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In a recent communication to the H^Rociete d'Ethnographie, in Paris, M. terrier treated of vegetarianism from ^Hthc point of view of its moral and inRBfcelleotual effect upon the nations who, ^ either from choice or necessity, are to |i)e classed as abstainers from animal I food. "While fully recognizing tde dangers of a too abundant meat diet, ftfi well as the advantages of purely vegetable nourishment, the speaker nevertheless felt constrained to oome to the conclusion that nature intended man to be carnivorous. The physical constitution of the human race is so ordered that to insure the development of their higher qualities its members are of necessity compelled to bocome to a certain extent meat eaters. The attributes that make for dominion IV and/ progress are bat imperfectly BjM present among the eechewers of animal I^Lfood, and hence vegetarianism causes HKbei downfall of dynasties and leads to ^Vtha enslavement of peoples. If, conSMpbinmed M. 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He plowed tho eartli and threshed I .1 - fli? auh ir?L? miinhinA illflt j IBC UJ n u-- -I t invented, as formerly the cattle trod out the grain. He gathered'the fruit of the sycamore tree and scariflei it with an iron comb just before it was getting ripe, a? it was necessary and customary in that way to take from it the bitterness. He was the son of a j poor shepherd and stuttered, but before the j stammeringrustic the Philistines and Syrians and Phoenicians and Moabitee and Ammonites and Edomiies and Israelites trembled. Moses was a law giver, Daniel was a p-ince, Isaiah a courtier and David a king, but Amos, the author of my text, was a peasant, aad. as might be supposed, nearly all his parallelisms are pastoral, his prophecy full of the odor of new mown hay. and the rat:le of locusts, and the rumble of carts with sheaves, and the roar of wild beasts devouring the flock while the shepherd came out in their defence. He watched the herds bv day, and by night inhabited a booth made out of Dushes, so that through these branohes he could see tho stare all night long, and whs more familiar with them than we who have tight roofs to our houses and hardly ever see the stars except among the tall brick chimneys of the great towns. But at seasons of the year when the herds were in special danger he would stay out in the nil hrmioh the darkness. hisonlv shelter the curtain of the night heaven, with the stellar embroideries and silvered tassels of lunar light. What a life of solitude, all alone with his herds! Poor Amos! And at 12 o'clock at night hark to the wolf's bark, and the lion's roar, and the bear's growl, and the owl's tewbit, te-who, and the serpent's hiss as he unwitiincly steps too near while moving through tlje thickets-! So Amos, like other herdsmen, got the habit of studying the map of the heavens because it was so much of tho time spread out before him. Ho noticed some stiirs advancing nnd oth-rs receding. He associated their dawn and setting with certain seasons of the year. Ho had a poetio nature, and he r ad night by night, and month by month, and year by year, the poem t of the constellations, divinity rhythmic. I But two rosettes of stars especially attracted I mVi'lo COufO/1 An thA rtP lyinfr on his back under the open scroll of I the mid-night heavens?the Pleiades, or j seven stars, and Orion. Toe former Rroup this rustic prophet associated with spring, as it rises about the 1st of May. The Jatter he associated wilb the winter, as it comes to the meridian in January. The Pleiades, or seven stars, connected with all sweetness and joy; Orion, the herald of the tempast. j The ancients were the more apt to study the physiognomy and juxtaposition of the heavenly bodies beoause they thought thoy had a special influence upon the earth, and perhaps they were right. If the moon every lew hours lifts and lets down the tide3 of the Atlantic ocean and the electric storms in | tne sun. Dy an ec:entinc fiumiseiou, tuieui j the earth, why not the stirs have propor. tionate effect? And thera are some things which make me J think that it may not have been all superi stitution which connected the movements j and appearance of the heavenly bodies with j groat moral events on earth. Did not a j meteor run on evangelistic errand on the j first Christmas night and designate the rough crartle of our Lord? Did not the stars in their conrso fight against Sisera? Was it merely coincidental that before the destruction of Jerusalem the moon was hidden for twelve consecutive nights? Did it merely happen so that a new star appeared in constellation Cassiopeia, and then disappeared just before Charles IX of France, who was responsible for the St. Bartholomew massacre died? Was it without significance mat ill inw uiiys 01 iuo xtijuiau .ciinperur Justinian war aud famine were preceded by tho dimness of the sun, which for nearly a year gave no more light than the moon, although there were no clouds to obscure it? Astrology, after all, may have been something more than a brilliant heathenism. No wonder that Amos of the text, having 1: card these two anthems of the stars, put down the stout, ronsh staff of the herdsman and took into his brown hand and cut and knotted lingers the pen of a prophet and advised the recreant people or his time to return to God, saying, "Seek timthat maketh the seveD stars ttnrt Orion." This command, which Amos gave 785 years B. C., is just as AnrtTYt:\rintA for lis 1RH7A T)_ In the firit place Amos saw, as we must see, that the God who made the Pleiades-nlid Orion must ho the God of order. It was not so much a star here and a star there that impressed the inspired herdsman, but seven in one prroup and seven in another group. He saw that Bight after night ana season after season, and decade after decade, the.y had kept step of light, each one in Its own place, a histerhood never clashing and never contesting precedence. From the timeHesiod called the Pleiades the -'seven daughters of Atlas," and Virgil wrote in his ".?aeid" of "stormy Orion." until now, they hav? observed the order established for their'coming and going; order written, not in manuscript that they may b? pigeon-holed, but with the hand I of the Almighty on the dome of the sky, so that all Nations may read it?order, persistent order, sublime order, omnipotent order. What a sedative to you and me. to whom commuuities aud Nations sometimes seem going pellmell. and the world ruled bysomo flen<l at haphazard, and in all directions maladministration! The God who keeps seven worlds in ri#ht circuit for 0000 years can imtHiiny an iuu uuiuid ui uiwiwuuuis and Nations and continents in adjustment. We had not better fret much, for the peasant's ar^umect of tho text was right. If Go J can take care of tho seven worlds of the Pleiades and tho four chief worlds of Orion. Ho can probably take care of the one world w^ inhabit. So 1 feel very much as my father felt one day when we were going to the country mill to get a grist ground, and I, a boy of seven years, sat in the back part of the wagon, and our yoke of oxen ran away with us, and along a labyrinthine road through the woods, so that I thought every moment wo would be dashed to pieces, and I made a terrible outcry of fright, and my father turned to me vrith a face perfectly calm and i ut\.* ...n . A.. nk/v.a'j emu. rtum nic yuu auuuif I gue?s we caii riile as fast aa the oxen can run." Anil, my hearers, why should we he I affr ghted and lose our equilibrium in the swift movement of worldly events, especially wli-n we are assured thai it is not a yoke of uubroken steers that are drawing U8 on, but that order and wise government are in the yoke? In your occupation, your mission, your sphere, do the best you can aud theu tvuat to Goii, and if things are all mixed and (lisquietiug and your brain is hot aud your heart sick get some one to go out with*you into the starlight aDd point out to you the Pleiades, or, b-tter than that, got into some observatory, and through the telescope seo farther than Amos with the naked eye could ?namely. 200 stnrs in the Pleiades, and that in what is called the sword of Orion there is a nebula computed to be two irillion two hundred thousand billion of times larger than the sun. Oh, bo at peace with the God who mado ihat anil controls all that, the wheel of the (oustellations turning in the wheel of galaxies for thousands of years without the breaking of a cog,or the slipping of a band, or the snap of au axle. For your placidity and eoinfort through the Lord Jesus Christ I charge you, "Seek Him that tnaketh the seven s'ars anu Orion." Again, Amos saw. as we must see, that the God who made these two groups of the text was the God of Light. Amos saw that God was not satisfied with making one star or two or three stars, but He makes seven, and. having finished taat group of worlds, makes another irroup?group after group. To the Pleiades lie adds Orion. It seems that God iikesligut so well tiint He keeps making it. Only one being in the universe knows the s atistics of solar, lunar, stellar, meteoric creations, and that is the Creator Himself. And they have all been lovingly christened, each one a name as distinct as the names of your children. "Ho telleth the number of thu stars. He callelh them all by their names." The seven Pleindes had names given to them, and they are Alcyone, Merope, Ceinsno, Electra, Sterope, Taygete and Mnia. Jitit think of the billions aud trillions of (laughters of starry light that God calls by name as they sweep by Him with beaming ! brow and lustrous robe! So fond is God of light?natural light, moral light, spiritual light! Again and again is light harnessed for symbolization?Christ, the bright and morning star; evangelization, the daybreak; the redemption of Nations, sun of righteousqcss rising with healing in His wings. Oh. men and women, with so many sorrows and sins and perplexities, if yon want light ol comfort, light of pardoD, light of goodness, in earnest prayer through Christ. "Seek Him j tnat maketh the seven stars and Orion." Again. Amos saw. as we must see, that the God who made those two archiDelagoes oi stars must be an unchanging God. There had been no change in the stellar appearance 1 in this her.isman's lifetime, and his ratner, a Bhepherd, reported to him that there had been no change in his lifetime. 4.nd these twc clusters hang over the celestial arbor now just as they wore the first night that they shone on the E'Jenic bowers; the eamo as when the Egyptians built the pyramids from the top of which to watch thorn; thes:irae ^ as when the Chaldeans calculated the J eclipses: the same as when Elihu, according I to the book oi Job. went out to study the << aurora borealis; the same uuder Ptolemaic * system and Copernican system; the same 1 from Calisthenes to PytbacQras and from " Pythagoras to H ;rschel. Surely a chansre- 1 less God must have fashioned the Pleiades c ?^nd Orion! Oh, what an anodyne amid the ? ups and downs of life and the flux and reflux ^ of the tides of prosperity to know that we c have a changeless Ood, "the same yesterday, 1 to-day and forever!" B Xerxes garlanded and knighted the steers- * man of his boat in the morning and hanged * him in the evening of the same day. Fifty B thousand people stood around the columns of tho National Capitol shouting themselves ^ hoarse at the Presidential inaugural, and in " four months so great were the antipathies * that a ruffian's pistol in a Wnshington depot J* expressed the sentiment of many a disap- 1 nointed office seeker. The world sits in its 1 chariot find drives tandem, and the horse T ahead is Huzza, and the horse behind is Ana- t thema. Lord (' bham, in King James's time, was applauded and had $35,000 a year, but was afterward execrated and lived on scraps stolen from the royal kitchen. Alexander the Great after death remained unburicd for thirty days b'OHUse no one would do the honor of shoveling him under. The Duke of Wellington refused to have his iron fence mended because it had been broken by an Infuriated populate in some hour of political excitement, and he ieft it in ruins that men might learn what a fickle thing is human favor. "But the mercy of the Lord is from everlastiDg to everlasting to them that fear Him,/ind His righteousness unto the children's children of such as keep His covenaut, and to those who remember His commandments to do them." This moment "seek Him that maketh the seven stars and Orion." One of the swiftest transatlantic voyages made one summer by the Etruria was be- I cause she had a stormy wind abaft, chasing I her from New York to Liverpool. But to t thoso going in the opposite direction the storm was a buffeting and a hindrance. It is a tad thing to have a storm ahead, pushing us back, but if we be God's children and aiming toward heaven the storms of life will only chase us the sooner into the harbor. I am so glad to believe that the monsoons, typhoons and mistrals and siroccos of the land and sea are not unchained maniacs let looso upon the earth, but are under Divine ! supervision! I w so glad that the God of j ? aaman ?* <en1oa tho OaH nf Orinn' It i % IUO 3010U Ciaio iO IIIUV luw w? ? j J. was out of Dante's suffering came the sub- | lime "Divina Commedia," and ont of Jr?hn j Milton's blindness oame "Paradise Lost." and out of miserable infldel attack came the 'Bridgwater Treatise" in favor of Christi- | , anity, and out of David's exile came thesongs , cf consolation, and out of the sufferings of I Christ came the possibility of the world's re- j demption, and out of your bereavement, 1 your persecution, your poverties, your mis- 1 fortunes, may yet come an eternal heaven. j Oh, what a mercy it is that iu the text and all up and down the Bible God induces ue to look out toward other worldb! Bible as- j tronomy in Genesis, in Joshua, in Job, in ! the Psalms, in the prophets, major and minor; in St. John's Apocalypse, praclieally I saying: "Worlds! Worlds! Worlds! Got j ready for them!" We have a nice little world here that we stick to, as though losing that wo lose all. We are afraid of Jailing r off this little raft of a world. Wo aro afraid ; a that some meteoric Iconoclast will some I i night smash it, aud we want everything to i revolve around it and are disappointed when we find that it revolves around the sun instead of the sun revolving around it. What i a fuss we make about this little bit of a 1 world, its existence only a short time be- I Iween two spasms, the paroxysm by which J it was hurled from choas into order and the paroxysm of its demolition. And I am glad that so many texts call us to look off to other worlds, many of them larger and grander and more resplendent, i "Look there," says Job, "at Mnzaroth and 1 Arcturus and his sons!" "Look there," [ says 8t, John, "at the moon under j Christ's feet!" "Look there," says t Joshua, "at the sun standing still above I Gibeon!" "Look there,'0 says Moses, "at | the sparkling firmament!" "Look there," says Amos, the herdsman, "at the seven stars and Orion!"- Do not let us be so sad about those who shove off from this world under Christly pilotage. Do not let us be so agitated about our own going off this little j barge or soop or canal boat of a world to ?et on some Great Eastern of the heavens. ; Do not Jet us persist in wanting to stay in ! this barn, this shed, this outhouse of a world, j when all the King's palaces already occupied by many of our beat friends are" swinging wide open their gate* to let us in. When I read, "In My Father's house are raanv mansions," I do not know but that each world is a room, and as many rooms as thero are worlds, 6tellar stairs, stellar galleries, stellar hallways, stellar windows, stellar domes. How our departed friends must pity us shut up in these cramped apartments tired if we walk fifteen miles, when theysjomo morning, by one stroke of wing, can make circuit of the whole stellar system and he back in time for matins! Perhaps yonder twinkling constellation is the residence of the martyrs; that group of twelve luminaries may be the celestial homo of the apostles. Perhaps that steep of light is the dwelling place of angles cherubic, serapbic, archancrelic. A mausion with as many rooms 3 as worlds, and all their windows illuminated i tor festivity! ? Oh, how this widens and lifts and stimulates our expectation! How little it makes the present, and how stupendous It makes the future! How it consoles us about our pious dead, that, instead of being boxed up and under the ground, have the range of as many rooms as there are worlds and welcome everywhero, for it is the Father's house, in wbich there are many mansions! 0 Lord God ol the oevon stars and Orion, how can Iondu^o the transport, the ecstasy, of such a vision? I must obey my text and seek Him. I will seek Him. I seek Him now, for I eall to mind that it is not the material universe that is most valuable, but the ; spiritual, and that each of us has a soul worth more than all the worlds which the ; inspired nerasman saw irom me uuuiu uu lli?? hills of Tekoa. ' I had studied it before, but the cathedral ' of Cologne, Germany, never impressed me ] as it did one summer. It is admittedly the graudest Gothic struoturo in the world, its foundation laid in 1248, only a few years ago completed. More than 600 years in building! Al. Europ9 taxed for its construction, j Its chapel of tho Magi, with precious stones enough to purchase a kingdom. Its chapel of St. Agnes, with masterpieces ot painting. Its spire springing 511 feet into the heavens. I Its stained glass tha chorus of all rich colors, c Statues encircling the pillars and eucireliug a all. Statues above statues, until sculpture / can do no more, but faints and talis back c against carved stalls and down on pavements over which the kings and queens of the earth H have walked to confessional. Nave and aisles " and transept and portals combining the P splendors of sunrise nnd sunset. Interlaced, n interfoliated, intercolumned grandour. As d I stood outside, looking at the double range n of flying buttresses and the forest of pinuarles, c higher and higher and highor, until I almost I reeled from dir,z n?s?. I exclaimed: "Great (i dovotoL'.v in stone! Frozen prayer of many * Nations!" f liut while standing there I saw a poor man t enter and put down bis pack and knoe, be- ? side his burdon on tho nard floor of that 9 cathedral. And tears of deep emotion came fl into my eyes a" I said to myself, "There is a soul wortu more than all the material sur- I rounding.". That man will live afierthe last c pinnacle ii.as fallen, and not one stoneof all ! that catlicdral glory shall remain un- c crumbled. He is now a Lazarus in rags nnd 0 poverty and weariness, but immortal, and a n son of the Lord God Almighty. And the | prayer he now olTers, though amid many ' superstitions, I believe God will hoar, and v among the apostles whose sculptured forms stand in the surrounding niches ho will at last bo lifted and into the presence of that Christ whoso sufferings are represented by b the crucifix before which he bows and be I raised in due time out of all his poverties t into the glorious home built for him and * built for us by 'Him who maketh the seven 'i stars and Orion.' " li a c Violent Deuthfi in 1806. jj There wore 652) deaths by suicide in the : United States last vear. SABBATH SCHOOL. NTKRN ATION'AL LKSS'JN FOR FEBRUARY si. jCssou Text: "The First Christian Martyr,''' Acta vl., 8-15; vil., 54-60?Golden Text: Rev. ii., 10?Commentary. 8. "And Stephen, full of faith and power, lid great wouders and mirreles among the leople." As days passed on and the disci>les increased, satan increased his zeal in listurbing the peace. There is murmuring ecause some '.bought they were neglected n the daily ministration. This lends to the kppointmeut of a committee of seven Spirit Hied men to see specially to the distribution if alms, leaving the others free to give themelves to the word and prayer. The seven tore set apart by prayor and the laying on if hands. Disciples multiplied greatly, and oany priests b lieved. Stephen, full of faith !nd of the Holy Spirit, content to do the tumble work of th cox.raittee, was led by he Spirit into greater things, for the humble hall do exaltt d. 9, 10. "And tbey were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit by which He spake." This was in aecor.mE.ce with the promise oi he Lord. "I will give you a mouth and risdom which alt your adversaries shall nol te able to gainsay nor resist" (Luke xxi., 5). There is a powjr in the word of God ?hen spoken by the Spirit: of God, even hrough a very weak earthen veesel, which an be accounted for only by the fact that Jod is in His word, and it is the sume word iy which He made the heavens and all their tost (Pe. xxsiii., 6). His word is like a fire ?d a hammer to brink ro.'ks in pieces. He hat hath it, let him speak it faithfully (Jer. 28. < 11, 12. "Wu have heard him speak blasihemoas words against Moses and against lod." Tho things that are farthest from mr thought:?, and that we would be most mlikely to be guilty of, are just those which he devil through his agents is apt to aocuse is of. Think of bis calling Christ a glutton. ,nd of his acsusicg Him of being in league rith himself, and of Hits being crucified as in evildoer. Imagine Stephen, filled with he Spirit of God, being guilty of blasphemng God. Yet Christ was accused of the ame. When such treatment comes our way, et us be thankful for fellowship with Christ I Pet. ii., 20). 13,14. "We have heard him say that this esus of Nazareth shall destroy this place." iuch was some of tlie testimony which the alse witnesseu bore against 8tephen. The alse witnesseu said of Christ that He said He ras able to destroy the temple of God and uild it in three days (Math, xxvi., 61). 15. ''And all that sat in the council, look* ng steadfastly on him, saw his face as it had icen the face of an angel." His Lord was pith him and in him and made something of lis glory to be seen in him. Perhaps it was nmuthinfr no whon tha fa/to nf Maood or* hone that the people sould not look upon lim (Ex. xxxiv., 80, 35). Chapter vii., 54. "When they heard these hings, they were cut to the hea't, and hey gnashed on blm with their teeth." Vhen the false witnesses made their false .ceusation, the high priest said to Stephen. 'Are these things so? ' (vii., 1). Id reply to his he began at the appearance of God to ibraham and traced the goodness of God to srael down to David nnci Solomon; then nadethe nation guilty of the persecution of he prophets, and of the murder of Christ, ind of not keeping the Inw of God. This ut th< m ani led to their gntishlng their eeth at Stephen. 55. "But he, being full of the Holy G'jost, Doked up steadfastly into heaven uml saw he glory of God and Jeeua standing on the igbt hand of God." Thus he was ui nnved it? tK?ir iiniri r nurt hAdiAfl nnt luir ?n oU ng teeth. The way ot peace is to seo Jesus inly and always. Look steadfastly upward md never wlihin nor around. Seo Isa. ill., 0, R. V. margin. Je.-tus at God's right land for us, and the glory which awaits isi, are enough to lift us above all^ the hings wo see. 56. "And said. Behold I eee the heavens ?pened and the Son of Man standing on the lgbt hand of God." Heaven opened always show.us Christ or His church either n glory or tribulation. The phrase is found >nly seven times in 8cxlplure, the other six ilaces being in the following chapters: Ezelc. ., Math. iil.. John i.,Aots x? Rev. iv. and :ix. We are saved by beholding Jesus 3hrist as the Lamb of God taking away our ins. We run with patience and grow in :raee only as we look constantly to Him, ind when we see Him as He Is we shall then >e forever like Him (John i., 29; Heb. xil., 1, 2: II Cor. Hi.. 18; I John iii.,2). 57, 58. "Ana the witnesses laid down heir clothes ;at a j'ouni? man's feet, whose lame was Saul." This is our ilrst introducion to one who figures so largo y in the rest >[ tnis dook ana in most 01 lae epjsues 10 he churches. How little he dreamed that lay as He minded the clothes 0/ those who itoned Stephen that He would ever be a nost devoted follower of Him whom ttephen said he saw at God'ii right hand! in after days he must often have thought of his day and its events. God had a plan for lim to be revealed in duo time. See I.=a. tlvi., 9,10; Gal. 1., 15, IB. In His own wav ind in His own time God humbled ShuI and irought him to Himself. D.iubtlpps Stoph:n's testimony had something to do with it. 59. "And they stoned Stephen, calling lpon God and say ng. Lord Jesus, receive ny spirit." In Ps. xxxl., 5, it is written. 'Into Thine hand 1 commend my spirit." Chese very words said Jesus to His Father when He died on Calvary, and similar words says Stephen as he dies. It is asked. Where s the spirit after death? Josus's Spirit?that s, Jesus Himself out of the body?was with U ~ ?. U ??!.!* 11-. ~ 4. Jr. uuriiiULT* oiojyuou a e?|jirii?ujui id, oioyien himself out of bis body?was with the Lord Jesus in glory. Jesua taught in Luke ivi., 22-28, the conscious existence of those ivho pass out of the body by death. The >ame is clearly taught in Rev. vi., 9-11. and n Phil. 1M 21, 23; II Cor. v. 8. The body ilecps, but not the soul. The non-existence )f a person between death and resurrecrion )r the annihilation of the wicked is not aught in the Scriptures and cannot be aught from them without violent perversion >f these passages. 60. "And he kneeled down and cried with iloud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their 5harge. And when he had said this, he fell isleep " Here is the Spirit of the Lord Fesus, who said concerning His murderer;!, "Father forgive thara, for they know not what they do" (Luke xxiif., 34). Stephen :hen went out to be with his Lord, and his 3ody slept. Paul himself was afterward stODed to death and left for dead. But e.F :o his spirit wLlle ills body slept or lay aean, jee II Cor. xii.. 1-4. May Paul's motto be jurs. "Christ shall bo magnified In my body, whether it be by life or by death" (Phil, i., 20).? Lesson Helper. MUST PAY THE INSURANCE. 'he "Tight Shoe, Sore Toe" Cage Decided by the Court. In tbo United States Circuit Court, St. jouis, Mo., Judge Adams luinded down n deision giving Sarah T. Smith a judgment tgainst the Western Commercial Traveler/}' Lxsocintion for $2105. This is the somewhat elehrated "tight shoe, sore toe" case. The plaintiff is the widow of Freeman 0. imith, who was a member of the defendant ssociation, an-l sho was his benellciary. The loliey provided for the payment of an mount aot exceeding $5)00 in the event of leath by "external violent accidental leans." Up to August, 18!>5, Smith was an X'-eptionaliy healthy and strong person. 2arly in that month ho commenced wearing . pair oi new shoes, ami "breaking them n produced friction of the shoe agaiust his oot, and thero resulted "unexpectedly," as he Judge finds, "and not according to the isual course of things, ail abrasion of the kin of one of his toos, thereby causing ori\" Tin sore grew worse, and by the lattei >art of September blood poisoning set in,aud m Octobers he died from the effects of such ilood poisoning, which, Judge Adums conluded, was a direct result of the abrasion ft the too caused by tho tight shoe. These ,ro the facts as found by Judge Adams, and le concludes that death was occasioned by 'external, violent, and accidental means" rithin the true meaning of tho certificate. Strange Meeting of Mother and Son. An aged and pounllosH woman, who was ibout to bo dispossessed of L or lodgings atAtniita, Ga., applied for aid to the Sergeant at he police station, aud told him that she had lot seen her sons lor years, aud that since ler husbaud had died lifo had be ;n hard for ler. Just then a strango man came in and .sked for tho Sergeant. Doforo Mating his ase he looked at tho woman a moment aud ben clasped her in his arms. Her sou had ome home to look for ?mr / CUK10CS FACTS. A printing machine to dnplicati type-written work has been inventec dv a umcago man. The various countries in the worlu now use more than 13,400 different kinds of postage stumps. Unconscionable thieves stole the roof of a house at Skamokawa, Wash., sawing it, off, rafters and all, just below the top of the walls. Pineapplee, strawberries, tomatoes, cucumbers, equaeh, etc., all crown ir the open air, were upon Christmas dinner tables in South Florida counties. Most of the shoes worn in Japan are made of straw or wood, there being but one factory in tlie whole country using leather for the footwear manufactured. A glasn headstone has been put up over the grave of George E. Evans, a Mason, at Eugene, Oregon. It wag sent on there by his father from Qibeon, Neb. A Boston man has invented a support to supersede the leather hand straps in crowded cars. The new support will admit the whole hand and is adinatn/l Ia a v\oi?oAn r\f anv hoi/rVjf 'Canon Fleming, of St. Michael's Church, London, has had a large telephone transmitter placed in his pnlpit, so that his sermons may be heard in a number of hospitals and other institutions. One of the candidates for the pageship in the Tennessee Senate, a fifteenyear-old boy of Fayetteville, made a favorable impression on the memberselect by writing to each one of them ar.d inclosing his photograph. Charles Stratton, better known as "General Tom Thumb," was thirtyone inches high at twenty-five years of age. His wife was thirty-two inches high at twenty-one. Their child is said to have been the most minute speck of humanity that probably ever appeared on the earth. Motor cars being the sensation of the day just now, wealthy natives in Trivia ar? intrnrlnnino' horpftlftflR Vflhl oles in big towns. Calcutta was very much astonished by the appearance of a motor wagonette driven by electricity and capable of running twentyfive miles an hour for ten hours without recharging. Shad e,re of different families, which come from the ocean to the rivers along the Atlantio Coast to spawn. The shad of Florida are not the same as those of the Hudson or the Connecticut or the Susquehanna. The same fish come each year to the particular river where they wore born, and in their appearance are slightly different. Each river is the home of a separate snlnnv. WW J . Art .ot the Ice Sculptor. Nearly nil of the ice ased in the construction oi the ice fortress at Montreal, and the various exhibits, is cut from the St. Lawrence River in blooke two feet ilhick, four or five feet long md three feet wide. Strangers are greatly amozed because the etruoture looks as if it had been chiseled out of i single block of ice of oolossal proportions. >io seams of joining places ire visible, but this is easily managed. Iir1- - ? ? " ? ? ? * ***** o/in If av'm o?f VY llOU rtli v WUi n 1U iiud log ouumu* u m&v is oompleted, water is poured over the whole; the water is poured into every jrack and crevice, speedily freezing ind solidifying it into one mass. ? The Canadian ice sculptor is something of a genius. He takes a block Df ice, has it planed with an iron plane, places another blook on top of it similarly planed, and keeps this up until be has huilded a block of the desired dimensions. Then he goes to work with a peculiar kind of chisel made especially for ice use and by which he avoids splitting np the ice. Beautifully proportioned figures are fashioned in this way and with startAAnni/lnoin/y A inf. iiuk rn{jiuitjr, tuudiuouug iv??w character of gome of the work. A regular zoological garden is exhibited ?elep bunts, lions, tigers, camels, bears and beasts and birds of all varieties. These animals are mounted on pedestals of vnrious kinds, some of solid transparent ice, others of seemingly mottled marble and others of all colors of the rainbow?red, blue, green, blaok, pink and th^many minor shades. Hov; the ioe is colored is a mystery to many, bnt it is very easily accomplished. Water is poured into the molds and before it has a chance to freeze a dye of the desired color i6 mixed in the water. Then when it freezes the sculptor has a block of blue, green or red ice. Stilt more beautifnl cffects are obtained by pouring the dye upon snow and allowing it to percolate through it in streaks. Then, when it is frozen, it looks like glistening marble, created by soire magician. Blocks of thie dazzling material are nsed for the pedestals of great atatues. " ri'-i- no .4 n?.l uasi a way mxij ion? ui vuu. Tods of codfish are spoiling on tbo Great South Beach opposite Eastport, Long Island. The fishermen in the holidtys made phenomenal catches of these fish which, o^ing to the low price they commanded in the New York market, could not be sold at o pric9 sufficient to pay the freight. Tho.y were therefore buried in the snow by the fishermen who, expecting an increased price, hoped to dispose of them later at a profit. As the rise in price has not come, and no snow remains wherein thej may be preserved, the discouraged fishermen have been compelled tc throw them away. In this respect they paralleled the action of tthe farmers last season, whe carried bushels of potatoes out of th( fields to obtain room for the new crop It is estimated that the quantity of codfish on hand will aggregate sixtj tons, the major portion of which wi!J be allowed to spoil.?New York Press. A Cordial From the Saw Palmetto, Land well stocked with the sa^ palmetto, which was long looked upou as hardly worth denpising iu Florida, can be bought in the Kouka region p' $1.25 an acre, and tho plant is like! to prove yet one of the must vsiluubiq products of tho State. Cofioe mam from the pits is said to have a fiat flavor and to be wholesome. A cordi* manufactured from it is said to main a spirit-broken sick man look upol life with new courage. And the rooti are well stored with tanniu.?New York Sun, f > 9 The Meuniiig of It. 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