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A DERVISH MIMIC,
Picce of Pantomime and
Imitation,
Wonderful
Among the men who now leaped off
the rallway trucks and hurried off to
ex
the
thelr breakfasts was black
dervish worthy mention, says
London Times. ‘his
Soudanese jester
always raise a
fa
i8 Of
g£ gangs, and
ice, keeping ug
by
workin
'
QOes,
tricks
tions of the Bri
he had been br I In
18 last year at
when not
Recaptured by
he now,
iaring, keeps
mitation
imitations
in rail the
& lose
ara and other
the passed t
took off the mannerisins
railway worl
variely
duced.
per
n
at
laid
Cen d
«d by this versat
skatching a port
recognized every 1 of the head
hand, the pose, ev
'
the war artists with
expression
face of one of
*nd mimicry.
or I —
One Fowl for Three.
A crusty old farmer in Southern IIlI-
nols one day became an unwilling host
for three circuit-riding preachers, who
dropped in simultaneously for dinner,
The larder was low and the dinner cons
sisted of a single fowl. The farmer
asked the first sky-pilot what portion ol
the chicken he would have,
“A leg,” sald Number 1.
“Another leg, thank you,” requested
Number 2.
“And what will you have?” asked the
farmer, turning to Number 3.
“1 will also take a leg, If you please,”
replied the third. ’
With an ejaculation that shocked his
reverend guests the farmer threw
down his carving utensils and demand-
ed to know what sert of a “erittar”
they thought he was carving.
“This 1s a two-legged chicken” he
shouted; “not a centipede.”—8an Fran-
cisco Argonaut.
mss nea ss sn
Hullding in Lonfon,
Statistics recently compiled show
that more than 1,200 houses are bullt
monthly in London. Between August,
1806, and August, 1897, there were built
14,501 houses.—New York Press.
IIIs sisi
Good Advice,
A Texas newspaper offers the fol-
owing advice t¢ negroes who desire to
escape lynching: Sleep at night, work
i Sagiign, and attend church on Sun-
-
REY. DR. TALMAGE.
‘ho Eminent Washington Divine’s
Sunday Sermen.
Rev. William MM, Lewis, of Bridgeport,
sonn., Diseourses Upon “The Gift of
Religious Consclonsness’ «— All Men
Are Possessed of Spiritual Capacity.
The New York Herald has offered a prize
of #1000 for the best sermon, and three
subsidiary prizes aggregating #1000 addi-
tional for the threa next best sermons,
Ministers of all denominations have been
invited to compete for these prizes, and the
sermons offered in competition wiil appear
in the Herald's Sunday sedition, Rev. Will-
fam H. Lewis, D, D,, whose name is ap-
pended to the initiatory sermon, fs rector
of 8t. John's, the largest and most fashion.
able Episcopal parishin Bridgeport, Conn.,
and is considered one of the ablest preach.
His sul fs: “The Gift of Religious ;
Consefousness,’” and the sermon in full is
as follows
Text: “And another came, saying, Lord,
behold, here thy pound, which I have |
kept laid up in a napkin, for I feared thee, |
because thou art an austere man, * * *|
And he saith up to him, Out of thine own
mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked ser- |
St, Luke xix, 20
lord of the para
into a untry,”
of his servants a certain amou
make use of w
thres the am
all his gery
each man,’
his
“rs,
is un
“far ¢
AWK y
each
t parable
tity,”
geveral
ied there
shit
vit ge hit
ita unaiterabl
When
3
is
made
do
(30 “O18
judgment the
now are at
thief who with these
try to take money ot
up a blank. Evers
duty Is » talent, a pound, inging
a demand for }
eapital of God's
gefousnesg and
of reckoning comen wo shall be o¢ x
by avery opi ity wa have had t¢
and to do better.” No bhelieflean
warrant neglect, Whatever we think
God we are bound to do something
Wx H. Lewis, D. D,
Rector 8t. John's Chureh Bridgeport Conn.
the transaction,
three
f the box and throw
with it
original
ual
porta » kKnov
ausibhl
+
of
THE SHELLS IN THE BIBLE,
Dr. Talmage Draws an Interesting Les
son From Then,
Dr. T. De Witt Talmage delivered in
Washington & sermon on “God Every.
where,” The subject of the sermon was
“Conchology of the Bible, or God Among
the Shella,” as found in the text, Exodus
xx%., 84: “And the Lord said unto Moses,
Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte and
onycha.”
You may not have noticed the shells of
the Bible, he sald, although in this early
part of the second book God ealis you to
consider and employ them, as He called
Moses to consider and employ them, The
onycha of my text Is a shell found on the
banks of the Red Sea, and Moses and his
army must have erushed many of them un-
der foot as they crossed the bisected waters,
onyecha on the beach and onycha in tke un-
folded bed of the deep,
I shall speak of this shell as a beautiful
and practical revelation of God, and as
true as the first chapter of Genesis and the
last chapter of Revelations or every
thing between, Not only is this shell, the
onychn, found In the Red Sea, but in the
waters of India. It not only delectates the
and lustrous, and seristed, but blesses the
nostrils with a pungent aroma. I spoke to
ou last Sabbath of God in the great; now
speak of God in the small, God in the ia-
e, and God in the infinitesimal,
It 18 a secret tant
that in all the realms of the
there is nothing for me so
completely absorbing, full of divine
suggestiveness as a shell. What? More
entertaining than a bird, which ean sing,
when a shell ennnot sing? Well, thers you
have mado a great mistake, FPlok up the
onyeha from the banks of the Red Bea, or
pick up a bivalve from the beach of the
Atlantic Ocean, and listen, and you hear a
whole oholr of marine voleus-—bass, alto,
sopfano—in_ an unknown tongue, but
seeming to ehant, asl put them to my ear,
“The sea is His and He made it."
As the shell 1s only the house and the
wardrobe of insignificant animals of the
deep, why all the wonder and beauty of
construction? God's care for them is ths
only reason, {And If God provide so muni!-
feontly for them, will He not see that you
have wardrobe and shelter? Wardrobe and
shelter for a periwinkle; shall there not be
wardrobe and shelter for sp man? Would
God give a cont of mail for the defense of a
Nautilus and leave vou no defense against
the storm? Does He build a house
for a creature that Insts a season and leave
vou may sep for me,
natural world
fascluating, so
HO
stone
ituries and mons?
But you get this pointed lesson of
providential from the shelled crea
a8 of the deep, notice in their construce
1 that God helps them to help them-
This house of stone in which they
live is not dropped on them and is pot built
round them. The material for it exudes
ym thejr own bodies and is adorped with
i rom the porés of thelk 6%n
interesting thing to ses
animals fa i thelrown
: { limo and men
mighty les
onr
while
care
$14
"RAvVeEnD., 3
he pearl of
myement
the desp
resurrection
a Saviour's
the evoriast.
f the grave j
Out of the woun
i, the rie} ra 1
ing pearl of heavenly gladness. “And the
| twelve gates were t i pearls.” Take
the consolation all ye who have been hurt
whether hurt in 1 y or} ind or
hurt insoul, Get your trouble
f you suffer with Christ on
reign with Him In glory, Ti
{ are the erystals of heaven.
| gate was one pearl.”
OMNIBUS AS POSTOFFICE.
1
a
» tears of earth
‘Every several
Rept in the Middle of the Road It Leads
to Litigetion,
A novel question regarding a postoffice
in the middie of the road came up before
Judge Paul in the United States Court at
Abingdon, Va, Thomas Payne, Pastmaster
at Pilot, Montgomery County, complained
that the owners of all the lands within a
radius of one mile of his office had refused
to rent or sell a site on which he might
open his office, He procured an omnibus,
which he placed in the road and used as an
office, B. M. Guoerrant susd out in the
County Court a writ of unlawful detainer,
but Judge Paul, on the petition of Post.
master Payne, issued a temporary injuno-
tion restraining Guerrant and the deputy
sheriff from interfering with the Postmase
tor and his omnibus postofMes of the Unit-
od States, A rule has been fssusd against
the same Postmaster’s opponents, requir.
ing them to appear before the court and
show eause why the temporary injunctions
should not be perpetuated,
Xo More Football at Girard,
President Fotterolf, of Girard College,
Philadelphin, has fssued an order against
football, The order was the result of a boy
having his leg broken in a practice game,
English Weather Observers,
i Distributed all over Great Britain are
about 3000 observers, who send up to Lon.
| don periodical reports of the local weather
VICTIMS OF COITER,
Drinking Snow Water,
This valley of the Rhone has
quite noted for its victims,
though 1 am happy
heen
goiter nl
to say
there in abate.
disease,
the authorities,
ment of the
causes are assigned
fliction-—this
glands of the
neck,” as it is
even the bes
unanimous ig
The
brought
and
g0 cold
now an
Many different
to the terrible af
enlargement of the
goiter, or
culled
far
origin
throat,
sometimes
informed are
being to its
prevention peasants
the
water,
countey
ay It is
on by
of snow placial
A California Nine.
mine ‘alifo
the
of
single in Cs
a month ago,
ont
in one d a
It
ay
covered
the
months wil
months ago
to the
county
had dis
that
{twelve
A few
unknown
total ou
the was
In
$11
property
general
of Calif
tone of ore
public
nia a m
gave
in Mex-
made
City of
than $10,000
Aare
a yield of more
rich strikes
company
still being
the
ico
A working near
Another mine in the same State is
taking out £35000 a month
State of Sonora alone yielded more
than £3.000000 in gold last year,
These mining districis may be
reached by a jourmey of a week or
two, and the chances for success to ex-
perienced men are as good as they are
in the Klondike to-day.
———-—————I I —— So —
Sioper’s Eloping Girls.
The six daughters of a Sydney man
named Sloper eloped in turn, This is
the record: Annie went off at 21, Mil.
iy at 14, Carrie and Nellie when they
15. The husband of the latter, Russell
rying a child Two more female
Slopers remain, Lucy, aged 9, and
Patty, aged 7. Old man Sloper has
given up bis regular work now, and
pite all day on the back fence nursing
a shotgun.—Melbourne (Australia)
Table Talk.
HOW TIN SOLDIERS ARE MADE.
fhose In Turkish Greek Uniform
Most Popular This Year,
“Toy soldiers made of tin
are just as great favorites with
dren now as they were in the days of
our grandfathers,” sald a wholesale
New York dealer. “The soldiers
made almost exclusively Nurem
berg and Furth, Germany, where clever
artisans are employed by the pumer
ous manufacturers to design and mold
them. The process of manufacture Is
interesting. The first step is to make
eketches of the Intended figures. Great
paling are bestowed on them, The best
artists in Germany do not hesitate
when asked to supply models for these
fe Araw
i A134
or
lead,
chil
or
are
in
toy soldiers, and in maki he
(ngs they
fixed rules,
eclored,
have to bear in mind certain
Their
They
1 §
select only wht
Kel Tigh,
sketches must be
must oid deep tints
and gaudy co
Nuremberg
used f
while brass mold
Hot
molds are
in rel
those »
is bought at
The Cramming System,
is
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ars ago the Tiu
ention to the subject of
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wre' Journal. Lord Ripon had caused &
colonial
fi buses
gurcharg
from the
freulnr fo be sent om
fice
onnected
n order to the
with
d stamps,” ved a temp
reassures
making ir
stamn
dy for
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L Decne Known
o g
Ng scarce agent
vould at on
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