APERFECT HARMONY REV. On. TALMAQC DRAWS A LESSON FROM MUSIC. H Tk "Th Chaa ef th Start" tut th SnhJ " " Oml naaaty Bad rower The Final Harmony. Vasiiisotow, Not. 1. Tho musical . . i 1 Miiiirrel cl nil uanoun bociu urawn upon by D- Talmagw In this sermon to illustrate a moat practical truth. Ilia rot,jfct was "Tho Chant of the Stars, " ,nd tho text Job xxxviii, fl, 7. "Who laid tho cornoratone thereof, when tho miming stars tang together?" VTe havo all inch mo cervmon j n me t.rintf cf tho corncrstono of church. nlom or Masonic temple. Into tho hollow of tho iitono woro placed scrolls of history and important documents, to bo lUffgestlVO H. 1UU or u yearn oner, the building abould be destroyed by lire a torn down. Wo remember Uio silver trowd or iron hammer that sinoto the ,qnaro piece or granite into sanctity. 1 wielding tno trowci or nam Vo remember also tho musio as the choir stood on tho scattered stones n.l timber of tho building about to bo ponitrncted. Tho leaves of tho notebooks fluttered in tho wind ana wero turned PTPr with a great rustling, and wo rc njonilxr how tho bass, buritone, tenor, contralto and soprano voices commin gled. They had lor many flays ooon re hcnriti(T tho special programme that it mfuht lo worthy of thocoruorstouo luy- laying Ilia inmrnmnffi In my text tho poet of XJz culls us to s grandi t ceremony tno laying or ho fruiidation of this great temple of n world. Tho cornerstono was a block of light and tho trowel was of celestial rrjjtal. All about ami on tho embank ments rf clouds stood tho angelic choris- Ms unrolling their libretto of overture, aud ether worlds clapped shining cym bals whilo tho ceremony went on, and God, the Architect, by stroke of light lift it stroke of light, dedicated this great cathedral of ft world, with mountains for pillars, and sky for frescoed ceiling, and flowering fields lor n iioor, una sun rise mid midnight aurora for upholstery. "Who laid tho cornerstone thereof, when the morning stars sang together?" Tho fart is that tho wholo uuiverso was a eompieto caaenco, nn uuuroKcn dithyramb, a musical portfolio. Tho pr at sheet of immensity had been spread nut, nud written on it wero tho stars, the smaller of them minims, the larger of thii'i sustained notes. Tho meteors nmr!;"'l tno staccato passages, tno wnoio honv im a gamut with all sounds, in tern', w, modulations, tho space be- tvri!i t!m world n musical interval, trr ( f Ftcllar light a quaver, tho tliiii.iV r u boss clif, the wind among treei it treble clef. That ii tho way Ood marie nM tilings a perfect harmony. But cuo day n harp string snapped in tho great orchestra. Olio clay n voice mantled out of tnne. One day a discord, harsh and torriflo, gratod upon the glo rious nntiphon. It was sin that mado tho dissonuneo, and that harsh discord has beeii sounding through tho centuries. All tho work of Christiana and philan thropies and reformers of nil ages is to (top that discord and get all things back into tho perfect harmony which was heard at tho laying of tho cornerstone, when tho morning stars sang together. IWuro I get through, if I am divinely helped, I will mnko it plain that sin is discoid und righteousness harmony. That in central thincs urn out of tnno (in a j lain as to n musician's ear is tin; unhupj-y elatih ef clarinet nud bussnon m an orchestral rondering. Out of Tune. Tho world's hoalth out of tnno; weak (lungs and the utuiosphoro in collision, jCisordi rial eyo nnd noonday light in Buurr.l, rheumatic limb ami dump weather in struggle, neuralgias und jucuiuonias und consumptions and i pi "puics in flocks sweep upon neighbor fiodsand cities. Whom you find ouo r -Mmi with sound throat and keen eyo light ami ultrt ear und easy respiration wd regular pulsation und supple limb wd pnmo digestion and stoady nerves, 'oo lind u hundred who havo to bo very aMul bocauso this or that or tho other hysieal function is disordered. Tho human intellect out of tuuoj tho artlinient wrongly swerved, or tho leiuory leaky, or tho will weuk, or tho iiiijiir inflaiumablo, tho well balauood nud exceptional. I Domestio lifo out of tuno ; only hero pd thero a conjugal outbreak of iucoui ftibility of temper through tho divorce Purts, or a filial outbreak about n fa- r wm tnrougn tho surrogate's court, I a case of wife boating or husband mining tnrough tho criminal courts, "'"usauiw or families with Juno wdo ami January within. Society out of tuuo; labor and capital ' hands ou each other's thnmt. "t ef canto kocping those down in -w-iai bcuio who uro struggling to P und putting those who are tin in IXll'tv l..-t i I . . - j t iii-j huvo to coino down. 3 woder tho old piunoforte of society H out of tuno, when hypocrisy und -u. suuicnugo and double dealing -vuuKy uuti cuariutuuism and l"K0 huvo for 0,000 years been bung- . UV L1IU L VH lilltl Uliltlinlll.l tl.K nil sides there is a shipwreck of fwenu.. Kmions in disot.rd without ' 'g it Bo wrong is the feeling of u fur nation that symbols chosen "woo aud dimtruetivo. In this ooun- nliern dur ullna ..... ..n . 1 l. .. " ' uu ui rouius P duvt-s and mni-,.,.,.. .... 1 "tttiwial sj-tnbol, the Uorco and filthy " ru bird as cau bo found in j oruitholgical catalogues. In ntalu, where they huvo lambs allow d,,,.r i.i. v.i j . V w i. 1 1' " "l,,M!"S wiiere Iroui fh.n l.'' ,, " mttu ftJ hloomiug Uii ',d y. they chose te!U,8 b"ur- Aud lu th0 world's f "iry a favorite fiimm a udfDi Aid so fond Is the world of contention that we oJimbout through the heavens and baptise one of the other planots with tho spirit of battle and call It Msrs, after tho god of war. And we give to the eighth sign of the mdiao tho name of the soorpion, a creature which Is chiefly celebrated for its deadly sting. But, after all, theso symbols are express ive of the way-nation feels toward na tion. Discord wido as tho continent aud bridging tho seas. Creation Groans. I suppose yon have notioed how warmly in lovo dry goods stores aro with other dry goods stores, and how highly groccrymen think of tho sugsrs of the grocerymen on tho same street. And in what a oulogistio way allopathio and homeopathic doctors speak of eaoh other, and how ministers will sometimes put ministers on that beautiful cooking in strument which the English call a spit ah iron roller with spikes on it and turned by a crank beforo a hot fir, and then if tho minister being roasted cries out agaiust it the men who are turning him say: "Hush, my brother I Vo aro turning this spit for tho glory of Ood and the good of your soul, and you must be quiet whilo wocloso the eorvioo with: Went 1x tho tin that binds Our hearts In 'hrltlan lovs. The earth is diametered and circum ferenoed with discord, and tho musio ..mM.nW.nii iayiuB i-i uio iu tin iK-inu'iir, wjii'H iriio muriiuiK stars sang together, is not heard now. Aud though hero and there, from this and that part of society, and from this and that part of tho earth, thero comes up a thrilling solo of love, or a Warblo of worship, or a sweet duet of patienpo, they are drowned out by a discord that tdiuke tho earth. Paul says, "Tho wholo creation groan ed). " And whilo tho nightingale, and tho woodlark, and tho canary, and tho plover sometimes sing so sweetly that their notes have been written out. in musical tint at ion, and it is found that tho enekoo sing' in tho key of I), and that tho cormorant is a basso in tho wingod choir, yet sportsmati's gun and tiio autumnal blast, often leave thwu milled and Heeding or dead iu meailnw or forest. Paul was right, for tho groan in nutnro drowns out tho prima donnas of tho sky. Tartini, tho great musienl composer, . , . . - i i .1 i 1 1 .... .....v ....... ...... tract with satan, tho latter to be ev.-r - , 11 t he composer s service lint one night ' ho handed to satan a violin, on which j Diaholus played such sweet musio that . the composer wus awakened by the emo-1 tion and tried to reproduco tho sounds, ' ( lltKi I II I . 1 I .Ull 1,1 VWllbl-l Al.tl.llll It most famous piece, "Tho Devil's So nata." a dreain ingenious, but faulty, for nil melody descends from heaven, and only discords ascend from hell. All hatreds, feuds, controversies, backbit ing nnd revenges aro tho dovil's sonata, aro diabolio fugue, aro demoniac phan tasy, nro grand inarch or doom, aro al legro of perdition. Th Ear of Ilach. But if in this world things in general aro out of tuuo to our frail ear, how much more so to beings angelio and do iflcl It takes n skilled artist to folly ap preciate disagreement of sound. Mauy have 110 capacity to detect a defect of musical execution, and, though thero wero in ouo bar as many offenses against harmony us could crowd in between tho lower Y of tho bass and tho higher O of tho soprano, it would givo them no dis comfort, while ou tho forehead of tho educated urtist beads of perspiration would stand out as 11 result of the har rowing dissonance. Whilo an amateur was performing on n piano ami had just struck th wrong chord, John l-Yli.istian Bach, tho immortal compost r, entered tho room, and tho amateur rose iu cm burrassmcut, ami Bach rushed pat tho host; who stepped forward to grei t him, and, beforo tho keyboard had topped vibrating, put his adroit hand 11 11 tho keys anil changed tho painful inliaruiony into glorious cadence. Then Bachtuiued and gave suluatinli to the host. But the worst of all discord is moral ' discord. If society and tho world nro painfully discordant to imperfect, man, what must they bo to o perfect Ood! People try to defino what sin is. It seems to 1110 that Kin is getting nut of harmony with Ood, a disagreement with his holi nesH, with his purity, with his love, with his commands, our will clashing with iiis will, the finito dashing ugainst tho in finite, tho frail against the puissant, tho created against the creator. If a thousand musicians, with fluto and cornt t a-pis-ton nud trumpet and violoncello, tho hautboy and trombono and ull tlm wind and stringed instruments that every gathered in a Dusseldnrf jubilee, should rcsolvo that they would play out of , tuno and nut concord to the rack und 1 mako tho placowild with shrieking nnd Kratinir nnd raspinK sounds, tin v could not mako such u nandeiuonium in that which rages in a sinful soul wle u Ood listens to the play of its thoughts, pas- sions and emotion discord, lifelong f discord, ninddcninir discord. Tho world pays moro for discord than churches tends toward this cousuinma it dis s for consonance. High prit 1 s havo tion. Mako it more and more hearty, been paid for musio. Ouo man gavo Sing iu your families. Sing in your $2a5 to hear tho Swedish song-trehs in jdaccs of business. If wo with proper New York, und another $0a5 M hear spirit use theso faculties, wo aro re her in Boston, and another tJ.fi0 to hear hearsing for tho skies, her in ProviiU noo. Fabulous prices havo j Heaven is to have a new song, an en been puid for sweet sounds, but far tircly new song. But I should not won moro bus tern paid for discord. Tho tVr if, as sometimes on earth a tuno is 1 Crimean war cost fl, "OO.OOO.mio, and fashioned out of many tunes, or it is one tho American civil wur tU.GOO.ooO.OOO, tuno with tho variations, so some of tho iiid tho war debts of nrofessed Christ lun nations aro about 1 10, 000,000. Ono. Tho ing through them tno songs 01 eartn. , -1 ii luimnicw iiooi wero proviu--r.,i ti,.i,,. which And how thrilling, as coining through ed, tho muss of tho people aro unfitted admits it to tho saturnalia of bioken tho great anthem of the saved, aecoiu- , to ake f u 1 advau agtu.f them. Yet, not bones and death agonies and destroyed panied by harpers with their harps and ,m .standing all this. Eng .shstatesnien cities nnd i.lowcd graves nnd crushed trumpeters with their trumpets, if we , will postpone reform indefinitely if they hearts, any amount of money intan should hear some of the strains of "Auti- can see their way to secure a party ad Lkl Disoord! DUcordl och" and "Meant Pisgi.h" and "Corona- I vantage thereby. Tho only hope is that v " .tion" and "Lenox" and "St. Martin's" publio opinion muy appreciate before it Will lie rut In Ton. 1 nd "Fountaiu" and "Ariel" aud"01d is too Into tho position of education, uut i nave to ten you uim i""k tltut tho morning stars sang together at the laying of tho world's coniersiono is to resound again, wozart a i,- II. ... overture was composed ouo night wnoii ho was sovtiral times overpowered wuu i sleep, aud artists lay they cau tell tho placei in tho musio where ho was full- Ing asleep and the plaoci whoro he awak- rued. So the overture of the morning aielted and ruptured our souls for so stars spokon of In my text has been aiany years. Now, if sin is discord, mad asleep, but it will awaken and be more righteousness is harmony, let us get out grandly rendered by the evening atari of the one and enter the other. After of tho world's existence than by the oar dreadful civil war was over, in the morning stars, and tho vespers will be lumrucr of 1860, a great national peace sweeter than tho matins. Tho work of Jubilee was held in Boston, and as an all good men and women and of all elder of my church had been honored by good churches and all reform associa- 'he selection of some of his musio to tious help to bring tho raeo back to the bo rendered on that occasion I aocom original harmony. Tho rebellions hoart panied him to tho jnbileo. Forty thou to bo attuned, social lifo to bo attuned, (and peoplo sat and stood in tho grent commercial ethics to bo attuned, inter- oliseum erected for that purpose, nationality to bo attuned, hemispheres ( Thousands of wind and stringed instru to bo attuned. ments. Twelvo thousand trained voices. In olden times tho choristers had a 'Tho masterpieces of all ages rendered, tuning fork with ,vo prongs, and they hour after hour and day after day Han would striko it ou the back of pow or ' del's "Judas Maccnbii'ua," Hponr's musio rack nud put it to tho ear and "Last -Judgment," Beethoven's "Mount then start tho tune, and all tho other :tf Olives," Haydn's "Creation," Men voices would Join. In modern orchestra Jflelssohn's "Elijah," Meyerbeer's "Cor tho leader has a complete instrument pnation March," rolling on and up in .rightly attuned, and ho sounds that, and jturges that billowed agaiust tho heavens, all tho other performers tuno tho keys Tho mighty cadmicoa within wero ac of their instruments to mako them cor- isompauied ou tho outside by tho ringing 'respond and draw tho bow over tho jof tho bells of tho city and cannon on string and listen and sound it over tho commons, discharged by electricity, 1 again until all tho keys are screwed toiin exact time with music, thundering coneet t pitch and thedisoords melt into 0110 great symphony, and tho curtain ' hoists, and tho baton taps and audiences aro raptured with Schumann's "Para !diso nnd tho Peri" or Hossinl's "Stubat ! Mater" or Bach's "Magnificat" in D. TCfiUf. nnr world nnti tinfoi lm nttntiml hy Jni,,t.rfert instrument Even a Cremona would not do. Heaven has ordained tho only instrument, and it is made out of the wood ef tho cross, and tho voices that accompany it aro im ported voices, cantatriees of tho first Christmas night, when heaven serenad ed tho earth witli "Glory to Ood iu tho highest, and ou earth peace, good will j to men. " Lost we start too far 01T and get lost in generalities, wo had better begin with ourselves, get our own hearts and lives in harmony with the eternal , Christ. Oh, for his Almighty Spirit to nttuno us, to chord our will with his w ill, to tuodulato our life with his life, nnd bring m into unison with ull that is pure and self sacrificing and heavenly 1 Tho strings of our nature are all broken 'and twisted, ami the bow is so slack it cannot evoko anything mellifluous. Tho instrument imelo for heaven to play on has been roughly twanged and struck by j influences worldly and demoniac O master hand of Christ, restore this split ,.,, r!U,fnr,l , ,I,,U,,I..,I 1111,1 1,11. trul,K Ilufaro untiI trft it mIi!I1 W1,il ont for our , ulu, tm, thriU with di. vj)(J pttr,M,nj cuiirt itnrmmiy. Tno v.1(1 w or,l lmlst us j, ttUned hy tho same jxiwer. I was in tho Fair banks weighing scale manufactory of Vermont. Six hundred hands, and they havo never had a strike. Complete har mony between labor and capital, the operatives of scores of years in their beautiful homes near by tho mansions of tho manufacturers, whoso invention nud Christian behavior made the great enterprise. So all the world over labor und capital will bo brought into eu phony. Vou may havo heard what Is called tho "Anvil Chorus, " composed by Verdi, it tuno played by hammers, great and small, now with mighty stroke, and now with heavy stroke, beating a great iron unviL That is what tho world has got to coino to an vil chorus, yardstick chorus, shuttle chorus, trowel chorus, crowbar chorus, pickax chorus, gold mine chorus, rail track chorus, "locomotive chorus. It can be (lone, and it will bo done. So all social life will I10 at tuned by tho gospel harp. There will be as many elasnes iu si-iety as now, but tho classes will not be regulated by birth or wealth or acci dent, but by the scale of virtue and be 1:1 voh nee, and pi opb' will bo assigned to their places as good, or very good, or Ino-t excellent. So also commercial life will be atl uned, ami there will bo I'i in every dozen, nnd 1(1 ounces in every J11 und, and applet at the bottom i f tho barrel will be as sound as those on the top, ami silk goods will not bo cotton, and hellers will not have t'iclur;;o hon est people more (hull (ho light price Iji cause others will not pay, ami goods will come to you corresponding with the sample by which yon purchased them, ami colTee will not be ehicoried, and sugar will not be sanded, aud milk will imt lie chalked, and adulteration of food will be a state prison oll'ense ayo, ull things shall be at tuned I Eltetionsiu England nnd the United States will no luoro be a grand carnival of defamation ami scurrility, but the elevation of righteous men in a righteous way. In tho sixteenth century tho fingers culled the Fischer brother reachotl tho lowest bass ever recorded, and the high est note ever trilled was by La Bastar della. and Catuliui's voice had a com- pass of .') '.j octaves, lint Christianity is more wonderful, for it runs ull up ami 'down tho greatest heights ami tho deep- est depths of tho world's necessity, und it will compass everything ami bring it in accord with tho song which tho morn ing stars sang at tho laying of tho world's cornerstone. All tho sue red mu sio in homes aud concert halls und mugs of tho redeemed may n.ivu piay ihiiifirodl" . , M brj t(J njua the to mind the t,ruvinacirolcgana communion duys, aud jho cl)riKtu)llH festivals, nnd tho chu .1 .. . j .,uiulu nm1 Mm Mi ii rr-li II1U Vlll iriiilllfl irnvimini ...... . .. . la whje.h on earth wo mingled I jmv0 n0 j,i,)a that when wo bid faw t(j wo arQ tQ biJ furowon to .. hogo nd old g08poi byuina which their awful bars of a harmony that as tonnded nil nations. Sometimes I bowed my head and wept, sometimes I sttsul up In tho enchantment, ami sometimes tho effect was so overpowering I felt I conld not endure it, especially when all tho voices were in full chorus, and all tho batons wero in full wave, ami all tho orchestra in full triumph, ami a hun dred anvils under mighty hammers wero iu full clang, aud all the towers of the rity rolled iu their majestio sweetness, anil the whole building iptakcd with the hooni of !)0 cannon. Part-pa Kosa, with a voice that will never again bo equaled en earth until the nreliangelin voice proclaims that time shall be no longer, rose aUivo all other sounds iu her rendering of our national air, "The Star Spangled Banner." It was too much for a mortal, tpiito enough for nil immortal, to hear, ami while Home fainted one womanly spirit, released under iu power, sped awav to lo with Hod. ) Lord, our Sod, quickly usher in tho wholo world's peace jubilee, und all islands of the sen join the live conti nents, and all tho voices aud all tho mu sical instrutnehtsof nil nations combine, ami all tho organs that ever sounded re quiem of sorrow sound only a grand march of joy, and ull the hell-i that tolled for burial ring for resurrection, and all the cannon that ever hurled death across tho nations sound forth eternal victory, and over all tho acclaim of earth and minstrelsy of heaven there will be heard ono voice sweeter and mightier than any human or angelio voice, n voieo onco full of tears, but now full of triumph, tho voice of Christ, say ing, "I am alpha ami omega, tho be ginning and tho end, tho first and the last." Then, at tho laying of the top stone of tho world's history, tho same voices Miall bo heard as when, at the laying of the world's cornerstone, "tho morning stars sang together." The Court Came nark. Judge Randolph of tho Kansas dis trict court was ono of tho frontier judi cial officers who Is licved in upholding tho dignity of the bench, nnd, as well, was tenacious of his own personal honor. A divorce suit in which a gray haired veteran of tho late war was plaintiff enme up beforo him whilo he was 011 the circuit out in a prairie county. The rude courtroom wns filled with s ta- tois, and the old man seemed unwilling to go ou the stand in his own defense. "I am not going to grant divorces without gootl reasons, " announced tho court, and the plaiutilf went to the chair that served 11s a witness box. "Now," said tho attorney, "tell us just what your wife did to make you leave her. " The witness looked uppealingly at the judge. "Answer tho question, " was the or der. "Well, she called mo names." "That is not ground enough for a di vorce, " said the court sternly. "And she neglected me." "Is that all?" "Ami she said that I was n coward and a suenk because I went to tho war nnd came back alive. Slut said that all the brave and worthy men died in bat tle, and only tho traitors and cowards came homo, and" "That will th), sir. Tho decree tirayed for in your petition is granted," broke iu the judge. "I want you to under stand, sir, that this court went to that war and spent four years there and tho court camo back too." Chicago lice uril. Is r:nglainr rrtopi-rlty MrnarvdT Tho chief obstacles to tho progress of euiieation in I'.ngiaiui are party spirit Jnnd religious intolerance. Proposals for educational reform uro discussed and decided, not in a philosophical spirit, but with all the acrimony of partisans. Vet it is admitted that the caso is a very urgent one; that England is en gaged in u struggle with her foreign competitors not only for the supremacy but even for tho very existence of her industries; that her workers aro worse instructed than their rivals and aro on that ueoouut going to tho wall, and that better education, both elementary ami technical, is vital to tho contiuuanco of In r prosperity. It is tho fact that in both town and country elementary in struction is so backward that, oven if both t-leuieutary aud technical, may be- coino agreed as to tho direction in which development ought to take place and mav force nnrlianinnt and rhn imperii. . n meut to grupplo with tho difficulties which havo to bo overoomo. Right Hon. Sir John E. Oorst in North Amer- loan Koview. FACIAL PECULIARltl&. A Mad ef ihm Foatais May lroa Strung llraulU, If one is interested in the study of , physiognomy, a close scrutiny of the faces of thoo with whom ono comes in daily contact will reveal many interest ing inconsistencies. Writers have so rlnborntcly tlescantodon the subject that it would seem that nothing of novelty wore left for tho investigator; yet, whilo tho traits of character revealed by tho eyes, iioi -, mouth, ears, chin, teeth, and j even the wrinkles, have been so exhaust ively treated, another subject replete with Inconsistencies aud interest has es caped tho general epitomizing. Wero a lino drawn directly down through the center of the face, the two halves would discover marked differ ences. The outlines of tho forehead where the hair begins to grow will vary materially, giving decidedly distinctive outlines, adding iu many cases at least ono-half inch to tho height of the fore head. Regarding the eyebrows, in many faces the difference is hardly rorccpti bio, yet wero they measured mathemat ically the curves would show variations 1 of outline. Of tho eyes, a careful ana ly an tion will discover tho right olio not only largi r, but differing in cxprt ssion as well as in color in some instances. Tho difference also in the slanting ef tho orbits will bo noticeable. It is in tho eyes that the greatest difference is likely tube found. Tho upper lidsilinYr materially from exact drawings, and be low the i yes the under lids are even more pti iiounced in their variations. A careful study of tho nose will dis cover the nostrils decidedly different. Ono is often larger than the other or will extend below a lino drawn diamet rically across the face. In fact, if care fully scrutinized, the entire nose will bo found dill' i n ut on either side. Tho iin-nth is decidedly the feature whoro tin- study becomes most interest ing. The drooping of the corners will often give a sneering expression, t r as in tho ea-i s where the movements of the under liponottesideof the mouth when the person is speaking is iu direct con trast to the movements of tho lips on tho other side. This peculiarity indi cates an unsteady, unreliable nature, lacking both iu mental nnd moral force. Tho cheek en ono side of tho face will, iu many instances, bo more rounded than on the other, and the tlilTereiico in the position and general contour of tho cars is ofti-n startling. Residing iu New York city is a prom inent society matron whose eyes uro i.f distinctly perceptible different colors, one being dark blue, tho other a dark grayish brown. When first noticed, the effect is uncanny iu tho extreme. Tho differences of facial features nro often too slight to bo noticeable and do not mar the harmony of tho face. Iu other instances they uro strikingly pro nounced. Tho eyes of splritualistio mediums aro often ucanny in this respect, sug gesting the evil eye, with all its super stitions associations. A medium whose lifo is wholly given up to tho exercise of her peculiar gifts In-trays many puz rling facial eccentricities. Scientists claim that tho two hemi spheres of the brain operate differently, the I ight controlling the physical life, the li ft the mental qualities. The phys ical qualities of the right In mi-qiln re of the brain affect the right side of the face more quickly than tho workings on tho li ft. Consequently facial contrasts lire moro noticeable iu tho old than in the young. That these tlilTert nces tin exist is un questionable, mid the student of physi ognomy will find in (hem an uiiei i'i d iiihI interesting Hold for study. Detroit l 'leo Press. I'lKi'iifl Mii llm C liit'tt. A man went running up Park avenue toward the (trand IVntral t.tatit n the other afternoon. He carried a heavy sati-hi 1, his umbrella was closed that it might not impede him and the rain wa pouring on him with gleeful vigor. The man stopped suddenly iu Ins wild course us he happened to look up and caught sight of tho clock on the front of the stat nn. "Confoniiil it, "ho said, "my watch mu-t bo fast. I thought 1 had only two minutes in which tocatcli that It o'clock train, nmfhoro it is only 2 :-l."i. " 1'iguratively kicking himself, tin man walked into the Murray Hill hotel cafe. Five minutes later ho entered the station and walked up to tho door out side of which ho fondly supposed his train was waiting. The door was closed, his train was gone. "Your infernal clock is slow," ho said to an attendant. "I've lost my train. " "I guess It's tho pigeons again, "said the attendant indifferently. "What tin you mean by pigeons?" with plenty of expletives. "They sit on the hands of tho ehs-k," ituswi rod Mr. Dcpcw's minion. "When evi r tho hands mark 2M" or 1 : 1 5 the pigeons roost ou 'em. tiieer, isn't it?" lint the man who had lost bis train lid not ay whether or not be thought itwasquct r. His rage had made him speechless. Ho tramped out across For ty-second street and looked at the clock. It was still 3:15. Two pigeons sat on tho miniito hand billing and cooing. "Well," gasped tho man, "if I had a gun I know where thero will be some potpit! tonight," und ho started off ou a search for a gun store. New York World. Jin Dltlna' Ought tan lie Mi-It. A passenger on board tho Oranton and Burnt island ferryboat was seen to bo in tuu throes of seasickness. A sym pathizer, accosting him, remarked, "You don't appear to bo accustomed to tho witter." "Wattor! I'vo been on't twul' years, but I never wus tai n liko this afore. I maun huo yo tuo ken that I'm captain o' a oaualboat that sails between hdin- bro and Olasoa. Bo yo seo I ilinna ought tno be sao easy knoekit owerl" Edinburgh Scotsman. IS ENGLAND DISAPPEARING f rira Mllrd of Cnant In Rrnt SwBllnwl t'p by tlm Ura. This is n serious question, Is Kngland rlisaps-sring? Readers may pucker np their lips and ejaculate "Absurd!" hut facts, nevertheless, Jnnaiii and show pretty clearly that Kngland is positively disappearing, and may iu years to rome be marked on the map ns a van ished isle. On the roast the se t Is encroaching upon the land at. an astonishing rate. Ser.sido towns and villagi s, holiday re sorts, ani gradually being eaten up and the inhabitants driven inland. In many parts the sea runs up on a beach which was once far inland. Iu other eases rhurchts which were at one time far from the sea now stand at the edge of cliffs and have tho se.- lapping almost a; their doors. The Uoodwin sands, about five miles off the coat of Kent, were t. one tinio a portion of the mainland itself and tho procrty of Karl Ooodwin. But tho sea has swallowed them up. The coast of Norfolk is minus three villages which it once possessed- Ship den, Kccles and Wimpwell all of which have been taken into the arms of tho encroaching ocean. Tim Cromer of to day stands mil. s inland of the oirginal Cromer. Auburn and Ilarlburii, two Yorkshire villages, once promised to develop into eapoit towns of roii-oiler.ihlo imjior tuner; but, like t ho w il I of ( 'uuutc. the will of the inhabitants i f lie e villages was ignored I y the rising si a, und Au burn and lUi lburn now exist iu mere names and sand banks. Dunwicli, t n t he eoa-t. of Suffolk, is r.rudu.illy being alloi d up. K"i-ry how and 1 1 -1 the inh-ibitanls move a distance inland, n I u:M their houses and shops and wait pat n tit ly and phil osophically for th" in A' "notice to quit" f rnii i t lie sea. Many til iii r .- .imiI" places have MitVi ri d or Hi " u:V- i ii-; a similar fate. It may 1 " i.n. .-i-d, t :i tl-" t tin r band, that some s' aside . iu ns ai " gradual ly becoming inland tow ns by tin- fuiluie of til" Sea til "collie up to (lie III. Ill,," and running out only to tun in lor a siinitt r distance. Won In l-i a. Sandwich, Rye and Soulhport are all siilli ring in (his Way. WinolieN.-a and Rye were origi nally two of olir I'llique potts, hut the sea has left them standing high nud tit y. Saiinwieh was once a highly im portant seapi i t. town. It now stands two or three miles inland. The sea is leaving Souihpori quite in the lurch so much so nub-i d that, the inhabitants have had t- sink extensive lakes down on tho beach to keep the sea from running on altogether and leaving merely an ordinary inland town. But the extension of our island in this way is very much less than the en croachment of the sea at oiler joints, ami while our laud is certainly l com ing luoro extrusive ill ono thrift ion it is contracting, and witli much greater rapidity, iu some other. Aud tho ulti mate ffect may bo that our mountain peaks may form small islands, und even tually bo pointed out by posterity us "the position iu which Orcat Britain is reputed to huvo stood. "London Tit Bits. Wlit-re .Minimi' 1'lcil. President Monroetlii I iu t.iiscity, in the ioiim still standing at ti l I'linco street, lie had ome north ou a visit to his yoiingi st tl.tiiglio r, Mr... Samuel Convenient', and pa-:-' 1 away whil" th-re. The death of his wife a lew lie 'lit hs pi evii ins and v bai i .i lie nt and d- I l v a measure i .-pon.-ibl" i" linan 'ial t in- j to!. i'.!y in f..r hi i 1 is- of health. Il was lii.s inleiilieii when h" tann north t i sell his old I i "r nt l.i lnlonii, Va.,reiit. u house near t he Ooiivi i in ur mansion und s end the r ui-iindi r,f his life then, with his ohie-i daughter, Mr-. 1 1 1 1 is 1 oily ., i pl.iei .I i;i the M.tible conn tery, Si c ml -t r -t . near S. ootid av. line, but in Is.'iS il v, -,,s i. inoii d to bis I-.. live stale, Vllg'liiu, ;'.l:i burn d iu llolh woeil i . mi ti ly, in liichliiond. I'lisiih ut Mi lin e i-i.it i ii il I'liiibi th Kill t wt ight, a i. igtung lull, t !' New York nt th" time of In r marriage. Dur ing Ins ministry to l iane.- she was in strumental in aeconij li-hing the r. h aso of Mm.-, lie la Fayette, M ho h id 1 II nciie i ii.ii! a ) risoiii r in t'e- pri u of I, a Force awaiting culioii. At that time his daughter I -li.'-i was a pupil of (he ceh I rati il Mine, t'uiiipuil, W illi llorleiise li. auhai nai , att'rward queen of Holland. The for Mr. Ib.y. m.iied I. ,l:ii i :i 1 Inrli Use, and . iiiieoii ii was found t! r, wi n laai i ii d .h.ugl.t.r after th" ibalhof tin ;t In r American ii.ii ii. will. al.c had In Mil I e lulu I' d ill In T -New York Recorder. Salvation Army Mu-Ue. The 1. 1st tiling we sin iil. 1 desire to tin would I e in 1 1 itn ise in an uiiii ! ndly manner th" txi-ilb-ni Sal vat ion Army. Wo have always recognized its sincere and useful woik. li.it j rlaq af: r so many years a word iiuj.lit r.jt i iy be said as t-j their sir. il j .o .el-, w.. h is So frequent ns to rum pi I ., ; i it il il of attention as in fact I e u i j ( i . It lias not bei :i gi in l.oly nn 1. r- -u l.ial they aimed at musical . !!,( ii tien iiass drum solos with crm t obli.: tfos and occasional singing. Th" j it 1 1 ..-.. lias been felt to be the attraction of tin populace, lint from a tv.- nt imml ei-of Tim War Cry it would appear ih.it, tin y think they are producing music. If this is their idi a, then the Salvation Army ought tot stahlish a Heboid fur thi hiudy of the cornet ami for the voice, so that, tho street rnrps should actually fu: nish music instead of discord. Musio is a good thing and doesn't rnin tho flower of our youth or even brush tho bloom oft' that flower. It would amiizo tho trou badours to find tlicnist Ivcseallod iu evi dence about a Salvation Army parade. Be reasonable, brothers of humanity, und since you really think musio is val uablo if consecrated to a holy cauiio, givo us a little of it. Springfield Republican. r
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