Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1890 — Page 3

OPEN WIDE THE GATES.

Talmage Appeals for a Welcome to ths King of Glory. The Celebrated Brooklyn Preach** Talka Eloquently About Gue of the Most Beautiful of the Imperishable Songs of the Divine Poet, David. In his sermon of last Sunday Rev. T. De Witt .Talmage preached to a large congregation in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, taking his text from David’s song: “Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.” Psa 24:7. In olden times when a great conqueror returned from victorious war, the people in wild transport would take hold of the gates of the city and lift them from their hinges, as much as to say: “This city needs no more gates to defend it since the conqueror has got home. Oft from the hinges with the gates!” David, who was the poet of poets, foretells in his own way the triumphal entrance of Christ into heaven, after His victory over sin and death and belt It was as it the celestial inhabitants had said: “Here He comes! Make way for Him 1 Push back the bolts of diamond! Take hold of the doors of pearl and hoist them from their h nges of gold 1 Lift up your heads, Oye gates; and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in.

Among the mountains of Palestine no one is more uplifting than Mount Olivet. It was the peroration of oar Lord’s ministry. On the roof of a house in Jerusalem I asked, “Which is Olivetl” and the first glance transfixed me. But how shall I describe my emotions, when, near the close of a journey, in vvhicb we had for two nights encamped amid the shattered masonry of old Jericho, and tasted of the acrid waters Ot the Dead Sea, that crystal sarcophagus of tho buried cities of the plain, and waded down into the deep and swift Jordan to baptize a man, and visit d the ruins of the house of Mary and Martha and Lazarus, we found ourselves in stirrups and on, horse, lathered with the long and difficult wa ascending Mount Olivet. Oh, that solemn and suggestive ridge! It is a limestone hill a mile in length, and three hundred feet high, and twenty-seven hundred feet above the level of the sea. Over it King David fled with a broken heart. Over it Pompey led his devastating hosts. , Here the famous Tenth Legion built their batteries in besiegement. The Garden of Gethsemane weeps at the foot of it. Along the base of this hill flashed the lanterns and torches of those who came to arrest Jesus. From the trees on this hill the boughs were torn off and thrown into the path of Christ’s triumphal procession. Up and down that road Jesus had walked twice a day from Bethany to Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem to Bethany. There, again and again, He had taught His disciples. Half way up this mount He uttered His lamentation, “ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem 1” From its heights Jesus took flight homeward when He had finished His earthly mission. There is nothing more for Him to do. A sacrifice was needed to make peace between the recreant earth and the outraged heaven, and He had offered it Death needed to be conquered, and He had put His resurrection foot upon it ihe thirty-three years of voluntary exile had ended. The grandest, tenderest, mightiest Good-bye ever hoard was now to be uttered.

On Mount Olivet Jesus stands in a group oi Galilee fishermen. They had been together in many scenes of sadness and had been the more endeared by that brotherhood of suffering. They had expected Him to stay until the day of coronation when He would take the earthly throne and wave a scepter mightier, and rule a dominion wider, than any Pharoah, than any David, than any Caesar. But now all these anticipations collapse. Christ has given His lust advice, he has offered His last sympathy. He has spoken His last word, his hands are spread apart as one is apt to do when he pronounces a benediction, when suddenly the strongest and most stupendous law of all worlds is shattered. It is the law vzhich, since the worlds were created, holds them together. It is the law which holds everything to the earth or, temporarily hurled from earth, returns it; the law which keeps the planets whirling arouud our sun, and our solar system whirling around other systems, end all the systems whirling around the throne of Go I—the law of gravitation. That lawis suspended, or relaxed, or troken, to let the body of Jesus go. That law had laid hold of him thirtythree years before, when he descended. It had relaxed its grip of Him but once, and that when it declined to eink Him from the top of the waves on Galilee, on which he walked, to th > bottom of the lake. That law of gravitut on must now give way to Him who made the law. It may hold the the other stars, but it cannot longer hold the Morning Star of Redemption. It may hold the noonday sun, but it cannot hold the Sun of Righteousness. The fingers of that law are about to open to let go the must illustrious Being the world bad ever seen, and whom it had worst maltreated. The strongest law of nature which philosophers ever weigh d or measured must at lust give way. It will break between the rock of Olivet and the heel of Christ’s foot. Watch it, il ye disciples! Watch it, all the earth! Watch it, all the heavens! Christ about to leave tb's planet Howl His friends will not consent to have Him go. His enemies catching Him would only attempt by another Calvary, to put Him into some other tomb. I will tell you how. Tue chain of the most tremendous natural law is unlinked. The sacred foot of our Cord and the limestone rock part and part forever. Leaning back, and with pallid cheek and uplifted eyes, the disciples see their I.ord rising from the solid earth. Then, rushing forward they would grasp his feet to hold Him fast, but they are out of reach, and it Is too late to detain Him. Higher than the tops of the fig-trees from which they had plucked the fruit. Higher than the olivetrees that shaded the mount Higher, until He is within sight of the Bethlehem where lie wus born, and the Jordon where He was babllzed, and the Golgotha where He was slain. Higher, until on stairs oi flee-j cloud He stops. Higher, until, into a sky bluer than the lake that could not sink Him, He disappears into a aea of giory ' hose billowing sp.endors hide Him. The fishermen watch and watch, wondering 1 tue law of nature will not reassert itaelf, and He shall in a few momenta come back again, and they shall see Him descending; first His scarred feet coming in sight, then the s arred side, then the scarred brow, and they may take again His scarred hand. But the moments pass by, and the hours, and no reappearance. Gone out of sight of earth, but come within sight of heaven. And rising still, not welcom .*d by one angelic choir like those who one Christmas night escorted Him down, but all heaven turns out to gre:t Him home, and *ho temples have especial anthem, and the palaces especial banquet, and tho street especial throngs; and all along the line to tho foot of the throne, for years vacated but now again to be taken, there are arches lifted, and banners

waved, and trumpets sounded, and doxologies chanted, and coronets cast down. “Tne angels throng’d His char ot wheels, And bore Him to His throne; Then swept their golden harps and sung f "The glorious w-rk is done.’ ” L-_ It was the greatest day in heaven! Aa He goes up the steps .of the throne that thirty-three years before He abdicated for dur advantage, there rises from all the hosts of heaven a shout, saintly, cherubic, seraphic, archxngelic, "Hallelujah! Amen!" “O garden of olives, thou dear honored spot, Tne fame of thy c lory shall ne’er be forgot” No wonder that for at least fourteen hundred years the churches have, forty days after Raster, kept Ascension-Day; for the lessons are most inspiring and glorious It takes much of the uncertainty, out of the idea of heaven, when from Olivet we see human nature ascending. The same body that rose from Joseph’s tomb ascended from Mount Olivet Our human nature is In heaven to-day. Just as they had seen Christ for forty days, He ascended, head, face, shoulders, hands, feet and the entire human organism. Humanity ascended! Ah, how dos ly that ke-pe Christ in sympathy with those who are still in the struggle! Ascended scars, face _ scars, hand scars, feet scars, shoulder scars! That will keep Him in accord with all the suffering, with all the weary, with all the imposed-upon. No more is he a spirit now than a body, no more of heaven than earth. Those of the celestial inhabitants who never saw our

world, now walk around Him and learn from His physical contour something of what our race Will be when, in the resurrection, heaven will have uncounted bodies as well as uncounted spirits. On Ascen-sion-Day He lifted Himself through the atmosphere of Palestine until, amid the immensities, He disappeared. He ■’"as the only being the world ever saw who could lift Himself. Surely, if He does-lift Himself, He can do the lesser deed, ot lifting us. “No star goes down but climbs another sky, No sun sets here except to rise on high.” Christ leads us all the way:. Through the birth hour, lor he was born in Bethehem; through boyhood, for He passed it in Nazareth ;through injustices,for he endured the outrages of • ilate’s court-room; through death, for he suffered it on Calvary; through the sepulchre, for He lay three da/s within its darkened walls; through resurrection for the solid masonry gave way on the first Easter morning; through assension, for Mount Olivet watched Him as He dimed the skies: through the shining gates, for He entered them amid magnificent acclaim. And here is a gratifying consideration that you never thought of: We will see our Lord Justus He looked on earth. As He arose from the tomb He ascended from Mount Olivet. We shall see him as He looked on the road to Emmaus, as He appeared in the upper room in Jerusalem, as He was that day of valedictory on the ridgo from which He swung into the skies. How much we will want to see him. I was reading of a man born blind. He was married to one who took care of him all those years of darkness. A surgeon said to him, “I can remove that blindness, ” and so he did. His sight given him, a rose was handed to the man who never before had seen a rose and he was in admiration

of it, and his family whom he had never seen before now appeared to him, and he was iu tears of rapture, when he suddenly cried out: “I outfit first to have asked to see the one who cured me; show me the doctor.” When from our eyes the scales of earth shall fall, and we have our first vision of heaven, our first cry ought not to be, “Where are our loved ones!” Our first cry ought to be, “Where is Christ, who made all this possible? Show me the Doctori” Glory .be to God for ascended humanity! Could we realize it, and that it is all in sympathy for us, we would have as cool a courage in the conflict of this life as had Charles the Twelfth when he was dictating dispatches to his secretary, and a bombshell fell into the room, and the secretary dropped his pen and attempted flight Charles said to him: “Go on with your writing! what has the bombshell to do with the letter lam dictating!” If the ascended Christ be on our side, nothing should disturb us. - “Our fellow-Sufferer yet retains A fellow-feeling in our pains, And still remembers, in the skies. His tears, His agonies, and cries.”

I am so glad that Christ broke the natural law of gravitation wh3n He shook off from His feet the clutch of Mount Olivet. People talk as though cold, iron, unsympathetic, natural law controlled everything. The reign of law is a majestic thing, but the God who made it has a right to break it, and again and again has broken it, and again and again will break it. A law is only God’s way of doing things, and if He chooses to do them some other way, He has a right to do so. A law is not strong enough to shackle the Almighty. Christ broke botanical law when, one Monday morning in March, on the way from Bethany to Jerusalem, by a few words turned a full-leaved fig-tree into a lifeless stick. He broke ichthyological law when, without any natural inducement, He ‘swung a great school of fish into a part of Lake Tiberias, where the fishermen had cast their nets for eight or ten hours without the capture of a minnow; and by making a fish help pay the tax by yielding from its mouth a Roman stater. Christ broke the law of storms by compelling, with a word, the angered sea to hush its frenzy, and the winds to quit their bellowing. He broke zoological law when He made the devils possess the swine of Gadara. He broke the law of economics when He made enough bread for five thousand people out of five biscuits that would not ordinarily have been enough for ten of the hungry. He broke intellectual Jaw when, by a word, He silenced a maniac into placidity. He broke physiological law when, by a touch, He straightened a woman who, for eighteen years had been bent almost double, and when he pu. spring into the foot of inhumated Lazarus, and when, without medicine, He gave the dying girl back in health to the Syro-Pfaceniclan mother, and when He made the palatial borne of the noblemen resound again with the laughter of his restored boy, and when, without knife or battery, He set cataracted eyes to seeing again, and the drum of deaf ears to vibrating again, and nerves of paralyzed arms to thrilling again, and then when in leaving the earth He defied all atmospherlo law and physiological law, and that law which has in it withes and cables and girders enough to hold tho universe, the law of gravitation. Ths Curlst who proved Himself on so many occasions, and especially the last, superior to law, still lives; and every day, in answer to prayer for the good of the world. He is overriding the law. Blessed be God that we are not the subjects of blind fatality, but of a sympathizing divinity. Have you never seen a typhoid fever break, or a storm suddenly quiet, or a ship a-besm’s-end right itse f, or a fog lift, or a parched sky break in showers, er a perplexity disentanglad, or the inconsolable take j solace, or the wayward reform at the call of prayer? I have seen it; multitudes have i seen it. You have. If you have been willI ing to see it ; Deride not the faith-cure, i Because impostors attempt it, is nothing against good men whom God hath honored with marvelous ret to rations. Pronounce nothing impossible to prayer and trust < Because you and I cannot effect it, is no reason why others may not By the same

argnmort I could prove that Raphael nevet painted a Madonna, and that Mendelsshon never wrote an oratorio, and that Phidias never chiselled a statue. Because we cannot accomplish it ourselves, we are not to conclude that others may not There are in---inunen»ity great ranges of mists which have proved, under closer telescopic scrutiny, to be the storehouse of worlds, and I do not know but from that passage in James, which, to some of us, is yet misty and dim, there may roll out a new heaven and a new earth, “The prayer of faith shall save the sick.” The faith- curists may, in this war against disease, be only skirmishing before a general engagement! in which all the ma adies of earth shall le routed. Surely, allopathy and homcepathy and hydropathy and eclecticism need reinforcement from somewhere. Mhy not from the faith and prayer of the consecrated! The mightiest school of medicine may yet be the school of Christ. I do not know but that diseases, now by all schools pronounced incurable, may give way under gospel bombardment 1 do not know but that the day may come when faith and prayer shall raise the dead. Strauss and Vi oolston and Spinoza and Hume and Schleiermacher rejected the miracles of the far past I do not propose to be like them and reject the miracles of the far future. This I know, the Christ of Ascension-Day is mightier than any natural laws, for on ths day of which I speak ha trampled down the strongest of them all Law is mighty, but He who made it is mightier. Drive out fatalism from your theolgy, and give grace the throne. Standing to-day on the Ascension peak of Mount Olivet I am also gladdened at the closing gesture, the last gesture Christ ever made. “He lifted up His hands and blessed them,” says the inspired account of departure. I am so glad He lifted up His hands. Gestures are often more significant than words, attitudes than arguments. Christ had made a gesture of

contempt when with His finger He wrote on the ground; gesture of repulsion when He said, “Get thee beyind me, Satan;” gesture of condemnation when He said, “Woe unto you, Pharisees and hypocrites.” But His last gesture, is a gesture of benedictioa. He lifted up His hands and blessed tuem. His arms are extended, and the palm* of His hands turned downward, and so He dropped benediction upon Olivet, benediction upon Palestine, benediction upon all the earth. The cruel world took Him in at the start cn a cradlii of straw, and at last thrust Him out with the point of the spear; but benediction.! Ascending until Leneath, He saw on one side the Bethlehem where they put Him among the cattle, and Calvary on the other side, where they put Him among the thieves. As far as the excited and intensified vision of the group on Olivet could see Him, and after He was so far up they could no longer hear His words, they saw the gesture of the outspread hands, the benediction. And that is His attitude to-d»y. His benediction upon the world’s climates, and they are changing, and will keep on changing until the atmosphere shall be a commingling of October and June. Benediction upon the deserts till they whiten with lily, and blush with rose, and yellow with cow-

slip, and emerald with grass. Benediction upon governments till they become more just and humane. Benediction upon nations till they kneel in prayer. Benediction upon the wnole earth until every mountain is an Olivet of consecration, and every lake a Galileo on whose mosaic ot crystal, and opal, and sapphire divine splendors shall walk. Qh, take the benediction of His pardon, sinners young, and sinners old, sinners moderate, and sinners abandoned. Take the benediction of His comfort, all ye broken-hearted under bereavement, and privation, and myriad woes. Take His benediction, all ye sick- beds, whether under acute spasms of pain, or in long-protracted-invalidism. For orphanage, and childlessness, and widowhood a benediction. For cradles and trundle-beds,and rocking-ohairs of octogenarians, a benediction. For life and for death, for time and for eternity, for earth and for heaven, a benediction. Sublimest gesture fever made, the last gesture of our ascending Lord. “And He lifted up His hands, and blessed them.” Is our attitude the same? Is it wrath or is it kindness ? Is it diabolism or Christism t God gives us the grace of the open pa>m, open upward to get the benediction, open downward to pronounce a benediction. A lady was passing along a street and suddenly ran against a ragged boy, and she said: “I beg your pardon, my boy, I did not mean to run against you; I am very sorry." And the boy took off the piece of a cap he had upon his head and said: “You have my parding, lady, and you may run agin me and knock me clear down: I won’t care?’ And turning to a comrade he said: “That nearly took me off my feet Nobody ever asked mypardingbefore.” Kindness! Kindness! Fill the world with it. There has always been too much disregard for others. Illustrated in 1630, in England when ninety-five thousand acres of marshes were drained for health and for crop-raising, and the sportsmen destroyed the drainage-works because they wanted to keep the marshes for hunting ground, where they could shoot wild-dusks. Tue same selfishness in ail ages. Oh, for kindness that would make our life a symphony suggestive of one of the ancient banquets where everything was set to music; the plates brought in and removed to the sound of music, the motions ■pf "the carvers keeping time with the music, the conversation liftin’ and dropping with the rising and falling ot the music. But, instead of the music of an I earthly orchestra, it would be the music of I a heavenly charm, our words the music of kind thoughts, our steps the music of helpful deeds, our smile the music Of encouraging looks, our youth and old agd the first and last bars of music conducted by the pierced hand that was opened in love and spread downward in benediction on Olivette heights on Ascension-Day. “By a new way none ever trod, Christ mounted to tho throne of God.”

A Significant Change in Preaching.

The most significant symptom of the day is not the timid and tentative efforts at creed revision in ecclesiastical councils. It is not even the bolder admissions and conversions of an occasional writer of such standing and authority in the church as to have no fear of being brought to book for heresy. It is rather the calm acceptance of “advanced viqws,” which a few years ago would have caused a decided shock to rooted prejudices, and private evidences that many a preacher of unquestioned orthodoxy would gladly welcome a revivified gospel that would free him from tbe trammels of formal beliefs that had their origin in a more superstitious and less enlightened age. Is it not a noticeable sign that intellectual and educated ministers have almost ceased to preach the doctrines of their theology? It is partly because they have ceased to believe them, and more perhaps because they know that intelligent and educated people in the pews do not believe them and can no longer be made to believe them. Neither are they anjr longer effective for the “conversion” and “regeneration” of nankind. —Forum.

EMIN PASHA AND STANLEY.

Dr. Zucchlnett, of Cairo, has received a letter from Emin Pasha, dated Bagamoyo, March 31. In this letter Emin says: When I left the hospital I found myself between the English and the Germans. My decision to return to the heart of Africa in the interest of the Germans was soon taken when I saw that the English were endeavoring to derive advantage from the prestige of my name. With reference to Stanley and Tippoo Tib, I have information in my possession which, if published, would create a great sensation. Stanley will be the first to stir up the people against me.

During the debate on the East Africa credits in the Reichstag Monday, Baron Von Marshall explained that the mission of Emin Pasha in Africa on the part of the Germans would be confined to establishing friendly relations with those tribes in the interior who are within the German sphere of interest, and to estimating the cost of eventually forming some fortified stations in the interior. In the negotiations with England regarding the boundaries of their respective possessions in Africa, the predominating wish of Germany was-to go hand in hand with England and to cultivate the common’interests of both countries. The object was not to acquire as much territory as possible, but to keep together what was naturally connected by a course of water ways as a means of communication. On this point Germany was prepared to come to an understanding with England. Mr. Henry M. Stanley, in an interview on the 12th, regarding the German movements in Africa, said that he was wearied by England’s apathy and pliancy in regard to the operations being carried on by the Germans. If England continued to remain inactive the Germans would secure paramount influence in Africa.

WASHINGTON.

Attorney General Miller has received reports from Marshal Weeks, of the North era District of Florida, that he has arrested in Leon county three men, two for violation of election laws, and one for conspiracy. He says that affairs in that State are improving, and that the President’s letter in regard to the enforcement of the laws is gradually causing a change of sentiment among the people. A delegation representing the Farmers’ Alliance appeared before the ways and means committee on the 13th to advocate the passage of the Pickier bill to create sub->treasuries in different parts of the country for the reception of staple crops produced by farmers. The spokesman was C. W. Macune, chairman of the legislative committee of the Alliance and editor of the National Economist. He said they did not ask the enactment of any unconstitutional measure, but as the great debtor class, as the men who had gone out in the West after the war and laid the soil under contribution with borrowed money, they protested against-the contraption of the currency at a time when their debts became due, and asked that the conditions be restored to what they were when the money Was borrowed. They asked justice, pure and simple.

A report will be made to the committee on elections in favor of declaring vacant the seat now occupied by Clifton R. Breckinridge, of the Second District of Arkansas. The report wijl be based upon the recent investigation made by the subcommittee which visited Arkansas and examined over one thousand witnesses in relation to the assassination of John M. Clayton, the Republican who ran against Mr. Breckinridge. The testimony which was taken by the sub-committee will be used in favor of the adoption of a Federal election bill. „ A National university is proposed by a bill introduced in the Senate by Mr. Edmunds . Major Steele’s nomination to be Governor of Oklahoma was confirmed Thursday by the Senate.

President Harrison Friday afternoon signed tbe bill introduced by Mr. Cheadle, appropriating 180,000 for a public building at Lafayette. This is the first money ever appropriated by the federal governs ment for expenditure in the Ninth Congressial District of Indiana. Mr. Cheadle secured the introductian of the bill in the last Congrass, giving Lafayette SOO,OOO for a public building, but President Cleveland vetoed it. The Senate passed the bill over the veto, but the House refused ..to follow the action. There are but five federal buildings in Indiana—at Indians apolis. Fort Wayne, Terre Haute, New Albany aud Evansville.

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HOW THEY EAT.

The V»rloM Ways in which Living Cmtore* Toko Their Food. That peculiar echinold, the sea urchin have five teeth in live jaws—one in each jaw—all the five immediately surrounding the stomach. The jaws have a peculiar centralized motion, all turning inward and downward, so that they also act as feeders. Snails have teeth on their tongues, hundreds ot them, but, if these were not enough, some have them also in their stomach.

The. cuttlefish, which among other strange things always’ walks with its head downward, does not chew its food at all, but masticates with its gizzard. So do geese, fowls, ducks, and indeed all modern birds. Seizing their fojd in their beaks, they swallow it whole, if grain or seed, and in large pieces if it be fruit or bread. In that condition it goes into the gizzard, a powerful muscle, with a very tough, horny, lining, which acts as a mill, being sufficiently powerful to pulverize uncooked corn. To assist in the milling process all grain-eating birds swallow little pieces of gravel, gl&ss, crockery, metal, etc., the horny interior of the gizzard being sufficiently tough to escape cutting by these materials. It is because of this fact that the ostrich has acquired his reputation of enjoying a ferruginous diet. Even when they had teeth birds only used them to take their food, depending upon the gizzard for mastication then aa now. - - -

Fishes and reptiles use their teeth for the same purpose, that of taking food, but like the birds, they gulp down their food unchewed and unbroken if possible. There are, however, exceptions. The ray, or skate, for instance, has a mouth set transversely across its head, the jaws working with a rolling motion like two hands set back to back. In the jaws are three rows of flat teeth, setlike a mosaic pavement, and between these , rolling jaws the fish crushes oysters and other mollusks like so many nuts. The carp’s teeth are set back on the pharynx, so that it may be literally said to masticate its food in its throat. The carp, too, is about the only cudchewing fish, the coarsely swallowed food being forced up to these throat teeth for complete mastication. Some Ashes are absolutely toothless, like the sucker and lamprey; others again have hundreds of teeth, sometimes so many that they cover all parts of the mouth.

The great Greenland whale has no teeth, its baleen plates, or whalebone, taking their place. Along the centre of the palate runs a strong ridge, and on each side of this there is a wide depression along which the plates are inserted. These are lon» and flat, hanging free,and are placet! transversely—that is, across the mouth, with their side parallel and near each other. The base and outer edge of the plates are of solid whalebone, but the inner edges are fringed, filling up the interior of the mouth and acting as a strainer for the food, which consists of the small swimming mollusks and meduse, or jelly fishes. The whale rarely, if ever, swallows anything larger than a herring, shoals of these small creatures being entangled in the fibers of the baleen, the water which does not escape from the mouth being expelled by the blow holes. Though the cavity of this whale’s mouth is big enough to contain a ship’s long boat, the gullet is not larger than a man’s fist. The lower jaw has neither baleen nor teeth, but has large, fleshy lips within which the upper is received when the mouth is closed.

While the Greenland whale has no teeth, the sperm whale has them in great quantities on the lower jaw, and < uses them, too, when occasion requires. On the other hand, the narwhale very seldom develops more than one, the left upper canine. It makes up for the lack of number by the extarordinary growth attained by this one tooth. It grows out and right forward, on a line with the body, until it becomes ■ veritable tusk, sometimes reaching the length of ten feet. Apropos of tusks, the elephant’s are its unduly developed upper incisors; those of the walrus are its upper canines, and so are those of the wild hog. Man is the only animal that has teeth—incisors, canines, and molars—of an equal height. Man, tbe ape, and nearly all ruminants, have thirtytwo teeth.’ The hog, however, is better off than this, and has forty-four. So have the opossum and mole. The river dolphin of South America lays far beyond this however, having no less than 222 teeth. Teeth are no part of the skeleton, but belong to the appendage, like skin and hair. The sturgeon is toothless and draws in its food by suction, but tbe shark has hundreds of teeth set in rows that sometimes number ten. ..Lobsters and crabs masticate their food with their horny jaws, but they have also sets of teeth in their stomachs, where they complete the work of chewing. But there is one peculiar kind of crab, called the king or horseshoe crab, which chews its food with its legs. This is an actual fact, the little animal grinding its morsels between its thighs before it passes them over to its mouth. The jelly fish absorbs its food by wrapping itself arouud the object which it seeks to make its ow». The starfish is even more accommodating. Fastening itself to the body it wishes to feed on, it turns its stomach inside out and enwraps its prey with this useful organ. Dogs seize their food with their jaws, and so do monkeys, seme es them pressing their urehensile tails into service. The souirrel uses its paws to carry its food to its mouth, the ele-< phant its trunk, the giraffe, anteater, and toad their tongues. Spiders chew their food with horny jaws, which are sharp enough to give quite a nip. Grasshoppers and locusts are very well protected with the necessary machinery for eating much and often. They have saw-like jaws and gizzards, too, the latter being fitted out with horny teeth. . The caterpillar feeds with two sawedged jaws, working transversely, and I uses them to such good advantage that i he eats three or four times his own ' weight every day.

Toads, tortoises, turtles, ana mon lizards have no teeth. Frogs have teeth in their upper jaw only. Anteaters, sloths, and armadillos have no teeth. The lion and the tiger, and, indeed, most of the carnivora, do not grind their food, using their jaws only up and down, the molars acting like chopping knives, or rather scissors. Their mouths, in fact, are a veritable bash mill. ’7—^— — The butterfly pumps nectar into itself through a tube, and bees and flies sucks up their food with a long tongue or a proboscis. The spider’s month is quite a complicated* affair. It has fangs for holding its prey, masticatory organs for bruising its solid food, and a sucking apparatus for taking up the fluids. Quite as complicated is the mouth of the mosquito, which consists of the lances, the saws, and pumping tabes. The leech has three saws, with which it does good service in the phlebotomy line. The woodpecker has a three-barbed tongue like a Fijian’s spear, with which it draws out the worm which it has excited by its tapping. The clam feeds with a siphon and the oyster with its beard. ~ Strange and curious as some of these modes of feeding are, however, they none of them compare in simplicity and effectiveness with that practiced by the tapeworm. This creature has neither mouth nor stomach, but just lays along and absorbs the already digested food through its skin.

Ways Of the Thibetans

The chief agricolons product of Thibet is black barley; and this serves as the basis of the food of the entire population, rich and poor, says a writer in the Buddhist Ray. The ordinary re- ! >ast consists of buttered tea and barey mush. Meat is seldom eaten, and then only as a delicacy. Of fermented barley they make a non-intoxicating acidulous drink of rather pleasant taste. In some of the warmer valleys rice, vegetables and fruits are grown; but these do not go far beyond their immediate borders. Hence, though Thibet is rich in gold and silver, it is poor in the necessaries of life. Importation of food stuffs, except in very small quantities, is made impossible by the long and frightful roads that have to be traversed. The Thibetans do not, like the Chi nese, shave the head, but let the hair grow and flow over their shoulders, contenting themselves with clipping it every now and then with scissors. The ordinary head-dress is a blue cap, with a broad border of black velvet surmounted with a red tuft. On holidays they wear a great red hat, decorated at the rim with a long, thick fringe. A full robe, fastened on the right side with four hooks, girded down the waist by a red sash, and red or purple cloth boots, complete the simple yet graceful costume of the men. Suspended from the sash is a green taffeta bag, for the eating bowl, and two small purses, of an oval form and richly embroidered. which contain nothing at all, being merely ornamental. The dress of the women closely resembles that of the men. The only difference is that over the robes they add a short, many-colored tunic, and that they divide their hair into two braids, one hanging down each shoulder. Those of the poorer classes wear a small, pointed, yellow cap; those of the richer classes decorate their heads with graceful little crowns composed of pearls. , A Romish missionary, speaking of the Thibetans, says: “They are of the middle height, and combine, with the agility and suppleness of the Chinese, the force and vigor of the Tartars. Gymnastic exercises of all sorts and dancing are very popular among them, and their movements are cadenced and easy. As they walk about they are always humming some psalm or popular song; generosity and frankness enter largely Into their character; brave in war, they face death fearlessly; they are as religious as the Tartars, but not so credulous.”

It Was Hubby Who Suffered.

A curious story is told at the Capitol at the expense of a member of Congress, who while of no small caliber intellectually, has not been blessed with an abundance of avoirdupois. He has • wife who is much taller than he is and who is well known to her children as a strict disciplinarian. One evening, so the story goes, she heard a noise in the nursery after bedtime. She promptly seized her slipper and started for the scene of the uproar. Just as she reached the door the children extinguished the light? Stretching out her hand sne captured one of the boys, and to judge from the out-cries he made the spanking was thoroughly effective. But the mother was somewhat surprised at the conduct of the second sufferer. Instead of sobbing, he yelled protestations in a strong voice, and at last swore .roundly. The mother, astonished, jumped up and letting him fall from her knee to the floor exclaimed tenderlv: • ‘ls that you. hubby?” j • Overwhelmed with confusion he admitted that it was her “hubby” she had been spanking. After they had retired amid the muffled laughter of the children, who were trying to restrain it by stuffing pillows into their mouths, exClanations followed. He, too, had eard the noise and with the same object in view as his wife had gone to the nursery, where he had been caught by his spouse. Hereafter he vows that he will allow his wife to discipline the children unaided.

The National Supreme Court.

The United States Supreme court' has been in existence a century, and yet is only three years behind in its business. At this rate it should be only 6 years behind in 1990! 12 yean in 2090; 24 years in 2190; 48 in 2280; 96 in years 2390; 192 years in 2490; 384 years in 2690; 768 years in 2690; 1,584 in 2790, and in 800 years from now will be. according to geometrical progression, 3,072 years behind in its work, where we leave the patient litigant, because we don’t want to harrow up his feelings about the time he will have to wait for JVefia-