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■V . *'J 2m MV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S DAY SERMON. SUN. Subject: “People Who Their Way." Have Lost Text: "And God opened her eyes, and the taw a well of water; and the went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.”—Genesis xxi., 19. Morning breaks upon Beer-sheba. There is an early stir in the house of old Abraham. There has been trouble among the domestics. Hagar. an assistant in the household, and her son. a brisk lad of sixteen years, have become impudent and insolent, and Sarah, the mis tress of the household, puts her foot down very hard and _ says that they will have to leave the premises. They are packing up now. Abraham, knowing that the journey before his servant and her son will be very long and across desolate places, in the kindness of his heart sets about put- — -— ting up some bread and a bottle with water ! Books Again, I find in this Oriental scene a lesson of sympathy with woman when she goes forth trudging in the desert. What a great change it was for this Hagar. There was the tent and all the surroundings of Abraham's house, beautiful and luxurious bo doubt. Now she is going out into the hot sands at the desert. O, what a change it was! And in our day we often see the wheel of fortune turn. Here is some one who lived in the very bright home of her father, sible to administer at the table. Music in the 'drawing Welcome at the door. She is led forth into life by some one who cannot appreciate her. A dissipated soul comes and takes her out in the desert. Iniquities blot out all tho lights of that home circle. Harsh words wear out her spirits. The high hope that shone out over the marriage akar while the ring was being set and the vows given and the benediction pronounced, have all faded with the orange blossoms, and there she is to-day, broken-hearted, thinking of past joy and present desolation and coming an guish. Hagar in the wilderness! Here is a beautiful home. You cannot think of anything that can be added to it. For years there has not been the suggestion of a single trouble. Bright and happy chil dren fill the house with laughter ana song, to read. Pictures to look at. in "it.” It is a very plain lunch that Lounges to rest on. Cup of domestic Abraham provides, but I warrant you there Joy full and running over. Dark would have been enough of it had they not night drops. Pillow hot. Pulses flutter, lost their way. “God be with you ! ” said old j Eyes close. And the foot whose well known Abraham as he gave the lunch to Hagar. and steps on the door sill brought the whole a good many charges as to how she should 1 household out at eventide ervimr- “father’s conduct the journey. Ishmael, tho boy, suppose, bounded away in the morning light. Boys always like a change. Poor Ishmael! He has no idea of the disasters that are ahead of him. Hagar gives one long, lingering look on the familiar place where she had spent so many happy flays, each scene associated with the pride and joy of her heart—young Ish mael. The scorching noon comes on. The air is stifling and moves across the desert with in sufferable suffocation. Ishmael, the boy, be gins to complain, and lies down, but Hagar rouses him up, saying nothing about her own weariness or the sweltering heat; for mothers can endure anything. 1 fudge, trudge, trudge. Crossing the dead level of the desert, how wearily and slowly the miles slip. A tama rind that seemed hours ago to stand only just a little ahead, inviting the travelers to come under its shadow, now is as far off as ever, or seemingly so. Night drops upon the desert, and the travelers are pillowless. Ishmael, very weary, I suppose, instantly falls asleep. Hagar, as the shadows of the night be- f in to lap over each other—Hagar ugs her weary boy t>> her bosom and'thinks of the fact that it Ls her fault that they are in the desert. A star looks out, and every falling tear it kisses' with a sparkle. A wing of wind comes over the hot earth and lifts tho locks from the fevered brow of the boy. Hagar sleeps fitfully, and in her dreams travels over the weary day, and half awakes her son by crying out in her sleep: “Ishmael! Ishmael!” And so they go on, day after day and night after night, foi; they have lost their way. No path in the shifting sands, no sign in tho burning sky. The sack empty of the flour, the water gone from the bottle. TA hat shall she do? As she puts her fainting Ishmael under a stunted shrub of the arid plain, she sees tho bloodshot eye, and feels the hot hand, and watches the blood bursting from the cracked tongue, and there is a shriek in tho desert of Becr-sheba: “We shall die! wo shall die!” Now', no mother was ever made strong enough to hear her son cry in vain for a drink. Heretofore she had cheered her boy by promising a speedy end of the journey, even smiled upon him when he felt desper ately enough. Now there is nothing to do but place him under a shrub and let him die. She had thought that she would sit there and watch until the spirit of her boy would go away forever, and then she would breathe out her own life on his silent heart; but as the boy began to claw his tongue in agony of thirst, and struggle in distortion, and beg his mother to slay him, she cannot endure the spectacle. She puts him under a shrub and goes off a bow snot, and begins to weep until all the desert seems sobbing, and her cry strikes clear through the heavens; and an angel of God comes out on a cloud and looks down upon the appalling grief and cries: “Hagar, what aileth thee?” She looks up and she sees the angel pointing to a well of water, where she fills the bottle for the lad. Thank God! Thank God! I learn from this Oriental scene, in the first place, what a sad thing.it is when pwipln dp not know their place, and ' ' ’ * lagar was an assistant that household, but she wanted to rule there. She ridiculed and jeered until her son, Ish mael, got the same tricks. She dashed out ter own happiness and threw Sarah into a great frit; and if she had stayed much longer in that household she would have upset calm Abraham’s equilibrium. My friends, one- half of the trouble in the world to-day comes from the fact that people do not know their place; or, finding their place, will not stay in it. When we come into the world, there is always a place ready for us. A place for Abraham. A place for Sarah. A place for Hagar. A place for Ishmael. A place for you and a place for me. Our first duty is to find our sphere; our second is to keep it. We may be born in a sphere far off from the one for which God finally intends us. Sextus V was l>oru on the low ground, and was a swineherd, God called him up to waive a scepter. Ferguson spent his early days in looking after the sheep; God called him lip to look after stars, and be a shepherd watching the flocks of light on the hillsides of heaven. Hogarth began by en graving pewter pots: G od raised him to stand & the enchanted realm of a painter. The shoe maker’s bench held Bloomfield for a little while; but God called him to sit in the chair of a philosopher and Christian scholar. The soap boiler of London could not keep his son in tnat business, for God had decided that Hawley was to be one of the greatest astrono mers of England. On tho other hand, wo may be born in a sphere a little higher than that for which God intends us. We may be born in a castle, and play in a costly con servatory, and feed high'bred pointers, and angle for gold fish in artificial ponds, and be familiar with princes; yet God may have fitted us for a carpenter’s shop, or dentist's forceps, or a weaver’s shuttle, or a black smith's forge. The great thing is to find just the sphere for which God intended us, and then to occupy that sphere and occupy it for ever. Here is a man God fashioned to make a plow. There is a man God fashioned to make a constitution. The man who makes the plow is just as hon orable as the man who makes the constitu tion, provided he makes the plow as well as the other man makes the constitution. There is a woman who was made to fashion a robe, and yonder is one intended to be a queen and wear it. It seems to me that in tho one case as in the other, God appoints the sphere; and the needle is just as respectable is His sight as the scepter. I do not know but that the world would long ago have been saved if some of the men out of the ministry were in it, and some of those who are in it were out of it. I really think that one-half of the world may be divided into two-quarters—those who have not found their sphere, and those who having found it. are not willing to stay there. How many are struggling for a posi tion a little higher than that for which God intended them. The londswoman wants to be mistress. Hagar k-vps crowding Sarah. The small wheel of a watch, which beautiful ly went treading its golden pathway, wants to be the balance wheel, and the sparrow, with chagrin, drops into the brook. Pecans, it cannot, like the eagie, cut a circle under the sun. In the Lord’s armv we all want to be brigadier generals. The sloop says: “More mast: more tonnage; more canvas. Oh, that I were a topsail schoonei. or a full rigged brig, or a Cunard steamer.” And so the world Xs filled with cries of discontent, because we are not willing to stay in the place where God put us and intended us to be. My friends, be not too proud to do anything God tells you to do. For the lack of a right disposition in this respect the world is strewn with wandering Hagars and Ishmael#. God has given each one of us a work to do. You carry a scuttle of coal up that dark al ley. You distribute that Christian tract. You give ten thousand dollars to the mission ary cause. You, for fifteen years, sit with ciironic rheumatism, displaying the beauty of Christian submission. ' Whatever Gcxl calls vou to, whether it win hissing or huzza: whether to walk under triumphal arch or lift the sot out of the ditch; whether it be to preach on a Pentecost, or tell some wanderer of the street of the mercy of the Christ of Mary Magdalene; whether it be to weave a garland for a laughing child on a spring morning and call her a May queen, or to comb out the tangled locks of a waif of the street and cut up one of your old dresses to fit her out for the sanctuary—do it. and do it right away. Whether it be a crown or a yoke, do not fidgit. Everlasting honors upon those who do their work and do theft- whole work, and are contented in the sphere in which God has put them; while there is only wandering, and exile, and desolation, and wilderness for discontented Hagar «nd Ish mael , household out at eventide, crying: ” will never sound on the coming, again. A long, deer Father’s door sill grief plowed through - e P _ all that lightness of domestic life. Paradise ; lost! Widowhood! Hagar in the wilderness! How often it is we see the weak arm of , woman conscripted for this battle with the ■ rough world. Who is she, going down the ! street in the early light of the morning, pale | with exhausting work, not half slept out with the slumbers of last night, trage-lies of suffering written all over her face, her luster less eyes looking far ahead as though for the ; coming of some other troifble? Her parents called her Mary, or Bertha, or Agnes on the day when they held her up to the font, | and the Christian minister sprinkled on i the infant’s face the washings of a holy baptism. Her name is changed now. I hear it in the shuffle of the worn out shoes. I see It in the figure of the faded calico. I find it in the lineaments of the woe begone countenance. Not Mary, nor Bertha, nor . Agnes, but Hagar in the wilderness. May God have mercy upon woman in her toils, : her struggles, her hardships, her desolation, and may the great heart of Divine sympathy inclose her forever. Again: I find in this Oriental scene the fact l that every mother leads forth tremendous destinies. You say: “That isn’t an unusual scene, a mother leading her child by the ! hand.” Who is it that she is leading? i Ishmael, you say. Who is Ishmael? A great , nation is to be founded; a nation so strong 1 that it is to stand for thousands of years | against all the armies of the world, Egypt | and Assyria thunder against it, but in ’ vain. Gaulus brings up his army, and his army is smitten. Alex ander decides upon a campaign, brings up his ; hosts and dies. For a long while that nation i monopolizes the learning of the world. It Is : the nation of the Arabs. Who founded it? Ish- | mael, the lad that Hagar led into the wilder- : ness. She had no id®a she was leading forth such destinies. Neither does any mother. You pass along the street, and see pass boys and girls who will yet make the earth quake with their influence. TVho is that boy at Sutton Pool, Plymouth, England, barefooted, wading down into the slush and slime, until his bare foot comes upon a piece of glass and he lifts It, bleeding and pain-struck? That wound in - the foot decides that he be sedentary in his ! life, decid«s that he be a student. That i wound by the glass in the foot decides that I he sball be John Kitto, who shall provide : the best religious encyclopedia the world has ’ ever had provided,, and with his other writ ings as well, throwing a light upon the Word of God such as has come from no other man in this century. O mother, mother, that little hand that wanders over your face may yet be lifted to hurl thundernolts of war, or drop benedictions. That little voice may blaspheme God in the grog shop, or cry: ‘‘Forward! ,r to the Lord’s hosts, as they go out for their last victory. Mv mind to-day leaps thirty years ahead, and 1 see a merchant prince of New York. One stroke of his pen brings a shipVput of Q other stroke of his ship' ■Ifot&ren..— is 'mig’fffeTT^ail uie money mar kets of the world. Wh^ is he? He sits to day beside you in the Tabernacle. My mind leaps thirty years forward from this time, and I find myself in a relief as sociation. A great multitude of Chris tian women have met together for a generous purpose. There is one woman in that crowd who seems to have the confidence of all the others, and they all look up to her for her counsel and for her prayers. Who is she ? To-day you will find her in the Sabbath-school, while the teacher tells her of that Christ who clothed the naked and fed the hungry and healed tho sick. My mind leaps forward thirty years from now, and I find myself in an African jungle; and there Ls a missionary of the ci’oss ad dressing the natives, and their dusky conutenances are irradiated with the glad tidings of great joy and salvation. Who is he ? Did you not hear his voice to-day in the first song of the service ? My mind leaps for ward thirty years from now, and I find my self looking through the wickets of a prison. I see a face scarred with every crime. His chin on his open palm, his elbow on his knee —a picture of despair. As I opened the wick et he starts, and I hear his chain clank. The jail keeper tells me that he has been in there now three times. First for theft, then for arson. now for murder. He steps upon the trap door, the rope is fastened to his neck, the plonk falls, his body swing- into the air, his soul swings oil' into eternity. •V ho is he, and where is he? To-day playing kite on the city commons. Mother, you are To-day hoisting a throne or forging a chain— you are kindling a star or digging a dungeon. A good many years ago a Christian mother sat teaching lessons of religion to her child: and he drank in those lessons. She never knew that Lamphier would come forth and establish the Fulton street prayer meeting, and by one meeting revolutionize the de votions of the whole earth, and thrill th- eternities with his Christian influence. Lamphier said it was his mother who brought him to Jesus Christ. She never had an idea that she was leading forth such destinies. But O, when I see v. mother reckless of her influence, rattling on toward destruction, garlanded for the sacri fice with unseemly mirth anil godlessness, gayly tripping on down to ruin, taking her children in the same direction, I cannot help but say: “There they go, there they go— Hagar and Ishmael!” 1 tell you there are wilder deserts than Beershoba in many of the domestic circles of this day. Dissi pated parents leading dissipated children. Avaricious parents leading avaricious chil dren. Praverless parents leading prayeriess children. They go through every street, up every dark alley, into every cellar, along every highway. Hagar and Ishmael! and while I pronounce their names, it seems like the moaning of the death wind—Hagar and Ishmael! I learn one more lesson from this Oriental scene, and that is, that every wilderness has a well in it. Hagar and Ishmael gave up to die. Kagar’s heart sank within her as she heard her child crying: “Water! water! water!” “Ah,”shesays, "tny darling,there is no water. This is a desert.” A; ’ then God’s angel said from the cloud: “\N iiat aileth thee. Hagar?” And she looked up and saw him pointing to a well of water, where she filled the bottle for the lad. Blessed be God that there is in every wilderness a ■well, if you only know how to find it—fount ains for all these thirsty souls to-day. “On that last day, on that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried: “If any man thirst, let him come to Mo and drink.” All these other fountains you find are mere mirages of the des ert. Paracelsus, you know, spent his time in trying to find out the elixir of life—a liquid which if taken, would keep one perpetually young in this world, and would change the aged back again to youth. Of course, he was disappointed; he found not the elixir. But here I tell you to-day of the elixir of everlasting life bursting from the “Rock of Ages," and that drinking that water you shall never get old, and you will never be sick, and you will never die. “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.” Ah, there is a man*who says: “I have been lookipg for that fountnin a great while, but can't find it.” And here is some one else who says: “I believe all you say, but I have been trudging along in the wilderness and can’t find the fountain.” Do you know the reason? I will tell you. You never looked in the right direction*. “O,” you say, “I have looked everywhere. I have looked north, south, east and west, and I haven’t found the fountain.” Why. you are not lookingin the right direction at all. Look np, where Hagar looked. She never would have found the fountain at all, but when she heard the voice of the angel she looked up, and she saw the finger pointing to the supply. And O, soul, if to-day, with one earnest, in tense prayer you would only look up to Christ, He would point you down to the sup ply in the wilderness. “Look unto Me all ye ends of the earth, and be ye saved; for I am God, and there is none else.” Look! look! as Hagar looked. Yes, there is a well for every desert of be reavement. Looking over the audience to day, I notice signs of mourning. Have you found consolation ? O man bereft, O woman bereft, have you ioaml «»<esctation ? Hearse after hearse. We step from one grave hillock to another grave hillock. We follow corpses, ourselves soon be like them. Tho world is in mourning for its dead. Every heart has become the sepulcher of some buried joy. But sing ye to God, every wilderness has a well in it; and I come and I to draw to that well to-day, water from that well. If you have lived in the country, you have sometimes taken hold of the rope of the old well sweep, and you know how the bucket came up dripping with bright, cool water. And I lay hold of the rope of God’s mercy to-day, and I begin to draw on that gospel well sweep, and I see the buckets coming up. Thirsty soul! here is one backet of life! come and drink of it: “Whosoever will, let him come and take of the water of life freely.” I pull away again at the rope, and another bucket comes up. It is this prom ise: “ Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” I lay hold ol the rope again, and I pull away with all my strength, and the bucket comes up bright, and beautiful and cool. Here is the promise: “ Come unto Me, all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” The old astrologers used to cheat tho people with the idea that they could tell from the position of the stars what would occur in tho future, and if a cluster of stars stood in one relation, that would be a prophecy of evil; if a cluster of stars stood in another relation, that would be a prophecy of good. What superstition! But here is a new astrology in which I put all my faith. By looking up to the Star of Jacob, the morning star of the Redeemer, I can make this prophecy in ‘ ' * - - t in God: TOUGHT. a dreg in the Lduce friendship les. who liveth till lout fault, neglected make JPEAR1 The only market—gems of Kindred weakm as often as kindred He shall be im; he be stoned by orwi Services and ki; friendship suspectec A man has genen ly the good or ill qualities which he atmtmtes to man kind. i It is easy to look own upon others; to look down upon >urselves is the dif ficulty. It is success ih\ success makes fooh lain# honest. Habits are easil^ssumed, but when colors all in life; dmired, makes vil- ve strive to strip t flayed alive. Prosperity tries tl the deepest probe, a d draws forth hidden character. ;m off ’tis being Avoid humin heart with the m language. circumlocution Words, li!co eann>< l balls, should go straight to their ma V. A* To look forward pitt£tably we must Experienp of the past look back. is the best light for th? future. regar “Alii d to those who put their trust things work together for good to those who love God.” I read it out on the sky. I read it out in the Bible. I read it out iu all things: “All things work together for good to those who love God.” Do you love Him? Have you seen the Nyetanthes? It is a beautiful flower, but it gives very little fragrance until after sunset. Then it pours its richness on the air. And this grace of the Gospel that I commend to you this day, while it may be very sweet during the day of prosperity, it pours forth its richest aroma after sun down, and it will be sun down with you and me after a while. When you come to go out of this world, will it be a desert inarch or will it be a fountain for your sotft? A Christian Hindoo was dying, and his heathen comrades came around him and tried to comfort him by reading some of the pages of their theology, but he waved his baud as much as to say: “I don’t want to hear it.” Then they called in a heathen priest, and he said: “If you will only recite the Numtra it will deliver you.” He waved his hand as much as to say: “I don’t want to hear that.” Then they said: “Call on Juggernaut.” He shook his head as much as to say: can’t do Prominent people, Tni Czar refuses to visit Berlin. Pobtek is seventy-six years oW. :ok Muhat HALSTEAp is in Germany. rmW*h-EVEr.A vn.ia It lolin. f _ HEiffar Clews, tke Wall street broker, written a novel. , Jefkersox Da'A was eighty-one rears ol4 June 3, 1889. T CvBtrs W. Field began life as a clerk in a New England store. BrkA. Harte- lias taken up his permanent residence in London. Lord Zetlavd, the new Irish Viceroy, will serve only one year. It is rumored that President Diaz will visit the United States next fall. Clara Bap.tox, President of the Red Cross Association, was born in Maine. Sir Edwin Arnold, author of the “Light of Asia,” is coming to this country. Vice-President Morton is becoming an extensive property owner in Washington. The first of living Americans in the esti mation of European nations is Buffalo Bill. Kate Chase Sprague is writing a biog raphy of her father, the late Chief Justice Chase. Kinglake, the English historian who is now seventy-eight years old, is not in good health. Joseph Pulitzer, owner of the New York World, once acted as stoker on a Mississippi steamboat. Edison, the electrical inventor, is said to have amassed a fortune of $12,000,009 by fils inventions. Jim Keene, the famous manipulator of wheat coiners, once drove a milk wagon in a California town. His Royal Highness King Malietoa, of Samoa, has developed an inordinate desire for beer and pretzels, John Davis, the wholesale dry goods man, is the richest man in Missouri, his wealth being estimated at $22,000,000. Hon. E. J. Gay, of Louisiana, who died the other day, was the richest man in the South. He was worth $10,000,000. Bdison says it cost him thirty-five cents a mile to learn the game of poker on a train from New York to Chicago not long ago. Hippolyte, the winner of the Haytian con test. is a most inveterate smoker. lie is never without a strong, black cigar between his lips. The Mayor of Griffin, Ga„ is probably the youngest city executive in the country. Hii name is Stewart and he is but twenty-three years old. Postmaster General Wanamaker is the only smooth-faced man in the Cabinet and looks considerably younger than any other of the eight. General Greely, of the Signal Service, is afflicted with rheumatism in a mild form, and grimly refers to this addition to his out fit for predicting weather changes. Rev. Joseph McAden. who died recently in Brunswick County, Va., was the oldest Methodist minister in the South. He was ninety-five years old, aud had been in the ministry seventy-five years. Edward J. Phelps, ex-Minister to Eng land, has written to the faculty of the Yale Law School saying that ha will be on hand at the opening of the college year toinstruct the classes in equity and evidence. The grandmother of the Emperor of China is ei»hty-nine years old, blind, deaf and a cripple, and the other day her loving grandson presented her with 500 singing birds, 200 silk dresses and 100 musical instru ments. Adjutant-General Hastings, of Penn sylvania, who is in command at Johnstown, is one of the handsomest men in the Keystone State. Ho is over six feet in height, sym metrically built, blonde in complexion, with a moustache and imperial. He is a soldier every inch. His home is in Bellefonte. The new Duchess of Portland will only rank eighteenth in the list of peeresses of her rank, as her husband’s dukedom only dates from 1716. The American Duchess of Marl borough takes precedence of her, but the American Vicountess Mandeville, when she becomes Duchess of Manchester, will be one step below, as she will be the nineteenth in precedence. Ax EngliJfh coal-dealer, having, from pure benevolence’, had a scale so con structed as to register a ton for twenty- four hundred pounds, has been fined for falsifying an official weight. y Criminals. the name signi- f brass, and hard alf an inch thick, it, through which are passetfin such a manner as to have the neckl of the flange or fender pass between jhe middle fingers. The flange rests agaii right hand, and be: r.nd firmnesi to thi A IVeapon XJsei A brass knuckle,r| fies, is always made brass at that, about Four holes are cast ij the fingers st the palm of the 5des adding force blow, protects the ission of the blow. An ugly weapon, ordinarily strong will fracture a that.” Then they thought perhaps he was too weary to speak, and they said: “Now, if you can’t say ‘Juggernaut,’ think of that God.” He ’shook his head again, as much as to say: '“No, no, no.” They then bent down to his ‘pillow, and they said: “In what will you trust?” His face lighted up with the very glories of the celestial sphere as he cried out, ;rallying all his dying energies: “Jesus.” O come to-day to the fountain—the fountain open for sin and imeleanness. I will tell you the whole story in two or three sentences. 1 Pardon for all an. Comfort for all trouble. (Light for all darkness. And every wilder ness has a well in it. fingers from the com It may well be call< for, in the hands of man, a blow from man’s skull as easily as though he were struck with a hammer. Without the flange or fender, the blew would be al most as disastrous to thci'triker as to the stricken, as the force ofjhe blow would then fall upon the kn icljles, whereas by the errangement desciibltUth^'^'y ^ a. space maintained betijeen the inner parts of tho finger holes] and the fingers themselves. This is the ordinary V^ss knuckle, SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. [is the spiked jon is orna- amid shaped Jrters of an >f a slant- would fife than de file it can- equally 10 about but the most terrible, knuckle. The mented with five or s: projeetjons, about three inch long. What the re: ing blow with such a wi can be more easily ima« scribed. Another weapon which, not bb called a brass .Ri as am me head, is a sh( an inch in diameter, Ybd just long enough to be held firmly ir the hands. Pointed ends project about an inch from each side of the fist. WLh this a side- wise punching blow is administered, or it is brought down upon the victim’s head like a hammer, and will punch a hole as neatly as with a punch. Another equally ^ .gerous weapon in vogue in England yernufc- a£o, and from which the knuckle duster evidently sprung, is the spiked ring. Fist fights are essentially English, and one of the oldest tricks of men so engaged was to roughen the hands with rosin or to wear a heavy ring. The heavy ring was a fa vorite device with the rougher charac ters, and noting its frightful work some more villainous rough fashioned out the spiked ring. ‘cindad, ” the del Sol” where i ram wav lines Scenes In Madrid. I know a few more picturesque situa tions for a city than that of Madrid. Lying at an elevation of 2TOO feet above the level of the sea, and in the neigh borhood of a range of mountains which, j even in summer, are | crowned with i snow, the capital of Spam is partly en circle by the romanti c Manzanares, which flows close to tl ic city walls. Madrid is rapidly divestii g itself of its Moorish character, and th ree -fourths of the city have already assujmed an essen tially modern aspect. Tnis is especially true of the heart of the square known as “Puerta ten streets and all the meet, and whence they djverge in dif ferent directions like so ijiany arteries. The importance of this sqtiare lies in the fact that it is the heart of Madrid and the center of its traffic. Here are situ ated the principle government buildings hotels, restaurants and caf^s; it is here that Madrilenians and extranjeras ren dezvous to gossip, aud politicians con gregate to discuss and settle the affair of the nation. The restaurants aud cafes are very large, but not so elegant as those of either Paris, Beylin, Wien or Roma, nor is the coff :e as good, bu; the chocolate and sherbet axe most de licious. There are no newspapers at the disposal of the customers of these different places of resort, but any one can buy the local sheets at the door, where there is generally a [small news stand. Most of the Spaniel dailies sell at one cent, but they contain very little of interest to foreigners. Ail classes meet in these restaurants arid cafes on equal terms. The peasant, the shoe black and the scavenger thing they have as much claim to the title ol Caballeros as the politician, the dude a id the of. fleer. In these places of pi blic resort prevails a curious custom, wl ich may be an old relic of Moorish days i n Spain— guests call the attention of the waiters by clapping their hands or whistling, as one does when calling a dog. —Mail and Express. The fastest train in England is drawn by a three-cylinder locomotive. Peanuts are said to be a sure cure for insomnia. Flectric light equivalent in illumina ting power to 1,700,000 candles is used in lighting the Paris exhibition. The efforts made to introduce Euro pean vegetables and fruits in the Congo States have been rewarded with very great success. About one hundred and fifty colors are now obtained from coal tar, which has almost entirely supplanted vegetable and animal dyes. The saloon of Buckingham Palace in England famous for the three superb crystal chandeliers which it contains is now lighted by electricity. Recent discoveries made by the use of the spectroscope show that all the heavenly bodies appear to be composed of the same chemical elements. All Rus-ian ships of war are to be lighted exclusively by electricity, and by January next the whole of the Russian fleet will be lighted by that means. The electric light M down in the fish nets used between the Isle of Man and Anglesey attract the Crustacea and other creatures of the deep in large numbers. Hemholtz has shown that if an invisi ble jet of steam be electrified or heated, it becomes visible with bright tints of different colors, according to the poten tial or the temperature. A new model based on scientific prin ciples has recently been constructed in England illustrating tho formation of ocean currents in general, and of the Gulf Stream in particular. The moon has no heat screens around it like the earth with its deep and blank et-Use atmosphere, so that when the surface is turned away from the direct influence of the rays of the sun it throws off the heat accumulated with great rapidity. The Swiss w atchmakers have invented a watch for the blind. A small peg is set in the middle of each figure. 'When the hour hand is moving toward a given hour, the peg for that hour drops. The person finds the peg is down, and then counts back to twelve. A metallurgist gives as a reason why steel will not weld as readily as wrought iron that it is not partially composed of cinder, as seems to be the case with wrought iron, which assists in forming a fusible alloy with the scale of oxida tion formed on the surface of the iron in the furnace. It has been' calculated that the temperature of something like 750 di grees Fahrenheit, soou after the period of the full moon, and that it was de 1 - pressed by the influence of radiation into space to something like 250 degrees be low the zero scale of Fahrenheit soon after new moon. Professor Fresenius of Wiesbaden, after a long series of chemical analyses, declares that an egg contains as much nourishment as a pound and an ounce of cherries, a pound and a quarter of grapes, a pound and a half of russet ap ples, two pounds of gooseberries and four pounds of pears, and that 114 pounds of grapes, 127 pounds of russet apples, 192 pounds of pears and 327 pounds of plums are equal in nourish ment to 100 pounds of potatoes. Pickling Cucumbers. In preparing cucumbers for pickling care should be taken to select firm, well shaped fruit, which should be well washed in cold water. Put them in brine that will bear up an egg, w T here they may be kept a fortnight or longer, if they are well covered with grape leaves, weighted down upon them, and submerged in brine. When you arc ready to pickle an easy way to green the fruit is to put it in water in which alum has been thrown, proportioned thus—a piece of alum the size of a walnut to a gallon of water. Let the cucumbers stand in this half a day; then throw them into clear, cold water. Make a dressing of the following ingre dients: Two pounds of sugar, half an ounce of cloves, two ounces of celery- seed, half an ounce of mace, four ounces white ginger, foui ounces white must ard-seed, four ounces pepper—red and black—two ounces allspice, as much of horseradish scraped and dried as you can grasp in one hand, one lemon (seed ed and cut in thin slice?), one pint of onions or garlic sliced or chopped. Put this with the cucumbers into one gallon of vinegar, and place all together on the fire until the flavoring has struck -well through. When cold put into an un glazed jar and tie up closely. -Courier- Journal, Willing to Divide. PrestiJigitateur (during his grand gold-piece act)—‘*1 could take $20 gold pieces from your pockets all night.” Seedy Individual—“Go ahead, pard; 111 give ye half.” Ha»»r Hanes. 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