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DISPOSITIOIT OF JESUS,
REV, DR, TALMMA.GE PREACHES ON
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A despatch tram Washington says:
—Rev, Dr. Talmage preached from
the following text:—"Now if any
man have nut the Spirit of Christ, he
is none of His,"—Rum, viii. 0.
There is nothing enure desirable
than a pleasant disposition. With-
out it we oanrlot bo happy ourselves
and we ounnut make others happy.
When we feel that we have beelr vex-
ed and have lost oar temper, or have
been impatient under some light moss
we wake up to new appreciation et
propel' equipoise of nature. We wish
that we had been born with self bal-
ance. We envy the bearing of that
man who is never thrown into per-
turbation. We live under the feel-
ing that as years pass along our char-
acter will be mellowed and ripened,
and wo will become more self -control-
lable, forgetful of the fact. `that an
evil left in our nature uueradieated
growe to more offensive proportions,
afld( that n transgression not cast out
may become the grandfather of a
great generation of iniquities.
It is possible to have our disposi-
tions all made over again, Because
we do not believe Ibis, our dispositions
do not improve; A man says: "I am
Irascible, and I can't help it;" or, "I
am revengeful, and I can't help it;"
or, "I am impulsive, and I can't help
et." You, can help it. We may have
our dispositions made over again—evil
uprooted, right implanted. If it is
ever done at all, my friends, it will be
by .,having the disposition of Jesus
Christ set down iii the midst of our
nat are.
I shall this morning discourse to
you about the disposition of the Lord
Jesus, for "if any man have not the
Spirit of Christ, he is none of His."
In the first place, the spirit of Jesus
was o spirit of gentleness. 1 know
that ,sometimes He made wrathful
utterance against the hypocrite and
the Pharisee, but for the most part
His words and His demetuluur were
gentle, and loving, and kind, and
patient, and inoffensive and pleasant.
When you eunaider the fact that 11e
had an omnipotence with which Ile
might have torn to pieces the assail-
ers of Iles character, it makes His gen-
tleness seem more remarkable. .Lit-
tle children, who always shy off from
a rough man, rushed into His presence
and chambered on Him until peopie
bad to tell them to stand buck. in-
valids, so sore with disease that they
shuddered to have any one come near
them, asked Him to put His hands un
their wounds; it was so very soothing.
There was not a mother with so siek
and delicate a babe that she was
afraid to trust it in the Saviour's
urine. His footsteps were so gentle it
would; not wake up the faintest slum-
ber. Some rough people hustled a
bad woman into His presence, and
Said: "Denounce bee' now. Blast her.
1ai11 her." Jesus looked at her, and
then looked al the assailants, and
said: "Let him that is without sin
east the first steno." When a
blind man sat by the wayside
making a great ado because lie bad no
vision, the people told him to hush up
—that he was bothering the Master;
but Christ came where he was and
said to him: " What wilt thou .,bat
I do unto thee ?" Gentleness of voice.
CienLlenees til band. (lvntlences of foot.
\Ve all admire it though we may not
have it. 'lime rough muunlain bluff,
the great scarred headland; loves to
look down into the 00150 lake at its
feet; the stormiest winter loves to
merge into the sunshiny spring, and
the most impulsive and precipitate na-
ture must be attracted by the gen-
tleness of Christ. The calmness of His
look shamed boisterous Gennesaret in-
to placidity. How little of that gen-
tleness you and I have Let us confess
it. IL is a tendency of out -door life to
stroke our dispositions the wrong way,
The thunder of the world's scorn sours
the milk of human kindness. The
treachery, the extotion, the ignoble-
ness of mean men take the smoothness
cut of. our nature, and we become sus-
picious, and hypercritical, and stuok all
over with nettles, and frowns come to
the brow, and harshness to the voice,
anti bluntness to the manners. What
an utter and almost universal look of
gentleness! So that we do not know
bow to talk to the siolt, nor adminis-
ter to the troubled, nor care for the
poor. We havo our words of sympa-
thy pitched on a wrong key. I had a
sister whose nrmwas put out of joint,
anti the neighbors name, and they seiz-
ed !told the arm and pulled mightily,
and pulled till her anguish was great,
but the bone went not to the socket,
After awhile n surgeon came in, and
with one touch it was all right, So
we go down to our Christian work
with so rough a hind, and with so
unkind and so unsympathetic a na-
ture;
a-ture; that we miserably fail ; while
8010e gentle Christian soul acmes along
and with ane touch the torn ligaments
are healed and the disturbed bones aro
rejninted. 0, for something of the
gentleness of Christ I 'There is morn
'rawer iu 8ue11 gentleness than in a life-
time of high pretension The dew of
ono sutnmer night floss more good than
ten Carrihean whirlwinds,
51111 further: the spirit of Christ
was a spirit of self-sacrifiac. No young
man ever had opening before him
brighter opportunities than opened be -
'fore Christ, if He had chosen to follow
a worldly anrliition, The might have
gained fortunes of wealth in the time
Tie eyelettending the sink. With His
power to at treat men and popularize
Himself, Ile might hnv0 gained an of.
Dotal poet lion. No orator ever won such
plaudits as Be might have won from
sit predrill„ and synagogue, and vast
asselnblages on the seaside. No pbysi-
eian ever acquired such a reputation
fur healing power as Christ might have
acquired, 1f. He bed perforated His
wonderful cures in the presence of the
Rennin aristocracy. I reciteto you
these things to show you what Paul
tnetnt when he said: "Ile pleased not
himself,' and to show you the splen -
dont' of His self-sacrifice. No human
power could have thrown Cella into
the mange!' if Ire had X101 chosen to
go there. No Satanic strength rould
have lifted Christ on the cross, If He
had not elected Himself to the torture.
Tu save oar rent' from the 055piugs and
t emoils of its guilt, He faced the sor-
row of earl!*, and the woes of hell.
Alt motherly, fatherly, brotherly, fi-
lial self-sacrifice paling into nothing
before this extreme of Divine genero-
sity.
enerasity. Fulrpese you, my hearer, by a
straight course of oanduot could win
a pltluee, while by another course of
conduct you might advantage your
fellowmen, but finally would have to
come to assassination, which would you
choose—the palace or assemble tIon ?
Christ chose the, latter. O how little
self—sacrifice we have. What is it 1
Why, it Is taking from my comfort
and adding to yours. ft is walking a
long Journey to sate you from fatigue.
Tt is lifting u heavy weight in order
that you may not be, put to the strain,
It is Ilse subtraction of my ease and
prosperity that there may be an ad-
dition to your ease and prosperity. Flow
little of that spirit any of us have.
Two little children, nn n coitl clay were
walking down the street, the boy with
hardly any garments at all, and the
girl in a coat that she had outgrown,
and the wind was so sharp, she said:
" Johnny, come under my rout." He
said: "It is too short," "0,' she said:
" it will stretch." But the coat would
not stretch enough, so she took it off,
end put it upon the boy.
That was self -writer.. Thal' was
Christ laking off His robe for
you and me, beggnrd for e.ternity with-
out Him, When the p1.ogite was raging
in Marseilles, and they were dying by
snores and hundreds from it, the Col-
lege of Surgeons decided that there
must be a post-mortem examination
in order that they might know how to
meet and arrest that awful disease.
And there was silence in the College
of Surgeons till Dr. Guinn rose and
said: "1 know it is certain deathto
dissect one of those bodies; but some-
body must do it, and I shall, In the
name of. God and humanity i will do
the work." Be went home, made out
his will, then went to the dissection,
accomplished it, and in twelve. hours
died. That was self-sacrifice that the
world understands. 0, more wonder-
ful sacrifice of the Scent of God, He
walked to Emmaus. He walked. from
Caper•nnum to Bethany, He walked
from Jerusalem to Calvary. How far
have you and I walked for Christ? His
heart ached, His back tiehed for us.
How much have we ached, for Him?
Let us Ibis morning look over all the
years of our life, anal sea the paltry
List of our self -sacrifices. Not one deed
in my life or in your life worthy the
name
Still further; the spirit of Christ was
a spirit of humility. The Lordt of
heaven and eartb in the garb of a
rustic. He who poured all the wa-
ters of the earth out of His hand—the
Amazon, the Euphrates, the Miss-
issippi, too Ohio, the St. Lawrence—
bending over a well to beg of a Sam-
aritan woman a drink. He who spread
out the canopy of the heavens and set
the earth for His foot -stool, lodging
with one Simon, a tanner. lie whose
chariots the winds are, walking with
sore feet. Jostled as though Ile were
a nobody. Pursued as though he were
a criminal outlaw, Nicknamed.
Struck at. Spit on, Hushing they tem-
pests, and yet sitting down without
any assumption in the cabin by the
disciples, as though Ile had done no
more than wipe the sweat from His
brow in His fa'ther's carpenter's shop.
Twking the foot of death off the heart
of Lazarus and breaking the shackles
against the grave -mouth, and yet
walking home with Mary and Martha
as though He were only te plain citi-
zen of Jerusalem going out to stay the
night in the suburban village of
Bethany. Omnipotence under a coun-
tryman's grab. Walking in common
sandals, seated with publicans and sin-
ners, 0, the humility of the Son of
God. How little you and. I have of
it. We gather a few more dollars
than other people have, or we get a
little higher social position than some
one else has, and how we strut and
want people to know their places, and
ory out; "Is not this great Babylon
that I have built for the might of my
majesty and for the honor of my
kingdom?" Would to God that we
might; get something of the humility of
Christ,
Stilt further: the spirit of Christ was
a spirit of prayer. Prayer on the
mountains. Prayer in Gethsemane.
Prayer on the lake. Prayer among
the sick. Prayer on the Dross. Why,
you cannot mention the name of Jesus
without being obliged to think of pray -
e1'. Prayer for little children: I
thank Thee, 0 Father, Lord' of heaven
and mile, that Thou hest hill these
things from the wise and prudent, and
hest revealed them unto babes," .bray-
er for His friends: "Father, f will that
they be with me where I tum" Prayer
for His enemies: "Father, forgive them,
they know not what they do." Prayer
for all nations: "Thy kingdom Colne."
How little of that spirit you and I
have. How soon our knees; get tired,
Who is there that for ten minutes can
keep his mind away from the store, and
the offioo, and the shop, and concen-
trate it in supplication? Where are the
phials full of odours whieb are the.
prayers of the saints? 0, we want
more prayer' in the houses more prayer
m the nursery, more prayer in the par-
lour'., mora prayer in the social circle,
more prayer in the Church, more pray-
er in the legislative hall, more prayer
among the young, more prayer among
the old. Lord, teach as how to pray.
We have not tested it5 pewee yet. The
very moment when the Diet of Nurem-
berg were singing the edict that gave
deliverance to Protestants, that very
moment Martin Luther was kneeling
down in his private room, praying for
the accomplishment of the object.
Without any communication between
the Diet of Nuremberg and the room
whore Martin Luther was praying
for that grand ' aeoornpltshment,,
Martin Luther Pose from his
Imam with a shout, rushed out into
the,street, once cried: "We have got
the victory, The Protestants are free."
That was prayer getting the answer
etraiglit from 111e throne. We need to
pray like Daniel, with ut1r face toward
the holy city. AVe needtupray like the
publican. smtttLli en our !tear!, We
need to pray like Paul: '•0, wretch-
ed man that I ala, who shall deliver
me 1" We need to pray like Stephen,
gazing into heaven, 'Nt need to pray
like Christ, who first emptied till the
life blood out of Hie heart, and then
filled teat heart with the sighs, and
the groans, and the wants, and lite
agonies of all. generations.
"Cold mountains and tie midnight
air
Witnessed the fervor of his prayer,"
51111 further; the spirit of Christ W0s
the spirit to work. There was not at
lazy moment. in all His tile, Wheth-
er t1e WAS talking to the fishermen on
the beach, or preaching to the sailers
on the deck, or addressing the rustics
tumid the mountains, ur spending the
Summer evenings in the village, He
was always busy. Mowing in the ear -
pouter's shop. Helping the lame clan
to walk without any emote Curing
the child's fits. Providing rations for
rt hungry hoot. Always busy, Ile was.
'I'1te hardy men that pulled out 1.he net
from Genneoaret, full of floundering
treasures; tate shepherds who hunted
up the grassy plots for their flocks to
nibble el ; the shipwrights thumping
away in the dockyards; the wine -mak-
ers of En-gedi clipping up the juice
from the vat and pouring it into the
gust-skins—none of these were half so
busy as tIe whose hands, and head, and
heart, were all full of the world's work.
From the day on which He stepped out
from the caruvensery of Bethlehem to
the day when He set. His cross in the
socket on the bloody mount, it was
work, work, work all the way. IL is
not so with us, not so with you, not
so with me. \Ve want the burden to
be light if we are to carry it, the
church pew soft if we are to sit in it,
the work easy it we. are to perforrn it,
the sphere brilliant if we are to move
in it,. the religious service short if we
are rt, n thtoheav-
en. rook
tosuusvive, fanius0, singe way us to sleep,
dandle us on. the tips of your .fingers,
hand us up out of this dusty world
toward heaven on kid gloves and un-
der a silken sunshade! Let the mar-
tyrs who waded the flood rind breast-
ed the fire get out of the way while
this colonly of lender footed delicate
Christians come up to get their crown 1
0 for more pf that better spirit which
starts a man heavenward, determined
to get there himself and Co Lake every-
body else with bim. Busy in the
private circle, busy in tbe Sabbath -
school, busy in Church, busy every-
where for God end Christ, and heaven.
0, Christian soul, ,what has Jesus done
against !bee that 'thou hast betrayed
Him? Who gave thee so much riches
that thou const afford to despise the
awards of the faithful? .At this mo-
ment, when all the armies of earth
and heaven, and tell, are plunging in-
to the conflict, how can you desert the
standard?
I have shown you that the spirit of
Christ was a spirit of gentleness, a
spirit of self-sacrifice, a spirit of hu-
mility, a spirit of prayer, a spirit of
work—five points. Will you remember
them? And are' you ready for the tre-
mendous conclusion of the apostle: "If
any man have not the Spirit of Christ
he is none of His ?",Overpowering state-
ment. Who can stand before it ? Not
I. Not you. And yet this subject ought
not to throw any Christian into a de-
spairing mood. Though we are well
aware of the fact that we have not
these traits of character as Christ had
them, yet I think we have the seeds
plonted in nur soul, and the harvest
after awhile will enme. Glory to God,
you have the blessed beginnings in
your nature, and though you are pain-
fully aware day by day of your short-
comings, it is your earnest prayer:
"Give me this Spirit of Jesus." Aim
high. I would, not this morning say
one discouraging word to you. I real-
ly think you have some of the favor-
able symptoms of a crcmplete and et-
ernal recovery from this malady of sin.
Watch. Pray. Study. Compere. On to-
ward the prize, (Sheathe not your
sword till you have gained the last
victory. Higher and- higher till you
reach the celestial. hills. Crowns rad-
iant and immortal for all the victors;
but eternal death, to every deserter.
LOOKS REASONABLE.
cartons Arzumentc Willett Conclusively
Prove That a Cow 18 a Bull,
The soul -stirring problem of why is
a cow a bull, a problem which has
been before the thinkers for ages, and
bas sent its thousands to the mad-
house, has lately received many brainy
solutions, some of which follow. This
one is a gem:
"Acow is a monysyllable; a mony-
syllable is one syllable; one silly -
bull is a bull."
A shade less culpable is this one:
"A cow is half a coward; a coward is
four-fifths a bully; four-fifths of bully
is bull,"
This one took refuge in Latin:
"Acow is a big calf ; a big half is
a better half;, a better half is a boa
to us, and a boa taurus Is a bull."
Another Latin scholar sent the syl-
1 ogi,sm :
A cow is 0 tosser; a tosser tore us,;
tennis is our bull,"
:This is by far the worst in the
bunch,
The next method of reasoning runs
on the lineal descendant line, with
very good results:
"Al crow is a calf that is old; a calf
thee is sold is a small sale; a smell sai.i
tie: it bad goer; a bad gore is an ox's
ire; an ox's sire is n, bulk"
.Another along the same line:
'A' sow is a heifer advanced in life;
le a calf advanced in life it would be
farther toff a calf, and tbe father of a
calf is a bull,'
The tightest argument in the list
is algebraic, Its conclusions are India-
potable :
"Le' ti x equal a bundle of bay; now,
it will be admitted that any oow is
capable of consuming a bundle of hay
—that is to say, any cow is equal to a
bundle of hay' therefore, any cow
equals x. Similarly, it may be shown
that any bull Is equal to x. But
things which are equal to the same
thing are equal to each other' there-
fore, any cote equals any bui), Re-
moving the common term 'any,' wo
have cow equals bull. Which was to
be proved,'
THE TIGER OF THE OCEAN:
STRENGTH AND FEROCITY OF THE
HAMMERHEAD SHARK.
111s rowel' or I)(strae(lnn Exhibited. nest
1N I'ropleal fluters—One 'fent Towed u
Whale and another That Handled a
II1311 4.,'11011 111• '1'51.'1,5 011 111,' ltellltl•l'--
Trap In which Ile. Is Taken.
"I have known a wbila ShItrk to
follow the ship twenty-four boure, but
never longer. Ily that time his hun-
ger drives him to go emisiug around
after food. While tee Paul Jones was
working along the. Java coast_ a big
a e'day
men Jhetal fell in with us, one
and stuck by us fur eight days and
a half without changing his pusilion
Three feet. During that time we sail-
ed (11(4 ,milee. None of ue could figure
out how the shark got anything to eat
in all that lime, rind, as a mat 114r Of
" Sailor though you may bare been feet, 1 don't believe he gut n morsel.
for a 800re of years and never given The idea that a shark follows a sill,
(!!rase fur a *rata k5 call you coward, for the food thrown Overboard i5 a false
ane, 1 ha5e. sten the cook throw slops
!hero atones a time when you feel the over when shcu'ke were following or
creeps and your truces grow ((oak," said skulking under the counter and
a man who was a whaler untie. "'fiat. 'THE0 WOULD NOT MOVE.
time is when you look over the rail A hamurerbead estimated to be thirty
of e ship Tieing and falling una calm feet long followed the English strip
sea and find a big hammerhead abtu'k Ilett Llan 2,180 nulete on a voyage to
loolcin' up into our eyes. The white Austalia, ''uud was thrown 1" him
6 y y taeuly different 2101145, but he would
sharp is voracious anal merciless, but not touch it. 1'he white shark of the
the tiger of the sett, as the bummer- tropical seas !displays more fierceness
head is called, is worse than that. He titin those Of the Atlantic, but he is
is the most 1'14misiee loolde• flab that. a sheep tumpltrcd (o the hammerhead,
t 6 fn the year 1871 the brig Southern
swims. lie will take up the trail of Crass, from Caleutta to London, was
e ship like a bloodhound, and his per- wrecked on Nelson Island, at t11e mirth-
sistcncy is menacing and malignant, ern end of the Indian Ocean. She had
Three passengers and a slew of four -
A white shark can be frightened or teen men: 'fliey put uhf from the
beaten off, even after seizing his prey, wreck on a raft, but the wind blew
but the hammerhead souls his jaws them out to Sea 10stead of ellen the
like a bulldog and will be cut to pieces bench. The raft was surrounded I,y
before he will let go. A man in the
water may dodge the rush tit a white
shark, but the tiger never misses his
mark. IIB hasn't the speed of the oth-
er, but it is his slower gait which
makes 'him more certain tit his vie -
tint.
" While the hammerhead sherkmay
be caught all along the Atlantic coast,
his true cruising grounds are in the
tropical toms. 10 get among the big
ones you must voyage up the Bay of
Bengal ur coast along the great bar-
rier reef of Australia. You will find
the white shark there, too, but the
two species never run i0 the inane
school, I do not know thatthey quar-
rel when they meet, but certain it is
that
THEY AVOID EACH OTHER.
It is seldom that a big shark is caught
in Northern waters, but in the tropi-
cal seas a twelve -footer, either white
or hammerhead, is looked upon with
contempt. One day, as the ship White
Wings was becalmed about fifty mites
oft the coast of 11Iadagascar, a hem-
merhead shark of such size appeared
alongside that he was at first taken
for a whale. He remained with us fur
over an hour, lying like a log on the
water, and iL was easy to get his di-
mensions, or at least his length. He
was exactly thirty-three feet long and
about the size of a flour -barrel. If a
tow -line could have been made fast to
that fish be had the hurse-power to
enable him to drag us along. While
the white shark is swelter and more
supple, the hammerhead bee more of
what might be called pounding pow-
er. As an illustration of what. he can
do out of the water, I will cite the
case of an Australian coasting schoon-
er called the Wanderer. 1 was in the
whaling ship Paul ,Tones and we were
anchored off one of the Kangaroo is-
lande on the east coast, to wood and
water. The Wanderer, which was
northward bound, came to encbor quite
near us to make good some damage
received aloft in a squall. The water
was alive with hungry hammerheads,
and the captain of the 00581er, put
over a book. A shark eighteen feet
long soon took it and after half an
hour's hard work was hauled over the
rail. The fish ecemed to be played out
ars they hauled bim ,n, but no sooner
did he feel the deck under bim than
he began business. The blows be
struck with his tail could have been
heard a mile away, and when he
sprang into the air and fallback there
was a crash which told of splintered
planks. In ten minutes that fish al-
most made a wreck of the schooner. He sought to sever the chain, and when
He amashed bulwarks, shivered planks,' it defied him he rushed upward at the
and broke stanchions as if they were raft and rolled over and over ars if turn -
sticks and chips, and harness -cask,
hammerhead sharks, and by sundown.
'.riiee iL was sighted, by 0 vara* -hound
craft, only mu: of the seventeen eetst-
atvays was left. The sharks could not
upset the raft. but they leaped upon
it sometimes two or three at once, and
kneekcd the people overboard,
' In the year 1882, white we were
landing some cattle from a roaster in
Portland. Bay, Australia, the sling
broke and a large Devon hull fell into
the water. This was ab au half u mile
from the beach and in water fifteen
feet deep. The bull started for shore.
but a hammerhead shark seized bim by
the right hip almost at mice. The sharp
was only about fourteen feet lung, and
the bull was strong enough to have
pulled a tree up by the routs, and yet
the shark began towing him tut to
sea. Boats were lowered and we went
for the fish. We beat him with boat-
hooks, Slabbed him with knives and
fired six bullets intobim from a re-
volver; but he wouldn't let go. Then
we fastened a towrope to the Borns of
the bull and towed )rim to the beach
and the shark same with him and was
killed with an axe on the sands. The
dead.flesh was not badly torn, but at the
end of a couple of days the bull wee
" For a good many years the Zoolog-
ical Gardens at Bombay were seeking
for a specimen hammerhead. The price
offered was liberal enough, and scores
of them were caught with books, but
none lived beyond a few hours, It was
finally discovered that the laceration
of the throat by the hook bled them
to death. Then a native of one of the
Caroline Islands put the officials up
to a dodge, and a craft was fitted out
and sent down the coast to Little
George Island. When she had came to
anchor in a little bay men were sent
ashore to out and bring off ten long
slim poles. These were fastened loose-
ly together after being spread four
feet apart. This gave them a raft
forty feet wide by fifteen feet lung.
Then ropes from ten to fifty feet long,
about twenty lengths in all, were fast-
ened to the raft and weighted just
sufficiently to sink them below it. The
,entre rope had four feet of chain at
its lower end, and to this chain was
wired
A HUNK OF BEEF.
One morning they towed the light raft
two miles off shore on a smooth sea
and pulledaway to watch proceedings.
It was oven chances that a white shark
or ground shark or a small hammer-
head might take the bait, but they
had to risk that. Luck was with the
hunters. They had been waiting and
watching for two hours when there
was a sudden commotion. A tiger twen-
ty-three feet long had, taken the bait.
Down it went at a gulp and he start-
ed off, As soon as be felt the strain of
the raft be began to fight. A white
shark would have rushed this way and
that and sought to tear out the hook.
This fellow was not caught by n hook,
but he would not throw one the bait.
water -butt, and the cook's gaily went
overboard as if sent by
A POWDER EXPLOSION.
The carpenter managed to sever the
tail with a broadaxe at last, and no
more shark hooks were dropped over
the side. Had that shark been free
in the hold of the schooner I believe
be would have started a dozen butt-
ende and sunk herr at her anchor.
"In his native element a big shark
hes two s0115 of power—the go-ahead
and the *'averse. Off the Java coast,
on one of my whaling voyages, we
killed a whale fbcly-two feet long. In
bulk he seemed to be an island, and
his weight was tons added to tons.
In a perfectly calm sea three boats
made feet to tow the whale clown to
the ship. We had been straining nur
125011.5 for Live .minutes a.nd hadn't got
the great bulk moving yet, when a
hammerhead shark about twenty feel
long dashed in and sat his jaws into
the body just forward of the tail. As
be got a t11m hold be began pulling
back and shaking his bead, as you
have seen a clog pull at a root when
digging. As the flesh would, not tear
away, that shark kept reversing his
engines until he had turned the big
body twice around in a circle, and add-
ed to the weight of the body was the
dreg of our three bents. To get rid
of him we had to almost out him into
stripe with our harpoons. As to the
go-ahead powers of a shark, perhaps
there lute never been a test which gave
his actual horse -power. At Sandalwood
Island, off the coast of Jnva, the na-
tives caught a big hammerhead who
had persued a bather too :far and had
been stranded. A rape wits made fast
behind his hen.d and the free end fast,
ene(1 to a raft which they construct -
se out of driftwood. According to their
statements the reit was about twen-
ty feet square, end they piled at lent
a ton of stones on It. It was n bulky,
nnwicldly thing, and yet when they
got shark and raft clear of the shore,
the harnessed captive started off et
steamboat speed and seemed to make.
little of the drag in his wake. He Wes
passed by a catamaran, when fifteen
miles at sea, and was still keeping up
his stroke.
ed with a crank. They had counted on
hie behaviour to capture him. In five
minutes he was wound up in half a
dozen of the trailing ropes and had
the limber poles bent in all sorts of
shapes, and they made fast and tow-
ed bin' off to the brig. No fish could
have made a fiercer fight. It took
four hours, hampered as he was, to
get him into his tank, and his strength
and fierceness were matters of amaze-
ment. The fish was landed at 13ombay
and transferred to a basin without in-
jury, but be only lived three months,
A second and a third were captured
in the same manner, but both died af-
ter a brief ceplivily. In the same
gardens was a white shark who had
spent ten years in his tank and had
grown fat end lazy.
"In Atlantic waters the man look-
ing for sport may east his shark hooks
overboard without fear of disaster, no
matter what sort of sharer takes hold,
but in the topical seas there is no
feeling of security. If a big hanime'-
head bolts the hook be will at first
be thrown into e flutter and make a
run for it. Five. minutes later he will
get hie mad up end demand revenge.
There are soores of recorded instances
where he has made a rush and n. leap
and mulled or 'meet n small boat, and
the tragedy at Batevia, happening
only four yeaa'5 sago, was convincing
proof Thal he is a dangerous foe. A
boat with five .men in it hooked n big
hammerhead, and after running out
100 feet of line the Neil turned end
rushed. As he neared the boat he leap-
ed clear of the water and landed am-
ong 111e men. In lees titan one minute
be had beaten out the bottom planets
of the boat with his tail, and of the
tour men who met. death two, at. least,
had broken legs oe arms before the
shark rolled out of the wreak end went
hie way,"
OUT OF HIS SIGHT.
Get oat 1 commanded her father.
Don't ever lot me see you hero again,
'Very well, replied the confident
young men. Your daughter can tell
you the nights I am to call, and you
can arrange 1.o be out until I leave,
CATCHING COBRAS.
18e0115 1'4ed by ate 8ualied'hnrlet% In
fltetne,e4 These U011ger0us Ite oILe'e.
The cobra is et) passionately fond of
;mettle that it can at. any time be en-
ticed from its hiding -place by the
ate of i 'o' o' r' sel-
dom
1 yr Jtn r tt bagpipe. It 1
dom hears anything but the bagpipe,
but if there be one inett'ument whish
it loves more than any other it is .the
violin,
If a cobra taloa up its abode in the
neighborhood of a dwelling, it is esus-
lomary to send for It pair of profee-
siunal snake -charmers. 'They at, once
irr'xeecl to work upon the snake's love
of music, One of ahem strikes up a
runt' near the piece where the cubru
is supposed to be,
11 it is there it is sure to be attract-
ed by the mule, and satin to snake its
appearance. It emerges slowly from
its hiding -place, and takes a posititnt
in front of the player. It is bis busi-
nese to keep its istlention engaged
while his e„mp:tniun creeps up behind
it web a handful of fine dust.
The casting of the dust ulnen the
cobra startles it, and for une m0n1ent
it falls iia full length on the ground.
It is only for a moment, but the time
is lung enough to answer the purpose
of the assistant. With a iightniug-
tike movement. he seizes the cobra by
the neck jus1 below the head. 'The
snake turns in fury, and winds its body
round the area of its captur; but its
.,'age avails it nothing. It cannot turn
its bead to bite.
If it is desirable to extract the fangs
at once. the captor presses his thumb
un the throat of the cobra, thus own -
Pelting it le open its mouth, and the
fangs are drawn with a pair of pinc-
ers,
If, however, the operator desires to
keep the snake intact for the present.,
the musician comes to bis comrade's
assistance, forcibly unwinds" the coils,
and placeps the body of the cobra in a
basket. Only the head is left out, this
being still held by the other man. The
rid is pressed down to prevent the cob-
ra from wriggling out. Then, suddenly,
the captor thrusts the head in, and
bangs down the lid.
Sometimes music is used to draw
from the snake its poison, to be useu
for medicinal or experimental purposes,
When this is to be done, the musi-
cian's assistant, arms himself with it
large plate covered with a thick plan-
tain leaf. Wbile the snake is engag-
ed with the music be sits down right
in front of it. It is too much engross-
ed to notice him until the musie sud-
denly stops. Then the cobra, recalled
to existing surroundings, launches
forth at the Ulan who is nearest.
Quick es its thrust, however, is the
movement of the Ulan. He interposes
the plate and receives the bite on it.
l'he poison goes through the puncture
in the leaf, and is deposited on the
plate. It is a think, albuminous fluid,
like the white of ae egg. One drop
of it, communicated to the blood, is
enough to 00.u55 death to any warm-
blooded animal,
THE BOTHERSOME FLY.
The One That. Comes In 111111 81,11114 .trnelnd
so 40543'ly Early 1n tIII" \Inca hl,-„
"One swallow may not make a sum-
mer, very likely nut, but one fly, at
this season, can make a heap of trou-
ble. This fly," said Mr. Gozzleby, " is
the one that cones into your room
to greet you in the early morning,
stun after sun -up, but long before you
want to get up. He is nut satisfied
with buzzing up to you and saying
' howdy' once, but with a great excess
of politeness or good nature or friend-
ly feeling, or just downright stupidity,
for it certainly can't be mere malicious-
ness—tbe fly doesn't know enough for
that—comes at you again and again.
If he goea anywhere else, it is only
to return.
" You brush him away drowsily at
first, but there's nothing drowsy about
the fly ; he is up for, the day, and he
comes around at you again at full speed
and lights on you suddenly. Your
drowsiness is gone now, and the cold
fact is that you try to smash the de-
bonnair fly that got up so early. But
say, you may have a good deal more
brute strength than the fly, but you
are not in it at all with bim for
sprightliness and when you bring your
hand down where he was be is as
likely as not calmly walking head
down on the ceiling.
"But he does not neglect you; be
is back again presently, when you have
got comfortably and hopefully settled
down, zipl in a skimming flight so
close to your ear that you fatally you
can feel the wind from his wings, and
then he swings round in a graceful
loop and lands on your nose, And that's
the way he goes, free from care, wide-
awake himself, never dreaming that
anybody else wants to sleep, just a
tearing and leaving and pranging
around, and lighting on you every now
end then at irregular but not infre-
quent intervals, and keeping every-
thing stirred up, so that sleep is quite
out of the question. And at last you
give it up and got up an hour or two
ahead of your usual time. You are a
good deal bigger then the fly, bet there
are tithes when 1.he fly gets the getter
of you.
" One swallow may not make a sum-
mer, by one fly may easily snake a
man swear."
A PRETTY PETTICOAT.
Silk underskirts of the handsomer
variety are exiensive luxuries, but
the woman who is bandy with her
needle can fashion one for about I,SS
that would cost her three times that
much if bought in the stores. The
petticoat itself is made of plain taf
fete, Jn any tint, and it is trimmed
with scalloped ruffles that are fin-
ished et the edges with a heavy but-
ton hole stlteh in blank, Polka dots
of tio,e black, also, are Worked in the
ruffles. The effect is vary (hint
and (BBatinatly new. y'
IN BERRY OLD ENGLAND;
DOINGS OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE
IMPORTED BY FLAIL.
lteeerd of the 11311011 let Wahl 110 .!Taco 114 MO
1411111 01' the hese—111tere$ltpg 1)08110'
1'e114'i54
The Mayor of Southampton's "Stella'4
fund sow amounts to 1:0,380.
Ar. Jameson, the Transvaal raider.,
(cants to enter Parliament,
St. Peter's Presbyterian church, Liv-
erpuol, is about to oelebrats its jubilee,
1t has been estimated, that steamer*
are 20 per cent., safer than sailing res-
eels. .
The greatest university is Oxford;
which hes twenty-one colleges and five
halls.
Sir Henry Wm. Primrose, IL C. B..
has been appointed chairman of the
Board of Inland lievenue.
Queen Victoria's annual trips to and
from Scotland alone cost her close on
£0,250 a year.
It proposed to institute open air
restaurants in London during the sum-
mer months.
In the British navy there are at least
150 ships that have seen over aquatint
of a century's servlas.
It is alleged that of the various High-
land representatives in the House of
Commons not one can speak Gaelic,
Annie 5, Swaa, Mrs. Burnett Smith,
was one of those who attended her
Majesty's drawing room recently,
Gossips say that Lady Peggy Prim-
rose, now the Countess of Crewe, was
b gacath d two m !liens stetl:ng by her
mother.
Ann Grant, a domestic servant, who
recently died in Cambridgeshire at the
age of 87 years, has served 71 years int
one family.
A medical paper estimates that over
750,000 worth of medicine is annually,
distributed gratis at the English die-
pensaries.
The sketch of the Queen whish Selig
best in France is one taken on the sea,
shore with a Skye terrier walking, be-
side her.
Rudyard Kipling says that the hard-
est work he ever did, and the hardest
be ever saw done is that of a news-
paper office.
Admiral Sir Henry Keppel, who at
the age of 90 is about to retire from
service, bas been in the British navy
fol' 75 years.
In six -shilling form lan Maclaren's
most popular book, "Beside the Bon-
nie Brier Bush," has reaches an issue
of 90,000 copies.
The most up-to-date fashion in call-
ing followed among Smart London
bachelors is to employ a commission-
aire to leave one's cards.
Steam omnibus lines are being estab-
lished between Newcastle and Hull and
other cities of northern England. The
fares are only a cent per mile.
The William Black Memorial Fuel is
lagging once more, and an appeal is
now made for small sums from the ad-
mirers of the deceased novelist.
The Royal Institution of Great Bri-
tain, in oummemoration of its centen-
ary, has elected as honorary members
a number of prominent Americans.
The income of the principal chari-
table institutions having their head-
quarters in London amounts to over
seven million pounds per annum.
The principal trµde of Bradford just
now is said to be in mercerized cotton
dress goods. A firm there has receiv-
ed an order for mercerizing 160,000
pieces of goods woven in Lancashire.
Many animals in desert regions never
have any water except the dew on
vegetation. A parrot in the London Zoo
is known to have lived fifty-two years
without drinking a drop of water.
ern, London cottage known as "Lelia
Rookb' whore Tom Moore Is said to
have written the poem of that name,
for which Messrs. Longman paid him
£8,1100, is shortly to be swept away.
l'he annual report of the Royal Scot-
tish Hospital, just issued, shows that
the ordinary Income for the year
amounted. to £5,884 es. 2d., and, as the
expenditure amounted to 75,022 lea.
11-2d., there is an excess of £38 4s.11
1-2d., above the ordinary income. The
annual subscriptions amounted to £1,-
003 les, ed., as against £1,542 9s. Od.,
last year.
EVIL RESULTS OF THE PIANO.
lns,rsnaent 18410 110014 the Clothe of Much
Quo rr011ng 54141 ern Kerhlg.
The piano has been the cause tater-
rima of quarrels that have sundered
ancient friendships; it has wrecked
many enterprises of great pith and
moment ; it has disturbed the Liner ad-
justments of the cerebral machinery
in many literary and scientific works,
has driven studious men from their
books to the bottle and has stimulat-
ad peaceful citizens to the commission
01 violent crimes, says the British
Medical Journal. These are among
the evil effects of the piano considered
passive, as the schoolman would say
—from the point of view of the suffer-
er. But the operator does not come
off seethiess. A recent writer, Dr.
W'atez1adi, thinks that the ohioroses '
and neuroses from which so many
young girls suffer may be largely at-
tributed to the abuse of the piano. He
therefore urges that the "deadly" 0ns-
toml of compelling young girls to ham-
mer cm the keyboard before they are
15 or 16 years of age should bo pro-
scribed by pvbBe opinion, Even at
that age the exercise should be per-
mitted only to those who, in addition
to real talent, possess a robust con-
stitution.
CENSORSHIP IN TURICE2',
Turkish papers; Were not allowed to
print the news of the assassination of
the Austrian Empress, They,simply an-
nounced that she had -(lied,