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TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTERESTING ITEMS. Comments and Criticisms Based Upon the Happenings of the Bay—Historical and News Notes. A head of hair measuring ten feet and seven inches in length adorns Mrs. Philpot, of Gainesville, Texas. Her height is only four feet. A few years ago the great Salkirk glacier in British Columbia was pure Water. Now it is grimy from ashes scattered by the wanton burning of forest trees. Three hundred to four hundred tons of coal per day is the amount used in some of the large passenger steamers on the Atlantic. This is about one ton per mile run. The crackling sound of freshly ignited wood or coal is caused by the air or liquid contained in the pores expanding by heat and bursting the covering in which it is confined. New York has a wonder on its police force. This wonder arrested two women, and when they were assessed $lO and costs each, he gallantly paid their fine. They were strangers to him. > It is a mistake to suppose that polar research has cost enormously in human life. Despite all the great disasters, ninety-seven out of every one hundred explorers have returned alive. The lowest body of water on the globe is the Caspian sea. Its level has been gradually lowering for centuries and now it is eighty-five feet below the level of its neighbor, the Black sea. English officers are aghast at the proposition to abolish the cocked hat and feathers worn by the superior officers of the army. Major James, of the Sixteenth Lancers, started the idea. The New York Supreme Court has decided that a man who abandons llis wife without just cause must still give her an equitable share of his income, even if she has plenty of means of her own.

A snoring woman was lately expelled from a church iu Racine, Wis. She had not a pleasant countenance while asleep in her pew, and the clergyman thought she was making faces at him. The new State of Washington has raised the largest turnip ever seen. It was lately on exhibition in the Chamber of Commerce at New Whatcom, and measured four feet in circumference, and weighed over fifty pounds. A Pennsylvania farmer has a hen which habitually lays unusually large eggs. Inside of each of these eggs is another good sized egg, perfectly formed. Both the inside and outside egg have a yelk and white apart. The only man tried, found guilty and executed for treason during the existence of the United States was William B. Mumford, in 1862. The execution took place in New Orleans under an order of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler. A Californian was out looking for some lost sheep in a canyon near Sespe, Ventura County, recently, when he ran against a large brown bear. He had no firearms, but he lassoed the bear and dragged it to death. It weighed 800 pounds. The olfactometer recently exhibited to the Academy of Sciences in Paris is a little apparatus for testing the smelling powers of individuals. It determines the weight of odorous vapor in a cubic centimetre of air which is perceptible by the olfactory sense of a person. The last engagement of the civil war was at Palmetto Ranche, Texas, May 11, 1865, the Sixty-socond United States Colored Volunteers, Second Texas Cavand Thirty-fourth Indiana Volunteers under Cob Barrett, and the Confederates under Gen. Slaughter. .Not long ago the Protestant Episcopal bishop of a far western State administered the rite of conformation in a little town; and the local paper, in along and appreciative account Os the event, unctuously described the good bishop "in his lawh tennis sleeves walking up the aisle with solemn step.” An English dentist who tried hypnotism in his profession was very successful. He extracted a tooth for a lady while she was in a hypnotized condition, and when she was awakened she said she had not felt the removal of the tooth, and she had not experienced any discomfort since. In relation to his scheme for a tubular railway across the Straits of Dover, Sir E. G. Reed points out that, unlike the tunnel, the tube can be destroyed, if required, with torpedoes or mines by the fleet, and hence could never be used • by an enemy to maintain the communications of an army of invasion. A lady came to the polls in 'Fort Scott, Kan., who refused a ticket from those doling them out, saying she had her ticket already prepared. She was allowed to have her own sweet way, and when the ballots were counted out her registration ticket, with her name in big letters, turned up all right. The true Bengal tiger is dying out, bo say Indian sportsmen. The advance of civilization drives the creatures from their old haunts, and the rewards offered for the destruction of wild beasts encourage indiscriminate slaughter, so that tigers are rare, even in the islands of the Brahmapootra, where they formed the chief population some years •go. /_ A canary died in New York recently at the age of 15 years. The bird was blind for the last two years of his life, but sang at times till within a few days Os his death. One morning he refused food, but took a little water, and then, Mending to the writer, he nestled fc*-. ■

down in his cage, ruffled out his feathers as usual, coiled up as if to sleep, and thus gently died. A Columbus, Ohio, miss of 16 was recently legally possessed of three names within the space of twelve hours. She started in the morning with Ryder; then in order to marry she required a guardian who would consent Ito the ceremony, and a friend by the name of Osborn adoted her. After this the minister and lover stepped in and she became Mrs. Travener. One of the recent improvements in photographic telescopes is an object glass, one of whose lenses is so formed that when one side of it is turned outward the visual rays are brought to a proner focus and you have a telescope for seeing with; and when the other side of the lens is turned outward the actinic are brought to a focus and the telescope is in proper shape for taking photographs. M. Paul Crampel, a French explorer, has given an account of the Bagayas, a pigmy race, inhabiting the great forests north of Ogowe, who appear to be related to the Wambuttis of Stanley’s expedition. They live among the M’fangs, to whom they are in a measure subject. The Bagaya hunt ivory for the M’fangs, and recieve manioc and bananas in exchange. The M’fangs are about 5 feet 9 inches to 6 feet high, whereas the Bagayas are 4 feet 7 inches. Perhaps one of the most enterprising newspaper reporters that this country ever produced lives at Cleveland, Ohio. News items being very scarce one day he determined to furnish his paper with something in (the way of news, so he took a dose of poison and telephoned the fact to his paper. The enterprising scribe, however, was pumped out in time to save his life, and he is no doubt now hatching up another sensation which will enable him to scoop the rival sheets.

Dr. Charcot reports a girl of 15, “with blue eyes and long blonde hair,” an inmate of a Paris hospital, who has “feline” spells, her eyes becoming periodically and suddenly “frightfully convulsed in the orbits,” when she will assume a position on all fours, hop and skip around the room, imitate a cat in the “pht” and “meow” sounds, and wind up by fainting, rolling over on her back and assuming nominal humam conditions. He has dubbed he “femmechat” or cat woman. The Germans have sent to Germany a few African chiefs whom they wished to impress with their power. The most amusing delegation which has yet gone to Europe from Africa was that of King Mandara, who lords it on the southern slope of Mount Kilima-Njaro. They saw nothing in Berlin that seemed to them half so gramjl as their own country, and they were constantly drawing comparisons between the young Emperor William and their sovereign which were not complimentary to the German ruler. f One of the Broadway restaurants is without!seats or tables, and only sandwiches, fruit, cake, and pies are supplied to the numerous patrons, who are permitted to make their own selections from the buffets, and then name what they have eaten. The proprietor says, “I have confidence in the honesty of my customers. I give a good deal for what it would cost a man to tip a waiter in a sit-down restaurant, and if any ondi cheats me it will not amount to what I would loose if I employed a lot of waiters.” Two men were talking of the average width of chest of men of different nationalities, when one of them, an Irishman, told this story: “A few years ago two regiments of the British army were lined up, the one in front of the other. There were a thousand Englishmen of the Royal Guard in one line, and a thousand Irishmen of the Connaught Rangers in the other. The lines began at the same place, but the line of Irishmen extended thirty-six feet further than the other. It was caused by the difference in width of chest, for the men in both regiments touched elbows.” “In God we trust,” first appeared on the copper two-cent issue of 1864, and is the first- use of the word God in any Government act. This sentence was introduced by James Pollock, an ExGovernor of Pennsylvania, Director of the Mint, with the approval of S. P. Chase, then Secretary of the Treasury. It appeared on the 1866 issue of the double-eagle, eagle, half-eagle, silver dollar, half-dollar and nickel five-cent piece, in lien of the long-existing motto of E. Pluribus Unum. In the tradedollar issue (1873) both mottoes were retained, “In God we trust” appearing on the obverse. March! Even an extremely aggressive enemy can easily be conquered by strategy; it is only a question of employing the Stratagem exactly fitted to the case. Ah open-air preacher of East London understood ’ this very well, and his stratagem fitted to a charm. He was addressing a crowd, when a soldier who had been drinking came up, and loudly ridiculed the service. Finding it was useless to ignore the man, the preacher said, “Ah, my friend, you’re no soldier; you’ve only borrowed those gay red clothes I No servant of the Queen would get drunk and interrupt a peaceful service.” The man warmly protested that he was a soldier, and invited the preacher to test him. “Very well,” was the reply, “I will. Now then, stand at ease!” This the soldier did as well as his condition allowed. “Right about face!” This order was also obeyed, though with some trouble. “Now, quick march!" and off want the valiant soldier, marching down the Mile-end Road at a vigorous pace, while the preacher resumed his discourse.— Youth’s Companion,

•l/lMft ’ i ’ Alii HEN the cadets lllßgw a y® 11 at Charleston MvCga M fi re< l the first w gun on fated Sumter early on that beautiful ' April morning * ' * n 1861, its re'5 verber ating echoes sent a tingle all over the Union. The first bloodshed in the streets of Baltimore quickened the patriotic pulse of the nation, and inspired the grand uprising of the North. The first call for 75,000 troops that followed the evacuation of Sumpter, and the alarming Confederate cry of “On to Washington” that moved President Lincoln to a second call for 83,000 troops, indicated to the world that the greatest conflict of modern times was imminent The battle of Bull Run and the defeat of the Union forces added much to the enthusiasm of the Confederates and the, belief in their military prowess. Disheartening aS its resut was to the Federals, it fired the Northern circle with fresh fuel for the cause of liberty. The results of the campaigns of 1862 in the region of Virginia were not encouraging, but along the Atlantic coast line and the Mississippi? Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi Federal arms had beemcrowned with many successes. The war was being waged on an enormous scale; hundreds of thousands of men were in the field; both sides had long since discovered that secession was no trifling matter. The tide Os Battle, the red waves of war surged over the South for five long years; it defloured her youth, it freed her slaves, her cause was lost, but the flag of the Union was sustained, and the integrity of the sisterhood of States preserved at frightful cost of human life and suffering. Thousands of the brave boys who marched away under the flaunting flags to the music of war returned not from the bloody fields of battle in the Southland. Every home felt the stress of suffering; while the enthusiasm of victory filled every loyal breast, the death-rolls were depressing. Fathers, brothers, lovers had passed away; the widows, the sisters and the sweethearts were left to walk alone and in the shadow. Years have

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passed, the children of war-time have grown to manhood and womanhood, but the green graves of the soldiers are a perpetual reminder of the men who gave their lives that the Nation might live. Long before the war had ended the soldiers’ graves became marked objects of Interest from the famous cities of the dead to the little groups in the hamlet, or the single ones on the lonely farm, and had been decorated with flowers at each returning spring. The observance of decorating the soldiers’ graves came as a patriotic while it did not have immediaffTkuthoritative recognition as a national ceremony, it was carried on with patriotic fervor that showed how nearly it touched the great heart of the people. The second national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic met in Philadelphia on Jan. 15, 1868. The order had gained amazing strength in the meantime, and the roster showed the existence of 2,500 posts, with a membership believed to exceed 250,000 of the best men of the war. General John A. Logan was elected Commander-in-chief, and to that gallant and typical volunteer soldier belongs the honor of issuing the first order for the observance of Memorial Day. To whom the credit should be given of originally suggesting the beautiful ceremony of decorating the graves of dead comrades is not fully settled. It is thought, however, that the first suggestion came from a former private of 'the army, who addressed a letter on the subject to CoL N. P. Chipman. General Logan’s adjutant general The letter came from Cincinnati, and the writer, a native of Germany, spoke of the custom prevailing in the fatherland of assembling in the spring-time and scattering flowers upon the graves of the dead, fie advised that the Grand Army inaugurate such an observance in memory of their dead. It is much to be regretted thftvt Adjutant General Chipman failed to preserve the letter and was unable to remember the writer's name. General Logan, however, warmly approved of the suggestion and issued the now famous general order to the Grand Army of the Republic commanding that the day be properly Observed. ' Sentiments tor the Day. To God, thy country and thy friend be true. —Fauphon. I only regret that I have but one ls» to lose for my country.— Nathan Hale, The air is full of farewells to tho dying and mourning for the dead.—Longfellow. Whether tn chains or. in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victory.—Wendell PMIMjm. Where society Is powerless to create

government, government must create society.—Tslteyrend. Prince Von Bismarck wrote to Von Schleinltz: “Napoleon healed through' fire and iron the sick nation. • I’m Not Bore for Fan. I was wandering np one of the principal streets of Indianapolis one Decoration Day when I met a rugged old farmer from the interior who seemed to have lost his way. As he wandered aimlessly along I approached him, and asked: “Do you enjoy the exercises of the day?* “Wall, so-so,” he answered; “but I ain’t here for fun. I come up to go to the buryinl ground up there on the hill. My boy's buried up there. He was in the the army, you know. He had to lie about ’’jyL v his age to get in, / but the angels’ll forgive that one lie. jalQlerl Lord, how he fight! I’ve hearn the^^KWM^RjvV■ other soldiers tell about it. Wall, he went into the battle of the Wildeness and got wounded awfuL They tele- --a graphed to mo, an’ I went right down. He wanted to be took home, an’ I JIC fetched him. On the '*• Zw ' way up he grew worse, an* he said to me if he could only live to get home an* see his ma, he would be satisfied. He kep* getting weaker an’ weaker, but he held on till I got him home. His ma tried to nu’se him back to life, but he kep’ on running down, He called me up to his bed one night ’bout sundown, an’ said, sez he: ‘Pa, I wanter be buried up in town’(meanin’ here in IngianoplisJ, ‘an’ I want you to keep my grave green.’” Here the old farmer wiped the tears from his cheeks with his big brown hand, and then brought it down on my shoulder in a determined manner, and exclaimed, “Ah, mister. I’m a-goin’ to keep that grave green if I have to paint it!” —J. Whitcomb Riley. The Nation's Dead. The nation’s dead are buried in seven-ty-three national cemeteries, only twelve of which are in the Northern States. The principal ones in the North are Cypress Hill, with its 3,786 dead; Finn’s Point, N. J., with 2,644 unknown Head; Gettysburg, Pa., with 1,967 known and 1,608 unknown dead; Mound City, 111., with 2,505 known and 2,721 unknown graves; and Woodlawn, Elmira, N. Y., with its 3,500 dead. In the South, near the scenes of the fearful conflicts, are located the largest resting places of the nation’s heroic dead. Arlington, Va., 16,264, of which 4,319 are unknown; Chalmette, La., 12,511, of which 5,674 are unknown; Chattanooga, Tenn., 12,962, of which 4,963 are unknown; Fredericksburg, Va., 15,257. of which 12,770 are unknown; Jefferson Barracks, Mo, 11,490, of which 2,900 are unknown: Little Rock, Ark., 5,602, of which 2,317 are unknown; City Point, Va., 5,122, of which 1,374 are unknown Marietta, Ga., 10,151, of which 2,693 are unknown; Memphis, Tenn., 13,997, of

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which 8,817 are unknown; Nashville, Tenn., 16,526, of which 4,700 are unknown; Poplar Grove, Va., 6,190, of which 4,001 are unknown; Richmond, Va., 6,542, of which 5,700 are unknown; Salisbury, N. Q, 12,126, of which 12,032 are unknown; Stone River, Tenn., 5,602, of which 288 are unknown: Vicksburg, Miss., 16,600, of which 12,704 are unknown; Antietam, Md., 4,671, of which 1,818 are unknown; Winchester, Va., 4,559, of which 3,365 are unknown. The dust of 300,000 men who fought for the Union find guarded graves in our national cemeteries. Two cemeteries are devoted to the heroic souls who passed away tn the prison pens, those festering fields of death of the same name. Andersonville, Ga.,.harbors 13,741, and Salisbury, N. Q, 12,126. Os the Grand Army whose legions are dust 275,000 sleep in the blood-stained ground of the sunny South, and 145,000 of them fill unknown graves. The total Confederate loss will never be known, but estimates place it at 220,000 out of the (,000,000 men enlisted in the Southern service. TBey fought the war on the defensive plan, and were acclimated, which gave enormous advantages. The Confederacy’s Vice President. Alexander H. Stephens made the following prophetic utterance at Savannah, Ga., March. 21, 1861: “We are a young republic just entering upon the arena of nations; we will be the architects <sf our own fortunes. Our destiny, under Providence, is in our own hands. With wisdom, prudence and statesmanship on the part of our public men, and intelligence, virtue and patriotism on the part of the people, success to the full measure of our most sanguine hopes may be looked for. Bnt if unwise counsels prevail, if we become divided, if schisms arise, if dissensions spring up, if factions are engendered, if party spirit, nourished by unholy personal ambition, shall rear Its hydra head, I have no good to prophesy for you. Without intelligence, virtue, integrity and patriotism on the part of the people, no republic or representative government can be durable or staple." Ten Thousand Tramps* Queens County, New York, allows thirty cents a night for each tramp lodged and fed at the town hall, the inoney to be divided as follows: Ten cents to the town for lodging, five cents to the overseer of the poor for recording the names, and fifteen cents to the janitor for furnishing the meals It is now demonstrated that 10,000 tramps have been lodged and fed In the town hall at Jamaica during the past ten months, an average of over thirty per night, Whte a snap for the tramps!

A GREAT WEEP WORK. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A SERMON ON THE CREATION. He Cares Not Whether a Week of Days or a Week of Ages Was Required—He Believes in the Mosaic Account of the Earth’s Beginning. The striking sermon Dr. Talmage delivered to an audience which filled the new Tabernacle in every part, dealt with a topic of interest to all who have watched the discussion now agitating the churches. Wherever the question of the inspiration of the Bible is raised the trustworthiness of the Mosaic narrative of the creation is always the point chiefly assailed. The fact that so prominent and eloquent a preacher as Dr. Talmage places himself clearly on record on the side of orthodoxy will doubtless have a marked influence on public opinion. His text was Genesis i, 31, “And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” From Monday morning to Saturday night gives us a week’s work. If we have filled that week with successes we are happy. But lam going to tell you what God did in one week. Cosmogony, geology, astronomy, ornithology, ichthyology, botany, anatomy are such vast subjects that no human life is long enough to explore or comprehend any one of them. But I have thought I might in an unusual way tell you a little of what God did in one week, and that the first week. And whether you make it a week of days or a week of ages I care not, for I shall reach the same practical result of reverence and worship. The first Monday morning found swinging in space the piled up lumber of rocks and metal and soil and water from which the earth was to be builded. God made up His mind to create a human family, and they must have a house to live in. But where? Not a roof, not a wall, not a door, not a room was fit for human occupancy. There is not a pile of black basalt in Yellowstone Park or an extinct volcano in Honolulu so inappropriate for human residence as was this globe at that early period. God never did take any one in His counsels, but if He had asked some angel about the attempt to turn this planet into a place for human residence the angel would have said: “No, no; try some other world; the crevices of this earth are too deep; its crags are too appalling; its darkness is too thick.” But Monday morning came. I think it was a spring morning, and about half past 4 o’clock. The first'thing needed was light. It was not needed for God to work by, for He can work as well in the darkness. But light may be necessary, for angelic intelligences are to see in its full glory the process of world building. But where are the candles, where are the candelabra, where is the chandelier? No rising sun will roll in the morning, for if the sun is already created its light will not yet reach the earth in three days. No moon nor stars can brighten this darkness. The moon and stars are not born yet, or, if created, their light will not reach the earth for some time yet. But there is jieedof immediate light. Where shall it come from? Desiring to account for things in a natural way, you say, and reasonably say, that heat and electricity throw out light independent of the sun, and that the metallic bases throw out light independent of the st.n, and that alkalies throw out light independent of the sun. Oh, yes; all that is true, but Ido not think that is the way light was created. The record makes me think that standing over this barth that spring morning, God looked upon the darkness that palled the heights of this world, and the chasms of it, and the awful reaches of it, and uttered, whether in the Hebrew of earth or some other language celestial I know not, that word which stands for the subtle. bright, glowing and all pervading fluid—Light! And instantly the darkness began to shimmer, and the thick folds of blackness to lift, and there were scintillations and coruscations and flashes and a billowing up of resplendence, and in great sheets it spread out northward, southward, eastward, westward, and a radiance filled the atmosphere until it could hold no more of the brilliance. Light now to work by while supernatural intelligences look on. Light, the first chapter of the first day of the week. Light, the joy of all the centuries. Light, the greatest blessing that ever touched the human eye. The robe of the Almighty is woven out of it, for He covers himself with light as with a garment. Oh, blessed light! But now the light of the first Monday morning is receding. The blaze is going out. The colors are dimming. Only part of the earth’s surface is visible, It is 6 o’clock, 7 o’clock, 8 o’clock; obscuration and darkness. It is Monday night. “And evening and the morning were the first day.” Now it is Tuesday morning. A delicate and tremendous undertaking is set apart for this day. There’was a great superabundance of water. God by the wave of His hand this morning gathers part of it in suspended reservoirs, and part of it He orders down into the rivers and lakes and seas. God, picks up the solid ground and packs it up into five elevations which are the continents. With His finger He makes deep depressions in them, and they are the lakes, while at the piling up of the Alleghanies and Sierra Nevadas and Pyrenees and Alps and Himalayas the rest of the waters start by the law of gravitation to the lower places, and in their run down hill become the rivers, and then all around the earth these rivers come into convention and become oceans beneath, as the clouds are oceans above. Three-quarters of the earth being water and only onequarter being land, nothing but Almightiness could have caged the three-fourths so that they could not have devoured the one-fourth. Thank God for water and plenty of it What a hint that God would have the human race very clean! Three-fourths of the c world water. Pour it through the homes and make them pure. Pour it through the prisons and make their occupants moral. Pour it through th&etreets and make them healthy. How important an agency of reform water is, was illustrated by the fact that when the ancient world got outrageously wicked it was plunged into the Deluge and kept under for months till its iniquity was soaked out of it. But I rejoice that on the first Tuesday of the world’s existence the water was taught to know its place, and the Mediterranean lay down at the feet of Europe, and the Gulf of Mexico lay down at the feet of North America, and Geneva lay down at the feet of the Alps, and Scroon Lake fell to sleep in the lap of the Adiroudacks. “And the 'evening and the morning were the second day.” Now it is Wednesday morning of the world’s first week. Gardening and horticulture will be born to-day. How queer the hills look, and so unattractive they seem hardly worth haying been made. But now all the surfaces are changing color. Something beautiful is creeping all oyer them. It has the color of emerald. Aye, it is herbage. Hail to the green grass, God’s favorite color and God’s favorite plant, as I judge from the fact that He makes a larger number of them than of anything else. Bnt look yonder! Something starts out of the ground and goes higher up, higher and higher, and spreads out hroad leaves. It is a, palm tree. Ten*

der is another growth, and Its leaves hang far down, and it is a willow tree. And yonder is a growth with mighty sweep of branches. And here they come—the pear, and the apple, and the peach, and the pomegranate, and groves and orchards and forests, their shadows and their fruit girdling the earth. We are pushing agriculture and fruit culture to great excellence in the Nineteenth century, out we have nothing now to equal what I see on this first Wednesday of the world’s existence. Why this one cluster has in it the richness of whole vineyards of Catawbas and Concords and Isabellas. Fruits of all colors, of all odors, of all flavors. No hand of man yet made to pluck it or tongue to taste it. The banquet for the human race is being spread before the arrival of the human guest. In the fruit of that garden was the seed for the orchards and gardens of the hemispheres. Notice that the first thing that God made for food was fruit, and plenty of it. Slaughter-houses are of later invention. Far am I from being a vegetarian, but an almost exclusive meat diet is depraving. Savages confine themselves almost exclusively to animal food, and that is one reason that they are savages.

Give your children more apples and less mutton. But we must not forget that it is Wednesday evening in Eden, and upon that perfect fruit of those perfect trees let the curtain drop. “And the evening and the morning were the third day.” Now it is Thursday morning of the world’s first week. Nothing will be created to-day. The hours will be passed in scattering fogs and mists and vapors. The atmosphere must be swept clean. Other worlds are to heave in sight. This little ship of the earth has seemed to have al) the ocean of immensity to itself. But mightier craft are to be hailed to-day on the high seas of space. First the moon, the nearest neighbor to our earth, appears, her photograph to be taken in the nineteenth century, When the telescope shall bring her within one hundred and twenty miles of New York. And the sun now appears, afterward to be found eight hundred and eightyeight thousand miles in diameter, and, put in astronomical scales, to be found to weigh nearly four hundred thousand times heavier than our earth; a mighty furnace, its heat kept up by meteors pouring into it as fuel, a world devouring other worlds with its jaws of flame. And the stars come out, those street lamps of Heaven, those keys of pearl, upon which God’s fingers play the music of the spheres. How bright they look in this oriental evening! Constellations! Galaxies! What a twenty-four hours of this first week—solar, lunar, stellar appearances. “And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.” Now it is Friday morning in the first week ol the world’s existence. Water, but not a tin swimming it; air, but not awing flying it. It is a silent world. Can It be that it was made only for vegetables? But hark! There is a swirl and a splashing in all the four rivers of Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel and Euphrates. They are all aswim with life, some darting like arrows through split crystal, and others quite in dark pools like shadows. Everything from spotted trout to behemoth; all colored, all shaped, the ancestors of finny tribes that shall by their wonder of construction confound the Agassizes, the Cuviers and the Linmeuses and the Ichthyologists’ of the more than six thousand years following this Friday the first week. And while 1 stand on the banks of these paradisaical rivers watching these finny tribes I hear a whirr in the air, and I look up and behold wings—wings of larks, robins, doves, eagles, flamingoes, albatrosses, brown threshers. Creatures of all color—blue as if dipped in the skies, fiery as if they had flown out of the sunsets, golden as if they had taken their morning bath in buttercups. And while I am studying the colors they begin to carol and chirp and coo and twitter and run up and down the scales of a music that they must have heard at Heaven’s jgate. Yes. I find them in Paradise on this the first Friday afternoon of the world’s existence. “And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.”

Nosv it is Saturday morning of the world’s first week, and. with this day the week closes. But oh, what a climacteric day! The air has its population and the water has its population. Yet the land has not one inhabitant. But here they come, by the voice of God created! Horses grander than those which in after time Job will describe as having neck clothed with thunder. Cattle enough to cover a thousand hills. Sheep shepherded by Him who made for them the green pastures. Cattle superior to the Alderneys and Ayrshires and Devonshires of after times. Leopards so beautiful we are glad they can not change their spots. Lions without their fierceness, and all the quadruped world so gentle, so sleek, so perfect. ] But how about the first human eye that was ever kindled, the first human ear that was ever opened, the first human lung that ever breathed, the first human heart that ever beat, the first human life ever constructed? That needed the origination of a God. He had no model to work by. What tremendous work for a Saturday afternoon! He must originate a style of human heart through which all the blood must pass every three minutes. He must make that heart so strong that it can during each day lift what would be equal to one hundred and twenty tons of weight, and it must be so arranged as to beat over thirty-six million times every year. About five hundred muscles must be strung in the right place, and at least two hundred and fifty bones constructed. Into this body must be put at least nine million nerves. Over three thousand perspiring pores must be made for every inch of fleshly surface. The human voice must be so constructed it shall be capable of producing seventeen trillion five hundred and ninety-two billion one hundred and eighty-six million forty-four thousand four hundred and fifteen sounds. But all this the most insignificant part of the human being. The soul! Ah, the construction of that God himself would not be equal to if He were any the less of a God. Its understanding, its will, its memory, its conscience, its capacities of enjoyment on suffering, its immortality! What a work for a Saturday afternoon! Aye! Before night there were to be two such human and yet immortal beings constructed. The woman as well as the man was formed Saturday afternoon. Because a deep sleep fell upon Adam, and by divine surgery a portion of his side was removed for the nucleus of another afeeition, it has been supposed that perhaps days and nights passed between the masculine and feminine creations. But no! Adam was not three hours unmated. If a physician can by anaesthetics put one into a deep sleep in three minutes, God certainly could have put Adam into a profound sleep in a short while that Saturday afternoon, and made the deep and radical excision without causing distress. By a manipulation of the dust, the same hand that molded the mountains molded the features, and molded the limbs of the father of the human race. But his eyes did not see, and his nerves did not feel, and his muscles did not move, and his lungs did not breathe, and his heart did not pulsate. A perfect form he lay along the earth, symmetrical and of godlike countenance. Magnificent piece of divine carpentry ■ii.*• *

and omnipotent sculpturing, but no vitality. A body without a soul. Then the source of all life stooped to the inanimate nostril and lip, and, as many a skillful and earnest physician has put his lips to a patient in comatose state and breathed into his mouth and nostril, and at the same time compressed the lungs, until that which was artificial respiration became natural respiration, so methinks God breathed into this cold sculpture of a man the breath of life, and the heart begins to tramp, and the lungs to inhale, and the eyes to open and the entire form to thrill, and with the rapture of a life just come the prostrate being leaps to his feet—a man! But the scene of this Saturday is not yet done, and in the atmosphere, drowsy with the breath of flowers, and the song of bobolinks and robin redbreasts, the man slumbers, and by anaesthetics, divinely administered, the slumber deepens until, without the oozing of one drop of blood at the time or the faintest scar afterward, that portion is removed from his side which is to be built up the Queen of Paradise, the daughter of the great God, the mother of the human race, the benediction of all ages, woman the wife, afterward woman the mother. And, as the two join hands and stroll down along the banks of the Euphrates toward a bower of mignonette and wild rose and honey-suckle, and are listening to the call of the whip-poor-will from the aromatic thickets, the sun sinks beneath the horizon. “And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” What do you think of that one week’s work? I review it not for entertainment, but because I would have you join in David’s doxology, “Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty;” because I want you to know what a homestead our Father built for his children at the start, though -sin has despoiled it, and because I want you to know how the world will look again when Christ shall have restored it, swinging now between two Edens; because I want you to realize something of what a mighty God he is, and the utter folly of trying to war against him; because I want you to make peace with this Chief of the Universe through the Christ who mediates between offended Omnipotence and human rebellion; because I want you to know how fearfully and wonderfully you are made, your body as well as your soul, an Omnipotent achievement; because I want you to realize that order reigns throughout the universe, and that God’s watches tick to the second,andt hat His clocks strike regularly, though they strike once in a thousand years. A learned man once asked an old Christian man who had no advantages of schooling why he believed there was a God, and the good old man, who probably had never heard an argument on the subject in all his life, made this noble reply: “Sir, I have been here going hard upon fifty years. -.Every day since I have been in this world I see the sun rise in the East and set in the West. The north star stands where it did the first time I saw it; the seven stars and Job’s coffin keep on the same path in the sky and never turnout. It* isn’t so with man’s work. He makes clocks and watches; they may run well for a while, but they get out of fix ahd stand stock still. But the sun and moots and stars keep on this same way all the while. The heavens declare the glory of God.” Yea, I presfeh this because I want you to walk in appreciation of Addison’s sublime sentiment when he writes: The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky And spangled heav'ns, a shining frame, Their Great Original proclaim. In reason’s ear they all rejoice, And ntter forth a glorious voice, Forever singing, as they shine. The hand that made us is divine. Uncle Nathan in a Bad Light. “Yes, sab,” said old Nathan, “I fit dat man an’ I’d do it agin under de same ’siderations. I know I ain’t much ob a man, bnt lemme tell yer, when a pusson jumps on me thinkin’ dat he’s gwine ter light on a feather bed he has mixed up de sacks mightily.” “Did the man jump on you,” asked a bystander, l“No, sah, not zackly, but he put me in a bad light; A white man come ridin’along an’says ze, ‘hole my hosa tell I go inter dis saloon an’ I’ll pay fur yersef a dripk while I is in dar, an* yersef can go an’ git it.’ Dat was jia inter my han’ an* I hil’ de boss while de white man went in. When he came out he said ‘go an* git yer drink.’ It’s my habbit when I drinks wid a man ter compliment him by takin’ de bes’ in de house, so ordered some ob dis fine brandy what’ll make a man feel like openin’ his mouf an’ hollerin’ tell yer ken hear him ’cross de riber. Wall, I tuck de drink an’ started off, when de bartender hit de counter an’ said, ‘Heah, pay for dat drink.’ I splained ter him, but he cussed me an’ hopped ober de counter an’ kicked me scan’lous. I kep* my mouf shet until jes now, I seed de white man. I axed him if he didn’t want me ter hole his hoss tell he got a drink. ‘ Did yer git yer drink de udder day?’ he said. ‘Oh yas,’l’plied. An* when I tole dat yersef would pay it, he said ‘neber mine, dat he didn’t want no pay.’ De man got down an’ went inter a saloon an’ I fixed a hoss-shoe nail un’er de saddle. When he came out an* got on, de hoss kicked up an’ flung him an’l kotch him an’whipped him ’fore he hit de groun’. Lemme tell yer, it won’t do fur a man ter put me in a bad light, case my jints makes a noise like shettin’ de gate an’ my fis’ falls wid a mighty sudden jolt” — Arkansaw Traveler Toy History. It may be a surprising discovery to girls, who think of their dolls as the especial property of girls and of nobody else, that grown people used dolls before children did, and that, in Europe at least, it never seemed to occur to parents that children would find dolls intereresting to play with until they saw the children picking up pretty puppets designed for their elders.; The French of the fourteenth century, who first brought the use of doll# into Europe, did not make them to play with, as the grown-up Chinese are said to have done from remote antiquity, and as they still da The French ladies of the period we have mentioned used dolls for quite a different purpose. Having no fashion plates, they employed little images as models of the fashions. These figures or dolls were dressed in the latest mode, and sent from one great lady to another, and from one capital to another; and from them the costumes of the period were copied. In the year 1391, it is recorded, the Queen of France sent the Queen of England a doll “fashioned in the form of a demoiselle (young girl) mounted oa horseback, and followed by a varlet on foot." If any one of the little princesses of the English Court happened to get hold of this richly dressed “demoiselle” on horseback, followed by a walking servant, what new emotions of joy mute have been aroused in the royal little girl’s boeom I Clothes do not make the man, but