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THE TRAVELER A ADVENTURE.
It le related that a man, mounted upon
rn e.mol, in the 'ammo of travelling, ar•
rived at a plana where athero from the
Hama caravan bad lighted a fire Mom
preceding on their j,uroey, The fanlike
wind, breathing on the embero, had produced
a dame, aud, the eparke flying ova; the
angle, the dry w+:n.l had become ignited,
and the whole pleiu glowed like a bed of
tulips
"`What it In kialnesa thou 'rowboats me thy
It
Loosen the knot with which my arsine era en-
tangled."
Now the traveller was a good man and
one who feared Gad, When he heard the
complaint of the melee aud saw Ito pitiful
condition he reasoned thou with himself:
"This snake is, indeed, bhe enemy of man,
bye being in trouble and perplexity it would
be most :ommendable In me bo drop the
need of onmpeesion, the truib of which is prat
panty in this world and exaltation to the
aoxt." 'Thus ace -laced he faeteaed one of
his saddle bags to 3130 end of ale spear and
extend"i it to the snake, which, delighted
at eeoepe, entered the bag and was rescued
from the flume. Tho man, then oponingupthe
mouth of the bag, addressed it thus : "De•
pert whither thou wilt, but forgot not to
offer up bhankagiving for thy preservation ;
henceforth, re,'t the corner of retiremeat,
and cease to ifiwt mankind, for they who
do eo are diebonoat in this world and the
the world to dome.
"Fenn d-O'stresa no ono.
This indeed is true. salvation."
The snake replied : "On, young man, hold
thy peace, for truly i will not depart till I
have wounded both thee and this ('ante'.'
The man cried out : "Bet how is title?
H•eve I not rendered thee a benefit? Why,
then, is such to be my recompense ?
"On ow par: tt or was talo mire);
why, then, this imjcetlaa upon tht00 r
The make sof i ; Troia then hae shown
mercy, but ib wee to ar unworthy of j :ct.
Thou knoweat me to be =agent of injury to
mankind, cone:trage ly, when thou savedeb
me from destrao;.ion,thou subjeatedsb themelf
to the same rule that applies to the puntth•
ment due fur an evil act committed against
a worthy object,
"Again, between the oyeke and the man
there ie a long standing enmity, and they
who employ tort -sight hold it as a maxim of
wisdom to bruise the head of an enemy ; to
thy ae0arity my destruction was nrcoesary,
but in showing mercy thou host forfeited
vigilance, It fo now necessary that I should
wound thee, thee others may learn by thy
example.
The man act,-.'
• i' snake call but . in
. ".h
thy council c' j to e.111 in what ('reed is it
-written, or who, practice doalaree, that evil
should be returned for good, or that the
.pleseure of conferring bent Bei should be
.returned by irjuy and r•fiiotionv"
The snake reeeted : "Snob is the practice
among man. I ant according to thy awn de.
Cres; the some commodity of retribution I
Stave purchased tram thee I also aelL
"BF for one moment that ranee thou sent for
years."
In vain did the traveler entreat, the snake
ever replying : "I do bat treat thee of ter the
manner of man." Tail the man denied,
"But," said he, "let us call witnesses. If
thou prove thy aa0er'ton I will yield to thy
will.' Eke amen looking around sawn cow
grtzing in the distance end said: Came,
me will ark rhe cow the rights cf the ghee
tier,' When they came up to the oow the
snake, op:auiegIra sou'!+, acid: "0.ww,what
le the reocmp;bog r•rt. 'cos runived?'
The sew sal,: ti tom k me after
:the manner of net, ter mune el good is
always evil. leer tesienoo, I was for a
long time iu the service of a tamer. Yearly
I brought torth a salt; i supplied kis house
with milk and ghee; ha eutteoanre aud
the life of hie choldran depended rpm me.
When I become old and no leeger produced
young keno long r ahet'ered m', but throat
me forth to die in +. j angle• After 6 ailing
forage and roaming ab my ease I grew
fat, end my old master seeing my plump
condition, yesterday beet/glob with him a
butcher to whom he sold me, and to-
dav is appointed for toy slaughter,"
The shake said : Thou haat heard the
cow, prepare to die gaiokly ," The man
stied: ' •Ib to nob lawful to decide a 000e on
the evidence of one witness, let 113 then
all another." The snake then looked
about end sow o tree, leafless and bare,
dinging up its wild braoohee to the sky.
"Lab oa,' said ft, "appeal to the tree.'
They prooeedeel together to the tree, and
the snake, opening its nr uth, sold, ' 0,
tree, what is the recempe0se for goody
The bree said: "Amen; men, for bentfire
evil and injury are returned. I will give
you a proof of what I assert. I am a tree
evhich, though growing on one leg in thin
end waste, won ono flourishing and green,
performing service to every one. When
any of the human race, overcome with heat
and travel, came this way, they rested be.
Heath my branches; when the weight of rt).
porta abandoned their eyelids, they eget np
their eyes to me and acid to each other, 'Yon
twig would do well for an arrow I that
branch would eorve for a plow;' and 'from
the trunk of title tree whab beautiful planks
might be made 1' If they had an ax or
a saw they ealeated my branches and card.
ed them away, Thee they to whom I gave
eaaeand reab rewarded me only with pain
and le Motion.
' tihdet my eaaa overshadows him in perplexity
he meditates only how test root me up."
"Well," said the snake, "acre are two
witneoaea ; therefore, form thy reooluoione,
for I must wound thee," The man said
''Tragi, but the love of life is powerful, and
while strength remaine it ie dffB^ult to root
the love of it from the heart, Call but ono
more witness, and I pledge myself to aubmib
to hie decree," Now, it so wonderfully hap'
paned that a fox, who had been standing by
had heard the whole argument, and new
came forward. The stake on'seeing Ib ex•
claimed : "Behold this fox : let ue aok ib."
But before the man could speak, the fox
Dried out: "Host thou nob know the rearm.
penes for good is always evil? Bat what good
bast thou dame in behalf of this snake to
render thee worthy of punishment ?° The
man related his story, The lox replied :
"Thou seemed an intelligent person ; why,
then, doob bhotl telt me an untruth ?"
Sow eon ft be proper for him that is wise to speak
Irately?
Bow, eon 1t become an intelligent man t0 onto an
untruth 1'
00 The snake said: "rite man speaks truly,
Li' behold the bog in which he rescued me."
ho fox,petting on the mob of aetoniehment,
Mid : "How oan I believe this thing ? How
could a large Ranke, snob ae thou, be contain.
ed In ao email aspect?' The snake said; "If
then doubt me I will aeai0 enter the bag to
peeve ib." The fox said: "Truly, if leave thee
there I Could believe Ib and afterward settle
the dlepubc between thee and thin man. On
this the traveler opened the bag and the
snake, annoyed ab the disbelief of the tort,
which cbeervin
entered it g, the fox cried
out: '•011, you man, when thou haat naught
thine enemy show him no gearder.
Whch as enemy let vsar;ulehed and in fhy power'
It Is the m00100 of thew*, to show him fie mercy,'
ib mrebeeb a mane deetree eat the snake, en
thee meal mauki'rii1 from the evil effects o
Ito wfoked proponaltioa.
Joking With Sea Galla,
Sea bide Are•always Interestingohjtot to
voyagers. They follow a ve1oe1 ao,ntetimoa
all the way :ureas, ever rosrleeuwed uutiribg.
Tho guilepar-3culudy, with their Law, swift
wiego, realise the hlgheo b powers of en!iltranoe
and fly with ease against the severest storms.
Soma say; that than birds nevervielb the earth
except to dieposit their eggs ; otherwise thoy
live constantly botween tee sea and the shy,
In doe weather they fly high in the air,
desoendieg with great rapidity to ealzathe
fishes on the eurlace of the water,
The symmetry and strength of the gulls
are remarkable, showing how nature has
adapted them in every partioular for oho
purptae of long flight. Their pectoral or
breaeb muscles are One solid muse of firm,
herd muscle, and their bones aro hollow,
having uo marrow in t , m, Seep ie not
necessary to them, or, rather, they rest upon
their wings and allow themeless to be
cradled by the breczea, whose violence
neither worries nor frightens them, On the
other hand, they seem to feel a flame delight
in the fury of the storm, whioh, convulsing
tbo waves, brings up the dead fishes and
mollusks,
Sailors are very fond of playing off a joke
upon the gulls which aro always hovering
about the ships, They take throe or four
pieces of sail twine about six feet in length,
these are tied together In the middle, end to
the end of enoh a small piece of blubber or
fat ie attached tightly and then thrown into
the tea. A. gull comes along and ew011ow0
out poem ; another then sees there is plenty
to epees and swallows the next ; perhaps a
third bird takes poeeeesion of another, bub
as they are all attached to the sail yarns,
whenever they try to fly away one or the
other is compelled to dlagorge hie share, and
bbis is continued to the tantalizing suspense
of tho poor gulls and the great fun of the
peesengers and sailors,
A NEW BURIAL SCHEME,
Our Bodree to be Doled and rut Away la
vaatta With 01003 IrrontS.
A new dfspo,itlon cf the dead as proposed
may be celled the "latest thing in life,'
Ground for a new mausoleum" is to be tarok.
en, it is slid, in the spring. The idea under-
lying the naw tnaueoleum is based on the fact
Snot a current of dry air will poster vs a body
from detomposition,and change it Into a eon
dition reeembling life, in which ib will rem.
am for an indt fiuttn time. This process is ap-
plied naturethe s
[ied by to unfortun to traveller
and kis beast who succumb upon the great
deserts. In the Smithsonian Institution are
many bodies thus desiccated by natare whioh
might have been brought from the battle-
fields of Mexloo and Peru, from Southern
pleioa, and Indian districts of the fat weeb.
The ancient Cobohianaand Tartarsaunpendod
their deed from between of trees to be dried
by sir end nun. The Peruvians firob dried
their deceased friends and then buried them
ins sitting posture. Savages of South Aue-
tralia place the dead body on the top of the
but till perfectly dried, wihen it is
BAxnAGl00 .13I) HIDDEN
among the branches of the trees. The body
retains its form in the proems, and the akin,
i
though it becomes hard aud dry likeleather,
remains white, while the face, though more
or less emaciated, remains life•like and
recognizable,
Modern 3010008 and skill are to be applied
to the original preservative power of tha
atmosphere. Sxporlmonto have recently
been meds by speoielists, first on animals
on.t later on human bodies. In the course
of one recent experiment oondu00edby a
sanitary engineer in Washington, in nine
wedks a pig was radneed in weight from 22
to 7.', rands, and remained jest an plump
and round at) in life. In a laboratory in
New km•k city the body of a man weighing
104 ooua,lo wile subj mead to the proems in
lodS, and the Iffeot was marvellous.
The arrangement for the iotermenb of
desiccated bodies in the new meueoloum will
be tinnier to thab of the drawers to saleby
deposit vaults, while the interior plan of the
building will resemble that of a well•appoinb•
ed public library, with main corridor and
diverging belie leading to different sections,
These drawers or sepulchres will be of eolid
aoaorete four inches thick without joint or
seam, of certain glees, and arranged in tiers
of six on either side of the hallway. The
rp ming into each sepulchre will be provided
with two doors, the inner one of glass her•
metically sealed au soon as occupied, through
whioh the body may be viewed by tboee hold.
ing the keys ; the outside of iron, wroughb
gold, silver, or incest, decorated and
adoroad according to she ability and taste of
relative(',
The apace thab holds the casket will be a
cell of concrete permitting neither bhe es.
nape nor admission of moisture. In the
erection of the walla hollow pipes or conduits
will be formed over moulds, 40 that no des.
truotible material, as iron or metal, will
be needed.
Through these conduits will be mado to
pour into the hermetically sealed sepulchres
ourrente of dry air, which pawing rapidly
and repeatedly around the body will extract
therefrom
EVERY TRAda; off bi0l0Tt7Rn,
vapor, or fluid and convoy it to huge fur.
naco, where, without possibility of e0oape,
all noxious matter will be destroyed, Grad-
ually •he body boomers hard, smooth, and
dry, with litble or no change of appearance,
and once done preservation is seoured for-
ever.
Provision is to he made againab premature
interment by the edjuetmenb of Metrical
appliancee to the body, no that the fainted
motion will be inehantaneouoly oonveyod to
the guard by means of alarm signals.
The mausoleum will 000upy oomparativaly
little apace. A building covering 100 feet
equate oould melon 10,000 sepulohree, and
ono that mounted an acre would provide ae
many resting places at) a oemotery-of thirty.
five soros,
It to intended bhab ample and suitable
grounds shall eurrouod the building,and shah
adornment inside and out will be made as'
perfect as tats and wealth oan dictate.
The sepuleinee will be numbered and
registered at) lobo in a oematory; and a fund'
will he provided for the perpetual oars of all
treaourea of art or nature that may be pro.
vided. Ail records of interment will be l
kept in the mausoleum, A chapel will be
provided for the discharge of the teat rites,
Tao cash of efngle sepulchres wiltj1robably
range from $40 to $200, while family corn.
ppaartmonta will vary from $000 to $40 000.
Butial lobe in cities range froth $400 to
$5.000 for space to allow six gnome, to whioh'
Must lee added the poet of headstone, monu•
meat, statuary enolosure, and nate.
Concrete la the material of which 16 is
propooed to build the mausoleum, lereaearoh,1
anolent and modern, eetablieh the quality of
this material for impenetrability, ineoluhil•
sty, and ton0cgoent permanoaco, oven an
sarthqueke being pewerieo0 to destroy build• 1
fops mado of It, Title subteen') will no
daubb bo faood by ernaMental meterlalat
AS YOU LIRE IT.
TOh) 111:.1.11"FN'Le*Aell,4,
Work 1a tho froth air of t'.te soul 1
1` a i.,re the heavy brain,
1, dee em tate Indies of the mind,
Warms 111.11111. 10 0.3 1u1,, ;Mil 1110 blind
Aad big ;i •u will, seek into ease
Of ioelli.tivo luch,.ry los,
It ('tire to life again.
Oriel 10 the trld air of the soul 1
It Mills and blights the flowers,
la urgent guile It sways and emltos,
Fretz ng the mune of all delights ,
Bab roots grew strong by dint of Storm,
Ansi, when the spring awat'e5,.they forte
The growth of hoppior Route,
Love is bhe worms air of the soul 1
It reach:bit far and wide,
Clasping all life with healing touch,
Wooing the little into much,
Making brown brauob anal buried root
To bud and bimetal aud boarfruib
Like tho sweet summer bide.
Blow, heavenly winds, on every soul 1
Aud stir them constantly ;
Sting no and quicken u0 and blase,
le ilex not Ito toe urgent abreee.
Till out of toil and love and pain
Full strength and stature we attain;
And are lead home by thee,
--(Senn Coolidge in Congregationalist,
There is a plague of rats in Lincolnshire
England, and the more there are killed the
more there aro bo be killed apparently. Tho
aquae of this reduedanoy of rodents is said bo
be the large ohipmrnts of weszole to New
Zealand, where they were wanted to despatob
bhe rabbi'
An extraordioary story comeafrombologne
to the (Mat that a tenor singer named Erol:
horn, engaged at the opera for Wagnerian
parts, tell ill and was obliged to undargn an
operation in hie throat. li was euoceaotul,
bee m0 his reoov, ry it wee found that his voioe
had ohangad ba a baritone.
The Marga/ea de Galliffat, one of the moat
beautiful women In Paris, is saffaring from
a strange form of insanity, Sho goat into
convulsions whenever oho sees her fano iu a
mirror. Usually women are uifeored the
other way, and fn twelve tames nub of a
dc en!' would be hystorioalby mad if there
were nob a mirror in the house.
"Yes, I man advertiser of soma expo
fiance, ' said a merebant the other day, "but
I never expect any advertisement of mina,
however solid and well aimed, to prove a
rifle ball, euro of game. I look ou all ad.
vertieements as birelahoe, of whion I must
pour in a handful. Even if I get a bird, I
credit it to one of the ooetterlag ('hob. If
Ifillm bag, I'm satisfied. ed. Thal
e alI I'm
after.
Qoeen Iaabolle'a remark concerning tho
Bruzillan revolution—"nobidedly the Al.
101413ty Is no longer on our aids"—hae a
charaotaristio Bourbon fl,vor which Imo m-
vived memory of an even more audaoiaue
efforb on the part of a distinguished repro-
emeative of the same family. It was Louis
\"V1, who, upon being told of a oerioa of
diameters entailed by the English upon his
troops, indignantly exclaimed : "Surely,
the Almighty has forgotten all 1 have done
for Him."
An English sparrow became entangled in a
network oflelectric and telegraph wires inane
of the busiest streets of Cincinuati the other
day and was killed, but hung to thewirea,
Immediately sparrows began bo arrive from
all sections of the oily, and they covered bhe
roofs like a huge blanket. There were thou
sands upon thousende of them. They filled
the air over the spot, aud their noise nom
pletely clroweed the noise of the street,
They remained iu the locality for nearly
three hours.
B ornum will ahead on a pinnacle of
English glory on Jan. 30th. On that day
bele going to tell stories for an hour or two
in the drawing room in Gennvonor square of
ne lees a person bhau the E erl of Aberdeen.
He will relate ieaidents of his life and ad•
ventures, and it will coat a guinea to hear
him. The seethe are already sold to a meso
distinguishes and noble audience. The pro,
Deeds go bo assist the poor Irish peasants
and disbreseod Irish ladies. Ivlra, Shaw
will whistle on the same 000esbon for the
same purpose,
There are in Franee S77 associations
of employers, 391 of workmen and 597 of
farmers. The workmen's aesooiations went:
were formerly political orguoimations, have
become for the moat part purely mutual
bencfia societies of late years, The agti-
cultural eeeociabione do nob agitate politi•
(ally like our Grangers. They are to a large
extent cooperative and technical, Tbo
farmers' assooiation near Fontainebleau, for
iusbanae, owns a slaughter house, at whioh
every member has his oobtle killed ab very
low prime, This and other droller est
operative devlaos of the French farmers'
asnocietiona show bhab the French peasant
is nob et) stupid and helpless me he is general
ly supposed to be,
Isaao lIcffman, of Ceenarvon, Pa., whose
only means of locomotion is apon his handl)
and knees, is ono of the famous hunb,ro of
that region. He bas never been able to
walk. He can operate a mower, reaper or
horse rake equal to anyone. As a loader of
hay and grain he is hard to excel, He hae
often driven one and bwo horses, and has no
fears of bheir getting away, He aesitbs in
most of the work about hie father's farm,
and as a chopper of wood none hub bhoee
who have wibnaesed his wielding the axe
would believe) the amount he can cut is a
short time. During the last drama years of
hie life hio ohief enjoyment is to travel over
the hill(' with hie goon and dog, and au a
marksmen ho 10 pretty hard no excel. In
coming down a flight of stairs he always
deeoends heedful ant 1st. When he cornea to
a stream of water not more than four to five
feet wide he actually springs over like a
oat, alighting upon hie knew or hips.
The question, what language was prob.
ably spoken by oar Saviour, is one of the
many for whioh readers of the New Taste,
mtnb would be glad to find an answer, yet
high muet rt) abl go unanewsred s0 far
w a P b y
as a on v0 s e n er d.
anything p iii i o o ne An
editorial writer in the Ohioago "Inter Ocean"
auggeats bhab Christ mutt, es one divine,
hove been ah able to speak whatever len•
gunge became neoee0ary to him, as the firob
disolplea were made babe in oho Pentecostal
gift of tongues. Might it nab bo assumed,
however, that Jesus mueb bave flood, alwaye,
bhe language of the common people-•-" the
common people who heard him" so "gladly?"
This, of course, was the Aramaic diale,.t,
then spoken throughout Peloatine and nieco.
the time of the Babylonian oapbivity, and
0f our Lord's nee of whioh we have one ex-
ample in the sty from the oross t "Hid,
Eloi, lama sabaohbhani." Whit nee of the
language of the people, bhomselvet, to whom
he belonged, rather than that of the tohoole,
whether Hebrew or Greek, was wholly in
keeping with all oleo that we read of him.
Hie teething was ultimately to enter as a
power and a transformation into all learning
and all civilization, Bub ae ib fell from hit
own lips it was like himself—" lowly" and
and in fullest sympetby with bumenity in
161 own lowliness and its own moat o0nseioue
need,
The 8(003 of a Reef ,rt 6nrsKe Rn Those
La tit odes.
It was stated not long mime, on good me
thorlty, that a Csnadaittn statim,*: wan abort•
ly to bo c1'0patchcd to llu'lson'a boy for the
pc ranee of exploration, The reason aeaigned
for dais step was that the Cmadam Oevorn•
moat are coatompleting the peesibbity of
making one of the western parte of Uodeon'e
bay en outlet for the fast•Iucreasiug triode of
the North, met provlacao, Should this pot
joob ever be carried out, Hadeon's straits, as
the only enttanoo to bbo bay, will boa0me a
highway for vessels convoying Canadian con
bo ala to pe. Atpreeonb,hotvover,almost the
only emote aver soon in those parte aro the
two belonging to the Eu deona Bay Campa0y,
whioh make a return voyage to the bey from
Loudon every summer, Ib was my lob to be
on board ono of these veseola u0t long slam,
and the following are come reoolleotiona of
our 9100040 through the retrain.
Our vessel wee bound for Moose F.,obory
—the most southerly port of Eu(Mon't bay.
Sho wan a sailing vessel of average aiz,, bub
very strongly built, being encased in an
extra covering of hard wood aoverai Mahe.
thick to enable her bo wlthotani bhe iur
through which the load to pace. Her cargo
on her outward poutage coaaisted chiefly of
flour, and on her return she brought the for
whioh le so abundantly produced in the
diatriota around Eydeon'o bay. Our Heat
intimation after oroosing the Ablantie that)
we were nearing the Arabia rogiono was tho
appaaranee of a whaling vasset on the head-
men. Whoa she hod approached near enough
her captain put off in a boat and came on
board our vessel, eagerly acquiring for the
Must naves, He advised us to prepare for
a troublesome pa0eage through the utrairs,
for he had diseovorod intimations further
north that bhe the had been Leto In breaking
up, and was probably stilt floating about fn
considerable quantities, IG should be ex.
plained here that 18 is bhe opiniou of !:hose
been qualified ,to judge that nob rely the
whole of Hudeon'o atraite, bat molt probab
ly a considerab:o lar 1 of lludaoa'a bay, le
aeuurclyfrczan up during the winter. Gm.
sequently, it the opting happens to ):e late,
the broken fragments of ice—many of them
of enormous sem—have only begun to be
carried away when the frost eg tin sobs in.
We now sighted land, whioo proved to
be Resolution Island, and were soon fairly
inside the att'alls. Hero we began to
euuoanter the—nob in large quantities, bub
in loose, rugged pieces, whioh, although
they did nom impede the vessel's progress,
camp occasionally against her bow with a
force thot would have seriously shaken a
loss sturdy email. At night, especially,
wa ware painfully aware of their presence,
for after striking the masers bow they
grated along her dam ooraping the planks
with their sharp edger, and ptoduoiag a
sound moth uncomfortably ouggestive to
us who lay in our berths a few inches off.
Tho captain bad by this time made the
ne000mary preparations for entering the
Me in earnest. He ordered the rudder to
be secured with strong ropes to prevent
its being carried away by the ice, and be.
gen steering kis mouse by manipulating
the mils. A boy was kept c0natanbly emit.
rating bhe compass, which, es is well known,
invariably baoomee sluggish as the pole ie
approached. A ('harp took-oub was kept
up trent aloft, and the lead dropped at
regular intervals to ascertain the depth of
the water. These precautions were the
more ne0000ary as no reliable oharb of bhie
postage exists, and the captain has to shape
his course a good bib by local knowledge.
Here and there on the leor'z In a huge los.
burg roared its head like a hill above the
water, whioh was tamely beariog ib onward
to the ocean—for the current in those
atraite is said to be always setting
outwards into the Atlantic. Some of
these bergs formed magnificent speobaoles
when seen ab all near. Their tiles
for the most part rose precipitously out of
the water and fleshed and sparkled fa the
sunshine, or tenoned blas hues of the waves
at their feet, Above, the mase either cul-
minated in one or more rugged peaky, or
spread out into an undulating tableland. Io
wee tea early in the oeaeon for the waves to
heveburrowed into their aides andprodueed
thous fantastic forms often represented in
pictures of Arotio ooenery, We now found
bhab every day broughb us farther and far•
they into the ice, the water around us being
no longer with loose pit ma, bob covered by
floating fields, some several auras fn txtenb.
Going aloft and using our gleams we could
nee that the whole horizon was more or leas
occupied by these ioe•tielde, a few patches
of ly of open water appearing here and bhare,
like smell lakes ou as exbeneivo plain, The
position of the ice, however, was oonntsnbly
('hanging owing to the motion of the current,
e0 that at one time we were completely wedg
ed in and parried bodily backwards, and an
hour or so afterwarda left ab liberty to ad.
vance a few hundred yards through clear
water.
Before long, however, our progress became
so slow as hardly to repay toe for the labor of
navigating the ship, What we gained dur•
ing the day we loth in drifting backwards ab
night • and once or twine a solar observation
showed that after two or throe day('' labor
we had aatually lost ground, Any one un-
accustomed to the situation would oartainly
have concluded that furbhor advance had
become imposn(bls—indeed, the fine mato,
who was nob altogether inexperienced in
Arctic voyages, suggested the expediency of
puttint the ship about and abandoning bhe
attempt, Oar captain, however, who had
been traversing those waters annually for the
past thirty yours, and who well understood
the oaprioioue movement of the ice, deolded
patiently to await a change. In the mean-
time, in order to prevent se numb as possible
our drifting baokwerdo, he made the vo0nel
fast to the large ioefielde, whioh, from their
immense depth fn the water, move bub slow-
ly. Here we were compelled to remain for
nearly a week.
At laob our patience was rewarded by a
muffed intention on the parb of the leo to
make a general move. Oponinge appeared
and disappe,.red wlbh increasing frequency,
and bore and bbero plebes of lee were raised
on end by the tremendous pressure all.
around. Gradually a pas0age opened out
Id the desired direction, and um at memo
disengaged ouranohoro from the ice aud net
sail. It was several days boloro wo had
lobo the lee behind, though each day brought
tie further ooh of the thick of it ; and we
were all thankful when we found ourselves
in eighb of Manefisld Isleed, and free to
enjoy bite comparative maroon' afforded by
•Hudoon'e bay. Thin, it should be explained,
Was an mutually diffronit paooage, Some
seasons there manta go and return through
the straights wibhoub commenting any the
ab all • ab other times their program ie
oheoked, as ours wee, for weeks together.
Ib ie everbhy of remark, however, that
though these veneers orme have performed Hilt
confessedly dangerous voyage annually for
the pant 50 yearn Or more, only ono mishap
bats Demurred, and bhab ie said to have beim
attributable to the eapbaln's oareleesues5,
This satis autory mouth is dou'
bbioos dee
partly to the struobure of the veteale, partly
11150 to the season chosen for the Voyage,
bub chiefly t0 the long experience and
thorough otfrtfonoy of the eepbeine to whose
thea 1 na 101100s cau'bo secured, the 01030,0)
Very Far 1't'atm hang One fast Ccvuatcry,
1)r, 54 (. Penne as t iraa to Tee New York
Journal of t 1cu+a itrce :-"dere la a neon
who has tskett the t",ublo bo celouleto how
much land it wo'aid t,l.:' to bury the p pit•
lotion of On world for 11,000 year(' et 110,000
yore. He cinch that the former could ba
burled In hall of 'lexaa, and ttoo latter iu the
territory r est of the Nllesbnippf River.
"In 0.000 ysaro'you have o'xby centuries.
Iu oath mature you may crumb three goner•
atiane of Mat kilt!, or 180 genaratiaee in all.
Now lay out a cemetery for ono generation,
11will be a huge esllmsbs to give to revery
men, woman and child a gt'ave 5 feet by 2,
or 10 /guava feet• A minus mile oontaluo
something leas than 28 000,000 emu to feet.
You want, then, a graveyard nob fifty Ore
miles long by ben wide for your whole gen
emotion. Now multiply this by 180 and
you have your burial ground for 6,000 years
of mankind. Taab la, a strip of laud 1,800
mites long by 55 mires wide will bo ample.
In other words, a cemetery oontaivang
100,000 square miles would be sullieient for
the mtlre human rano to lie til(' by aide,
The eatlmate whish 1 have given you of
cont1000na population la obviously ancient.
Ous1y large. Tha satimets of the 0103 of
each grave ie very large. A sbrfobly oorrect
estimate would reduce the aiz, of the 0.
minted oemetery mom than ono -half, Bob
enormous as it le, you could lay out your
burial ground for all men who have lived on
earth so that they could lie side by side in
Arizona or in California, or you could lay it
out in Ti x 64 large enough to accomodate
the race 01 0,000 years past, and also the
race for 0 000 years to come, all eleept04 in
the aoii of thee One State of this Colon.
But some one Gaye the race of man has bean
On earth 140,000 yore. That is pure ion.
aginabior, and there is not, en far eel know,
a foot on whioh to rest it. But x049330 It
is true, and suppose the population always
what it now is. You have pruviled for 0 000
years of it. You want nearly seventeen
times as large a oemetery for bhe genera'
thus of 1,040 centuries. That Jo you want
1,700,000 ogeao miles in it. Lay ib nut
whenever you plume, 1,700 long by 1,700
miles wide. Ib fa but a part of the Uatted
Sbatca. And so enormously largo have been
the rough estimate thus far used, it is safe
to say that if the human ram has beau in
existence 100,000 years a oeparate grave
could be provided for every iodividual'al the
race within a pert of the United States
east of the Mississippi River."
Estimating that a large man can stated on
2 egoare fon and tbeaverage emending room
of a crowd of men, women and ohildreu ie It
square feet, be catenates that 18,000,000
people 000 stand on a square mile. Aeonrd-
in to this the population of the worldcould
C t
g p
stood on eighoylour egoaro mike.
Then he makaa this eurioun oeggestion
" Carry year arithmetic still further.
You laid Mb a oemetery forbhel 500,000,000
of mankind now living, Build a city for them
to dwell in. Average families at five persona
to a family, and give oath family a house
and lot 20 feet by 100 Your cemetery gave
five pera000e 50 square feet for graven, Their
City lob is forty timoe enlarge. Your city
must therefore be forty t0mea as largo as
your oemetery. Add 20 per oenb for good
ebreetr,"
Oa this basis the population of the world
could live in a city 100 mites wide ani 220
miles long and have bwloe the apaoa per
capita now being occupied by the mat triby
of people in our graab oitlee.
.Emin Pasha and England.
It is stated that the determination of
Enda Pathe to devote hfineelf to the ad,
vanoemeab of German interests in .Afrioa
arises from the faob bhab a similar offer,
made by him to England, whin he 008 in
Marge of the Equatorial Province, was
ignored and rejjeoted. That le nth ie under
no Monde of obligation to England to undid•
pubed ; but it is d i£cult to tee' what reason
he bat for considering himself neglected by
the failure to accept an offer of a provinoe
practically as far beyond Eagland'e reach as
a colony in the moon. If Ragland could
not maintain Gordon at Khartoum it wonld
have been insane to attempt to methane
Emin at Wadelai. As between the eoaten•
tion of European powers for the possession
of Africa, Emile has a per£eob right to take
the side of kis own nationality. Bub ib is a
pity that he and Stanley oaunot unite in
throwing their moral influence against the
policy of reducing Afrieau colonization to a
contest for territorial aggrandisement. The
Congo Free State was established on the
brosd policy of introducing civilization into
Africa, not for the benefit of any partioular
power, bub for the good of humanity. If
the same policy could be a t:ablished fa
hectare Africa, it would be a credit to
Christianity. But if Enia Pasha is to
become simply au agenb for territorial
dominion for Gummy, he descends from
his former high position of a champion of
civilization to bhab o£ a mere agent of
imparted greed.
Will Exolusion Exclude the Chinese?
Sir John Bowring not only teabiflee bo this
perpetual outflow of Chinese emigrants, but
he paints in vivid colors the mune whioh
lead to these results. He says : "There is
probably no pert of the world in whioh the
harvests of mortaiity are more ('weeping and
doetruotive than in Cnina, producing voids
which require no ordinary appliances to fill
up. Multitudes perish abeolubaly from want
of bhe moans of extabonae ; inundations des,
troy towns end villages, and all bhoir inhab-
itants ; its would nob be easy to calculate the
loss of life by the typhoon's and hurricanes
which vielb the main of China in whioh boabo
and junks are sometimes sacrificed by hun-
dreds and by tnousande. The late civil war
in China must have led bo the loss of millions
of lives. The maritime of human beings by
executlona alone are frightful."
, It is such a condition of bhings, and ouch
Mune ae these, that induce the laboring
Masses of Chinese to emigrate to other mum
brise. Considering the incentive which ex.
late In those densely populated diebrioto bo
metope from the misery whioh marks their
existence, and bo seek new lands where their
condition may bo bettered, the dangers that
threaten from soon iaexhauebible emcee of
human supply become easy of approeiabion,
eelFrom "Now Name in the Chinon Prob•
tem,' by Willard B. Farwell, In the Popular
Salome Monthly for December,
How Lab:mallets doctored hie grip :—/4o
prevenb any fever 1 ab once administered to
myoelf thirty grains cf quinine—that oobtlod
the fever. To meth the cough I took un-
limited squill pills—that mottled the Dough.
To meet the cold I went to bad, heaped on
my bed blanket's, and took nothing bub
slope—bhab wobbled the oold. In four days
I war Mite wall,
leverbody smokes in Japan. The pipes
hold a little wad of fine -elft tobeeoe as big
a0 a pea. Ib is fired, and the smoker takers
one long whiff, blowing the smokes in a ('load
from hie mouth and none, The ladioa have
pipes with longer eteme than the men, and
if one of them wishes to show a gentleman a
spooiel mark of favor elm lights her plpo,
takes half a whiff, hands it to him and lets
him ilaieh Dub the whiff,
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Oa arreel through lfobnnna watt,' ie au
atremoly Weir:ions uaderbaklnp.—[Lon.
don Uaily NOVO,
After Many Yoale,
A tangle event 010 1110 reunion at Lettln-
viha recently of phial brothore who wore
separated flrtyono yoaro age and had never
mot 01n00, Toy are Thomas G., W. H.,
and A 13 0 ul, Thoy wore horn at Newark,
N. d., in 183'), 1833, and 1830 Saoo atter
the birth of the youngest their Seroma died
and they wore divided, each being soot to
the home al a relative to be unwed. Now
Thomas, the oldoob, is the owner of several
thotoaaud acme of fine land near Lytton on
the Canadian Paoiflu railroad in 13ritielt
Columbia and to exbonaivsly engaged Ie fruit.
growing, A. 13 ,the Homed, is a well to -cls
aontraotor in Louisville. Both are married,
while W. H. le a bachelor, and lives neer
Foram,' ll, Ile bas acquired a oompotonoy
raising atook,and has retired from Misnoss,
A largo gathering of friends helped them
oelolmat0 their re mina at the home of the
1. ,uiav111a broticer.—i Pittsburg Dispatch,
A Touohiag Reunion.
Phot—Wall, what do you want, calling
me up at this time of night?
Poem—I am one of your poems.
Pooh -01t, no, you're not. I never flaw you
before.
Poem—Really, air, I am. I'm "Springtime,
do not Daily on the Way." You wrote me
last year
Peeb--You? Whathae ('hanged you 0?
Prom—Alae 1 I have boon copied by all bhe
aouatry papaya on the continent, I oould nob
help ib. to to they who !lava brought me to
this low estate,
Posit—Poor fellow 1 You have suffered,
Coale in, You shall hates the beat waste bat-
ket iu the muse. My long loot cff,pring en.
tor,
Whet Made Willie Late.
She was the bypioal nountry eohool ma'am
She had a youthful engegiO4 look, and an
seldom interest in what womb on in bhe
neighborhood, despite the responsibility then
rested on her shoulders.
" Willie Smith," she said, "you are late
again,'
Yoa'm."
"This mane be stopped. I have a groes
mind to pnnieh yon, and I assure you that if
you allow it to occur again you will nob escape
lightly, Whetrs the osuee of this tardineea1'
'alias Smi ns' beau."
"Who? that young man from bower?'
u
Yee,»he."
"0100 go to see Miss Jenkins often ?'
"'Bout seven times a week,"
"Tee idea 1 do you hoover whether they
are gotog to get married 7'
" Not exactly, bub I know that they talk
mighty sweet to emit other and 130 gave her a
ring."
Poor fellow 1 you may go to your seat,
Welke."
Happiness Assured.
First Paterfamilias—"Bag pardon for in.
thud ing,bubthe facbis your eon line proposed
for the hand of my daughter ; and as the two
familee are almost strsngers, you knowing
nothing of my daughter and I knowing
nothing of your mn, 1 thought it would be a
mumble thing to Dome around and °ampere
Hobos."
Second Paberfamillae—"Exbellenb idea 1
Ilea your daughter always had everything
the wanted—dreams, joaelo, waiting•maids,
and 00 on?'
"No. She has had to help her mother.
How old was your boy before you stopped
bhrashirg him 1"
"Welt, d thrashed him pretty regularly
until he ems grown up."
"I am satisfied."
"So am 1,"
An Evergreen Chestnut.
"Didn't she look epruoe in her fire?'
" Very—and what a find balsam bough
she gave you as oho passed."
When Mose Yallerbv Was Rejected.
More—Farewell, farewell, 0 falthlees one ;
die heart am yoah'e no morel
Ohloe—Orb out 1 gib out 1 vo'silly chump;
yo' nee bloat open door ?
I leab yo' now ; telt' darkened brow I weak
der midnight's blank expanse 1
Well, go; bub wabah dod'e terrier—ho
might oaboh on yo' pante 1
"Two Souls With But a Single Phonght"
Kobe : " You won't feel el_lgbbod if I give
you no present until the New -year, will
you, dear ?'
Julia : " No, love, for that is preeleely
bhe way' mean to breab you."
Both (sotto voce):"Hateful thing 1 She's
only waiting to see what I will give 1"
Granite Puddings.
A tramp, who had solicited alma ab a
suburb on villa, woo treated by a blooming
young wife to a plum of bullet•proof Christ-
mas pudding—which had been made by bar
own fair hands, Vainly the vagrant pleaded
for a oupplementery dole in money.
Turning away, the ungrateful reseal sung
outs to the lady,
Thankae for the puddin', ma'am. I'll
keep it handy to knook oub the brains hot
the fleet dorg as comae enappin' 'boub my
heole, 1 often sleeps houb hon the'Bankmeno
lief a night, an' Di never dee thab big granite
Cleeterpabrar a Needle wlbhoub thinkin' hof
yer plum duff, ma'atn—I ahau's, I assure
yer l"
Gallantly Rewarded,
He—"What are 'you reading, Clara?"
Sho—"I3ow to be beautiful."
Re—"You havo no need to read such a
book ae that."
Sho—''Why not 1"
He—"Beoauae you are beautiful already,"
tlbo—"I think you asked me the a kiss
last night
He—"I did,"
Sho—"And I refused it ?"
He—"You did,"
Sho—"Well, you may take lb uow."
Missed a Good Chance,
Maid Gentleman (plaiting up boy) bu: That
was an awful hard fall m
Why didn't you eryt ' y young man.
Small Boy—Ididn't
k
at
looking; ow anybody was
In his Sunday morning sermon the Rev.
Heber Newton, of Now York, told hie ooh•
gregation bhab a dietinguiehed rector had
one0 said -'".Co be oueeeeefut In the minis•
try in New York requires eomeevhat of the
8400005 of God, but also a little spice of the
doll
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