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THE OLE AND THE NEW.
IsT Tux Len REV. =KAT woos easetian.
"And the angel which I KM stand upon the
pea and uro the earth litual up his heed to
aeaven, ol swo,re by him teat axons for ever
everalerlio created heayen, and the things
at therein are, and the earth, and the things
at therein are, and the sea, and the things
Which are therein, that there thould be time UO
;011ger,"—Rev, x. 5, 6.
There is no other imagination so exalted as
that of the Revelator; awl although the
imagery. whieh abounds in the book of Reve-
littgins ts eery largely transferred from the
vmems of the prophets of the Old Testament
and reproduced, unlike the illustrations
there they are here woven together. There
are many elements of a grand picture now
brought into groups and into eonsecutive
developments. The scene is of the future.
The elements are the great powers of good
and evil. The Supreme Being, the heavenly
host, the conflicts of good and evil, those
wide -leaching influences which not only halt
the globe. but go through the universe itself
—these are the themes; and the elements by
whieh these are &emetically set forth are
not borrowed from any ignoble 'source. The
Revelatar dips his pencil nine eolours born of
the earth. Ilespealts of the sun, of the rain-
bow, and of the glory, the power, the
majesty, the might, and the terribleness
of the eternal God; WA these he paints in
colours harrowed from the realm. of Nature
tend from the heavenly edam No Dante
had such a conception mbis. No Dore in
hte wildest moods could toush the canvas
with melt magnificent fresco SS does the
Revelator, And even if we should fail, by
our eliallownees, to soma hs depth?, ; if
these wonderful ecenie effeete move so high
Above cur beads that they Seeln to us like
sounding donne in a night wbose movements
we hear, but of which we see eothing, never-
thelees they heve been through the ages the
inapiration and the comfort of IMMO of God's
noblest men and nwesengero.
"I saw another mighty angel come down
from heaven, clothed with a cloud; and. a
rainbow was upon his head, and, his face was
as a were the sun, and his feet as pillars of
fire; arid he had In his nand a little book
open and he set his right foot upon the
sen, and his left foot on the earth, and cried
with a loud voice, as wben a lion roereth
and when he had cried, gem thunders ut-
tered their voieen Awl when the seven
thunders bad uttered their voices, I WAS
about to write; and I heard 4 voice from
heaven saying unto me, Seal up those Mega
which the seven thunders uttered, and write
them not And the Angel which I soar stand
upon the eea, And upon the earth lifted tip
his band to heaven, and aware by Him that
liveth for ever and ever, who created beam -
en, and the things that therein are, And the
earth, and the thins that therein are, and
the sea, and the things which are therein,
that there should be time no longer."
Can anything be more sublime, can any-
thing be more mysterious, can anything
infix itself in the imagination with more
power And fruitfulness than this method of
delineating the Divine pelves° by this
declaration which is fulfilled in every age,
in every aide of years, yea, in every year
1 teen ?
There is something sublime in those
celestial movements which measure out, time
to men. Days and nights are eviaently the
result of, eauees which are uppercut to our
senses. We appreciate, therefore, this
division of time. bummer and winter bear
their own evidences with thorn.
But what are the signs of the termination
of the year? The year itself is a period
that, when completed, utters no cry. It is
nothing that oppresses the senses as dark-
nees dims. It styes evidence of its corning
and of its going byno hand like the summer's,
bearing Ireasures. The year—that great
period of' time in which the earth moves
around the sun—begins silently, journeys
silently, goea back to its starting -point
silently ; and yet it is an event of tremend-
ous magnitude ; and the contents of it are
innumerable and incomprehensible. The
mesh of life, the weaving together of events;
the vast outplay of intelligence, of emotion,
of will ; the great checkered movements
across the face of human life upon the globe,
in tlMforest, in the field, in the city, among
the barbarous, among the civilized, among
the heathen, and among the Christian ; the
complexes of life—these are simply unut-
terable and inconceivable.
There goes
THE OLD MACHINE, "
ivorking without noise. There sails the
great hulk, without clink, without grind,
without any sound, which is bearing forth
In the universe results which are incomper-
elle and immeasurable. And the move-
ment of the year—the globe accomplishing
Het circuit around the central orb—the
more one thinks of this annual
journey, and of the conditions under which
It is being performed, the more impressive it
Is. And, surely, if it were only for the year
there would be nothing incongruous or inap-
propriate in this vision of the Apocalyptic
seer. There would be something eminently
proper in beholding a cloudy figure descend-
ing upon the earth, and, like some radiant
angel, covering the hemisphere, and stand-
ing with one foot upon the sea and
one upon the land, the feet being
like piers of fire, and the head being
as a flame, snrrounded by a rainbow; there
would be something eminently proper in
hearing a voice that was like many thunders
leclaring when the earth had come again to
Its appointed bounds and starting -place for
',nether year, "One year more is ended,
ind for that time shall be no longer." And
yet though we do not behold the vision'
though there is no personal angel for us to
see, the event is just as majestic, the history
Is just as comprehensive, and the details are
just as important as if they had been register-
ed aftproclaimed with all dramatic cireum-
stela", upon so vast and so illustrious a
theatre., .
At every annual revolution one period of
time is consummated. The old year passes.
When the year is rounded and cut off, it
goes backward, as it were; but it is not ex-
tinguished. The year may he said to have
taken form, and it may be said to go, freight-
ed, out frone our consciousness upon a voy-
ege of its own. It requires no stretch of the
Imagination to conceive of it as hav-
ing passed through its appointed sphere,
1,S havinggathered all the way
ihe experience's of the race, as
being -severed from the continuous
chitin otime, and as about to make a sepa-
rate and speedy voyage of its own, bearing
what contents it may. And what are
the contents, w let is the freight, what is
the cargo ot the year that has just left us
end gone to report itself at the harbor of
Giel? Look at the race comprehensively,
ea, conceive hew many levee have pass-
ed away during that year. Conceive that
there are dying daily thousands and thou-
sands of men! There are two lines—one
coming in and the other going out. There is
the cry of birth, and there is the muteness
of death. They follow each other round and
round the globe perpetually. Millions and
milliens who began the year twelve months
ago have ceased to breathe,and are no more,
so far as this world is concerned, than the(1virtue and morality mad piety. The Church
withered leaves of last autumn. Where are , teaches, the Church pointethe way ; but tbe
the brilliant colours of the maple I Where isilworking OUt of a, man s virtue ie beyond the
the rueset of
Where th
the hickory and the oak ?I:limits of the Church ; and there is but one
aree flowers that have bloomed:method by can have the high-
during the year? A.nd where are the hopes, ' which a manest benefit, and that is througb a conseera-
where are the ambitions,
of youthmiddrer4 the joys, !thin of his occupations to virtue and man
, of ife, of age, and of old age? hood,
Into that year has been poured, a vast Lamm So I ask for
of human i
life '• and it 14 beingborne away s.
again. The host of the dead is nnumerable.e THE CONSECRATION.
The year has removed from off the globe (.1i: /a:"Ar avocations. I ask you, merchant,
millions and millions and millions that 1 you will mak e mere andi s
li e a means of
were as you are, and that perhaps grace. I ask you, mechanic, %it you set
are as you speedily will be, And !verb and consecrate your industries to the
of those who have been borne away jam intent of !), nobler soul -life ? I tak of Shier
the shores of time and launched into that are in the most servile positrons, Will
the eternities, there were sweet babes, you accept that relationship winch has been
there were beautiful youths, there were a.pponated for you in the providence of God,
in -
loving
of rep
companions, and there were rmeltnot for thePurpose uf nionrnhig,
and radiant rem and women who had mg, and of contention, but for endowment
attained a ripe old age. Some event by the of a worthier and nobler manhood ? I ask of
earthquake ; some went by the thunder-. those Who are appointed to study, Will you
stroke ; some went bleeding and broken from instead of being puffed up by knowledge.
the battle -field ; some went from hods of sick -make it the handmaid of virtue? and will
ness; some perished under the assassin's stab; you bacome more yadiant and beautiful by
some were burned in the hideous confla ra-thet. g yourdaily
tion ; and some plunged headlong with ire „ , 1 ask those .ho ale eslled to '
disaster from the c.athem,
r that sped as they I Will '
you be faithful to the duties of your
thought, to their earthly home. In every qthere by making the beat ma Passible a
way that life can end life has ended during tue elements that, come under your band
the year that is past. And oh, if it were in every day ? I ask the lawyer, Will you.
the power of the imagination to can out of while yo 1 adinienter justice to others, ai.
darkness the vision of those that ere gone— minister justice to yourself? I ask the phy-
the army of the demi ; tae hoary -headed ; the sielan, Will you, while you are healing other
haggard -faced ; the crouching slave aria the Calks" hedies2 see that the sickness a your
own ma is medicate4 ? I ask parenta, Will
imperious deapot ; the happy and the rich ;
the wretehed elecl the groaning ; if WO you, he more worthy to guide your children
than ever before? I ask children, Will yon
could see the crawling, the limping, the
leaping, the ever -flying =Wattle, hew inure illustriously than ever before tidal the
strange the scene would be 1 Wrapived Mel duties of final love?
up in the passage of the year 1r mt carne, what will you write down foryour-
dramaa there are 2 'What wonderful ViSioUS •eelf at the beghlumg of the Ye" ? Win
you writel " I will hive the Lard my God
would men behold if it were even to them
ou write, " I will love y
as it was to the Revelator to picture the in- thte MWill r 2 '
;e .
visible and bring it up in reel forms—forms inneighbor as myself ?" PauseThink.
of glory ; frame of power ; forma of suffering 1/' het a seuteuee A that 1 'i11 Y"" not
weakness ; forme grotesque ; forma sublime take it Illian You ? Is it not just and right
—wbet a wild aua strauge mixtureof thins
tui,i.1 good ? Ought not every man to do It ?
would they see perpetually going on in the 18 III you write, " I willlove my God this
history of the race
year as never before, and I will love my
?
0 happy young man I 0 joyous maiden! "%id)" " mYsell?" Will you undertake to
if you can look through your oul and
do it in spiteall cireutnetances and against
sfind
that all there ia every hid ndrance ? Will you begin- to do it
SIC= WELL ATTUNED.
If /oohing through your life at home there
now ? ill you seek out something by
which you eau satisfy yourself that you haVe
begun .
is nethieg that you wool fain bare ,j Will you put away something? Will you
the house—no epectre ; skeletm in the
closet, If looking into yourself you see
nothing that binders, nothing that mars. If
all is =cue in your soul; all is wholesome
in your body; all is sweet and beneficent in
your cocial eurroundiegn. Tben draw near
with me and leek upon the year that goes
out burdened with other men's sins and
crimes, and say, "T bless God that I have
take Oil something a VS all eon awe yin:: :es
luotant zeal to perform that wide') ia right ?
Will you give token to Gad that you NICAU
to belietter this year then you lustre been in
any other year ? Oh, these sweet and drowsy
eentimentalities in which men indulge
How pleasant it is to thiek of chiming belts!
How deli haul itis in ourdevotionsto think
of angels listening to our thoughts and feel -
nothing to send away," ings, and bearing them away 2 How glori.
Let 'the year go. Let it bear the sine and
the miseries of the race, and aura. Let it,
carry away our mistakes and our transgres.
atone. 'We alien meet them all too soon.
They are not to be sunk in the sen; for no
deed done on earth ever perished. No volt -
tion ever spends itself. The life of man, and
the life of the globe on which lie dwells, will
amigo their forms; but thesubstanee there-
of remains, and never can be destroyed. .All
that, wo have been, and all that Woare to the
heat moment we shall know about again,
by-and-by, either for joy or for woe.
Deeply laden, black in the hull, thadowea
by.olouds, ber sails filled, the old ship is
going out of the harbour ; and meeting her,
a ship of light,eurved, as it were, like the
now moon, audlikeherradiant, there comes
in the new year. How fresh, how buoyant,
how beautiful is that new year in which' you
are to bopassengers—tho new year which
is to begin to take on something from you,
something from thentitions, something from
governments, something from cities, some-
thing from the country, something frone the
wildernessasoracthing from the household,
something-irom the store, something from
the shop, something from the ship, some-
thing from the Area, something nem the
field, something from the high and from
the low, something from the rich and from
the poor, something from all men, as con-
tributions. What will you put upen the
new year? Will you accept now the open-
inAyear in a larger spirit, with a clearer
vision, with a more manly purpose than
that with which you ever accepted any of
the years that have preceded it? Let me
not too closely follow the figure : will you
not in the year that is to come make
your own self -development, instead of
self-indulgence, an object of supreme im-
portance, as you never have before? To a
large extent we all live for the pleasure of
the hour. A limited pleasure for the trim-
sient hour is our privilege; but to dwell in
the pleasure of the hour is no muds privil-
ege and is self-indulgence. We are not in
this life to be pleasure -seekers. Not only
are we to seek nobler ends outside of our-
selves, but we are to seek nobler ends in-
side of ourselves; and pleasureis incident
to the main object of our life.
There are a great many of you wbo have
been borne through the last year as sick
men are, and, as prisoners are, coerced. It
has hardly been given to you to say what
you would be or what you would do. By
the power of habit, by the force of public
sentiment, and by your social surroundings,
you have been carried on. To some of you
who have walked through the year it has
been a weary round. You have been part-
ly carried, and partly you have carried
yourselves • and you have been creatures
very largely of .circumstances; mid for the
most part you -have sought the development
of things without rather than your own
self -development.
Have you during the last year been more
seriously thoughtful of how to make honour
broader; of how to make truth clearer and
parer in yourself; how to live with more
simplicity and more sincerity; how to bear
your burdens in a more manly spirit; how to
work out virtue upon virtue, and achieve-
ment upon achievement ; how to be more
fruitful of joy itself, which; reflecting from
you, becomes the joy of others? Will you
at the beginningof the year which has dawn-
ed upon you, determine by the help of God
that it shall be a year of self -development?
And if this be your purpose, is it a purpose
merely of fugamous feeling? or are you ser-
ious? and will you begin at once the regis-
tration of this purpose? and will you begin
to carry -it out? Will you begin to develop
more soul culture ; more richness of heart;
more knowledge for the head; more skill
in the hand ; more love, not toward your-
self but toward others? And if so will you
enter now upon the consecration of yourself
to all those methods by which God works
out manhood in men?
I do not ask you whether you will in the
new year avow that you will enter upon a
reformation which , simply includes the
observance of the Sabbath a,nd attendance
upon the services of the Church. The
Church is an instrument of teaching;
but life outside of the Church is more im-
portant than the Church itself. As I read
the economy of God, it is be the cares and
labours and duties of the household, it is
in the operations of the shop, it is in the
traffic of thestore itis in the wholestrifeand
enterprise of men working with each other,
that God trains and drilla them to practical
ous it IS to sings in sweet, symphonious ac-
cord, these hymns of sentimentality 2—alt
of wbielt are well enough if they aro the at.
mosphere of songs more solid, more cogent,
and more imperative. I ask not that you
should dispossess yourself and your experi-
ence of sentiment ; but I ask that smitiment
should work choice, that choice should pro-
duce action, and that action should take
hold upon character and life.
I am speaking to
TEE DEAD. -
Come, up! Rause you eself, 0 man 1 Rire
God knows that you shall never see another
year's end. I am speaking in the open face
of men who shall not again come to a New
Year. In the midst of life, are you? Strong,
are you Are you stronger than they were
who perished by the hundred in the flame?
safer than they were who plunged engulfed
in the dreadful massacre of the train? Are
you more secure than the men whom tile
fever elm AS with the stroke of the sword.?
I am speaking to the anointed. On your
head I see the muffled crown. You are
marked for death. To you there is but one
more left—nor all of that. A few months at
most have you remaining; and what you do
you must do quickly, whether it be for your-
self, for your household, or for your kind.
Times presses; ited all ye that mean to cast
away the frivolity, the vanity, the folly, the
sins, the aims, tho hideous evils of the
past; ye that have einned away the year
that is gone, and AM about to enter Kim a
new yam with renewed virtue and with re-
newed piety, begin at ouce ! There is no time
to spare: for to many of you the angel is lift-
ing up the hand commissioned of God, and
"For you time shall be no more."
And may God in Ilia infinite mercy grant
that when to you and to me shall come the
fulfilment of that annunciatinn, and time
shall be no newo, you may as I will,
rejoice as the thread is out, and we launch
away to iny God and to your God. lam not
afraid of God. I am not afraid of the Lord
Jesus Christ. I am not afraid of hell. Tam
not afraid of losing heaven. I dwell in the
arms of eternal love. I am ripening in the
suinmer of love. The flavour and the lustre
that come with the fruit tell the story of the
sun; and• my soul knows that it is of God
from the flavor and the colour; and I am
not afraid to go to Him. I am not reluctant
to yield up this place where for thirty years
I have stood to make known Christ and the
Gospel. I am not afraid nor unwilling to
leave the happiness, and the fidelity, and
the affection unparalleled of loving friends,
and to say, "Farewell 2" at any hour. When
God wills, I will. To depart and be with
Christ is better; though for you it may be
more needful that I should remain.
It is much easier to reconcile an enemy
than to conquer him ; victory may deprive
him of his poison, but reconciliation of his
will.
President Harrison last week issued a
proclamation formally eating the seal of the
Government on the Chicago World's Fair,
announcing that the fair will be opened on
May 1st, 1893, and inviting 'alt nations"of
the earth" to take part in it.
John P. Matthews, the Republican post-
master at Carrollton, Mo., was shot by W.
S. McBride yesterday. The two were hunt-
ing for each other with Winchesters, and
McBride secured the first shot, which proved
fatal.
That the substance is more than the
form, and that a usage which has lost its ad-
aptation to the time and people who observe
it, should be cast away, is a truth which
mankind are slow to learn. It seems, how-
ever, that the American Jews have awaken-
ed to this important fact, and though the
change involves the doing away of a custom
hoary with age, are moving in the direction
of altering their ritual so as to render their
services more intelligible to the English-
speaking worshippers. A despatch from
Cincinnati states that the committee ap-
pointed at the Central Rabbinical, Confer-
ence at Cleveland last July to formulate a
ritual to be used by all the Jewish syna-
gogues in the United States met here, and
has agreed upon the following plan :—The
Sabbath and holyday prayers will be so re-
cast as to be in accordance with the modern
conception of Judaism, so that while retain-
ing the striking and typical sentences in
the Hebrew; the greater .part of the service
willbe in EnglisheasSpeeral forms of prayer
will also be added or special occasions, such
as marrieges, funerals, confirmations, VAS -
over celebrations, eto."
The present indications
show a tendencaj
to make trimmings more upright and Ing
than they helm been of late. On the boat -
shape hats the birds bristle upwards as if
about to fly. Ail kinds of effeete requiring
ostrich tips and full plumes will be worn,
the return to. these feathers being very de-
eided. Wioe outside bands and an immense
use of bias velvet in tin:Taming are certain,
and overdue straight orsquere crowns velvet
will be laid in soft folds and. waved puffings.
For the velvet toques, roses of bright pink
and yellow will be used. The velvet for
ties is cut bias attached at the side.
On a hat of b 1 I 'P Pa
ly matching and partly of a pale rose color,
one of which -curls down over the hair at
the back. In order to display the very else
gent plus now used in the hair some shapes .
are cut off at the back.
For an eldarly lady a bonnet of blaelr vels
vet has a projecting brim which ehades the
face, and over it droop feather. The back
is not turned up nor cut off, but, straight.
The hats for bridesmaids will be either
'Wiens or Golushorough, which last shape, -
Although no longer called by that name, has
always been a favorite for weddin and is so
Ai. 1. The crown is low and greatly concealed "
by the Weaning. As lately set forth by
the shape of the bride's hat for traveling is,
smell and has ita crown eulte holden by
feather tips.
Shaded feathers, especially in reds and
be
k greens shading lo light, will worn.
:Mingled with them are the stiffer wings of
rho still much-111ml blaelthird, the cock,
and the sea -gull as well as the dove. In
fact, as the birds, fashion seems to
be melting up for baying somewhat
uegleeted them for a time. Even
emetics and swallowa are used, the first on
reception awl theatre toquee.
A novel and pemlier hat of felt has a
etraight front, bias folds of matehing velvet,
and over the erown broad ends of velvet
which form three wings imitating those of a,
bird, and are late forward in a somewhat
high effect and held by an eagle's claw in
metal.
Nina, USA will be made of the natural
ostrich feathers, as alas of metal galloon.
The big artiatic or picture hate as they
are veiled, in felt and bea,ver bave the
plumes arranged in midi a way as to spread
carelessly over the cromeofteu fallingliesrand
the brim at their ends, and mealy =tan-
sres hanging 50 fax beyond, the brim at the
back as to loosely encircle the throat in the
novel and extremely pietnresque style firet
seen last year, and much liked for youthful
faceta These hats frequently show a 1113SS-
ing of feathers at the back, with Dana ViSibla
in front where bows of velvet are used.
The " beef -eater" crown is quite often
Simply surrounded by feathers, without dis-
play of loops or bows, Then again, 4101111-
ler of small birds will he seen mixing with
the ostrich tire and either matching or in
brightly contrasting hues, as light green
with Mack or brown, yellow with black, or
red with dark blue.
On toques for theatre wear, some import-
ed examples show tiny parroquets billingand
cooing, as it were, or wrangling, more prob-
ably, after the manner of parraquots, and
mingling with them small flamingo wing.
The feathers of the lard -of -Paradise are
used on some inverted hate, in natural or
dyed effects. Uee is made of rich jet for
coronets, as also of fine jet galloon and
passententerie of the more delicate kind, as
ale° of flat metal braid in bronze, ;sold, and
silver as well as of steel. Red velvet
bonnets of the Duchess of Fife and toque
shape are quite covered with a very elegant
inish lattice -work tracery of fine cut jet,
e special piece being 115(1(1 when a coronet is
added to a raised brizn, as seen on. the
centradivided or folded velvet crown.
Ladiestfelts of assorted colors are trimmed
with fancy velvet, fancy feathers, and felt
braid.
Examples will he found of felt shapes
upon which soft velvet folds are laid over
the crown, held down by jewel -headed pins
and metal leaves, as of the holly, mistletoe,
aud laurel, laid forward of the velvet so as
to garnish the front of the brim. Velvet
facing.
A felt trammed with a velvet ribbon in
Persian pattern has soft folds held down by
pins toppea with coins anda 'willowfeather
healing over the right of the dented brim.
A shape with projecting brim cocked up
pointedly on the dented front has a rich
trimming of ribbon with half its width in
stripes of yellow and half in black, a small
bird at the back and. a cock's feather curled
backward from the front. On the edge is
box -pleated yellow satin ribbon beyond a
pleating of black velvet.
Small toque shapes are covered with Per-
sian designs in gold tracery of great delicacy
and have, in addition to this elegant decor-
ation, a simple crushed puff on the front, as
in the picture of the Duchess of Fife shape,
a small bird of bright color or a bunch of
aigrette feathers or of gold wheat. Such
bonnets are suited to theatre parties or recep-
tions.
Small coronet shapes witb folds of velvet
and a wreath of velvet flowers or leaves over
which a drapery of lace is thrown, Spanish
fashion, are worn by middle-aged ladies to
reception or for morning visits.
We have already spoken of the ribbon set
withje waled nail -heads and now used for win-
ter trimming.
Never was there a handsomer display of
all kinds of material for millinery. The
only difficulty is in choice among so much
that is attractive.
The very large hats and very small bonnets
are the two present extremes of the mode.
MILLINERY, INTERESTING ITEMS.
Clerical Appeal for the North-West.
OTTAWA, Jan. 14.—Bishop Grandin, of St.
Albert, has issued an appeal to the aarish
priests of the Province of quoin°, be which he
asks them to use their influence in inducing
French-Canadian Catholics, who desire to
emigrate, to make their future home in the
Canadian North-West, instead of going to a
strange land. The North-West of Canada,
the bishop says, was discovered chiefly by
French-Canadians, whose missionaries had
brought out to those regions the blessings of
Christianity and eivilizationsend he deplores
that so few of their descendants have gone
there to take advantage of the opportunities
that are placed within such easy reach of
hem.
Another Effect of the MoKinley Bill.
Epstein—" Ve are going to haf our tin
vedding, my vife and me, next Monday
night. Ve vould be glad if you und your
vife come ofer and spent der efening vie
Oppenheimer—" Your tin vedding? Vas
you married ten years ?"
Epstein—" No, ve is nearly married fife
years."
Oppenheimer—"My poy, dot vas a vooden
vedding.in fife years, not a tin vedding."
Epstens—" Yes, I know, but me and
•Leals vould ruder hef onr tin vedding first
for tin vas pin' to be bretty high on agount
dot.MeGinley hill. —tAn'scrica.
Dom Pedro's throne was recently sold at
auction in Rio de Janeiro for $400.
Blackening the nose and cheeks under the
eyes has been found an effectual preventive
of snow blaednees, or the injurious effect Of
the glare from illuminated snow upon eyes
unaccustomed to it.
The baloois proposed for polar explore -
tons is 99 feet in diameter and 500,040 cubic
feet in volume. The journey will be from
Spitzbergen, and with a favorable wind will
last four or five days.
'The Jewish population of France, in-
cluding Algiers, is about a bemired and
thirty thousand. Of these over a. third live
re Paris, where they have their own educa-
tional and charitable institutions brought to
a high degree of perfection.
le has been suggested that the study of
the influence of ,lie e and habit upon the
odour of hair in different mations of men
may entree discoveries by whieb the colour
of the hair in the human race may be modi-
fied by judielons treatment.
A rug valued at $5,000 was boughe be
London lately. It was about thirteen feet
square md bed about 258 stitches to the
inc. The material was wool eonahed, not
cut, from the =mai, and worth more than
its weight in silk.
The wholesale price of whalebone is now
$10,000 a ton. A project is on foot to or-
gauize whaling expeditious from Australia
to the Antarctic ACAS. where It is believed
plenty of whales are to be found. It ban
almost untouched whaling ground.
Tbe chief ludustry of Zanzibar ana Pemba
is clove -growing. i he tree was introduced
in 1830, aud ti e harvest this year is expected
to be 13,000,00 pounds, at an average local
value of ten centa pound. A text -year-old
tree is capable of yielding twenty pounds of
cloves; trees of twenty years often yield up-
ward u(100 pounds.
NEW USES OP BLEOTRIOITY.
-
fildva ebealelY mid tinteltly Tanned by the
Agency or the current.
For sonie time past reports have been our-
reut as to the perfection, in France, of
method of taming by electricity, and the
Inat,,er has excited greet curiosity through.
out the country. This country is, as Amer.
is, one of the largeet leather -producing
ountries of the world, and bas ea fewer
than 3,000 or 4,000 tanning establishments.
Within the present month the process hao
Actually been experimented with au Amer-
ica, and the mutts are now ex aiting no
small amount of discussion and controversy
inleather circles. The process, which is Inc
invention of Worms at Bale of Paiis, has
been under trial abroad since 1efi7, in a WI'
nery in Perla, and another large tanneey has
been started fax the same purpose at Long-
jumem.
In this method the tanning ie expedited in
two wa-s. Fine by the agitation of the
skins in contact with the tanning liquor,
and secondly, by the passage of the electric
current. through the body of theliquid. To
attain these two ends A. eireular drum
is employed, and as the drum rotates
current IS passed through it by means
ofa wire brought to tenter:se at its
side. The skins, to undergo this procese,
are prepared in the ordinary way, the hair
being takaa off by Thee, and they are then
put into the drum with the tanning solution.
rite current to which they are subjeutea
averages about seventy to 100 volts, and the
direction of the current is changed every
twelve hours, so as to act equally on the
skins, which constitute the electrodes.
During the operation the liberation of gas
is insignificant, so that the hides may be
considered to not in the same way its the
plates of an accumulator. Goat and sheep
skins require onlyabout twenty-four hours
for complete tanning. Calf skins require
forty-eight hours. Cow, steer, and horse
hides require from seventy-two to ninty-six
hours, according to their texture. The
leather produced in this way has been ex-
amined by experts and is said to be of excel-
ent quality.
A LION'S PRISONER.
An African Kept MI a Rock tn111 the San
Itonated His Toes.
The following is told on the authority of a
well-known Cape missionary. A man hav-
ing sat down on a shelving, low rock near a
small fountain to take a little rest after Isis
hearty drink, fell asleep ; but the beat of the
rock soon disturbed his dreams, when he be-
held a large lion crouching before him, -with
its eyes glaring in his face and within little
more than a yard of his feet.
He was at first struck motionless with ter-
ror'but, recovering bis presence of mind, he
eyed his gun and began moving his hand
slowly toward it, whenthe lion raised its head
and gave a. tremendous roar, the same awful
warning bceng repeated whenever the man
attempted to move his hand. The rock at
length became so heated that he could scarce-
ly bear his naked feet to touch it. The day
passed and the night also, but the lion never
moved from the spot ; the sun rose again and
its intense heat soon rendered his feet past
feeling.
At menthe lion rose and walked to the
water, only a few yards distant, looking be-
hind as he went, lest the man should move,
when, seeing him stretch out his hand to take
his gun, it turned in a rage, and was on the
point of springing upon him. And another
night had passed as the former had done,
and the next day again the lion went toward
the water, but while there he listened to
some noise apparently from an opposite
quarter and disappeared in the bushes. The
man now seized his gun, but on first essay-
ing to rise he dropped, his ankles being with-
out power. At length he made the best of
his way on his hands and knees and soon
after fell in with another native, who took
him to a place of safety, and, as he expressed
it, with bis "toes roasted." He lost his toes
andwas a cripple forlife.
Measuring Niagara Falls.
A survey has just been made of Niagara
Fells, and the engineer's report has been
presented to the United States Commis -
stoners. It shows that the total mean reces-
sion of the Horseshoe Falls since 1742, when
the first survey was made, has been 104ft
6in. The maximum recession of the American
Falls is 30ft 6in., Tbe length of the crest
has increased from 2260ft to 3010ft by the
washing away of the embankment. The total
area of the secession of the American Falls
is 32,900 square feet, and that of the Horse-
shoe Falls 275,406ft.
Three Wieys of Describing It.
Two men, A. and B., met a third C., on
the street one day recently and halted him,
telling him they wished himtodecide agues -
tion under discussion.
"1 say,," said A., "that D. 's house burn-
ed down.
"And I say,' said 13., "that D.'s house
burned up."
"You are wrong, both of you," said C.,
"for I have it on good authoeity that D.
was burned out."
NO aux,
He Tried Inetteetualiy to Got 14 •r if*
*ono for marts irowstets.
A wise commander may eardoe the reck-
lessness of young soldiers, 1 ull4 anitaal
spirits, and ambitious tO distinguisa theta.
selves by deeds of daring. But he
frown upon the veteran whore, wax
of courage makes him foolhardy, wit
does not oblige him to expose hiteaelf.
Malortie tells of a Waterloo veteran, a
Volger, who did a very foolish thing in t
first Holstein campaign.
On the day before the storming of Dup.
pel, be was on duty in the teenchee. The
gallant Danes who defended Dup-pel ehot so
accurately that no Prussian dared look over
the earthworks. Suddenly, to the astonish-
ment of his officers, Col. Volger was aeen
riding his old gray mare up and down in
front of the earthworks, amid a shower of
4 bullets.
Thinking he bad gone to inspect the out.
posts, no one ventured to make a remark.
But when he passed for the third time the
t place where the officers had congregated be.
hind the breastworks, the senior captain
stepped out toad called :he coloriere attention
to his seedless expoeure, and entreated him
not to court death this reckleni manner.
The colonel grinned, thanked the captain
for his warning, and then explained his
conduct.
" There's no danger," said he " they are
pared 9f duffera ; can't sheet & bit; thoy
unse even roy old mere, though. I've treated
them to a splendid target. The mare is done
for ; that's the reason 1 home been walking
her up and down for the last quarter of an
hour. It's thirty pounda in my pocket if
they kill her, but I've no luck," (The gov-
eminent allowed thirty pounds to an °Meer
if his home was killed in battle.)
At that moment *bullet struck the eol.
onel's sward -belt, and, slippWg 04 0, anew°,
made the round of his portly waist, slightly
grazing the skin. The colonel shrugged
ahouldera, and unfasteued hie belt.
" Captain, you may be right," be said I
"it is eafer on the other side ; those fellows
are capable of missing the mare aud treating
roe to another idiot higher up. Only a foe*
lower and the mare would have bad it, and
I should have received thirty pounds. Pro-
voking, 'on uxy hosier 1"
Following the ce,ptaiu, he amyl,' roar into
the trenches, where he dismounted, and
patted the old mare saaing " 1 daie say
oho wou't be sorry le: be spared this time."
'Ile mare was not hit during the whole
campaign. On his return to Ifatiover, the
coheir) sold her. much to his disgust. for
eight pounds. She ended her days between
the shafts of a four -wheeler.
TEE AramAN PIGMIES.
How They Live in the Depths eV the Great
Forest.
Their villages, situated evader the impers
vious foliage of the largest clump of trees to
be found near the locality -where they pros
pose camping, struck us as being comfort.
able'snug, and neat. I have seen ninety*
twobuts in one of these villagers, arranged
in a circle of about fifty yards in diametee,
The pigmy camps are generally found at the
crossways, where two or more paths inter.,
sect, and =from two to three Miles distant
from agricultural settlements. Our oath:tit(
always lessened on meeting them, for tin(
more paths we found, the more we were ae,
mired of food, and the roads improved.
Sometimes these forestarillages were
planted midway between parallel linea ot
settlements, A short walk from our ening
through the woods, north or south, would
take us to. plantations large enorgh to sup-
ply a regunent 'with food. One time we
came to a group of dwarf villages whence a
broard path tux feet wide communicated
with another group three miles distant.
This road was°. revelation. It Wormed ut
that the tribe was more thanusually power.
ful ; that it was well establisher'; that tht
chief :possessed power, and was permitted to
exercise it. Outside of the great kingdom
of Uganda, we had not seen in Africa a cut
road longer than half a mile.
The huts in every pigmy camp were of
tortoise -back figure. The doortro.yswere nj
more than three feet high, and were place
at the ends, one being for daily nse, and Qui
other, which fronted the bush, for escape.
Those for constant conveniencelooked out on
the circular conunon and pointed to the cons
tre, where stood the tribal chief' s hut, ea
though the duty of every household was to
watch over the safety- of him who ruled the
community. We rarely found a hut higbi
than four feet six inches. In length they va
ed from seven to ten feet, while the widt
would be from four and a half feet, to seven.
Timbal appeared to be old -established camp
we found rough cots constructed, which were
raised a few inches above the ground, aften
the style of our own forest couches. Several
layers of phrynium leaves make a luxuriodi
bed.—From "The Pigmies of the Great
African Forest," by Henry M. Stanley, hi
January Scribner.
Coronets of Nobility.
French counts have nine equalapearls
their coronets. The British baron is entitl
to a coronet of four big pearls. The Engli
viscount has a coronet of seven pearls of evea
size. The earl's coronet shows Eve small
pearls and four strawberry leaves. The
English marquis is entitled to three straw7
berry leaves and two large pearls. French
marquises bear three strawberry leaves and
two clusters of three small pearls. French
viscounts are entitled to a coronet contain-
ing three large pearls and two smaller ones.
French barons are not entitled to a coronet;
but to what is called a tortil, a circlet of
gold having a necklace of tiny pearls turned
three times around it. The German prince's
coronet is very peculiar, with its graceful
curves of pearls, its ermine circlet and the
globe and cross, indicative of an imperial
grant. It is used in all countries on the con-
tinent, with or without the interior velvet
cap, awl is allowed only to descendants of
sovereign families or members of the highet
house of parliament.
The Tongue.
"The boneless tongue, so small and weak,
Can crush and kid," declared the Greek.
"The tongue destroys a greater horde,"
The Turk assorts, "than doth the sword,"
Or sometimes takes this form instead:
"Don't let your tongue cut on your head."
" The tongue can speak a word whose seed,"
Says the Chinese, outstrips the steed.
While Arab sages thisimparl.: •
" The teugue's groat storehouse is the heart."
From Hebrew wit this maxim sprung:
"Though foot shouldslipateler let the tongue.
The sacred -writer CrOWUS the whole;
"Who keeps his tongue doth keep his soul."
What he Reminded Her of,
He—I must be going, so I will bid yots
good -night
She -011, your call makes inc think of one
member of a 'base -ball nine.
He--Wnat member, pray 7
She—Why, the short-stog