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The four great ocean routes employ
1100 steamship:.
The output of (he American maml
factories for the past year was $7, 215,.
000,000.
Every State and Territory In the Union
has ao organized militia except the Ter
ritory of Utah.
. The number of foreigners who took up
their residence in America last year was
543,-117, of whom 118,273 came from
Germany.
What was once the heart of the Wis
consiu pino region is now importing
thousands of feet of that timber . from
Washington State.
General Schkopp, of the German army,
says: "if his majesty draws his sword it
will never return to its scabtard until
liis last enemy is crushed, or he, with bis
people, is overthrown."
The increase of more than a million ot
sheep in this country during the past
year is more than matched by the in
creased use of wool in producing woolen
goods, which was' 69,000,000 pounds.
The Chicago Mail estimates that the
3,000,000 people who are expected to
Tisit Chicago during the World's Fair
will expend while in that city not lest
than $200,000,000. This is an average
of over fCB apiece.
The Now York Sun figures that if six
men were to start on successive days from
six American cities, and travel in
straight line (round the world to the
point of starting, the Chicago man would
probably claim to have made the quick
est time, while the Ohio man, if there
was one, would be the first to arrive home1,
but the distance traveled by all six, if
added together, would fall 70,000 miles
short of the nil road mileage of the
United States, double tracks not counted.
Should the Sandwich Islands really
become part of the United States they
will be the most picturesque feature of
th. Republic, declares the Chicago
Herald. They deserve the title "Flow,
ery Kingdom" perhaps even better than
Japan, sioco flowers bloom pa the
islands all the year round, and are pecu
liarly beloved by all the inhabitants. The
foreign residents, and even transient
visitors, catch the native fondness foi
flowers, and at times people of all sorts
go about garlanded with abundant blossoms.-
It occurred to the long-headed, public-spirited
citizens of Pennsylvania that
the time had come to devise measures
for the preservation of the forests of that
State. Accordingly they procured the
Introduction of a bill in the Legislature
which provided for the appointment of
a forestry commission whose duty it shall
be "to examine and report on the con
dition ot the slopes and summits of the'
State and the pressnco or absence of
forests thereon, for the purpose of de
termining the influence on the stage of .
the water in the rivers, the amount of
timber remaining standing and host the
supply can be increased and maintained."
The American Library Association,
which bos tbo co-operation of nearly all
the great libraries of tbo country, will
make a notable exhibit at the World's
Fair. It will include samples, models,
and photographs showing articles and
mechanical devices in actual u-te; print
ed matter, forms, blanks, constitutions,
by-laws, rules for subscribers; accession
departments and their management; cat
alogue, classration and reference de
partments; binding department, with
samples of binding, -temporary covers
and receipts for restoring, mending and
cleaning, sholf and building depart
ments and an architectural exhibit show
ing plans, elevations, perspectives and
models of the best library buildings.
There will also be a model library of
S000 volumes, selected from lists pre
pared and sent in by the various librari
ans of the country.
It is related triiat a man who was writ
ing a bistort of New York employed an
expert to find out for hiin how many
peculators in Wall street succeeded in
the long rue.' After a laborious inves
tigation the expert reported tbat the
only single iustance which he could dis
cover was a man from Rhode. Island,
named Smith, who bad actually won,
(30,000 in , a speculation in the street
and carried the money away to specu
late no more. It was the single bright
instance In a long line of wrecks, adds
the New Orleans Picayune, and was
written down in the book to hand the
name of Smith down to immortality.
Unluckily for his reputation, however,
hardly was the book published before
Smith turned up on the street and put
his $30,000 into another speculation. He
never heard of it again, and the sole in
stance ot a successful speculator was
ruthlessly destroyed.
England continues to increaso her
irmed force in Egypt, and France is
iherefore irate.
The Protestant Episcopal Cathedral,
5t. John the Divine, in New York City,
Kill cost 110,000,000.
Vegetarianism is making great pro
gress in Berlin. The German capital
sow contains twenty vegetarian restaur
ints which are largely patronized by the
working people, clerks and students.
In 1888 there were 43.94 square miles
in Chicago. Now there are 181.70, and
Rogers Park is soon to be annexed. Tho
New York Recorder estimates that this
will make as big an area as a Manhattan
Island a hundred miles long.
Tho police force of New York City
numbers 3966 men, including the rank
and file. The police force of Chicago is
bout2700. The area of New" York
City is forty-six square miles. The area
of Chicago is four times as groat.
' A long-suffering London journalist,
whose nerves were no longer able to bear
the noise made by putting fuel on the
fire from a coal-box, recently gave vent
to ad earnest prayer that some inventor
might be mercifully disposed to provide
a silent coal-box for domestic sufferers
like himself. A response to this appeal
is now recorded by the Chicago News
Record in the shape ot an ordinary coal
box Hoed with linoleum and falling on
projecting rubbers, so that no slamming
is possible. Even the shovel has its case
lined with felt, and is, therefore, lifted
out and replaced noiselessly.
The timber' used in the construction
of the Chicago Exhibition buildings is
estimated to exceed 75,000,000 feet,
which represents the wood from ten
square miles of forest. All the buildings
are covered, with composition of
plaster, ' cement and hemp, and the
amount of this work is equal to covering
the wall of a four-story building fifteen
miles in length. The eloctrio lighting
will require 5000 arc and 93,000 incan
descent lamps, which is about ten times
as much electric -lighting as the Paris
Exhibition was provided with. The
electric lighting plant has cost over
tl.000,000.
The Philadelphia Times says: . ,The
growth ot many of the textile industries
during 1892 was marked. The summary
of new mills for 1892 shows a total of
272, with a combined list of employes
of 31,500. In other words assuming
that none of the new textile mills were
erected to replace those destroyed by fire
or abandoned, for other causes, 31,500
new employes were let to work, and the
productive textile capacity of the coun
try was increased seven per cent. Au
examination of the statistics showing the
textile growth of the year reveal some
interesting fact, the first of which is
that there were seventy-three new cotton
mills employing 15,000 hands. The
new cotton mills do not number one
bait the total of new mills erected, but
the mills were ot greater capacity than
in any other branch of the textile trade,
thus absorbing one-half of the new la
bor employed. Massachusetts erected
nineteen new cotton mills, employing
S775 hands. The next greatest in.
crease was in the South, North Carolina
building sixteen new mills, employing
1835 new hands, South Carolina eleven
new mills, with 2040 emplcyes, Georgia
five new mills, with 940 hands, and Ala
bama four, with 740. New York and
Pennsylvania built three new mills each.
Connecticut two, and Illinois, Indiana,
Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Ver
mont and West Virginia each one.
There were forty-nine new woolen an!
ninety-three new knitting mills erected,
the first employing 2500 and the second
7500 new hands. Massachusetts leads
with eight, Maine follows with seven
and Pennsylvania third with six new
woolen mills. The South does not
figure much in the new woolen industry,
Kentucky with three and Missouri with
two mills being the only Southern States
represented. Of the ninety-three new
knitting mills Pennsylvania furnishes
thirty-two, or more than one-third; New
York, twenty, ind the rest distributed
among twenty-two other State. Silk
figures fourth in the list of new plants
to the extent of twenty-one new mills,
the majority of 'which are in New York,
New Jeisev and Pennsylvania, with
Paterson, N. J., as the center of the in
dustry, both old and new. In the mis.
cellaneous list are six new plush mills,
six making shoddy,seven cotton batting,
three linen, three lace, two upholster)
and two gimp and dress trimming (oil
four in Philadelphia), and a scattering
list, including dye, bleaching, jute, bag
ging and a few others. New England,
Pennsylvania and the South seem to b
the most prosperous manufacturing sec
tions, if the erection ol new plants foi
manufactures can be accepted as an in
dex of prosperity.
HOMEt.
The prince rides up to the pal no. Rates
And his eyes with tears are dim,
For he thinks of the beggar maiden swet
Who may never wsd with him.
For home is where th. heart is.
In dwelling great or small.
And there's many a splendid palace
Thai's never a bom. at all .
The yeoman comas to his little cot
With a song when day Is done.
For his dearie is standing in the door
And his children to meet him run.
For home Is where the heart Is,
In dwelling great or small,
And there's many a stately mansion
That's never a home at all. .
Could I but live with my own sweetheart
In a hut with sanded Boar,
I'd be richer far than a loveless man
With fame and a golden store.
For home la where the heart is.
In dwelling great or small,
And a cottage lighted by love light
Is the dearest bom. of all.
George Hot ton.
CUPID IN THE KITCHEN.
BT MART K.LTB DALLAS.
gl';iHE cook has given
warning, ana me
chambermaid says
that, where Susan
goes she goes like
wise," said Mrs.
Montgomery, in a
tone of despair.
"And as I have just
paid their wages
they are packing to
go. What wicked,
wicked women. Not
a word of warning."
"Why, mammal
what is the reason of
this sudden deser
tion!" queried Emily, the only daughter
of tho house, aged eighteen and she
laughed.
"Your papa found fault with the beef
last Sunday. Ah there is nothing to
giggle over, I am sure," said the matron,
dropping into a rocking chair "A
week it the intelligence office for me,
while the house goes to w-"ck and ruin,
and your papa loses his t r over the
dinners, for old Mrs. Chumps the only
person I can seed for, always ruins every
dish she touches."
"And we cannot have Mrs. Chump
this time, mamma," said Emily. "She
is in bed with rheumatism. I met hor
little niece in the drug store buying
medicines and lotions for her, and she
said she was very bad.
"Then the end has cornel" sighed
Mrs. Montgomery. 1
"Don't fret, mamma, I'll do the
work," said Emily. "I think it might
be fun for awhile."
"Do you?" Mrs. Montgomery iskcd,
sarcastically. "Ah!"
Emily laughed again.
"It's the best you can do," she said,
"arid I'll give papaa'high tea; with oine
lotte and chicken sandwich, and all the
little things he likes, and no doubt you
can find some one to come to-morrow."
"Ob, no doubt," said Mrs. Montgom
ery, in still more sarcastic tones. " I wish
I bad your sanguine temperament,
Emily."
"Good-bye, mum and miss, "said cook,
looking in at the door. "Good-bye,
and I wish you luck suiting yourself, I'm
sure. No doubt there is them that might
if they had the patience ot Job; not
else."
. "Gool-bye, ladies," said the chamber
maid; "Pin sorry to leave you, but
Susan and me goes the two of us to
gethei, always, and if she is insulted, I
am likewise,"
"Good-bye," said Emily, calmly.
Mrs. Montgomery turned her back,
and muttered "Ungrateful wretches 1"
between ber teeth.
"And 1 actually made over my navy
blue Bedford cord dress for that
woman," she said, after the door closed ;
"and never has she had to buy an apron.
There, I'll go and begin my martyrdom
and, Emily, if you do go into the kit
chen, put on my rubber gloves and my
mob cap, that I wear for dusting ray
room coal ashes are the ruin of the
hair and a big apron your looks ate
my prido."
Emily kissed her mother, saw that she
went off comfortably, and then obedient
ly donned cap, gloves and apron, and
descended to the kitchen.
Cook, in her wrath, had left the kit
chen in a state of chaos.
Dishes piled high in the sink, towels
on the floor, pots and kettles in sore
need of scouring, overflowing tubs, a
pan of potato peelings, a kettle of ashes
all by the way of revenge for the in
sulting criticism of lost Snnday's dinner.
The prospect was alarming, but Miss
Emily went to work with a will, finding
it rather more difficult than in ber inex
perience she had supposed, and wishing
that her mother had not so carefully
guarded her delicacy at the expense of
her usefulness in kitchen affairs.
Just as she took her pots and kettles
in hand. Jack Spinner, the millionaire's
son, flying along upon his bicycle, came
very near running into a young man who
sat upon a curbstone, moaning piteousiy,
and at once alighted.
"Good heavens! I haven't hart you?"
he cried.
'No, sir," replied the person ad
dressed, who was enveloped in a mys
terious waterproof costume, and covered
irom head to foot with ashes. "J. was
clane dead when you came up. I've got
the choleray or the typhus, I djnno
which, and I'll loss my job, for I am
able for it no longer, and there's no
mercy on you if you neglect a thing, if
it is ever so with you no mercy."
"That is very cruel," said young Spin
ner, who bad the teuderest heart in the
world. "Is it that ash cart yoa are
driving"
"It is indeed," said the unfortunate.
"And there is six bar'ls to empty yit,
and me not able for it. I could drive
back, but I couldn't lift the tar"ls."
At home they culled Jack Don Quix
ote, for he was always succoring some
ti
forlorn being in distress, maid or man
it made no matter which. Now he in
stantly bethought him what to do tor
this poor ash crt driver.
"Comlf" along," he said, tsking the
man by the arm and leading him into a
drug store hard by. "I'll tell the doctor
to see you, and empty the rest ot the
barrels for you jolly fun for me, you
know, and you'll keep your place, and
all that."
The man, petrified with astonishment,
could only lift his hands, and in a mo
ment more a still more astonished drug
clerk had a patient well paid for in
advance and was dropping cholera mix
ture into glass, and applying mustard
plasters, in the little back room behind
the store.
"Six more houses," said Jack, walk
ing beside the cart, "straight down, the
man said."
He shouldered the first barrel and
dumped it. A shower of ashes covered
hi in, but he only laughed. Next came
a cine can, quite elegant in appearance,
but filled with decaying vegetables, and
ornemented by the inanimate forms of
three murdered kittens.
Mr. Jack gasped, but he intended to
finish his work of charity now that he
had begun it. And, with varied results,
new experiences to him, the young ath
lete emptied five barrels. Ou the sixth
pavement he found none.
What an ashman's duty was lie did not
know, but he bad his invalid's interests
at stake, and must do his best for him,
so he descended the areaway and rang
the bell. In a moment a girl in a mob
cap, a big apron, and rubbon gloves,
opened the door.
"Beg pardon, I am sure," said Jack,
bowing, "but do you wish your ash
barrel emptied?"
He spoke in the most elegant manner,
but he was covered 'with ashes as with a
garment; his mustache was whitened,
his hands begrimedcinders adhered to
his hair and bis face was dirty.
The maiden beforehim was not quite
free from marks of kitchen labor. r "it
was Emily, who had ' been washing 'the
pots and kettles for the first time in iher
life.
"What a beautiful manner he has,"
she thought; "he must be some one in
reduced circumstances."
And she smiled upon him:
"You are the the (ash gentleman, I
suppose?'' she queriod.
"I call in that capacity," said Jack.
"Then if it is not too much trouble,
the ash can stands in this little place
under the front steps, '"said Emily.
"No trouble whaterer," said Jack,
diving into the place .indicated; "I'll
bring it back when it issemptied."
"You are too kind," 'said Emily, un
aware of the pot-black. on ber chin.
"Not at all' said Jack or the Cin
ders, and they "bowed as if they were
dancing the lanciers.
In a moment .Jack had dumpedlthe
ashes, and returnedVwith the can.
He was greeted switb. a great jpuff. of
smoKe, anu imiiy uHinuiug anu'eougn
ing, came out into the area for air.
"Beg pardon," sand. Jack; "but tbo
house is not on fire?
"I hope not," said Emily; "the ,fire
went out, and I'm trying to kindle it,
but it smokes so."
"Perhaps it is the damper," said
Jack; "I'll look, if youl don't mind."
"I shall be grateful,' gasped Emily.
"It is the damper," 'said Jack, ' "and
these things in the ovens; now if fl may
have a bit of paper aud; some wood?''
He found them himself, made 'a fire,
opened the windows and waited until
the smoke vanished from the (kitchen,
and then shut the windows.
"What a wonderful ashman,," 'Emily
thought.
"What an elegantgirl ho be a cook,"
Jack said to tnmseir.
"It is kindof you," saidj Emilys "so
stupid of me. But I did not J know
about the dampers; I neverfmade a fire
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French leave."
"Out" said Jack to himself. "The
young lady of t henhouse doing amateur
kitchen housework. . I might, have "known
it. And she thinks me thai ashman,"
and he sighed. "Good-day," he said,
bowing.
Before Emily could reply! a head was
thrust in at the ' window 4bat of the
original ashman.
"An' here you air, sirt" hetsaid. "An',
sure, the medicine the doctor did be
givin' me has niadmme a nesvmau, au'
I'm forever obliged. And sorry I am
you've spoiled the fine clothes you .have
on ye. And you'll find yonr boy-suckle
in the doctor's shop. I've trounoed the
rascal that was goin' off wid it to a
jelly. I'll drive down, sir, and never
forget your kindness. SHiy you be
Mayor oi New York yet."
"Oh, you are welcome," said Jack,,
and now Emily wan staring at him.
"Not theashmanvl" she was sayingfun
der her breath, and Jack, laughing,, an
swered her glance.
"My first ash-cart, as this was j your
first fire," he said. "The driver vats ill,
and I took his place. Itihas been great
fun, though rather dirty -work. May I
introduce myself?"
He took a card from his . pocket and
presented it.
"I am Miss Montgomery,"' said Emily;
"and I think my father must k now yours
very well, if you are Mr. WMliatu .Spin
ner a son. I bey are lu tne same busi
ness." So it proved. For special v occasions
who can say what the etiquette may be?
Emily said to herself that it would be
simply humane to help thismartyr to his
kindly sympathies out of his coat of
ashes, and sent him to her brother's
room to find clothes brush and wash
basin.
When he met ber again one wore
neither mob cap nor apron, but was at
tired in a pretty morning dress, and ber
hair curled bewltchingly on her fore
bead. And, since this was the son of her
father's old friend, it seemed but hos
pitable to ask him to lunch. Mamma
would not be at home, she was quite
atone. It was awfully improper but
this latter point never occurred to Emily,
nor to Jack, and these two were both
young and liked sweet things, and Jack
declared that he bad never had ao de
lightful a lunch before.
It was a romance which is different
from a flirtation that little episode, and
it always remained in the memory of
those two young people as the sweetest
moment of their lives.
When ber mother returned, Emily
wore cap, apron and gloves. The high
tea was ready, and all the work accom
plished, after a fashion, and the girl
looked so pretty, so happy.
"Cooking must agree with you," Mrs.
Montgomery said.
But Emily did not speak of the ama
teur ashman, or her lunch party of two,
until long after oh, long, long at ter
ror it was some days before Mr. Spinner
called on the father, bringing bis son
with him some weeks before they were
asked to ao afternoon tea some months
before Jack became an intimate friend of
the family and quite a year before his
engagement to Miss Emily Montgomery
was announced to his friends.
And it was only on the very eve of her
wedding that Emily told her mother that
Jack had fallen in love with her at first
sight, and how and when and where.
And Mrs. Montgomery declared that
it would have been very, very shocking
frightfully imprudent it it had been
any one but Jack; but that made all the
difference, Jack was such a nice fellow.
SCIENTIFIC ANU INDUSTRIAL.
Rose diamonds are liable to explode.
Some of the stars move with veloc
ity of nearly fifty miles a second.
There are estimated to be over six
hundred deposits of iron ore in the State
of Missouri.
The origin of the goysers at Sonoma,
Cal., is supposed to be volcauic crater
filled by a landslide.
The moon gives out heat enough to
affect the thermometer and make a dif
ference of two or three degrees.
If fish get beyond a certain depth in
the sea tbey die from the pressure of the
water, which they are unable to support.
The most important domestic sources
of potash are wood ashes, cotton seed
hull ashes, tobacco dust and tobacco
stems.
Professor C. S. Sargent, of the Arnold
Arboretum, Harvard University, has re
turned from Japan, where he has been
making a study of the botany ot the
islands.
It is not an easy matter to freeze out
trichinae. After subjection to a tem
perature of twenty-five degrees below
zero for two hours they again became
active when exposed to light and heat.
A simple method of keeping iron and
Y steel from rusting is to coat them with a
solution ol rubber in benzol, made about
the consistency of cream. It may be
applied with a brush, and is easily rubbed
off when desired.
In one of the Comstock mines a new
water wheel is to be placed which is to
run 1150 revolutions a minute, and have
a speed at its periphery of 10,805 feel
per minute. A greater head of water
than has ever before been applied to a
wheel will be used.
Interesting experiments on the sense
of taste in ants have been made by H.
Devaux. Among other results he has
found that Lasius flavs, while fond of
sugar, dislikes saccharine. The ants
swarmed around sugar laid out for them,
but turned away from saccharine as soon
as tbey had tasted it. Even sugar be
came unpleasant to them when it was
mixed with saccharine. It seems, there
fore, that sweetness is not the only
quality which attracts them to sugar.
It is very probable that, for health's
sake, there will, after a time, be uni
versal cremation ot the dead n cities.
Burying in the earth is said to be very
inimical to the health of cities. Then
there will be no ground to spare lor
burial purposes in couise of time. It is
probable that the dead will bo quickly
and effectually reduced to ashes by means
of electricity. The remains cf a human
body that has been cremated weigh only
eight ounces no matter how fleshy and
heavy the corpse may have been.
A Kind-Hearted Giant'i Embargo.
A number of anecdotes have been told
of late of the famous old Keunebeo lum
berman, Bodthb, whoso stentorian voice
resembled reverberating thunder and
could bo heard distinctly "from Ken
dall's Mills bridge to Ticonio Falls," a
distance of two miles. An old-timer says
BodGsh, who lived at Kendalls Mills,
though a rough man in his ways, bad a
kind heart and gave aid to many poor
people be thought deserving. Once a
river driver was drowned at Kendall
Mills and Bodtish having subscribed t
handsome sum himself to aid his family,
mounted a barrel beside the street, from
which he harangued the people In aid
of the sufforers. He laid down the rule
that no man should pass that day until
he had contributed, and in that way held
up travelers all day long, securing a con
siderable amount by nightfall, when the
odd embargo was raised. Lewis ton
(Me.) Journal.
Test For the Purity of Milk.
Whether it is worth while to know
exactly the degree to which oue's milk
seller is watering his milk is an open
question which each must decide for
himself. For those who do not consider
that ignorance is always bliss a simple
way of setting at rest any doubt ts to
the purity of the milkman's stock in
trade is provided in a new galactorneter.
The instruments ordinarily used for this
purpose consist of a gloss tube with a
graduated scale of paper inside, and
their record is not as a rule reliable. The
new instrument is said to be much more
accurate, and shows at a glance whether
the milk is pure or adulterated. The
iustruineut is a glass tube open at both
ends, atong which a little ball of blue
gloss acts as iudicator. The density of
this ball is 1029, and it is so adjusted
that it can float oily on pur milk, .
Chicago News Record,
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Million ot Copies Going Oat Into All
Part ot the World In Almost
Kvery Known Tongue.
INCE 1804 the Bible societies
tlw alone, here and abroad, hsve
)J distributed over 230,000,000
copies of the book.
The American Bible Society, which is
text to the largest distributor of Bibles
n the world, during the seventy -six years
f its existence has issued over 55,000,
)00 copies of all or a portion of the Bi
)le. The exsct number is 55,531,903
The headquarters of the society and its
aresses are in the Bible House, in this
jity.
Last year this society printed 450,900
Bibles, 370,705 Testaments, 141,400
portions of the Bible, and 682 Bibles for
ihe blind, making a total of 713,687 vol
imes. Of these volumes 72,623 copies
fore sent to foreign lands. There were
jrinted abroad for the society 18,923
Bibles, 38,190 Testaments and 249,919
portions of the Bible. The foreign
presses of the American Bible Society are
tt Beirut, Constantinople, Bangkok,
Bremen, Shanghai, Foo-chow and Yoko
hama. The work of the foreign presses of the
society at the different places was as fol
lows. At Beirut, 6000 Bibles, 5000 Testa
ments, and 22,000 portions in Arabic.
At Constantinople, 5000 Bibles in
Bulgarian, 5000 portions in Koordish,
4000 Testaments in ancient Armenian,
5000 Testaments and 3000 portions in
modern Armenian, 6000 Testaments and
2500 portions in Turkish.
At Bangkok, 39,509 portions in
Siamese, and 2000 copies of the Gospel
of Matthew in the Laos lauguage.
At Bremen, 5000 Bibles and 10,500
Testaments in German.
At the China agency 189,398 volumes,
partly in Shanghai and partly at Foo
Chow, including 1400 Mandarin Bibles,
5790 Testaments, and 156,000 portions
in Mandarin, 21,960 portions in Soo
Chow colloquial, acd 1343 Bibles and
2900 Testaments in Foo-ChoW col
loquial. Enoch L. Fancher is President ot the
American Bible Society. There are
auxiliary societies in almost every State
and Territory in the Union. The society
is unseetarian and sells all its publica
tions at cost. It receives from sub
script one and spends annually about
1500,000 in printing the Scriptures, and
through colporteurs and in every way in
its power it energetically circulates the
Bible all over the earth.
The British and Foreign Bible Society
since 1804 has printed and distributed
127,855,581 volumes of the Scriptures;
the National Bible Society, ot Scotland,
has distributed 12,710,390 copies; the
Hibernian Bible Society, 4,968,450
copies; the Prussian Bible Society,
6,059,801 copies, and a hundred other
Bible societies have for generations been
swelling the total annual output.
The American Bible Society has
printed the Bible in the following
tongues:
English,
Welsh,
French,
French Basque (Pyr
enees), Spanish,
Catalau (Eastern
Spain),
Portuguese,
Norwegian (In Ger
man type),
Swedish (in German
type),
Finnish (in German
type),
Dutch,
German,
Polish,
Hungarian,
Bohemian (in Roman
Syriao (ancient),
ISynao (modern),
Arabic, (Mesopota
mia), Ejon (Marshall Isl
ands), Kualeii (3 1 r ong's
Islandi,
Gillwrt Islands.
I'onape (Ascension
Island),
Mortiock,
Hawaiian,
Zulu,
Uenga (West Afrlns),
(ire bo (West Africa),
Mpongwe (W est
Africa).
Dikele (West Africa),
Mohawk,
Choctaw,
Cherokee,
Beueca,
Dakota,
Ojibway,
Muskokee,
Delawarr,
Net ferces.
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Italian,
Bulgarian,
Estbonian (Russia),
Eathonian (Dorpsat),
Armenian (ancient),
Armenian (modern),
Mayan (Yucatan),
Arabic,
The British and Foreign Bible Society
has printed the Bible in 200 languages
and dialects other than those mentioued
in the above list, including two dozen
native African dialects, and including
every Nation ia Europe, Asia, Africa
and Australasia.
Here is the first verse of the first
chapter of the Lamentations ot Jereiuiati
from the English Bible:
How doth th. city sit solitary that was
full of people! How ia she become a widow 1
Hue that was great among the Mations and
Prineeas among tile provinces, how is ah
become tributary I
Translated phonetically into the lan
guage of the Gilbert Islands and set up iu
Roman type, the above verse reads as
follows:
K a tekateka kana te kawa ni katuaroa, ae
on Irouia aomata I
a riki kana n ain. a. mate buna I
New kakanato i butkoia botanaoiuata, ae
te toka 1 buakonaba aika burawinti.
E a rikl kaua n t. tia auanabai uakon te
neal
The verse in the Gilbert Island tongue
is printed after the mauner of poetry.
The old Kiug James veision of tlo
Scriptures treated the Lamentations as
prose. The Gilbert Island word for
Jeremiah is Ieremia, aud the word for
Lamentations is Balbaeti. The Book of
the Prophet Eaekiel becomes, iu that
language, Ana Bokl te liurabeli Eteki
era. lehovab is the way they pronounce
Jehovah iu the Gilbert Islands.
For the missions in the Pacitio Oceau
which are under the core of the Ameri
can Board of the Coogregational Church,
the American Bible Society has now in
th press an edition of the Books of
Genise aud Exodus of tho Old Testa
ment in the Ruk language spelled pho
netically in English. The edition will
number 2000 copies. New Yark
Times.
Mrs. Adlai Stevenson is a petite,
fragile appearing woman of cultured
mind. Shi is the daughter of a college
President, and was reared in a literary
atmosphere. .
LAUOH AND a ROW FAT,
Aye, langh and grow fatl
Full often a chat
Proves more potent than potions,
Laughter acts on th. heart.
Gives the blood a fresh start
And a vigorous motion.
Yea, langh and grow fatl
Care," you know, killed the eatf
It will yon if yoa let it;
There's no surer relief
For many a grief
Than to laugh and forget It.
Yes, laugh and grow fatl
Though some sceptic hereat
May scoff, wholesome laughter
Doth body and soul, j
Mind and morals, control;
They are all better after.
Then langh and grow fatl
Don't be prim and "a' that;"
Why should features be lengthened
Just smile till you've heard,
And I pledge you my word
You'll be gladdened and strengthened
Yonkers Statesman.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Dust-proof A bank-book.
In at the death The heirs.
dog star The prize setter.
Tough characters Hieroglyphics.
Puck.
The crinoline is coming with a hoop
and a hurrah. Washington Star.
"No, Maud, dear, Joan of Arc was
not Noah's wife." Philadelphia Record.
The greatest part of a self-willed man's
estate usually goes to the lawyers. Troy
Press.
The newspaper man is the great
writer ot the people's wrongs. Galves
ton News.
The pen enables a young man to give
his girl an iukling of bis sentiments.
Texas Sittings.
There is some bope that the fashion
magnates will stave off the hoop-skirts.
Lowell Courier.
To one traveling through the country
milestones are pretty good signs of pro
gress. Troy Press.
When you see a boy unable to behave
himself you should lend a helping hand.
Clevelaud Plain Dealer.
Every dog has his day, but the night
belong to the cats and the clubmen.
Kate Field Washington.
"Gee, that was a cold snap," as the
bulldog remarked after biting tho Bos
ton girl. Philadelphia Record.
An Ohio physician proposes to abato
kissing, but the average young man pro
poses with a view to keeping it up.
"It is pretty bard to be shoved to the
wall this way," plaintively remarked the
bill to the bill poster. Washington
Star.
The mother who starts to get a sleepy
boy out of bed these mornings may be
said to have a rousing time of it. Phila
delphia Times.
Citticus "I wonder how it is that so
few women stutter when they talk?"
Witticus "They haven't got time."
Brooklyn Life.
Mrs. Now Lee Wed "You are a fail
ure, John. You've never had auy luck."
Mr. New Lee Wed "Yes, once; I was
born single." Brooklyn Life.
"You needn't assume that I am holier
than thou air," growled the Rochefort
to the Schweitzer; "evorybody know
you are not up to my tone." Puck.
"Why did Columbus forgive tho mu
tineers?" askod the toacher. " 'Cause
they was half seas over when tbey
kicked," said Johnnie. Broklyn Life.
"I'm a 'Joaah,' " said ths urchin,
W ith a most expressive wail ;
"A ud 1 ate by fader's manner,
I'm about to meet a whale."
Washington Star.
"1 think," murmured the handcuffed
convict, "that I muit be a poor finan
cier, for I have more bonds on haud
than I cau manage." Baltimore Amer
ican. The two most exciting periods in
woman's life are when she is listening to
hor first proposal anl bidding on a bas
ket of brokeu crockery at an auction.
Sittings.
"Were you in perfect health when you
were struck by the street car?" asked
the lawyer. "No, sir," said tbo plain
tiff, "I was a good deal run down."
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Mrs. Goodkind "Thero's only one
trouble about poor Mr. Careless. He'
generous to a fault 1" Mr. Gruff
"Humph 1 It's a pity that he isn't gen
erous to bis family." Black and White.
Iu'97' M s ress (to her maid of all
work) "Miss Mulloney, the fire is get
ting low; will you be kind enough to go
to my room and bring me three piece
of coal from my jowel case." Elmir
Gazette.
Making the Best of It" "Good morn
ing, Uncle Charles. Did you sleep well!
I'm afraid your bed was rather hard aud
uneven; but " "Oh.it was all right,
thanks. I got up now aud then during
the night aud rested u bit, you kuow."
Puuch.
"Could you give me something to cat,
ma'amf humbly asked the tramp in the
suburb ot Bostou of the stem viaaged
woman who opened the kitchen door.
"Yes," said tbo ttero visaged woman,
as she energetically closed the door in
his face aud locked it with a jerk. "I
could." Soniurville Journal..
One of the richest specimeus of a neat
Irish bull was perpetrated by the clever
sud witty but blunderiug Irish kuight,
Sir Richard Steele, when invitiug an
English nobleiuur. to visit huu. "If,
sir," said he, "you ever couio within a
mile of my house, I hope you will stop
there." lusuiauco Ecououiist.
Aborigiual America, in the person of
a Sioux squaw, is to show its ideas on
dress at the World's Fair. She live
near San Diego, Cal., aud has been at
work for taro years uiakiug this gown of
deerskins euibroidured with aixteea
pouiid ot bca ls.