DR. TALMAGRF'S SERMON. Rewards for the Dull *1'nto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man accord ing to his several ability."--Matt. 25 : 15, MANY of the parables of Jesus Christ weie more graphic in the times in which He lived than they are now, be- cause circumstances have so much changed. In olden times, when a man wanted to wreack a grudge upon his neighbor, after the farmer had scatter- ed the seed-wheat over the field, and was expecting the harvest, his enemy would go across the same field with a sack full of the seed of darnel-grass, scattering that seed all over the field, and, of course, it would sprout up and spoil the whole crop; and it was to that Christ referred in the parable when He spoke of the tares being sown among the wheat. In this land our farms are fenced off, and the wolves have been driven to the mountains, and we can- not fully understand the meaning of the parable in regard to the shepherd and the lost sheep. But the parable from which 1 speak to-day is founded on SOMETHING WE ALL UNDERSTAND, It is built on money, and that means the same in Jerusalem as in New York, It weans the same to the serf as to the czar, and to the Chinese coolie as to the emperor. Whether it is made out of bone or brass or iron or copper or gold or silver, it speaks all languages with- out a stammer. The parable of the text runs in this wise: The owner of a large estate was abont to leave home, and be had some money thdt he wished properly invested; and so he called to- gether his servauts and said: “Iam going away now, and I wish you would take this money and put it to the very best possible use; and when I come back return to me the interest.” To one man he gave $9,400, to others he gave lesser sums of money; to the least he gave $1,880, He left home and was gone for years, and then returned. On his arrival he was anxious to know about his worldly affairs, and he called his servants together to report, *‘Let me know,’? said he “WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN DOING with my property since 1 have been goue.’”’ The man who had received the $9,400 came up and said: *I invested that money. I got good interest for it, I have in other ways rightly employed it; and here are $18,800, You see I have doubled what you gave me.” “*That’s very good,” said the owner of the estate; ““that’s grandly done, mire your faithfulness and industry, | shall reward you, Well done—well done,”’ Otl.er servants came up with smaller accumulations, After a while, I see a man dragging himself along, with his head hanging. I know, from the way he comes in, that he is A LAZY FELLOW. tate, and 880.” * Wit property, vaven’t you made it ac- cumulate anything?” “Nothing — nothing.’’ **Why, what have you been about all these years?” “Oh, afraid that if I invested it I might somehow lose it, There are your $1,- 880." Many aman started out with only a crown in his pocket, and achiev- ed a fortune; but this fellow of my text, with $1,880, has gaiued fatbring. Instead of confessing his in dolence, he goes to work to berate his master——for indolence is most always impudent and impertinent. of course he loses his place, and is discharged from the service, The owner who went out into a far country is Jesus Christ going from earth to heaven. The servants spoken of in the text are members of the Church. The talents are our different qualifications of usefulness given in different proportions to different peo- ple. The coming back of the owner is the Lord Jesus returning at the Judg- ment to make final settlement, The raising of some of these men to be rulers over five or two cities is the ex- Says: while the casting out of the idler is the expulsion of all those who have misim- proved their privileges, Learn first, from this subject, that becoming a Christian is merely GOING OUT TO SERVICE, If you have any romantic idea zbout becoming a Christian, I want now to scatter the romance. If you enter into the kingdom of God, it will be going into plain, practical, honest, continu- ous, persistent Christian work, I know there are a great many people who have fantastic and romantic notions about this Christian life, but he who serves God with all the energies of body, mind and sole is a worthy servant, and he who does not is an unworthy servant, When the war-truupet sounds, all the Lord's soldiers must march, however deep the snow may be, or however fear- ful the odds against them. Under our Government we may have colonels and captains and generals in time of peace, but in the Church of God there is no peace until the last great victory shail have been achieved. But it is A YOLUNTARY SERVICE, People are not brought into 1t as slaves ‘were dragged from Africa. A young an goes to in artisan, and says: “Sir, I want to learn your trade. I by this Andenture yield myself to your care and seryice for the next four or five or seven years, I wanb you to be my master, and I want to be your servant.” Just 80, if we come into the kingdom of God at all, we must come, saying to Christ: “Be Thou my Master. I take Thy service for time and for eternity, I choose it.”” It1s a voluntary service, There is no drudgery in it. In our worldly callings, sometimes our nerves get worn out, and sur head aches, and -our physical faculties break down; but in this service of the Lord Jesus, the harder a man works the better he likes it, and a man in this audience who has been for forty years serving God unjoys -the employment betler than when he first entered it. The grandest honor ‘that can ever be bestowed upon you is to have Christ say to you on the last Any: “Well done, good and faithful “servantl” Lara also from this parable that DIFFERENT QUALIFICATIONS ate given to different people, Tie teacher lifts a blackboard, and he draws a diagram, in order that by that dia- gram he may impress the mind of the pupil with the truth that he has been uttering. And all the truths of this Bible are drawn out in the natural world as ina great diagram. Here is an acre of ground that bas ten talents, Under a little cuiture, it yields twenty bushels of wheat to the acre, Here 15 another piece of ground that has only one talent. You may plow it, and har- row it, and culture it year after year, but it ylelds a mere pittance. So here is aman with ten talents in the way of getting good and doing good. He soon under Christian culture, yields great harvests of faith and good work, Here is another man who seeins to have only one talent, and you may put upon him the greatest spiritual culture, but he yields but little of the fruits of righte- ousness, You are to understand that there are different qualifications for different individuals, There is a great deal of RUINOUS COMPARISON when a man says: “Oh, if 1 ouly had that man’s faith, or that man’s nu oney, or that man’s eloquence, how I would serve (vod!’' Detter take the faculty that God has given you and employ it in the right way. The rabbis used to say, that before the stone and timber were brought to Jerusalem Temple, every stone and piece of tim- ber was marked; so that before they started for Jerusalem the architects knew in what place that particular piece of timber or stone should fit, And s0 I have to tell you we are all marked for some one place in the great temple of the Lord, and do not let us complain, saying: “I would like to be the foundationstone, or the cap-stone.”’ Let us go iuto the very place where God intends us to be, and be satisfied with the position. Your talent ma; be in personal appearance; your talent may be in large worldly estate; your talent may Le in high social position; your talent may be In a swift pen or eloquent tongue; but whatever be the talent, it has been given only for one purpose—practical use, You sometimes find community of whom you say: “He has no talent at all’; and yet that man may Lia mdred talents, Iis one hundred talests may be shown in the item of endurance, Poverty comes, and he endures it; persecution couies, and he endures it; sickness comes, and he endures it. Before men and angels he is a specimen of Christian patience, and he is really illustrating the power a man in the for the > witively talent, and many have { more ir the Church A more i Church, than usa ei, we all have and that the decides whether we shall have one Ole ' 14 Ji Boat ior (UaALnCAMOns, I learn also {from this parable that e grace of God was TENDED TO BE ACCUMULAT When God plants an acorn, when ' iN IVE, He means He plants a small growthiul, and enlarge until it overshadows the whole of money, investing it, expecting, accumulation ai that by the time t ome to mid-lite this small by compound wild amount of money will be a fortune, showing how a small amount of money will roll up into a vast accumulation. Well, sgt » vl OL, xe Ch each one of Ilis spiritual children at his ompound interest, accumulate, it shall become an eternal Can it be possible that you have been acquainted with lord Jesus for ten, twenty, thirty years, and that you do not love Him more now than you ever did before? Cun it be that you have been cultured in the Lord's vine- yard, and that Christ finds on youn nothing but sour grapes? You may depend upon it, if you do not use the until the lle. The rill that breaks from the hill- side will either widen into a river or dry up. The brightest day started in the dim twilight, The strongest Chris- Lan man was once a weak Christian, Take the one talent, and make it two; take five, and make them ten; take ten and make them twenty, The grace of God was intended to be very accumuln- tive, Again: gilts is NO EXCUSE FOR INDOLENCE, This man, with the smallest amount of money, came growling into the pres. ence of the owner of the estate, as much as to say: “If you had given me $0,400 I would have brought $18,- 800 as well as this other man, You gave me only $1,880, and I hardly thought It was worth while to use it at all, So I hid it in a napkin, and it produced no result, It’s because you didn’t give me enough.’ But inferi ority ot faculties is no excuse for indo lence. Let me say to the man who has the least qualifications, by the grace of God he may be made almost omnipo- tent. The merchant whose cargoes cote out from every Island of the sea, and who, by one stroke of the pen, can change the whole face of American commerce, has not so much power as you may have before God in earnest, faithful, and continuous prayer. You say you have no faculty, Do you not understand that you might this after. noon go into your place of prayer and kneel before God, aad bring down upon your soul, and the souls of others, a blessing so vast that it would take eternal ages to compute It? “Oh.” you say, *‘'I haven't fleetness of speech. I can’t talk well, I can’t utter what I want 10 say.” My brother, can you not quote one passage of Seripture? Then, take that one passage of Scrip ture; carry it with you everywhere; quote it under all proper circumstances, With that one passage ot. Scripture you may harvest a thousand souls for God. I am glad that the chief work of the Chureh is being done by the MEN OF ONE TALENT. Once in » while, when u great fortress isto be taken, God wili bring out a great fleld-plece and rake all with the fiery hail of destruction. But common wuskets do most of the hard fighting, it took only one Joshua, and the thou. I learn that inferiority of sands of common troops under him, to drive down the walls of cities, and, un- der rathful strokes, to make nations fly like sparks from the anvil. It only took one Luther for Germany, one Zwinglius for Switzerland, one John Knox for Scotland, one Calvin for France, and one John Wesley for Eng- land, Dorcas as certainly has a mission to serve as Paul has a mission to preach. The two mites dropped by the widow into the poor-box will be as much ap- plaused as the endowment of a col- lege, which gets a man’s name into the newspaper, The man who kindled the fire under the bumnt-offering in the ancient temple had a duty as imperative as that of the high priest, in maguifi- cent robes, walking into the Holy of Holles under the cloud of Jehovah's presence, Yes, the men with one talent are to save the world, or it will never be saved at all, The men with five or ten talents are tempted to toil chiefly for themselves, to build up their own great name, and work for their own aggrandizement, and do nothing for the alleviation of the world’s woes, The cedar of Lebanon standing on the mountain seems to hand down the storms out of the heavens to the earth, but it bears no fruit, while some dwarf pear-tree has more fruit on Its branches Better to have one talent and put it to full use than five hundred wickedly neglected. My subject teaches me that there is coming A DAY OF SOLEMN SETTLEMENT, When the old farmer of the text got home, he immediately called all the servants about him, and said: ‘‘Here is the little account 1 have been keep- I want to see your account, and what you owe me, let us have a settie- ment.” The day will come when the Lord Jesus Christ will appear, and wil say to you: “What have you been do- been doing with my faculties? What bave you been Qoing with what 1 gave you for accumulative purpopes?’’ There will be no escape from that settle- ment. Sometimes you cannot get a settlement with a man, especially if he owes you. He postpones and procras- tinates, says: “‘1'll see you next week,” or “I'll see you next month.” The fact is he does not want to settle, But when the great day eomes of which I am speaking, there will be no escape. We will have to face all the bill, and a lone line of figures, If I see ten or fifteen figures in a line, and I attempt to add them up, and I add them two or three times, [ t make them different each time, But I mired the an accountant will ; line of figures, and without a single with great rity, au- Now, in the last irrect kept a broken words, discarded sacraments, a misimproved privileges, be added up, and vils and men IATE WOU NUED, 5 © 3 ave 4a take a long i Let great settlement, there will be a « account presented, God has ¢ of sins, a long line of a of long line of 3 ¥ ¥ AOL Y angels and d WIL! ret Oh, that will be the j 41 > & y ment! I have to a I ready for K the qu it?" itis to me to answer regard to myself th is of more img regard to yoursell Every nau f Every woman for day. “If thou be wi shalt be wise for thyself; if thou 1 alone shall bear it." We apt to speak of the last day asan oce regard to me, » § thins Wy SAH tion of power and pomp; but there will be on that day, 1 think, a few moments an overwhelming silence: 1 think it will be such a silence as the earth never heard, It will be at the moment when all nations are hstening for their doom. I learn also from this parable of the text that in heaven our degrees of HAPPINESS WILL BE GRADUATED according to our degrees of usefulness on earth, Several of the commentators agree in making this parable the same one as in Luke, where one man was made ruler over five cities, and another made ruler over t wo cities. Would it be fair and right that the professed Christian man who has lived very near the line between the world and the Church-—the man who has often com. promised his Christian character the man who has never spoken out for God ~the man who has never been known as a Christian only on communion-days -the man whose great struggle has been to see how much of the world he could get and yet win heaven—is it right to suppose that that man will have as grand and glorious a seat in heaven as the man who gave all his energies of body, miad, and soul lo the service of God? The dying thief entered heaven, but not with the same startling acclaim as that which greeted Paul, who had gone under scorchings, and across dungeons, and through mal treatments into the kingdom of glory. One star differs from another star in glory, and they who toil mightily for Christ on earth shall have a far greater reward than those who have rendered only half a service, Some of you are hastening on toward the reward of the righteous. I want to cheer you up at the thought that there will be some kind of a REWARD WAITING FOIL YOU, There are Christian people in the house who are very near heaven. This week some of you may pass out into the light of the unseiting sun. I saw a blind man going wiong the road with his staff, and he kept pounding the earth and then stamping with Lis foot. I sald to him: “What do you do that for?” “Oh,” ha said, “I can tell by the sound of the ground when I am near a dwel- ling.” And some of you can tell by the seund of your earthly pathway that you are coming near to your father's house, 1 congratulate you. Oh, Wweathier-beaten voyagers, the storms are driving you into the harbor! Just as when you were looking for a friend, you came up tothe gate of his house, and you were talking with the servant, when your friend helsted the window aid shouted; “Come a # MEL, Just so, when a come to the gate of the future world, and you are talking with Death, the black porter at the gate, methinks Christ will hoist the window and say: **Come inl come in! I will make the ruler over ten cities.” In anticipation of that land I do not wonder that Augustus Toplady, the author of “Rock of Ages,” declared in his last moment: *‘I have nothing more to pray for; God has given me every- thing. Surely no man can live on earth after the glories I have witnessed.’’ Oh, my brothers and sisters, how sweet it will be, after the long wilderness march, to get home, That was a bright mo- ment for the tired dove in the time of the Deluge, when it found its way into the window of the ark. COMPANION, HELPMATE FRIEND, Two Statesmen's Wives, Not long ago, when speaking of Lis wife, Prince Blsmarck Is reported to have said, ‘‘She it is who has made me what I am,” There have been English statesman who could say quite as much, Duorke was sustained amid the anxiety and agitation of public life by domestic idicity, “Every care vanishes,” he sgd,’”’ “the moment | enter my own of." His description of his wife is toglong to quote, but we must give an @itome of it. Of her beauty t did not arise from he sald it features, from jcomplexion or from shape; *‘she hagill three in a high de- | gree, but it is hot by these that she | touches the heagt it Is all that sweet- | ness of temper, fEnevolence, innocence and sensibility fvhich a face can ex- | press, that foroher beauty, Her eyes ave a mild 1§nt, but they awe you when she plea they command, like a good man out office, not by author ity, but by virtg. Her stature is not tall, she is not gade to be the admira- tion of everybol, but the happiness of one, She has § the firmness that dows { uot exclude d@cacy: she has all the | softness that d@s not Imply weakness, Ter voles is @ low, soft musie, not formed to rule® public assemblies, but to charm those company {rom vantage, you 1 it. To desc: mind; one is t She discovers things, not by} city. Xo know the | Over less corrt { She has a tn | the most extrs cannot be more unbounded in Beir liberality, the most covelous re caulious in their distribution. Ir politeness seems to dow rather froma natural disposition lige than Hm any rales on It is lag before she { but then is kad forever, and the first Lours of rmantic friendship are not warmer thadhers after the lapse of years, As she nver disgraces her g i nature by seversellections on anybody | 50 she never degides Ler judgment by | immoderate or ll-placed praises, everything violet | gentleness of disysition and the es ness of her virtwe."’ | Lord Deaconstld described his ! severest f citics, but a | fect wife.” Shawvas the . Mr. Wndham twenty years Lisglder, i fection which Draeli ene his wife, whom } always o«ieems founder of iis fortunes, fs known. She wain the eling with him o almost At a dinner parta friend of bad no better tas than f with him for crowd; it has this ad- st come close to hear her bx wly describes her rans and of right wrong wor betlier, ed by that generosity no person Knowledge, rast gant not 0 1 thie subject is contrary wife as ‘the per- Lewis, and tained for 1 as the Fs habit of trav i thie Ari avays taking the Vis canpotl under- y | Said ti graceless man, *‘for WW you mge yourse!f a perfect wherever your wife ith you.” Disraeli fixed his eves him very ¢pressively and said: “1 don’t supposeyou can understand visi transis hing SOCK * 1pon i der last and wildest ecursions of an { imagination suppse you to be guil | gratitude!” i On the 3d ofApril, 1872, Disraeli { Hall, Mancheste In a box at sit several ladies conspicuous among others being La¢ Beacon: We { are told by one wo was on the plat | form that “next in interest fo the | great speech of %e evening were the sympathetic facent the orators wife {and the way in ‘hich from { time the orator lifad his head as if to ask for her appreal. When all was over Mr. Dismeli raited in the retiring {room for a short Lime and was then | driven rapidly to tie louse of his host, Mr, Romalng¢ Calbnder, in Victoria Park, There Lad Beaconsfield was | carriage wh than she bh ! room to the | of her husb | ously, and Dizzy! this This pays fo Canned hexd upon the gravel tied from the drawing- , embraced him raptur- claimed: “Oh, Dizzy! ie greatest night of alll i uit and Vegetables and vegetables, being led while they are fresh t the point of supply, ¢ wholesome and pala- called fresh fruits and 1 for sale for consider- ite in city and village not generally under. ted. Our best packers these articles shall be ning while the dew is Many fru hermetically from the vin are fresher, table than th vegetables ex able periods picked in the on them, and in the high it is safe to age home kite sloth or leather Is made of sixteen gutta percha, cut small, four, Mrts India rubber, two iteh, onfsart shellae, two parts Ho oil, t together and mix we | Asbestos power made into a thick paste, with liqud silicate of soda, is used m makifie joints, fitting tops, connecting pip& filling cracks, ete. It hardens quickiystands any heat, and is stemin<tight, SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, SuspaY Decesmnen 9, 1594, Gideon's Army. LESSON TEXT. Judg. 7: LE Memory verses, 2 4) LESSON PLAN. Toric o¥ THE QUARTER: Promises Fulfilled, GOLDEN TEXT vOR THE QUARTER: There railed not aught of any good thing which the Lord had spoken wunto the house of Israel ; all came to pass, —Josh, 21 : 45. God's Favor, 1. Pride Forestalled, va 1, 2, 2. Numb+s Heduced, va, 3 6, { 8 God Accepled, va. 3, 8, Lesson | Outline GoLpEN Text: Not by might, nor 6, Lord of hosts.—Zech, 4 : Dairy Houe READINGS: M.—Judg. 7:18, favor, Judg, 6: 1-24, to the judgeship, W.—Judg, 6 : 25-40, work. T.—Judg. 7: 925, victory. F.-Judg. 8: quests, N, Psa, a1 sought. S.~1 John 5 : victory. T Gideon a Gideon's great 1-23. Gideon's con- { God's favor : 1-10. 1-21. The to wep RF Yeh) LESSOR ANALYSIS, I. PRIDE FOREST IL. Ready for Battle : the people up early, and pitched-—(1). They set the battle in array (Gen, 14 : 8), I'he Philistines put themsely against Israel (1 Sam. 4 : 2) 1u the seventh day the battle ed (1 Kings 20 : 201, Our wrestling 18 not against flesh blood (Eph, 6 : 12). ALLED, Gideon, and all was join- and Il. Confident in Numbers : The people that are with H:5 I come { horses { Psa. 20 : of an host (P Lest Israel vaunt 6 { NUMBERS RED1 Fearful Dismissed: Whosoever is fearful let him return (3 ¢ 3 144 10 £0, . were they In gre Psa. od : Hh feareth is not love {1 John 4: 18). The fearful, their part shall lake (Rev, 21 : 8). 1. The many Bejocted: fear was snd ¢ iy made perfect in i The peopie are vel oo many { savelh not with sworn spear (1 Sam. 17 ; 47). Because thou didst rely on the Lord, he = Chron. 16 : SL. 14 a greater with us than with him, (2 Chron, 32: 7). Woe to them that... trust because they are many (Isa, 31 :1), IIL The Few Retained: The numbered of them that lapped... was three hundred (6), There is no restraint... . to or by few (1 Sam. 14 : 6). We are left but a few of 42 : 2). Many are called, but few are chosen (Matt, 22: 14), Not many mighty, not many noble, are called (1 Cor. 1: 26). 1. “Whosoever 18 fearful, .... Jet him return,” (1) Qualities demanded for God's service; (2) Qualities re- jected from God's service, 2. *“The people are yet too many.” (1) The work at hand; (2) The troops in lines (3) The excess is numbers; 14) The reduction in prospect. , “I will try them for thee there, (1) The persons present; (2) The trial introduced; (3) The end sought. 11, GOD ACCEPTED, 1. Encouragement: By the three hundred....will I save you (7). The Lord your God....goeth with you vv oo to save you (Deut, 20 : ik Who is like unto thee, a people saved by the Lod! (Deut, 33 : 20), Go in this thy might, and save Israel (Judg. 6 : 14). Fear not, little flock (Luke 12 : 32), in. Dircotion: Let all the people go every man unto his place (7). The eu will he teach his way (Psa. 20 1 9). I will, 2 wach thee in the way which thou shalt go (Psa, 32 : 8), He will be our guide even unto death (Psa. 48 : 14). He shall guide you into all the truth (John 16 : 13). HL Submission: So the people took victuals,..,.and their trum (8). The hasted and passed over (Josh, 4:10), So he caused the ark of the Lord to compass the city (Josh, 6 : 11), & % delivered them in chanots, 1 3 111 save by,many (Jer. [EER BER They then that received were bapulzed (Acts 2: 4). We must obey God rather than men (Acts 5 : 20). 1. “And the Lord said unto Gideon.”’ (1) The Lord guiding Gideon; (2) Gideon guided by the Lord, 2, “Let all the people go every man unto his place.” (1) Every man has his place; (2) Every man should sock his place; (3) Every man should fill his place, “80 the people took their hand, and thei his word <5 3. victuals in trumpets, *’ people’s equipment; (3) The people's conquest, —— LESSON SURROUNDINGS. MIRACULOUS VKH At the Red Sea (Exod : 25-31). {| Over Amalek (Exod. : B13). At Jerici o (Josh, 6 : } Over the Amorites {. Over Baal’s prophets 1 Kin (2 King At Samaria (2 Kings 7 : 1.5 i Over Seunacherib’s TORIES, by lisha's praver ¥ ELAINE i's prayel LLESSON The general tion of Israel during the judges BIBLE slalement period of the is followed by a chief descrip- i the nations that remained in {the land (Judg 3: 1-6). The first of | *“judges’’ Othniel, the kins- man of Caleb, and the deliverance wrought by him was followe | years of peace {(Judg | second deliverance was frou | king of Moab, wrought by Ehud, and j this was followed by eighty years of { peace (Judg. 3:12.30). The conflict | of Shamgar with the Philistines geems { to have been merely an episode {(Judg. {3:31}, A third enslavement and de- { liverance are narrated w some de- j tall (Judg. 4, 5). The oppressor was Jabin, king of Canaan, and the deliver- Deborah the prophetess, and whom she called to the task. victory and the ies one chapter caplivity and the ) Chapter i tion of Bi the was } by forty 1}. The siglon, the 1 1 ~d by via {| Barak, { The was g of triumph of the record, { was under the chosen dell Colnpiele, occup The f{ Midinnites verer was Gide 6 tells of the mode by whi xd that the Lord had cho 1 the people. Verses ] ect condition of | RON Oust © WAS A8~ en im to G describe : YOrses 1 in verses 33-37 of the f fed 13 0 wiichsa 1“ of the chos £4 LE 3 h side ¥ ue lesson w of Mount Issachar, time is uncertain, since ! ie ily OvV#el WALS ( & ut of however, midway be. aud the be- | g ug of Samuel's judgeship. Those {| who follow the statement of 1 Kings { 6:1 allow about three hundred years { for this period, making the date about one hundred and seventy-fi Years | after the death of Moses, But th ! a later date the exodus ] to this gv I. nort ills the tribe of [he ods named in this book evi lap each other; the vari times affecting ] 18 probable His WwUrred avout | tween the death of Joshua ve yar s fe Who ass gn » Tw : + i 1 3 & wi > * aliol a Much shorier LM, { or —-——- i Tae Agn :» Spider and M8 Diving. ule 1 nearly coustant abode is waler, most other consequently ai provision for with air while living un the water, and for this purpose hey the art of con- structing a kind diving-bell, It is an interesting sight to witness one of thewn making his air-cell. Clinging to lower side of a few leaves, and se- | curing them in positic by spinning a | few threads, the spider rises to the level | of the water, with its belly uppermost, doubling up its hind legs, retains | a stratum of air among the hairs with which its body is covered, Then it plunges into the water and appears as in the first stage of the making of its silvery robe, Going immediately to the it had chosen, it brushes its body its paw, when the air detaches itself forms a bubble under the { leaf, The spider surrounds this bubble with the impermeable silky wmatler fur { nished by its spioperet: Returning to | the surface, it takes in another layer of { air, which it carries down down and adds to the first one, also extending the | envelope over it. The process is kept up till the “‘diving Lell’’ has reached | the proper size and is finished. The | ideal form of the construction is that of ja thimble, bul It often assumes an irregular shape, like an inverted sack. | When the spider has taken possession tof its redoubt it remains quiet in 17, | head down, watching for the appear. ance of an inseci., [Dercelving one, it seizes it and returns to its lodge, which it has secured against intruders by spinning threads across it, to devour its prey at its leisure, ers, air-ireat wy need y viding herneels HOVILIDE Waelseives ye . inder SOne 8 i of Wl 3 sp 31 with and In the surgical dispensary of the Putladelphia Iolyeliniec Dr. Roberts of that city has been using with much satisfaction Japanese paper handker- chiefs for drying wounds. Sponges are so seldom and with such difliculty per- fectly cleansed after being once used iy. color, on the towels are of no wdvain. tage, nor are they, as fur os RKuown, any detriment, SRR
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