iERMONS OF THE DAY
:ELICIOUS TOPICS DISCUSSED BY
PROMINENT AMERICAN MINISTERS.
he Sixth of the New York neruld's Com
petition Sermons Is oil "The Power of
UentlenesK"—Kev. Dr. Tulinaee Dis
courses on Christ as a Village Lad^
TEXT: "Thy gentleness hath made me
reat."—Psalms, xviii., 35.
There is little in tho popular Idea of gen
leness to mane it desirable for God or man.
Ve think of it as lacking in vigor and a
ong way removed from greatness. So sug
restive is it of weakness and softness that
?e want very little to do with it.
Our ideas of gentleness need rectifying.
Ve speak often of a gentle horse. What
to we mean by it? That horse is gentle
hat is nervy and full of mettle, able to pass
inytbing on the road, and yet so easily
übdued that the voice of a little child
rould bring him to a standstill at once,
'hat man is gentle who has the strength of
Hercules and the tenderness of a woman,
lentleness is power withholding itself and
pending itself in goodness.
A good illustration of gentloness was
hat on a Spanish battle field. A gallant
•"rencli soldier's swo rd was uplifted to
trike his foe to the earth, but he saw as the
word was about to d escend that his an
agonist had but one farm. Instantly he
tiiyed his sword, brought it to a salute
>nd rode on.
Gentleness in a woman is love's mighty
nagnet, and will attract its own from the
■nds of the earth. A woman without it is
. monstrosity, a warrior with it is greater
ar than he who shows his power by burn
ng villages, destroying crops, executing
irisoncrs. The great general at Appomnt
ox, considering the interests of the men
n gray, treating them as his countrymen,
ilencing the salute already under way to
■elebrate victory lest they should be fur
her humiliated, and sending tho defeated
>nes home well fed and equipped for labor
in tho farms, declaring himself a gentle
nan as well as a great soldier, and did
nore in that hour to make his country
jreatthan other great men have done in a
ifetime. Grant could have crushed the
iouth in that hour; instead, he caressod it
s a mother her weak and wayward child,
nd melted it to tears.
We speak often of the power of God, but
t is the gentleness of God that works the
reatest wonders. It is this that makes
ion great. See tho gentleness of God at
he beginning. It is not the strong arm,
•ut the tender heart, that concerns itself
?itli fallen man. It is not a king's voice
hat we hear in Eden, but a father's,
'athetic cry that, "Adam, Adam, where art
hou?" When God came down in human
esh to save a world He came in tho
.ime spirit. A still and quiet night it was
hen tho Saviour was born. The stars
loked down peacefully upon the shepherds
5 they watched their sheep. The world
as wrapt in slumber. It was into this
illness and quiet that God's angels camo
ud God's glory shone around. Gentle
ords those were the angel spoke—"Be not
'raid." So sweet and gentle was the music
112 the angelic licst that no one save the
lepherds heard it.
Tho spirit of the Gospel is the same. It
summed up in the words: "A bruised
•ed will He not break; the smoking llax He
ill not quench." It is by gentleness that
od seeks to win tho world to righteous
?ss and truth."The Lord God is a sun."
)oner or later cold and icy hearts must
ve way before Him. We need more gon
eness "before the earth can become like
•aven-gentleness on the part of parents,
au can shout at your children nnd bring
.em into trembling submission; you can
rash them into obedience: you can starve
IOUI into submission. The strong can
ring the weak to terms for a while by any
112 the methods. But if you want to show
)ur child the sweet reasonableness of
rnr position and to make him docile, obe
ont, trustful, sit down and talk gently
ith him and seek to make his heart your
vn.
We need more gentleness on tho part of
•eachers. "The servant of the Lord must
>t strive, but be gentle toward all men."
le Great Treacher was so gentle that Sl
on the Pharisee asked him to dine with
in; the poor harlot lingered neir His feet
ressingiy; Zaccheus and Matthew, the
iblicans, l.ecamo His loyal disciples, and
en a thief, in the agony of crucifixion,
ied, "Lord, remember me." The world
eds nothing moro than it needs gentle
ss and love. Human hearts are hungry
r the music of gentle voices and the touch
tenderness. Why should we not all try
show that we are the sons and daughters
the gentle God?
Sough, rude boys have been made great
time and eternity by the sweetness and
Rtleness of mothers nnd sisters. Dull,
Iful, petulent scholars have been made
oughtful and earnest by the tender pa
nt love of self-denying tenchers. Souls
mil, mean, selfish, sinful, nave been
ide great by the gentle, faithful labors
those not willing that any should perish,
The night of life is coming on apace. It
!1 be sweet to have the gates swing in
rd at our approach to the city eternal,
d to be welcomed by some watching for
r home coming, nnd to hear from joyful
s such words as these: "Thy gentleness
th made me great."
ItlCHABI) G. WoOPBBIDGE,
stor Central Congregational Church,
Middleboro, Mass.
CHRIST AS A VILLACE LAD.
. Tulmuge Discourses on tile Boyhood
of Jesus.
TI:XT: "And the child grew nnd waxed
ong in spirit, filled with wisdom, and
• face of God was upon Him."—Luko xi.,
Concerning what bounded the boyhood
Christ, the preacher said, we have whole
raries of books and whole galleries of
ivas and sculpture, but pen and pencil
1 chisel have, with few exceptions,
<sed by Christ, tho village lad. "Yet, bv
■ee eonjointed evidences," he said, "I
nk we can come to as accurate an idea
what Christ was as a boy as of what
rist was as a man.
First, we hnvo the Bible account of His
.'hood. Then we have the prolonged nc
int of what Christ was at thirty years of
;. We have besides an uninspired book
t was for tho first three or four centuries
or Christ s appearance received by many
inspired, and which gives a prolonged
ount of Christ's boyhood.
The so-called apocryphal Gospel, in
i'-h the boyhood .*f Christ is dwelt upon,
o not believe to be divinely inspired, and
it may present facts worthy of consid
tion. Becauso it represents the boy
-Ist as performing miracles, some have
■rtbrown that whole apocryphal book.
: what right have you to say that Christ
not perform miracles at ten years of
!. as well as at thirty ? He was in bov
)d as certainly as divine as In manhood,
jn while a lad lie must have bad tho
ver to work miracles, whether He did
lot work them. When, having reached
nliood, Christ turned water into wine,
t was said to be the beginning of mir-
J s. But that may mean that it was the
inning of that series of manhood mir
es.
In a word, I think that the New Testa
ot is only a small transcript of what
us said and did. So we are at liberty to
ove or reject those parts of the apocry
.l Gospel which say that when the boy
•Ist with His mother passed a bp.ud of
ives, Ho told His mother that two of
m, Dumaehus and Titus by name would
the two thieves who afterward would
•ire on crosses besides Him. \yn g that
re wonderful than some of Christ's man-
K1 prophecies? Or the inspired story
t the boy Christ made a fountain spring
pi the roots of a sycamore tree so that
mother washed His ooat in the stream
—was that more unbelievable than the
hood miracle that changed common water
into a marriage beverage? Or the unln
spired story that two sick ohildren were r<*
covered by bathing in the water where
Christ had washed. Was that more won
derful than the manhood miracle by which
the woman, twelve years a complete in
valid, should have been made straight by
touching the fringe of Christ's coat? Is
that more wonderful thnn the manhood
miracles by which Christ reanimated the
dead ngain and again without going where
they were or even seeing thera?
"From the naturalness, the simplicity,
the freshness of His parables and similes
and metaphors in manhood discourse I
know that He had been a boy of the fields
and had bathed in the streams and heard
the nightingale's call, and broken through
the flowery hedge and looked out of the
embrasures of the fortress, and drank
from the wells and chased the butterflies."
Dr. Talmage referred to Christ in the
mechanic's shop, having been taught the
carpenter's trade by His father, Joseph,
"His hammer pounding, His saw vacil
lating, His axe descending and the per
spiration from His work standing on His
brow."
Then said the preacher: "I show you a
more marvelous scene—Christ, thesmooth
browed lad, among the long-bearded,
white-haired, hlgh-forehoaded ecclesias
tics of the Temple."
Following other events recorded in the
apocrypha, the preacher asked if they
were more wonderful than events recorded
in the New Testament.
"If Christ were divine was He not able
at ten or twelve years to describe tha
human system as well as though He had
been fifty years standing at an operating
tablo or in a dissecting room? In othet
words, while I do not believe that any pari
ofi'the so-called apocryphal Now Testament
is inspired, I believe niuch of it Is true, just
as I believe a thousand books, none of
which is divinely inspired."
"A child twelve years old, surrounded by
septuagenarians. He nsking His own ques
tions and answering theirs. Let me intro
duce you to some of these ecclesiastlci.
This Is the great Babbin Simeon! This is
the venerable Hllleli This is the famous
Shammail Theso are the sons of the dis
tinguished Betlrah. The ilrst time in all
their lives these religionists have found
their match, and moro than their match.
Though so youns, Ho know all about that
Temple under whose roof they hold that
most wonderful discussion of all history.
He knew the meaning of every altar, of
every sacrifice, of every golden candle
stick, of every embroidered curtain, of
every crumb of shrew bread, of every drop
of oil in that saered epiflce. He knew all
about God. He knew ull about man. He
knew all about heaven, for He came from
It. Ho knew all about this world, for He
made it. He knew all worlds, for they were
only the sparkling morning dewdrops on
tho lawn in front of His heavenly palace.
'Tut these seven Bible words in a wreath
of emphasis: 'Both hearing them and ask
ing them questions.' I am not so much
interested in the questions they asked Him
as in the questions Ho asked them. He
asked tho question not to get Information
from the doctors, for He knew it already,
but to humble them by showing them the
height and depth and length and breadth
of their own ignorance. The radiant boy
with any one of a hundred questions obout
theology, about philosophy, about astrono
my, about time, about eternity, may have
balked them, disconcerted them. Behold
the boy Christ asking questions, and listen
when your child asks questions. Ho has
the right to ask them. The more ho asks,
the better. Alas for the stupidity of tho
child without inquisitiveness! It is Christ
like to ask questions. Answer them if you
can. Do not say: 'I can't be bothered
now.' It is your place to be bothered with
questions. If you are not able to answer,
surrender and confess your incapacity, as
I have no doubt did Rabbis Simoon, and
Hil'.el, and Shaminai, and the sons of Be
tirah when that splendid boy, sitting or
standing there, with a garment reaching
from neek to ankle, ami girdled at the
waist, put them to their very wits' end.
It is no disgrace to say 'I don't know.'
The only being iu tho universe who never
needs to say 'I don't know' is tho Lord
Almighty.
"Bat while I see the old theologians
standing around the boy Christ, I am im
pressed as never before with the fact that
what theology most wants is more of
childish simplicity. Why should you and
I perplex ourselves about the decrees of
God? Mind your own business and God
will take care of His. In tho conduct of
the universe I think He will somehow man
ago to get along without us. If you want
to love and serve God, and be good and
useful and get to heaven, I warrant that
nothing which occurred eight hundred
qulntilllon of years ago will hinder you a
minute. It is not the decrees of God that
do us nny harm; it is our own deerees of sin
and folly.
"You need not go any further bnck in
history than about one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four years. Something
occurred on that day under an eclipsod
sun that sets us all forever free, if with our
whole heart aud life we accept the tre
mendous proffer. Do not let tho Presby
terian Church, or the Methodist Church,
or the Lutheran Church, or tho Bnptist
Church, or any of the other evangelical
churches spend any timo in trying to fix
up old creeds, all of them imperfect, as
everything man does is imperfect. Our
own denomination made Itself absurd by
trying to revise its creed made hundreds
of years ago. You might as well try tore
vise your grandmother's love letters. I
move a new creed for all the evangelical
churches of Christendom, only three arti
cles in the creed, and no need of any
more.
"If I had all the consecrated people of
all denominations of the earth on one great
plain, and I had voice loud enough to put
it to a vote, that creed of three artioles
would bo adopted with a unanimous vote.
This Is the creed I propose for ull Christen
dom:
"Article first—'God so loved tho world
that He gave His only begotten Hon, that
whosoever believoth in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life.'
"Article second—'This is a faithful say
ing, and worthy or all acceptation, thut
Jesus Christ camo into the world to save
sinners, even tho chief.'
"Article third—'Worthy is the Lambthat
was slain to receive blessings and riches
and honor and glory and power, world
without find.'
"But you goto tinkering up your old
creeds, and patching and splicing and
interlining and annexing and subtracting
aud adding and explaining, and you ill!
lose timo and make yourself a target Tor
earth and hell to shoot at. Let us have
creeds not fashioned out of hunianFin
genuities, but out of scriptural phrase
ology, and all tho guns of bom bard irtent
blazing from all the port holes of Jull
delity and perdition will not in a tfiou
sand years knock off the church off God
a splinter as big as a carabrio neodle.
What is most needed now is that we inther
all our theologies around the boy Ju tho
temple, the elaborations nround "tlfe sim
plicities, and the profundities arouid the
clarities, the octogenarian ofscholajfcic re
search around the unwrinkled eflpek of
twelve-year juveneseence. 'Exce» you
become as a little child you can in tip wise
enter the kingdom;' and except you Mcome
us a little child you cannot uuderstiJfrl the
Christian religion. The best thiA that
Rabbis Simeon and Hillel and NlSrninni
and the sons of Betirah over dldflras, in
the temple, to bend over the lad wflo, first
made ruddy of cheek by the the
Judeau hills, and on his way me
chanic s shop, where he was to ba
tho support of his bereaved
stopped long enough to the
venerablo dialecticians of the Okßnt, 'both
hearing them and asking
Home, referring to Christ, claimed:
Eeee deus! Behold the have
exclaimed: Ecee Homo, Bejfl>d the man.
But to-day. In conclusion subject, I
cry: Ecce udolescence! the boy."
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE DRINK EV-lt. MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.
Trust In Goil—Tteer nnil Dyspepsia—A
Medical Expert Shows the Appalling;
Physical and Mental Eflccts of lieer
l>rinkiiiK—Supreme Duty of the Hour.
Put thou thy trust In God, Hnd He will lead
Thy faltering footsteps through tempta
tion's maze;
lie will sustain thee in thy time of noed
And guide thoe onto better,brighter days.
Weak from the constant battle with the
world,
Saddened with thoughts of resolution?
vain,
4-gainst thy soul the shafts of sin are hurled,
And in the struggle e'en thy will is slain.
But God is ever-watchful, and He knows
The longing of thy tired heart for strength,
His grace can reach thoo through surround
ing foes.
And bring thee safely through them all,
at length.
So put thy trust in God: His loving care
Will be around thee likeanarmor strong,
His presence will be with thee everywhere,
And thou shalt walk unscathed of any
wrong.
—Sacred Heart Heview.
lleer and Dyspepsia.
Dr. Norman Kerr snys that malt liquors
are one of the main sources of the indi
gestion so common in our midst. The
continued irritation of the delicate lining
membrane of the stomach by the alcohol in
even the mildest beers persisted in for a
lengthened period, is extremely apt to give
rise to a train of dyspeptic symptoms,
which tends to make many an othewise
happy life miserable. A lifetime of total
abstinence would, I am persuaded, havo
wardod off two-thirds of the dyspepsia 1
havo been calledupon to confront.
The liver suffers severely in many cases
in which beer has never been taken to ex
cess. I have frequently observed consid
erable enlargement of the liver in persons
noted for their very moderate but constant
drinking, who seemed the picture of henlth
while alive, but whose sudden and unex
pected death necessitated a post mortem
inquiry.
In nursing, stouts and beers are especi
ally pernicious. Their use has wrought
untold mischief to many mothers, and un
dermined the tender constitution of a vast
multitude of helpless and Innocent infants.
I have said nothing whatever of the
damage resulting from beer-drinking to
excess, or of the appalling extent of men
tal and normal evil inseparable from the
general social use of beer. My warnings
are on purely scientific and dietlc grounds,
against steady, limited indulgence In such
liquors as are weakening to the system,
and invite gout, rheumatism, dyspepsia and
other unhealthy bodily conditions."
There is no call for us to drink beer, how
ever moderately. We can enjoy better
health without * Intoxicating drinks than
with them. Our Creator neither implanted
a longing for them, nor provided a supply,
of them for our use. They are not, in the
true sense of the word, a food. 13uty
though they can do us little, if any, good,
they may do us much harm. Many nre
killed by them, both for time and for
eternity, nnd even their continued moder
ate use tends in the direction of loss ol
health, lessening of strength and shorten
ing of life.
Let us all, who desire to avoid gout,
rheumatism and dyspepsia, shun ale, beer,
porter. Btout and all other kinds of fer
mented and distilled liquors.
The Supreme Duty of the Hour.
Our readers must have observed how
continuously in our editorials we have
urged upon temperance workers the im
portance of assailing the fortress of
moderate drinking and overthrowing that
stronghold as being the key to the situa
tion. We nre glad to seo tlint Miss Wlllard,
in her address as rresidont at the National
W. 0. T. U. Convention, at Buffalo, called
attention to this strategic point in the battle
against alcohol. She said:
"The supreme dutv of the hour is to con
vince the moderate drinker that ho is doing
himself linrin. If only this belief was gen
eral, men would soon become a law unto
themselves to such a degree that statutory
enactments would be but the outward ex
pression of an inward grace. Upon the
sullen fortress of moderate drinking the
artillery of temperance reform must con
centrate in future years. It has been an
incalculable gain to make drunkenness a
disgrace instead of an amiable peculiarity,'
as It was 100 years ago; or a pardonable;
peeeadlllo, as it was in the memory of tbei
oldest inhabitant; or a necessary evil as it
was n generation back. The forces that
have workeA to this end aro precisely the
same that must now be directed against
so-culled 'moderation.' We must stoutly
maintain the position that there Is no
moderation In the use of what is harmful.
Happily, in taking this position wo have
'great allies' of which the greatest Is the
dictum of the modern sciences."
Greatest Cause of Poverty.
Trade unions, technical schools and
benevolent societies have done much to
elevate the condition of the laboring popu
lation in England, but it is still much
lower than In the United States, and In
many places descends to degradation.
John Burns, the English labor reformer,
was asked what was the greatest cause of
poverty In his country.
•'Drink," was his laconic reply.
"What is the greatest obstacle to the ad
vancement of the working classes?"
"Drink," lie said again. ,
"What is the reason that the working
classes of Great Britain are less intelligent,:
less tidy and less ambitious than those of!
the United States?"
"Drink,"' lie again ejaculated.
' "What is the greatest incentive to crime
nnd vice among the working people?"
"Drink."
"Is there any hope for the elevation of
the working cinsses of your country to
the same standard as those in the United
States?" was asked.
"Not as long as there is a public liouso
at every cross-road In Great Britain," he
replied.
Doctors oil Drink.
The twenty-seventh annual meoting of
the American Association for the Study
and Cure of Inebriety was held in Boston,
under the Presidency of Dr. Lewis D.-
Mnsou.
Among the papers rend was one by Dr.
T. D. Crothers, of Hartford, Conn., on
"Thelnsanity of Inebriety." Hesaid there
were neurotic scorms which impelled men
to drink at certain defluite periods which
returned with the same regularity as the
tides. These were veritable insanities. A 1
large number of men thus affected were
sulTering from paresis, also from moral
paralysis—a condition of things in which'
the person was unable to determiue his
proper relations to people in general. TU<f
continued use of alcohol destroyed tnel
moral idea, and made the person untruth
ful, dishonest, intriguing and unreliable.
An Inflexible ltule.
There is a ilrm of glass manufacturers in
Philadelphia which was established in the
early part of the century, whose founders,
strict and consistent members of the So
ciety of Friends, not believing In the manu
facture or sale of intoxicating liquors, es
tablished a rule which has never been vio
lated. These manufacturers have never
made a whisky flask, nor any sort or de
scription of bottlo intended to contain
either malt, vinous or spirituous liquors.
Temperance News and Notes.
The mau who drinks champagne at night
generally feels real pain In tne morning.
HELPS FOR HOUSEWIVES.
To Cook Marrow Bones.
Saw the bones in even lengths, covei
each end with a flour and water paste,
and steam for twenty inmites to hall
an hour. Serve upright with the
paste at one end removed, and send a
rack of dry toast to table with the
bones.
To Make* Meringues.
Beat up six whites of eggs to a very
stiff froth, adding a pinch of salt be
fore commencing to whisk, add slow
ly half a pound of very fine caster su
gar, two ounces of peeled and coarse
ly-chopped or shredded Jordan al
monds and about half an ounce of
crystallized orange-flowers. Shape
the meringues on buttered baking
tins, or put the mixture, equally di
vided, into square or oval paper cases
and bake in a very slow oven for an
hour. Dredge with sugar in either
case.
Chestnut Pudding.
Boil some chestnuts for about a
quarter of an hour in plenty of water,
blanch and peel them; pound in a
mortar with any desirable essence
(very little of it) and some light
French white wine; put into a small
preserving pan, cover them with the
wine, beat tlie yolks of three eggs and
the whites of two, some grated nut
meg, a pinch of salt and a little melt
ed butter; add gradually one pint of
milk (three-quarters of a pint of cream
is preferable), sweeten to taste; stir it
over the lire in a china saucepan till
thick; put the mixture in pie-dish,
lined with puff or other thin paste,
and bake iu fairly hot oven.
Ideal ('auliflowpr.
The tempting green and white of the
cauliflower that dainty vegetable
which Mark Twain declares is "cab
bage with college education" —is still
prominent in the markets, and a fa
vorite with nearly every one, be sure
that the bead is firm and white and
the leaves fresh and green. Dark
spots indicate one too long exposed.
Pick off the coarser outside leaves,
and soak top downward in cold salted
water for an hour, to bring out any
tiny insect or worm that may lurk
within. Tie in a piece of cheese
cloth or coarse net to prevent break
ing, and cook iu boiling salted water
(uncovered) fifteen or twenty minutes,
until tender. Use no more water in
the cooking* than is absolutely neces
sary, as cauliflower, like cabbage,
loses much of its food value by the
action of the water, drain, serve with
a cream sauce, or, to give it addition
al nutrient value, add to the cream
sauce three tablespoonfuls grated
cheese, pour over the cauliflower,
sprinkle three tablespoonfuls more
over the top, then a light layer of
bread crumbs. Set iu a hot oven for
, about twenty minutes, or until a rich
golden brown—Washington Star.
Household Hints.
Mis stove blacking with vinegar;
this will make it stick better and also
give a better polish.
After washing lamp chimneys rub
them with dry salt, which will give a
brilliant polish to tlie glass.
A few thin slices of sour apples add
ed to a salad of watercress, dressed
with a French dressing, will be found
an improvement.
To cool a hot dish quickly, set it in
cold water and salt; this will cool it
far more rapidly than if it were stood
in cold water only.
An excellent liniment for sprains,
bruises, pains, etc., requires iu its
composition two ounces each of chlo
roform, alcohol, ammonia water,
spirits of camphor and tincture of
aconite root, and six ounces of sweet
spirits of nitre. Mix and apply with
friction.
Eggs may be kept for winter use by
packing them in clean, sweet oats,
covering each row of eggs with the
oats. Nail np the box, and turn it
over occasionally. The oats must be
dry, and the box kept in a dry place,
for if the oats mildew or get mustj
the eggs will become musty also.
An excellent cleansing wash for car
pets, quite as efficacious as that sold
at 50 cents a gallon, is made as fol
lows; Put thirty cents' worth o)
ground soap-bark, five cents' worth of
ammonia water and a cup of vinegai
into one and a half pails of water.
Boil half an hour and apply with o
sponge.
Pretty mending bags for silk stock
ings are made iu the half-moon shape
familiar in cretonne as the general
darning bag. A soft silk of auall-ovei
pattern is selected, and the usual nee
dlecase added in the centre of the
semi-circle; the whole bag is made
upon a slightly reduced plan from that
generally used.
The don'ts for laundering white
silk handkerchiefs are: Don't iron
while wet with a very hot iron, or the
silk will shrivel and spoil; don't fail
to rinse the soap thoroughly out of
them, or they will be coarse and hard;
don't rub the soap directly upon
them, or wash them in hot water, or
they will become yellow to a certainty.
These are the directions,by negatives,
to wash them well.
Gold "Dust."
The gold that remains in the pan
after the earth has been washed away
is called "dust." Some of it is fine
as the finest sand, some the size of a
pin head and some as large as a pea
or the end of your little finger, but it
is all known as dust. Lumps the size
of a hazelnut, a walnut, and larger
are called nuggets. You can buy as
much of anything you want for an
ounce of dust as you can for v S2O
gold piece. All stores in mining dis
tricts are provided with gold scales,
and the miner's gold is accepted as so ,
much coin of the realm.—Denver
Times.
A Huge Pjtlion.
A python twenty feet in length, that
Hied in the reptile house of the Lon- 1
lon Zoological Society last month, |
w*s the largest reptile ever confined •
there. There is a general impression •
that pythons reach a length of forty
leet or more, an absurdity made mani
iest when the authorities assert that
the femnle Indian python still in the
gardens, and but a trifle o w eighteen
feet long, is the longest snake in cap
tivity of which there is any record.
General impressions as to the length
of these great reptiles are due to the
absurd pictures that formerly decorat
ed geographies and other works msed
sometimes as text books, showing a
picture of a python in the act of crush
ing and swallowing an Indian buffalo.
That was a ridiculous picture that
was the father of many [of the "freak
journalism" pictures of the present
day. The London python, which was
a real instead of a fabulous reptile,
was just over twenty feet in length.
It was obtained in Malacca, and was
presented to the society by Dr. Hamp
shire on August 29, 1870, and had,
therefore, lived rather more than
twenty years in England. During
that period it had been fed principally
with ducks, of which it sometimes
swallowed four or five at one meal.
Its food was offered to it once a week,
but it sometimes refused to eat for a
month together. The specimen will
be mounted for the Tring Museum.
Some Tricks of Heredity.
Dr. Conklin gave many peculiar in
stances of family characteristics run
ning through many generations. In
one family it was noticed that three
extremely long hairs appeared on the
eyebrows of the children generation
after generation, and in another family
a small mark on the ear was reproduced
for three generations by actual knowl
edge. Twins and triplets usually ap
peared time and again in the same
family, and while the marked heredi
tary characteristics might be latent in
one generation, they would appear in
the next. He said that in Italy many
hundred years ago a son was born
who had six fingers and the number of
his descendants who were similarly
affected was countless. The facial ex
pression, the color of the eyes, the
hair, the carriage, and many little
oddities appeared and reappeared. In
his own family he noticed a peculiar
manner of crawling on the floor in
childhood was repeated in descend
ants and could not be corrected.—
Pittsburg Times.
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