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The Brussels Post, 1901-7-18, Page 3ISAGREEABLE RIES. riany Things That Cross Our Path. way Are Only Phantoms. desnateb from Washington sore and ere athich Ged Will 000 (kw put —Rev, Dr, Talmage preacher' from his band and * the followlag text ; al as they that bare the ark wore come into .SHAICE DOWN THE FRUIT, Jordan, and the feet of the priests A perfect universe! astronot were dipped in the brim of the WO- mer has ever proposed an amend - ter, that the watere which came ment. Does God make a Bible, it is down from above stood end rose up complete. Table; Standing amid. on a hoop very far from the city ite dreadful and delightful truths, Adam, end the priests that bare the you 'seem to be in the inielet of an ark of the covenant et the Lard orchestra, where the wallingS oyer • stood firm en dry. ground in the sin and the rejoicings over Pardon midst of Jordan, and all the Ierael- and the martial strains of victory Hos passed over on dry ground, un- make a chorus like tho anthem of til all the people were passed clean eternity. Tide book seems to you over jordan."—Joshua ill. 15-17. an ocean of truth on every Wave, of Not long ago we saw Joshua oa a which Christ walks sometimes in the forced march. During that hour we' darkness of prophecg, sometime in saw bim cross the Jordan, blow the splendors with which be walked down the .walls of Jericho, capture on Galilee. ' the city Al, demolish five kings, the aetrononey of heaven changed to give him, time enough to completely whip out his enemies. The vanguard of his hoot, encide lip of the priests, ad- • vaneed until they put their foot at the brine of the river, when immedi- ately the streets of Joruealom were no more dry than the bed of that river. It was as inall the water bad been drawn off, and then the cla,nap- nese had been soaked up with a sponge, and then by a towel the road bad been wiped dry. Yonder go the great army of the Philistines, the hosts in uniform; following them the wives, the children, the flocks, the hercts. The people look up at erystat wall of Jericho as they pass, and think what an awful disaster would come to them if, before they got to the 'opposite bank of tamer- isk and oleander and willows, that wall should fall upon them, and the thought makes the mothers hug their cured and their foundered kneee straightened, and Unlit' trenghing dfs" Online's healed, free front the eollar ond the tight check -One and the twisted bit, they shal, range in the celestial p aeter age f oreVer and f ever. I do not say iti Se, but ellould not be offended t X sholdd find at last that not only all the Is- reelites got through, the j ord an but the best part of the brute creatiox. got in after them. But wbether that be 00 or not there is one thing certain, I get frorn uly text, and that ie: • We bave a right to expect our families to go with ma Some of your children have already • GONE UP THE anisn You let them down on thie side the bank; they will be on the other elde to beim you up with eupernatuval strength. Every Christian will go ovor dr' shod, Those of us Who were brought up in the country, rememe ber when the summer was coming On in our boyhood days, we always longed for the day when we could go barefooted, and, otter -teasing our mother in regard to it a good while and she having cousented, we remember now the delicious sanest - Again; learn from this Jorclanic tion of the cool grass an e soft passage that between us and every dust of the road when we put our Canaan of euthess and prosperity, uncovered foot down. •And the time them is a river that must bo passed, will eonae, When these shoes we wear "Oh, how I should like to have sorae of those grapes on the other side," said some of the Israelites to Josh- ua. "Well" said Joshua, "if you wont soma of those ge•apes,WhV now—lest we be cut of the s a 1 places of this world—shall be token off, and with unsandaled idot, 150 shall step into the bed of the river. With foot untrammeled from pain don't you cross over and get them? and fatigue we shall begin that last A river of difficulty -between us and that will be heaven, I pray. for all everything that is worth having. my clear people safe Jordanic pas - That which costs nothing is worth. journey. When with one foot in nothing. God did not intend this the bed of the river, and the other world for me easy parlour through . foot on the bank Nye spring upward, which wo aro to be drawn in a rock- sage. ing-chair, but we are to work our ask a question and there seems passage, climb masts, light battles, to COme back an answer in heavenly scale mountains, ford riyers. God echo. • "What, will you never be makes everything valuable difficult . slok again?" "Never be sick again." to get at for the same reason that he puts the gold down in the mine, and the pearl clear down in _the sea; It is to make vs dig and dive for them. We acknorvIedge this princi- you never die again) evet 010 elliIdren cjoscr to thoir liearts and plc in worldly things. Would that again." Oh, you army of departed to swiften their pace. Quick now I we were wise enough to acknowledge kindred, we hail you from bank to Get them all. upon tile bank—armed it in religious things. 'You have had. bank. Wait for us. When the Jor- warriors, wives, thildren, flocks, scores of illustrations under your dau of death shall part for us, as it rested upon the mountains of Ararat herds and let this wonderiful Joe- own observation, where mon ha-ve parted for you, come down and meet just five months after the flood began. After this the waters deceeasecl contin- ually until on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen, and 40 days later, whicb wotild be the tenth •day of the eleventh month, Noah sent forth a raven end afterward a dove. The raven, being an uuclean bird (Lev. xi, 1346), could rest on any float- iug dead carcass, and therefore returned not to the ark; the dove, a clean bird, finding no resting place, returned to the atk and makes us think of the lIely Spirit as a dove, finding His first perfect resting place on Christ at His baptism. Have you the spirit of the raven or the dove? 10-12. Seven days later he sent forth the dove again, and in the evening she returned with an olive leaf in her mouth; so Noah knew that the waters -were abat- ed. That would be on the seventeenth clay of the eleventh month, or just nine months after the waters began to come upon tne earth. He waited yet other seven days and sent forth the dove for the third time, and she returned no more. 12, 14. One month and more did Noah still wait before the surface of the earth was dry and nearly two months longer before the earth was dry enough to have him leave the ark. On the twenty-sev- enth day of the second month of the six hundred and first year of Noah's life was the earth dried, so that, counting the "What, will you never be tired again?" " Never be tired .agaim" "What, will you never weep again?" "Never weep again." "What, will THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. 1.8880N III, THIRO QUARTER, INTElle NATIONAL SERIES, 21) 'next ot the Imenoar Gen, V111., 1-22, Menieey Yertsee, 20-02-901404 'react) Pen, va taeCommentarY reensred by t140 110Y. P. /10, fiteartut. As next weelne leeecal will take us to Affront We May be field to hey° but One leesou on the first 2,000 Mrs of the worldto history, for the previous We lee - sons topt us at the beginning of the sto- ry. Caiu Abel repeeeeet the two great lines leading 011 te antichrist ane to Christ, Cain Whig of the devil and Abel of God (I John 111,12), The Bible does not give us any record of Adam's numerous posterity, but just the two linos of the rigbteons and the unright- eous mentionlug some prominent men in each', Abel, Seth, await and Noah beim; among the righteous ot these !lest 2,000 tears, The teudoney In 'ail ages since she entered is away from God, not tomand God, and after the first 16 centuries the testimoey of. God was that all flesh had corrupted his way on earth and that the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of man was only evil continueliy (chap-: ter vi, 5-12). He instructed Noah to build an ark for the preservation of him- self and his family end some of all living creatures from the Impending judgment, revealing to Noah His determinadou to destroy all others, both man ann beast, from off the face of the earth. Noala did just as he was told, and probably during • the space of 120 years (vi, 2), with no sigas of a coming storm, continued to build his vessel far from any sea and doubtless amid the scoffs and jeers of an ungodly world. We have the manner of their speech recorded in Job xxii, 15-17; Jude, 14-16. In dna time the ark wen finished just as God had commanded and therefore perfectly fitted for that which God intended. The limit of His mercy was reached, the time of Judgment come. Ile called Noah ane his family unto Him into the ark and then brought in Imre Noah all the creatures He intended to save alive and shut him in, and after sev- en days the storm began. 1-9. This brings us to the beginning of the chapter assigned for our lesson, and in the fourth verse we read that the ark ROYAL K0THEI1.0-IN-L4W5 aaa. AS in PtiVate Life, Their Lot 15 'Not a Happy One. Modern bistory is full of the uri- happy fate of dewager gnome, The position of mother-in-law is always most difficult and cleheate, and trebly tio whoa mother -en -law to a queen. It ie an open eeeret that tho life Of ElaPrees Frederiek, sines the (tootle of her nobie husband, leas been far frOm. nappy. "Oho worat 01 all reations—differences with her im- perious 500-1100 been the cauee 00 much family friction. The Empress Frederick has always, been too thoroughly English to be popular in Germany. Bismarck WaS her enemy, ami, working eonetantly against leer, succeeded in estrangleg -so0. and mother. Her preference for $ir Moron Mackenzie 115 her hus- band's medical anviser in his Mug illness was construed into her desire at any cost to her husbaad to eaion the state and title of Emprose. Hence, it was meet scandalously 05-• eerted, her 'opposition to the opera- tion proposed by the German sur- geons. • The young, Prince—now Emperor— William was opposed by Bisnaarck to Ids mother. And when the brief reign of the Emperor Frederick eame to on end the rupture been= more pronounced. Shameful were the in- sults heaped upon her by the official press for her conduct in the betrothal of her daughter Princess Victoria to Prince Alexander of Battenburg. danic passage be completed forever. had it just as hard as they could us half way between the w illOwed Seated this morning, on the sleety- have it, and yet after a while had banks of earth and the paha groves ing of limestone, I look oft upon the It easy. Now the walls of their of heave. May our great High Jordan where Joshua crossed under home blossom with pictures. Oar - Priest go ahead of us and with his triumphal march of rainbow woven pets that made foreign looms laugh, bruised feet touch tho waters, and out of the spray—the river which at.. embrace their • feet. The summer there sball be fulfilled the words of terwards become the baptistery wind lifts the tapestry about the my text: " And all the Israelites where Christ was sprinkled or window gorgeous enough for a Sul- passed over on dry ground, until all plunged, the river where the borrow- Lan. The silver on the harness of that the people were passed clean over ed ex -heed miraculously swam at the The silver on the harness of that Jordan." prophet'e order, the river illustrious dancing span is petrified sweat in the history of the world for hero- drops. That beautiful dress is faded lc faith and omnipotent deliverance, calico over which God put his hand and typical of scenes yet to trans- approvingly, turning it to Turldsh piro in your life and mine, scenes satin or Indian silk. Those die - enough to make us from solo of foot monds are the teats which suffering to crown of head to tingle with in- -fr000 ns thov fell finite gladness. Standing on the scene of that affrighted and fugitive river Jordan, I learn for myself and for you, that obstacles when they are touched, vanish. The text says that when those priests came down and touched the edge of the water with their feet, THE NVAn'ER PARTED. They did not wade in chin deep or waist deep, or knee deep, or ankle deep, but as soon as their feet touch- ed the water, it vanished. And it makes me think that almost all the . obstacles 01 1110 need only to be ap- proathed in order to be conquered. Difficulties touebed, vanish. It is the trouble, the difficulty, the obstacle there in the distance that seem so huge and tremendous. The apostles John and Paul seemed to hate cross dogs. The apostle Paul said in Philipplone : "Dewitt° of dogs," and John scenes to shut the gate of heaven against all the canine species when he says : "With- out are dogs." But I have been told that when these animals aro furious and they come at you, if you will keep your eye on ,them and advance upon thein, they will retreat. So the most of the trials of life that homed your steps, if you can only get yonr eye upon there, and keep your eye :upon them, and advance uporethem, crying: "Begone I" will , sink/ and cower. ,Again.: this Jordanic passage teaches 'me the completeness of ev- erything that God does. When God put an invisible dam across the Jor- dan and it halted, it would have been natural, you would suppose, for the waters to overflow the re- gion round -about, so that great de- wastation would have taken place. But, when God put a dam on in front of the river, he put a dem on either side of the river, so according to the text the waters halted end reared and atood there, not over- flowing the surrounding country. 00 the completeness of everything that God does I Ono would think if the water of Jordan had dropped until it was only two dr three feet deep that the Israeli Ins might have marched through rtad have come up on the other bank with soaked and saturated garmente, cis men come ashore from a shipwreck, and that would have been a. wonderful deliv- erance. So it would. But God does something better than that. Ono would suppose, if tho weter had been drawn off from the Jordan there would have been a bed of mad and slime through which the army would leave to march, Yet here, im- mediately , Clod prepares a path through the depths of tbo Jordan. It is so •clry the passengers do not even get their feet damp. Oh, the tomplotenese et everything that tetal does I Does he make a universe 1 11 ia a perfect clock, run- ning over sinto it was wound up, fixed stars the piVots, constellations. the interineving wheels, and ponder - 000 larva the weighte and swinging pendultan ; the elates in the groat dome striking midnight, and the sun 00, 110)110 10 a river of diffithlty be- tween us and every earthly achieve- ment. You know it is so in regard to the acquisition of knowledge. The ancients used to say that Vulcan struck Jupiter on the head and the goddess of Wisdom jumped out, il- lustrating the truth that wisdom comes by hard knocks. And so there is, my friends, a tug, a jostle, a trial, a push, an anxiety through width every man must go before he comes to worldly success. Now be wise enough to apply the principle In religion. Eminent Christian char- acter is only attained by Jordanie passage. No man just happens to get good. Why does that man know so much about the Scriptures? He was studying the Bible while you were reading a novel. He was on fire with the sublimities of the 13ible while you were sound asleep. It was by tugging and toiling and pushing end running in the Christian life that he became so strong. In a hundred Solierinos; he learned how to light. Irt a hundred shipwreths he learned how to swine. TEARS OVER SIN. Tears over Zion's desolation, tears over the' inap,enitent, tears over graves, made a Jordan which that man had to pass. . Sorrow stains the cheek, and pinks the eye, • and pales the brow and thins the hand. There aro mourn- ing garments in every wardrobe. There are deaths in every family re- cord. All around us are the relics of the dead. The Obeistion has pas- sed this Red Sea of trouble, mid yet he ilnds that there is tho Jordan of death between him and heaven. He comes down to the Jordan.of death and thinks how many have been lost there. The Christian approaches this raging torrent, and as he nears it, his breath gets shorter and his last breath leaves hien ho steps into the stream; but no sooner has be touched the stream than it is parted, and he goes through dry shod while all the waters wave their plumes, crying: 0 death, where is thg sting? 0 grave, where is thy victory?" "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes," and there shall be no more death. When I see the Israelites getting through Jordan and getting up the banks, ancl I see their flocks and herds following right on after them, the suggestion comes through my mind thet perhaps after all, tho best part of the brute onetime, may have a, chance in the great future. You say: "Harmonize with that theory the passage, 'The spirit of the brute goes downward.," " I can harmonize these two great things a greed deed easier then I can harmoilize the an- nihilation of the brute ereation with the ill-treatment they here receive. I do not know but that in the clear almosplurel of that other country, there 111ey be a, bird -heaven. do not know but that on those fair banks, there may be a lily lion.-ven, on arnarathine heaven. When I see a professed Christian num abasing his horse, my conantio senee of jus - OVER TILE WIDE WORLD. --- Interesting Facts Gathered From the Corners of the Earth. Bees suck over 8,000,000 flowers to gather 11b. of honey. There are 10,000 miles of overhead telegraph wires in London. London people spend on an aver- age $1.75 a year in theatre tickets. with bra701.1 toilftle *polling i, 10 ima lace tells me that, that here° ouch t to leane a better thno in the ftiture bf 1100n, he •s 15 egg 00(1111 11a1 upon it the chain Oi a. law which it cannot bron.k. The thistle -down fly- ing before the lathoolboy's breath is controlled by the same law that con- trols the sun end the planote. Tho rone bush in yonr window is goVern- ed by the tamp orinciplo that goy- ' cries the ,,geeitt .aree of tho•univeree, on' widen 205115 aro ripening fruit, then his driverf if really the jaded and entised car and omnibus horses of our cities have any better coun- try to go to When they 3e1015e this world—I do not Itnow that they do, I do not, know that thee do hot— bed. if they' have attch a coorthry to go to, 1 sbonld like to see them the inelnent when, their grilled netha Eight out -of every 10,000 English people emigrate every year. Six thousand people sleep in the open air in London every night. It is said that over 55,000,000 is spent by Londoners for flowers year- ly. About 1,000 fishing -boats engaged seven clays that /Noah was in the ark e - around the British coast are named tore the rain began (chapter vil, 10), he was in the ark altogether one year and Mary. 17 days, or seven months after the ark Liverpool,' with ninety-nine people rested on the mountains of Ararat. to the nere, is the most crowded What faith and patience he had oppor- city in England. NATIONS ill THE EMPEROR WILLIAM was further incensed against his mother by a report that sho had spoken slightingly of the intellectual dullness and density of his young wife. William and lets mother were not on speaking terms for years ; even now they rarely see each other. For a long time the Court of Lis- bon was divided into two rival fac- tions—the supporters of the Dowager Queen Maria Pia, and the Queen Amalie. It was in this wise. The Ireland heed- 251 people • to the square mile in 1841. This number has now fallen to 144. The average duration of the reign of English monarchs for the last 600 years has been twenty-ene years. At a low estimate, the manufac- ture axed sale of dolls in Europe, of all sizes, exceeds 26,000,000 per an- num. A snaart „bricknaaker can rank° 4.- 000 bricks a day. A 16 -horse -power machine makes 80,000 in the sane time. if a cyclist were to ride round the coast of England and Wales he would cover a distance of nearly 2,- 500 miles. The United Kingdom produces only 40,000 tons of °tease out of the 120,000 eaten every year by people of that country. One million two hendred thousand pounds a year is spent on English. hospitals, averaging 5s. a day for every bed occupied. Two et the greatest literary pro- ductions of the Chinese aro a dic- tionary of 5,020 volumes and an en- cyclopaedia in 22,987 volumes. Out of on average annual loss to the World's shipping of 2,172 ves- sels, 9.1 ate completely missing and never heard of again. Qtmen Victoria's collection of lace was worth $875,000. The Astor tamily have 5300,000 worth of lace, and the Vanderbilts $500,000 worth. Physicians assort that baked pota- toes are more nutritious than those cooked in any other way, and that fried ones are the most difficult to digest, Few ladles consider that they car- ry some forty or fifty miles of hair. on their head; the fair-haired may even have to 'dress seventy -miles of tlmeads of gold every morniag. The largest Mout de Piete, or, 0.5 wo designate it, pawnshop, in the woeld is probably that on the Bou- levard Montmartre, Paris, which, it is said, receives in pledge over 1,000 Watehes envy day. The head of the postal cleparlatenti at Gibraltar is a, wonean, who has occupied the position for ten years. She receives 0 salary of £550 per minium being the highest paid wo- Man in tile post office sertice. England imports vegetables from all parts of the world to the tune of 516,220,000 per annum, the foreign supply of potatoes renteeentieg an- nually soInOtllhlS 'over $7,500;000 and onions being responsible for $8,- 000,000. tunity to display! 'What quiet waitsig with God! The Lord had said, "Como thou into the ark': (' vii 1); so the Lord was the first to enter the ark, and He was with Noah in the ark. Happy aro these who -find their joy in God and in His presence and are glad to abide witb Him anywhere and as long as He plecties! What matters It whether we are going or staying, shut up in the ark or roaming the earth, if only we are ;where He wills? 15-17. At the command of God Noah builded the ark; at the conunand of God he entered the ark and not lentil God commanded did he leave the ark. Ho and all the living creatures with him are brought forth upon the new earth that they might be fruitful and multiply. It is a new beginning, for in II Pet. fit 6, we reed, "The world thnt then was be- ing overflowed with water perished." rho people had perished, but Noah came forth term the same earth, perhaps 'thanged as to its configuration. 18-20. "And Noah builded an altar un- to the Lord." His first act was one of worship in God's appointed way—by sae rifice; not the way of Cain, but or Abel God had commanded him to take inth the ark two of every kind et living crea- ture to keep them alive upon the earth (vi, 19, 20), but Jehovah (God in rela- tion to man as his Saviour and righteous- ness) had said that he should by serens take of all clean beasts and birds (viI, I- S), and thus he had al:guidance for sacri- fice. The theught of sacrifice takes es back tor a moment to chapter 11 14, where tee read that the ark which nre, !terra Noah and all °matinee was cov- ered within and without with pitch, this, of course, to make it to float safely end preserve all in it. But the word translat- ed "pitch" lead only here ao translated is the very word elsewhere translated "atonement" or "recouciliation" aud is surely suggestive of the great truth that theregigaa eafety faemacomiegiedgmeut TH11 SUB C4SES NifxratE THEY 1,o,vz “wor 1,4POKEN" EGA YEAR% Auetria and Maxine's ruPiffy Zaet- ed Thirty-four Years—,Ain, erica and Britatn, Tucked away in an obscure corner of the daily papers a. Connie Or so of weeks ago wile a 'tiny paragraph width said that diplomatie relations bad been resumed between Austria and Mexico for the first time since 1807. To the mind of the average neWS- paper reader this would conney VerY little, for it ie it fixed idea with meet people that the withdrawal of an ambassador—the "breaking off of diplomatic relations"—is equivalent to a declaration of war. Tins is anything bat the ermreet View . Great, Britain, during the last reign, broke off diplomatic relatioas on .00- casioe with such important powers as France, Spain, and the United States, and yet pot a shot was fired as a eonsequetco. A flutter of ex- citement, and some rather will trembling ou the stock exchanges of the world—where prices have a nas- ty habit of fluctuating over a little thing like the withdrawal of an am- bassador—were the only outcome of the incidents. Austria has had no representative in tfecico since the murder—or, as the Mexicans choose to call it, the "exocution"—of the Emperor Maxi- milian, who was an Austrian arch- duke before Napoleon 111. placed him on the throne of Mexico- The breaking off of diplomatic relations was Austria's way of showing her feeling about that blood-stained dawn at Queretaro, when Maximil- ian died like a SOLDIER AND A GENTLEMAN. Ouriouely enough, France was more forgiving in the matter, although the revolution overthrew one of the Emperor's cherished scbemes, for it late Xing Luiz was an easy-going was in 1880 that France held out neonarch, wale a profound disinclin- the °lige branch. Austria's resent- ation to manage State aflairs. 115 ,ment leas thus lasted. twenty-one was glad, indeed, for his vigorous ears longer or thirty-four in all. a.nd strong-minded Queen to rule for htm The present King Carlos, his sou, is of just the same mettle. When heartily disliked, cued at no time was Luiz died, his widow, Maria. Pia, re- this the case more than during Lord tabled the reins of government. Her son Carlos did not object, but his Queen, Amelia, did. As imperious and clever as ber mother-in-law, Amelia determined to be QUeen in more than name. But the Queen Dowager had ruled for the twenty- eight years of her husband's reign. She wouldn't resign readily. 13u1, alter much quarrelliug and nitteraess Queen Amelie had her way. Dow- ager Queen Maria Pia was forced to retire and leave affairs in the hands of her daughter-in-law. In the neighboring Court of Madrid, Dow- ager Queen Isabella II. repeatedly attempted to interfere in political and court affairs, until the present Queen showed she would rule alone. With her fondness for interfering In other people's concerns, England bas 'from time to time got herself 21, 22. "Xuil the Lord smelled a sweet savour" (mnrgin, "a savour of rest"). In the next chapter we bay° a full state- ment of the everlasting covenant with Noah nod his seed and all crentaree, of which brief Mention is made in these two verses, and also of the token of the cov- enant, the bow in the cloud. When Ivo see the bow, we should reinember that awl looks upon 11, too (is, 1.8), and will never again bring flood upon the earth. But eels II Pet. 18, 7-13, and afin 11 you believe these things or rite you, like 1110 people of Nealde time, einem*, the scoff. ors? The many Who helped Noah to Imild the ark coul could haeo acid all about it perished because they were net iti it Von Inny malerstned felly Caere plan of redemption and bo able to tell it ated teach it and perhaps bo active ill some hind of so called chinch work, but it you are mot iu Christ by Itie biouci' you ere leet, AT ST. PETERSBURG, again, there is trouble between the Empress and Dowager Empress. To gentle and refined Alix of Hesse, daughter of our own Princess Alice, the habits and customs of the Rus- sian Court are wearisome and re- pulsive. It is an open secret that the Dowager Czarina was bitterly opposed to her son's marriage. She intended Nicholas to marry Princess Ilelene of Montenegro, now Queen of Italy. He incontinently refused to do so, and wedded Alix of Hesse. Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law wore thus not on the best of terms to begin with. Wide differences arose over the young Empress' dislike of Russian customs. Sooa after her accession she for- bade ladies of the Court to smoke. Now all ladies smoke in Russia ; the Dowosvm*aogkeeir...Ensiphreestsoolitrstehlef diesa oree wet. Mt. Crampton was recalled as an insult from hor daughter -in- from Washington at the peromptorY luw. War, more or less veliel, since existed between them. In af- fairs of state the Dowager Empress insists on having her way ; the Em- press Mix has no thought save for her hesband and her two bonny girls; the Emperor is a devoted husband, and, at the same time, seeks his mother's advice on matters of policy Both Dowager and Empress appealed to the Czar, and he has thus the dif- ficult task of holding the balance evenly between his wife and his mother. Palmerston's regime, for Pam was possessed with the idea that it was Britain's destiny to set the world right. Sp, the e0airs of Spain being in rather a disordered condi- tion., the British Premier thought lit to instruct Sir Henry Bulever-Lyt- ton, Great Britain's ambassador at Madrid, that he was to impress -up- on Christina a.nd her Ministers the necessity for a proper legal and con- stitutional form of government in the peninsula.. Unfortunately, Sir .11e1115 rather exceeded his instructions. Ito not only committed the blunder of show- ing the Spanish Queen and Premier Lord Palmerstorr's original despatch, but also published articles founded on it in the Opposition pa- pers. The haughty Dons were up in arms directly. "The Cabinet cannot see without •the most extreme surprise the extra- ordinary pretensions of Lord Pal- merston to interfere in the internal affairs of Spain," they wrote. More than that, they returned Sir Henry DolwerLytton's despatches to hien. Further, they requested him to leave Spain WITHIN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS, adding grimly "there would be much to regret if this took place too Onto." Lord Palmerston had to put up with the snub, and handed his •passports to Senor Isturitz, the then Spanish Ambassador in London. Owing to the Mediation, of the King Of the Belgians, diplomatic relations were tesurned on August 4th, 1850. America, had a lit of the sulks with Great Britain during the Crimean tJEJPIJY LJTTLJ TBIUKS, h-4.4 THE ROMANCE OE SO= FLIJIY STRANGE 'WOOINGS. In an Artist's Steldia—Toegif Fancy to leer Photoggaph—Iena perial Teeman's Luck. Cupid, playe strange tricks witit men, but sorely none etranger than when be Mertes them fall violently, in love With a faze seen 00 a, Canvas or a photograph 0. poSeion Which must often be fruitlese and Weep, poieting, Not long ago a Seciety man Of middle age (((Id large fortuao, who had earned the reputationn of being a confirmed bachelor, fell in love at first sight with a pictured face In so artist's studio. The face haunted him day and night, until be wan compelled to ash the artist for the mime and address of the model who had sat for the pieture. Fortunately Gm artist teas able to supply the information, although 111 was more than a, year slime thq pic- ture had been painted; but, unfor- tunately, the model had meantime disappeared and had left no trace behind her, It was only after some months of patient searching and in-' nuiry that she was discovered at last, almost on the verge of Starve - tion, as tho result of a long illness. On acemaintrince she proved to be quite as tharming in cluaracter as in face, and after a. brief wooing the ler- istocrat led to the altar his bride thus straugely won, But these infatuattons for a Pic- tured face do not always end thus happily. In a recent divorce case the plaintiff confessed that he had never even seen .his wife until just before Ids marriage to her. He had seen her photograph in a friend's blina,. when lee was in London and she in Melbourne; and bad 'taken such a fancy to her" that he had sent his photograph and a proposal with it, by THE VERY NEXT MAIL, HOW KNIGHTS ARE MADE. Quaint Ceremony of Investiture by the King. request of the United States ov- element because that British agent had been. enlisting American citizens. to fight the Russians. Attoragyg General Cuehing was very cross; he called this action a "flagrant viola- tion of our national rights." And .so, for several years, the Trares-Al- Untie cousins "didn't speak." People living eon remember the wild panic which shook the bourses 'when, on May 1.5th, 1850, M. de :Lhuys, the French Ambassador, suet- alenly left London. France mid Eng- land were none too well pleased With each other just about that time, and everyone assumed that the sword was about to be drawn. The French Chamber received the news with. shouts of joy; the Funds fell from 96* to 95. However, nothing ever ettine of it. The lady lia.d responded to his ad- vances with what ought to have seemed a suspicious alacrity; and as, for business reasons, he was unable to go to Australia to woo or even wed her, the had consented to come to hint Unfortunately in this case the face waS no reliable index to the character; for according to the evi- dence she was a veritable shrew, Who Intd,niziong other things, "made his home a pandemonium" a.nd whom he was as anxious to get rid of as he hed originally been to mar- ry her. The story of a well-to-do business man in a. Yorkshire town illustrates a very strange phase of this love 'for O "pictured face." In early man- hood Mr. ---- had seen the photo- graph of the dead sister of a friend, one of those girls who are 45 sweet in disposition as irt face, and whom "the gods love" too well to allow them to stay long with us. He fell passionately in love with her, and vowed that unless he could find her counterpart in life he would never marry. He borrowed the pho- tograph and filled his rooms with copies large and small, photographse oil paintings, and water color sketches of it, and seemed never happy out of their presence. For thirty years he WEIS passion- ately loyal to this departed love, and when he died, less than a year ago, he bequeathed all his estate "to the brother of one *whose sweet face has inspired all that has been good in me for thirty years, and whom I long to meet face to face in the Beyond." It is less than two years since the papers described a strange wedding of a bride and bridegroom who at the time were separated by 6,000 miles, and who had actually NEVER SEEN EACH OTHER, The ceremony of investiture is an exceedingly quaint one. In most cases tho order followed was identi- cal; therefore that of a knight com- mander of the Order of the Both may be taken as typicrd. On being admitted into the Royal presence, the 1(1115111 commander to be invested mo.cle reverence to the king by bow- ing three tirneS—once on entering tile throne room, another in the middle, aatd again on. approathing his ma- jesty, He then knelt on his right knoo tu conferring the honor of knighthood the king placed a sword on both the candidate's shoulders. The knight, for by that time he had become such, raised leis right arm horizontally and his majesty placed 1115 hand on the knight's wrist, who then raised it to his lips. While the 1(11)5111 still remained kneeling the king proceeded to leis investiture by placing the riband mid badge of the order round his neck, rind afterwards presented leis hand to the knight, who kissed it. no ceremony -being concluded, the knight would riee, and, retirieg, make elinilar reverente its that with which he was admitted. We have heard many complaints 0± the insufficient size oi statcaroome col oecnn Ways a contempora- ry, but the record has been beaten by a reeent passenger, who assured vs that his oevn cabin WilS SO small that he hod to go outside it in or- der to elennge his inind,, OLDEST TOWN IN ENGLAND. This is Norwich. There is not a straight street, nor in fact, a straight house in the place ; every part of it has the appeareace of hay - int; recently suffered from the visita- tion of an earthquithe. Norwich, as everyone knows, is the centre of the salt industry. On nearly all sides of the town are big saltworks, with their engines pimping hundreds of thousands of gallons of brine every week. At a. depth of some noo or SOO Mot are immense subterranean lakes of brine, and as the contents of tleese are pumped away the upper crust of earth is correspondingly weakened, and the result is an occa- sional sulasidence. These subsidences have a "pulling" clact on the aear- est buildings, which are drawn " all ways," giving the town an upside down appeanume. The photograpll of the bride, a, Dutch lady in South Africa, had been sent to the bridegroom, a. youog merchant of Amsterdam, by: his brother; with the result that he had immediately fallen in love with the face on. it. The correspondence which ensued led to a proposal; and as the lover was unable to travel so far to mar- ry his fiancee, it 4015 arranged that in Dutch fasbion, they should be married before she started on her long- journey to her new home. Thus the first meeting at Amsterdam of this strangely -wed couple was in the character of strangers to each other —a condition.which, we may assume did not last long. The sight of a fair face o11 11, pho- tograph has just culminated in hap- piness for one of the brave English Imperial Yeomen invalided home froin 1.110 war in South Africa, It , was given to him by a wounded and dying comrade, who charged him with a farewell message to the sister whom he had loved more than ,any- thing on earth; and when he caane home, wounded and broken in health, to convoy these messages to her in person, the face that had ac- companied him through many a hard day's fighting and riding had wo21 his heart, and shortly after she be- came his wife. A man Who has never had the toothache does not lolow the real plcasere there is in not baviug it. Why'John, she said in astonish - 1110211,, hearing his language, I Can't imegine \ell:a your razor isn't slump. How sluand you, he grewled, Only yeeterday 1 trimmee 0 scrubbient- brush 'with it, and it Worked beau- tifully._ A MISSING CITY. There are some twenty thousand persons of all classes tend ages mis- sing in London eveay yeatt said a Scotland Yard official. Wo are gen- erally able to account Lor three thousand by referring to the bodies unknown found in the Thames and other places, and by taking for grouted that the rest have bat Lon- don for various teasous. We hove the majority of the latter 011 our re- cords an wanted. Still, even then seventeen thew:and are loft. The greater number of these aro probably living In London under assumed mones ancl disguises, bald ili diffeteat walks of life. They are cut off froin all intercourse with their telatiobe and fernier friends, and have all citie zens chaaged their personalities. In fact, there is a town of Many thous- and inhabitants in the heart of Lon- Oen'251110h iS, to all intones arid imr- pogos, iniseing to the rest of the world, and if waited menet, he o und