DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON
The Epidemic of Suicide.
“He drew out his sword and would have
killed himself, suppo-ing that the prisoners
had been fled. But Paul oried with a loud
woice, saying, Do thyself no harm." Aots, 16 ;
5
ile € is a would-be suicide arrested
in Lis deadly attempt, He was a sheriff
and according to the Roman law, a
bailiff himself must suffer the punish-
ment due an escaped prisoner; and if
the prisoner breaking jail was sentenced
to be endungeoned for th eo or four
years, then the sheriff must be endung-
eoned for three or four years; and if the
prisoner breaking jail was to have suf-
fered capital punishment, then the
sheriff must suffer capital punishment,
The sheriff had received especial charge
to keep a sharp lookout for Paul and
Silas, The government bad uot had cone
fidence in bolts and bars to keep safe
these two clergymen, about whom
theie seamed to be something
ETRANGE AND SUPERNATURAL.
Sure enough, by miraculous power,
they ure free, and the sheriff, waking
out of a sound sleep, and supposing
these ministers bave run away, and
knowing that they were to die for
preaching Christ, and realizing that
be wust therefore die, rather than go
under tha executioner’s axe on the mor-
row and suffer public disgrace, resolves
to precipitate his own decease,
before the sharp, keen, glittering dag-
ger of the sheriff could strike his heart,
one of the unloosened prisoners arrests
the biade by the command: “*Do thy-
self nd harm.’
IN OLDEN TIME,
fered with it, suicide was considered
honorable and a sign of courage.
Demosilirnes poizoned himself
told that Alexander's ambassador had
deiranded the surrender of the Athen-
jan owators., Isocrates killed himself
rather than surrender to Philip of
Macedon, Cato, rather than submit
after three times Lis wounds had been
dressed tore them open and perished,
Mithridates killed himself rather than
submit to Pompey, the conqueror.
Hannibal destroyed his life by poison
from his ring, considering iife unbear-
able, Lycurgus a suicide, Brutus a
suicide, After thedisaster of Moscow,
Napoleon always carried with him a
preparation of opium, ani one nignt
his servant heard the ex-emperor arise,
putsomei! ing in a glass and di it,
and ston after the groans aroused all
the attendants, and it was oniy through
utmost medical skill he was resuscitat-
ed from the stupor of the opiate. Times
have changed, and yet
AMERICAN CONSCIENCE
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THE
needs to Le toned up on the subject of
suicide. Have you seen a paper in the
Jast month that did not announce i
passage out of life by one’s own behest?
Defauiters, alarmed at the idea of ex-
posure, t life precipitately. Men
loging lage
wtunes go out of the
world because 3
they cannot endure
earthly existence. Frustrated affection,
domestic infelicity, dyspeptic impati-
anger, remorse, envy, jealousy,
tution, misanthropy, are consider-
icient causes for absconding from
¢ by Paris-green, by laudanum,
by belladonna, by Othello’s dagger, by
halter, by leap from the abutment of a
bridge, by fire-arms. More cases of
felo dle sin the last two years than any
two years of the world’s existence, and
mote in the last month than in any
twelve months, The evil Is more and
score spreading.
A vulpit aot long ago expressed some
doubt us to whether there was really
anything wrong about quitting this lite
when it became disagreeable, and there
are found in respectable circles people
apologetic for the crime which Paul in
the text arrested, I shall show you be.
fore { get through that sulcule is
THE WORST OF ALL CRIMES,
he
il
bie. But in the early part of this ser-
mon I wish to admit that some of the
best Christians that have ever lived
have committed self-destruction, but
always in dementia, and not re-
sponsible. I have no more doubt
of the Christian who dies in his bed in
the delirium of typhoid fever, While
the shock of the catastrophe is very
Christian friends under cerebral aberra-
tion step off the boundaries of this life,
to have no doubt about their happiness,
fect safety,
kind way lle treated the demoniac of
«Gadara and the child lunatic, and the
potency with which He hushed temp-
ests ¢ither of sea or brain.
WILLIAM COWPER'S ESCAPE.
No one doubted the piety of William
“Cowper, the author of those three great
bymus, “Oh, for a closer walk with
“God,” “What various hindrances we
meet,” “There Is a fountain filled with
blood’; William Cowper, who shares
with Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley
the chief honors of Christian hymno«
logy. In hypochondria he resolved to
take Lis own life, and rode to the river
Thames, but found a man seated on
some goods at the very point from
which he expected to spring, and rode
back to his home, and that night threw
hums: If upon Ins own knife, but the
blade broke; and then he hanged him-
self to the ceiling, but the rope parted,
No wonder that when God mereifully
delivered him from that awful dementia
he sat down and wrote that other hymn
Just as memorable:
“God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders (0 :
He plants His footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm,
“Blind unbelief is sure to err
And sean His work In vain
4304 is his His own interpreter,
And He will make It plain,”
While we make this merciful and
“righteous allowance in regard to those
who were plunged into mental Incoher-
-snce, I declare that that man who in
the use of his reason, by his own act
snaps the bond between his body an
his soul, goes straight into perdition,
«Shall 1 prove it? , Revelation 21 : 8:
i graph kd shall have their part in the
. w ]
stone.” Revelation 22 : 16: “With-
out are dogs and sorcerers and whore-
mongers and murderers.’’ You do not
believe the New Testament? Then,
perhaps, you believe the Ten Command-
ments: **Thou shalt not kill.’* Do
you say all these passages refer to the
taking of the life of others? Then I
ask you if you are not as responsible
for your own life as for the life of
others. God gave you a special trust in
your life. He made you
THE CUSTODIAN OF YOUR LIFE,
as He made you the custodian of no
other life, He gave you as weapons
with whieh to defend it two arms to
strike back assailants, two eyes to watch
which ought ever to be on the alert,
Assassination ot others is a mild crime
compared with the assassivation of
yourself, because in the latter case it is
treachery to an especial trust, it is
the surrender of a castle you were es-
pecially appointed to keep, it is treason
to a natural law, and it is treason to
God added to ordinary murder,
To show how God in the Bible
{ ed upon this erime, I point you L»
| THE ROGERS' PICTURE-GALLERY
in some parts of the Bible, the pictiires
of the people who have committed this
unnatural crime, Ilere is the headl ss
trunk of Saul on the walls of Batlis-
ban. Here is the man who
[ little David—ten feet in stature chasing
| four. Here is the man who consulted
a clairvovaut, Witch of Endor. Here
is a man who, whipped in
look-
i his servant to slay him; and when the
| servant declined, then the giant plants
| the hilt of his sword 1n the earth, the
sharp point sticking upward, and he
throws Lis body on it and expires, the
the suicide. Here is Ahit-
ophel, the Machiavelli of olden times,
Not getting what
wanted by change of politics,
takes a short-cut out of a disgraced life
into the suicide’seternity, There he is,
Lae ing
[re is
cide.
a tower, ella Ww
takes a griud
drops it upon his
life he left in his
commands his
ate!
Abimelech, practically a sul-
with an army, bombarding
man in the tower
stone from its place and
head, and with what
cracked skull he
armor-bearer: “Draw
thy sword and slay me, say a
his post-
Has
est men
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the Lx
me.’
mortem photograph in
uel. But
wk of Sam-
THE HERO OF 1
Dr. Doane
I His GRouU pe
is Judas Iscariot,
was a martyr, and we have in our day
apologists for him. And what wonder,
in this day when we have a book reveal-
ing Aaron Burr as a pattern of v
and mn day when we
statue of Georges Sand as the benefac-
tress of literature, and in this day when
there are betrayals of Christ on the part
of some of His
betrayal wk it
of Judas Iscariot white!
bis own hand h
the
fi4
353
Says On
irtue,
this uncover a
pretended aposties—a
so bl makes the infamy
Yet this man
for the exe-
fas Iscariot.
yy ane it
oy Ali
cration © ages,
r the Dible is against
the aversion hh it
loathsome and ghastly
ae who have hurled
life, and notwith-
hristianily Is against It, and
iments and the useful lives and
illustrious deat its disciples, it
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Ziy patent that suicide
wh iy
wal ii
of
is a fact alarmin
is on the increase,
WHAT IS THE CAUSE?
infidelity and agnosti-
If there be no
be bliss.
without reference to how we live
and how we die, why not move back
the folding-doors between this world
and the next? And whenour existence
here becomes troublesome, why not pass
right over into Elysium? Put this
down among your most solemn reflec-
tions, and consider it after you go to
your homes; there has never been a
case of suicide where the operator was
not either demented, and therefore irre-
sponsible, or an infidel, I challenge all
Charge upon
ism this whole
thin
LE.
131
Li
verse, There never has been a case of
| self-destruction while in full apprecia-
ed Jesus Christ or rejected Him,
it 1s that, or 1t is the other
Why not go clear back, my
| friend, and acknowledge that in every
case itis the abdication of reason or
THE TEACHING OF INFIDELITY,
which practically says: “If you don’t
| like this life get out of it, and you will
| land either in annihilation, where there
ard no notes to pay, no persecutions to
suffer, no gout to torment, or you will
land where there will be everything
glorious and nothing to pay for it??? In.
fidelity always has been apologetic for self
| immolation. After Tom Paine’s “*Age
| of Reason’ was published and widely
read, there was a marked increase of
self-slaughiter.
INFIDELITY PUTS UP NO BAR
to people’s rushing out from this world
into the next. They teach us it does
not make any difference how you: live
hete or go out of this world: you will
land either in an oblivious nowhete or
a glorious somewhere. And infidelity
holds the upper end of the rope for the
suicide, and aims the pistol with which
man blows his brains out, and
mixes the strychnine for the last swal-
low. If infidelity could carry the day
and persuade the majority of people in
this country that it does not make any
difference how you go out of the world
you will land safely, the Hudson and
the East rivers would be so fall of
corpses the ferry-boats woud be im-
peded in their progress, and the crack
of a suicide’s pistol would be no more
alarming than the rumble of a street.
i this,
| thing.
or
car,
Would God that the coroners would
be brave in rendering the right verdiet,
aud when in a case of irresponsibility
they say: “While this man was dement-
ed he took his life; dn the other case
say: “Having read infidel books and
attended infidel lectures, which obliter-
ated from this man’s mind all appre-
ciation of future retribution, he com-
mitted selt-slaughter!”
Ah! Infidelity, stand up and Sake thy
sentence! In the presence of God, angels
and men,
STAND UP, THOU MONSTER,
thy lip blasted with blasphemy, thy
cheek scarred with lust, thy breath foul
with the corruption of the ages! Stand
up, Satyr, filthy goat, buzzard of the
nations, leper of the centuries! Stand
up, thou monster, Infidelity! Part man,
part panther, part reptile, part dragon,
stand up and take thy sentence! Thy
hands red with the blood in which thou
hast washed, thy feet crimson with the
human gore through which thou hast
waded, stand up and take thy sentence!
Down with thee to the pit, and sup on
the sobs and groans of families thou hast
blasted, and roll on the bed of knives
which thou hast sharpened for others,
and let thy music be the everlasting
miserere of those whom thou hast
damned! I brand the forshead of Iufi-
delity with all the crimes of self-lmmo-
lation for the last century on the part
of those who had their reason.
My friends, if ever your life through
{ its abrasions and its molestations should
seem to be unbearable, and you are
tempted to quit it by your own behest,
do not consider yourself as worse than
others, Christ Himself was tempted
to cast Himself from the roof of the
Temple; but as He resisted, so resist ye,
Christ came to medicine all our wounds,
i In your trouble 1 prescribe life in-
| stead of death, People who have had
it, worse than you will ever have it,
{ have gone songful on the way. Re-
member that
GOD KEEPS THE CHRONOLOGY
of your life with as much precision as
He keeps the chronology of nations,
| your death as well as your cradle, Why
was it that at midnight, just at mid-
night, the destroying angel struck the
| blow that set the Israelites free from
years were up at twelve
might, The four hundred
years were not up at eleven, and
o'clock would have been tardy and too
late, The four hundred and thirty
years were up al twelve o'clock, and
the destroylug angel struck the blow,
and Israel was free, And God knows
i just the hour when it is time to lead
| you up from earthly bondage. Dy Iis
grace make not the worst of things, but
the best of them. If you must take
the pills, do not chew them,
| everlasting rewards will accord with
your earthly perturbations, just as
Caius gave to Agrippa a chain of gold
as heavy as had been a chain of iron.
For the asking-—and I to
whom I speak in thisaugust assemblage,
{ but the word may be especially ap
priate-for your asking, you may have the
same grace that was given to
Italian martyr, Algerius, who, down in
the darkest of dungeons, dated his
ter from “‘the delectable orchard of
Leonine prison.’’ And remember
this brief
IFE
one
do not know
3 (pe
Lic
el
the
that
IS SURROUNDED BY
very tl but very
close up to that
ty, and you had
of it untii God breaks that rim and
separates this from that, To get rid of
the sorrows of eurih, do not rush into
greater sorrows. Toget rid of a st
of summer i into a juogie
of Beugal tigers,
There 18 a
80 radiant that
A RIM,
important nm,
rim a great
better keep out
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and
etern
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sects, leap not
tep, at
noriern
mers as to what 3
the lowest doors
Hghta up our
| founding astro
be, is the waving
procession come «
home from church militant to
triumphant, and you and I have ten
thousand reasons for wanting to go
| there, but we will never get there either
by self-immolation or impenitency. All
our sins slain by the Christ who came
to do that thing, we want to go in at
just the time divinely arranged, and
from a couch.divinely spread, and then
| the clang of the sepuichral gates behind
| us will be overpowered by the clang of
thé opening of the solid pearl before us,
{0 God, whatever other others may
choose, give
| Christian's death, a Christian's burial,
i a Christian's immortality!
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A Good Kind of Face to Have.
| well-defined nose and a broad face ex-
{ hibits this great faculty.
Moral Courage.—This faculty mani-
| fests itself by wide nostrils, short neck
| and eyes set directly in front,
Language.—This faculty is exhibited
in many parts of the face, particularly
by a large mouth and large, full eyes,
opened wide,
Self-esteem, — This faculty shows its.
elf in a long or deep upper lip. Large
self-esteem gives one dignity, self.con.
trol and perfect independence,
Firmness. The presence of this fac-
ulty, when very large, is indicated by a
long, broad chin. Firmness is syanony-
mous with willulness, perseverance and
stability.
Perception of Characteér.—This is in-
| dicated by a long, high nose at the low-
er end or tip, This faculty is very use-
ful, if not indispensible, to a judge in
the exercise of the functions of his of-
fice,
Powers of Observation.—The sitn-
ation of this faculty is in the face, just
above the top of the nose, filling out the
forehead to a level with: the parts on
each side of the nose, It is a faculty
which enables one to concentrate the
mind upon the subject being discussed.
Consclentiousness,— This is shown in
the face by a square jaw, a bony chin
prominent cheek bones, and a general
squareness of the features of the entire
face, To be conscientious means that
one has a sense of justice, honesty of
purpose, rectitude of character and
moral courage.
“Mu, Joxms,” said little Johnny to
the gentleman who was making an af-
tetnoon call, “can whiskey talk?”
‘*No, my child; how cams you to ask
such a question?’
“Oh! nothing, only ma sald whiskey
was beginning to tell on you.”
The polonaise was never very popular
in France, being too slow and .
going. It fa great enjoyment
to the Germans
RELIGION DURING WAR.
Why New Orleans Wasn't Dom-
barded.
a———————
Beforp Butler arrived with his troops,
Admiral Farragut steamed up in his
flagship, the Hartford, followed by his
fleet, and took possession of the city in
the name of the United States govern-
ment. A company of marines was sent
on shore, and shortly after the Blars
and Stripes were floating over the cus-
tom house, The city was captured but
not subjected, and Admiral Farragut,
apprehending some attempt might be
made to take down the colors, arranged
a plan of action in case the attempt
should be made, A couple of howilzers
were fastened in the rigging of the
Hartford, and a man stationed at each
one. From this elevated position the
lookouts could command a good view
of the custom house and the town.
They were instructed at first indication
of an attempt to haul down the flag to
fire thelr guns. A broadside from the
Hartford would follow, and this would
be the signal for the whole fleet to open
fire on the city,
The next day was Sunday. Farra-
gut, who was a very religious man had
ordered all hand below for prayers, only
the officers of the day and the two look-
outs remaining above deck. Rain
were exposed to the weather. The offi-
ver, wishing to save the fuses from be-
and removed them to place of shelter.
custom house,
their i
ending. Of.
an abrupt
thelr places, The thoughtfulness
officers of the day In removing
the fuses caused a sight delay, and be-
fore the broadside could be delivered,
the lookouls reporied to the admiral
that they saw no indications of
turbance or unusual excitement in the
streets, and Farragut concluded that
the hauling down of. the flag was the
act of some reckless i
{ the city
revolt of y, a8 i
Hi «fi
or
re
tigate the matter first,
order to hold the fre,
have prevented the total
New Orleans if the fleet had
menced to il the town.
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There, aithough i
gods, they talk and laugh as if
¥ were their boon compan
One of them takes an
mine flowers, strung together as a gar
land, and crosses the court beneath the
roseate moon. He goes to a small, so-
where stands an idol
which seems more ancient than any of
others. It is a divinity with six
arms, a high head dress and big glass
eyes of a ferocious aspect. He is there
a small lamp that through re-
spent has been lighted in front of him
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Without even casting a look upon
fust as
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Don't Fight the T_ ..n.
s——
self, and you c#a rest assured you are
you want to keep it up. Horses, like
men, are generally set in their ways,
only a moderate senses the two general-
from morning till night. Well-bred
horses are seldom stubborn and unruly,
amd in this respect there is a striking
analogy between horses and men,
Horses docile, sbedient and tractable
and unruly in the hands of another.
The reason is, the one knows how to
manage them, the other does not. Baa
dispositions are generally the result of
bad handling. A few slaps and jerks,
accompanied bya little sharp talk or
a few tierce yells, get the most gentle
horse clear beside himself and ready
to worry and fret the remainder of the
day. The more gulet and steady you
keep your horses the better it will be
for them, yourself and all concerned.
“Glassblower's Cheek.”
Though the wages or remuneration
in glass blowing are very high, the io-
dustry is pot popular, Its unpopular-
ity is no more than natural, the labor
being severe and exhausting, the pain
and discomfort great, and the health-
fulness being ubpleasantly small to
those engaged. It has a characteristic
disease-—the glamblower’s cheek just
as the white loa and quicksilver in-
dustries have their specitic ills, From
long-continued blowing, the cheeks, at
first muscular, grow thin and lose their
elasticity; they then begin to hang
down like inverted pockets and finally
grow absolutely unusable. It is a mats
ter of record both here and in Europe
that glass operatives have blown holes
through their cheeks, but no living
curiosity of this sort can be found
the present time, :
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
Buspay, NoviMpen 4, 1888,
Defeat at Al
LESSON TEXT.
osh, 7: 1-12, Memory verses,
LESSON PLAN.
Toric or THE QUANTER:
Promises Fulfilled,
GOLDEN TEXT ror THE QUARTER:
There railed not aught of any good thing
which the Lord had spoken unio the
house of Israel ; all came to puss.——Josh,
21 : 45.
God's
Lesson Toric: Failing Through
Transgression,
1. Disaster, va. 1-5,
Lesson | }¢ ber, :
Outline: 4 % Distress, va. 6.9,
Heproof, va, 10.12,
TEXT:
=
GOLDEN Incline my heart
Psa, 119 : 36,
DAaiLy Home
ness, -
LEADINGS:
transgression,
Josh, 7 : 13-26,
from Israel,
W.—Josh, 8 : 1.28
Al.
T.—=Judg. 16 :4-
transgression,
F.—Rev. 2
iniquity.
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imquity.
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fense,
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JESSON
1. DISAST
I. Trespass ;
Iaras § COMIN wl ¢
voted thing (1
ity shall be
ial 18 therein
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vourselves from
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make
: AB),
II. Anger:
The ang:
against
Il. Defeat:
They ¢
I. Prostrate Suppliants:
Joshua rent his clothes,
the earth,
Jacob rent his
ed (Gen, 37 : 34).
Moses and Aaron fell
Num. 14 5.
David fasted, . ...and lay all
the earth (2 Sam. 12: 16).
Job . fell down upon the grou
worshipped (Job 1 : 20),
Il. Piteous Lamentations:
| Alas, O Lord God,....would that we
had... .dwelt bevond Jordan! (7).
All these things are against me
42 : 36).
How are the mighty fallen in the mi
of the battle! (2 Sam. 1 : 25).
Would God I had died for thee, O Absa-
lom, my son (2 Sam. 18 33),
Let the day perish wherein 1 was born
{Job 3 : 3).
ill. Earnest Inquiries:
What wilt t do for
name? (9,
Wherefore should the Egyptian
sayving—? (Exod. 32 : 1
O Lord, wherewith shall
(Judg. 6 : 15)
Shew me wherefore
with me {Job 10 : 2},
Return, ©O Lord;
00 : 13).
1. “He and the elders of Israel.” (1)
One in calamity; (2) One in humih-
ation; (3) One in supplication; (4)
One in deliverance,
“Alas, O Lord God, wherefore?"
(1) Lamentation; (2) Appeal; (3)
Inquiry.—(1) Our refuge in trouble;
Le and the ei
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RATTHENLE, . ,. 3
(Cren.,
dst
hou
8 speak,
“3
1 say
©
thon
%
long?
how { Psa.
deliverer in trouble,
. “What wilt thou do for thy great
name?’ (1) God’s great name dis-
honored: (2) God's great name ex-
alted,
iL. REPROOY,
I. Action Demanded:
Get thee up; wherefore art thou thus
fallen?
Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem
(Isa. 51 : 47).
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit
thee down (Isa. 52 : 2).
Why tarciest thou? arise, and be bap-
tised {Acts 22 : 16),
from the dead (Eph, 5 : 14).
iL Transgression Charged:
Israel hath sinned (11).
The children of Israel committed a
trespass (Josh, 7:1).
lis angels he chargeth with folly (Job
4:18),
There 2 none that doeth good, no, not
one (Psa. 14 : 3).
They are all under sin (Rom. 3 : 9).
11 Repentance Enforced:
I will pot be with you anymore, ex-
copt ve destroy the devoted thing (12).
If thy presence go not with me, carry
us not up hence (Exod,
Cast me not away from
(Psa, 51: 11).
| Except ye repent, ve shall all i
manner perish (Luke 13 : 3),
I....will move thy candlestick out of
its place, except thou repent (Rev,
&
~
ie
35 : 15},
thy prerence
i.
In LRe
1. “Get thee up.” (1) Inactive ripine-
ing condenined; (2) Holy activity
commanded,
2. “They have even transgressed uy
covenant,” (1) God’s covenant eos-
tablished; (2) God's covenant trans-
gressed; (3) God's covenant vindi-
cated,
“1 will not be with You any more,
except.” (1) The benefits of God's
presence, (2) The conditions of
God's presence,
LESSON BIBLE READING,
PENALTIES OF TRANSGIESSION,
the ground
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| Sorrow to mankind (Gen, 3 : 1
Job 14 : 1),
4 Shame |
| Disquiet (Psa, 38
Temporal reverses
Death (Gen, 2 : ¥
6:23Jas. 1: 1§
(Gen, 3:
wom, 6
11
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IROUNDINGS,
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American Inventions in Madrid.
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Drinks’ and found-—a
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article positively unkn in Engl
The words “Ingleses’ meets the eye
every oorner modern Madrid,
There are for iglishh hats, Eng-
lish cravats, Eng biscuits, English
candles and matches, etc. One
comes across German goods occasional-
ly—a lithographic estdblishment or a
| Wagner opera in the window of a music
store by the side of ‘Carmen,’ but the
English predominates, ever over the
French, which bas always hitherto
made its influence felt in Madrid, In
fact, the Spanish capital has never
been a thoroughly Spanish city.
Though known to history almost a
thousand years, it remained a mere
village until Charlies V made it his oc-
casional residence, and Phillip 11, in
1560, his capital, and even then it did
not grow with special rapidity, for of
its 500,000 iuhabitants, 300,000 have
been added in the last thirty years
consequently a large part of the city has
| an essentially modern aspect, resembi-
ing other European cities,
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Letters of Ancient Times.
A remarkable discovery has been
{made in Egypt of tables, or letters,
i which compose a literary correspon-
| dence of 3500 to 4000 years ago, carried
on between Egyptians and Asiatics,
{ The tablets now in Vienna represent
| Jetters and dispatches sent to Egypt by
| the governors and kings of Palestine,
| Syria, Babylonia, and other countries
| of western Asia. The find is remark-
able every way, and opens the people of
that age to us with freshnessand famil-
farity, it is clear that the literary
| spirit is very ancient, and Prof. Sayce
| surmises we shall yet find libraries of
| clay books, One town in Judah was
{called “Book Town,” or *“‘Library
{ Town.” The momentum of this dis.
{covery will be marked. Rich men
| should hesitate no longer to unearth the
| vast treasures of the orient.
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Flowers That Actresses Love,
-
Mra, Langtry’s love for that flower
has gained ber the name of *‘The
Lily.” Mrs Polter loves the red rose,
Miss Pauline Hall bas a ponchanfor
the great ox-eyed daisy. iss Marie
Jansen prefers the pansy. Fanny Da.
veuport loves the lily, the lotus and the
ros¢, Rose Coghlan in summer wears
great bunches of golden rod plucked
from the hedges about her farm at
Youkers, and in winter she wears La
France and big Jack roes. Thet orchid
is Mme Modjeska’s delight, although
she wears the more readily obtai eo
roses, Maude Harrison loves flowers
of all varieties,
This is the year for farmers to sow
barley in place of nats