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Enters at th* poat ofllce at Capa May, K- J., aa aecood-elaaa anatter, March Utb. 1901.'

The librarlea of the United States now possess about 40.000,000 volumes, and during the past 20 years the numof libraries have nearly doubled. • are now fully 6000 In this coun-

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The tendency steadily to Increase the size of ocean steamers Is explained by the fact that the larger the veksel the smaller Is'lhe coal consumption— the greatest Item of expense—per of cargo carried. For a 4000-ton vessel this Is more than twice as great as for 9000-ton vesseL

Efforts have been made to effect a saving tn the consumption of fuel. Improved Are boxes have done good. New boilers have helped to some extent- There are a score of appliances that make a ton of coal go further today than three tons' a half century ago. However, so' long as more heat Is wasted than utilUed scientists have * work ‘before them. When crossing the ocean In the summer one cai> send messages almost as regularly to one’s friends as when on land. The carrier pigeons used for the transportation very seldom ~gq astray, sometimes flying over 300 piles. Tho little birds have quite a career before them, somewhat different from their peaceful brethren, whose sole Interest In life seems to be to strut and coo on the barn roofs.

THE NATURE OF GOD. dr. Tslmafe Expectations of the Day When That Which Is Only Dimly ‘ Seen Win Be Fatly Revealed. EvUeace ef Dhlac Powti-Oed s hllallt Ur* -lbs Nilarc Never Cheaps. (Oavrriefct BBLI WauuiOVOg, D. C.—In this discourse Dr. Tshasgi raises high expectations of SSkp-Syg TTO- fct bow Uttle a portion is heard :£?=.’ The least understood being in the universe si Ood. Blasphemous would be any attempt by painting or sculpture to represent Him. Egyptian hieroglyphs tried to suggest Hun by putting tho iigun- of an eye upon a sword, implying that God s and rulea, but how imperfect the sugtionl When we speak of Him it is sd-

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aring Waters.’

so great that no man can see Him and live. When the group of great theologians assembled in Westminster Abbey for the purpose of making s system of religious belief, they first of all wanted an answer to the question, “Who is God?" No owe desired to undertake the answering ol that overmastering Question. They finally concluded to give the task to the youngest man in the assembly, whb happecod to be Rev. George Gillespie. He coaiented to undertake jt on the condition that they would first unite with him in prayer for divine direction. He began his prayer by saying, "O God, Thou art a

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•dom, power, holi

, „ tnd truth." That ntrnce of Gilleepie's prayeV was unaniously adopted by the assembly as the .-st definition cf God. But, after all.'it as only s partial success, and alter everything that language can do when put to the utmost strain and all we ran see of God in the natural world and rral- ’ ’ in tbs providential world we o cry out with Job in my text: "Lo, these are parts of His ways. But bow little a portion of Him is heard? But the thunder of His power who san

understand!’'

Archbishop TSUdtaon and Dr. Dick 'and Timothy Dwight and Jonathan Edwards of the past and the mightiest theologians of this young century bare discoursed upon^thc powfr of God. the attribute of omnipotence. And we have all seen demonstration of God’s shnigfatiness. It might

find ourselves at the foot of a

in we cannot climb, hovering over depth we cannot fathom, at the rim *

rcuznfsrsnce we cannot com w* feel like first going don on

and then like falling flat upon . as wa exclaim: “Lo, these are parts of His ways. But how little a portion la heard of Him! But the thunder of His

power who can understand?"

So all tboss who have put together srsterns of theology hare discoursed also shout the wisdom of God. Think of s wisdom which ess know the end from lbs beginnkc, that knows the thirtieth cea* ' well as .the first century. We can

rhat will happen, but it is only a

guess. Think of a mind that can hpld all the past and all the present and all the future. We can contrive and invent on a small scale, but think of a wisdom that could contrive a universe. Think of a wisdom that can learn nothing new, a wisdom that nothing can surprise, all the facts, scenes and occurrences of all time to come at plainly before it as tl

they had already transpired. ”

have built ”

one world through immensity,

dom in dividing up l_ numerable worlds, rolling splendors on all aides, diversity, amplitude, majesty, infinity. Worlds, worlds, moving in complete order, shining with complete rediance. Mightiest telescope on one band and moat [lowerful microscope on the other, discovering in the plan of God not

one imperfection.

Witty writers sometimes depreciate tho thunder and say it is the lightning that strikes, but I am sure God thinks well of the. thunder, or He would not make so much of it, and all up and down the Bible

uses the thunder to give empl i the thunder that shook fin

print,’infinite, eternal "and* unchangeable

dmightinesa. It might

— — at eea ■ whan tq an equinoctial gale God ah owed what He could do with the waters. It might have been in an August thunderstorm in the mountains whso God showed what He could do with the lightnings. It might have been in BCutli America when God showed what He could do with the earth-'

showed -—— — .. quakes. It might

Alps when God a do with the avalanches. Oar

blanched, our breath stopped, our pun " " ’ rhole being was terrorized.

The secretary of the Sheffield chamber of commerce, after a careful study of condiUons In the United States, awards the heartiest praise to the road transportation system In America, In comparison with the achievements so far made In Great Britain. He Is reported as saying that even In small towns Unole Sam handles his I - highway traffic as thoroughly and well as John Bull bandies bis In largp cities. Moreover, he frankly admits that the prinlcpal steam railroads of Yankeeland are more punctual in their train service, and provide more comfort and convenience for passengers than the British roads furnish. He also commends our fast freight trains, which carry enonnons loads at high speed In cars of remarkable strength and capacity, drawn by the most powerful locomotive engines In the world.

been among the what He sould Oar cheek waa

, — —Pped, our pubes fluttered, our whole be 1 * *

but we had •ecu only

vine strength. What >_ uw power oi that (tons compared with the power which holds aU the oreani? What was the power that shook the hiBi compared with the power that swinge the earth through all the centuries —wi for 6000 years, and in a formative and incomplete shape for hundreds of tbetuands of years? What is that power that sustains our world compared with 'the power which rolls through immensity the entire solar m and all the constellations and galand the universe? The migfaticet intellect of man would give away if for a moment there came upon it the full appreciation of what omnipotence is. What you and I see and hear of divine strength -• . But how ... n! But the thunder of His flower who can under-

stand?"

We try to satisfy ourselves with saying: "It is natural law that controls things. Gravitation is at work; —*-* —*

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ires and Tustains. That power withdrawn one instant would make .the planetary system and all the worlds which astronomy reveals one universal wreck, bereft hemispheres, dismantled sunsets, dead tatioes. -debnTof worlds. What 1

Preliminary plans for the proposed Carnegie technical school in Pittsburg have been made. They provide for six large buildings grouped around a central courtyard. The course of Instruction in the school will extend through nine years. The first four Lyeara will be devoted to preparatory work, and the second four to the regular co!Iegu\ work of the engineering •fcbools. The ninth year will he the post-graduate course, Which all finished engineers desire to take before they enter practical buslneae. The buildings were planned.with the long 'and thorough course In view, and'the Idea yat the result of long study of the conditions and their succeta In the best technical schools of the old world. Facilities are to be offered , for obtaining the maatery of any choes) 1 en trade or the grouping of\all for thorough training of engineering as a science. All of this la to be coupled

with practice.

Italy Is suffering from what crimi-

nologists called "a wave of crime" of most virulent description. The total

number of persons arrested last year was nearly twice as large as In the

year before, the numbers being, re-

spectively, 630,000 and 280.000. figures Include offenses of all. kinds from minor misdemeanors torn orders and assassinations. The -£roate*t

crease Is noted in the latter class, and the police seem unable to check them. * / The cause Is foufid chiefly In the Im-

poverished state of the country; which

_J baa given rise to much labotf agitation

with the accompanying strikes and

* violence wjtile hunger and a general

spread of neuroUK ailments are

tlpned ar subsidiary . causes. The

Italian auiAorUles. however, point

out for the benefit of foreigners, that

ries. Job exclaimed: "Lo, I

parts of His ways. But how little a , . tion is heard ol Him? Bat the thunder

of His power who can understand?" So, also, all systems of theology try to

tell us what la omnipotence—that is,

iparity to be everywhere at The

Be. “Where is God?" said a heathen philosopher to a Chnsfian man. The Christian answered,"" Let me ask you where He is. not?" The child h^l it right when, asked how many Gods are there, and he answered, “One.” “How do you know that?" he was asked again. He answered, “There iwoly room for one, for He fills earth ifia heaven.” An guthor says that if a man were set in the highest htavern he would not be aov nearer the essence of God than if -he were in the eisitrs of the earth. I believe it. If this divine essence does not reach ail places, what uss in our prayer, for prayers are being offered to God on the other rids of the earth as well as here, and God must be there- and here to take snppUeationa which are offered thousands ol miles apart. Upiquity! No one has it but God And what an alarm to wicksdneas, an everywhere preeeqt Lord, land what a reenforccmeat when we need help! God on the throne and God with the Kneeling Child saying his evening prayer at his mother 1 * Jap. God above you, God be-

ith yop, God on the right of you, God the hit of you, God within you. No

pantheism, for that teaches that all things art God, but Jehovah possesses all things, ^ha our souls possess our bodies. God .at the diameter and circumference of everything, as close to you ae the food you put to your kpa. aa tiTsoqt/vu put

ntatio^^^rork; centripetal and rifogal forces respond to each other." what is natural law? It is only God's of douig things. At every point in

At every point

, 1’a direct and i tinuous jxiwer that controls and barmoo-

' J That

spurting from a Cotopaxi or ^ Btrorybob Herculaneum tuto sepulcher, but for the moat part the internal fires chained in their cages of rock sod centurir after century unable to break the chain or burst open the door! What power to keep the it parts of the. air in right pro-

k> that all around the world the

so that all around the world

nations may breathe in health, the f and the heats hindered from working versa 1 demolition! Power, as lagiah says, “to take on the isles as a very_htUe thing"—Ceylon and Borneo and Hawaii as thoogh they were pebbles; power to weigh the “mountains in scales’'and the “hifirin balances' ’—Tenerife and the CordiDeraa. To more a rock we must have lever and screw and great machinery, but God mores the world with nothing but a word; power to create worlds and power to destroy them, as from the observatories again and again they Have ..been seen red = u Sr .’SS r a«,-a.- | «. What is that power to ns? aaas some one. It is everything to ns. With Him on our side, the reconciled God, the sympathetic God. the omnipotent God, we may defy aU human and Satanic antagonisms, and when we are shut in by obstacles we can any, as did one of Frobisher's men when the sailor was describing how their ship was surrounded by iceberg* in the Arctic sea, ‘The ice was strong, but God was stronger than the' ice." And, whatever oppoeitkm we may hare, our God is mightier than the opposition. All right with God. we may have the courage of the general -dying on the battlefield.

He naked to be turasd, and

•aid. "Which way shall we tin __ said, 'Torn my face twwaxd the ebony.” -What a challenge that was uttered by the old missionary nero. “If God be for ns, who eanbeagainst ns?" Think of it! God is the only being in the universe who has power to do as He pleases. AD human and aneelie forces have en-’ *-

There are things they cannot they cannot' scale, depths t

We get some little idea of the divine over when we ace bow it buries the

tat

r of imb

’they? cnaot

Urge enough to remind ^roaaif your net. waabre'the^ahor^on which ire oSy afiro crumbling wnises left. Sodom and Goand Nineveh are so blotted out of exist-

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omnipotence could have rut them down and not them under. The antediluvian world was able tc tend to the postdiluvian world only one ship, with a very

r roOed the'seas irsr the’hnd'and F™* -t«B *■*. « «»« u. lo to w. Oolte ££ s? jsL* 1 _ ,local, and, therefore, we take It. tour- 1 Omnipotent command the waters poune-

M ^ bar, »tO. of b«„ ,b, 1 SSJSS

victims of any but the usual legitimate P™ te ?*»«-•■ By such feby.™! ws try vobberie* and extortions u UVM * °' JT Wr ** 1 * ,ien “ w “‘

ofence is, and our reverence is excited, and oar adoration is intensifitd, but after ws find ourselves at •’ * * * '

though t could

swung it, a glorious mass, isjtyTuut behold His wi*- : up the grandeurs into tn-

b law was given. It was u it the Lord discomfited

-inai when m thunder he Philis-

s tbe war horse as having a with thunder. St. John in

Job picti

neck clothed. an apocalyptic vision again I heard the thunder. The thunc

r quite well explain ' s, was the overpowi

J— 6pH» indcr. which by the elec-

overpowering mystery of a -*—— —'—j the

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nothing could upset. Would it make us gloomy? No, for God is the Godof joy

and will augment our bappineta.

We have ali been painfully reminded in nr own experience* that we cannot be in aro’place* st the same time, and yet here . lines tbe thought that God can be in all

esjt.turs^b

ofthe ban van* until Bh <taciaaaariIRti<}>> 1 star Alcyone, one of th* Pleiades, was the of the .truth centre of tbe universe, and it was a fixed things.’’ Her world, and all the other worlds revolved ’ " ’ ‘ ’

around that world, and *ome think that tlpit world is heaven and God's throne is tw.re and there reside the nations oi tbe blessed. But He is no more there than He ia_bere. Indeed Alcyone has been found to be in motion, and it also is revolving around some greet centre. But no place has yet been found where God is not orcscnt br sustaining power. Omrinrcaenee! Who fully appreciates it! Not I;

not you.

c ^tcs we hear Him in a whisper: i ws hear Him in the voice of that jars the Adfrond»eks. Bat

finite t — feel as Job did after finding God in the gold mines and the silver mines of Asia, saying, 'There is a vein for the silver and place for the gold where they fine it." The nature of God never changes, and

We the

in th'

ty that holy passion gl and I think He was tl

the Infinite, and I l oat worlds into

space and __ ds for.U-apphmtoon

— I this vrfirld. J as He has not told ns whet He did for them. I think the love of God was demonstrated in mightier worlds before our little world sras fitted up for human residence. WtU a man owning 50,080 acres of land put all.tbe cultivation on a half acre? Will God make a million worlds and put His chief affection ton one small planet? Are the other worlds and larger worlds standing vaiaot, uninhabited, while this little world is crosydgd with inhabitants? No, it takes a universe of worlds to express the loye of God. And there are other ransoms and other reacoee and other redemptions, as there may be other millenniums and other resurrection mornings and judgment days than those of our world. But in the space of six feet by five was comprised the mightiest evidence of God’s love that any . world ever saw orirver will see. Compressed two planks joined together as a ere there was enough agony there cone tinted, if distnbtrtid, to put whole nations into torture. That God allowed the assassination of His own Son for the rescue of our world is nD th* evidence needed that He loved the world. Go ahesA O church of God! Go ahead, 0 world, and tell aa well as yon can what tbe lore of God is/but know beforehand that Panl was nfbt when be aaid. Tt Msseth knowledge.” Let ether poets take up the story of God's tore where William Cowper and Isaac Watte and Charles Wesler and Horatiue Bonar left it, and let other painter* improve upon the "Sittine Madonna" and the “Adoration of the Map" end the “Crucifixion” aa Rcphael and Titian and Claude and Correggio preten ted them. Let the OeRnantmblt orator take up the theme of God's lore where Frederick Tboluek left it, let ItoF tin pulpit take it up where Gavazs left it, let French pulpit orator take up die theme where Botsrdelou* left ft, let the Swiss pulpit orator take op the them# where Merle d’Aubsgne left it, kt the English pulpit take it up where George White field left it, let th* Scotch palp*

hear from Hie Hi* infinite aac

THE SABBATH SCHOOL

Sabjecc A New Hterea aid a New Earth. Rev. xzL, 1-7, 22-Z7"Ooldea Text Rev. xxL,-7-Remery Verses, 2, 4, 27-Cem—stary ee

ft* Day s Lessee.

1. "A new heaven.” tie. Compare Isa.

65: 17-18; 2 Pet. 3: 13. "These words express the greetneee and the glorious charbSrth the abode^and ta‘stit* o^ttiT ro

"No more sea." The absence of

1 understood by some to denote symbolically the absence of ell change, commotion or trouble of any sort. Others

take tbe words literally.

2. “New Jerusalem." An idee] rity, presented under figure* that represent perfection—the perfection of purity, beauty and joy. This new Jerusalem is a symbel of the church of God in its new and perfect state, (tie chap. 18: 7-8. "Prepared.” God'* people ere "prepared" in a twofold eesse. 1. They have “mode themselves ready." 2. The Lord Himself—the heavenly Bridegroom hath prepared them. Bead Isa. 61: lOT "Adorned.” The church is sdorned in the glorious apparel of per-

fect nehteouanea*.

3. ‘Tabernacle—with men.” This is an j— showing God's "intimate and

“ It ’

e gaslrl :i nature

a resident in the old Jewish Ubernsele. “D*fll with them." God in the most es peetil manner dwells with His followers, diffusing His light tnd Hfe everywhere. 4. "Wipe away all tears.” AU tbe effects o! former trouble shall be done awa;

iped away; no signs, nor

brance of former sorrow* shall remain, any further than to make their present happiness tbe greater. “No more death." This i* ample proof that this whole description belongs to eternity and not to time. But death cannot be destroyed by

ijdy no further death; in itruction there must be a

'Passed away.” All the ful scenes which were on earth so r to their eyes have paoiod away to 5. "Upon the throne." See chap. 4: 2. "All things new." As the creation of tbe world, at the beginning, was the work of God alone, so is this new creation. ‘‘Write." _ "The apostle oeem* to 1

douer nral

in anytblBg el«« lu to the edlvrnt propci

fluid It ti not \without Its

tritive properties. Consequently persons who are nccds’v.tried to oysters ahoald b* ever Jnindful that little as possible of tb|e Juice shot

be lost.

The question "How old 4s the human race?” receives an Interesting answer In the latest edition of De Mortlllct's “Origin and Antiquity of Man." The total number of years elapsed since, according to geological evidence, pea fljst appeared upon tbe earth Is placed at 238.000. Of this 78,000 years bel mg -to the preglacial epoch, 100,000 years ' ‘to the glacial epoch and the protohlitorlc and Neolithic. 10.000 years to the two last-named epochs, and 6OP0 years to the tlm-; elapsed since tb$ b'-gluulfig of the historic period In Egypt.

:an ha

upon

tography. The details of the processes

resurrect ii mournfi"

'True and faithful.” ibis include* all that had been revealed to John. Truth refer* to the promise of the wonderful changes that were to be mode; Uithfalnew to the

fulfilment of those promise*.

6. "He aaid." Christ if the speaker. Tt is done." The great work of man’* redemption is accomplished. The righteous ore gathered into the new Jerusalem, and tbe wicked east into the tike of fire. Tbe apostle is carried forward in vision to the end of aU things, and look* back upon the prophecies of this book at already aceompltiaed. "Beginning — end." Christ here shows that He tithe cause and end of all thing*. Isa. 44: 6. We often begin what ws, con never finish, but Christ ti

able to finish

here show* that He tithe cause and end of all thing!. Isa 44: 6. We often begin

. we. can never finish, but C*—ti* — to finish what He baa mu

"That ti athirst." Hunger and thirst are

est of bodijy appetite*, and ore used to represent thc^stiong de-

eternal life

anevSeneirat their reality; for God EUmAc If has wrought within ns these dssiroi.

longing after on evidence a

Idf has .wi©u_— _— and He • lands pledged to satisfy them. "Fountain," etc. Representing the religion of the Bible. The *njiOy is exhaustlee*. Here ti en unfailing iciness of love. spring* up and floe* over, and so salvation in the soul gushes out in the life through our words end actions, and flows over on those around no. "Freely." It ti for ell who thirst; it ti “without money and^ without price.” Isa. SB; 1; John 7. "He that overcoeneth.” He that ene--toafully remits the temptations of the world, the flesh and the devil, and eon- " ‘-" -it in the belief and practice _ to the end. "Inherit all thing*." Here, he had no inheritance: there, he obeli inherit the kingdom of heaven add have every possible degree of blessedness. Matt. 18: 29: 1 Pet. 1: 4. ‘The wbok creation shall be open to the enjoyment of the 'saint*." "Hi* God." The fountain of all bleming; th* giver of every good and perfect gift. His God—to sustain and strengthen, to deliver in'times of trouble and to bring to heaven at last. ‘‘My Son.” And if a bon then an heir, an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ, bee Bom. 8: 17. But these exalted privileges ore only for those who ore ovcrcom-

ers.

22. "And I sew.” John ti carried sway by the Spirit into a great and high mountain (v. 10) where be ti shown the holy Jerusalem. Compare Eiek. 40: 2. This city was a symbol of the church in glory. It was a solid, cube, symbolizing completeness and perfection. Twelve ti the symbol of God’s peopla, and there were twelve gates, on which .were written the names of the twelve tribes, showing that all of God’s true followers have a shore in the city. Gold and precious stones ar* used to represent the twenty, rr reliance onddory of this heavenly city—tbe chumi of Christ. V*. 15-21. "No temple therein.". The church in glory seeds no temple especially consecrated to th* worship of God, 23. “No need of the (Sun." For the presence of God and the lamb moke one eternal day. Heaven ti thd inheritance of the eainta m light. The whole city seemed to appear to John "like a luminous object, adding out ray* on every side." 24. "The nations.” There are inhabit- - ants in heaven from all the nations of the earth. "Which ore aaved." No one will dver enter heaven who was not lived on earth. "In the light." Now we see throaza a glass darkly, but then face to lace. ‘The kings." Borne of the kings of the earth will be aaved. "Bring their glory,” etc. Everything desirable, excellent and glorious, ti perpetuated end perfected in heav25. “Shall not he shut.” The door%ef the Christian church on earth are ever open to receive sinner* who are ready to forsake their wickedness end turn to Christ, and tbe gates of, the new Jerusalem are never abut, and those that are sanctified will ever hare an abundant cn27. Tn no wise enter,” etc. Heaven ti gates not only welcome those who have a sS£‘S^*.teis‘j2;S3. lowed to enter ther*. “Which are written." Those enter whoee name* ere written in th* Lamb s book of life; who are renewed, justified, sanctified and thu* fitted to be glorified.

garden tinned by Shake associated with v tilted

pare and with those pieces when ho has

itof* were mai

ncy, of tl

the Moraoa Chord).

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, Nature at times grafts a branch Into another or Into tbe trunk of the tree, probably when friction wean off the bark down to the, growing layer, so that onion ti possible. In all grafting, It ti eeaentlal that'the Inner layer of the bark come Into contact with that stock In wl b It be only t In deft or split grafting. It may not be generally known that the fluid which surrounds the oyster

ilogy to

bears a c Secretion In audit! of ibis f

naaftmtiitJuTY'-i*. When WlIKe get* to be • maa He'll find a wriebt of < ifi A very great drsi l«-i.vl»r than HU father used to bear. He'll haw to face a inuuster trust And fijrun- out a plan For^circumventing tb» unjust, lllc gel it* to use ao<! own Borne nrw Inventions which t bey'll plan To beat the Ldepbouc-. He ought In range all wisdom through Rlnrv wisdom first began. He'll find abundant work lo do When Willi* U c man. —Washington Star.

Hoax—What ti hti occupation? Joax —He is a man of letters Hoax—Ah. ; an author? Joax—No; a mall carrier. | Nell—Did the wedding pass off nicely? Belle—Oh, beautifully. 1 believe nearly every woman there waa

j crying.

Wi«—I hear you've had nervous prostration. Have you quite reeov-^ ered? Wagg—Not quite. I haven't

| received the doctor's bill yet.

| Blobba—Wealth will not buy hapj plness. Slobbs—WelL for my part. I j think I ahould be happier with wealth

I thanNvltb happlnezs without It. "My dear.” said Crowells,

M. Louis Boutan has recently published a volume upon submarine pbo-

are given and It appears that It ti

pcrftctly possible to recure goqd neg-

a depth of 160 feet. Tbe same

•plied

•Us, "you

ring nonsense." "J ki bis better half, 'but It's be-

o doubt, f entlflc m'

utrier at a d

servi

itlflc men many re-

searches on the life of submarine anl-

that are now impossible. Their Icatkon to certain practical ters are also very Important.

Fill find their dan; Elness expedited, a:

repair of breakages in flooded mines, etc., will be made more easy and safe.

male t applies

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Harvard university It appea area of 160,000 square mile In ruins, all means of conn

hills n ndsllpi

m Assam. In 1837. the most violent and extended earthquake of historic times, has been made by Mr. R. D. Oldman. From an abstract br .Prof. Davi* of

pears that an ailes was laid communication

Interrupted, tbe hills rent asumdt and cast down in landslips, the plains fissured and riddled with rents from which sand and water poured forth in astounding quantities, causing floods In the rivers, etc. A surrounding area of 1,750,000 square miles fait a shock of unusual energy- The earthquake wave traveled at the rate of 120 •miles per mlnuU. The vertical displacement of the ground near the centre of disturbance was probably as much ss 14 inchca—an unprecedented quantity; the vertical movement of earthquakes

inches. Some of the results

than two s of this

one having a throw of 10 feet ■ length of two and a half miles,

larger ai to tent i

60,000 tr nltude m

and

cause I want you to undereland what

I say.”

Mra. Muggins—Docs your husband ever lose his temper? Mrs. Huggins— Yes;- but Jt doesn't worry him. He has an Inexhaustible supply to fall back on. "Scientists are seeking to discover a relation between color and sound." remarked the Wise Guy. “Well." chuckled the Simple Mug, “I've heard of a hue and cry.” Mrs. Nuwed—John, there's that crayon portrait of mamma knocking around still. Don't you think we had better hang it up? Mrs. Nuwed —Capital idea! I'm afraid we won't get much on It, though. Wife—You often sp«-ak of my many virtues, but you don't seem to appreciate them. Husband—Why? "if you did you'd reward me with a new bonnet and gown occasionally." "My dear, virtue ti Its own reward.” “Papa's got a new set of false teeth.” said little Willie. “Really ?” replied the vtitor. "I didn't know your paper's teeth were false.” "Oh. yes; and say. I'll bet a hat they'll cut down the old set and make me wear ’em." Two little girls were discussing matrimony. "When I grow up." said one. *Tm going to marry a man rich enough to buy me all the candy 1 .want." "Huh!” exclanmed the other xri*A proud disdain. 'Tin going to many the jnan wot keeps the store." "At least,” said the wild-eyed man ■with long hair, "my musical comedy ti flniehed. all but a trifling detail." "And .what,” asked the unsophisticated listener, "is the plot?” "D!d I not tell you," exclaimed the genius of

ter of. the two dam—ed n river so form a lake several miles In cxand ruined a forest of at leart trees. Landslides of great magwere produced In the Himalayas

lleyl of streams were changed bey i: l i ecognlti^n.

MODERN SPRINKLING WAGONS. .

Aa Improvement an the Old Ctrtn—dn lean Sprinklers Exported. The modern sprinkling wagon very different from the old-timer. Tho chief improvement ti In the head, which enables tbe driver

t spra to cor

s to a cari which he

dirt or a macadam road, or a stone paved or asphalted street, thqye can be supplied from the modern street sprinkler just the amount of'water required to lay the dust In It. without

waste.

Tbe spray head on each aide has Its own valve rod running to the driver’s seat, with a step there for the foot. The driver can operate both heads at once, or he can run only one head: he can shut off or open either one at pleasure. With this sort of wagon the expert driver leaves behind him dry crosswalks with perfectly define?

limits; and when ,be .< " riage or a street car, upon

doesn’t want to throw water, he shuts off the flow on that side and keeps th.' other going. Sprinkling wagons an. made In various sties, ranging from

ms cap*

wagons

in this country nowadays where there was one sold only a few years ago. This great Increase In their use ti due In large measure pa sanitary reasons. to the great extension of good roads, and t<\ the common desire for comfort. Sprinkling wagons are used nowadays commonly In many smaller tow as and villages, where they were never thought of some years ago. And American sprinkling wagons are now found all over the 'world wherever sprinkling wagons are used. They are exported to Australia. Cuba, Porto Rico, South America, South Africa and-Europe. The mod-

ern sprinkling wagon that the traveler chances to see In Parts, or Ber- '*— very likely

the

There are 28 pounds of blood In the body of an average grown-up person, and at each pulsation the heart moves 10 Bounds

detail still to consider?" Aa Impartial Woman. "This ti the grave of the most impartial woman on record.” said the guide in Cave Hill cemetery to a party who visited the beautiful cemetery recently. "Away over that second knoll there is a lot containing only two graves, and the headstone of each Is marked ‘Father.’. “The woman who is buried here waa married twice, and the two graves in that lot are the graves of her two husbands. She tried her best to treat her second husband as she did the first, and even when be died mhe bad so Idea of showing any preference. But she was sick when the funeral service of her second husband was held. She directed that the partner of her second matrimonial Venture bo laid by the side of the first, bnt thst enough space be left to bury her between the two. "By some hfipk or crook, a mistake was made and when she visited the cemetery she found that they were buried-side by aide, whh no space between. "Well, sir. she didn’t know what to do. She argued that if she should be buried by the side of her first husband it would not be fair to tbe memory of her last spouse, and vice versa. What did she do? Why. when the died she left a request that she be buried in another lot, away from both of them. And It waa heeded.—Louisville Courier-Journal

American woman suffragists must regard with envy such English women as the Baroness Berkeley and the Baroness Bnrdett-CbutU. who. being peeresses In their owa right, hare, in tho opinion-of many good authorities, a right to sit in the House of Lords and to vole with that body. In the days of the Plantagenets and Tudors peeresses were often called to meetings of Parliament. 4rat the custom died long ago; tnd recent dlffleultles with the Irish members wobU be a mere summer .sephyr compared with the Parliamentary storm that would be roused should some modern peeress demand her righta. Just at present the matter has been brought to the front by s rumor in connection with the coming coronation, which Is the ono topic of conversation in English appertendom. It is said that certain .peeresses in their own right intend to demand th^prtrtlege of being present at the coronkUon os actual members of tbe House of Lords and to hare their trains carried by pages as the Lords do.