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ALL SING fflS PRAISES.
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Dr. Tailna e Speaks � Our
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Saviour's Love.
AllOur 'lorries Should Chime With the Songs of
,
Jesus—No Cradle Song More Beautiful—Death
Bed Scene of a Little Child..Songs in the Night
for All,
despaom Washin ton says: ing, and the youthful pulse will begin
T, a Rev. D it a to flutter, and little hands will be
-fife Rev. Dr, Talmage preached from lifted for help. Yai cannot help;
t1De Rellowiug text: "The Lord is my ;mat,
great agony will pinch your
t ih and song" Psoxviii 14, !heart and the cradle Wili be empty,
The. moist Sasa na'ing tete world oil tie empty, and yon
heart properly attuned Is the Saviour. soul will be empty. No litho feet
There is something or standing on elixirs. vin prHseueo of the little famished ones:
light to suggest Him, and something ed on the carpet. No quick following
't 0 any God, filar has gone tap rf Yet
• The '_ i L theme for a and the nursery will be empty, and
1
h inthemorning thet No toys scatter
in the evening shadow to speak His qui ions.m to No oom.lrturned face, songs in the night I
praise. The flower breathes Him, with laughing bila eyes, some fora SONGS IN THE ItiIGEIT I
the star shines Him, the cascade Ina- kiss. But only a'greve, and aw•reuth For the widow who goes to get the
claims Him, all the voices of nature ' of white blossoms on the top of it;, and bask pay of her husband slain by the
chant Him. Whatever is ;grand, bitter desolation, and e. sighing at sharpshooters, and knows it is the last
1 nightra11, with no one to put. to bed, help she shall have, moving out •of
bright, and beautiful, if you un Y and a wet pillow; and a grave, a (anafortuble home in desolation;
listen to it, will speak His praise. So a wreath oi white blossoms on death turning batik tram the exhaust-
nonv, when 1 come in the summer top of !L, The Heavenly Shepherd ing euugh, and the pale cheek, and the
time and pluck u flower, I think of 1 will take that lamb safely anyhow, lustreless eye, and refusing all re
"the rose of Sharon and whether you have been faithful or un- , lief. Yet songs in the night 1 Songs in
Him who is a,falehful; but would it not have; been the nightI For the soldier in the field
the lily of the valley." When 1 see ipl tteanter Pe you could have heard home al; no surgeon to bind up the
in the fields a lamb, 1 say: "Behold from those lips the Praises of Christ? gu shot featLure no water for the
( h t t th i never read ,tnvihinit more betuti- lir, :tips, no kind hand to brush away
¢roan the. sold." Songs Pf the night!
w en
e s ao o dewe rat has m
z b
Night
xnarty of you. Gommervsiul losses lilt
s t.
out one star, Slanderous alta a 1Pli
'e v
o-
alis lei a
t Sign -oma l
out ane bei s a 1J
meat has put out a thousand itgbts;
and gloom bee been added to gloom
and (chill to thin, and ating to sting,
and one midnight baa seamed to bore
row the fold been another midnight
to wrap ,itself in more uubear'ablo
darkness.
Songs in the night! Songs in the
night 1 For the sink, who, have no one
to turn the hot pillow, no one tb put
the taper ou the stand, no one to put
Lee an the temples, or pour out the
soothing anodyne, or utter one cheer-
ful word. Song's in. the night I For the
poor wbo freeze in the winter's told,
and_aw°iter in the summer's heat,and
munch the hard crusts that blend the
sore gums, and shiver' under blankets
that oannet any longer be patched,
and tremble bocouse rent -day Ie come,
and they may bo set out on the aide -
walk; and looking into the starved
Serve of the child, and seeing famine
there, and death there, coming home
froln the bakery, and saying in the
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the Lamb of God that a -c assay Iui tli in this about. a ohnd'a departure, the fles from t;he fresh wound,
the sin of the world," When, in very 1 The acenun'. s:'i l she fulled her hands, ; to take the loving farewell;nog:
hot weather, 1 coma under a project -kissed her muther good-bye, sang grinning of others poured into his
ing cliff, I say; her hymn, "turned her 1a00 to the own groan; the blasphemy of others
'wall,' said ler little prayer, and Lhen - ploughing up his own spirit; the con -
"Ronk of Ages, cleft for nit,
Let me hide myself in Thee."ttiecl. : doused bitterness of dying away from
Oh 11 I could gather up in one : helm, among strangers. Yet songs in
Over the 0.1d -fashioned pulpits there 'paragraph the teat wards o.. the little the night Songs in the night 1 " Oh,"
was a sounding -board. Tee voice of on•e i Wile have gone oat from all these said one dying suldier, " 1e11 my moth -
the minister rose to the sounding -'Christian circles, and iC I could pie,, cur that last night there was not one
board, and then wee struck book again t fur,; the calm looks, and, the £hided eland between my 'tool and Jesus•"
hands, and the sweet departure, me- Snrigs in the night! Songs en the
upon the ears of the people. Aad so, , thinks it would be grand and beauti- night 1
the ten thousand voices of earth ria -:tel as ane of Heaven's great doxolog-1 We sing His birth, ibe barn that
ing up, find the heavens a sounding -'hen. In my parish in Philadelphia a • sheltered Him, the mother that nurs-
board, which strikes back to the ear ';littie child wan departing. She had'ed Him, the cattle that fed beside
of all the nations the praises of Christ. 1 been sick all her difys and a cripple. llim, the au:tol that woke up the ahep-
1t was noonday when she went, and herds, shaking light over the midnight
The heavens tell His glory, and the as the shadows o: death gathered on hills. We sing his ministry: the tears
earth shows Hie handiwork. The ,her eyelid, she thought it evening,' He wiped away from the eyes of the
Bible thrills with one great story ee ' and time to go to bed, and so she said 1 orphans; the lamp men that forgot
Good -night, papa; good -night, mam- t their crutch; the damsel who from the
redemption. Upon a blasted and ma: ` And then she was gone! 1t was •' bier bounded out into tba sunlight,
faded Paradise it petered the light of "good night" to pain, and "good night" her locks shaking down over the flush -
a glorious restoration. It looked up- to tears, and "good night" to death, ed cheek; the hungry thousands wbo
on Abraham trom the ram caught in and "good night" tot earth; but it was broke the bread as 1L• blossomed into
the thicket. It spoke in the bleat- .,,good morning" to Jesus -it was ; larger loaves -that miracle by wbieh
good morning" to heaven. I can boyh five
loaves aiWe and tevo
hes
ing of the herds driven do,vn to Jet. -think at. no cradle song measutler foravholermy
usalem fm sacrifice. li put infinite MOR B.GAUTIFCL THAN JMSUS,•Ring His sorrows, His atone -bruised
thus into the speech of uncouth 1 next ',peak of Christ as the old fait' His aching desertheau His mo storm
pct Ioa,Hlinrse His hunger, His storm
fishermen. It lifted Paul into the man's sang. Quick music loans its pelted body, the eternity of anguish
seventh heaven ; and It broke upon the charm for the aged ear. The school.,'; that shot through his last moments
girl asks for a schottische or a glee;land the immeasurable ocean of torrent
ear el St. John with the brazen from- but her grandmother asks for "Baler- 1that braved em against His etoss in
pet, and the doxology oe the elders, ma" or the "Portuguese Hymn." one teaming, wrathful, omnipotent
and the rushing wings of the sora- Fifty years of trouble have tamed the ! Barge; the sun dashed out, and the
phim. spirit, and the keys of the music ideal shrouded -wrapped, breaking open
boust fmn read•It.heir sepulchres, and rushing out to
Instead of waiting until you get Though
ardmlife voice have maya besoltremulust, so
sick and worn out before you speak that grandfather will not trust it in
the praise oe Christ, while your heart i church, still he has the psalm -book
wbieh I Nae present, and 1 obeli, never
1 K Mid Wittlliwthe'aLone t arida Soot
a
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tl ' b
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1 .eat inti x g'
wield that r h Y
Ii t
the tile. It wan to the overwlieliu
Ing, But, oil the gt•andee Beene whoa
they shall thine from the octet and
Ir(clu the west, unci 'frail the nortli,
and fame the aoutli-"a great. multi
ludo elute no man San number," into
the telnplie of thea akies, boat alloy above
host, rank beyond rank, g
gallery, and desius ahall stand before
that great. beet, tot eonduot the hare
none, with His wotundod hand and
Hilt wounded foot! Like the voice of
AMOY waters, like the voice of mighty
thundering, they shall cry: " 'Vo Y
Is the Latish that Was slain to receive
blessing,, ends riches, and honour, and
glory, and' Power, world without end.
Ainen, and amen." Oh, if, my ear ball
hear no other sounds, natty .1 heat' that.
IfI join no other; glad assemblage
1 join that,
1 Wats reading' this afternoon of the
battle of Agincourt, in' wbieh Henry
V. figured; and, it, is said, after the
battle was. won-gloi•tauely won -
the king wanted to acknowledge the
Divine interposition, and he ordered
the Chaplain to. read the Pslaame of
David, and when he carne to the words:
"Not unto us, oh Lord, but unto The
name be the praise," the king dis-
mounted, and all the cavalry dos
;mounted, and all the great host of
olftoers and, men threw tbenkselves
on their faces.
Oh, at; the story of the Saviour's.
love and the Saviour's deliverance,
shall we not prostrate ourselves be-
fore hem, to -night, hosts of heaven,
falling upon our faces, and trying:
"Not unto us, not unto us, but unto
Thy namee be the glory."
is 'happiest and your step is lightest !open before him, and he sings with his
pathway blossoms, and the overarch- i years ago an the old country meeting-.
muck:ttld melee
Ch
and your fortune smiles, and your soul Haa hsame umstale bis g lorlyha sou g p
with
see what was the matter. We sing His
resurreotion; the Guard that could
not keep Him, the sorrow of His dis-
ciples, the clouds piling up on either
side in pillared splendour as Ile went
through, treading the pathless air
higher and higher, until He came to
ing heavens drop upon you their bene- , house, Some day the choir sings a the foot of the Throne, and
!tune so old that the young people do
diction, speak the praises of Jesus.; not know it; but it starts the tears ALL HEAVEN KEPT JUBILEE
THE OLD GREEK ORATORS, 1 down the cheek °if the aged man, for at the return of the conqueror. Is
remm the val in there any song more appropriate for
when they saw their audiences mats i wtfhich hainds oncehiparofticipaterevid, andscenes of iha a Sabbath night than this song of
tentive and slumbering, had one word 'radiant fames that long since went to Jesus d Let the passers-by in the street
with which they would rouse them up' dust, and o: the grey-haired minister hear it. Let the angels of God carry
to the greatest enthusiasm. In the ;leaning over the pulpit and sounding enaih the dd thethroees. Ses. ous ound it
tnight
out
midst ref their orations they would ;the good tidings of greut joy. I lavas sung, gappropriata for any hour, but
throue
one Thanksgiving Day in my pulpit in
stop acid ory out: "Marathon!" and [Syracuse, New York, and Rev. Daniel it is especially sweet, and beautiful.
the people's enthusiasm would be un- Waldo, at ninety-eight years of age, and blessed, on a Sabbath night.
bounded. Myhearers though you beside me. The choir sang a f say once more, Christ is the ever -
8 tuna. 1 said: "C am sorry they snag lasting song. The very singers some-
way have been borne down with sin, I Limes get tired. The strongest throats
that new tune, nobody seems to know many who
and though trouble, and trial, end it" Bless you, my son," said the snug vary sweetweary, ly do and not sing now;
temptation may have come uuon you, old mea, "I heard that seventy years
sometimes get
and you feel to -night hardly like look- age" but, 1 hope, by the grace of God, we
will after a while go up and sing the
There was a song to -day that C Cbrist li will never
HEALTH.
T'`TBREATHING.
501.:7NT
SCIENTIFIC/
One hears ao much theta the lmport-
anea of deep breetbing that perhaps
A few cpmments and hunts as to the
best and leant fatiguing method of in-
spivation may not be, out of place, eee.
pe0tallyi to those wbo are not already
initiated in the said art,
In the' first place, it ie neoeseary to
understand thoroughly what oonati-
Lutes deep breathing.
There are three dieferent ways of
insplration•,.abelolninal, lateral and
clavicular. The Iasi named is too of -
tan mistaken for deep breathing. Cla-
vicular breathing means dilating the
lungs at the top by raising the clavicle
and shoulders. This action oontraots
lungs at thele base, and is the most
fatiguing mode er: eespirutiou, a's the
many muscular and bony parte raised
must be sustained during expiration,,
and in the oris of singers, who breathe
in this manner, the resulting fatigue
will pause the veins and muscle's of the
neck to &well, occasioning a rush of
ing up, methinks there Is one grand,praises o - were we wi,
royal, imperial word that ought to j t°ached the lips of the aged with holy be weary. You know there ars some
loess your soul to infinite rejoicing,
and that word is Jesus. Taking the Z+fire, and kindled a glory on their vis snags that are especially appropriate
ion, that our younger eyesight cannot for the home circle. They stir the soul.
suggestion of the text, I shall speak see. It was the song salvation. Jesus They siert the tears. They turn the
to you of Christ our song. !see. fed Cham all Chair divas long; heart in on itself, and keep sounding
I remember, in the first place, that Jesus, who wiped away their tears; atter the tune bas stopped, like some
Christ ought to be the cradle song. Jesus, who stood beside them when cathedral bell, which long after the
What our mothers sang to us when all mien failed; Jesus, in whose name , Lap of the brazen Longue has ceased,
they put us to sleep is staging yet,
their marriage was consecrated, and i keeps 'throbbing in the air. Well, it
We may have forgotten the words, whose resurrection has poured light will be a home song in heaven; all the
but they went into the fibre of our upon the graves of their departed. ; sweeter because those who sang with
soul, and will for ever be a part of it. "Du' you know me?" Bald tel wife 10 us in the domestic circle on earth shall
lit is not so much what you formally ber aged husband, who was dying, his 1 join that great harmony-
teaeh your children as whet you sing mind already gone out. IIs said "No." , •• Jerusalem, my happy home,
to theca. A hymn has wings and And the son said: "father, do you Name ever dear to ma;
can fly every whither. One hundred When shall my labours have and fifty years after you are dead,
and "old mortality," has worn out his
chisel in re -cutting your name on the
tombstone, your great grandchil-
dren will be singing the song which
this afternoon you sang to your lit-
tle ones gathered about your knee.
There is a place in Switzerlandwhere,
if you distinctly utter your voice,
there come back ten or fifteen dis-
tinct echoes. And every Cbristian
song sang by -u mother in the ear of
her child, shall have ten thousand
echoes back from all the gates of
heaven. Oh, if mothers only knew
the power of this sacred spell, how
much oftener the little ones would, be
gathered, and alt our homes would
chime with the songs of Jesus,
We want thane counteracting influ-
ence upon our children. The very
moment. your child steps into the
street he steps into the path of temp-
tation. There aro foul-mouthed
children that would like to besot! your
Utile ones. It will not do to keep
your boys ,and girls in the ,house. and
make them houseplants; they trust
have froth air and exercise. (lod
sive your phildt•en Brom the apething,
ecald.ing, blasting, damning influence
of the street. ,I know of no counter -
001111g. influence but the pewee' of
C1hriet.tan culture and example. Hold
before your little ones
TI1I PURE L[l l 01' JE5U:3. as the night song. Job speaks of Hirt
].,et that name be the wordt that shall who giveila songs in the night. John pardoned, and we learn now .In albg
exercise evil fram their hearts. Hive Wein], the old eleo1(11 minister, used the. prnlve nl Christ, will we aver sing
o your instruction all the famine Lion ;i.,, put a plaid ucraes his hart on void it there, Tem first: grout concert 1hit
of music, morning, noon, and night. iiight i, and some the titer him why 1 over at was in Now York when
Let it ,11e Jesus the cradle snug. This he PCI that there. He said: "Oh Julien, tn. the "Crystal," stood be-
te important if your children grow somelImes in the night I want to singEarn hundreds of singers and hundreds
up, but perhaps thee' may not. Their the lnraises of Jesus and 1 got dowof players upon instruments, come.
n1hway may be Short.. Jesus may and posy, Then 7 just take that plaid of you may remember; tine occasion;
be wanting that drill• Then there and wrap it around me to keep myself 11 wee the first one of the kind" et
will be a somndless step in the,develk •
know me?" He said "No." The I ve an end
daugbler said: "Father, do you know' In joy and peace with Thee R"
mei" He said "No.' The minister 1 ,The Christian singers, and comPos-
or the Gospel standing by, said: "llo ors of all ages wilt be there to join
you) know Jesus?" Oh, yes,' he said;•'tn that sung, Thaws Hastings will
I know Him, 'ealtoge among ten thou-' be there; Lowell Mason will be there;
sand, the one altogether lovely: " Becthuven and Mozart will he there;
Blessed the Bible in which speolacled they who sounded the cymbals and
old age reads the promise, "I will ilio trumpets in the ancient temples
never rorsake you.' Blessed the staff a lifers; the Carty thousand
h
on which the worn out pilgrim totters will willhurhs who stood at the ancient do-
deemer!
wn towardslelessed the hymn -book inLhe welcome of his :Re- dice tion will be there; the ten hundred
.B
which the :altering tongue and the
failing eyes find Jesus,
T,H11: OLD MA.i'S SONG,
When, my mother had been put away
fur the resurrection, we, the children,
tame to the old homestead, and each
one wanLod to take away u memento
o,. her who had loved us, so long and
loved us so well. I think I took away
the best of all the mementos. It
was the old fashioned round glass
spectacles through whioh she used to
read her Bible, and 1 put them on;
but they were too old for me, and I
could not see across the ruo,n,
13u1. through them .1could see hack
to childhood end forward to the hills
of heaven, where the ankles that were
stiff with age have become limber
again, and the spirit with rumored eye-
sight, stands in rapt exultation, cry-
ing, "This is heaven I"
But 1 speak to you again of Jesus
singers that, assisted on that day will
be there. Patriarchs who lived amid
threshing -floors, shepherds' who
watched Amid Chaldean hills, pee -
phew wbo walked with long beards
and thane apparel pronouncing woo
egatnat ancient abominations, will
meet the more recent martyrs who
Went up with
LEAPING C'OIIOLITS O1' EIRE,
and some will speak of the Jesus of
whum they prophesied, and others of
the Jesus for whom they died. Oh,
what a songt It came to John upon
Patinas; it came to Calvin in the
prison; It. dropped on John Knox in
the fire; and sometimes that song has
come to your ears, perhaps, for 1
really do think it sometimes breaks
aver the battlements of heaven.
1 wonder -and this is x question I
have been asking myself an the even-
ing --will you) sing three songf Will
1 Bing he Not unitise our sins are
f�lr"/ y.
Handsome =aline of pale -pink
flannel, with collar and tabs of white
flannel bordered with a double -plaited
frill of taffeta and lane band; vest' of
taffeta crossed with the lace; small
sleeves with! double frill at wrist.
Material required; 4 yards pink flannel
92 !noises wide; 11-4 yards white
flannel 92 inches wide.
blood to the face, which is, to say the
least, unsightly.
Lateral lireathang is acoompanled by
expanding the ribs laterally, and is
much' preferable to clavicular breath-
ing; but the best and least fatiguing
mode of inspiration Is to inflate the
lungs from their base by contracting
the diaphragm, This, the true me-
thod of deep breathaatg, cannot be too
highly recommended, as the contract-
ing of) be diaphragm gives the viscera
healthful gymnastice not obtainable in
may other way:
It es generally acknowledged that In
order to become a good 'ginger it is na-
pe -seamy to master the art of deep
breathing, but sufficient attention has
not been given to the importance of
adopting the process to our every day
life.
When it is understood haw much
one's general health improves through
deep breathing gymnaetica, and by
their emetics in our school's and
!tomes, on the game theory as other
physical exercises, there will not be
half the sickness prevailing. Consump-
tion will not find a refuge in the well
developed lungs of one who, from ear-
ly childhood, has put into practice this
health promoting exercise.
Even a casual consideration of what
has gone before would seem ample to
justify the following conclusions:-
1.
onclusions:
1. Oxidation Is increased.
2. The changes in the tissues neces-
sary to life.-asaimilation and disin-
tegration -are promoted.
8. The movements of tbo intestines
and stomach neoessary to the accomp-
lishment of the proems of digestion
are accelerated.
4. The health of the lungs them-
selves throughout their whole extent
is promoted and maintained.
5. The heart's action is improved
and that organ itself strengthened and
made more vigorous.
0.- The beauty of the form is great-
ly enhanced.
7. The, health of the whole body is
vastly improved.
If these deductions be true, and I
fancy they aoeord pretty exactly with
current medloal opinion, it follows that
pulmonary gymnastics should be sys-
tematically taught in all educational
institutions, public or private -nay,
the systematic and proper exeroiae of
the lungs is a major concern of one's
whole life.
Tbis applies with special force to
those classes of the population who
perforce are compelled to lead more or
less sedentary lives. Such people, or
the vast majority of them, are noised
in apartments, ill ventilated more or
less, excluded from the benign influ-
ence of sunlight, and condemned to the
slavery of monotonous employment,
deadening to soul and body alike.
If, during their comparatively brief
periods of exemption front the tyranny
of occupation and environment these
people were taught to use their lungs
properly there would accrue to them
an inestimable benefit both physically
and mentally.
For nothing is more certain than a
beallhy body is an indispensable pre-
requisite to a healthy mind. e
Muscular exercise will do iLe part,
no doubt, but no amount of mere gym-
nastics can ever adequately induce
that complex chemistry within the tis-
sues of the body which depends large-
ly upon perfect pulmonary action.
rawly Weakened, and ahould be never'
used except In extreme eases•
MEAT.
NUTRITIVE VA1aU1: 01i`
Meat is looked to enhance 110 pale
aimbility and Wreath its nutritive val-
et% IlaW. meat makes a great demand
the os,
Ma the cllgestive powers by h net
sits 01 dissolving out the fibrous ev-
vetopes and tendinous tissue. There is
also, in using raw meat, the danger of
inlrodueing parasites into the body, a
danger obviated by thorough cooking.
Trichina are transferred to the hu-
iean System, through eating raw pork,
and Taenia, m' tape -worm, • through
raw or undone' beef. TJte manner of
Skirt of crepe de chine; the lower
part is plaited to a pointed shirred
yoke. Ideterial required: 9 yards crepe
de ohlne 45 inches wide.
booking meet has mueil to do with its
nutritive value,
If meat is put Into oold water and
thelatter brought to the boiling point
It loses the larger portion of its nu-
tritive qualities. The water dissolves
the solubles albumen, the fate and the
inorganic salla -in abort, most of
What gars to make it savory to the
taste and nourishing to the body. The
proteid substances coagulate' into a
brown loam on the surface, which is
skimmed off by the nook. Meat boil-
ed in this wag is deficient in nutri-
ment.
When meat is put into boiling water
the loss of nutritient material is less,
for the coagulation of the albumen on
the outside by the notion of heat pre-
vents to a largo degree the exudiation
et the juices.
Roasting or broiling, both accomp-
lished without the addition of water,
preserves the greatest amount of
nourishment. The oven or roaster
should be hot when the meat is put
In, that the coagulation may be as ra-
pid as possible. If the juice is allowed
to escape the meat becomes dry, hard
and loses mucid of its flavor. The
"rare" meat, so popular with the
Anglo-Saxon, is obtained by searing
outside, and not allowing the tempera -
burs of the inner portion to rise above
122 or 124 degrees Fadreuheit; thus
the albumen and coloring fluid of the
blood remain fluid. Stewing is anoth-
er form of resealing, except that the
meat is out up and more thoroughly
cocked.
Here then is the scientific explana-
tion of the reason for putting soup
meat Into cold Neater and , a leg of
mutton into that which is boiling, and
a baron of beet Into a hot oven,
EARTH IS GROWING.
Gains Weight ata Rate of Five Rmrdred
'Pons a Year.
The earth is growing heavier at the
average rate of 500 tons a year. The
meteors or shooting or falling stare,
of wbtich now and again snob brilliant
displays rejoice the careful watchers,
in passing through the earth's at-
m,oephere are burnt up and fall on
to the earth's surface, occastonally in
a heavy mass, but most usually in
small meteoric dust. Prof, Norden-
skjuld, from his great experience, es-
timated that, from the cause named,
501) tons fall uniformly and steadily
over the whole globe in each year, and
the observations of Russian solenttsts
yield a similar result. These ma-
(er streams, says another astrono-
mer, are really small planetary bodies,
revolving around the sun in fixed or-
bits by the force of gravity. The
earth revol:vee on its axis at the rale
at 1,000 miles an hoar, and speeds
through space en ile orbit around the
sun at the rate of 1,000 Milos every
minute, and in August ancl. November
plunges into the very midst of the
meteoric stream going in the opposite
direction. The rapidity with which
they enter our almoephere, and the
frietlon thus generated, are eo enorm-
ous that they aro set Etre to, the
smallest ones being consumed and fall-
ing In dust., while the larger once tic-
nesionaily reach the earth, in the
shape of meteores stone or iron,
'1'0 STAND CORRECTLY.
Women do not always know how to
walk correctly, so that they may ob-
tain the greatest benefits from the ex-
eroise of walking. It is not pliffi-
oult to stand correctly.
The sway -backed or stoop -shouldered
woman invites serious ills. Stooped
shoulders lesson the lung expansion,
weaken the spine and crowd the heart
into a space much too small for it.
standingwith the 'stomach thrown for-
ward and the small of the back un-
naturally curved is equally bad. Many
women stand and walk in this fashion
INANIMATE FRIENDSHIPS.
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Pate.
Turning over the leaves of s bid,
ga'apby whloh had not been opened.
kir years, there fluttered gets scrap
Of paper that. bad evidentlybeen torn
eft the wrapper of magagine .or ,jour-
.nal, as this WAY address -label still
clung to it. Only a strap of 'paper!
Yet it was as potent to revive the past
and to aloud the flee as though it
were a pressed flower which had been
hidden among sweetest poems. The,
friends whin had used the slip` as to
Moen•+mark are dead;' and the house'
whose address was so familiar, dis-
mantled of all tent identified it with
them, its now only one of the many,
whose sameness reduces city streets
to adudl uniformity, Thought busied
itself with all that transflormed the,
prosaic house into a lovely home., It
not only saw lost faces and beard
silent voice's, but it set the scene witch
the comfortable furnishings, and ren
pieced the thousand and one pretty:
trifles which were smattered far and.
wide after Deativ entered the portals,
and with the sadness of) personal lose
mingled a regret at the dispersal of
the tasteful accumulations of years.
One is almost ashamed to oonfeea
such an emotion, and tries to think
that inanimate things ought to be of
the very slightest consideration when
the loved ones who made them preci-
ous are gone from earthly dwellings:
Yet it is a most natural feeling; for
in all that makes up a home there
dwells a power, scarcely, recognized as
such while life is bright and undis-
turbed; but when the dread change
oomea, and in its train others inevite
ably follow, it ee found that "our .,
hearts are held down to our homes by,
innumerable trivial fibres," and that
the lesser separations Lave pangs so
keen that they intensify the nin,ol
SPANIARDS BEAT A BULLER.
A Relative of the Present General Fared
Redly at Santo Domingo.
Truly history repeats itself. If the
General Buller of our doe has met
with some; ill luck in the Transvaal
he has not been more unlucky Lha.n
a nlaanesake of; his, and probably an
ancestor, wbo' fought two centuries
and a half ago against the Spani-
ards.
On April 14, 1655, &British squadron
with nine thousand men on board was
seen oto ibe south coast of Santo
Domingo, and a few hours later the
troops landed, one detachment being
under the command of Captain Bul-
ler, and, the other, the maw body, un-
der the command of General Ven-
ables. The plana was to attack the
Seamierds at two points, and with
this abject Venables and his men
landed at a place twelve hours dis-
tant from! Buller's detachment.
Then followed a three days' march
over burning sand and through thick
jungles. Bravely Buller and has troops
tolled along, but their provisions were
scanty and of poor quality; the weath-
er was overpowering, and somehow
all things seamed to conspire against
them. On April 18 a shurp and deesscve
battle took place. Thee Spaniards had
carefully oonceadedl themselves from
view and poured a withering fire
;auto the British 'before the latter were
oven aware of their presence. The
British officers' fell Lund the soldiers
slum that no other course was open to
them but to retreat. So they fell back
steadily, but their retreat was soon
changed to flight, for a eecond Spain-
rah force met them as they' were re-
turning and. thinned their ranks still
more. As a result' the British aban-
doned the attempt to take &into Do-
mingo.
The news of this disaster caused a,n
immense sensation in official circles
in England, and every possible at-
tempt was made to 'prevent it from
owning lo the ears of the people. That
this attempt was successful seems
evident froml the fleet that many Eng-
lish historians clo mot .seam to have
been aware of the imcident.
and think they are in perfect poise. In
this manner of holding one's aisle grace
and beauty are thrown to the winds,
and the health, will be injured if it
is Waisted in. The muscles of the
abdomen are slrainod and iha spine is
apt to devotee chronic trouble through
ourvature.
To stand correctly the arms should
be held easily at the side, chin creat
and atomaoh tn. It should) be possible
to drop a straight line from the ear,
shoulder bin and instep. The feet, in
standing, should be held heels togeth-
er on the saute Ilse, making an angle
of abouL 60 degrees; the weight eat -
Ing on the balls of the feet.
Don`t throng rho sbouldsrs too far
back. That is a mistake frequently
made. "Stand up straight l" A1. that
order four women out of five will lift
their sbouldors up and back and throw
of their chests and stomachs at the
same time. Keep the straight: line
idea in year head and you will have uo
trouble in standing correctly.
Sometimes the shoulder droop is oc-
casioned by.ill-bealih. In that event
nothingtshould be spared to restore
the energy. Body braces only fond
t.o make more weak that which,' is al-
THE GREATER LOSS.
"These little things are great to lite
tle mane"
and it be when they have to b& gives
up that one realizes that they have
become a part of life; that they are
not merely artiolea which have been
Purchased or collected, but rather a
natural and spontaneous growth et
!name. Rooms are furnished with as-
sociations quite as really as with
material comforts, Their fittings
cense to be mare upholstery when use
and wont have given them an aspeot
of familiar companionship; pictures
are vivid with scenes and faces otter
than those within their frames; and
dearest of all are the books! Yet these_
friends, so responsive and sympathee
tic, can hardly be classed with one's
inanimate attachments.
In artistes of attire, both small and
great, there or often observed equality
which they undoubtedly possess, a
peculiar power of identification with
the wearer, so that oven the least im-
aginative can see that certain things
suggest certain people -in familiar
Phrase, "look like them." Death 00o-
secretesthese suggestive belongings,
and makes them BO deal that ie seems
almost impossible to part with them;
but ane learns to recognize the wisdom
underlying the German superstition
which affirms that the garments of
the departed laid uselessly away qutak-
ly fall to pieces or become, the prey og
the moth, and that the deadcannot
rest in their graves as long as theta
clothing is kept unused and friends
weep over ft. Yet even when tba
feeling -which, too persistently In-
dulged, degenerates into sentimenCal-
ity-is conquered, and kindly sensible
diaposltton made of all serviceable
articles, while near and dear friends
are remembered with precious trinkets,
or dainty accessories of dress, there
often: remain many things which our
roved ones treasured for the sake of
their associations, and which in a
practical sense
WERE WITHOUT VALUE.
-e --MANY BLIND RUSSIANS.
Statistics which have just been
compiled s -how that of the 302,000 to-
tally blend persons in Europe 102,000
are natives of Russia; and this means
that out of every 500 subjects of the
Ozer there is one who is deprived of
sight. In no other country do we
find this terrible affliction by any
means so wide -spread. In Germany,
If ranee, Great Britain, Italy and
Cipain there is only one blind person in
every 1,4:10 inteabitssnte. Russian
oculists and physicians say that the
reason why so many of their country-
men are blind and so many others
have detective eyesight Is because in-
sufficient attention is paid through-
outthe country to the ordinary laws
of hygiene, and they maintain that
Russians will continue to suffer in
this way as long as 1hev keep them-
selves and their themes in unhealthy
solidi! ion.
BUNGLING MARKSMANSHIP,
The surgeon examined the injury,
laid aside his instruments and called
for Brunn bandages•
"I1: is only a slight: flesh wound,"
If:
nail, " ff iha bullet had gone an of stated and living birds in tiro
inch to the left it would have .'revered world belongs to tee King of Tonin..
an ,artery, in which event I conlrl Untie gal, who is et entuusiashic erne -hole.'
aseKI my new applianne for the take gist. Scientists from all parts of the
ing up elf lacerated blood vessels, It world roil Lo his eases and rages, ,and'
wok11,1 have been 41 beauttCnl cane,' 115• It le believed iltett be has one specimen
added, with a sigh of mild disappoint- of sveny impnrtent 'tird family' at pre.
men P, I eon known.
One of the most painful: trials of
the last surviving member of a bouse-
hold is to examine and dispose of Mess
secret hoards, whose magio power of
calling up lost joys or embalming
dead sorrow has passed away, leaving
but a heap of worthless trifles. If he
or she be wise, and tenderly mindful
of those who accumulated them, it .fit
telt that the only effectual disposition
wand it is the most reverent as ,well
-is to burn the raids, and thus put
it out of the power of indifferent or
entice' strangers to indulge in unfeel-
ing gaze or heartless comment.
le is usually a woman who amasses
precious nothings and wbo cherishes
inanimate friendships. Very rarely
does a man indulge in such sentiment,
acid it is tberefoa•e all the more touch- -
tng to read Loekluart's description' a
the contents of Sir Walter Scott's desk,
which, het had to explore im 4eerch et
the author's will. Therein were found,
carefully arranged, "enema of little
abjeots; the old-fashioned boxes that
had garnished hie mother's toilet
when the sickly lid had. slept in her
dressing -rooms the silver taper -stand
which he had bought for her with bee
first fee; packets inscribed by her hand,
containing; her ohildren's bair; his
which he had bought for her with hie
dressing -room, with its old furniture
and portraits, "seemed fitted up like
a little chapel of the Litres."
IN MEMORY OF.
What do you call your summee
home, Mrs. Paz Jaokson 10
Pettish Orchards,
I don't see any orchard in, this pho.
Iogrropb.
Not 1hese was one patch behind out"
opting% but it died.
AL1, THEBIRDSKNOWN.
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