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The Brussels Post, 1901-8-1, Page 3rfrArrr....r.r",irrIr.rrrmr.f.1".1.f.rr.r, Torn 4iVD coxafirs, nesnannanansonnaansna.nenonnanesano On the OconSion et the approach: ieg vielt of Royal Highinas the Duke of Cell -Mali and York, TerOnth will witness 0. splendid 3;allitary pan geant, Ten thousetnd Volunteere will paSS in review •before the roynl visitor, The clemonstration of loy- alty which will take pine° here and throughont the Dominion will bring borne to the heir epparent the fact that our country forms no weak linls in the emp1re-01min, Thsne is a way, however, in wbith the strength D f Illeaualn end bar importance to the Empire might be displayed in a vastly more etriking and ef- fective manner. Toaharvest the nb- Linda& crops with which Manitoba Year, it is estimated that twelve - end the West bave been blessed this thousand men 'will be required — more than one-third of the number of men in the whole Canadian mili- tia. Imagine what a mageificent spectacte would be presented if it were possible to aseemble all these robust, sun-tanned toilers in a grand march -poet; In them we should see the real strength Of Can- ada; it is these men •who have been at 'work filling the granaries here and in the Old Land, who are the true oilman-builder5. and empire - holders. Talking of the Pan-American Ex- position at Buffalo, a Canadian art- ist said that to judge frora the Can- adian exhibit there, one would im- agine that Canada was a big farm. The cow and the grains, and all things pertaining to agriculture held prominent positions in the exhibit, while Canadian art was crowded in- to a minimum space. Even this al- lotment was not used to full advan- tage. Those who had the arrange- ment of the pictures not only left the upper part of the walls compara- tively bare, but actually filled 'valu- able space with stands and festoons of Canadian ilags. OOKING 10 THE 'UTL It is Well to Make Provision for Your Family After on Are Gone. A despatch from Washington says: —Rev, Br. Talmage preached freM the following text "Let him, appoint officers over the land, nnd take up the fifth part of the kind cif Egypt in the seven pleas eous yeans,"—Gen, xli. 8as • These were the words of Josepla the President of the first life insur- ance company that the world ever saw, Pharaohaad a dream that distracted him, 1Xo thought he tool on the banks 01 the river Nilo, and %VW corning up out of the river sevon fat, sleek, glossy cows,' and they began to browse in the ththat.icafthem, k grass. 'Nothing frightful about, up man thinks the property worth $15n S3ut er tcoming out of the same river, he saw seven cows tilat were Pant and starved, and the worst looking cows that had aver been seen in the land, and in the ferocity of hunger they devoured their seven fat predecessors. Phar- aoh the Xing, „sent for Joseph to de- cipher those micluight hieroglyphics. Joseph made short work of it, and intimated that the seven fat cows that came out of the river were seven years with plenty to eat, the seven emaciated cows that followed them were seven years with nothing to eat. "Now," said Joseph, "let us take one-fifth of the corn crop of the seven prosperous years, and keep it as a provision for the seven years in Which there shall be no corn crop." It is to be hoped that the state of affairs at the exposition is not to be regarded as an index of the posi- tion art takes in the national life. The flags, of course, were out of place; our loyalty is too Neel/ known to need such advertisement. Although we belong to a nation the genius of which is mainly agricul- tural, we must not allow art to bo disregarded. The artist has a mis- sion to fulfil. The Most beautiful surroundings, . enjoyed too long, be- come coramonplace and life becoraes monotonous. The artist refreshes the oyes with which we look at na- ture, and, elhninating the incongrui- ties of man's manufacture, teaches us to see unsuspected beauties in the familiar landscape. A well-known journalist, writing of the West, says, "The land is fat and well cul- tivated; the people are fat, but . they are not cultivat- ed, they are fat-hea.cls." Much that is cultivating and elevating can be expressed on a small canvas. Recent rumors concerning the marriage of ono of the royal family reveal the impunity with which the press can spread false reports of tho doings of the royal household. Par- liament should punish severely the sensational sbeets which offend the dignity of the monarch and of tho nation itself. In the Australian Parliament a short time ago a inem- ber was expelled for his connection with a libel on the Xing which ap- peared in a local paper. The sus- pension of the offending paper's pub- lication would do xnuch to discour- age yellow journalism. The Domin- ion Parliament could do good work by. forbidding, wider heavy nominal, tbe. repetition of on -good -authority canards from 'Yankee sources. The Canadian press is too eager to snap op sensational items without careful ,nvestigation as to their truth. es and brenlang bridges and Moral processions, Mn you so Certain that you are going to live ten or twenty Yeare that you can warrant your household any conifort niter you go far away from them ? Besides that the vast majority of men die Poor i Two—only twoout of a hundred succeed in business. Aro you very =tan that you aro going to be ono of the two? Rich one cloy—poor the Pext, Besides that, thereare Men wbo die solvent who are insolvent before they get under the ground, or before their estate is settled. llovf soon the auctioneer'S mallet can knock the life out of an estate I A. LETTERS TO THE POPE. A. letter to the Pope must be in Latin. The style need not bo but the langlutge is obligatory. Some sort cif Latin must be employ- ed. The letter must be addressed to "His Holinese Pope Leo XXXI., the lumpily reigning (Pontiff)." Xt. must begin with !liecttissime Pater," o'nfost Blessed Father," and must end with S07110 expression of regard. When it reaches the Vatican it has little chance of arriving at itn des- tination unless some special precau- tions have been taken, for the daily budget numbers 20,000 documents. An excellent way of getting a letter into the Pope's hands is to make use of two envelopes, the outer oral di- rected as above prescribed, and the inner ono addreseed to "His Holiness the Pope, the Head of the Universal Holy Itonsen Inquisition." A. minor official who opened ail envelope tittle addressed would incur t1ie. penalty of exeommunication. Such communica- tions aro 'handed to the Pope, who opens them and paSSes nein on va- inest' to Cardinal Rampolla May is the sunniest month of the year on an average 10 the South of langlesul. Mistress—I wouldn't hold the lmby So near the tiger's cage, Nora. Vora. (the tursO)--There's no risk,.7auin, Ph' tiger is c man-eater, anO, 1,11' child 1s a gir-rul., The Xing took the counsel, and appointed Joseph, because of his in- tegrity and public spiritedness, as the president of the undertaking. The farmerpaid one-fifth of their income as a premium. In all the towns and cities of the land there were branch houses. This great Egyptian life insurance corapany had millions of dollars as assets. After a while the dark days came, andthe whole nation would have starved if it had not been for the provision they had made for the fut- ure. But now these suffering fasm- Dies have nothing to do but to go up and collect the amount of their life policies. •Tho Bible puts it in a short phrase: "In the land of Egypt there was bread." 1 say this wag the first life insurance company. It was divinely organized. It had in it all the advantages of the "whole life plan," of the "Tontine plan," of the "reserved endowment plan," and all the other good plans. But what does the Bible say in regard to this subject? If the Bible favors the institution I will favor it; if the Bible denounces it I will de- nounce it. In addition to tbe fore- cast of Joseph in the text, X call your attention to Paul's comparison. Here is one man who tIvough neglect fails to support his family while he lives or after he dies. Pfere is an- other man wbo abhors the Scrip- tures and rejects God. Which of these men is the worse ? Well, you say the latter. Paul says the form- er. Paul says that a man who ne- glects to care for his household is more obnoxious than a man who re- jects the Scriptures. "He that pro- videth not for his own, and especial- ly those of his own household is worse than an infidel." When Hezekiali was dying the in- junction came to him : "See thy house in order, for thou shalt die and not live." That injunction in our day would moan: "Make your will : settle your accounts ; make things plain'don't leave for them notes that have been outlawed, and second mortgages on property that will not pay the first. Set thy house in order." That is fix things so your going out of the world may make as little consternation as pas- etble. See the lean cattle devour- ing the fat cattle, and in the time of plenty prepare for the time of want. '1'he difficulty is, when men think of their death they are apt to think of it only in connection with their spir- itual welfare, and not of the devasta- tion in the household which will corao because of their emigration from it. It is meanly selfish for you to be so absorbed in the heaven to which you axe going that you for- get what is to become of your wife and children after you go. 'You can go out of this world not leaving them a dollar, and yet die happy if you (multi not provide for them You can trust them in the hands of the God'who owns all the harvests and the herds and the flocks ; but if you could pay the premium on a policy and neglected them it is a. mean. thing- for you to go up to heaven, while they go in the poor house. You, at death, -move into a mansion, river front, and they move into two rooms on the fourth story of a tene- ment . house in a bock street. When they are out at the elbows and the knees the thought of your splendid robe in heaven will not lceep them warm. The minister nmy preach a splendid sermon over your remains, and the quartette may sing like four angels, in the organ loft ; but your death will be a swindle, You lind the name to provide for the comfort of your household wheu you left it, and you wiekedly neglethed it. "00 1" says sense one, " I have more faith than you ; I believe when I go out of this world • the Lord will take care of my family." Yes, he win mon ide for them. That Is, he provides for them through public clarity. As for myself, I would ether have the Lorcl provide for my family in a private home, and througli my own industry, and lantornal and conjugal faithfulness. But says some man: "X inean in the next tee or twenty years to make ,a great fortune, anti eo I shall leave ley faintly, when I go Out of this world, very comfortable," How do you lcnow you ewe going to live ten or twenty yenrs? If we eould look up the willk of the future we would see it crossed 01,1 pneuinonias mud pleurisies and consumlations and col- liding rail trains and runnway hors - 000; under a forced sale it bangs $7,000. The business man tokes ad- vantage of the crisis, and he com- pels the widow of his deceasea Part- ner to sell out to him at a ruinous mace, or lose all. But, says some one: "X am a man of smell means; and I can't afford to pay the premium." That is eane- times a lawful and a genuine excuse, and there is no answer to it; but in nine cases out of ten when a man says that, he smokes up in cigars, and drinks down in wino,, and ex- pends in luxuries enough money to have paid the premium on a life in- surance policy which would have kept his family from beggary when he is dead. A man ought to put 'himself down on the strictest coon - only until he can meet this Christian necessity. You have no right to the luxuries of life until you have made such provision. I admire what was said by Dr. Guthrie, the great Scot- tish preacher. A few years before his death he stood in a public meet- ing and declared: "When I came to Edinburgh the people sometimes laughed at ray blue stockings and at my cotton umbrella., and they said I looked like a common ploughman, and they derided trio because I lived in a house for which I paid thirty- five pounds rent a year, and often- times I walked wben I would have been very glad to have had a cab; but, gentlemen, I did all that be- cause .1 wanton to pay the premimn on a life insurance that woula keep my fancily corafortable if I should die." That I take to be the right expression of an honest, intelligent Christian man. The utter indifference of many peo- ple on this important subject ac- counts for much of the crime ancl the pauperism of this day. Who. are thesechildren sweeping the crossings with broken broom, and begging of you a penny as you go by? Ab, they are the victims of want. In many of the cases the forecast of parents and grand -parents- who might have prohibited it. God only knows how they struggled to do right. They prayed until the tears froze on their cheeks, they sesved on the sack until the breaking of the day, but they could not get enough money to pay the rent; they could not get enough money to decently clothe themselves, and one day, in that wretched home, the angel of purity and the angel of crime fought a great fight between the empty bread tray and the fireless hearth, and the black -winged angel shrieked; "Ahal I have won the day)." X41 -tong, INCOME NOVa, LOng Age $50,000 a Teen WAS Sufficient in London Society, The London Spectntor, an cussing the new standard et Wealth le necent years, reraarks that Ufa, VOW'S ago an ineonne of £10,000 was enecnnt- enfileleet. to maintain a good place M Seeiety, Disrani, ene 01 the keeneet observers of enciety, de- elared that an income Of 46000 Was a veritable Aladdin's lamp but Wealth rime begles with an.ineome ofa20,000 yearly, which, if the possessor lives up to his Inanition, does aot leaVe nim an free train inoncy owns as though he Was really rich. The country Ileum hirea shooting, a London house, a wife's and (laugh - tore' dress, a moor in Scotland and six weeks' yachting leave little free cash and nothing Inc imProvement. Many expenses whith the aich inear without thinkiug must bo avoided, and at the end of the year the pos- sessor of such an income will think wheaten this or that could ri.ot be economized. This is true, assuming that in ad- dition to a20,000 a. yeas. there is in- herited the "plant" of lunuriOns libe but in the case of a man starting in society with an income' of 420,000 and no plant ho is far poorer. Pur- chasing and aistalling himself in suitable town and country houses must cost 2180,000, reducing his free income to £14,000. As he approaches 50 years of age allowances for his sons' pensions and otber claims will make a still Jurth- er reduction. He will be well fed and lodged, but will worry regard- ing the position of his children and will be anxious in a eheme-faced way that his sons de not seek for tune- less brides. The Spectator does not think that the truth of this is based upon lux- uriousness or wastefulness peculiar to to -day. Such luxuriousness and wastefulness existed equally former- ly, but the increase in the number of rich men has caused an increase in the price of everything that the rich seek, especially line bouses and furniture. Opportunities for sport, such as rich mares fishing, cost from £2,000 to £4,000 annually. There is no proof that vice has in- creased. Gambling certainly has not. Wastefulness seems greater be- cause more money is wasted, but proportionately it is no greater. Our grandfathers did not clwonicle everything*,while newspaper adver- tiseinent of to -day is responsible for much of the appearance of made luxury in European society. The Spectator thinks that a. spec- ial evil to -day is the increased in- clination to gratify impulse without reference to old restraints and a certain reaction against goodness, which cOntains more intellectual pes- simism and less defiance of heavea than such raovements have usually had. Says some man: "1 believe' what you say, it is right and Christian, and I mean sometime to attend to this matter." My friend, you are going to lose the comfort of your household in the same way the sin- ner loses heaven, by procrastination. I see sal around me the destitute and suffering families of parents who meant some day to attend to this Christian duty. During the process of adjournment the man gets his feet wet, then comes a chill and a cle- liriom, and the doleful shake Of the doctor's head and the obsequies. If there be anything more pitiable than et woman delicately brought up, and on her marriage day by an indul- gent father given to a man to whom she is the chief joy and prido of life until the moment of his death, and than that same woman going out with. helpless children at her back to struggle for bread in a world where brawny muscle ancl rugged soul are necessary—I say, if there be anything marc pitiable than that, I don't know what it is: ancl yet there are good women who are indifferent in regard to their husband's duty in this respect, and there are those pos- itively hostile, as though a. life in- surance subjected a man to some fa- tality. There is in this city to -day a very poor woman keeping a small candy shop, who 'vehemently opposed the insurance of her husband's life, arid when application had been made for la policy of 610,000 she frustrat- ed it. .500 woeld never have the documcsit in the house that linplied it was possible for her husband ever to die. One clay, in the quick revo- lution of machinery his life was in- stantly clashed out. What is the se- quel.? She is with aimoying tug making the half of a miserable Jlv- 3115. Her two children have been taken (may from her in order that they may be clothed and schooled, and her life is to be a prolonged hardship. 0 man, before forty- eight hours hove passed away appear at the desk of some of our great life insurance comPanies, or one of our froternal societies, have the stelae - Scope of the physician put to your heart and lungs, and decree that your children shall not be subjected .to the humiliatiort of financial strug- gle in the dark day of your eternise. A GOOD SUGGESTION, 131-1 mn tempted to steal,—to steal a kiss. She—Oh, don't! It's wicked to steal. Int me lend you a few. The highest clouds lie et 27,000 feet; Mount Everest is 20,002 feet. The highest recorded beloon ascent is 36,000 feet. ME SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTRRNATIONAL LESSON, AUQ, 4. To* et the aananna, Gen. alit 1-1.8 091 den Teat, Math, Mt 11, 14. Abram Went up out of Egypt to Bethel, unto the pinee of the alter winch he had Made there at first, And there Abram called on the mono an the Lord such is 4 brief ninny of these lour verses, We 'cia not read of any alter io Egypt, for there Abram was mit of 'fellowship with' God, thinking of his own Per- eonal safety rather ihnn the Glory of 001. If you hove w et edema front God, and neglected the OW arid allowed anything to roans be- tween Clod end your soul, return to Him as quickly as possible, for noth- ing can make up for lack of fellow- ship with Him, itnd He is saying, 'Only acknowledge tbine iisiclulty; ture, 0 beck -sliding eland, for I am married unto you.' (Jen. iii, 18, 11: Rora, Yin 4,) Etis wife and Lot and all that he had were &Seated hy bis wanderings and return ; no one Dv- eth unto birnself, and we must be careful not to put a stannbling block or occasion to fall in another's way (Rom xiv, 7-19), 5-9, Abram said unto Lot. Let there be no strife, I pray thee, be- tween me and thee, and between my hendmen and thy lieramen, for we be brethren. Lot also was rich in Aeons and herds and tents, and the great that they could not dwell to- gether. They were in the land for God, and the heathen were in the land, the Canaanite and the Periz- zite, and before those people they must witness Inc God, therefore there must be no strife, for "the servant of the Lord must not strike" (2 Tim. if, 24). Who shall yield ? For if strife is to ceate seine one must yield. See tho greatness of the one to whom God had given the land, with whom Lot was sojourn- ing by Abram's consent, who might have said, This is all mine, given me by God, and you and your herd - men must be quiet or else go away to some other land. This would only have been right in the eyes of many, but listen to Abram as he of- fers Lot the first choice, meeldy saying, It will be better for us to separate ; choose whatever part of the land you prefer, and X will be contented to go elsewhere, This is greatness in the sight of God. 10-11. Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all tbe plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere; then Lot those him all the plain of Jordan, and they separated them- selves, the one from the other. This life set before us in Abram consist- ed of a series of separations. unto God; more ancl more fully unto Him, 'rein Ur, from Horan, from Teron, from Canaan, in whith he had only his tent and altar, from Egypt, and now from Lot. It is only as we axe willing to be separated unto God from all others and all else that we can know anything of the suffici- ency of God, for while we lean on aught else Ho cannot reveal Himself to us (2 Cor. vi, 16-18). Lot, like most people, seemed glad enough to take ad -vantage of Abram's generous offer ; he had not the grace of un- selfishness. He lifeed up his eyes, but not even to the hills, much less to the Lord, from whom every good gift comes (Jei' 111, 23; Jas. i, 17.) He saw only the well watered plan of Jordan and its seeming advant- ages to himself. 12, 13. Abram continued in the hill country; but Lot dwelt in the plain, and not heeding the wicked- ness of the men of Sodom he even pitched bis tent toward Sodom. The stories of the plains in Seripture are not as a rule so refreshing as the stories of the mountains. See the plain of Shintar and the plain of Duns (Gen. xi, 24 ; Zech. v, 11; Dan. hi, 1) and contrast Fdijah en Carmel, the transfiguration, the as- cension and other hill stories. The air of the hills is better. Some- times God allows us to be placed among the svicked that we may there shine for Him, making His grace euflicient for us, but if he leaves the choice to us WO should re - ,member Ps. i, 1; cadx, 1, and keep as far away as possible from every appearance of evil. Holiness is not as contagious AS sin ii. 3143) The men of Sodom may not have seemed very wicked in the eyes of Lot, but they were sinners exceed- ingly before the Lord. 14-17. Arise, walk through the land, in the length of it and in the breadth of it, for X will give it un- to thee. Separations unto God al- ways bringg increased blessings and uew revelations of God to the soul; having by the grace of God magnan- imously yielded and in a souse taken second place, God now confirms to him the gift of the land with a now statement that his seed should be as the dust of tho earth, In a litter appearing(Gen. xv, 5) the Lord told him that his seed should be as the stars of heaven ; then still later (xxii, 17) the Lord combined the two, and in connection with his giv- ing up of Tsetse told him that his seed should be as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is upon the sett shore. Afterwas.d the twofold Promise is divided coal the heavenly Part is given to Isaac and the earth- ly to Jacob (xxviii, 14). The first ly to Jacob (xxvi, 4; xxviii, 14). The first becomes lost a.nd the last first Auld to my mind refer to Israel and the phurch, through whom as Abraham's earthly and -heavenly seed God will yet bless all nations. These two companies of the redeemed nuts, be seen in Gen, i and ii ; on the fourth clay sun, moon coal stens are for signs, and ,Tor. xxxi, 85, 86 tells us that they are signs or tokens that Israel is na wave a nation beforeGod ; in Epla v, 81, 82 We note tliat Adam and Five are typical of Christ (mei the cherch. 18. "Then Abram removed his tont find camo and dwelt in the plain of Malmo, which in in Haven, and built there an altar unto the Lord," ITebron was a hill coitetry, for Caleb srdd to Joshua, Give me this 'noun - tabs, nsid 'Hebron become his ieherrt- once (Joshua xiv, 1245) ; this plain THE FLYING MACHINE. Its Liraitations and Also its Wide Possibilities. We can already calculate approxi- mately the proportions, the strength and weight, the supporting efficiency the speed, and the power required for a projected flying machine, so as to judge of the practicability of a design. Indeed, the mathematics of the subject have been so far evolv- ed that engineering computations may eventually replace vague specu- lation in the domain of aerial navi- gation. But after the problem has been worked out to o mechanical success, the commercial uses of aerial appar- atus will be small. The limitations of the baleen have already been mentioned ; such craft will be slow, frail and very costly. We are now sufficiently ndvanced in the design of flying machines to perceive some of their limitations. They will be com- paratively small and cranky, require much power, carry little extra weight, and depend Inc their effect- ive speed, on each journey, whether they go against the wind or with it., so that they ensmot compete with existing modes of transportation in cheapness or in carrying capacity. It is true that high speeds may be attained, and this may servo in war, In exploration, peahens in mail transportation, and in sport; but the loads will be very smal„ and the expenses will be great. But flying machines will develop new uses of their own, and as man- kind has always been benelitted by the introduction of rieW and faster modes of transportation, we may hope that successful aerial netvigan tion will sprend civilization, knit the nations closer together, make all regions ftecessible, and perhaps so equalize the hazards of War as to onolish it altogether, thus bringing about the predicted era of universal peace and good will. WORLD'S 1.31.000.ST TEMPLE. The French Government is now en- gaged in the restoration of what bas been called "the greatest temple ever built on Ole face of the earth," This is the temple of Xarnak, in Egypt, which for over 3,000 years has been falling into ruins. Origin- ally the temple was 810 ft. wide and 1,200 It. long, or twice as large as St. Peter's in Roane. It was begun 2,700 years before Christ, end 11 ris more then a thousand • yenrs in buildings Six men with extended aims can hardly reach around one of the gigantie pillars stiU remain- ing , They were looldng at their first baby. With such a massive head as that, said the adoring mother, be will be a statesman. With such mas- sive teen toad the move practical i'ct.ther, he is pretty sere to be a Po- liceman, aft. Wredink (the old book-I:mo(1t) —To -day marks my fortieth year of serVica With you, sie, Mr, Itides-1 was aware of it, Mr, Wredinlc, and. I rwriteged a little surprise tor mat. Take this alarm clock, with my best wishes for your continued puuctual- itys Of MaInne nnist licve been a table- land, a plain antOng the lalio where Abeam long eontietled to enjoy fok. lowelliP with Cod Mr Above Aral away frOM the Atmosphere ef SOdose. There in clue time Sarah died, and he bought the Aoki of Maelmelah and the cave that was M it as a burial Pletee (Cheater Mal there to this day ll e tbe bodies of Abraluan and Saran, Janne ossi RObekoti. Jae cob 0111 Lean (chapter xiix, e941,) awaiting the first ressurection and the fulfillment sf the promiann A good work is being done at Hebron to -day among the Jew- and IVIoslenas by the 11111dinay Medical mission, in which I am thankful to have a pray- erful and finnueial interest. SLIPS By GREAT AUTHORS. Fleet Amusing Blunders of Pain - 0135 Writers. When Ifin Anthony Trollope pic- tured Andy Scott as "coming •whist- ling up the street with a ciasa in his mouth" he not only proved that he had never made persoeal experiment of the double feat of smoking a, ci- gar and whistling a tune, but he was unconsciously following in the steps of still greater writers who make their heroes do amazing and impossible things. Those who remember their Robin- son Crusoe may recall a most won- derful feat of this hero of childhood. When he decided to abandon the wreck and try to swim ashore he took the precaution to remove all his clothes, and yet by some strange magic, of which the secret bas been lost, the author makes him, when in this condition of Nathan, 011 his pockets with biscuits. The great Shakespeare himself had a peculiar facility for making the impossible happen in his plays. One of the most remarkable of these feats occurs in the fifth act of "Othello," when Desdeinona, after she has been duly smothered by the Moor, comes to life again and enters into conversation quite rationally, even inventing a generous falsehood to shield him from the consequences of his crime, before she decides to die. The improbability of a person recovering consciousness and speech after being smothered, and of dying after performing such a feat, scarce- ly needs pointing out. Shakespeare, too, had a trick of introducing the most glaring an- achronisms—so glaring, in fact, that there is more than a superstition that they niust have been introduced consciously for SOME DITXNOWN REASON. For instance, he makes a clock strike in ancient Rome at a time, more than a thousand years benne clocks were invented, when such an event would certainly- have been the eighth wonder' of the world. Quite regardless of the evidence of geography, he transports 13ohemia to the seaside; and he introduces a printing -press long before tbe days of Gutenberg. Ile calmly introduces O billiard table into Cleopatra's pal- ace, and makes cannon familiar to Xing John and his barons. Tbackeray was no mean rival to Shakespeare in vagaries of this kind; but in his case they appear to have been the result of pure carelessness and forgetfulness. The most ling - rant case, perhaps, is where, after burying Lady Xew and effectively dismissing her from the story, he brings her to life again to help him out with his plot, and in other cases his capacity for mixing up the nam- es of his characters is as confusing as it is wonderful. Emile Zola, in spite of his ctunful- ness, makes the astonishing state- ment in one of his novels ("Lour- des") that the deaf and dumb re- covered their hearing and sight, an event which savours very much of the miraculous. The moon has innocently 'beell the cause of much blundering on the part of authors. Wilkie , Collins, in some mysterious fashion made it rise on one important occasion in the west; Bider Hanalei, in "Xing Solomon's Mines," contrives an eclipse of the new moon for the benefit of his readers, and Coleridge ingenioosly places a star between the horns of the crescent moon as she rises in the east. A WHITE CITY. SOXE 13111Tali HEIM ROMA.nTTIO $cemozs ow, A FEW OF THEM. aleallant ReseizeZle.Ite RaWfaaaan Trivial Incident Won it There are few pages in Action more renaericable or faeoinating than the stories of the origin Of fiesne of tbe British peerages, ninny of Width trace their deeceet from resmuitie mime, ranging front c love no - Mance to a lottery, says London Tit -Bits, et Acery or so ago there was lave ing in Dublin, Luke White, denier in. second-hand beolcs aria keeper of is laterY office. One'day, so the story runs, cm looking through a second - bend book that bad recently come into his posseseion, he found Ina totwoeepnarttan of its' loaves a lottery b ticket, whiche was wise 00011511 not with, As luck weuld have it, the tithet won a very valeable prize, which at onee placed its own- er in a position of influence. Three of his sonS became army colonels and members of Parliament, and the youngest of them was created Baron Annaly in 1868—a peerage *hien is held to -day by a captain in the Scots. Guards, who, like his fortun- ate ancestor, bears the lucky naine of "Luke White." A GALLANT DEED. Any one who chanced to be noos- ing at the time over London bridge one day in the seventeenth .contury might have witnessed a gallant deed performed by a young apprentice. A young lady had fallen into the river, and was in imminent danger of drowning, when she was rescued by a youth, who bravely plunged into the river and with difficulty brought her unconscious to the shore. The gallant young rescuer was Edward Osborne, an apprentice to a worthy draper on' London bridge, and the reamed girl was the daughter and heiress of his employer. Such a ro- mantic episode could have but one appropriate issue. Edward Osborne married the girl he had saved from death, succeeding to her 1 ather'e wealth and business, and founded the noble family of which George Godol- phin Osborne, Duke of Leeds, Mar- quis, Earl, Viscount and Baron, is present head. Archangel Only has Three Months Summer and Sun Shines 0 ontinually. For three months in the Winter Archangel, now to become the groat western port of Russia., seereely sees the sun, and for three months in the sumnfer seldoin loses sight of it. Yet there is no city in the whole of Eur- ope which lies for so Many months— for the greater part of the year, in fact—under a mantle of snow ; and bemuse of this, the Ruesian fondly calls it, "The White City.", White, too, it is in other ways. AU the chief buildings glare with white blinds. The churches—and in a Russian city there are not /m— are also of pure white ; only the cupolas are green, and the crosses on their summits gold. And white are tho primate houses of the better sort except where Norwegians and Gernalna live, tor bluff and 131710 and red then streak and diaper the pine walls and edge the gable ends. 13ut street -posts, gates, pillars, walls, fences—these aro all white. And in the slimmer, Inc every official you see in a blue or gray tunic, you see ten iri white caps and white tuna f°131111•1isgt, color alone is loft to the' women end chinldren ; pink blouses, green snirts, scarlet petticoats, orange aprons, mid lane kerchiefs aro common (num& ; while a group of children will always look like a elueter 01 old Englieh flowers. But otherwise, in summer as ixt Winter, this old eity of Archangel, now des- tined to he the capital of a. new Russia in the near west, in a White City indeed, 4 -- The forests of Great Britain aro valued at 212,000,000, those at the United States at 211112,000,000. A PRINCESS FAINTED. One edening In the early years of the second George, when a certain beautiful and wealthy lady was be- ing carried in her Sedan chair 'to Drury Lane theatre, she was seized with a sudden attack of faintness. Fortunately at the moment her chair was stopped opposite the shop of one Hugh. Smithson, an apothecary, into Which the fainting heiress was carried. The courteous ministra- tions of the young chemist, together with his handsome exterior, ana.de such a favorable impression on his patient that she sought another op- portunity of seeing him, and thus comniencecl ao intimacy which ended in their marriage in 1740. To this romantic incident, it is said, the Dukes of Northumberland owe their titles and vast estates, the first of their many titles of peerage dating some nine years later than this sing- ular alliance. More than thirty years after this romance of Drury Lane the first stone of the family fortune of the earls of Eldon was laid when Jolm Scott, the young Newcastle student, took it into his head to elope with Miss Surtess, the rich banker's daughter, and race with ber over the border in defiance of pursuing parent. That runaway journey was really the first stage on the way to the woolsack'and to the ranks of baron, viscount, and earl, which are borne to -day by his descendant, the third earl, who, like his romantic progenitor, bears the name of John Scott. IT WON HIM A TITLE. It was a trivial incident that won a peerage for Lord Lyndhurst, one of the greatest of mw lord chancel- lors. In spite of his uncommon gifts • and a great university reputation. he had been called to the bar seven years before a single brief ectme his way. He Was 071 the point of abandoning his profession in despair when, while sitting in court ono day, one of the counsel engaged in a case WaS taken seriously ill, and the case seemed likely to collapse. This was John Singleton Copley's opportun- ity. To the relief of the court and tho plaintiff's solicitor he volunteer- ed to take the departed counsel's place, and conducted the ease so brilliantly that he not only secured a verdict, but achieved by one leap a1 reputation which soon placed him on the right road to the woolsack. More than two centuries ago a Smithfield hosier, called Rider, had O clever son whom he was anxious to put into the church, while the boy was resoulte to be a lawyer. So obstinately was the point contested between father anci son that it be- gan to seem probable that the boy would have become a hosier like his father in default of a solution, For- tunately the matter was submitted tor final settlement to an old friend of the Runny, who plumped in favor of the law, and thus the boy was started cm a. career whiclt led to the highest seat in the handt and to the foundation of the fortunes of the Ryders, earls of Illarrowlayo GIGANTIC FORTUNE. The lows of Connecticut are silent on the sulaject of the will of n Mils Bonaire named Plant, who has late- ly left an estate of leer millions sterling. The testator declares that 010 estate is not to be clistributea until its value is $800030,000. Probably the law courts will 01105 =Innen sense to bear on the will, tied insure the distribution of the $20,000,000 in bona rather than Wait fOr generations Of quarrelling over the 5300,000,000 ia the bank, .....searrear*as London public nbraries hove over Ilve 321111100 voliezata Their joint issue is twenty eaves million Vol- umes.