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REV. DC. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "Pompeii and Its Lessons." f' T*xt : Thou hast made of a defensed city aruin."?Isaiah xxv., 2. A flash on the night sky greeted _us as we left the rail train at Naples, Italy. What was the strange illumination? It was that wrath of many centuries?Vesuvius. Giant son of an earthquake. Intoxicated mountain of Italy. Father of many consternations. A volcano, burning so long, and yet to keop on burning until, perhaps, it may be the very torch that will kindle the last confirmation and set all the world on flre. It eclipses in violence of behavior Cotopaxi and iEtna and Stromboli and Krakatoa. Awful mystery. Funeral pyre of dead cities. Everlasting paroxysm of mountains. It seems like a ohimney of hell. It roars with fiery reminiscence of what it has done and with threats of worse things that it may yet do. I would not li,ve in one of the villages at its base for a present of all Italy. On a day in Deoember, 1631, it threw up ashes that floated away hundreds and hundreds of miles and dropped in Constantinople, and in the Adriatio sea, and on the iiunninoD na mnll no framnlintr out at its own foot the lives of 18,000 people. Geologist? bare tried to fathom its mysteries,but the heat consumed the iron instruments and drove back the scorched and blistered explorers from the cindery and crumbling brink. It seems like the asylum of maniac elements. At one time far back its top had been a fortress, where Spartacus fought and was \ surrounded and would have been destroyed had it not been for the grapevines which clothed the mountainside from top to base, and laying hold of them he climbed hand under hand to safety in the valley. Bat for centuries it has kept its furnace burning as we saw it that night on our arrivalin November of 1889. Of course the next day we started to see some of the work wrought by that frenzied mountain. "All out for Pompeii!" was the cry of the conductor. And now we stand by the corpse of that dead city. As we entered the gate and passed between the walls I took off my hat, as one naturally does in the presence of some imposing obsequies. That city had beenat one time a capital of beauty and pomp. TOO noma 01 grand arcnuecrure, exquisite painting, enchanting sculpture, unrestrained carousal and rapt assemblage. A high wall twenty feet thiok, three-fourths of It still visible, encircled the city. Of those walls, at a distance of only 100 yards from each other, towers rose for armed men who watched the oity. The streets ran at right angles and from wall to wall, only one street excepted. In the days of the city's prosperity its towers glittered in the sun; eight strong gates for ingress and egress; Gate of the Seashore. Gate of Herculanenm. Gate of Vesuvius being perhaps the most important Yonder stood the Temple of Jupiter, hoisted at an Imposing elevation, and with its six oorinthian columns of Immense girth, which stood like carved icebergs shimmering in the light. There stands the Temple of the Twelve Gods. Yonder see the Temple of Hercules and the Temple of Mercury, with altars of irarble and bas-relief, wonderful enough to astound all succeeding ages ot art, and the Temple of iEsculapius, brilliant with sculpture and gorgeous with painting. Yonder are the theatres, partly cut into surrounding hills, and glorified with pictured walls, and entered under arches of imposing masonry, and with rooms, for captivated and applaudatory audiences seated or standing in vast semi-clroleL Yonder are the costly and immense publio baths of the city, with more than the modern ingenuities of Carlsbad. Notice the warmth of those ancient tepidarlums, with hovering radiance of roof, and the vapor of those caldariums. with decorated alcoves, and the cold dash of their frigidariums, with floors of mosaic and oeilings of ail skilfully intermingled hues, and walls upholstered with all the oolors of the setting sun, and sofas on which to recline for slumber after the plunge. Yonder are the barraoks of the oelebnted olkritatnra YnnrtAr in f h? nnmmnr home of Sallust, the Roman historian and Senator, the architecture as elaborate as his ohtxacter was corrupt There is the residence of the poet Pansa, with a compressed Louvre and Luxembourg within his walls. There is the home ot Lucretius, with vases and antiquities enough to turn the head of a virtuoso. Yonder see the Forum, at the highest place in the city. It is entered by two triumphal arches. It is bounded on three sides by dorlc columns. Yonder, in the suburbs of the city, is the home of Arrius Dlomed, the mayor of the suburbs, terraced residence of billionaire* dCm, gardens, fountained, statued, colonnaded, the cellar of that villa filled with bottles of rarest wine, a few drops of which were found 1800 years afterward. Along the streets of the city are men of might and women of beauty formed into bronze that manv centuries bad no power to bedim. Battle scenes on walls in colors which all time cannot efface. Great city of Pompeii! So Seneca and Tacitus and Cicero pronounced it. Stand with me on its walls this evening of August 23. A. D. 79. See the throngs passing up and down in Tyrlan purple and girdles of arabesque, and necks encnained with precious stones, proud official in imposing toga meeting the slave carrying trays a-clink with gobl*5ts and a-smoke with delicaoier from paddock and sea, and moralist musing over the degradation of the times passes the profligate doing his best to make them worse. Hark to the clatter and rataplan of the hoofs on the streets paved with blocks of basalt. See the verdured and flowered grounds sloping into the most beautiful bay of all the oarth?the bay of Naples. Listen to the rumbling chariots, carrying convivial occupants to halls of mirth and masquerade and carousal. Hear the loud dnsh of fountains amid the sculptured water nymphs. Notice the weird, solemn farreachlng hum and din and roar of a city at the vtlrtoA Af O unmmflF Hnv T.ot Pnmnflii filAAr well to-night, for It la the last night of peaceful slumber before she falls into the deep slumber of many long centuries. The morning of the 24th of August, A. D. 79. has arrived, and the days roll on, and it is 1 o'clock In the afternoon. ' Look!" I say to you, standing on this wall, as the sister of Plinj said to him, the Roman essayist and naval commander, on the day of which I speak, as she pointed him in the direction in which J point you. There is n peculiar cloud on the sky; a spotted cloud, now white, now black. It is Vesuvius in awful and unparalleled eruption. Now the smoke and Are and steam of thai black monster throat rise and spread, as, by my gesture, I now describe it. It rises, a great column of fiery, darkness, higher and higher, and then spreads out like the branches of a tree, with midnights enterwrapped in its foliage, wider and wider. Now the sun goes out, and showers ol pumice stone and water from furnaces more than seven times heated, and ashes in aval anohe after avalanche, blinding and scalding and suffocating, descend north, south, east and west, burying deeper and deeper in mammoth sepulcher, such as nsver before or since was opened, Stabiae, Herculaneum and Pompeii. Ashes ankle deep, girdle . . 4eep, chin deep, ashes overhead. Out of the house9 and temples and theatres and into the streets and down to the beach fled many of the frantic, but others, it tiot suffocated of the ashes, were scalded tc death by the heated deluge. And then came heavier destruction in rocks after rocks, -crushing in homes and temples and theatres. No wonder the soa receded from the beRch as though in terror, until much of the shipping was wrecked, and no wonder tbat when thej lifted Pliny the elder from the sailcloth oo whioh ho was resting, under the agitations ol what he had seen, he suddenly expired. For three days the entombment proceeded. Then the clouds lifted, and the cursinar o: that Apoliyon of mountains subsided. Foi 1700 years that city of Pompeii lay buried jtnd without anything to show its place of doom. But after 1700 years of obliteration a workman's spade, digging a well, strikes some antiquities which lead to the exhumation of the city. Now walk with me through some of the streets and into* some of the houses and amid the ruins of basilica and temple and amphitheatre. From the moment the guide met us at the gate on entering Pompeii that day in November, 1889, until he left us at the Rate on our dep arture, the emotion I felt was indescribable for elevation and solemnity and sorrow and awe. Come and see the petrified bodies of the dead found in the city, and now in the museums of Italy. About 450 o1 those embalmed by that eruption have been recovered. Mother and child, noble and serf, merchant and beggar, are presentable and natural after 1700 years of burial. That woman was found clutohing her adornments when the storm of ashes and Are began, and for 1700 years she continued to clutch tbem. There at the soldiers' barracks are sixtyfour skeletons of brave men. who faithfully stood guard at their post when the tempeet of cinders began, and after 1700 years were still found standing guard. There is the form of gentle womanhood impressed upon the hardened ashes. Pass along, and here *ve soe ttoo deep ruts in the basaltic pavements worn there by the wheels of the chariots of the first oentury. There, over the doorways and in the porticoes, are works of art immortalizing the debauohery of a city, which, notwithstanding all its splendors,was a vestibule of perdition. Those gutters ran with the blood of the gladiators, who were prizefighters of those ancrrar times, ana it was sword parrying sword, until, with one skilful and stout plunge of the sharp edge, the mauled and gashed combatant reeled over dead, to be carried out amid the huzzas of enraptured spectators. We staid among those suggestive scenes after the hour that visitors are usually allowed there and staid until there was not a footfall to be heard within all that city except our own. Up this silent street and down that silent street we wandered. Into that windowless and roofless home we went and came out again onto the pavements that, now forsaken, were once thro aged with life. And can it be that all up and down these solemn solitudes, hearts more than 1800 years ago ached and rejoiced, and feet shuffled with the gait of old age or danced with ohildish glee, and overtasked workmen carried their burdens, and drunkards staggered? On that mosaio floor did glowing youth clasp nan as in marriage vow. and cross that threshold did pallbearers carry the- beloved dead, and gay groups once mount those now skeletons cf staircases? While I walked and contemplated the city seemed suddenly to be thronged with all the population that had ever inhabited it, and I heard its laughter and groan and uncleanness and infernal boast as it was on the 23d Of August, 79. And Vesuvius, from the mild light with whloh it flashed the sky that summer evening as I stood in disentombed Pompeii, seemed suddenly again to heave and flame and rock with the lava and darknees and desolation and woe with which more than eighteen oenturies ago it submerged Pompeii, .as with the liturgy of fire and storm the mountain proclaimed at the burial, "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." My friends, I cannot tell what practical suggestion comes to your mind from this walk through uncovered Pompeii, but the first thought that absorbs me is that, while art and culture are Important, they cannot save the morals or the life of a great town. Much of the painting and sculpture of Pompeii was so exquisite that, whtle some is kept on the walls where it was first penciled, to be admired by those who go there, whole wagon loads and whole rooms full of it have been transferred to the Museo Borbonico at Naples, to be admired by the centuries. Those Pompelian artists mixed such durability of colors that, though their paintings were buried in ashes and sooriee for 1700 years, and since they were uncovered many of them have remained there exposed to the rains and winds and winters and summers 130 years, the color is as fresh and vivid and true as though yesterday it had passed from the easel. Whioh of our modern paintings could stand all that? And yet many of the specimens of Pompeiian art show that the city was sunk to such a depth of abomination that there was nothing deeper. Sculptured and petrified and embalmed abomination. There was a state of public morals worse than belongs to any city now standing under the sun. Yet how many think that all that is necessary is to cultivate the mind and advanoe the knowledge and Improve the arts. Have you the impression that eloquence will do the elevating work? Why, Pompeii had Cicero half of every year for its citizen. Have you the idea that literature is all that is necessary to keep a city right'/ Why. Sallhst. with a pen tft&t was tne Doast 01 iwmaa literature. bad a mansion in that doomed olty. I)o you think that sculpture and art are quite sufficient for the production of good morals? Then correct your delusion by examining the statues in the Temple of Mercury at Pompaii, or the winged figures of its Parthenon, and the colonnades and arches of this house of Diomed. By all means have schools and Dusseldorf and Dore exhibitions and galleries where the genius of all the centuries can hank itself up in snowy sculpture, and all bric-abrac, and all pure1 art, but nothing save the relltclon of Jesus Christ can make a city moral. In proportion as churches and Bibles and Christian printing presses and revivals of religion abound Is a city pure and clean. What has Buddhism or Confucianism or Mohammedanism done in all the hundreds of years of their progress for the elevation of society? Absolutely nothing. Peking and Madras and Cairo are just what they were ages ago, except as Christianity has modified their condition. What is the difference between our Brooklyn and their Pompeii? No difference, except that which Christianity has wrought. Favor all good art, but take best care of your churches, and your Sabbath schools, and your Bibles, and your family altars. Yea, see in our walk through uncovered Pompeii what sin will do for a city. We oughtto be slow to assign the judgment of God. Cities are sometimes afflioted just as go 3d people are afflicted, and the earthqnake, and the cyclone, and the epidemic are no sign in many cases that God is angry with a city, but the distress is sent for some good and kind purpose, whether we understand it or not. The law that applies to individuals may apply to Christian cities as well, "All things work together for good to those that love God.'* But the greatest calamity of history came upon Pompeii not to iraDrove its future condition, for it was'completely obliterated and will never be rebuilt. It was so bad that it neededto be buried 1700 years before even its ruins were fit to be uncovered. So Sodom and Gomorrah were filled with such turpi tude that tney were not oniy iurunu uuuu, but have for thousands of years been kept under. The two fjreateat cemeteries are the cemetery in which the sunken ships are buried all the way between Fire Island and " Fastnet Lighthouse, and the other cemetery ts the cemetery of dead cities. I get down on my knees and read the ^pitapheology of a long lint: of them. Here 1108 Babylon, once called "the hammer of the whole earth." Dead and buried under piles of bitumen and broken pottery and vitrefled brick. And I hear a wolf howl and a reptilo his9 as I am reading this epitaph (Isaiah xiii, 21), "The wild beast of the desert shall be there, and their house shall bo full of doleful creatures." The next tomb I kneel before in this cemetery of cities is Nineveh. Her winged lions are down, anl the slabs of alabaster have crumbled, and the sculpture that represented her battles Is as completely scattered as the dust of the heroes who fought them. Perhaps I put my knee into the du3t of her Sardanapalus as I stoop to read her epitaph CZephaniah il., 14,) "Now is Nineveh desolation and dry like u wilderness, and flocks lie down in the midst of her; all the beasts ol the Nations, both the cormorant and tho bittern. lodge in the upper lintels of it." And white I read it I hear an owl hoot and a hyena laugh. The next entombed city I pass has a monument of fifty prostrate columns of gray and red granite, and it Is Tyre. The next se. pulcher of a great capital is covered with scattered columns and defaced sphinxes and the sands of the desert, and it is Thebes. As I pass on I find the resting place of Mycen?, a city of which Eomer sang, and Corinth, which rejected Paul and depended upon her fortress, Acrocorinthus, which now lies dismantled on the hill, and I move on in this cemetery of cities, and I find the tombs ot Sardis and Smyrna and Persepolls and Memphis and Baalbek and Carthage, and here are the cities of the plain and Herculaneum and Stabia and Pompeii. 8ome of them have mighty sarcophagus and hieroglyphic entablature, but they are dead and buried never to rise. But the cemetery of dead cities is not yet filled, and if the present cities of the world forget God and with their indecencies shock the heavens let them know that tho God who on the 24th of August. 79, dropped on a city of Italy a superincumbrance that staid there seventeen centuries is still alive and hates sin now as much as Ho did then and has at His command all the armament of destruction with which Ho whelmed their iniquitous predecessors. i It was only a few summers ago that Brooklyn and New York felt an earthquake throb i that sent the people affrighted into tho streets and that suggested that there are forces or nature n$W suppressea or ueia in cuock, 1 which easier than a child in a nureecy knocks down a row of block nouses could prostrate a city or engulf a continent doeper than Pompeii was engulfed. Our hope is in [ the mercy of the Lord continued to our j American cities. It amazes me that this city, which has the quietest Sabbaths on the continent and 1 best order and the highest tone of morals any city that I know of. is now havi brought into' .is near neighborhood as Coi Island carnivals of pugilism as debasing any of the gladiatorial interests of Pompi What a precious crew that Coney Island A letic Club is, under whose auspices thi orgies are enacted! What a degradation the adjective "athletic," which ordinal suggests health and muscle developed useful purpose? Instead of calling it a thletic club they might better style it '*1 Ruffian Club For Smashing the Hun ^ Visage." Vile men are turning that Coney Islai which is one of the finest watering places all the Atlantic coast, into a place for t ofTscourlng of the earth to congregate, t low horse jockeys and gamblers, and 1 pugilists and the pickpockets, and the bio regurgitated from the depths of the wo waffls of thes e cities. They Invite delega from universal loaferdom to come to th carnival of knuckles. But I do not beli< that the pugilism contracted for and adv tised for next December will take place our neighborhood. Evil sometimes defeats itself by going c step too far. You may drive the hoop ot barrel down so hard that it breaks. I v QOI D0II0Y0 ruse IUH luinruouuixai yn^ufj will take place on Long Island or in the Sti of New York until I see the rowdy rab' rolling drank off the cars at Flatbush aven and with faces banged and out and bleedi from the imbruting scene. Against this fraction of the laws of the State of New Yc I lift solemn protest. The curse of Almigl God will rest upon any community that <x seats to suoh an outrage. Does any o thick It cannot be stopped, and that the ci stabulary would be overborne? Then Governor Flower send down there a regime of State militia, and they will clean out t nuisance in one hour. Warned by the doom of other cities tl have perished for their ruffianism, or thi cruelty, or their idolatry, or their dissolui ness, let all our American cities lead the rij way. Our only dependence is on God a Christrian influences. Politics will do not leg but make things worse. Send politics moralize and save a city, and you se smallpox to heal leprosy or a carcass to ] lieve the air of malodor. For what politl will do I refer you to the eight weeks stultification enacted at Washington by o American senate. American politics will become a reforn tory power on the same day that pandemoi um becomes a ohuroh. But there are. 1t glad to say, benign and salutary and gi clous influences organized in all our oiti which will yet take them for God and rig] eousness. Let us ply the gospel machine to its utmost speed and power. City eva gellzation is the thought. Accustomed are religious pessimists to dwell upon stat tics of evil and dolorous facts, wewantsoi one with sanctified heart and good digest! to put in long line the statistics of natui transformed, and profligacies balkod, ai souls ransomed, and cities redeemed. Give us pictures of churohes, of schoo of reformatory associations, of asylums mercy. Break in upon the "Misereres" complaint and despondency with '* Deums" and "Jubilates of moral and i ligious victory." Show that the day is 001 ing when a great tidal wave of salvation w roll over all our cities. Show how Pomp buried will become Pompeii resurrect Demonstrate the lact that there are mQllo of good men and women who will gi themselves no rest day nor night until citl that are now of the typa of the buried citl of Italy shall take type from the N* Jerusalem coming down from God out heaven. I hal the advancing morn. I make the same proclamation to-day tt Gideon made to the shivering cowards of 1 army. "Whosoever is fearful and afraid. 1 him return and depart early from Mob Gilead." Close up the ranks. Lift the g< pel standard. Forward into this Armag( don that is now opening and let the wo run all along the line- Brooklyn for Go All our cities for God! America for Go The world for God! The most of us ht gathered, though .born in the country, w die in town. Shall our last walk be through stre< where sobriety and good order dominate, grogshops stench the air? Shall our it look be upon city halls where justice relgr or demagogues plot for the stuffing of ball boxes? Shall we sit for the last time in sor church where God is worshiped with tl contrite heart, or where cold formalism go thrmiffH nnmnanini? arennflexions? God sa the oities! Righteousness is life, iniquity death. Remember picturesque, terrace templed, sculptured, boastful, Qod defyL and entombed Pompeiir CURIOUS PACTS. Buckwheat is of Siberian origin. Theie are now 200 different kinds perfume known in the trade. The first idea of a pneumatic tnl was due to Dennis Papin in 1667. The Greek warriors wore long ha and hairpins in the days of the Persit wara The charity organization in Londc called the Blue Coat School once hi a coinage of its own. The experiment is being tried 1 several manufacturers of wool pulp : ^ *?* * -i ; it. . joangor, Jie., 01 Bmpping me PU*F Europe. In China all arrangements for a we ding are made by a go-between, wl also does the courting and makes tl proposal. A mint proof in gold of. the fin copper cent issued by the Unit* States is in the possession of W. 1 Boyd, of Baltimore. A piece of ancient wooden wat pipe, which was unearthed recently New Britain, Conn., is claimed to 1 nearly two centuries old. The total number of capital lette in the whole Bible is 106,900, of sms capitals 6897, and of lower case 3,452 593; grand total of letters, inoludii one AE, 3,566,481. The shell coins used by the India; were manufactured in such enormo quantities by the Dutch at New Yoi that the value of the currency w greatly depreciated. Branford, Conn., has a curiosity the person of a man who can see li an owl. in tno daytime nis vision poor, bat in the night he has no dii culty in distinguishing objects. It said that prior to his birth his moth became frightened by an owl. When Dandy, Colonel Huling's fi: horse, died at the Pennsylvania Stn Camp the mastiff which had been ? companion pined and sorrowed, ai had to be removed from the corpse 1 force. Then he transferred his affc tionuto another horse, Dude. Authentic documents show that, the time of his death, a few weeks ag Petro Errilo, of Guanajnato, Mexic was 133 years of age. He leaves ov 400 living descendants, and amoi them a son eighty-five years old, wl v hrokft his arm while trvinpr tide a bicycle. Length of tlie English Sentence. According to Dr. ShermaD, a litr ary critic, the average length of tl English sentence has been gradual contracting since the time of Eliz beth. Sir Thomas More, Lyly, Sy ney, Speuser, and others employe from forty to sixty words to their se tence; Bacon, however, being an e ception with only twenty-two. M caulay, Emerson, and others use on from twenty to thirty words to a so; tence. Macanlay's average is twent three. Matthew Arnold's is thirt seven, whioh is nearly that of Addiso ?New York Dispatch. *1 RELIGIOUS KEADIN( ins ley k3 compensations of the gospel. ail. th- Its compensation equals ita autbori ?80 adaptation and efficiency. As the reward to service and suffering in its behalf, what c ily equaJ its largeness of consolation, and glo for When Abraham left country, kindred, a an bis father's house, went out not know: ?he whither, a pilgrim and stranger?now i: tan horror of great darkness,?now amid m< than mortal conflicts and victories on Moi id, Moriah,?0! in his song "Jehovah Jire! on in his name, the father of the faithful, i ;he friend of God, bad he no reward, no satis he ing recompense? What mortal sun ever :he with a brighter disc than his. at the cave ata Mach-pelah! ever rose more resplendently rst the brightor effulgence of him whose d tes he saw afar off! What an immortal g sir er was Moses when ho relinquished 1 sve throne of the Pharaohs and all the treasu er- of Egypt for the reproach of Cbrist, and p in ferred suffering with the people of God the pleasures of sin. What an ascription >ne blessings did Job send heavenward from I a new-made graves of all bis earthly intere rill and hopes. jht Hear the prophet sing of barren flg-tre ate fruitless vines, blasted olives, sterile fields, ble perished flocks and herds, till death ue famine seemed the coming convoy of G< ng his passport to the feast above, with a ohoi In- of joy and rejoicing in the God of hia sal >rk tion. Behold Paul, taking joyfully the spc ity ing of his goods, not counting his life dt m- onto himself, that he might fill up that wh ne was behind of the sufferings of Christ, for >n- body's sake, the church, and lia it strar he should exclaim in the heat of the confl . with the combined forces of earth and hi ? "I am filled with comfort, I am exceedini joyful in all our tribulation!" Say, now, has the gospel any reward service and suffering, that answers to 1 hundred-fold more promised by Christ, an fbt persecutions, with loss of hou-ea, lands a a? friends, and withal, eternal life in reversic :b* The aspirants for the cross of Christ are I heirs of^his crown,"(in exceeding and eteri weight of glory." What visions of- opei f?" heavens like Stephen's, have cheered 1 lc? prisoner for Christ in his dungeon, the m ?r tyr at the stake, the exile for the word ,ur God and testimony of Jesus? What swe ness unearthly, soul-ravishing, had Bra ard's self-sacrificing toils and tears amc aJ* the Indians! Martyn alone in Persia, a s< 1111 tary witness for God, told of joys he ne1 [a~ knew amid the aboundings of Christian pri leges at home. Joys, the fruits of his suff "" ings for Christ, have been multiplying, e iry since his spirit ascended to the bosom of Saviour from Tocat. Were Judson ba j89 from heaven, his body called up from 18" coral sepulchre, could you tempt his si n0 from his beloved Burmah with the offer ol throne??Bev. C. S. Porter. c9 ad THE CHIEF OOOD. Is, of , Happiness flits before the eyes of mortals of beauteous phantom: now receding, until it l"e lost in the distance; then advancing with I>nui> onil smilp.q onftni m- wide its arms to revive the embrace of ill fond pursuers, then as suddenly disappe eii ing, leaving them wrapped in darkness a id. gloom. Who has not been thus beguiled a na cheated? Ask the sensualist, and he will 1 ve you that his excesses have debilitated ] lea body and enervated his spirit Ask the si les cessful aspirant for power, and he will t ?w you that his is a life of splendid misery. 1 of the mere man of wealth, and in tbe bittern of his soul he will tell you that happiness iat not necessarily the inmate of palaces, nor lis she to be found in gold or silver. The sch let ar likewise, whose soul walks abroad throe ^t the universe, collccting from the boundl >9- fields before him ample storeb of imfoni >d* tion, will acknowledge.tbat mere discipline ti rd enlargement of the intellect itfilf by d! means brings that peace of mind that surp d I geth all understanding. And the infidel i >re cased though he seems to be in panoply mail, being closely questioned, will confi that his unbelief is the source of unrest a to fears, which not even the most seductive pi or osophy can quell. Such will be the acknc-' odgement of every son and daughter of 1 t*. am, whose thoughts and affections have ] ot passed the boundaries of this world. Q0 }Vho will show us any good? is the eaj lie inquiry of multitudes whom yon may < 63 counter in the streets, and in places of bt ve neae, and of the gay and high places of eat *0 Has it been in vain that, in connection w the advent, life and death of GfciiSi, eve the most wonderful and -vtounding hi been made to pass before the eyes of mi kind??Has It been m viun uioi uoa j bowed tho Heavens and come down to ear Hath Christ died in vain? Hath He rii and ascended in vain? Is there no meanj in these wondrous actions? Who will show us any good? Is there t good but in Him? Is there any guilt-cleu o" ing blood but His? Is there any noiiness I that is found in Hiin? Is there any life et nal and blessed? 30 , Who will show us any good? Shallow, 8 ful enquirer! Look upward! Whose vo do you hear, saying, "Come unto Me, s you shall receive rest unto your souls. My presence is fulness of joy, and at My rij hand ore pleasures f ore vermare." >n id WHAT THE EIBLE HAS DONE. How comes it that this little volume, .y humble men, in a rude age, when art a J science were but in their childhood, has < ID mApo inflnnncfi on th? human mind a to on the social system than all other books j together? Whence comes it that this bo has achieved such marvellous changes in t A* opinion of mankind?has abolished infant 10 ide?bos put down polygamy and divorc lQ exalted the condition of women? raised 1 standard of public morality?created for fa ilies that blessed thing, a Christian hom at and caused its other triumphs by causing 5 j nevolent institutions, open and expansive, . spring ip as with the wand of enchantme 'Vfaat sort of book is this, that even the wh and waves of human passions obey it? W1 other engine of social improvement has < f eratfd so long, and yet lost none of its virt lO ?Since it appeared, many boasted plans be amelioration have been tried and fail many codes of jurisprudence have arisen c run their course, and expired. Empire al empire hns been launched upon the tide ? time, and gone down, leaving no trace uf k" the waters. But ths book is still going abi I,- doing good, leavening society with its h principles?cheering the sorrowful with consolation?strengthening the tempted? eouraging the penitent?calming the troub Q9 spirit?and smoothing the pillow of dec M Can such a book be the offspring of hurr genius? Does not the vastness of its effe rk the excellency of the power as be of Qod? TWO TO SES. m "Why did you not pocket some of th< ?0 pears?" said one boy to another, ,-nobc i? was there to see." "Yes, there was; I v jj. there to see myself, and I don't mean to myself do such a thing." I looked at i 18 boy who made this noble answer; ho v er poorly clad, but he had a noble faco, am thought how then; were always two to i your sins, yourself and your Qod; one acc n? es and the other judges. How, then, can ,te ' ever escape from the consequences of c jjg sins? We have :i friend in Jesus Christ . says, 'Come to me: cast your sins at 1(1 feet; I have died to save you. Trust in r >y? and I will plead for you, and befriend yoi >C- Will you not prize such a friend, and f that he ia indued 'Ona above ail otheraV [Child's Paper. at 0 If Jesus did not know what be was sayl ' when he spoke of Moses, David and Jom how shall w*. know that ho knew what he v er saying when he spoke of his own personal ag as the Hon of Gad? That seems to have be kQ the fix of the three students in Andovsr, tl lately professed to be Unitarians.?Cumb tO Ifiml Viiisbvtorian. For wolves to devour sheep is no w< J or. imt for sheep to devour oiio another, monstrous and aston ishingr. ?[ A nun. IT- A Big Find of Photographic Platr ^0 Between 5000 and COOO old photograpl ly plutes,supposed to be of much historic vaii belonging to a former Washington photc ' " rapher, Alexander Gardner, havo just be "" found. There are negatives of Lincoln a id all the statesmen of his day and hundrods n_ officers and soldiers of the Potomac and (Ju berland armies. a" ' Russia's New Imperial Yacht. !y The Russian Government has just order n- a new yacht for tho exclusive use of the I y.. penal family in the North Sea. Both as gards fittings and and size it will eclipse evi ?" other ship of the kind. The new ship is be 4000 tons burden, with engines of ( horse power, capable of giving a speed twenty knots an hour whenever required. } SABBATH SCHOOL. Jt INTERNATIONAL . LESSON FOR OCTOBER 29. tv A1 .Of :an Lesson Text: "Abstinence for the Sake of Others," 1 Cor. viii., 1-13 A lug ?Golden Text: Romans . ^ i a xv., 1?Commentary. a , ore h" 0n the * "Now as touching things offered unto . f idols we know that we all have knowledge. ~?Tf Jl Knowledge paffeth up, but charity edifleth." 7 ; , The various sections of this epistle begin with , the phrase, "Now concerning." Compare _ , vii., 1; xiL. 1; xvf., 1. This section, which 0n begins with our lesson, covers the whole ques- T , *he Hon of living unto God and others instead of ' unto oureelves and is well summarized in the * ? golden text. All self pleasing is on the line >w t" of puffing up, but the love whioh seeks the f good of others tends to build up the indivi- g tt,a dual and also to complete the spiritual tem- a * ,e nip. thn ?mw?h Wom.,- A y wood and atone, but to bow down to self is aa OnJ bad or worse. We must bow only to God? .1 all else Is the worship of devils (chapter x, As J! 20.21). Ap / 2. "And if any man think that he knoweth Ab iT' anything he knoweth nothing yet as he olight Onl to know." One has said that "to know our ignorance is the first step to knowledge." It A c< ~ is on the line of Gal. vi., 3, ''If a man think A w J h himself to be something when he is nothing, A 1< hi he deceiveth himself." The Lord Jesus gave Onl ' all credit to the Father both as to His words and works (John xti., 49; xiv., 10J, and if we __ 1,, have His Spirit. we will, like Paul, give ' all the glory to the Spirit of God and to the * y grace of God (ICor.-ii., 13 ; xv., 10). j . 3. "But if anymAn love God the same is eei known of Him." "He knoweth them that j trust in Him." "The Lord knoweth them ale "J that are his" (Nah. i., 7 ? II Tim. 11., 19), and noj ,n<> better still, "The Lord hath set apart him ]a5 that is godly for Himself' (Ps. iv.. 3). We to , ore a people for His own possession (Titus thr d U., 14, B. V.). When we see clearly the love du< of Christ and are sweetly constrained by it, ^h as we will surely be when we see it, we shall we no longer live unto ourselves, but unto Him us\ l0t who died for us and rose again (II Cor. v., tell n- l4-16> _ 4. "As concerning therefore the eating of " " those tilings that are ofTered in sacrifice unto j] ~ idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the dep world, and that there is none other God but te^ one." Such is the teaching of the law and ver Ihe prophets. "The Lord He is God ia heaven above and upon the earth beneath. ick There is none else." "1 am God, and there u jg is none else. I am God, and there is none v,v like Me." As to idols, tney are "worse than ^ ^ nothing, worse than a viper" (Deut. iv., 39 , gjV( Lsa. xlvL, 9; xli., 24 margin). 5. "For though there be that are called ?j>en rods. whether in heaven op in earth, sm there > be gods many and lords many." Heathen- ltn dom is full of gods and godesses, so called. '? a Perhaps It is their fanciful gods who are tu?, 18 spoken of in Ps. lxxxii., 1, 6. "He judgdth among the gods , I have said ye aro gods," or slse those who worship them. Compare John c., 31 36. ^ ^7 6. "But to us there is but one God, the jn? 5 Father, of whom are all thingB and we in 0f ? Him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom e.11 ire all things and we by Him.'- One God ^ ~f and Father of all, who is above all and *he u?.~ through all and in all (Eph. iv., 6). One jjre e ? Jeeus Christ, Lord of all, of whom it is con written, "All things were made by Him, and jq5 ^ without Him was not anything ma le that j>re , was made." "All things were created by Him ioa 8 and for Him" (John i.. 3 ; Col. i., 16). bar 0 J" 7. "Howbeit there is not in every man og8 l2 that knowledge, for some, with conscience gjj L>ss of the idol unto this hour, eat it as a thing 276 QaT ofTered unto an idol, and their conscience, wjt being weak, is defiled. Some had turned to are "? God from idols (I Thess. i., 9, last clause), ttoi a8~ but had not fully renounced all idolatry, like t0 t tia~ those who to-day receive Christ as their QOO Saviour, or profess to, but see no harm in gg^ ^ lots of things which a better knowledge of m0 R, God and a little more of the Holy Spirit va8 , would show them to be not of the Father. on; *}" but of the world (I John it, 15-17). r 8. "But meat commendeth us not to God, lor neither if we eat are we the better ^either if we eat not are we the worse." The ?er love of God to us is regardless of any doing "V on our part?that is. He loved us when we ing 181- s J J ?_ / T71 U 44 A K\ Ko??4n<v VlRfl ft. were ueau in auia uu, ?, Vjt ua>m8 ? ltu nothing to commend us to Him, and having ov . accepted Him we are acoepted in Him, washed, tur sanctified, Justified(Eph. i.,6; I Cor. vi., 11). pui The kingdom of God is not meat and drink. not u " We are not to give thought to these things, i but rather to righteousness, joy, peace and boj ' the fruit of the Spirit (Bom. xlv., 17; Math. vi.. 81-33; xv., 11) waj 6 9. "But take heed, lest by any means this I h liberty of yours become a stumbling block ma n^_ to them that are weak." Our liberty In cou , t Christ is not for self gratification (Gil. v., hac er- t0 38 we please about this or that, but llk< that we may enjoy Christ to the full and be fon , _ filled with and Jed by the Spirit for the glory cloi . " of God and the good of others (Eph. v., 18, eve ind 19 >Gal. v., 16). Not, May I do this orthatV and j" but, How can I best advance His kingdom " r: and win men to Him? V 3 40. " For if any man see thee which hast " knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, era shall not the conscience of him whion is kic weak be emboldened to eat those things Ins which are offered to idols?" Liberty is al- Dai by ways out of place when it hurts others. If wit ?d this was only believed and acted upon, how hat ?- different things would be both In the world you md and in the church.! a m put li. "And through thy knowledge shall the " ok weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?" was he Knowledge may kill, but love will not. What- by i 3c- ever makes more of one's self will, prove a " e? stumbling block; whatever exalts Christ the the tends to life. It is fearful to think that Chris- woi im- tians may by their selfishness and inconsis- is t< ?? tencies prove such stumbling blooks as to life, be- send people to perdition. If we would only anc I tt.o1 i in fonf iic ura mcpt ftw>r>le? dro nt? Here is one for whom Christ died. How can gan ids I make him know it??how different our sine iat lives would be' ?p- 12, "But when ye ain so against the brethue. ren and wound their weak conscience ye sin m of against Christ." Whatever touches a mem- r ed, ber of the body of Christ touohes Christ Himind self (Math, ixv., 40. 45; Acts ix. 4, 5.) He T. tfr that touchoth" you toucheth the apple of His re<l' of eye (Zech. I!.,'8.) All life is either for Christ T )on or against Christ. We are either living walk- buii out ing Bibles proclaiming Him by word and oly deed, or ^e ara libels, professing to be His, ?p its but by word and deed dishonoring Him. He tjj0 en- never pleased Himself, but In all things glori- in i; led fled God. th. 13. "Wherefore, if meat make my brother lan to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world me* ?ts standeth, iest I make my brother to offend." toxi to Or. as in Rom. xlv., 21, "It is good neither T to eat flesh nor to drink wine nor anything; Cha whereby thy brother stumbleth or Is offended cenl or is made weak." Very easy to talk, Brother per? )3e Paul, but why should I be hindered from en- p idy Joy'Dg tliat which is lawful booause some, ]nrw 7as weak brother may be offended? That is the coa <eo Part which is forever settled by thej e_C( the "'Not I. but Christ," motto of Gal. If.. 20.' /as What would Jesus do? is the question which; [ j comes continually to one who is filled with met see the Spirit.?Lesaou HelDer. : U9" " M wo Brine Shrimps of t&e Great Salt Lake. It is commonly supposed that nothing in an(j Ue the way of anim.il life exists in the great t^e, my 8alt Lake, Utah, because the water contains _ n(J> nearly twenty per cent, of solids, with a . J- triflft loss than sixteen per cent, of actual , ?el salt. Nevertheless, certain little crustaceans * called '*brine shrimps" are found there in lQe such numbers as often to tint the water over T wide areas. They are met with only on the Eur surface ; most of them are females, and they are are very prolific. They feed on the ehrysa- onlj ^ lids of a small fly, the ephydra gracilis. Inn *y These chrysalids sometimes collect on the giai ,en shores in 3uch quantities that their decompo- jr 1!i' sitiou renders the air offensive for miles. pSp er" The larvao ot the insects live in the water. ne8J The brine shrimps may be captured in ?rsat ginj quantities by means of a tow uet with a line win >n- mesh. Washed with fresh water and cooked the they are said to be very palatable. The last jfra report of the Governor of Utah suggests that , it might be profltable to can them for mar- Q( ,s ket, inasDiu<!h as rhey make up in numbers ^ for what they lack in size. ' tin? _ ne01 le. P'irl )?. Will Remain Unkempt and Unshaven. the K?n to d l From motives of economy a number of the , " j more prominent young men of Middletown. ? Conn., have doeidsd to remain unkempt and Y.?5 unshaven during the coming winter." The , member who breaks his vow will have to pay for a dinner for the others. The majority of ? . the members of the club have adopted the 11. 3d Vandyke :is the most appropriate style of ia. beard. M re. tr.il 3ry met , t0 The Victoria Railway bridge over the St. thai 500 Lawrence, at Montreal, Canada, contains mer [0f 8,000,000 cubic feet of masonry work and Apr 10,500 tons of iron. aro *- ..-v. ; . ' > ;, ; ' temperance! ONLT. ;e from all care in his boyish play, ace us the sunlight, cheering: and gay, a pride of a mother whose arms entwine? ly a sip of his father's wine. growing knowledge with manhood's strength, oind far-reaching in wisdom's length, smile for the merry, for the grieving ? tear? ly a glass of the foaming beer. ning in circles of mirth and song, ove of the right and a hatred of wrong, riend to be sought for whose friendship is gain? ly a toast in the bright champagne. themanly face a line of care, aewver threads in the dark brown hair, loud on the brow, in the eye, alas! ly an occasional social glass. gure bent in the noon of life, reeping mother, a pleading wife, reakened brain and <i mind grown numbly a drink of the fiery rum. qualid room in an attic high, ain-wrought moan, a pitiful cry, undle of rags 'neath the rafters' gloom? y a dying drunkard's home. affln of pine, unfinished and rude, ddowed mother with starving brood, >nely ride o'er the rattling pave? ly a pauper's nameless grave. ?Banner of Gold. THE CHILDREN OF SBUMKASOS. ff. Ch. Fere, the French savant, baa re itly shown that If the eggs of a fowl ar posed, while hatohing, to the vapor o ohol for twenty-four to forty-eight hoars t only is the hatching enormously de ed bat the ohlok, when hatched, ,is founc be a monstrosity. This, it is thought, x>ws light upon the tendency to the pro ction of human monstrosities from parent o are victims of the alooh ol habit, as it is 11 known that children of drunkards art lally mis formed in body as well as In lectually deficient. . TEMPERANCE INCREASING. [las Frances ?. Willard furnishes the Inendent with an outline of the growth of perance principles which she thinks is iy ,to be realized in thlB last decade ol nineteenth century or by the end of the : decade of the twentieth at farthest, it she believes that the true nature of lulants and narcotics will be taught in our schools, and increased attention be m to temperance topics in Sundaysols. The World's Women's Christian iperance Union will fully justify Its name threading from the thirty countries where ow exists all over the world. Distilleries breweries will not be allowed to exhibit Lr products at fairs. ZTJBOPB's BIO Bin covsuwmov. he Paris Temps publishes* some interestparticulars with regard to the quantity jeer which is now brewed in Europe, the ires, whioh may be taken as approxltely correct, representing the average foi last five or six years. The total quantity wed Is 5,105,000,000 gallons, ^German] ling first with a production of 1*071,066,gallons, of which 644,752,60S gallons arc wed in North Germany, 544,830,305 gal s in Bavaria, 70,953,850 gallons in Wqrtemg, 56,445,944} gallons in Baden, and 17,' ,305 gallons in Alsace-Lorraine. Great tain comes next with a total of 874,193, gallons; while Austria Hungary is third h a total of 308,889,675 gallons. These the only countries in which the produo i reaches 100,000,000 gallons jbutrelativelj ;heir population, Denmark, with 4fM89,< gallons brewed, and Norway with 38.,999, have a muoh larger production thai st of the others. But Russia, with itc t area and large population, producef y 65,862.?W. 0. T. U. Bulletin. rABBAOU-r'S vow. 7hen a boy once learns that there isnoth : manly in imitating the vices of men, h< i made a long stride in wisdom. More >r, he may count himself among the for iate if he learns it so early in life that th< rsuit of foolish and wicked pleasure doei practically injure his future career, .dmiral Farragut told this story of his own rhood "When I was ten years old," he says, "] s with my father on board a man-o -war, ad some qualities that I thought made t n of me, I could swear like an old salt dd drink as stiif a glass of grog aa u i 1 doubled Capo Horn, and could smoke > a locomotive. I was great at cards and d of gambling in every shape. At th( 3e of dinner, one day, my fatner turned rybody out of the oabin, looked the door, 1 said to me: 'David, what do you mean to be?' 1 *1 mean to follow the sea.1 'Follow the sea! Yes, to be a poor, misble, drunken sailor before the mast; be Iced and ouffed about the world, and die ome fever hospital in a foreign land. No, rid; no boy ever trod the quarter-deck h such principles as yon have, and sucJb iits as you exhibit. You'll have to change ir whole course of life if you ever become an.' My father left me and went on deck. 1 i stunned by the rebuke and overwhelmed mortification. A poor, miserable, drunken sailor before mast! Be kicked and cuffed aboutthe Id, and die la some fever hospital! That j be my fate, thought L Til change my , and change it at once. I will never utter ther oath; I will never drink another p of intoxicating liquor; I will never lble. I have kept these three vows ever :e." TBU7ZBAHCX NEWS AND NOTX8. he new county of Riverside, Cal.f has ?d against granting liquor licenses. he Surgical Instrument-Makers* Union nires that its members be total abstainers, he W. C. T. U., of Harrlmah, Tenn., has It a Temperance Temple at a cost of DO. he distilleries of the United States used last fiscal year 26,189,671 bosheli of grain Iquor making. he supreme council of the United Comcial Travelers has decided to prohibit ineating liquors at all its banquets., he applications to the Boston Associated rities last year show that twenty-two per :. of the causes for sickness were lntemince. ifty percent, of the young men of Swltzer1 are Ineligible for military service on acnt of physical deterioration produced by sseive drinking. he five weeks series of temperance itings inaugurated by Mr. Moody in Chi3 have beeu drawings large audiences and dreds signed tho pledge. r. Victor Burton, of the celebrated brewflrm in London, has become a teetotaller withdrawn from the firm, iorieiuug eby his right In tSS.OOO.fiOO. >uth California W. C. T; U. Is reported ave done, la the eight'months between aat two convention!!, more than doable work of any preceding full year. ? ^ he Belgians seem to excel all the rest ol ope in their devotion to alcohol There 150.000 '-schnaps" housesin Belgiumand r 5000 schools ; that is to say, there is one or estaminet" to every thirty-nine Bells and only one school to every 1776. i France the Constitutional, a Paris er, admitted that the habit of dzunkenj has increased year by year since the beliug of the century. "Men begin with o ; then alcohol is taken. In forty years consumption oi alcohol has tripled in nee." Congress of Army Chaplains, held ratty in Chicago, declared that the post exago system "docs not meet the alleged Is of the array as reyarils its drink deimont," andthehopo wasexpressed "that time will soon arrive when it will bemads isappear. 1 India, esrtaia rcgiraehls with 5610 mon e placed under observation. They were (lei into free drinkers, moderate drinkers, abstainers. It was found that the deaths lio former were It per 1000, of the mod:? drinkers 23 per 1000, and of the abners only 11 per 1000. iss Jessie Ackerman, President oi Ausia W. C. T. U., offered a prize of a gold lal to members of the Unions throughout : country who secure twenty-five or more nbers, fees paid, during the year ending U1. 1864. Organizers and public workers excluded from the offer. A Mysterious iAouuur.u liigMU The Old Bag is a long jagged spar off . ^ the Blue Bidge that skirts the counties ' ? of Madison and Green, Virginia, write# '4 a correspondent of the St. Louis Globe? . democrat, and loses its name after reaching farther soath. It is one ofj | the features of the splendid country throngh which it passes?grand, j : gloomy and peculiar, its rugged side* ^ 1 clear cat against the sky and looking '} forbidding in its towering majesty^! Jg Here was the scene of the "GoldBugT; ^j?gS of Poe, one of the weirdest and most . J , thrilling stories, in which the great! writer indulges in the mysteries of the stars and divination. , The eastern side of the OldBag orer, looks a long stretch of oountry and iff '' seen a great way off. About tlrrea- , fourths the way up the side of thi? mountain is a phenomenon that has for many years attracted the attention of .v, the pebple for miles around, caused) much speculation, and' yet to this day ''-33 remains the mystery of the "Old Bag,** ' ''fM This in a briaht beautiful liorht whiahi 1 bams and glows on the side of the Bag.) ' Not every night, but only when th9 . ^ atmosphere is favorable then the "eya| of the Bag" may be seen, dazzling and! - ^ scintillating, as if it were some im- :J c mease diamond set in the rocks ol thaf everlasting hills. So far, investigations '?<<% has not solved the mystery, though at .y| . irregular periods some enthusiast on- .. e dertakes to investigate, but gives upl 'I the problem in a short time. Person* !l have oamped on the mountain for days,; yjm 1 seeing the light then as from below 4 Wfik but so precipitous are the sides, andflot j impassable from the huge bowlders and i rocks that lie all around, that nothing * ' definite has been learned. Otheav ''fM k more scientific and enterprising, havf? . . spent days in locating the great din-* mond, by establishing a line of station^ . j and signals, but the light still shinedj rj ?the mystery of the ridge. It canb? no artificial light, for no one lives with-J in several miles, and to make auoh a| \ light night after night for so manyf years would be simply impost sibl&j Then, too, it is too sparkling, ecintil4 , ^ lating and opalescent for art to make^ | and whatever it is, one thing is sure,} and that is that it is the work of na-i rare, xne ligui on a i?vur?uie uigum* ifl seen thirty miles away, and at that '-i distance still preserves the peculiar shooting, darting features which aw seen to much better advantage from ; the immediate vicinity. Two Terrible Men-o'-Wtr. The English Government has pro4 vided for the construction of twopow4 erfnl first-class cruisers, to be rrrmnflf the Powerfal and Terrible.They willf be larger and more powerfW than anyi cruisers heretofore constructed. Thef principal dimensions are. as folio watt Length, BOO feet: breadth, serenfcyj > feet; displacement at a mean draught of twenty-seven feet, 1?,000 tons. Theft vessels are to be constructed of steefi \J. throughout, bat aa they are intended! to keep the sea for lengthened period^ they will be sheathed and coppered, j The proposed continuous sea speed inf smooth water ia twenty knot*, but Oftj c the eight hoars' uatural draught trial} the expected speed is twenty-two knot* ' an hour. For the protection of , vital parts of the ship, which included . - ||| ^lia dnmnna KaiIavi ftfi, t VUO VVMV*!#) p?VWJ v.vy. . - r ? they will be covered by a strong, fur- , . ^ tle-baok deck of steel, having a maxil mom thickness of fonx inches amid- - :;j| ships, reduced toward the extremities. . f ^ 1 Between this and the main decka> [ for the whole length of the engine and t boiler space, these vessels will be sab- .. ? divided into numerous coal bunkers. r:;' | ' At the normal displacement and' ) draught of the ship about 1600 tons <A 1 coal will be carried, but provisions will be made for a bunker capacity at ' '$? 3000 tons. The vessels will be propelled by twin?in preference to triple*?screws; their efficiency within the* | limits of the proposed power andj , draught having been established byprevious experience in oar largest | cruisers, as well as in the large ? i screw vessels of the mercantile marine*. > The armament of the vessels will com" prise two 9,2-inch breech-loading guuv 1 mounted at bow and stern as chasers; ' i twelve six-inch, eighteen twelve* pounders, twelve three-pounder quiokiiring guns, and several machine 'vf&j guns. The 9.2-inch and six-inoh gun* ';,?} I will have armored protection, and the> ,, | I twelve pounder guns will be fitted s-| I with strong shields, revolving with th?guns. Special study has been gi*e& 1 3, to the protection of the guns and their crews, and the transport of ammuni- <>. tion from the magazines to the gtuuU --y^ ?New York Sun. "Look in My Mouth." |?j| A good story cornea from the Windy City regarding a well-known San Franciscan. Mrs. Dr. Cool went east as. ? delegate to the world's dental congzeaar 4 at Chicago. On arriving at her da*-; tination she made an early visit to thai fair grounds, and, as usual with so* journero in that seductive place, foundi upon leaving that she had spent alfi her ready cash. On her way back tof - J js her hotel, therefore, she stopped at *j bank to have a check cashed. AsnsoalJ the clerk informed her that she wooUfl have to be identified. Aa Dr. Cooij was a stranger in a strange land; shaj found herself in a dilemma. She pre- . i sented her card, but that would noij do, when a brilliant idea struck her.J Flashing a beam from the diamond) Bet in her front teeth upon the elerkj she said: "Please look in my mouth."; 11 k nro7tt " f.KnnorK^r ~AUU 1/IiDl WUD gwuw vv the olerk, but he complied with that request, looked astonished, smiled and' paid the check, for on the crown inthe dentist's mouth the clerk read thaiinscription, "L. Cool, 1893." Identityf was thus established beyond a question, and Mrs. Cool went on her w?y[ rejoicing. ?San Francisco News-Letter^ ! A New Poison. ; vd? A few days ago a New York woman* discovered a reddish mold like substance over the surface of a loaf of! bread, which she bought, and on cutting the loaf found reddish streakat i running through it. She concluded! thiit she would not eat it, and took iti t,hp hfMilth Jpnurtuient. A chemist' 1 was sent to analyze it, and reported' that the mold was due to a fungusj growth in the tlour. This fungus, hei said, had certain poisonous proper-; ties, but he did not think that eatingf the bread would endanger life. Stepai were at once taken to stop the sale of I ' bread made from. the deteriorated flour, r [ and to prevent a further use of thai flour.?Picayune. _ ^ { fi ? . k 4,: . aajpft... *. -