Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1890 — Page 3

HOMEWARD BOUND.

hr. Talmage Greatly Impressed With What He Saw in the Holy Land. ie Believes the Day is Coming When Princes and Potentates will Bring Their AU to the Gates of Jerusalem for God’s Glory. - —u——__.... Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, on his return ■Om his tour in the Holy Land preached i Vienna, Austria, last Sunday, on “The Surprises of Religion.” His text was I lings x, 7: “Behold, the half was not told le.” The sermon was as follows: Appearing before you to-day, my mind et agitated witn the scenery of the Holy .and, from which' we have just arrived, ou will expect me to revert to some of the cenes once enacted there. Mark tr circle round Lake Galilee, and another circle round Jerusalem, and you describe the two 9 egions in which cluster memories of more vents than in any other two circles. Jerualem was a spell of facination that will old me the rest of my life. Solomon had esolved- that That city should be the center fall sacred, regal and commercial magnlcence. He set himself to work, and ino opolized the surrounding desert as a highray for his caravans. He built the city of •almyra around one of the principal wells f the east, so that all the long trains f merchendise from the east were bliged to stop there, pay toll and leave art of tbpiv wealth in Ihp "barirts hrySfitmoil’s merchants. He manned the forress Thhpsacus at the chief ford of the Euphrates, and put under guard every thirg hat passed there. The three great proucts of Palestine—wine pressed from the ichest clusters and celebrated all the vprld over; oil, which in that hOVequntry »the entire substitute for butter andXard, nd was pressed from the olive branches ntal every tree in the country became an il well: and honey, which was the entire ufcstitute for sugar—these three great iro..ucts of the ebuntry Solomon exported, nd received in return fruits and precious roods and the animals of every clime. He went down to Ezion-geber and orderd a fleet of ships to be constructed, overaw the workmen, and watched the launch ng of the flotilla which was to go out on nore than a .year’s voyage, to bring home be wealth oi the then known world. He leard that the Egyptian horses were large nd swift, and long maned and round imbed, and he resolved to purchase them, •iving eighty-five dollars apiece for them, mtting the best of these horses in his own itall and selling the surplus to foreign peculates at great profit. I He heard that there was the best of imber on Mount Lebanon, and he sent out me hundred and eighty thousand men to lew down the forest and drag the timber .hrough the mountain gorges, to construct t into rafts to be floated to Joppa.- and rom thence to bo drawn by ox teams wentv-ilve miles across the land to Jerusaem. He heard that there were beautiful lowers in other lands. He sent for them, banted them in his own gardens, and to his very day there are Howers found in he ruins Of that city such as are to be 'ound in no other part of Palastine, the ineal descend.mis of the very flowers that Solomon planted. He heard that in oreign groves there were birds, of richest roice and most luxuriant wing. He sent mt people to c itch them, and bring them here, and he put them into his cages. Stand back now ami see this long train >f camels coming up to the king’s gate, and he ox trains from Egypt, gold and silver md precious stones, and beasts of every loof, and birds of every wing, and flesh of ivery scale 1 See the peacocks strut under the cedars, and the horsemen run, and the ■hariots wheel! Gaze upon the dance I Not stopping to look into the wonders of the temple, step right on to the causeway, and pass up to Solomon's palace! Here we find ourselves amid a collection

of buildings on which the king had lavished the wealth of many empires: —The genius of Hiram, the architect, and of the other artists is here scon in the long line of corridors and the suspended gallery and the approach to the throne. • Trace tied window opposite traceried window. Bronzed ornaments bursting into lotus and lily and pomegranate. Chapiters surrounded by network of leaves in which imitation fruit seemed suspended as in hanging baskets. Three branches—so Josephus tells us—three branches sculptured on the marble, so thin and subtle that even the leaves seemed to quiver. A. layer capab.e of holding five hundred barrels of water on six_hujidred.j3£azen ox heads, which., gushed with water and tilled the whole place with coolness and crystalline bright ness and musical plash.- Ten tables chased with chariot wheel and lion and cherubim. Solomon sat on a throne of ivory. At the seat ing place of the throne, on each end .of the steps, a brazen lion, h by, my friends, in that place they trimined their candles with snuffers of gold, and they cut their fruits with knives of gold, and they washed their faces in basins of gold, and they scooped out the ashes with shovels of gold, and they stirred the altar tires with tongs of gold. Gold reflected in the water I Gold flashing from the apparel! Gold blazing in the crown 1 Gold, gold, gold I Of course the news of the affluence of that place went out everywhere by every caravan and by wing of every ship, until soon the streets of Jerusalem are crowded with curiosity seekers. What is that long procession approaching Jerusalem! I think from the pomp of it there must be royalty in the train. I smell the breath of tne spices which are brought as presents, and I hear the shouts of the drivers, and 1 see the dust covered caravan showing that they come from far away. Cry the news up to the palace. The queen of Sheba advances. Let all the [>eople come out to see. Let the mighty men of the land come out on the palace corridors. Let Solomon come down the stairs of .the palace before the queen has alighted. Shake out the cinnamon, and saffron, and the calamus, and the frankincense and pass it into the treasure house. Ti ke up the diamonds until they glitter in the sun.

The queen of Sheba alights. She enters the palace. She washes at the bath. She sts down at the banquet. The cup bearers bow. The meat smokos. The music trembles in the dash of the waters from the molten sea. Thea she rises from the Uan,quet. and walks through the conservatories, and gazes on the architecture, and she asks Soloifaoii tnimy strange questions, and i she learns about the religion of the Hebrews, und she then and there becomes a servant of the Lx>rd God. She is overwhelmed. She begins to think that all the spices sho brought, and all the precious woods which are intended to be turned into burp, and ps tileries and into railings for 'the causeway between the temple and the palace, and the one hundred and eighty thousand dollars in money—she lieg ns to th nk that all these presents amouut to nothing in such a place, and she is 1.1 most ashamed that she has brought Ihetn, and says within herself: “1 heard a great deal about this place, and about this wonderful religion of the Hebrews, but L find it fur beyond my highest anticipations I must add more than fifty per cent, to what »s been related. It exceeds everything iha* I could have expected. The half- the ball was not told ma.”

I .earn from this subject what a beautiful ! thing it is When social position and wealth surrender themselves to God. When religion comes to a neighborhood, the first to receive it are the women. Some men say it is because they are weak minded. 1 say it is because they have quicker perception of what is right, more ardent affection and ' capacity for sublimer emotion. After the women have received the GOspel then all! the distressed and the poor of both sexes, those who have no friends, accept Jesus. Last of all cometbe greatly prospered. Alas, that is so! If there are those who have been favored ' of fortune, or, as I might better put it, I f avored of God, surrender all you have and ■ all you expect to be to the Lord who blessed I this queen of Sheba. Certainly you are : not ashamed to be found in this queen’s company, fam glad that Christ has had i his imperial friends in all ages Elizabeth I Christina, queen of Prussia; Mana i Feodorovna, queen of Russia; Marie, em- ' press of France; Helena, the imperial ' mother of Constantine; Arcadia, from her I great fortunes budding public baths in I Constantinople and toiling for the alleviaI tion of the masses; Queen Clotilda, leading J her husband and three thousand of his I armed warriors to Christian baptism; ; Elizabeth of Burgundy, giving her jeweled I glove to a beggar, and scattering great fortunes among the distressed; Prince Albert, singing “Rock of Ages” in \\ indsor - Castle, and Queen Victoria, incognita, j readingthe Scriptures to a dying pauper. I 1 bless God that the day is coming when ' ' royalty will bring all its thrones, and music tures, and sculpture all its statuary, and architecture all its pillars, and conquest all its scepters, and the queens of the earth in long line of advance, frankincense filling the air and the camels laden with gold, shall approach Jerualem, and the gates shall be hoisted, and the great burden of splendor shall be lifted into the palace of this greater than Solomon. Again, my subject teaches me what is earnestness in the search of truth. Do you know where Sheba was? It was in Abyssinia, or some say in the southern part of Arabia Felix.-In either case it was a great way off from Jerusalem. To get from there to Jerusalem she had to cross a country infested with bandits, and go across blistering deserts. Why did not the, quten of Sheba stay at home and send a committee to inquire about this new religion, and have the delegates report in regard to that religion and wealth of King Solomon! She wanted to see for herrself, and hear for herself. She could not do this work by committee. She felt she had a soul worth ten thousand kingdoms like Sheba, and she wanted a robe richer than any woven by Oriental Shuttles, and she wanted a crown set with the jewels of eternity. Bring out the camels. Put on the spires. Gather u n the jewels of the throne and put them on the .caravan. Start now; no time to be lost. Goad on the camels. When 1 see that caravan, dust covered., weary and exhausted, trudging on acrossr The desert and among the bandits until it reaches Jerusalem, I say; “There is an earnest seeker after the truth.” But there are a great many who do not act in that way. They ail want to get the truth, but they want the truth to come to them; they do not want to go to it. There are people who fold their arms and say: “I am ready to become a Christian at any. : time; and if I am to be saved 1 shall be saved, ana if I am to be lost I shall be lost” i But Jerusalem will never come to you; you ; must go to Jerusalem. The religion of the Lord Jesus Christ will not come to you; you must go and get religion. Bring out the camels; put On all the sweetyspices, all the treasures of the heart’s affection. Start for the throne. Go in and heat, the waters of salvation dancing in fountains all around about the throne. Sit down at the banquet—thb wine pressed from the grapes of the heavenly Eshcol, the angels of God the cup bearers. Goad on the camels. The Bible declares it: “The queen of the south”—that is, this very woman I am speaking of—“the queen of the south shall rise up'ih judgfnent'against this" generation and condemn it; for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold! a greater than Solomon is here.” What infatuation the sitting down in idleness expecting to be saved. “Strive to enter in at the strait gate. Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.” Take the kingdom of heaven by violence. Urge ou the camels! ;■ Again my subject impresses me with the" fact that religion is a surprise to any one that gets it. This story of the new religion in Jerusalem, and of the glory of King Solomon, who was a type of Christ—that story rolled on and on, and was told by every . traveler coming back from Jerusalem. The. news goes ou the wing of every ship and with every caravan, and you know a story enlarges as it is retold, and by' the time that story gets down into the southern part of Arabia Felix, and the queen of Sheba hears it, it must be a tremendous story. And yet this queen declares in regard to it, although I she had heard so much and had her anticipations raised so high the half—the half was not told her. So religion is always a surprise to any one that gets it. The story of grace—an old story. Apostles preached it with rattle of chain; martyrs declared it with arm of fire; deathbeds have affirmed it with visions of glory, and ministers -of religion have sounded it through the lanes, and the highways, and the chapels, and the cathedrals. It has been cut into stone with chisel ; and spread on the canvas with pencil; and it has been recited in the doxology of great congregations. And yet when a man first comes to look on the palace of God’s

mercy, and to see the royalty of Christ, and the wealth of this banquet, and the luxuriance of his attendants, and the loveliness of his face, and the joy of his service, he exclaims with prayers, with tears, with sighs, with triumphs: “The half—the half was not told me !” I appeal to those who are Christians. Compare the idea you had of the joy of the Christian life before you became a Christian with the appreciation of that joy you have now since you have become a Christian, and you are willing to attest before angels and men that you never, in the days?* of your spiritual bondage, had any appreciation of What was to come. You are ready to-day to answer and say in regard to the discoveries you have made of the mercy and the grace and the goodness of God: “The half—the half was never told mel” W ell, we hear a great deal about the good time that is coming to this world when It is to be girded with salvation. Holiness on the bells of the horses. The lion's mane patted by the hand of a babe. Ships of Tarshish bringing cargoes for Jesus, aad the hard, dry, barren, winter bleached, storm scarred, thunder split rock breaking in a flood’s bright water. Deserts into which dromedaries thrust their nostrils, because they were afraid of the simoon— eserts blooming into carnation roses and silver tipped lilies. It is the old story. Everybody tells it Isaiah told it John told it Panl told it, Ezekiel told it, Luther told it, Calvin told it, John Milton told it—Everybody tells it; und yet—and yet when the midnight shall fly the hills, and Christ shall marshal his great army, and China, dashing her idols into the dust, shall bear the voice of | Gad and wheel into lino; and India,

1 destroying her Juggernaut and snatching up her little children from the Ganges, shall hear the voice of God and wheel into line; and vine covered Italy, and wheat crowned Russia, and all the nations of the earth shall hear the voice of God and fall into line; theu the church, which has been toiling and struggling through the centuries, robed and garlanded ! like a bride adorned for her husband, shall put aside her veil and look up into the face of her Lord the Rinz and say: “The half —the half was mot Well, there is coming a greater surprise to every Christian—a greater surprise than • anything I have depicted, Heav n is an old story. Everybody talks about it: -There is hardly a hymn in the hymn book that does not refer to it. Children read it in Sabbath school books. Aged men put on their spectacles to study it. We say it is a harbor from the storm. We call it home. Wc say it is the house of many —mansions; We weave together all sweet, beautiful, delicate, exhilarant words; we weave them into letters, and then we spell it out in rose and lily and amaranth. And yet that place is going to be a surprise to the most intelligent Christian. Like the queen of Sheba, the report has come to us from the far country, and many of us have started. It is a desert march, but we urge on the camels. What though our feet be blistered • with the way! v> e are hastening to the palace. We take all our loves I and hopes and Christian ambitious, . as frankincense and myrrh and cassia, to i the great King. We must not rest. IVe must not halt, The pjght is ceming on, and it is not safe out here in the (desert. Urge on the camels. I see the domes against the sky, and the houses of Lebanon and the temples and the gardens. See the fountains dance in the sun and the gates flash as they open to let in the poor pilgrims. Send the word up to the palace that we are coming, and that we are weary of the march of the desert. The King will come out and say: “Welcome to the palace; bathe in these waters; recline on these : banks. Take this cinnamon and frankincense and myrrh and put it upon a censur and swing it before the altar.” And yet, my friends, when heaven burst upon us it will be a greater surprise than that—Jesus on the throne, and we made like him! All our Christian friends surround us in glory! All our sorrows and sins gone by forever 1 The thousands of thousands, the one hundred and forty and four thousand, the great multitudes that no man can number, will cry, world without end: “The half—the half was not told me I”

The Doctor’s Grief.

Dr. Hill’s autocratic bearing in the sick room gave strangers no hint of the deep sympathy which he felt for the humblest, of his patients. A gentleman entering his office unannounced was surprised to find the doctor with his head bowed over his desk and sobbing convulsively. The intruder was about to withdraw in silence when the doctor wheeled around in his chair and, with tears streaming down his furrowed cheeks, said: “Take a seat. There’s no occasion for privacy. I was thinking of little Willie M-—, who has been sick with I scarlet fever. It was a severe case, ( but I had it under control. In fact, the boy was out of danger, when bis aunt, moved by his entreaties, gave him a hot doughnut to eat He’s nearer death’s door now than he was in the first place, and there isn’t one chance in a hundred of Saving him.” The gentleman was expressing regret at this sad turn of affairs, when the doctor, as if ashamed of his unwonted display of feeling, exclaimed impatiently: f“I don’t particularly care for the boy ; what I am sorry for is that I can’t kill his aunt before she has a chance to murder another sick person with her confounded doughnuts.”—Lewiston Journal.

The Judge Was With Him.

A young lawyer was making his maiden effort before a jury in defense of a criminal, relates Judge Ditten. hoefer. The evidence was all in and he arose to utter the brilliant thoughts that had been surging through his brain. He was primed for a fine dispLiy of oratorical pyrotechnics, but somehow or other he could not get a start. His mind became a blank and ‘he stood trembling for a moment. Then waving his arms he began: “May it please the court and gentlemen of the jury. My—ahem! My—- — Officer, kindly get me a drink of water.” He waited for the attendant to return and tried to gather his faculties. After taking a sip of water, he began again: “May it please the court and gentleman of the jury. lam happy—no—yes.” After a pause, he again extended his arm and exclaimed: “May it please the court and gentlemen of the jury. My unfortunate client ” This impressed him as a particularly bad opening, sp he again hesitated “Go on counselor” said the judge encouragingly, “so far lam with you.”— New York Herald.

“Poor Bicherd.”

Beu Franklin is to blame for the sordid and very partial view of success tuat prevails in this country. Franklin, though himself not a parsimonious man, dinned maxims of parsimony into the ears of the American people so persistently, and did it in such a wonderfully forcible way, that he succeeded in ingraining the thought of the American people with an eminently material philosophy. The moral of it ail is—save, save, save fora rainy day. By dint of everlasting repetition of the vision of the rainy day that has got to be laid up for, Ben Franklin has succeeded in taking all the sunshine out of the days-that are not rainy lor hundreds of thousands of people.—Boston Transcript.-

Why We Sink la Quicksand.

Quicksand is composed chiefly of small particles of mica mixed largely with waler. The mica is so smooth that the fragments slip upon each other with the greatest facility, so that any heavy body which displaces them will sink, and continue to sink until a solid bottom is reached. When particles of sand are ragged and .angular any weight pressing on them will crowd them together until they are compact ( into a solid mass. A s >nd composed of mica or soapstone, when mixed with sufficient water, seems incapable of such consolidation.

BARBAROUS PRACTICE.

Some Practices of Lawyers Funny Enough for To-day. The New York Herald has been collecting legal anecdotes from the leading lawyers of that city' many of whict are very bright and funny. The following are a few of them: Many of the good, old-fashioned legal anecdotes that have seen hard service in their day and have been honorably retired long since are great favorites of mine, said Mr. Hummel. While they possess the rich fiavor oi ages for me, I have found as a general fcing that they were new to my audiences, particularly to the more youthful element. One of the best of these old? time stories relates to a lawyer io whose hands was placed a claim for collection. He agreed to undertake the work on a contingent fee—viz., a retention of half the amount he would succeed in collecting. He promised to act vigorously, but weeks passed and the client heard nothing. He finally wrote to inquire what had been done in the matter. By the return mail he received this reply: “1 have already got rny half of the claim. If you will wait a few months I may be able to “secure your half.” This brings to my mind another an--ecdote, relating to-a-fee. A yomia man visits the office of an attorney and gives Lim a claim of $lO6 io collect. “Your name ?” asks the disciple of Blackstone. “Elijah Simpson,” is the reply. “Not the son of my old friend Lige Simpson 2 Yes ? Well, ' you don’t know how glad I am to meet my old’s friend’s son. Give me your hand,” : and he wrings the young man’s hand with the utmost effusion, adding, “1 hope you-will come and see me often. It will be a treat for me, I assure you, to have an opportunity of conversing with you about your father.” A week later and Elijah calls again. The lawyer rushes forward to greet him, seizes both hands and shakes them, repeating his good wishes over and over and expressing his great pleasure at having had it in his power to serve Lige’s son. “Then you have the money for me?” suggests Simpson. “Certainly, certainly. Here it is,” and ho hands an envelope carefully sealed to the young fellow, who tears it open and finds five $5 bills. “Where's the rest?” asks Elijah. “Oh, my my fee is $81,” is the replyc ‘ .. .. -. ■ As Simpson edges toward the door, he says to his father’s friend: “1 I guess I’m lucky to get $25. I’m awfully glad you didn’t know my grandfather.”

A-Queen and Her Pearig

The queen of Italy has always been passionately fond of pearls, as befitted 1 one whose name is Marguerite, and 1 she has made a fashion that is charm- ; ing enough to please any woman, but likely to be followed only by those whose husbands are English dukes or ‘ American millionaires. On her wedding day her husband gave her as his | bridal gift a row of the finest pearls to i be found in Italy, having been in- ' formed of her penchant for that parI ticular gem. When the first anniversary of her wedding day arrived he asked what she wished for a gift and she said, “another string of pearls,” and the second year she answered the same way. After that he asked her no more, but always gave the same gift. As she has a son w|io is quite a big I boy she has been married more ye&rs | than it is gallant to count, and her I necklace of pearls counts by this time enough strings to quite cover her throat with a collar of gems and hang down far over the corsage. Of course the lower strings are much longer than the origin il one to clasp the throat, but King Humbert always gives exactly the same number of pearls on each anniversary, and so she has oi late to wait two years before adding a new string. Many superstitious women are afraid of pearls as a \vedding gift and say it means tears; and there can be no doubt that the lovely Queen has shed mhny, for her husband of late years has been treading very closely in the footsteps of his father, who w <s known to his whole realm as “II Re i Galantuomo”—“The Gallant King.” World.

The Misguiding Moonbeam.

Smile and simmer, pretty moon, Watch ms tender lovers spoon. Don’t you often hear them make Promises you know they’ll break? How they love to look at you As they softly bill and coo. Filling all their future skies Full of tender hopes and sighs. But when they are joined as one, Then with moonlight skies they've doue; For to them you then become . 1 Just a little bit humdrum. It is no doubt very true Lovers may subsist on you; ~ But how sad that when they wed, 'Fbcti the must have bread.

Letter Rip.

Yoti can't give a letter a good char acter. An exchange in a sentiments moment says the letter R is the bes in the alphabet, because it is nevei found in sin, but always in virtue anc temperance. Yes, and you never sec it in any good, but it’s first in rum. riot and rebellion, and you can’t go drunk and swear without it Where it you now?—Burdette.

More Than he Bargained for.

Mr. Spooney— “What soft eyes youi charming sister has. Julnmy! Doet she ever make any remarks abou I flae?" ; ~ ; p '• Her brmtw'r— ‘fO. yes: she “made t remark about you very much like th: one you just made atK)ut her.” Indeed, and what was it?” ■•She said you were soft”—Law t-c:i ee Am”rican.

Some Are That Way.

Mr. Lamb, of Portland, On., was walking out tor his health, when i man asked him the price of mutton Mr Lamb sheepishly repaired to th< courts. be gan a suit for slander. an< the result was that he pulled |6ot' worth of *ool from bis traducer'i wallet Lamb chops are now a ran dish in Portland. '

DEATH IN DIPHTHERIA.

It is Certain that no Infallible Remedy is Known. The Best Physicians Agree that Pure Air, Good Diet and Vigorous Health Are the Only Absolute Preventives—Some Approved Receipt). There is no infallible cure for diphtheria. Once the dread disease fastens on a child the probabilities are all against recovery. In its earlier stages and milder forms the disease may often be successfully combated if right methods be employed. In a disease which al ways develops a certain form and, with very rare exceptions, is only i fatal where the false membrane has gained a foothold, it would seem that somewhere in the ro dm of remedies existed a specific which, itself unchanging. would successfully combat that unvarying symptom. But in fact no two cases of diphtheria are alike. A difference in heredity, some variance in the condition of the blood in a paritcular patient, any vtie of a thousand influences of diet, hygiene, temperature, all combine to isolate each case and make it a tiling to be studied by itsfiX.iu diffaiamL.. from any other, and with the chances of recovery either more or less than in other instances. Prevention is possible; cure is more nearly impossible thaii in ‘ almost any other disease known to medical science.— Diphtheria usually attacks children from two to ton years of age. It is almost invariably accompanied by sore throat, directly following which one and sometimes two formations of a 1 foreign and vicious growth appear. These are of a grayish-yellow ap;»earance, and at the beginning are no larger than a barley grain. They usually grow very rapidly, spreading over the back of the throat and forming a false membrane which strangles the patient. In some cases this developement is very rapid, death following the first appearance of the fungus by only a few hours. In others it’is of more slow progress, reaching into days. Twelve days is the usual course of the disease, and though it may vary below it will seldom go above that. Diphtheria,however,is in many eases fatal even before a single trace of the false membrane can be seen. The poison of the disease kills before it spreads its ghastly warning. Aside from the precautions as to dry and wholesome air, vigorous strength and cleanliness, a gargle of .any antiseptic agent should be frequently used to prevent the raw surfaces of any portion of the throat from invitinga growth of -the false membrane, ths fungus that comes so swiftly, and so stubbornly defies removal. For this growth will take root wherever scarified flesh presents a surface—the nostrils, the lips, may be overrun, as well'as the portions of the throat and tongue where the growth is usually seen. For this purpose, says a writer in the Chicago Herald, an antiseptic gargle is invaluable. Even so common a gargle’ as vinegar and water is often used with good effect, not to cure, but to prevent the inception of the disease. Chloride of iron is an excellent remedy, both as a gargle and as a remedy to be taken internally, for it not only preventsan exposed surf ce, but invigorates the system so that affections of all kinds

are less Hable to find lodging place. A gargle of one d rop of carbolic acid to ninety-nine drops of water, used every hour, is recommended. A saturated solution of chlorate of potash, used as a gargle, is well known of as a preventive, although the carbolic acid seems to have the preference with the medical fraternity. The most important thing, then, to be said of diphtheria is that it should Im prevented; that this can best be done by securing pure, fresh, dry air at a temperature of from 70 tqjo degreesthat children should be kept in vigorous health by regular dieton nutritious food, and that so re throat should be guarded against by examinations and occasional gargles to keep the exposed surfaces in a healthy condition. All this done the ch nces Of contracting the dread disease are reduced to a minimum. As to remedies, their name is liegion, but that which may do the effective work in one case is likely to be the very thing to avoid in another; as soon as the Gist symptoms of diphtheria are evident a physician should be summoned, disease so dangerous, so insidious in its approach and so rapid in its development should never be consigned to experiments, but that the tendency of mankind to prescribe in all cases should •be curbed, and a physician—the nearest one, summoned at once. As to remedies: A Chicago physician, who has lost few cases of this disease, recommends the tincture.of iron. One drop in a teacup of water is recommended for no infant of one year, if any cases appear in such tender years. The dose should be inere ised one drop with each year. The solution should be used as a gargle, and once an hour a teaspoonful should also be sw Bowed. Quinine is nearly always recommended by physicians bee .use of its tonic effects, for diphtheri» is one of the most exhaustive of vital forces of any disease known. When physicians cannot at once be summoned let warm flannel clothes be used to wrap the thro <t. to protect it from changes of temperature. When the disease is well started physicians rely on quinine and alcoholic stimulants largely, to keep up vitality while the disease is wasting its immediately dangerous powers.

POPULARITY OF HEARTS.

Pointers on a Came Which Blds Fair to Be All the Rage. “Hearts.” the little game that was introduced into high society a few yehre ago, is likely to become as much the rage, according to the New York Sun, as progressive euchre has been for a season or two past The game seems to be aiF right, and fully as pleasant as the older one of euchre, not to speak of its being easier for a greenhorn to pick up. There were always one or two at a progressive euchre party who did not know the game, fnd hadn’t more than begun to earn It when* the bell rang for the

last round. This greatly interfered with the celerity ot play that was essential to make a progressive euchre party lively, and was a constant atfnoy&nce to good players. There will be no such troubles with hearts, for its rules are so simple that-any one with any knowledge at all of cards can pick them up in a few minutes. At the same time, there is room in the game fertile exercise of the faculties of memory and judgement essential to a good whist player. The more one knows about it the better one plays, but to be able to play well enough to keep up with the procession and avoid delaying the game it is not essential to have expert knowledge. There are four players in each game, but no partners, a fact that simplifies it greatly. The full pack of Sf iy-two cards (no joker) is dealt at once, and the cards rank from ace, high, to deuce, low. The deal is determined by throwing a card to each player, the lowest dealing. The player at the dealer’s left leads, and ther others play in rotation, following suit if they can, throwing away if they have none of the suit led. The highest card of the suit led takes the trick, and the winner of one trick leads for the next. The object of each player is to avoid taking any trick that has a heart in it and, of course, to compel some one elseto take 11‘ieks inb)"which hearts have been thrown. I'he result is a sort of reversal of whist, with hearts perpetually trumps. Of course the highest car ds sire the most dangerous, for they are most lii<ely to take tricks, and the fewer tricks one takes the less chance of 1 hearts. Hearts, also, are things despised, to be got rid of as rapidly as possible. It is a good thing, in a general way, to get rid of all cards of one suit early in the play, because then one can avoid having to follow suit, perhaps, and have a chance to throw away a heart, and in various other matters the rules and customs that have become instinct with whist players are reversedin hearts.

SCIENCE NOTES.

In a recent trial with armor plates of English and French make, held in Holland, the former came out victorious. There is said to be a spot in Siberia about thirty miles square where the ground has not thawed out for the last hundred .years, and. where it is frozen to a depth of sixty feet. A Nuremburg manufacturer has invented pencils in blue, black and brown, for writing on the human; They are for use in anatomical and chemical demonstrations. A shell, making a prodigious noise as it passes through the air, not unlike the noise made by a foghorn, has lately been introduced in France, the object being to stampede the enemy’s cavalry and artilery. For a cement for fastening wood to stone, melt together four pints of pitch jnd one pint of wax, and add four parts of pounded brickdust or chalk. It must be warmed before using and applied thinly to the surfaces to be joined. A mortar which, it is claimed will stand in all sorts of weather, is made of one bushel of unslaked lime and three bushels of sharp san 1, to which is added one pound of alum mixed with one pint of linseed oil. The alum will counteract the action of frost on the mortar. A company has just star Led in NewT York city for supplying cold air to the TiTftchers of Washington Market The supply is regulated by a clock. The The air is cooled by the ammonia system, and its temperature enables the butchers to dispense with the ice into which they formerly put their meat Some one asks what is the difference between electricity generated by chemical process and that generated by friction, magnets and otherwise? The answer given is that the difference consists in tension or potential; fric- ' tional electricity has very high tension compared with that generated by a battery. In the present phonograph, a stylus for impressing the wax is attached tc the center of the vibrating diaphragm. The new improvement of G. Bettini is - to extend little rods from the stylus te j several parts of the diaphragm. In this way greater exactness of tone and speech is obtained, so the inventor i claims, and much superior results.

Trials of a Back woods Teacher.

| “A good many years ago when I wat a country pedagogue back in the State of Maine,” said Prof. Knowlton, of the Boys’ High School, “I was hearing my class in spelling when I gave out the word 'cuticle' to a big, lymphatic I girt Slowly she drawled out: ««*C-u-eu, ti- ti cuti, c-l-e cle, cu-tick-le.’ “I corrected her pronunciation and asked for the definition. She looked around her blankly as if in Beach foi something to spur her memory, when, after a moment or two of silence, I said: , — ; j “ ‘Why, what is it that covers youi hands and face? “Looking quickly at each hand her ; face brightened up, and she replied. *• 'Oh. yes, freckles'”— San Fran- . cisco Examiner.

The Penalty of Riches.

Swell doctor (to seedy-looking. patient who has visited him for the first time)— You have pimply a cold in the head my man. A flaxseed and onion syrup will fix you np all right Gooc day. Another patient—Do you know whe ■ that is ? ~ ■ i “That fellow just gone out? No.” “Why. that’s old Flushe, the mil lionaire." •The deuce it is! Why, the man has a bad attack of h y fever. Give me his address.”—Philadelphia Inquirer.

What You Escaped;

If you were a subscriber to a Halifax paper you would be expected to believe that a diamond ring *.ost by a young Indy who was out sailing in 1882 was found in the stomach of a codfish caught 400 miles away this hiet October. Consider that you have had » narrow escape. ’