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r KEV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON. ^Subject: "Biblical and Modern Nar rations ot Dreams." Tktt: "He took of the stone* of tha\ place and put them for his pillows cind lay down in that place to sleep, and he dream ed."?Genesis xxviii., 11. I Asleep on a pillowcase filled with hens' .feathers it is not strange one should have pleasant dreams, but here is a pillow cf .foclr, and Jacob with his bead on it. and lol jadieam of angel?, two procession?, those ;coming down the stairs met by those going tip the stair*. It is the first dream of Bible record. You may say of a dream that it is nocturnal fantasia, or that it is the absurd combination of waking thought?, and with a slur of intonation you may sav, "It is only dream," but God has hongred the dream by making it the avenue through which again and again He has marched upon the human sou), decided the fate of Nations and changed the course of the world's his tory. God appeared in a dream to Abimelech, Warning mm a^aiuav> au umamui ui>i in a dream to Joseph, foretelling His coming power under toe figure of all the sheaves of the harvest bowing down to his sheaf; to the chief butler, foretelling his disomprisonment; to the chief baker, announcing his decapitation; to Pharaoh, showing him first the seven plenty years and then the seven famine struck years, under the figure of the seven fat cows devouring the seven lean cows to Solomon, giving him the choice between wisdom and riches and honor; to the warrior, under the figure of a barley cake smiting down a tent, encouraging Gideon in his battle azainst the Amelekites; to Nebuchadnezzar, under the figure of a broken image and a hewn down foretelline bis overthrow of power; to Joseph of the New Testament, announcing the birth of Christ in his own household; to Mary, bidding her fiy from Herodic persecution*; to Pilate's wife, warning bim not to become complicated with the judicial overthrow of Christ. We oil admit that God in ancient times ?..4 RiKu (licnonoatinn addressed the CUiU UUUCt A/IWiU peoDle through dreams. The question now ip. Does God appear in our day and reveal Himself through dreams? That is the question everybody asks, and that question this , morning I shall try to answer. You ask me if 1 believe in dreams. Mv answer is I do believe in dreams, but all I have to say will be under five beads. Remark the First?Ths Scriptures are so full oc revelation from God that if we get do communication from Uim in dreaou we ought nevertheless to be satisfied. With 20 guidebooks to tell you how to get to-Boston or Pittsburg or London or Glasgow or Manchester, do you want a night visiou to tell you how to make the journey? We have in this Scripture full direction in regard to the journey of this lite and how to get to the celestial city, and with this grand guidebook, this magnificent directory, we ought to be satisfied. I have more faith in decision to which I come when I am wide awake than when I am sound asleep. I have noticed that those who gave a great deal of their time to studying dreams get their brains addled. They are very anxious to remember what they dreamed about the first night they slept in a new hous*. If in their dream they take the hand of a corpse, they are going to die. If they dream of a garden, it mean* a sepulcher. If something turns out according to a night vision, they say, ''Well, I am not surprised. I dreamed if." If it turns out difflerent from the night vision, they say, "Well, dreams go by contraries." in their efforts to put T-ViTrfnm thnv niifc their U1CII UiWUiO M?M _ j _ waking thoughts into discord. Now the Bible is so full of revelation that we ought Co be satisfied if we get no further revelation. Sound sleep received great honor when Adam slept so extraordinarily that the ?urgical incision which gave him Eve did not wake him, but there is no such need for ex traordinary slumber now, and he who catches an Eve must needs be wide awake! No need of such a dream as Jacob had with a ladder against the sky, wh*a 10,000 times it had been demonstrated that earth and heaven are in communication. Nc such dream needed as that which was given to Abimelecb, warning him against an unlawful marriage, when we have the records of tho county clerk's office. No need of such a dream as was given to Pharaoh about the even years of famine, for now the seasons match in regular procession, and steamer and rail train carry breedstuffs to every famine struck Nation. No need of a dream like toat which encouraged Gideon, for all through Christendom it is announced and acnnowledged and demonstrated that right eouf ness sooner or later will get the victory If tbere should came about a crisis in your life upon which the Bible does not aeem to be sufficiency specific, go to God in prayer, and you will get especial direction. I have more faith 99 times out of 100 in directions given you with the Bible in your i?r> *nd Tnnr thoughts unlifted in Draver to God than in all the information you will get UDCJDscious on your pillow. I can very easily understand why the Babylonians and the Egyptian?, with no Bible, should put so much stress on dream?, and the Chinese, in their holy book, Coow King, should think theii emperor gets his directions through dreams from GoJ, and that Homer should thin* that all dreams came from Jove, and that in ancient times dreams were classified into a science. But why do you and I put so much stress upon dreams when we have a suparnal book of infinite wisdom on all subjects? Why should we harry ourselves with dreams? Why should Eddystone an i Barnegat lighthouses question a summer firefly. Remark the Second?All dreams have az important meaning. They prove that the soul is comparatively independent of the body. The eyes are closed, the senses are dull, the entire body goes into a lethargy which in all languages | is used as a type of death, and then the soul I spreads its wing and never sleeps. It leaps I the Atlantic Ocean and mingles in scene* 3000 miles away. It travels great reaches ol time, flashes back eighty years, and the octogenarian is a boy agam in his father1! house- If the soul before it has entirelj broken its chains of flesh can do all this, how far run it lent), wnat circles can it cut. whei it is lully liberated. Every dream, whether agreeable or har assinr, whether sunshiny or tempestuous means so much that rising from your cousti you ought to kneel down and say: "O God, am 1 immortal? Whence? Whither? Twi natures. My soul caged now?what waec the door of the cagj is opened? If my sou can fly so far in the few hours in which mj body is asleep in tne night, how far can ii fly when my body sleeps the long sleep ol the grave?"' Oh, this power to dream, hov startling, how overwhelming! If prepare! for the atter death flight, what an eacnant mentl If not prepared for the after deatt flight, what a crushing agoayt Immortal Immortal I Remark the Third?The vast majority of dreams are merely the reeuit of disturbs physical condition and are not a supernatura message. Job hai carbuncle?, and he was scared ii the night. He says, "1'hou scarcst me wit dreams and terriflest me with visions." Sole moc had an overwrought brain, over wrought with public business, and he suf fered from erratic number, ami he writes ii Ecclesiastes, "A dream cometh through th multitude of business." Dr. Gregory, in perimen ting with dreams, found tbata bottl of hot water put to bis feet while in slumbe made him think that be was going up th bot side of Mount Etna. ADOlQer muruiu ptiyoiuiou, imtuwu Witli dreams, his feet uncovered throug sleep, thought he was riding in Alpinu dili eence. But a great many dreams are mere ly narcarcotic disturbance. Anything tha you see while under the influence oI chlora or brand v or "hasoeesh" or iau Janum is no n revelation from '^od. The learned D Quincy flid not ascribe to divine commuui cation what he saw in sleep, opium satu rated; dreams which he afterward describe; in the following words: "I was worshiped. I was sacrificed. Ifl*( from tbe wrath of Brahma through all th forests of Asia. Vishnu hated me. Siva laic in wait for me. I come suddenly upon 1st and Osiris. I had done a deed, tbev said, tba made the crocodiles tremble. I Vasburiet lor a thousand years in stone cofHns, witl mummies and sphinxes in narrow chamber at tbe heart of eternal pyramids. I wa1 kisfe i with the cancerous kis3 of crocodile and lav confounded with nnnttftrable slim; things among: wreathy and Nilotic mud.' Bo cot mistake narcotic disturbance for di Tine revelation. L Bat I hare to tell you that the majority of dreams are merely the penalty ot outraged s digestive orjrans, and you have no right to c mistake the nightmare tor heavenly revel a- t tion. Late suppers are a warranty deed for a bad dreams. Highly spiced meals at II * o'clock at night instead of opening the door c heavenward open the door infernal and dia- t bolical. You outrage natural law, and you t insult the God who made these laws. It I takes from three to five hours to digest food, I and you have no right to tax your digestive organs in struggle when the rest of your 8 body is in somnolence. The general rule is, f ! eat nothing after 6 o'clock at nisjht, retire at ' r 10, sleep on your right side, koep the win- 8 dow open five inches for ventilation, and r other worlds will not disturb you much. By physical maltreatment you take the 8 ladder that Jacob saw in his dream and you 8 - lower it to the nether world, allowing the 1 ! ascent of the demoniaca'. Dreams are mid- 1 - - - - I i night dyspepsia. An unregulated desire tor something to eat ruined the race in paradise, and an unregulated desire for something to eat? keeps it ruined. Tbe world during 6000 years has tried in vain to digest that first apple. The world will not be evangelized until we get rid of a dyspeptic Christianity, Healthy people do not want this cadaverous and sleepy thing that some people call religion. They want a religion that lives regularly by day and sleeps roundly by nigbr. If through trouble or coming on of old age or exhaustion of Christian service you cannot sleep well, then you may expect from God "songs in the night," but there are no biassed communications to those who willingly surrender to indigesti bles. Napoleon's army at Leipsic, DresJeu and Borodino 1 same near being destroyed through the disturbed gastric juices of it commander. That is the way you have lost some of your battles. Another remark I make is that our dreams are apt to ba merely the echo of our day thoughts. I will give you a recipe for pleasant dreams: Fill your days with elevated thought and unselfish action, and your dreams will be set to music. If all day you are gouging and grasping and avaricious, in your dreams you will see gold that you cannot clutch and bargains in which you ?- ?>?>?? T# J? wErO OQLdQyXL UUWU^ vuo uuj jrvu i are irascible and pugnacious and gunpowdery of a is position, you will at night have battle with enemies in which they will get the best of you. If you are all day long in a hurry, at night you will dream of rail trains that you want to catch while you cannot move one inch toward the depot. If you are always oversusaicious and expectant of assault, you will hare at night hallucinations of assassins with daggers drawn. No one wonders that Richard IIL, the iniquitous, the night before the battle of Bosworth Field^ dreamed that all those whom he had murdered stared at him, and that he was torn to nieces by demons from tne pit. The scholar's dream is a philosophic echo. The poet's dream is a rhythmic echo. Coleridge composed his "?ubla Khan" aileep in a narcotic dream, and waking np wrote down 300 lines of it. Tartim, the violin player, composed his most wonderful sonata while asleep in a dream so vivid that waking he easily transferred it to paper. Waking thoughts have their echo in sleeping thoughts. If a man spends his life in trying to make others happy and is heavenly minded, around his pillow he will see crip* pies who have got over their crutch and processionsof^celestial.'imperialsand hear tha frani march roll down from drums of eaven over jasper parapets. You are very apt to hear in areams what you hear when you are wide awake. Now, having shown yon that having a Bible we ought to be satisfied not getting any further communication from God, and having shown you that all dreams have an important mission, since they show the com partitive independence oi cne soul iroxn cue body, and having shown you that the majority of dreams are a remit of disturbed physical condition, and having shown you that oar sleeping thoughts are apt to be an echo of our waiting thoughts, I come now to my flith and most important remark, and that is to say that it is capable of prooc that God does sometimes in uur day, and has often since the close of the Bible dispensation, appeared to people in dreams. All dreams that make you better are from , God. Ho? dol know it? Is not God the ! source of all good? It does not take a very logical mind to argue that out. Tertulliaa and Martin Luther believed in dreams. The dreams of John Hubs are immortal. St. Augustine, tha Christian father, gives us the fact that a Carthaginian physician was persuaded of the immortality of the soul by an argument which he heard in a dream. k The nig tit before bis assassination the wife l i of Julius Cseor dreamed that her husband , fell dead across her lap. It is possible to prove that Goi does appsar in dreams to ? warn, to convert anl to save men. t My friend, a retired sea captain and a | Christian, tells me that one night while on i [ the sea he had dreamed that a ship's crew ( were in great suffering. Waking up from his dream, he put about the ship, tacked in different direction.*, surprised everybody on ? the vessel?they thought he was going crazy l ?sailed on in anotner direction hour after hour, and for many hours until he came to the perishing crew and rescued them and . brought them to New York. Who conduct- 7 ed that dream? The God of the sea. 1 In 1683 a vessel went out from Spithmd for the West Indies and ran against the , ledge of rocks called the Caskets. The ve?el went down, but the crew clambered up on 1 the Caskets to die of starvation, as tiiey s supposed. But there was a ship bound for Southampton that had the captain's son on board. This lad twics in the night t J dreamed that there was a crew of sailors ( , dying on the Caskets. He told his father of , his dream. The vessel came down by the Caskets in time to tind and to rescue those 1 poor dying; men. Who conducted that dream? lue Uod of the rocks, the Gol of . the sea. 1 The Rev. Dr. Bushnell, in his marvelous 1 book entitled, "Nature and the Superna- 1 tural," gives tue following fact that ne got < from Captain Yount in California, a fact ] confirmed by many families. Captain Yount dreamed twice one night that 150 miles away there was a company of traders fast in the snow. He also saw iu the dream roc<s , of peculiar formation, and telling his dream to an old hunter the hunter sad, "Why, I 1 remember those rocks; tho3e rocks are iu i the Carson Valley pass. 130 miles away." < Captain Yount, impelled by this dream, , although laughed at by hts neighbors, gathered men together, took mules and ' blankets and started out on the expedition, < traveled 153 miles, saw those very rocks which he had described in his dream, and finding the suffering ones at the foot of 1 those rccis brought them bactc to confirm ] the story of Captain Yount. Who conJ?t-j ?*. J ? TU- n? J ' ciucieu mau uruauif iuo uua sjl. tuo auyn, ? the God of the Sierra Nevadas. God his often appeared in dreams to res[ cue and comfort. You have known people r ?perhaps it is something i state in your own experience?you have seen people go to sleep with bereavements inconsolable, and they awakened in perfect resignation be. cause of what they had seen in slumber. Dr. Crannage, one of the most remarkable men I ever met?remarkable for benevolf eiice and great philanthropies?at Wellington, England, showed me a house where the Lord had appeared in a wonder Jul j dreaui to a poor woman. The woman was . rneumatic, sick, poor to the laBt point of 1 destitution. She was waited on and oared i for by another poor woman, her only at> "} tendant. Word came to her one day that this poor 1 woman had died, and the invalid of whom I ~ am apeakinz lay helpless upon the coach wondering what would become of her. In a that mooi she fell asleep. In her dreams 1 6 she said the angel of the Lord appeared and x took her into the open air and pointed in 0 one direction, and there were mountains of r bread, and pointed in another direction, and 1 0 there wer? mountains o! butter, and in an- 1 other direction, and there were mountains j? of all kinds of worlily suDnly. The angel " of the Lord said to her, "Woman, all these l" mountains belong to your Father, and do vou think that Ho will l?fc vnii His f?hild I lt bunker and die?" Dr. Cranna?e told me by some divin9 iraj, pulse be went into that destitata home, saw ^ the suffering there and administered unto j. it. caring for her all the way through. Do you tell me that that dream was woven out i of earthly anodynes* Was that the phantasmagoria of a diseased brain? No, it was i 1 an all sympathetic God addressing a poor 9 woman through a dream. 1 Furthermore, I have to say that there are people in this house who were converted to I <rod through a dream. The Rjv. John i Newton, the fame of whose piety fills all i Christendom, while a profligate sailor on 3 shipboard, in his dream, thought that a be3 ing approached him and gave him a very t beautiful rinse and put it upon his finger and r said to him, "A9 long as you wear that ring I you will be prospers; if you lose that ring, , . you will be ruined." In the same dream another personage ap- t > peared, and by a strange infatuation per i uaded John Newton to throw that rint iverboard, and it sank into the sea. Thet he mouatains in sight were fall of fire md the air w%* lurid with oonsumln rrath. While John Newton was repentinj if his folly in having thrown overboard th< reasure, another personage cams throngl he dream and told John Newton he wouli >lunge into the sea and bring the ring up i le desired it. He plunged into the sea and brought it u ind said to John Newton, "Here is tha ;em, but I think I will keep it for you. les ron lose it again," and John Newton cor ented, and all the fire went out from tn noun tains, and all the siccns of lurid wrat lisappeared from the air, and John Newto aid that he saw in his dream that that vale ible gem was bis sooJ, and that the bein rho persuaded bim to throw it overboar ras Satan, and that th6 one who plunged ii md restored that gem, keeping it for him ras Christ. And that dream makes one o he most wonderful chapters in the life o hat most wonderful man. A German was crossing the Atlanti cean, and in his dream he saw a man wit i handful of white flowers, and he was tol o follow the man who had that handful c rhite flowers. The German, arriving i few York, wandered into the Fulton Btree irayer meeting, and Mr. Lamphier?whor nanyof you know?the great apostle c irayar meetings, that day had given to hie k bunoh of tuberoses. They stood on his desk, and at the clog if the religious services he took the tube osea and start 3d homeward, and the Gei nan followed him, and through an irfter >reter told Mr. Lamphier that on the sea h lad dreamed of a man with a handful o vhite flowers and was told to follow him Suffice it to say, through that interview an ollowing interviews he became a Christia * 3? fKo flncrv! maiaaciuy iiiiNsiuucivjr picaua>u5 ^.v^Kv a his own countrymen. God in a dream! John Hardock, while oa shipboarc lreamed one night that the day of judj nent had come, and that the roll of th ihip'8 crew was called, except his own nami ind that these people, this crew, were a janished, and in his dream he asked th reader why his own name was omitted, an ae was told it was to give him more oppoi mnity for repentance. He woke up a diJ 'erenc man. He became illustrious to Christian attainment. If you do not belie? these things, then you must discard all tei timony and refuse to accept any kind of ai thoritative witness. God in a dream I Rev. Herbert Mendes was converted t Sod through a dream of the last judgmeni ind I doubt if there is a man or woman i this house to-day that has not had som iream of that great day of judgment whic ihall be the winding up of the world's hi x>ry. If you have not dreamed of it, pei laps to-night you may dream of that aaj There are enough materials to make 3ream. Enough voices, for there shall t the roaring of the elements and the gres earthquake. Enough light for the drean lor the world shall blaz?. Enough ercife nent, for the mountains shall fall. Enoug vater, for the ocean shall roar. Enoug istronomic&l phenomena, for the stars sha 50 out. Enough populations, for all tt 'aces of all the ages will fall into line of on >f two processions, and the one ascendln ind the other descending, the one led oa b ;he rider on the white horse of etarni victory, the other led on by Apollyoa c ;be black charger of eternal defeat. The dream comes on me now, and I ? ;he lightnings from above answering tb rolcanic disturbances from beneath, and lear the long reverberating thunders ths 1 hall wake up the dead, and on one side tee the opening of a gate into scales golde rod amethystine, and on the other side Ko/?!f nf n crntsK infcA ho tiles of eternal bondage, anl all the sea lifting up their crystal voices, cry, "Com :o? judgment!" and all the voices of tl leaven cry, "Coma to judgment P' or tumbling mausoleum and Westmiost* lbbeys and pyramids of the dead with mai ale voices cry, "Come to judgment!" And the archangel seizes an instrument i music which has never yet been Bounded, o instrument of music that was made only f< >ne sound, and thrusting that might irumpet through the clou if and turning this way he shall put it t? his lip aud bio the long, loud blast that shall make tl solid earth quiver, crying, "Come to judj oaent." Then from this oarthljr grosanoti quit, Attired to stars we stuff forever sib 10 ULAB SCIENCE. The moon is without water and dest ute of an atmosphere. The fixed stare are suns and each ma lave its own planetary system. Australia is following the English lea n the introduction of tin electric launc o its water*. Sun spots 100,000 miles in diamet* lave been measured, large enough 1 lold dozens of such worlds as ours. Geologists consider kerosene to be an nal oil. Hence what we bum in lamp s the remains of long extinct monster 1 4- -? ? ? ?- AnoiU a?aiin/7 til M'H6 motion Ul bUO cai LL1 aiuuuu vu un is 68,305 miles an hoar, over 100 ailes a miaute, or nineteen miles ?cond. It is not an eaty matter to freeze o xichinae. Aiter subjection to a temperi we of twenty-five degrees below zei for tw? hours, they again become acti? ivlien exposed to light snd hoat. A clever contrivance has been invente for the direction of small pieces of mas letizable metal, such as needles, tack iteel and iron chips, etc., that may hai entered the human body unawares as aidden themselves m the skin or deep tissues. The sparks which in cold weather fl from the fingers when a metallic objec is touched are due to the electricity pr< duced by the friction between the sol< of the shoes and the carpct. The ?lei tricity is not formed in the body at a ?nd has nothing to do with the vital pri cesses. An electrical process for making in digo consists in oxidizing the ycllo* liquid formed from the dried plan steeped in water by passing au clectr current through it from copper ele< tiodes, Tne indigo thu3 formed is sa; to be purer and finer thin that produce in the usual way. The lungs will contaiu about one ga - ? 1 j loq oi air at tueir usuai uu^iec m muc tion. We breathe on aa average 120 times per hour, inhale 600 gallons of a or 24,000 per day. The aggregate sir face of the air cells of the lungs exceec 20,000 square inchps, an area very near equal to tue floor of a room twelve fe square. ? Throat diseases are caused by germ Inhalations of sewer gas, enlarged an horny tonsils and obstructions in tl nose. People liable to throat diseas should be very careful In using rtlcoho tobacco and in eating hot or highly spice food. Irritating remedies, sucii cayenne, tannin lozenges or nitrate silver, should be avoided, except special cases. M. Moissan, member of the Academ des Sciences, lias produced a number microscopic specimens of true diamon from ordinary carbon, which he hi crystallized by means of au electric furnace, invented by himself. Rcsuli were obtained Dy cussoiviug pure bou, obtained by the combustion ( sugar in an ingot of Iron heated to 30f. degrees centigrade, and then crystalli; ing it by the application of cold wnte The crystals thus produced are ve minute, not above the thousandth pa of a carat, but they exnibit ail the qual ties of the real diamond. Ex-Senatok inoalls Is never 1 lappy as when talking, but a teami )xen could not draw an opinion ujx ihe crinoline question from him. ; ^UG HAKiJOK." \ eohis for disabled seamen ? FOUNDED BY AN OLD SALr. ti i t The Unique Charitable Institution on Staten island?Queer Characters J oi the Harbor?Sailors of All it Nations Are There. ie ? q y AILORS' Snug H,ri ? f bor is such aa exK pressive term, say? a New York cor' A respondent of the 'l X/Ji Chicago Times, that 1 J /-^v it has become oae c t"ie atoc^ meta* h phors of the land 'y^hrj^55guage. The unique _ institution w h i c h ** bears the name is a MSSX&SL worthy of it. The tf vflJP1 iyt metaphorical siga Yjv... /T1 nificance of the term a 9 ^ ^atne(^ Qo^hbg * -J mm M *n pictureflqueneM jl W K m over ita literal meana f yl f 1 *D8' S?^or8> ,t 'I/J | / Snug Harbor, as it I IT I 'i ^ actually exists on d | I ' Statea Island, fully J / ( fits its name. Old Captain I. Robert Richard Randall concentrated the s* rery essence of the saltiness and breezi* ^ ness of a sailor's life in the name he II chose for the charity he founded. The ? name, however, has been no more sue.. cessful than the institution. More than 4000 old tars have found shelter in it, and r safe anchorage after the storms of life. ? Of Captain Randall, the founder of tI the Sailors' Snug Harbor, singularly meager information has been preserved. x> Even his right to the title of captain ? rests on an argumentative foundation. 10 It is known that he was a member of h' the Marine Society and that none but * masters of vessels were admitted to membership in it. Hence it is concluded that a he must have been a captain. It is also ia known that he wa9 a bachelor, and to lt this circumstance is credited the fact ? that while making such generous profa vision for sailors he made none at all for ?Kilnra' wir?a widows Of OTDhanS. >* Oiaihwo . 11 Certain it is that June 1st, 1801, he i9 made a will, drawn by Alexander Hamg llton, wherein, after making several 7 small specific bequests, he provided that the residue of his estate should be held a by trustees for the foundation of a home m ''for aged, decrepit and worn-out t? sailors." * The trustees he'appointed were the I Chancellor of the State of New York, in the Mavor and Recorder of the city of * 'New York, the President of the Cham? ber of Commerce, the President and tt, Vice-President of the Marine Society, ie and the senior Presbyterian and Epis^ copal ministers of this citj and their suep. cessors in these offices forever. The office ot Chancellor of the State- was abolished in 1846, and since then there ? have been but seven trustees. From y this provision of the will it happens that it the present trustees are Mayor Gilroy, w Recorder Frederick Smyth, President Charles S. Sncith of the Chamber of Commerce, Captain Francis A. Martin and Captain Albert Spencer of the Marine Society, the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, of Trinity Church, and the Rev. Dr. Howard Duffield, of the First Presbyterian Church. The will provided that {. the home was to be established when the estate would support fifty inmates. A charter of incornoration was granted by the Legislature ia 1806. But con, testants to the will arose, among them ^ the Bishop of Nova Scotia, and the litigation lasted until 1830, when by a decision of the United States Supreme 3r Court the will was sustained. ;0 The property which Captain Randall left to the Harbor consisted of land bei tween Broadway and the Bowery and ts Seventh and Tenth streets, known as the !. "Minto farm," about twenty-two acres e in all. It was on part of this property 0 that A. T. Stewart afterward built his a retail store. By the time the litigation concerning tne will was settled this ul property had so increased in value that it was not thought wise to follow the testator's request that the Harbor should , be built upon it. A. site was selected on Staten Island facing the KUl-von-Kull, , | and about 200 acres were purchased. ,a The corner atone of the first building >* was laid October 21, 1831, and August 8? 1, 1833, the institution was formally r? opened and thirty seamen were installed as inmates. BI This number, in spite of a narrow construction of the will relating to the qualify fications required of applicants for ad* :t mission, has grown to 850. Instead of j. IU le 09 I, :d TNCUSTRtGtf as of one building there are now about twenia ty-five on the ground. Five of these, containing the dormitories, dining roons, je and work rooms for the inmates, are two0{ story structures connected by covered ways. Three oi them present a facade icj supported by Doric columns in the style that was so universal fifty years ago. The executive offices are in the central of the r_ five buildings. Halls extend tiansversely . through each building. In the main ,q hall of iae central building the windows are of sta'.ned glass, alt or nautical design. 'file transom aloro tho door ronrfspnts tha fon-9ftil of a sailine- vessel ry " T" ' r. ? anct bear3 this inscription: JSail^bh' S.vuo Harbor. l" For Aged, Oecftjoit, and Worn-Oat Sailors, .Pounded bv Roberfc Richard Randall. g0 How Great., How Plentiful, How Hic> a Dower of Turcufc'sout the halls th?a wails are )Q adorned witb engraving.:- r\nd paintings, i almost all of them representing scenes a sea. Thero is an ample hospital build ing, together with workshops, kitchens boiler rooms, and neat cottages for the employes. A very handsome chapel ha< just been erected in the form of a Greel cross surmounted by an imposing dome. It is not, however, either the building! or the grounds which are the chie source of interest in this pleasing insti tution. The buildings are ample, com modious, and well designed to accom modate 1000 inmates. It is the inmate themselves who form the picturesqui feature. There are old salts of ever Nation and nearly every race; men wh< , have buffeted the storms of every sea The requirements ror admission are cnai a man shall have sailed iu vessels goinf to foreign parts under the American flaj for five years and be unable to earn i living by manual labor. This exclude I . , .... THE MAIN BUILDINGS ? all lake sailors, and, as in the early days tbe institution was cramped for funds, the trustees were led to adopt a construction of the terms of the will whict would keep down the number of the ap plicants to the limits of the endowment. They decided that the provision* of th< will only applied to men who followec the vocation of seamen as it existed a the time the will was made. The con struction, therefore, excludes from th benefits of the harbor seamen sailing n steam vessels. In short, the inmates are those alone who coine under the descrip* tion of''sailors before the mast." By thus keeping down the number o admissions, together with the constat) CONTSHT? OLD ASS. and rapid increase ia the value of the land held ia trust, the institution ha become wealthy. It is one of the rar instances of charity having ample fund to meet the demands made upon it. Having once been admitted as an in mate to the home a sailor is fixed foi life. The utmost liberty is allowed. In mates can obtain leave of absence fo any length of time. Many of them, ii fact, are away from the Harbor sii months at a time. Some of the mor able-bodied of them occupy their sum mere as skippers of pleasure craft in th waters about New T*rk, returning t the Harbor for the winter. The methoi of obtaining "liberty," &$ it is called, o; leave of absence, is very simple. Eacl inmate, on his admission to the Harbor is given a number and a silver badg bearing it. While he is in the Harbo he fastens this to the dinner table, whicl indicates at once his place at the tab1 and the fact that he will be there a meal time. When he leaves, even if i is only for a few hours, provided i covers the time of a meal, he takes hi badge and deposits it with the lodg keeper, receiving it again when he re ! turns. 1 (INI Pi ss i n s or.D .r-voKfl. Inmates are provided with not oolj food and shelter, but with clothing The uuiform of the Harbor, which, however, is not required to be worn except on State occasions, i? of navv blue, Witt white metal buttons. In addition each is allowed oae pound of tobacco i month, and it is through this allowance largely that discipline ij maintained. Punishment is called "taboo," and consists for the most part of withdrawins -| - 1 " me louacuu uuuwuuucul lucpiitiic^c u< leaving the home, and ia the case ol those who are employed about the home, either as guides to visitors, waiters it the dining ioom. or as laborers on the farm, bj witnholding their pay. No in mate is required to do any work. If hi does any he is paid for it at a rate rang ing from $8 to $20 a month. The paj roll of the institution to inmates amount to about $15,000 a year. Many of thosi e who are doc able to perform any of these - kinds of work find a means not only of , obtaining pocket money, but even in j i some cases of securing quite an income i by making hammocks, fish nets, baskets, c and, in fact, nearly all articles in which ( , either twine or rattan is the chief factor. ( 1 The material is furnished by the institu- ' f tion and sold to the inmates at cost. They find a ready sale for nearly every- ' thing they make among Tisitors to the Harbor. ! s The dinner hour at the Harbor is an 1 2 interesting time for visitors. Punctually 7 upon the stroke of 12 the great bell oa ' o the main building is ruag. upon ins . last stroke *he gong is sounded, an; nouncing ^at dinner is ready. Within r a few seconds nearly every place at the j tables is filled. Nothing, however, is & touched. The deep tone of the gong s once more resounds through the building Of THE SNUG HABBOR. i and a death-like silence falls upon the 1 , assembled crowd?a silence so deep acd ? profound that the fall of a pin can be i i distinctly heard. Presently the stillness ' is broken by a saintly, gray-haired old i salt, who, with nasal twang and a sing- < ; song manner, announces grace at the top i 1 of his lungs. Once more the gong sounds i t and anything but silence prevails. No - time is lost in useless conversation and ] e mere formality at the dinner table. They < l are there to feed, and feed they do with j ) a vengeance, for in exactly three minutes j and a half from the time the last gong < sounded the first man to finish his dinner f has left the room. Some eat their meat 1 t first; some their soup. But it is a mere _ matter of opinion and taste as to the order. There is no ceremony indeed. i In an institution of this character there j are, of course, various types and charac- i ' ters of men. There are those who might s have been the originals for any or all of' i the characters in Captain Morryatt's < f novels or Cooper's sea tales. Then there v are others who ate the type ot a "com-. ( mon sailor kicked and cuffed before the mast." It is an admirable charity and well worth a visit any day. ' I Tropical Frnits of Color. The abundance of tropical fruit; to ba fA.inil in Piih* io nnfc annul to the auonlv LVSUIAV* tU Vwvw ?? ia New York. Oranges, bananas and pineapples are the staples, with a few sapodillas and guavas thrown in. The Cuban oranges are not as good as those of Florida. The bananas eaten are little bigger than a thumb. They are mealy, and not pasty, like the long reds ana yellows of the New York market. Baldwin apples from the States and winter pears are more favored on the street stands than native fruits. Tae apples are sold in bunches tied together by the ? stems.?New York Timee. s ?i 9e Two Fine Fair Buildings. Here is a picture of the Illinois State . building at the World's Fair. The sum* r mit of its flagpole is the highest point . on the Exposition grounds. It stretches r fifty-five feet above a dome which itself a reaches a height of 236 feet six inches, c The building has coat nearly $200,000. e Ia design it is a French adaptation of . the Italian Renaissance. Its principal e feature is the dome, which rises from 0 the intersection of the arms of a Greek 1 cross In long and graceful lines. i. TEE ILLINOIS BUILDIK8. There ia nothing squat or diminutive , about it. It rises to the greatest height .. that the lines of the building will allow. North and south of the dome are the , arms of the cross. The southern arm ( extends seventy-five feet beyond the ( walls of tue main building, and contains , three stories, reached by an ornamental , stairway. I The location of the South Dakota , - building at the park is one of the very j best and most prominent State sites on i the ground, the building being the first j to attract attention on the south side of the Fiftj-3eventh street entrance. The building is 70x130 feet, two stories J high, each story fourteen feet. Fourteen of the principal cities of the State will be memorialized in as many beautiful windows. Every nail has been driven by South Dakota muscle. The outside has been finished in Yankton Portland cement?a product of the State. The exhibit to be made will represent the physical divisions of the State?the agricultural country and artesian basin, the grazing fields, fossil beds and mfaei. There is collected and stored at Sioux ' Falls a great variety of grasses, grains, * etc., which are now being carefully 1 f fcf ' 1 few ft 3 THE SOUTH DAKOTA Bnr.LIUNfl. ?' ' - ni i sorted and repacked.?Hail anci Ek- h 1 press. b ~ n 5 During the year 1891 the Paris mar- \ kets sold 300,000 lar;<s and the saw* t r number of rabbits from French sources, o 1 aud 1,100,000 larks and 300,000 rabbits a 2 that had been imported. o c HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. 107 80UTHBRN COOKS PREPARE BICS. Wash a pint of rice in two waters, poor >ver it two quarts of boiling water, add iven teaspoonful of salt, cover closely md set over the fire, stirring it often, soil fast twenty minutes; pour off the water, cover Closely and set on the back of the stove to steam, half an hour or more, tossing It often with a silver fork. When done each grain will be soft but cvhnlfl And norfor>?- ftflrvA with TDSSt poultry.?New York Observer. MA.RZIPA-N. Marzipan, the tamous German confec- tiou is fouad in many of our shops, and! is becoming almost as much of a holiday Jainty here as in the old German towns. A. tested recipe for this calls for a pound of sweet almonds, a pound of powdered > sugar and a tablespoonful of orangelower water. Blanch the almonds, dry them and pound them to a paste. Mix them with the sugar, and stir over a Are in a saucepan until it ceases to stick to the pan. Then sprinkle a little pow* , iered sugar over the pastry board and roll the almond pasterout, using a rolling pin of German earthen ware. Dredge it with fine powdered sugar as you do 10. Enead it and roll it as you would puff paste. Cut it out into round cakes or make large marzipan the size -of a pie. Decorate with candied cherries, slices of sandied limes, bits of angelica, lobes of jrystallized oranges and candied grapes. Let it dry in a moderately warm place till it is quite white. It is better to put the crystallized fruit on it after it is dry. ?New York Tribune. LAUNDEBrNG LDTBSf. Again and again housekeepers are told sever to allow linen to become thoroughly dry before ironing, for it is almost oat of the questiou to make it smooth after once wrinkles are dried into It. In hanging out linen, especial cam should be taken to shake it and smooth " < it so that no creases caused by wringing -:,A it shall be left in it. Some housekeepers ?those who have small washes and plenty of time?shatce towels out thoroughly, fold the two ends together and pin the fringe to the line, putting in one pin at each corner and one at the midHe. They claim that .the constant whipping of the fringe wears th?* ends of the towel out much more quickly than u : necessary. There is a good theory in this, and ( the additional time is worth while unless; / , % strength anrl help are of more importance % than towels. Pillow cases should be turned WTongride out and pinned to the line by the closed end. Exception to this role may be made on dull or damp days when the clothes dry slowly; then they should be pinned to the line at one side of the open end, but it is worth while for convenience in ironing to change them and let them finish drying pinned by the closed end. It is a srood nlsn. alwava considering. of course, whether time* and strength.\ will allow, to take linen sheets/ and table-cloths from the line when about half dry, shake them and smooth them oat, fold them once over and hang them over the liae without any stretching or 'pulling. A cotipto of plus. at a . iiist&jQ& from dither edg35riU keep them ta place. This gives more line roem, -which is often greatly needed; and allows the pieces to dry in much better - j shape.- & Many laundresses seem to think clothes may be flung on to the line in any way whatever, wrinkled, folded or twisted, as the case may be; but this means just so much additional work when ironing day comes. Things that are done right in the first place save much labor and perplexity as well aa not a little wear and tear of the articles thecaelves.?New York Ledger. LIGHT DES3BBT3. 1 Snow Cream?Boat the whites Of four eggs until foamy; add four tabloqpoeoaful of sugar, and beat until stiff enough to stand alone; add one teaspoonful of vanilla; stir in a pint of whipped cream. Set on ice until Very cold, and serve ia glasses, with cake. Apple Charlotte?Take six large apples, pare, and steam them until tender, press through a colander and sweeten. Cover half a box of gelatine with cold water and soak half an hour; mix with the hot apples and stir until dissolved. Pour in a tin pan, stand on ice and stir until thick; then add a pint of whipped cream. Pour in a fancy mold and stand on ice to harden. Charlotte Russe?Cover half a box ot gelatine with cold water and letsoaffOr half an hour. Whip a quart of cream and stand on ice. Line a mold with lady fingers. Add hot water to the gelatine , to dissolve. Stir a cup of powdered sugar in the cream, with a teaspoonful of vanilla extract; strain the gelatine over, and stir all together until the mix- . ture begins to thicken; pour in the mold ind set on ice to harden. When hard, turn out carefully and serve with whipped cream. Chocolate Bavarian Cream ? Cover \ bait a box of gelatine with cold water; let soak half an hour; whip a pint of iream; grate ten ounces of chocolate; put a pint of milk on to boil; add the chocolate atrtl gelatine, and -4tir until dissolved. Take from the lire, add half i cup of sugar and teaspoonful of va nilla; pour in a tia pan ana stir until (hick; add the cream; mix and pour in a mold to harden. Serve with jhipped :ream. French Chocolate (a Creole recipe)? Jover half a box of gelatine with cold water and let soak half an hour; whip >ne pint of cream and set on ice. Pat a )int of new milk on to boil. Bnafc three :ggs and half a cup of sugar together; idd to the boiling milk and atir until it hickens; add the gelatine; take from he tire; flavor with vanilla; stir in a eacup of grated cocoanut and a teacup if pounded alraoads. Line a mold witn tate cake. Let the mixture thicken; >eat in ths waipped crcain, pour in the uold and stand on ice to harden.? Jouriir-Juurnal. Queer Quartz. A collector of curios in New York rides himself on a piece of quartz that as two cryslals on its face. These crjsils form a perfect cross, one intersectag the other at right angles, and a little ollow behind them throws them into ,igh relief. It is the only known specimen of the kind and came from the Vest. The Indians used to have a loetical tradition that tbe small crystals if this mineral found on the upper Hudou and about Like George were the tears if stricken deer solidified.?San Franiscc Chronicle. i a'- '?' y , i