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Tfc» army U to have M dtntal ear* Stooa. Soma of the aoldlera would appredate a few chlropodlata. The latest from Alaska la that coldbearlnc gravel baa been discovered la the AtHn district yielding »3.50 to the shovel Nothing la said as to the alia of the shovel.

Scientists announce the discovery of a species of walking fish. But we will never get at the truth of the average Ash story until some one discovers a Ash that can talk back.

According to official reports S6.418 patents were granted by the United States government last year. Bev or them were for perpetual motion machines and a few were for airships. It is worth while to reflect that Mr. Carnegie's million a month for public libraries means more than books for the many. It means work and wages for those who must put up the library buildings and for those who print, pub* llsh and distribute books. Breadth is a pronounced dimension of this giving.

In respect to her ability to support her population without foreign com' merce Great Britain Is the worst off of any country in the world. She Is distinctly worse off than Germany, which Is one of her commercial vals. and of course worse off than the United States, the Inhabitants which can live without any commerce whatever.

ijj Qnnth and

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t of the suffrage has been

THE MINISTRY OF TEARS. Dr. Talmafc Puls Forth the Misfortunes of Life In Cheerful Manner. II Oar TreeMcs Am Bens is the W*ht Spirit They May Frevs te Be Advsstages--Ood the Rest Resort.

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Nnw You ClTT. — A vast audience crowded the Academy of Mualc in thia city to hear Dr. Talmage. Diacouraing oo “The Ministry of Teara" he put forth the mufartonn of life in a cheerful light, ahowing that if they were borne in the right spirit they might prove to be advantages. Hit text was Rev. vii, 17, “And God shall wipe away all tears from their

eyes.“

What a spectacle a few weeks ago whan the nations were in tears! Queen Vie-, tons ascended from the highest throne on earth to s throne in heaven. The prayer more often offered than any prayer lor the last sixty four years bad been answered, and God did save the Queen. All round the world the bells were tolling, and the minute runs were booming at the obsequies of the moat honored woman of many centuries. As near four years ago the English and American nations shook hands in congratulation at the Queen's jubilee, so in these times two nations shook hands in mournful sympathy at the

grief as

cb n!>* , i

» deeply it.. _ pie. -The cradles of many

were rocked in Great Britain. Those ancestors played in childhood oo the banks of the Tweed, or the Thames or the Shannon. Take from our veins the English blood, or the Welsh blood, or the Irish blood, or the Scotch blood, and tha a of our life would be a mere ahalThere are over there bone of our

Wah Latimer, our Ridley. our Daniel O'C '

Ruslan, our Gl

rnd glorious Victoria. The language in which

ley. our Robert ineli, our Havelock, our

good and great

The Massachusetts Woman's 1 frage association celebrated tho 3 year of its career with the Opening of the new century. . The association felicitates Itself on the fart that during the period the right of full suffrage has been granted to the aez la four states in the Union, In the Isle ol Man.

Weat Australia

liberal nae

granted in England. Scotland. Wales. Ireland and Canada, and a limited nae of It In 28 of the United Btalea. in Sweden, Norway. Iceland. Finland. Russia. Piiissla. Westphalia. Schles-wig-Holstein, Saxony. BrunsVlck. An' trie and Croatia. Some practical sn^gtatlons for tha reformation of drunkards are made iff a recent report by the Massachusetts commissioner of prisons. _ That tha drunkard Is any leas a drunkard after the payment of his fine, or the ferring of his jail sente&e.'no one pretends, and In this particular the purpose of Punishment.'wiici Is the prevention of

— offered the

atioo our condolence is the same language in which John Runyan dreamed and Milton aang and Shakespeare dramatired and Richard Baxter prayed and George Whitefield thundered. The Prince of Wales, now King, paid reverential visit to Washington’s tomb at Mount Vernon, and Longfellow’s statue adorns Westminster Abbey, and Abraham Lincoln in bronxe looks down upon Scotland's capital. It was natural that these two nations be in tears. But I am not going to apeak of national tears, but of individual

teara and Bible tears.

• Riding across a Western prairie, nrild flowers up to the hub. of the carriage wheel and while a longdistance from any shelter, there came a sodden shower, and while the rain was falling in torrents the sun was shining as brightly as I ever saw it shine, and I thought what a beautiful spectacle it this! So the tears of tha Bible are not midnight storm, but rain on pansicd prairies in God's sweet and golden You remember that bottle which David labeled as containing tears and Mary's and Paul's tears and Christ's taais he harvest of joy that is to spring ihe sowing of tears. God mixes them; God rounds them; God shows them where

to fall; God exhales them,

taken of them, and ther the moment when they i the place of their grave.

the beginning God created 1 and tbs earth,'' does not thr

as the other stoiy, “I ,

e heavens I him half

muv m (i, w rsrill. The old man's hand trembles Is be turns ritfure'es!* tespectacles. The book of Revelation is a prospectus now of the country into which a venues opened sad mansions built. It is trouble, my friends, that makes ns feel pur dependence upon God. We do not know our own weakness or God’s strength until the last plank breaks. It is contemptible in us that only when there Lord iiT He is not an autocrat seated far up in e palace, from which He emerges once a year, preceded by heralds swinging swords to clear the way. No; He is a father, willing at our roll to stand-by us hi business men — —n is unfortunate i has to raise a good c raise it quickly. He borrows on word and note all he can bortua UR insurance: then hs assigns all his property; then he goes to his father-in-law and asks for help. Well, rT 5 r 5'where, completely faded, be gets down on his knees end says: ^0 Lord, I have tried everybody end everything: now help me out of this financial trouble!'' He makro God the last resort instead of the first re-

sort.

. A young men goes off from home to earn his fortune. He goes with his mother's consent end benediction. She has large wealth, bat be wants to make his own fortune. He goes far away, fills sick and pete out of money. He sends for the hotel keeper wherc^he is staymg, asking for ledo not — 1 m a.

a friend of his s Saturday night comes, and he is moved to the hospital. Getting here, he is frenzied with grief, and ha borrows a sheet ol paper and a postage stamp, and be sits down, and he writes home: "Dear mother, I am sick unto death. Come.’’ It is twen-

ty minutee-of 10 o’clock when she

iwyer for legal everybody, and w

help then ;

and the h from the sc

taken of them, and there is a record as tc

born and as to

Tears of bad men are not kept. Alexander in his sorrow had the hair

bones and

crime, la nRt reallfid. Tha change suggested by the commissioner Is the commitment of a commcm drunkard for an indefinite ported, aad his employment is gainful labor tor the state. To. the latter end a way warn provided by aa enactment’of the legislature In 1888 which authorized the govecnor and council to purchase or otherwise take In any pareaj of waste and unused land, not exceeding 1000 acres In ares, aad to establish on the land a temporary Industrial camp for prisoners, who shall be employed In reclaim’'

and improving the land,

An educational fgature In Wisconsin next summer will be the opening of a summer school at the State university for apprentices and artisans It will be for the benefit of machinists, penters. or sheet-metal workers; stationary, marl fie, or locomotive engineers; shop foremen and superintendents; superintendents of water electric light plants, power stations, factories, large office and store buildings in cities; and for the young who wish to qualify themselves for shch positions. For these employments the fuD four years’ professional courses' In engineering are not required. aad yet to satisfy ths present "*« upon this close of mee.lt Is aeeeaaary (or them to obtain considerable theoretical aad practical knowledge not commonly taught Ip any of Om public schools. For the present this Instruction can be give* daring the summer months only, as during the eollaAe year the shops aad labov ntorim are Ailed with tbq regular singes ts; but It la the expectsttoe. If the * U suBciaat. to orgaaise this row work lato a separate sahooL

in hit sorrow had the hair dipped his horses end mules aad made a great ado about his grief, but in all the vases of heaven there ie not one of Alexander's team. I speak of the tears of Ood's^childr.m. Aim, me, they art falling In summer you sometimes hear the growling thnado-, and yon ece there is e storm miles away, bat you know from the drift of the clouds that it will not come anywhere near you; so, though it may be all bright around about you, there is a shower of trouble somewhere all the time.

Tears, tears 1

What is the use of them, anyhow? Why not substitute laughter? Why not make this a world where ell the people are well and eternal strangers to pains and aches? What is the use of an eastern storm when we might have a perpetual nor'wester ? Why, . » - j, pot together, not have

or, if they must be f

se-of 10 o’clock when she gets the Iter. At 18 o'clock the train starts. She five tt-autet from the depot. She gets then in time to here five minuses to spare. She wonders why the train that can go forty miles an hour cannot go eighty miles an hour. She rushes into the hospital. She says: “My son. what does all this mean? Why did you hot send for me? You sent to everybody but me. You knew 1 would and could help you. la this, the reward I get for my luadness to you always?" She bundles him up, takes him

home and gets him well very soon.

Now, some of you' treat God just as that young man treatril his mother. When you get into a financial perplexity you roll on the banker, you roll on the broker, yon call on your creditors, you roll on your lawyer for legal counsel, yon roll upon

id when you cannot get any u go to God. You say, “O to Thee! Help me now out

—lity." And the-Lord cornea, though it is in the eleventh hour. He says: "Why did you not send lor Me before? Aa one whom his mother eosnforteth so will I comfort yon.” It is to throw us back upon God that we have this minis-

try of teers.

Vcur troubles are educational. I go into the office of a lapidary, an artificer In precious stones, and 1 see him at work on one precious sums for u few ntinufte, end be puts it aside finished. I see him take up another precious atone, and be works on that all the afternoon, and I come in the next day and still find him working on ‘ he a at work on it eB the 'week, to him, ''Why did you put only . minutes' work on that one precious stone and put a whole week on this other?” “Oh,’' be says, “that one mmo which I put only twenty minutes' work is of but little worth, and I soon got through with it. But this precious stone upon which I hsve put such prolonged and careful work is of vast value, and it is to flash

~ God lets a

__.SK 1 them all stay, or,

planted to make other-jiomes, then have them all live, the family’ record tellinf - story of marriages and births, but of

lire, the family' record telling a narriagej and births, but of no Why not have the harvests

h other without fatiguing toil? Why the hard pillow, the hard crust, the haiM struggle? It is easy enough to «xplsm a snuie or a success or a congratulation. but come now and bring all your dictionaries and all your philosophies aad all

your religions and help.me explain a ' A chemist will tell yon that it it-1

up of salt and lime and i, but he misses the

parts, bat be —the acid of a soured life, the viperina sting of a bitter memory, the fragmenta of a broken heart. I will tell you what a tsar is. It is agony in solution. Hear, then, while I discourse of the ministry of tears

or the practical uses of sorrow:

First, it is the design of trouble to keep this world from being too attractive. Something must be done to make us willing to quit this existence. If it wets not for trouble, this world would he a good enough heaven for us. You and I would ba writing to take a lease of this life fog a hundred million year* if there were no trouble. The earth, cushioned and upholstered and pillared and ehandeliered at such expense, no story of other worlds could enchant ns. We would say: “Let well enough alone. If you want to die and haye your body disintegrated in the dust and your soul go out oa a rvlesiiai adventure, tbeArou can go, but this world is good enotsh for me. You might as well n to a man who has just catered tha Louvre at Pang-and tell him to hasten off to the picture kallcries of Venice or Florence. “’Why,” ne would say, “what is the use of my going there? There are Rembrandts and Rubenses snd Titians hers Ibst I have not looked at yet.” No man wants to go out of thia world or out of

any house until be has a better bouse.

To euro this wish to stay hero Gad must somehow create a disgust for our surroundinp. How shall He do it? He cannot afford to efface His horison, or to tear off • ' ' from the sunset or to subtract

the waterier, or to*

a king’s coconst. ** go through lift with only a little cuttiiig of misfortune, for he does not amodnt to much, ha is a small soul and of comparatively Imle value but. this other ta of great worth, aad it is cut of pain.,and cut of bereavement, and cut of persecution, and cut of all kinds of trouble, ana through many yuan, had I ask. 'Dear Lord, why all thia prolonged and severs process?" and God says: "TTiis soul is of infinite value, and it is to flash in a king’s coronet. He shall be Mine in the day

when I make up My jewels.'’

You know, on a well-spread table the food becomes more delicate at the last. I have fed you to-day with the bread of consolation. Let the Uble now be cleared, and let oa set on the chalice of heaven. Let the King's cupbearers come in. “Oh,” says some critic in the aodiei—. “ths Bible contradicts itself. It intimates again and again that there are to ba no teara in heaves, sal if there be no tears in heaven how is it pomible that God will wipe any away?" 1 answer, “Have yon sever sees a child crying one moment and laughing the next and while she was ■«"gh'"f you saw the taare still on her facer And perhaps you stopped her in the very midst of her resumed glee and wiped os tboes delayed teara. Bo I think aiter the heav-

enly raptures have come upon us may bTthe mark of "

and while '

THE SABBATH SCHOOL Interuatioul Lesson Comment* For

March 17.

Subject Jesas aad Pilate, Lake xxML. IJ-2*~ Qoldca Text, Lake xiBL «-Memory Verses. 28-M-Csmmastery aa

tee Day's Lrsaaa.

Introduction.—We left Jesus by an imarular meeting of the

hadrin reassembled atday break (Matt. >7: I; Mark U: 1; Lt&e 22 : 86-711. at their

proper plno. of bus was takes to Pilate for the ap-

pro per place _

chamber Bear the temple gate, auto was taken and Jesus wai the Roman court before Pilate

proval of tha sentence.

U1 “And Pilate.” His capital was at bat it was his custom to go to n at tha times of ths great feati-

Jgnsatsm at tha times of tha great vals for th* purpose of seen ring luxe.. Writers apeak of his corruption, his acta of insolence, his habit of insulting the people, his cruelty, his continual murders of people untried and uncondemned. The Jews naturally expected that he would willingly put Jesus to death without special inquiry into Hia guilt. Pilate greatly hated the Jews, but he was afraid ol them lest they should report him to the emperor at Rome; which they did six yean later, and ba was deposed. ‘‘Called together." Pilate summons the rulers and people and makes another strong ap-

et their eonaent of calling them

dispersed

, xteth." Aa one

„-t doctrines injurious to your religion, and also to the civjLpeace and the Roman Government. "Having examined.” At the first trial he had heard .sJf that

eouM be brought fault." They bad I

18. “Nor yet Herod.” Christ had traveled extensively in Galilee and yet Herod brings no charge that He had ever attempted to raise an insurrection among the Galileans. “He sent Him back unto us” (R. V.) Thia involved a distinct acquittal of our Lord from every political

st Him. Had He in

' perverting the •— tribute, or

would Save

to hia ■aa! of

qcittal of our

charge brought against Him. any way beet cuUlf of (1) pel people, (2) forbidding to pay (3).claiming to be a king, it been Herod* duty, and still : interest, to punish Him. Hia

the ease was a deliberate avowal of Hia innocence. "Is done unto Him.” "Nothing worthy of death hath been done by i* "('Kastiee Him." John says that Pi-

Jnus and acourged Him, but

late took Jesus and acourged Him, this was no: done till a little later. '. evangelists "make it clear that thr scourging was inflicted as a separate punishment, in the hope that it would suffice, and not merely aa the usual accompaniment of crucifixion." The scourge of leather thongs was loaded with lead or armed with spikes and bones, which lacerated the back, cheat *~* face, till the victim sometimes fell' i before (ha judge a bleeding mam of

Thus "He was wounded for

fiery panel b the pungent or to dreg t

the pungent aroma from the mignonette, — *- the robes of the morning in

You cannot expect a Christopher Wren _> mar hia 6t_ Paul's cathedra), or a Michael Angelo to dash out his own “Last Judgment," or a Handel te discord his His own would. How, thro, are we to be made willing te lauva? Hare is where

trouble comes in.

After a man has had a good deal of trouble he says: "Well. I aa ready te go. If there is a bouse somewhere whose roof does not leak, I woaM liks te lire there.

s an atmosphere soam where that distress ths lungs. I would hks te If there is a society iomtj there is no tittle tattle, I like te fire there. If there is a

5U?... I breathe it.

— . think

have come upon us there

* some earthly grief,

aaa glittering in tha light of tha jasper aea God will wipe them

sway. How wall Ha can do that! Friends, if wa could get any apprecia-

tion of what God baa in reserve for us, it would make us so homesick we would be unfit for our erery-day work. Professor Leonard, formerly of Iowa University, put in my hands a meteoric stone, a stone thrown off from some other world to this. How suggestive it was to me! And I hare lo tail you the best representations wa have of heaven are only aerolites flung off from thst world which rolls on, bearing the multitude of the redeemed. We analyst these aeroliteg and find them crystallizations of tears. No wonder, flung off from heaven! “God shall wipe away all

tears from their eyes.”

i any appreciation of the good

a times your friends are haring jn heaven? How different it is when they get news there of a Christian's death from -hat it is hare! It is the difference beresn embarkation and coming into port. Everything depends upon which stda of the rirer you. stand whan you hear of a Christian’s death. If you stand on this if yro^d’ITti'^SS'Surf UtetireJ

you rejoice that they dome.

. Do you not this moment catch a gUmpae of the towers? Do you not bear a note af tha eternal harmony? Boms of you may remember the old Crystal Palace in tS “’4 'EM that Crystal Palace the first gnat mask I bad ever heard. JuQiro gave a conoert there, aad there ware 3060 voire, aad 3000

s! .i. re

'KK'£“E\'£’5S SSK'fi; other. Te me it vaa overwhelming. But

iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and by Hia stripe, we atb healed/’ “Aad release Him." Pilate hoped that when they mw Jesus scourged they would be satisfied, but not so; they were clamoring for Hia blood, and nothing short of death on a cross would satisfy

them.

17. "Must release /me.” This verse is omitted in the Revised Version. Bot see the parallel accounts. This custom was in harmony with the nature of the feast and, horftrrr it originated, was so completely established that Pilate was obliged to attend to it. 13. “They tried out all together" (R. V.) The chief priest moved the people (Mark 15: 11); they were like a pack of blood thirsty wolves. "Barahbaa." An into! recti on ist, a robber and n murderer. He was actually guilty of much worse crimes than they had charged against 18. ' "Insurrection made in the city” (R. V.) He Rad a abort time before this evidently been a ringleader in an outbreak in Jerusalem against She Roman Govern-

ment.

20. "Willing to release Jesus.” It was probably at this Urns, -while the people were clamoring for His death ao loudly that the messenger came from Pilate's wife (Matt. 27: 18), urging the release of Jesus, and stating that the had just suffered many things in a dream because of 21. "Crucify, crucify Him” (R. V.). Let Him die the most ignominious death poa“2. "What evil hath Hs doner Haw many and what various persons bear testimony to the innocence of the Holy One— Pilate, Herod, Pilate's wife, Jndas laca- , the thief on the croas, aad the centu1 at the crucifixion. "And let Him go.” te it laboring hard to release Him; he could have ended thia whole matter with one word. It was at this juncture that Pilate, asked. What shall I do then with

Jesus, which is relied Christ!

23. Instant.” Insistent, urgent. "Prevailed."' The reassn why He finally yielded seems to hsve beta the one given in John 18: 12, If than let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend; whosoever maketh himadf a king, speaketh against Caesar. .24. “Pilate-gave sentence.” Before Pilate pronounced the sentence he took water and washed his hands publicly, thus expressing in acts what he uttered in words. "I am innocent of the blood of this

just Person; see ye to it.”

MINNESOTA'S SEPARABLE SPEAKER.

■ew Ee sscared an Interview with tbs Sultan of fiula. Michael Dowling, speaker of the house of representatives of the Mlnnelegislature, is a remarkable man. He is the product of a Minnesota bllstard. December 14, IBM, be was lost m a roaring blizzard in Yellow Medlrine county and ao badly frozen that ‘t was necessary to amputate one leg above the knee, the other above the ankle, one arm at the elbow and all '.he fingers of the right hand. Twenty years later to a day he had won a victory In a hard contest for zer. a victory uo overwhelming '.hat when the legislature met not a tingle opponent was left. ' When the blitsard had done Its work and left him a mere physical reminder of his former self he was so poor that he became a public charge. BM Dowling v-as determined and amtriudns, and that tells (ho rest of his life atojy In brief. He got a good edpeatlon, became an adept on arti- * ned to Renville, a the one from which fie had'^oh so Ignomlniously excluded. got a small local public office; worked-kiio the ownership of a weekly newspaper: then appeared In the sessions of the state legislature as a clerk; next became secretary of the

clubs,

being nominated to that position aa "frozen son of Minnesota.” He secured recognition as a man of executive ability and a good campaigner. Next he turned up as a newspaper correspondent In the Philippines, where he visited all the principal Islands from Luion to the Sulus. Dowling's success in obtaining an Interview with the Sulu-Sultan was characteristic. He was admitted to the barbaric presence, but not a word could he extract from the taciturn potentate. Dowling promptly proceeded to take himself to pieces. Off cams a leg. The SuKan evinced signs of interest. O” came ap arm. The Sultan leaned forward to look. Off came another leg. The Bui tan was now alert with Interest and satisfactorily voluble. Dowling got fils Interview as be proceeded to replace bis artificial anatomy. Returning from the Philippine* Dowling reached the United States in ttme-to attend the Republican National Convention. His peaked Filipino hat one of the sights of Minnesota headquarters st Phlladelnhis. I^ter he became a candidate for the legislature on the Republican ticket, won easily and immediately announced himself as a candidate for speaker.— Boston Dally Advertiser. Qoero Victoria's Tartan. Early In her reign Queen Victoria adopted a tartan, or. to be exact, ehe resumed one. for by way of

of Englam

Accordingly, tl ports Itself In Stuarts when it moral, and It has

oughly identified with the present

1 one. for by way

land aha Is entitled to use one. , the royal household dts-

e dress plaid of the holds forth at Bal-

moral. and it has now become so thor-

known 'due. green, white and yellow

plaid mounted on a white groi sfcad of the vivid red that Is

the pre Is called

the

1 yelk mnd. 1

ess plaid, a plaid that

further, each clan

a hunting p)aid. a dress mourning plaid, and 'the p

was worn exclusively by the chief and

immediate family. Then. too. If happen to be a Cameron, for ex-

tnple. a flake y

just F

I’llste ■ which «

__aU. 1 judgment oeat, ■ed place in the

was set up in a raised place

open aquare, hnd delivers hia final « Jesus is now mocked the third time.

1W8; John 18: 1-3. When'J< out before them Pilsti release Him. i et be permite Ji that will aatizfi

»; Mark 15: 3s la brought ■ one lost efi: 4-15. Now

M ‘fiM IMM.* . J-^rbe" (R- V.) Cyrene was a dty sib

“There was a colony of Jews uTCyiro*, “d they bad a synagogue in Jerusalem. Jssua.” He assisted Jens, who evidently was exhausted. Simon bore the hinder port, Jeeue the fore part. Tm minors Dio oar. One of the newest Ideas for .the woman who gives dinners Is to serve peaches or nectarines which bear thi names of her guesta. Some .'time before the Inrltattoos are seat out sh« visits ths fruiterer's and gives him thr names of ths guests whom ah* expecta to entertain. These are copied separately on tissue paper and thee are carefully cat oat and pasted oa 'he sunny aide of the stlU unrip- peach cm nectarine. As thf fruit ripens and

r cheek In white or AeU-

you happen to be a Cameron. I and think It an easy matter U betake yourself to a shop and demam

the Cameron plaid, you had better be certain whether you are a Cameron uf Loch lei or a Cameron of ErrachL Similarly, you may be a MacDonald of Clanranald. of Bleat, or of SUffa. It will make an Immense difference in

the kind of tartan'; not to be expected t

Argyll would be seen In the taftan of ths Campbells of Cawdor, or In that of the Campbells of Loudoun. There Is. by the way. at least one of the large shops in New York that always bar the correct tartans Imported from Scotland In stock. As the demand foi them Increases K is probable that it win be easy to obtain the genuine article bercJrtll all the accuracy that distinguishes the Edinburgh shops. _ 7

Tfia Raltlmora OrteU.

The Baltimore oriole Is one of thr most ingenious of bird architects, and mploys any material that is access!tie. String, hair, grasses aad plan!

ird lov

ly ol of s

birds of the brilliant colorinr mally localised. The common bluebird has head, batde. wings snd tall of the brightest, putsst blue, bul the breast la russet and the undei parte white. The all blue birds are the Indigo bird and the Yellow Is a common color on parti of the plumage, but only- one yellow bird even approximates freedom froir other colors. That Is the little yellow warbler, which has but slight mark ings of russet and ottva. The cardinal grosbeak, the summer red bird and scarlet tanager are almost wholly The first has a ring of black arount the MU. the second has wings shadini to brown, and ths third has blaeJ wings and tall, while the root of Mi plumage la of the

String, hair,

fibres tire often used, and one bird er tells of a nept shade complete)! silk thrown from the windows

v,LKr.-■ 1 „0 a.llr

la Ifca

sod other solid matter cow

to entirely cover the dry-land with I

layer 200 yards drop.

Th* salt a niaed In th.

8UBMAKINL WORK OF SPIDERS.

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A certain kind of spider is rapable of forming a bubble, taking it down through the water, and discharging It into IU nest, so (hat the eggs, and later on. the young are kept dry, and •e supplied with air. Although the water spider lives on land, where It needs plenty of air to breathe. It Is really hatched under water and spends a great deal of Ite time there beneath the surface. Its body Is covered with hair, which bolds the air like drops of water, and when the body Is charged with these air particles, forming a bubble which M holds between the hind legs and carries with It. It Is only In this manner that It can furnish air for the interior of iu nest, keepng It dry until the eggs are hatched. First, the mother spider builds her nest. This Is placed some distance down In the water, and is a sort of a cell spun In the shape of an egg, havopening on the under aide. When this Is completed, she rises to the surface, and there charges her body thoroughly with air. Then once more she dive* under the surface, tho water forming a bubble which gradually swells out from the body. This she skilfully bolds betw-ecn her furry hind legs, firmly, and yet gently, so that ft won't break and - escape. Swimming to the nest, she discharges the bubble In it. Thls.of course, crowds out some of the water, leaving the top filled with air. As the nest is large, requiring h gteat deal of air the spider makes another and yet another trip, until the whole Interior te free from moisture. By this simple process she keeps the eggs dry. and furnishes air for the young until theyarc large enough to swim out and get it for themselves. But as much as this spider lives trader water. It Is always dry. No matter how long It may have been swimming around under the surface, the moment it comes to the fop. there is no trace of moisture on IL Tho reason of this is that the air particle* that cling to its hair keep off the water and prevent it from toaking through the skin. Another strange thing about it is that It can swim with great speed in spite of its balloonliko burden. The best way to watch the water spider U to place one in a vessel filled with water, and containing some water plant. There It will quickly spin Its web and if fed on flies snd bugs, lead Its aquatic existence. The eggs of this spider are laid in a cocoon, shaped something like the top of a round dish. It generally contain* a hundred or more eggs.—New York

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QUAINT AND CURIOUS, The weight of the Mr which encircles the earth Is equal to that of 581.000 cubes of copper, each 1083 yards square. The jury In » recent trial In Wales comprised one man named Hughes and 11 nanled Jones. Seven of the latter bore the Christian name cl John. The prisoner's name was the same a* that of seven of the Jurors.— John Jones. The skeleton of an Indian was found the other day by workmen digging for the rapid transit tunnel la New York City. 20 feet below the surface. Near the skull were some clay plpea a tomahawk and some ornamental shells. There te a quaint little fish which haunts tho weed tracts of the Gulf Stream, and there builds its nest and lays its eggs like a bird rather than a fish. This animal, the antetmarius. Imitates la color tho -reed It lives' in. and. like the chameleon, constantly changes Its color. a A shark, while swimming leisurely ear Anastasia Island. Florida, espied 200-pound turtle, and tried to take him in. toll first. The turtle was a shrewd oM fellow, and merely extended his forward flippers, thus blocking the shark's game. After repeated efforts to swallow him. the shark was reluctantly compelled to turn ths rascal out AH the roles in a Chfneee play are taken by men. This singular custom is traced back to a woman's whim. The Emperor Yung Tschlng married an actress at the beginning of the 18th centaiy. To satisfy her vanity, a decree was issued in the year 173S forbidding, under penalty of instant death, by the sword of the executioner, any member of her sex to appear on the Chinese sUfe. "After me. no one.” said the empress.

Tti* X»wMt nicks la Laadoa. A correspondent who has had a chat wKh a walking stick maker, whose works hs Inspected, writes: "It will surprise many people to know that • single firm can buaily employ hundr^fif -of men making walking sticks, the majority ol which retail at from one to three guineas each. It will cause greater surprise to learn—and K te equally true—that many young men about town use a' different stick with every change of outdoor attire, the harmony of color being the principle governing the tobH. New shape*, not only of handle*, but of the stick*, are now la rogue. Ther* is now a special demand for the laleet novelty la thia Dae—sticks cleverly filed to triangular, square aad hexagonal shapes. It la gratifying to know that the mw Assigns are mafia ta Loadon."-LonfiOB