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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-6-13, Page 6LIFE IN ri, E G EAT CI 5treingers Spend the Days in the Storeand in Sight=Seeing. 'A:dem/atoll tram Weabington nays: how to Irina) the Lord's Day away salaam De, animate° preaohed from the $ae'rai hem, A Waal, =Ana' la 0 al oonsienent on the . bianke of the Se following text ; "And Solomon num- monimence, ea: the Alabama, or the Mend all tbe strungere that were in Mississippi, are not oonsistent when tOe :land of Imae1."-2 Mean, ii, 17. theY get so tar ott as the East River. I reoeut—though It ie putting it on , Ir, in ib time when peeple truvel- a low ground—you cannot lloancially led efeat or on eaxael batik, and. vaolls attord to break the Lord es day. It is lanais from eity to oily Was seldom, it only another svay of tearing up your even anmerterat that Solornoe moss government securities, and nut flag doevn the price of geode, and blow- nima the, preeentie of atrangers, bow log up muse store, I have triends enueh ;Mare important now, in these who aro ail the time lancing off lamas daya, athen by railroad and steamboat ca the. Sebbanh. `alley mg a little the population of the earth. are al-, of the Sab,batb off that end, and a little of the Sabbath off this end. Wan in motion, and from ono year's They do not keep the t wentyafour end to t1e. other, our cities are erowa- hours. 'Ialle Bible alYS : "Remain- ed With vialtors. Multitudes of them Lea the Sebbath day, to keep it holy." came into mar momenta and evening I have good friends who are quite ae. eustomed to leaving Albans, by the sexvicee. I am canscious that Istand midnight train on Saturday night, in the preaence of 131,tay of them to- tool getting home before chureh. night. 1 deeire more espeolully to Now, there mey ba oCcasions when tamale to them May God gtve mo tbe It i'l right' but ' eight word and help me to uttee it GENERALLY IT IS WRONG. an tho eight Way. ' i There have glided into tbia house, them unknown to others, wlaose his - teem, if told, would be more thrilling than Booth's exagedy, more exciting than Niltison's song, More bright than a awing teething, more simnel than a wintry midnight. If they eoulci it holy." What does tbat mean, it stand up here and lell the story of VaPall5 twenty-four hours. A man their mimes, and their tenaptations, owes you a dollar. You . . u don't want himand their bereavements, and their Mshimto pay you ninety cents, a ou anion, and thole victories, and their want the dollar. If God demands cif defeats, thee would be in this house yc.0 twenty-four hours cut of the emanningling of gxoans and ac- wieca'' hie means twenty-four hours such a and not nioeteen. Oh, we waut to elamatione as would make the place keep vigilantly in this osontry, the ursenduxable, •American Sabbath, and not have The hotels lef this country for beau- transplanted here the German or the ty and elegance are not auepassed by French Sabbath. II any of you the botela to any other land; but have been in Paris, you know that those that are most celebrated for on Sabbath morning the, vast popula- bnilliancy of tapeetry and mirror can- thin rush out toward the country tot give to the guest a_ny costly with baskets and bundles, and toward apartment unless he can afford a night they oeme boek fagged out; parlor in addition to hie lodging. The: cross and intoxicated. May God pre - stranger, therefore, will generally; serve to us our glorious, quiet Am - tied aasigned to him a room, without! erican Sabbath& any pa:tuxes, and perhaps any rock- a Now you are In thts hotel, and it is ing chair I He will find a box of ' Sabbath morning, You wake up and my to yourself: "Whatever others may do, I am going to have a day of rest for my body and for nay soul." Go out and find a eburch inenewhere. At seven o'clock in the evening, af- Ye'u wall find somethang met mut- ter having taken hie repast, be looks ?<I to your taste in architecture, muss over hia memorandum book of the asand preaching—something certainly &ayes work. he will write a letter to laetween St. Alba.n'e and the plain his home, and then it desperation will C1311-ker meeting -house. Go in. If seize upon a an to get out. You hear the sacrament is spread, N vithout the greet oity thundering under your being aehad, if you are prepared, sit evindows, anti (you. say:• I must inin down at it. My children, coming that procession," and in 'ten- minutesinto the dining-roern, never aak nae you have joined it. Where ttre you; Mh°ther they can it at the. table. going? "0)1," you say, "I haven't: nee6,,know they have a right to sit media up nay mind yet." Better nasete, othetraeb,.And when my father spreads UP your mind before you start. Per- leI have a right to sit at It 33.apa the very way you go now you. ft is ray table. as much as his. Join will always go. Twenty years ago A th.2 singing, that is if the chcir will let you! Ana listen to the there were a'ault8 ;meal 'aim :all"' preaching and feel at 11=0. Christ down the Aster Eraue at'ga lad! en the banke of the Kest River is started out in a airection where they. e sa just. th haVB been going ever since, and ten e. me Cbrist as a tbe banks million years from now, if you should, al the. Rio Grande. And then hay - meet them on the highavay of eter-, aillegy found the Sabbath day the. best nity, you would find them going in the city, find the Sabbatb the same dixection, only faster. mini night the best eight of all tbo week. " Well, avbere aro you going?" t„i I think it be Saturday night is O. ohe man. ea ant going to the laja-a. good night. We come home and put dams. to hear ,60m43 mnnto.,, Good. x. off our toils, yet the limbs; ache and How, if the train Macula run el the track into lize North River? I hon.a your friends will not mind to me to preach your funeral cerman. It would be an awkward thing tor me to stand by yoor sido and preach—you a Chrietian man killed on a. rail -train travelling on a Sunday morning. "Remember the Sthbath day to keep ootaling from frora aiatent ale% leave here retina Gad. end found OIM in owe tiervioe. May that be your page teenight. You tholateht you were tamegiat to tille place. merely for the puamose of &dealt -seating. laerhaps Grid biroughl: you to thia reeving thendere oity fag tbe purpoee of working out aver eternal ealvatiert, lo baeh to your bootee nod tell them bow you Met Cleriet here—the loving, Patient, Pardooing toad sympathetic Christ Who atteave but the city whioh bas been the steetructIon of so Melly may be your eternal redemption. A good onallY Yeara ago, Ettward Stanley, the English eormetaniler, Ois regi- ment, took it foxt. The fort was mans nest by Home three bundred Spaniarde, Edevaed Stanley 00030 clogs) up to the fort, lending hie men, when a Spare, iard thruet tat lam a spear, intending to deatroy Ida life but Stanley caught hold of the spear and the Spaniard in attempting to jealt tbe spear away from Stanley, liftecl him into the bat- tlements, bOOAler had Staaley tak- en Ms pesition on the battlements, time. be ewung his swoed, end his whole migameet leaped up after him and the fart waft taken. Se inay it be with you. 0 etaunger. These silty in- fluences which bay° destroyed so irony nncl daehed them down forever, sball be the Meane or lifting you up into the tower et God's mercy and strength, your soul More than con- queror through the grace of him who hath promised an eepeoital bene- diction to those who shalt treet you well, saying : "I was a stranger and ye took me in." matchea on a baxeau, and an old :newspaper left by the previous moue pant, and that will be about ALL THE ORNAMENTATION. would like to join toe at the door.: THE HEAD IS HEAVY; At the tap of tbe orchestral ba.ten, all but by the time sabbath night ha3 the gates or bannony and beauty: come, we are rested. We have beeo will open before your eoul. I congrate; all day in Christian 'society, .. and ele- elate you. Wbere are you going? vated thoughts have been going 1 " Well," you say, "I am going up to through our mind, and when the see some advertised pictures." Good evening service comes, and we as - I Should like to go along with you semble in church, there is not a and look over the same catalogue, and great deal of difference between earth study with you Kensett and BierstaetT and heaven, and the angels of God mid Church and Moran. Nothing moreis flying to and fro can hardly find elevating tban good pictures. Where the boundary line between the two are yea going? " Welt" you say, "I worlds, and our departed kindred am gotag to the Young Men's Ottris-,1 seem to 'mine down through the Mei- time Aaseeiation rooms." Good. You, light, and we all clap our hands in ;will filed them' gymnastics to strength -1 glee and say: "Itt. Ls good; 11 10 good en the raueeles and books to improve* to be here." the mind, and Chrietian influence to' And so men come to the verge of save the soul. Where are you goingl city life and say; "Now, we'll look "Well," you say, "I am going to oft, come, young man, don't be take a long walk up Broadway, and (afraid. Come 'mar, let's look off." so turn around into the Bowery. 1 {c)o)1 an.aleeks, untilaftor avshili tull going to study human life." Good. 5.11an names and puts a hand olaeaeb A walk through Broadway at eigbt of hie sboulaers, and palettes hien off. o'clock at. nioht, ia interesting, edu- society says it la evil proclivity on eating, festinating, appalling, exbilar- the part ca. that 'young man. OM ating to the laat degree. Stop in front no, ha wan simply an explorer, and of that theatre and see who goes in, saerifioed his life in discovery. A Stop at tbat saloon and see who young man comes in from the 50110- 00105e out. See the great tides of life try bragging that nothing can do surging backward and forward. and him any harm Ile knows about all beating againet the marble of tbe thz tricks of city life. "Why," he etrebelone, and eddying says, "didn't 1 reoeive a cireular in DOWN INTO !rag SALOONS. tha ceuntry, telling me that comehovv What la that blotch on the face of they found out I was a sharp bueintee that de-batiebee 1 It is the hectic man'and if I would only mend a cars flueh of ede ternal ath. What is that, tamameunt ot money by mail or ex- womanat laughter? It is the shriek express, charges prepaid, they would of a lot Houl. Who is that Chxistiannd a package, with which I °cella main going along with a labial of ano- e ke a fortune in tw,o. months; but 1 didn't believe it. dyne to the dying pauper in 'Elm My neighbore did, Street ? Who is that belated man on htauktoI myataulamelyV,hYZ ncoaernly2nitc;r:Ifia the way to a prayer -'meeting? Who is that city missionary going to take poe.kat ineide my vest. No mao wield a box in which to bury a ehild 1 Who take it. No man couLd °heat nte tat are all these clusters of bright and the faro table. Don't I know ell beautiful fame?' They are going to about the `ctie-box,' and the 'dealer's - tonne interesting place of amusement. box.' and the cards stuck tasetister ne Who le the man wbo shoots across though they were one, and wheil 10 Broadway from alley Lo alley ? .on'aU Mold in my checks? Ob, they mann as; the murderer! Ile haa whetted his cheat me. I know what I ara abeatst," kali& tuatal al will cut a hair, and it While at the same time, thet Vaey jinglea ibit filthy pocket. n 'Who is moment, Leah men are euenumbing to the worst Sataniin that man going into the erug-starel o fluences; in the That la tbe Man W110 yeeterday lest as',Iam„,alllel aeoaueateeethattf °Ma niaYarlr°0t51'11Yugfrittt 0 f' all his foettene on Wall etreet, lie is ':' goum um for EL dose ot Belledonna,and before morning It will make no atter- tame to hien whether atooka am up ir down. Who al that young man taateniog along ? lie la going to rob ate canplo,yeeM till] it the coast be Wear, and no Ohrietion young 1111111 meet labn and take him off In Anoth- er direction. I tell You that; Breed. way, between seven and twelve cOoleek, et night 'between the Battery mad the Dail= Stalere, ba an. Autsteslitz, it Mt.; tyeburgh, ra Waterloo, where king., donne aro loet at' Won, ;end three wesitle mangle ha the. atrife. THE KING AS A CRICKETER. -- Els majesty Ring Edward VII. Takes a Great interest in the Game. A very pleasant ineident, recalling the King's early cricketing exploits, oecurred a year last auly dur:ng his vieit to Edinburgh, when the gate- keeper at th.3 thief entranceat lie hoet's—the Duke of Bureleuch— reel- clence was summoned to tbe palacis for an interetew with the tbeia Pri.0.06 of Wales. Mr. Walter Mitchell, who ts the gate -keeper In question, was natur- ally delighted to find that the Peinee bad not forgotten the game of cricket Delketth lawn in which they had together taken part, many incidents in connection with these gemes being recalled by the Royal player, who, al- thoug-lm ho was tha proprietor of Ken- uington Oval, whieh property forms a portion of tha estate of the Ducby of Cornwall, never attained, probab- ly from, want of practise, to a very great prolicieney in the game. There is, we believe, only one oc- casion recordeci in whieh the. King took part in it forettal raateh, namely, e -ben in 1850 he °notated I Zingari to defeat the Gentlemen of Next:1k, at Sandringham, and was bowled by the firstball ha received. Early ins the ,SiltlieS, when the pro- fe.ssicnal crieketer attached to Eton College was the, at that Mime, well- known Camaridgeshire player, F. Bell, he was not infrequently sum - maned to Windsor Castle to bowl to the Prince, of Wales and the other young and Royal members of the homehokl. But, alas! it has to be re- cord& that on Ms return from one of these expeditions be made the TRE SUNDAY SCHOOL, LESSON XI, SECOND fltIARTER, INTER; NATIONAL, SERISa, altaiS 16. ;Text Of tke 01e8s1,a, IleY, 1, 0-20—Nient- elm Verse's, 17, 10—Goleen Text, lama *if*, 0,40onsanentary Prepared D7 the Rey, D. III, Stearns. CopyrIcist, 1004 by Anterlein Oros avocilliona 0. "la the tale thet Is eallea Patalaa, for the word of God awl for the testimo. ay or Jesus Mutat" We should be very gratetel to 11850 tWO lestions from the book of Revelation; ntore would htave been better, for it is the only book of all Om 60 that has a apecial blessing pro. noented mien them who read end Iteep 11 (1, 3; xxii, 7). 11 as It revelation, uot a mystery: a revelation le the etifeldiug ot ut alyfiterY, 1110 010 revelation of JOallS Christ. So if we tole Hite we stein bo destertgely in love with thio book, even thote0 we be in some muse sent to aome Petuens for it, and we stall be very apt to It we mine much of the great topie 011 the book as stated in I, 7; amil, 7, 12, 20, 10. "I was le the Spirit on the Lord's day and hettril behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet." Being in Patinae did not Medea, hi* beige, in the Spirit; geed- bly led to a greater fullnoes of •the Spirit by whom alone wo can soe or understand the allege of God or hear to any purpoee the voice of God. Some think that "the Lord's day" in this verse 17-101111S t1,10 that day of the week, while others think that it is the same as the eft used pliraise in the Old Teatament, "the day of the Lord." We should be in the Spirit every day, for only thus can we seo clearly the signifioance of the great day of the Lord or of any other truth or live the life of Christ. 11. "1 am Alpha anti Omega, the Mat and the last." Compare i, 8, 17; ii, 81 xx11, 13; Ism liv, 6: Meiji, 12. 001, i, 17. ate is all tbat can be told ot Gosi with all the letters from a to z, for in Ilimn dwell- eth all the fullness of the Modbead bodily tee]. i, 10; 11, 9). By Him all things wore created, aud In Him all things shall be column:mated. It will be well for us when in our daily life all things are be. gun, continued and ended In Him, when we begin nothing that we cannot begin with Him and when Ile is with 115 tirst and last 12. "And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And, being turned, 1 saw seven golden candlesticks." What a good thing that he turned to see, else we might have missed what follows! at was when the Lord saw that Moses turned aside to see the burning bush that God called ento him aud spoke to hitn (Ex. tie 4). There may be may a burning bush in our path and many a voice calling us whicb we thiuk we have no time t0. turn aside to sec or atop to hear, anti therefore miss many a revelation of God. 18. "And in the midst of the seven caudlesticks one like unto the Son of Man." In verse 20 we are told Om the seem candlesticks are the eleven church- es, the seven meutioned in verse 11, the same to whom the seven epistles of thole tors ii and are addressed, rnmesenting ail fhe gatherings of the saints then and now and till He come. The groat thing to notice is that He is always in the midst of His people, whether in their gatherings, in ordinary life or in tbe furnace for Him (Math. xviit 20; John xx, 10, 20; Dan, 111, 25e He is our Great High Priest as garment and girdle indi- cate, and a preeious leasou tells us something or the meaning of this. 14-10. The white bead and hairs sug- gest intense purity, or possibly "the an- cient of clays" (Dan. vii, 13), for Ho is one with the Enther. His eyes, as flame of fire'tell us how He searches all the thoughts and intents of the heart (ler. mai, 10; Hob. Is. 12). His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace, make us think of Him as right- eously trampling Mimi BM enemies who rebel against and trample under foot His precious blood of whith the brazen altar teaches. ails voice as the sound of many waters takes us to Dan, x. 0, where we read that the voice of His words was like the voice of a multitude, aucl to Beek. elite 2, where we read that His voice was like a noise of maim waters, and to Ezek. i, 24, where we read that the noise et the wings of the cherubim was like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noiae of a host. The stars In His right hand tell us that the mes- sengers of the chinches are in Ms hand (verse 2(1), the glory et 0)11181 (11 Cor. viii, 28). One of the best things I know Is to be "in His head for His pleasure" (ler.. 6; Rev. is, 11). The sbarp sword Iran His mouth Is explained by Heb. iv, 12, where we read that the word ot God Is sharper than any two edged mord. And additional light is given in Rev. xix, 15, "Out of His motel' goetb a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the uations." 17. "When 1 saw Hinz'I fell at Rh feet as dead." lf Jobsy e, ho Mined upon His bosom, was so ea -ermine by the sight ot his glorified Lord, how can the un - 'saved bear the sight of Him whom they have relected? Chapter vl, 15-17, de- ecribes how some will feel and act. What madness not to accept Him now as He otters Ulmself and His redemption to all who will receive Him! Plow comforting His words to Sohn as He laid His right hand upon him, saying, "rem not, 1 tam the first and the last!" Ile is always the very some Jesus (Fleb. edit, 8), and my mteeer note" from the first one in Gen. xi, 1, until now should dispel ell Sear a-nd till tin with His peace. Tt we can truly eam "Unto Him that loved us and wash• aa 110 fsens our sins in His own blood and bath eaearlo es tings and priests unto God Alla EMI Vetter" (verses 5, 0), there is no Mom for gear lo such a life. 18. "I tut He that liveth and was tleati, and, beheld, I atn alive for ever. More, Olen, and have the heyOf hell kha a death," Having all povrer ims heave' and on earth, ever !Mktg to intake hatereessiota tor His pooh in Hhil Place at the Father's right hand atad ever witb them on earth (Math. =Mil, 18.20; Rom, 8d), how strong end victorious Ells :POWs] should bo and would he 10 they, 'wow eee Jesus may aud not people es arestilisteneest WO 'Mist allow nnthing, neither probabilities nor actualities. to 01110 botweeu Him and un 'but, lito Stephen, look up eleadfaStis itte heaven and see the glom of atul and Zianla (Ade chi, 615). 18,20. "Write tho things.' Not for Mtn. Malt, but Mr alarms, nest Sohn SWOT; and latent to Ma that Which Clod g(actousl) reyealea to him, hIct unto ealealyen bat "Milo Ulm loveth " ere we es, DIREFUL ANNOUNCEMENT. that he "couldn't make a job of 'em et all." The Duke of Clarenoe and York have beth taken an active interest in the game; the. latter, indeed, who as a "middy" used to indulge its the game on the dock of the Bacchante, at the oenclusion of one day's rao- ing at Goodwood a cou.ple of years ago played in a match in Goodemod Park that was got up between the guests at Ge.odevood llouse. The temn in- cluded his Royal Highness and an eleven captained loy M. Oannena the femme jockey. The former is credit- ed with having poeseesed one ot the meet expensive bats in existence, the blade being of walnut, and the bat being mounted in silver. A peculiar- ity with regard to the Rings favor- ite bat, by the way, lies in the fact that high op en. the basde on either side of the spliee appear the famous tbree feathers that Lorna the crest of the Prine-3 ot Wales, Tha late Queen witnessed more than one cricket match, but never one that may with acrearaoy deecribecl as a firatmlass fixture. On August ard, 1810, the late Queen, together witb the Prince and Prineens of Wales and °tiler members of the Royal Yam - NO, witnessed a very close game at Osbernie. betiween the Royal House- hold at Osborne and the officers and men et the Royal yacht, which was won by the former by the narrow margin of twelve The match leas perticularly interesting for the mean that the late Prince Leopold undertook the duties of scorer, whilst fighting on tht aide of the sailors lee find tho Late Duke of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha, OD,: Line the ocore-sbeet reading :— ILIUM the Duke of Edinburgh, b Heed, 10; c Gate, b Archer, 2. "hall go down into a haunt of gutty for the purpose of refornung men and 1(..omen-11, as did John How- ard, or Elizabeth Fry, or Van Wier. they go down anaong the atrandoned for the. porpoise of soaring smile; then they shall be G011-proteated and they will oarae out batter than when tbey weet in, But it yea go on, timid work of exploration merely foe the purpoese of eatisfying a Morbid curi- osity, I will. teke twenty per leant off pour moral chaetteLer. 0 strangers, WELCOME TO THE GREAT GUY, May you find Chriat here, and not ; Mee taw them are who kneW PhYaleel or Moral danaago. Men; SIR ALFRED MirriaTMR, WHO HAS BEM CIREATOM A PDP111. BY TEM RING. REMARKABLE PROCESSIONS, moms G.:, ous Parades Welch Have Taken Paseo in Europe and Anaerion :One et the moat emeloue Ispectaeles ever seen in the fEnneralel Isla took Place at Lineeriek some years ago. A young lady named Helen Brooks had, in consequence of her personal attrac- tione, a large number of suitors, bat she, reamted all their addremes at length her safe:Woos were fixed u pon a man double hes own age. Slue, therefore, invited many of the unsuccesatul suitors to attend 'her wedding, and to their credit be it said that the majerity took tbeir de - fat in good part, and not only form- ed a proaermion to lbe church, but ceingratulated the lucky bridegroom into the bargain. A well-known Liverpool benediat dezired 111,21; his marriage seven year's ago should be unique in every way. His fiancee being poseessei of a handscone dowry, while h3 himself was so.riousler in debt, 113 invited all his creditors to attecel the eeremony. Tbe knot /teeing lieen reefely. tied, them gentlemen formed in procession and adjoin:tied to partake of tao wedding breakflost, When each found hineen:tatah hillis.inpacattaeitna ,cbweiguluennin aseptptle: priate note from. the bridogrooin :gat- tng that it arm hie wish to keen taut of debt in future. Hamburg yeas startled a few years ego, by a procession of ,washerwomen through the mein etreets of the city. Altogether 300 WOMEN PARTICIPATED, HOLD TICIIIT ON THIS TRAIa7. The train hall stopped at Cowie -les Station on its way to Glasgow, and a troublesoree old lady, who bad tasked at least half a dozen questions of passing railway officials at every stopping -place, called out to a pore teiC'na you tell me, my good man, whether this train is quite sure to stop n.t Queen Street Station? Weel, mein, NO,(S the reply, if she Mena get ready for the morn est bacon ye mil; Mid. 'The Rear old lade dld not know that tiaten aetreet ratutatal was a terfalinue, HAD LAIN AWAICH TO SEE. Mete Wiggleefearou loamy my bueband talkee In has 'Sleep, Mae, Wogglea—No, 1 dithat, 0000 pester) to live If todeetnet by Pre. he dens Una. Verso 1,0 gives a, threefold naai WiaailltameYast, :After a melon, altilsleb Of WS beok.—ehlopter 1 the thing: Wall, he auiator says anything wootit Um seers chtAttita fl tna,111 014 thing, hoaxing, tote, fO xxli thInIA " ahall,. IA Latent ten. I3ITS OF INFORMATION. A rev/Paragraphs %%AM 17111 be 01001014 Werth, Aeoaing. The first biallzert aseout took place in 1713111 likliond spends $4,000,000 a yearn O bleak lig. lendon imports, 4,000,000 parasole and umbrellas a year. Out a every three 90111.0113 eiruck by Idghtning two reonver, Tbe British Government is the own- er of over 25,000 °amok. 'Thera are 0,742 leeks and keys in tho. Grand Opera Homo, Parka y "4.Faire,rnme Ones the moat expansive Paritansent. It coots f 51,500,000 a At present 00011 1,100,000 tone ot emal relsed oost,s one lawman lite, Expanse imam in Russia do not run oaer twenty-two 28 y-ta37:11leailcm4rlam ahoe'aa l ri,hareavaoyed 21eayglaos notion factories; only 14.1.- 45mou eFive and a half cameos of graPes are required to Make a single witnegless- ful of port. 01 all tle. newspapers pualished in 0,03gerr cont. are in the Rug- Itesi Marirroonois are saki to contain more evert:ailment than any other; vegetable 00111810 1201. Greet Britain can buiad 2,203 lozo- rin:tf ar:a Ioenyrrp,.r,against 4.203 for the e • There were 150,000 children at 5ill:a4.103k0'1,0i0uOcin1cY. i%4ixtY Years age. Thers ay Two hundred and ten tons of honey worth 650,000, aro the yearly pro- duce of Ireland. Great Drilain LIFAS 1,000,000 tons of pap3tio•naeyacbitrro, aoc11. which she buys 100,- 000 A sixty -Len vessel, with twelve Men, can earn on an average a2,200 in a season at cod -fishing. Pelmets cover one-tenth of the Land oHniirtchp40 ,seicametdis auarnidace.one-quarter of The United Kingdota uses 290,000 tens of tallew a year—that im 181b. Lan eaoh inhabitant. The French census shows that the population of Era•nce hos deoreased by 12,181 in five years. It requires more thou 100 gallons of oil a year to keep the Largest loco- motive133 smooth running order. and carried with them all the para- phernalia attached to their calling. The rens= for -Liao novel eizetitaolo ✓ MS that a strike bappened to be in prom -ems among them, and as they had the eampatim of the populace suf- ficent funds aanre realized to en- able them be, 'ultimately defeat tbeir tyrannous empaopers. ' - A minearkable premession is thet held in Ashbury Park, Now Jnesoy, every year. The mothers of intents been during the preceding •twelve raenthe bring their offepring, in de- corateel perambolatore, the parade being heade4 by a 111113 bey deemed in policemen's clothes. 'The pro- ceasion, which frequently takes hall an hour to muse a certain point, was first organized raore than a quarter 0.1 a oenettry ago, and htte been held annually evethout interruption ever sinee. Speetators come from all parts of the country, and the money ocalacted is diastributed among local ebtaritiee. It will be a long tIm.o betas° New York forgets the extraordinary pro- cession of spinsters that wended Its way to a welleknown hall in that city tli13 yammers ago. Tar. Sohn Norden, it la:intone millionaixemnade it known that he would marry any girl whs.:. °Manned to etrike his fancy, whatever her poeition might be. In addition, he proaniimcl tp give her £40,000 on their wedding -clay; and in consequence the hotel at which he wee staying was besieged by marri- ageable m:aidene. This naturally aroused the ire of the proprietor. who immediately or- dered the millaynaire to leave. He therefore hired a spacions halt in the vicinity, and announced that he emend raake hie clveice from such applicants aa chose to assemble tbere on a cer- tale day. A procession made sop of several hundred ladies waited out- side tbe doors more than twenty-four Mourn before they wore °loaned, and the Natbee were halinces to interfere. In Mao time Dar. Norden, true to hia word, made a. selection and entereel into a matrimonial allianee forth- with. -a WHERE THE aia0 CAXE 1101t It CeatS AlannfautolloZ /AIM 00 litOrb %%Low Xn141331r. oultimme bill ma Moe reeetved by the hood of one el the greet Manw- Mottering firens in OA alerth of Eng" land, The engine of the feetory bo gnestien stopped working one clay,lior could the ettorte of the engineers( Kenai; start Um enachine, Something I had gone waning with the pinny, and it looked as it the whole factoryL woulal have to be stopped while the neciessury repairs were Made, Thisi would have Meant au immense loss both ima tintand money. Out when. eveitylsody had had a try at starting tbe engine somebody bethought him - Self ealling 10 the servisies of "Old 'Now, Old jack was an engineer fain - ed thr;moughout the district for bbs knowledge, of the ways of engineS. He would have been worth alraoet any Money to a fium if it had not been fog the font that he could nes,. er be trusted to; be sober at any par - titmice: moment, However, it so hap- pemed that when Old Jack had been, Relight for amongst 'the taverns of the neighbourhood he oval found in a' state a effloiency, He canoe In, gaz- ed mournfully at the engine, borrow- ed a haranasis, gave ihe pump two or throe, tapa, (.1,11a said, "She'll go now," And sho did go. Old Jack was milted to send in hie ?All, wItioh he did thus; To strutting engine. . 410 10 0 The proprietor of the factory Wad thkeni aback, Casing tliat Old jar* bad spent at the utmost a Minute, area, the work ; he thought that hall O novezeiga would bs ample remun- eration. Then the angimeer sent In an. °them bill:— To atatting engine„.. . .ZO 10 0 To keowang how , . .10 0 0 016 10 0 He, got his money. . INSURANCE FOR OLD MAIDS. Company Ras Boon Started in nonmarlt for That Purpose. The emanate who, through no fault of their own, reraain unmarried, and who are compelled to earn their own living, have always occupied the at- teetIon of the philanthropists of the wooed, who brave felt the necessity of some provision being made for them when advancing years make their services as bread -winners less sought foe. This is the more desirable inso- much as the salaries which they earn in the ordinary way are not suffi- cient to enable them to savo very much against the proverbial rainy day, which Inevitably comes to cloud the evening of their lives. Denmark is the country which has set the world an examPle in thIS re- epect, an Old Maids' Insurance Com- pany having been started in Copen- hagen. According to this scheme, the pol- icy holder, by preying a certain year- ly premium, is entitled to a. pension if, on reaching the age of 40, she still be unmarried. Parents of n dinarent turn of mind with regard to the possible attrac- tions of their daughters, but who are nevertheless of a. practical dis- positron, may enact an insurance against their condition of spinster- hood whemi the girls are quite young, but all the premiums would, of course, be forfeited in the event of the damsel marrying before she had arrived at the ago in question. Islington is the most thickly-popo- tated parish in England, having 112 persons to the acre. Bolton comes next. 'Cho. public-houees Of London, if atst side by side, would reach a distance of seem thing Like eeventymix It is statea that there are 80,000 bar =tide en Beetled, whone hou rs averege fourteen daily for a wage ol 52.55 per week. New Zealandas frozen meat: trade with Great Britain now equals about 15.000 eheen a day, or some 0,500,000 pee annum Th'a largest needle nalanufactory ifl the world le cat Redditch, 1Vorcester- shire. Over '70,000,010 needles are made there weekly. The English Law Directory con- tains the names of Nome 10,000 bar- risters, but the number of those who Practise, dces net exceed 8,000. The raialusay-otaticams in Sweden at whazia meats art 'served aro known by O sign whioh Imars the lauggestive mime Um, e °reseed Innate and fork. The laggeet match teetotal, in the world ts at Ticialzalm, Sweden. at, (=- ploys over 1,203 mien, and manufac- tures daily 9.30,000 boxes of matches. The meat °urines paperonalaht in the world i3 staid to belong to the Priam of Wales. It Is—se report goes—the mummified hand of one of the daughters of Pharaeh. A Parliananotary retorn alreave that the Intel membee of registered elec- tors in this; United Kingdom, at Moe present time, hs 0,822,581, as compared wilth 0,7E0,935 Mat year. The Spanish en:Idler hae only tW10 1:02,119 it dam, ant he keeps an ex- cellent emadatien on a fare consist- ing of it chunk of dry block broad, a little oil, a clove of garlic, and his cigarette. A photographer of Ziurioh has /13 - vented an apparatns for taking long- distance. phestos. He toak a good photograph of Saentis, 120 ;miles frorn Yverdca, where he had 1ised an ap- paratus 1011. long. IL is the custom on the birth of Japanese baby to plant a tree. irhis is carefully tended until the party is about to be married, Wt.= it IS out down and made into an article of. fur- niture for the new home. BLACK. MEN MAY I3ECOAT.E WHITIO 'As a rule, the one desire of a negro who lives in it white man's (*entry Is to become less black. If he could bee 00010 white be woula be the happiest man metier the sun, nut that being impoesible, he la satisfied if he can matte his akin a few Shades ligbttir in colour. Accordingly, !some enter- prising cheiniats in Mouth Africa and America have produced a number of prepar.atiooe intended to bleach the akin. 'These preparations are known by all kinds of taloa:Cul names, and the bottle*meetly have a gaudy ahowing a negro with black loan -da, and the xegular woolly bale, but with a fade ea white as a china doll'e. Enormoue quantities of these patent washes are sold, and many manures:hum% haye made tortanes out of' them. Another thing that ts mmth in demand is a patent hair lo- tiona that is intended to take the curl out of a negam's unix; and whether it is effective or not, it finds anon- areaous sale. PRIZES FOR BEAUTIFYING PARIS. The Municipal Council of Parts has hit upon a. capital idea, -Inv encourag- ing citizens to beautify the city, Thoy give an iannuel peize to the ar- chitect and the builder of the moat beautiful buildieg erected Outing the year, tiyal anowthe owna, to deduct SO per cent, when he pays hie taxem AUTOMATIC TICKET SELLERS. Travellers to Switzerland this sum - mei' will Mgt that railway tickets oo some of the linos con be obtained from the familiar penny -in -the -slot machines—though the amount to be leserted will vary; of course, in this CCLSO with the distance to be ttavel- loci. The machine is similar to the ordinary automatic machines, but the glass cases contain the tiokets on wlaiell aro printed the names of stations end the prIen of the tioket. 13y dropping Imo tho right, amount anti pulling a. handle the tielcot is act free. The machinery ia so well eonstrwated teat an insufficient stun or any base coils will not work tho spring, and there in moo danger of tho purchaser losing the Whole amount. HORSE UNHARMED. Trolley Casa and Antemobiles Only Getter His Condition. Men years ago., when electric trot - Ley ears began to be generally intro- duced into the cities, so many draught horses that had hew used in the street car service were put on the merket that tbe prima" of horses fel4 to a figure thot !eft no profit to Sons e breeders. Datany stopped breed- ing horses altogether, Others, nore far eeetng, began to breed better ones, believing that only the common "plug" horse was to disappear trona the market. This has proved true. The alectri3 elevated railroad hae been introdueed inee that time, and the autom,obile, both doing notch of the work that used to be done by, horses. Yet the price of, horses is higher now than It was 10 years ague bemuse only good ones are in demand and there are not enough of a high grade offered for eale. The "ping," that used to sell for 525, has largely disappeltred from the market, lend with it has gone tbe cruelty of drivers. A men's pocket- book usually appeals to him. more strongly than a Humane Society,tand wheel he has paid 5150 for a horse he hei s a personal nterest in seeing tbat it is net abneed, KIND SNAIL. t Hoped Its Siek Friend By Finding It Food. sznacH FOR KNOWLEDGE. Zinka—Helle I Well, / swan 1 Study.. ing a book of etiquette, eh Old elauff—Yep. ainice--Went to Mesta how to treat folks politely, ab) Old Gatti—New. Watt to fliod nut whetiler folks axe treating me 'pa 1 t 1 The groat Imarwln, who learned ao meth about, animals and their ways, tells many wonderful stories about them fit tha books he published. In ono instance lie attempta to show that lower animals have reasoning powers by citing the actions of a couple of snails that were placed in a walled garden. This garden was absolutely ,devoid ot vegotatiot, ancl the atoor snails began to suing for want of food. One of them loecrune ill. Then the mtrouger of the two evidently coneluded that something lied to he done. It seemed to hold 1, conversation with its sick compan- ion and hurried away. The persons watching their actions concluded the sick snail had been doseradel and lett to die. Not so, however. Tho strong snail laboriously climbed 0501' 1110 Wan and found a delightful ear - den teljoinina, full of greon kayos and plants. Then it turned Mete crawled to ite sick aeiend nest tellsod with it again. At lime the two started over the wall, and. In 111110 WOr0 10St in the paradiee tame, leed been founds At.