“The Biagest fre. saidJ, C. Stephens, at his anction rooms in King stree Covent Garden, ‘‘to the egg of the Aepyornis maximus, Ae biggest bird living or extinct. It has been extinct for some time, and only two of its bones have been found. Aecarding to the catalogue the bird was more than ten feet high and was flightless.” «1 ghould think so,” said 8 prospec. tive egg buyer. “It would seem “Wenow come,” to me,” said Mr, egg must have been something hike thirty-five feet high—about ss b igh as a house. You will see by the logue that it measures 34% inches in ite longest circumference and twenty- eight inches in girth. This egg is several inches lsrger than the egg gold last year. ltis, of course, rarity, and not more than thirty these eggs are known. “This, I think, is the the lot. It should he that there are sixty known eggs of the great auk, and they sell for s conple of hundred guineas each, 1 we a great r LO finest eng of as much as a great auk’s egg, but we sold one not go good as this last year for seventy guineas The egg was passing from hand in a wooden box while auctioneer was speaking. It | too large for an egg, though in respects it seems natural enough hand to the ed 1 GOR It bird that had laid such an egg had be- come extinet. The strain must have been equal to the horse-power of an Atlantic liner, and the eackle that fol lowed the arrival of the egg mnst have onde the welkin ring until its ached. The egg ie of a brownish gray e« snd sounds like porcelain drummed on with the knuckles bird that was accustomed to lay this sort of egg lived, it is said, in Mada gascar, and buried its eggs in the sand. It is only possibly to find the digging in the snd may yet be found, a good the Madagascar been dug up vet. one p. Bevel guineas, Cau lor when it 1s [he Poy i Vv sand, mors CREE ile al 0} not ns SeRsOre Of bins was finally sold for sixty Pall Mall Gazette, egr - nO The Ladies, The pleasant ¢ffect and perfect safely with which Iadies may use the California liquid Syrup of Figs, under all conditions, makes it thelr laxative, favorite remedy. To get the true and the California Fig Syrup Cou, printed near the botiow of the package. ne article, look for the name of penal g. Write timen als, ¥ « 10 XN, Je Tio wa Co. N. ¥. Ladies needing a tonle, or children whe want building up, should take Brown's Iron Bitte It is pleasant to take, cures Malar a Ind ati in. Biliousness and Liver Compinints, wakes the Blood rich and pure. If your Back Act for wotiaie Willi on fe * « Irn H.18 leanse yor Ver, al i give ye Des Lhe DETVYes. mn and consti 3S ct a box Heecham's Ps cfire Indigestic pation. 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New York. am seventy-seven years old, anda hava had my age renewed of Su menty years years by the use Sits Pecific. My fort sore for a Je - ig Shunt A] Hy not ured. Altes taking oi tras YEARS sufferers 0 aaa id K hua Palaer Kana Clty. DY Sopecily fo SWIFT arcvic COMPANY, Atlanta, Ga. REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Eminent Brooklyn Divine’ 8 Sun. day Sermon. Subject: * Arrogance and Humility." Text: * God be merciful unto me, a sinner ~Luke xviil., 18. | No mountain ever had a more brilliant coronet than Mount Moriah. The glories of | the ancient temple blazed there, The moun- tain top was not originally large enough to | hold the temple, and so a wall 600 feet high wus erected, and the mountain was bullt out | into that wall, It was at that point that satan met Christ | and tried to persuade Him to cast Himself | down the 600 feet, The nine gates of the | temple flashed the light of silver and gold | and Corinthian brass, which Corinthian brass | was mere precious stones melted and mixed and crystallized. The temple itself | was not so very large a structure, but the { courts and the adjuncts of the architecture { made it half a mile in circumferance, We stand and look upon that wondrous structure, What's the matter? What | strange appearance in the temple? Is it fire? Why, it seems as if it were a mantle all kin- i dled into flame, What's the matter? Why, its the hour of morning sacrifice, and the smoke on the altar rises and bursts out of the crevices and out of the door and wreathes | the mountain top with folds of smoke i through which glitter precious stones gathered and burnished by royal mu- nificence, I see two men mounting the steps of the building. They go side by side: they are very uniike ; no sympathy between them the one the pharisee, proud arrogant, pom- yous ; he goes up the steps of the AG } @ seems by his manper to say: ‘Clear the track! Never before came up these steps such goodness and consecration.” Beside him was the publican, bowed down, seemingly, with a load on his heart. They reach the inclogsure for worship in the midst of the temple. The pharisee goes close up to the gate of the holy of holies. He feels he is worthy to stand there. He says practically “I am so holy I want to go into the holy of holies, Oh Lord, Il am a very good man! | am a remarkably good man, Why, two days in the week I eat “absolutely nothing. I am 80 good, I'm very generous in my conduct toward the poor. 1 have no sympathy with the common rabble ;: especially have I none with this poor, miserable, commonplace, wretched publican, who happened to come up the stairs beside me.” The publican went clear to the other side of the inclosure, as far away from the gate f the holy of holies as he could get, for he felt nnworthy to stand near the sacred place, And the Bible says he stood afar off. Stand- ing on the opposite side of this inclosure, he his head, and as orientials when they any trouble beat their breasts, begins to pound his breast he “God be merciful Oh, bows have #43 he as ries, tO me, a anner was there ever a greater neense that walted that morning ning utrast?’ The mm the the pub opening he ph and rolle We © ¥ iy WRACT WARS DOL 80 sweed as prayer floating into while the prayer of his eontem pic into his arrogant heart they in other and side down the the pharises cross shed, acrid, saturnine the publics: his face shi IE with the for 1 that thi down to his ho justified other Now, I put this i nH § the BYENS, Brisee ‘ tied on IN down there, i refining encn side Ly Bleep, wret with OVS of heaven, * went than the tadl you Use rath yablican's prayer analysis, and vered in the first hat he was persuaded of his sinf was ap honest man ; he was an officer of publicans under piace He rer The £ ine sf iiness Was & taxgnt} the government, taxgatherers, and Cleero says they were the adornment of the State, Of course they were somewhat unpopular beosuse people then did not iike to pay their taxes any better than people now lke to pay their taxes, and there were many who dis liked then : ~t he were il I supp eTer, WARE Bn Dont offices of trast we this publican, th man. mas | is tax gath- He hard ti rive had there were said about him, and yet that deme ling re of temple an ah # hs “5 WAT than natrations of ( siiness and int 1 am 8 sinned eo that « y weigh ¥ acti to estimate f the or fron I will ' 0 draw my ar { the work hat £34 saivation, You go down in FOU see thing « iment rat i bas achieved a storm to the wreckers put on their rough jackets and lsunch the Heboat and then shoot rom kets to show that help is coming ot the breake re, and immediately ery, 4 shipwreck Christ putting aside rote and crown and lannch out on the tossing sea of human suf fering and satanic hate, going out into the thundering surge of death, I ery, "A ship wreck I know that our souls are dreadfully by the work that God has done to save Are you & sinner! Buppose mercial agent in Charleston or San Fran- cinco, or Chicago, aad you were paying him promptly his salary, and you found outafter begoh, and it yOu lost the salary be had given ninedenths o time to some other commercial ment. Why, your indignation Bo bounds. And yet that is have treated the Lord, He sent us out into the world to serve Him, He has taken wood care of us, He tas clothed ue, He bas sheltered us, and He has surrounded us with 10,000 benefactions, and yet many of us have given nine-tenths of our lives to the service o and the devil, Why, my friend, the Bible is full of confessions, and I do not find anybody is pardoned until be has confensed, What did David say? “I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord.” What Isaiah say? ‘Woe is me, man of unclean lps mr and our trespass is grown up into beaven.”’ And among the millions before the throne of God to-night not one got there until he con. fessed, The const of eternal sorrow is strewn with the wreek of those who, not taking the warning, drove with the cargo of immortal hope into the white tangled foam of the breakers, Heoent! the voles celestial orien, Nor losger dare delay: The wretch that scarns the mandate dies Amd meets the flery day Bat 1 analyze the publican’s prayer a step | further, and I find that be expected no relief { except through God's mercy. Why did not | he say. | am an honorable man, When 1 got #10 taxes, I pay them right over to the gov. ernment. | give full permission to anybody to audit my accounts. I appeal to Thy jue tice, 0 God! He made no such plea. He threw himself fiat on God's merey. Have you any idea that a man by breaking off the scales of the leprosy can change the disease? Have you any idea that you ean by changing your life change your heart--that you can purchase your way to heaven? Come, try it. Come, bring all the bread you ever gave to the hungry, all the medicine you ever gave to the sick, all the kind words you have ever uttered, all the kind deeds that have ever distinguished you, Add them all up into the tremendous aggregate of words and works, and then you will ses bis knife as he cuts that spirit i aren. lia, iio ae ho ex “By the deeds of the law there shall no flash be justin Well, a thousand men in this audience itl am to anything in the way of from in good works, how am | 0 the pave? BY imesey. iy ! Bn i ¥ mercy ; sovereign mercy, In omnipotent a it seems in the } exhausted ng eo a f ali the establish. would know just the way we What did Ezra say? at the feet of gelist when it tries to describe God's merny, Ob, says some one, that i= only addine 10 my crime if I come and confess before God und seek His mercy. No, no. The mur. derer has come, and while he was washing the. blood of his vietim from his hands, looked into the face of God and cried for mercy, snd his soul has been white in God's pardoning love, And the soul that has wandered off in the streets and down to the very gates of hell has come back to her Father's house, throwing her arms around His neck, and been saved by the mercy that saved Mary Magdalen. But, says some one, you arethrowing open that door of mere y too wide. No, I will throw it open wider. [ will take the re sponsibility of saying that if all this audi ence, instend of being gathered in a semi- eirele, were placed side by side, In one lone line, they could all march right through that wide open gate of merey, ‘‘Whoseover,” “whoseover,”' Oh, this merey of God.-there is no line long enough to fathom it ; there is no Isdder long enough to scale it ; there is no arithmetio facile enough to calculate it | no angel's wing can fly across it, Heavenly harpers, alded by feet like the sun, cannot compass that harmony of merey, merey. It sounds inthe rumbling of the celestial gate, I hear it in the chiming of the celestinl towers, | see it finshing in the uplifted and downcust coronets of the saved. 1 bear it in the thundering tread of the bannered hosts around about the throne, and then it comes from the harps and crowns snd thrones and processions to sit down, unexpressed, throne overtopping all heaven of mercy, How 1 was affected when some one told me in regard to that accident on Long Island sound, when one poor woman came and got her hand on a raft as she tried to save her. self, but those who were on the raft thought there was no room for her, and came and most cruelly beat and bruised her hands until she fell off, Oh, ~the throne for the sixteen hundred room {or one, is room ! I push this analysis of the publican’s prayers step further and find that he did not expect any mercy except by pleading for it. He did not fold his hands together aa some do, saving: “If I'm to be saved, I'll be saved, If 'mto be lost, I'll be lost, and there is nothing for me to do.” He knew what was werth having waz worth askin for ; hence this earnest ory of the text, “God be merciful to me, a sinner it was an sarnest prayer and it = charase teristic of all Bible prayers that they were answered the blind man, “Lord, that I may receive my sight © the leper, "1a ed, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean sinking Peter, “Lord, save me " the public “(io be merciful to me, 8 sinner : Come k f vour up withthe tip of ¥ f will not @ the earnestness of millions of the race room for all, and yet there an, finger ff the gate 3 have got to have ir wi Gper ' th defented greed dist inthered stead ai ike at the palace of the speaker, i} the great ize your tf this mercy mom i his praver humble prayer publican looke cannot be saved a8 SAYed as An artist 3 an official. If % will be a= 5 sinpor. a sinner Another e ar ann i 3 Be Bver San God be Im haracteristic of th iblican was, it had tf was not a ery of de a ring « He ’ wir y got wh at he asked i tor exe hint wm not ie fsx ™ rou tell me, fed this ting £ man 1 salvation and It me say that whi i there enon i, and ad an fo ther * bes Bere ghee wl . I want to quit no very imperiect waid that 1 shot ald not how many things [ bave done | she not have done, | want to change wy ii want to begin now, jet me say to such as . God is waiting, God is ready, and you are near the kingdom, or rather you have ene tered it, for no man says | am determined to e sins of my life | I consecrate mysel!l to the Lord bat if to Le belt has ben 2 a said, Dow, from the depth of his soul says that but bie is siready a Christian, My uncle, the Rev, Samuel EK. Talmage, ¢ the strocta ans: be saw aman, a step from the sidewalk out lato take his hat off and bow very My uncle was not a man who des and he said, “What do that for?” “Oh.” says the man, the other night I was going slong of Augusta one day, biack man, the street, “massa, oRme ur church, and you were ‘God be merciful to me, and I stood there at the door long enough to hear you say that if a man could utter that prayer from the depth of his soul God would pardon him and finally take him to heaven. Then I pat my burden on my got to my down, and 1 said, ‘God be but it got darker and darker, and then, massa, I got down on my knees, and 1 said, ‘God be merciful me, a sinner” and the burden got darker. | Then 1 got down home and 1 sat knew not what to do. on my iace, and I cried, ‘God be merci. ful to me, a sinner” and away off | saw a Hght coming, and #1 came nearer and nearer and nearer antil all was bright in my heart, and rose. [| am happy now-the burden iv all gone—~and I sald to myself if ever] medi you in the street | would get clear off the sidewalk, and I would bow down and take my hat off before you. 1 fesithat I owe more to you than to any other man. That is the reason I bow befors you,” Oh, are there not many now who oan uniter this prayer, the prayer of the black man, the prayer of the publican, “God be merciful to me, & sinner?” While 1 halt in the sermon, will you not all utter it? 1 do not say saudi bly, but utter it down i" the depths of your souls’ consciousness, Yes, the sigh go all through the galleries, it goes all through the pews, tome mil through thess alsies, sigh after sigh God be meretful to me, a sinner ! Have all uttered it? No, there is one soul that has not uttered it, too proud to ut- ter it, too hard to utter it. O Holy Spirit descend upon that one heart. Yes, he begins to breathe it now No bowing of the Bond needs to utter it more than my own ou God be merciful to me, a sinner! | a ——————————— Chicagoans Most be Thirsty People. Thera are 7,000 saloons in with an invested capital of at | A 5 SI. A UN ES rts FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS ‘we youn.” Out in the street Jack found, one day, An old umbrella, thrown away. ‘ ‘Better than nothing,” he merrily said, As a cloud sent its raindrops down oo his head, Along came Bob, “Any lodgings to let?” “Yes,” laughed Jack; *‘come in out of the wet,” Then Will came up with a ‘*Halloo, boys! What's the OCCasion for all this noise “Come along in" said Jack, ‘an’ sce!” A doggie, who hated such rainy weather, And a very uncomfortable soaking skin, cried Will; And dogg o Wigged n gratefe) | “4 wil now,” laughed Juck fixed, we four, iL. An’ more," —|8t. Louis Republic, LOOKING Little Emi y had been ve ry Baught because her mamma would not let her go with whom 8 reamed FORWARD. and she that every in the bouse tressed and worried, Her mamma had to lock her up in a room and till she would be good snd promised not to more. Every now and mamma Wo ald go aod ask her to promise, but she only screamed louder, last a silence fell upon the house, when poor mamma opened the there, stretched upon the floor, lay the pretty weary little form, when the dear mother drew her to her and asked the oft re peated question, WW vou he good and promise not to cry any more?” the eyes looked up, still full of pretty the girl Yan, one not come out y he and aoor, ne wd iii and little said, mamma, I'll be good, and promise 1 never ery any ions die.” never my dear relat People, more till -{ Harper's y THE B The = room and passed snother before He pa riting masie } FEVICW thon tse] by Was preferal thapen alle Rol ana fe master t £3 tld fect the onstantinopie Lave, girls, In the Turkish shicago World's Falr, beautiful booth at mre sold The thing you ever narrow and turn up a point like the to A np i Be ui there is a » hich go den slippers slippers the t They are at the making wp of a Chinese pagoda of something which looks like cloth-of-gold, and they are em. broidered with cunning litt'e gold roses surrounded by little gold Jeaves, All the boys and girls who pass the Are iniest SAW, very foes, light at the them, but pair fo wear, then they realize what very small feet theConstantinople women and children possess. Last week, a real funny thing happened at the Golden Slipper Booth. A party Americans Tared the booth and ad- ‘angel slippe re,” as they when can help doing; but they did not buy any, although one of the little girls in the party said she would like to have Hs pour § 0 AIM A IN 550 SMES Why Plenles Are fo Called. Svervbody knows what a picnic is, but most folks would find it bard to say how it got that name, and yet it is simple enough when you come to learn it. When a picnic was being arranged for, the custom originally was that those who intended to be present should supply the eatables and drinkables. A list of those ne- cessities having been drawp up, it was passed round, and each person picked out the article of food or drink that he or she was willing to furnish, and the name of the article was nicked, or ticked off the list. The open-air entertainment thus became known as “pick and nick.” The cus tom is sald to have dated from 1802, 80 that the pienic is wholly an Insti. tution of the nineteenth century. sisson A. Suicide ismnuch more eos INE LIMON RINOJE iviliens i st Man With the Head of a Goose, The man with a goose's head first appeared before the public at the fam- ous ‘Gingerbread Fair,” Liverpool, in 1872. He was twenty yesrs of age at that time; had eyes perfectly round, snd & nose eight inches in length, fist, and shaped exnctly like the bill or beak of 8 goose. Hie neck was three times the length of that of anordinary person, surmonnted by a round fist head perfectly devoid of heir, He seemed to have as much common sense as that of the average country boy of his age ; learned very fast, and, after giving up the show business, became a photographer. Hisname is Jean Ron- dier and he Jives at Dijor, France, -~ Philadelphia Press. mts III — s-. ssa Missouri hes 9301 school districts, 11,744 school houses, 13,677 school teachers, BZ school nge, and 610.550 in the public school's, I 2.45340 PLETEONS « f a@& 74 % “ oa nake Ss 1] spou » never SOAT, never good . cooks who cling 1 144 nethod g Or wilo u If vou want the Baking Powder: Regis Leblanc is a Fren dian store keep r at Not Stanbridge, Quebec, Cs ured of a flack jon of the Lungs by Bosch man Syn He has bottle of German Syrup sonal recommendation. him a line he'll give | facts of t se direct, h Cana- 11 Dame de Severe a he on Bosc] hee's German through nicely. 1 is a good medicine its work 9 PDEs. ew Ra VE ETS mE ASE oe wey aR Voy a or husky food; Xx ory oo £Y ogee » x never icaves ro os RB tc + dis ; ¥ 1 = :1 ic pe dW ¥ ? - ' 1 ff. a old-fashioned the RRR of WW best food, Royal TES r v TX » 4 SA ALAA ss rt as asst ASRR LAE Delicious Drink. ——— I Br WS EASILY MADE -— SUMNER COLD WINTER HOT. “A PURE CRUIT JUICES pret ion TTP TTT Tr rr rrr Aids 1 Prevents Few Quenches Temperance Drick Pot uw £ # prod 0 wad btties, Ask 3 49 ie v g pet sd sortiaesset . 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Dean Sime“ have been troubled with Torpid Liver for 14 years and gone through courses of bilious fever; many times it has been im. sosibie for me to do any ind of mbor, Dr. Kilinet's SWAMP-ROOT was first recommended to me oe re Gif fs neous bre woys of the party came running back “Please give me a pair of your golden said he. tittle girl who passed here just now, and I stole an over. shoe of hers out of my mother's hand- satchel so as to get just the right size, Please, Mr. Turk, give me a pair just the size of these.” The little, dark-skinned Turkish sales. man took the overshoe and tried to find a slipper to match it. But although the svershoe was not a large one by any means, there was not a single pair of the golden slippers in the whole booth that sould match it in size. Yet the little girl who owned the overshos was only en years old, hen the boy saw that he could not buy his sister a pair of golden slippers to wear, he was very much disgusted, and some one heard him telling the clerk that he did not believe girls with such small fest could possibly have any brains, ~The Ledger. TONGUE-TWISTRRS, Read the following aloud, repeating the shorter ones quickly half — times in succession : Be BR 0 0 . n a Oana, and Pip us, Fe roller, low w Toller, lower roller. x ol mixed biscuits, a mixed to. (Drugeists) Decatur, ind. After taking one bottle 1 was uncertain whether 1 was really de. piving any benefit or not: the pocond bottle, however, 1 found 1 had taken 6 tooktice. AMP. to every one Whe has torpid liver, for * Jan. 168 W. CHEISTIANER, The Great Blood Purifier. At Druggists, 500c, & £1.00 “Guide to Health” Free, Consul. tation Pree. Dr. Kilmer & Co, Misanawron, N.Y. Dr. Kilmer's . Parilla Liver Pills Ang Tae Buesr! € Pills, 3 cents, Treated free. 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