A Qurer Caller. A writer in Cassell's Little Folks tells a story of a runaway hippopoia- mus, whose keeper succeeded in recap- turing him in an unusual manner. In the days when Mr. A. D. Bartlett was king of the Zoo the hippopoiamus once managed to break out of his house. it — make a friendly call on Mr. Bartleit He was not pleased to seo this charge out of bounds, and gecure it. To this hag taken extreme haighouted to it, it hi Away flew the at the top of his speed toward the hippo's den the big beast in hot pursuit. The keep er darted through , and up the stairs to the platform ov hippo's tank. Here Meanwhile, Mr. Bartlett, following the runaways, gate, and the in prison man the “hippo” dislike, and when turned and chased keeper the gate bolted er Loe he was who had kad sec hipi sale, heen closed the arain WW) Was Sacred Ground. The ground on which a foreign lega- tion atands is considered as belonging to the country whose flag floats from the legation roof. Supposing a mem- ber of a foreign legation in London committed a murder, all we could do would be to “suggest” (a favorite dip- iomatic word, always used, except In relation to China) that the offender should be sent back to his native coun- try and punished there. Some time ago. when a certain gentleman, whose name was well known at the time, was kidnaped into the Chinese legation, an inspector from Scotland Yard imme- diately proceeded thither and released the prisoner. This was a most serious breach of international law, and was intensely discussed “in diplomatic cir- cles.” Since the Chinese legation is part and parcel of China, an invasion of the celestial empire was thus made by a Sctoland Yard official.-—Chambers’ Journal. Salt In s&s Ton of Sen Water, In a ton of Dead Sea water there are 187 pounds of salt; Red Sea, ninety- three: Mediterranean, eighty-five: At- lantic, eighty-one; English Channel, geventy-two; Black Sea, twenty-six; Baltic, eighteen; and Casplan eleven. 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DISCOURSE. ——— Sahjeet: Our Father's House « A Lessoy of Patience—An Impressive Warning Against Belng FPufled Up With Tran. sitory Earthly Grandeur, {Copyright 19a, ) Wasminoroxn, D. ©. — This diseourse ol Dr, Talmage is pertinent at this time of year, when many people are moving fron house to house, and it teaches lessons of | patience and equipolse in very trying cir cumstances; text, Philippians fv., 12, *] | koow both how to be abased, aud I know Low to abound.’ Happy Paul! modate yourself Could yog really aceom to all circumstances in up without pride, apd sould you come down without exaspera: Teach the same lesson to us all, Wa are at a season of the year when vast populations in all our citles are changing residence, Having been bora fn a house | and baving all cur lives lived in a house, | we do not have full appreciation of what ¢ house is, It is the growth of thousands ol yvenrs, The human race first lived in clefts »f rocks, the beasts of the fleld| moving out of the caverns to let the human race move in. The shophergs and the robben stil! live in caverns of the earth, The trog lodytes are a race whioh to [this day ore for the eaverns toa house, They are warm they are lurge; they are very comfortable they are less subject to violent changes o heat and cold, We come on along down ip the history of the race, and we come to the lodge, which was a home built out of twisted tree branches; we come farther op down in the history of the race, and we come to the tent, which was a home bulll with a round pole in the centre and skins of animals reaching out in all directions mats on the Soor, Time passed on, and the world, afte; much Invention, eame to bulld a house wn. seh was a space surrounded by broad stones, agalost which the earth was heaped outside, The roof was made of ebalk and gypsum and coal and stenes and ashes pounded together, After awhile the was Lorn, after awhile the gate Then hundreds of years passed on, and iz the fourteenth century the modern chim: ney was constructed, The old Hebrew: | bad openings in their houses from whick the smoke might escape if it preferrad, bul there was no inducement offered for it t«¢ chimney, Woodes keys opened the door, or the Keyhole was large enough to allow the finger to be in. sorted for the iting of the lateh or the sliding of it. There belug no windows the people were dependent for light upon lat. ticework, over which a thin veil was drawe down in time of winter to keep out the sle ments, Window glass was, 20 late as 20( or 800 years ago, in Bogiand and SBeotiand $0 great a luxury that only the vary wealth. lest could afford it. A hand mill and ar sven and a few leathern bottles and some rude pitchers and plates made up the en tire equipment of the culinary department Thank God lor your home, not merely the house you live in now, but the hous you were born in and the many houses you have resided In since you began yom esarthiy residence. When you go bome to-day, eount over the number of those houses in which you have resided, and you will be surprised. Ounee In awhile you wil find a man who lives in & house wheres he was born and where Lis father was bore and his grapdiather was bora and his great.graudiather was born, bat that hs not one out of #4 thousand cases. I have not been more perambulatory than most people, but was amazed when I came to count up the number of residences I have socupled. The fact is there is in this worid no such thing as permanent resi. gence, In a private vehicle, and not in a ral sar, from which you ean see but little I rode from New York to Yonkers and Tar rytown, on the banks of the Hudson, the nest ride on the planet for a man whe wants to see palatial residences in [asci aating scenery. It was id the early spring sand before the gentlemen of New York had gone out to thelr country residences { rode into the grounds to admire the gardens, and overse er of place told me—and (hey ail told me—that ail the houses had been sold or that they wanted to sell them, and there was literally no exception, althoug! { called at many places, Just admiring the gardens and grounds and the palatial resi. fences, Some wanted to sell or had sold because of faAneial misfortune or because tneir wives did not want to reside in the summer time in those places while thel busbands tarried in town In the night always having some business on hand keeping them away. From some houses the people had been shaken out by chilis and fever, from some houses they hal gone because death or misfortune had oc. eurred, and all those palaces and mansions | bad either ehanged gecupants or wanted to change. Take up porch the the the directory of any eity o America and see how few people live where thoy lived fifteen years ago. There is no such thing as permanent residence, I saw Montlestio, in Virginia, President Jafferson’s residence, and I saw on the | sams day Montpelier, which was either Madison's or Monroe's residence, and I saw also the White House, which was President Taylor's residence and President Lincoln's residence and President Gar. residence, Was it a permanent residence In any case? [tell you that the place than it wants to change for another place or is compelied to ashange for another place, and =o the race invented the mil road and the steamboat in order more rapidly to get into some other place thar it is moving on and moving on! Aye, instead of belong nomadie, mortal, im | We stone nod tips us headlong into the grave, fhe only permanent earthly residence, A day this spring the streets will be filled with the furniture carts and the drays and It will be a herd day fo piture from one house to another; It will | furniture scratehed, and thelr erockory | broken, and their onrpets misfit, and their | showers; ft | a hard day for tenants, Especial grace Ia needed for moving day, Many a man's religion has suflerad a fear. | ful strain between the hour on the morn. Immature braakiast, sad the hour at night | when he rolled Into his extemporized couch, | in the breaking of the Ten Commandments, | My first word, then, in this part of my Low to abound, Do not, because your naw house has two | mote stories than the old one, add two stories to your vaulty or makes your bright. Jy polished silver doorpiate the gofMia plate to four buried humility, persona moving into a larger house Nave ecome arrogant and supereiiioas, they simper whore ones thay lnaghed; they | “Let all smaller eraft got out of these wa. | ters if they don't want to do rum over by a regular Cunarder,” have known people who wera kind and | amiable and Christian in their smaller house, doorsill of the new Louse than they be. eamo a glorified nulsance, They wers the terror of dry goods clerks and the amazes ment of ferryboats into which they swept | sud, if compelled to stand a moment, with sondemnatory glanes turning sil the bo le seated into criminals and eonviets, They began to hunt up tho family coat of arms and had Hon eonchant or unicorn rampant on the earriage Jdoor when, if they had the appropriate eoat of arms, it would have been a butter firkin, or a shoe last, or a plow, or a trowel. Instead of belong Ike all the rest of us, made outof dust, they would have you think that they were trickled out of heaven on a lump of loaf sugar. The first thing you know of them the father will fall in business and the daughter will run off with a Freoch daneing master, A woman spolled by a finer house is bad enough, but a mau so upset 1s sickening. But I must have a word with those who fdences into smaller, Bomet reason is that the dwindled In size, and 20 much room is not required, so they move out into small I knw there nre such cusos, Marriage has taken some of the members of the family, doath has taken other meme. bers of the family, and after awhile father and mother wake up to find their family tust the size it was when they sturted, and they would be lonesome and lost in a large house; hence they move ocutof it, Moving day is a great sadness to such if they have the law of assoelation dominant, There are the rooms named after the differ. ent members of the family. I supnose it 18 so in all your households, It is so in mine, We name the rooms after the persons who oceupy them. And then there is the dining hall whore the festivi- ties took place, the holiday festivities; there is the sitting room where the family met night after night, and there is the room ax- ered because there an life started or a life stopped-~the Alpha and the Omega of some earthly existense, Scene of meeting and parting, of eongratulation and heart- break, every doorknob, every fresco, every mantel, wvery threshold, meaning more to you than it can ever mean to any one else, When moving out of a house, I have always been in the habit, after everything was fone, of going into each reom and bidding t mute farewell, There will be tears many cheoks in the May. be able to guderstand, It Is a solemn and a touching snd an overwhelming thing to leave places forever--piaces where we have struggled and tolled and wept and sung and prayed and anxiously watched and agonized. Ob, life is such a strange mixture of hondy and of gall, weddings and burials, midnoon and midaigh clashing! Every home a nie a1g at against which the billows of many sea tumble, Thank God that such changes other out and the imos the pa- family has wise the nerves would give brain would founder on a dementia like that of King Lear when his daughter Cordelia came to medicine Lis domestic calamity. But there ara others who will move out of large residences into smaller through the reversal of fortune, Le property must be sold or the bailiff will sell it, orthe income is less and you eannot pay the house rent. First of all, such persons should understand that our hapginess is not dependent on the size of the house we live in. I have known people enjoy a small heaven in two rooms and others saf. fer a pandemonium {a twenty. There is as mueh happiness in a small house as in a large house, I ware is as much satisfa under the light of a tallow «an achandslisr, all fali blaze, Who was the happler—John Banysn ia Bedford jail haszer in the saturnalia? Couteniment is something vou can neither reatinor purchases, It is not extrinsic; it Is intrinsic, Are there lower rooms in the house to which you m You will have less to take care of, to be stove fnstead of furnace? doctors say the modern m bulldings are unhealthy. Is it loss mir. rors? Leas temptation to your vanity. Is it old fashioned toilet irstead of wate pipes all through the house? Less to [reese and burst when vou eaanotl get a plumber Is it less carriage? More room for robust exercise, Is It less social position? Fewer peoples who aut to drag their Cal Is it less [0s in your jast will ana spoil your ehildren the marketing? Less tem the health of your family and indigestible salads Not beariag #0 many disagres I meet vou thissprisgtinne a Your new uo and while : the sthesbaskel over the carman is getting redin the Ince try. ing to traunspert thal vie of furniture to some sew destination I eougratuiate you. You ate golog to have & better time this year, 8 ie of you, than you ayse had, You take God and the Unristian region in your home and you will be grandly happy. God in the parior-that will sanctify your eiablities; God in the nursery~that will protect your ahildren: God inthe diniog- hali—that will make the plainest meal an imperial banquet; God In the morpiog— that will launch the day brightly from the drydocks; God in the evesing-—ilat will sail the day sweetly into the harbor, And got joy, one and all of you, whether you move or do not move; get joy out of the thought that wa are soon all going to bave a grand moviag day. Do yoa wanta pieture of the new house into which you will move? Here it is, wrought with the band of a master: “Wo know that, if our earthly house of this tabernacle wore dis. solved, we have a bulldisg of God, a house not made with hands, oternal in the heavens.” How much rent will we have to pay for it? Wa are going to own it, How much must we pay for it? How much, cash down, and how mueh loft on mortgage? Our golng to give it as a free gift, When are wo gcing to move into it? Wo are moving now. On moving day heads of families fre vary apt to stay in the old house until they have seen evarythiog off, They send ahead the children, and they send ahead the treasures and the valuables, Then alter awhile they wili come themselves, I remember very well in the country that in boyhood moving day was & jubilation, On almost the first load we, the ehtldren, were sent on alead to the new house, and we arrived with shout and laughter, and inan hoar we had ranged throngh every room in the hones, the barn and the gran ary. Toward night, and perhaps in the 00 lor jriiers at i# ns un ris or iva? Is it All t odes of warming Fee 3 t ye, help Lae the ste $i ars looking very tired, and we would come down to the foot of the lane to meet them and tell them of all the wonders we discovered In the new piace, and then, the last wagon unloaded, ean dies lighted, our neighbors who had beiped us to move-lor in thoss times veighbors helped each other—sat down with us at a table on which there was every luxury they eculd think of. Well, my dear Lord ksows (haut some of us ave been moving a Pood while, Wo ave sent our ghildren ahead, We have sent many of our valuables ahead, sost many treasures ahead, Wo eanno, 2o yet, There is work for us to do, but after awioris it will be toward night, and we wiil be vary tired, and then we will start for our new home, and those who have gone ahead of us, they will see our approach, and they will come down the lane to meet us, and they will have much to tell us of what they have discovered in the “houses of many the rooms aro and of how bright the fountains, And then the last load unloaded, the table will and our celestial neighbors will come in to sit down with our reunited with the wine that sweats in the vat of earthly {ntoxioutions, but with “the new wine of the kingdom.” And there for the first time we will realize what fools we were on earth when we feared to dis, since | from a smaller house into a larger coe an rince's castle and the Kolng up stairs com a miserable kitchen to a glorious par. wor. 0 house of God not wade with hands, sternal in the heavens You can't always file away the Saws THE SMALLEST SHEEP. 4% Lives in Brittany and Is No Bigger Than » Lap Deg. The very smallest of all kinds of sheep is the tiny Breton sheep. It is too small to be very profitable to raise, for, of course, it cannot have much wool, and, as for eating, why, a hun- gry man could eat almost a whole one at a meal. It is so small when full- grown that it can hide behind a good- gized bucket. It takes its name from the part of France where it is most raised. But, if not a profitable sheep, it is a dear little creature for a pet, for it is very gentle and loving, and, be- cause it is so small, is not such a nuisance about the house as was the celebrated lamb which belonged to a little girl named Mary. Any little girl could find room in her lap for a Breton sheep. One of this little creature's pe culiarities is its extreme sympathy with the feelings of its human friends, when it has been brought up as a pet in the house, and has tinguish between happiness and un- happiness. 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