DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON An Obnoxious Diet. “And theso are they which ye shall have in abomination among tho fowls: . , . the owl, the vulture, anid the bat. . . . These also shall be unclegn unto you amdng the creeping things that crgep upon the earth: . . . the chameleon and the snail.”—Lev. 11 : 153.30. Tue Bible offers every possible vari- ety of theme, of argument, and of illus- tration. We care not much in what kind of a pitcher the water of life is brought, if it is only the cicar, pure water, God gave the ancients a list of the dmmals that they might eat, aud a list of animals that they might not eal. These propledived in a hot climate, and | certain forms of animal food corrupted their blood, and disposed them to scro- fulous disorders, depraved their ap- petites, and bemeaned their souls. A man’s food, when he has the means and opportunity of selecting it, suggests his moral nature, The reason the wild In- dian is as crue! as the lion is because he has food that gives him the blood of | the lion, A missionary among the in- | dians says that, by changing his style | of food to correspond with theirs, his temperament was entirely changed. There are certain, FORMS OF FOOD that have a tendency to affect the moral pature. Many a Christian 1s trying to do by prayer that which cannot be done except through corrected diet. For instance, he who uses swine's flesh for constant diet will be diseased in body | and polluted of soul-—all his liturgies | and catechisms notwithstanding. The Gadarene swine were possessed of the | devil, and ran down a steep place into the sea, and all the swine ever since seem to have been similarly possessed. | In Leviticus, God struck this meat off | the table of IIis people, and placed be- | fore them a bill of fare at once health- | ful, nutritious, and generous. But, higher than this physical rea- | son, there was a spiritual reason why God chose certdin forms of food for the | ancients. God gave a peculiar diet to | his people, not only because he wanted | them to be distinguished from the sur- | rounding nations, but Lecause certain | birds and animals, by reason of their | habits, have been SUGGESTIVE OF MORAL QUALITIES, By the list of things from which they | were to abstain, God wished to pre- | judice their minds against certain evils; and in the list of lawful things given, he wished to suggest certain forms of good. When God solemnly forbade Ilis | people to eat the owl, the vulture, the | bat, the chameleon, and the snall, He meant to drive out of His people all the sins that were thus emblemized. I take the suggestion of the text, and say that one of the Orst unclean things the Christian needs to drive out of his | soul is HE OWL, The owl is the melancholy bird of night, It batches oul whole broods of super stitious. It is doleful and hideous. When it siugs, it sings through its nose. It loves the gloom of night Let- | ter than the brightness of the day, | Who has not slept in the cabin near the | woods, and been awalk ened in the night by the dismal *‘too-hoo’ of the owl? | Melancholy is the owl that is perched | in many a Christian foul. It is an un- | clean bird, and needs to be driven away. A man whose sins are pardoned, and who is on the road to heaven, has no right to be gloomy, He says: *I have so many doubts” That Is be- | cause ‘you are lazy.” Go actively lo | work in Christ's cause, and your doubts | will vanish, You say: ‘1 have lo: my property’’; but I reply: ““You bave infinite treasure laid up in heaven.” You say: “I am weak and sickly, and going to die.” Then be congratulated that vou are 50 near eternal health and perpetual gladness, Catch a few morn- ing larks for your soul, and stone this owl off sour premises. As a little girl was eating, the sun dashed upon her spoon, and she cried: “Oh, mamma, I have swallowed A SPOONFUL OF SUNSHINE! Would God that we might all indulge in the :ame beverage! Cheerfulness— it makes the homeliest face handsome; it makes the bardest matlress soft; it runs the loom that weaves buttercups and ramnbows and auroras, God made | the grass black? No: that would be | too sombre, God made the grass red? No: that would be too gaudy. God | made the grass green, that by this par- | able all the world might be led to a sub- | dued cheerfulness. rad your Bible in the sunshine. Remember that your physical heelth is closely allied to your spiritual, The heart and the liver are only a few inches apart, and what af- fects oie aTects the other. A historian records tht by the Soufid of great | laughter iu Rome, Hannibal's assault ing army Was frizntened away in re- | treat. - And there Is. In the great oul. bursting joy of « Christian soul that which can drive back any infernal be- | siegement. Rats love dark closets, and | Satan loves to burrow ina gloomy soul. | “Rejoice in the Lord, O ve righteous]! and again I say, reivice!” Hoist the window of your soul in this the 12 o'clock of your spiritual night. Put the gun to your shoulder, and aim at the blood jungle from which the hooting comes, pull the trigger, and drop that creaking, loathsome, hideous owl of religious melancholy into the bushes, Again: taking the suggestion of the text, DRIVE OUT THE VULTURE from your soul, God would not allow the devs to eat Woy lives on Carcasges; t fatténs a dead; with leaden wing it ruses Shout battlefields. Wil- sou, tlie American ornithologist, connt- ed two ‘hundred and thirtyssven vul- tures around one catcasy, If crossing the degert henith is no sign of wing in the alr a camel perish out of the caravan, (mmediately the air begins to darken with vultures. There are many who have a vulture in ag ~\apon. the Bho ee hey orp doubtful tion is a banquet for them, rival in trady or profes. sion falls, aud the vulture puts out its head, These people revel in the de tails of a 8 ruin. "They say: “I told you so!’ They rush into some store and say: ‘Have you heard the news? Just as T expected! Our neigh- bor has gone all to pleces! Good for him!" . That professedly Christian woman, having heard of ths wrong-doing of some sister in the church, instead of hiding the sin with a mantle of charity, peddies it all along the streets. She takes the afternoon to make her long- neglected calls, She TELLS THE STORY TEN TIMES before sundown, and every time tells it larger. She rushes into the parlors to tell it, and into the nursery to tell it, and into the kitchens to tell it. She says: “Would you have thought it! Well, I always sald there was somo. thing wrong abouther. Why, I should | not speak to her if I saw her in the street. Is it not horrible? But better | not say anything about it, because there way be some mistake. 1 do not want my name involved in the matter. 1 ghess I will just go over avd wskK them at No. 203 whether they have heard it, (Guess it must be so, for Mary Ann says that her husband saw a man who heard from his business partner that his blind old grandmother had seen some- thing that looked very suspicious!’ The most loathsome, miserable, Giod- forsaken wretch on earth is a gossip, 1 can tell her on the street, though I have never seen her before. She walis fast, and has lier bounet-strings loose, since she heard that last scandal. She looks both ways as she passes, hoping to see new evidences of depravity in the windows. I think that when Satan has a job so infinitely mean that in all the pit he cannot find a devil mean enough geants: “Go up to Brooklyn, and in such a street, on such a coruer, get THAT GOSSIPPING WOMAN, and she will be glad to do it.” sure enough, hook Aud in her mouth, and it He a wh he says: in that line,” pulls he brin Wuat do you say? That member of the church? that th} [SEH TN ' she was a Satan goes a-fishing hut school the fish belongs is a Presbyterian Amidst under-crash of Sinai God sald: shalt not bear false witness And in Levi “Thou shall not go up and down as a tale-bearer.”’ Take not into your ear that scum of hell that peple call tittle-tattle. Who- soever willingly listens to a slander is the ti “Thou and an old writer says they ought both to be hung, the one by the tongue and the other by the ear. Do not smile he puts his dirty paw upon you, back the shutter of your soul, Githy talons and cruel beak Let not this unclean thing roost in your soul, for my text says: -*“*Ye shall hold in abomination the vulture,” Again: DRIVE OUT THE from your soul. No this bird among the offence to every BAT unclean, It is an one. Let it fly into the hands, young and old, are against it, It is half bird, half mouse, It seems made partly to walk and parily to fly, and does neither well, and be- comes an emblem time. earth in worldliness, and yet fly toward | heaven in between feel aud wings, Oh, my £3 y el or the other: is copstaotly brethren, be one | thing Choose the world, if you prefer it, and see how many lollars you can win, and how much ap- business grand a} fast span of horses you can drive. You may be prospered until you can fail for five hundred thousand dollars, you can establish, and how 3 i ¥ : for only ten thousand, as some unenter- prising people do, It is quite a reward to be able for ten or tweuly years lo be called one of THE SOLID MEN OF BROOKLYN or Boston; and then, to make your for give you a splendid funeral, and you ing you, with somebody in the most of in splendid pocket-handker- crape, and’ with bombaZiné twenty full yards long trail- the company may stand uponit, and we will write our letters for the next six wonths on paper edged with black, But, my friends, your worldly fortunes will not last, 1 will buy out now all that you will be worth in worldly es- tate seventy-five years from now, I have the amnoney in my pocket with which to do it, Here it is! Two cepts! It is a large sum to offer for all you will possess at the close of seventy five years, Choose the world, if you want to: but if not, then choose heaven, That estate lies partly on this side of the river, but mostly on the other, - It is ever accumilating. The prospect of it makes one independent of earthly misfortunes; so that I the martyr, slept so soundly that might before his burning, that they violently shook him in order to get Lim awake in time for the execution; and Paul oxults at the thought of the *‘joy une speakable and full of glory.”! Oh, CHOOSE EARTH OR HEAVEN! Make up your mind whether you will walk in sarthly joys, or fly with heaven. ly expectations, De not a bat, fit neither to walk nor fly, having just en- ough of heaven to spoil the world, and so much of the world as to spoil heaven, Christ says that your present condition nauseates Him to positive sickness: *“Hecause thou art neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of My mouth!’ In the ruinsof Pompeii there was found a wotnah who, Instead of try- at her time in gathering up her jewels. She saved neither her life nor her jewnls. are multitudes making the same mistake, In trying to get earth and heaven, they lose both. “Ye cannot serve God and Mammon,” Be one thing or the other, Tread the earth like a lion, or mount the air like the eagle; for my text says: *‘Ye shall have in abomination among the fowls the bat.” Again: taking the suggestion of the text, DRIVE OUT THE CHAMELEON from your soul. There 1s some differ ence among good men as to the name of this creeping thing which God pro- nounced unclean, but I shall take the purpose, The chameleon is a reptile, color, taking the colorof the thing next to it, sometimes brown, sometimes red, and sometimes gray, but always the color of its surroundings, a type of that class of Christians who are now one thing in religious faith, and now an- other, just to suit circuinstances, always taking their color of religious belief from the man they are talking to. They go to one place, and are first-rate Unitarians, *‘Jesus was a good man, but nothing more.” They go to Prince. ton, and they are Trinitarians, almost willing to die for the divimty of Jesus, Among the Universalists they refuse and, going among those of opposite belef, isa hell with a gusto that makes you think they are glad of it. Drive out that chameleon from your soul. ever changing the color of your faith, My friends, Liberal Christianity, false- ly so-called BELIEVES IN is anything you NOTHING, God want 0 make like it. Heaven a grand The #8 You 1 ory by ten Christian death in 1808-—the suicide tian, Oh, my friends, let us try to be- lieve in something! An intidel was eall- ad to the bedside of his daughter, The daughter said: **Father, which shall I you or mother? Mother took the religion of Christ, and died in its You say that 15 a humbug. Now 1 am going to die, and I am very much perplexed; shall 1 be- lieve you, or take the 1 of my mother?” The father said: ‘Choo She sald: **No; weak to choose for myself; I was for me.” “Well,” said t father, after much hesitation and em religion we when we shall We cannot The time will cowe have to believe somethin afford to be ON THE FENCE IN RE] Truth and error are set opposite to each other. The one is infinitely right, and the other infinitely wrong. In the Judg of what we believed as well as for what The [GION difference between paradise and perdi- I beg vou, in the light of the Bible, and on your knees before God, to stick to it, though business companions scoff, and wits caricature, and the al crackles with the fires of martyrdom. died, and angels of God trooped is marshaled, are worth living for and worth dyin for. Amidst the most ’ unclean things ligious theory. abhors it abhorrence, Ounce more tak the text, DRIVE Away with the replilel with g 1 eostis £14 an au-consuming it § it db 1g the gestion 3 OUT THE SNAIL iid It is an animal be found everywhere between the coldest north and the botlest south, hundred species of the snail. They have 110 backbone, and they are =o siow their movement is almost imperceptible. Y ou see a snail In one place to-day; go find it has ad- It becomes C.ean, to that a won- every is by at ai derful, They are stopped they have no backbone, Oh child of God, arouse! We have apotheosized Prudence and Caution long enough. Prudence is a beautiful grace, but of all the family of Christian graces I like her the least, for she has 80 often been MARRIED TO LAZINESS, Sloth, and Stupidity, We have a mil- lion idlers in the Lord's vineyard, who pride themselves on their prudence, | “Be prudent,” said the disciples to | Christ, “‘and stay away from Jeru- | salem” but he went, “Be prudent,” | said Paul’s friends, **and look out for | what you say to Felix; but he thun. dered away until the ruler’s Knees knocked together, In the eyes of the world, the most imprudent men that ever lived were Martin Luther, and John Oldcastle, and Wesley, and Knox. My opinion is, that the most imprudent and reckless thing is to stand still, It is well to hear our Commander's voice when he says ‘Halt but quile as jm- portant to hear it when he says **For- ward!" This Gospel ship, made to plough the sea at fifteen knots an hour, is not making three. Sometimes it 1s most prudent to ride your horse slowly, and pick out the way tor his feet, and not strike him with the spurs; but when a band of Shoshone Indians are after you in full tilt, the most prudent thi for you to do is to plunge in the rowels aiid put your horse to a full run, shout- ing ‘Go "long!" until the Rocky Moun- tains echo it, The foes of God are pur. suing us, The world, the flesh, and the devil are after us; and our wisest course is to go ahead at swiftest A When the Charch of God gets to ad- vancing too fast, it will be time enough to use caution. No need of futting on the brakes while going up-hill. Do not tot us sit down wal for something “to turn up,” but go abead in the name ET en op . THE GREAT DANGER TO TIE CHURCH Ohi that the Lord God would nd a of aroused and consecrated men to set the Church on fire, and to turn the world upside down. Let us go to work and catch the last snail in our souls, With Divine vehemence let us stamp its life out: for my text declares: **These also shall be unclean to you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the chameleon and the snail.” I have thus tried to prejudice these Christiun men and women against gloominess, and slander, and half-and- half experiences, and changeableness, and sloth, Our opportunities for getting better are being rapidly swallowed up in the remorseless past, This moment may we drive out all the unclean things from our souls—the vulture, and the bat, and the owl, and the chameleon, and thesnail; and 1n place thereof bring in the Lamb of God, and the Dove of the Spirit! The case is urgent. Arouse! before it be eternally too late! **What- soever thy band fludeth to do, do it!” a -— CAPTURING A SWORDFISH. A Vicious Monser, Being Wounded Pierces a Bleck Island Boat, A man stands an a little platform In front of the bow grmed with a harpoon having a sharply and deeply barbed point, so that in percing the fish, if it goes in far enough, it cannot be easily got out, let the §sh be as ugly as he may. The iron i§so arranged, in con- nection with a pols and cord, that the 300 feet long, being fat to the won and the other end secure on the vessel, This overboard, and it parks the course and position of the engiged fish, a life boat to haul, tire out and, if possible capture @e ugly fellow, ugly he ls, if be ia young fish, is old and heavy;he Is much quieter- even with a barpen in him, younger, livelier thal are of ugly that attack and wales, and indeed, pretiy h everything lie an, BIHOWS much titi Jens § . $4 it nay be the se $ 13 sEDE, WEY Wil Wi |} wd kil apd kill wonderful head, er waler, pas in the of st who was aba n on the California sb above his hips; he was | nearly killed befor SOotnelinges, med, iL ruhes at its ugy sword lini Woe 10 Ago prie Cane “un TAT pM and thrust hits! Our harpo 8 VIET Rie red to a Gsh that with little upoon only pene. trated a little wal into his Lig carcass, eel f } ng, pou i been caught, tt secured LW And it was wilh Was an excit be “a young Igy and weighed undaibtedly 450 < larger ond have rarely, We ab ing ime. He prived to man’’ among his Blows, and an 1» Having him we& harpoon barrel going daging at a against the wind-for it is and hitherto unklated fact swordlish, when harpooned, rushes off to wilward-—the life boat put out to secure jim after duly “pla ing his, Init wit a Block Islandes mging to the vssel, and two coura- nging iy the time they | “1 1 and th Bilan % Ee tisal Dele passeng: rs, nd could be puliile in on the line, They worked fe fish a good while, | When a sword fistgfin ling himself har pooned and hopeidaly held, reall up the ght, be juddenly tu and | goes to leeward, be men at the line wha that movement | They wep still **playing®’ thi and exhgsting him, when, | the vessel a t ! seen, | lly gives rig Ineans, that his bine figure | 1 per- | feet off more, | sometiung happengl which caused the looking through Ms glass, to exclaim: | “They’re in troubk! he has struck the boat!”—and to offer an instant start | for them. i He was none loo soon, The enraged i fish, withdrawilg sme sixty feet, had | : made one of Bosc arrowlike rushes its velocity by © other fish in the sea. The sword pigeed the bottom of the boat a little ongside of the keel, near | the center-—coBing up nearly two feet. Fortunately més have learned ere now not to sit dowilin a boat engaged in hauling In a $voxndfish, By standing | (as well as they can) their feel present | pb, and hence a diminish. | ig hit. Last year one | man’s boot heelwas partly hit, knock- ing him headlogy. in the pres mstance one of the men had a narfw escape of hardly ten inches, But Uk men were saved. In- ing a shell lifeboat, would hardly lve sunk, although it was giready hallfull of water and the rk bailing when the The vici- till he got compara in hauling him up harpoon purchase at the long grappling Not Was SUCCeRs. forked tail—and But for this last ve turned the boat he lashed the sea ka caution, But the EXPIATORY. ~+Vaiter—What would Noodle (who was out late the 8 cup ——————————" A new electrickl system is 10 be in- SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, # INDAY DecEsmBes 16, 1888, A ——————————— Death of Samson, LESSON TEXT. Judg. 16: 21.31. Memory verses, 29, 3) LESSON PLAN. Toric ov THE QUARTER! Pronvises Fulfilled, God's GOLDEN TEXT FOR THE QUARTER: There fatled not aught of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto house of Israel ; all came to pass, 21 : 45. the Joshi, Los { Lessox Strength, Toric: Regaining 1. Withott Strengih, va, 21, 23.27 2. Seoking Mirength, ve, 78, 95.45, 8. Exerung Strengla, va 2981 GoLDEN TEXT: Great always wise. Job 32 : 9. DAaiLy Home READINGS: M.—Judg, 16 : 21-31. lost strength, T.—~Judg. 15 parentage. W.—Judg. marriage. T.—Judg. 15 : 9-20, the Philistines, F.-Judg., 16: 4-20, Delilah, S.—1 Cor. 1 the weak, 2 Cor, 12 : weakness, [esnon Outline: fen are not 5 sori itis Fi beddings =. Or td oH), 14 : 1-2 Samson's Samson and Samson and : 17-31. 8 1-10. Strength in s——————— LESSON ANALYSIS IL. WITHOUT STRENGTIL Abused : The Philistines laid hold on put out his eves (21). They carried him forth, vii with stones (1 Kings (M L i bite sid, and 21 : 13). + 10: Oss * Yin if 17). Joh HEL 4 foe: (3) The He made spor he pl on of rej 1 God's O86 Of TevVelry, Cig, (onl’s servam ii, fEERING STRENGTH. I. By Renewed Allegiance: The hair of s head beg ¥ 1 the days of 00 Than 6:3. Judg. 13 : 5). If I be sl =O fron Sie I. By Start Nig gic that Sie Cain {ilnhin 3 oy } : 2), 111. By Earnest Prayer: Strengthen me, I pray thee, only this Poi thou my But now. © God, hands (Neh, 6; Wait on the Lord a7 : 14). Remember me, and visil me, me (Jer. 15 : 15). Ask, and it shall be given 2:7) 1. “Suffer me that 1 may feel the pil- Jars,” (1) The pillars; (2) The prayer; (3) The purpose, 2. “Samson called unto the Lond.” (1) Samson's dire emergency; (2) Sam- son's fearful purpose; (3) Samson's carnest prayer. 3. “Remember me, , . and strengthen me, I pray thee.” (1) Remembered of the Lord; (2) Strengthened of strengthen iy be strong (Psa. and avenge (Matt, yoil the Lord, 111, EXERTING STREXGTIL 1. Self-Sacrificingly: Let we die with the Philistines (29). If pet, blot me, 1 pray thee, out of thy book (Exod, 32 : 32). day with tears JActs dp : 31) 1 could wish that 1 myself were anathema from Christ (Rom, 9 : 8). Christ also pleased not himself 15:3) I. Powerfully: He bowed himself with all his might 30). So in this thy might, and save Israel (Judg. 6 : 14). Alo people had a mind to work (Neh, 1 6). Do it with thy might (Eccl, 9 : 10), 1 press on toward the goal (Phil, 3: 14). iri. Effectively: The dead which he slew at his dead were more-—{30), into the land of Canaan they came Gen. 12 : 5). So we built the wall (Neh. 4:6), Tho Lord added to them day by day CARS 4) an its Yo know our labor is not vain in {Rom. &® Philistines; (2) The accepted fate of Hamson, “The dead which he slew at his death were more.” (1) Samson's achievements in life; (2) Bamson’s achieveinents at death, . “His brethren... . buried him.” {1} His marvelous career; (2) His tragic end; (3) His sad burial, LESSON BIDLE THE PHILIETINES The Philistines : Their ancestry (Gen, Chron, 1 : 12). Farly home (Jer Made conquest (Deut, 2 : 23). Called it Philistia (Psa, 87:4; 108 : 9. Ruled by five lords (Josh, 13 : 3; Judg. $:3:18am., 6:16), Occupied various cities (1 Sam, 6:17). Were eminently warlike (1 Sam, 13: 3:17:1-11:29:1, 2). Given to the Israelites (Josh, 13 2:15:20, 4547). « Bamson : A deliverer from the Philist 13:5;18am. 7 : 13). Intermarried with the {Judg. 14: 1, 10). Siew thirty near 14 : 19). Burnt their fruits (Judg. 15 : 3-5). Avenged on them murder {(Judg. 15 ; } Slew a thousand Philistines { 15: 14 17). Overcome by them {(Judg. 16 : 21). Avenged on them at his death (Judg. 16 : 26-30). READING, AND BAMBON., 10:13, 14 ; 47 : 4 ; Amos 9 : 7 7}. of western Canaan 1 ines (Judg Philistines Ashkelon (Judg. his wife's 6-8 Judg, ss ———————— ——— — {OUNDINGS. of 3 LESSUN SURI The wonderful story Cnideon’s | campaign 1s narrated in Judges 7 : 9 to : 21. But while the land had rest : 28), the spoils perve ted to idol- Jusesand another relapse to heath- dudg, =: iM } ad received were followed after his death 1 be 1 Vinnie mend SE 542k WIL, I004Y, ana tumulluous Al 1 his son 1s described 4 rd Two jud Iola and § A 3 1 Gi Amneec t wr “ { ges, £2 ¥24 y all Wie 5 i 5 & 1 i ple cliverance i118 YOW, reperiend 3 : S PEROG IS Teds Samson, of the tribe of birth id Nazaritic life chap, 13). His attempied marriage Philistine woman chap. 14) led toa © ct in which he so subdued the Philistines as to secure temporary deliverance (chap. 15), His fall through Delilah graphically de- picted in Judges 16 : 4-20, inmediately preceding the lesson. The place was Gaza ‘ next indge Dan, wh was foretold wus Fe at exes} « Willi & © 18 near the sea- Jerusalem, The time is pear the close of the per- iod of judges, If, as is probable, Sam- son was a contemporary of Ell, the {death of Eli may have preceded the jeath of Samson, and the time would ben be shortly before B. C, 1120. Bat be longer chironology would assign the » 10 a point at least forly years earl a PUES Church Hospitality. a virtue that can be hurch-home as well as ino a ate house, And there are as many as varied degrees of warmth and heartiness in a welcome io the one The Christian place as into the other, sugeestion of a has made a ical appliance in this direction, which isan improvement on the methods ! in vogue in churches, and which is improved on in some others, Here its description: “A machine for performing the offices of church hospit- ality. It is to be placed in the vestl- buile of the church, The stranger drops a five-cent nickel in the slot. A metal- lic hand, fed by a currant of ice-water, ! drops from a concealed arm and is ex- | tended to the visitor, while a phono- | graph, set in motion by the same nickel, | welcomes the stranger mn a few me- { chanical phrases, An automatic usher, operated by a cold chill, generated | from an internal refrigerator, conducts { the stranger to his seat. We were about to apply for a patent on this in- 1% { i o1 sme is modifications, the invention Las already been in use in some churches for a | good many years, the unimportant dif- : i i 3 i { i box at the front door.” This descrip- tion clearly does not apply to all ough where it does apply to prevent its being recognized as specifically indi- —————— — Drill of the German Army. A pew book of instructions for drill has been issued to the German army, by which there will be established the greater simplicity and lesser number of movements which various military au- thorities, notably Lord Wolseley, have favored for several years. Al evolu- tions sat Ykely to be needed in battle are abolished, This would have been done before had it not been for the un -— EviL ASSOCIATIONS, Mrs, Nibbs-. I am shocked, Willie Bibbs, to bear you use such awful language, posttively shocked. I think it's high Lime your
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