Bamboo as a Building Material,
The great strength of bamboo poles
is not at all understood by the major-
ity of persons. It is stated on exoel-
lent authority that two bamboo poles,
each of them one and seventenths in-
ohes in diameter, when placed side by
side, will support a grand piano slung
between them by ropes, and that they
will neither seg or break under the
burden. Bamboo will form poles six-
ty-five to seventy feet long and from
eight to ten inches in diameter. A
derrick, twenty-six feet high, made of
four-inch bamboo poles, raised two
iron girders weighing together four
hundred and twenty-four pounds. The
wonderful lightness of this material in
proportion to its strength has excite d
comment of late, and new uses are
constantly being made of it. Seaf-
foldings of bamboo have the advan-
tage of lightness and strength. It is
predicted that this material will come
into general use for such purposes.
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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
the Eminent Washington Divine’
Sunday Sermen.
The Disciples on the Lake of Galllee—A
Draft of Discouragement—The Disnd-
vantage of an nfortunate NameSome
Mistakes That Cloud the Early Life,
Text
xiv., #4.
As I well know by experienca on Lake
Galtlea, one hour all may ba and the
next hour the winds and waves will be so
boisterous that you fin doubt as to
whether vou will land on the:
the hott ! The disel
the text nae f
weather
plunged, for
There one of
place where,
winds are op
¢
“The wind was contrary,” Mathew
enim
are
hare or on
m of the
wore ’
nd the si
“the
and
was contrary.”
yropsan st
hent
wind
the E raits a
the
a who
15 in
all their i
t 18 win i
It may
he Dati
the nee
wonder
%
done mo a 8
Put to
stances with th
Bohemia, wi
je eried
tlie
aR me
iy blind, and yet at
wut, “I prav and beseech i
wo far into the fight that I
good blow with this sword |
Do not think so much of what |
i have loat as of what faculties
have enough left to make
inthree worlds, while you
earth and balk hell and win
heaven, Arise from your disconragements,
O men and women of depleted or erippled
physical and what, by the
special help of God, you ean accomplish
spother form of disadvantage under |
which many labor is lack of early educa-
tion. There will be no excuse for ignor-
anes in the next generation. Free schools
and illimitable opportunity of education
will make ignorance a erime, [ believe in
compulsory education, and those parents
who neglect to put their eblldren under
educations] advantages have but one right
jeft, and that is the penitentiary. bat
there are multitudes of men and women in
midlife who have bad no opportunity. Free
schools had not yet besn established, and
vast multitudes had little or no sthool at
ail. They feel it when, as Christian men,
they come to speak or pray in religions
assemblies or public oceasions, patriotic
or politieal or edueatisnal. They are
} Was
oO
tay strike
“of mine
faculties ve
fi
ii
faculties, Eine
They ows nothing to Fine!
geography, or hallea 1 They would
not know a partieiple from a nronoun if
| thoy mat it many times a day Many of the
| most successful merchants of Amerion and
{ In high political plnoes eannot write an ac-
| curate latter on any theme, They are com-
{ pletely dependent upon olorks, and depu-
ties, and stenograg hors, to make things
right, 1 knew a literary man who in other
voars in this eity made bia fortune by write
ing for congressmen or fixing
them up for The Congressional Record after
they wern delivered, The il
lteraey of this country is beyond measure-
grammar, ot
spoachos
millionaire
rd have I to sav against acour-
wn or high men
ann ut I
yeht up in the
and
1 opportunity Yon
of good in yoursoul and
everyday life
odd than any
im of Har-
vor gradunted
aw
of speech or fine ol
tale all the
anv to those who wer
ulture, Get
fenorant
vour
jer forg
curricu
vot ne
wi
Ve
tf heaven, the amalies
wi ia 20.000
brigade 144,000, the lightnings of
chariots and
amalleat
An ancient warrior saw an overpowering
host come down upon his small.company
of armed men, and mounting his horse he
threw & handful of sand in the alr, erving,
“Lot their faces be covered with eonfu-
sion.” And both armies heard His voles,
and history says it seemed as though the
dust thrown in the air bad become 80
many angels of supernatural deliverance,
and the weak overcame the mighty, and
the immense host feil back, and the amall
number matehed on, Have faith in
God, and, though all the ailied forees of
discouragement seem to come against
you in battle array and their laugh of
defiance and contempt resounds through
ail the valleys and mountains, you might
by faith In God and importunate prayer
piek up a handful of the very dust of your
humiliation and throw it into the air, and
it shall become angels of victory over all
the armies of earth and hell, The voices
of vour adversaries, human and satanic,
shall be covered with confusion, while you
shall be not only conqueror, but more than
conqueror, through that grace which has
#0 oiten made the fallen helaet of an over.
thrown antagonist the footstool of a Chris
jient because they do mot feel competent,
tian victory.
|
|
How to Laundry Fancy Linen,
To wash embroidered linens not to
fill nt
ndd an
piece through the
blue waters
added
the
as
fade the colors 1b halt full of warm
Httle
0
Pe
¢
care
water, to which Ivory Boa
Wash
fully,
thin
to dry Iron on
each suds
rinse in to which a little
starch Hang in the shade
side
stitohes,
Wrong press
{ng down heavily to bring out the
riginal beauty,
ELiza R,
thus restoring thelr
angen,
Queerest Town in England,
The most enrions town in England
is Northwich,
street, nor, in fact, a straight
in the place; every part of it has the
from the visitation of an earthquake.
the centre of the salt industry. On
nearly all sides of the town
salt works, with their
ing hundreds of thousands of gallons
of brine every week.
At a depth of some two hundred or
three hundred feet are immense sub
terranean lakes of brine, and ss the
contents of these are pumped and
pumped away, the upper crost of earth
is correspondingly weakened, and the
result is an occasional subsidence
These subsidences have a *'
effect ou the nearest buildings, which
are drawn all ways, giving the town
an upside-down appearance.
—
Hit, but Not Killed by a Cannon Ball.
A unique distinction belongs to Sir
B that of
r who has been
idle by a cannon
I'he iden
Robert Rawlinson, K. C
being the only soldi
knocked out of the sa
ball without being killed
tical forty-two p und shot is
by Lady Rawlinson as interesting
relic. At the Crimea Hot
riding with a up of artillery «
cers, when he ar ineced hi
of turning At th
Hussian
preserved
“wi
ert was
back
m the
in front
reins and
wedging
roe against
eR —
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man sat of
egan to |
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The Goltfor's Superstition. Guards Her People,
I
! Not only do they take care of ftrav-
| ellers in England, but they force them
to take care of themselves. You have
| not the privilege of getting yourself
killed that you enjoy in Amerien. If
you sre found getting on or off a train
in motion, you are fined, and the of
fence will cost you *‘forty shillings,”
to quote & railway rule. Nor have
you the freedom of erovsing the tracks.
The trifling matter of goiug up a flight
of stairs to cross the track on a safe
and strong bridge saves many lives in
England, snd by oar lack of such rafe-
guards many lives are sacrificed an-
nuslly, as railway statistics show,
Fogland may not be as free as the
| United States, but she knows how to
guard the safety of her people.
The golfer, as a rule, believes that
nek is a deity to be propitisted, not
offended, and has his little supersti-
tions. The four-leaf clover is his
mascot. If he finds one on his way to
the links he is happy; and if he loses
the game it is not the fault of the
charm, but rather of some malign or
“hoodoo inflnence which is too strong
to be overcome. Like a “‘mascot,’”’ a
“hoodoo” an notual
cording to the golfer. Certain people
effect on others. The
| “evil eye’ is often blamed for amissed
stroke, and go on. Of course, all of
| this talk is more or less put on, but
| there is 8 certain belief in occult
fluences, nevertheless.
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