The Exeter Times, 1889-12-19, Page 6HE MIRACLE AT CANA
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billows him) pne over ms; , alley cov.01 alageat Ono nundred Elates Started Hie
r ° me) 'wave tagrall JetiBB,BD TNT° W.RALTR.
pre all gethered up into Godts bet le, awl ue ou down deeper, deeper, deeper, vent Qui
li.n.me day, stenciling befeee the timone, we sent ; " Thr waves enan
will life eur ce of delight and ails theb it tho feet, °owe to the non, peas the girdle
Five 141111en Dellete,
e fined with eh° who a ; end and melte the head, nd, (stir sold cries John James la Middle aged, well
h t I a t 441 armed man hes 'Deere in nen Frisuoieco seem
esus from that bettle of tears will begin out: orn stale r # lino
the. bxerniner" of that oity, for a few dOno
Inoteeleall Lesson for ohristiane--" non to Par Ow euP) awl will orY; "StoP, ,
e teme exte Jesus will eay
Jesus wo do not wedr
nt , to ink our own eine aim any lortger." Then Jesus win waning for the Idexioare steitnetr to °ail.
Hest Kept thneed wine nom Now'
KUOW ye 1,113t tarn around, throw both His arms about es, anace progaie, but bis career Is as totnantio
f and set US 0
, Whe Feeaelbetee Eloquent otseaninse— that tlm tears of earth 1a0the wme o1). the beenh far beyond. the ea that mamte caste. map now n
is
i Atlanta to roroot,$-6:011901atile/a COMOS heaven 'I" Sorrow may endur) bute a 0
4,ye tossing Of he hillOWS. Joeus ie the lest Getetnuaeasan tau:came; who wee one
Ifae Who Last Extremity. , cometh in the morning. extremitY'
LitTnatt. Cann Dee. a—The Bev. m I 1 remark further, jeans clocee not shadwW That wedding scooe is now gone, The
-. the joys of othere with His own griefs. fte wedding ring has boon lost,. the tankards
on " A Marriage Feast," tekiug for said : " I have so much trooble, so much. J
wedding and hey° leten broken, the house is (limn ; .but
Jesus invites us to a grander wedding.
etWitt Teirnage, D.D.. preaehed hero to, might have sat down so that
is text john it. 10 • " Thou hest kept to poverty, so much ionsecution and the gross You know the Bible aeys that the church
. of My face e.nil of My sorrows shall be east a while come to atoll her home. There will
o od wine mita new," He said : ),8 coming; I shall not rejoiceand the gloom hi the Itanah's wife end the Lord will after
Staudiug not fon off, from the deetobelied
orer ell this groula" Se ',aid not noses, be gleaming of torches in the city, and the
wn of whaG was once called Cana of He said to Hinise f : " Here are two per, trumpets of God will ravish the air with
einem 1 bethiuk myself of our Lord's first sons starting out in the married life. -Let their music ; and Jesus will stretch out
nhocel miracle, which has be the as it be a joyfal occasion. I will hide afy own His hand and the church, robed in white,
ozjlament of the ages. My visit last week griefe. I will kindle their joy." There aro plat aside her veil, and look into the face of
rto that piaee makevivid in my mind that many not so wise as that. Ietnow & hOWee. her Lort3. the King, and the bridegroom
autiful occurrence in Christ's ministry, hold Maori) there are many little children, will see, to the bride : "Thou heat been
y text brings us to a wedding in hat where for two years the musical instrument faithful through all these years'. The man.
illage. It 14 0, wedding in common life, has been kept shut becamse there hes been sion is ready 1 Come home 1 Thou art
WO plain people boxing ,pledged earth other, trouble in the house. Alas for the folly ; fair, my love!" And then he shall put
mid ai4 heart, and their friends haying Parents saying, "Wo will have no Christ- uPen her 130QW the crown of dominion, ane'
o me in for congratulation. The joy ts mas tree this coming holiday because there the table will be spread, and the banqu4
lsaot the less because there ia no proton- has beat trouble in the house. Hush that ers, looking up, will wonder and admire,
tion. In each other they find all the future laughing up stairs I Row cart there be any and say : "That is Jesus the bridegroom.
ubtletn:yaywn.ineainata:err:suebilie:a8;741::faarp: Athaed:0 they make everything constantly !the coronet, and the stab in His slide is com
they want The daisY on the outs in the joy when there has been so much trouble?' But tae scar on His brow is covered with
la garlauds fcesh from the hothouse. When doleful and. send their sons and daughters ered with a obis 1" and "That is the bridel
daughter goes off from, Lome with nothing to ruin. with the gloom they throw around the weariness a her earthly woe lost in the
I flliSh Of this lirecitiing triumph 1"
- love, she is miase ea much as Oh, my dear friends, do you not know! There will be wine enough at that wed.
hough e tore a princess. It seems hard, thews children will have trouble enough of ding, not coining up from the poisoned van
fter elle pit. Its sheltered her for eigliteen, their own after a while? Be glad they non of earth, but the vineyards of God will
ears, that in a few short months ber affee. not appreciate all yours. Keep back the Press their Hewn clusters, and the caps anti
ions should have bout carried off by cup of bitterness from your daughter's lir the tankards Will bluelt to the brim with the
other ; but motherrennembers how it was When your head is down in the grass of t e heavenly vintage, and then all tht
her own case when she was young, asid tomb, poverty ntay come to her, bereave- I banauetere wiil drink standing, Bathe)
le she braena up meal the wedding hen merit to her. Keep back the sorrews as haviug colne up from the bacchanalim
1 f h. • ai thousani
Moot& Of the year et Perin Pifteen yeere
ago lie was a poor Eagliehoolleobor of insect:0
In Guatemala, and also %cited as British Vice
Ceneul at nm jose, �e day Commendant
Gar zelea ordered Mager to appear before
him. Mem) sent word would owe in a
abort time. This inceneed the commandant,
who was ugly with drink, and he sent) a file
of soldiete after Mago, and when the bug
collector appeared ordered seventy five lash-
es laid on leis bare back. Thie was done
thoroughly, and when finished Gozz ales
ahouteul ;
"Give him twenty f3,ve more for heels."
• When Mago recovered, whioh was only
after careful nursing, as hie back as hadly
eat up, he mule formal complaint to the
British G worriment. CChe result was Gamine
male wee ordered to panialeGoezeles, and to
pay Mago $500 for every lash ha received.
La detente of this B44111111 *nutters would shell
San Jose and other coast alien Guatemala
readily punished Gonzeles, bat tried hard to
everle pitying $50,000 to Meg°. The Brin
ieh, however, were inexorable, and the poor
bug oolleotor was made a riah man in one
day. As he had more coin than any one in
the country then President Barrios entered
into partnership with him.
Mago beosane one of the largest ooffee
planters and also soared the exolusive fran-
chise for building docks along the ports.
No one oan land on or leave one of thee°
docks without paying $2 toll bo Mago,
while he aloe leviea a tax on all freight.
lee has eagood ery all alone. ; may, after a while, have hie heart broken ?, lords feasted, will be there. And the Queer He aleo owns valuable minee and trade of
eased, and the bangueters are gone, and long as you can. Do you not know that son Y I
Well, we are to -clay at the Wedding in Stand. between him end all harm. You menel of Sheba from the banquet of Solomon timber. His fortune in estimated at $5,000,-
no of Galilee. Jesus and. his mother not fight his battles long • fight them while'
, will be there. And the moth% 000, all due to 100 lashes on his back.
ave been invited. It is evident that there you may. Throw not ihe clull of your own! of Jesus'from the wedding of Cana, will le
re more people there than were expected. aesponaeney over 1112 soul; rawer tee nail there. And they all will agree that tis
ither some people come who have not Jesus, who came to the wedding hiding His earthly feasting was poor compared win
en invited or more invitationa were sent own grief and kindling the joys of others. that. Then, lifting their chalices in that
ut than it wassupposed would be accepted. So I have seen the sun, on a dark day, I holy net, they shall cry to the Lord of ths
c g p ly
You know that there is nothing Portentous, but after a while the sundmess a
with
1 hat th lk d the
f struggling amidst clouds, bleak, ragged and feast :4 Thou has kept the good wine until
now.
tunnurever.
The word cantilever is variously derived
hetvved back the bla
ore embarrassing to a housekeeper than a gcidell Pry,
ant supply. Jesus SeeS the embarrass- '
lake laughed to the sun, and from horizon from cant, an external angle, and lever (Oas-
ent end He conies up iinmediately to
to horizon, under the saffron sky, the water sell's), and from Latin quanta libra, of what
elieve it. He sees standing six water pots.
51 orders the s accents to fill them with was all turned Mto wine. weight (Century Dictionary). The principle
ater and then waves his hand over the I learn from this miracle that Christ is of a cantilever bridge is this: Take two sea -
not impatient with the luxuries of life. It saws and place them in a line, so that the
ter, and imineclietely it is wine—teal
wine. Taste of it and see for your. was not necessary that they should have ends of the two balanced boards shall be some
elves; no logwood in it, no strychnine that wine. Hundreds of people have beeni distance apart • weight the outer ends, and
it, but first-rate wine. I will marriecl without any wine. 'When Christ lay a board between the inner ends. Now, if
made the nine it was not a. necessity, but a you've anchored the outer ends securely, you
ot now be diverted to the goestion so often
positive luxury. I think if circumstances leave a crude cantilever bridge. The piers of
miseen in my own country, whether it is
'ght to drink wine. I anr describing the will allow, we have a right to the luxuries the bridge need not be directly under the
• ene as it was. When Gocl makes wine He of dress, the luxuries of diet and the I center of the see -saw boards or cantilevers;
luxuries of residence. We can. serve God they ma,y be more or less under the ends of
akes the very best wine; and 130 gallons
f it standing around in these water -pots-- drawn by golden -plated harness as certainty the cantilevers. The new Niagara bridge is
as when we go a -foot. J'esus Christ W1JI a fair example of a cantilever bridge ; the
ine so good that the ruler of the feast
be-
sted it and. says, "Why, this is really dwell with us under a fine ceiling as well as new Forth bridge is a perfect example under a thatched roof; and when you can _eat. its cantilevers are accurately plat:nem
etter than anything we have had ! Thou mane f t d'k s"'''"'
How to make a Man.
A thorough knowledge of two eleunento Is
, necessary in order to make a map, with a
'bast kept. the good wine until now." Beau- g
et W1fl ful miracle ! A prize was offered to the much of it as you can.
Dom, 'further, from -this miracle, that
erson who would write the best essay
'hf tl'
bout the miracle at Cana. Long mason Uhrlst 5168 no
otherwise he wouri not have accepted the pfeW to an accurate deterraination of the
oripts were presented in the competition,
but a poet won the prize by just this one invitation to that wedding. He certainly positions of places. These elements are lett-
would not have done that which increased tune,
or distance from the equator, and lougi-
e descriptive of the miracle:
the hilarity. There may have been many nide, or distance east or west of the meridian
he unconscious water saw it God, and in that room who were happy, but there
blushed. adopted. Every map, whatever its size, must
lade,
was not one of them that did so mach fee
We learn from this miracle in the first' have some definite relation to the actual size
the joy of the wedding party as Christ Hfin-
late, that Christ hes sympathy with house- of the globe. The scales of geographical maps
self. He was the chief of the banqueters.
capers. You might have thought that When the wine gave out Ile :supplied it range from about 800 miles to an inch (for
ones would have said : "I cannot be i: maps of quarters of the globe) to 10 miles to
will deny us the and
814 It take it,
I think the children of God have more lfrom 1 inch to 26 inches to a mile. The ord-
at: zinecohsur; those of topographical maps =go
there& with this household deficiency of
ine. It is net for ane, Lord. of heaven, of
rehe to be'come caterer to this feast. I right to laugh than any other people, and y of Great Britain is made or
ve vaster things than this to attend. to." to clap their bands as loudly. There Is not mapped on a scale of 1-63,360 of nature or
ot so said. Jesus. The wine gave out, and. a, single joy denied tbem that is given te inch of paper to one raile of surface. 'The
esus, by miraculous power, came to the any other people. Christianity does not one
ectice in this country is maintained very
the wings of the soul. Religion does , much in the e ratio.
cue. Does there ever come a scant supply en -
p
your household? Have you to make 11 not frost the flowers. What is Christianity ? Hybrids Plot sterile.
i
ry close calculation? It s hard work for I take it to be simply a proclamation from Instead of hybrids being sterile, the °vi-
ou to carry on things decently and respect- the throne of God of emancipation for all dance is cumulative that sterile hybrids are
!Ay? If so, don't sit down and az. the enslaved, and if a man accepts all the the exception. In Plants mere sterility can
n't go out and fret; but go to Him w 0 terms of that proclamation and 'becomes be adduced incases of undoubted species. The
Food in the house in Cana of Galilee. Pray free, has he not a right to be merry? Sup- dwarf species of robinia, robiniabispida or rose
the parlor 1 Pray in the kitchen 1 Let pose a father has an elegant mansion and acacia, is almost always sterile, and the well
here be no room in all your house uncon- large grounds to whom will he give known Chinese evistara is sterile, except un-
rated by the voice of prayer. If you the first privilege of the grounds 1 der special conditions, or in special seasons.
5. ave a. microscope, put under it one drop of Will he say : "y children, you must Recently Mr. Veiteb, the famous hybridizer
ater'and see the insects floating about; not walk through these paths, or sit down of London, who has produced a large number
nd when you see that God makes theta and under these trees or pluck this fruit These of hybrids among a large number of genera,
res for them, and feeds them, come to the are for outsiders. They may walk in them." mostly, indeed, so for as is recorded, all fer-
onclusion that He will take care of you No father would say anything like that. He tile, produced a hybrid between species of
nd feed you, oh, ye of little faith! ; would say, "The first privileges in all the rhododendrons that were themselves hybrids,
A boy asked if he might sweep the snovr grounds, and in all my house,
shall be fox thus showing that fertility followed through
rom the steps of a house. The lady of the my own children." And yetmen to trY a
r. onsehold said : " Yes ; you seem very make us believe that God's children are on i van two generations of hybrids.
oor." He says : " I am very poor." She the limits, and the chief refreshments and, Facts and Figures.
aye : "Don't you. sometimes get dis- enjoyments of life are for outsiders, and not Professor W. D. Gunning estimates the av-
ouraged, and. feel that God is going to let for His own children. It is stark atheism. erage amount of water passing over Niagara
ou starve ?" The lad booked up in the There is no innocent beverage too rich for Falls at18,000,000 cubic feet per minute; al-
oman's face and. said: "Do you think God's child to drink; there is no robe too lowing sixty-two and a half pounds to the
d will let me starve when I trust Him, costly for him to wear; there is no hilarity cubiefoot, this would give a total of 562,500
nd then do the best I can!" Enough too great for him to indulge in, and no tons per minute, or 25,312,500 tons in forty-
imology for °Icier people 1 Trust in God house too splendid for him to live in. five minutes, of which somewhat more than
nd do the best you can, Amidst all tbe Though tribulation and trial and hardship two-thirds passes over the Horseshoe Falls.
orriments of housekeepiug, go to Hine; maroons° ontehim. lothimrejoice. "Rejoice m physician in the university of Padua, has
aS e will help you control your temper, and, in the Lord, ye righteous, and again I say eacceeded in transplanting the cornea from
upervise your domestics, and entertain rejoice!, ' the eye of a barn fowl into the eye of a pa -
our guests, and manage your home econo- I I remark again that Christ comes to us in tient England has nearly 6,000,000 acres of
ies. There are hundreds of women weak,, the hour of our extremity. He knew the waste land capable of cultivation, In Switz-
nd nervous, and exhausted with the cares wine was giving out before there was min erland 70 per cent. of the young men are said
1 housekeeping. I commend you to the embarrassment or mortiftcation. Why did to be unfitted, by the use of alcohol and to -
rd Jesus Christ as the best adviser, and He not perform the miracle soon''? Why bacco, for military service. There are now
he most efficient aid, who performed:His wait until it was all gone, and no help could 07,000 active merabers of the order of the
rst miracle to relieve a housekeeper. ' come from any source, and then come in King's Daughters. llamas; A. Edison says
I learn also from the miracle that Christ and perform the miracle? This is Christ's that he needs but about four hours' sleep out
nes things in abundance, I think a small
way; and when He did come in at the of the twenty-four. A French firm has
Iapply or wine would have made up for the hour of extremity, He made first-rate wine, brought out a newfabric, raraine linen made
efieiency. I think certainly they must so that they. cried out: "Thou has kepi of the fibre of remain, and combining the
ave had enough for half of the guests. One the good wine until now." Jesus in the qualities of linen and silk, with double the
llon of wine will do; certainly five gal, hour of extremity 1 Ho seems to prefer strength of linen.—Currant Literature.
ons will be enough; certainly ten. ut that hour.
I You mourned over your sins. You could A. Valuable Illsreovery.
esus goes on, and. he gives them thirty
aliens, and forty gallons, and fifty gallons, not find the way out. You sat down and tirannun, a metal whose rarity is indicated
nd seventy gallons, and one hundred gal -
one and one hundred and thirty gallons of
. csaaisdt m: le`Gor ;,,wbiullt nine fel, He has by ite market price, $12,000 per ton, WU dis-
%hbeet,intebre6derkest hour covered just a hundred years ago, when
It is just like Him, doing everything on and Janus said; "Oh, wanderer, come Klaproth succeeded in isolating from a dark,
he very best wine. of your history, light broke from the throne,
he longest and most generous sc-ale- pawl home. I have seen all thy sorrows. Id colored mineral known as a pitchblende a yele
hrist, our Creator, go forth to melte leaves? that, the hour of thy extremity, I offer thee low oxide, which, after carefully testing, he
e makes them by 'the whole .foreat full ; pronounced to be the oxide of a new metal.
etched like the fern, or silvered like the: Up to the present time it has only been wee
pardon and everlasting life 1"
1 Trouble came. You were ahnost torn to with in isolated pockets and patches, btit
pen, or broad like the palm; thickets in pieees by that trouble. You braced your- now, according to the London n'imea, tbe
he tropics, Oregon forests. Does fie go golf urn aszainat it. Yon -said: "I will be centenary of its discon,7 has been marked
orth to make flowers ? He inakesenter of mode arm win not Care ;" Mt more you -by the „ding of a ee dame*, lone at the
Mesterinz A Book.
The book whioh melees a man think most le
the book which strikes the deepest root in
his mecnory and onderstanding. One of the
educational mexims of the jeanito is Vexatio
dat inteUecturn [Hard' labor gives dieeern-
meat] The msxim Indicates that in the
judgment of theeenduceters ibis not working
at: the easy but at the thffinult mental bask
that elm intellectual pert:Tien.
hien walk through a mouotainoua oountry
not only for the pleasure to be derived from
the Flowery, but for the sake of the physical
vigor which °ernes from olinibing hills, The
manwho roasters a book which keep his
mind on the streteh le, like the mountain -
°limber, braced up by the effort. He lays
down the book refreshed, invigorated, and
trained to master a more diffioalt book.
One day while skating, an English boy die
placed his knemosp. He was taken home,
&ed. the surgeon ordered him to tie for three
moaths on his motheen sofa.
He suffered:severely from the pain, and
his wise grandfather handed him" a book to
puzzle over,' that his attention might be
taken fret/be irj itred knee.
It was a work on trigonometry, of whioh
Henry Woodrow, the boy of sixteen, knew
nothing. At the end of three months, when
the boy was allowed to leave the sofa, he
had mastered the book, without any assist-
ance from any one, and in smite of the severe
pain in his knee.
Several years after the boy went to Cain.
bridge, where he did so well in matbetnatice
as to gain the rank cf Fourteenth Wrangler,
He went out to India, and, as Director of
•Public: Instruction in one of the pros/home,
did such good work that ha was called "the
Nestor of Eineation in Bengal," and when
he died the natives raised three thousand
five hundred dollars to plasm his bust: in
Celtic; College, Oembridge, and in the Mai-
( ashy of Calcutta.
The Bensel edueittor used to say that lila
success at 0 tinbridgeand India was due tc
his mastering the book hia grandfather ga n
him " to prezle over,' when laid up with a
displaced kneemap
hem ; they flarne from the he ge, they had got through making the resolution, it
ang from t,he top of the grapevine ea Mos- broke down under you. You felt that all Union mine Graropomd Road, Corneeall,
i
whic.h is believed to be the orily Ineonnt lode'
orne, the,y roll in the blue wave of the yoar renoureets were gone, end then Jesus
ioletsu
s, they toss their white rf into tae came. "1n the fourth watch of the night,' in the world. Thie 'cliscooery is rtarded eo
pin:ea—enough for every child's hand a the Bible says, "Josue came walking ou unique in the history of the metal, for the
lode is what is known as a true fissure vein,
ewer, enough te make for every brow a the sea." Why did He not come in tit° and oBsuYa of the oro go lip as high in, 80 par
harlot, enough with beerity to cover up first watchor in the third watch 1 I de
he gintsbliness of all the graves. Does He not know. Ile came in the fourth, and ''"'s
o forth to create water? He pours it oat, ft hi antielpated that the present diet:over:
61"1 hill, an c'ecen fnii. "°curing it `nit 'until I wonder if it will be 00 in our very is,s1 onontuta for gom at eotteopoosa ware
lett tne °Urn nea enougn to arms, tutu ,
tenortgh with. Which. to waeh. extyom. ity. Wo shall fall shcidehly alobj, giin-eieh. as ,iwitja &nen= tee capper it
provide redemp. an,ati eiicieto,r,s will corno, out in vain. IN I taws we beautiful alloys, me gaging the
d nil the stimulentef also
Does Jeetue our Lord,
on ? It is hot a little salvation fax this' Vfl'i trY' ane lane Ynes. a appearance of geld, and the orrner rte
.iomoth1u4ebbing the action of acida The seoceid applis
cation is in eonneetieu With electric ill01.1111.
ti011a where its usefulnese corieiste in ite high
Slroung, promises for t e old, promises °tit Pu 118 °I'• & len eleCtl''iCal r0S15t. 0.1100.
or the lowly, promises fax the blind, fax tile °Mt) 1. 1181 and as We Say "Lord 'T°11111) 1 '
Tbera is ne fit itearch eater *malt whieb
ilk for tive Outcast, for the abandoned. am afraid of that 1;Vat°r ; 1 Oah0Ot *Ai
atd011 for all, corofort for all, meroy for through to the other aido,". tto will es. rloaa riot, firtt of all, begin to limn tine truth
gave deliveta°°° t° Isis di861)1eS. 3.1431 Will etahle tt90 important 4pplicationti of 0*
at by the cupful, bub by a river full, a in the lett extremity 1 row to be tantywea t4:11. The ems is a
ne, a little for the other; bat enough fax an n '.LSt
11—"WhoSOover will, let him. come."- Each will saY " 16u go." 11°°11° t°h°
an an onian, full for him elf, Proinista for " back, but til° balla° of eternity 14tret°1't
s1ilkoaval1 for all; eee merely 0, eered of "Talo hold of my arm ; " and we will ta whieh it known
esetelneetate. rani be:Invest and 16441 of Imo wern, sod then Te win ,
The $trougest Welnen-
Theertrongeet Woman on earth flee not
been lot% In Mehing her eipinear( nee et the
epode hells, end, wording to eocounte, if
she hied visited the alte Mauro oomo few
weelte. ago she might iticattet have eotere
the nets with Cyclops, fax she seems to think
nothing of littiug 250 emends. If such a Dat
Male had been found for Samson, etrategy
wmild ecercely hey° been De008Sery to enear
hie lookii, he Might hen() geined her
object by main force, Mme. Vick:rine, at
believe tide muscular lady is oallecl, le
a Swiss, and for many years was ignorant
of her extrteerdlnary strength, or, at any
rate, of its marketeble value. It was only
by chimes she discovered ib. Ono day When
mit walking, She OW WO Men vainly
endeavoring to lift a huge fender from a
cart, Smiling at their uneacioeseful sorte
ehe volunteered her aid, and, to their t xtreme
surprise, a000mplished the feat uninitiated.
The story ;reaching the. ore ei an eager
exhibitor, 0Year:reefer ietrodueing her to an
admiring public, were inetantly merle, and
after a few weeks of severe trebling she meth)
her first appeeranee. She is indeed a •pro-
digy, for in. edition to ber really marvencus
strengtie ahe is not, like so many wonders,
unpleasant to look upon. but fie extremely
fair of form and fano. This makes the third
exhibition of unusual made in London, for
Samson still hae a number ot admirere and
sympelihnisrs, while Sandow is drawing
crowds at the Alhambra.
A Trillion Kisses.
The ease of the Plymouth man who had
his love -letters produced and read in ooart;
should teach other lovers moderation in the
making of osoulatory °outruns, ewe London
Tit Bits. In a single pesteorip the Plee
mouth 'man undertook to deliver to the lady
of hit) choice no fewer then 1,000,000,000.000
kiseee, and as mile cioutracte are not Loire-
geently made in love,letters, mem be well
to give a thought to the magnitude of the
undertaking.
Whoever will take the brouble to figure it
out will find that E.V.311 if this amorous Mau
ehould give the lady 15,000 kleses a minute
(and we Affirm that no pereon could hope to
do more than that), and even if he could
keep up this rate ot peculation twenty-foar
holm a day, never pausing to sleep, eat, or
take breath, working 365 days every year,
It would take him more then 100 years to
complete the, oontrent, tend by that time, it
would be painful to re ict, the ardour of
bis love may have cooled.
Even at the end. of 100 years, counting
15,000 kisses a minute, there would remain
en undelivered balance oi 209,000,000,000, a
number which in Emelt might appal the
most industrious. We therefore feel con-
strained to adviee writers of leve -letters nob
to undertake contracts of such magnitude.
A Youth With a liagnifying Bye.
John Thomas He3lope, of Btrmtngharn,
England, is a lad whose powers of visiou are
to be amounted among the marvelous. He
is known as "the living miorosoope, " on
account of being able to gee the mom minute
otjeote clearly defies& In 1878 or 1879 be
was e.ttaoked with some baffling eye trouble,
and came very near losing his eight forever.
After the disease had reaohed ite worst
thereawari an instant and startling change
for the bottler. When his eight returned it
was with increased extraordinary powers of
vimion. To John Thomas the most minute
plant louse was as large as a rabbit, and the
morquito's bill as large as an ex handle. He
could we and describe dietant minute objecte
with startling clearneee and precision. He
was amazingly shocked upon repairing to
the well to get a cooling dranght to see the
Immense number of hideous oreabures that
were floating, fighting and wriggling about
in the water. From that day to this weber
has never passed the lips of Jelin Tisomas
aleslop: his drinks contain wholly of coffee,
tea and milk,tboroughly boiled. The doobora
say that the entire orgaezation of the eye
has undervone a structural change; that the
oornea has become abnormally enlarged, and
that the crystalline lens have divided into
three different disks or oixoles, each circle
suraounded by another of light blue.
A Ohinese Funeral Procession.
A remarkable funeral procession paraded
the.streets of Peking a few weeks ago. Ib
was the formal public celebration of the buri-
al of Tsching Teohu, a grand chamberlain
said brother -in law of Prince Kling. The bier
was carried by eighty men, preceded by
forty-eight fiegebearers, eight eaniele, and
twenty. four white horses. One hundred and
sixte men followed bearing sixteen red
planks, on which were painted in many
coloured letters the name and titles of the
dead nobleman. The whole procession was
a mile and a half long.—[Ex.
Just Bible Envy -
Reneging editor "You say here that
you have onitivated hot -house lilao bushes
that have attained a height of over fitty
feet ?" Horticultural editor : " Yes, Why?"
Managing editor (musingly): "Nothing,
only I wish I could lilac ihet."
Force in Silence,
In paintiog the great picture of the mod
fice of Iphigenia the artiste it is sail, exhimst-
ed the emotions of grief and horror in the
faces of the bystanders.
"He has left nothing uneaid. How can he
depict her father's sorrow ?" asked aexIously
hie friends who were watching the develop.
motet of the picture. He threw a mantle
over Agamemnon's face. The, blark silence
was more effective than any pletured woe.
One of the meet extraordinary effecte pro.
duasd by abuolute milenoe bt recorded in the
reporte of a 0o:retention 1 whioh the fore.
most men in Virginia took parte John
Rendolph had a meaeure to carry in orhicia
he looked for the oppoellion of Alexander
Campbell, afterward founder of it large nob,
a meal then noted for his scholarehip arid
power In debate. . '
Razldolpb.had never seen the Scotch logi-
cian, but he had heard aweigh of him to
make him and his partieens uneasy. When,
therefore, the gaunt stranger first roe° to
opeak io the Convention, It mdelein looked
at him with ouch an air of alerm as its) ate
tract the whole attention o bhe Convention,
and as he glaisood around seamed to be ask-
ing far eympathy in hie coMing defeat:, He
then compelled himeelf to listen, in tapi
Widen,
Campbell, aware of thls:by-play, heated
and loot the thread ef his argument. Been.
dolphse fade by tarns as he netnews' exp exited
Wet:rimer, indfdPerenoe, and fiSally uneptak-
able Contempt. Be leaned beck tend yawned.
Campbell tit downe headily, Ea tilvi loft
the Whole forint � bis opeosh, Not a weed
bad beett epoken, but he eves defeated.
SAN JONES' Donna BLOPLO.
She etarrisei a Young aim who wee Not the
Ch eine of her Parente.
Anne U. Jones, deeghter of the Rev. Sena
'ones, the famous reyiialisb, was married at
Chattanooga the other day to hie former
meorebary, WIUarn M. Graham, now On pta.
(dal stenographer of the Cherekee (Gleorgia)
eirculb, Ftele yeere ago Graham, who Wail
then 22 end ehe girl 12, were in love. Name.
ally Mr, Jones objected to the inbinunter, and
the girl wes sent away to uelmolab Millere-
burg, She did not take very kindly to
eehool discipline. About a year ago Miss
Jame returned nome. Mr. Gralumn had be-
come is lawyer, and wee eulasequentlY made
theoffitdallegel stenographer of the Cherokee
oircuib. •
Lest Tuesday night the lover soughb bhe
aid a bwo friends, Prof. L B., Robeson and
Dr. J. E Mayes. in eluding the vigilance
of Mr. and Mrs. Jailer, both of whom °PP°a-
ed the marriage on aceount of their dangle,
ter' e youth. Dr. Mayes went to Chattanooga
to arrange the prellmineries,and Mr.Ceratiem
and Mies Jones joined a riding party at Cart-
ersville, Ga., Joann home. 'The plot was
merrier? out. The young couplet. ter -their
snivel were met by lihe professor, and
taken to the study of the Rev. Dr. Bachman
of the First PreabyterianChuroh, who gett-
ing a hint: from a reporter, refused to per-
form the ceremony unless a Southern Mobilo-,
diet olergyman assisted.
Then a visit was made to Dr. Drumhell,
who upon being told that the groom belong-
ed to the Episcopal Church, made the twain
ens flesh.. After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs -
Graham telegraphed the news to the new
father -h* -law. They went back to Oarbeas-
vine next day.
illueloal Sancta.
Within a few years past account] of music.
al sands have been brought from eeveral
quarters. One of the most interesting of
these accounts is furnished by the author of
"From the Indus to the Tigrie." He desoribes
the manner of his coming acres them on
the elope of a hill detaehed from, Ithe Cala,
Kob range of mountains: •
Aa we peeped en, our late oanapanions on
the march toilfully plodded their way up
the ;bandy slope to the sucomila of the hill.
Their steps set the loose pertioles of and
in motion, an the friction, by some my-
eterlone acoustic, arrangemenie produoed a
sound as of distant drums and make which
we heard distinctly at the distance of a mile.
"The sounds were not condi:mons, but
were only now and then caught by the ear,
and much resembled these produced by the
Alan harp, or the wind playing on tele-
graph wires. Thesesounds areoften emitted
by the action of the wind on the surface of
the end, and at other times without any
estignable came.
"The phenomenon hae invested theilooality
with saored oharaoter. There are similar
oolleations of sand on other hills of this range
some miles further on, as we observed in the
next march, but they are divested of interest
to the natives, since they produce no ;round."
illustrating an Old Adage.
Yeast: "Everett -ling I drutk goes right to
my head.' Crimeonbeeart "That only goes
to prove the truth of the old saylog, then."
Yeaeb : " White's that?' Cruneenbeale
" There's plenty of room at the top."
There are only twenty-nine tree traders
in the French Parliament, the remainder of
Ole deputies standing up stoutly for the
protective home industry creed of the Thiers
school.
AMIOND Lavun CAxs.—Elr, the layers
use a cup cake batter, one careful butter,
Iwo cupfuls sugar, three cupfuls flour and
four eggs ; two teaspoonfuls baking powder,
one cupful cold water, and half the juice and
grated rind of a fresh lemon; beat till very
light and bake in jellyto&ke tins. For filling
put a onpful rick sweet nailk over the fire in
a farina kettle; when hot stir into it: three
teaspoonfuls corn starch, one well beaten
egg, one hall oup of sugar, one-half oup
blanched and pounded almonds ; let thicken
before adding the aamonds ; flavor with van
ilia, and when cool spread in thick layers
tetween the oakes ; ioe the cake.
Any one who walks through the woods
at this season will note the deep velvety
carpet of fallen leaves which covers the
ground.• Few realize how much protecition
this affords e.geinat frost. Su long as land
le sheltered enough to prevent winds from
blowing away the leaves it Ise not apt to
freeze very deeply. The leaves act as a
mulok in the summer time, and this encour-
ages a growth of mote near the entrain.
When the woo& become thinned out so that
winds sweep them bare, the soil often
!recess down so as to kill the trees. No
mateer how hardy a tree may be, it cannot
live when the soil fret zas down to the depth
of tbe roots,
A Fountain of Life.
On the fountain in King's Square, St.
John., in chiselled the quaint spirituel
truiem which Jesus epake to a weary sin-
ner, in tassteshadow of Jecob's well, at
Sylar -"Whosoever drinketh of this
water shall thirst again, bub whosoever
drinkable of the water that I shall give him,
:shall never thirst."
Beautiful message of love,
Would I with garlands enwreath !
Fountain of life, from above 1
Fountain of life, from beneatia 1
VI hat blessings your crystalline pureness
impart i
1 sing of the virginal life in thy heart.
This one : --the water of earth,—
Fraught with refreshing delight --
Pure and pellucid at birth --
Pleasing to palate and inght,— '
But though fax immortal ones sent from
beneath,
(Tie leavened by sin with the virus of death.
That one,-- (hush wearisome abrife)
—Herald its praise abroad 1
That,—is the Water of Life,
Fresh from the Fountains of God,
And wheee'--athirst---shall unto ie draw
nigh,
And drink of its sweetness, he never dull
die.
Beautiful symbol of truth I
Thee, and thy lesson I laud,—
One, the Elixir of youth,
One, is the Spirit of God :
By this, shall the human a blessing obtain,
By that shall the Soul an Eternity gain.
Speak to the mortale who pan ;
Ask them thy pureness to prove:
Many --unheeding alas 1—
See not thy message of love,—
And Boeing, they graap not the truth it would
teaoh,
Or measure the meaning, more subtle than
epeeoh.
Lmiwsuivrt A. Monnesox..
"The Elms," Moronbo. •
A gentleman who has recently returned
from lasbon relates the following strange
coinoidencee in conneetion with the death
of the late King of Portugal. It appears
that when the Cathedral bell at Braganze,
the ancient] residence of the Portuguese
Rya' family, was toiling for the death ef
Q teen, Marie IL, mother of tbe late King
Luiz 1 , hi 1853, it °reeked, In 1861 when
the motto ensign watt bobbed halfemast higla
ett Bregaezt, oo the °wagon of the death of
Meg Pedro V brother of the late King,
lb was torn to pieces inimodiabely by the
storm. At the death of King Ltd* I, laket
month the Cathedral bell again cracked
and the cacao ensign wee again tern to
shteds by the wind.
At the BirroingliaM Show the Qaeen took
a find priz a 100 guineas., With m Shorthorn,.
bred upon leer own form near Windeor, mid
she ale* gained eight other prizee. One of
her Hinenford :delete 'weighed 1,960 pentuls,
end smother beautiful Shorthorn steer
i141:dttgltntt:Onlddilsittk
p4e tiuubalof faaiodebeltgg
so
H ajvty, Thera was it large attend.
snot ef buyerii from all parte of the mu:wry
auel exoellent ptioell were realised. The
()leen tikes gnat delight in this ante al
Life's Review.
BY 30H2 IMRIR, TORONTO.
The Old Yea,r Is dying,
His moments are flying,
On the "Ledger' of life may be seen :
Opportunities lent
To be faithfully :spank: -
Whether "profit or lois ' habh it been?
Dinh the Old Year's deoey
Leave Oa wiser to -day
Than he found us jut twelve months) ago ? •
Have we done whet we might?,
Have we oiung to the right ?
Doth the "Ledger' & g oredinnoteb show?
Have we lemma for regret
At "the leases" we've met
Through sin pride, or procrastination
Letitia humbly aritte, •
And reeelve to be win,
The New Yea may being consolation 1
To thine own heart be true,
For 'iris wise to review,
And a "belanoeesheet" etrike wiehoub for;
In 'Heti suniehine or slibever
Let each bright golden hour
Be well:spent sell .De&th. Might bo near 1
,
liVheil eat Lend eheal appear, .
And Our memos Iwo ohm! hear
Sounded forth troin Gletne greet Book shovel
• May the teoord thee: ehow
• That t'itabe dent" Witieli we owe
liatib "helm Men' by Hie inflaihn love 1
litemma (at the doll ceatitser)—"Now,
fend:lee, aleeeys inspects the sbook preview; Viewthe dear, hate iv a very large eseertmenti
1
tie the se.le is,nd &reit the people who attend to oalsoi from. What hind of a dolly would '
a good elefeshlonod English ltertoheon, vribh you Ilk* to hate ti Fiesitie—"Witiaso Lem.
plenty of mat beef' and bead Ma, lily's plasac ')