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EUl TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN 1>I VIXE'S Sl'NDAY NEK.MO.V. ^rcacbed nt Ath?-n*. (>roccc, on tin Glory o! tlio At ;or Life. Texts: "Eyehath not srrn nor ear heard." ?I Corinthians ii.. '"For now we see throuoh a dittos darkly."?1 Corinthians xiii., 12. Both these sentences written by tho most illustrious merely human being the world ever saw, one who walked these streets, and preached from yonder pile of rocks, Mars Hill. Though more classic associations are connected with this city than with any city under the sun, l>ecauso here Socrates, ana Plato, and Aristotle, and Demosthenes, and Pericles, aud Iferoditus, and Pythagoras, and Xenopkon, and Praxiteles wrote or chiseled, or taught or thundered or sung, yet in my mind ail those men and their teachings were eclipsed by Paul and the Gospel he preached in this city and in your nearby city of Corinth. Yesterday, standing on the old fortress at Corinth, the Acro-Corinlhus, out from the ruins at its base arose in my imagination the old city, just as Paul saw it. I have been told that for splendor the world beholds no such wonder to-dav as that ancient Corintb standing on an isthmus washed by two seas, the one sea bringing the commerce of Europe, the other sea bringing the commerce of Asia. From her wharves, in.the construction of which whole kingdoms had been absorbed, war galleys with three banks of oars pushed out and confounded the navy yards of all tho world. Huge handed machinery, such as modern invention cannot equal, lifted ships from the sea on one side and tranported them on trucks across the isthmus and sat them down in the sea on the other side. Tho revenue officers of the city went down through the olive groves that lined the i fnrifT from all nations. l The mirth of all people sported in her Isthmian games, nnd the beauty of all lands sat in her theatres, walked her porticos and threw itself on the altar of her stupendous dissipations. Column and statue and temple bewildered the beholder. There were white marble fountains, into which, from apertures at tho side, there w gushed waters everywhere known for healthr giving qualities. Around these basins, r twisted into wreaths of stone, there were all the beauties of sculpture and architecture; while stauding. ns if to guard the costly display, was a stable of Hercules of burnished Corinthian brass. Vases of terra cotta adorned the cemeteries of tho dead?vases so costly that Julius Cscsar was not satisfied until he lmd captured them for Rome. Armed officials, the corintharii, ]>aced up and down to see that no statue was defaced, no pedestal overthrown, no bas-relief touched. From the edge of the city the hill held its magnificent burden of columns and towers and temples (1000 slaves waiting at one shrine), and a citadel so thoroughly impregnable that Gibraltar is a heap of snud compared with it. Amid all that strength and magnificence Corinth stood and defied tho world. Oh! it was not to rustics who' had never seen anything grand that Paul vtteucd ono of my texts. They had heard the best music ?V,of lioH ooma from HlIX llAst instruments ill all the world; they had heard songs floating from morning porticos and melting 111 evening groves; they had passed their whole lives among pictures and sculpture and architecture and Corinthian brass, which had beeu molded and shaped until there was no chariot wheel in which it had not sped, and no tower in which it had not glittered, and no gateway that it had not adorned. Ah, it was a liold thing for Paul to stand there amid all that and say: "All this is nothing. These sounds thgt come frt>m the temple of Neptune are not music coinparod with the harmonies of which I speak. These waters rushing in the basin of Pyrone are not pure. These statues of Bacchus and Mercury are not exquisite. Your citadel of Acro-Corinthus is not strong coinjwml with that which I offer to the poorest slave that puts down his burden at the brazen gate. You Corinthians think this is a splendid city; you think you have heard all sweet sounds and seen all beautiful sights; but I tell you eye hath not seen nor ear Jieaid, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath proporoU. for them that lovo Him." Indeed. 4>oth my texts, the one spoken by Paul and fhw one written by Paul, show us that we * hav&vvery imperfect eyesight, and that our day of vision is vet to come; for now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face. So Paul takes the responsibility of saying that even the Bible is an indistinct mirror, and that its mission shall be Anally suspended. I think there may be one Bible in heaven fastened to the throne. Just as now, in a museum, wo have a lamp exhumed from Herculnneum or Nineveh, and we look at it with great interest and say: "Howpoor a light it must have given, compared with our modern lamps," so I think that this Bible, which .was a lamp to our feet in this world, ??? , p ovnMni, A,,v u\a\ iic itcai me liu imc wt wvu, cA*.um^ viu interest to nil eternity by tho contrast between its comparatively feeble light and the illumination of beaten. The Bible, now, is the scaffolding to the rising temple, but when the building is done there will be no use foi the scaffoldiug. The idea I shall develop to-day is, that in this world our knowledge is comparatively dim and unsatisfactory, but nevertheless is introductory to grander and more complete vision. This is eminently true in regard to our view of God We hear so much about God that wo conclude that we understand Him. He is retire tented as having the tenderness of a father, the firmness.of u judge, the pomp of a king and the love of a mother. Wc hear about [Him. ta'k about Him, write about liim. Wc lisp 11 is name in iu'nucy. end it trembles on e tongue of the dying octogenarian. We think that we know very much about Hiin. Take tho attribute of mercy. Do we under6taud it? The Bible blossoms all over with that word,mercy. It speaks again and again of the tender mercies of God, of the sure mercies, of the great mercies, of the mercy that endureth forever, of the multitude of His mercies. And yet 1 know that the views we have of tin's greai being are most indefinite, ono sided and incomplete. When, at death, the gates shall fly open, and we shall look direcflv upon Him, how new and surprising! Wc see upon canvas a picture of the morning. Wc study the cloud in the sky, the dew upon the grass, and the husbandman ?... A.,t.i T) *:r..i .f UU tuc "ay lUt' II?1U. 1'fUUUiUl JJ1UIUIUUL ihe morning! But wo rise at daybreak, and go up on a hill to sec for ourselves that which was represented to us. "While we look, the mountains arc transfigured. The burnished gates of heaven swing open and shut, to let pass a host of fiery splendors. The clouds are all abloom, and hang pendant from arbors of alabaster aud amethyst. The waters make pathway of inlaid peavi for the light to walk upon: and there is morning on the sea. The (Tags uncover their scarred visage; and there is morning among the mountaius. Now you go home, and how tauie your picture of tlig morning-s^ems in contrast? (Irenter than thSt shall be the contrast between this scriptural view of God and that which wo shall have when standing face to face. This is a picture of the morning: that will be the morning itself. Again: My tocts are true of the Saviour's excellency. Bv imagp, and sweet rhythm of expression, and startling antitheses. Christ is set forth?His lc ve. His compassion, His work, His life, His death, His resurrection. We arc weigh it. In the hour of our broken enthrallraent, ve mount up into high experience of llis love, and shout until the countenance glows, and the blood bounds, and the whole nature is exhilarated. "I have found Him." And yet it is through a glass, darkly. Wc sec not half of that compassionate face. Wc feel not half the warmth of that loving heart. We wait for death to let us rush into His outspread arms. Then we shall be face to face. Not shadow then, but substance. Not hope then, but the fulfilling of all prcfigureineut. That will be a magnificent unfolding. The rushing out in view of all hidden excellency; the coming again of a long-absent Jesus to meet us?not in rags and in penury and death, but amidst a-light nnd pomp anil out bursting joy such as none but a glorifiel intelligence could experience. Oh! to gaze full upon the brow that was lacerated, ujwu the side that was pierce!, upon the feet that were nailed; to stand cl"sc up in the presence of Him who prayed for us on tbo mountain, and thought of us by the sen, and agonized for us in the garden, nnd died for us in horrible crucifixion; to feel of Him, to embrace Him, to take Ilis hand, to kiss His feet, to run our lingers along (lie scars of ancient suffering; to say: "This is my Jesus! He gave Himself fi r me. 1 t-haH never leave His presence. I shall forever behold His glory. I shall eternally hear His voice. Lonl Jesus, now I see Thee: I behold where k the blood started, where the tears coursed. whore the face was distorted. I have waited for this hour. I shall never turn my back on Thcc. No more looking through impermkk feet glasses. No more studying Thee in tho darkness, lint, as long as this throne stands, and this everlustiug "river flows, and those garlands bloom, and these arches of victory remain to greet home heaven's conquerors, so long I shall see Thee, Jesus of my choice: Jesus of my soDg; Jesus of my triumph?forever and forever?face to face!" Tho idea of my texts is just as true when applied to God's providence. Who has not come to some pass in life thoroughly inexplicable? You say: "What does this mean? What is God going to do with me now? He tells mo that all things work together for good. This does not look like it." You continue to study the dispensation, aud after a while guess about what God means. '"He means to teach me this. I tl ink lie means to teach me that. Perhaps it is to humble iny pride. Pcrlinps it is to make me feel more dependent. * l'erhr.ps to teach me the uncertainty of life." Hut after all, it is only a guess? a looking iiipnugn me pass, ciarKiy. The BiIile assures us there shall be a satisfactory unfolding. "What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter." You will know why (..oil took to Himself that only child. Next door there was a household of seven children. Why not take one from that group, instead of your only one! Why single out lite dwelling in which there was only one heart beating responsive to yours? Why did God give you a child at all, if Ho meant to take it away? Why fill the cup of your gladness brimming, if He meant to dash it down? Why allow all the tendrils of your heart to wind around that object, and then, .when every fibre of your own life seemed to be interlocked with the child's life, with strong hand to tear you apart, until you fall bleeding and crushed, your dwelling desolate, your hopes blasted, your heart broken'' l)o you suppose that God will explain that? Yea. He will make it plainer than any mathematical problem?as plain as that two and two make four. In lite light of the throne you will see that it was right?all right. "Just and true are all Thy ways, Thou King of Saints." Here is a man who cannot get on in the world. He always seems to buy at the wrong time and to sell at the worst disadvantage. Ho tries this enterprise, and fails; that business, and is disappointed. The man next door to him has a lucrative trade, but he lacks customers. A new prospect opens. His income is increased. But that year his family are sick; and the profits are expended in trying to cure the ailments. He gets a discouraged look. Becomes faithless as to success. Begins to expect disasters. Others wait for something to turn up; he wait." for it to turn down. Others, with only half as much education and character, get on twice as well. He sometimes guesses as to wnac ic all means. Ho says: "Perhaps riches would spoil me. rerhajjs poverty is necessary to keep me humble. Perhaps I might, if things were otherwise, be tempted into dissipations.'' But there is no complete solution of tho mystery. He sees through a glass, darkly, and must wait for a higher unfolding. I TV ill there be an explanation? Yes; God will take that man in the ligbtof the throne, end say: "Child immortal, hear the explanation! You remember tho failing of that great enterprise. This is the explanation." And you will answer: "It is all right.!" I see, every day, profound mysteries of Providence. There is no question wo ask oftener than Why? There are hundreds of ?;raves that need to be explained. Hospitals or the blind and lame, asylums for tbe idiotic and insane, almshouses for tho destitute, and a world of pain and misfortune that demand more than human solution. Ah! God will clear it all up. In the light that pours from the throne, no dark mystery can live. Things now utterly inscrutable will bo illumined as plainly as though tbe answer were written on the jasper wall, or sounded in the temple anthem. Bartimeus will thank God that ne was blind; and Lazarus that he was covered with sores; and Joseph that he was cast into the pit; aud Darnel that he denned with lions; and Paul that he was numpiiacKen; ana uavicl that ho was driven from Jerusalem; and tbe sewing-woman that she could get only a few pence for making a garment; and that fb valid that for twenty years he could not lift his head from the pillow; and that widow that she had such hard work to earn bread for her children. You know that in a song different voices carry i different parts. The sweet and overwhelmI ing part if the hallelujah of heaven will not I r\ ?<a/1o in liirrli UC U\i I JOM UJ WIVOU nuv i VUO ill uigu ^??vvw, and gave sumptuous entertainments; but pauper children will sing it, beggars will sing it, redeemed hod-carriers will sing it, those who were once the offscouring of earth wili sing it. The hallelujah will be all the grander for earth's weeping eyes, and achinjr heads, and exhausted hands, and scourged backs, and martyred agonies. Again: The thought of my texts is true when applied to th? enjoyment of the righteous in heaven. I think* we have but little ; idea of the number of the righteous in heaven. Infidels say: "Your heaven will be a very small place compared with the world of the lost; for, according to your teaching, the majority of men will be destroyed." ldeny the charge. I suppose that the" multitude of the finally lost, as compared with the inulti- | ' tude of the finally saved, will be a handful. ! I suppose that the few sick people in the hosI pitals of our great cities, as compared with ! the hundreds of thousands of well people, J Would not be smaller than the number of j those who shall be cast out in suffering, com; pared with those who shall have upon them the health of heaven. For we are to remember that we arc living in only the beginning \ ' of the Christian dispensation, and that this . ! whole world is to be populated and redeemed, | ; and that ages of light and love are to flow , j on. If this be so, the multitudes of the saved j | will be in vast majority. Take all the con- | I eregations that havo assembled for worship i throughout Christendom. Fut them together, { and they would make but a small audience compared with the thousand and tens of j thousands, and ten thousand times ten thou- j sand, and the hundred and forty and four i I tlir.ncanrl chnlf cfnnrl nrniinf! frhft Ihroue. Those flashed up to heaven in j ' martyr fires; those tossed lor many years i | upon the invalid c >ueh; those fought in the ] ! armies of liberty, and rose as they fell; | those tumbled from high scaffolding, or i : slipped from tho mast, or were washed off j | into the sea. They came up from Corinth, ! I from Laodicea, from the Red Sea bank and j GeuncsnretV wave, from Egyptian brick-j yards, and Gideon's threshing floor. Those i thousands of years ago slept the last sleep, j and these are "this moment having their eyes closed, and their limbs stretched out for the sepulcher. A General expecting an attack from the enemy stands on a bnl and looks through a field glass, and sees, in the great distance, I multitudes approaching, but has no idea of 1 their numbers. He say6: "I cannot tell anj'j thing about them. I merely know that there are a great number." And so John, without attempting to count, says: "A great multitude that no man can number " Wo are told that heaven is a place of happiness; but | what do we know about happiness! Happi! ness in this world is ouly a half fledged thing; : a flowery path, with a serpent hissing across 1 it; a broken pitcher, from which the'water has dropped-before wecoulddrink it; a thrill | of exhilaration, followed by disastrous reI actions. To help us understand tho joy of I heaven, the Bible takes us to a river, We i stand on the grassy bank. "Wesee tho waters ' I flow on with ponwlwc wave But thr> filth I of the cities is emptied into it, and the banks J are torn, and unhealthy exhalations spring up from it, and we fail to get an idea of the ! river of life in heaven. We get very imperfect ideas of the reunions I of heaven. We think of some festal day on : earth, when father nud mother were yet"liv! ing, and the children came home. A good time that! Bat it had this drawback?all were not there. That brother went off toseu, and never was heard from. That sister?did wo not lay her away in the freshness of her young life, never more in this world to look upon her? Ah! there was a skeleton at the feast; and tears mingled wirh our laughter on that Christmas day. Not so with heaven's reunions. It will be an uninterrupted gladness. Many a Christian parent will look around and find all his children there. "Ah!" he says, "can it be possible that we are all here?life's perils over? the Jordan passed ami not one wanting? Why, even the prodigal is here. I almost gave llim up. How long he despised my counsels! but grace lrnth tri[ umphed. All here! all here! Toll the mighty joy through the city. Lot the bells riug,aud ; the angels mention it in their song. Wave it j from the top of the walls. All here!" ! No more breaking of heartstrings, but face to face. The orphans that were left poor, and in a merciless world, kicked aud cuffed : of many hardships, shall join their parents j over whose graves they so Jong wept, nud ' gnze into their glorified countenances for1 j ever, face to face. We may come up from I different parts of the world, one from tho i | laud and another from the depths of the sea; I from lives affluent and prosperous, or from scenes of ragged distress; but we shall all meet in rapture and jubilee, face to face. Many of our friends have entered upon that joy. A few days ago they sat with us studying these Gospel themes; but they only saw dimly?now revelation bath come. Your time trill also come. God will not leave you floundering in the darkness. You stand wonder struck and amazed. You l'eel as if nil the loveliness of life were dashed out. You stand gazing into the open chasm of the grave. Wait a little. In the presence of your departed and of Him who carries them in His bosom, you shall soon stand face to face. Oh! that our last hour may kindle up with this promised joy! May we be able to say, like the Christian not long ago, departing: "Though a pilgrim walking through the valley, the niountaiu tops are gleaming frohi peak to peak!" or, like iny dear friend aud brother, Alfred Cookman, who took his flight to the throne of God, saying in his last moment that which has already gone into Christian classics: "1 am sweeping through the pearly gate, washed in the blood of th' Lamb!" WORDS OF WISDOM. Every ultimate fact is only the first of i new series. Not to eujov life, but to employ life, ought to be our aim and inspiration. Self-love is a cup without a bottom. Praise teuds to egotism, and generates n craving for personalities. Love is the greatest of human affections, and friendship the noblest and most refined improvement of love. Let us help the fallen still, though they never pay us, and let us lend, without exacting the usury of gratitude. TVhat is less difficult to awaken than a self-love which has grown drowsy? What more difficult to lull to sleep again than a self-love once awakened. False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. That any one should commit his thoughts to writing who can neither arrange nor explain them, nor amuse the reader, is the pf.rt of a man unreasonably abusing both his time and his knowledge. 01(1 Chinese Bridges. The Chinese suspension bridges, datiug from the time of the Han dynasty (202 B. C. to 220 A. D.), furnish striking evidence of the early acquaintance of the Chinese with engineering science. According to the historical and geo graphical writers of China, it was Shang Lieug, the commander of the army nuclei Raen Tsu, who undertook the construction of the roads in the province of Sheuse, to the west of the capital, the high mountains and deep gorges of which made communication difficult, and which could be reached only by circuitouf routes. At the head of an army of 10,000 workmen Shang Lieng cut through mountains and tilled up the valleys with the soil obtained from the excavations. Where, however, this was not sufficient to raise a road high enough, he built bridges resting upon abutments or projections. At other places, where the mountains were separated by deep gorges, he carried out a plan of throwing suspension bridges stretching from one slope to the other. The bridges, appropriately called by the Chiuese writers "flying" bridges, are sometimes so high :is to inspire those who cross them with fear. At the present day there is still a bridge iu existence in Sheuse 400 feet long, which stretches across a gorge of immense depth. Most of the bridges are only wide enough to allow of the passage of two mounted I men, railings ou both sides serving foi the protection of travelers. It is not improbable that the missionaries who first reported on Chinese bridges two centuries ago, gave the initiative to the constructive of suspension bridges in the West.?Iron. "The Wolf" of the Spider Tribe. The tarantula is the largest spicei known to natural history. Its hom? proper is iu Southern Europe, its namt beiug given because the largest numben - - * ? are luuuu jh uiu Yitmnj >? lumuw, u, Soutliern Italy, lu South America, ol which it is the scourge, it attains a length of body of two inches, with an extent ol legs of four inches. Generally it is mouse-colored above, with white sides and whitish dots and lines on the abdomen; below blackish. Its legs are whitish, tipped with black. It has one spiracle on each side, one pulmonary sac and j eight eyes. The whole body and legs are covered with hairs. Its poison,whicls i is secreted in fangs, very simijar to those of a snake, is very active, and the bite o) the spider is considered deadly, oulj second to that of the rattlesnake. The tarantula makes no web, but instead deep excavations in the ground, which it lines with silk. It watches by the hole and on the approach of its prey spring? with great swiftness upon it and drags it into the hole, j Should it become necessary, the spidei wanders about for its prey, which it runs I down with great swiftness. It is capable of making prodigious leaps and has been known to jump as high as a man's head. The females carry their young on thcii | backs. The great hairy spiders of the frf.nnc mvrralr! are called tarantulas in the | Southwestern States, and arc destroyed by the large red-winged wasp. The European tarantula is in color nshy-brown, beautifully marked with white and black. The females of all the species show great love for their young and fight furiously if they are molested. Mark Twain's lloyltood. "He was always a rascal," said R. E. Morris, the painter, speaking of Mark Twain. "I was born and raised in Hannibal, and know when Mrs. Clemens (Mark's mother) moved from Florida, Monroe County, to Hannibal. Mark was a dull, stupid, slow-going fellow, but he was full of pranks, and while he didn't do the meanness, lie planned it and got other boys to do it. lie went to school to Dr. Meredith, and Mark always sat | near the foot of the class. He never I took auy interest in books, and I never saw him study his lessons. He left school and went to learn the printing business, and soon after that left Hannibal and went to steamboating. "T -.4 .1 1.?~1 ' 1 M4MCM ilt SlliUWI) <V ^U<<u UUIVir tion, and atu a painter, while Mark i-> a millionaire, it is a scandalous fact that as a boy from ten to seventeen years of age Mark was a dull, stupid fellow, and it was the wonder of the town as to what end would bo his. He was printed out by mothers as a boy that would never amount to notion', if he did not actually come to some bad end. And he was the most homely lad in school, too. Pranks! I can think of a dozen of 'cm, and his "Huckleberry Finn" is full of Hannibal episodes worked over. I read that with as much interest as I would a diary of Hannibal kept during my school days. Mark is three years older than myself, but he was always fu a class of boys two or .three years younger than himself."? St. Joseph {Mo.) Ncxcs. Orchards in Old Mining Camps. ! One of the curious results of the decay i of placer and hydraulic mining in the foothill region is the development of orchards where it was once thought the only valuable thing the earth produced was gold. In Butte, Yuba, Amador. El Dorado, Placer, Nevada, Calaveras, Stanislaus and Tuolumne?the seat of the richest early placer mining?the chief industry now is fruit-growing. These steep foot-hills, which were oucc looked upon as worthless, are now being planted to vines and the choicest fruiis. It is found that this land, which has received for ages the Wash from the tops of the mountains, possesses some peculiar propvIaK/hi v.tllm? cnil ic ernes in wmcu mc uwu im?j ... deficient. For choice European wine grapes it is unsurpassed, and for all kinds of fruits it is specially fitted, as it gives a flavor that can never be gained on the irrigated land. An old miner who has worked in any of these counties fancies | he is dreaming when he revisits his old haunts. When he left, the places where he had worked presented a good subject | for a picture of the abomination of desolation. The hydraulic miner literally tore up the surface of the earth and left as complete destruction in his path as an army that intreuches itself against attack. Wherever he worked hills were laid low, and great unsightly pits yawned where he : removed the pay dirt clear to the bed rock. In other places great ugly heaps of gravel and cobble stone showed the fruits of his activity. Nature, however, has been kind, and chaparral covers most of these scarred fields, while others arc smiling with orchards and vineyards. It is one of the modern miracles in California ?as great a wonder as gathering figs j from thistles. ? Globe Democrat. An Observing Profession. "It's no wonder that robbers go out to rob," observed a tramp the other day, as he sat on a salt barrel in front of a grocery on West street. "Any man with an ounce of brains can make a sure thing of it." "Please explain." "Well, it's this way: While I never stole a cent's worth in nil rny life, I've been tempted a thousand times. Let me give you the lay of the average farm house. There is always half a dollar on the kitchen clock shelf to buy notions of the peddlers. If the farmer is working, his silver watch hangs on a nail just to the right of the shelf. In the bedroom off the sitting room you'll And all the jewelry. It's always kept in the lefthand corner of the bottom bureau drawer." "How do you know?" .. . "You never niind. The deeds and other papers arc in a tin box under the bed. If there's any sum of money above $10 in the house it's in a baking-powder can on the top shelf of the pantry. No farmer goes to bed with over a dollar or two in his pocket. He lays his pants cn a chair at the foot of the bed, and they can always be reached from the window. The key to the barn hangs on a nail over the kitchen sink, and the lantern always hangs in the cellar way." "You are a close observer, my friend." "Well, perhaps, but no more than the rest of the boys. I can go through the average farm house at midnight aud never touch a chair nor squeak a door,aud I'll find things just where I have told yeu they were kept."?N*v> Tori S>m. A Faithful Old Elephant The Ceylon papers announce the death of an elephant named Sella which had served the Public Works Department for over sixty-five years, and had worked in .vnrimis narts nf the island under differ ,ent circumstances for an unknown period. Originally Sella belonged to the iast of the ICings of Kandy, Sri Wickrema Raja Singha, and was one of about one hundred elephants which passed lo the British Government in 1815, when the Kandyan dynasty was overthrown and the whole island passed under British rule. It was supposed that Seda was fifteen years of age at the time, but this is surmise. His two friends, with which he usually worked, and which 'fell to the Government at the same time, died twenty-five years ago. In 18S0 it was decided to sell all the elephants belonging to the Public Works Department, and Sella fell to a resident of Colombo, Mr. dc Soysa. The animal was a tuskar, very docile, and worked steadily all his life. He aided in several operations for the capture and taming of wild elephants, but became totaliy blind about, three years ago. Notwithstanding this he continued to work at the plow until within a short time before his death. After death the tusks were removed, and measured five feet in length, the height of the miinnl hf>irio- feet. lie was well ~~"*0 "!? " known to successive generations of British residents in Colombo. Floating Gardens. ' The floating vegetable gardens of Chins are prepared in April on bamboo raftten or twelve feet long by half as wide, the poles being lashed together with interstices of an inch. Each raft is covered with an inch of straw, then with two inches of adhesive mud, which receives the seed. The rafts arc moored to the bank in still water, and require no further attention. The straw and soil soon give way, the roots drawing support from the water alone. In about twenty days the rafts become covered with thccrccpei j spomoeo reptans, whose stems and roots ! arc gathered for cooking, and whose j blossoms present u pretty appearance in i autumn. In some places marshy land is ' profitably cultivated in this manner. 1 Floating rice fields arc similarly constructed, the mud being held by a layei of weeds. They furnish the ripened crap in from sixty to seventy instead of the usual one hundred clays, and may be depended on when the neighboring land i fails either from drought, or flood Crows Attack an Eagle. A gray eagle which had its nest in the 1 Fishkill Mountains. N. Y.. has been seen j to alight several times in tin; asylum j grounds, Fishkill, presumably in search t of prey. A great flock of crows had j chosen that locality as a fcediug ground ! and resting place, and they evidently 1 looked upon the advent of the eagle as j an intrusion. The crows apparently deI eided to give the majestic bird to iiu1 derstand that it was poaching. At any rate it is a fact that a dozen or more of the crows attacked the eagle while it was soaring over Rogers's fields and put it to llight. The battle lasted half an hour or more. ; The crows which did not participate j kept circling around and around the combatants and cawing incessantly. The tight was witnessed by several persons who picked up many bluod-stained feathers lrom the ground.? Jfevr York Herald. _ J ! Josli Piling^ Philosophy. | The man who leant find ennything to | do in this world iz az bad oph az a yearling heffor. Thnre iz no pashun ov the human heart that promises no much and pays so little a z rove'ge. Thnre habit no man yet lived loDg ennff in this world tew doubt the infallibility ov hiz judgement. Thare iz this odds between a humorous lekter and a sciontiffick one?yu kav got to understand the humorous lekter tew eujov it, but you kan enjoy the scientitliek one without understanding it. It iz but a step from zeal tew bigotry, but it iz a step that iz most generally taken. Dcn't lay ennv certain plans for the fewter; it iz liko planting tuds, and expektiDg to vaize tudstools. No raau yet who had strength ov xnind enuff ever resorted tew canning. Cunning iz haff brother tew fear, and they are both ov them weakness. Natur once in a while makesaphool; but, az a general thing, phools, like garments, are made tew order. A man who iz good company for himself iz alwus good company for others. (ieuuino praize consists in naming a rami's faultz to hiz face, and hiz good qualities tew hiz back. One ov the best temporary cures for 1 ride and affektashun that I have ever seen tried iz sen-sickneis; a man who wants tew vomit never puts on airs. A fault concealed iz but little better than one indulged in. "Witty speeches are like throwing stones at a target ?the more time spent in taking aim, the less danger thare iz in hitting the mark. I luivo alwus noticed one thing, when a person hokums disgusted with this world, and konkludes to withdraw from it, the world very kindly lets the person went. "Woman haz no friendships. She either loves, despises, or hates. A day in the life ov an old man iz '.ike one ov the last days in the fall ov (die year?every hour brings a change in the weather. I love few foj an old person jovfull, but not kickuptheheelsfnll. A eoqucUo in love iz ju^t about nz tame az a bottle of ginger pop that haz stood sum time with the cork pulled out.?New York IVcckh/. The Reason. Two men, in the dining-room of a hotel, were watching p. hungry fellow who sat near them. "Waiter," said the hungry fellow," "bring mo some fried perch." After he had eaten the perch he ordered a broiled bass and, after devouring it, said: "Now just bring me along any other fish that you happen to have handy." "That fellow is extremely fond of fish," said one of the men. "Not so much that hois fond of them as the fact that he hasn't had any for a long time." "He could get them, I am sure. The markets are full of them." "Yes, but 3*011 see he ha3 been beyond the reach of the markets; ho has just leturncd from a fishing expedition." You may si-ip of t'us beauty of springtime That glow < on the cheek of the youug, Rut I sing of a heftuty that's rarer Than any of which you have snng. The beauty that's seen in the faces Of women whoso summer Is o'er, Tho autumn-like beauty that charms us Far more than the beauty of yore. But this beauty is seen too rarely. The faces of most women loso the beauty of youth too toon. Female disorders aro like frosts which como tonm tho flowers which betoken good health, without which there can be no real beauty. If our Amorican women would fortify themselves against tho approach of the teri ible disorders so urevalent among them, by I usi- g Dr. Pierce's favorite Prescription, their | ro d looks would b t retained to a "sweet old I a e." Thi < remedy is a guaranteed cure for all t edistressing weaknesses and derangements pecu iar to women. Dr. Pierce s Pelletts, one a doee. Cure headiche, constipation and indigestion. The lutur home of the wicked is pavert with good intent o is. but the pavements never b ow up and the system bus its advantages. Pcnfnesa Can't he Cared By local applications, r.s they cannot rencb the disen-cd portion of the ear. There is only one way t > cure Deafness, antl that is by con, stitutinna! remedies. Deafness is caused by au i flamed condition of i In; lintcous lining of ! the Eustachian Tube. When lb!*tub: gels inflamed you have a ninth ing sound or imperfect hearing, and when it i.? entirely closed !. Deafness i tin: result, and unless tlie* inflammation can he taken out and thfs lube restored toils normal condition, hearing will he destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused l?y catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of themucoiis surfaces. We will give One Handled D diars for any case of Deafness (caused by Catarrh) that we cannot cure by taking Hall's Catarrh Curo. Send forcir u'a s, roc. 1'. .1. Chunky Si Co, Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Who luitIt no more bread than ho nc-pds should tot keep a dog, l.ut lie generally ' keeps s< vuts A S'i.-IO Paper for $1.7-1. Tiif. Youth's omiwnion gives so much for 1 the small amount that it costs it is no wonder it in taken alia a ly in nearly Hull a Million Families. With its tine paper nnd beautiful Illustrations, its Weekly Illustrated Supplemo it* nnd its Double Moiid-y Numbers, it teems as if the publishers couhl not do enough to plea e. By pending ft. 75 now you may obtaiu it tree t > .'anuary, nnd for a full year from that date to .'annary, 1M?I. Address Tuts Youth's Companion, Boston, Ma83. F.very ilpv In n s its brvHil, nnd the bill ' conies on Sal a day. I .* it?'flllK s?VIII*V [ | Of hcnlth awl strn-th renewed and of ease ' and comfort follows the use of Syrup of Figs, i I I ns it aclsin harmony with nature to .'fTectual, ! ly c.li ar.se 1 lit- system when costive or bilious. ! For ante In Mv. and fl bottle-by all leading i 1 druggists. ' [ Who lives in ii v IIss Iioimu should make i ni raitc in-nt* to move. 1 y?" una of v.oo on use Dubbins's Electric ! Snap daily. and sn\ it i. iho beet and cheapest. . ; Jf i ey sir- vMit. on Jit to use it. li ! v. rrn;;. our irifi-m'\ will show yon. Buy a bar I of your p'l'Mvr and try it next Monday. Orcuon. Iii( Piiriwt'.se of Fnnnem. Mild, equable olimat .cjrtain and abundant crops, Best fruit, -grain, grass and stock counU7 In the world. Full information free. Ad> dress Oregon Im'igrat'n Board, Portland. Ore. i J - i {V rloii nth sori-1 ves us- Drlmao Thontp. j iti i KjeWiiti r Iirmr-ji-tssell at-r?r.p?r bottle I A I".!. .tin .. st till led over 10O.CO0 "T iiMili'* ! in.< li" 5c (I gar* in fciur months. Fmr nolluiii.' rt sin, tut keep away from l! ! I'Ici ii"!- light wire. Rheumatism Arrordlng In recent investigations In caused by ex Fslvi lnt-ili- m-'.rl In the blood. Tills arid attacks the fibrous I Issues, particularly In the Joints, and causes Hie tci nl manifestations of ilu> disease, pains I and aches in iho hack mid shoulders, and In tho 1 ! Joints at the knee.;, ankles, hips mid wrists. Thou! sands of iKMple have found In Hood's Harsftpnrllla I positive and permanent cure for rheumatlsin. | Tills medicine, by Its purifying and vitalizing ac1 j Hen, neutralizes the acidity of tho blood, and also ' strengthens the whole Irody. | Hood's Sarsaparilla j Fold by all druggists. .*1: six for ft5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD & Ci)., Apothecaries, lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar 0 ft ii cvr red WHISKEY HAB'X e? vl f* US cared at home wilhS: 3 H w ont M?0,C0' l?irU is'&l'itfa 'iculars sent FREE. II. .M. WOOLLEY, M. D., AlLANXSTuar office WhlteUU St. Both Tanned. "My!" exclaimed Mrs. l'igg. "I look like a peifect fright. I never had any idea I would get tanned fo much in the course of one short week." "Me, too, ma," said Tommy, who j had stayed at home to help his father keep house while his mother was enjoying her vacation. Doctor Squills?There is nothing serious, sir; your wife has merely bit a little skin off the end of her tongue. Mr. Henvcck?End of her tongue! Great Scott! 1 didn't know there was nuy end to it. 8HE TELLS HIM " Later vnto Amicola N Came a pale face preacher, teaching Peace and progress to the nativeet Wooed and icon by Uanita. She nobler to male hie calling, Whispered to him nature's secret? Told him of the herbs so potent For the healing and the saving." ?EXTIUCT FBOM TOBM OV "UANITA," " 1 "" ? Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free, i piftuii REMEDY FOR ' fcufrj 1 to use. Cheapest Kcli KRCg certain. For Cold in the He* bfcjSj to the nostrils. Price, 60c. P*&3 by mail. Address, E. T. SMITH'S BILE BEANS Act on t he li ver and bile; clear the complexion: euro biliousness, sick headache, costiveness, malaria and all liver and stomach disorders. We are now making small size Bile Beans, especially adapted for children ana womei? very small and easy to take. Price of either 6ize25o per bottle. 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