REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Brookiyn Divine’sSunday Sermon. Subject : “The Sword--Its Mission and its Doom." Text: “Thy sword shall be bathed in Heaven "Isaiah xxxiv,, 5, Chaplain T. DeWitt Taimage preached his annual sermon before the irteanth Regiment, N. G. 8. N. Y,, in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The staff officers and members of the regiment were immediatel in front of the plasioras and their frien thronged the galleries, The bymo sung was the national air My country, tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty. The following is the sermon in fulls Three hundred and fifty-one times does the Bible speak of that sharp, keen, curved, inexorable weapon, which flashes upon us from the text—the sword. Sometimes the mention is applaudatory and sometimes damnatory, sometimes as drawn, sometimes as sheathed. In the Bible, and in much secular literature, the sword represents all javelins, all muskets, all carbines, all guns, all police clubs, all battle axs, all weaponry for physical defense or attack. It would & be an interesting thing to give the history of the Plow, and follow its furrow all down through the ages, from the first crop in | Chaldea to the last crop in Minnesota, It would be interesting to allow the Pen as | it has tracked its way on down through the | literature of nations, from its first word in the first book to the last word which some author last night wrote as he closed his | manuscript. It would be an interesting | thing to count the echoes of the hammer i from the first nail driven, down through all the mechanism of centuries to the last stroke | in the carpenter's shop yesterday. But in this, my annual sermon as chaplain of the Thirteenth Regiment, I propose taking up a weapon that hasdone a work that neither | plow nor pen nor hammer ever accom- plished. My thems is the sword -—its mission | and its doom. The sword of the text was bathed heaven: that is it was a sword of ness, as another sword may be bathed in hell, and the sword of cruelty and wrong. There | is a great difference between the sword of | Winklereid and the sword of Cataline, be- | tween the sword of Leonidas and the sword | of Benedict Arnold. In our effort to hasten | the end of war, we have hung the sword, | with abuses and execrations, when it has had | a divine mission, and when in many crises of the world's hi ithas swung for liberty and justice, « zation and htecusness and God. At the very opening of the Bible and on the east of the Garden of Eden God placed a Saming sword to defend the tree | of life. Of the officer of the law St. Paul declares: ‘‘He bearsath not the sword in vain." Through Moses God commanded: “Put every man his sword by his side.” | David in his prayer says: “‘Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty.” Ouoe of the | old battle shouts of the Ol pi WAS, ‘The sword of the Lord and of Gideon.” Christ, in a great exigency, said that such a weapon was more im nt than a coat, for be declared: ‘‘He that bath so sword, let him | sell his garment and buy one.” Again He de clared. “I come not to send peace but a sword.” Of Christ's second coming it is said, “Out of His mouth went a sharp, two edged sword.” Thus sometimes figuratively, but oftener literally, the divine mission of the | sword is announced, What more consecrated thing in the world than Joshua's sword, or Caleb's sword, or | Gideon's sword, or David's sword, or Wash. fugton’s sword, or Marion's sword, or Lafay- 's sword, or Wellington's sword, or Kosciusko's sword, or Garibaldi’'s sword, or | hundreds of thousands of American swords | that bave again and again been bathed in heaven. Swords of that kind bave been | the best friends of the human race. They | have slain tyrannies, pried open dungeons, and cleared the way for nations in their march upward, It was better for them to take the sword and be free, than lie under | the oppressor's heel and suffer, There is | SOE ng worse than death, aud that is life if it must cringe and crouch before the wrong. Turn over the leaves of the world's history, and find that there has never been a tyranny stopped or | a nation liberated except by the sword, I am not talking to you aboui Lhe way tunings ought to be, but about the way they have | been. What foree drove back the Saracens at Tours, and kept Europe from being over- whelmed by Mohamm ism, and, subse quently, all America given over to Mobam- medanism?® The sword of Charles Mar tel and | his men. Who can deal enough in infinities to tell what was accomplished for the world's | good by the sword of Joan of Are. i In December last I looked off and saw in | the distance the battlefleld of Marathon, ana I asked myself what was it that on that most tremendous day in history, stopped the Persian hosts, re ting not dull Perua, but t, and Tripoli, snd Afghanistan, and Be histan, and Armenia, a host that had Asia under foot, and posed to put Europe under foot, and, if successful in that battle would have submerged by Asiatic barbarism Euro civilization, and, as a uence in after time, American civiliza. tion. swordsof Miltiades, and Themisto | cles, and Aristides, At the waving of these | swords the eleven thousand lancers of Athens on the run dashed the one hundred thousand insolent Persians, and trampled them down or pushed them back into the sea. The sword of that day saved the best a trinity of keen two lights-—the light of the setting of the of barbarism, the light of the rising sun of civilization. Hall to these three great swords bathed in heaven! What put an end to infamous Louis XVI's plan of universal west, by which England would have been to kneel on the steps of the Tuileries and the Anglo-Saxon race in hteous- | eagles, whose beaks had been must be the hearts of nutions from their eyries, other attempts disgracefully failed, but the Germans, far West, or, when thelr fortunes have failed, re-enforce them by wealthy matrimouia alliance. Imagine this pation yet a part of English ons! The troubles the mother eoun as to-day with Ireland would be a o condition compared with the trouble she would have with us, England and the United States make excellent neigh bors, but the two families are too large to live in the seme houss, What a Pina that we should have parted, and long ago! But I ean think of no other way in which we could have possibly achieved American independence, George IIL, the half crazy King, would pot have let us go, Tord North, his Prime Minister, would not have let us go. General Lord Corn. wallis would not have let us go, although after Yorktown he was glad enough to have us let him go. Lexington, and Bunker Hill, and Monmouth, and Trenton, and Valley Forge were procts positive that they were not willing to let us go. Any committee of Amer- fcans going across the ocean to ses what could have been done would have found no better accommodations than London Tower. The only way it could have been done was by the sword, your great-grandfather's sword. Jef- ferson's 2» could write the Declaration of Inde ence, but only Washington's sword couid have achieved it, and the other swords bathed in heaven. 80 now the sword has its uses, although itis a shedthed sword. There is not an armory in Brooklyn, or New York, or Phila- . { be spared. We have in all our American cities a ruffian population, who, though they are small in number, compared with the good again and room, in every war office in every na Jad, In every national couneil, That w disarmament. But no government can afs ford to throw its sword away until all the great governments have mugreed to do the same, Through the influence of the recent convention of North and Bouth American Governments at Washington, and through the peace convention to be held next July in London, and other movements in which prime ministers, and kings, and queens, and sultans, and czars shall take part, all civil. ized nations will come to disarmament, and if a few barbarian races decline to quit war, then all the decent nations will send out a force of continental police to wipe out from the face of the earth the miscreants. But until disarmament and consequent ar- bitration shall be agreed to by all the great overnments, any single government that ismantles its fortresses, and spike its guns, and breaks its sword, would simply invite its own destruction. Suppose, before such gen- eral agreement, England should throw away her sword; think you France has forgotten Waterloo? Buppose before such general agreement, Germany should throw away her sword, how long would Alsace and Lorraine stay as they are’! Buppose the Czar of Russia be throw away his sword; all the eagles and vultures and lions of European power would gather for a piece of the Russian bear. Sup- pose the United States, without say such throw away her sword; it would not be long arrows of our harbor would be ors and common councils and police, there were not in the armories and arsenals some keen steel which, if brought play, would make quick work There are in every reat community unprincipled men, who ike a row on a large scale and 3 heat themselves with sour mash and old rye triol, potash, turpentine, sugar of lead, sul phuric acid, logwood, strychnine, night shade and other precious ingredients, and When they get that blue vitriol collides “Ah of satisfaction. roe doctrine.” Bide by side the two movements must go. armament. Atthe same command of “Halt!” all nations halting. of “Ground arms!™ all muskets thumping. ernment, been demonstrated. You remember how, when the soldiers were &ll away to the war in 1863-4, what conflagrations were kindled in the streets of New York, and what negroes were hung. Some of you remember the great riots in for the op tion. In 1840 a hiss at a theatre would have resulted in New York city being demolished had it not been for the citizen widiery. Be cause of an insult which the American actor, Edwin Forrest had received in England from the friends of Mr. Macready, the English actor, when the latter ap od New York in Macbeth the mobbed, the walls of the city having been placarded with the announcement: ‘‘Shall Americans or English rule in this city? Streets were filled with a crowd insane with sn. The riot act was read, but it only evoked louder yells and heavier volleys of stones, and the whole city was threatened with violence and assassination, But the Seventh regiment under Gen, Durysa, marched through Broadway, pre ceded by mounted troops, and at the com- mand: “Fire! Gaard! ” the mob scat. tered, and New York was saved. What would have become of Chicago, two or three years ago. when the police lay dead in the stroets, had not the sharp command of mili. tary offiosrs been given! Do not charge such soenss upon merican institutions. They are as old as the Ephesian mob that howled for two hours in Faol's time about last January, They were witnessed in 1673 in London, when the weavers paraded the streets and entered buildings destroy the machinery of those who, because of their new inventions could undersell the rest. They were witnessed in 1781 at the trial of ord George Gordon, when thers was a re Hgious riot. Again, in 1718, when the rabble cried, “Down with the Presbyterians! Down with the meeting houses” There always have been, and always will be, in great com- themselves and which ordinary means can nothing but the sword can mest. Aye, the Arbitrament will takes the place of war But their armories, and arsenals and well drilled militia, because until the millennial day thers will be populations th whom abitrament will be as impomiblk: 24 treaty with a cavern of byenas or a jungle of snakes, Those men who rob stores and give garroter’s hug. and prowl about the wharves at midnight, and rattle the dice in gambling hells, and go armed with pistol or dirk, will refrain from disrarbasos St Se ablic peace just in proportion as they . 24 that the militia a city, instead of be- ing an awkward squad, and in Sanger, of shooting each other by mistake, or & their own life by looking down into the gun barrel to see if it is loaded, or getting the ramrod fast in their bootleg, are prompt as the sunrise, keem as the north wind, potent az a thunderbolt, and acourate, and regular, and disciplined in their movements as the planetary &ystem. Well done, then, I say to the legislatures, governors, and mayors, and all offi. cials who decide uw larger armories and the case in that final lodg. RT Ay ig . e, and ita t like a Ap deg Br om A the chamois of the tal servant. but b . That may be nearer ‘he standing army is the nightmare of nations, England wants to got rid of it, Germany is being eaten up by it, Russia ix almost taxed to death with it that the millions of men to the standing armies of and in absolute idleness {0 most part of their Hyves, instead of ocon- sumers. Would not the world's prosperities improve, and the world's morals be better? Or have you the beathenish idea that war is necessary to kill off =the surplus populations armies disbanding than you think. 1 the the reserved seats, and even the standing room would be exhausted?! Ah! I think we can trust to the pneumonias, and the consump tions, and the fevers, and the Russian grippes to kill the people fast enough, Beside that, when the world gets too full God will blow up the whole concern and start another world and better one. Be be spared. It takes the pick of the nations. Those whom we could easily spare to go to the front are in the peniten y, and their duties detain them in that Hmited sphere. No, it is the public spirited and the valorous who go out to dis. Mostly are they men. If they were aged, and had only five or pars at the most to live the sacrifice But it Is those have forty or fifty years to live step into the jaws of battle our war Colonel Ellsworth fell while yet a mere lad. Renowned McFPher son was only 35. Magnificent Reynolds was only 43. Hundreds of thousands fell be twaen twenty and thirt oarsof age. 1 jooked into the faces of the man troops as they went out to fight at Se dan, and they were for the most part armies of splendid boys. ferrad to fice the young. who who Alexander the it not only takes down that which they are, but that which they might have been, Bo we are glad at the Issiahic prophecy, that the time is coming when nation shall sword ainst nation. Iodeed both sw shall go back into the scabbard —4he sword bathed in heaven and the sword bathed in bell. In a war in Spain a soldier went on a skirmishing expedition, and, se- cluded in a bush, be bad the opportunity of shooting a soldier of the other army who had strolled away from his tent. He took aim and dropped him. Rusning up to the fallen man he took his knapsack for spoil, and a letter droppad out of it, and # turned out to be a [otter signed by his own father, in other words be had shot his brother. If the brotherhood of man be a true d oiriue, then be who shoots another man always shoots his own brother, What a horror is war and ite crusitios were well ik lustrated when the Tartars, after sweeping pride nine great sacks filled with the right of the London Times, writing of the wounded after the battle of Sedan, mid: “Every moan that the human volos can utter rose ‘Water! For the love of God, water! doctor] A doctor!” never ceased.” how glad we will ba to have the Old Monster h f die. Let his dying couch be spread in some dismantied fortress, through which the stormy winds howl, Gives him for a pil. low a battered shield, and let his bad be bard with the rusted bayonets of the slain, Cover him with the coarsest bianket that picket ever wore, and let his only cup be the bleached bone of one of his war chargers and the inst taper by his badside expire as the midnight blast sighs into his ear: “The Can. die of the wicked shall be put out.” Tonga against the sky of the future 1 mes a great blaze, in full blast, es workmen have stirred the fires until the furnaces are seven times heated. The last wagon load of the world's swords has been hauled into the foundry, and they are tumbled into the furnace, and they begin to glow and redden and melt, and in hissing and sparkling liquid they roll on down through the crevios of rock until they fall into a mold shaped like the iron foot of a plow, Then the liquid cools off into a hard metal, and, brought out on an anvil, it is beaten and pounded and fasscionsd, stroke after stroke, until that which was a weapon to reap harvests of men becomes an imple. It is a foundry AES wy 3 i fp hig : The Clothing of Little Children. SH I A I AIA BY OQUBIN META. Of late so much has been written on the subject of infants’ clothing that there may scarcely seem room for more, et a few hints ont of one's own exper- 1ence may still be of use to some one. Before the era of the “Gertrude suit,” or the other hygienic patterns now so well known, | had become quite out of patience with the uncomfortable, un. 1ygienie methods of clothing helpless infancy, and determined to evolve ‘out of my own head,” (as the boy said he made the gate) for my own little one something better. The result I sub. join, nor has my experience with five younger children shown me anything more satisfactory. 1, a short shirt; 2, a waist; two skirts; 4, a dress. The shirt of worn flannel--frequent. ly made from a soft, partly worn un- der-vest of my own—short, in prefer- 4, one or The waist, win- These may be one or more according to the occasion, and usually { i i | i } nocent little being it is to cover. warm without need of long skirts, and thus the naturally active limbs have opportunity for free play. The stock- made as ‘‘bootees,” that is, with long enough tops to cover the legs), because it is quite as essential that should be warm as well as the feet, They may be fastened to the diaper by a small nursery pin. After babyhood up to the age of nine FXaren have A MAA SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1890, The Rich Man's Folly. LESSON TEXT. {Luke 12 ;: 18.21. Memory verses, 19.21. LESSON PLAN. Toric or THE QUARTER: Saviour of Men, Jesus the Gornpex Texr ror THE QUARTER: This is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world. ~~Jochn 4 : 42, ————— Lesson Tovic : Words on Covetous- ness, ¢ 1. The Spirit of Covetous- ! ness, ve. 1315, v4 1 2. The Course of Cove ous Lxssox Our INE:< ness, vs, 16.19 { 3 The Penalty of Covet. { ousness, ve, 20, 71. Gownvexs Text: 1ake heed, and be. ware of covelousness: for a man's Life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he posscsseth. —Lake 12 : 15. Dairy Home ReEApixGs : M. Luke 12 13-21. SOVELOUSTIEss Josh, 7 : 1-26, OUsness W.—1 Kings covelonsness, T..-2 Kings 5 covelousuess F.—Matt. 26 14-16 ; 27 Judas's covetousness. Acts O 1-11. Ananias SApphira s covelousnesa, sake 10 A unselfishness, T. Achan’s covet- Ahab’s 21 : 1-16. 1-27. : 1-10. 8 : 25-37, nodel of LESSON ANALYSIS, 1. THE SPIRI I. Manifested: 3id my brother di ance with we (13). Then I coveted them, and took them (Josh. 7 Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it (1 Kings 21 I will ron after him, and take some- what of him (2 Kings 5 : 20). T OF COVETOUBNESE, vide the inherit- +21). “ “fe ory, is the ideal in its various grades, but is able, with short sleeves, wearer comfortable, while guarding against sudden chill The heavier qualities are excellent for the colder season, made with sleeves down to the keeps. the little One of the most im portant objects of care in our changeab eo New England the day, often even to the hour. To almost or other Un very hot enjoyed from *‘colds” eases arising from chills, tioned, with cotton waist, drawers and cotton slip. But frequently a sultry morning followed by a chilly afternoon, and the lined dress and skirt, agd the out-door drives them in. As the days become cool, dresses of flannel take the of cotton ones later on flannel draw. ers and skirts and woolen stockings are nows how in a few hours one or two decades ago. for under and outer gar- ments, also woolen stockings and “‘com- the plain, long, close-fitting cloaks are very admirably and cold; so are the many soft. woolen head-coverings of “hood” or more modern designation of *“fascinator,” “toboggan,” ete.,) of- ten render a pretty face quite bewitoh- ing,and even a homely one more bright and attractive. Cottage Health, A 5S illegible Prescriptions. The **Madioal Press” has lately called attention to the serious risks to which patients are exposed by the custom among many medical men of writing their prescriptions illegibly. We are told, says * ‘Chambers’ Journal,” that prescriptions are commonly handed to chemists so badly written that it 1s almost im ible to decipher them, and that itis often diffionlt to guess what drugs are intended to be repre- sented by the strange hieroglyphios de- picted. Doctors are not the only sin- ners in this respect, as any one witha large correspondence knows to his cost. It is by no means an uncommon to receive a lotter, the translation of which is as painful an experience as to the efforts of a statterer to himself understood. Persons soquire the easy art of make of the price (Acta b : 1, 2). I. Shunned: Keep yourselves from all ecovetous- ness (15). I coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel (Acts 20 : 33). ocovetousness, let it not even be named (Eph. 5 : 8). Be ve free from the love of money (Heb. 13 : 5). Il, Condemned: Life consisteth not 1n....the things {15}. Woe to him that getteth an evil gain (Hab. 2: 9). Man shall not (Matt. 4: 4:). not the lL (Matt. 6: 25). The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil (1 Tim. 6: 10) 1. “Bid my brother divide the heritance with me.” (1) The con- tested estate; The covetous claimant; (3) The judicious Lord. 2. “Take heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousness.” (1) An evil end; (2) A defensive watcehful- DOSS, live bread alone b v fe In more than the food? {9 {= abundance .he possesseth.” A fact (1) lIpcontestible; (2) bling; (8) Faith-inspiring. Il. THE COURSE OF COVETOUSNESS, I. Prosperity: The ground of a ceriain rich man He it is that giveth thee power wealth { Deut. 8: 18). [hey shall have eaten and filled them- selves (Dent, 31: 20). which I heard (1 Kings 10: 7). (Prov. 11: 28). 11. Selfishness: reater (18, Ss wer hath gotten me this wealth (Deut. 8: 17). Spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil (Psa. 37: 35). He heapeth up riches (Psa. 39: 6). Men shall be lovers of selt, lovers of money (2 Tim. 3: 2). il. Worldliness: Soul, take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry (19). Then he forsook God which made lum (Dent. 32: 15). If riches increase, set not your heart thereon (Psa. 62: 10). They were filled:. .. have they forgot ten me (Hos, 13: 6). The deceitfulness of riches, choke the word (Matt. 13: 22). 1. “The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifally.” (1) Riches; (2) Prospenty; (3) Plenty. ~{1}y The man’s possessions; (2) The Lord's blessing, 2. “1 have not where to bestow my fruits.” (1) In a needy world; (2) With abundance of means; (3) Without a beneficent spirit. 8. “Take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.” (1) The fool's idea of his soul's needs; (2) The fool's provi. gion for his soul's life. 11. THR PENALTY OF COVETOUSNRSS, 1. Classed with Fools: God said unto him, Thou foolish one 20). The fool hath said, ....There is no God (Psa. 14: 1). The prosperity of fools shall destroy them (Frov. 1: 32). The way of the foolish 1s right in his own eyes (Prov. 12: 15), They that desire to be rich fall into. ... many foolish... lusts (1 Tim. 6: 9). Il. Cut Off from Lite: ht is thy soul required of 6: gH Sp Poor as to the world. . and heirs (Jos. 2: 5). An inheritance, ....that away (1 Pet. 1: 4), 1. “Thou foolish one.” (1) God the judge; (2) Man the oulprit; (3) “Foolish one” the finding. 2. “This night is thy soul required of thee.” (1) The supreme require- ment: (2) The immediate demand; (31 The irrevocable decision. 8. “Bo is he that layeth up treasure for himsell.” (i) Wise for this world; (2) Foolish for the next, AIS LESSON BIBLE READING, BPECIMENS OF COVETOUS MEN, Laban (Gen, 81 : 41, 42). Achan (Josh. 7 : 20, 21). Eli's sons (1 Bam, 2 : 12-17) Samuel's sons il Bam. 8 : 8) Saul (1 Bam. 15 : 9, 19). Ahab (1 Kings 21 : 1-4). Gehazi (2 Kings 5 : 20-24). Priests of Israel (Isa. 56 : 1). Judas (Matt. 26 : 14-16 ; John 12 : 6). Ananias and Sapphire (Acts 5 : 1-10) Demetrius (Acts 19 :24- 27). Felix (Acts 24 : 25, 26). ..rieh in faith, fadeth not - fhe 11 ; Mal cr ——————— LESSON SURROUNDINGS INTERVENING Kvests.— The less part of a continuous series of disco and coversations, extending from Luke 11:14 40 13:9. The position of this section in the history is difficult to de- | termine. The mecident at the | ning, the eure of 8 dumb demonine, i resembles that recorded in Matthew {12 : 22, and is followed by a similar ac- cusation and Matt, {12 : 23-45, Mark 3 : 20-30, Luke {11 : 15-32). If Luke reports the same {| occurrence, then this entire se | should be placed earlier in the try; namely, on the day when t | course in parables was spoken, | where pear Capernaum. This | view of Robinson, and has muck | commend 1t. The benediction y | woman (Luke 311: 27, 28) would, in | that case, be suggested by the coming { of our Lord's mother, since Matthew iand Mark place the coming of his mother and brethren immediately after the discourse following the secusation of a league with Beelzebub. If, however, the miracle 18 not the same, the entire section belongs to the final journey from Galilee, whatever be the precise date of that journey. An- drews places it after the feast of taber- nacles, ss already stated in previous “Lesson SBurroundings.” It is impos- sible to decide the question with cer- | tainty, If the section belongs to the | earlier period, it follows the preaching | tour described in Luke 8 : 1.3. Ifitis in its chronological position, then it follows the last lesson. In either case, the immediate connection is: the heal- ming of a dumb demoniac; the accusa- tion of lesgne with Beelzebub; our Lord's reply (Luke 11 : 14-26); a wo- man calls him blessed, our Lord's re- { ply (Luke 11 :27, 28): a discourse, to { the multitudes (Luke 11 : 20-36); ata | dinner in the house a Pharisce the | Lord denounces the Pharisees (Luke | 11 : 37-52); their hostility increasing, he addresses the multitude (Luke 11 : i153 to 12 : 12). While speaking one of | the multitude makes the request with | which the lesson begins, | Prace.—On Robinson's theory, in | Galilee, probably in Capernasum. On | the other theory, st some unnamed | place in Perma. Time. — Either in the antumn of A, i U. C, 781, —that is, A. D. 28, —or in the late autumn (November or December) lof A. U. C. 782; thet is, A. D. 20. | Pensoss.—Our Lord, surrounded by | “many thousands” (v. 1); his disciples | near him; one of the multitude. In a | parable, a rich man, to whom God speaks. | Ixcromsrs.—A man asks our Lord to make his brother share the inheritance {with him. This request is refused, and a warning against all covetousness | saded. The parable of an increasingly | rich man, his worldly wisdom, his pro- vision for his own pleasure. God re- bukes him, with a prediction of speedy death. The application. There 18 no parallel passage. oe — —— 318 BE ’n Hrscs begin discourse Comp. ¥ with Le = is it of of Some Pecullar Plants. A very funny plant in the Governe ment Botanical Garden is the so-called Barber plant, the leaves of which are | used in some parts of the East for rab- bing on the face to keep the beard from growing. It is not supposed to have any effect on a beard that is al. ready rooted, but merely to act as a preventive, boys employing it to keep the hair from getting a start on their face. It is also employed by some Oriental people who desire to keep parts of their heads free from hair as a matter of fashion. Also found in the Botanical Garden is the *“‘cruel plant,” which is so desig- nated because it catches butterflies and kills them for sheer sport. Its flowers attract the poor little flutterer by the honey it offers, and when the victim lights upon it, it grabs the butterfly by the head and holds 1t fast until the cap- tive dies. Then the flower drops it on the ground and lies in wait for a fresh unfortunate. A ocurious-dooking tree from the Isthmus of Panama a round red fruit as big as an apple, which has this remarkable faculty, that its juice rub- bed on tough beef or chicken, makes the meat tender by the chemical power it to separate the flesh fiber. One 1s inte: to observe in the bo- tanioal house three kinds of from, one spot until, w it is just aha about to dis. Oruel. enough as soem, gar. onl io parpeinmte the dis- oy beauty and curi- ouity, all plants of thous wariotios that are too healthy being thrown away. electrician bas Invented that he calls * » fon of corrosion The interior of the boller is currents Shem flash out
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