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THE TALMACE SERMON. The Brooklyn Divine Preaches on the "Summer Vacation." The Temptation* Tlmt Arc To Be Met With nt Summer Iluortt. Text: "Come ye yourselves apart into a tesert place and rest awhile."?Murk vi., 31. Hero Christ advises Ilis apostles to take a vacation. They have boon living an excited as well as a useful life, and Ho advises that tbey get out into the country. I am glad that for longer or shorter time multitudes of our people will have summer vacation. The railway trains are being laden with passengers and baggage on their way to the mountains and the sea shore. Multitudes of our citizens are packing their trunks for a restorative absence. The citv heats are pursuing the people with torch and fear of sunstroke. The long silent halls of sumptuous hotels are all abuzz with excited arrivals. The crystalino surface of Winnipiseogce is shattered with the stroke of steamer, laden with excursionists. The antlers of Adirondack dear rattle under the shot of city sportsmen. The trout make fatal snaps at the hook of adroit sportsmen and toss their spotted brilliance into the gamo basket. Already the baton of the orchestral leader taps the music stand on tho hotel green, and American life puts on festal array, and the rumbling of the tenpin alley, and the crack of the ivory balls on the green i baize billiard tables, and the jolting of tho bar-room goblets, and the explosive uncorking of champagne bottles, and the whirl and the rustle of tho ball-room dauce and tho clattering hoofs of the race courses attest that the season for tho great Americau watering-places is fairly inaugurated. Music?Bute and drum and cornet-a-piston and clapping cymbals?will wake the echo J3 of the mountains. Glad I am that fagged out American lifo for the most part will have an opportunity to rest, and that nerves racked aud destroyed will find a Bethesda. I believe in watering places. Let not tho commercial firm bogrudgc the clerk, or the employer the journeyman, or tho patient the physician, or tho church its pastor a season of inoccupation. Luther used to snort with his childreu; Edmund Burke used to caress his favorite horse; Thomas Chalmers, in the dark hours of tho church's disruption, played kite for recrea tion?as I was told by his own daughter? and tho busy Christ said to tho bus}* apostles, 'nniirt into n (lrvrt WJUO JC JVUICV..W v ? place, and rest awhile." And I have ol>- . served that they who do not kuow how to ! rest do not know how to work. But I havo to declare this truth to-:1ay, that some of our fashionable watering place? arc the temporal and eternal destruction of "a multitude that no man can number," and amid the congratulations of this season and the prospect of the departure of many of you for the country I must utter a note of warning?plaiu, earnest an 1 unmistakable. The first temptation that is apt to hover In this direction is to leave your piety all at j home. You will send the dog and cat and i canary bird to bo well cared for somewhere | else, but the temptation will bo to leave your religion in the room with the blinds down and the door bolted, and then you will come back iu the autumn to find that it is starved and suffocated, dying stretched on the rug stark dead. There is no surplus of piety at the watering places. I never knew any one to grow very rapidly in grace at tho fashionable summer resort. It is generally thecase that the Sabbath is rnoro of a carousal than any other day, and there aro Sunday walks and Sunday rides and Sunday excursions. Elders and deacons and ministers of religion who are entirely consist ont at homo sometimes when the Sabbath dawns on them at Niagara Falls or tho White Mountains take the day to themselves. If they go to too i church, it is apt to bo a sacral parade, ami the discourse, instead of being a plain talk about the soul, is apt to bo what is called a j crack sermon?that is, some discourse pickod j out of the effusions of the year as tho 0110 , most adapted to excite admiration; and iu j those churches, from tho way the ladies hold j their fans, you know they aro not half so | much impressed with tho heat as with tho j picturesqueuess of half disclosed featur s. ! Four puny souls stand in tho organ loft and squall a tune that nobody knows, and wor- : shipors, with two thousand dollars' worth of j diamonds on tho right baud, drop a cent into the poor box, and then the boncdic- j tion is pronounced and tho farco is ended. ! The air is bewitched with "the world, the flesh and the devil." There aro Christians j who in three or four weeks iu such a place have had such terrible rents made in their | Christian robe that they had to keep darning ! it until Christmas to get it mended! Tho I health of a great man}' people makes an annual visit to some mineral spring an absolute necessity; but take your Biblo along with you and take an hour for secret prayer every day, though you bo surrounded by guff iw and saturnalia. Keep holy the Sabbath, > though they denounce you as a bigoted Puri- ! tan. Standoff from these institutions which propose to imitate on this side tho water tho | iniquities of olden time Baden-Baden. Let your moral and your immortal licalth keep pace with your physical recuperation, and re- | member that all the waters of Hathorne and * sulphur and chalybeate springs cannot do i ^ you so much good as the mineral, healing, perennial flood that breaks forth from the 1 f~: ''Rock of Ages." This may bo your last sum mer. If so, make it a fit vestibulo of e' heaven. | Another temptation around nearly all our j F watering places is the horse racing business. ' "We all admire the horse. There needs to be a redistribution of coronets among the brute I creation. For ages the lion has been called j uKiug of beasts. I knock off its coronet ] and put the crown upon the horsj, iu every | way nobler, whether in shape or spirit or j sagacity or intelligence or affection or usefulness. He is semi-human, an 1 knows how ' to reason on a small scale. Tho centaur of 1 olden times, part horse and part man, seems j to be a suggestion of the fact that the horse is something more than a l?east. But we do not think that the speed of the horse should bo culture 1 at the expense of I human degradation. Horse races in ol-ljn ' times were under the ban of Christian pee- j pie, and in our day the samo institution has | come up under fictitious names, and it is i eauoa a "summer meeting," almost suggestive of positive religious exercises. Audit is callo-1 an "agricultural fair," suggestive of everything that is improving in the art of farming. But under those deceptive titles are tho samo cheating anl tho same betting, the same drunkenness and samo vagabond- i ago, and tho samo abominations that were I to bo found uu Icr tho old horso racing sys- j torn. I never know a man yet who could glvo I himself to tho ploasures of the turf for a j long reach of time and not bo battered in morals. They hook up their spanking learn, and putonthoir sporting cap, and light thoir cigar, and takotho reins, and dash down tho road to perdition. Tho great day at .Saratoga and Long Branch and Cape May, aud noarly all tho other watering places, is tho day of tho races. Tho hotels are thronged, nearly every kind of oquipago is taken up at uu almost fabulous price, au 1 there are tnanv rosiioctahlo nvviln ininrr1tn>r vvifli 1 jockeys an.l gamblers ami iibertincs and loul-mouthed men an 1 flashv women. Tin bar tender stirs up the brandy smash. The bots ruu high. The greenhorns, supposing nil is fair, put in their money soon enough to lose it. Throe weeks before the race takes place tin strngglo is decide 1, an 1 the men in the secrot know on which steed to bet their monoy. The two men on the horses riding aronud long before nrrnngod who shall beat. Loaning from tho stnn l or from the carriago aro mou and womon so absorbed in tho struggle of bono and musclo and mettle that thov mnko a grand harvest for tho pickpockets, who carry ofT tho pocketbooks and portmonnaies. Men looking on see only two horses with two riders ilying around the ring, but thero is many a man on that stand whoso honor and domestic happiness an l fortune?white name, white foot, white Hankare in tho ring, racing with inebriety, an I with frand, and with profanity, an.l with ruin?black nock, black foot, black flank. Keck and neck they go in that moral Epsom. Ab, my friends, have nothing to do with horse racing dissipations this summer. Long ago tho Euglish Government got through looking to tho turf for tho dragoon an l light cavalry horse. They found tho turf depreciates the stock, and it is yet worse for men. Thomas Hughes, tho Member of Parliament and the author, known all tho world over, hearing that a new turf enterprise was being started in this country, wrote a letter in which he said: "Heaven help you, then; for of all tho cankers of our old civilization there is nothing in this country approaching in unblushing meanness, in rascality holding its high head, to this belauded institution of the British turf." I go further and speak of anothor tempt a tion that hovers over Iho watering places, and this is the temptation to sacrifice physical strength. Tho modern Bethosdii was meant to recuperate tho physical health, and yet how m ny come from tho watering places, thcii health absolutely destroyed I Now York and Brooklyn idiot- boasting of having imbibed twenty glasses of Congress water before breakfast. Familios accustomed to going to bed at 10 o'clock at night gossiping uutil 1 or ii o'clock in the morning. Dyspeptics, usually very cautious about their health, mingling ice creams and lemons and lobster salads an 1 cocoanuts until tho gastric juices lift up all thair voicos of lamentation and protest. Dolicato woaion and brainless young inon chassezing themselves into vortigo ami catalepsy. Thousands of man and women coming back from our watering places in tho autumn with the foundations laid for ailments that will last them all their life long. You know as well as I do that this is tho simple truth. Iu tho summer you say to your good health: "Good by; Iamcoing tobavoagood time for a little while. 1 will ba very gla I toseoj'ou agniu in tho autumn." Tuen in tho autumn, when you are hard at work in your ofiloo or shop or counting room, Goo I Heal Hi will come and say, "Good by; lam going." Yon say, "Where are you going?" "Oh,"" says Good Health, "I am going to tako a vacation! It in a poor rule that will not work both ways, and your good health will loavo 3'oit choleric, and splenetic and exhausted. You coquetted with your good health in tho summer time, and your good health is coquetting with you in the winter time. A fragruont oC Paul's charge to the jailer would t>o an appropriate inscription for the hotel register in every watering place, "Do thyself no harm." Another teaiptation hovering aronu I tho watering placo'is to tho formation of hasty anl lifelong alliances. The watering places are responsible for more of tho domestic infelicities of this country thau all the other things combined. Society is so artificial there that 110 sure judgment of character can be formed. Those wlio form companionships amid such circumstances go iuto a lottery where there are twenty blanks to 0110 prize. In the severe tug of life you want more than glitter and splash. Life is not a ballroom where the music decides the stop, aul bow and prance and graceful swing of long trail can make up for strong common sense. You may as well go among the gayiy painted yachts of a summer regatta to find war vessels as to go among tho light spray of the summer watering place to fiud character that can stand the test of tho groat struggle of human life, i > Ah, in the battle of life you wauta stronger weapon thau a lace fan or a croquet mallot! Tlio load of life is so heavy that in order to draw if you want a team stronger than one made up of a masculine grasshopper and a feminino butterfly. If there is auy inan in the communit y that excites my contempt, and that excites the contempt of every inau and woman, it is the soft-handed, soft-heade I fop who, perfumed until the air is actually sick, spends his summer in taking killiug attitudes and vraving sentimental adieus and talking inlinitesiaial nothings, and liuding his heaven in the set of n lavender kid glove. Boots as tight as an inquisition, two hours of consummate skill exhibited in tho tie ci a flaming cravat, his conversation male up of "Ah's"' and "Oh's" and "He-hee's." It would take five liuudred of them stewed down to make a toaspoonful of calves'-foot jelly. There is only one counterpart to such a man as that, aud that is the frothy young woman at tue watering p ace, her conversation made up of French moonshine, what she has ou her head only equaled by what she has on her back; useless ever since sho was born, au I to be useless until sho is dead; and what they will do with her in tho next world I do not know, except to set her upon tho banks of tho ltiver of Life for all eternity to look Bweotl God intends us to admire music aud fair faces and graceful step, but amid tho bcartlessness and tho inflation and tho fautnstic influences of our modern watering places bowaro how you mnko life iong coven mts! Another temptation that will hover over the watering place is that of baneful literature. Almost every one starting off lor tho summer takos some reading matter. It Is a book out of tho library or off thebook stand, or bought of tho boy hawking books through the cars. I really believe there is moro pestiferous trash read among the intelligent classes in July and August than in all tho other teu months of the yoar. Men and women who at homo would not be satisfied with - I l- il.-i. . a. 11.. _M.I? T 1 H UOOlv LlKltf was llMli I? ocudU/iv, j. 4WUUU sitting on hotel piazzas or under the trees reading books the index of which would niako them blush if they knew that you l;new what the book wax Would it not be nn awful thing for you to bo struck with lightning some day when you had in your hand one of theso paper covcrci romances?tho hero a 'Parisian roue, the hcorino an unprincipled flirt? chapters hi tho book that you would not rea l to your children at tho rate of one luindroJ dollars a lino! Throw out that stuff from your summer baggage. Aro there not good books that are easy to read?books of congenial history, books of pure fun. books of poetry ringing with merry canto, books of lino engravings, books that will rest too mitid as well as purify the heart and olovato the wholo life? My hearers, thoro will not be an hour between tbfs anil tho day of your death when you can atforil to road a book lacking in moral principle. Another temptation hovering all around our watering places is tho intoxicatiug beverage. I am told that it is becoming woro fashionahlo for women to drink. I care not how well a woman may dross, i! she has taken enough of wmo to flush her check and put glossiness on her eyes she is intoxicated. She may be handed into a $2303 caViago and have diamonds enough to confound TifTany3 ?she is intoxicated. She may be a graduate of a great Institute and tho daughter of Pome man in danger of boiug nominated for tho Presidency?sho is drunk. You may have a larger vocabulary than I have, and you may say in regard to hor that she is convivial," or she is "merry," or sho is "festive," or sho is "oxhilerated," but you cannot with all your garlands of verbiage covor up the plain fact that it is cui oldfashioned casa of drunk. Satan has three or four grades down which ho takes men to destruction. One man he takes up, and through one spre# pitches him into eternal darkness. That is a rare case. Very seldom, indeed, can you Grid a man who will be such a fool as that. When a man goes down to destruction Satan brings him to a plain. It is almost a level. The depression is so slight that you can hardly see it. That man does not actually know that he is ou tho down grade, and it tips only a little toward. uurituvss?just a uu:e. .ivnu uie nrsc mue it is claret, and the second mile it is sherry, and the third mile it is punch, and the fourth mile it is nle, and the fifth mile it is porter, aud the sixth mile it is brandy, and then it gets steeper and steeper, an 1 tho mau gets frightened and says, "Oh, let me get off!" "No," says tho conductor, "this is an express train and it does not stop until it gets to the Grand Central depot of Smasbupton." Ah, "look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color int.be cun, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it bitctb like a serpent and stingeth liko an adder." My friends, whether you tarry at home? which will be quite as safe and perhaps quite as comfortable?or go into the country, arm yourselves against temptation. The graco of God is the only safe shelter, whether in town or country. There nro watering places accessible to nil of us. You cannot opcu a book of tho Bible without fluding out sonio such watering place. Fountains open for sin and uncleauliuess; wells of salvation; streams from Lebanon; a flood struck out of the rock by Moses; fountains in tho wilderness discovered by 11 agar; water to drink and water to baihe in; tho river of GoJ, which is full of water; water of which if a man drink ho shall never thirst; wells of water in the Valley of Baca; living fountains of water; a puro river of water as clear as crystal from under the throne of God. These are watering places accessible to all | of us. Wo do not have a laborious packing i up before wo start?only the throwing away { of our transgressions. No expensive hotel Lills to uav: it is "without inoiiev and with- ! out price," No Ion; and dirty travel before ! we get there; it is only one stop away. In! California in llvo minutes I walked around i and saw ten fountains, all bubbling up, aud ' they were all different. And in five minutes j I can go through this Itible parterre and find j you fifty bright, sparkling fountains bub- { bliug up into eternal life. A chemist will go to one of these summer i watering places and lake the water and ana- j lyzo it, and tell you that it contains so much ' of iron, and so much of soda, and so much of i lime, and so much of magnesia. I como to this Gospel well, this living fountain, mil j analyze the water, and 1 find that its ingredients are peace, pardon, forgiveness, ' hope, comfort, life, heaven. "Ho, ever}* one that thirstcth, come yon to this watering place! Crowd around this Bcthesda to-Jay! Oh, you sick, you lame, you troubled, you dying ?crowd around this Bcthesda! Step In it!" Ob, stop in it! The angel of the covenant today stirs the water. iVhydoyou not step in it? Some of you are too weak to take a step in that direction. Then we take you up in the arms of our closing prayer and plunge you clean under tlio wave, hoping that the cure may be as sudden and as radical as with Captain Naaman, who, blotched and carbuncled, stepped Into the Jordan, and after tho seventh dive came up, his skin roseate complexioned as the flesh of a little child. POPULAR SCIENCE. i The fastest time made over an electricstreet railway is twenty-five miles an hour. It. is proposed to phonograph the songs of birds and afterward write them down in score. About 4500 species of wild bees are known, of wasps 1100, of which 170 and sixteen respectively live in Britain. The electric spark lias been photographed by means of a special camera, in which the sensitive plate rotated 2500 times a minute. A luminous buoy has been invented, the light for which is produced ,by phosphuret of calcium, and is visible'two aud a half miles away. Electrically deposited copper is so chuctile that it can be drawn down until it resembles the finest hair, and this, 'too, without annealing. One of the most elaborate collections of beetles in the world ds owned by/the Prince Regent of Bavaria, who is anlcuthusiastic entomologist. It is said that the shores of France, are sinking so rapidly that in twenty centuries the French capital will have.become entirely submerged. A new utilization of a waste product is the making of a valuable paste?nu; effective substitute for gum arabic?from the straw boilings that accumulate iivths manufacture of paper. Thunderstorms are said to >be more numerous in low latitudes than-in high, and one reason given for their/being less destructive in England than itisomc other countries is the dampness of viie climate. The reason given why birds do not fall from their perch is because they cau not open the feet when the leg is bent. Look at a hen walking and see it close its toes as it lifts its foot and opeu them as it touches the ground. It has never hitherto been lound possible to make a drilling machine which would drill square, hexagonal, oblong and octagonal holes in metal, but such a tool has finally been devised, and its appearance at an early day has been promised. We lose two pounds of water in the twenty-four hours by perspiration, and the more we perspire the cooler wc become. There are 27,000,000 pores on the surface of our bodies, which, if placed in a line, would extend twenty-eight miles in length. The fact that the waves in the North Sea differ in shnpo when caused by a northeast wind under high pressure from those caused by a southwest wind with low barometer, is considered as a proof that the air in an anti-cyclone is a dcor-ondinrr nirrent and the air in a cvclonc 7 v an ascending current. American naval officers who have adopted the cholera belt in the tropics fiud it so beneficial that they often retain it in all latitudes. It is simply a broad band of flannel worn night and day the year around tight about the waist, so as to protect the stomach from sudden changes of the temperature. It is an excellent preventive of stomachic disorders. A distinctive feature of insects of the grasshopper family is the manner in which they produce sound. The sharp, stridulating noise with which the air resounds all through the day and far into the midsummer night is produced by the rubbing of the still edges of the wing covers against the basal joint of the hindmost pair of legs; or, in some species, by rubbing the edges of the wings against each other. Dr. Charles W. Dulles, a prominent physician of Philadelphia, holds to the opinion that there is hope for consumptives and that medical science will be able soon to control the disease. In a recent paper on the subject lie pointed out that while in England half a century ago there were 55,000 deaths nnnually among 15,000,000 people, there are at present in a population of 40,000,000 but 14,000 deaths due to phthisis. The fcmporaturo of snow at different depths has been investigated by Signor Christoni. He finds that the variations in temperature of the lowest layer, next to the ground, arc extremely small,while the uppermost layer has often considerably higher tempernturc. The tempera lliru IIllUllllUIIl Vi Hit- <ui-iuj<;i iiU.vt uio saow was always lower than that of the uppermost snow-layer, while an air-layer about twenty inches above the snow had a higher temperature than the layer onetwo inches above the snow. The " Yellow Day." September 6, 18S1, is well remembered in New England and parts of Now York and Pennsylvania as the "yellow day." Southern Canada look ou. some of the characteristics noted in the States above meutioncd, the yellow in the ntmosphcre having a more greenish cast, which accounts for the Canucks referring to it as "tlio crrccn day." In the morning the sky had the appearance of being clouded, but as the sun rose it was plainly vision.-, and of the color of bnvss. About midday a much darker yellow appearance prevailed; everything except leaves and grass had the intense yellow look, they appearing of a rich, velvety green. The cause of the phenomenon, which lasted but one day, has never been satisfactorily explnined. ' Bird of Death." A man known as the "Bird of Death," employed in the Vienna (Austrin) General IIo'iplUl, met with a singular fate in the charge of his grewsome duties. His name was Alvis Paxes. lie was about fifty-live years old and of hcrculcau physique. For thirty-three years he carried all the corpses from the mortuary chamber; hence the weird name given hi in. He died of blood-poisoning, caused by handling the body of a patient who died from an infectious disease. Some years ago he sold for cash his own body to a museum manager and spent the money in drink. Ilis body was handed over to the purchaser.? Cincinnati Enquirer. English capitalists have just purchased a large area of chalk rock land near Yankton, South Dakota, aud propose to invest $5,000,000 capital. ' CUKIOUS FACTS. | The while rose is the favorite flower in France. There arc now'70,000 widows in India under nine years of age. A few days ago 8000 watermelons were destroyed in a Georgia railroad wreck. It is saidtthat Asa Low, of Springvnlc, has the shortest name of any pc rson in 3Iainc. It is not an unusual sight to see seventy-five acres of a California vHieat field covered with wild geese. A sign over the office counter in he leading hotel of Leadvillc, Col., reads:' ilDogs boarded at $40 a month." Constantinople, Turkey, is believed to have founded the first hospital in the world, as wc now understand a hospital. A census enumerator discovered a fam jlv of ten children in San Francisco, Cal., who were all clubfootcd and knockkneed. In the Sultantof Morocco's stables are five horses for his own use and seven hundred for the use of his family and servants. There arc fourteen pages in the United States Seuate. They serve for four years each, being eligible only between the ages of twelve and. sixteen. There nnc seventeen bathrooms in Mrs. Thomas A. Scott's residence, on South Ritteuhouse Square, Philadelphia. The house contains as many suits as an ordinary hotel. A very wise citizen of Chicago, who was seeking a boarding-house, went first to a good meat shop and 03kcd the proprietor to tell him the houses to which he sold the best meat A horse-tamer advises that a runaway horse be allowed.to go fifty-yards. Then tighten the line3, say "whoa!" and it he does not respond, to give a strong jerk on the right-hand rein, and sny "whoa" again. The largest plate of glass ever cast in the world was drawn from the auncaliog furnaces at the Diamond Plate Gloss factory at Kokomo, Ind., recently. It i measures 145x195 inches, weighs 2000 pounds, and is perfect in every particular. A tradesman named Meckers was found recently in a street of Eastbourne, on the English South coast, with seven long nails driven deep into his skull. He was removed to a hospital in a dying state. 1 ue aoctors say 11 IS >1U iistuuiaiuug wuov. of deliberate suicide. Mrs. Ambrose Crouch, of South Jack- i son, Mich., 1ms been keeping a tab on her family, and finds that during the past ycnr she has baked for them 2368 1 cookies, 19S8 doughnuts, 217 cakes, 267 I pies, 81 puddings and 793 loaves of bread. Her family is not large, cither, except as to appetite. A newly married Hindoo girl is inter- ' dieted by custom, when living under her husband's roof, from talking to ang but her younger sisters-in-law or brotliers-in- i law. A suicide has been committed by , a little Hindoo wife in a village in Burd- | j wan for the pathetic reason that she could I find "no one to talk to or play with."' The University of Berlin, with its j C000 students and scores of famous pro- ^ feasors, has a capital of but $750,000. Its largest endowment, that of the Count- | ess Rose, is only $150,000. Ncvcrthc- ( less it is the seat of the highest German | learning, and claims to have the ablest corps of instructors of all the world's | schools. j i At Mrs. Somebody's sumptuoiH dinner 1 party in the suburbs of New York the ' I other evening canary birds were liberated 1 I from their cages and flew about she din- ' 1 | ing-room during the feast, evidently embarrassed, if not scared. This "fen- , turc"comc3 fromLondoo, where Colonel | North, the "nitrate king," had it first at his regal banquet at the Hotel Metropole. IntelUgent Spnrrows. In a certain country town the English J sparrows took possession of the cives and the attic of the court house, built their ( nests there and fought nnd propagated , with tireless and noisy energy. One day in the spring came a butcher bird nnd lighted on a tree near the court house. Before the arrival of the butcher bird, perhaps two hundred sparrows were hopping and dying about in peace, if not in quietness. In an instant they had all disappeared. Not one could be seen. You would not have known that there was a sparrow in town, had it not been for an occasional subdued chirp under the eaves of the court house. Now, I probably none of these little scamps had I ever seon a butcher bird before. But I some instinct told them that he meant ! mischief, and, not sianding upon the order of their going, they went at once. For tv.-o days the butcher bird made his home in that tree, killing several robins, but not a sparrow. They, line Brer Rabbi';, lay low. On the third day a 1 * * OAnrfhAiien flltrtf tliA Itllfrhor bird. The sparrows must have bccu watching the proceedings, for their dead enemy had hardly touched the ground before every one of them were there, too, foraging with appetites sharpened with a tro days'fast. They paid no attention to this man with the gun nor to the butcher bird, but just went industriously to v?ork filling their little crops. Now, what other bird has so much discern ment? How did they know their enemy was dead? and, further, how did they know that the same weapon which had killed him wouldn't be used to kill them? They did know both things in some way. If for nothing else but their smartness, the sparrows ought to be encouraged by a smart people like ourselves.?New York Star. The Cats of PribyloT Islands. It should not be omitted to state that there are no reptiles of any sort, mosqui- I | tees, or house flies on the Pribylov Isl- j ands, off the coast of Alaska, although i those objectionable creatures are found i pretty nearly everywhere else in tho world. There are not even rats there, though mice have have been brought in ships and have propagated enormously. ~ . - 1 I : Uats, too, nave ueeu nupuiwu uu? uu<\. increased to a most astonishing extent. Feeding upon sealflesh they have grown much shorter and thicker of body than cats in this part of the world; their tails have become abbreviated, and thev have ! multiplied beyond all counting. So serious has the night concert problem become on the Pribylov Islands that periodically the natives make raids upon tho cats, with the result of temporarily diminishing their numbers. It is said that a night upon St. George's or St. Paul's is one incessant and inexpressible caterwaul.? Chicago Timet. A GYPSY ON DREAMS. fiend This, Tlion Go Homo and Eat Too Much ChoeMr. According to the Gypsy, to that you bathe in clear water is a sign that you will enjoy good health; if muddy, the death of relatives or friends. To see a bath, anger; to take a warm bath denotes happiness; if you take one either too hot or too cold, domostio troubles. If you undress without going into the water yon may expect troublo, but it will soon pass away; a sea bath is a sign of honor and an increase of fortune. If any one dream that he or sho is ascending to heaven, or is alrcndy enjoying its delights, it shows that, some joyful event is to happen, such as the birth of an heir to childless people, good fortune to those who nro poor, distinction to the wealthy and high honors to the ambitious. If lovers hnvn annlt o rlrnom if-, fnrnfnlla an aarl^j MUIV WUVH W 4V V?.J marriage under the most auspicious circumstances, and that their wedding will bo attended with troops of congratulating friends, who will showei presents upon them. On the othet hand, to dream of seeing hell denote; that the dreamer's life is a bad one, nnd is an intimation to him of reformat tion. To see a coffin in your dreams signifies that you will soon bo married and own a house of your own. This is a dream girls are ulways wishing for, says the gypsy book. If any one should be so unfortunate as t-o dream that he or she was present at a happy and jolly wedding it denotes that they will attend a funeral; it will pot necessarilyije at the burial of either of the persons you dreamed you saw married, but you will undoubtedly bo called to mourn some friend or relative. To go to weddings when one is wido awake is exceedingly pleasant, but we i hould be careful how we dream about them. To dream of being married yourself foretells your death. For a girl to dream of raking newlymown hay is a sign she will be married before the hay is eaten. Young fellows who dream of raking hay with their sweethearts had better get ready their necks for the matrimonial noose, as they are past praying for. If a man .1 1.. Hi cuius IIU 19 LUU11UCU 1U a jsuouii Ui jail it shows that he will have honora or dignities conferred upon him, aa such dreams go contrary wise; if his arrest and imprisonment worries him it only 6hows that he will be the more delighted with his new dignities. This is an excellent dream for politicians and office-holders, as the jail is what they would naturally dream of. For a girl to dream that she was so sleepy in church as to nod toward the minister, is a sign she will have a young parson fcr her husband; if a young man dreams this, he will beapt to make up to the minister's daughter, provided his position warrants it, and if not, that he will marry a girl noted for her piety. To dream of a widow signifies a reward; to dream you are a widow portends death or disappointment To dream of x widower denotes strife or quarrels. A fox is a sign of thieves; to dream !>f fighting with them, shows that you tvill have to deal with some cunning memy;tokeep a tame fox signifies that you will love a lewd woman, or have a bad servant who will rob you., A. number of foxes, false friends. If rou dream that your mouth is stopped jy a gag, it denotes that you will soon thereafter be kissed by a pretty girl. To a young girl such a dream predicts lliat she will see some gentleman who [akes her fancy, and perhaps will fall in love with him. . : If yon dream yon are pleased with a pretty chambermaid, milkmaid, or any ilean or nice-looking young girl whose, Dccupation carries with it the title of maid, it is a good omen, for it predicts in excellent match, and plenty of children. It also foretells, in many, cases, that the dreamer will marry u ich wife. For a married woman to Iream this is a sign she will have [rouble with servants. A Warrior Bold. A lawyer gave a dinner party, after which the gentlemen retired to smoke md chat. All at once he got up, took down a sword which formed part of a trophy, and, brandishing it in the air, Bxclaimed: "All, gentlemen, I Bhall never forget the day when I drew this blado for the first time!" Tray, where did you draw it?" said an inquiring guest. "At a ruffle," was the lawyer's rejoinder.?Summit (N. F.) liecoril. It is remarkable how a boy who will walk four miles through the timber alone to go to a party gets scared at the darkness in the wood-shed. The American miss who marries a 'oreign count hopes to become a "Conness So-and-so," but usually ends with being a Miss-Fir.?27<e Merchant Traveler. Warm Weather Causes That Tired Feeling. To b9 Strong, Take Hood's Sarsaparilla Bethel Classical and Military Academy Prepares for Business, Univ. of Va. ami West Point. Address MaJ. A. U. Smith, Bethel Academy P. O. Va. nrfcioimio oi'i? ci.aimh *etti,isj PrNNIllNS i n?i:it nkh i.au. 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