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The Brussels Post, 1900-9-13, Page 3FUTURE OF TRANSVAAL. Milt 1h„ ihttdsllotia el' the Sian' Wolters Rapid i:eveleeme ll 11'111 1."nttew (miliary immemel,y Melt. Thong;; thT,re is no man More large- ly interested in the development of the Transvaal than Mr, J, 13, Robins, *tom nor idly one who known more about South Africa, he has bad) other tlninge to think about far some weeks than the fame of South Africa, "What Is to be the future of the Transvaal1" he said. repeating my question. "'Tharts a matter which lies large- ly with the British Government, Such fighting as Ls still going on is malady guerrilla; whlab, whine it may cause soiree trouble, cannot be re. goaded toe seriously. The baokboue of the i'esastaiico is undoubtedly 'brok- en. It could not be oihertvJse. 1 be- lieve the Deere aro only lengthening out their resistance basuuse'of fear of what may happen to .them when they ' surrender. Oneo • the people feel assured that no terrible results will follow surrender, they will .bow to the laoviLable. "tip to now the development of the Transvaal has barely begun. To open up a laxed you must have railways, Great stretohen's of gold bearing land have remained untouched be- oause it was itnpraotieabie to bring machinery to wonk them. The first step In the expansion of the Trans- vanl 1vi11 be the building of railways in all directions. Many companies will be floated, many lines built, and millions of pounds' worth of rolling stook anal plant will ba sent out from England, "With the building of railways will come a development of the coal fields. The Transvaal is one of the rioheat coal territories oa .earth. On our own properties we find great seams of coal running parallel with the seams of gold, and we bave al- ready worked our coal to some extent. But these seams of moat are running all over -the land, they are at an easy depth to wank, and will give an un- limited supply of very cheap fuel. "Abundant transit and cheap fuel must mean the beginning of other mining apart from gold. There are extraordinary amounts of cop- per in the northern part of the Transvaal, literally monntaina of copper, as well as silver, oobalt, lead and diamonds." AN ANIMATED STONE. The tortoise is a great sleeper, and that obaraeiesisl:ic yields the London Spectator a funny story of one which was a domestic pet in u country house. As his time for hibernating drew nigh, he selected a quiet corner in the dimly lighted coal cellar, and there composed himself to sleep. A new cook was appointed soon after. She knew not tortoises. In a few months, with the lapse of , time, the tortoise woke up end sallied forth: Screams soon broke the kitchen's calm. Entering that department, the lady of the house found the cook gaz- ing in aweestruek wonder, and ex- claiming, as with unsteady hand she pointed to the tortoise; "My eon- soiencel .look at the stone that I've broken the coal wi' a' winter!" NECESSITY OF COVER DU1tING SLEEP. The object is simply this: Nature takes the bane when one is lying down to give the heart rest, and that or- gan consequently makes ten strokes less a minute than when .one is in an upright pasture. Multiply that by six- ty minutes and it is six hundred strokes. Therefore in eight hours spent In lying down, the heart is sav- ed nearly five thousand strokes, and as the heart pumps six ounces of blood with each stroke, It lifts thirty thousand ounces less of blood in e night of eight hours spent in bed than when one is in an upright posi- tion. As the blood flows so moot) more slowly through the veins when one is lying down, one mast supply then with extra coverings the warmth usually furnisbed by circulation. SNAKES AS PMTS. As the inseparable friend and awn- panion of snakes, a gentleman who occupies a lovely old house la Chelsea bears away the palm easily, This gen- tleman and his beautiful wife and daiughters are known throughout so - testy everywhere to connection with their pet snakes, and not lung ago section .of neighbotur•s threatened le- gal proceedings through certain of the pets going a -wandering. The lunch- eons at this house are unique. Huge cobras coil round the 'leak and about the body of the host atthe head cd the table; smaller snakes' twine theist - Delves mond the ladies' arms, and try to eat from their plates. A. visitor about to 'sit down finds that the beautiful/ cubical on alae chair is a. living snake coiled up. This is at home but, country -house invitations to the family are many, though the inflex- ible rale of the ltnnLlarnad le "Hoitea Inc, house my snakes," Eminent na. turaliste thank Ibis gentleman for one thing at least—he has estahlialled the feast that; all snakes—and cobras especially. --•;save some enough to be jealous of other creatures, anti even of h,usnan beings, Who are made moll 0.f by the owners o$ she pets. SUFFICIENT 06T0 THE DAY." Rev. Dr. Talmage Discourses on a Common despatch frohrt Washington says: '-.Rev,' Pr. Talmage'preaah'ed frpm the following text:—"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."—Mutt vi, 34. The life of every man, woman, and ahttd, is as closely under the divine care as though such person were the only man, woman, or child. There are no am/dente. As there is, a law of etorma in the natural world, so. there is a taw of trouble, a law of dis- aster, a law of misfortune ; but the majority of the troubles of life are Imaginary, and the most of those anticipated never come. At any rate, there is no cause of complaint against Gad. Bee how melt he hath done to make thee' happy: his sunshine filling burglar or the red arm of the revolu- the earth with glory, making rainbow tion will be faithful to the last. for the storm and halo for the moun- burglar. Win, greenness for the moss, saffron So there are persons here in feeble for the cloud, and crystal for the bit- health, and they are worried about. low, and proceaslon of bantered the future. They make out very well Ramo through the opening gates of now, but they are bothering them - the morning, cheffinahes to sing, selves about future pleurises, and rivers glitter, seas to chant, and I rheumatieaa, and neuralgias,e. and fo p gsto blossom, uhd overpowering ere Their eyesight is feeble and they all other sounds with) its song, and overarching all other splendour with are worried lest they entirely lase it. ite triumph, covering up all other beauty with its ;garlands, and out of trouble, and so he apportions it for all the days and years of our life, 1 never look et my memorandum -book to see what engagements and duties are far ahead, Let every week bear its own burdens. - Go to -morrow anti write on your day book, er on your ledger, or your money -safe. Sufficient unto the day to the evil thereof." Do not worry about notes that are far from due. Do not pilo uta on yew counting -desk the financial anxieties of the next twenty years, The God who has talo em case of your worldly ocoupaiion, guarding your store from the torch of the incendiary and the key of the Their hearing is indistinct, and they are alarmed lest they become entirely /kettles all other thrones with its deaf. They felt chilly to -day, and are dominion—deliverarsice for a lost world expecting an attack of typhoid. They through the Great Redeemer. have been troubled for weeks with I discourse this morning' of the sin some perplexing malady, and dread be I of borrowutg trouble. Doming life-long invalids. Take care of First: Suoh a habit of mind and heart is wrong, because it puts one into a despondency that ill fits him for duty. How poorly prepared for religious duty is u man who sits down under the gloom of expected misfortune! 1f he pray, be says, "I do not think I shall be answered." If he give, he soya, "I expect they will steal the money." 'You will have nothing but misfor- tune in the future if you sedulously watch for It. How shall a man catch the right kind of fish if ha ar- ranges his line, and hook, and bait to catch lizards and water -serpents? Hunt for bats and hawks, and bats and hawks you will find. Hunt for robin -redbreasts, and you will find robin redbreasts. One night an eagle and an owl got into fierce bat- tle; the eagle, unused to the night, WAS no match for an owl, which is most at home in the darkness, and the king of the air- fell helpless; but the morning rose, and with it rose the eagle; and the owls, and the night- hawits, and the bats came a second time to tuts combat; now the eagle, in the sunlight, with a stroke of his talons and a great ory, cleared the air, and his enemies, with torn fea- thers and splashed with blood, tum- bled into the thickets. Ye are the children of light. In the night of de- spondency you will have no chance of wheat, and shooks of corn, and against your enemies that flook up from beneath, but, trustiug in God vineyards purpling for the wine - and standing in the sunshine of the I press. "Let Pleasure chant her syren song, 'Tia not the song for me; To weeping 11 will turn ere long, For this is Heaven's decree. But there's awing the ransomed sing To Jesus their exalted King, With joyful heart and tongue, Oh, that's the song for mel" Courage, my brother! The father does not give to his eon ret school enough money to last him several years, but, as the bills for tuition, and board, and clothing, and books come in, pays them. So God will not give you graoe alt at canoe for the future, but will meet alt your exi- gencies as they come. Put every. thing in God's band, and leave It there. Largo interests money to pay will soon eat up afarm, a. store, an estate, and the interest on bor- rowed troubles will swamp anybody. "Sufficient uuto the day is the evil thereof," your health now, and trust God for the future. Bo not guilty of the blas- phemy of asking hint to take care of you while you sleep with your win- dows tight down, or eat uhioken-salad at eleven o'clock at night, or eitdown on a cake of ice to cool off. Be prudent and then be confident. Again: The habit of borrowing mis- fortune Is wrong, because it unfits us for it when it aotuaUy does coma. We cannot always have smooth sailing. Life's path will often tumble among declivities, and mount a steep, and be thorn -pierced. Judas will kiss our cheek, and then sell us for thirty pieces of silver. Human scorn will try to crucify us between two thieves. We will hear the iron gate of the sepulchre creak and grind as it shuts in our kindred. But we cannot get ready for these things by forebodings. 'They who fought imaginary woes will coma out of breath into conflict with Ufa armed dieaeters of the future. Their ammunition will have been waned long before they came under the guns of real misfortune. Finally; The habit of borrowing trouble is wrong, because it is. unbe- lief. God has promised to take care of us. The Bible blooms with as- surances. Your hunger will ba fed; your sickness will be alleviated; your sorrows will be healed. The summer clouds that seem thunder -charged really carry in their bosom harvests pronslses, you shall "renew your youth like the eagle." Again: The habit of borrowing trouble is wrong, because it has a teat:lenoy to make us overlook pres- ent blessings. To slake min's thirst, the rock is cleft, and cool waters leap into his brimming cup. To feed his hunger, the fields bow down with bending wheat, and the cattle scene down with full widens from the clover pas- tures to give him milk, and the orch- ards yellow and ripen, casting their juicy fruits into his lap. Alas! that amid such exuberance of blessing, man should growl as though ha were a soldier on. half rations, or a sailor on short allowance; that a man should stand neck -deep in ha rvesLs' looking forward to famine; that one should feel the strong pulses of health marching with regular tread through all the avenues of life, and yet trem- ble at the exported assault of sick- ness; that a man sheul.t sit in his pleasant home, fearful that ruth- less want will some day rattle the broken window -sash With tempest, and pear hunger into the breadtray; that a man fed by ]Sim who owns all the harvests should exp at to starve; that ono whom Goal levee and sur- rounds with benediction, and at - tondo wilt angelic. eettert, and hovers over with ,mere thus motherly fond - nes, shoul:l ba looking for a heritage ,f tears 1 T3as God been hard with tae., that thou shouts'st be forebod- ing? Lias he stinted thy board? Has he covered then with rags? Has he =mead traps for thy feel, and galled lny cup, and rasped thy soul, and rl'ecked thea with steam, and thuud- .'re,l upon thea with a life full of alimo.ty? It: is bigh time you began to thank God for prosect blessings. 1'hattlk H1m for your children, happy, truoyant, and bounding, Praise aim for your home, with its fountain f song and laughter. Adore Ilirn, for morning light and evening slit - low. Again: The habit of` borrowing trots. ble iswrong, be:iause the present it sufficiently taxed . with trial. Goll aces that we all need a certain amount FILIAL P€ZESCLLNCJI, , J?ond another—You say lir. Wi11Lng objects to my presence in the draw- ing room when he calls? Dlyughter-1: es, mamma. Fond, Mother—I wonder why? Daughter -1'm sure I don't know unless it is been use be loves me for myself alone. A SLt1IMElt PICTURE. The fields are all alive, There's a buzzing around the hive— Yoe the bees are mighty busy Makin' honey; The maple Leaves are blinkin', And the water lilies drinkin', Till they stagger where the river rip- ples sunny I PERFECTLY SAFE. Onstoinor—Tour safety matches are horrid; they won't strike whatever you do. Chandlore-Exanlly, you can't have toy thing serer than that, • HER REMARK. 1Tuslrrind—Didn't you tell that cauls 1 wanted my brcakteet right on the minute? Wife -1. dial. And what did oho any? She said that we all have Our disap- poinlmertts.". THE S. S. LESSON. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, Sea, 10. 'I'h, 1pr95 Sohl. ;ante 13, I343, (MO" 'leaf-- "Wee t WWI l 19 Profit aSNP Ir 1Bl' Grin She 1:'1111aA1 Snail nl{d Lae 9195 Awa Boal." PRAoTIOAL NOTES. Verse 13. One of, the company, One of the. bystanders. Master, speak to my brother, that be divide the in- heritanoe with me. The Jews ire - (Mantis' sought the arbitration of their rabbis in questions of disputed ownership; but the ablest and holiest of tOe rabbis declined thous to net. 14, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you, WVho so appointed k Lord sea s or constituted lira? Our ort p with some allusion to the •vasa of Moses, Exod, 2. 14. .As in the ques- tion about the tribute money, Matt, 22. 21, he declines all jurisdiction in temporal mature. Ins kingdom was not of this world. Bat why might not Christ act as judge 1 1, Only a few weeks of life remained to him, He had hardly any time even for miracles, and seems to have spent entire days in preaching. 2, His work was not to determine particular oases, but to es- tablish universal principles. Christ does speak to every man concerning his conduct toward his brother, but It• is to change his heart rather than to direct his specific actions. 15. Take hoed. forethought. Beware of covetousness. Guard yourselves against the grasping tendency. Per- eeiving that it was covetousness which prompted this man's appeal to him. Jesus turns his discourse to awarn- ing against that sin. Covetousness is not necessarily coveting; it La not merely the winked desire to possess that which already belongs to anoth- er; it is an inordinate desire for wealth. The line between the lawful and the unlawful wish must be drawn by each man's coneaienoe tin- der God's eye. He whose chief aim in life is to get rich is a sinner, whe- ther he be fraudulent or honest. Cov- etousness is more nearly universal than any other sin, and if one broach of God's law can be worse than an- other this is morally the worst. " The lova of money is the root of all evil I" Forgeries, swindlings, op- pression of the poor, strikes, and law- suits will be no mere when all classes take heed and beware of covetousness. A man's life oonsistoth not. His rich- es cannot lengthen his life; much less is his true life, blessedness, and the hope of immortality, to be found in riches, as if they were oonducive to it, but, rather are they, destructive of the life of Gee in the soul, as may be seen from the following parable. And yet even Christians sometimes ask, whena man dies, "Wlnhb was he worthy" forgetting that his worth is not to be reckoned by dollars, but in virtues. Not whata man has, but what he is, constitutes his true life. 10, 17. A parable. A story enfold- ing u great moral principle. The ground . . . . brought forth plenti- fully. This man neither forged a check nor wrecked a bank; he simply gathered in a rich harvest. Where was his gilt? ' Thought. Here is where his sin begins. Literally, he "dialogued" with himself, as if two elements within his nature were enc gaged in discussion. 'What shall I do? "Other men are perplexed to get wealth this mann is perplexed to know how to dispose of his."—Wire- don. I have no room. Ambrose cen- turies ago beautifully wrote, "Yes, thou hast; the bosoms of the poor, the houses of widows, the mouths of in- fants, these are thy barns." Bestow, Gather together. Fruits. Produce of all sorts, particularly grain. 18. I will pull down my barns. In oriental countries harvests aro often stored in caves; sometimes pita like coal vaults are used; but this riot farmer would appear to have poss- essed buildings erected for the pur- pose. There will I bestow. He would hoard nil grains not use them. "Grain store:; grows musty. Money locked up may ba stolen. Men em- pleyed simply in. gaining knowledge without dislsenninatting it grow nar- row and pedruitio. The innate forces of nature are in harmony with God's law to almost forcing us, whether we will or not, to wont for others." My fruits. The repetition of the pronzeuns "my" and "1" in this par- able, as indicative of selfishness, is noticed elsewhere. The rich man seems to be represented as speaking of them as his own, forgetting that, they were the gift of God, Pah. 419, 11, 12. 19. Say to my soul. Ase if his soul could teed on grain. One might as well attempt to satisfy hunger by tending e. daily paper as to satis- fy mental and moral longings by much goods laid up for maty years,Ile targets who is Mester of time, Bow herd it La for men to believe they are not to live forever I There may be a warning in the language here also; be speaks to his "soul," while he seems to have no thought but of pampering end indulging his body. Goods, 1t is odd that in nearly every 'language acicular possessions 'have been called "goods." So prone are wo to forget the intrinsic worthiesensss of wealth and the genuine worth of character. Take thine ease, eat, drink, and be Merry, •That is, 13e lazy; gluttonous, drunken, and 1lcenilious. Pleasuio is alwaye in the future, never quite r'aalieed. 20, tiod said, God's vele) is an tie welcome int L'ruptian to every merle- vattt reverie, tied stomas oftener than men hear. Thou foul. Or, ""Thou senseless one," The word in the original is equivalent to "Nabil" 1 loam. 25. 25; see Pea, 49, 20; James 4, 10, 14, In the Bible the fool is al- ways the man who lucks moral sense. Iiia folly appears, in forgetting .God; 2 in (also estimates of life; 3 to living for soli; 4 tin farge'ttlog death. The man whom the world calls wise and prudent is often the man whom God culls a fool. This night, Any man's soul may be summoned at any instant, and how foolish not to make preparation for the call. Thy semi shell be requJred of thee, means, li:tenatliy, "le required of thee," as if' disease and death wore Ggd's mes- sengers summoning the man's soul Then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? When the rich man contemplated his wealth he regarded it as "my fruits and my goods." God does not say, "the things theca possessest, thy possessions;' 'he says, "the things thou hast provided." 21. So is he. Everybody who lays up treasure for himself ill place of laying up far Grad is such a fool as was this man. The sin is not in having, Or in laying up the treasure, but in doingthie far self. Not rich toward God. Ile its rich toward God who hue those things which God esteems valu- able—true character and earnest benevolence. 22. Thea-etore I say unto you. The following d oceurse is thus connected with the preceding parable. When the Bible was turned into J nglislr the word "thought" was used where "anxiety" or "care" would be now, 1Pet. 5,7. Not against foresight or reasonable provision for the future does Jesus warn his disciples, but against "worry" and vexation. One of the best ways to "take no thought" for the Tutees in the Bible sense is to "take thought" for it, is our present use of that phrase; Cbristians must work and eat their own bread, and "provide for their own, and specially those; of thew own house," 2 These. 9, 12; 1 Tim. 5.8. 29. Lite. The same ward is in other passages translated "soul." It in- cludes all sides and phases of aur lives. Be who gave us life and the body will not refuse to give us what is need- ful for them, when we seek it. The greater benefit is aur pledge and earnest for the less. Meat, lived of all sorts. "'1'e hear the words of one who speaks to peasants, with simple yet pressing wants:'—Piumptre. God has pledged himself to care for our soul and body; if you believe in him, anxiety le inconsistent. 'ALEXANDRIA'S MUSEUM. "las Influence i9'lll last Esau 'mice rt Pyramids Rave Passed .away." The "Museum" of Alexandria, the great educational institution of an, clent tames, has exerted the greatest influence upon mankind. Founded by Ptolemy Soter about three nen-r furies before the Christian ora, it at - by Soter about three een-1tracted to itself the greatest intel- lects of the age, and became aha focus of letters, learning and research of the then civilized world. It was the biethplace of modern. saieuoe. The principles of true soientific investi- gation, as propounded by Aristotle,' were applied by its professors and students with the most brilliant re- sults. Among its leading lights were Euclid, the founder of geometry; Archimedes, probably the greatest of the predecessors of Newton; Brutes - therms, who discovered the rotundity of the earth; Hipperohus and Pto- lemy, the mast noted of ancient as- tronomers; hero, the discoverer of the a1ealn engine, and many other illus- trious scientific men. The ethical teaching of this famous university was-soareely lase influential than Its science. It upheld the high moral standard of the Stoics in a corrupt age. By its principles were molded the oharaater of eomo of the noblest patriots and heroes, from Brutus to Marcus Aurelius. But for the In- terference of monki.-.,b bigotry and the exterminating fury of Moham- medan. fanaticism, this table institu- lien might have lasted on till the middle Ages, and would have prevent. al the gathering of the intelleotual dankness whish overspread Europe for mare than a thousand years. "Its influence will last when even the pyramids have passed away." ' MATRIMONIAL LOTTERY. A tnatrimoninl lottery lakes place four times a year Lu Smolensk, Russia, A young maiden le raffled for, 5,000 tickets being issued at one rouble catch, The money ie given to the girl as leo dowry, and the hatter of Ilia lucky ticket marries the girl, some- times, for a consideration, he assigns her to uutollvor man. In case elm da - clines to marry the man who has won her, the money Le equally divided between than,. SEIZED TIMI': BY 1n0Te5LOCK, t promote you carry e memento of some kiiid ie that locket of yours? Precisely; it is a look of my hue - band's hair, I3at your husband iestillalive. Yes; but, his hair la 'all gone. WHIRLWIND ON WATER, THAT 18 WHAT A WATERSPtlil'i' REALLY IS. 5slcnlin(1 9lcpl,u,eiloa or 9955 l„IereolIilg. l'laCtlaliitllt{ ailile!'s11t1ellsa,ld'fltefr., ice ofhnllm•s itrg,lrdla5 The water-epuut that performed near Jrsta Bailore's landing, St. Clair Plata, reeenlly, was oma of those rare pl)eutonaona that are only infra- quently heard of on the great lakes. Coming unannounewl as It did, and staying only a few minutes, moteoro- logiste lied no opportunity to mob the seem and add to their ecienlifio knowledge of water -spouts gener- ally, The observers of it, however, say that it did not diffea• in any ma - !fetal re.epeet from the water -spouts they hive read alieul, some of which, have reaaifestesl a more energetic though hardly lass awe-Lnspiring ten- dency. The term water -spout Is really a misnomer. A more accurate title tvsxtld but air -spout, for the phertomsne on is an effect earning from a eauae operating equally on land and sea. 11 !s nothing but a revolving column of air—,a small whirlwind—of the same family with those meteors Sean in de- serts an'l known as sand -spouts, and which in India aro known as'. "devils." According to the bast scientific authority, water-spout/3j sand -spouts and "devils" are but specific natures by which different members of the class whirlwind are known. They have a common origin, but display themselves in, different ways. They are not under the same law as the greatest of whirlwinds, the ayclumes and the hurricanes, for they do not always revolve in the same di- rection, but they partake of their character so far as to exhibit the same inclination to travel with the wind at the wind's velaoity, and over it much smaller space. to work with equal fury. The eddies frequently seen whirling around leaves or dust gathered from roads in the 'country are akin: to those which affect water, though it is suggested that the ele- vation of the leaves and dust is due to an operation purely mechanical; whereas is the larger manifestation of the same influence the friction oansed by tho rubbing together of many particles of air ]n rapid revo- lutk.n evolves an electrical power 1 which lends its aid to heighten the effectof the cause Chit has set it in motion. It was largely maintained at one time that electricity was solely re- spoeslble for these phenomena. While it Ls true that the electrical oondi- tion of the air is disturbed by the tremendous meahanic.tl action set up, so that it even vents itself in the shape of "balls of fire" and "flashes of light" frequently seen by observ- ers, and while it is passible some of the effect produced may be ascribed to electricity acting upon the objects drawn up, it is now believed that the electrical display is rather accidental than otherwise—an incident growing out of a cause independent of it. A SCLL:N1ILIC EXPLANATION. The generul law governing water- spouts is thus stated by any authority Oil. the subject: "When there exist, in , a current of water, differences of velocity between two adjacent threads of fluid, a regular gyratory move- ment around a vertical axis—in oth- er worsts, a whirlpool—is the conse- quence. The spirals described by each mi leeule of fluid are virtually cir- cular, with the axis for their centre,, Afore exactly, they are the spirals of a slightly conical and descending screw, so that, Lu fullowln•g the course of any one molecule, you find that it rapidly revolves in a circle round an axis which it insensibly approach- es, descending all the while with a velocity very much inferior to its ro- tation. The same thing occurs in gaseous masses that are traversed by Horizontal currents, unequal velo- cities in w'hiah will ongeu.ier whir'1- ing movements with vertical axes, whose fignue is an inverted cone, which becomes visible if anything troubles the transparaaey of the air. Exactly as ;in water, the revalaLion of a moleonlel will be all the more rapid as it is nearer the centre. The me- chanical identity of whirlpools and whirlwinds, in liqui:is or in gases, is manifested by Suoh details as the de- pending movement of water spouts whose point gradually approaehs the $oil, ati,d by the ravages they cause on reaching it by throwing down whatever obstructs their rotary mo- tion. The tra(Lewinds and their re- turn currents aro a prof that we have Veritable rivers of air above our heads. When a water-cp.rut alnp ars we have only to look at the clouds to perceive that, iu spite of the calms below, there are powerful horizontal currents aloft, blotting at different rates, and therefore causing rotary nwtions in the atmosphere. lo a stream of water the. temperature 1. nearly the same from oho surface ter the bettor; iu the a tee:sphere the up- per strata tare notably colder, Uaarried downwards by the :viral revolution, they condoners the moisture in tine lower strata and render the apou, visible by easing its intea'lor with a. sbasttth of mistt." f.,nAlrl C'CE1l,S:TI05. The Millar pant os ,st wale; spout t is alm,ixst iniaL,ly wklar uhovo tbmuB batow, u,nd'httsvuraolnt+tunes •the iol'nI o,f un inverted e•une, eometiMee of n funnel and ereeetimes of it somewhat twisted hoe+n. The middle part is commonly insuch narrower, is fro. gtieattly bent, and sometimes exhibits opposite sintiosities, The lower -part) is tepparaatly much widened, but pro- bably only apparenilyBo, ouwbtg to the portions of wafer and earth hurled' rontuii itself by the vortex, .A height of from 1,500 to 2,000 feet has been assigned to most water* spouts; bat some have been seen atl snub distances that the height menet, have been less than 5,000 to 0,000 feet, The diameter of water sponte varies greatly. The lower portion bas generallya diameter of some hun- dred 9l amatimes above a thousand; feet. The vortex of drops, or solid particles, which the water -spout hurls along with It has, however, been seine- times included in the mass farming the louver postcon. The color most frequently assigned to water -spouts is gray, dark blue, dark browns and fire red; from which it would seam that the colors are the; same which the clouds assume in their different states of illumination. The middle portion of water spouts is of- ten transparent, but this holds good only in those which occur over water., One water -spout was noticed whose middle portion was opaque while It traversed the land, but became trans- parent when it proceeded over a river. Water-spowtalast longer the larger they are. They rarely con-, tinue for half an hour and there is hardly one example of an hour's dor- adore. These atnwlspharic,disturbanoee are often accompanied by a violent noise. resembling the roar of a great wa- terfall, and a whistling cm piping sound is not infrequently heard. They often leave behind an unpleas. ant snlphureus smell. They are more abundant on sea than on Land, more frequent on coasts than farout at sea, and more often noticed in warm regionm than in cold ones. WILD THEORIES. The optical illusions aeoompanying water -spouts often produce the wild- est kind of theories. Many naviga- tors imegins it is the water of the seat that rises in the spout, wbich, they believe, pumps it up and pours it into the clouds. They never pause to in- quire how a tuba of vapor can holt; anis contain torrents of water. They see the clouds swelling and bulging out with the water pumped out and distributed amongst them, and that is enough. Sailors have mingled their supersti- tions with water -spouts. When the Mips of Ferdinand Oolon, son of Christopher Columbus, were assailed by a water -spout off the Zorobaro is- lands, the °new fell to repeating the gospel of St. John, which they believed saved them from destruction. They have often passed over small vest eels with little harm, and the records of disaster to craft from this source is not great. Fish ponds have been emptied and the fieh scattered around their m'trgins. Tha spouts that oper- ate on land have greater opportunity for working destruction. Objects of little weight are carried a great dis- tance, it being a matter of reoord that a letter was blown through the air a distance of twenty miles Chickens hive been stripped of their feathers, cattle 'impaled by flying boards, and men carried far into the air and killed. Whole towns have been practically wiped out by the destructive and death -dealing tarn -1 do. These, are mora frequent in the MLsuissippi valley and in certain seer tions of the southern states, though they have been reported in all the states east of the great plains, and are known in less frequent occur -i renes in Europe and in other parts of the world. FOR CHOLERA INFANTLTM, Make a poultice by boiling the leaves end stems of the small leaved vo.rlety of smartweed; when tender thicken with meal or bra u and place between two layers of thin sloth. Bina this poultice across the ;towels, changing the Imultiees frequently. Tea from smartweed is also excellent for dysen- tery. In all oases of inflammation smartweed is a good remedy. CONVINCING EVIDENCE. Well, yea warship, the prisoner wok cau_dng a disturbance outside 0'• Ryan's public honer, and I talc bine to desist. And did he? asked the J. P. No. yer warship; he did not; but immediately turned around and —lifting the bandage -he gave me a black ai which 01 now produce. AFFECTED TIER DIGNITY, Acquaintance—Dow did you enjoy your trigon the lake Mrs. Upjohn, whn had been violent- ly seasick—Not at all. It is such an undignified way to travel. Only one Chznamarl has been lenge. lefty ordained a minister Of the Gas, pal. 'His name Is Jam :tee, and he lives ]n San 'Pranaiaoo..