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\ - [** wh& %. ujhxa*.] ?* I ft jolly f : Juit before the snow. ? vfri^Ti ' - ;;h sccailest lot, !$$? cfcrfy Hasjen hair, f ? cfcejjltf sweet and ruby, And ^rSHT so rery fair. Had b&LfiiUl the tales of "Reams, Aid matey su>ri&> more, Of tin# r * Fairies ' and of ''Santa," And pthets aU gaiyre. Wh?a HvtiusBgdrew her curtain, P A p t a ne3'*t* with a star, :'. Tfcecu |e bttie to?i;e slept. ^itK ptarfy teeth-ajar. ' The MrHamnd shook his mantle, ? An? fleecy ^yaiseives feil, l^^^t^Jy^rtb received them, ? : T : * r In the earty of the1*ornmz. * The white was tinged with Eye^-peei^ng thro' the window *H-" j?Ma mto^.^ianta's sugar' s spilth ! \ BIBLE COXCHOLOGY. VDRl^TAtMAGe CONT{NU?S H?S SER MONS ON GOD IN NATURE. \ ? - '?Sweet Spice*. Stacte and.Onycha"? Won derfal force and Variety of tb? imagery From Kature? Bow I be Divine Care la Shown In the Ocean'* Shells. ?' Brooklyn, Feb. 19. ? In the Tabernacle this forenoon Rev. Dr. Talmage continued his coilUe of ser mons on God everywhere: Hia sabr ject waa the "conchology of the Bible; or, God Among the Shells,"- the text being taken from Exodus, 30th chap j)fr, 34th . verae, wAn4 the Lord said Al nto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte and onycba.*' <* Yoa may not have noticed the shells of the Bi\>le, although in this earl/ part o$ ;the sacred book God calis yon to consider and employ them as be called Muses to consider and employ them. The onyeha. of my text is a shell found on the banks of the Bed sea, and Moses and his army mart hare crushed many of them under foot as they crossed the bisected waters, onycha ok the beach and crayeha in the un&lded bed of the deep. I shall speak of this shell as a beautiful and practical revelation of -God, and as ttne as the ?rst chapter of Genesis and the lasf chapter of Revelation or everything between. Not only is this shell, the onycha, fgpnd at the Bed Sea, but in the waters of India. It not only delec tales the eye with 1$ convolutions of fcfeauty, white and lustrous and ser rated, but blesses the nostril with * pungent aroma. This shellfish#?* customed to^ on sptkenaxd^-is rq|kflent with that odorous plant? -re dolent when alive and redolent Wfcea dead. Its shalis when bonwd bewitch the air with fragrance. ^ Jin my text God commands Moasa to mix this onchya with the perfomet of the altar in the ancient taben&ck and I propose to mix some of its per fumei at the altar of Brooklyn Taws' , acleifor, having spoken t^yoo oi *5^ "Attnoomy of the Bi&ef of / Among the Stare;" U?^Chron<ioj Bible; or, God Among tha?| _ies;" the '"Ornithology jji D nr, God Among the Birds; the [ajogy of the Bible* or, God Amo&j Amethysts;" the "Ic&thyologyj .o' Bible; or, God Among the ?be Shells." j BICHKS OF THE OCEAN. It is a secret that you may keep for me, fori have sgver before told it to saipy one, that in al^ the realms of the natural world there is nothing to me so fa#inating, so completely absorb ingx so full of suggesti veness, as a shell. What? More entertaining than a bird, which can sing, when a shell cannot sing? Well, there you have made a great mistake. Pick up the onycha ^from the banks of the Red sea or /pick up a bivalve from the beach of the Atlantic ocean and lisfen, ir and you hear a whole choir of marine voices ? base, alto, soprano ? in an un known tongue, but seeming to chant, as I put them to my ear, "The sea is his, and be made it;" others singing, ^"Thy way, O God, is in the sea;" t~dfchg*? hymning, "He ruleth the ras mLiog $f the sea." Xk "What," 3aya some one else, "does filfce shell impress you more than the ?p?fcf' In some respects, yes, because ii-pHpui handle the shell and closely sto&y the shell, while I cannot handle ? the star, and if I study it must study it TfesJt distance of millions and mil iions ojawles. -What," *^3 some one else, "are you more impressed by the shell than the flower?" Yes, ibr it has fer greater and far greater richness of c ok*, as I ?fci)d show you in thous-. ands of specimens, and because the shell does not fade, as does the rose leaf, but maintains its beauty century after century, so \ that the onycha vrhieh the -h?**f ofpharaoh's hone feinted aswije iu chase of the .I-rariic*ts acroae the Red sea may ? hav- k+-pt its liisrer t?? this hoof. Yes: they are so particolored and many c?4omi th?t you might pile them up ~ ^uatir ju u would have a wall with ail the colors of the wall of heaven, from - ? "atSOML bottom to the ametbst at th^ tip/ ? v' ? the she? Is! The petrified fSam if ?ae ^ea. 0?, the shells* The harden ed b?iW*?es <rf the d<*?p. Oh, the shelly *hieh are the di*<kms thrown by the ' tnr* it t?* i he feevjof thicuntmenta k the SJ?eJ la^tfre riKbe^S^ruoved. , ? y-hndervd mottled, iridescent] TDjey v5urf used as oy somtf of the* na They w*f? ?sfc?oed in belts by is, a d made Jo Randies of wooden : ?m|^ef?eotd fey still oCb^rs. Mollusks ipH?t on It ?>r she sea, hot mollusks of f Ixrpi; T*> r?>u kn?>w how much ' .V ' d r . d-? w?th th^ world's j u^tQrv? . Tivv saved the church of ; -V extioguishement - . -*-? i ' * * - ? ? ? <? gjp^'V \r. : r bonnd ajfin tl? had^^ years ifl the "Soimbb Jtfflfcejity triumphantly uk*> Hfft^M tfaey i live 40 you* m 4? f1"""? "?j> out food? Yoa ?*J that was afler a k^?^ ;Tbey would have started 50 tunes befrre Ithe ipim1"* ieii- ^ they were chiefly kept alire bythe moHasks of the land or defied cntoum. Mr , Fronton and Mr Scardiook the same ^oote from Egfl* tow*"? Canaan that the Israelite took, W they give this as their testimony ii Israel's boot* caxaax. ; jt^."Althibogh the GWdren of Israel rnust'ba^^ 2,000, 0fl| souls, with bagpge*Dd innumer able flocks and her#*, they were not likely * to experience any b conven ience in their rnard^. i Several thous and person* migbfj walk abreast with the greatest ease if the very narrowest part of the valley an which, they first began to file ??- It aoon afterward -expands to *b<|ve three leagues in width. With respect to forage they would be at no kas. The ground is i covered with tamarisk, broom, clover I and saint foin, of which latter especial ly camels are passionately fond, be sides almost every variety of odori ferous plant and herb proper for pasturage^ "The /"Whole sides of the valley through which the children of Israel jcarched are still tufted with brush wood which 4<^btles8 afforded food for their beaits, together with many drier sorts for lighting fire, on which the Israelites; could with the greatest, ease hake the dough they brought j with them on small iron plates, which form a eons&at appendage to the bag gaeof an oriental traveler. Lastly, I the herbage underneath these trees ^cd abrabei* completely covered with snaiis cff a^wod igious sflSe apd of the aox^and, however uninviting qocl a tq ** might appear to us, they here\esteemed a great delicacy. They artso plentiful in this valley that Mf/ ** literally said that it is take one step without tread ujgonttem." go thflshelled creatures saved the }xx? of Israelites oq the march to the proeaisfli^ land, and the attack of infi delity this point ? is defeated by the&?& as infidelity is always de feated facta, since it is founded on jgaoatoee. writing' and printing oerjufcnpg&tion point has at the bot tom -^mark like a period and over it " "sh lie the swing of a team hip, and we put this interroga poiat at the end of a question, hotjiuthe Spanish language the inter point is twice ased for each At the beginning of the the interrogation point is uted upside down, aod at the of the question right side up. f $ijen infidelity puts a question about ^~iptu as it always indicates ce, the question ought to be with two interrogation points, | bait at the beginning and one at the but both upside down. BOYAL FAMILIES OF NATURE. Thank God for the wealth of mol all up and down the earth, ?r feeding the Israelites on their to the land flowing with milk iy, or, as we are better ac with the mollusks, when the beach of lake or sea. are three great families of If I should ask you to name e great royal families of ! btu fesP?n(^ Hapsburg, the house of Bourbon, but the three royal families of mollusks are the univalve, or shell in one part: the bivalve, or shell of two parts, and the multivalve, or shell in many pans, and I see God in their every hinge, in their every tooth, in their every carti lage, in their every ligament, in their every spiral ridge, and in their every color, prism on prism, and their adap tion of thin shell for still ponds and thick coatings for boisterous seas. They all dash upon me the thought of j the providential care of God. - What is the use of all this architecture of the shell, and why is it pictured from the outside lip clear down into its labyrinths of construction? Why the infinity of skill and radiance in a shell? What is the use of the color and exquisite curve of a thing so in significant as a shellfish? Why, when the conchologist by dredge or rake fetches the crustaceous specimens to the shore, does he find at his feet whole alhambras and coliseums and p&rthenons and crystal palaces of beauty in miniature, and these bring to light enly an infinitesimal part of j the opulence in the great "subaqueous world. Linnaeus counted 2,500 spe cies of shells, but conchology had then only begun its achievements. While exploring the bed of the At lantic ocean in preparation for laying the cable shelled animals were brought up from depths of 1,900 fathoms. When lifting the telegraph wire from the Mediterranean and Red seas, shelled creatures were brought up from dephs of 2,000 fiy&oms. The j English admiralty, exploring in be- I half of Science, found mollusks at a depth of 2,435 fathoms, or 14,210 j 'ffeet ' deep. What & realm awful for vastsess! t ' -- the shell is only the house and the wardrobe of insignificant animals j of the d&p, why all that wonder aod bewity of construction? God's care for them is the only reason. Atd if .God provide so mnnificentlyfi them, will he not see that you have ward- | robe and .shelter? Wardrobe and shelter foiNf periwinkle! Shall there i not be wardrobe and shelter for a man? ? Woald God give a c*>at of mail for the defense of a nautilus and leave ; you no defense against the storm? j Does he build a stone house for a crea ture that lasts a season and leave without home a sou! that takes hold ; on centatgs aba eons? I Hugh Miller found "the Footprints j of tiie Creator in the old red Baad stooe," and I hear, the hamfionies of G* <2 in the twinkle of the sea shells when the tides come in. The same - drew a lesson of provi froiI) the fact that ' God ^ instructs the same lesson, fcom the ^nS^? 3t58ECT TEACHES Wdl^ e7ery man'8 life> however find in? \ prosperous for years, ^ W eTery Oman's life, " ??Am? a. v?7 dark time, at least will ^ 7" ^D^ctio11 of circumstance! f ****** bankruptcy and home: ^ * starvation. It may be at these words will meet the ear or will meet the eye of those who are in aich state of foreboding. Come, then, * f8 bow God &ves an ivory pal ^eto.a water animal that you could with a 10 cent piece and clothes la armor against all attack a coral no ojgger than a snowfiake. I do not thank that God will take better care or a4>ivalve than of one of his own children. I rake to your feet with the gospel rake the raoet thorough evidences ^f s care for his creature* I pile f/?U0P J0" great mounds of shells that they may teach you a most com *?\Lng t^eoloS7- 0b' -V? of little ?rto, wa,k among these arbors of praline and look at these bouquets of shell fit to be handed a queen on her coronation day, and see these fallen rainbows of coI#r, and examine these 1! ? f*006' tk?e primroses in stone, these heliotropes in stone, these, cow slips in stone, these geraniums in stone, these japonicas in stone. 0 ye have your telescopes ready! looking out on clear nights; trying to see what is transpiring in Mars, Jupi an(* Mercury, know that within a few hours' walk or ride of where you now are there are whole worlds that yojj might ex plore, but ot which yt>u are unconsci ous, and among the" most " beautiful and suggestive of these worlds is the conchological woifa Take this k> son of a proviso tial care. Ho? does that old hyma>go? ^ We may, like ships, tempest be tossed perilous deeps, but cannot be lost. Though satan enrages the wind and the tide, >ide?mW0 Msures us the wiI1 pro god's care and man's freedom. But while you get this pointed les son of providential care from the shelled creatures of the ' deep, notice m their construction that God helps them to help themselves. This house 1 of stone in which they live is not drbppoed on them and is not built around them. The material for it exudes from their own bodies and is adorned with a colored fluid from the pores of their own neck. It is a most interesting thing to see these crusta cean animaig fashion their own homes out of carbonate of lime and mem brane. > j ? - And all of this is a mighty lesson to those who are waitingibr others to build their fortunes whei^ 'they ought to go to work a nd, roollusks, build their own fortunes out of their own brain, out of their own sweat, out of their own industries. Not a mollusk on all the beaches of all the seas would have a house of shell if it had not itself built one. Do not wait fcrr others to shelter you or prosper you. All the crustaceous creatures of the earth trom every flake of their fevering aud from every ridge of their, tiuy castles on Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean coasts say, ''Help yourself, while God helps you to help y ou rse 1 f. "! . ~ \ Those people who are waiting for their father or rich old uncle to die and leave them a fortune are as silly as a mollnsk would be to wait for some other mollusk to drop on it a shell equipment. It would kill the molusk as itv most cases it destroys a man. Not one person out of a hundred ever was strong enough to stand a large estate. "oy inheritance dropped on him in a chunk. Have great expectations from only two persons ? God and yourself. L/et the onycha of my text become your preceptor. I But the more I examine the shells the more I am impressed that God is a God of emotion. Many 'scoif at emotion and seem to think that God is a God of cold geometry and iron laws and eternal apathy and en throned stoicism. No! No! The shells with overpowering emphasis deny it. W hile law and order reign in the universe, you have but to see the lavish uess of color on the crus tacea, all shades of crimson from faint est blush to blood of battlefield, all shades of blue, all shades oi green, all ! shades of ail colors from deepest black to whitest light; just called cfoton the j shells with one more ordfejr than a mother premeditates or calculates how many kisses and hugs she shall give her babe waking up in the morn ing sunlight \ es, mjg God is an emotional God, ^and he say?, "We must have colors and let the sun paint all of them on the scroll of that shell, and we must have music, and here is a carol for the robin, and a psalm for man, and a doxologv for the seraphim, and a resurrection call for the archangle." Aye, he showed himself a God of sub lime emotion when he flung himself on this world in the personality of Christ to save it, without regard to the tears it would take, or the blood it' would exhaust, or the agonies it would crush out When I see the Louvres and the Luxembourgs and the Vaticans ot Divine painting strewn along the 8,000 miles of coast, and I bear in- a forest on a summer morning musical academies and Handel's societies'" of full orchestras, I say God is a God of | emotion, and if he observes mathemat ics it is mathematics set to masic, and j his figures are written not in white chala.cn blackboards, but written by? a finger of sunlight on walls of j mine and trumpet creeper. WE HAVE A CLEIAX RELIGION. / | In my stuHy of the conchology of^ the Bible this onycha of the text ' also i impresses* me with the feet that re- | ! ligion is perfumed. What else could i God have meant when he said to ]&fc9?8^Take unto thee sweet spices, j stacte anT^jLjpvcha?" Moses took that shell of put it over the fire, and a? it crumbled into ashes it exhaled an odor tfcat hung , in every curtain and filled the ancient taberna and its sweet smoke escaped from the sacred precinfs and satuifl^ed the outside air. ' ' ^ Perfume! That is what religion is. But instead oi that some make it a j. malodor. They serve God in a rough j and acerb way. s They box their i as-*" i1: child's ears because they do not properly keep Sunday instead of making Sunday so attractive the child could not help but keep it They make him learn by heart a diffi cult chapter in the book of Exodus, with all the hard names, because he has been naughty. ,How many disa greeable good people there are! No" one doubts their piety, and they will reach Heaven, but they, will have to get fixed up before they go there or they will make trouble "by calling out to us: "Keep-off that grass!" "What do you mean by^ plucking that flower?" "Show yoqr tickets!" Oh, how many Christian people need to obey my text and take into their worship and their behavior and their consociations and presbyteries and general assemblies and confer ences more onyeha! I have sometimes gone in a very gala of spirit infco the presence of some disagreeable Christ ian and in five minutes felt -wretched, and at some other time I have, gone depressed into the company of suave and genial souls, and in a few mo ments I felt exhilarant What was the difference? It was the difference in what they burned on their censers. The one burned onycha; the other burnedyasafetida. v - . the royal purple. _Jn this conchological study of the Bible I also notice that the mollusks or shelled animals furnish the purple that you see richly darkening so many Scripture chapters. The purple stuff in the ancient tabernacle, the :purple girdle of the priests, the pur ple mantle of the Roman emperors, the apparel of Dives in purple and fine linen ? aye, the purple robe which in mockery&vas thrown upon- Christ were colored by the purple ot the shells on the shores of the Mediterra nean. It was discovered by a shep herd's dog having *taided his mouth by breaking one of the shells, and the purple aroused admiration. Costly purple! Six pounds of pur ple liquor extracted from the shellfishes were used to prepare one pound of wool. Purple was *iso used on the pages of books. Bibles and prayer books appeared in purple vellum, which may still be fouud in some of the national libraries of Europe. Plutarch speaks of some purpjie which kept its beauty for 190 years. Bkt after awhile the purple became easier to get, and that which had been a sign of imperial authority when worn in robes was adopted by many people, and so an emperor, jealous of this ap propriation of the purple, made a law ^t hat any one except royalty wearing purple should be put to death. Then, as if to punish the world foir that outrage of exclusiveness, God obliterated the color from the earth, as much as to say, "If allcannot have fit, none shall have it." But though God has deprived the race of that shellfish which afforded the purple there are shells enough left to mak'e us glad and worsEipfiil. Oh, the en hancement of hue and shape still left all up and down the beaches of all the continents! - These creatures (if the sea have what roofs of enameled por celain! They dwell under what pa vilions blue as the sky aud fiery as a sunset and mysterious as au aurora! And am I not right in leading you for a few moments through this mighty realm of God so neglected by human eye and human footstep? It is said that the harp and lute were iu vented from -the fact that in Egypt the Nile overflowed it* banks, and when the waters retreated tortois es were left by the million on all the lauds, aud these tortoises died, and soon nothing was left but the cartil ages and gristle of these creatures, which tightened under the heat into musical strings that wher^touched by the wind or foot of mau vibrated, making swsct sounds, and so the world took the hiut and Jashioned the harp, an<i am I not right in trying to make music out of the shells and lifting them as a harp, from which to thrum the jubilant praises of th^ Lord and the pathetic strains of hu man condolence? * / THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE. Bat I find the climax of this con chology of the Bible in the pearl, which has this distinction above all other gems ? that it requires no hu man hand to bring out its beauties. Job speaks of it, and its sheen is in Christ's sermon, and the Bible, which opens with the onvcha of my text, closes with the pearl. 0??uch value is this crustaceous product I do not wonder that for the exclusive right of fishing for it on the shores of Ceylon a man paid to the English government $600,000 for one season. So exquisite is the pearl I do not wonder that Pliny thought it was made out of a^rop of dew, the crea ture rising to uie surface to take it and the chemistry of nature turning the liquid into a solid. ? You will see why the Bible makes so much of the pearl in its similituues if you know how much it costs to get it Boats with, divers sail out from the island of Ceylon, 10 divers to each ba6t Thir teen men guide and manage the boat. Down into ihe dangerous depths, amid sharks that swirl around them, plunge the divefs; while 60,000 peo ple anxiously g$ze on. After three or four minu lies' absence from the air the diver ascends, nine-tenthss trangulated and blood rushing from e*rs and nos tril Is, and flinging his pearly treasure on the sand falls into unconsciousness. Oh, it is an awful exposure fend strain and peril to fish for pearls, knd yet they do so, and is it not & wonder that to get that which the Bible calls ,-ihe pearl ofcgreat pri<3fe, worth more than all other pearls pot together, there should be so little anxiety, so little struggle, so little enthusiasm? , Would God that we were all as wipe "as the merchantman Christ commend ed. "who, when he had found.one pearl of great price, w^ut and sold all that he had and bought it." But what thrills me with suages tiveness is the material out of which all pearls are made. They are fash ioned from* the wound of the shellfish. The exudation from that wound * is fixed and hardened aud enlarged into a pearL The ruptured vessels of the ; water animal fashioned the gem that j now adorns finger or earring or sword j hilt or king's crown. So out ot the wounds of earth wttl } come the pearls of heaven. Out of the : woand of conviction the pearl of par- 1 don. Out of the wound of bereave ment the pearl of solace^ Out of the wound of loes the pearl of' gain. Out of the ifeep wound of the grave the pearl of resurrection joy. Out of the wounds of Saviour's life and a Saviour's death the rich, the radiant, the everlasting pearl of heavenly glad ness. ^ ' ' | *;? "And the 12 gates were 12 pearls." Take the consolation, all ye who have been hurt, whether hurt id body, or hurt in mind, or hurt in $Oul. G^t your troubles sanctified. If^you suf fer with Christ on earth, you will reign witbhim in slory. The tears of earth are the crystals of heaven.'* "Every several gate was of one pearl." > - i A Cure For Insomnia. Old Captain Billison and hi&:wife Han nah of Nantucket had lived in peace and comfort together for 20 yea^s, the cap tain having left off goirg to flea early in life and adopted a home staling pur* suit, but at the end of all these years, in which he and Hannah had not been sep arated for a single "day, he was unexpect edly called to Boston- on necessary- busi- * - ness, to be gone a month. One of the neighbor^caZied a few days afterward. "Well, weh/ Hanner," said she, I sh d think ^ \J be purty lonesome livin here with&et the cap'n." " Lonesome P exclaimed Hannah. "1 c d stand that, but laws a- massy ! How was I to go to sleep nights without hearin Elnathan snorin? Fust two nights I couldn't sleep, nohow I c'd fix it" v "Go to sleep now all right'* "Yes." ' * T ; | "How'd ye^anage it?" | "W ell, youvsee, Maria Folger she keeps boarders next door, an I got her to come in an rig up her coffee mill 't the foot o' the bed, an' every night she comes in au grinds her coffee jest after I've gone to bed. > Mercy! You couldn't tell it from Elnathan s snorin, an of course I go right off to sleep." Hannah's eyes twinkled, and we fear she loved a joke more than she loved the : truth.? Youth *8 Companion. The Potent Hawaiian Pick-me-ap. ? Poi is made froni^the root of the tago plant The tago erows in the water, and its broad leaves float upon the surface. It has a root very similar to the turnip, but of more elongated form. It is pre^ pared by grating it upon a ailightly hol lowed volpanic stone upon which water is poured from time to time. The whole , eventually forms a paste, which under goes a slight fermentation and is pleas ant to the taste. There is a drink on the islands known as a "poi cocktail." It is made by stirring the paste into a glass of milk. Its. virtues were discerned many years ago by Europeans. For the 4 'head" which follows a night's debauch there is nothing Mite it When the stomach absolutely refuses anything known to civilization; when the throat is dry and burning, the voice husky, the temple throbbing and the hands shaking, the poi cocktail is swal lowed. It is almost instantly assimilated Aydelicious feeling of calm and rest steals over the patient The paste cov ers the inflamed walls of the stomach and protects them. The throat becomes once m^pe of flesh, not fire, and the head ceases to ache in 15 minutes.? Pittsburg Dispatch. Forms of Snow Crystals. The pure white luster of snow is due to the fact that all the elementary colors of light are blended together & the ra diance that is thrown off from the sur face of the various crystals. More than a thousand distinct and perfect forms of snow-crystals have been enumerated and figured by the various investigators in that line. One hundred and fifty-one different forms were once observed by the English scientist Glashier, who care fully made engravings of each and print ed them in a paper attached to the re port of the British Meteorological so ciety for the year 1855.? St Louis Re public. ^ ^ ^ Salvage on a Darning Steamer. It is equally a salvage service whether assistance to a ship be rendered at sea or in port, or whether the aid "be given by t seamen or landsmen. On Sept. 21, 1889, the steamship Bay of Naples was lying at anchor near Bed loe's island with a cargo of 55.600 cases of kerosene. The tug John Sylvester, pass ing by, saw smoke pouring out of her hatchway. Upon investigation it was found that she was afire. The master of the Bay of Naples requested the tug's assistance in fighting the flames. The tug signaled to half a dozen other tugs in sight, and all went to work with a will to fight the flames, which had reached a small portion of the inflamma r ble cargo. y They succeeded in putting the fire out after 185 cases of the kerosene had burned. The tugs received $20,000 sal vage, although their actuaJ work did not occupy much more than an hour'B time. ? New York Evening Sun. The Hoi j Number, Seven was considered a holy number, and throughout the Scriptures is fre quently used as such. .The seventh son of a seventh son wde formerly looked upon as gifted with miraculous powers of healing the sick. In fact, it was be lieved by superstitious people that he could effect a cure by merely laying his hands on the sufferer. Even to this day this form of supersti tion has not died out, as one may occa sionally meet with these so called natural doctors who believe folly in the marvel ous powers ascribed to them. ? New York News. The Composition of Meteorites. An addition to our present knowledge ! of, meteorites has been presented by J. RyEastman. who furnishes a list of iron aerolites, together with a table of their weights and remarks as to the relative occurrence of iron and stony meteorites. According to this gentleman the ratio of weight of the former to the latter is as 1 to 12.28, and the aggregate weight of aerolitic iron which has been observed and discovered up to date on the Amer ican continent is about 153 tons. "If the above ratio be true in all cases," he says, "there should have been% fall of about 1,880 tons o? lithic meteorites, oi m all oyer 2,000 tons of aerolitic m2ttei precipitated upon the earth."? Iron. A Hint to X**J Elector*. Mr.- Ballance, the premier of New [ Zealand, has suggested a very novel method of keeping the electoral rolls honest and pure. After every election he would strike off the name of every elector who failed to record his vote. Absentees and dead^men would thus be removed at a strike, and the trouble the lazy live electors would experience im getting on the roll again would teach them to value and exercise the franchise in future.? London Tit-Bits. He Completed His Half. Writing lines is the usual penance at Harrow for all offenses ?comtnitted in or out of school. There was one clever boy who escaped writing half the ordered quantityVand the masters tell the story of how he did it to this day. He was an untidy boy, and" was often taken to task for his carelessness and disorder. One * day bis master, who had very dignified and oppressive manners, and who al ways aaid "wtf* instead of "you" when, j CLEVELAND'S CABINET. 7 $OKE SMITH FOR SECRETARY .OF THE INTERIOR. Predlrtent-Elect Cleveland Announces tl>e Same of the Fifth Member or Ilis Cabinet? Three More I'laces to Fill. New York, Feb. 15. ? President elect Cleveland came up to the city at the usual time ? this morning, from Lakewood. Sigourney Butler, of Massachusetts^ras the first caller. It was announced attfee offite that Mr Clev^fcd had come to the city to meet certain people relative to various appointments, and Mr Cleve land sent out word from his private office* that he would see no one else. The appointments to be considered were said to have no relation to the cabinet. The fact that Clark Howell, editor ot the Atlanta Constitution , and Bluford Wilson were iu the city, and Hoke Smith was expected to arrive to-day, led to rumors that to-day's conference was to be held wiih them and other representatives of the Soufh. Following Butler's call, Wilson S. *Bissell and I)au Lamont were ad mitted, together with M.#A. Beach, a personal tnend of Mr Cleveland from the northern part of the States Hoke Smith, ot Georgia, was the last to arrive, and was at ouce admitted. Mr Smith remained with Mr Cleve land upwards of an hour and a half. He refused to say anything iu regard to what had passed between him and Mr Cleveland as he left the office. Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, and Mj Rhoades, editor of the Birm ingham^, Ala , Xeivs, called early in the afternoon and were admitted when Mr Smith left. Mr Cleveland left his office earlier to-day than usual, and started for thqgj ferry at 3:35 p. m. When asked re garding the report that Hoke Smith had been offered the Secretaryship of the Interior, he said: "It's true, yes, it's true, and if I live he will have a place in the cabinet."' Fx Senator John Kiergian called on Mr Cleveland late this afternoon, and left the office only a few minutes before the President-elect started for Lakewood. Officially Announced at Lnkewood. ..Lakewood, N. J., Feb. 15.? Mr Cleveland announced the name of the fifth member of his cabinet this even ing. It is that of Hoke-Smith, of Georgia, for Secretary of the Interior. In making the announcement, Mr Cleveland said: "I met Hoke Smith, of Georgia, in my office 'in New York to-day. He called at my request. J offered him the j>osition of Secretary of the Interior; he accepted. I wish to say that I have not written any more or received any letters or other communications from him, and that to day waa the lirst time I have seen ' him since the election." - Mr Clevetfknd went to New York on the 8:30 a. m. train and returned at .5:10. He remained at his office all day, and saw only those who called by appointment. Mrs Cleveland ac companied him to aiid from the citv. 1 he selection of Hoke Smith, with j that of Gre>luun, (. ari>le, liissel! and ijamont, till all the i>osirions except the Secretaryship of the Navy an. I Agriculture and Attorney General. Hoke Smith is the proprietor of t!ie ' Atlanta Journal , and is known as tin- I original Cleveland man in Instate. ! He favored the nomination of C'leve j land, while the Atlanta Constitution I and other influential papers were | booming David B. Hill. Mr Smith i is not yet thirty eight years old. H.> i is a native of North Carolina. He is I a lawyer, and sai.i to have the largest ' practice any lawyer in the State. ' His fortune is estimated at $300,000. I Mr Smith is tall, with a smooth .shaven face, not unlike the late Henrv | W. Grady. He is a good shaker and has a deep musical voice. His wife is a niece of fjowei1 Cobb. Judge Giesham Declines to T;?lk. j Chicago, Feb. 15. ? Judge (ire* ham admitted to-day, foiMhe first time since his name has been mentioned in connection with the Cabinet of Presi dent-elect Cleveland, that he had been offered and had accepted the position of Secretary of State under the incoming Democratic Administra tion, but could not be induced to talk at length concerning the appointment or the circumstances surrounding hi? selection. The President-elect had officially made the announcement, he said, and there remained nothing more to be said, \\ hen asked what time he would send in his resign ition as Judge of the I nited States Circuit Court, he said he had no plans to make public. He simply desired to confirm the report concerning his ap pointment. j A I'rilliunt Wedding in New York. New York, Feb. 14.? At St Thomas' Church this evening Mi>s Elizabeth Clarkson Thompson, (laugh- i ter of ex-Governor Hugh S. Thomp- i son, of South Carolina, and James I j Grier Zachary were married. Mr Zachary is/& well known lawyer in this city, and is a member of the Manhattan and Lawyers Clubs. The wedding ceremony was informed bv I^Rev I)r John Wesley l?rown. ? ? Kentucky '? New .Senator. Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 15.? i Judge William Lindsey was declared elected United States Senator at the ' joint session of the legislature at noon to day. He will proceed to Washing ton Saturday next to take his seat. 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