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REY. OR. ALMA.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun.
day Sermon.
Sabjeect:
Trxr:
“God Among the Shells.”
“And the Lord said unto Moses,
onycha."—Exoous xxx. 34.
You may not have noticed the shells of
the Bible, although in this early part of the
sacred book Goad calls you to consider and
y them as He ¢ liad Moses to consider
employ them, The onycha of my text
is a shell found on the banks of the Red Sea,
and Moses and his armv must bave crushe{
many of them under foot as they crossed
the bisected waters, onycha on the beach
and onycha in the unfolded bed of the deep.
‘1 shall k of this shell as a beautiful and
otical revolation of Goa, and as true as
first chaoter of Genesis and the last
chapter of Revelation or everything be-
tween,
Not only is this shell, the onycha, found
at the Red Bea, but in the waters of India.
1t not only delectates the eyes with its convo-
Jutions of beauty, white and lustrous and
serrated, but blesses the nostril with a pun-
ent aroma. This sheilfish, accustomed to
eed on sovikenard, is redolent with that
odorous plant —redolent when alive and re-
dolent when dead. Its shells waen burned
bewitch the air with fragrance.
In my text Gol commands Moses to mix
this onchya with the perfumes of the altar
in the ancient tabernacle, and I prooose to
mix some of its perfumes at the altar of
Brookiyn Tabernacle, for, having spoken to
Ta on the “Astronomy of the Bible; or,
od Among the Stars;" tue **Caronology of
the Bide; or, God Awong the Centuries”
the “Ornithology of the Bibls, er, Gol
Among the Birds,” the “Mineraiogy of the
Bible: or, God Among the Amethyste)"
the “lIchthyvolozy of the Bible: or, Gol
Among the Fishes,” I now come 10 speak of
the “Conchology of the Bible, or, Gol
Among the Shells”
It isa secret tbat you may keep for me,
for 1 have never beore told it to any one
that in ail the realms of the natural worid
there is nothing to me so fascinating, so
completely absorbing, so full of suggestive.
ness, asa shell. Woat?! More entertaining
than « bird, which cen sing, woen a shell
cannot sing? Well, there vou have made a
great misiake, Pick up the onycha from
be banks of the Red Sea or pic: up abivaive
m the beach of the Atlantic Ocean and
listen, and you bear a whole choir of marine
voices—bass, a to, sopranc— n an unknown |
tongue, but seeming to chant, as [ put them
to my ear, *'I'be sea is His and He made it)”
others singing, *' Thy wav, O God, isin te
sea.” others hymning, ‘“.1eruleth the raging
of the sex.” :
“What,” says some one else “does the
shell impress you mors than the star? la
some respects, ves, becauss I can handle the
shell and ciocely study the shall, while |
eaLnot handle the ster, and if 1 study it
must study it at a distaace of muilions and
millions ot miles,
“Wha,” says some one else, “are von
more hupressed by the shell than the
flower?’ Yes for it has far greater varie-
ties and far greater richness of enlor, as 1
vould show you in thousands of specimens,
and because the soell does not fate, as does
the rose ieaf, but maintains its beauty con
tury after century, so that the onycaa
which the hoof of Pharaoh's horse knoe tel
aside in the chase of the Israsiites across the
Red Bea may havo kept its Juster to this
hour, Yes they srs so particolorsd ant
many colored that you might pile them up |
until you would bave a wall with all the |
colors of the wall of heaven, from the ja per
at the bottom to the amethyst at the top.
Ub, the shells! The petrifiel foam of the
ses, Oh, the shells! The hardened bubbles
color, prism on prism, and their adaptation
of thin shells for still ponds and thick coat-
ing for boisterous sear, Thay all dash upon
iba thought of the providential cars of
1 v
+» hat iz tho use of all this architecture of
the rhel!, and why is it picturad from the
outside lip clear down into ita labyrinths of
construction? Why the infinity of skill and
radiance in a shell? What is the use of the
color and exquisite curve of a thing so in.
significant ns a shellfish? Why, when the
conchologist by dredge or rake fetch s the
orustacecus specimens to the shore, does he
find at his feet whole albambras and coli-
stums and parthenons and crystal palaces of
beauty in miniature, and theses bring tolight
only an infinitesmal part of the opulence in
the great subaqueous world, Lisunmus
counted 2500 species of shells, but conchology
hat then only begun its achievaments,
While exploring the bed of the Atlantic
Ocean in preparation for laviag the cable
shelled animals were brougnt up from
depths of 1000 fathoms. When lifting the
telegraph wire from the Mediterranean and
Re Seas, shelled creatures were brought
up from depths of 2000 fathoms. The Eng-
lish admiralty, exploring in behalf of
solence, found mollusks at a depth of 2435
fathoms, or 14,210 fest deep, What a realm
aw,ul for vastoess!
As the shell is only the house and the
wardrobes of insignificant animals of the
deep, why all that wonder and beauty of
construction, God's care for them is the
ouly reason, And if Gol provi ls so munifi-
cously for thom, will He not ses that you
have wardrobe and shelior? Wardrobe and
shelter for a periwinkle! Shall there not be
wardrobe and shelter fora man? Would
God give a coat of mail for the defense of a
nautilus and leave you no defense against
the storm? Does He build a stone houss for
a creature that lasts a season and leave with-
out home a soul that takes hold on centuries
ani sous?
Hugh Miller found “the Footprints of the |
Creator in tae oid red sandstone,” and |
hear the harmonies of God in the tinkle of
the ssa shells when the tides cone in, The
same Christ who drew a lesson of providen-
tial care irom the fact that God clothes with
grass the f:ld instructs me to draw the same
lesson from tha shells,
In almost every man's lifs, however well
bora and prosperous for years, and in al.
most every woman's life, there comes a very
dark time, at least once. A conjunction of
circumstances will threaten bankruptey and
bomvelessness and starvation, It may be that
thess words will mest the ear or will moet
the eye of those who are in such a state of
loreboding, Come, then, and ses how Gold
gives an ivory palace to a water animal that
you could cover with a ten-cont piece and
ciotaes in ar.aoragainst all attacz a coral
I do not think
that God will take better care of a bivalve
than of ons of His own children,
I rake to your feet with the gowel rake
the most thorough evidences of God's care
ior His creatures, 1 pile aroun t you great
mounds of snells that they may Ssach you
a most comforting tusology. Oa, ye of litle
faith, walk amoug these arbors of coraline
and took at these bouquets of shel’, fit to be
banded a quesn on her ronation day, and
gow theses tutlen rainbows of eslor, and ex-
amin thess lili*s in stone, thess primroizs
in stooe, theses heliotropss in stone, these
cowslips in stones, theses geraniums in stone,
thess Japon.cas ta stone,
OQ yo who paras your telsscopts ready look. |
ing out on clear nigals, Srying to ses waat
iz transpiring in Mars, Jupiter and Mercury,
kaow that witiin a few pours wal or rides
of where you now ara thers are whols
worids that you might explore, bat of whica
you ars unconscious, an! among the moss
beautiful! and suggestive of these Worlds is
tascomncaniozieal world, Take this lesson of
a providential care. How does that old
aymn go
We mar, like ships, by tempests be tossed
On petiioas deep+, oul cannot be jos,
Taoigh ss'an earagss the wind and the Lids,
The promise sseures us the Lord will provide.
of the deep, Oh, tae shelle, which ars the |
diadems ows by the ocean to ths fest of |
the continents. How the shells are ribbed, |
ved, cviindered, mottied, iridescent! |
hey were used as coin by some of the Na. |
tions. They were fastened in belts by |
others, and masie in handles of woolen im-!
plements by still others, Moliusks not only |
of the ser, but mollusks of the land, Do you
know bow much they have had to do with
the world's history?
of God from extinguishment
The liraelites marched out of Ezvpe
2.000.000 strong, besides flocks and herds,
before it was leavened, their kneading
troughs being bound uy in the clothes on
their shoulders,
of Egypt and conid not tarry; neither had
they prepared for themsaves any victuals”
Just think of it? Forty yearsin the wilder.
news, Inddelity sriumpbantly asks, How
could they live forty years in fhe wildernas
withcut fooa? You say manna fell, Oh,
that was iter a long while. They would
have starved fifty times before the manna
fell. The fact 1s, they were chiefly kept
alive by the mollusks of the land or shelled
creatures, Mr. Frouton and Mr. Sicard
took the same routs from
Cansap that the Israelites foox, and they
ve this as their testimony.
“Although the coildren of [srasl must
have consisted of about 2,000,000 souls, with
baggage and innumerable flocks and herds,
they were not likely to experiences any in-
convenience in their march. Several thou-
sand persons might walk abrosst with fhe
test esse In the very narrowest part of
valley in which they first began to file
off. Jt soon afterward expands to above
thres leagues in width,
forage they would be at no los. The
y nd is covered with tamarisk, broom,
clover and saint foin, of which latter
a Ny camels are passionately foo !, be.
slmost every variety of odoriferous
plant and herb proper for pasturage.
**The whole sides of the valley through
which th dren of Israel marched are
still tufted with brushwood, which doubt.
Jess afforded tood for their beasts, together
with many drier sorts for lighting fire, on
which the lsraciites could with the greatest
ease bake the dough they brought with them
on small iron plates, which form a constant
e to the ovaggage of an oriental
wler, Lastly, the hecoage uoderneath
trees and shrubs is completely coversd
with snails of a prodigious sigs and of the
‘best sort, and, however uniisviting uch a
repast ought appear to us, they are hers es-
teamed a great del . They are so ti
ful in this valley that it may be literally said
that it is difficult to take one step without
Jeraelites on the march to ths promised
and the attack of infidelity at this
oo itis founded
and printing our
has at the bottom a taark
and over it a flourish like the
p, and we put this
ut the ead of a question,
guage the interroga.
1 for each question,
gustios tig ter
nt is presen
a of the
up and down the earth,
Israelites on their way to
But walle vou get this pointed lesson of
providential care from the sheliad cremntures
of the desp, notices in their construction
that God beups then to help thomselves. This
house of stone in which they live is not
dropped on deem and is not built around
them, The Qaterial for it exu ter from their
own bodiesRud is adornel wita a colored
fuid from the pores of their own neck. It
i$ 8 MOL interesting thing to ses these crus
tacean animals fashion their owa homos out
And all of this is a mighty lesson to those
who are waiting for otaers to bulld their
fortunes woen tasy ought to go to work
the mollusks, build their own
taeir own brain, out of their
out of their owa industries.
on all the beaches of ail the
awa gweat,
| Not a molinel
Do sot wait lor others
| to shelter you or prosper you. All the
| erustacecus creaturss of the earth from
| ovary flakes of their covering and from evary
i ridge of their tinv castles on Atlantic and
| Pacific and Mediterransan coasts say,
yourself.’
Taose people whe ¢ for their
father or rich old uncle to die an {leave them
| a fortuns are as silly as a mollusk would be
to wait for some other mollusg to drop on
it a shell equipment. It would kill the mol.
| jusk as in most cages it destroys a man. Not
ons person out of a hundred ovir was strong
enough to stand a large estate by inberit-
ance dropped on him, in a chook. Have
| great expectations from only two perions ~
{ Got and yourself. Lot the onych: of my
text beocoms your precsptor,
But the more I examine the shells the
mors I am impressed taat Golis a God of
{ emotion. Many scoff at emotion and seem
| to thins that God is a God of cold geometry
| and iron laws and eternal apathy and en-
throned stolcism. No! No! The shells with
overpowering emphasis deny it. While law
aud order reign in the universe, you have
but to see the lavishoess of color on the
ernstaces, all shades of crimson from (aint.
est blash to blood of battlefield, ail shades
of green, ail shades of all colors from deepest
| plac to whitest lizht just callel out on the
| shel's with no more order than a mother
i preameditates or calculates how many kinses
| and hugs she shall give her babe waking up
in the morning sunlight.
Yes, my God is an emotional God, and He
says, “We must have colors atd let the sun
paint all of them on the scroll of that shel,
and we must have music, ani here is a carol
for the robin, and h Jism lof man, and a
doxology for the ser m, and a Tesurrec-
tion pi for the archangel” Aye, Hs
showed Himself a God of sublime emotion
when He flung Himself on this world in the
d to
would exhaust, or the
sh out,
Shen I ote the Louvres and the Luxzems
oa d the Vaticans of Divine ti
pric. wo the 8000 miles of ns pointing
hearin 4 Loess on » Sumner
ical academies
ian as, I say God is a God of emotion,
and if He observes mathematics it is mathe.
matics set to music.and His figures are writ.
toa not in white chalk on blaciboards, but
written by a finger of sunlight on walls of
jasmine and trampet creecer
In my study of the y of the Bible
con of the text alto a"
, when H
that religion is
po Bp wi] bave meant
Mowe, oie i unto thes sweet
on
stacte an Jo
enrtain an
and
will have to get fixed up before thev
there or thev will makes trouble hy pi Boni
out to us: “Keep off thet gras!” “What
do you mean by nlucking that flower?’
“Show your tickets
Oh, how many Christian peopls nest to
obey mv text and take into their worship
and their behavior and their censociations
sud vresbyteries and general asssmblios and
conferences more anvein! 1 have sone.
times gone in a very gala of spirit into the
presenca of some disasrasable Christians
and in five minutes felt wretched, aul at
some other time I have gone depressed tuto
the company of suave aod geninl souls, and
ina few moments I felt exhilarant, What
wag the difference? It was the difference in
burned onycha; the other burned asafetida.
In this conchological study of the Bible [
also notions that the molutks or shelle! ani-
mals furnish the purple that you see richly
darkening so many Boripturs ochaoters,
The purple stuff in the ancient tabernacle,
the purpie girdle o® the priests, the purple
mantle of Roman Emoerors, the aoparel of
Dives in purple and fine linen—aye, the
purple robe which in mockery was thrown
upon Christ—wera colored by tne purple of
the shells on the shores of the Mediterra-
nean, It was discovered by a shapheri's
dog having stained his mouth by breaking
ous of the shells, and the purple aroussd ad-
miration,
Costiy purple! Bix pounls of the purple
liquor extracted from the shellfishes were
used to prensrs one pound of wool. Purple
was also used on the pages of books, Bibles
and prayer books appeared in purples vellum,
which may still be found in some of the na-
tional libraries of Eurone. Piutarch speaks
of the purole which ket his veauty for 19)
vears. But after awhile the purple became
easior to get, and that which had bean a
sign of imperinl authority when worn mn
robes was adopted by many people, and so
an emperor, jeslous of this appropriation of
the purple, made a law that anv one sxceps
royalty wearing purple sbould be put to
death,
Then, as if to punish the world for that
outrage of exciusiveuess, Gol obliterated
the color from the earth, a+ much as to say,
“If all cannot have it, none sbail have it.”
But though God has deorived ths race of
that shellfish which afforded the purple
there are shells enough left to make us gia t
and worshipful. Oh, the entrancement of
hue and shape still left all uo aud down the
beaches of all the continents! These creatirss
of the sea have what roo’s of enameled por-
celain! They dwell under what pavilions
blue as the sky and fiery as a sunset and
mysterious as an aurora! Asdaml not
right in leading you for a few moments
through this mighty resim ol God »0 peg.
lected by human eye and human footstep?
It is said that the harp and lute were in.
vented from ths fact that in Ezypt the Nile
overflowed its banks, and when the walars
retreated tortoises were leit by the million
on all the lands and these tortolses died,
and soon nothing was Jefs but the cartilages
and gristie of these creature: which tight -
ene l under the heat into musical striaogs
that when toucasd by the wind or foot of
man vibrated, makiog sweel sounds, and so
the world took the hint and fasuioned the
harp, and am I not right in trying to make
music out of the shells and Jiftin: them as a
harp, from which to throm the jus ant
praises of the Lord and the pathetic straios
of human condolance?
But I find the climax of this conchologzy of
the Bible in the pearl which has this distinc.
tion above all other gems—taat it requires
Job speaks of it, and its sheen isin Christ's
sermon, and the Bible, which opens with the
onycha of my text, closes with the pearl
Of such value is this erustaceous product I
do not wonder that far the exclusive right
of fishing for it a the shores of Ceyvinn a
man paid to the English Government $6.
0G for one season,
Ho exquisive ls the pear! 1 do not wonder
that Piny thought it was made i of a
droo of dew, the creature rising to the sur-
face to take it and the chrmistry of nature
turning the Hguid isto a solid. You will
see why the Bible makes so musa of the
pear! in its similitudes if you know how
much itcosts to get it. Boats with divers
milont from the land of Ceyvion, ten
divers to each boat Thirsesa ten
gude and manage the boat Down
into the dangerous dentas, anid
sharks that whirl around them, pinnage the
divers, while 60.00 people anxionsdy gazy
on. After three or four minuts’ absmos
from the air the diver ascends, nine saths
stranguiated and bool rushiag from ears
and nostrils, and Singing his pearly treasure
on the sand falls into unconsciousaes.
Ob, it is an awlol exposure and strain and
peril to fish for pearls, and yet they do so,
and is it not a wonder that to gat that which
the Bible calls ths i of great price, worth
more than all other pearis put together,
there should be so little anxiety, so Jittle
struggle, so little enthusiasm? Would God
that we were all a% wise as the merchantman
Christ commended, “who, woen be had
found one ri of great price, went and
sold all that he bad ani bought ie.”
But what thrills me with susgestivensss
1s the material out of which all pearls are
made, They are fashioned from the woun |
of the shellfish, The exu ation from that
wound is fixed and bar fenced and enlargsd
futo a pearl. The rupturel vassis of tie
water animals fashioned the gem that now
adorns finger or earring, or sword bil or
king's crown.
84 ont of the wounds of earth will come
the pearis of heaven. Out of the woul of
bereavement the pour! of soisce, Out of the
wound of loss the pearl of gain. Out of the
desp wound of the grave the pearl of resur-
rection joy. Out of the wounds of a
Baviour's fife and a Saviour's death the rich,
the radiant, the everiasting pearl of heaven.
ly gladness, -
“And the 12 gates weors 12 pearls” Take
the consolation, all yo who hava been hurt,
whether hurt in body, or hurt ia min}, or
burt in soul. Get your troubies sanctifisl.
If you suffer with Christ on earth, you will
reign with Him in glory. Tae tears of earth
are the crystals of heavan, “Every ssveral
gate was of one pearl.”
lave Maria as Lesson,
is the yonng woman mentioned below
did not belong to it.
thing happening to one of our own top.
lofty servant girls! A German merchant
very forgetful. This fault was especially
annoying at meal times, when something
table. One day the family were seated
st the table, and the bell was rung as
ususl. Toe girl hurried to the diniog
room.
v Maria,” said Herr Bow, *‘just rua
and fetch the big step ladder down from
the attic and it here.”
Maria who had disturbed at her
dinner, gave a grunt of dissatisfaction,
but ran up three flights of stairs to fetch
the iadder, In about five nioutes she
returned to the room, panting with her
exertion.
“Now,” said Herr B— ‘put it up at
the other end of the room and climb to
have now a better view
look around and teil
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS
EVERY DAY LIFE,
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven-
tures Which Show That Trath Is
Stranger Than Fiction,
A smuxenr, while ut work the other day,
discovered a 'arge and well-formed frog
in a mass of anthracite coal blasted from
oF
in the Mount Lookout Colliery, at Wyo.
ming, Penn. Joseph Johns was timber-
ing with another miner, James Otts, in a
tunnel in the mine and had barred down
a large lump of coal when the gleam of
light from his lamp fell upon something
in the coal, He stooped down and
touched the object and was surprised to
find it soft and yielding. There waa
about a square inch of surface exposed
at the time, and he saw that the thing,
whatever it was, was in a cavity. With
his pick he very carefully chipped off
the coal all around it until tne cavity, or
chamber, was fully opened, and there,
nestling in the hard coal, he found a
frog. Bome seventeen years ago, while
working in the mines, he made a similar
discovery, and had then taken the frog
in his band, shown it to his brother
miners, and taken it home. But, while
it was alive and warm when he found it,
it died before it had been exposed to the
air half an hour, At that time a scien- |
tist told him that if he had enclosed the
frog in an airtight compartment imme-
diately after unearthing it the animal
might have lived. When he made his
pecond discovery on Wednesday this fact |
ut once recurred to his mind, and, as
goon as he had recovered from his sur
wise and realized what he had found,
PE ran to his dinner pail and got an air-
tight fruit jar, in which he had brought |
the tea for his lunch, Into this he put
the frog avd closed the lid, and the jar
has not % en opened, The frog at first |
showed no signs of life, although it was |
2 4 = {
warms, but after being io the jar six hours |
it began to move, and when it had bees |
ex posed to the fight ten hours it was
quite as lively as soy specimen which
can be found around the ponds in sum
mer, Since then it has continued to be
fully wide awake, and stares in wender
at all who lock at it, In appearance it
is not very different from an every-day
frog, except that its back is nearly black,
and there are two rows of little hilly
protubs ances down side of its
spine. Its legs also are peculiarly long
and its feet very delicate and tender.
3
each
Ervis R. Sarrm, the only Republican |
Sheriff Pettis Mo., has
the war, and the only Sheri
has ever executed a criminal d
er f
County, had
since
sinal history of that county, was re-
Weer fon
Louis, “1 wit
thing in tho jai
1 his
party of {
£ Xperit noes
riends in St,
nessed quite & pe uliar
at Sedalia last year,”
had
Bs an
remarked ae]
very uopleasant duty off offi
he
Lhe
of Tom Williamson, who had been con-
vieted of a triple murder. About two
months before the day of the execution |
the old man asked me toget him a young
kitten to raise. 1 did so.” An attach
ment grew up between the two that was
certainly remarkable,
happened to lock the old man up in a
cell without the cst she would raise such
a disturbance that | would have to lock
ber up with him, They were together
day and night, When the day of exe
cution rolled around the cat appeared to
be the chief mourner and brought up the
When the trap was sprung the cat walked
back into the jail and, after walking up
and down the corridor for an hour,
pounced upon old man Williamson's
cot, where it remained for a week, re
fusing to eat or drick.
days afier, the executioner determined to
remove her. When [1 attempted to
was dead, 1 actually believe she grieved
herself to death.”
Oneptan Banner,
killed, **The bears are numeros since
the canal was begun. They have left the
middle of the swamp and are staying
near the edge of it. They frequently go
in droves at night to the farms near Ly
and devour the hogs. I went into the
swamp, accompanied by a young san,
to hunt the bears. Our guns were single-
barrelled. Presently a noise was heard.
We followed, and soon came upon a bear
ss she had reached her cubs. We were
within about ten yards of her and fired
our guns. The bear was shot in her
lower jaw. She made for us. The
young man ran and left me to fight it
out. [I had a butcher knife, and as she
reached me plunged it into ber breast.
bear was closing upon me. 1 felt her
hot breath in my face and gave myself
up to die a borrible death. Fate inter.
fered, and 1 was pleased to hear the cubs
making a noise. The bear turned and
looked at her cubs, Being satisfied that
they were not in danger, she came at me
again, 1 had my kaife again and used
it in different parts of her body. Bhe
was getting a hold on me when I plunfed
my Knife into her heart to the hilt.
hear fell to the ground and after a fow
struggles died. The cubs were de-
spatched with a pine limb.”
“Ser this pearl?’ said Clifton ks,
as he held aloft to view a beautiful spec-
imen from the sands of the Indian Sea
and twirled the gold in which it was set
to show off ita superior value to a St
Louis reporter. ‘That pearl is worth
$300 in the market to-day, but the oir
cumstances under which it was discovered
make it invaluable to me, It's a gift
from my mother, who received it t
my father, and ho got it for
My father was a Captain in the
army, and was stationed in India.
bis homeward vogue after
twelve years in i
this pearl. [fle
bit
aught two ls and
he
imagine that the gull Lad not long
swallowed it. I don't know of a similar
instance, and that is why [ say it is in
valuable to me.”
A woman appeared on the streets of
Canton, Miss,, who attracted much at
tention. Bho hax a perfectly white face
and hands and short kinky hair, with
the features of a negro, The woman
suid thit she was born black and re.
mained so uatil she was fifteen years old,
when she suddenly turned white, remain
ing so for one year, when she turned
black again. Since that time she is al
ternately white and black, not alone in
spots, but changes color entirely Bhe
is fairly intelligent, and says she has
never taken a dose of medicine, Bhe
lives near Sallis Station, on the Canton
and Aberdeen road. She says she
cannot stand the sun at all, and
a double veil and heavy gloves.
miuute it causes it to blister at once.
who are unable to account for the change
in her color,
Here is a pointer on wol@killing. In
kill a goat for cating Juiposcs,
Mexican took his gun and shot the goat,
which did net die immediately but ran
where little basins in the
solid rock, one of which became fille
with blood. The Mexican conceived the
iden of putting poison in
bait for wolves, which were very trouble.
there were
BITY
Next morning there were fi
coyotes, one lobo and a wildeat
dead near the puddle of blood, he
Inost
attractive bait that can be used,
A rocar paper tells how Albert Smith,
of Milford, Penn
be
A party of oil prospectors,
having
decided to bore a well in his or-
Bmith objected strenuously be-
would destroy an apple-tree for
he had a particula
iinly endeavoring to have Smith
his pr wpectors re :
w feet beyond
man's
chard.
cause it
which fondness,
CHR mind, he
moved their apparatus a {«
fis on the edge of
3 i i Ran ha £3. ety
iid in 8 few dave oil was Sowing
of Far.
rec, 3
# rats 100 barrels an hour
mer Smith saved his apple-tree and
Quesx Vicronia is
{
raisers bye f 01
Be
paintings, *
own hand Chica
of which
private
The
*to the
from the wall
x 3
Wind ec
include 3
“ONE
dining room of
ictures will
Indian Secretary, «
and some
She will also send a sachet whic
favorite
she worked, also “with be
Princess Louise
and Princess Beatrice will send
pictures, while Christian will
Ee oil sone Me ime ns of fie edie WOrK, in
this fic most
summate skill and ingen
Ix M. Dybowski's
Molbsnei to the ard
recent
3
RIND
Princess
case ‘executed with
Con
from the
ribed at a
meeting Geograph-
oo
ety, he one
sd tribes which
This tribe,
known as the Bonjos, have only one ob-
ject of pur hase slaves eaten
They refuse to sell food or any other
f their country for anything
and the surrounding tribes capture
lode of slaves for this
French expedition
difficulty in obtaining
food among a people who have no desire
lea of trade,
Cally Cann
beea described,
to be
clue,
The
ex
A ounrtovs scene is witnessed during
the winter months in the parish chur h
Capel-le-Ferne, Kent, Engiaud,
There are no means of lighting this
church, so that the worshi
quired to carry their own lig
is no uncommon sight to see a
rs
sia
3B,
hand sad a candle or lamp in the other,
Wire Ssrrs snd Frank Nethery went
into D. A. Jackson's store at Trenton,
small greenish frog, slive and abie to
jump. Several were present in the store
and saw the frog taken from the can,
and saw it jump along the counter. The
frog was evidently put up with the
oysters, no saying how long
Packs of wolves have also appeared at
Belgrade and other towns in Servis. At
Pozarewatz a girl was devoured by the
famished brutes, and stories of similar
tragedies have come from various parts
of Burope. The cold in Bohemia and
Bervia has been extreme.
Speaxixe of remarkable longevity,
how's this: Mrs. James Polly, of Green
Jounty, Ky., is one hundred and seven
yesrs old and the mother of {fourteen
children, of whom thirteen are living,
the youngest being fifty-nine years oid.
ws ee
Two Words Otten Confused,
“Gourmand” and “Gourmet” are two
well known French terms which are fre.
queatly used, but not always with suffi.
cient discrimination,
confuse them and to use one in lieu of
the other, although the difference be-
tween the two Sevag is wo great that they
may be regarded ss complete opposites,
The “gourmand” is a ea who
eats as much as he can at a meal, devour.
ing ove plate of food after anther. In
nacontrolled appetite, feeding much as a
dog feeds, with this exce in the
do's favor, that the gourmand is more
omuiverous than thedog. He isa sort
of man who would not omit any one dish
ata table ote, and whe Mould, iu al
proba , wind up the grumbling
assertion that he cannot dine y at
that hotel, Ia fact, whether dining at
home or abroad, bis animal ature
moderation; and even values the com
monest articles of diet if they are excel
lent of their kind. A French gourmet
once remarked, ‘1 am very fond of oys-
ters, but I never exceed one dozen, be-
ing convinced that after that quantity
the palate has become incapable of fully
appreciating the flavor.” A ‘réal gour
met preserves the palate in the henitiest
and most natural condition. He would
pot smother an oyster with pepper, nor
even squeeze un lemon over it. Plain
things are often preferved by a gourmet
to the richest sorts of food, Persons in
different to niceties of flavor will drink
wine and eat cakes at the same time, Not
so the gourmet, unless the wine were
good quality he would rather eat a plain
crust of bread, A gourmet prefers the
simplest meals, such as s beefsteak or
mutton chop, it really well cooked, to an
elaborate banquet badly or unsuitably
To sum up, it may be said
Tennessee Onyx Caves,
“What I believe to be the largest and
4 * said
B. Shepard, recently been
{iscovered in some cavesin the Comber
West Tennessee, It
3
have
but the mines or caves have
ion
of large
roof
brought to the existence
Anderson County, the
are bristling with stale
and in some cases the
the four of the cavern.
one column. fourteen feet in
length, the top of which is more than
four feet in diameter, and, } believe, an
onyx slab four fect wide by six long
be from it. The onyx in
s of whi
tities of onyx
could sawed
is more richly colored than any 1 ever
and to exist in unlimited
quantity 1 as you may know, is
formed by the drippings of Hmestone,
and in early stages looks like prisms of
glass or frosted icicles banging from the
roof, and must elapse
before even the smallest eone of omyx
while the large column 1
have described must bave been growing
since ng of time. When the
value of these stones becomes known to
the on onyx will
widely known than Italian marble,
ily a few samples have been
Si. bouls Globe Domso-
S/W, HOCINS
fhnvy,
{ tion .
COUnVIeES aye #
could form,
the beginn
world th Teanesscs he
more
Dut os yet on
OU, ee
taken
Sounds We May Not Hear.
here sonuds that are in-
Certainly the sounds
that give the keenest pleasure to many
animals - cats, for example—are seldom
capable of ing pleasure to us. We
of course, that sounds may be
too low or that is, the vibra-
Animals may
asdible to us.
too high-
be audible 14 the human ear; but it does
not follow that they are equally inaudi-
The limits of audible sound are pot
invariable even in the homan ear; women
can usually hear higher sownds than
men, and the two esrs are not, as a rule,
equally keen. A sound may be quite
insudible to oue person and plainly
by another. Professor Lioyd.
Morgan mentions as an instance of this
a case in which the piping of some frogs
his friend
The same thing
possessing
heard absolutely nothing!
may. be oliserved by any
the -Hitle instrument
The sound
until at last it ceases to
persons. Some
still higher even they cease to hear.
the whistle is causing the air atill to
first shown by Professor Barrett in 1877.
—{ Chambers’ Journal,
“The Garden of Eden.”
There is a spot in Hawaii called “The
Garden of Eden,” and it has been most
appropriately named. The place is on
the sugar plantation of James L. Dawsett,
near Honolulu, The beautiful garden is
situated near the big house at one end of
the plantation. Here the Northern
palm and the sunny orange. Rosos, whose
pame and variety are legion, are ever in
blossom, and that bloom no diminutive,
occasional flower, but abundant as tea
roses in June in New England. The
number of different varieties of flowers at
Ulapalakua, the name of Mr. Dawsett's
beautiful home, cannot be less than 900;
nor oan the varieties of fruit trees be
less than 50. One peculiar feature of
Ulapalakua is the entire absence of
springs or streams of water. Clonds,
rain and dew in sil the seasons fornich
crops, flowers and trees with their needed
supply. — [New York Tribune,
A ———
Novel Anchors
i ————
The British steamer Ba
disohnrging coal at Mission No. 9,
novelty aboard in the shape of a
less anchor. la fact has
them, and they are hauled up *
block” to the hawseholes in a
make a sailor feel like kicking Mmunif
for all the risks he has run in
eatting and fishing anchors in the
gono by. The new anchor
consist
metal
now
has a
slock-
and no flukes, 1
semi-circular mam of
rectly to the chain
two aMachmenta
time flukes, but swisted