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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1891-6-5, Page 7eliNE THE BRUSSELS POST. reteareitisteetesestatsesoinessesensexaseeisetessiateteestaseseesseereetteiseisserimeereetteasesestageateseaseeftereleateeeeseineastatentestaatesetwooraisaterstuaansteiaveets. latt artaseemeasameelientliteamealseataiatimesialteteateeka SUNDAY READING. -ry 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—..—. 114 is TAE )3E5T