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Pk'otes ttf a.i CoIa111xaellt$,
Ohio the revival of interest in
South Pellet •7atplerattoal,, about five
yeara ago, svr•;ntif ' nom have been
toasting with souse •eonfrdonoe of the
existence of tate Antaretie euptitoent,
From the date of Ptolemy until the
voyagca of. Oapt. Cook an 1772-75 the
world had reposed the utmost faith In
the exnstonee of an immense southern
oontanant. For ages ,the Indian
4 Acean was represented on the mops
as an enclosed sea whcso watore wash-
ed the northern shores of the groat
hod. Across whose vast expanse one
Audacious male maker printed the
wordst "The newly discovered but not
completely explored :Porro Australia,"
Long atter the Cape of Good.Bope had
beim doubled. ava.lth + rt.raits or Me gel -
lam had been discovered, Lhe Terra
Incognita, covering five or eta limes
the area Lnoleded within the Ant,
arctic Circle, appeared, on alt the
mope, Tioi're del Fuego was repre-
sented as a promontory of the south-
ern oontinent, :it was reserved tor
Oapt. Oook, who practically dream -
navigated the South Polar area and
grossed the Antarctic- Circle three
times, to show that instead of tine vast,
mythical southern continent that bad show them that though crime may
loomed large and black on the maps be gilded and fascinating, the. end is
0a00e the days of antiquity, there ruin hero and damnation bercafter.
were boundless wastes of water; ands 1. :Fliers Is the rent -tem of trau;l.
that the preponderating surface et; e art heroes of this country are fast
the southern hemisphere consisted,) getting to 'bo those whir salve mese
consisted, not of lame, but of seal skill ,in settll.iuiag "trust -fusels,"
fk+lumbus had di'scarorod great lands,' banks, storks, pal. moneyed Institn-
but ,Cook fauud great seas where cans. Our youn; m^n are dazzled
land was supposed to exist. ( by the quick su^otss, and say, "Tbtt
{ is the way to do .t. He was a coon -
Map makers in the nineteenth cen- try peedt. r a row years ago, now see
tury accordingly have been content Lo ! eiiat a .gorgeous turn -cut.!" kbe
indioate only each lands as have no who steals a vest from a second-
tually been discovered, and to leave hand e.lolhing-store gets a ride in
rho entire unexplored area white. Tanis the elty van without an opportunity
course was a great improvement upon of looking out of the window, but ho
the lmaghnary details so liberally sup- who swallows u moneyed institution
plied by earlier cartographers. It was astonishes the Park with his equip -
little surprising, therefore, to see a
age.
map in a leading g; egrnphical maga- l I thank God when fortunes thus
zine, seine five years ago, in which F,•ithered
Graham Land, where Capt. Larsen go to smash. They are
had just made sense notable discover pl';i-'gee-.struck, and
ies, was :represented. as a protean -
tory
BL:1yt A NATION.
tory of the Antarctic continent. The! I like to here titan go to pieces fin such
map recalled the long service of Tierra a w^t'eelr that tbey can never again be
del Fuego nn the same capacity. But; pothered up. I like to have them
faith in the Anterotte continent stili ntede loathsome and an insufferable
exists, though, of necessity, the esti-j stench, so th st honest young men
mated extent of the continent has been may take t> arming.
greatly reduced. The best authorities1 If God should put suddenly into
have recently expressed their ballet, m10A0Y' or its representative, the
that there is a very large Iand mass pewter to return to its rightful awn -
around the South: Pole, Thus Sir Joam. er, there la nota bank or a safety
Murray says that "while the immense' deparee't that would not have its sides
southern continent has been vastly; blown out; and perchments would
diminished by increased knowledge, rep, and gold would shoot, and mort-
tbe probability is that around the: gages tva1111 rend, and beggars would
South Pole there Asa land arca of get horses, dne stock -gamblers would
about 4,000,000 square miles?' Sire, go to the Almshouse. Ilow meals die -
Clemente Markham names the lunge.;honesty in the making et invoices,
tulles in which he conjectures that i and in the oaths at the Custom -house,
the supposed continent may extend and in plastering of labals, and in
furthest north ; and Admiral Omman- filching of Quenomars of rival houses,
Hey, D;r, Neuenoyer and . others' and :n false samples, and in the mak-
repeatedly, recur to the exploration of,ingand breaking ot contracts! Hun -
the southern continent as one of thedeeds of young men are being indoc-
purposes of future expeditions. j trtnated in the idea that money must
Tdis nn I be had qu5nkiy, and that the larger
readyyreknown in
ubt dthe beads nd stole the on which they take it, the
scma places around; more admirable the smartness and
tbo polar area are likely to form a con -1 legerdeanain.
tinuous seaboard, as Is indicated by The public mind is utterly poisoned
their contiguity ; and the deep -sou and diseased on the subject of money-
researelies of the Challenger expedi-
tion in Antarctic waters also seemed spike to all the antes of the world,
to prove the proximity of a land mass
that is either one of the largest money,,
oney, 'Look out how you get your
islands in the world or is of continua- money' By the hand of death or
tal proportions. The next few years yudgmnnt it shalt be wrenched from
are quite pertain to settle the goes your grasp. 1f you get riches by
tion of the Antarctic continent, which, fraud, you will leave them in the
1n a popular sense, is the most inter- midst of your, days, and at the end you
°sting feature of the ,work in which rhes! be a ;ooh"
the large expeditions now organising 1.I. Next, I speak ot the romance of
will engage. lib:rtinJsm Nociety has severest re -
A NE'CSAoCE ABATED.
Rev. Dr. :Talmage $peaks on Three
Great Evils,
A despatch from Washington says;
—Rev, Dr.. Talmage preachers from the,
following 'text; "Ile ,sbnII be, buried
with the burial of an gists."-J"sreiniah
xxtl. 19.
Jchaiekbm at for ten years en a
throne. Plenty of golrl—plenty of
,sycophants -plenty of chariots. When
he rode, I think he rode with four
horses; and when syn wore diamonds,
1 think he woreahem as big as a wal-
nut, If there had been a railroad so
early in tate history of the world lie
would have stolen it. He wallowed
in sin until a sudden change in pubs-
Ile
ubale raffia ire, anal then he died in sbamc,
and was kicked out of public can-
tentpt; "Burled with the burial of an
ass."
I, address young:num to -night upon
the romance of crime, and j: want to.
COSTLY ARITHMETIC.
A (wheal teacher in Sheffield, Eng.,
received the following from a com-
plaining parrot a few days ago;
Sir—Will you please for the future
give any sun eesier somes to do at
tribution for the impurity that lurks
about the cellars and alleys of the
city. It arias out against it. It
hurls the indignation of the law at
it Bat society becomes more leni-
ent as impurity rises toward afflu-
once and high social position, until
finally, it Is silent, or dispised to
nights. This is whet he 'brought pelliate. Where ie the judge, or the
hoam to or three nites back; "If fore 1 sheriff, or the p rl'uca? who dare ar-
gallinas Of bare will f111 thirty -to pint reign fon indecency the wealthy
bottics, how nanny pant and half' bot- lain? May he not walk the streets,
Iles will nine galiins fit?" Well, we anti ride the parks, and sail the
tried, and could make Touring of it steamers, flaunting his vices in the
at alt; and any bay cri, d and sad he eyes of the pare? Dees not the vele
didn't dare .go bank 5 the morning hog of unulcanneas look out from
without loin' it. tapestried window, and walk richest
So I bad to go an' buy a nine -gal- 62arpet, and /made finest silk, and roll
lin cask of bare, which, I could ill af- in most sumptuous earriwge? but
ford' to do, and than we went and where is the law to taste these brazen
borrowed a lot of wino and brandy wretches of "high life" and put their
bottles, besides a few we had by us,
Well, wee enidlo t the cask into the bot-
tles, and then counted them, and
there were 19, and my boy pot tbe
number down for an answer.
I don't know wobber it i9' rite or
not, e5 we spilt sone while doth' it.
P. S,—Please let the next some be MUCH LONGER.
bn water, as I am not able to buy I think that the thlunaierbolts ofi his
any more lore. : "• « , indignation are hissing hot, acrd i.ht.t
wheel he rises up to scourge those
crimes, against which be loth tatter
crud more bitter curses than agetaet
any other, the fate of Sodam', and
Gonuirrab will be found to have keen
more tolerable than that of our mod':
art cities, whieh knew better, but
showed disposition to do worse,
ITI. Next, I' speak of the remanae of
assassinate:at God gives life, and be
only has a right to take it away ; and
that man Who assumes this divine pre-
to•gative Isar touabed the last depth
of oxime. Society is alert for cerini
faces in the iron frame of the State
Prison whitlow 1
At what time the Lorca God will
begin to pwrge our cities I know Ant,
or whether it shall be by flood, or by
fire, or by hurricane; but I do not
believe the holy God will stand it
b
MAKING 1118 HICK,
l' wecidy had served a tittle Innob in:
lois own apartments to a friend of two,
the principal dish dieing a prairie'
thicken,
1 awaked tbem, he loll the liptchcr
the next day, what kind of stent iliay
wanted, aud'they said white meat,
When 1 eahved .t; base, Jove, It was all
dahk meat, anti I fel, like thutty
eedtal T want you to eke it goad,
ash,
forms of murder. If a citizen, golds
way home alt night, is waylaid and
slain by a robber, we are all anx-
ious for his arraignment and execu'
lien. gee ,gareeting, or the beating
out of lite with a club, or axe, or
slung -shot, the law has it (Delete spring
and a heavy stroke, slut let a roan
some to wealth or sooiul pretension,
and then attempt to avenge his wronge
by aiming a pistol at the head or
heart of another, and immediately
there are sympathies aroused ; and,
the lawyers plead, and the ladies
weep, and the juries are bribed, and
the judge halts; a now trial is grant-
ed, and the case is postponed for
witnesses that neves' come; and af-
ter a number of months in prison, the
door is opened and the murderer is
out, I eall this the romanoe of as-
sassination.
If capital punishment be right, then
let the life of the polished murderer
go with the life of the ignorant and
vulgar assassin. Lot there be no par-
tiality of hemp, no' aristocracy of the
gallows. We are, in our cities, on the
march back toward that state of bar-
barism, where every man is judge,
jury and executive officer—a state of
society in which that man has the
supremacy who has the sharpest knife,
and strongest arm, and stealthiest re-
venge and quickest spring,
My advice to all young men is to sell
their pistols, and take the knife out
of the top of their cane, and depend
,on God and their own stout arm for
defence.: A man who docs not feel
himself safe without deadly weapons
is in the wrong kind of association
and companionship. and you had bet-
ter get out of it; forthe probabil-
ity is that either they will kill you
or you will kill them—whieh latter
thing, for your soul in eternity, will
be
THE GREATEST DISASTER
of the two ; for "no murderer hath
eternal lite ;" and in the future life
there is no romance of assassina-
tion.
Oh young tuan, take nut the man-
nenv, rad customs, and habits of what
is wrongly called "high life" for your
exaunple. Du not think sin is less to
be hatred because it is epauleted and
adorned. The brown -stone front
can no more keep book the judgments
of God than can the cellar door. Be-
held how God blows up the me.gni-
flaent wickedness al high places!
There may be same here who have
veintured 'ileo sinful courses who
would like to return. You Dame in
here to -night discouraged, and feel
that there is but little hope. I will
tell you of a daughter who went
from home into the paths of sin.. Af-
ter many mouths of wanderings she
resolved one night to go home to her
mother's hoose. It was after mid-
night when she arrived at the house.
She supposed that the door would„be
laked; but, putting her hand on the
laLeb, the door opened. She asked
her mother why it was that the door
after midnight, was unlocked. Said
the mother, ".Pkat door has never
beer, locked s10Ae you, went away. I
have. given orders that, by clay and
night, it should be unfastened, for I
was sure that you would oome back,
tend wheat you came 1 did not want
you to be hindered a minute." So I
have to tell you that the door of God's
mores, is ever unlocked, By day axed
-by night it stands open for your
acenin,g. Through your sins were as
scarlet, they shall be as white as
snow; though they were red like
criminal, they shall be as wool. Though
you may be polluted with all crimes,
and smitten of all leprosies, and fired
by the moot depraved passions, and
have not hettrd the Gospel invitation
for twenty years, you may have Set
upon your brow, hot with infamous
practices amd basweated with exhaus-
tive Indulgenacs, the flashing coronet
at a Saviour's forgiveness.
Who is it that cometh yonder? Me-
thinks I know bis steps, Methinks
before they I have sees the rags.
Look, all ye people of Godl Out of
all the windows of heaven let the
angels watc,hl A prodigal returning:
Let us go out and meet him, Wel-
come back again to thy lobg-forsaken
home mud to thy long-forsniten God.
The dead is alive again! Tile last is
found!
N A UTt AT,1,Y.
Daehawey—Rare muss Oawkerly.,kb
says that you and bo ,warn thrown
together quite a good Boal last sum-
mer,
Oleverton—Yea We were both en-
gegod to the same gill,
(11 IIt4IFILIA'i'ION CALLED FOR,
See test
Freddy ?
•t'i-Otnregc eggs at bona'
THE Se S. LESSON.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JAN: 20,
"41reehs beolti105 Jenne," Joan O. ae•sa,
Wawn 'texi, ,inns 1'd. e1,
P1kAO3IOAL NOTES,
Vera() a0, Dorton Greeks, Nctp Jew*
speaking Greek, who are galled IHot-
leriietMM, "Greciitaas," bat Hellenos,
"Greeks"" by language if. not also by
recto, Gentiles who reverenced this Gal
Of the Jews, ,Just bow far their re-
llgioutn vulture bad gone we need not
goose. They were not fully prose-
lytes. Aa Dr. Camper Gray says,
"'They mey have been easygc ug Gen-
tile travelers wile were aceuatomod
to worship the gods of the place in-
to which they cams, 0.0 the manner of
Homo in our day is=to do at Rome
as Rome does without considering
whether or not Rome does right." We
may without much risk, however, re-
gard these men as worshipers of the
.one God revealed In the 01d Toste-
ment, like the devout Greeks moue
Honed in Acts 17. 4. The feast was
the annual feast of the passaver, the
greatest of alt Hebrew religious cere-
monial', and in this spacial year it
was mado of prima Lmportaace to the
world by the death of Jesus Christ.
21. The same tame therefore to
Philip. The names of Philip and An-
drew axe both Greek, though the men
themselves were donibtless hill -
blooded Hebrews. A Greek mama
may readily have, attracted tbe Greek
visitors. Of Bethsalda of Galilee. The
residence of Philip was also the resi-
dence of Andrew. We a would see
Jesus, The tour words area marvel-
ously fit starting point for aheart-
to-heart talk with pupils. No
thoughtful, devout, sympathetic
teacher needs any suggestions here.
22. Philip eumeth and telleth An-
drew. Consulting ani has hesitancy
the friend and associate of his boy-
hood, Andrew and Philip telt Jesus.
Wlhat was the cause of the delay in
bringing the Greeks be Jesus? Per-
haps we may fond it in our Lord's re-
peated statement that' he was sent
only to the lost sheep of the house
of Israel, The heatetiful old legend of
the messengers of Abgarus, though
wit',haut historic basis, can hardly be
overlooked in. the study of thie lesson.
According to this tradition or legend
that good Gentile king, on hearing
that Jesus was seamed by his eoun-
trymenr, sent ambassadors to h,im to
imvite ,him to his home. These
Greeks were those ambassadors. The
reply of verse 28 wpuld. fit such a mess-
age as Abgarus is known, to have sent;
and in any case it is to be inferred that
Jesus received these Greeks.
23. The hoar la come, that the Son
of man should be glorified. until
now he had said, "It is ooming.' "Did
he mean that be was glorified in the
desire expressed by these Greeks Lo
see him? No; but he foresaw the
time atter ilia resurrection and ascen-
sion when Greeks and Gentiles from all
nations should believe in baa name.'
24. Verily, verily. A call of atten-
tion to the ;exceptional importance of
what is to follow. Except u Dorn of
wheat fall into the ground and die, it
abuletle alone. This is true of every
grain of wheat; except it shrivels and
comes to its end, the harvest ean00t
come to its beginning and grow. The
whole verse is a parable ot the death
of our Lord and its boly consequences.
(See verso 32.)
25,. Sea Platt, 10. 39; 19, 25; Luke
17. 38.
26; 1f any man serve me, let him
hallow me. Words stave strumge his- .
tories. The Greek might. be literal-
ly translated, "1f any man, is a deacon
to mo." Deacons and ministers are
servants of the churches, and church I
members are eer'vienes of Christ In
this sense we are all deacons. The
Master's servants are to follow him;
he is on a journey. By the thorny
path of haleness, suffering, and Loll
he proceeds to glory, and oomstantly
his Aare/gets must is with him. Where
I am, there shall also my servant be.
'Mils is a promise of heaven hereafter,
but it includes much more. "As the
time of Isis passion drew near our
Lord repeated his assurances of his
abiding protection, and future re-
ception at his servants to share his
Victory, to live and reign wills him,"
27. Now is my soul troubled. ire
foresaw the grief and anguish of
soul whieh should shortly come upon
lam !n the Garden of Getbson>,ane.
Compare Luke 22, 42. On reading
Chits St. Augustine eoanposed this
prayer; "0 Lord, out Mediator, God
above ws, yet tor us made man, 1
acicnlowledge thy moray; for en that
thou, who art so great, yet in thy
love to man wast ivlllingly troubled,
how many members of thy body,
troubled in their own infirmity
agabnst their will, bast thou
comforted that Lhey should not
perish by despa'(r." Christ
evidently had a thoroughly human
clinging to life, whieh is as natural aa
hanger end sleep, and not mere sin-
ful than Dither, What shall I say ?
Jesus recognized that he is to be the
pattern ot all goad mon in coming gen-
orations, How shall he meet thin
troubit a 1aather, •save see /volt this
hour, to bettor meaning is made by
putting a gtbestion mark after the
svord "baul'"—"Fhall- 1 say, Father,
save me from this hours" For Ibis
cruse came I unto this boar. "'the
'muse or the pgi'pose must not `be
fl'ustratod by the weakness of amens -
net apailing Ilia object and work of a
life,'"
28. Father, glorify thy Toone. "This
la wbat I twill say." Words of abso-
lute self -surrender. A voice, Clearly
heard by the Saviour, I have both
glorified It, and will glorify It nolo,
"The Father had glorified his Tame in
1110 lnearnatian of bee San, in his
baptism, and rnu'adies, bis life and
doatrla's, But it was to be still earth.
er glorified In his passion and after
his passion, when i e,ath should have
net mere dominion over bim, when he.
should bo exalted above the heaven,
and his glary' above all the earth."
29. The people , , . ,said that it
thundered. Vett is, the crowd of by-
standers, among wham doubtlase
there were believers and unbel:overs.
What they hoard may have been an
indistinct noise. Others, however,
with clearer physical and spiritual
bearing,identitieel the voice and said,
An angel epake to him.
30. Compare Johan 11. 42.
31. Now le the judgment of this
world; now shall the prince of thee
world 1x,, east oat. The time for the
separation of thd, evil and the good
hue begun; the time for the delivor-
anee of mankind Tram Mm who is
hero And elsewhere called "the
prince ue this world," John 14. 80; 1e.
11,. the usurper of God's right, Ezek.
21. 27. Ile whom rebellious pride ex-
pelled him from heaven shall now no
mere prevail on earth, Luke 10. 18.
31, 38, fan 8, 14, 15; 8. 28. The
lifting up from the earth bas refer-
ence both to the crucifixion and the
glorification which was to follow it.
, The word man is supplied by tbe
translators. "Things," "forces,"
would do els well or bslter. . every
agency and government, the ingen-
uity, tbrift, nobility of human na-
ture as well as its turbulences, the
industry of man and the wrath of
man alike, are drawn into the king-
dom of god.
IRISH FUN.
game lusteetees er Wit and limner in the
I rivle Court itooin.
The quaintest repartee and whim-
sical humor of an Irish witness give a
fillip of excitement to the dullest
court -room. Quite recently, says a
writer, a woman asked for a warrant
against a mon for using abusive lan-
guage in the street. -
"'What slid he say?" naked the mag-
istrate.
" He went foreninet the whole world
alt the ember of Capel street, and
called me, yes, he did, yer warship,
an ould encommunieated gasometer."
" He called me out of me name," said
a witness, in a case of assualt.
The judge, trying to preserve the
relevancy of the witness's testimony,
said:
"That's a civil action, my good wo-
man."
The witness's eyes flashed fire as
she looked up at the judge, and retort-
ed, "Mucha, then, if ye call that a
'civil action,' 'tis a bad bla'gard ye
meet be yersell
A witness was once asked the
amount of his gross income.
" Ma grass income, is it ?" he answer-
ed. " Imre, an' ye know Pve no gross
income. I'm a fisherman, and me in-
oome is all net,"
" No man," said a wealtby but rath-
er weak -headed barrister, "should be
admitted to the bar who has not an
independent landed property."
"May I ask, sir," said a witty and
eminent Irish lawyer, "how many
Acres make a wiseacre?"
The element of the unexpected which
characterizes Irish fun crops out in
otber places beside the courtesoom. It
may be an old story, but it is asper-
eonial as its subjsot, of the priest who
preached a sermon on "Grace." "An'
me brethren," he said, in conclusion,
"if ye have wan spark av heavenly
grace wather It, wather It continu-
ally 1"
Another priest who had delivered
want seemed to him an excellent and
striking sermon was anxious to as-
certain its effect an his flock. "Was
Ilia sermon to -day 10 ear liking,
Pat?" he inquired of one of them.
" Tbvob.h, y'l' riverenee, it was a
grand sermon entirely," said I1ai,wiih
such genuine admiration that his rev-
erence telt moved to investigate tar-
ther.
Was there any one part of it more
then another that seemed to take
hold of yo?" he inquired,
"Well, now, as ye are for axin' me,
begorra, I'll tell ye, What Ink hoult
ea nee moat was y'r riverence's parse-
verenee—the way 71' wint over the
same thing agin and awn end egin."
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THE RECONCILIATION,
You an•uct hive had a very serious
quarrel with your husban,ll
11rby do yea think so?
'that's such a handsome sealskin
shove lee gave you.
A STITCH IN T181T1,
Tia-»blies Busty is lawfully old, isn't
she
8ln1
e --wile 1s just' my age.
Be--Well—ah, T bog your paido0.
IVIG '� }IAVB BEEN KING,
A PEER OF THE REAI,NI: AI,MQST
OUR SOVEREIGN,
010e o, 1'nmbrelaua, pla,l Ito Won 11orn
awe. !)ny, Enrlrr, 1A'ealal Have As
vended the Throne 8f0'enl lIr1UNn,
Ila,ao many peopto kno that there
le still living a pier of ti realmwho
bad he been born three clays earlier'
wsaul:l at tante nr.iment he the King
of 1!ingland, asks London Tet -Jilts,
There is nothiag nacre romsntao 10
the hbstory of the throne of England,
going Melt mire than a thousand
year:s, than the story al how this
mighty sceptre was placed in the
hands al the girl-Qaeen wbo now
reigns over onegeanrter of the human
race. ,Had ithe Queen been born four
days later til:, aletorian Iira would
never have dawned, and the. Duke of
Oumbatrlancl, who is Mill retitled to
sit lin the 1Houns, of Lords, would have
been reigning In England as George V.
The Duke its a great-grandson of
George IIL„ and, therefore, cousin of
the Queen. I11is father, who lies buri-
ed at Windsor, was the late Ifing
George V. of Hanover, grandson of
Georgy LTi„ and was born on May
117112, 1819. Three days before Queen
Victoria had been born, and, be -
Ing the oldest in the line of swccesslon,
she was destanad for the throng which
her boy aouuhn had missed by three
cloys. It is interesting to reflect on
what aright have happened it the
Queen had been born a week later.
She wooed have doubtless been one of
the many Royalties of whom history
knows nothing more than that they
were horn, and in the fulness of time
buried in the family vault.
OREATED A SENSATION.
The Duke would have ascended tbe
throne as George V., and as he died on
June 12t1i, 1878, there would have
been no Diamond Jubilee and no long-
est reign. The present Duke Ernest
of Cumberland, would bare succeeded
bas father, and world naw bare reign-
ed exactly twenty -ane years. As it is,
the Doke has not sat toot in .England
aamce the death of his father. He 18 in
hie ditty -fourth pear, and is ma. vied
to a sister of ne Princess of W. 'ea
and the Ozanne of Russia.
It was Duke Ernest, wino had lost
the throne by three days, whocreated
a great lsensation at the tlm,e oe the
Queen's accession by threatening Nee
31:njesty with a law -suit. The Queen
had worn at her coronation some of
the famous Cumberland jewels, which
the duke claimed as direct male heir.
Her Majesty clang to the jewels,
which had been handed to her on her
succession, but eventually the pi'eoi-
ous gems were given nip, and they are
now worn by the proud wife of IDuko
Ernest. They are but (poor compensa-
tions, however, for the loss of a
throne.
Another trifle which might ersily
have prevented the accession of the
Queen—and, indeed, the accession of
the House of Hanover —occurred in
1701,'whon the sacoossion of the Elea -
tress Sophia of Hanover and her de-
scendants were ,determined by the
Committee of the ,Hoose of Commons,
The Avt of Settlement aroused little
enthusiasm, and there was rarely an
attendance of more than fifty mem-
bers in the House. The name of the
intended heir was proposed by a
member of very tittle weight in Par-
liament, who was regarded as an ec-
centric, and died toad a few years
later.
This Iack Of Interest an the proceed-
ings came within an ace of depriving
George I. of Ilia throne. The resole
tion was pat on the 14th of inlay, 1701,
and, though the figtuee eannat be. ac-
curately traced, there is good reason
to believe that it was passed by a
single vote at a late hoar of the
night.
TWo stories are told showlug on
what a trifle this momentous change
depended. According to one, Sir
Arthur Owen, the baronet who gave
the deckling vote, was only able to
vote by travelling as fast as numer-
ous relays of horses could
CARRY HIM FROM WALES;
and the ether version is that Sr
Arthur Owen was talking with Mr.
Griffiths Rice in the lobby, when at
opponent of the 11111 rushers up to rally
his friends, to prevent the Govern-,
meet passing the Bill through by a
snatch vote. Mistaking the views of
the two members in dear lobby, he 0111-
edi them; in in the knack of time, and
they gist their votes for the propos-
al. .Had the member kept his seat.,
the glary rums, Sir Arthur Owen and
Mr. Woe would have been 'unable to
vote, and the Act of settlement world
never have been passed.
There have been slings of England
who have ,pat wiled Caste crowns to pay
thein• debts; and an early :English
Queen Is said to have begged In the
streets for bread; but none of these
things surpass in romenLio interest
the story of Richard Cromwell, Who
onoupied the throne. of England for
seven months, and stepped down from
it to go into voluntary exile for
twenty years.'
When Queen Anne was engaged in
senor State ceremony In 1710, sur-
rounded by a hast of courtier's, some
st•tention w'as attraottod tp s Iblaln-
ly-dressed old Zan, wbo mit mingled
with the gailyodreeeed t2u'oalg. 1'ltink�
Eng tits Impression of a Steeple conne
trytnan would be interestinse, a gen-
tletnttn asked the old malt 14 he had
ever b•sfnre beheld sueh a pageant,
"Never, since I sat In her chats',"
said the rustle:, poluting to the Qtiuen,
It woe Richard Oreraweii,
Tile .mar setaehad been „Car seven
brlee uwotbs master of the palaces
of Whitehill and Hampton Oatrrt, to
whom Parliament had voted ' 110,000
a year, was then living in lodgings at
Obesheaet ae .10e. a week,
NIAGARA NOT THE HIGHEST.
or Fifteen Imoorl nt Wetorfells. 11 holds
the Lowest Plan,
Niagara le by no means the highest
fall ; indeed, in a 14st of the fifteen
most important waterfalls it holds
the lowest place in point of height.
falling only 100 feet In its deepest
leap on the American side, and only
about 150 feet at the Horseshoe Falls.
The highest entire fall, according to.
our present knowledge, is the Yose-
mite, California, where a stream 2
feet wide descends 2,0159 feet in time
leaps, the first and longest being 1,508
feet in height, The Grand Falls, he
Labrador, have a single plunge et
about 2,000 feet, believed to be the
highest of this sort in the world. Tr.
breadth Niagara is rivalled by the Vic-
toria Falls on the Zambesi, 1,00a
yards bread, while the Canadian side
of the Niagara !s 2,6110 feet and the
American side 1,000 feet in breadth.
The volume of Niagara, whieh reach-
es the stupendous quantity of fifteen
millions of cubic fest per minute, Is
almost certainly unequalled, but ac-
curate calculations have not yet been
made of same of the less known cat-
ea•acts. As to which is the finest fall,
it is generally conceded that Niagara
offers a peerless spectacle to the
tourist; but it is questionable, if the
Victoria Falls of the Zambesi, de-
scribed by a great traveller as sub -
timely terrible, are at all inferior,
though few have the good fortune to
be able to make the comparison. Nar-
rowed suddenly into a rooky channel
eighty yards wide, this river plungea.
into a chasm 400 feet deep, throwing
up huge columns of spray, visible at
a distance of ten miles, with a than
derous roar, which is easily heard ten
miles away; then, turning at an angle
it pursues its seaward course for 900
miles. The native name for this grand
cataract is in English "Smoke Sounds
Here," The Fall of Foyers, at the
east side of Loch Ness, is one of the
finest cascades in Britain, with two
leaps in 205 feet.
TESTING VITTAALIIY OF SEED.
slay Be Ilene li'Itnout Cost at the Central
Esperineeatat Farm.
To the Editor.
The past season bas in certain local
ities been umda.vourable for the per-
fect ma:twang of grain,. In some dos
triots it has been injured by rain
during harvest or from being stacked
before fully dry, thus causing it to
sprout ar beat, whiffle ion (Aber lacali-
ties tt .has soffered more or less from
early autumn frust. When exposed to
either of these conditions aerettls are
apt to lose a portion of their vitality
or to have it so weakened as to pro-
duce when sown an unsatisfactory
growth. The character of the
crop is grea,lly influenced by
the quality of the seed used,
and La obtain the. best results it
should have its germinating power
unimpaired, so that when pieced•in
the soil the young plants may make
a prompt and vigorous start. Herniae
at es very important that larmerd
should ascertain whether the grain
they are huldbng for seed possesses
the vitality necessary to produce a
good crop.
13y bnntruo'tbon at the Honourable
Mi,nlster of Agriculture, provision
has been mads whereby the vitality
of seed can be ascertained without
cost to the individual, and any farmer
in the Dominion, w.ho may have any
varieties which he desires be have
tested calm get the information he
seeks, by forwarding to the Director
of the Experimental Farms, Ottawa,
samples of such grain or seeds, Sam-
ples may be sent tree through the
mail and an ounoe or two is sufficient
for the purpose. About two weeks
are requireed to complete a tost. It
is boped that all who desire to avail
bbemaselves of the provision offered
will send in their sn.miples early so
t:bat the work may be completed lin
good season.
1\'M, SAUNDI,RS.
Direrator Experimental Farms.
Ottawa, 1)e0e1111)0r. 1900.
1115 ONI`. TROUBLE.
The Lady 01 the Handout —I should
really like to know how ;you have suc-
ceeded in living all These years with-
out working.
Dismal .Dawson—Dose't talk about
et, lady, Dat's tie only blot on me
happy Leto—de work dey is in tiggcr-
tre out laow it over ba•ppenud.
A
irAnt.tx TmastiitE,
Was it a Valuable weevil you lost
road/mat
Volueblel All eaves c 1 .my e'hildren
eat their teeth on 11.