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Thei Inwardness ofX11 Things Is Held .A..bave
the Externals,
Ask , , that your joy may. be
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ski too
r• 1 u r asking t
Men rep bac i s fo g
much; the divine complaint is that
we do not ask enough. "lie wants
the earth and heaven, too," said
s snap by way et criticism upon the
inordinate acquisitiveness of 'an-
pther--"He wants the earth and
heaven, too." But God is chiefly
sorry because men want only the
earth aud fail to put in any claim
for heaven, with all the bounties
for whip!' it stands, The Bible fair-
ly yearns over our poverty of ask-.
ing,
Some one says -that there are two
sides to every question, and then
adds humorously, `The outside
and the inside, The eternal em-
phasis of religion is upon the in-
wardness of things.
Our fault commonly is that we
are satisfied with externals, heal
friendship is always an inward pos
pension. It is wonin terms of soul,
"Purchase not thy friend by gifts,
lest when thou ceasest to give they
cease to love, As if friends could
really be won by ehampagne at $5
a bottle or at the price of elabor-
ate hospitality. I knew a man who
spent half a fortune in
BUYING FRIENDS.
Yet I doubt if he could count upon
their coming to his funeral, unless
they were assured of a wine sup-
per. Friendship can neither be
cajoled nor bribed, 'What we win
by such frank commercial methods
is merely a husk. Real friendship
never crosses the doorsill of any
life, save bis who has paid for it
an inward price.
Pleasure also has its outside and
its inside. A child gets the out-
side of pleasure when he, possesses
a multitude of toys, and is not
amused by any of them. Ile has
gottenten the inwardness of pleasure
e
a
a
heart,
' to of a happy. ,
n b virtue P
whe py
Y
he finds happiness in the simplest
flower or toy. the fault `of our
pleasure -loving age is not that it
leaks pleasure, but that it concerns
itself with the lesser gifts of joy.
Real Toy is 'of the heart, It is uev-
er born of a multitude of scenes,'
or a multiplicity of sensations, He
who cannot find material for hap-
piness in his own garcicn' In some
choice book or in a little group of
(rends will never find it by gong.
abroad for it.
Goodness also has its:eutsida and
its inside. Respectability is the
shell of goodness; manhood is its
soul. But, by an inveterate prac-
tice, most people are still chiefly
concerned with the
EXTERNALS OF GOODNESS.
Pharisaisni is by no means an anci-
ent spirit. It is as modern as this
morning. .Men still broaden their
phylacteries instead of .their fouls.
A man can only weigh what he is,
whether on a scale or in the scales
of eternity, Not the form, but the
force of goodness; not the shell,
but the strength of truth; not the
pretence, but the power of a good
life, is the real thing.
I was amused at the evident dis-
gust of one of the squirrels in the
park. He had seized eagerly the
empty shell which had been -flung
him. But after satisfying himself
that tho shell was empty he turned
angrily away. To such chagrin mul-
titudes come at length. The cry of
Ecclesiastes is a specimen cry of
disappointed manhood. No man
can really feed his life on externals.
We need to be sure that the shell
includes the kernel of joy, else "all
is vanity and vexation of spirit."
George Clarke Peck, D. D.
31USIII10Ol E. S,
1
ltetiro at flight ti Republic, Awake
in the au Empire.
Most Empires .grow by impercep-
tible degrees, Some, however, like
Bulgaria, are born in a eyi
Germany, for example! Prior to
January 18th, 1871, the Gerinan
Empire, as we know it today, had
no existence. Instead, was a jumble
of kingdoms, states, duchies,
grand -duchies, and principalities—
all joined together tierlenge-
ageby
a like 1an
e-
a o and common political aspire-
tions,
s tiattuuns, it is true, but otherwise quite
separate and district,'
Then came the historic ceremony
in the • Hall of Mirrors at Ver-
sailles, Paris had jilest been cap-
tured by 1,ing William of Prussia,
and it was held to be a fitting time
and place to proclaim him the first
German Emperor. Never since the
dawn of history was an empire born
more dramatically.
By a strange irony of fate, too,
its birth took place amid the ruins
of the Third French Empire, itself
the creation of a day, or rather,
to be strictly accurate, of a night.
France went to bed en the evening
of December lst," 1851 a republic.
When it awoke next morning it was
an empire. During the hours of
darkness Paris had been occupied
by troops, and: the Prince -President
had become Napoleon III,
Equally sudden, and almost as
sensational in its way, was the birth
of the modern Greek Empire, After
the yoke of the Turks had been
thrown off in the War of Independ-
ence, the country became a repub-
lic. But the people soon tired of
that democratic form' of govern-
ment, and promptly proceeded to
assassinate their first and only Pre-
sident.
Then they met together ,amicably,
elected a King, and settled them-
selves down to be ruled by himin
a quiet orderly and contented
fashion,
THE S S. LESSON
INTERNATION-tL LESSON,
JAN. 17.
The Beginnings of the Christian
Church. Acts 2. 22-47. Golden
Acts 2. 42.
Verse 22, Ye men of Israel —
Peter is still speaking in his ad-
dress to the assembled multitude at.
Pentecost. He has just quoted
from the prophet Joel, and applies
the prophecy of the outpouring of
the divine Spirit to the phenome-
non of the gift of tongues which
bad so astonished and puzzled his
hearers.
Jesus of Nazareth—Thus was he
known to the people generally. Had
Peter been addressing a company
of disciples, he would perhaps have
used the title of "Master" in re-
ferring to Jesus.
23. Being.. delivered up — Sur-
rendered, sacrificed. Peter would
have his hearers distinctly under-
stand that it was by the determin-
ate counsel and foreknowler&;e of
God that Jesus had suffered by the
hand of lawless men. By -the ex -
+pression "lawless men" is meant
men w•ho in what they were doing
were exceeding their legal rights
and prerogatives.
24. Whom God raised up—This is
the climax and turning point of
Peter's argument. God had re-
versed the actions of those who
plotted against the Christ.
25. For David saith--The refer-
ence is to Psa. 10. 81., which reads:
the fact that certain things
men-
tioned
in the psalm were not true
of the writer.
31. Spoke of the resurrection of
the Christ—The application of the
psalmist's words to the resurrec-
tion of Jesus from the dead is hard-
ly warranted by the original mean-
ing of the psalm, which is primar-
ily a prayer for preservation from
death, and an expression of confi-
dence in Jehovah that this prayer
will be granted. Concerning this
point Professor Bartlet, in his
Commentary on Acts, New Century
Bible Series, says: "Such free use
of the Old Testament was quite
common among the Jews; and in-
deed the New Testament writings
contrast most favorably in this re-
spect with contemporary usage, so
far as known to us. The idea ly-
ing behind the parallel perceived,
even in such a case as the present,
is usually profound, admitting of
suggestive restatement in terms of
our own more rigorous literary me-
thods. Thus, on the assumption
SENTENCE SERMONS.
Love leads; greed drives.
Truth hid in the heart never stays
secret.
Charity always goes fertile. than
it is sent.
Good nature ought to be natural ton, who possesses, in the form of
to the good.
Coalsof fire are not intended for a death memento of a grave.
roasting purposes. The doctor had certified, the lady
Honey on the lipst.does not cure was laid in her coffin, and about to
hatred it thek heart. be screwed down, when her daugh-
Maay think they are shining when ter, who could not believe her dead,
thThe sins are only
wink at to -day are the placed brandy to her. lips. The cof-
ones we wed to -morrow. •bo figure sat up, and is alive to -
To -morrow's burdens always 1 ' friends her own
prove too much for to -day's back.
The saddest slavery is that of be-
ing ruled by aur pleasures,
You have no right to set up your
fad as another man't' faith,
If you would be farsighted you
must learn to live on the heights.
The fool'is known by offering his
forethought after the event.
You cannot imp,•ove the breed by
polishing the brass on the harness.
The secret of success lies some-
where between wishing and willing.
It's a sad day when a man lets
his interests determine his princi-
ples.
Religion has no home in the man
who does not show his religion at
BURIED ALIVE ROMANCES
SOME TRUE "RETURNED TO
LIVE" STORIES.
Instances of 1lllraoulous Eseepos
Treat Being Pruulaturoly
Buried,
thewill of Herbert Spew
When t p
smilewas
il' e a
ul ilii dpro-
vokedpublished, ,
a
by one of its provisions. rile
aged philosopher had directed that,
preparatory to cremation, his body
should lie 'in a eefli.n, with a loose
lid, and easily opened from the in -
aide,
more startlingclause had
A stillof
a place in the last testament of
Mies l rauees Power•Oobbe, who,
ordered that her windpipe be sev-
ered before her body was commit-
ted to the ground. She, like $pen -
car, feared that she would be buri-
ed alive, She had reason, A kins-
woman of hers, a famous 'heiress,
was declared to be dead, placed in
her coffin,, and made ready.for buri-
al, The hearse was at the door, the
funeral guests all assembled, when
by some merciful Providence a
friend insisted on having one laoast
look at the body. The supp
corpse revived under this inspec-
tion, and lived to marry and became
the mother of twenty-two children.
This sort of story may. read like. the
weird material of which gruesome
fiction is made, but it is only one
of many similar cases,•
STIMULANTS FOR A CORPSE.
One that has recently greatly ex-
cited the public mind is that of a
woman residing with her husband
and child -ion near Accrington, Eng-
land. She'lay as dead; her husband
had prepared her for the interment,
and the poor creature came to life
while actually being measured by
the undertaker for her' coffin. The
doctor in attendance upon the un-
fortunate woman had" been com-
pletely deceived by her symptoms,
and certified her death.
She is by no moans the only per-
son living in England who has been
certified to be dead; • There lives
a lady in Holland Road, Kensing-
A similar thing occurred at Cam-
bridge, where the depute • coroner
was called upon to inquire into the
death of Charles Lawrence,' lu
Croat 'leastero Itailway fireman.
The 'Metier', However, was eo well
satie1ed with the ovideneo of the
do 'tor that death was due to valve, -
lar disease of the Hoerr, that ho de
alined to hold' an inquest. It vms
as well that he did, Five days af-
terwards Charles Lawrence stalk
ed out of his coffin, and went to
work,
ase
aG
hard toprove
It is always i
a
Y
i buried
'� been u a
having ee b
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of a person ri
alive there are obvious difficulties
in the way, and so distressing a
subject is natul'ally avoided by re-
latives. Still, there is indubitable
evidence as to its having occurred,
in many instances, Dootors say
that, could ,the battlefields speak,
the world would be shocked by; the
frightful stories of men who' have
been Gast into their graves alive to
awake in. the tomb and be stifled
by. the, superincumbent earta.
A TRAGIC NOTE.
Unimpeaehablo authority exists
for the story of a girl having been
prematurely interred in New York,
and of her having afterwards re-
vived. When the pafiin was opened
it was found .that her shroud had
been torn to shreds and the fingers'
of both hands eaten off.
The effect of a tragedy of this
sort in another family was to make
it a solemn rite for the head of the
house to plunge" a knife into the
heart of any member of the family
who died. It was done once too of-
ten. The weapon pierced the breast
of a beautiful girl who was, ie. rea-
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Aerial Iavasien,
The Duke of Argyll had some
trenchant thingg's to say of the gert-
oral apathy of Great Britain 10
matters apporteining ,to aoroplen-
ing,and ballooning in: proposing the
toast of the Aero Olub of the Unit.
ed Kingdom at the annual dinner
at the Ritz hotel, London, a few
days age.
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subject has attrasited, and how
very casual has boon. the attitude
of the British public in regard to
this really momentous question.
There could be no doubt that no
eotrntry could now be considered
by these who wore building aero -
plumes and dirgible balloons as
having any frontiers at ell. We
could all be overlooked and spied
upon; and'' in 011 probability it
would be dirgibles capable of car-
Tying besides equipment a weight
of between 1,300 pounds and 1,400
pounds, that •could make them-
selves extremely disagreeable.
"The best thing that could hep -
pen to awaken the public In Eng,
land to a sense of its position 18
that someone, preferably a French-
man or a German, should have the
goodness to direct a largo dirgible
balloon to hang over the Bank ee
England. The excitement it would
create would be wonderful, suet lT
would bring home to the minds of
the people of England that we
could not always have England to
ourselves." byno
Sir I•Iiram Maxim
lity, not dead,. but in a trance. She means. sceptical as to the possibih-
gave one terrible groan and expir- ties' of a German aerial invasion.
ed, and her father, who had iso o- "I should say there is no doubt
tently struck the blow, died soon about it," be said, "that machines
afterwards, raring,—London An- could be built to -day of from 80 to
savers. 100 horsepower slightly larger
THE COOL CAPTAIN' would travel at the rate of fifty
miles an hour, carry a load of ha.
Tic
+ than the . Wright, machine, whicli
iv a Lisping Lieutenant C},ot a ton, and remain in the air five
Even With lieis Tormentor. hours at,a time.
A good story is told of a lisping of- "Such machines would cost, if
ficer being victimized by a brother thoroughly well made—and they
officer (who was noted for his cool must be for military "purposes ---
and and strong nerves). B1,500 each, and each one would
and his getting square with him be able to land, say, twenty t
t on the English coast in one nigh
inn
joktheer,
following manner. was T ae wcays To, take 100,000 soldiers across in
quizzi the captain, always the darkness of one night would re-
tenant,nthe lisping officer, a lieu- quire 5,000 machines, costing sev
afor his the presence
and n and a half millions sterling.".
said'one day in preseneo of his
company: '
"Why nervousness is all"non-SENTENCE SERMONS.
sense. I tell you, lieutenant, no Hatred always hinders.
brave man will be nervous "
clay to slow let "Well," inquired the lisping
death certificate. friend, '.`how would yon_ do thpose
well-known instance of the a then with an 'nth-futhee thould
The
i lis in Giving grudgingly is sowing spar-
ingly.
It will not make you Godlike to
call others godless.
It takes more than'a few
words to wash the world.
The cynic is ono who has found
stolen fruits not so sweet. •
To praise a good action is to par-
ticipate in its repetition.
He cannot defend the truth who
is afraid of any truth.
It takes adversity to show wheth-
er we have any real prosperity.
Ho who has nothing to do. always
does worse than nothing. `
- Getting sore at the world is a
ready way of Taming yourself in.
the race.
He does not know what forgive-
ness is who is. too lazy to resent a
wrong.
Trying to get even with an enemy
is a sure way of sinking below him.
The worst of all failures are those
who can never fail because they
[lever try.
The man who has nothing but re-
flection puts his headlig.it on the 1 l d'
caboose..
It's a waste of- time to fix up
your statistics for the benefit of the
recording angel.
Many a man thinks he is a saint
because he has dreams of heaven
every Sunday.
The man who talks to please him-
self soon has an audience well
pleased with itself.
One resolution to do the right
thing is worth a bushel of resolu-
tions not to do wrong things.
If your faith does not justify it-
self by its_ fruits there's little use
worrying over its roots.
It's no use preaching against the
sins of people in a way that pro-
vokes them to profanity. -
There never was a church.. that
went down except it had' first fail-
ed to get down and servo men.
Moro aches than help come from
the honey' the preacher ' puts into
his sermon on Saturday night,
that the psalm was Davidic and Trema,
P It's usually the man who opens
Messianic—things taken for grant- his mouth widest who drinks in were difficulties in the way of an
ed by Jewish opinion at the time— immediate interment, so the body
P moat scandal.
Peter was justified by the SemiticWhen a sermon only reaches back was laid in the field mortuary.
idea of almost personal identity be- to Saturday night you can's expect There it remained for three days.
to remote generations see verse
tweet) parent and offspring (even it; to last much beyond Monday On the third day the surgeons went
morning
member of Lord. Mount Edgcumbe's
family who, after having been laid
in the family vault, was visited byu
the sexton for the purposes of plun-
der and revived, is too well known
to need to be told at length.
LIFE SAVED BY MICE.
Somewhere in England is a cer-
tain Trooper Holmes, who, accord-
ing to evidence in the possession of
the Society for the Prevention of
Premature Burial, was ``dead" yet
is. alive. Grievously wounded in
the Afghan War of 1878, he was be -
drop itthelf in a walled angle, in
whith you had taken thelter from
a company of tliarpthootherth, and
where it wath thertain if you . put
out your nothe you'd get pepper -
eel?"
"How?" said the captain, wink-
ing at the circle; "why, take it
cool, and spit on the fusee."
The party broke up, and all re-
tired except the patrol.
The next morning 'a number of
soldiers wre assembled on the par-
ade and talking in' clusters, when
along came the lisping lieutenant.
ing brought down to. Deolali, en Lazily opening his eyes, ne remark
route for England, when he appear- f ed
ed to relinquish hold on life. There "I 'want to try and experiment
thith morning and thee how ex-
theedingly cool the'captain can
be."
Saying this, he walked deliber-
ately into the captain's quarters,
to perform a post mortem examine- where a fire was burning on the
tion. They raised the tarpaulin be -hearth, placed in its hottest centre
reclined,and
i bodynstantl
• which the powder canister, and instantly
heath
were horrified to see hundreds of retreated. There was but one mode
field mice, with which the district of egress from the quarters, and
is infested, scurry from beneath the that was upon the parade ground,
is becoming one of the questions of covering. been the means of the. road being built up for de -
the day. In consquence of the But they hadfence, The occupant took one look
enormous consumption of wood all saving that soldier's life. TheRat the canister, comprehended;the
warmth of their little bodies, had
over the world for the manufacture
of paper, for wood paving, for heat-
ing, for construction, and so many
other purposes, this material is
becoming scarcer and hence more
valuable every day. In France
many large companies have been
formed for the purpose of acquir-
ing and cutting down some of the
most beautiful forests in the eoun-
try, and the question of preserving
the forests has become a pressing
one, The French Society for the
protection of For"ests has petitioned
the French Parliament' to pass a
law restricting the felling of trees,
which it says, is a menace to publie
health, trees being the great puri-
fiers of the atmosphere.
30), in using the psalm to prove, (1)
that David's true scion, the Mvs-
siah, could not be holden of death,
and (`9) that Jesus, whom death had
not been able to hold, was indeed
Messiah. Behind all this lies, both
in the psalm and in Peter's mind,
the deep principle—upon which all
really. depends—that God cannot
leave to destruction 'His Holy
One,' with whom he is in special'
covenant relation,"
32. Whereof—Or, of whom.
33. By the right hand of God ex-
alted—Exalted by God's power to
be a prince and Saviour.
34. For David ascended not --The.
argument of verse 29 is continued,
it being pointed out that David
could not be the object of certain
prophetic utterances of the psalm
quoted.
But he saith—This second quota-
tion is from Psa. 110, where the
original verse quoted reads:
Jehovah saith unto my lord, Sit
thou at my right hand,
Until I make thine enemies thy
footstool,
I have set Jehovah always before
me;
Because he is at my right hand, I
shall not be moved.
Therefore my heart is glad, and my
glory rejoiceth :
My flesh also shall dwell in safety.
For thou wilt not leave my soul to
Sheol;
Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy
one to see corruption.
•
Tho quoted verses constitute one
of the few passages in the Old Tes-
tament in which appears to be ex-
pressed a definite hope of a future
life. The Davidic authorship of
the psalm is uncertain. The idea
itself might well be found in a
psalm of David, but the mode in
which the author works out the idea'
seems to suggest a later period.
20. Dwell—Or, "tabernacle," that
is, dwell temporarily as a sojour-
ner,
27. Hades—The Hebrew Sheol,
the mystical realm of departed
spirits.
Thy Holy One—Peter here ap-
plies to Christ words which in the
original psalm refer to the writer
of the: psalm itself, as the omission
of the capitals in the Old Testa-
ment quotation is intended to in -
diet. The word 'holy" as need
in the psalm , means "godly"or
"beloved,"The term implies lov-
ing loyalty. The application of
these words to Jesus as the Mes-
siah rather than to the psalmist
himself is justified by Peter him-
self in verse e9 where be points out
WORLD'S WOOD SUPPLY.
Will the world's wood'supply of
wood ever become exhausted? This
37. Pricked in their heart -Con-
science-stricken, realizing in a
measure tl}e enormity of the crime
committed by their nation in put-
ting the Messiah to death.
38. En the name of Jesus' Christ—
Thus making a public confession of
their belief in the divinity and
Messiahship of Jesus, which was
the burden of Peter's sermon and'
the basis of the Christian Church.
39. And to all that are afar off—
To future generations, as well as
to those whom Peter addressed, this
promise was given.'
40. This crooked generation—Re-
ferring to the collective guilt of the
nation.
41. There were added tanto them—
The words italicized in our text are
omitted in the original, there be-
ing no grammatical complement' to
the verb added. The sense is
that this number were added to
the membership,
- VELOOITY OF WIND.
Tho velocity of wind varies very
considerably, according to the
strength at which it is blowing. A
gentle breeze travels five miles an
hour, or thereabouts ; a brisk wind
at ten milds an hour. When a
storm is blowing the velocity of the
wind is about fifty miles an hour,
and it is difficult to make headway
against it when walking. Boisterous
puffs -spoken of as "blowing great
guns" ---attain a velocity of any-
thing from eighty to one hundred
miles an hour.
had a reanimating effect upon Ills.
More important still, however, they
had nibbled his calves, and so
brought him to. Ho was breathing
slowly when found, was nursed back
to convalescence, and went forth
bravely to rejoin his regiment at
Meerut.
A well-known character in Guern-
sey used to be an old soldier who
liad been cast into and redeemed
from the grave. After a sanguin-
ary battle in the Crimea he was
picked up with scores more to be
thrown into the huge trench whero
the dead wore to lie, Before the
work could be completed, one of
the burial party thought he ob-
served a movement in this man's
body. Efforts at revivification were
successfully attempted, and the sol-
dier lived to fight again many an-
other day. A similar instance is
recorded of a French soldier at the
Battle of Borny, near Metz, but he
revived in the mortuary, thanks to
the delay of the burial -party in ar-
riving.
STREET CORNER NOVELTIES,
Public story -tellers still earn a,
good livelihood iii Japan. In Tokio
alone 600 of them ply their trade,
previded with a small table, a fan,
and a paper rapper to illustrato
and emphasize the points of, their
tales. ,
HUNTED BY A BUFFALO,
Narrow Esea a of a Hunter From
it Wounded Beoet,
The tiine has gone by for hunting
buffalo on the plains. , While it
)stated, the 'sport was followed too
closely for long continuance. Tho
pursuit of the game was cicoiting,
but when the buffalo turned hun•
ter, and the object of his search:,. .,
was the sportsman, the interest in
the outcome of the phase was great-
ly heightened. The author of "The
t r ofSt. '1d " Mr. B. Camp-
bell,
ho ISi a P
,
his
1 11 inpages of book
ilei tells a s
the P g
n n`:oeoftheta
how e engaged n
double -headed encounters in the
country of the Saskatchewan River,
The sight of the huge monsters
careering madly along with fiery
eyes and tossing. manes, :followed.
sometimes by an eagle -feathered
savage, mounted on a strangely
docked -out pony, with the scalp of
his latest enemy flying behind him,;
utterly demoralized my steady -go-
ing, faithful nag,. and he ran away
with me down a steep bank, in
spite of all my efforts, pitched nie
.headlong against a great granite
block, and himself fled madly over
the -prairie.
Beneath the shadow of this boul-
der I lay in a half-conscious state
I know not how long, but 1 was
roused at last by the sight of a
large herd of buffalo coming full
gallop over the crest of the hill
d makingstraight in
above me an g
my direction, followed by feathered
Indians and'hatless half-breeds,
firing wildly from all directions, •
and sending bullets whistling about
my ears till I as deafened by the
sharp sound. I got hold of my rifle
and planted a bullet in an immense
bull, but alas I not so as to kill
him.
As the buffalo turned upon me I
rose and ran around the boulder,
he after me, and so, we chased each
other for life and. death. A bullet
from the flint -lock gun of one of
the savages hit the boulder and
sent a splinter from it into my
hand, leaving a wound of which I
still carry the trace.
Scarcely knowing I was hit, I'
ran on until my breath was almost
gone, and 1 felt that in a few mo-
ment's I should drop and be tossed
and trampled by my infuriated foe.
By this time I was chasing hien,
rather than he nie; in fact, I was
close behind him. I raised my rifle
as ho swished his tail round, and
m last
drew the trigger withy
ounce of strength. I had won,
and my already wounded enemy
dropped dead.
At least it had not ended as many
such encounters have, when in a
last paroxysm the wounded mon-
ster turns and tosses horse and rid-
er into the air like dry clops, tear-
ing themwith his horns, stamping
them to death with a dying effort,
and then falling dead upon his via-
tiros,
8'
TASMANIAN RICHES.
Mineral Deposits are 3igney-Pro-
educing a nil • Varied.
The mining industry of Tasmania
is exceedingly important. From sev-
en
ew
en sbillings to ten shillings a day
are the usual wages earned by
working miners on the mining fields
and boundless opportunities lie'
within the reach of the persevering
prospector. For its size, the island
may claim to be the richest coun-
try in the world in regard to min-
eral wealth. Within the space of
about thirty years Tasmania,' with
the population of an English pro
vincial town, has actually produc-
ed minerals to the value, according
to the latest official figures, of twen-
ty-six million, two hundked and
thirty-five thousand, two hundred
and thirty pounds, and more than
half the quantity has been obtained
within the last ten years. The to-
tal for the year 1900-7 has been
two million, three hundred and
thirty -Dight thousand,, two hundred
and fifty-two pounds. The list of
minerals worked includes gold, sil-
ver, tin, copper, lead, zinc, wolf -
m bismuth iron coal and as -
situation, and in a, moment dashed
at the door, but it was fastened on
the outside,
"Charley, let me out, if you love
me 1" shouted the captain.
"Thpit on the canister t" shouted.
he in return,
Not a moment was to be lost. He
had at first snatched up a blanket
to cover his ogress, but now, dropp-
ing it, he raised the window, and
out be bounded, sans everything
but a very short undergarment, and
thus, with hair -almost on end, he
dashed upon a full parade -ground.
The shouts which hailed him
brought out the whole barracks to
see what was the natter, and the
dignified captain pulled a sergeant
in front of him to hide himself,
"Why didn't:you *pit on 111"
inquired the lieutenant.
"Because there. were no sharp-
shooteee in front to stop a re-
treat," answered the captain.
"All I've' got to they, then, ith,"
said the ` lieutenant, "that, you
might thalely have done it; for I'll
thware there wathn't a thingle
grain of powder in it!'
The captain has never spoken ; of
nervousness' since,
BATTLEFIELD, MYSTERIES.
Not long ago, it may be remem-
bered, a Russian Pole eomm.itted
:suicide. in a London synagogue.
Some time previously: he had been
placed in his coffin as dead, but he
revived when being wowed down.
The horror of that awful event so
preyed on his mind that he wont
mad, and eventually took liis own
life. Eight years back the police
found a child apparently dead in
Regent's Park, . The body was ro'
moved to .Marylebone Mortuary,
and placed in a coffin to await an
inquest. When the, coroner and
jury arrived, the child was alive
and well in'1ts grim :surroundings,
'1.
GRIL» NOT TO BLAME.
"My • infant, madam," said the
lady in the bus with dignity, "ap-
propriated, and clawed your muff,
not from mere wantonness, bub ut1'
der the impression that it was a
pussy cat, as I. have no doubt it
once was.°
Onlyblind beggars are. allowed
to solicit alms in the streete of
Madrid
HOW THEY FACE DEATH,'
01 the Sexes, Women Moro Quickly
WIT in to Inevitable.
A British medical man thus tells
his experience of howmen and wo-
men face death: Tell the man of
higher type and greater intelli-
gence, he says, that he is facing
death, and he begins to fight, de-
mands rz ,eonsultafion, talks about
going to specialists and fights grim-
ly to thefinish, Tell a, woman the
same facts, and she lies back to
await her fate. All women are fat
alists. On the other band, tell a
man that he has one chance in a
thousand to recover if he will lin-
dergo an operation, and he will
trust tohis own strength and en-
duranoe,-rather.,than undergo the
knife. • The 'woman will choose the
thousandth chance, and submit to
the operation with -astounding
testes -practically all of the most
commercially valuable minerals
that the world requires. In tin and
copper the island is particularly
rich, and the Tasmanian production •,
of the former metal will most like-
ly within the next twenty-five years
equal that of the Straits Settle-
ments. Large coal Golds and enor-
mous bodies of first-class iron ore
are known to exist, but difficulties
of transport prevent their utiliza-
tion. If but a fraction of the Brit-
ish ,capital invested in Argentina
and on the Rancl were directed hero
both shareholders at home and col-
onist?? abroad would be equally be-
nefitted.—Chambers Journal.
ARTIFICIAL EYELASHES, •-
A Frenchman has discovered a
means of planting • artificial eye.
lashes and eyobruws, The formai
operation is.especially painful, tl
hair from . the subject's head is
threaded into a very fine needle,
and a neat row of stitches is _Hien
made on the border of the eyelid.
The loops thus made are separated
With scissors, leaving 0 row of
lashes, which are pressed with an
iron. A similar operation, some
what• less liainful, is perforated ,;,n
the brows, and flee transformation
is complete.
There 270 active volcsnoo In the
world, h any of them, howl a:, os-
ing quite small, -
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