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EEV. DR. TAIJ1A.GE. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY TH1I NOTED DIVINE. Subjcct: "The Mighty Hunter." Text: "He was a micrhty hunter before the Lord."?Genesis x., 9. In our day hunting is a sport: but in the lands and tho times infested with wild beasts it was a matter of lifo or death with the people. It was very different from going out on a sunshiny afternoon with a patent breechloader, to shoot reedbirds on the flats, when Pollux and A.chillesand Diomede? wf*nt out to clear the land of lions and tigers and bears. My test sets forth Nimrod as a hero when it presents him with broad shoulders and shaggy apparel and sunbrowued face, and arm bunched with muscle?"a mighty hunter before the Lord.'* I think he used the bow and the arrows with great success practicing archery, I have thought if it is such a grand thing and such a brave thing to clear wild beasts out cf a country, if it is not a better and braver thing to hunt down and destroy those great evils of society that are stalking the land with fierce eye and bloody paw, and sharp tusk and quick spring. I have wondered if there is not such a tbing as gospel archery, by which those who have been flying from the truth may be captured for God and heaven- The Lord Jesus in His sermon used the art of angling for an illustration when He said, "I will make you flshers of men." Anrt <ar? T f-Mnlr T hftrfl AiifhoritV for USiiig hunting as an illustration of cospel truth, and 1 pray God that there may be many a man to-day who will begin to studv gospel archery, of whom it may. after a while, be said, "Ho was a mighty hunter before the Lord." How much awkward Christian work there is done in the world! How many good people there are who drive souls away from Christ instead of bringing them to Him! All their Angers are thumbs?religious blunderers who upset more than they right. Their gun has a crooked barrel and kicks as it goes off. They are like a stupid comrade who goes along with skillful hunters. At the very moment when he ought to be most quiet, he is crackling an alder, or falling over a log and frightening away the game. How few Christian people have ever learned the lesson of which I read at the beginning of this service, how that the Lord Jesus Christ at the well went from talking about a cup of water to the most practically religious truths, which won the woman's soul for God. Jesus in the wilderness was breaking bread to the people. I think it was good bread. It was very light bread and the yeast had done its work thoroughly. Christ, after Ho had broken the bread, said to the people, "Beware of the yeast or of the leaven of the Pharisees." So natural a transition it was, and how easily they all understood Him! But how few Christian people there are who understand how to fasten the truths of God and religion to the souls of men! Truman Osborne, one ol tne evangelists who went through this country years ago, had a wonderful art in tne right direction. He came to my father's house one day, and while we were all seated in the room he said, "Mr. lalmage, are all your ehildren Christians?" Father said, "Yes, all but De Witt." Then Truman Osborne looked down into the fireplace and began to tell a story of a storm that came on the mountains, and all the sheep were in the foli1, but there was one lamb outside that perished in the storm. Had he looked me in th? eye I should have been angered when he told that story. But ho looked into the fireplace. and it was so pathetically and beautifully done that I never found any peace until i was sure I was inside the fold where the other sheep were. The archers of olden times studied their an. They were very precise in the matter. The old books gave special directions as to how an archer should go an 1 as to what an archer should do. Ho must stand erect and firm, his left foot a little in advance of the right foot. With his Jeft hand he must take noia or me oow m me miuuie, tuiu meu with the three fingers and the thumb of his right hand he should lay hold of the arrow and affli it to the string?so precise was the direction given. But how clumsy we are about religious work! How little skill and eare we exeroise! flow often our arrows miss the mark! Oh, that there were more institutions established in all the towns and cities of our land where men might learn the art of doing good?studying spiritual archery, and known as ' mighty hunters before the Lord." In the first place, if you want to be effectual in doing good, you must be very sure of your weapoD. There was something very fascinating about the archery of olden times. Perhaps you do not know what they could do with the bow and arrow. Why, the chief battles fought by the English Plantagenets were with the Ions bow. They would take the arrow of polished wood, and feather it with the plume of a bird, and then it would fly from the bow string of plaited silk. The broad fields of Agmcourt and Solway Moss and Neville's Cross heard the loud thrum of the archer's bow string. Now, my Christian friends, we have a mightier weapon than that. It is the arrow of the gospel; it is a sharp arrow; it is a straight arrow: it is feathered from the wingof the dove of God's Spirit; it flies from a bow made out of the wood of the cross. As far as I can estimate or calculate it has brought down 400,000,000 30uls. Paul knew how to bring the notch of that arrow on to that bow string, and its whir was heard through the Corinthian theatres, and through the 'courtroom, until the knees of Felix knocked together. It was that arrow that struck in Luther's heart when he cried out: "Oh, my sins! Oh, my eins!" If it strike a man in the head, it kills his skepticism; if it strike a man in the heel, it will turn his step; if it strike him in the heart, he throws up his hands, as did the Emperor Julian of old when wounded in the battle, crying, "O Galilean, Thou has con querea: ' lathe armory of the Earl of Pembroke there are old corselets which show that the arrow of the English used to go through the breastplate, through the body of the warrior and through the backplate. What a symbol of that gospel which is sharper than a twoedged sword, piercing to the dividing asunder of body and soul, and of the joints and marrow! Would to God we had more faith in that gospel! The humblest man, if he had enough faith in it, could bring 100 souls to Jesus?perhaps 500. Just in proportion as this age seems to believe less and less in it, I I believe mon- and more in it. What are men about that they will not accept their own deliverance? There is nothing proposed by m^n that can do anything like this gospel. The religion o/ Ralph Waldo Emerson was the philosophy of icicles; the religion of Theodore Parker was a sirocco of the desert covering up the soul with dry sand; the religion of Kenan was the romance of believing nothing; the religion of the Huxleys and the Spencers merely a pedestal on which human philosophy sits shivering in the night of the soul, looking up to the stars, offering no help to the nations that crouch and groan at the base. Tell mo where there is one man who has rejeeted that gospel for another who is thoroughly satisfied and helped and contented in his skepticism, and I will take the car to-morrow and ride 500 miles to see him. The full power of the fjospel has not yet been touched. As a sportsman throws up his head and catches the ball flying through the air, just so easily will this gospel after wvt-.**,-* T^sN.t.1 fl.-irw. ifc orbit and bring it back to the heart of Christ. Give it full swing, and it will pardon every sin, heal every wound, cure every trouble, emancipate every slave and ransom every nation. Ye Christian men and women who go out this afternoon to do Christian work, as you go into the Sunday-schools, the lay preaching stations and the penitentiaries and the asylums, I want you to feel tnat you bear in your Dand a weapon compared with which the lightning has no speed, and ava'anches have no heft, and the thunderbolts of heaven have no power; it is the arrow of the omtiiponent ?osp?l. Take careful aim. Pull ih" arrow clear r noli until the heal strikes the t ow! Then let it fly: And may the Si?iin ol tilt* Lord bo many! Again, if vou want to be skillful in spiritual archery you must huut in unfrequented and secluded places. Why does the hunter go thrie or four days in the Pennsylvania forests or over Ruquette Lake into the wills of the Adirondack*? It is the only way to do. The deer are shy. and one "bauu" of the gun clears the forest. From the California stage you see, as you go over the pi tin*, her- and there a coyote trotting alouir, al mo^t within ranjre of the irun?sometimes quite within ratine of it. No one cares for tnat; it is worthless. The vrood came is hidden anls clu ed. Every hunter knows that. Bo, many ol the souli Ua. will be of most worth for Chrlat and of most value to th< church are secluded. They do not come ii your way. You will have to go where the; ure. Yonder they are down in that cellar yonder they are up in that earret. Far awa; from th? door of any church, the pospel ar row ha* not baen pointed at them. The trao distributor and city missionary sometime catch a crlimpse of them, as a hunter throuel foac rrotc o nf a? TMlff riden or a roebuck. The trouble is, we ar waiting for the came to come to us. We ar Dot eood hunters. We are standinsrm som street or highway expecting that the ttmii antelope Trill come up and eat out of ou hands. We are expecting that the prairi fowl will liprht on our church steeple. It i not their habit. If the church should wait 10,000.000 o years for the world to come in and be saved it will wait in vain. The world will no come. What the church wants now is to lif its feet from damask ottomans and put then in the stirrups. We want a pulpit on wheels The church wants not so much cushions ai it wants saddlebasrs and arrows. We hav< poi: to put aside the jcown and kid gloves anc put on the hunting shirr. We have been fish' ins? so long in the brooks that run under th< shadow of the church that the fish know us that they avoid the hook and escape as soon as we come to the bank, while yonder is Upper Saranac and Bic Tupper's lake, where the first swincr of the srospel net would breai it for the multitude of the fishes. There fc outside work to be done. What is that I see in the backwoods? It is a tent. The hunters have made a clearing and camped out What do they enre if thoy have wet feet, 01 if they have nothing but a pine branch for a pillow or for the northeast storm? If s moose in the darkness steps into the lake tc drink, they hear it risrht away. If a loon cry in the moonlight, they hear it. So in the service of God we have exposed work. hnvft cot to enrrm ont andronorh it. We are putting all our caro on the people who come to our churches. What are we doing for the thousands upon thousands that do not come? Have they no souls? Are they sinless that they need no pardon? Are there no dead In their houses that they need no comfort? Are they cut off from God to pro Into eternity?no wing to bear them, no light to cheer them, no welcome to greet them? I hear to-day surging up from the lower depths a grcan that comes through our Christian assemblages and through our beautiful churches, and it blots out all this scene from my eyes to-day, as by the mists of a great Niagara, for the dash and the plunge of these great torronts of life dropping down into the fathomless and thunderinn oKi-ce nt cnffdMnr? anH rono Tanmpfimf?J think that just as God blotted out the churches of Thyatira and Corinth and Laodicea, because of their s'oth and stolidity, He will blot out American and English Christianity and raise on the ruins a stalwart, wideawake, missionary church that can tske the full meaning of that command, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." I remark, furtber, if you want to succeed In spiritual archery yon mnst have courage. If the honter staud with trembling hand or shoulder that flinches with fear, instead of his taking the catamount, the catamount takes him. What would become of the Greenlander if. when out hunting for the bear, he should stand shivering with terror on an iceberg? What would have become of Da Chaillu and Livingstone in the African thicket with a faint heart and a weak knee? When a pantber comes within twenty paces of you and it has its eye on you and it has squatted for the fearful spring, "Steady there!" I think it was tn 1793 that there went ou from Lucknow, India, under the sovereign, the greatest hunting party that was ever projected. There were 10,000 armed men in that hunting party. There were camels and horses and elephants. On some princes rode, and royal ladies under exquisite housings, and 500 coolies waited upon the train, and the desolate places of India were invaded by this excursion, and the rhinoceros, the deer aud elephant fell under the stroke of saber and bullet. After awhile the party brought back trophies worth 50,000 rupees, having lett the wilderness of India ghastly with the slain bodies of wild beasts. Would to God that, instead of here and there a straggler going out to fight these great monsters of iniquity in our country, the million membership of our churches would band together and hew in twain these great crimes that make the land frightful with their roar and are fattening upon the bodies and souls of immortal men! Who is ready for such a party as that? Who will be a mighty hunter for the Lord? I remark, again, if you want to be successful In spiritual archery you need not only to bring down the game, but bring it In. I think one of the most beautiful pictures of Thtrwaldsen is h s "Autumn." It represents a sportsman coming home and standing under a grapevine. He has a staff over his shoulder, and on the other end of that staff ?rf? hunca rahhlt and a. brace of birds. Everv hunter brings home the game. No one would think of bringing down a reindeer or whipping up ft stream for trout and letting them lie in the woods. At eventide the camp is adorned with the treasures of the forestbeak and fin and antler. If you go out to hunt for immortal souls, not only bring them down under the arrow of the gospel, but bring them into tho church of God, the encampment we have pitched this side of the skies. Fetch them in. Do not let them lie out in the open field. They need our prayers and sympathies and help. That is the meaning of the church of God?help. 0 ye hunters for the Lord, not only bring down the game, but bring it in! If Mlthridates liked hunting so well that for seven years he never went indoors, what enthusiasm ought we to have who are hunting for immortal souls! If Domitianus practiced archery until he could stand a boy down In the Roman amphitheater, with a hand out, the fingers like that, and then the king could shoot an arrow between the fingers without wounding them, to what drill and what practice ought not we subject ourselves in order to become spiritual archers and "mighty hunters before the Lord!" But let me say, you will never work any better than you pray. The old archers took the bow, put one end of it down beside the foot, elevated the other end, and it was the rule that the bow should be just the size of the archer: if it were just his size then ne would go into the battle with confidence. Let me say that your power to project good in the world will correspond exactly to your own spiritual stature. In other words, the first thing in preparation for Christian work is personal consecration. Ob, for ft closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame, A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb. I am sure that there are some here who at some time have b?en hit by the gospel urrow. You felt the wound of that conviction, and you plunged into the world deeper; just as the stag, when the hounds are after it, plunges into Scroon lake, expecting in that way to escape. Jesus Christ is on your track to-day. impenitent man! not in wrath, but in mercy. 0 ye chased and panting souls! here is the stream of God's mercy and salvation, where you may cool your thirst! Stoptbat chftseof sin to-day. By the red fountain that leaped from the heart of my Lord, I bid you stop. Is there in all this house anyone who can refuse tne offer that e ? a# /lninr* kJrtn Af comes irom iuc uc?n uuuc uim), God? Why, do you know that there are. in the ban shed world, souls that, for that otter you get to-day, would fling the crown of the universe at your feet, if toey possessed it? But they went out on the mountains, the storm took them, and tbey died. There is in a forest in Germany a place they call the "deer leap"?two crags about 18 feet apart, between them a fearful chasm. This is callej the "deer leap" because once a hunter was on the track of a deer. It came to one of these crags. There was no escape for it from the pursuit of the hunter, aud in utter despair it gathered itself up and in the death asjony attempted to jump across. Of course it feil, and was dashed on the rocks far beneath. Here is a path to heaven. It is plain, it i* safe. Jesus marks it out for every man to walk in. But here is a man who says- "I won't walk in that psitn. i will take my own way." He comes on until he confronts the chasm that divides his soul from heaven. Now his last hour has come, and he resolves that ho will leap that chasm, lrom the heights of earth to the heights ol heaven. S:anJ bae< uuw, and give him full sw &for no soul ever did that successfully Let nim try. Jump! Jump! He misses th( mark, and he goes down, depth below depth "destroyed without remedy." Men, angels devils, what sha I we call that place of awfu catastrophe? Let it be known forever as thi sinner's death leap. Unique ?ol<t!flrg* Monument. Chicago is contemplatinc usinp: as a sol dier.s'monument the bis stono pillar quat rie.i in Wisconsin for exhibition at the Co lumbian Exposition. It is thn largest mono Uth in the world, being 100 feet long. ;| DRESS DEVICES. 7 f THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS LADIE3' WRAPPER WI1 tre front is invisible under a band of < insertion. The gown is shaped in ( the favorite princess style, fitting 1 smoothly below the waist where each 1 seam is gradually widened to produce i the fashionable fluted effect in the t skirt. The bishop sleeves are gathered < top and bottom, cuff bands finishing 1 the wrists. A frill of embroidery and t a band of ribbon with bow forms the < dainty decoration. The gown can be 1 made up with or without lining, the j style being equally well adapted to i wool. silk, cotton or linen fabrics, j cashmere, batiste, grass linen, cam- ' brie or China silk, and are favorite materials with lace, embroidery, ribbon, gimp or bias bands for decoration. The quantity of material 44 inches wide required to make this tea gown for a lady having a 36-inch bust measure is 6 J yards. NAVAL JACKET 07 BLUE WOOL. For yachting, boating, seaside or ordinary country wear no other style ol jacket is half as fetching or appropriate with a sailor hat as the one delineated in the second large picture. Navy blue wool canvas cloth and white duck are the materials eelected, the vestand collar of duck being decorated with rows of blue braid. Single bust darts and under-arm gores perform the smooth adiustment, the neck is finished with a standing collar and the lower edge is shaped in rounded outline. The naval jacket is of fashionable length and flares widely in front, the broad sailor collar forming pointed rtevers to the waist line. The duck 1 collar is removable and overlaps the ' oanvas collar to within an inch of the ] edge. Two handsome white peart but- 1 tons decorate each front. The back i and sides fit closely to the waist line, J falling below in rippling folds that * are induced by the shaping. The sleeves are in gigot style, shaped by 1 single seams and are of fashionable ' size, the fullness at the top being ar- 1 ranged in Hide plaits with a single box < plait at the top. Jackets in this style 1 can be made to match or contrast with the skirt and are adapted to the linen, 1 cotton and woolen fabrics that are now ' eu vogue for summer wear. Insertion, embroidery, bias bands, braid or I gimp can be used in decorating or a ' plain finish can be given if so pre- 1 ferred. The quantity of material 44 inches 1 t NATAL JACKET [ ; vide required to make this jacket lor a lady having a 36-inch bust measure j is 3 J yards. 3 OUTING QOWNS. Heavy Iinene, Russia crash and piques are the favorite materials for ' outing gowns. Following the craze for embroidery on everything, there -- n-rnr> linon whioh hns tin j lb u cumod gioj *?? *... ? all-over scroll pattern worked upon it ' in chain stitch, with white, brown, IN FEMININE FASHIONS. t 9 1 Handsomely Trimmed Wrappers 9 With Bishop Sleeves?Naval o Jackets With Vest?Oth0 er Dainty Designs. 1 I r -?" ' ? T N the first large illustration white | dimity is handsomely trimmed t I with delft blue and white em? broidery and insertion to match, t blue satin ribbon forming the stock 1 collar, cuff bows and tied semi-girdle at the waist line. The closing in oen3 ' ? I 2kms blue or black thread. The embroidered linen is used for the skirt and for a deep square collar on the ooat or blazer, which is made of plain linen. The newest piques have tiny Dresden flowerets embroidered in silk scattered all over them. Sometimes the entire suit is made of the embroidered fabric, but it is better to have the skirt plain and the jacket embroidered. A skirt of pale pink pique is effective with a little coat of embroidered white pique; and the same coat can be worn with several skirts.?Demoresl's. SHIRT WAIST OF GBASS LINEN*.. Grass linen, with figured design in white embroidery, is here stylishly worn with white linen collar and :h bishop sleeves. mffs, which oan be made removable )r attached permanently as desired. Che great variety of styles in the litherto popular summer shirt waist irgues for it an unprecedented vogue ;his season. The style here presentid is unusually attractive and aensijle, being very generally becoming, ;he fullness at the neck and shoulder jdgeB produces a soft and graceful effect over the bust. A box plait finishes the right front edge through ffhich buttonholes are worked to effect the closing with studs or buttons, rhe back is gathered at top and joined SHIBT WAIST OF GBASS LINEN. bo a yoke lining with straight lower sdge, the double pointed yoke being placed over the gathers ancLstitched rtrmlv down on its lower edge, thus insuring a durable finish. A shaped eck band completes the neck when the rolling collar is mdde separately. The bishop shirt sleeves are slashed at the back and the opening finished with cuff laps, wrist bands completing the wrists to which the rolling cuffs ire buttoned. Plaits or a casing and draw strings adjust the fullness at the waist line, and the dress skirt is worn aver the full lower edge. A narrow belt of white kid encircles the waist. Percale, cambric, lawn, batiste and gingham in stripes, checks, figured ind plain effects all make up stylishly by the mode. The quantity of material 35 inohes wide required to make this shirt waist /f/niimw1 "k~ ///////'/' , WITH Yf&T. for a lady having a 30 inch bust measure is 3J yards. PANAMA HATS ARE PRETTY. Panama hats trimmed with morning - * 1 il LU,. glorie.0, daisies, clover, nawiuoru umasoms, and lilacd are very pretty with thin gowns. The bicycle habit may not be attractive, but there's something in it.? Adama FreemaD. THE SPECTRAL LEHUB. The Monkey's Queerest Relative and His Luminous Nocturnal Eye. The spectral lemur, who lives in the Malay Archipelago, has about the oddest appearance of any known animal. In this newspaper, says the New York Journal, you will eee the first really life-like picture of him ever printed. This little animal is a relative of the monkey. Naturalists give the name of primates to the group of animals consisting of man, the monkeys and the lemurs because they come first for description. Of all the primates the spectral lemur comes first for oddity of personal appearanoe. His greatest but not his only peculiarity is to be found in his eyes, which are enormous. They cover the greater part of his face, leaving only room for a ridiculously small nose. In color the eyes are a greenish yellow and ore exceedingly luminous at night They shine out green and brilliant, when the rest of the body ia totally invisible to man. This is how the little lemur has acquired the title of spectraL The spectre is only six or seven inohes long and lives in the dense forests of the Malay Archipelago, where there is darkness at all times. He makes a sort of nest at roots of the great bamboos and climbs up them with the agility of a squirrel, but by a different method. In his tree-climbing operations he is aided by large, round suckers, which are attached to the ends otall his long, slender fingers and toes. He glides up a shiny bamboo trunk with all the ease imaginable. He is thoroughly harmless and would be an ornament to any household. ABYSSINIAN DWABFS. Armed Pigmies Who Fought for Sleaelek's Cause. These are probably the smallest and queerest soldiers which, armed with modern rifles, have ever foncht acainst ABYSSINIAN DWARFS. . civilized troops. They are Central African dwarfs, and in the service of: Vegus (or Emperor) of Abyssinia as-* sieted in the ront of the Italian troops.1 These pigmies are scarcely more than j half the height of an ordinary man. Despite their diminutive height, they are fierce, cruel and cunning, and' armed with firearms are as formidable as big men. ( It is only within the past few years that the existence of these little people has been generally accepted. Herodotus, the Greek historian, wrote about them, but he has been scoffed at and his accounts characterized as fiction. Du Chaillu and other African explorers who claimed to have found tbe nicmiflB in Central Africa had to en jr-o?-?- ? counter just as sceptical a public. , Stanley's account of the dwarf people of the Dark Continent is the first that really gained gene al credence. Akkas is the name given to these curious little people, who are supposed to be the survivors of the aboriginal ( inhabitants of Central Africa. There have been three Akkas brought to Europe. Two were men. They were called Lebo andChairallah. The third was a lady Akka, named Saida. Up-to-Dale Ci.iUircn. "Then, Elsie, you won't have me' ? When I grow up I'll 6hoot myself?sc , sow I"?Fliegende Blaetter. ^ V \ CYCLING ODDITIS. SOME CURIOSITIES IN THE WORLF* OP WHEELS. A Three-Year-Old Rider "Who Mattes Ten-Mile Trips ? A Fancy Rider's Startling Trick ?Perilous Ride. WOULD you like an intro* duction to the youngest bicycle rider in Chicago, if not in the world, asks the Chicago Times-Herald. This is his picture. The vonncr man is just three years old and ] he lives at 2760 Commercial street, ? Ravenswood. His name is Allison t Fried berg. He rides an odd little i baby bicycle, the wheels of which are i only sixteen inches in diameter and c the seat twenty-two inches fiom the e A. THBEE-YEAR-OLE ground. Not long ago he rode from < Bavenswood to Lincoln Park and hack, ] a distance of ten miles, in less than < half a day. He learned to ride very i easily, and is not at all afraid. i A FANCY RIDEB'S STABTLDTG TEICK. I It is a matter of freqaent oomment < that the safety does not present the ' opportunity for fancy trick riding that i the ordinary did. With all that, some < very remarkable "stunts" have been 1 thought out by the professional entertainers, one of the most startling of which, as performed by young Lee Bichardson, is herewith illustrated, j The rider turns himself around and j suddenly lies down on the handle bar, j his feet out ahead. In this uncomfor- j table position he ride?, twisting the ^ f A PEBTLOtrS RIDE. ^ pedals "with, hia band. Then he turns over, so to speak, and takes the almost indescribable position show in the illustration, looking as though he was Q pulling his wheel along after him by t main force. ^ t PERILOUS RIDING. n The attention of the foolkiller is 0 directed to the young men who race b with railroad traine, cross railroad a bridges on the ties, ride down steep e Bights of stairs or pedal along the brinks of precipices, after the manner 0 of Maltby, who recently shocked the p staid people of Aberdeen, Scotland, tl by nis perilous ride on the Darrow top c of the wall of the ocean pier. That ti Maltby can do such a trick is not so t] remarkable as that he is willing to do ^ It at all for a little notoriety. T A SIMIAN CYCLIST. tl "Little Joe," a most intelligent s< ourang outang, of Portland, Oregon, tl A STARTLIis'C earned to ride in three lessons, so his ai >ress agent says. Like all beginners, [ ie is very enthusiastic, and shows a j >ad temper when forced to dismount i rom his bicycle, which is of special i to construction with a twenty-inch wheel, j th 'Joe" has a brother, who is a resident or if Spokane Falls, where he is giving p< xhibilions. The brother is booked or a metropolitan appearance daring he next theatrical season. lo NEW DEVICES AND INVENTIONS. The latest device for the production >f rubber tires, for which an American )atent has been secnred, is officially lescribed as "A protective covering or pneumatic tires consisting of a padding over the tire, a circumferential spring-metal band lying upon said wadding, and a flexible metallic cloth itted over and surrounding said band ind said padding and adapted to be ittached to the rim of the wheeL" Nothing can stop the bioyole inven:or. His applications are received at ;he rate of a hundred daily at Waehngton, and already outnumber the ;otal of washing machines, ohurns and lutomatio couplers for railroad cars, le seems to be filled with the idea that i bicycle to be operated by hand initead of foot power is the real, origilal, long felt want. Such a machine night be operated by the legless won* ler of the dime museums, but what my one else would want with it is not BICYCLE RIDER. 9 jloar. Many of the inventions are, B aowever, of merit, and they relate to H ietails in the intricate portions of the Q nacnine. mere are some new tfimgr in the line of package carriers, and is ;he smooth paved cities a year heno# it least ninety per cent, of the lighf lelivery of dry goods, millinery, hats^ ihoes, flowers, confectionery, grocerr es, provisions, etc., will be through he medium of vehicles operated by soys and young men. BICYCLE DISEASES. * Tne dootors are still busy discover' ng new bioyole diseases. There is the ricyole throat, the bioyole eye, and he nose, spino, arm, foot, longs, iver, heart and possibly the cyolist'l rermiform appendix. As a matter o1 aot, however, the thing that is worry ng the dootors is the general pre? dence of bicycle health. J COMBINATION GABMENT. A remarkable combination garment or men only comes from Germany, rhere they make gasoline motooyoler - L TT T> -1_. uut weigu xuu puuuue. xxurr jl>tuuis.* ier is the father of this interesting H )air of "pants," which may, by pull< B ng a string, be converted from knict H irbookers into trousers, suitable for 0 my occasion. n Trra. BICYCLE A BEF0BME3. A New York minister of the gospel, H rCtive in temperance work, said at a HI rablic meeting that the bioyele had lone more for the cause of sobriety fl| han anything else in the past twenty ! ears. Keep a man in health and he rill care nothing for rum. By the H| ray, talking about the bioyele as an BH id to moral reform movements, the H| lalvation Army will have a fully bH quipped bicycle corps for suburban IB ervioe on wheels, and the plan of or< anization for the new military body rithin the ranks of the Episcopal ihurch, which is to be known as the HH Inited States Church Army, calls for^H i bicyole corps with each regiment, rhioh, in New York Oity, will assume JJj he proportions oi a "bicycle brigade. IH -New York Journal. Wares of an Iron Bridge. SH A train always exerts greater a train n an iron bridge when going quickly HE ban when going slowly; bat the^H difference in the strain depends on^H he strnotnre of the bridge, and is^H inch more in some cases than in thers. When the train goes over the ridge it causes a wave to travel II long the structure, owing to the H| lastioity of the iron. That part of the bridge just in front f the train is raised a little, and the HBj art under the train is lowered, so hat each part of the bridge is sue* flfl cssively raised and lowered as the rain goes over it, and the more quiokly tae train travels, the more sudden this ill be, and consequently the more iolent. The strain produced will vary with ae square of the velocity the wave, HH ) that the train will exert four times le strain wben it doubles its velocity, l TTJTPTT BD k! nine times when it triples its jlocitv. H An admirer of Wagner has offered H| i the city of Berlin 81250, providing BB 10 municipal authorities will name HH le of the new bridges after the com)ser. Oar portraits show as how we would Bjj ok if we were handsome.?Pack, j Bfl