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SUNDAY READING.
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Let There be Light.
Thou, whose ainfiglity word
chaos unit derkswee
Anil took 1 heir Mght.
Ilene us„ tve timidity pray,
Anil whet.. the gospel
Sheik mit lie glorious vets,
" hut there id. lightS
Thou, who didst emno to Meg,
4)13 rey reeeeinieg wing,
teafing um) eight,
Health to the sick in mind.
Sight to the in ty blinei,
0, now to an monititoi
"i,l there be light,"
Spirit of truth and love,
1 oty 13000,
speed forth thy flight
Move 00 the watere mew,
Heaving the lamp of grave ;
And In melee darkest phew
La there be light.'
Nature in Hebrew Poetry.
ev nemosrost %I., stem.
A very interesting illustration of the de.
velopment of idea, the broadening and
desepeuing conception of ille Nelda, with
eharactev, foetus the highest, aeldevement of
humanity, is to be 1000)1 1)1 the onlergentent
of the thought ot Nature discoverable in
literature. The three groat themes of litot,
attire are 1011, Mall, and NatUVO, About
those fundamental conceptions all thought
had orgenized itself, and In them all the arts
have hall their roots. The real historyof
the world has not neon written in dynastiee,
constitutions, campaigns, and diplomacy ;
it is to be found in the veciirel of (Menges of
thought concerning those dominant facts.
Religions 01 all kinds have had their ovigin
in so:a:option of Deity ; as theme cow
eeptie nit 10100 changed, religious refovs
mations or l'eV011ttiOnS have followed. Every
form of government has represented an
idea Of Man ; anti fts that Welshes chang-
ed, governmental averturninge and reeon-
structions have registered the ehauge. The
real difference between monarchy, eristo-
(messy, and demi:or:Ley is a difference not
only of form but of idea ; a difference of
conception of the character and position of
man in the world.
As a middle ground between God and
Mali Nature has been an object, ef intense
interest to men. Her function and influence
in the making of eiviliption and its ewes
have already- boon indicated ; hardly lees
important has been her appeal to the
ligence and imagination and the interpvets-
thin of her being which different ages and
races have attempted. The Holum peg:trawl
Nettwo in a profoundly religious spirit, as
the garment of deity ; he hardly paused to
reflect upou the imprewtive phenomena
which he saw about Mtn, or Le receive the
hill dieeloSilre Of their beauty, because
through them, as through an open winch:NY,
his eye seught and found 1 OII. In the
Book of ,1 ob the eublimest aspects of Nature
tire brought before tlie mind with It majesty
and vividness never paralleled in later
literature, but one hardly poreeives that he
is looking at Nature, so near and awful is
the presence of God. These appelling vi-
sions of cloud and storm hold one's 1311033
-
tion only as the mist through which the
monntain is swiftly breaking into view.
The 10-1th Psalm is perhape Um most
ode mate and impressive picture of the
universe that has ever been made, and it
breethes the very genius of the Hebrew
mese ;
s' WhO eoverest thseolf with Ight as with It
gummed
Who streteltest out the heavens like a (awhile ;
Who inyeth the beams of his chambers In the
wet ere ;
whit maketh the clouds his cheviot
Who walketh upon the wings of the wind;
Who mak et w hide his messengers;
lits minister.; a earning nee :
Who lain the roundetione 01 11(0 mirth,
That, it shim id not be moved for ever,
Then eoverenst It with the deep es with a N'ea-
luve ;
The water0 etood (31)8013 11(13 mountains.
Al thy rebuke thew 1100
Al the voice of thy thunder flies -Invited away ;
'Phe(' wont up by the mountains, they teem
down by the valleys,
Unto the plate) which thou hadst founded for
them.
He appointed the moon for seasons :
The sun kilowatt going down.
Thou makest darkness, and it es night ;
'Wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep
forth.
The young [Ions roar after their prey.
And seek -their meat from God.
The sun 330b40111, they got them away,
And lay them (10011 10 11(0(1' done.
Man gooth forth unto his work
And to hie labor 011111 1110 evening.
These wait all upon thee, • '
That thou mayet give them their 0)0131 (0 due
season.'
The sustained sublimity of this poettty is
inatched only in the 13ook of Job, and in the
words of that prophet of glowing imagina-
tion, Isaiah. These great spirits lewdly see
Nature et all, so near and real is God to
them ; all visible things are but a mist be-
tween them and tho Invisible, eve but
flowing stream rushing from His band.
" Break forth into singing, ye me(1et); ins, 0
forest and every tree therein," says Isaiah
in an ecstasy of adoration. The limitation et
this poetry as arepresent Mimi of Nature lies
in the fact thatNattue 10 10 a way lost in God;
it is all profoundly true • infinitely deeper
and truer them a greet:deal of modem thought
about Nature (013(1 yet, while it remains
unapproached fis an expression Of th
thought of God in Nature, the very (dearness
and majesty with which it sets foell this
thought relegates Nature to a secondary
place, and makes her an illustration instead
of n theme.
There are two ways of bringing the
thought of Goel to the imagination 1 by 10010-
ing Nature a treosparent medium which is
consumed in tho vision of deity and rolled
awisy like a curtain ; and by dwelling upon
and spreading out the glory of the visible
world with all its phenomena, its forces its
laws, its majestic harmony, and its porlect
adjustment of p13010 80 that a deepens' beau.
Wul sense of the Infinity of divine resource
and range and beauty id b01.110 111 upon the
A01.11, Tho first method 0115 that of the He-
brew poets ; 0 0011801008 the symbol in
seatching foe 110 100111 ; the very earth goes
up in flame before the F0001300 of the Lord.
Thore is anotherand not less spiritual way,
whiell deepens and broadens the impression of
Nature until 11 is pervaded by the oortscious.
ness of an unseen presence. The garden is
stot consumed ; it blooms with a beauty
deep as the sold of man, and at the eventide
God walks in it. This is the poetry of Na-
ture ; the Hebrew poetry, notwithstanding
the glory with which 11 erowns Nature for
the moment, wile the poetry of God. Tho
idea of God 8hines through Hebrew lit.
orature and gives it its moque Ovum- In
the development and illustration of that
idea, it remising unapproached. To (1(13( 1(1033
all other 1(1008 3300 subordinated; in the en,
deavev to receive that idea, and give it fit
utterance the Hebrew genius was absorbed.
11 0)01 leit to other Morn:three to conceive of
Nature its distinct from God, and yet Matinee
with divine force, radian t with divine beauty,
end so charged with C1101110 Utah that it
becomes& newrevolation. There is, perhaps,
elearor told caltnerimprotwion in 11)0 modern
than in the Hebrew nee of Nature; there is,
perhaps, as much to be learned from the
deep, patient, reverential study Of Natitro 0.0
from the SWift intrlitiOn which leaped at
!open front all nest-tire1 plietionietta to Ou:l.
'1'llore in a 11100,1 tl, W1111111 1,110 1101,1'0W Wad a
stranger: the initial whiell 10 1r)111 Of 1110311.
fellowship with. Nature.
That bieseeel mood
111 whieh boI'111('( of 1111' mystery,
[[0' heavy and weevy tveighli
111 ali 1Ills Ludo; o1,041 ith;
lo liglitoned ; 11,11 sorono and Moored timed
In tenet the a treetione [111111 11- leen us on,
1'0111, the 1001)111of thie eoporeal frame
eVoll 1 110 1100 1151 Of oor human bloutt
,&I 1,1,01 suependiel, WO aro 1111,1 tisloop
111 hotly. and bovoin 0 a 11 Vim; soul 1
While 111111 (1110,1•0 101)111,by tin) pownr
Of latrmonssand the deep opwor ofJoy,
Ye see into the fife slams.'
Eternal Life.
So eternal life is not the mystical thing
we tannetimee think ! 'The sun is 13far•off
mystery, The astronomer cannot expletitt
it. But this morning it came to one door
and has uwele plain for us all the road of
this day, life is at our door, It will
not be 00401111011y itinerant; 111 heaven, How
important wo begin to live this life 1101V ?
11 11 wort: going thy/nigh /3 1100P, 00 Might
(('3311 1111 death te In sight, ; but if it is get-
ting into harmenty with 1 10,1, and developing
a new set, of faculties that will make us fool
at, home in heaven, then the reenter lee
begin the bettor. Wo cennot get 3111 1110
benefits of heaven by just. dying. There will
be some awfully stupid living in hotivet).
A sinner who just slipe in 131 )110 eleventh
hour is not going to be very comfortable
talking with Paul, lie will be liko an
errand boy in a comptsny ef Sa;408. The only
really sure way to 1111,We a gout (line with the
saints 111 heaven bi to be getting saintlike
here. It will be worth a good deal to have
001110 acquaintance with heaven before going
there. Going te heaven Vill bp good only
es it is going home. Not a stupid novice,
to be flung int° 315 splendors ; but like a
emicert•player, 101u1 has tuned his instru-
ment, and steps before the great, audience
181111 offinfort and hope. 'Piens to find eter-
nal life 1101 13 novelty, but the cerium end
consummation of life on earth. This is the
granite:it eaneeption of it ; this is the Sib -
Heal idea.
Laughter.
Tears and laughter are ptirt of the
versal language of human kinds-thelangunge
of kolas Since Bebel, men, aspersed over
L1(0 face of the world, do mit understand ono
another's speeell. But this ono inarticulate
language remains in tell igible to alt mankind ;
it requires no interpreter, it is legible to
those to whom oven " the throe I18 " are
still a mystery ; infants newly -born seem to
bring some underetanding of it with them
into the world ; it may be react by a black
man 113 the faese of a white ; 11 would have
been apprehended in Robinson Crusoe, by
his 11111.11 Friday on the desert. 11 10 a touch.
insg moot of that deep underlying unity,
which, umielst all their infinite differences,
binds together in the deeper regions of their
being ell the far separated 0(1000and families
of Aeltim'e children, that till men do in this
Wily' understand one another's looks. If I
landon an unknown Island, whose inhabl.
tants speak a language in the ordinary sense
of that 1301d quite unintelligible to me, and
yet see them it human jive, whatever be its
color or shape, lighted with a smile, or
trembling into teavs, my heart, 11 11 is not
dead within me, willanswer 10 13-11(31 ball its
expr-sion, though I cannot in tho least tell
how I gather any 00011 knowledge from
that sight. We tnay plead, therefore, for
the deep intevest of these two phenomena,
tears and laughter, on this ground among
others, that they are part of the universal
and distinctive characteristics of our Mother
men, of every race and clime. Laughter is
visible principally in that mystic border:
lend between mattev and spirit, " the human
face divine." How it does, so who shall
say 1 For 0)111(1 18 a face It is a vegion but
a few square 1(101108 133 extent ; and yetth is is
all the instrument, 00 much the principal
one, with which in the mystic process of
Nature, all the varieties of thought,•feeling,
emotion, of which we become were in look-
ing at another human being, are in some way
or other effectively conve,yed to us. Its
component parts have, it is true, a marvel.
lous power of ceaaeless, most subtle marenteni
—a most important attribute. " That,"
says Lord Bacon (essay on Beauty) "10 the
best part of beauty which a picture cannot
express ; no, nor the first sight of the life,
decent" the., becoming) " antl.gracious mo-
tion." 81111, 11 18 thought tins apparently
simple instrument, a face, that in some way
or other, thought, feeling, emotion, are ex.
pressed to a degree really marvellous. And
who knows not the actual light (is 11, physis
cal, or is it epivitual, in its essence 1 NVO 01(10-
3301 say) that may flash into orm souls from
the lines of flowing round the month, tlie
dancing gleams in the lengthening eyes ; the
inntunevahle ngs and beamings 1)1 1)10
countenance, when 11. ts really tough tag.
ISHII, it is not only in the faue, or even in
the domain of sight, that the spiritual eon.
lition 11111011 0al181.10 laughter is perceptible
111 others.
Theblind, who never looked upon a face, yet
knotv of laughter in others through that
tiler bodily dootevity into the presence
chamber of the soul, the oar ; and 1110 feel.
ings ealtecl up in the soul of the blind by
peels of leughter (perils as of seine gladsome
and brilliant bellsi in the spirit -world), must
be much the slum as those stirred in those
deprived of hearing by 1110 sight of a laugh.
ing (nee, an11 of the shaking sales—the
arms, it may be, Ilung into the air, the
head thrown baok, or the hands enthusias-
tically rubbed Loge:thee—of one who is
undergoing that strange seizure rightly
called a fit—for a true 131 01' physical seizure
11 18-01 laughter. Whatever 11 113(831 be in
its inmost nature awl central spring in the
soul, its °Riots are general over the whole
body, Probably.theve is not the remotest
00018013 or little inlet of the minute blood.
vessels (life-veseels) of the le ely, that does
not feel some wavelet front great convulsion
shaking the central man. 'Phe blood moves
more lively—probably its chemical, electric,
or vital condition bo distinetly medified—it
conveys a different impresmon to all the
organs of tho body as it visits them on that
particular mystic journey when the man is
laughing, from what it. does 11t 011100 1111100.
And 00, WO doubt not, a. good laugh may
lengthen a man's life, convey a distinct
stimulus to the vital forces. And the time
may 001110 0)11011 physieians, attseding more
elosely than at present unfortimately they
are apt to do, to 1110 innumerable subtle In-
iluenees which the soul exerts open its
tenement of clay, shall preserthe to a torpid
patient "811 many /male of laughter, to bo
undergone 0.1 snob and such a, time," lust as
they 1100) do that far more objectionable
prescription, a pill, or an elootrie or gal vanie
shock; and shall study the host and most
effective method of produchig the required
effect M. each pationt.—Vho Family Dootor.
' The Russian Bacon Company, with a
capital of alri0,000, has been forniecl 101
London to svork for 21 years on a oonceseion
grant by Russia to an English syndicate of
the govorinnent miring factory at Gratza.
It is stated that freight to England will bo
Oci, por cwt, cheaper than tho rate from
Chicago.
1 WILL FLY 90 MILES AN HOUR. A NOTEWORTILY TRA.VELLEN,
1141Etun .1. 01188:901110,4113 lir 111111 v,.1
P1'I)111 1.1111 Or 14131110g Tti rougn the A 1",
1 lissm il, Alas im, 0118 Of 1110 110101'io11115
who nutitee gunti 111 Europe 1/13‘.1111511 lIlt 01:11
get a better market fete 111010 there, id Met
now working out is flying machine with
whiall ho pre:peeve to revol tin tion ise niet hiele
of warfare. Mr, Maxim 15 W111.11111541011
and 1.11.11c3 113)011 hid plans for a flying ota.
ehino.
" If I van rise from the mast of Fredieli,"
he anal, " sail through the air aevoes the
Llhan nut and drop half a ton of nitro.glyeerine
(you an English city Call rovointiouizo the
world. 1 believe I can do it if I live long
enough. If I die 001110 0110 will come after
me wito 311 11 be siteeeissf el where I felled,"
231r, (4(3011(1 ha.s ;it 111800110811133, near
Kent, Jetigland, a. 0010.11 (311034 Ineellitio with
a wooden tierew u$ its inotivu power. The
screw revolves all tho way (0010 I000 102890
revoluttons )(or minute.
" What 18 your madams like?" he was
asked.
" \Inlet la the size of your large maelline0"
hI4,wi1I bo 111)1011 101,10 and forty feet
long. It will be propel eel IT two il010008e
wooden menses, nearly eighteen feet in di-
arneter, 1.001C1111,' very much like 111010(00)9 of
ocean :steamers, only with brooder blades,
The etetun 10 generated by lwating eloppor by
petroleum, mud i condensed af ter 'ming used,
SO that WO get along 101 111 100 gal0(10of
water, 'rho boiler is of thorniest Whitworth
steel, and we will use about ferty pounds of
petroleum per hour."
" 1 10W al'oyon going to teat the machine ?'
" It will be pia eed at an angle of (1110111 11310
foot 10 eighteen Inches on otilroad track
twelvo foot wide. At thirty miles an hour
it will barely 3101111 along, the preemie: of the
tur underneath it being then equel to one
pound for each square foot, or entlieient to
lust 1i11 11. A 1 thirty-five trines 00 hoer 11
Neill begin to vise, alu I. as the potl inereasea
ie will mount higher tool higher. When
you want, to eluseeed yott will elteken speed,
or if pm wish to 10.00cell on a 01 might line
on a ectitain height you come istek to 31)
miles an hour. It can be done us eure 00
fate. I ha(%) spent 1-11,000 Already upon it.
and I did not enter upem tho week until I
was convinced that the idea W05 practical.'
" Bet suppose, you should tip over
" oh, no," said Air. Maxim, with a laugh,
" Von may be sure that that is 011,1 Obtain.
geney that we aro bound 01(1311 (101 occur. It
will be impossible for the mainline to fall
forward, to sink beekward or rollover.
A Great Invention.
Science has hudg been acettetomed to
regard friction 110 the one invincible 111111
universal force which effectually obstimets
and litnits all devices for saving power ill
1110 running of maohinery. Friction it is,
WO were taught in our school days, 0)111011
makes the dream of perpetual motion a
folly. But modern &nonce and ingenuity
havo constantly 'overcome ono dffliculty
after another in the process of applying the
forces of nature to preetieal uses, until at
last, if the statements in a recent number of
tho Washington Poel may be relied on,
friction itself has been abolished and tlto
way opened up to another development in
the use of labour-saving machinery 30111011
bids fair to throw 0111(0 predecessors, with
two or throe greet es:captious, into the
shade. Tho invention consists in the use of
hardened steel ball bearings for all wheels,
pulleys, or revolving shafts.
" The pulleys," eays the Po4, "Whiell
have been in operation at the power house
of the Washington and Georgetown Railroad
Company for several weeks have demon-
strated to the satisfaction of a great number
of scientific and practical men, tneny of them
attendants upon the late Patent Congress,
0.11(1 011)008 of high and authoritative 0113310'
Ing in the Government Dspartments, that
the abolishtnent of Eviction, whish has long
been the dream of a multitude of original
thinkers, is finally- an accomplished fact.
Two of the pulleys mentioned have been in
use for three weeks, carrying the railway
cable, requiring no attention, generating no
heat, and performing their work admirebly
in all respeots. Two other pulleys have
been running for about ton days and twelve
hours a day, merely for exhibition, one of
which is driven with a thread of bro. 200
spool cotton to a speed of 1,200 revolutions
P00 minute, without oil or any other lubri-
cant and absolutely without heating ; the
(1113(10 01(0(0000 that are exposed to the boar.
ings aud the bearings thetnselves being al
1(0 11(110 raised above the normal temperature
of cold steel. 1118 thus conclusively shown
that where no 110(11 18 developed there is no
friction, and Hue friction there is no wear."
We suppose the terms " no heat " mut
"no frietiou "are intended to be understood
as (11 101381, slightly hyperbolical. The abso-
lute destruction of friction is inconceivable,
so long as the 0813 13301 is kept up, whether
ati ono point or a hundred. Brit it min well
be believed that hardened ball bearings,
presenting to a plane surfaeo but ono point
of contact, may he, es claimed, practically
in deal:1110U 1110 by a1tliti011, Certainly if the
invention virtually annihilates friction, pre-
vents heating and does away with 1110 neees-
shy for lubricating oils, there can be no
1(1011 10 ite applicability. The Post says
that it has been already successfully intro-
duced in the running geav of ordinary ve-
hicles, to the great eaving of horso-power
and entitu relief from the annoyance and
unsightliness of the grease that is 11010 1110
common disliguremen 1 of carriage axles. tint
if available foe 010010(108why not for railway
engines and emachos, and a thousand other
uses, with great eavieg of power and ex-
pellee? Wo shell expect to hear move about
this wonderful invention. It is 111 110 favour,
rather titan otherwise, that the principle 1$
eo simple that a child may nudeestand it, for
111(31 1(1(13 hem characteristic of most of tho
great inven Bons.
Frozen 6,000 Feat Deep.
For many years scientists hove been per.
plexed over the plionomeila of a oortain well
at Yakutsk, Siberia. As 101;4 ago as 1828 a
110881411 merchant began to sunk Hite 1101011
well, and after svorking on it for three years
gave, 11 011) as 0.1113(3 job, having at that time
sunk it to a depth of thirty foot without get-
ting theough the from gronnel. He won.
ninnicated those foots 10 the Russian Acad-
emy of Soionee, which sent ;nen to tako
charge of the digging operations at the won.
derful well. These scientific gentlemon
toiled Way 331 3,11013' work for several years,
but abandoned it when 13 depth of 882 foot
113101 110011 reached, with the earth still frozen
es hard its a, voek. In 1144:1 the academy had
the tomperatuve 01 1)10 Nail at 111e sides of
the -well taken at various dopths. From
the data thus obtained they come to the
startling conclusion that the ground WM
ft02011 10 a depth exceeding 6,000 feet.
Although 1118 known to meteorologie Ls that
the lowest known temperature is ill thet re.
gion of Siberia, it is conceded that not oven
that rigorous climate could force frost to
such a great depth below 1110 810)1000. After
figuring on the subject for over & quarter of
mintury, geologists have at last come to
the eencluaion that the great frown valley
01 1110 Len& Rivev was desposited, frozen
just 0.9 11 is bond 10.110, during the great
grinding up era of the glacial epoch.
Tee Ititssenn sheen) 11 k Pe 31110 41)11 rnerm rt0
the sake or,loorneyssig.
aseeesti 1)eyt of St. Pelerelnirg toile 01 1611
I 0111 " W13'I11111111 " W1/0, inetoriling to !ea
judgment, ie the loodt notmorthy 1 1.11001,.0
of Um 3)N.401,1 Dine. j V, of 8itelnivek,
1 government of S111010114, '1,1(30(011 1 11/1111 fOr
fame or ii) Will a priZe, 1011 he makes bang
joitreseye on foot enerely for the 1110'0 of
11161'Olijig, HI! 18 1 eympathetie 0111 matt, 11
elmentaker, and (3( 11 very (heritable diaposi•
Lion. For (110117 31111100 1'. has made it his
practice to atart front home early in the
dining and to travel about in the eitentry
until late in the iiiittmen. Ire hew covered
many thoutianelti of yenta throtiehout the
length and breadth of Smolensk and neigh.
11011(1 (1000003001110, 10,1 earries wait him in
0 hanimiart change of clothing, (6 supply
af provisions for two or throe days, a little
samovar (Riordan tea kettle), and a few tin
utensils. It makes no ilifierenee to him
wheve night twertekes 11111,, in the fields er
in the foretu : he sparely a, little fire,
prepures ho ItiOdent 11111141, III inks a few cups
of tea, and lies clown to sloop until the
nuireing 011.111111 111M, 1111111 01005 1106 d1e.
turb Itito ; he covers his wheelbarrow and
himself with an oi1clo,11 and travels on or
bleeps peeceahly, VA 1110 cese (nay lei, 11 he
tneys over night in a village, or 11101100 a
stop et a far11111011S0, 1411 1110 eltibtren he
teeets get little presents front him toys or
piettee of sugar for which he has no epti eat
compartmee 1 in hie vehicle. In September
he returns home, The first thing he does is
to buy a number of sheepskine, which hit
worke up into fur emits and gloves anil di,
tributes animig the peer peasants who have
to chop useel 111 the finest for a living.
When 1 him ie dope he slid (loWii at his cob-
bler's benith to " stork for himself." He
alwaye gete plenty of work to do, and laps
by during the autumn and winter as much
its 110 natiels foe hie travele in the 1(111 1100.13011)
of the years 1( 110 has inere than he thinke
he new Lew' be gives it away to poor pea.
saute fiefore he starts on his regular trip
and Female Longevity.
A short time 1(340 a lively onitention WaS
reported in the 110110:10 Bureau between
Stiperintendoe 1 Porter and. the littly aesist-
ants to whom he ansigned the duty of
striking a comparative avernge as to the
ages ot males and females in the United
States. The superintendent favored the
making of such average on the basis of the
face ot the returns, but his fair assistants
insisted on adding 20 per emit. to the report-
ed ages of ail 1(0)101101 13)1010 20.
At first the superintendent WOO obdur-
ate, but after conferring with female rela-
tives and friends ho was convineed that his
assistants had argued from souml premises,
and that the extent of their marking up was
rather ten enoderuto than excessive. In this
connection it is noteworthy that while life
insurance people rate women much lower
than men as to the expectation of life on
111810 00)0 respective reports of the same age,
some of the pension rolls tell a very different
story, and hid Mate that the largev proper •
tion of loegovity 5 dechledly 011 the side of
the went on.
For instance, (111110 there aro only 841
veterans of the war of 1 812 on tho pension
rolls, there are 8,000 widows of such veterans
enjoying the gOver iment's bounty in this 00'
spool, It is remarkable, however, that
many of the latter 0,00 as yet searee past 50.
Some writers have attributetl this to a paw.
tice among young 110111011 of marrying old
veterans for the sake of the peusion. BM,
more likely 11 10 clue to an oeoult faoulty,
possessed almost exclusively by 111810 000, of
realizing the poet's invocation, "Backward,
flow backward, 0 Titne, in your flight.
"—
Sesta: Posf•Ialdligenctr.
Ohivalruos Devotion.
At 111001081 extensive acmarium in Ing -
land, the Brighton Zoe, the female lobster
recently oast her shell. She screwed herself
up together on the thee and tail, and sudden-
ly bent hev body. Snap went the thrill in its
centre, and the ease of the back came away
in one piece. The olaws were her next awe,
and she worked away at them for a long
time.
It was a proceeding of extreme delicacy,
considering that all the flesh of tlie great
claw had 16 be passed through the small base.
During the operation one claw came off al-
together, and this must have seemed to the
lobster lady a serious misfortune, a& it will
not grow 1.0 118 full size: again until the sec.
ond year. The 1011 nua legsgave very little
trouble, and tho body, when thus undressed,
proved to he of a, pale blue.
The eliell-etisting over, the 1010100 811010 on
the saint, and this action seemed asignal for
the attack of every creature in the Huila
The defeneless ('10 11(11 bade fair tosuecumb
to the fury of her enetniesi, when the male
lobelia suddenly came to tho rescue. Stand -
over his shellde,s better half, he fought 1100
assailants relentleeely. Day and night did he
watch over her, until her shell was eultielent-
ly hardened tu protect law in fighting her
own battles.
When this happy moment arrived, he de.
libel ately picked up the old claw, broke it
in his nippers, and ate the meat. He then
dug a hide in 1.110 3011311, placed in it 1110 brok•
en bits of shell, buried them, and piled a
number of small stones above the grey°.
Origin of the Name Canada."
The derivation of the name Canada is
obscure, but 11 18 believed to have ite origin
in cut Incliim word, Mil lattba, meaning a
village 00 00110011011 of huts. The supposition
Is that Jaques Cartier, hearing the term
used by the Indiana in connection with
their settlements, applied it to tho whole
of the country. There id, however, a Spanish
tradition (13131 501110 Spanish explorers vtsit.
Mg the country, and hinting no mines or
other appearance of riches, said Am Nada
(" Here is nothing "), winch being repeated
the nativem to subsequent visitors front
Europe, wae supposed to be the name of the
eoun try. 11 1100 also boon conjectured,with
a greater appearance of probability, that
Canada is a modification of the Spat:deb
word signifying a " passage," because the
Spaniards thought they mild (1310 33 passage
to Italia through Canada.
In an article in The Iforum tor May Sir
leoderick Cameron of Now York armee a
brilliant lathy° of the future of the new
Commonwealth of Australia. He says that
already it produces (novo than one.folirth of
the wool of the world—twice as much as
the 'United States. It produces onedielf
the tin of the world, and there is no
proolous methl that has not been found
within its clotnain. Its coal fields on the
coast, convenient for export to all countries,
are inexhituatibl& The inward and out-
ivard shipping of 0110 port alone exceeds
2,500,000 tons per an 111.1m, an(1 the value of
its oommeree with Groat Britain alone ex -
coeds 42100,000,000 sterling. Tho private
wealth 0( 1110 Onited States is Oft per in.
babitent, of England 053, of Trance
(125,1 4, of (40110(0131 (118,14, and of Austria
iC16.0. The private wealth of Australia ex..
000(18 13(331 of those, being i.C48 pox
tent.
01(1B MAN'S STRAICS1 ClaltEBR.
`•
180 Ell IP. ((1014 ('1(0(' 11 ll II SOIL 3M a stave, on
tarlean Breit:neon 1111010o.
Mello') Crowther lege born about eighty
pure ago eta 11,13 Bonn80 lt trot., tile largest
tributary of the Niger. 11C 0101 a little sax.
age boy, end none of ihie peepie ltio,1 o001,
801,11 whit,. Melt, 1111011 in 1 $2 1, ..11 olotiorsteden
slav,, 111.1,08 alawked the little aottloment
where the lad lived. Aiming their Capt./red
Wal; hid ;Daher 111111 1100 111 reit elli1,11,011,
01 lld int( 110 I) ty, (1(1)111, 0)110 1V115 10 IwC01110
11111 fitture 1110110p of the Niger. Hitt fl.41,1101!,
13110 belonged to the ligha tribe, died in the
defence of hei home..
The little boy 011,S Napa rated tremble cap.
1100 niother and y011111401' 0151.07/3, 111111 11,
Wad Many yeare before Ile saw then) agodu.
In a few nionthe Adjui became 3,4(1141)1)011y,
inimeouseion, of fournewiters,Itavnesibeensold
from one to an ot le er for tobaseto an a rum. Thu
great four 11111 lesented hien through ;ill these
0111111g0,1 Wati that 110 !night 1/0 U0111 to the
dreaded white 11100, 1110 Postognese elave
110131015 00 1110 1.1,0,01. 1I1s terror of this fato
Wad So gtreat Heal he mow tried to throw
hinewlf into a river. noel on several mot -
810110 1(11011(1)1(1 11) etre:male hiesself with his
belt.
The fate he feared, howes er, overtook
him for he found hineoll ut last confined in
1) etilIitIg slave shed en the seetet with iron
fettere around hie neck mid a chain fasten.
1(1(1 111111 to hie conirtielee in misery. One night
lie 1l'a:4 talsee on board a slave ship with a
eargo 1137 ethers, and was 800113011 his way
to DMus or Brazil. But help was at: hand.
Ilritish War Shin 3I111111,1011 Ettn, the
elaver she snorted 011 her journey, and
teem in pureuit,
The slaver 30'i18 captured, and Adjai and
bis fellow•slavee were taken on beard the
warship, aunt 00 Julie 17, 1622, they were
landed at Iikirra Leone, the holes t he free.
The story of 1 110 000" little boy's fright as
he was taken on lward the inawcifiWer Lai
011011 1:0011 101.1. He thought be 011.13' 01,,, llesli
of hie comrades whom he nneseel hauging
113 Itieeee te dry, and he WM hOrrinOrt to mee
ObjeCt8 Which lie mistook for their heads
lying 10 (0)1101' on the deck. They were joints
of pork an11 eanuon balls, The boy was
taken to Bathurst, where his education be.
gait. He was a bright student, and finally
took an exteneive eourse in England, where
he graduated from the college at Islington,
What Keeps the Bioyole Upright?
To persrins of an enquiring tmei of mind
the question has, no doubt, often eome as
they have either themselves sped along on
those =atom instruments of locomotion, or
have watched others seated 011 their airy
perch, What is it that preveti ts the bicycle
from ? To this question Mr. Chas.
13. Warring, Ph. D., has ..eiven an answer in
the Popittar Science alionehly for April. The
usual explanation, that the uprightposition
18 1100 to vapid motion, to the action of tite
contrifu,„%cal foree, or to proper balancing 00
the p1311o(the bieyclist, Mr. Wavring con-
tends are inadequate. He refers to the
woll.known and clearly demonstrated phy
sical feet, that two forces acting at right
angles to each other do iiot interfere, and
holds that inasmuch as it is gravity which
causes the 01(1005 10 tilt over on the side to.
wards which hu is leaning, and the gravity
operates at right angles to the forward
motion the latter will not prevent the
bicyclist from falling. So, too, the centrifu-
gal force eau only operate when a deviation
from a right line takes place, as in rouuding
a corner or nulling a circle As long as the
'oyelist moves in a straight line the centri-
fugal force oannot exert any influence
whatever. Nor is the upright position clue
to balancing, as is proved by the fact that if
the handles be made immovable, so that
neither of the wheele can be turned to the
right or left, 11 10 impossible for any rider
to keep from falling after he once begina to
tilt. Mr. Warring's explanatton is based on
the physical fact that the equilibrium of a
body which rests on two points of eupport,
is maintained only so long as the centre of
gravity passes through any point in the
straight line which joins the points of sup-
port. Thus, when a rider finds himself tilt.
ing to right or left he turns the wheel in the
direction of the leaning, so as to cause the
centre of gravity, whiCh for the moment had
fallen out of the straight that joins the
points of support, to again pass through that
line. In Mr. Warring's own words, " Sta-
bility is sectored by turning the wheel to the
right ov left whichever way the leaning is,
and thus keeping the point of support under
the rider." it 15 the peculiarity of thio
solution as compared with tho others that it
is sufficient to account for the phenomenon
which it undertakes to explain. That it
wilt render it any easier for hogiunere to
acquire the art of ridieg the ticklish steed
may be doubted, and m this respect; the
utility of tho solution may be questioned.
But as ipeettlative Istiowleilgs has its use as
10011 as Ithowled go (11(1 1(5 strictly and purely.
praotieal, many will thank tide elever writer
foe 11111 light he hits thrown upon the trues.
Doti, " what keeps elm bicycle upright 1"
One Oyster for Two.
WO lal1g11 at the innecent yonng housewife
AV110 ordered ''101110 dozen halibut" for din-
ner. Had elle lived in the 8011111 Pacific
Islands she might have been equally laughed
at for ordering half a dozen oysters—not to
say a pint. The author of " Oysters, and
All About 'nem " gives some examples that
11e01131 match the giant clams and abalones
of the California coast.
Pliny mentions that, according to the his-
torians of Alexander's expedition, oysters a
foot, in diameter were found in the Indian
Seas, and Sir James E. Tennant was unex.
pectedly enabled to corroborate tho correct-
ness of this statement, for at Kottier, neat
Trincomalee, enormous specimens of edible
oysters were brought to the rest house. One
measured more than eleven inches m length
by 111311 108 many in width.
But this extraordinary incasurement is
beaten by the oysters of Port Lincoln in
South Australia, whieh ere tho largest ed-
ible ones in the world, They are as largo as
11 dinner•plate, and 1)1 1(111011 the same shape.
They aro sometimes more than a foot morose
the shell, and 1 he oyster tits his habitation
so well that he does not leave much mar-
gin.
It is 0, 1100' EiOnSati011 0)11011 a friend asks
you t01011011, at Adelaide, to have one oyster
feted in bater, or 1) 11(34(10 and broad crumbs,
set before you, 1)131 11 is a vory pleasant ex.
maim= for the flavor and delimoy of the
Port Lincoln mammoth are proverbial, even
in that land of luxuries.
Twioe Their Natural Size,
leer 12years. 110, Edward Ivana, 0000101'1y
employed by Davey & Moore, glass manu-
factures, London, Hug., suffered from the
worst form of rheumatism. He was treated
at infirmaries, but WAS always discharged as
incurable. His legs and hands W01,0 8(1011010
to twice their natural size. De could not
walk ; the pain drove him almost frantic,
and Ile felt es if hot 'eons were passing
through his bones, Tho twat application of
St, Jacobs Oil relieved him, and continuing
11,8 0300 the swelling 1o11, his limbs 1 in a
week he could walk, all pain had vanished
and he went to work. ,
'7
mliorlirrroot
/0(0>001 Soifer( lip for 8 years— Re*
1311 oPeci lo Perfeet IMOLA,
row poopto have sittforml more sovorotr
froth tip.00losa, than Mr. 10, A. Me:though 1(0
won knoll ,:r000r of Staunton. 311. lir says:
t. ...ro rqs 1 011, 111 PX01.110111 health, 00ign.
ing ever eee 'wends In that year tot ailment
lorolopoti 11,10 mew, dyspepsia, and Well 1.
Wad 11'01100d to 102 pounds, suffering !Amulet:
S5'1184110118 fll lite stomach,
I in inns al limiatuiltrittuottnnaof 1110 1(01101,
.0 41)1 could not sleep, 11,131 1111
heart M my work, heel 818 110 mehmeholia, and
for days at nedline I would have welcomed
111,0 011, 11(00(3300 nuiregie, multen and irritable,
:nett faukii.ight years life was a burden. 1 tried
111111,y physicians and many remedies. Ono ,lar
a workman empIeyed by me suggeisittoelotali,ast
:Wren S tiff° ring rilla, as
It bail
w If e of cured his
5111. 1 11111 SO, and before taking 01,0 0)11,31'
1 1011110 1 began to 1001 liko a 110 W 1111111. The
terrible pante to width 1(11111 been subjeeted,
001100(1, 1110 1.11111/115lion of the heart 011081000,
my stomach beisme easier, nausea 030(0)0
10110(1. :um Illy entire system began to
Mae up. With 11311(0111034)t's-melt] (tame activity of
. 8 years
nthand body. Before
1110 11( 111 htdt10 1V11.S taken
1 bad regalood former 10010110 1113(1 manna
eolidltioll. 1 am today well and I tweribe it
to taking Homes
34. B. 11 you deelde to talco Hood's Bursa-.
patella do not be tenured to htly 011100..
d5S
Sarsaparilla
Sold hy n11 druggists. 51; six for 51. Prepared ontr
by 0 noon a (10., Apothecaries, Lowell, MASS.
100 Doses One Dollar
A Timely Suggestion.
He was a young man who had been talk-
ing loudly of his tathev's riches and his own
prospects, when an old woman leaned over
the Seat 01111 asked :
" Young man, did you say your paw was
rich 0"
" Yes ma'am."
" He'll be apt. to found some charity
won't he ?"
" I think so."
" Settled 00 anything yet ?"
" No, ma'am."
" Then please call his attention to an
idiot asylum."
59
Those who have not
A Throat used Boschee's Ger-
man Syrup for some
and Lung severe and chronic
Specialty. at trouble athcen
Throat
ucig
hard-
ly appreciate what a truly wonder-
ful medicine it is. The delicious
sensations of healing, easing, clear-
ing, strength -gathering and recover-
ing are unknown joys. For Ger-
man Syrup we do not ask easy cases.
Sugar and waterG may smooth a
thmat orstop a tickling—for a while.
This is as far as the ordinary cough
medicine goes. Boschee's German
Syrup is a discovery, a great Throat
and Lung Specialty. Where for
years there have been sensitiveness,
pain, coughing, spitting, hemorr-
hage, voice failure, weakness, slip-
ping down hill, where doctors and
medicine and advice have been swal-
lowed and followed to the gulf of
despair, where there is the sickening
'conviction that all is over and the
end ois inevitable, there we place
German Syrup. It cures. You are
a live man yet if you take it.
OVIIIC.112[0.1LIMMAILIOOMMLCOOMMIVJAMII.M26.161102411.13:11111,
Oheelt.
"Is the lady of the house in 1" asked a,
tramp of the servant, 0)1)000)134 the door bell
of ono of the stateliest mansions ill town.
" Do lady of de lintiae don't come to de
do'tO talk (yid de likes ob you."
" Then," said the tramp, clovating the
remnant of a hat with n. grace Chesterfield
might have onvied, " toll the lady of the
house a gentleman wishes to speak with her
in the parlor,"
13031 life shall on and epward go ;
Th' eternal step of progres beats
To that groat anthem, calm and sloW,
Whioh God repeats,
-
CURES PERMANENTLY
heililaatiSill
SCIATICA 1
tleICIVebes
all Aches
ITEI4URALGIAt
„As N EQ—..—.
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