lion the Esquimaux Dress.
In tlio fnr of the reindeer nature has
provided the best possible protection
from the cold with the least amount of
weight to the wearer. It might bo pos
sible to cover one's self with asnillciont
quantity of woolen clothing to guard
against the coldest weather of the
North, but it would require a man of
immense muscular power to sustain the
load. Two Hiiits of reindeer clothing,
' weighing in all about five jKHinds, are
quite ample for any season and are worn j
- in the coldest weather. At other times ;
' one suit is all that is necessary. The
inner coat is made of the skin of the i
reindeer killed in the early summer j
when the hair is short and as soft as
velvet, and is worn with the hairy side
next to the bare skin. It is at first diffi
cult for one to persuade llimself that he
will be warmer without his woolen un*
dershirts than with them, but he is not
long in acquiring the knowledge of this
fact from experience. The trousers are
made of the same material, ns are also
the stockings that complete his inner
attire, or, so to speak, his suit of un
derclothing. This inner suit—with the
addition of a pair of seal or reindeer
skin slippers with the hair outside and
a pair of sealskin boots from which the
hair has been removed, with soles of
walrus or okejook skin and drawing
strings which fasten them jnst below
the knee- comprises his spring, sum
mer and fall costume. The boot* have
also an additional string passing through
loops on the side, over the instep and
behind the heel, which makes them tit
comfortably to the ankle.
In winter sealskin is entirely dis
carded by the native Esquimaux as too
cold, and boots of reindeer skin, called
mit-co-lee lee', from the leg of the ani
mal, are substituted, and snow shoes of
the same sort of skin, with the hair in
side, and a false sole of skin from tin
face of the buck, with the hair outside,
complete the covering of his feet. This
hairy sole not only deadens tin- sound
of his footsteps upon the hard snow, but
makes his feet mnch warmer, as it has
the same effect as if In- were walking
upon a carpet of furs instead of upon
the naked snow. In or windy
weather, when out of doors, the native
puts on another coat called a koo'-lee
tar, which is made of skin with ln-avier
fnr from the animal killed in the fall.
The winter skins with the heaviest
and longest fur are seldom used for
clothing if a sufficient supply of the fall
and summer skins has been secured.
They are princij>ally used for making
what might be called the mattress of
the bed. Sometimes, however, in the
severest weather, a coat made of the
heavy skin is worn when the hunter
has to rit by a seal's blow hole for hours
at a time, without the least motion,
waiting for the animal to come up and
blow. In cold weather, when out of
doors, he also wears an outside pair of
trousers, called see'-ler-par, which are •
worn with the hair outside (all trousers
are called kok'-e-lee, the outside see'-ler
par and the inside one* e'-lno-par). The
inside coat is called an ar-tee'-gee, and
is made like a *a< k with a tail attached
and a hood, which can be pulled up over
the head at pleasure. Tin- kok'-e-lee arc
lioth made with a drawing string at the
waist, and only reach a short distance
below the knee. They are very wide
there, so t hat when the wearer sits down
his bare knee is exposed. This is not as
disagreeable to the wearer, even in that
climate, as one wonld naturally suppose,
hut is nwlly more unpleasant for the
spectator, for lie not only sees the bare ,
knee but the film of dirt that encases
it. The coats are very loose also, and
expose the bare skin of the stomach
when the wearer r<-aches his hands above
his head.
The coats of women differ from those
of men only in having a short tail in
front and a mnch longer one behind.
They also have a loose bag on each
shouhb-r and the hood is mnch longer
than the men wear. The women's out
aide eoats are always made of the short
hair, the same as are their ar-tee'-gee.
Their tronsers reach further below the
knee, fit closer to the leg, and are
worn with the hair side out. Women
never wear but one pair in any weather.
Their stockings and boota are made
with a sort of wing extension at the
ankle and coming np over the I>ottom
of the tronsers have a long strip, by
which they are fastened to the belt
that also sustains their at the
waist.
To secure the necessary amount of
skins for his family taxes the skill of
the best hunter, for they must be
secured in the summer and fall. Each
adult requires six skins for his outfit,
besides the number for the bedding.
Take, then, an average family of a
hunter, two wives and three children,
j ami he must hava for the adult*
eighteen skins, eleven for the children,
three for liis blanket—one blanket is
enough for the entire family to sleep
under—and aliont Ave for the mattress
—a total of thirty-seven skins. This is
more than many of them can seenre
during the short season of good fnr,
but others msy kill many more, now
that they are supplied with fire anus,
and those who have a surplus will
always supply the actual needs of the
more unfortunate; but often much
suffering occurs before their wants are
mot.— New Ym k Iferahl.
How Oil-Cloth Is Made.
All the burlaps on and of which oil
cloth is made is manufactured in Dun
dee, Scotland. It is mude from an India
grass. It is sized lint, when it is ready
for painting. It isn't painted witli
brushes, but with a knife. A great long
knife. The end of the burlaps is passed
under the blade. When paint is ladclcd
011 the burlaps by the gallon, machinery
takes hold of it and draws it between a
roller and the knife, and the blade
scrapes off all the superfluous paint as
it passes through. No brush could lay
the color 011 so evenly. They paint
sixty yards of burlaps in a minute.
Then when it is dry it is sand papered
by machinery and other eoats of paint
go on. From four to nine coats of paint
are put on, according to the quality of j
the oil-cloth. All the blocks from which
oil-cloth is printed in these- and,
with few exceptions, all the manu
factories in the United States are
made in Hallowell, .Me. The block is
aliont eighteen inches Hqtiare, and is
made of three pieces, the inside block
is pine and outside blocks are maple.
The printing surface is sawed across at j
right angles with very fine saws, which '
work automatically, and don't need any
superintendence after they have been
started. When it reaches the factory
the surface of the blocks look like a box
of matches: the designer then paints
his design on paper, lined out
in tiny squares, a perfect dupli
cate of the block. In copying
the design on the bloc* the ojM-rator j
one block for each color, and the
copying is done with a chisel, the nper- j
ator cutting away all the little squares i
made bv the saws, except those covered !
by the pattern. It is like worsted work. s
"four squares to the right, three traight
up. five to the right, three down and
four to the left." The same old three
greens and then a brown*' l-nsim-v j
The,designer is limited to few colors,
and lias to make the most of his com
binations. These blocks are then fitted
with handles, and the printers go to
work. The |dcttc is a great revolving
table with pails of the different paints
laid upon it. Two men work at each j
table, and the o]>eration of printing is
like stamping letters at the mailing 1
table in the postofficc. The printer j
ships the black on pad. then sfrikes it j
on the oil-cloth. First the white, say. j
And there 1* a scattering meaningless ;
picture of little white squares. Then
the red i* struck on. more little white j
dots that look 1 ik-• nothing. Then the
green, and you flunk yon can see some
thing like a leaf. Then another shade,
and other, until yon see a cluster of
leaves and birds in a figure, outlined by
a very distinct color, and the printing is
ready for the " masher," which is a
block just like the others, only all the j
squares left on, not one struck out. j
This is pressed down on the figures
by a hand-press, and the printing is !
pressed down evenly and smoothly. If
the printer wants to give a square or
" pegged " apj>enranre to the finish of
the oil-cloth, the masher is sawed both
ways, in the bunch of matches style.
If lie wants to "line" the finish, the
" maslier " he uses has only been sawed
one way, and the oil-cloth lia a ''lined"
appearance on the surface. This work
is all dono by hand, guided only by
guages, but so perfectly is it done that
the figures never lap, ami you will have
hard work finding where the blocks
join on the oil cloth. They print each
day at each table 120 yards of oil-cloth. ■
Then the cloth goes into the "ice
house "to dry. The ice-house is frozen
by steam. Superintendent Dun very
kindly told mo to put on my overcoat |
licfore I went in. I pntit on. and when
I got in there the thermometer marked
17"> degrees above ami still a going. I
took off my overcoat. The cloth is then
ready to vnrnish. This is done w-ith
brashes, fourteen brushes, which a man
works with a crank. Here in these
works thov varnish fourteen thousand
yards a week. And if yon want to know
any more abont oil-cloth, write to Salem
I ran make it myself, bnt I haven't
time to write any more aliont it.—Our
j linrjlon /AurA - 1/.
In Tlmliiicloo.
Dr. Oscar Lena, the Austrian ex
plorer, has returned to Europe after an
expedition to Central Africa which fow
Christians have ever rivaled. He pene
trated the Sahara desert, from Morocco
to Timbnctoo, the Mecca of Ethiopia.
Thia ia a feat attended with as much
danger as the well-known journeys of
Captain Hnrton and Pal grave to the
sacral city of Arabia. The adventurous
Austrian passed for a Turkish doctor in
his travels in North Africa. Dr. Lcnz
saw enonrfh to convince him that the
mystery which enshrouds Timbnctoo ia
maintained for other than spiritnaliatic
reasons. He fonnd that the slave trade
is carried on there njon a very large
scale. There are gronps of immense
huts, which form whole qnartersof the
town, and in these the slaves are lodged,
while they are also nsed as warehouse*
for ivory, gold dnat, ostrich feathers
and wares.
k Tit A UK IN It I ItIH,PS.
110%% it* Nrw L.tiuhunlr. Won 11 NIIIIIIM r ol
<|uiirti*r Dollar*.
Nino persons sailed from lirnttleboro
down tho Connecticut river. Among
them was a shrewd Now Englander who
wished to go to Hanover, upon condition
that ho would give the captain one dollar
for lii.s passage. Now it iH time some
thing jingled in tho New Englandcr's
pocket w hen ho hail struck his hand
against it ; but tho only money there
was a twenty five-cent piece, for the
Other was a brass button.
Notwitstanding this ho accepted the
offer with gratitude ; for ho thought to
himself, " Hunicthing may bo earned,
even tijioii the water. Who can deny
that many a man has grown rich upon
tho Connecticut river?"
During tho lirst part of tho voyage
the passengers wore talkative and merry.
I!ut as the vessel sailed onward the pas
sengers one after another grew silent
and gaped, and gazed listlessly down
the river, until ono cried to tho New
Enphuider:
"Come, now ; do you know any pus
time that willumuae us?"
" Now is the time," thought tho New
Englander, " to shear my sheep."
He then proposed that they should sit
around in a circle with him. Those who
could not answer tho questions any one
proposed should Jmy the one who pro
poonded them a twentv-fivo cent piece,
and thoso who answered them jierti
nently should receive a twenty live-cent
piece.
This proposal pleased the company,
and hoping to divert themselves with
the New Englandcr's wit or stupidity,
each one askisl at random whatever
chanced to enter his head. Thus, for 1
example, the first asked:
'• Who prolongs his work to as great (
length as possible, and completes it m
time?" ■
All •-aid it was impossible to answer
that question ; but the New Englander
said :
"The rojie-maker, if ho is indus
trious."
And the others paid him twenty-five
cents.
" Wait," thought the second; " I
will try yon at the Bible, and I think I
shall win my piece."
"Why did tho Apostle I'aul writi
the seeond epistle to the Corinthians?"
" Because ho was not in Corinth," i
said the New Englander. "Otherwise
tie would have sjioken to them."
Ho he won another piece.
The third tried him in a different
way:
" There are two brothers, and still ,
only one of them is my uncle."
" The nucle is your father's brother,"
said the New Englander, " and voni
father is not your uncle."
A fish now leaped out of the water,
and the fourth asked
"What fish have their eyes nearest
together?"
" The smallest," said the New Eng
lander.
The fifth asked :
" How can a man ride from Hanover
to Brattleboro in the shade, in the HIIIII
mer-time, when the sun shinesV
" Wiiofi he comes to a plaee where
there is no shade he must dismount And
go oti foot," said the New Englander.
The sixth asked:
" When a man rides in the winter
time from Brattleboro to Hanover, and
has forgotten his gloves, how must
he manage so that his hands shall not
freeze 7"
" He must make fists out of them."
said the New Englander.
The seventh asked:
" How can five persons divide five
eggs so that each tnan will receive one,
and still one remain in the dish?"
"The last man must take the dish
wilh the egg," said the New Englander.
" and he can let it lie as long as yon
please."
The eighth, who was the last, asked:
"In what month do tho people of
Hanover eat the least?"
"In February," said the New Eng
lander, "for it has only twenty-eight
<lays."
But now it came to hia tnrn. anil he
determined to make a good sweep, so he
l>egan:
j " How ran a man fry two tronts in
three pans, so that a trout may lie in
lurch pan V
No ono could answer this, and one
aftor another gave him a twenty-flve
cont piece; but when the eighth desired
that he slionld solve the riddle, ho rock
ed to and fro, shrugged his shoulders
and rolled his eyes.
" You see, I am a poor man," said he
at last.
" What lias that to do with it ?" cried
the rest. " Give us the answer."
"Yon must not take it amiss," said
the New Englander, " for I am very
poor."
At last, aftor much persuasion, he
thmot his hand into his pocket, took out
one of the pieces he had won, laid it
npon the table and said:
" I do not know tho answer any more
than you. Here ia my piece."
When the others heard this, they
ojiened their eyes and said it was scarce
ly aeeording to the agreement. But aa
they could not control their 1 aught/' *.
anil were wealthy anil good-natured
men, and an the New Englnndcr had
helped them to while away the time on
their voyage, they let it puna, and the
New Englander took with him—hit tin
aee. Ho had eight twenty-live rent
pieces by hit* answers, eight with his
own riddle, ono in his pocket,to start
with, one he gave back and four he gave
to the captain. - ihtUUn
The American and EuglMi < ablncls.
In both the United States and Eng
land tho cabinet, as a body, is unknown
to the constitution, and is not officially
recognized by the law. The name
" Cabinet " never occurs in formal
documents; it Ims gradually come into
use, from the fact that in England the
king's advisers were wont to meet and
consult him in his private cabinet.
Each cubinet officer, however, is
officially recognized in both America
and England— not as a cabinet officer,
but as the chief of one of the great de
partments of the executive administra
tion.
In this country such an officer is
known as "secretary "—the secretary of
state, of the interior, and so on. In
England the title of secretary is used
for the five highest administrative ofl!
cers, those of foreign a flairs, home
affairs, the colonies, India and war.
The office corrcsjtomling to our sec
retaryship of the treasury, on the other
hand, is in England divided between
two high officials (lie first lord of the
treasury and tho chancellor of the ex
chequer; the officer known to us as the
secretary of the navy is called in Eng
land the first lord of the admiralty.
In England, moreover, there are sov
oral cabinet officers unknown to our
own cabinet. These are the lord high
chancellor, tho president of the l>oard
of trade, the chancellor < f tie- Duchy of
laxncaster, the president of the • inncil
and the lord privy seal.
In the United States the no tubers of
the cabinet are nominated by the Presi
dent, and are approved or c nlirmcd by
the Senate. The President can also
remove any one of them at any time.
Hut in England the cabinet is really
selected by the prime minister, mbjcot
to the approval of the queen; and,
though he i-an remove them, the Eng
liah cabinet usually comes in and goes
out of office in a'body.
There are other notable differences
letween tho two cabinets. In the
United States no cabinet officer can sit
in either honae of Congress. In Eng
land no man run sit in the cabinet who
is not a memlier of either the common*
or lords.
\Y ith 11s tlio cabinet officer has two, |
and onlv two, function* astb chief of
mi cxi-ctitive d.-jtartment nnl a. nil advi
m rof the President on mntt ri of gon- |
end policy. Willi the* English the oabi- I
net oflier adds A third function to these
two, for lie i n parliamentary leader,
Mid in the mmmoci or lords defends j
either the policy of his own depart- j
ment or the general policy of the rain |
istry of which he is a nionilwr.
While in the mother country n cabi
net always goi-s out of power in a body !
when the house of commons casts a vqjc
adverse to its proceedings, in the I'nitcd
States the |K>ition of the cabinet, as a j
whole, is quite unaffected by any vote
of either or both houses of Congress.
Each English cabinet officer has his
own rank and dignity, while the Ameri '
can secretaries are officially cqnal. The i
salaries of these officers, moreover, differ
widely in the two countries. Our seen -
taries get S*,(KO a year. The English
prime minister receives 825,000 a year ;
so do the chancellor of the excheqner
atid the five secretaries of state. The
lord high chancellor has $50,000 a year,
and a pension, when he retires, of $lO,-
000 a year for life. The lowest salary
received by an English cabinet member
is $1(1,000, which is the sum received by i
the president of the council, the lord !
privy aeal, the president of the ls>ard of
trade and the chancellor of the Ihicliy
of Lancaster.
From these differences some idea may
lie derived of the contrasts which appear
lictween the institutions of the ancient
monarchy of England and our own atill
youthful republic.
Origin of " Yankee."
The origin of the word Y'ankee is now
difficult to trace. The old spelling was
Yankey. Home have said that it waa
coined in Eurojie and used to designate
all persons in the American colonies.
Others have argued that it con Id be
traced to the Indiana in their attempts
to pronounce English, and called them
Yamgheca. The learned Dr. Thatcher
declares it was first used by one Jona
than Hastings, a fanner of t'ami:ridge,
Mass., as a rant won! to express excel
lence, as a Yankee good hnnae or
Yankee good cider-just as the people
of Louisiana, when recommending any
article for sale at New Orleans, declare
it is real Creole butter or Creole eggs.
At any rate the word Yankee has be
come a famous word, and while our
Honthnm brethren point indiscriminate
ly to all Northerners as Yankees, never
theless the genuine Yankee will continue
to le found "down-East," where he
wss first discovered. When he is found
in any other quarter of the country he
may be recognised, lint he is away from
home.— Chicago Inter-Ocean.
TOI'ICH OF THE OA*.
Englishmen regard with much in
terest the recent sueeeHsful experiment
of shipping frozen mutton from Aus
tralia. Jho meat was delivered in good
condition in Enndon utter a voyuge of
sixty-live days, and was found to ho of
excellent size and flavor. It is said
that there is no meat of which England
stands more in need of foreign supplies,
for the home supply is rapidly dimin
ishing. During the jsist year there
was a falling ofl in sheep and lamlis of
l.fiOtl.OOO head in England and Wales,
exclusive of Scotland and Ireland.
If any ono still doubts the necessity
of the government's taking some action
to protect tho forests of tho country let
him read the statistics given recently in
tho X'n'trrn Lumhwinmi. A careful
compilation shows that the actual quan
tity of pine wood cut in the three States
of Minnesoffi, Wisconsin and Mi<Rigan
—the chief lumber States in the coun
try is close on H,000,000,000 foot a
year, while the total resources of the
same States are but 1,000,000,000 feet,
or a little more than a ten years' supply
at the present rate of con sumption. A
timber famine is. therefore, bv no means
an improbability before another decade
passes, unless very encrgetie measures
are taken to keep tho ruthless work of
destruction now going on within rea
sonable bounds.
The South H '•as have of late proved
fatal to many sailors. The massacres
by the islanders include those of the
crew of a Hong Kong trading vessel,
the captain alone escaping; the captain
and seven of the crew of the Annie
Brooks; the muster and all the cr< v of
the Esperanza; the master and some of
the crew of the Hippie; the crew of the
Boreal is; tho master and two men of
the I>i !ia; the crew of the Zephyr and
the crew of the Prosperity, whose
heads were cut ofl and sent about to
the villages, whili their bodies were
smoked and put in the t .: sion house
as trophies. Nevertheless, says a New
York paper, it is lieyonil question that
white voyagers were the original aggres
sors- and although some of these vic
tims apparently had no evil intent ;n
landing they paid the jienalty of the
crimes of others who were guilty of
great wrongs and cruelties to the na
tives. After (K'ing maltreated by some
white men tb<- savages knew no wav of
self protection but to at ark all visitors
of the same color.
There lives in Vinton county. • > . a
most remarkable family, Mr. Iteiijamin
Reynold*, tlie }ath<-r, was lmrn in Mar
i tinaburg, Ya . August 22. IT'.si, and in
| the year IHII he wan married to M is#
l Svsan Shrivcr. who was lwirn in the
i year 1793. Mr. Reynolds, with his
I family, started West in I*l*. and in
Dooemlier of thnt year settled in Ohio,
| and has since that time livi-d on the
same farm. The most remarkable part
iof the history of this family is thuir
i longevity. Mr. Reynolds is in his
ninety-first year: Mrs. Reynolds is in
her eighty-eighth, and both are well
' preserved. They have fourteen cliil
| dren, all of whom are living. The
i oh,est. Henry, is sixty-nine years of
j age. The youngest child is forty-three
: years of age, and the average age of
jiarents and children is sixty-one years.
Age of the fathc.r. ninety-one years; age
of the mother, eighty-eight years; com
bined ages of the children, *oo yeac*:
total of all, 9711 years. There are over
fifty grandchildren, many great-grand
children and not a few great great
grandchildren. ,
Those who have lielioved that the
I Sahara desert is the bottom of a long
1 dried up sea ; that it is considerably
lower than the surface of the ocean, and
that to convert it again into a big sheet
of water all one has to do is to dig a
canal, say to the Atlantic coast, had
liettcr read the lectnre recently deliv
cred in Paris by I)r. Lena, who traveled
through the desert from Morocco to
Timbnetoo. He reports that the Sahara
really forms a great plateau which has
an elevation of atont 1,100 feet above
the level of the Atlantic—a fact that
makes the idea of flooding it ridiculous.
There is nowhere a depression lielow
the level of the ocean, and it is not
a dead sandy waste. There are rocks
and sandy plains and oases covered with
grass and stagnant sheets of water.
Fresh water fossils are fonnd in abnnd
anoo—another proof that it is not a
dried up sea The climate, Dr. Lem
says, is not nearly as hot as he expected
to find it, and wild l>easts are rare, the
most dangerous inliabitants being the
tribes who a short time since massacred
the French Trans-Sahara expedition
The doctor may be accused of " bull
ing " the Trans-Sahara railway scheme
which has been talked about a great
deal of late in France, but aa his story
is also that of recent scientific ex
plorers the probability are that he
does not exaggerate the good pointa of
the desert.
The wolfs sense of smelling is pecu
liarly strong. He can smell carrion the
distance of nearly a mile.
MORAL AM) RKI.ILIOrs.
Jmml the Difl* iriMf,
Home rncn im/vn tbroai(b life a* a
band of music moves down street, fling
wg out pleaauro on every side through
tin' air to every one, fur and near, that
can 1 intern Home men fill the aii with their
presence and sweetness an orchard* in ()c
tobcrdaya fill the air wit li perfume of ripe
fruit. Home women cling to their own
houses, like the honeysuckle over the
door, y.t, like it, sweeten all the region
with the Hiihtile fragrance of their good
ness. There are trees of righteousness
which are ever dropping precious fniit
around them. There are live* that
shine like star beams, or charm the
heart like songs sung UJOII a holy day.
How great a bounty and a blessing it
is to hold the royal gifts of the soul so
that they shall be music to some and
fragrance to others, and life to all! It
would he no unworthy thing to live for
to make the power which we have with
in us the breath of other men's joy; to
scatter sunshine where only clouds and
shmlows reign; to till the atmosphere
where earth's weary toilers must stand
with a brightness which they cannot
create for themselves, and which they
long for. enjoy and appreciate Chri
linn 'it ( Vorlc.
KHltfloU* SfHa filial NotfS,
The synod of New York and Phila
delphia of the Reformed Episcopal
church have been united under one
council and bishop.
The Rev. Joseph Cook, who is lect til
ing in Ireland, receives a grmt deal of
attention. He recently dined with the
Archbishop of Dublin.
The :t*2,y2oCongregationalists in the
I'nited States gave lu; year for their
religious work $-"J,tit2,tf22.21, or at
average of nearly 8 Pip. r meml>er.
The American liaptist Missionary
union cloM-d its financial year with a
debt of less than s2't.tS|o. The Home
Mission society will carry ov d< l>t of
$30,000.
The Rev. J. H. Inskip, who is on an
evangelistic tour round tin- world, is
holding, so recent advice* ay, a re
markable revival m-etii:g in Guile,
Ceylon.
A church tad Bundaj w 1• -l isaigi w
will be hi Id at tlci-an (it v<\ X. J . July
I s 2\ under the direction of the Il< v-
J. L. llurlhurt. TIJC annual camp
meeting takes place i i August, op.inrig
on the 10th and cloaitig "ii the 2'ith.
In a certain Western conference of the
African Methodist I jUM ojuil church a
presiding elder was suspended from the
ministry one day, expelled the next, re
stored to tlie ministry on the third day,
and made presiding elder again on the
fiiurth day.
King Met an, of Uganda, in Africa, is
tlie most capricious and unreliable of all
heathen monarch*. Hi* renunciation of
the Christian religion he had professed
and his repudiation of the missionaries
were some months ago reported. Since
that he has accepted, and in turn re
jected half a dozen different and con
flicting faiths. The latest account* from
him is that lie has turned Mohammedan.
This is said to l>e in consequence of an
aw ful dream which vexed him one night.
Mr. Moody Iwing asked in Denver,
Col., whether the meetings in San Fran
cisco were satisfactory, replied: " Xo,
they were not satisfactory, for nothing
leas than the conversion of every man in
the city would have satisfied me. Bo'
the results were gratifying—very gratify*
ing." He exproaaed dislike for the title
"revivalist." "Revivals rest solely
with God !" he exclaimed. " 1 can only
do my boat to aid in it."
Animal* Before an Earthquake.
An Italian writer on the recent catas
trophe on the island of lochia mention*
thotto prognostics of an earthquake
which arc derived from animal*, They
were observed in every place wh.ll the
shocks were audi a* to IK* generally per
ceptible. Borne minnte* ltefore they
wen> felt the oxen and the cow* l>egan
to ltellow, the aheep and goat* bleated,
and mailing in oonfnaion one on the
other, tried to break the wicker work of
the fold*; the iloga howled terribly, the
geese and fowla were alarmed, and made
much noiae; the homo* which were fast
ened in their alalia were greatly agi
tated, leaped np and tried to tweak the
haltera with which they were attached
to the manger*; thoae which were pro
eeediug on the roada suddenly atopped
and anorted in a very atrange wwy. The
eat a were frightened, and tried to con
ceal themaelvea, or their hair bristled
np wildly. lUbbita and mo lea were
aeen to leave their holea; birds rose, aa
if scared, from the place* on which they
had alighted; and fiah left the bottom
of the aea and approach**! the shores,
where at some places great numbers of
of them were taken. Even ante and
reptile* atwuidoned. In clear daylight,
their anbterrmnean holea in great dis
order, many honm before the ahoclw
were felt. Home dog*, a few minatew
before the flmt ahook took place, awoke
their sleeping masters by barking and
polling them, aa it they wished
warn them of the impending
and several persons were thus cnabyfl
to nvt themaelvea. JI