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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-1-10, Page 61113 FOUND JONAH ASLEEP. Rev. Dr. Talmage eaks of the Perils of Life. >r'" f'r X A. despatch from Washington says; --Rev. Dr. Tralmage'prcaobed Irene. the toliow^1nt text;. "Se the Shlpmn'ster came to him, and said unto nim, What meanest thou, 0 sleeper 1 Arise, call ,upon thy Gol, of so be that Goll will think upon us,that we -perish not."—Jonah I. 6. God told Jonah to go to Nineveh on an unpleasant errand. Ile would not go. lie thought toget away from his duty by putting to sea. 4i'ith pack under bre arta, I find him on his way to Joppa, a sea -port, Ito goes down among theseehipping, and says to the men lying' around on the docks, "'Which of these vessels sails to -day?" 'lite sailors answer, "Yonder is a vele- eel going to Tarshish. I think, if You burry, you may get on board her." Jonah steps on board the rougb oraft, asles now muah the fare is, and pays lit. Amber is weighed, snits are hoisted, and the rigging begins to rattle id the strung breeze of the dropping., down this moment. The Mediterranean. Joppa is an expo'ed rigging is all white with the loom of harbour, and it do'.e not take long death. Ilow chill the night le le ''1 for the vessala to get out on the bros..' must der," be says, "yet not ready. I .aea. The sailors like what they cal: oust push out upon this awful sea, but a "spanking breeze," and the plunge have nothing with which to pay my dare. The white cups! the darkness! the burrcane I Hew long have 1 been sleeping? Who;.: days, ani menthe, and years. I am quite awake. now. I sea everything, but it is too lath." lnvisl- lace hands take him up. He struggies to get loose. In vain. They bring hia soul to the verge. They let it down over the side. THE W1NLr3BOWL. The sea opens its frothing jaws to swallow. The lightnings hold, their torches at the soul's burial. The thunders toll their bells as he drops. Eternal death catches him. He has got gone for ever. And while the canvas mesh at the cargo as they c:an at. The ,utptnen at last e,infessea erracked, and the yards rattled, and the there is but little hope, and tells the ropes tuumpad, the sea took up the passengers that they hid better go funeral dirge, playing, with open dia- pason of m,dnight storm, •'Because I I win not rehearse, for you know it have called, and ye refused; I have well. Toa ase the sea, lhthey threw stretched nut my hand, sad no man pp' regarded; but ye have set at. naught Jonah overboard. all my counsel, and would none of Learn that the devil takes a man's my reprun;f; f also will Lough at your money and than sats him down in a ealentity; I will mock when your fear pear landing -place. The hill, Nays cumuth," he ps.l h,, faire to e sailors Ilat atiow, lest any of yto should maks lyse hien got out.. The sailors bring Ih:s instuke, I address you in the. beim to Ili' side cf the whip, lift him words of the 3I aliterra.nean sea- cwr 'th-• sari's," anal let hint drop captain: "1'.'h:tt mrunrst thou, 0 with .a haul ,,plash into th' waves. sleep,•r? Arwe, call upon thy Cod, if EI!•; P111? MBE so he that God will think upon us, all the way to Tarehiah, but ,lid not true.. But before this service is done that man will begin 'In think about Isla soul. Ile has been on his last spree. He has made Ins last visit to that bad house: Itis ehiidrem will to. morrow morning notion the change. This moment he starts heavenward; and for 11l1 eternity he will bless God for (hie visit to the Brooklyn Tab- ensile/et. Again; Learn that a man may wake up too late. If, instead of sleeping, Jonah had been on his kurus coneess- !ng his sins from the time Iso went on board the oraft, I think that God would have saved him from being thrown over board. slut he woke up too late. The tempest is in full bhast,and tbe sea, in convulsion, is lashing itself and nolhrng will stop it now bat the overthrow of Jonah. So men sometimes wake up 100 late. The last hour has. come, The man has no more idea of dying than I have of arc in mad wrestle, 0 mY God, wake them ups Drop a thunderbolt upon eheir eofftn,-iid anti wake them gpl To -night I know that many of yeu are soa-tosecd, and driven by sin in a worse seam than that wieloll (lane down on the onset o£ Mina, and yet I pray God that you allay, like the sailor, live to get Ileum. Ian the ]rause of nlanly maudone your friends are waiting to sweet you. Talley are wonr+ tiering wan, you do not come. Esoap- ed from the ebipwreoks of earth, may you at last go lot It .will be a bright night,—a very bright night as you put year thumb no the latch of that door, Once In, you well find Lite old fannily faces sweeter than when you laat saw them, and there it will be Denied that Ile who was your father's God, and your mother's God, and your children's God, is your own most blessed Redeemer, to whom be glory in the Church throughout all ages, world without sad. Aman. of the vessel from the crest of ata ware is exhilarating to those at home on the deep. But the strong breeze becomes a gale, the gale a hurricane. The affrighted passen- gers ask the captain if he over saw anything like thin before. "Ob yes," "this is nothing." Mariners aro slow to admit danger to landsmen. 13ut, after a while, crash goes the mast, and the vessel pitches so far "a -beams end" there is o. fear she will net bo righted. The captain answers few questions, and orders the thr..wing ottt of boxes and bundles, and so that we perish not." If you have a get (3' tv"rilt of nue m„trey. Aril her ' God, you bad better cull upon I3Ltn. does tiny ono wife turns h:s bt:•k un Da yea say, "1 Lava no God 2” then lair duty and does that which is nut 300 had letter call upuu your tallier's, right. nod. When your father was !u true -I ing the nuts as for dressing. Have Every farthing you ,,a nd in le hte, who dad he fly tot You heard ltim,1 a quart of chicken stock for two cups prom :will 0. swindle yarn out cf. Ile in his old days, tell about sume IA; r- pret., '.n you shrill have ihaty pser'r[Ut:• exposure in n snow storm, or cent., ,.,r 0 great dividend. pie lies• at eau, ur in bottle, v[' emvng mid- IIe: will sink all the capital. Yalu may night garroters, and how he eseuped. erE,N35ON, PASTY. It may be made in an ordinary Bleb with a pastry not too riob and out about a quarter of an inch' thick when placed on the pin. It should be covered with a buttered paper un- til the last boar of baking. Gut the venison in small slides and lay in a deep dish with slices of venison or mutton fat between the slices of veni- son, seasoning, the layers of meat with salt, pepper and -powdered all- spice. Pour into tbe dish a gravy made of stowing the trimmings of venison for an boor, in water enough to cover them, with salt and pep- per, or with any good meat broth. A very little chopped onion is put in the English (pasties. If the venison is tender, the crust may be put on the pie at once; otherwise it Is wellto balm the venison for an hour before covering the pasty. Either use a bottom crust or run a strip of pastry around the sides of the dish and'wot the edges to make the upper crust ad- here. Make a groove in the top crust and out several slits to permit the escape of steam. Brush thearuat with beaten egg and bake the pasty slowly for two hours. It rimy be used hot or rola. Durrant jelly is always served with venison, and chestnuts as a dressing or a sauce are an admirable relish to servo with it. A chestnut dress- ing ;nay be merle from a quart of the large French nats. Shall and put them in hot water and cook until the skins loosen; then drain and re- move the skins. Cover the nuts with water and once more gook until they are soft. While they are'hot rub them tbrougb a collander or sieve, season with a tablespoonful of but- ter, salt and pepper. Some mil bread crumbs with this mixture to give it body; also a little stook. A chostuut sauce is made by cook - THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, sena. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JAN. 13, "The Triumphal 11 Nry," 1litlt, e1. 1.11 0ohlen 'text, ::ail. 21, a, 1'li,A0TI0AL NOTES. Verse 13.I71e dlaaiplea. The two re, terred to be vase 1, Went, Without questioning, . Did us Jesus vommund- eS ;them. Luke hells us that the owner at float challenged tIse die- oiples, but freely permitted the alae# the ass and wit whee told that the Lord had need of them. "it must have wonderfully impressed. Ilse two die', olples with our Lord's power to find out bow exactly things turned as, they had. been m,nutely described." 7. Thane' clothes lima, large mantles, put an the colt as en easy saddle, They set hips thereon, " iF orrnally helping him to mount, as if he were a great monarete. ' 8, .A very great multitude. "Tho most of the people." Spread their gar - Mentz in the way. An oriental sign of honor, as with us carpets are spread cm the outer steps before a bridal pair. Travelers In the remoter Nast, where customs have not been affected by contact with Europe, have given us many accounts of this picturesque custom. On one occasion several miles at road were covered with great pieces of gorgeous silk, over which the king and his friends rode. Others cut down branches from the trees, and strewed them in the way. Branches oft palms, held in nearly all countries to be the emblem of victory. 9. The multitudes that went before, and that followed. Those who met him conning out from Jerusalem, and those who were going the same way as he. Hosanna to the Son of David. The word "Hosanna," means "Save now." See Pea. 118.25, 26. They sang a passage from a well-known hymn sung by the priests when they offer- ed sacrifices, In the highest. "In heaven," as in the angels' hymn, Glory to God in the highest." It seems to have been after this singing began that oua' Lord wept over Jeru- selsm, 10: When be was come into Jerusa- lem ,all the city was moved. Profound- ly agitated with,,joy and vexatlon,with enthusiastic support and bitter resent- ment. Who is this? A condensed phrasing of the manifold questioning that now agitated the city. 11. The multitude. The pilgrims, pressing steadily forward to the city. This is Jesus, the prophet of Nazar- eth of Galilee. As if such a state- ment explained all. 12, Jesus went into the temple of Gad. 1.y comparing Muthew's ac- count with what is given in the oLb- ergespols we learn that Jesus arrived at the temple in the alternoon, ani, "looking around," then wont back to Bethany. The clt:insiasg of the temple 000urred the following day. Gast out all them that sold and bought in the temple. There were booths in the court of the Gentiles where animals, incense, and other things required for the sacrifices wore sold. Money changers sup- plied the special oohs winch were re- gained for the tribute due to tbe temple. The seats of them that sold doves, Doves were is constant de- mand for the. otferinss of the poor. Those who soli them had "seats," Lor a merchant atanding would be a strange sight in the East. 13y this act our Lor., twice asserted his au- thority as ]Messiah and Lord of the temple, once at the beginning and now at the end of bee ministry, thus; marking the fsiILillment of Mal. 3, 1-3. 13. It is written. Seo Isa. 56. 7 and Jer. 7. 11. 14, 'rh,e bland an the lame came to him in the temple. Beggars were statlaood all around the temple, for "charity always begins at the house 15. The wonderful things. -,,..It was astonishing that one man should dare avid do so much in so short a Lime and im such a way. OhiIdren crying in Lha temple. "Singing in the tem- ple!" They were sore displeased.. Thole revenue from the ieLti'ng of stalls was now threatened. "The law had perished from the priest, and counsel from the ancients." 16. Yea- Otte Lord im his answer publicly accept± and sanctions the words of ador:,ng homage. Thou. hast perfected praise. Pee, 8. 2. Thou haat .made their utterances of praise a perfect, answer to the adversaries of truth. 17. Ile lest them, and went out of the city into Bethany. Probably to fudge ima bhe house of Lazarus and his sisters, pay full faro to soma sinful ,u.:0a8' Perhaps twenty years before you weic bat you will nouns get to '1':tt ha lt• born your father mule sweet acquain- Learn how soundly hien still slap tame with God. There is snmetliing in the moist of danger. Th.. worst in the worn pages of the Bible ho mod sinner on shipboard, considering the to read which makes you think your light hat had, was Jonah. lie was father had a God. In the old religious sound asleep in the cabin. Oh! how Irualks lying ;round the house, there: could the sinner ahem: What if the sea gassagea marked with a lead ship streak a rock! what if it sprang pencil- passages that make you think a 1eak1 what if the clumsy Oriental your father was not a godless man, craft should capsize! What would but that, en that dark day when he become of Jonah? lay in the back ruum dying, he was So men sleep soundly now amid ready --all ready. But perhaps your perils infinite. In almost every father was a bad man—prayerless, Mace, I suppose, the blediterraneun and a bitasph:'inrr, earl you never might be sounded, bet no line ns think of him new wit hoot 0 shudder. long enough to fathom the profound 33e wurshipparl the w•oeld or his Own beneath every inteenitenl Haan. Plunge appetites. Du not then, 1 beg yeu, ing a thousand f ,; horns down you can- call up,rn your fat her';.: Got, but not touch bottom. Eternity beneath on him, before hint, around him I Rooks close by, and whirlpools, and hot: - bran t heel otbrantheel Levanters; yet sound asleep! Wa try to wake him up, but fail. Tlse great surges of warning break over the hurricane-deck—the gong of warn- ing sounds through the cabin—the bell in the wheel -,souse rings. Awaken" cry a hundred voices; yet sound asleep in the eiebin. Again: Notice that men are aroused by the mast unexpected means. If Jonah bad been told one year before that a Ilea tholt sera -captain would ever awaken ,aim to a sense of danger, bo would have staffed at the idea ; but here it is done. So now, men in strangest ways aro aroused from spiritual stupor. A PROh'ANI MAN is brought to conviction by the shock- ing blasphemy of a comrade. A man attending church, and hearing a ser- mon from the text, "The ox knoweth his owner," etc., goes home unimpress- ed ; but, crossing his barn yard, an ox carnes up end licks bis hand, and he says, "There it is now—'oho ox know- etth hia owner, and the ass his mes- tet's arab,' but I: do not know God." The carealeesremark of a teamster has led a man to thoughtfulness and beav- en, Tits, risild's remark, "leather, they have prayers at uncle's house— why don't we have them?" has brought solvation to the dwelling, tacme man came hereto -night hard Iy knowing why he name. Ito has heard that 'Talmage ig an odd. man, and lino come to see whether it is YOtele MOTHER'S GOD. I think she was g, ad. Y0,1 ramem bar when your father came home drunk late on a cold night, how puti:'at your moi her was. You often heard her pray. She used to sit by Um hour meditating, as though she were 1hiaktrtg of same geed, wenn place, where it never gets cold, and where thu bread doe. not fail, and staggering steps never come, You remember her DOW, 0a she sat, In rap and spect:iel0s, roading her Bible, Sunday afternoons. What good ad- vice she used to give you! Ilow Week and terrible the hole in the ground leolc.,d to you when., with 3300 ropes Woo. let her down to rest in the grave -yard! Ah; Iibiuk from your looks that I am on the right track. Awake 0 sleeper, send call upon llty mother's God. I t.binkI em on the right track at last. Awake, 0 sleeper, and cull up - am the God of thy chaldron. May he set these little ones to pulling at thy heart until they charm thee to the same God to whom to -night they have said their little prayerl But, atlnsl etas! some of these men owl women are unmoved by the foot that their father had a God, that their mother had a God, and their children have a God, but they have no God. All pious exempla, to them for nothing. All the divine goodness for nothing. All warning for nothing They are sound asleep in the side of oho ebp, though the Sea sand the eke, of the coked nuts, Mash the nuts pine when they are cooked soft. Melt two tablespoonfuls of 'butter in a pan with a tablespoonful of flour, stirring until brown. Add the nuts and stock, season tvlth salt, a dash of paprika. Add a cup of cream and when the sauce boils strain into a hot bowl. Dry mustard, a table- spoonful, mixed with half a glass of currant jelly, makes a good lanae for venison. AN UNEXPECTEDARRIVAL, knurly In the history of the South African war, tt soldier belonging to the neighbourhood of Newry, England, was repot'tecl by the War Office to have been killed at Stormberg. linen public sympathy was felt for his wife and family, for whose wants due pro- vision was made. Recently the young soldier walke..d quietly into his home, and was confronted with the usual obituary card framed and suspended on the wall us a record of his death, and by a wife who could scarcely be- lieve he teaa still ti.ive and in the flesh. PROM, TRUNK TO TWIG. What is a family tree? asked the yoaug person. A family tree, answered. Miss Cay- eeno, inmate* like other trees; very :sturdy near the roots but becoming mere and mere frail and unsuhstatn- tine as it branches out. LLAMAS SN PE11311 There are 4,000,000 llamas In Peru, The skin weighs six pounds and is worth five dollars. ENGLA ND'a gI11NTING BILLS.. Sport 7!033000 1111zk, 1101 the 1711e 1Fr11011 lfaSI gave U, In the pleaeu'lw Of heating Eng- tassrd liar, invested, it to estlinnted, 055,000,000, and each pear, following the otiose, puts into olroulaltlon in that conmtry more than 5:5,000,000, The 701143350 lengeish pucka number about 400, of whio'h 22 wee of stag- hounds; 190 foxhounds, 127 barrier's and 51 buiglea. The :Earl al Batls- west has figured that the daily cost in the season of keeping foxhounds and hunting the country ea $3,450. 1'ltn viia1'o Reed for hounds omelets at oatmeal, dog bement:and lmree meltt, and harndreds of tone of these components of the dog ration are, bought and taold in nengl and Gaon Sea- son for the support of the packs. Hoisting, except in the case of hunt- ing with beagles, means that the hunters ntnist be mounted, and it Is estimated that for this purpose 105,- 000 private hunters are kept througls- oaut the country, not including the' horses of the servants of the hunt. ,In foot, huntsmen figure op that their di'verslon is a great national blessing. TFEE NEEDLE O13lt'E. ENJOY LIF] QU' A PERIM HOW 9NGLAND TREATS HER STATE PRISONERS. An indlanenaltaraJ'llTeton to 1sentattl;ay. n I'rleollar-\at ,*heaved to Yiett fit Native Clime Aaaln, An insight May be gained as to the treatment in store for leaders of the Boa I1aopubllos who May softer de- teat and fail to esoapo into elutes Garman or 2aortwguese territory, by e0mparlson with that of princes and kings 1he1d captive heretofore by the British Government, Lr 1810 when the Stats of Maharajah Dbuleee Singh wale finally annexed to the Indian Empire, that potentate woe " requested,' to take up his residence in l.ngland-oho inducement of a ready oompliance be- ing added by the promise of a yearly income of, £48,000 with nothing at all as an alternative. Dhuleep Singh wisely acquiesced part:basing the fine estate of 13rundon in Norfolk. upon which he rosined ter many years as a wealthy country gentleman. 'though during this period the Ma- harajah frequently expressed the de- sire to revisit his native country, pro- fessing the utmost loyalty to the .nine - press Queen, yet he was never permit`` tad to travel east of the Isthmus of Sar names Grant, an lenglish Ohl^ Suez. In this case the bond same to simian, attributes laomme forms tot mus- have desoended upon the heads of his cuter rheumatism, to the presence of children, forwhile his sons have en- avers stored in the tissues. He toped the British army, and ono of avers that for some years be has them Prince Victor, recently married treated oases of this kind by insert- the daughter of the Earl of Coven- ingfine steel needles into the muscles try, yet they have never been allow- , that the electricity being drawn t ed to set eyes on the land over which. off relief Domes atm -Wt. instantly. 'rhe their aucestors ruled. WOODEN MATCHES. Sw. den and N. rWay export 20,000 Leath of wooden mnaeahes a year. yIAN'S TEMPERATURE. Mao's o•dimetry i.eenaoez'atnure is 9811 degrees when in good health; that of a snail 70 degrees, and od a Chicken 111 degrees. Not Lett In the nark, "Did tbat horse dealer do the fair thing by you?" "Well, be told me all the horse's mean tricks after h0 had sold the beast to me."—Ohlcago Record. • Another ruin, Ilia—The 001031 I Is a corker, May --You' mean an =corker, d Clbleap;e Nees. Chinese have un elaborate system of treatment known as acupuncture, w^hush ntilivaa this idea.. Only they use the needles for any and every - PRISONERS ON PRINCELY IN- COMES. Approaching Calcutta on the left 4ontrstr to flue natural aup�rbank od the Boni River at Garden thing, Y polsittion, the treatment dams not pro- Beach, tbe visitor will have pointed dude muoh pain, the sensation being out to him the fine palace of the l• ate Mostly confined to it pricking feel- Wand Ali, King of Ouelh. There, from ing when the ,skin is pltssatured. It Chinese 1850, until a recent data, the prince in assert0d that the will drive their hair-like needles into almost any was held in semi captivity upon an Pert of the holy witlhout• injury, and annual allowance of £2,0,000, the only that flys lungs and oven the heart proviso as to his freedom of notion can be probed in Buis way being that he should not leave the 0. AN ERROR OF JUSTICE. vicinity of Calcutta. The Ding of It was the luncheon hour, and the : Oudh, true to those prodigal hereditary prison inspectors were hurryhig over instincts which brought about his their official ranted. They asked the downfall, not only managed to ekpeni routine questions quickly. ; this large sum, but in the keeping of I am here, ,gentlemen, explained the snake mounds, menageries and other pnkpoaket, when the warder 'turned costly forms of amusement dear to the his brick, as the result of a moment Oriental mind, was obliged to draw of Abstraction. i frequently upon the Imperial treasury And I, observed the incendiary, be- for further amounts. The generosity and leniency with cause of an unfortunate 'habit of mak- i tvbioh he was thus treated was prob- ing light of things. 1 ably due to the fact that he offered The reason S am bore, chimed inno armed resistance to his own deposi-. t'he forger, is simply on acoownt of a :tion. Blazing with jewels, and seated metals, desire to make a name for in a smart equipage, with servants myself. • in royal liveries, the Bing of Oudh And I, added the burglar, through + was often a conspicuous figure on the nothing but taaeiva king advantage of an Calcutta maiden—Lho famous park Vernon NanWoii Ot course women have to 4iepase sot thomselv00 to snarringe, li±1: sltchld the women ern Orepoecae askaamnsMacNeill* e Writer, Sometimes, even, 'deep it is not leap year, they should. 'There is lirst 01 all the case et queens. They meet de son anti very prettily did Qncen Yicteria nal - Illi the tach, says the Washington Post. But the SOX is eogood natured in help- ing lame dogs over a stile! Ale Irish girl did it in flits way. She thought that her boy wits slow in coming to the Pettit, am She said, "11 I Were you, Jaek, end YOU were me, we'd be earned long ago." Another 011y man said to the lady of hie ohoi'ee, "1 wish we 'were on such terms of Intimacy thet you wouldn't mind calling me by my first name." "Oh," she an- swered, "your second is good enough for Inc."Shakespeare's heroines are remark- ably ready to take the initletive tht thio most serious leanness. Helena demands the baud of Bertram as the price of her wonder working prescription, Desdc- menu hints broadly diet she Is to be had for the asking, Miranda toile her pa- ilent legman that she is his wile If he will marry her. Olivia says to bar.lover'e masquerading messenger: would you undertake another atilt, I rather (tear you to esItcll Than mole from the soberest • Then, finding Sebastian himself n10r0 pliable than his fair double, she fetches a priest to make euro of hies while be 18 in the humor. Juliet, caught thinking aloud, declares her willingness to lay her fortunes et Romeo's Leet lY he will but say when rind whore the holy man shall matte them one. Winter and Summer Ungemvcar, wife of a doctor, whom I number my friends, makes no change in weight of her nndorwear from season season. She wears outer clothes to e temperature and keeps long knit- tedggings lake those children wear to over her stockings when she goes cold weather. She is and has al- waysbeen free from colds of any nature, cannot remember to have ever, her complain of feeling at all un- well. dressing,' she says the subject is mentioned, not imagine that she will succeed averting more than a small per- centage of her sea to this system of dress- ing,ut one convert Is a thing to be re - over. It means nue more to be to the list of healthy, active wom- enthe world, nue lase to draw upon hemi complaints. tsateThere isour butr'ono rthing to bear than a complaining woman, and that is a miserably g man, when he insists upon every- body ]tis misery: We then dis- cover location of every nerve in our There is something appealing In dumb Patience of sick AuimAls, often do we tied it imitated' in the n !Wetly: The very set of com- plaining seems to bring a species of re ut it Isa little hard upon the others; Betty $radeen in Boston Traveler, Tact In tees S[ckroom: Sympathy must not be overworked non o' lend itself to that deutan which is a real kiuduess. The temptation to a sick friend or relative In every is often irresistible, but true tact, ver, may generally find a way by h the patient seems to have every genes he desires, yet in path have ng but that which the one in charge es to give bins. While the will of the ter must Always be dominant, it d never be so obtrusively. The pa- tientahould be ruled so gently that he not know he is being ruled. At oY course, the patient will ask for thing in such a way that be cannot d from the subject or be made to that after all he does not want that particular thing. Then a dit•ect "No" he given him, and a Bonet, persist- ent to meet unreasonable and harmful demands will not weaken, but.. r make sponger the tie between 'the id and the wnteUer. Strength and sweetness combined will work wonders in ng such a situation.—,Mary R. Bald - [n Woman's J3ome' Companion. Care For Goon'''. "There is no other cure' for neighborly gossip so effectual as a club," said Mat' ion Harland recently. "I shall neves; forget a winter that I spent In Geneva, Switzerland, 20 years ago. We batt all put our children into school and bad nothing to occupy our time but fancy work. Finally we formed an afternoon reading circle—we did not venture to call it a club then—and got the biggest-gos- sip in the American colony for president. We began by reading Prescott's 'Con- quest o3. Mexico,' and we turned that wo- man loose on Cortes. It was a comfort, I can tell you, to see how she hontlled him and let the rest of us alone. All we had to do after that to turn the current of her conversation tuns to say, 'What do you think of Cortes now, 2ft'o. 131enk?' " The ltlilllner's Ruse. There is a cynical milliner on Fifth avenue who once in awhile says what she thinks about certain dames of high de- gree. She was lamenting the other clay because a certain wealthy sirs. So-and-so had not sent a check in response to a Mil that was long overdue. "She may nolo have received it," said the customer to whom mednm0 had opened her soul. The., milliner shrugged her shoulders scornfully. "I am quite sure she did," she said; "(mite sure. I addressed it {o her husband and marked .it 'Porsoaai.' " —New York Lettot•. opening which was offered in a large ; where the society of the Indian capital maraAnLile establishment in towns, takes an outing after the beat of the 0 has awed. HOBO'AES S1IOD 'W P11 S'CRA.W. day p BStnaW is pat to strange W30s in I THE GRIIAT MOGULS. Japan. Must 02 the horses. ar•e•shoel I Fax different was the fate of the with straw. Even the clammiest ofpoor old Ballad= Shall, last of the cart -horses wear straw shots. In; Great Moguls. After the fall of their oast the shoes are tied round i Delhi in 1851, he was tried for high the ankles with straw rope, and are 1 treason and sent as a State prisoner made of title ordinary rice straw, to Rangoon. There, in a small hut, braided• -o that they form a solo for the only lineal descendant of Shah the a think. U assert the re- Int II1 •on u an inch 1 ua z the foot abyut half Johan and A g p Th sr sales Dost about 0 half -penny imainder of his days, unnoticed, upon per peer, and when they are worn oat they aro thrown away livery i a mere pittance. As, however, loth cart itis a stook of fresh new shoat his sons were slaughtered, and a las tied to ;nee horse or to the front 02: 0upable rubel leader, Tantia Topi, inn oast, and in Japan it was form + tvas oxeauted, he may have thought erly the custom to measure taatee 1 washimof fortunate to escape with his largely by the number of horse shoes . ft book to cover it. do many horse- life. Naar Colombo, in Ceylon, we still bold in light durance Arabi Pasha and his colleagues of the Egyptian rebel- lion in 1882. While Arabi has not ceased to bemoan his foie and useless- ly petitions the Government for per- mission to return to Egypt, yet, eon - steering the nature of his offence and that he was sentonaed to death, his 101 cannot be considered burdensome, Che North; to Piedmont, Venetia, and Provided with an income sufficient for other parts of Italy;. in Hungary, Po- land, and, best-known of all, in the famous Germain and Austrian spas. Speaking generally, a mod Or "moor" bath, to use a less objectionable arid quite as accurate title, is nom- posed of peaty, baggy turf, which con- tains stianulating, chemical ,properties, and whish, lifter being carefully pre- pared, is mixed with the mineral wa- ters of the locality where it is uses,. For the uossyfort of intending bathers it nnnybe mentioned Mot tete mixture is not adhesive, but leaves the skin easily ander the warm douche which preemies the cleansing bath. The period of nnnmersion ranges from belt an hem to five hours, and the sante ronin serves throughout the course. Wit The among the to sea suit th le pull,o out in and I heard well. wlseu I do in c0 centag b joiced added ill or our s with hardy ailing feeling body cover body. the but not hump plaint lief, b ell?— fail t efeen humor witirn however, which indulgence nothing desires watcher shout does t1tnes some he le think must ent rather Invalid swee 'told; Bald- win ` shoes made a day'a journey, and ,the average nhoo looted for about eight mitres of travel. BELLING MUD. Miss Mary Jl'ermor posnts out that healing mud !s found in Sweden and on the shores of the Black Sea; in the department of Landes in the Month of France and St. Amandle.s-Eaux Ln MEASURING THE EARTH. After nearly tbirty years of constant effort and the expenditure of near - 17 5500,000, scientists have succeeded in accurately measuring the earth. They have learned that its diameter through the Equator is 7,920 miles, tie height, from Pole to Palo, 7,809 miles The earth, therefore, is flattened at the Poles ; and while this foot has lostg been asserted, the actual mesurement baa removed the question fropn tbe (tomato of doubt. 4 13ETTE'11, GET MARRIED, Fifty -coven utunnarrled people 0001' wait eulcide to only 43 martiad, Master, to' managing clerk; "113.y anent complains again of your hau- teur and general arrogant deport- ment, You must really hove a lawn in lsumility—either you get married In a reasonable tisno or leave my service!" A patrtfied forest, covering aA area of 100 square miles, bad exist- ed for centuries in Arizoon, TJsou sands and thousands of pat.rified togs strew the ground, and represent beautiful .shades of pink, purple, red grey, blue and yellow, one of tile stone -trees spans a golf 'forty feet tvldo. • his wants, a pleasant residence, per- mission accorded him to receive visit- ors, and a considerable measure of freedomwithin the district, he would, undoubtedly, have been worse off land his successful enemies been of isis own race and religion. A1't AFRICAN POTENTATE. Of minor potentates England has et present one African, being confined Lo the limit of that island in the South Atlantic made famous as the prison of the greet Napoleon ; another even the far less desirable rosidenoe of Cspe Coast Castle. For several years Cele- wnyo, Bing of the Zulus, was held an unlesigned prisoner at Ghowe, near the scene of the present military operations in Natal. If the island of Mauritius is the aeleeted futurs resi- dence of some of the Boer leaders,they may rot the worst look forward to an uneventful existence in a salubrious tropiOal climate. PERHAPS. Oustomer—I'm'looking for one of the latest 'books, I don't recall the (1 - tie, but it's a long story of war. New Clerk—Here's one Balled "When. a Man's Married," Maybe tbal's it, --- WHY HE OBJIIIOTED, Ferdy—,'der dad istrying to stave off the engagement, Algy--slid he a barrel of mo0av,' 7 euppoott To Olean n Flnno. The materials required for washitit piano keys aro n dish of tepid wetter, 11 calve of sone tine three pieces of clean, thin flannel, 'Pelee one piece of cloth and wet 3t; thea rub It over the caiso of soap and apply it to the piano, n small portion of the surface at at time. Then wet an- other piece of flannel, and with this rub off the soapas thoroughly as possible, With the third piece dry the part frost- ed, tubbing It till it shines brightly, and do It all as quickly ns, possible that tie soap may not menthe too long upon the polished surface. A Flint. If you prick your anger end the place 'Moms lenient to tater, gel some loran lint, pour boiling water through till Ilion oughly heated,' wring as dry ae possible, bind the slut over the injured part, put a piece 0f oiled slik over and wrnp In cot- tou'tyool or a piece of tlnunel, Repent this tr'eatment'evety two or three bouts till toil pain ,ie gone, If you hive no limeade Mit, Melte n bread poultice, liehig boiled boracite lotion teethed of ordiettry seater. Vivo cents' worth at bararic acid dissolved In a pint of water and hotbed trill keep good fur months and le always realise for Use.