REY. DI MHE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON. Bubject; “The Lightning of the Sea.” ¢ Text: ‘‘He maketh a path to shine after Bim. "—Job xli., 32. If for the next thousand years ministers of geligion should preach from this Bible, there will yet be texts unexpounded and unex lained and unappreciated, What little Pr been sald concerning this chapter in Job from which my text {8s taken bears on the pontroversy as to what was really the levin- than described as disturbing the sea, What preaturs it was [ know not, Somesay it was 8 whale, Some say it was a crocodile, My own opinion is it was a sea monster now ex- | fnet. No creature now floating in Mediter ranean or Atlantic waters corresponds to Job's description, What most interests me is that as it moved on through the deep it left the waters flash. ing and resplendent, In the words of the pext, ‘He maketh a path to shine after | him.” What was that illumined path? It was phosphorescence, You find it in the wake of a ship in the night, especially after rough weather, Phosphbrescence is the lightning of the ssa. That this figure of Bpeech is correct in describing its appear- | ance I am certified by an ineldent, After orossing the Atlantic the first time and writing from Basle, Switzerland, to an Amer- fean magazine an account of my voyage, in which nothing more fascinated me than the shosphorescence in the ship's wake, I called t the lightning of the sea. Returning tomy hotel, I found a book of John Ruskin, and the fi entence my eyes fell upon was his description of phosphorescence, in which he | called it “the lightning of the sea.” Down to the postofice I hastened to get the manuscript, and with great labor and some expense got possession of the maga- gine article and put quotation marks around that one sentence, although it was as orig- | Inal with me as with John Ruskin. I sup- pose that nine-tenths of you living so near the seacoast have watched this marine ap- pearance called phosphorescence, and Thope | that the other one-tenth may some day be so happy as to witness it, It is the waves of the sea diamonded ; it is the inflorescence of the billows ; the waves of the sea crimsoned as was the deep after the sea fight of Lepanto the waves of the sea on fire, Theres are times when fhorizon the entire ocean Fation with this strange spl ghanges every moment to ta dazzling or on all sides .of you looking over t vfTrail ocean steamer, watohing an what new thing the God » Atlantic It is the n;itis arine w tha ne A } horizon to in conflag- ndor as it or more You sit yacht or from soe or et Io amnent walks the loeg all ire can present it, 1 cannot be success it, and before it the ps its pencil, over- ty as | Hving, for nearly 1 sen the study of nat iralists and nnization of all who nk. Now, Goa, ing trivial or use- Job, the greatest pcient ist phosphorescence, and as the leviathan of the deep sweeps past points out the fact that ‘‘he maketh a path to shine after him.’ { Is that true of us now, and will it be true | of us when we have gone? Will thers be | subsequent light or darkness? Will there be | a trial of gloom or good ewer? Can anyone | petween now and the next 100 years say of | ms truthfully as the text says of the leviathan of thed “He maketh a path to shine after him For we are moving on, While wea live in the same house, and transact busi | ness in the same store, and write on the same table, and chisel in the same studio, and thrash in the same barn, and worship in the same church, we are in motion and are in mADY respects moving on, and we are not where we were ten years ago, nor where we will be ten years hence, Moving on! Look at the family record, or the a or into the mirror, and sée {{ any one of § is where you ware. All motion, Other feet may trip and stumble and halt, but the feet of not one moment for the last sixty cen- tripped or stumbled or halted ' a! The world The uni ! Etter absurd to uw dying 0 { his day, to this oen r NAnac, of you n mov en moving on! verse n Time moving nity moving on! erefore it think t es ean stop, Are we like ur path to shine a peculiar question, on is leave in this world th ity * eo." an “wa are not alter we are out igh we never in in saying that Audienes avd and I am looking . y will have n 100 years from n wi and I inquire into his histo I find that by a yes or a no he one’s eternity. In time an affirmative or a ne tion which another, hearing of to decide in the same way Clear on the other side of the next million years may be the first you hear of the long reaching influence of that yes or no, but hear of it you will. Will that father make a path to shine after him? Will that mother make a path to shine after her? You will be walking along these streets or slong that country road 200 years from now in the character of your descendants, They will be affected by your courage or your cow ardice, your purity or your depravity, your holiness or your sin, You will make the | path to shine after you or blacken after you, Why should they point out to us on some mountain two rivulets, one of wilch passes down into the rivers which pour out into the | Pacific Ocean, and the other rivulet flowing down into the rivers which pass out into the Atlantic Ocean? Every man, every woman, stands at a point where words uttered, or deeds done, or prayers offered, decide oppo site destinies and opposite eternities, We soe a man planting a tree, and treading sod on slither side of it, and watering it in dry wonther, and taking a great caro in its onl world 1d then has the les , and lod some of temptation he gave ative to some tempta , Was induced ture, and he nover plucks nny fruits from its | bough. But his children will, We are all planting trees that will yield frait hundreds of years after we are dead.<orchards of gol den fruit or groves of deadly upas, I am so fascinated with the phosphor. eaconce in the track of a ship that 1 have sometimes watched for a long while and have sean nothing on the face of the deep but blackness, The mouth of watery chasms that looked like gaping jaws of hell, Not a spark as hig as a firefly ; not a white serol) of srl sepulehers of dead ships | darkness 3000 foot deop, and more thousands of fest long and wide, That is the kind of wake that a bad man leaves behind him as he plows through the ocenn of this life toward the vaster ocean of the great future, Now, suppose a man seated in a corner vocery or business office among clerks gives rimsalf to jolly skepticiem, He laughs at the Bible, makes sport of the miracles, speaks of perdition in jokes and laughs at revivals as a frolic, and at the passage of a funeral procession, which always solemnizes sensible ie, says, “Boys, let's take a drink.” There is in that group a young man who is making a great struggle against Ramitat hon and prays night and morning and his Bible aud is asking God for help day by day. But that gaffaw against Chris ! rections is the sparkling, not a taper to illuminate the mighty | ) ? m \ GE | tinnity makes him lose his grip of sacred | A d JH ANT. { things, and he gives up Sabbath and church | and morals and goes from bad to worse, till | he falls under dissipations, dies in a lazar | house and is buried in the potter's tisald, Another young man who heard that jolly | skepticism made up his mind that *'it makes no difference what we do or say, for we will | all come out at last at the right piace,” and began as a consequences to purloin, Home { money that came into his hands for others | { he applied to his own haps he would make it straight some other time, and all would be well even if he not make it straight. He ends in the pen tentiary acainst Christianity never realized what bad work he was doing, and he passed on through life and out of it and into a future that I am | not now going to deplet, | I do not propose with asearchlight to show the breakers of the awful coast on which that ship is wrecked, for my business now is to watch the sea after the keel has plowad it, No phosphorescence in the wake of that ship, but behind it two souls struggling in the wave skeptiolsm, an unillumined ocean beneath and on all sides of them. Blackness of dark- Ness, uses, thinking per You know what a gloriously Rey. John Newton was the most of his life, but before his conversion he was a very wicked sallor, and on board the shin Har wich instilled infidelity and vies Into the mind of a young man-—principles which de stroyed him, Afterward the two met, Newton tried to undo his bad work, but in vain. The young man became worse and worse and died a profligate, horrifying those wha stood by him in his last moments, Better look out what bad influence you start, for you may not be able to stop it, It does not require very great force to ruin others, Why was it that many years ago a great flood nearly destroyed New Orleans? A crawfish had burrowed into the banks of the river until the ground was saturated and the banks weakened until the flood burst, But I find here a man who life with the determination that he will never soo suffering but he will try to al- leviate it, and never see discouragement but he will try to cheer it, and never moet with anybody but he will try to do him good, Getting his strength from God, he starts frorn home with high purpose of doing all the good he can possibly do in one day. Whether standing behind the counter, or talking in the business office with a pen be hind kis ear, or making a bargain with a fel low “rader. or out in the flald discussing with his next neighbor the wisest rotation of the crops, or in the shoemaker’s shop poun i ing sole leather, there is something in his face, and in his phraseology and in his man- per. that demonistrates the grace of God in his heart, He ean talk on religion without awkwardly dragging it in by the ears. He loves God and loves the souls of all whom bh 1 in their present and good man meats and is Interested eternal destiny. lives that il and then gots DOeAYen A rans to dmseribe the entered I am not met him not going t of friend wharves going yatside ) SAY al r God in His w y Jo yok at the path of foam int y, and tell you It Is kindness fias ph ph rescence of a Christian maketh a path to shine after him." And here I correct one the mean no tions which at some time takes possession of all of us, and that is as to the brevity of hu- man life. When I bury some very useful man, clerical or lay, in his thirtieth or for tieth year, I say: “What a waste of ener- gies! It was hardly worth while for him to got ready for Christian work, for he had so soon to quit it." insures any man or woman who doses any good on & large or small seale fora life on earth as Jong as the world lasts, Sickness, trolley car socldents, death itsolf, on no mors destroy his life than they can tear down one of the rings of Baturn., You can start one good word, one kind act, one cheerful smile, on a mission that will last until the world becomes a bonfire, and « of that blaze it will pass into the heavens, never to halt as long as God lives, There were in the seventeenth century men and women whoss names you never heard of who are to-day influencing schools, col legea, churches, Nations. You can no more measure the gracious results of their life time than you could measure the length and breadth and depth of the phosphorese last night following the ship of the White ine 1500 miles at sen. How t swourage and consecration of others inspire us to follow, as a general in the American army, ecol amid the flying bullets, inspired a tremb soldier, who sald afterward, * was nearly death, but id man's white 1 tache ov and went : of it St Lai] it a " ROR somabo tions lays ago ket ofl a had A few landed o my ren and in SNOWY gospel minister, ArKs he Kingd ‘ r this world and the next fore twenty irs go by, me man yr woman with a big pack of ears and trou ble, and you may say something to him or her that will endure until this world shall have been so far lost in the past that nothing but the streteh of angelic memory will able to realize that it ever existed at all, I am not talking of remarkable men and women, but of what ordinary folks ean do I am not speaking ot the phosphorescence in the track of a Newfoundiand fishiog smack, (God rwmkes thunderbolts out of sparks, and out of the small words and deods of a small life He ean launch a power that will flash and burn and thunder through the eternitios, How do you like this prolongation bf your earthly life by deathless Influence? Many a babe that died at six months of age by the four ho ®t some [TW anxiety ereated in the parent's heart to meat | that child in realms seraphic is living yet in the transformed heart and lifes of those parents and will live on forever in the his. tory of that family, If this be the opportu nity of ordinary souls, what is the oppor- tunity of those who have especial intellectual or social or monetary equipment? Have you any arithmetic capable of esti mating the influence of our good and gra. efous friend who alow days ago went up to post George W. Childs, of Philadelphia? From a newspaper that was printed for thirty years without ons word of defama- | tion or seurrility or seandal, and putting a chief emphasis on virtue and charity | and clean (ntelligence, be reaped a fortune for himself and then distributed a vast amount of it among the poor and straggling putting his invalid and aged reporters on peasions, until his name stands everywhere for large heartedness and sympathy and | man, In an era which had in the chairs of its { quraalism a Horaoe Greeley, and a Honry J, | fond, and a James Gordon Betinett, and | an Erastus Brooks, and a George William { Curtis, and an Irenneus Prime, none of them i will be longer remembered than George W, | Childs, Staying away from the unveiling of the monument he had reared at large ox. wnse in our Greenwood in memory of Pro- sssor Proctor, the astronomer, lest I should say something in praise of the man who had paid for the monument. By all seknowl- edged a representative of the highest Ameri- can journalism, If you would ealoulate his inflcence for good. you must count how many sheets of in pers have been published in the inst or of a century, and how many poople have read them, and the effect not only upon those readers, but upon all whom did | That scoffer who uttered the jokes | two young mon destroyed by rock loss | and | starts out in | | out of your lips. | one white cord somewiisre in But the fact is that I may | | Is that they cannot hear it, | help and highest style of Christian gentio- | they shall influence for all time, while you ndd to all that the work of the churches he heiped buiid and of the institutions of mercy he helped found, Netter give up before you start the measuring of the phosphorescence in the wake of that ship of the Celestial line, Who ean tell the post mortem fnflaence of a Bavonaroia, a Winkelried, a Gutenberg, a Marlborough, kn Decatur, a Toussaint, a Boll: | var, a Ciarkson, a Robert Raikes, a Harlan Page, who had 125 Sabbath scholars, eighty- i four of whom became Christians, and six of | them ministers of the gospel, With gratitade and penitence and worship | I mention the grandest fo that was ever lived, That ship of Heht was launched from the heavens nearly 1900 years ago, angolle hosts chanting, and from the eslestial wharves the ship sprang into the roughest son that ever tossed, Its billows were made up of the wrath of men and devils, Herodlo and sanhedrinie persecutions stirring the deep with rod wrath, and all the hurricanes of woe smote it until on the rocks of Golgo- tha that life struck with a resound of agony that appalled the earth acd the heavens, jut in the wake of that life what a phospho- rescence of smiles on the cheeks of souls | pardoned, and lives reformed, and Nations redeemed. The millennium itself is only one roll of that iradiate | wave of gladness and benediction. In the sublimest of all sonses it may be sald of Him, ‘He maketh ‘a path to shine after Him," But I eannot look yn that luminosity that follows ships without realizing how fond the Lord is of life. That fire of the deep is Ife, myriads of creatures all a-swim — fie play and a-romp In parks of marine beauty laid out and partonved and roseated and blossomed by Omnipotence, What isthe use of those creatures called by the naturalists Yerustaceans” and “copepods.” not more than one out of hundreds of billions of which tro ever seen by human eye? God created ahem for the same reason that He creates flowers in places where no human foot ever | makes them tremble, and no human nostril ever inhales their redolence, and no human eye ever sees their charm, In the botanical world they prove that God loves flowers, as | in the marine world the phosphorl prove that He loves life, and He loves life in play, life in brilliancy of gladness, life in exuberance, And so I am Jed to believe that He our life if we fulf our mission as fully the phosphor fulfill theirs, The Bon of Go cams ‘‘that we bt have life and have it more abundantly.” Bat I am glad to tell you that our God is not the God sometimes de- scribed as a harsh critic at the head of the universe, or an infinite se or a God that loves funerals hs God that prelers nipotent Nero, a feroci the loveliest Being flowers and life and play, phori in the wake human race keep mark yw th better than tears to lau gt us Nan the universe, los of ut has a ky oiling (0 im ve nis } you ar ot then HA Are t, but wi aandatn but what are ¥ th row! a DAR them shad Can you « phori in th reat ures sn pin? * Oh, yes, ! Shine! Stand before the looking glass and experiment to see il you cannot get that scowl off your forehead, that peovish look Have at “least one bright Embroider at least the midnight of your apparel. Do not any longer imper- sonate a funeral, Shine! shearful about society and about the world, Put a few drops of heaven into your dispo- gition. Ones ina while substitiay a sweet oraage for a sour leon Remember that pessimism is blasphemy and that opti 1 is Christianity, Throw some light on the night ocean If you can not be a lantern swinging in the rigging, be of the tiny phosphori back of tae keel, 2»! “Lat your light #0 shine before men others ur good works may ir Father which Is in heaves ribbon ia your bonnet, soning 3 7300 happy. ail yest ment ¢ of a friend brief nap, which antitled to on a Sunday up that man, You oar yOu, say som ething that {f you 1 kn arty by yutting his name After you W aman w ni an unfortunate in- on the back have taken a An nan is f y AN showy after Hoth « Dave bhaen « years, Shine! You know has ;an away fron } fore night and tell that father and the paral le f the t i " soma of the { hoy who uated wate eharet re night and tel has happily es wus lifes Shine! sines the most prosper hearth is a sirugeie You kn invalid who is lying for lack of an appetite, She cannot get wl cannot eat, Broil a vod and take it to her before night and sheat her poor appetite into keen relish, Hhine! You know of some one who likes you, and you like him, and he ougnt to be a Christian. Go tell him what religion has done for you, and ask him if you can pray for him Shine! Oh, for a disposition so charged with sweetness and light that we cannot help but shine! Remember if you cannot bo a leviathan lashing the ocean into fury yom ean be one of the phosphori, doing your part toward making a path of phosphorosconos, hen I will tell you what impression you will leave as you pass through this life and after you are gone, [I will tell you to your face and not leave it for the minister who of- fleintes at your obeequies, I'he fatlare in all eulogium of the departed All hear it ax sept the one most interested. This, in sub stance, is what I or some one slso will say of you on such an occasion “Wa gather for ofMoes of respect to this departed one, Its impossible to tell how many tears he wiped away, how many burdens he lifted, or how many souls he was, under God, lnstrumen- tal in saving, His influence will never conse, We are all better for having known him, “That pillow of flowers on the casket was prosemo whom he brought to Christ, That flowers at the head was presented by tho orphan asylum which he befriended, Those three single flowers <one was sent by a poor woman for whom he bought a ton of coal, yw of some because she shi ni erosa of and one was by a waif of the street whom he | rescued through the midnight mission, and had often visited to encourne repentance in | young man who had done wrong, “Those three loose flowers mean quite as much as the garlands now breathing their aroma through this saddened home crowded with hy withigers, ‘Blessed are the dead | who die in the Lord, | labors, and their works do follow them, Or i it should be the more solemn burial nt san, lot it be after the sun has gone down, and the captain has read the appropriate livurgy, and the ship's bell has tolled, and you are let down from the stern of the vessel { into the replendent phosphorescancs at the wake of fae ship, Then lot some one say, in the words of my text, '‘He maketh a path to shine after him," EE .— Virginia Oity, Nev., is 0400 feet above the sea, " Do say something | by his Sabbath-school class, all of ! the other was from a prison cell which he | They rest from thelr | SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL MARCH LESSON 4. FOR Lesson Text: “Selling the Birt right,” Genesis xxv., 27-34 Golden Text: Luke xii, 23-Commentary, The tople in this section of eight verses Is Belling the Birthright,” Evidently the committee wers not looking for the rich- est and most instructive selections in Genesis, but we will find something even, here, The intervening events have been the death of Barah, aged 127-—said to bethe only woman whose age Is recorded in Beripture and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah at Hebron as a burial place (chapter xxiif,). Isnnc marries Rebekah (chapter xxiv. ). Abraham dies, aged 175, and is buried by I7/iae and Ishmael, Ishmael dies st the age of 187. When Isanc was sixty years of age, Jacob and Esau are born (chapter xxv., 1-26), and that brings us to the lesson, 27. “And the boys grew, and Esau was a canning herder, « man of the field, and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.” Why should the Bpirit write “And the boya grow Don't all boys grow? Yet the Bpirit saw fit to write concerning Jesus “And the child grew" (Luke ii,, 40), and of Samuel ft suid, “And the child Bamuel grew on,” “And Samuel grow" (I Sam, ii, iH., 19). The written of Isaac, Ishmael, Moses and Samson (Gen. xxi, 8, 29; Ex. ii,,10; Judg. xiii., 24). Why this statement should be made of these seven ordinary boys and of Him whose name 18 Wonderful let some one tall who knows, It is worthy of that the Old Testament word become great, Nimrod, who built Babel and other eities (Gen. x., 8-10), is the only other person spoken of as a mighty hunter Neither his record nor Esa are among the best, In the RV, mar t a quiet, barm- yl Is same is IVE note signifies to nitis Jacob Jems, perfect 28, “And 1 did eat of his venison, but , y each of the parents as father’s boy and This woul "nt id nor to was au, because he ehekah loved had their one Was to peace between the loved Es ow mueh which wo live! Then } ) see [sano partial to Esau for hi ynach's sa But it is hurch at Fhil was 1 4 ht nt in ating 1 everyday ppl there wore oir belly and wi an seripture, n of Nations, wretchod the Moabites and Atnmonites is seen i xix.. 30.3% and now we have the orl gin of the Edomites, and you ean hardly oot thor anywhere in Scripture without diinking of the hunter who was so hungry for red pottage. He did not know the words of our text, “The life is more than meat and the body than raiment,” nor those words of rit. “The kingdom of God Is not meat righteousness and peace and +} rig (host Chon the Nt a this day thy brother that mly brother Inooh, you you 1, al r, hungry Ah, grace to is the sam» 1 : From earn that one item in the n pense | God's M ft jrnel ves e portion of the inheritanos, sow that the birth the first born, for rm the birth- we I, Tam at the all this birth- it an if he { Jife! ninks manner My birthrigh me any if H r afterward w o ¢ with tears are whe 1? (Job rey when srt the sekine 1} wii though he n soul, r his resents ent and r it- k out ’ . his crookedness, tht of the | ‘And Ja And he sware birthright unto Ja » has honorable among those had faith in God, but there is no room for faith in this transaction, It was selfish and crooked and scheming, Faith would bave said, If God means me to have the birthright, He knows how to give it to me; if not, I am content, Anyhow, I will love my brother and do right Sut such was pot Jacob's way at this time, 8). “Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles, and he did eat and drink and rose up and went his way, Thus Esau despised his birthright Israel despised the pleasant land ; t} believed not His word, hey also despised and rejected Him who came ns their Messiah and Redeemer and made light of His invitations (Ps, ovi,, 24 Ton, Mil, 83: Math, xxii, & Man has no heart for the things of God, The present is everything with he Is born from to me this and he sold In Heb, xi sald, 1pot Swear mention who wiore God, oO him until above, and oven then, unless he fs fliled with the Spirit, he is apt to despise the riches of God's grace and glory, A right spirit will think more of the things of the kingdom than of all present things, — Lesson Helper, Cn - DRANE COLD T YARTR, The town of Westfield, N. Y,, eolebrated fia 100th anniversary the other day, and as a part of the exerciees of the festive Occasion, A great banquet was projected, When the ministers of the town heard this they ap- pointad a committee to look after the publie morals on the occasion, an {1 the committees | insisted that thera shod be no wine at the | banquet, The management demurred at ] first, but when the theesat was made that none of the ministers would honor the ooonsion with their prosence wise, ROT allow the members of their churches to, if they could help it, the managers gave in, 80 tha banquet was held without wine, and the toasts on the ocoasion were drunk in cold water, «Picayune, ssn —— The uriginal Declaration Fading, The rapid fading of the text ol the orig inal Declaration of Imdependence and the daterioration of the parchment upon which itis , from exposute to the light and from lapse of thane, render it impractio able for the State Department longer to es. hibit it orto har oir, En lien of the orig imal document a sacsimile 18 placed on vx | hibition, | STATION HOUSE LODGERS WHERE NEW YORK'S HOMELESS ARMY SLEEP. Scenes at Midnight in a Police Station ~Gioing to the “Island” Until Mild Weather Comes. Se men scross Osk basement the The doorman now developed as much activity as Lhe German had shown. He flew at the first man in the line, and entching his shoulders, flung him ten feet away along the pavement. “i(3it out of here,” said he; ‘‘a-a-a-h, give me no talk. 1 know yer. Yon was here last night. Git, now, or I'll give yer my foot. And yon too; git, don't let me yer any UT of the black shadow of the alley, like a great bat's wing, eame the head of the line of street to the station ante of house, i now, and BE more As : rested face he leaped at the owner of it and 3 or a twist that sent his eve on each familiar gave him a knock him spinning out of the line like a top. “Them's old soaks, that's here before," said he explanation, we don't take ‘em if they're regulars, been in and The re's not room enough for them that deserves a lodging.” | BLP POSE those poor devils were the most to be pitied of all the men I suw that What under heaven they were to do if the station-house spurned them was indeed a question. But they were spun out of sight and out of n ind. Do=mn in the brightly lighted basement of the the German and the up the men crescent shaped file with many a curt “turn vour face this w wey vour face, day. station-house lined doorman I in A order let's sed of thie ay; manner man.’ The rough, his tones : oni Liceman was but it was y #& mannet The New York | is a professional m His business is and familiarity with ons in whizh he decidedly business wers ALA § heeman an. life, adopted for ondit werd there a man not so ea countryman, perhaps, a distant city. They heads up and their eyes moving take in everything around them. The German patrolman began at the head of the line and ssked for recruits for the workhouse-'s new lodging -room practice, “Do you want to go ‘way ?” he asked of each. “Do you want to go ‘way? Do you want to go ‘way 7" unfortunates understood yim I don't know, for I had to have his meaning explained. The { that the Department of Charities and tion has determined in order to the for work- Ne w who How thes act was Corre distress and pressure to the Jackwell’'s Island of several years’ residence 0 hi ig to Sirangers reli odging room, send to house on all Yorkers Lins ymes and are will the winter he nt back to the places they . badly off, but bet cent Average {than they had t h to the lodging house, where thieves are made they for turning lisconragement snd poverty inte crime “What do yon want to go to the Island for?" 1 asked man who had been ¢ longshoremen ter place with whie get nto as if were factories th walt “Well, sir, what else can “I have no work and no home. 1 buried wife five years ago, and 1 children. I'vedeen here years, and I understand 1 can be took care of for the winter—ti)! times 1s better Some one slipped some silver in his hand for tobacco the Island. — rper s Weekly. ———— replied, and no my no twenty-five money have on The Stamp Collecting Fiend, “I know a stamp collecting fiend,” anid Earl Becker, ‘who never tires of of the oft. repented statement that used stamps have no value, and that the million stamp charity story is a myth. He carvies around with him a written offer of $100 for 1,000,000 stamps and shows it great glee. Any man who wants to get rich should avoid filing an order of this kind, if he gets one, because to collect 1,000,000 stamps it is neceesary to secure more than 300 n day for ten years, without eyen rest ing on Sanday. To get this number daily would take at least half a man's time, nnless he happened to have no: cess to the waste basket of a large firm, and for his foward he would get just $10 a year, waiting, however, ten years for pay day. Under these cir ewmstances it seems protty safe to offer £100 for 1,000,000 stamps, for no one soquainted with principles of arithme- tic would be very likely to seriousl consider the proposition, St, Lou Globe-Democrat. dispnbing the correctness with departure in | | at least a century before SELECT SIFTINGS, bacco color. Kentucky is first in to led is the Chinese lucky She Isle of Man has no pawnshop. Furlong was a furrow-long, or the length of & plowed furrow Russian farmers hold an average of twenty-seven acres to each family. Sparrow have so much curiosity that they will gaze in m by the hour if not disturbed At the century people werd Britain salt rror beginning of the eighteenth Great manufacture of hanged in or the 1llicit Ther 6000 three times a day Palace while the BS there are over persons fed at Dolma-Bagtch itan of Turkey is Ice artificially manufactured by the nse of chemical mixtures is not a late ides by any means, the invention det- ing back to 1783 An authority 1s the seended of the opinion that are all de- commercial people who, some 3000 years ago, penetrated natives of Mashonaland from a from Arabia. The miniature watch of King George I11., which was kept for years os a curiosity in the Kensington Museum, was sltout the size of one of wonderful our silver dimes The total number of capital letters y the whole Bible is 106,990 ; of small 6807, and of lower ; grand total of 3,666,481, John's Lodge, in Boston, the lodge of Freemssons in the States. It recently installed officers at its one hundred and sixtieth annual meet The oldest mathem i the mann 3, 452, including "., CASE, letlers, St oldest United new i8 ing. stical book in the world is calle hind.’ It is In WAR WT tian, tt iien VEeAT & British 51 Hartfor (Fre n had syers, who folded in their A widow whether she hats, in Vienns, having would be allowed to pre- serve the ashes of her husband in an urn in her apartment, has been told by the Government that this could not be permitted. The minister responsi- ble says the custom, if it became general, “‘might lead to strange eoccen- tricity and superstition.’ A murderer in Alabama fled the scene of his erime. Soon after, a man of the same nsme and appearance, inclod- ing a peculiar scar, was positively identified as the murderer, found guilty and sentenced to death. Be- fore the fatal day sample evidence was furnished proving that he wasat w rk in Tennessee at the time of the murder. i — A Longshereman’s A boss lor never if Trick, gshoreman, whose gang is there 1s anything to do socks, explained the other secret of his popularity with { grain carriers, particu- larly the canal by “I know, said, y that it will dle if along the day the the captains « men “how lo wwerru mt unload instead he A CArgo 8 n f falling short. Fake a wheat. for bulk, and consignee or purchaser has some present { The first bushel Then the next 100 go Are short the canaller freighted with The grain is in is unshipped the one nstance when it Keep tally oni 1s weighed by measure, and heavy ot sccording to weight of rst bushel bushels “Then there is a new weighing and standard, 10C by 100, until the boat is emptied. Well, bulk grain is always heaviest at the centre of a pile. “So, when the clerk calls out ‘Weigh,’ I weigh him a heavy hushel, Then 1 take the measured bushels from the side Consequently the car- gos 1 unload overrun, the captains are pleased, the consignees can’t under- stand it, and I and my men are busy all the time. "Detroit Free Press ——— Antiquity of Chess and Checkers, Chess har been attributed to Palamedes, sho flourished 680 years B. C.; also to the Hindoos. Some authorities consider checkers a very an in fact, the origin of checkers and chess may be identi. eal. Strutt, however, considers check- ers a ‘moder Mr. Mallet published in treatise «u the subject of this, and the game is known to have been played in Europe The Romans had a game called latran enli, which was very similar in character to check ers, the pieces moving diagonally, cap- turing by leaping over and obisining superior power npon arriving safely at the thither side of the board Ihe board, however, consisted of bot six. teen squares, <itisburg Dispateh. WI “ Freezing Didnt Bother Him, Last winter while estching ohubs for live bait 1 caught a small salt water perch, He was kept alive for over two months in a cold outhouse, Every night the water, fish and all, would freeze to a solid oake; every day he wonld be melted out, abd in a short while he wonld be as lively as ever. He most have been frozen and thawed ont at least forty times with. ont receiving the slighest injury, —= Forest and Stream. 4 A Dew Mil game aiso p invention.” 1668 ” dran
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