: - CS , r U4 ,( rcsolii it th.-n . M, SC,. - 'dolllll 1 ' t onlr th..n , yryr if'"wPoL 'K, - 'Sal i i tcrri: llli'fl . I Ink . in a" rk t. w un.;. tln f 'Vayjohn Halton (Brought 'now and Ice in Mid- summer Weather. KILl FLEMING. EAR old John Halton was An Australian .squatter with a problem to s o 1 r e. Its solution wor riod him ex ceedingly for mini; weeks, but, being fortunately 'lliin m tk milliouoire in the pound r ii g aeuae of the word, solve it he J""'itely did to the satisfaction of ,j?ren-year-old daughter, Alice, at (led(; And she, after all, was the I pob'.P' Party " ue considered, l,l,,n' bay beard how, as the uioun nHl. jfused to come to Mohammed, 9. i td humbug, pretending to have nsoDi.ed a sudden inspiration, mounted He cred camel niul went to the li-in. I'roin Halton did better than Mo "lred; he bronght England to "t and compelled Santa Claus raut'i "oe a tne simmering anti , He surrounded her for the , k(; iy of December 25, 1877, with dm(toe and holly and ivy; he d her a flurry of genuine snow; r N-nbled her to slide on the ice, and ilt, i,- iilioir Mn,' tlr. IT C Is 1.1 In ! friirt 1'iiti: 'nit : e to do all manner of Christmas just as she had done in her tlfj Devonshire the preceding , tmas of 1876. When it was re )..Aiered that Christmas in Ballarat , luie of the midsummer days, and nwtvthe mercury in the thermometer . I)" at 100 in the shade, it will be '""Utted that the achievement is "'""jrorthy at all events of a brief b0"',b. wai a beautiful, motherless 8iJ with blue eyes and golden hair, wili e descendant of the Celtic Cymri, ,( i,; her father fairly adored her. lay, it was in October, the mail -- England brought a number of ed prints to Craig-Devon, and Ti igst them a picture of Santa Claus okalbaah. )t..)h papl" cried Alice, "I'm . so Flii Chrisojas is coining. Grandpa tb.ue I should see Santa Claus and etoeindeer'wben I was old enough ultimo be scared, and I'm old enough s) Ain't I, papa?" 1 w'neoforth Alice talked of little bu ll'" ptroas and Santa Claus, not thinkt . . ind not kiiowinir timf ti,a 10 1 ii i 7 """" Jurat December 25 would melt - )oor old soul and his reindeer in Qfye grease spots in half a day. Where is the use iu possessing i "'"to lMll.V.t lie 4ANTA CLASS BBNI OVER ALICE. Illli ri'i'SonB," John Halton asked himself Mdny, after suoh a short Christmas '"'pgne, "if they do not enable a w to introduce a small taste of ier luto Ballarat when a fellow'B t wunts it?" ia same evening John Halton ed I rofessor MnOnllnnli n,. mii f Cu,Ie8. to send him a cargo of uiif fc--ouB Hum mo norm oi Hootland, r8,iru!t -j of expense, and to send auepx the Suez canal. He tele Phd at the same time to James H. . " DRki New Zealand, to i' uim mm 0DI of snow from fcut Tongarairi. in lh WiW Dtt,j and the next day he ordered ! waouinery from Hvdner w woutn Wales, necessary for the toufaotitrt of ico according to the l" kieui') prooeas. ,,Ie n ude arrangemouts, in fact, to 11' TUD couswuotea around thi ia whioh, for one day, at t, M U,M wouid reign supreme, i end ia view, he imported f 3LJ t f-mmw u. II Ufa mm?, 0 9 Fall," BI JOHN C. lld'oV, B mm VyJ'' '1 COO laborers and mechanics from vari ons tioints.who were soon busy build ing sheds, excavating cellars, planting trees, creating pools for sliding pur poses, and doing other things to gut the place ready to assume a wintry as pect at the proper time. Meanwhile the atmosphere grew hotter and hotter each day. Alice's stockings were hnng up Christmas eve. She said her prnyers, and was just About to jump into bed when she felt the atmosphere growing palpably cooler. She ran to the win dow, and, sure enough, snowflakes were coming down as, indeed, well they might seeing that four of her father's faithful employes were indus triously shaking them out of ioo boxes from the roof. At midnight a clamor that might awake the dead, aroused Alice from her sleep. She heard loud voices cry ing out: "Hold on there, Slasher) Steady, Crasher I Whoa, Donnerl Gee there, Blitzenl" Running once more to the window, in a state of high excitemont, Alice Holton saw that the ground was white, and, more than that, she saw four reindeer harnessed to a sledge, from which sledge a stout man, furred to the eyes, was iu the act of step pi nir. "It is old Santy," soliloquized Alice, not at all afraid, though her heart beat fast, "and he is coming hero. I'm the only little girl in the house." Being a sensible child, Alice cropt softly back to bed, believing it was the proper thing to reoeive such a dis tinguished visitor either while asleep or pretending to sleep. She heard his footsteps as they came nearer and nearer, and at last the redoubtable ON CHRISTflAS EVE No DOUBT 'TiS BEST AS SOON AS EVER YOU'RE UNDRESSED To HANG YOUR STOCKING UP, AND THEN GO RIGHT TO BED AND SLEER FOR WHEN OLD SANTA COMES HE'LL DO THE REST-j OFCHJRSE.IT'5 PROPER TO SUGGEST, IN LINES POLITE, SOME NICE BEQUEST OR EVEN, SAY, SOME EIGHT OR TEN, ON CHRISTMAS EVE. UND THEN TOU'D BETTER NOT MOLEST i THE STOCKING TILL, FROM EAST TO WEST, iTHE CHRISTMAS MORNING'S GRAND AMEN AWAKES EACH WORLDLY DENIZEN . T0 HOURS OP fREEDOM, JOY AND JESTi 1CO0D MIGHT ! GOOD FORTUNE TO YOUR OUEST ON CHRISTMAS EVE ' Sautu himsolf entered the room . She fancied ho was somowiiat tall for the old geutleman, as she had seen him in pictures, but, tall or short, he was laden down with all manner of good things. On the mnntolpieoe, the table, the chairs, the bed, the benc flcont "Santy" heaped up exactly those urticles Alice thought she re quired. Having disposed of his poods Santa Claus bent over Alice iu her bod and, imprintiug a soft kiss on her brow, murmured "God bless you, darling." Then Alice fell asleep. When she came down next morning everything was as Christmasy, ag she expressed it, as one could desire. The hedges so recently planted were white, tremendous cauvas awnings covered the grounds immediately around the house, frozen rivulets were to be seen here and there, sparrows, chaffinches, linnets and robinc flitted from bush to bush and from oue clump of ever greens to another, and while Alice was admiring those sights, their re sults after breakfast, a coach rolled up to the front gate, which contained two little boys and three little girls. The visitors assisted Alice in con structing her snow man, end though it was, to be anre, a little -queer to be obliged to do it in a shed where a machine ground out coldness by the square yard, and where the sawdust was, somehow or other, mixed with the snow, still they got along famously, and at night Alice told her father with sparkling eyes that sho had never spent a happier day. An AarBbls SurprlM. "Well, did yqur wife surprise you ou Christmas?" "I should say she did. She didn't Eay half as tnnoh for the present T got er as I was afraid she would.", Cleveland Leader, NCTMAS THe Table CHriswaday YE CHRISTMASSE fUDDlNQI By MALCOLM DOUGLAS. Ye Ghxistmasse Juddirxge, omolt- irge hotte, Oh, 'tis a goodlie stohle! Eattc heartilie, ai' ye may ryde A borrie steede to-mohle ye steede bye folUcs yclept lighle- mare, Jhat roams urtil ye ligMe. NDISPUTABLY of all days in the year Christmas Day is the one for home gather ings, consequent ly the whole honse should be made to embody the poetry of dec orative art. The table appoint ments should harinonizo and combine with those of the bouse, nnd the dining-room es pecially be made to appear warm and bright, bright berries, should Holiy, with its be everywhere. A Menu For Chrlitinui. BREAKFAST. Bnked'nprues. Cream of wheat, Bugur and cream. Scrapple. Potatoes hashed iu croain. Topovers. Ooffeo. DINNKll. Little elsms ou linlf-Bliell. Urowa-bread suailwlcues. Amber soup. Celery. IlofiBt goose with aliOHtnut stufllne. Glblet grnvy. Apple snuco. Steamed onluns. Gerrauu fried potutoes. Tomato (whole canned) nlad. Crackers. Cheese. Hultod peanuts. Dura puddinK. Oraoge sauce. Chorry sherbet. Lndy lingers. Nuts. HaUiua. Clack colTee. LATE LUNCHEON. Cold splaed tongue. White and brown bread. Frozen charlotte ruese. Ten. The Dinner Oet holly and mistle toe enough mistletoe to make a big ball to hang from the chandelier, and as much holly as it is possiblo to buy. Instead of wreaths of holly for the cen ter of the table make an X, slightly raised, and scatter sprigs of holly care lessly over the cloth. Put the salted peanuts on the table in fancy little dishes. Servo the clams, four or tlvo to a person, on the half-Rhell, on a bed of pulverized ice, surrounded by shredded lettuce and with a quarter of lemon in the center. The brown bread should be cut very thin, but tered, folded together aud cut into fancy shapes. The apple sauce should bo warm and tart. Cherry Sherbet Select from among your canned fruit a can of oherries that has rather more juice than fruit. Iu canning a quantity of fruit there will always be one or two such cans. Strain aud press all the juice out of the cherries. As fruit is usually sweetened when oanuod one will have to use judgment about adding sugar. Put iu a freezor aud when beginning to freeze stir in the beaten whites of two eggs. Plum Pudding Mix together one half pint each of the following ingredi ents: Sugar, chopped snet, stoned raisins, washed aud dried currants, bread crumbs; one-fourth pint of chopped citron, two tablespooufnls of sweet milk, one-fourth tenspoonful of soda, one-half teapoonful of cream of tartar (baking powder can be substi tuted) and two beaten eggs. Tie loose ly in a bag that has been wrung out of warm water and floured. Steam two hours and a half. This is better made a week before Christmas and re steamed. m VIK i. W WHITE HOUSE TOO SMALL ENLARGEMENT OF THE EXECUTiVE MANSION CONTEMPLATED. TIia Necetilty of ItnproYmnt,-01e Jertlonn to nil Kntlrnly Now Htrno tnre Mkohiri to Iteiuler the Clnnilo Kelio (tare. The news that Congress is to take np seriously the subject of enlarging the White House in Washington comes not a day too soon, says the New York Post. The need of some such relief has long been plain, but no President sinoe Harrison has moved iu the matter. President Cleveland preferred to set np a home at a considerable distanco from his ofllco, so as to be sure of refuge where politicians and curiosity-soekers would havo no excuse for intruding on his privacy. President McKinley, though using the Whito Honse for domostio as well as pnblio purposes, finds it spacious enough for his small family, and has never encouraged proposals to enlarge it for his own comfort. But the question has ceased to be one of mero personal convenience. The great increase of executive busi ness has made necessary a correspond ing increase in the President's cleri cal force, and this, in its turn, means more furniture, more heavy books and files, aud many more persons continually coming and going. The old timbers were evidenly not laid with a view to such a strain, and bends and breaks have occurred from time to time, till certain parts of the interior of the building are relics of ingenious pntchwork. The main stairousu gave way iu President Ar thur's time, and had to be tied into place with chains, which tradition says are still doing duty, hidden in a partition. A beam under one of the doorways through which hundreds of persons sometimes pass in a day oracked several years ago and had to be reinforced witlt metal plutes and bolts. An enterprising mechanic, who attached the cold-air box to the present heating apparatus, finding one of the masonry arches in the cel lar in his way, out through it to save a dellection, thus making it necessary to pnt in a less satisfactory support after his trick had been discovered. It is an open secret in Washington that the floors of the parlors and state corridors always have to be sus tained by rows of temporary wooden piers when the President holds his recoptions, so great have the crowds become. Those are a few of many facts which have come to publio no lice, showing that some form of relief is not only desirublo, but essential to the safety of human life and limb. Congress has had repeated warnings, but has always preferred to spoud the Government's money on other things, and treat the White Honse to a little more patching. If it had una banded the fortunes which it has wasted upon inferior works of art and makeshift repairs, and devoted all this to the enlargement of the Fresi deet's ofllcial home, thooountry would have approved its course as in the liuo of true economy. The thing which undoubtedly has retarded any permanent improvement is the fact that whenever the subject has been agitated some Philistine in authority has begun to make plans for a radical change, iuvolving tho demolition of the present structure and tho substitution of something more "modern." This would bo van- duliHin indeed. The priceless histor ia memories which cluster around the old pile forbid it. The best artistic judgment in the country would revolt at it, for the White House is architec turally a rare specimen of the work dono by an earlier generation, when the republican idea was associated in men's minds with classic art as well as classic politics. It would be inde fensible on economical grounds, be' cause, however much the interior of the house may have suffered from strains which it was not meant to bear, the outside walls and supporting par titions are worthy of a baronial cas tie, and a monument to the conscience as well as the skill of their builders. Iu short, no plan for a change ought to be tolerated which does not have for its central idea not only the pres ervation of the old building, but the maintenance of its artistic integrity. Another consideration which is -an derstood to have influenced Congress to set aside some of the earlier schemes suggested, was a fear lest the ultimate expenditure might far exceed the estimates. But of late years the country has learned that there is one agency to which it can look with con lliletice for the completion of public buildings withiu the appropriations as well as within the time srecined The Washington national monument, after lagging for forty years, was at last taken in hand by the army en giuoers, and finished with creditable speed, yet with no sacrifice of strength or of perfection in detail. The State, War and Navy Department building, badly designed and threateniug to consume a lifetime in construction, was transferred to the engineers in like manner.and with likesucoess, The Library of Congress, the most gor geous publio building in the world, is a specimen of engineer work, the keys of which wore turned over to the custodian bofore the date fixed, and with a small balance of money to restore to the treasury. There need be no more of a "job" in the enlargement of the White House than in these other cases, if the same precautious are taken. Es timates made by Superintendent of Publio Buildings and Grounds, Colo nel Bingham of the Engineer Corps, are said to place the neoessary oost of a thoroughly good pieoe of work at not to exceed oue million, or, allowing for actual and probable changes in the prioes of buildiug materials, $1, 100,000. A reduotion of one per cent, in the next river and harbor bill would furnish the necessary sum. Ha no Deilra to Travel. There is a man in Western Massa chusetts over sixty years old who lives on the line of the Boston and Albany road; he has been in the servioe of that company for over forty years, and oould ride free on its cars when ever he chose to do ao; yet he has never vitited this city. Boston Tran script. J. P. Bryant, the Bardwell (Ky.) millionaire, owae the largest straw berry patoh in the world. It oovers 1700 acres, and ha made hs fortune. KANSAS'S WORST PRAIRIE FIRE. Tboti(titlMlr "t hf mn Artnr Office) Who II Htnca llscnina Fainoon. The greatest prairie fire known i" Kansas was iu the year 1RGD, and il was set by an officer of the Uniter. States Government. This officer i' now in Washington, and, during thf Spanish War, his name was more fre qunntly in the papers than any other. One day iu 18('J be and a party o officers from Fort Hays were return ing from a wild turkey bunt in tin canons of the Saline. The wind wa blowing a hurricane, and when a stof was made on the high prairie somi ten miles north of Hays this ofiloei deliberately touched a match to tin dry, crisp grass in order to moke s speotacle. When the other officers saw what he was abont to do the made a desperate effort to stop him, but the deed had been done and the red flames were reeling aoross the prairie like a frightened antelope. That fire swept from where it had been started clear across Kansas into what is now Oklahoma. The streams and roads offered no obstacles to it whatever. While going south it had also tnrned to the east, and left a trail of ruin across Kioe, Iteno, Kingman, Harper and other counties. Thou sands of settlers were burned out, losing their houses aud their feed, their horses and cattle. If the man who set that fire had been known to the settlers all the troops on the plains would not have boon enough to stay their vengeance. As it was, he suffer oil remorse beyouo ('inscription. When the officers at Hays would bring him papers telling of the datnago done he would groan and etirso himself roundly. Ho Iff I Hays for some other post in the fol lowing year, aud, bo fur as we kuow, his name was never connected with the gigantio prairie fire of ISG'.I, Kau sas City Journal. CURIOUS FACTS. Vienna, Austrio, has a COO-year-old medical school. Not a singlo infectious disease it known iu Greenland. Coiro, Egypt, has a citizon who is said to weigh 570 pounds. One of the Buffalo newspapers runs its entire plant by electricity furnished from Niagara Falls. A Sicilian advocate charged with fraud was recently sentenced to 1811 years' imprisonment. It is assorted that one hundred mil lion peoplo lived aud died in America before Columbus's discovery. A woman died in London tho other day from perforation of the heart, caused by a needle which had entered her car four months ago. Near Grobogana, Java, there is o lake of boiliug mud about two miles iu circumference. Immense columns ot steaming mud are constantly arising and descending. A retired Mississippi steamboat cap tain intends to make his will by talk ing into a phonograph, and having the receiving cylinder preserved so that in case of contest it be produced in court. A Kansas family of eight brothers and sisters boasts an aggregate ago of 54") years, au average of (iBj. The oldest is seventy-six, and the youugest tixty. They lately had a reunion, all well and active. The butchers of Berlin have a curi ous way of iuformiug their customers of the days on which fresh sausage; are made, by placing a chair, covered with a large, clean aprou, at the side of the shop door. A jar of wheat at Wisbech, Eugland, is known to have been sealed for sixty years. It is iu gocd condition, and a portion is to be sowed to test its vital ity, the remainder again being sealed up to await the lapse of another long period. The most singular ship in the world is tho Polyphemus of tho British navy. It is simply a long steel tube, deeply buried iu the water, the deck rising only four feet above the sea. It car ries no masts or sails and is used as t ram und torpedo boat. The only place where "black dia monds" are found is in the Brazilian proviuce of Bahia. They are usually found in river-beds and brought up by divers. Others are obtained by tunneling mountains. The largest specimen ever fouud was worth 80,000. - Wlrelen Telegraph v Uetween llullonn. Experiments are being made at Vi enna on the possibility of communica tion betweeu balloons by wireless tel egraphy, and they have met with some suocess. A captive balloon tckes the place of the tall mast as used iu the Marconi system. A copper wire is stretched between it and the earth, where the transmitting apparatus is pluced. The Booond balloon, which ascends freely, carries the receiving instrument and is furnished with u wire sixty feet long hanging downward from the basket. The balloons re ceived and transmitted messages up to a distance of six miles and at au elevation of about a mile. Of course, the great difficulty will be to establish a transmitting station in free bal loon, both on account of the necessary apparatus, and also beoause there ia danger of discharges from the power ful condenser so near the inflammable gas of the balloon. Future experi ments will be looked for with interest by all who- are engaged in making a study of wireless telegraphy. Scien tific Americau. lie Uliln't Quite Vnderataml. ' An old Irish laborer walked into the luxurious studio of a famous artist, and asked for money to obtain a meal. He explaiued that he had just been discharged from the county hospital, and was too weak to work. The ar tist gave him a shilling and he de parted. One of four young ladies, art students, who were present, said: "Mr. Longhair, can't we hire the old man and sketch him?" The artist ran out and caught him, and said: "If you can't work and want to earn five shillings, oome baok to my rooms. The young ladies want to paiut you." The old fellow hesitated, bo the ar tist remarked: "It won't take long, and it's au easy way to make live shillings." "I know that," was the reply, "but I was a-wundoriu' bow I'd get the paint off after ward. " Pearson's Weekly. RECORD BRIDCE BUILDING. A Woodtii Htmetora llaplaeeri ht aiael toi One Hoar and Thirty-two Minutes. A record-breaking feat in railroad bridge building was performed on the Bock Island line near Lincoln, Neb., the other day. It consisted of taking out a big wooden bridge and replac ing it with a steel one in an bonr and thirty-two minutes, and without blocking traffic. The steel bridge was seventy-eight feet in length and weighed eighty tons. It was shipped from the factory in sections to Koke by, a station three miles from the place where it was put in. Hers it was riveted together. The old structure rested on con crete abutments put in after a disas trous wreck five years ago. Th bolts and spikes of the old structure were removed after the new one had been suspended above. The new bridge was brought to the scene on flat cars, from which it was lifted by a double drum friction engine on a pole driver onto galley frames erected over the track, these frames being sway braced longitudinally and on cross sections. To the galley frames two pairs of donble blocks were fas tened to each other and these wer assisted in lifting the weight by a pair of double blocks and oue pair of single blocks, eighteen lines of inob cable being used on each oorner. Fastenings on the frames and iron work were made by the nse of dev ices and yokes. When all was ready, the wiudlasses were started. A loco motive was coupled to (lis snub cat to prevent the weight from pulling il over, and the bridge was lowered easily and properly. Some idea of the celerity may be gained by tho time schedule. The train left Kokcby at 7.45 in the morn ing. Thirty-eight minutes later it was at the soeue. At 8.57 the iron work had been lifted clear of the cars and the lattet run out; at 9.15 the old bridge had been torn out; at 0.83 the new bridge was in and at 0.57 the traok was pronounced "O. K." and the flagman called in. This is said bv the railroad men to be one of tho greatest lifts ever made I with ropes. Thirty men, two looo motives and a bridge car with wiud lassos were used. Money Rqnamlereil On Hlsnn. "Strange how much mouey is spenl in a big city for useless sigus," said New Orleans sign painter. "On al most every street one finds big an nouncements masked by awnings, hid den under cornices, and in all sorts ol queer places that the eye would nevei be apt to reach. I can point you out a handsome piece of black and gold lettering not a block from here that if executed on the glass of the fourth story wiudow. It must have cost con siderable money, yet the characters are so minute that I will venture the assertion that nobody can read it with out an opora glass. Another sign that I discovered quite by accident the other day is painted across the front of a building near the roof. Di rectly beneath is a covered gallery, and the only place from which the in scription can possibly be seen is a bit of sidewalk about a dozen feet loug diagonally across the street. The chances of a passer-by looking up iu just the right direction are possibly one in 10,000. The prize freak sign of the oity, however, adorns a cortuiu roof, and is visible from only the up per stories of one or two adjacent buildings. Nearly all the useless signs in town might have been located much more advantageously if the peo ple who ordered them had allowed the painter to use his judgment. We cal culate the chances of observation down to a nicety, and know exactly how large a letter ought to be visible at a given distance. As much skill is re quired for that sort of thiug as for the actual paiuting." New Orleauf Times-Democrat. The Great Trek. At the outbreak of war between Franoe and Eugland iu 1803, Cape Colony belonged to the Netherlands, says Alleyue Ireland iu the Atlantic In 180(3 Louis Napoleon wis made King of the Netherlands, aud in the same year England attacked the Cape as it was then a French possession. The Colony capitulated ou January 10, 1806, The British occupation was made permanent by a convention, signed iu 1814, between Great Britain and the Netherlands, by the terms ol whioh England paid $30,000,000 fol the cession of Cape Colony and nf the Dutch colonies of Demeiara, Borbice, and Essequibo, which now form the colony of British Guiana. It was hoped that the Dutch and the English in the Cape Colony would live together iu friondly intercourse, and that eventually by intermarriage a fusion of tho two raoes would be effected. This hope was doomed to disappointment, for au antagonism gradually developed between the old and the new colonists which led to the establishment of two republics beyond the border of the oolony. The first step toward the formation of these republics was the emigration, during 1830 and 1837, of about 8000 Dutch farmers from the Cape Colony, a movement whioh is generally re ferred to as the Great Trek. These men went out of the Colony and es tablished themselves in the vast bin tei land. Realgned tha les-Preatdeney. It would probably puzzle moBt peo ple to tell bow a president or vioe president oould resign. After writing his resignation, what shall he do with it? This law, whioh was passed by Congress in 1792, lays down the mo dus operandi: "The only evidence of a refusal to acoopt, or of a resignation of the office of president or vice-president, shall be an instrument in writ ing declaring the same and subscribed by the person refusing to aooept or resigning, as the case may be, and de livered into the office of the Secretary of State," Vioe-Preiident John C. Calhoun resigned' on December 28, If 32, and his resignation is now on file at Washington in the Department of tho Secretary of State, Boston Transcript. Thanaanda Killed by Wild Anlmata. More than twenty-five thousand per sons were killed by wild animals and anakea iu India in 1808. Nearly a thousand deaths are ascribed to tigrt aud a large number to man-eating wolves. Lord Gurion has directed that speoial measures be taken to ex terminate these particular pests, , GBRlSTIBNJNDEflVOR TOPICS. DECEMBER 24. Our Royal Crother. Heb. I. 1-9. III. 6. (A Chrittmai Meeting.) Prrlpture Vrrsrs. Isit. Ivll. T.nlie I. 78, 7; Kph. II. 14-17; 2 Tim. I. 10; Matt. Iv. 1; Arts xxvl. 18; John III. lrt. 17; 1 John Iv. ; 1 Tor. xv. 45-57; Heb. II. 14, IS. LESSON THOT'OHTS. All the pnw-r and honor and Rlnry of Ciod bflonits to Jenis I'hrIM; he Is King of klnus and Ird of lords. And yet he Is also, with nil his royally, the Son of man, nnd our Brother. Indeed, he rondesrended to hrronie our Urother In the flesh, In order that we mlht be Joint heirs with him to his throne of glory. As heirs of the ' kingdom of Ood, through Christ our royal Brother, It should be our untiring Interest to spread the bounds of the kingdom, till everywhere glory is given to fjod In the hlght'M. and In all the earth peace and good-will reign among men. MCLKCTIONS. His robes nf light he laid aside. Which did his majesty ndorn, And the frail state of mortal tried. In human flesh and figure born. The Son of (iod thus man became, That men the sons of Ood might bo. And by their second birth regain A likeness to his deity. The world wns In darkness when the star of Hethlehem arose and sent Its rays streaming, not only across the sky, but over the darkened earth. Christ's coming brings light to nations and to men. Our royal Brother Is n I'rlnce of pence. "A celebrated painting named 'The Conquerors." shows the wor'd's grentest wnrrlors riding nbrenst na nuses, Cnesnr, Alr-xnnder, Napoleon, nnd others over a road made of dead men nnd through u desert surrounded by a sen of blood. That Is the world's empire, but that s not the kingdom of Christ. He brings the pence of a new life, not the calm of death." How small the kingdom of Ood when Christ was born: how world-wide It is now; how little were the Joys of men In those dreary nges; how happy and glad are these times! Whatever of addnd Joyfulness has romp to the world hns been brought by Christ. C. K. Oospel Hymns. 19, 77, 118, 184, 8. 31, 211. Gospel Hymns. 1-4. 6. 235, 236, 110, 41. 17. The Toothiomi Oeropne. The use ot the octopus as food is, according to one of our correspond ents, not a new idea. In the fish mar ket In Jersey this year the blue gowned women with white starched raps who preside over wet slate slabs, usually covered with little heaps of winkles, limpets, aumers, and razor fish, have already added the octopus to their usual stock. "You may have your choice of him," writes the eorre spondent, "either dried and smoked to the semblance of scraps of waste leather, or fresh and shimmering, a tangle of repulsive, formless members. They say that he Is good 'Ah! yes! tho cat-o-nine-tall he is very good, m'seu' but they say tho same of thi limpet and the spider crab. You asl for lobster, the supremo delicacy w Jersey. 'Ah! no! there is no lobster m'seu: tho rnt-o-nlneJtall he hav eaten him all.' This is how they ex. plain the absence of lobsters in all tht picturesque Island nooks where a lob ster lunch at the hotel pavilion Is at Important Item of the day'a enjoy ment. Certainly, the octopus Is then in large quantities this year, and anv visitor who is gastronomic-ally venture some might easily get the opportunity of a new nnd cheap sensation." Lon don Truth. The man who takes things as they , me will be all right, It he can select the right ones to hold on to, MARKETS. rAiTiHona KHA1 CM, FI.Orit-T'nltn. Hest Tat M High lr.-..i. Kmra i 00 WIIEAT-Ko. 2 Ud (A 7t COltN No. 2 White. 5 S Oats Southern & l'eno... S7 i It YE No. 2 C HAY Choice Timothy.. 1M) 18(10 Oood to Prima M M 1 0.1 M HAW-llve In ear his.. 1HA0 14 00 Wheat Hlocks 7 00 7 M) Oat Blocks U0 9 SO TAKNKD OOI. TOMATOES Btud. No. 3. m 70 No. 2 V I'KAH Standards 110 140 Seconds HO COHN Dry Tack SO Moist 00 ItlDKS. CITY RTtT.ns t m't It CltyCuws 10,l( I'OTATOFS AND VOKTSt,K rnTATOF.y-IJnrhai.ks. . 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