings and return ; no one liv-
eth unto himself, and we must be
careful not to put a stumbling block
or occasion to fall in another's way
(Rom, xiv, 7-13). •
5-9, Abram said unto Lot, Let
there be n� strife, I pray thee, be-
tween me and thee, and between my
herdmen and thy herdmen, for we be
brethren. Lot also WaS riCh in
flocks and herds and tents, and the
great that they •could not dwell to-
gether. They were in the land for
God, and the heathen were hi the
land the Canaanite 'anct- the Periz-
zite, and before these people they,
of 1\fainre must, 'lave been a table-
lanci, a plain among the hills where
Abram. long continued to 'enjoy Godfel-
U611111110saf;t1i1 flabioedv,o aa:11
away from the atmosphere of Sodom,
he bought 1110 fielcl of Alachpelah and
the cave thitt '111 it as a burial
place (chapter xxiii), and there to
this day lie the bodies of Abraham
and Sarah, 1 s'a ac d Rob ekah, Ja-
cob and Leah (chapter xiix, 29-31.,)
awaiting the first ressurection and
the fulfillment of the promises. A
goOd work is being done at Fre-broil
to -day among the Jews and Moslems
by the Mildmay Afeilical mission, in
which I am thankful to nave a pray-
erful: and financial interest.
a.nd, neglected them, it is a mean
thing for you to go up to heaven,
while they go in the poor house.
.You, death, nieve into a niansion,
river front and 1,11e,y move in.to two
rooms on the fourth story of a tene-
document in the. house that implied
it was possible for her husband ever
Its Limitations and Also its" Wide
We can already calculate approxi-
mately the proportions, the strength
and weight the supporting efficiency
the speed, and the power required
for a projected flying machine, so
to judge judge of the practicability of a
design. Indeed, the mathematics
of the subject have been so far evolv-
ed that engineering computations
may eventually replace. vague specu-
lation in the 'domain of aerial navi-
gation.
But after the problem has been
worked out to a'inechanical success,
the commercial uses of aerial appar-
atus will be small. The limitations
of the baloon have already been
mentioned ; sttch craft will be slow,
must witness for God, therefore
there must be no strife, for " the
servant of the Lord must not strike"
(2 Tim: ii, 24)., Who Shall yield ?
For if strife is to cease some one
must yield. See the greatness of
the one to whom God had given the
land, with whom Lot was -sojourn-
ing by Abra,m's consent, who might
have said, This is all mine, given
me by God, and you and your herd -
men must be quiet or else go away
to some other land. This would
only have been right in the eyes of
many, bit listen to Abram as lie of-
fers Lot the first choice, meekly
saying, It will be better, for us to
separate ; choose whatever part of
the land you prefer, and I will be
contented to go elsewhere. This is
greatness in the sight of 'God.
10-11. Lot lifted up his eye § and
beheld all the. plain of Jordan, that
it was well watered everywhere ;
then Lot chose him all the plain of
Jordan, and they separated them-
selves, the one from the other, This
life set before us in Abram consist-
ed Of a Series of separations unto
God ; more and more fully unto
Min, `Ui., ftorn. from
Terah, from Canaan, in which.he had
only his tent and altar, from Egypt,
and now from Lot. It is only as
we are willing to be Separated unto
God from all others and all else that
we dan know anything of the suffici-
ency of God, fox' While We lean on'
aught else He cannot'reveal-I-Iimself
to uS (2 Cor. vi, 16-18). Lot, like
most people, seemed glad enough to
take advantage of Abram's generous
offer ; he had not the grace of • un-
selfishness. Ile lifeed up his eyes,
but not even to the hills, much less
to the Lord, from whom every good
gift comes (Jer. iii, 23; Jas. 1, 17.)
He saw only the well watered plain
of Jordan and its seeming advant-
ages to himself.
12, 13. Abram continued in the
hill country ; but Lot dwelt in the
plain, and not heeding the wicked-
ness of the men of Sodom he even
pitched his tent toward Sodom. The
stories of the plains in Scripture
are not as a rule so refreshing as
the stories of the mountains. See
the plain, of Shinar and the plain of
Duro.. (Gen. xi, 2-4; Zech. v, 11 ;
Dap. fii, 1) ',and contrast Elijah on
Carmel, the transfiguration, 1 lie as-
cension and other hill stories. The
air of the hills is better. -Sorne-:
times God allows us to, be placed
• among the wicked ..that' we: May
there shine for • Him, making ..F.EiS
grace sufficient for us, but if he,
leaves the choice to us We should re-
member Ps. 1, 1; cxix, 1, and keep
as far away as possible from every
appearance of evil. , I -Tallness is not
as contagious as sin (Hag. ii. 11-43)
The men of Soden]. may not have
seemed very wicked in the eyes of
Lot, but they were sinners exceed-
ingly before the Lord.
14-17. Arise, walk through. the
land, hi the length of it and in the
breadth of it, for will give it un-
to thee. Separations :unto God al-
ways bring increa.sedlalessings and
new revelations of God to the soul;
having by the grace of God magnan-
imously yielded and in a sense taken
second place, God now confirms to
him the gift of the land with a: new
'statement that his seed should be, as
the dust of . the earth. In a later
appearing(Gen. xv, 5) the Lord told
hint that his seed shouR1 be as the
stars of heaven ; then. still later
(xxii, 17) , the Lord combined the
two, and in connection with his giv-
ing up* of 'Salle that his
seed should. be ns the Stars of heaven
and as th-e sancl which is upon the
sea . shore. Afterward the twofold
promise is divided and. the heavenly
part is given to Isaac. and the earth-
ly to Jacob (xxviii. 14). The first
ly to Jacob (xxvi, ;, xxyiii, 14).
'1`lar3 first becomes last and the last
first• and to my mind
refer to Israel 01121 the church,
through whom as Abraham's 'earthly.
and heavenly seed God will
all n;iti on s . ese two coiupanics
of the redeemed niny be leen in Gan.
i and ; on the fourth day sun,
moon and stars are for signs, and
'Ter. xxxi, 85, 86 tells us that they
are signs or tokens that .Israel is al-
ways 0 nation before God : Eph.
v, , 82 we note that, Adam and
Elva are typical of Christ, and the
church.
19, "Then Abram; removed his
Lent and came and dwelt in the plain
of Marnre, is 111 fie111.011, and
1)11i1 1, 111010 an altar un'to the Lord,"
1-Tebron vy'ls 1 cottaltry, for Caleb
said to Joshua, Give me this maim --
end •Tlebron been1110 his inherit -
01100 (JOghlla ,X1V, 12-15) ; this plain
to die. ' One day, in the quick revo-
lution of machinery his life was in-
stantly clashed. out. What is the se-
.
and the ctuartette may sing like four 11001? She is With annOYing tug
ange18, in ,the orga0 lofte bat your '..nalang tile half of a miserable liv-
1-Ier two children have been
death will 1)e u, swindle. 'Vou the
taken n,way from her in order that
recent: to provide for the "comfert of
tliey may be clothed and schooled,
and her life is to be a prolonged
h ardship. . 0 hlan., 'Oaf Ore f or ty-
eight 11011)r5 have passed away appear
at the desk of some of our great life
insurance cbm p an GS , or One of our
Lord will take care of MY" f01111137, fraternal societies, have the stetho-
iYeS, he IVH 1 vioe for the]n. That scope of the:physician put to your
heart and „lungs, and decree that
your children shall not be subjected
16 the humiliation of financial strug-
gle in 'the darIl day of, your demise.
your household when, you left it, and
yon wickedly neglected it.
011 !" says some 0130, ." I have
anore faith than you ; I believe
W11111 I go out of this world the
frail and very costly. We are new
18, Ile provides for them through
public charity. As for tuyself, 1
would rather have the Lord provide
for my family in a private hoine,
and through nay own industry, and
paternal and conjugal faithfulness.
But says smile inan; "1 mean In the
next ten or twenty years to make a
groat fortune, and So 1 shalj leave
my family, whet I go out of this
world, very coinfortehle." /Tow do
you 1<003(3 you are going to live telt
or twenty years ? If we could 10011
up the' walk of the fature We would
see it crossed by plieuntonins and
plenrisies and consimiPtiOhs and 001-
liding rail trainS 111111 runaway hors -
sufficiently advaneed in the design of
flYing machines to perceive some of
their limitations. They will be cern-
paratively small and cranky, require
nauch power, carry little extra
weight, ,an.d depend for their effect-
ive speed, on each journey, whether
they go against ,the wind `or with it,
so that, they cannot„, compete with
existing ino`d,cs' ol transportation ..in
cheapness or in carrying capacity.
It is trute that high S.peecls may be
attainedp and this may servo in war,
in exploration, perhapS in mail
transportation, and in -sport ; but
the loads will be very sraal„ ` and
the expenses will be great.
But flying machines will develop
new pses of their own, and as man-
kind has alwaYs been benefitted • by
the introduction of new and faster
inodes of transportation, we may
hope that successful aerial naviga-
tion • will spread civilization, knit
the nations closer together, make
all regions aecessible, ancl perhaps
so equalize the hazards of war es to
abolish it altogether, thus bringing
about the predicted era, of universal
peace and good will.
SLIPS BY GREAT ATTI-IORS.
Most Amusing' Blunders of Fam-
ous Writers.
When Mr, Anthony Trollope pic-
tured Andy Scott as "coming whist-
ling up the street with 001101 in his
mouth" he not only proved that lie
had never xnade personal experiment
of the double feat of smoking a ci-
gar and whistling a tune, but he
was unconsciously following in the
steps of still greater writers who
make their heroes, do amazing and
impossible things.
Thmse who remember their 13..obin-
son Crusoe may recall a most won-
derful feat of this hero of childhood.
When he decided to aliandon 1110
Wreck and try to SW1111 ashore he
took the precaution to remove all
his clothes, and yet by .soine strange
magic, of which the secret has been
-lost, the authoe makes him, when M.
this condition of Nature, fill his
pockets with bisncuits.
'r.l'he great, 'Shakespeare himself had
a peculiar facility -for making. the
impossible happen in his plays, 0110
of • the most remarkLible of these
feats occurs in ' the fifth act of
"Othello," when Desdemona, after
she has been duly smothered by the
Moor, comes to lire again and enters
into conversation quite rationally,
even inventing a generous falsehood
to shield him from the consequences
of his crime, before she decides to
die. The improbability of a person
recovering consciousness „and speedh
after bethg smothered, and of dying
18,..‘frte10•0pdesrlhoornathitiitglgrstoicuht,. a feat, scarce -
Shakespeare, too, had, a trick of
introducing the most glaring an-
achronisras-so glaring, in fact, that
there is more than. a superstition
that they must have been introduced
consciously for
A G001) STJGG.ESTION.
am tempted to ..steal, --to
steal a kiss.
511e-011, don'tl ft's wicked 16
steal. Let me lend you a few.
The highest eloods lie at 27,000
feet; 'Mount Everest; IS 2,9002 feet.
The highest recorded baltion asee(1t
is 86,000' feetn. • • '
WORLD'S BIGGEST TEMPLE,
The French Government is now 'en-
gaged in the restonttion of what,
has been called "the.greatest temple
ever built or the face of the earth.,"
This is the temple of 1(arnalt, in
Egypt, which for over 3,000 years
has been falling into ruins. Origin°
ally the temple was 370 ft. wide and
1,200 ft. long, or .twice as large as
St. 1?eter'8 in 'RomeIt was begun
2,700 years .before Christ, :10(1 e as
more 111011 a thousand years in.
building. Six 01012 with extended
arms can,- hardly reach around one
of the gigantic pillars still remain-
ing
,
They were loolting at their first
baby. With such a. naassive head as
that, said theadoring mother, he
will be a statesman. 'VVith.. 511011 113115
-
sive feet, said the rtiore practical
father, 110 is pretty sure to be a po-
liceman.
Mr. Wreclink (the 0111 13o,ok-keeper)
"-To-clay marl:s na37. fortieth yenr of
service witli .you, Sir,' M?. Hicies-4
was ttware of it, .Mr. Wrodink, anci 1
arranp;,ed a little surprise fer 'you.
Talce tiliS ,alarrn 016611, with any best
wishes 4r your continued punctual-
-SONIE PEERAES-.
ROMANTIC SOURCES 0
01' THEM,
Gallant Rescue and Its Reward—
l'rivial. In.eid.ent Won a
Peerage
A FEW
T1101'0. 1110 few pages ill fiction.
more reinarltalale Or fascinating than
the Stories of the origin of some of
1110 British peerages,, raany of whjoji
1.1.4,30 their descent, from romautic
sources, ranging . from a love ro-
mance 1,,,c) a lottery says Lonciali
t-13 its .
SOME UNKNOWN REASON.
For instance" he makes a clock
strike in ancient Rome at a time,
more than a thousand years befne
clocks. were invented, when such an
even, wc1Vd certainly have. been the'
eighitii wiincler of the world.
Quite regardless of the evidence of
geography, he transports ,..11oliemia
to' the seaside; 'and he introduces a
printing -press long before the days
A eenturY or so ago., there was liv-
ing in Dublin, Luke White, dealer in.
second.hand books and keeper of a
lottery office. One day, so the story
runs, on looking through 0 second-
hand book that had reed -fitly 001110
11110 his possession, he found be-
tween tWO • of its leaves a lottery
ticket, which he was WiSO enough not
to part with. .4s inek ‘vould have
it, the ticket won a very valuable
prize, Nvhicl‘ at once placed its own-
er ill a position of influence. "i'llree.
of his sons becathe army colonels
and members of Parliament, and the
youngeet of them W118 created Baron
Annaly in 1863-a peerage which is
held to -day by ft captain in the
Sdots. Gmards, who, •li4e his fortun-
ate ancestor, bears the lucky name•
of ''Luke White.'' • '
A GALLANT Inor,,D.
of Gutenberg. He calmly introclueesa
a billiard table into.Cleopatra's palj
•ace,"'ancl Makes cannon familiar to
King J,ohn and his barons. •
Thaekeray was no mean rival to
Shakespeare in vagaries of this kind;
but in his case they appear to have
been the result of pure carelessness
and forgetfulness. The most flag-
rant case, perhaps, is where, after
burying Lady Kew and C'ffectively
dismissing ,her from the story, he
brings her to life again to help him
out with his plot, and in other cases
his eapacity-for mixing up the nam-
es of his characters is sas confusing
as it is wonderful.
Emile Zola, in spite of laiS careful-
ness,,makes the astonishing state-
, .
ment in one of his nOvels ("Lour-
des")' that the deaf and dumb re-
covered their hearing and sight, an
client which savours very much of
the miraculous.
The moon has innocently been ,the
cause of nrueli blundering on the part
of authors. Wilkie Collins, in some
Mystericius fashionn-nade it rig° on
one important occasion in the west;
'Rider Haggard, in t:King Solomon's
Alinee," contrives an 'eclipse • of. the
new Moon fed- the benefit of .his
readers, and Coleridge ingeniously
places a star between the horais ef
the creseent moon as she rises 111 the
east.
Any one who chenced to be pass-
ing a,t the time over London bridge -
one day in the seventeenth century
might have witnessed a gallant deed,
performed by a young uppren,tice..
Young 1adY fah 10(111110 the river,
and was. in imminent danger of"
drowning, when she was re8ctied by
a youth, who bravely plunged into -
the river and With, hrought
her uncongcions to the shore. The -
gallant young rescuer WeS Edward
Osborne, an apprentice te *a worthy'
draper on; London bridge, and the,
rescued girl WaS the d'a ugh Ler and
heiress of his employer. Such a ro-
mantic episode could Imve but one:
appropriate. issue. Edward Osborne
-
married the girl Ile had saved frcen
death, succeed i to her a titer's ,
wealth and business, and founded the,
noble family of which George Godol-
phin OSborne, Duke of Leeds, Mar-
quis, Ea.r1; Iiiscount and Baron, is.
present hea.d.
A .'PRINCESS FAIINTEI).
One °cloning in the early years 01
1110 seconcl George, when, a certain
beautiful and wealthy lady W0 be- -
Mg carried in her Sedan chair to
Drury Lane theatre, she was seized.
with a sudden attack of faintness.
Fortunately at the moment her phair
waS stopped opposite the situp of -
0110 Hugh Smithson an apothecnry
into which the fainting' heireSs
carried. •'The courteous .ministraTe
. • ,
tions the young chemist, together' '
with his handsome exterior, made- ,
such a favorable' impression on his43
-
patient that she sought another op-
portunity of seeing him, aed tints.
cornmeneed intinnecy -which ended
hi their maavittge in 1710.. ',Ito this•
romantic incident, it is said, the -
Dukes of Nortliumberland -owe their
titles and vast estates, the first e1-
.
their many titles of peerage dating
some nine years later than this sing-
ular alliance.
More than thirty years after this.
romance of Drury Lane the first
stone of the family fortune of the
earls of Eldon was laid when John.
Scott, the young Newcastle student,
took it into his head to elope with
Miss Surtess, the rich• banker's
daughter, and race with her over
the border in defiance of pursuing
parent. That ininaw ay journey was.
really the first, stage on the way to
the woolsack, and to the ranks of
baron,. viscount, and earl, which are
'borne to -day by his descendant, .'the
third earl, who, 'like his romantic",
progenitor, bears the name of John
Scott. '
IT WON HIM A TITLE.
It was a trivial incident that won
ity,
A WHITE CITY.
Archangel Only has Three -Months
Summer and Sun Shines
C o ntinual 13r.
For three months in the winter
Archangel, now to .become the great
'western port Of -Russia, scarcely sees
the sun, and for three months in the
summer seldom loses sight of it. Yet
there is no city in the whole of Eur-
ope Which lies for so many months -
for the greater part .01 the year, in
'fact -under a mantle of snow ; and
because of , this, the Russian fondly
calls it, "The White City."
White, too, it is in other ways.
All th.e chief buildings glare with
white blinds. The churches -and in
a Russian city there are not few-
,
are also of pure white.; only the
cupolas are green, and the crosses
on their summits gold. And white
are.the private houses of the better
sort except where Norwegians and
Germans live, for bluff ancl blue and
red then streak and diaper the pine
walls and edge the gable ends. But
street -posts, gates, pillars, 'walls,
fences -these are all white. And in
the 8111001e1', for every official you
see in a bine or gray tunic, you see
ten in white caps and white uni-
forms.
Bright color alone is left to the
Wromen and chinldren ; pink blouses,
green skirts, scarlet petticoats,
orange aprons, and blue kerchiefs
are common enough ; while 0 group
of children will alWeys look like a
'cluster of old English flowers. But
otherwise, in summer as in winter,
thi s ,0 I d city of Archangel, 110211 des-
tined to be the capital of a new
Russia in 1,130 11001' WOSt, is a White
City indeed.
ta peerage for Lord Lyndhurst., ,one
ofthe greatest of our lord chancel'
lors. In spite of his uncommora gifts •
and a great univerSity reputations
liad 13eerOcalled to the bar seVen
yeara,before a single brief came his
Way. He ,was on the. point of
abandoning his profession in despair
when, whilesitting in court one day,
one of the counsel engaged in n case
was taken Seriously ill; and the 'case
seemed' likely to collapse. This was
John Singleton Copley's opportun-
ity. To the relief of the court and
the plaintiff's solicitor he volunteer-
ed to take the departed,counsel's
place, and conducted the case so
brilliantly that he not only secured
a verdict, but achieved by one leaP
a reputation whieh soon placed him
on the right road to the woolsack.
More than ONO C0/11,111105, ago a
Smithfield hosier, called Rider, had
taoclepvteitr in8t0012 NtV1111:111611111110'0171,aWShailliexi°thuse
boy was resoulte to be aaawyer. So
obstinately was the point contested
between father and son that it b
gam to seena maibable that, the be
would have become a hosier like 11
father 111 default, of a solution. For
tunalely the matter was submitted
for final settlement to ,an old friend
01 1.120 family, who plumped in favor
of the law, and thus the Aady was
started on a career which led to the
highest seat in the beneh and to the
foundation of the fortunes of the
Ryders, earls. Of :Flarrowby. '
The forests of Elreat 'Britain are
valiled at .02,000,000, those of the
United 12,tates at £:L12, 000,000
GIGANTIC FORTUNE.
TIio 1743115 of Connecticut are silent
on the subject of the will of a mil-
lionaire named l'Iant, who has late-
ly left an estate of four millionS
sterling. The testator declares that
the estate is not to be distributed
until its value is 5800,000,000.,
Probably the law courts will bring
00111111011 sense to bear on the
31111,
and insure the distribution of the
$20,000,000 in hand rather than
wait for generations of quarrelling
ciievuers.th
‘e $300,0004000 in the bank.,
London public libra,h
ries ave over
five million n
voltnee P110))' joint
'issue l9 twenty-seven million volt