DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Worldly Marriages.
“And there was a man fn Maon whose pos-
‘Sessions were in Carmel, and the man was very
#&veat, and ho had threo thousand sheep and
Thousand goats.” 18am. 25:2.
My text introduces us to a drunken
bloat of large property. Before the
«lay of safety deposits and Government
bonds and national banks, psople had
their investment in flocks and herds,
and this man, Nabal, of the text, had
much of his possessions in live-stock.
He came also of a distinguished family,
and had glorious Caleb for an ancestor.
But this descendant was a sneak, a
«hurl,
A BOT AND A FOOL.
One instance to Rlustrate: It was a
wool-raising country, and at the time
of shearing a great feast was prepared
for the shearers; and Pavid and his
warriors, who had in other days saved
from destruction the threshing-floors of
Nabal, sent to him, asking, in this
time of plenty, for some bread for their
starving men. And Nabal cried out:
““Who is David?” As though an En-
glishman had said, “Who is Welling-
ton?” or a German should say, “Who
is Von Moltke?’ or an American
should say, “Who is Washizgton?”
Nothing did Nabal give to the starving
men, and that night the scoundrel lay
«dead drunk at home; and the Bible
gives us a full length picture of him,
sprawling and maudlin and helpless,
Now that was the man whom Abi-
gail, the lovely and gracious and good
Woman, married—a tuberose planted
beside a thistle, a palmn-branch twined
into a wreath of deadly nightshade,
Surely that was not one of the matches
made in heaven. We throw up our
hands in horror at that wedding. How
did she ever consent to link her desti-
nies with such a creature. Well, she
no doubt thought that 1t would be an
honor to be associated with an aristo-
cratic family; and no one can despise a
greal name, Beside this, wealth would
come, and with it
CHAINS OF GOLD.
and mansions lighted Uy swinging
lamps of aremdtic oil, and resounding
with the cheer of banquelérs, sewted at
tables laden with wines from the rich-
est vineyards, and fruits from ripest
orchards, and nuts threshed from for-
eign woods, and meats smoking in
platters of gold, set on by slaves in
bright uniform.
Before she plighted her troth with
this dissipated man, she sometimes said
to hersell: “How can I endure him?
To be associated for Nfe with such a
debauchee I cannot and will not!”
But then again she said to herself: *‘It
is time 1 was marned, and this is a
cold world to depend on, and perhaps I
might do worse, and maybe I will make
a sober man out of him, and marriage
is a lottery, anyhow.” And when, one
day, this representative of a great house
presented himself In a parenthesis of
sobriety, and with an assumed geniality
and gallantry of manner, and with
promises of fidelity and Kindness and
self-abuegation, a June morning smiled
on a March squall, and the great-souled
Yoman surrendered her happipess to
the keeping of this infamous %on of for-
tune, whose possessions wese in Carmel;
“and the man was very great, and he
had three thousand sheep, and a thous-
and goats,”
Behold here z domestic tragedy re-
peated every hour of every day, all over
Christendom-—marriage for wordly sue.
cess, without r to character. So
Marie Jeanne Philipon, the daughter of
the Liun.ble engraver, became
THE FAMOUS MADAME ROLAND
of history, the vivacious and brilliant
girl, united with the cold, formal, mon-
olonous man, because be came of an
affluent family of Amiens, and had
lordly blood mr his veins. The day
when, through political revolution, this
patriotic woman was led to the scaffold,
around which lay piles of human heads
that had fallen from the axe, and she
said to an aged man whom she had
comforted as they ascended the scaf-
fold, “Go first, that you may not wit.
ness my death,” and then, undaunted,
took her turn to die—that day was Lo
her only the last act of a tragedy, of
which her day was the first,
Good and genial character in a man,
THE VERY FIRST REQUISITE
for a woman's happy marriage. Mis-
take me not as depreciative of worldly
prosperities, There is a religious cant
that would seem to represent poverty as
a virtue, and wealth as a crime. I can
take you through a thousand ma
where God is as much worsh
He ever was in a cabin. The
inculcates the virtues which
toward wealth, In the millennium we
will all dwell in ard ride in
chariots, and sit at sumptuous ban.
quets, and sleep under rich embroid-
eries, and live four or five hundred
years, for, if according to the Bible, in
those times a child shall die a hundred
years old, the average of human life
will be at Jeast five centuries,
The whole tendency of sin is toward
poverty, and the whole tend of
righteousness is toward wealth, Godli-
ness is profitable for the life that now
ka well as for that which is to come,
o inventory can be made of the pic-
ture- to God, and
of scul
lared ificence, and of parks and
fountains and gardens in the ownership
of good men and women. The two
most lordly residences In which
became missionary to Bagdad :
the Christ who was born in an Eastern
caravansary has lived in a palace,
WHAT RICHES CAN DO,
It is a grand thing to have plenty of
mgt rank
to which
you may go while you feel disgusted
with the shams of the world, and ask
Thackeray to express your chagrin, or
Charles Dickens to expose Pecksniffian-
ism, or Thomas Carlyle to thunder your
indignation; or the other shelves where
the old Gospel writers stand ready to
warn and cheer us, while they open
doors into that City which is so bright
the noonday sun is abolished,
There is no virtue in owning a horse
that takes four minutes to go a mile, if
you can own one that can go in a little
over two minutes and a half; no virtue
in running into the teeth of a northeast
wind with thin apparel if you can afford
furs;
NO VIRTUE IN BEING POOR
when you can honestly ba rich, These
are names of men and women that I
have only to mention, and they suggest
not only wealth, but religion and gen-
erosity and philanthropy, such as Amos
Lawrence, James Lenox, Peter Cooper,
William E, Dodge, Lord Shaftesbury,
Miss Catherine Wolfe and Mrs, Astor.
A recent writer says, that of fifty lead-
ing business men in one of our Eastern
cities, and of the fifty leading business
men of one of our Western cities, three
fourths of thei: are Christians,
The fact is, that about all the brain
and the business genius is on the side of
religion. Infidelity is tncipient insanity,
All infidels are cranks, Many of them
talk brightly, but you soon find that in
their mental machinery there is a screw
loose, When they are not lecturing
against Christianity they are sitting in
bar-rooms, squirting tobacco juice, and
when they get mad swear till the place
is sulphurous. They only talk to keep
their courage up, and at best will feel
like the infidel who begged to be buried
with his Christian wife and daughter,
and when asked why he wanted such
burial, replied: *‘If there be a resurrec-
tion of the good, as some folks say there
will be, my Christian wife and daughter
will somehow get me up and take me
along with them,
Men may pretend to despise religion,
but they are rank hypocrites. The sea-
captain was right when he came up to
the village on the seacoast, and insisted
ou paying ten dollars to the church, al-
though he did not attend himself.
When asked his reason, he said that he
liad been in the habit of carrying car-
goes of oyslers and clams from that
place, und he found, since that church
was built, the people were more honest
than they used to be, for before the
church was built he often found the
load, when he came to count it a thou-
sand clams short. Yes. Godliness is
profitable for both worlds, Most of the
great, honest,
FEEMANENT WORLDLY SUCCESSES
are by those who reverence God and
the Dible. But what 1 do say 1s that if
a man have nothing but social position
and financial resources, a woman who
puts her happiness by marriage in his
hand, re-enacts the folly of Abigail
when she accepted disagreeable Nall,
“‘whosz possessions were in Carmel: and
the man was very great, and he had
three thousand sheep, and a thousand
goats.”
If there Le good moral! character ae-
companied by affluent circumstances, I
congratulate you. If not, let the morn-
ing lark fly clear of the Rocky Moun-
tain eagle,
THE SACRIFICE OF WOMEN
on the altar of social and financial ex-
pectation is erpel and stupendous, I
sketch you a scene you have more than
once witnessed. A comfortable home,
with nothing more than ordinary sur-
fully and Christianly reared. From the
outside world comes in a man with
nothing but money, unless you count
profanity and selfishness and fondness
for champagne and general recklessness
as a part of his possession. He has his
coal collar turned up when there is no
chill in the air, but because it gives
him an air of abandon; and eyeglass,
not because he is pear-sighted, but be-
cause it gives a classical appearance;
and with an attire somewhat loud, a
cane thick enough to be the club of
Hercules and clutched at the middie,
his conversation interlarded with French
phrases inaccurately pronounced, and a
sweep of manner indicating that he
was not born like most folks, but ter.
restrially landed, By
ARTS LEARNED OF THE DEVIL
be insinuates himself into the affeciions
of the daughter of that Christian home.
All the kindred congratulate her on the
almost supernatural
come in that the young man is fast in
his habits, that he has broken several
young hearts, and that he is mean and
selfish and cruel. But all this is covered
up with the fact that he has several
houses in his own name, and has large
deposits at the bank, , more than all
bas a father worth many hundred thou.
sand dollars and very feeble in health,
and may any day drop off, and this is
the only son; and a round dollar held
Sh
LAUNCHED OX A DEAD SEA,
its waters brackish with
You are nothing iui a woman, anyhow,
Down, you miserable wretch!” Can
balls of mosaic, ean long lines of Etrus.
can bronze, or statuary by Palmer and
Powers and Crawford and Chantry and
Canova, can galleries rich from the pen-
oll of Bierstudt and Church and Kensot
and Cole and Copan, could flutes play-
ed on by an Ole Bull, or planos lingered
by a Gottschalk, or solos warbled by a
Sonntag, could wardrobes like that of a
Marle Antoinette, could jewels like
those of a Eugenie, make a wife in such
a companionship happy?
IMPRISONED IN A CASTLE
Her gold bracelets are the chains of a
lifelong servitude. There is a sword
over her every feast, not like that of
Damocles staying suspended, but drop-
ping through her lacerated heart. Her
wardrobe is full of shrouds for deaths
which she dies daily, and she is buried
alive, though buried under gorgeous
upholstery. There is one word that
sounds under the arches, and rollsalong
the corridors, and weeps in the falling
fountains, and echoes in the shutting of
every door, and groans in every nots of
stringed and wind Instrument: **Woe!
Woe!” The oxen and sheep, in olden
times, brought to a temple of J upiter to
be sacrificed, used to be covered with
ribbons and flowers—ribbous on the
horns and flowers on the neck, But
the floral and ribboned decoration did
not make the stab of the butcher's
knife less deathful, and all the chande-
liers you hang over such & woman, and
all the robes with which you enwrap
ber, and all the ribbons with whieh you
adorn her, and all the bewitching
charms with which you embank her
footsteps, are the ribbons and flowers®f
@ horrible butchery.
As if to show how wretched a good
Woman may be in splendid surround.
ings, we have two recent illustrations,
TWO DUCAL PALACES
in Great Britain, They are the focus
of the best things that are possible in
art, mn literature, in architecture, the
accumulation of other estates, until
their wealth is beyond calculation, and
their grandeur beyond description. One
of the castles has a cabinet set with
gems that cost two million five hundred
thousand dollars, and the walls of it
bloom with Rembrandts and Clandes
and Poussins and Guidos and Raphaels,
and there are Southdown flocks in sum-
mer grazing on its lawns, and Arab
steeds prancing at the doorways on the
“first open day at the kennels.” From the
one castle the duchess has removed with
her children, because she can no longer
endure the orgies of her husband, the
duke, and in the other castle the duchess
remains, confronted by insults and
abominations, in the presence of which
I do not think God or decent society re-
quires a woman to remain,
Alas for those ducal country-seats!
They on a large scale illustrate what on
a smaller scale may be seen in many
places, that without moral character in
a husband, all the accessories of wealth
are to a wife's soul tantalization and
mockery. When Abigail finds Nabal,
her husband, beastly drunk, as she
comes home from interceding for his
fortune and life, it was no alleviation
that the old brute had possessions in
Carmel, and ‘“‘was very great. and
had three thousand sheep, and one
thousand goats, * and he the worst goat
The animal in his nature
seized the soul and ran off with it. De.
GFNTEEL VILLAINS
are to be expurgated. Instead of being
welcomed into respectable society bee
cause of the amount of stars and garters
they ought to be fumigated two or three
years before they are allowed, without
peril to themselves, to put their hand
on the door-knob of a moral house, The
time must come when a masculine
estray will be as repugnant to good
society as a feminine estray, and no
coat of arms or family emblazonry or
epaulet can pass a Lothario unchal-
lenged among the sanctities of home
life. By what law of God or ectiimon
sense, is an Absalom better than a
Delilah, a Don Juan better than a Mes.
salina? The brush that paints the one
black must paint the other black.
But what a spectacle it was when last
sammer much of “watering-place”
society went wild with enthusiasm over
an unclean foreign dignitary, whose
name in both hemispheres is a synonym
for profligacy, and princesses of Anser-
fean society from all parts of the land
had him ride in their carrisges and sit
at their tables, though they knew him
10 be a portable lazaretto, a charnel
house of moral putrefaction, his breath
a typhoid, his foot that of a Satyr and
his touch death, Here is an evil that
men cannot stop, but women may.
KEEP ALL SUCH oUT
of your parlors, have no recognition for
them in the street, and no more think
of allying your life and destiny with
theirs than “gales from Araby’ would
consent to pass the honeymoon with an
Egyptian plague. All that money or
social position that a bad man brings to
a woman in marriage is a did de
spair, a gilded horror, a brilliant agony,
a prolonged death ; and the longer the
marital union lasts, the more evident
will be the fact, that she might better
never have been born, Yet you and I
have been at brilliant weddings, where,
before +The feast was (ver, he Dride-
groom's tongue was thick,
glassy, and his step a stagger, rly
clicked glasses with jolly comrades, all
over thee!” Let Him put upon thee
the ring of this royal marriage, Here
is an honor worth reaching after, By
repentance and faith yon may come into
a marriage with the Emperor of uni-
versal dominion, and you may be an
Empress unto God forever, and reign
with Him in palaces that the centuries
cannot crumble, or cannonades de-
molish,
High, worldly marriage is not neces-
sary for woman, or marriage of any
Kind, in order to your happiness. Celi-
bacy has been honored by the best Be-
ing that ever lived and His greatest
apostles—Christ and Paul, What
higher honor could single life on earth
have? But what you need, O WOINAL,
isto be aManced forever and forever.
and the banns of that marriage I am
this moment here and now ready to pub-
lish. Let the angels of heaven bend
from their galleries of Hght to witness,
while I pronounce you one—a loving
God and a forgiven soul.
One of the most stirring passages in
history with which I am acquainted,
tells us how Cleopatra, the exiled Queen
of Egypt, won the sympathies of Julius
Cmsar, the conqueror, until be became
the bridegroom, and she the bride,
Driven from her throne, she sailed away
on the Mediterranean Sea in & storm,
and when the large ship anchored, she
put out with one womanly friend ina
small boat, until she arrived at Alexan-
dria, where was Casar, the great gen-
eral. Knowing that she would not be
permitted to land or pass the guards on
the way to Cwsar's palace, she laid
upon the bottom of the boat some
shawls and scarfs and richly dyed uphol-
stery, and then lay down upon them,
and her friend wrapped her in them.
and she was admitted ashore in this
Wrapping of which was an-
nounced as
A PRESENT FOR CESAR,
This bundle was permitted to pass the
guards of the gates of the palace and
was put down at the feet of the Roman
general. When the bundle was un-
rolled, there arose before Cwmsar one
whose courage and beauty and brillian-
cy are the astonishment of the ages,
This exiled queen of Egypt told the
story of her sorrows, and he promised
her that she should get back her throne
gods,
dominion in his own heart. Afterward
they made a triumphal tour in a barge
that the pictures of many art galleries
have called “Cleopatra's Barge,"
that barge was covered with
awnings, and its deck was soft
luxuriant
silver-tipperd, and the prow was gold
and
with
the spicery of tropical gardens, and re-
sonpant with the music that
night glad as the day.
are not a Cleopatra, and that the One to
the sins of Cwsar, the conqueror. But
and sky, Though it may be a dark night
of spiritual agitation in which you put
out into the harbor of peace, you may sail,
be found at the feet of Him who will
put you on a throne to be acknowledged
as His in the day when all the silver
trumpets of the sky shall proclaim :
ina barge of light you sail with Him
of glass mingled with fire.
EE ———
He Was an Economist.
mile,” an old negro asked of a street
car conductor. *'I wanter go out ter
see Brudder *Lias Smif. Ain't er flosh-
an'-blood brudder yet, understan’, jes
er brudder in de faith.”
“Five cents.’
“Jes for er mile? I tell yer dat de
man ain't more sho nuff er brudder—
jes a brudder in the faith.”
“The fare is five conte.”
“Jes for er mile?"
“Yea!
“How much is it fer two miles?"
“Just the same,"
“Look yere, how fur vou take me fur
fi’ cents?”
“Five miles.
“Whut's de name o' (le place?”
“City limits.»
“Take me all de" way out fur
cents?”
“An' won't take me mo’n er mile
wa'r Brodder Smif libs for no less?”
“No. 5"
“1 ain’t got no bizness out dar at
your limits, but yer may take me out
dar an’ I'l walk back ter war Brud-
der Smif libs. Yere's money, sah;
I'se one o’ dese p*li ‘economists an
blebs in gettin’ de full worth o' mer
money. It would be er mighty fool
man that would pay er dollar fur er
pair o” britches w’en he kin get er whol
suit o’ close fur de same price. Take
me on to yer limits, sah.”
sm
A Gallant Resoue,
SUNDAY SCHOGL LESSON.
Busoay, Fen, b, 1888,
The Transfiguration.
LESSON TEXT.
(Matt. 17: 1.18, Memory verses, 4, i.)
LESSON PLAN.
Toric oF THE QUARTER: Jesus the
King tn Zion.
GOLDEN TEXT FOR THE QUARTER:
He is Lord of lords, and King of kings:
and they that are with him are called,
and chosen, and fatthful.—Rev, 17 : 14.
Lesson Toric: The King's Follow-
ers Honored,
Lesson (1 By a Wondrous Spectacle, va, 1-4
Outline : 5% By a Divine Message, va. 5.49,
* (8. By a Gracious Instructor, ve. 9-18.
GoLpeN Text: And there came a
voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my
beloved Bon: hear him, —Luke 9 : 35.
M. Matt. 17 : 1-13.
followers honored.
T.—Mark 9: 2-13.
led narrative,
W-—Luke 9 : 28.346,
lel narrative,
T. Exod.
closed to Moses,
F.—~1 Kings 19 :
closed to Elijah,
, S.~Ezek, 1 : 4.28,
to Ezekiel,
S.Rev, 7: 9-17.
to the redeemed.
The King’s
Mark's paral-
Luke's paral-
33 : 12:23. God dis-
1-18. God dis-
God disclosed
(rod disclosed
LESSON ANALYSIS,
I. HONORED BY A WONDROUS SPEC-
TACLE,
IL The Shining Face :
His face did shine as the sun (2).
The fashion of his countenance was al-
tered (Luke 9 : 20),
A light... .above the brightness of the
sun (Acts 26 : 13).
The glory of God in the face of Jesus
Christ (2 Cor, 4 : 8).
His countenance was as the sun Rev.
1:16).
| IL The White Raiment :
i
! light (2).
:
:
§
}
i
3
!
|
He interpreted to them... the things
concerning himself (Luke 24 ; 27),
II Foretelling Events :
Even so shall the Son of man suffer
of them (12),
Begzn Jesus to show... how that he
must. . . . be killed (Matt. 16: 21).
The Son of man shall come in his glory
(Matt, 25:81).
Though he die, yet shall he lve (Joh
11 : 25).
Again a little while, and ye shall sec
me (John 16 : 16),
L “Tell the vision to no man.” (1
The wonderful vision ; (2) The na-
tural publication! (8) required
secrecy.
. “Elijah is come already.” (1) An
expected coming ; (2) An errone-
ous understanding ; (3) An asuthor-
tative explanation,
3, "Even so shall the Son of man aiso
suffer of them.” (1) How John did
suffer ; (2) How Jesus shall suffer,
~{(1) The persecutors ; (2) The vic-
tims ; (3) The sufferings,
LESSON BIBLE READING,
THE TRANESFIGURATION,
The occasion (Matt, 17 : 1; Mark 9 ; 2:
Luke 9 : 28).
Jesus’ companions (Matt, 17 : 1; Mark
9:2; Luke 9: 28),
The place (Matt. 17: 1; Mark 9: 2:
Luke 9 : 28),
His first act (Luke 9 : 28, 20).
The fact of transfiguration [Matt. 17 :
2; Mark 9 : 2).
His transfignred
Luke 0 : 20),
His transfigured raiment (Matt, 17 :
Mark 9 : 3: Luke 9 : 29).
His guests (Mass, 17 : 3:
Luke 8 : 301.
Their appearance (Luke 9 : 31),
Their conversation (Luke 9 : 31).
What the disciples saw (Luke 9
(Matt, 17 :
face
Mark 2 :
wy
I
Peter's comment (Matt, 17 : 4; Mark
9:5, 6; Luke 9: 33).
The cloud (Matt, 17 : Oy; Mask 9:7
Luke 9 : 34).
The voice (Matt. 17: 5; Mark 0: 7
Luke 9 : 85).
Fears quieted (Matt. 17 : 6, 7).
Jesus only (Matt, 17 : 8; Mark 9 :
Luke 9 : 36),
HR
! ceeding white (Mark 0: 3).
| His raiment became white and dazzling
i {(Luke?9 : 20),
| They shall walk with me in white (Ros
3:4).
i II The Supernatural Visitors :
| There appeared Moses and Elijab
talking with li
i So Moses, | did
Moab { Deut, 34 : 5).
| Elijah went up by a whirlwind
heaven (2 Kings 2: 11).
There appeared unto them Elijah with
Moses (Mark 9 © 4).
| Moses and Elijah :
glory {Luke 9: 31).
1. “Bringeth them up into
mountain apart.” (1) Selected
of Jesus ; (2) Submissive to Jesus :
(4) Led of Jesus: (4) Alone with
Jesus: (5) Honored of Jesus: (6)
Happy in Jesus,
i
there nn the land of
into
who appeared in
and Elijah.” (1) Representing the
law and the prophets; (2) Repre-
senting the dead and the translated:
(3) Acknowledging the Messiah's
majesty,
4 “It is good for us to be here.” (1
Here, in the place of duty; (2)
Here, in the place of honor ; (3) Here,
inthe place of privilege.—(1) The
place ;: (2) The beneficiaries: (3)
The blessing ; (4) The benefactors.
E I've Voice:
{5}.
And lo, a voice out of
(Matt. 3:17).
the heavens
{Mark 9: 7.
A voice came out of the cloud (Luke
9: 35).
There came such a voice. ...from the
excellent glory (2 Pet. 1: 17).
IL The Message :
This Is my beloved Son :
! him (5),
{ This is my beloved Son, in whom I am
well pleased (Matt, 3 : 17).
This is my beloved Son: hear ye him
{Mark 9: 7).
This is my Son, my chosen: hear ye
him (Luke 9 : 35).
I have both glorified it, and will glorify
it again (John 12: 25).
Il. The Impression :
They fell on their face, and were gore
afraid (6),
Let not God speak with us, lest we die
{Exod. 20: 19).
If we hear the voice... .any more, then
we shall die (Deut, 5 : 25).
The multitude... .said that
thundered (Jolin 12 : 20),
They that heard entreated that no word
more should be spoken (Heb, 12; 19),
1 “This is my beloved Son,” Py,
The approving Father; (2) .
honored Son.--{1) The
The hearers ; (3) The
2. “Hear ye him,”
...hear ve
it had
your 1) Hear, to learn; (2
— (8) Hear, to obey,
3. “Jesus ony a ha a present
oom 3 a glorious
friend a; () As an authorized in-
structor ; (4) As a divine Saviour.
fl. HONORED BY A GRACIOUS IN.
them, mying, Tell
Asano having nithority
10; Luke 9 : 36),
17, 18).
LESSON SURROUNDINGS.
In all three accounts, the transfigura-
a journey of some length. Mount Tabor
in Lower Galillee, nearly due west of
the southern end of the lake of Genne-
This would be the longest con-
Unuous journey of our Lord’s ministry,
so far as the record shows: and it seems
be passed by without notice,
Moreover, the account of Mark jm-
plies (without directly affirming) that
the healing of the lunatic boy at the
The evident purpose of
ment for the instruction of the disciples,
Casaren Philippi, and that the “high
Other sites have been suggested, but
tradition since the fourth century has
Indeed, there was probably a
The time is one week after that of
the last lesson, in the summer of the
year of Rome 782 — A. D. 20.
Parallel passages: Mark 9
Luke 9 : 298.96.
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The Latest in Paper,
2-13;
Doors, which one would think wers
polished mahogany, but that they
posed each of two thick paper
stamped and moulded into panels, and
glued together with glue and potash,
and then rolled through heavy rollers,
These doors are first covered with a
waterproof coating, then painted and
varnished, and bung in the ordinary
way. Few persons can detect that
they are not made of wood, particular-
ly when used as sliding doors,
Black walnut is said to ba getting
very scarce in this country, but picture
frames are now made of
colored like walnut, and are so Der-
fect that HO une oui detect Shem
without cutting t . Paper, Pp,
glue, linseed oil and carbonate of lime
or whiting are mixed together and heat-
ed into a thick cream, which, on being
allowed to cool, is run into moulds and
hardened,
: be
handsome pianos manufactured from
paper, a French invention. A beruti-
musical instritten ent of this kind. “as