REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday Sermon. Sabject: * The Wide Open Door. Text: “And, behold, a door was opened in heaven,” Rav. iv. 1. John had been the pastor of a church in ig ne had been SE froth his that city an nant pop- ulace. The preaching of a pure and earnest gospel had made an excitement danger- ous to every form of iniquity, This will often be the result of pointed preach- ing. Men will flineh under the swords strokes of truth. You ought not to be gurprisel that the blind man makes an outcry of pain when the Stirgeon removes the cataract from his eye. It isa good sign when you see men uneasy in the church pew, and exhibiting impatience at some plain ut- terance of truth which smites a pet sin that they are hu g to their hearts, After the t has n so low that for weeks he said nothing and noticed nothing, it is thought to be a good sign when he begins to be a little cross. And so I potice thas spir- itual invalids are in a fair way for recovery when they become somewhat irascible and choleric under the treatment of the truth. But John had so mightily inculpated public iniquity that he had been Be from his church and sent to Potmas, a desolate island, only a mile in breadth, inst whose Yucky coasts the sea rose and gled its voice wit the prayers and hymnings of the heroic exile, You cannot but contrast the condition of this banished apostle with that of another famous exile, Look at the apostle on Pat- mos and the great Frenchman on St. Helena, Both were suffering among desolation and barreoness because of offenses committed. Both bad passed through lives sventful and thrilling. Both had been honored and de- spised. Both were imperial natares. Both bad been turned off to die. Yet mark the infinite difference—one had fought for the perishable crown of worldly authority, the other for one eternally lustrous. @ one had marked his path with the bleached skulls of his followers, the other had introduced ce and good will among men. The one lived chiefly for self-aggrandisoment and the other for the glory of Christ. The breaking of thousands of hearts and the acute, heaven-rending cry of orphanage and made joy in heaven among the angels of God. The heart of one exile was filled with re- morse and despair, while the other was lighted up with Shankagiving and inex. tinguishable hope. Over St. Helena gath- po. the blackness and darkness clouds, lighted up MN no sunrising, but rent and fringed and heaving with the lightanings of a wrathful God, and the spray flung over the rocks seamed to hiss with the condemuna-~ tion, "The way of the ungodly shall perish.” But over Patmos the heavens were opened, and the stormy sea beneath was forgotten in the roll gleam of waters from under the throne like stal; and the barrenness of the nd under the apostle was forgot- ten asabove him he saw the trees of life all bending under the rich glow of heavenly {ruitage, while the hoarse blast of contend. ing olements around his suffering body was drowned in the trumpeting of trumpets and thebarping of harps, the victorious ory of multitudes like the voice of many waters and the hosanna of hosts in number like the stars, What a dull spot upon which to stand and have such a glorious vision! Had Patmos been some tropical island arbored with the luxuriance of perpetual summer, and drowsy with breath of cinnamon and cassia, and tes- selated with long aisles of geranium and cac- tus, wo would not have been surprised af the of the vision. But the last piace tiful visions would be the island of Patmos, Yet it is around such gloomy spots that God makes the most wonderful revelation. It was looking through the awful shadows of a prison that John Bunyan saw the gate of the celestial city. God there divided the light from the darkness. In that gloomy abode, on scraps of old paper picked up about his room, the great dream was wiiiien. It was while John Calvin was a refugee from bioody tion, and was hid ina bouse at Angouleme, that be conceived the idea of writing his immortal “Institutes.” Jacob had many a time seen the sun break- ing through the mists, and kindling them fato shafts and pillars of flery splendor that might well have been a ladder for the angels to tread on, but the famous ladder which he saw soared through a gloomy night over the wilderness. The night of trial and desola- tion is the scons of the grandest heavenly revelations. From the barren, surf beaten rock of Patmos John looked up and saw that a door was opened in heaven. Again, the announcement of such an opened entrance suggests the truth that God is looking down upon the earth and observ ant of all occurrences. If we would gaina wide prospect we climbup into a tower or mountain. The higher up we are the broad. ar the we behold. Yet our most comprehensive view is limited to only a few leagues—here a river and there a lake and yonder a mountain peak. But what must must be the g of the earth in the eye of Him who from door of heaven beholds at ome glance all mountains and lakes and i ries and oceans, lands bespangled wi 0 cal gorgeousness and Arctic regions white with everlasting snows, Lebanon majestic with cedars and American wilds solemn with snbroken forests of pine, African deserts of glistening sand and wilderness of water mountains and seas and forests and islands taken in ina single glance of their great Creator, Aswwe take our stand upon some high point that we cease to seo them in the minutise, we behold only the grand points of the sosnery. But not so with God. Althoug standing far up in the very to nothing bY raason of its vision. Every lily of the flald, under the grass, the tiniest awl gentian are as plainly the proudest and ~ilor in their His notice, From moral changes, in hospital or workshop or dungeon but He ugh! and in high Bou ron makes record of in ‘ I'he world's iniquities in all their news glower under His vision. Wars spraad out before Him. being in all the universe but God prayer. Moat Woh prof n t 1 sil a whisper. 1t rises just as high and accom. plishes just as much, Bat ought not prayer to be mado of golden words if it is to enter such a splendid door and live beside seraphim and archangel? Ought not every phrase be rounded into per- fection, ought not the language be m i and classic and poetic and rhetorical? No; the most illiterate outery, the unjointed pe tition, the clumsy phrase, the sentence break- ing into grammatical blunders, an unworded groan is just as effectual if it bo the utterance of the soul's want. A heart all covered up with garlands of thoughts would be no attrac tion to God, but a heart broken and contrite —that is the acceptable sacrifice. ‘I know that my Redeemer liveth,” rising up in the mighty harmony of a musical academy, may ov wer our ear and heart, but it will not roach the ear of God like the broken volesd hymn of some sufferer amid rags and deso- lation looking, up seutinity to a Saviors com on, singing am tears an n #1 know that my Hedeemer liveth.” pasgn, I suppose that thers was more rhetoric and classic elegance in the prayers of the Pharisee than of the publican, but you know which was successful, You may kneel with complete elegance on some soft cushion at an altar of alabaster snd utter a prayer of Mil | tonic sublimity, but neither your graceful posture nor the roll of your blank verse will attract heavenly attention, while over some dark cellar in which a Christian pauper is prostrate in tho straw angels bend from their thrones and cry one to another: ‘Be hold, he prays!” Through this open door of heaven what a long procession of p Jers is continually passing! What Tel we vings! What confessions! What intercessions| What beseechings! “And bshold a door was opened in heaven.” Again, the door of heaven is oponed to al- low us the opportunity of looking in. Christ when He came from heaven to Bethany left it o and uo one since has dared to shut it. Matthew threw it still wider open when he cams to write, and Paul a the door further back when he spoke of the glory to be revealed, and John in Revelation actually points us to the harps, and the waters, and the crowns and the thrones. There are profound mysteries about that blessed place that we cannot solve. But look through this wide open door of heaven and see what you can see, God What a joyous and charming life the “Parasites” lived. Simon, the tanner, who first made known the discourses of Boorates declared that no happier state could be desired. The parasite experi- enced neither the inconveniences of poverty nor the uncertanties of riches He neoither sowed nor reaped, yot found everything in abundance as in the golden age. He did not ask if the soul was mortal or immortal. He did not seek to know the size of the sun nor its distance from the earth and cared not whether the gods existed, he ate drank and rejoiced. Hear what Aristophenes with his fine irony says: ‘‘The parasites are the best people on earth, they partake of your pleasure and of your fortune, they wish Pe only happiness, they would be rave at need, and wonld fight for yon if a sumptuous feast was to be the re- ward of their efforts.” Do you wish a sortrait of “‘Cherephon?” It is thus, Meandre has pire him, A man was invited to supper at the hour when the shadow on the dial should be twenty feet long, he wakens before day, goes out into the moonhght and sees the shadow lengthening, he believes him- self late and arrives at day break for supper! Do you wish for the Effigy of Eutychide? Leicellus has thus de- scribed him. poverished, he carried away everything at meals. It is now the turn of Euty is not invited, Aulus dines meeanly alone. There were three classes of parasites, by their “bon-mots,"” overwhelmed the master of the means os to look and catch up now some thing of the rapture and attune our hearts | to its worship. It is wide open enough to seo Christ, i hold Him, the Chief among ten thousand, all | the bannered pomp of heaven at His feet. | | With your enkindled faith look up along | meso ranks of glory. Watch how their | alms wave, and hear how their voices ring! "loods clapping their hands, streets gleam. | ing with gold, uncounted multitudes over | accumulatin into gladder to look wu jo in number and ever rising up | osannas. If you cannot stand | that joy for at least one hour how could you endure to dwell among it for. | ever! You would wish yourself out of it in three days, and choose the earth again or any other place where it was not always | Bunday. My hearer in worldly prosperity, afMuent, honored, healthy and happy, look in upon that company of the redeemed, and see how | the poor soul in heaven is better off than you are, brighter in el, richer in estate, igher in power. earers, afflicted and | i tried, look in through that open door, that | | you may see to what gladness and glory you | are coming, to what lifes, to what royalty. Hearers pleased to fascination with this | world, gather up your souls for one appre | siative look u riches than never fly away, | | upon health never sickens upon sceplery | | that never res, upon expectations that are | Imover dmmppointed. Look in snd see if | there are not enough crowns to pay us for all our battles, eno rest to relieve all our atigues, enough living fountains to quench all our thirst, enough glory to dash out for ever and ever all earth's sighing and restiess- ines and darkness. Ba ended, tears wipad away, thrones plucked from the bosom, stabs healed, the tomb riven—what | a scons to look upon! Again, the door of heaven stands open for the Christian's final entrance. Death to the righteous ia not climbing high walls or ford- ing Seep rivers, but it is entering an open door. If you ever visit the old homestead | where you were born, and while father and | mother are yet alive, as you go up the lane | fa front of the farm house and put your hand on the door and lifts the latch, do you shudder with fear?! No, you are glad to en | tar. So your last sickness will be only the | lane in front of your Father's rom | which you hear the voles of si ore | you reach the door. And death, that is the | fting of the latch before you enter, the | tings and embraces of the innumerable | amily of the righteous. Nay, thers is no iatoh, for John mays the door is already open. What a company of spirits have already wa- those portals, bright and shining! Boule released from the earthly on house how they shouted as they wend through! | Spirits that sped up from the flames of mar- tyrdom, making heaven richer as they went in, pouring their notes into the ¢ al har mouy. And that door has not begun to shat, If vecloomed by grace we all shall enter it. This side of it we have wept, but on the other side of it wa shall never weep. On this side we may bave grown sick with weariness, but on the other side of it we shall be without fatigue. On this side we blead with the war- rior's wounds, on the other side weshall wave the victor's palm. When you think of dying what makes your brow solitract, what os | you breathe so deep a sigh?! What makes | you gloomy in passing a graveyard! Fol. i lower of Christ, you ve boon thinking | that death is something terrible, the measur. | ing of lances with a powarful antagonist | the closing in of a conflict which mar be your | everlasting defeat. You do not want much ‘to think of dying. The step beyond this and you step out of your sick room into thoes | Not as long as a minutes will elapse between our and your arrival Not alf 50 long as the twinkling of an eye. Not part of an t There ia no into darkness. There i : FH { i £ ir fi : ) : : : 7 2 i : i | § 1 ®.if i : § : # ; | 3 1: pendants who contended with the slaves garvices as well as for the most delicate. I dine,’ of Epicharme of Sicily, “with the one who wishes it sufficient fo invite me. 1 will dine even with the one who does not desire we and to invite me is I am charming, I make and I sing the i“ the laugh go round house. f a guest presumes to despite me I When gorged with I have no him. shadows and walk trembling. If by misfortune I meet the night watch I give thanks to the gods if he leaves me with a few blows of his whip woven of Many parasites had in their lodgings conveniences and in the winter many died of indigestion. Many Greeks and those not the least eminent were occupied with the table the kitchen. If he who par- Plato He food. Zeaopben Symposion. Tim the repast of Arcesilas Plutarch nine Many others might be mentioned but space forbids, Archestrate was of Sicily, some say at Cela, others say ate great quantities and digested his food pri, this, according to Polybe did not prevent his being so thin that one could see through his body and it was believed that the wind would blow him away. He wrote a poems en- titled Gastronomy. It was so remark- able that Ennius translated it into Latin. Unfortunately the translation as well as the original is lost and there seventy lines quoted by Athene. The author of the ‘Banquet of the Sophets™ has left some biographical notes upon Archestrate. He visited lands and seas in order to know for himsell the best of their productions. In his travels he did not inform himself in regard to the manners of the people but he went into their laboratories where the delicacies of the table were pre- ared. His poem is a treasure and does not odnfain a should not be a precept, it is in this school that many cooks have learned the priuciples of an art which has ren. dered them immortal. Since culinary science has ocenpied #0 many lofty minds 1s it a wond > that cooks should he honored. At first cooks bad been taken from among the slaves which were numerous in Greece. Theso slaves did not delay toin gratiate themselves in their masters’ good graces, who 1n return loaded them with gifts and often gave them liberty. There were cooks who taking their laces in the market like free men ired their services for aspecified time. With the increase of table luxury their importance, increased and under the Lacedemonian administration they were considered to exercise one of the most important functions of the state. They were very haughtyland question- ed with importance those who wished to hire them, and refused to serve them if they judged them to be careful in expenditure. Their pride and in. solence knew no limit, “He who 1n- sults one of us will never escape the punishment that he merits.” “Thanks to my genius” maid one of them, “I have found the secret of imor- tality” had as one sees the highest idea of their talent, Those who were learned applied to to the culinary art the precepts of Epicurns fad Doadtitus, They stadi- the tastes and habits of their The cook wrote Penge the tyrant in his Thermophore ought to prepare his repast to the e of his for, if he has not previously of the manner in which he the time and the eti- sorvice—-if he has not taken ‘‘upon which I must be informe«d, these islander epicures who are always served with fresh fish of a hundred different kinds cannot eat fish that come from our ponds, they would not touch a mersel except for politeness; rageuts and spiced meats will please them more; on the contrary if it is an Arcadien born, far from the sen, he is pleased with a dish of fish. If the guest is a rich man from Ionia I will prepare for him rich sauces, meats which excite the passions.” All have boasted with emphatic en- thusiasm which uppers to have been characteristic of their profession. “Tor two years,” said the cook of Adelehes of Hegesippe, “I have worn the apron; 1 have not studied super- ficially, I have sounded the depth of the art and 1 have penetrated the sec- rets of the preparation ‘bembrades and of the Tat oo As soon as the friends and guests return from the tomb, while yet they wear the mourn- ing garb, to take their places at the table, I open the dishes and make these laugh who yet weep—they believe them- selves at a wedding, And why! be- cause they are served with ‘bembrades’ with little worth, but if I ever succeed in procuring all that is necessary you queting hall, the guests will be held he who would like to go, will remain with the mouth open, as if nailed to the him A. Mancer. hastens to tear a —— Fingers and Forks. il Did you know that Queen E ate with her fingers? You may that she was 80 fond of fine clothes that when she died she left thre thousand dresses and any quantity of jewels; but did you ever 1magine that such a great lady could be so inelegant as to eat with her fingers? But did, and so did BShakespeare, and Chancer, and William the Cs ngueror, sud King Alfred, and everybody else who lived before her time. These last were more exousable than she--they had no forks; but eveu she was not without excuse, for though she had several they had been given her as curiosities, which, I sup- pose, nobody expected her to use. There was one of crystal garnished sho little rubies and two and still another of of gold with two pendant pearls, coral, Why didn't she nso them? you ask. Well, because she had never seen or knownanybody that used one, snd they new; and, besides, there was a prejudices against invention just from Italy. Bat must not think because there were no forks that the old-fahioned dinner made no pretensions to elegance or re- finement, The guests had knives and they had fingers, and with these two imple- managed nicely, From their old books of etiquette we learn bow they did it. In the first place, the fingers must be publicly washed before beginning the meal; even if this had jost been done privately, 1t must be repeated at the table, that no one might feel unsasy in esting after his neighbor's fingers had been 1n the dish, I'o aid further, the meat was prepared as far ns possible before it was brought on the table, If in a stew, as was usually the case, it was in bits: if roast. ed, it was cut by a carver, aad passed in large plates with a knife. As to the way of helping himself, each guest must choose and keep a par- ticalar part of the dish for his own. He mast help himsell daintily from this place, using only three fingers; afterward, in carrying the food to the month, which, of course, was done with the band, these same three fingers must be used, taking care, however, not to touch the with them, to do which was extremely inelegant, and showed a lack of good breeding. Of course all this soiled the hands, and in refined households at warious intervals bowls of perfumed water and different napkins were passed, and no one must refuse to wash. This old fashion of handing round a silver bowl nose soon in Europe After a while man found out that need d forks, or, rather, woman did, for it was she who first used them. and, in conrse of time, they broaght As I have said, there was a prejudice against them; and the first few persons who were brave enough to use them a preacher even went so far as to say that for any one to refuse to tonch his ment with Providence. Nevortheless they spread; in Eng- land slowly, even after Italy, the 150 years ago--sinoe which it bas been no longer necessary-—gentleman travel ling from place to place, and knowing how poorly supplied were the inns, it] one with them in a case with a knife. Since that time the old two Protifed fork, or fourshette (little pitchfork), as the French ealled it—and really they were only tiny pitchforke has given way to the more convenient three and four pronged forks in use in our own homes Mary M. Winaton, in Harper's Young People. We know one liousekeeper, says the Ladies’ Journal,” whose husband had constructed for her a spas] chair for baking days. It was of such a height that she could sit at the table and mold her bread or roll her dough with ease. He likewise had a foot rest #0 that she might at the same time rest her feet firmly. And, ai on that chair, she for years constructed all the SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, BUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 1380, The Prodigal Son. LESSON TEXT. (Luke 15 : 11.24. Memory verses. 17.20.) LESSON PLAN. Toric or THE QUARTER: Saviour of Men, Goren Texr He is able to save Heb, 7 : 25. Jesus the youn THE QUARTER; fo the ullermost, Love Lirssox Toric: of the Father, Disclosing the 1. The Son's Departure, vs 11-16 Son's Return, 1791. ¢ he Father's Love, vs, 2A. Gorpex Texr: Father, I have »sin- ned against heaven, and before thee, Luke 15 : 18, r | 2° w. Lesson Ou M¥Rt - | 8 S—— M.—Luke 15: 11-24. The prodi- T.—2 Sam. A son's gratitude, W.—2 Sam. 15 : 1.23. 18: 1-17. T.-2 love, i F.- Pea, 103 ; 1 mercy. B.—HRom., 8B : sonship. 8.1 John 3 : 1.24. ner of love Sam. 18 : 18.33, A father’s 1-18, 18, { What man- a — LESSON ANALYBIS, I. THE SON'S DEPARTURE, I. Begotten in Presumption: The younger said, . ...give me the portion that falle to me (12). Lhe serpent said, ly die (Gen. 3 : 4). When the woman saw,.. eat (Gen, 3 : 6), I know not the Lord, and... let Israel go (Exod. 5 : 2). We will not that this man reign (Luke 19 : 14). Ii. Pushed with Persistency: The younger son gathered and took his journey (13). Cain went out from the presence of the Lord (Gen. 4 : 16). Pharaoh ened his heart £4 ti she ROC did 1 will not Over us all, Exod. 9 : 34). 32). How often would I, not! (Matt, 28 : 37). il. Continued into Bitterness: He began to be in want No man gave unto him (14, 16. He... . being often reproved hardeneth his neck (Prov. 28: 1). | The heart is fully set in them to do evil (Eccl. 8: 11). The harvest is past, saved (Jer. 8: 20), They ate, they drank, until... .the flood came (Luke 17: 27). 1. “Father, give me the portion of thy substance that falleth to me.” (1) The rich father; (2) The sumptuous son; (8) The portion. 2. “Not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country.” {1) Speedy action; (2) Thorough work; (3) Wide separation.—{1) New possessions gathered; (2) Old ties sundered; (8) New surround- ings formed. “fe began to be in want.” (1) sad contrast with and we are not pre- coveted In former plenty; folly; (3) In dark foreshadowing of COMBE woe, 11. THE SOX'S RETURN. I. Meditation He said, ger! (17). 1 thought on my ways, and turned my fect (Psa. 118: 5D), Ask for the old paths, good way? der. 6: 16), | When he thought thereon, {Mark 14: 72). We onght to give heed (Heb. 2: 1). il. Resolution: 1 perish here with hun. where 3s the he wept the more earnest I will not let thee go, | bless me (Gen. 82: 26). | We will serve the Lord (Josh 24: 15). Thy face, Lord, will I seek (Psa. 27: 8). | 1 sm set for the defence of the gospel (Phil. 1: 16). 11, Action: He arose, and came to his father 20), Let him return unto the Lord (Isa. 55: except i (Matt. 9: 7). Now complete the doing also (2 Cor. 8: 11 3 . Bo ye doers of the word, and not hear- ers only (Jas. 1: 22), 1, “When he came to himself he said.” (1) Departing from him- self; (2) Coming to himself.—(1) A state of sinning; (2) The act of re- pentance; (3) A state of soundness, 2. “I bave sinned against heaven, and in thy sght” 8in (1) As against heaven; (2) As before men. 2, “He arose, and came to his father.” (1) His initial net; (2) His continn- ous progress; (3) His attained end. 111, THE PATHER'S LOVE. I. Welcoming: His father... .ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him 120), He kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them (Gen. 45: 15). Thou gavest mo no kiss (Lake 7: 45). They all... .fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him (Acts 20; 87), Salute all the brethren with a holy kiss (1 Thess. 5: 26). 11. Honoring: Put a ring on his hand (22). Pharach took off his sifhot ring,.... ih put it upon Joseph's hand (Gen, : 42), Them that honor me I will homor (1 Toad bok his 1 and 00 mews veo it voto Haman (Esther 2 10). - Was sealed (Esther 8: 12). king's ring 111. Rejoloing: us eat, and make The good 28: 63). ui Stu thy God vejdiee ove Yhae (dah There shall be joy in hea en over one sinner (Luke 15: 7). There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner (Luke 15: 103, 1. “His father saw him.” (1) ‘the returning penitent; (2) The waiting father; (3) The overwhelming wel. come, “But the father said to his sery. ants,” (1) The interrupted confes- sion; (2; The restoring decree, “My son was dead, and is alive again: he was lost, and is found.” (1; What the penitent was; ( What the pen tent is. —(1) Lost and dead; (2; Found and alive. 2. wy fs A J LESSON BIBLE READING, THE FATHER'S LOVE, Essential to his nature (2 Cor. 13 1John 4 : 8, 16). Independent =f human merit (Deut. 7; ?:d0b 7:17), The source of salvation om. 5: BK. Jegets reciprocal love (1 John Burpasses human love (Matt, Luke 11 : 11-18). Saints should abide therein {Jude 21). | Disclosed by the Holy Epirit ob 11; (John 3 i 0). | Sought in prayer (2 Cor, 13 : 14). -—— | LESSON SURROUNDINGS. | IntERVENING EVENTS | followed immediately This the 1} to th 5 parable » SO 1 | ones, forming a chimax | the discourse, | Prace.—As before, in Peres; possi | bly at the conclusion of a meal in son | house, | Time. According to | March, A. U. C..783 { According to Andrews, i | of the previous year, A, U. lin, A.D. 20, | Persoxs. As before: | crowd of publicans Pharisees and scribes, IscipexTs. —In the parable: the father and his two sons; the vounger asks for | his portion; receiving it, he goes into | 8 far country, wastes it in riotous liv- ing, then comes want. A fami | arises; becoming a kecper of swine, he | seeks to feed on their food. He comes | to himself; rehearses his penitent con { fession. Going home, his father meets {| him when afar off The son begins his part 2 to fie | confession; the father expresses his re- | joicing in his ants, There is no parall 1 passage. the serv- A Swiss Hunter's Danger. A short time ago a hunter { shore of the Lake of wallenstadt, | Switzerlan i, discovered the nest of pair of those destructive birds, th “laemmergeiers,” a species of vulture. He shot the male, which stood 8 projecting rock near the nest, and then made his way cautiously along the | precipice, with taking | young birds, He was close upon the nestlings when | to his consternation the mother lsem- mergeier rose up from a rock, flew at him furiously, snd fastened upon his arm. The hunter was in imminent danger of falling upon the rocks {more than 100 feet below. He re- mained cool and self possessed, and clung to the cliff for dear lite with one hand, the other being powerless in the grasp of the vulture Fortunately, he had his fowling piecs slung over his shoulder. He reached cautiously up, placed it against the face of the rock, and pointed it at the | breast of the bird. With his toe he | dexteronsly touched the trigger and lnckily killed the laemmergeier. Even then he was quite unable to fre he vulture’s claws from their hold on hie | sleeve and arm, standing, as he did, on | the narrow ledge, where any movement | was difficult and dangerous. The arm | to which the bird clung was on the mde i next the cliff, partially supported by { the nest, otherwise the dying struggles {of the lammergeier must have pull | ed him down upon the rocks. He began shouting for help, and finally succeeded in calling a passing shepherd to his aid. He was soon freed from his dangerous position, and carried home two young birds as troph- ies of bis adventure.— Chicago Mail, on ii Me in on a view to the 8 © Ee i ———— ——— A Peculiar Flower. Is the Hibicus mutabilis, Genus Al | thea or Hibiscns syriscus. | This plant is a nalive of the East | Indies and resembles in form the other or what is better known as the holly- hook. It is characterized by mutations of color from which it derives its name | It travels from white through rose pink | to purple and violet. There are five distinct changes in the color of the blossom: milk white, pale rose, deep rose, bright carmine and purple. It is a delightful and wondrous ex perience to watch these changes 1x specially favorable climates, where it passes through them all in the course of a day. Josh Billings’ Philosophy. ’ * Vote early and vote often’ iz the politishun’s golden rule, 1 vever knew but one infidel in mi life, and be had no more courage than a hafl drowned kitten jist pulled out ov a swill barrel, and waz az afraid tew die az the devil would be if he wm allowed tew visit this earth for a short seazon to recruit himself, Disseaze and pills, when they enter a man’s boddy, are like two lawyers when they undertake tew sett'e hz aflairs, they compromise the matter by laying out the patient, Debt iz a trap which a man sets and then deliberately gits baits h'mself, and into, One good way 1 kno ov to find happl ness iz not by a hole to fit the Jiuge, but by waking a play to fit tu A Tar Quenx Ruorsr or Spaix, oar ory roll i Me aud is fond of music and un BE. Ropenre has been Renmgan Sour of Padus ond woman of that city. » E. Avans Hiv, of Syracuse i — to Syracuse Unt a aati ha a i
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