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THE IVIODERN PULPIT, , . far ,ts this world isvonceroed, than the virtut, told morality end piety, The Church
well,m11,,,,, of hog, autumn. Whey,. are teaches, the t'llIlrell pointst he way ; but the
the brilliant e,,loura of the maple ? Whele• is wovklug out of a inall'a virt 110 IS beyond the
Till OLD AND TUE NEW, the russet of the hiekory end the oak 1 limits of the Clauses ; and there is 'Ind ono ,
— , Where aro the flowers that have bloomed malted by which 11 Mall 111111 have the high.
113 "Me Levu tow, 0 1121 HI 10.11(11 ligEou 1'01. 'doting the year? AIM whore aro the hopee, eet benefit, and that le through a eontwere.
Gen of his otioupatione to virtue WO Mall
. Ana the angel wh lib I KM Aland upou 'to, Where are the embitions, Nemec, CNC the joys,
NM and upoa ete earth lifted up hie hand lo of yolith, of inid-life, of age, aud of old age? hood.
heaven, an t Aware by him that 1 4 eill fel' ever lute that year lins luen poured a vast stream So I ask for
and over, who created lune t 0. awl 1 Ito 'theca
that therein are, awe the earth, and the t binge of human life ; end it is beieg berm: aWity TUE tn,:f4EcIlArtON.
that therein aro, tunt the sea, una tile Mugs again. The hose of the dead is ineumerable,
, of your avocatioua I ask you, morehant,
whiels are L11 L rein, thet there ,-lesuel be thee no The year lute remove:1 from oft the globe it you will make merchandise a means of
longer.' —Rev, se g, a ;millions and millions and millions that gm, 1 „,k you, „,,,Immic, Will yon set
There is no other imagination so exalted as Were as yell are, and that P°1110 -PS apart and ennieserate your hiclustx•ies to the
that of the Revelator ; and although the Lary us you speedily will be. Anct itaent of s, newer 0001.;;fe 1 / ask of thoso
imagery. whkh abounds in the book of Reve, of those who have been borne away limn that are In the emit servile positions, Will
latieus is very largely transferred front the. the shores of time and Mulched into y011 tweet. that relationship which bas beep
visions of the prophets of the Ohl l'estament the eternities, there were sweet babes, appebiled fth, yen 111 ;be pimidoilm of ,-;m1,
wed reproduced, uulike the illustrations . there Were beautiful youths, the" w"0 not for the purpose of mourning, of repin-
there 'they are here 'woven together. Theve le dug companions, aud there teem rich .:1g,
1 and of cententinn, but for elidoWnient
are many elements of m gaud pieture 1101V and radiant men and women who had of a „.0,,thiej, t,„d „ewe) issmbeed 1 3 ssit of
brought into groups and Mei consecutive attained a ripe old ago, Some went by the ,
these who areappointed to study, Will you
developmeuts. The scene is of the fume, . earthquake ; some went by the thunder- , instead of being puffed up by knowledge
The elemeets are the great powers of good stroke 1 some went bleeding and broken from „she it the beelamem of virtue ? am/ wei. 1
and evil. The Supreme Being, the heavenly the battle -field : seine went from beds of sick. I you become more radiant and bountiful by I
host, the conflicts c f good and evil, those nests 1 some vete:dell under tbe assnssin's stab;
. the things that are made to be year daily I
wide.reaching infleences 'which not only belt some w ere bie nod 111 1 11 11, eons coe nein. , (intim ? I ask those who aro called to teach,
the globe. but go through the universe itself tion ; and some plunge:1 headlong with dire , le 111 y,„ be hahrei to the duties of your
—these are the themee ; and the elements by disaster from the ear that sped them, as they 's„bere b,
y making the best use pessible of
-which these are dramatically set forth are thought, es thcir earthly home. In every I ,
it. 10 mements that, come under yew' hand
-not borrowed from any ignoble source, The Way that life eau end life has ended durmg I „en, clay ? I ask the lawyer, Will you,
Re'velator dips his peueil in no colours born of . the year that le p0st. .And oh, if it were in , while ye 1 tebninslev justice to others, ad -
the earth, lIe speaks of the sun, of the ran. the potrer of the, unaguimion to 0011 out of mthistet. justice to yourself ? I ask the phy-
bow, and of the glory, the power, the darkness the visimi of those that, are gone— ' sician, Will you, while you are heeling other
majesty, the might, and the terribleness the army of the dead ; the hoary -headed ; the , folks' bodies, see that the siekness of yont•
of the eternal God ; and these he paints in haggard-face:1 ; the crouching Gaye and the' own soul is mecliceted ? I ask parents, Will
colours borrowed from the realm of natut•e imperious despot ; the happy age the rich ; 'yeti be more worthy to gnide your children
and from the heavenly place. No Dante. the wretched and the kr°01"02 i, 41 we than eeer before ? 1 ask children, N,Vill you
had such a conception as his. n Dore in ;could see the crawbug, the limplug, the . mere illustriously than ever before fulfil the
his wildest moods could tomth the eanvos :leaping, the ever -flying multitude, how royal duties of filial love 2
-with such magnificent fresco as does the strange the scene woeld be ! Wrapped 1
1 C'ome, what will you write down for yonr-
Revelator. And even 0 we should fail, by - up in the passage of the Year er,hmt , self at the beginning of the year 1 Will
our shallowness, to sound his depths ; if 'dramas there al 0 1 ,Whet wonderful visions you write, " 1 will 'eve the Lord iny Clod
these wonderful scenic effects move so high ; would mon behold if it were meen to them jobs yew. 1. Will you write, " I will 1ov e
above our heads that they seem to us like las it was to the Revelator to picture the in- mv neighbor as myself 2" Pause. Thiek.
sounding storms in a night whose mnvements vigible aud bring it up in real forins—forniS What a sentence is thee ! et ill yen not
-we hear, but nf which we see nothing, never- ef glmy ; from of power r
1 -ems of ,efierilig take it upon you ? Is it not just and right
theless they have been through the ages the weakness : forms grotesque ; forms sublime and good ? Ought not evety man 1.0 do it 9
inspiration and the comfort of some of thel's —what a wild and strame mixture of thiegs tem you write, '• I Neill love my Ood this
noblest men and messengers. I would they see perpettia'lly going 00 in the , year as never beleve, and I will love my
" 1 saw another mighty angel obine dawn : history of the race ? ' iteighbor es myself •e' NVill you undertake to
I•11,'0118 maid" ' do it in spite or ell efreums humeri and againet
from heaven, clothed tvith a cloud : and a 1 0 happy y01111g 1111111 i 1/ ,
rainbow was upon his head, and his foe:ewes - if you ran 10014 thi.eugh yew: soul and 1i101 every hindrance 1 Will you begin to do it
as peers of . that all there is now ? Will you seek out eomething by
as it were the sum and his feet I
lire ; and he had in his hand a little hook . :vest(' wee,t, ATTUNED, which yon eall satisfy yourself that you have
open : aud ho set his right foot upon the ..„ , .., n, ., , . , .. , . begun ?
umetne unotign e ota life at home there ,
sea, and his left foot on the earth, and cried ' " ' Will you pet away something 1 Will you
with a loud voice, as when a Hon reareth : is "tili"g thst 3'0" w°"Id 10'1° h"v° ("1 tf take on something 1 Will 5 ou force youe re-
, the houae—no spectre ; no skeleton in the,
aud when he had cried, seven thunders et- lumen t zeal to perform that width is right ?
tered theiv voices. And when the sevea closet. If looking into yourself you sue . Will you give token to Clod that you mean
that hinders, nothing that mars. 11 •
thunders had uttered. their voices, I was 110ththg to be better thia year than you have been in
about to write : and I heard a voice from all is serene 111 your soul ; all is wholesome I,,,n3.,
1 other year ? Oh, 0 tese sweet and cl rowsy
in your body ; all is sweet aud beneficent in
heaven saying unto Me, Seal up those things senthnentalities in which men indulge 1
which the seven thunders uttered, aad write youv social e missend i age 'then draw near oft, pleasant it, is to think of chiming bells.
with me and look upon the
them not. And the augel which 1 attNV stand Ye1u: th.at goes How delightful His in ourdevotions to think
upon the sea and upon the eerth lifted up 0 ' of angels listening to our thoughts and feel-
« N 1 0 lel inch 8 Mlle am
his hand. to heaven, and mare by Him that crimes, and say, " I bless Clod that I have, ' h.; --;
ge and beaving them away 1 how Mori.
lweth for ever and ever, who created. heav- e . I)
,.. 00 0 it is to sing, in sweet, symphonious am
1
Let.tne. year go. Let it benr the sins and 1 e.,,d,
en, and the things that therein are, and the , these hymns of seetimentality 1—all
earth, and the things that therein are, e„,,-; , the miseries of the rue, and ours. Let it ' of which are well enough if they are the at-
coary awgy our mistakes and nur transgres.
the sea, and the things which are therein, mosphere of songs more solid, 211ore cogent,
, sinus, IN 0 &ell meet them alL too soon.
that there should be Dino no longer.' and more imperative. I ask not net you
'They ere not to be sunk in the sea ; for no
elan anything be more sublime, can any- should dispossess yourself and your experi-
I deed clone on earth ever perished. No voli-
tion ever spends itself. The life of num, and I ence of sentiment
th' be more in sterious can mi thin ; but I ask that sentiment
infix itself in the'imagination with more
the life of the globe on which he dwells, will should work choice, that choice should pro -
power and fruitfulness than this method of duce oestiou, end that aeGon should take
change their forms ; but the substance there -
delineating the Divine purpose by this hold upon character and life.
of remains, and neeer eau be destroyed. All
declara.tion, which is fulfilled in every age,
that we have been, ited all that we are tone I am speaking to
in every cycle of years, yea, in every year
itself ? (hut moment we shall know about again, one DEAD.
There is something, sublime in those I bY'ssul'hY, either for joy or for woe, Come, up 1 Rouse yonrself, 0 man I Rise !
celestial movements which measure out time God knows not you shall never see another
Deeply lac1011, bleak in the hull, shadowed
to men. Days easel nights are evidently the by clouds, her sails filled, the old shic is year's end. I am speaking in the open face
result of causes which are apparent to our Pheg of men who shall not again come to a New
out of the harbour ; and meeting ier,
senses. We appreciate, therefore, this Year. In the 'racist of life, are you ? Strmig,
a ship of light, curved, as it • were, like the
nor 1110011, and like Mr radiant, there comes are yon ? Are you stronger than they wore
division of time. Summer and winter bear
their own evidences with them. in the new year. How fresh, how buoyant, who perished by the hundred in the flame?
But what are the signs of the termination eafor than they were who plunged engulfed
how beautiful is that new year in 13111011 you
of the year ? The year itself is a period in the dreadful massacre of the train? Are
are to be passengers—the new year which
that, when completed, utters no cry. It is you more seoure than the men whom th
is to begin to take on something from you,
something from. the maims, something from fever slew as with the stroke of the sword ?
nothing that oppresses the senses as dark-
ness does. It givee evidence of its coming I am speakhig to the amented. On your
governments, something from cities, some.
and of its going byno hand like the summer's, head I see the muffled crown. Yon are
, thing from the country, something from the
bearing treasares. il'he year—tbat great marked for death. To you there is but one
tenderness, something from the household,
something from the store, something from inore left—nor all of that. A few months et
period of time in which the errth moves
aremd the sun—begins silently, journeys !the shop, something from the ship, some- most have you remaining ; and what you do
silently, goes back to its etarting.point I thin you must do quickly, 'whether it be for your.
from the street, something from the
silently ; and yot it is an event of tremend- self, for your household, or for your kied.
field, something from the high and from
ous magnitude • and the contents of it ere ' the kw: something from the rich and from Times presses ; and all ye that mean to cast
innumerable mil inoomprehensible. The away the frivolity, the vanity, the folly, the
the poor, something from all men, as con -
mesh of life, the weaving together of events; sins, the crimes, the hideous evils of the
etribetions. What will you put upon the
the vast outplay of intelligeuce, of emotion, 110W year ? Will you accept now the open- past ; ye that have sinned away the year
of will ; the great checkered movements ; ing year in a larger spirit, with a clearer that is gone, and are about to enter upon a
across the face of human life upon the globe, new year with renewed virtue and with re --
1 vision, with a moro manly purpose than
in theforest, in the field, in the city, among !that with which you ever accepted any of leweCI piety, begin at once, I There ism time
the barbarous, among the civilized, among to spare: for to many of you the angel is lift.
!the years that have preceded it ? Let me
the heathen, and among the Christiom ; the 'not too closely follow the figure : will yen Mg up the hand commissioned of Gocl, and
complexes of life—these o,re simply mut- Inot in the year that is to come make saying, " For you time shall be no more."
terable and inconceivable. your own self -development, instead of And may God m Hia infinite mercy greet
There goes 1self-indulgence, an object of suPreme im. that when to you and to me shall come the
T1I0 OLD UACHISTE, I portanee, as you never have before ? To a fulfilment of that annunciation, and time
large extent we all live for the pleasure of shall be no more, you may as I will,
working without noise. There sails the' the hour. A limited pleasme for the trau. rejoice as the thread is cut, mid eve launch
great hulk, Nvithout clink, without grind, !slept hour is our privilege ; but to
without any somid, which is bearing f dwell in away to my God and to your God. lam not
-orth the pleasure of the hour is no mau's priVii- afraid of God. I am not afraid of the Lord
in the universe results which are incompar- ego aud is self-indulgence. We me not in Jesus Christ, I am not afraid of hell. I am
able anti immeasurable, And the inove- 1
1 lie life to bo pleasure -seekers. Not only uot afraid of losing heaven. I dwell in the
ment of the year—the globe aceemplishing are wo to seek nobler ends outside of our. arms of eternal love. I am ripening in the
its circuit around the central orb—the I „11,„; but we are to seek nobler ends in- summer of love. The flavour and the lustre
Dime one thinks of this aenual side of ourselves ; and pleasure is incident that come with the fruit tell the story of the
journey, and of the conditions under I b
w -dee to the iambi object ef our life. sun ; and my soul knows that it is of God
ft is being performed, the more impressive it There are a great meny of you who have from the flavor and the colour ; and I am
is. And, surely, if it were ouly for the year been borne through the last year as sick not afraid to go to Him. I am not reluctant
there would be nothing incongruous or Map. men see „ea,
propriate in this vision of the Apocalyptic as prisoners are, coerced. It to yield up this place whore for thirty yeara
has harcily been given to you to say what I have stood to make known Christ and the
seer. There would be something eminently you would be, or what you would de. By Gospel. I am not afraid nor 'unwilling to
proper in beholding a cloudy figure descend. the power of habit, by the force of public leave the happiness, and the fidelity, and
ing upon the earth, and, like some radiant sentiment, and by your social surroundings, the affection unparalleled of loving friends,
angel, covering the hemisphere, and stand- you have been earned on. To some of you and to gay, "Farewell 1" at any hour. When
ing with one foot upon the sea and who have walked through the yens it hos God wills, I will. To depart and be with
one upon the lancl, the feet being bee,
. .
like piers of fire, and the head being 3.— a weary round. You have been poet,- Christ is better ; though for you it may be
y carried, anti partly you 11[1.00 carried more medful that I should remain.
AS a fierue, surrouuded by a rainbow ; there yourselves • and you have been creatures -4:.
would be something eminently proper in you largefy of circumstances ; and for the It is much easier to reeoncile an enemy
bearing a voice that was like many thunders most nail you have sought the development thou to conquer him ; victory may deprive
declaring when the earth had come again to f 1 ' •
0 t 'legs without rather than your own him of his poison, but reconciliation of his
its appointed bounds and starting.place for sof_det.ek
yet, thougli we do not behold Gm vision, seriously thoughtful of how to make honom• pro:mei:40°n formally setting the seal of the
will.
pment,
another year, " Ono year more 10 ended,
and for that tirne shall be no longer," And Ilave yon during the last yetur hem more .
President Harrison last week issued a
()evert:meet on the Chioago World'a Fair,
though there is no personal angel for us to broader ; of how to make truth clearer and
aee, the event is just as majestic, the history purer in yourself ; how to live with moarei t.!'
unottheing that the fair will be opened on
is just as comprehensive, and the details me simplicity and more siecerity ; how to be • May 1 st, 1 893, and inviting " all nations of
just as important ILS if they had been register. your burdens 10 e more manly spirit ; how to the earth " to take part in It.
ed and proclaimed with all dramatic mecum. work out virtue. upon virtue, 011c1 achieve- John P. Matthews, the Republican post.
stance upon so vast and so illustrious a 1"0"1 °Pm'. a°1"" t ,
(mien • 11 s , master at Carrollton, Moe was shot by W.
ow te be moi e,
: theatre. fruitful of joy Itself, which, reflecting from S. Maniac yesterday, The two were hunt -
At every annual revolution one period of you, becomes the joy of others ? Will you mg for oach other with NVineheaters, and
th-ne is consummated. The old year passes. at the beginningof the year which lee dawn- McBride secured the first shot, which proved
When the yeur is rounded and cut off, it od upon you, determine by the help of God fatal.
goes backtvard, mit wore ; but it ia not ex- that it shell bo a year of self -development?! That the substance is moro than the
tingnished. The year may bo said to have And if this be your purpose, is it a purpose f ,
arm and that a usage which has lost, its ad -
merely of fugamotis feelmg ? or aro yen Bor. ' aptation t.o the time and people who observe
ionts? and will you begin at once the yogis-. , it, should be cut away, is a truth which
tratIon of this purpose? and will you begin:mankind tee slow to learn. It seems, hew-
n carry it out? Will you begin to develop :ever, that the American Jews hove awaken -
more soul cutter° ; more richness of heart 1 ' ed to this important foot, and though the
more knowledge for the head ; more :hill 'change involves the doiug levity of a oaten)
in the hand ; more love, not toward your. theory with age, aro moving in the direction
self but toward others? And if so will you of alteriug their ritual so as to render theiv
enter now upon the consecration of yoerself services more intelligible to the English -
to all those methods by which (iod works speaking worshippers, A despatch from
Out manhood in mon? 1 Cincinnati states that " the eommittee op.
1 clo not osk you whecher you will in the 'pointed at the Central Rabbinical, Confer -
new year avow that you will otter upon a once at Clevela»d last July to formulate a
reformation which simply includes tho ritual to be used by all the Jewish syna-
observance of the Sotbbath and attendance gognes in the United States met here, and
wet the gerviees of the Church. The has agreed upen the following plan :—The
Church is an instrument of teaching ; Sabbath said holyday prayers will be go re.,
but life outside of the Unwell Is more ini- Chat AS LO he in aceordenee with the modern
portant than tho Church itself, As I read conception of Judaism, so that while retain -
the coortomy of God, it is in the cares and i leg the ittrikIng and typical sentences in
labourg and clutieg of the hoesehold, it is the Hebrew, the greater part of the gervieo
in the operationg of the thop, it is in the' will be in English, Special forms a prayer
traffio of theater° itie in the whole otrifeand will also bo added for spooisA 000111101A elleh
enterprise of mon working with each other, as marriagest funerals, confirmation's, pees -
that God trains and drills them to practical; over eelablattous, ate'
taken form, and it may be said to go, freight.
ed, out from our consciousness upon a voy-
age of its Owli. It requires no atretoli of the
imagination to conceive of it as hav-
ing passed through its eppointed sphere,
as having gathered all the way
the experiences of the Nee, as
being severed from the tontine:mg
chain of time, and as about to make a sepa-
rate and speedy voyage of its OWn, bearIng
what contents it may, Ana what aro
the contents, what ig the freight, what is
the oargo of the year that has jest left es
and gone to reporb itself at the harbor of
God? Look at tho rue comprehensively,
mid ooneeive how many lives have poss.
ed atiety during that year. Conceive that
there aro dying daily thousands and bliou-
Bands of mon There are two lineg—one
coming bi and the other going mt. There its
the ery of birth, and there is tho muteness
of death. They follow each ether mind said
round the globe perpetually, IVfilliote and
minims who began the year twelve months
ago hp 4r owed to breathmand Nee no more,
MILLINEM, INTERESTING ITEMS,
The present indications show tendeney
to males trimmings:move upright end high
than they have Nem of late. On the
shape hate the bir,la hrielle upwerds 118 if
about to ay, All !chicle of etrems requiriug
ostriell tips and fell plinnes will be worn
the return to those feather:: being r017 de"
cided. Wide outside bands and. 1141
uee of bins velvee trimmiug aro certain,
and over the stvalght castle weerowns velvet
will be laid In eott folds and waved. putilugs.
For the velvet toques, roses of bright pink
and yellow will be used. The velvet for
ties 10 ent bee attaelied et the side,
On 14 hat of browil velvet the tips are pea.
ly mittehing and partly of a pale rose color,
one of Nehich emits down over the hair at
1 b y
gent pins now used in the hoar some shapes;
ere eel; off the hack.
For an elderly lady. a, bonnet of Week vol.
vot has tu projecting brim which slindes the
face, and over it dsoop feathers. The back
is not turned u nor cut, off, 1) t, • ' I t
Tho hats for bridesmaids teill be either
laubens Gainsborough, which last shape,
although no loeger celled by that name, haa
always been a fevorite for weddings and is so
still. The crown is low and greatly con:waled
by the trinening. As latelyset forth by us,
the shape of the bride's hat for traveling is
small and hue its crown quite hidden by
feather tips.
Dern Pedree throne woe 1,1 01)113 sold at ;
met ion in Rio 114, Janeiro for
Ililaoketilmt the nese and cheeks under 010 1
eyes: has been found en effeetual preeeetive 1
I'01: en1gr u)*1..(1, if ri iti:),."t'e id" jettliroi l'em pooliT "CI 10)01
miticeustonted to le
IThe haloon proposcal for polar explera-
ttons 141 90 feel :then:der and 500,000 cubit!
;feet, in vohune, 'rho jouteey will be from
,SpItehergeti, with a favorable ivied will
lard four or five days.
The OW1811 pepulittion of France, in.
icleding,, Algiers, le 141)0111 a hundred and
, I allay temegind. Of those over a third live
'id -Paris, where they have their own educa-
tional and chevitable institutions lei:0101 to
a high degree of povfeetioti,
I It has been euggeated that the study of I
the hillueoue of diee and habit upon the 1
' colour of hair in different nations of men
may cause disooveries by which the colour
of the hair in the 11001011 race may be modi-
fled by judicione treatment.
A rug valued et tea,000 was bought in
London lately. It WaS 100111 thirteen feet
square end had ahem 236 stilettos to the
inch, The matevial was woul conned, not
mt. front the animal, and worth more than
its 'weight in :elk.
I The wholesale price of whalebone is now
i0,000 a toll. .A. project is on foot to or -
minim whoding expeditiona front Australia
' to the Alitartdie Sena, where it iS believed
plenty of whales are to be found. It is an
almost untouched whaling ground,
The chief industry of Zen-en:wand Pemba,
'is :dove -mowing. 'The tree was iatroduced
in 1830, and the harvest thie year is expected
to be 1 3,000,000 pounds, at an average local
value of ten cents a pound. A ten-yeer-old
tree is capable of yielding twenty pounds of
cloves; trees of twenty years often yield up-
' • • 1 f 100 1
NEW USES 01' ELECTRICITY,
Sheded feitthers, especially in retie and
dark grows shading to light, will be worn.
Mingled with them aro the stiffer wings of
the still inueli-liked blackbird, the cock,
ana the seoegull Nvell aa the dove. In
fact, as the birds, fashion seems to
be making up for having somewhat
neglected them for n time. Even
canaries and swellows are used, the first on
reception and theatre toques,
1 A novol and peculiar hat of felt has n.
' straight front, bias folds of matching velvet,
Iand over the crown broad ends of velvet
which form three wings imitating those of a
bird, and are laid forward in a somewhat
high effect and held by an eagle's claw in
Ineatlailieh use will be made of the natural
ostiech feathers, as also of metal galloon.
The big artistic or picture hats as they
are called, in felt and Mayer have the
plumes Revenged in such a way ag to spread
carelessly over t he crown, of t en fel li imbey ond
the brim at their ends, and in mauy instan-
ces banging so far beyond the brim at the
back as to loosely encsrcle the throat in the
novel and extremely picturesque stylefirst
seen last year, and much liked for youthful
faces. These hats frequen tly show a, mass.
ing of feathers Fut the back, with none visible
111 front where bows of velvet are osecl.
T1 " b I t ." • ' 't
simply surrounded by fanners, without dis-
play of loops or bows. '1 hen again; a num-
ber of small birds will be seen mixing with
the ostrich tips, and either matching or in
brightly contrasting hues, as light green
with black or brown, yellow with black, or
red with dark blue,
021 toques for theatre wear, some import.
ecl examples show tiny parroquets
cooing, as it were, or wrangling, more prob-
ably, after the manner of parse:pets, and
mingling with them small flamingo wings.
The feathers of the bird.of.Paradise are
used on some imported hats, in matted or
dyed effects. Dee is inade of rieli jet for
coronets, as also of line jet galloon and
passementerie of the more delicate kind, as
also of flat metal braid in bronze, gold, ond
silver as well as of steel. Red velvet
bonnets of the Duchess of Fife and toque
shape are quite covered tvith a very elegant
Spanish lattice -work tracery of fine out jet,
a special piece being used when a coronet is
added to a raised brim, as seen on the
centreelivided or folded velvet crown,
Ladies' felts of assorted colors are trimmed
with fancy velvet, fancy feathers, and felt
Examples will be found of felt shapes
upon -which soft velvet folds are laid over
the crown, held clown by jewel -headed pins
and metal leaves, as of the holly, mistletoe,
and laurel, laid forward of the velvet so as
to garnish the front of the brim. Velvet
facing.
A. felt trimmed with a velvet ribbon ha
Persian pattern has soft folds held down by
pins topped with coins, anti a willow feather
falling over the right of the dented brim.
A shape with projecting brim cooked up
pointedly on the dented front has a rich
trimming of ribbon with half its width in
stripes ot yellow and half in black, a small
bird at the leek and a cock's feather curled
backward front the front. On the edge is
box.pleated yellow satiu ribbon beyond a
pleating of black velvet.
Small toque shapes are :moored with Per-
sian designs iu gold tracery of greatdelicacy
and have, in addition to this elegant decor-
ation, a simple crushed pulr on the front, as
the picture of the Duchess of Fife ahape,
a small bird of bright color or a bunch of
aigrette feathers or of gold wheat. Such
bonnets are suited to theetre parties or recep.
Gone.
Small coronet shapes Nidtil fo/aa of velvet
and a wreath of velvet flowers or leaves over
which a drapery of lace is thrown, Spanish
fashion, are worn by middle-aged ladies to
reception or for morning visits.
We have already spoken of the ribbon set
withjg %voted nail -heads and 110W used for win-
ter trimming.
Never was there a handsomer display of
kincls of material for millinery. The
only difficulty is 111 choice among so much
that ig attractive.
T110 Very largo hats ancl very small helmets
are the two present extremes of the mode.
Clerical Appeal for 111.5 North-West,
OTTAWA, Jail, I 4. --Bishop Gremlin, ()1St.
Albert, has issued an appeal to the parish
priests of the PrOvintle of Quebec, in which he
asks them to uso their influence in inducing
French•Cenuelian Catholica, Nvho desire to
emigrate, to make their future home in the
Canadian North-West, instead of going to a
strange land, The North•Weet of Canada,
the bishop says, was ditcovered chiefly by
Freeth•Canadians, whose missionaries had
brought out to those regions the blessings of
Christianity and civilizatiomend he deplores
nue, 80 few of their descendants have gem
there to take advantase tho opportheities
thioattmare placed within easy reach of
Another —Effect of the M.01.inley
Epstem—" Ve are going to haf onr tin
vedding, my vile and me, iamb Monday
night. Pe vould be glad if you und yolir
vife come ofer and spent der efening vie
ea."
Opponheimer—" Your tin vedding ? Vas
you married ton years 7"
Bpstein—" IsTo, ve nearly married fife
years,"
Opponheimer—"My poy, clot vas a vooden
vodding in fife years, not a tin verlding,"
lilpstoin—" Yes, I know, but me awl
Leah Yould ruler liar our tin yearling first
for tin Yes poi& to be bratty high on agount
,1nt McGinley bilk"—C,America,
!Mica Cheaply ond QuIelily•Tannect by the
Agency of the Current.
I For some time past reporte have been cur-
rent as to the perfeetiou, in France, of a
method of tanning by electricity, and the
matter has excited great curiosity through-
out the country. This country Is, ns Amer-
ica, is, one of the largest leather•producieg
countvies of the world, aud has no fewer
them 3,000'or 4,000 tanning establishments.
Within the present month the process has
actually been experimented with in Amer -
ice, and the results are now exciting no
!mall amount of discussion and controversy
in leather circles. The process, which is the
invention of Worms & Bale of Pales, has
1,
'eery in Parts, and another largo tannery has
been started for the same purpose at Long-
jumenu.
i In this method. no tanning is expedited in
two ways. First, by the agitation of the
skins in contact with the tanning liquor,
and secondly, by the passage of the electric
current through the body of the liquid. To
'attain those two ends a eircular drum
is employed, and as the drum rotates
current is passed through it by means
of a wire brought to connate at its
aide. The skins, to undergo this process,
!are prepared in the ordinate: Nvay, the heir
being taken oil by limo, and they aro then
put int0 the drum with the tanning solution.
The current to which they are subjected
averages about seventy to 100 volts, and the
direction of the current is changed every
twelve hours, so es to act equally on the
skins, which conetitute the electrodes.
During the operation the liberation of gas
is insignificant, so that the hides may bo
considered to act in the same way as the
plates of an accumulator. Goat end sheep
skins require only about twenty-four hours
for complete tanning. Calf skins require
fortweight hours, Clow, steer, and horse
hides require from sciventy-two to ninty-six
hours, accordtng to their textere. lite
loather produced in this Way has been ex-
amined by exports and is said to be of excel-
ent quality.
A LION'S PRISONER.
..tu African. neat ei-4-14 Reck nen the sun
Roasted wit Irecti.
The following is told on the authority of a
well-known Cape missionary. .A man hav.
Ing sat down on a shelving, low rock near a
small fountain to take a little rest after his
hearty drink, fellasleep ; but the heat of the
rock soon disturbed his dreams, when he be-
held a large lion crouching before him, with
ite eyes glaring in his face and within little
more than a yard of his feet.
He was ab first stench motionless with ter•
ror, Mt, recovering his presence of mind,
eyed his gen and began moving his hand
alowly toward it, when the lion raised italic:el
0,nd gave a tremendous roar, the same awful
N141.011111g being repeated whenever the man
attempted to move his hand. The rook at
len ith became so heated that he could scarce-
ly ear his naked feet to touch it TM day
passed and the night Moo, but the lion never
moved f votn the spot ; the 1011 rose again and
its intense heat soon rendered his feet past
fwAlitnng.00n tho lion rose and walked to the
water, only a few yarde distant, looking be-
hind as he wont, lest tho man 'should move,
when, seeing him stretch mit his hand to take
his gen, it turned in a rn,ge, aria Wee 011 the
point of springing upon him. And another
night had passed as the former had done,
and tho next day again the lion went toward
the water, but while there he listened to
some noise apparently from an opposite
quarter end disappeared in the beetles, The
man now seised his gun, but on first essay-
ing to rise he dropped, his ankles being with-
out power, At length he mado the bosh of
his way on hie hat& mid knees and S0011
after fell in with another native, who took
him to a place of safety, and, as Ile expressed
it, with Ins "toes roasted." Re lost his toes
mud was a °ripple for life.
Niagara Falls.
A survey has just been /mac of Niagara
aun the engineer's report has boon
presented to the United States Comilla -
Genera, It shows that the total moan moos -
Hien of the Horseshoe Falls since 17,12, when
the first survey wam made, hes been 04.ft
Oi te The maxi nth ni recession of the American
-Falls is 11011 Oin. rl'ho length of the crest'
lute increased from 2260fr, to 3010ft by the
washing away of the embankment, The total
area of elle secession of the American Falls
ie 32,900 steers foot, and that of the Horse-
shoe Falls 270,400ft.
Three Ways of Doseribing It,
Two men, A, and B., mob a third C., on
the street one clay recently and halted biers,
telling him they wished him to decide lt (mo-
tion under disonesiom
" eay," said A., " 111111 D.'s house burn.
od down,"
"And I say,' said " that D. house
burned up."
"Yen are wrong, both of you," said C.,
for have it on good authority that D.
was Mimed out."
IMONROOMMIMI410“011.41•4•11W111•11101•11WOR
SALE,
Ile Tried gnetreet la eke RH lifle
sumo, fee Thirty Pounds,
wise enttinuttelir may pardon the reek •
ea.seess of yonlig It, fail of 511111101
Spirits. and ambitions to distinguish them-
selvea by ile,,111: of :tering, But he will
frown mien 1 110 votent 11 131100e wane:mica,
of eourage makea leolhardy, whoa 41 My
111100 1101 Obi Igo h lin to ex pose 11 ims elf. Berea
Maloetio tens of a Waterlo:»Tteram, a Col.
Volpe', who did a very faoliali thing in the
first, 11-11mtein eempaign.
On the day before the storming of 1)up.
pel, he Wini on ality the entities, The
gallant Dimes who defended Duppel shot so
aeourietely that no Prtissian eland look 00er
the eartliWoricH, 810[10111y, to the astooish.
merit of his officers, t'01, 1,olger Wats SCell
riding his old gray Marc llp and 1101011 In
front of the earthworks, timid a, shower of
bullets.
Thinking he had gone to inspect 110 out -
poste, no one ventured tO Mahe a 1 0111
But when lie missed for the third 1 ime the
place where the officers had congveteted be-
hind the breastworks, the senior captain
stepped out and the colonel's net:3110,m
to his needless exposure, and entreated hint
not to eourt death in this rookless manner.
The colonel grinned, thanked the captain
for Ms -warning, and then explaieed his
cominet.
" There's no danger," said he ; " they are
a parcel of duffers ; can't shoot m bit ; they
mite even my old mare, though I've treated
them to e splendid target,. The mare is clone
for ; that's the reason I have been walking
her up ancl down for the last quarter of an
hour. It's thirty pounds in nty pocket if
they kill her, but I've no luck." ("Ile gov-
ernment allowed thirty pounds to an othcer
if his horse was killed in battle.)
At that Moment. 0 bullet struck tho ent-
ailers sword•belt, and, slippin,g on a lmokle,
made the round of his portly' waist, slightly
grazing the skin. The eolonel shrugged 111S
shoulaere, and unfastened his belt.
" Captain, you may be right," he seid 1
" it is safer on the other side ; those fellowa
ere capable of missing the mare and treatime
me 1.0 another diet higher up. Only a foot
lower and the mare would have lied it, and
I should have received thirty pounds. ['re-
voking, 'pon my honor 3"
Following the captien, he slowly rode into
the trenches:, *here he dismounted, end
patted the old mare, sa3 ing, " I dare sity
she won't be sorry to Ise spaved this time.'
The mare was not hit dewing the whole
campaign. On his maitre to Hanover, the
colmel sold her, much to his :Hamlet, 'for
eight pounds, She outlet? her days between
the shafts of four.whoeler.
THE AFRICAN PIGMIES.
now rimy MVO la tee ibeetiis or the Great
Forest.
Their villages, situated under the iinper.
viola foliage of the largest chime of trees to
be found near the locality 1010cre they pro-
pose :tamping, struck us as being comfort-
able, snug, teal neat. I have seen ninety-
two lents 1I1 0110 of these villeges, arranged
in a circle of about fifty reds in diameter.
The pigmy eanWS aro generally 101111c1 at the
croseways, where two or more paths inter -
Rea, 0011 are from two to three Miles distant
from agricultural settlements, Our anxieties:
always lessened on meeting them, for the
more paths we found, the more we were as-
sured of food, and the roe& improved.
Sometimes these forest -villages were
planted midway between parallel lines of
settlements, A. short walk from our camp
through the woods, north or south, would
take us to plantatioes large enough to sup-
ply regiment with food. Ono time we
came to 0 grOlip of dwarf villages whence a
brewed paall six feet wide cotninunicated
With another group three miles distrait..
This road wits a revelation. It, informed us
thee the tribe WaS More than usually power -
fol ; that it was well established ; that the
thief possessed power, and WM permitted to
exercise it. Ontsido of the ,great kingdom
of Ugendn, we had not seen in Africa a cue
road longer than half a
The huts in every pigmy camp were of a
tortoise -leek figure. The doorwayswore not
more than throe feet high, and were placed
at the ends, one being for daily use, and the
other, which onted the bush, for escape.
Those for constant convenience looked out on
the circular 00111111011 and 'pointed to the cen-
tre, where stood the tribal chief's hut, as
though the clay of every hoesehold Was to
watch over the safety of him -who ruled the
community. We rarely found a hut higher
than four feet six inches. In length they veri-
ed from seven to ten feel:, while the width
would be front four and a half feet, to seven.
Intelsat appeared to bo offimstablished camps
we found rough cots construoted, which were
raised a few inches above the ground, after
the style of our own forest couches. Several
layera of phryeime leaves make a luxurious
bed.—From " The Pigmies of the Great
African Forest," by Henry IV'. Stanley, in
Jan nary Scribner.
Coronets of Nobility.
French counts hews nine equal pear% in
their coronets. The British baron is enbitled
to a coronet of four big pearls. The English
viscount has a, coronet of seven pearls of even
size. The earl's ceronet slums flee smell
pearls and four strawberry leaves. Tho
1112101011 marquis is entitlecl to three straw-
berry leaves and two large pearls. French
marquises bear throe etrawberry leaves and
two clusters of three small pearls, French.
viscounts aro entitled to a coronet contain-
img three large pearle and two smaller ones.
French barons aro not entitled to a coronet,
but to whet is celled a Lodi', a circlet of
gold having a, necklace of tiny pearls tinned
three times around it. The Gorman prinoe'a
ementet 141 very peculiar, Nvith its gement,
0011.05 of patriS, RS ermine circlet and the
globe and mess, indierotive of an imperial
gran e It is usecl hi all countries on the con-
tinent, with or without the interior velvet,
cap, and is &flowed only to deseendants of
sovereign families or members of the higher
house of parliament.
The Tongue,
" The boneless Lemma so small and weak,
con emelt and Mlle declared the Greek.
" irhe tongue destroys a, greater horde,"
The Turk asserts, " then cloth the sword,"
Or somatIrn es takes this form instead :
" Don't lot your tongue out off your head."
" The fatigue can Sneak a, wora whim speed,"
Says the Obinese, " outstrips the stood, '
WhIlo Arab sages thistrepart:
" The tongues great storelsome is no heart."
Prom "Hebrew wit nes rnaelm
'' Though foot eliould slime:Air lot the Winne.
The gamed writer crowns Gm 'whole
"Who keeps his tongue :loth keep higt10111"
What he Reminded Efer of,
lio—I must be going, so I will bid you
goodmight.
She -011 your all makes me think of one
member do, base -hall eine.
He—Wliab member pray 7
8110—Why, the ehort•etop,