Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 15 March 1895 — Page 7

©he DECATUR, IND. X, BLACKBUBX, . . ■ PowMnnm. The New York dog shew Is said to be a howling success. Electricity presents an Ingenious theory that light is produced by noise. Bosh! Look at Congress. Chicago has decided that South Dakota divorces are bad* And this may be regarded as an expert opinion, too. Count Castellano and Anna Gould were married twice; but probably one divorce ceremony by and by will be sufficient Horses are now so cheap out West that when a horsethief is captured he is not lynched, but is sent to the nearest Insane asylum. After all, girls, the best way to get a husband is to pick out an eligible bachelor and listen with a pleased air to every word he says. The Cincinnati Enquirer has discovered a “negro monstress” in Ohio. We feel quite certain that Noah Weister never could have done it It is (queer that there should be liny difficulty in retiring the greenbacks. Our experience has shown that greenbacks always are too retiring. England has such a horror of war that she goes on spending millions In building torpedo bents, battle ships, and long-range guns warranted to kill. A San Francisco man was arrested and fined S4O for sneezing in a theater during a performance. California theatricals are evidently not to be sneezed at Envious critics who are wondering why Chicago suspended a policeman for sleeping on his beat should remember that there were no saloons open in that neighborhood. Hetty Green’s opinion that the world Is going to smash loses nothing; of its fervor from the fact that she faces the prospect of paying taxes just like people who have less to pay on. The Toronto woman whose husband zad her life Insured for $290,000 did right in having the policies canceled. In her modesty she probably reckoned that no living woman was worth the amount. A Washington dispatch says that “Count Castellane has come to Washington to escape publicity and was one of the lions at a reception given by the Brices last night” His Ideas of esca;>ing publicity are certainly unique. A Berlin street car company has just paid $250,000 in the city treasury for the privilege of crossing a certain street Those slow-going foreigners have no comprehension of real modern political methods. They could have bought, the entire City Council for less money. Our sympathies go out to Actor Harry Woodruff. Young Mr. Woodraff was Induced to go to college in order to educate himself up to the requisite matrimonial standard of the Gould •" family. Now he has lost the girl and finds himself with a good' education on his hands and no way to get the cash on it. “ A few years ago California offered a bounty of $5 each for coyote scalps. It was thought then that there were about 2,000 coyotes in the State, but the claims for bounties for the last three months aggregate $53,000, with seventeen counties yet to hear from. Coyote raising is fast becoming one of the most profitable industries of the far West. The faculty of Harvard by a twothirds vote have declared that intercollegiate football be abolished. The recommendationls advisory only and the committee on athletics is not under obligation to adopt it except upon its own conviction that the interest of the university would thus be promoted. The consensus of opinion among the best educational elements In the country has long been against football as It has been played of late years. 11 has ceased to be sport. It has become mere thuggery. Prize fights forbidden by law in nearly all civilized countries and possible now only by defiance and illusion of police rarely presented more revolting features than have beeil witnessed in professed gentlemen’s games of football conducted in the name and under the auspices of great institutions of learning. Indian games in the old rock inclosures of’’South and Central America were not more sacrificial of life or limb; the cripplings, mgimings and deaths due to football for a few years past reaching an aggregate that may well make college authorities consider whether such a game, so played, belongs in an era of civilization or to recreation deemed exploitive of skill. It must be acknowledged that the farming industry in various sections of the country is not flourishing as it should. In many States farming no longer pays and agriculture languishes. Many reason?, have been assigned for this, such as the development of the country, the introduction of new industries, the improvements in transportations and freight facilities and competition of foreign countries. But above and beyond all these causes, we bolleve, must be placed the conservatism ■ a '■

of the far tn er, who falls to make use of the knowledge which the Department of Agriculture deals out to him by the cartload. We acknowledge the receipt from the Department of Agriculture of a very valuable work on “Gophers,” handsome uncut octavo, 326 pages, illustrated, from the able pen of Professor C. Hart Merriam. Now, almost every farmer knows something, in a general way, about gophers, but fcou much it would lighten his farm labon if he knew the subject thoroughly Why be content to call a gopher a go pher when a beneficent government has hired a dozen experts and expended thousands of dollars to teach the farmer that what he in his ignorance has called a gopher in reality is the geomys per sonatus fallax ? Professor Merriam has prepared a set of elaborate colored maps and plates showing the construction of the skull of the geomys. These plats? show the vomer and mesethmold, the anterior palatine foramen, Incisive foramen, meatus audltorius internus, floccular fossa, upper part of sphenoidal Assure, alisphenoid, baslocclpital, basisphenoid, condyle of exocclpltal, frontal, hamular process of pterygoid, Interparietal, mesethmoid jplate, maxillo-turbinal, maxilla, nasal/nasoturbinal, lower part of periotic capsule, palatine,, premaxilla, presphenoid, pterygoid, supraoccipital, squamosal, tympanic bulla, vomrine sheath of maxilla, and first endoturbina. No farmer who studies these plates carefully can help but be a better man. But the body of the work is equally valuable. In language so simple that any farmer boy ought to understand it the distinguishing marks and characteristics of the gopher are pointed out and classified. If the directions of Prof. Merriam are followed It is very easy to tell a gopher from a cow or a horse. The Professor explains how to identlfiy the gopher unmistakably. He says: “The single bones forming the basicranial axis are early ankylosed with the adjoining paired bones of the same segments. Thus the presphenoid is Inseparably united with the orbitosphenolds; the basisphenoid with the alisphenoids and pterygoids; the basioccipital with the exoccipitals. Th< union of the lateral with the median elements of the sphenoidal segments occurs Before birth; that of the occipital segment later. The exocipitala are always distinct in early life, but soon become ankylosed with the basioccipital below and the supraoccipital above. The latter, except in a few species, is inseparable from the interparietal. The parigtals in adult life are commonly ankylosed with thesquamosals.” We believe this ought to prove entirely satisfactory. No farmer gun consistently ask for more gopher knowledge than is contained in this treatise, Henceforth if he can’t tell a gopher when he sees one it will be his own fault. What the Telegram Contained. Despite the familiarity’ that breeds composure, if not “despisement,” in our daily relations with the telegraph, hardly’ any one is proof against the excitement created by the arrival at un-_ wonted hours of one of those messengers of fate that bear their utteralihes into our homes. A lady, whom we will call Mrs. Jones, the mother of a schoolboy named Percy, then at home for the holidays, was recently aroused from deep sleep by a violent ringing at her front door bell in the dark hours just before daylight. As none of the servants heard of paid attention to the appeal; which continued intermittently, she went at last to the window of her bedroom. and looking into the street saw on the stoop below a telegraph boy. who, spelling out her name on his envelope by the dim light of the street, demanded to know if this was the right house, “it is from my husband, of course," she said to herself, smitten with terror at the thought of what might have happened to her absent lord. With palpitating heart and chattering teeth she put on a wrapper and slippers and ran down the steps, while depicting inwardly every misfortune a lively imagination could conjure up; then, partly opening Hie door, she Stretched out an agitated hand for the envelope, signed the receipt, and awaited the courage to open and read the missive of Horror. What was her emotion upon finding: “Jack Smith accepts with pleasure Percy Jones’ invitation to Jiis birthday party"—the belated response to an invitation Extended for the coming day!—New York Herald. The Retort Courteous. The heavy’ swell had inadvertent! met the man not in his set: the night be fore, and after the manner of an apostle of swelldom, he had not been at any pains to cultivatetlie acquaintance. In fact, he had really been rude. A night or two after the two men met again and were introduced. This time the swell tried a bluff. “I believe we have met before,” said the common man. “Ah?” responded the swell. “Yes; don’t you remember, at the club?” - “Really,” The common man began to get hot “Didn’t I meet a gentleman of your name three evenings ago at the club?” he asked. “Ah—l think not." “Well, really,” said the common man, “I owe you an'aptrtogy. I thought he was a gentleman, but I guess I must have been mistaken. Good evening." And Mr. Swell took it like a lamb, only he became red In the face, whlyh a lamb never does. . t Ecopomie Aspects of Sickness. In Great Britain the yearly loss is wages through ill-health Is £11,000,000. Somehow people never appreciate the liberality of the man who offers to pull their teeth for nothing. Don’t give a‘lecture with your charity. .

TALMAGE’S SERMON. — - 11111 ■ ■ " ■■ THE PREACHER DISCOURSES ON HEAVENLY MANNA. Earthly Nourishment Not Needed in States of Spiritual Exaltation—Music Forms a Large Part of the Seraphic Menu—lnto the Kingdom. I 'K ■ — Fed on Angelo* Food. Among the thousands who greeted Rev. Dr. Talmage in the New York Academy 1 of Music Sunday afternoon were a large number of strangers from distant parts of I the Union. At the close of the services the preacher, on leaving the platform, i found himself confronted by enough peoI pie to fill an ordinary sized church, all intent on shaking hands with him. The subject of discourse for the afternoon 1 was “A Seraphic Diet,” the text selected being Psalms Ixxvii., 25, “Man did eat . angels’ food.” I Somewhat risky would be the undertak- ! ing to tell just what was the manna that fell to the Israelites in the wilderness, of what it was made and who made it. The manna was called angels’ food, but why so called? Was it because it came from ’ the place where angels live, or because angels compounded it, or because angels > did eat it, or because it was good enough , for angels? On what crystal platter was , It carried to the door of heaven and then 1 thrown out? How did it taste? We are , told there was something in it like honey, but if the saccharine taste in it had been too strong many would not have liked it, and so it may have had a commingling of flavors—this delicacy of the skies. It t must have been nutritious, for a nation t lived on it for forty yeirefc. It must have J been healthful, for it is so inspiringly apt plauded. It must have been abundant, be- > cause it dismissed the necessity of a sut- ’ ler for a great army. Each person had a ration of three quarts a day allowed to 1 him, and so 15,000,000 pounds were nec--1 essary every week. Those were the times ! of which my text speaks, when “man did ) eat angels’ food.” 1 If the good Lord, who has helped me so > often, will help me now, I will first tell you what is angels’ food and then how we may get some of it for ourselves. In our mortal state we must have for mastication 1 and digestion and assimilation the pro- ! ducts of the earth. Corporeity as well as mentality and spirituality characterizes I us. The style of diet has much to do with i our well being. Light and frothy food . taken exclusively results in weak muscles and semi-invalidism. The taking of too much animal food produces sensuality. Vegetarians are cranks. Reasonable selection of the farinaceous and the solid orI dinarily produces physical stamina. Above Earthly Food. But we have all occasionally been in an ’ ecstatic state where we forgot the neces- ;• sity of earthly food. We were fed by joys, ( by anticipations, by discoveries, by com- , panionships that dwindled the dining hour ; into insignificance and made the pleasures of the table stupid and uninviting. There 1 have been cases where from seemingly iu--1 visible sources the human body has been '■ maintained, as in the remarkable case of our invalid and Christian neighbor, Mollie Fancher, known throughout the medical and Christian world for that she was . seven weeks without earthly food, fed and sustained on heavenly visions. Our beloved Dr. Irenaeus Prime, editor and theo- ’ logian, recorded the wonders concerning ’ this girl. Professor West, the great scientist, marveled over it, and Willard Par- - ker, of world-wide fame in surgery, threw t up his hands in amazement at it. There [ are times in all our lives when the soul asserts itself and says to the body: "Hush! , Stand back! Stand down!” I am at a banquet where no chalices gleam, and no viands smoke, and no culinary implements clatter. lam feeding on that which fib human hand has mixed and ’ no earthly oven baked. lam eating “an- • gels' food." If you have never been in • such an exalted state, I commiserate your leaden temperament, and I dismiss you ■ from this service as incompetent to understand the thrilling and glorious suggestiveness of my text when it says, “Man did eat angels’ food.” A Feast of Soul. • Now, what do the supernaturals live on? They experience none of the demands of corporeity and have no hindrance or environment in the shape of bone and muscle and flesh, and hence that which may delectate our palate or invigorate our poor, dying frames would be of no use ■ to them. But they have a food of their own. My text says so. There may be : -other courses of food in the heavenly menu that J am not aware of, but I know , of five or six styles of food always on celestial tables when cherubim and seraphim and archangel gather for heavenly repast—the mystery of redemption, celestialized music, the heavenly picturesque, sublime colloquy, eternal enterprises, saintly association, divine companionship, celebrative jubilance. There is one subject that excites the curiosity and inquisitiveness of all those angels. St, Peter says, “Which thing the angels desire to look into”—that is, why did Christ exchange a palace for a barn? Why did he drop a scepter from his right hand to take a spear into his left side? Why quit the anthem of the worshiping heavens to hear the crooning of a weary mother’s voice? Was a straw better than a garland? “Could it not have been done in some other way?" says angel the first. “Was the human race worth such a sacrifice?” says angel the second. “How’ could heaven get along without him for thirty three years?” says angel the third. “Through that assassination may sinful man rise into eternal companionship!” says angel the fourth, And then they all bend toward each other and talk about it and guess about it and try to fnthorn it and (prophesy concerning it., But the subject is too big, and they only nibble at it. They only break off a piece of it. They only taste it. They just dip into it. And then one angel cries, “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain!” And another says, “Unsearchable.” And another says, “Past finding out!” And another says, “Alleluia!” And then they, all fill their cups of gold with the'"new wine of the kingdom.” Heavenly Wine. Unlike the beakers of earth, tfhich poison, these glow’ with immortal health, the wine pressed from the grapes of the heav•nly'Eschol, and they all drink to the nemory of manger and cross, shattered epulcher and Oliyetic ascension. Oh, that apturous, inspiring; transporting theme >f the world’s ransom !That makes angels’ food. The taking of that food gives stronger pulse to their gladness, adds jeveral mornings of radiance to their foreheads, gives vaster circle to the sweeg of

their wings on mission interconstsflation. Some of the crumbs of that angels’ food fall all around our wilderness camp to-day, and we feel like crying with Paul, “Oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!” or with expiring Stephen, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!” or with many an enraptured soul: “None but Christ! None but Christ!" Pass around this angels’ food. Carry it through all these aisles. Climb with it through all these galleries! Take it among all the hovels as well as among all the palaces of the great town! Give all nations a taste of this angels' food. Now in the emerald palace of heaven let the cupbearers and servants of the king remove this course from the banquet and bring on another course of angels’ food, which is celestial music. You and I have seen at some concert or oratorio a whole assemblage to whom the music was a feast. Never anything that they took in at the lips of the mouth was so delightful to their taste as that which they took in at the lips of the ear. I have seen and you hare seen people actually intoxicated with sweet sounds. Oratorios which are always too protracted for those of us who have not had our faculties cultivated in that direction were never long enough for them, as at 11 o’clock at night the leader of the orchestra gave the three taps of his baton to again start the music they were as fresh and alert as when three hours before and at 8 o’clock the curtain was first lifted. Music to them is food for body, food for mind and food • for soul. From what I read in my Bible I think celestialized music will make up a large part of angels' food. Why do I say “celestialized music?” Because, though music may have been born in heaven, it had not all its charms until it came to earth and took a baptism of tears. Since then it has had a pathos and a tenderness that? it could not otherwise have possessed. It had to pass under the shadows and over stormy seas and weep at sepulchers and to be hummed as lullaby over the cradle of sick children before it could mount to its present altitudes of heavenly power. No organ on earth would be complete without the stop “tremolo” and the stop “vox humana.” And no music of heaven would be complete without the “tremolo” of earthly sorrow comforted and the “vox humana” of earthly sympathies glorified. Just take up the New Testament and find it a notebook of celestialized music. A Power of Music. It says Jesus sang a hymn before he went to the Mount of Olives, and if he could sing on earth with Bethlehem humiliation close behind him, and sworn enemies close on both sides of him, and the torments of Golgotha just before him, do you not suppose he sings in heaven? Paul and Silas sang in midnight dungeon, and do yon not suppose that now they sing on the delectable summits? What do the harps and trumpets and choirs of Revelation suggest if’not music? What would the millions of good singers and players upon instruments who took part in earthly worship do in heaven without music? Why. the mansions ring with it. The great halls of eternity echo with it. The worship of unnumbered hosts is inwrapped with it. It will be the only art i of earth that will have enough elasticity and, strength to leap the grave and take possession of heaven. Sculpture will halt this side of the grave because it chiefly commemorates the forms of those who in heaven will be reconstructed, and what would we want of the sculptured imitation when we stand in the presence of the resurrected original? Painting will halt this side of the grave because the colors - of earth would be too tame for heaven. ' and what use to have pictured on canvas the’scenes which shall be described to us by those who were the participants? One of the disciples will tell us about the “last supper" better than Titian, with mighty touch, set it up in art gallery. The ; plainest saint by tongue will describe the last judgment better than Michael Angelo, with his pencil, put it upon the ceiling of the Vatican. Architecture will halt this side the grave, for what use would there be for architect's compass and design in that city which is already built and garnished until nothing can be added; all the Tuileries and'/A’indsor castles and St. Clouds of the earth piled up not ! equaling its humblest residences; all the St. Pauls and St. Peters and St. Izaaks and St. Sophias of the earth built into one cathedral not equaling the, heavenly temple, but Music will pass right on. right up and right in, and millions in heaven will acknowledge that, under God, she was the chief cause of their salvation. Oh, I would like to be present when all the great Christian singers and the great Christian players of all the ages shall congregate in heaven! Os course they must, like all the rest of us. be cleansed and ransomed by the blood of the slain Lamb. Alas, that some of the great artists of sweet sound should have been as distinguished for profligacy as for the way they warbled or sang or fingered the keyboard or trod the organ pedal. Some who have been distinguished bassos and sopranos and prima donnas on earth J fear will never sing the song of Moses and the Lamb or put the lip to the trumpet with sounds of victory before the throne. But many of the masters who charmed us on earth will more migfitily charm us in heaven. Great music hall of eternity! May you and I be there some day to acclaim when the "Halleluiah Chorus” is wakened. As on earth there have been harmonies made up of other harmonies, a strain of music from that overture, and a bar from this and a bar from that, but one great tune or theme, into yvhieh all the others were poured as rivers into a sea. so it may be given to the mightiest soul in the heavenly world to gather something from all the sacred songs we have sung on earth or which have been sung in all the ages, and roll them on in eternal symphony, but the one great theme and the one overmastering tone that shall carry all before it and uplift all heaven from central throne, to farthest gate of pearl and to the highest capstone of amethyst will be, “JJuto him who loved us and washed us from our sins ..jin his own blood and made us kings and-priests Unto God and the Lamb, to him be glory!” That will be manna enough for all heaven to feed on. That will be a banquet -for That will be angels’ food. Mighty Enterprise. Now in the emerald palace of heaven let the cupbearers and servants of the King remove this course from the banquet" and bring on another course of angels’ food, which is laying out of mighty enterprise. The Bible lets us know positively that the angels have our world's affairs on their heart. They, afford the rapid transit frym world to world. Ministering spirits, escorting spirits, defending spirits, guardian spirits—yea, they have all worlds on their thought. We are told they sang together at the creation.

and that implied net only the creation of our world, but of other worlds. Shall they pmn only for our little planet and be uneoficerned for a planet 300 times larger? No. They have all the galaxies under their observation; mighty schemes of helpfulness to be laid out and executed; shipwrecked worlds to be towed in; planetary fires to be put out; demoniac hosts riding up to be hurled back and down. These angels of light unhorse an Apollyon with one stroke of battleax celestial. They talk these matters all over. They bend toward each other in sublirnest colloquy. They have cabinet meetings of winged immortals. They assemble the mightiest of them in holy consultation. They plan out stellar, lunar, solar, constellated achievement. They vie with each other as to who shall do the grandest thing for the eternals. They compose doxologies for the temple of the sun. They preside over coronations. If in the great organ of the universe one key gets out of tune, they plan for its retuning. No undertaking is so difficult, no post of duty is so distant, no mission is so stupendous but at God's command they are gladly obtained. When they sit together in heaven's places, Gabriel and Michael, the archangel, and the angel that pointed Hagar to the fountain in the desert, and the angel that swung open the prison door of delivered Peter, and the angels who aro to be the reapers at the end of the world, and the angel that stood by Paul to encourage him on the foundering cornship of Alexandria, and the two angels that sentineled the tomb of Christ, and the four angels that St. John saw in Apocalypse at the four corners of the earth, and the twelve angels that guard the twelve swinging pearls, and the 20,000 charioted angels, that the psalmist described, and more* radiant than all of them put together, and mightier than all, and lovelier than all, “the Angel of the Covenant,” the cadences of his voice the best music that ever entranced mortal or immortal ears, his smile another noon risen on midnoon, his presence enough to make a heaven if there were no other attraction—l say. when they meet together in the council chambers close to the throne, ah, that will be regalement infinite! That will be a repast supernal. That will be angels’ food. And one of my exciting anticipations of heaven is the prospect of seeing and talking with some of them. Why not? What did they come out for on the balcony on that Christmas night and sing for our world if they did not want to be put in communication with us? I know the serenade was in Greek, but they knew that their words would be translated in all languages. If they thought themselves too good to have anything to do with us, would they have dropped Christmas carols upon the shepherds, as bad as any of us have ever been? Aye, if they sang for mortals, will they not sing for us when we become immortals? “There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.” Why are they so happily agitated? Because they know what a tremendous thing it is to turn clear around from the wrong and take the right road. It is because they know the difference between swines' trough with nothing but husks and a king’s banquet with angels’ food. It is because they know the infinite, the everlasting difference between down and up. Time of Festivity. Their festivity is catching. If we hear the bells of a city ring, we say, “What is that for?” If we hear rolling out from an auditorum the sound of a full orchestra. we say, "What is happening here?” And when the angels of God take on jubilance over a ease of earthly repentance your friends in. heaven will say. “What new thing has happened? Why full diapason? Why the chime from the oldest towers of eternity?” The fact is, my hearers, there are people in heaven who would like to hear from you. Your children there are wondering when father and mother will come into the kingdom, and with more glee than they ever danced in the hallway at your coming home at eventide they will dance the floor of the heavenly mansion at the tidings of father and mother saved. Besides that, the old folks want to hear, from you. They are standing at the head of the celestial stairs waiting for the news thaC prayers hove been answered, and that you are coming on to take from their lips a kiss better than that which now they throw at you. Calling you by your first name, as they always did, they are talking about you and saying, "There is our son,” or, "There is our daughter down in that world of struggling, battling, suffering, sinning, weeping. Why can they not see that Christ is the only one who can help and comfort and save?” » That is what they are saying about you, and. if. you will this hour in one prayer of surrender that will not take more than a second to make decide thjs. then swifter than telegraphic dispatch the news would reach them, and angels of Clod who never fell would join your glorified kindred in celebration, and the caterers of heaven would do their best, and saints and seraphs side by side would take angels' food. Glory be to God for such a possibility! Oh. that this moment there might be a rush for heaven! The Spirit and the Bride say. Come, Rejoicing saints re-echo, Come. Who faints, who thirsts, who will, may come. Thy Saviour bids thee come. Young Falcons at School. The you ftp of falcons and hawks are well trained by their parents. From the time they are strong enough to pull at and break up the quarries brought to them, It ls«sne long course of instruction. The old birds know perfectly well what the young ones will have to do, and they get them tit for doing it as soon as they can. They compel them to take longer flights day after day. and teach them how-to stoop-that is, strike at their quarry. One.or the other will shoot up with a portion of feather, or it may be fur, followed by the young hopefuls. Then the morsel is dropped from the. dutchdown they dash for it. and the one that makes the quickest stoop secures the prize before it reaches the ground. When the old birds think the young can fend for themselves, off they go. This is not a ease of choice, but necessity. for they are simply cuffed and buffeted off. So well is tlfts known in the country that it is a common thing to hear a lad say: “Them 'ere hawks has druv’ their young tins off.”—Black wood’s Magazine. There never was any heart truly great' and generous that was not also tended and compassionate.—South.

SAHARA’S SAN DM AM Summer Daye In the Terrible During the Great Heat. May is the beginning of the dea< season, when al! traffic is stoppet through the desert of Sahara Am very little labor can be done. Th< deadly heat which prevails during th< 40 canicular days causes traveler and traders to shun the oases for tea of the epidemic fearer about the en< of September, when the Nomads re enter the Sahara, with abundance a cattle and grain, and the Mozabite renew their bartering traffic betwee 1 the roses and the North . ThdLsarnfl mah, of 40 canicular days, isaxfeadln period to traverse. What a despond/ ent situation when the thermomdleM fluctuates for five hours between lit and 125 degrees of Fahrenheit in th l shade. The fiery breaths of the pesT tilential simoon and of the infernal shibile (southern winds) sweeping th 1 face like a blast of a furnace produce sensations of burning. Thea winds, like the equinoctical slhmmio bejng destitute of all moisture, pervade the atmosphere with intenst dryness, torturing the throat an< lungs of the panting and dispiritei traveler. His parched lips stiffet and almost lose the sensibility o contact, the blood within the mucous membranes evaporating unle the blighted effect of the hot air Gasping for breath he remains in i state of prostration until the terribk god of day has accomplished hisdail; course. The blaze of the noontidi sun is literally a torture, especiullj for the white races; during it n* human being is to be seen out o doors, the eyes would not stand th reflection of the sun or the lickinj heat of the air; the cities are buxke< in the silence of a cemetery; peopl seek the -comfort of sleep, but oftei all in vain. The natives who feel most affectec by this extraordinary heat digbfj gravelike hole in their hovels or gara dens as a refreshing couch. This kin® of living grave is watered everj morning to preserve its freshness an« then covered with a close fitting mal of fresh palm leaves. Toward 11 o’clock its temporary occupant sink into it, entirely naked, and shut! himself up from the outside world tra pass the hottest hours in the indj’ lence of a perfect quiet, reclining i | that tomb as we do in our haml mocks. Beside the heat the flies and antfl are more than one can bear dur ini the day, while during the night on® is tormented to rage by thousands c mosquitoes or sleeps with the night mare from fear of the scorpions. Ta flies swarm in the daytime and th fan is constantly needed to driv them away. When writing I ha to cover my hands with gauze. Whe eating they enter the ears, mout and nose; one eats, drinks an breathes them; All food left ur covered is spoiled by them. The sfAn of the scorpion is especially dangei ous and often fatal during the cani® ular days. These pedipalpi are four# in swarms among the ruins and it the houses, which fact requires a everyday search the fore going to sleep. This insecfl grows there to an extraordinary sia and is sometimes seen three inchifl long. A long, glowing day, a waral morning, are the general atmospher l cal feature in the summer, and th® tantalizing mirage can be seen dail|: luring that season. Some Extremes of The lowest temperature ever rj corded, on the earth was taken g Wercliojansk, in the interior of Sib<p ria, Jan. 15, 1885. It was9o degree and a fraotion below zero. Werch» ! jansk is in the latitude of the pole | cold. There the earth is frozen: the depth of about 100 feet, and O the warmest season it never thaw The highest temperature recorded W 124 degrees and a fraction, taken*? : Algeria, July 17, 1879. The temperature on record in the Unit® States is 64 degrees below zero, £| Tobacco Garden, N. D. Greely, th|" Arctic explorer, has probably expqa| enced a wider range of temperatu® than any other living mah . He r|| corded 66 degrees below zero at Fol! Conger, in Lady Franklin bay. C|a another occasion, in the Maricoup desert of Arizona, his thermomet: tn the shade ran up to 114 above. a| lucifer match dropped upon tl burning sands of the Sahara wily catch fire. It is very difficult evt with the finest thermometers || get accurate records of temperature, and on that accoui such observations in general are , be regarded as only approximate | correct.— Cold Walk for Her Wedding Da A romantic story comes from tl: town of Parsons, 14. Samuel <’ollei, : back and Miss Ada Parker were e | gaged to be married in the villdt; church on Wednesday evening.• Tl / groom, minister and guests were waiting. The bride failed to appea. After waiting half an hour the gues dispersed and the church was close/.? At 10.30 o’clock, the bride auov home in an exhausted couditic : She had walked all the way—fi riles—from Wilkesbarre . She gone to the latter place early in t|| evening to see a dressmaker who disappbintedcher in not having, h ; weddingtrousseau ready. Mi Parker thought she could get church in time; but when she trit ? to do so she found the great- sr.qp storm had’ blockaded the railroa and electric car lines. She then d ! termined to walk.' Arriving in Pa J sons she aroused the groom and ; preacher, and proceeding to tl j church they were married in 1 presence of witnesses by Rav. JR Kiernan. -. f I