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Dr. Talmage Preaches of His Visit
to Ephesus*
A Continuation of Sermon* on Ills Trip
Asms* the Pyramids to the Acropolis
—A Discourse Fall of Thought*
Worth Reading*
* Bboom.tk, N. Y., Nor. 15, 1891.—
Br. Talmage continued this morning
Ma series of sermons • entitled, "Fi ora
ttm Pyramids to the Acropolis." Tills
•trmon, which is the fifth’of the series,
ti concerned with the doctor's visit to
Bphesus, of which city, with its won*
derfu temple and other buildings, ho
gives a vivid description, with char
acteristic exegcticnl comments on o!>
soure passages of scripture. His text
Was: Acts 19:34, Ureat is Diana of tlie
Hpheslana "
WO nave lanauu mint morning in
iH/roa, a city of Asiatic Turkey,
tee of tho seven churches of Asia once
stood here. You read in Revelation,
‘•T# the church in Smyrna write." It
it a eity that hus often been shaken by
earthquake, swept by conflagration.
Masted by plagues, and butchered by
war, and here Uishop l'olycarp stood
M a crowded amphitheatre and when
he was asked to give up the advocacy
ml the Christii n religion and save him
self from martyrdom, the pro-consul
saying; "Swear aud I release thee;
reproach Christ," replied; "Eighty
and six years have I served him, and
ha never did me wrong; how then can
I revile my King and Saviour?" VVhen
he was brought to the tires into which
he was about to be thrust, and the
•fitoiuLs were about to fasten him to
the stake, he said; "Let me remain as
1 am for he who giveth me strength to
sustain the fire will enable mu also
without your securing me with nails
to remain unmoved in the fire." His
tory says the tires refused to consumo
him, and under the winds the flames
bent outward so that they did not
touch bis person, and, therefore, he
was slain by swords and spears. One
eypress bending over his grave la the
only monument to Uishop l'olycarp.
Rut we are on the way to the city of
Bphesus, about fifty miles from
Smyrna. We are advised not to go to
Ephesus; the bandits in that region
have bad an ugly practice of cutting
Off the ears of travelers and sending
these specimens of curs down to
Smyrna, demanding a ransom. The
bandits suggest to the friends of the
persons from whom the ears have been
subtracted that if they noidi like to
have the rest of tho body "be.v will
please send an appropriate sum of
money. If the money is not sent the
mutilated prisoners will ba assassin
ated. One traveler was carried off to
■ the robbers’ den, and $7,500 was paid
for bis rescue. The bandits were
. eaught and beheaded, and pictures of
these ghastly heads are on sale in the
shops of Smyrna for auy persons who
may desire to have something to look
at on their way to Ephesus. There
have been cases where ten and twenty
and thirty and forty thousand dollars
have been demanded by these brig
ands. We did not feel like putting our
friends to such expense, and it was sug
Seated that we had better omit Ephesus
ut that would have beeu a disappoint
ment from which wo would never ro
oover. We must see Ephesus-asso
ciated with the most wonderlul apos
■ tolio scenes We hire a special railway
train, and in about an hour and a half
we arrive at tl e city of Ephesus, which
Was called "'1 ho Ureat Metropolis of
Asia," and "One of tho eyes of Asia,"
and "The Empiess of Ionia," the capl
- , tal of all learning and magnificence.
Here, as I said, was one of the seven
•hurches of Asia, and first of all we
visit the ruins of that church where
once an Ecumenical council of 2,000
ministers of religion was held.
raura me lumumenc oi ine prophecy.
Of the seven churches of Asia, four
were commended in the book of Bevel
ation, and three were doomed. The
eities buying the four commended
churches still stand; the cities having
the three doomed churches are wiped
out. It occuned just ns the Bible said
it would occur. Drive on oud you come
to the theater, which was 600 feet from
wall to wall, capable of holdidg 56,700
spectators. Here and there the walls
arise alrnoht unbroken, but for the most
part the building is down. Just enough
of it is left to help the imagination
build it up ns it was when those audi
ences shouted and clapped at some
great spectacular. Their huzzas must
fettve been enough to stun the heavens.
Now, we step into the stadium.
Enough ot its appointments and walls
are left to show what a stupendous
place it must have been when used for
foot races and for fights with wild
beasts. It was a building 680 feet
long by 200 feet wide, l’aul refers to
what transpired there in the way of
spectacle when he says. “We have been
made a spectacle.” “Yes," Paul says,
*T have fought with beasts at
Ephesus," an expression usually taken
as figurative, but i suppose it
was literally true, for one of
the amusements in that stadinm
was to put a disliked man in
the arena with a hungry lion or tiger
or panther, and let the fight go on
until either the man or the beast or
both were slain. It must have been
great fun for these haters of Christian
ity to hear that on the morrow in the
Stadium in Ephesus the missionary
Paul would, iu the presence of the
crowded galleries, fight a hungry lion.
The people were early there to get
the best seats, and a more alert and
enthusiastic crowd never assembled.
They took their dinners with them
And was there ever a more unequal
combat proposed? Paul, aceording to
tradition, small, crooked-backed and
weak-eyed, but the grandest man in
sixty centuries, is led to the center, as
the people shout: “There he comes,
the preacher who has nearly ruined
our religion. The Hon will make but
u brief mouthful of him.” It is plain
that all the sympathies of that crowd
are with the lion, in one of the un
derground rooms I hear the growl of
the wild beasts. They have been kept
for several days without food or water
that they may bo especially ravenous
and bloodthirsty. What chance is
there for Paul? But you can not tell
bj a mas s also car looks bow stout a
blow he can strike or how keen a blade
be can thruBt. Witness, heaven and
eariU and hell, this struggle of l'aul
with a wild beust. The coolest man in
the Stadium is Paul. What has he to
fear? lie has deflcd all the powers,
earthly and infernal, and if his body
tumble under the foot and tooth of the
wild beast, his soul will only the sooner
find disenthralment. Hut it is his
duty, as fnr as possible, to preserve his
life. Now, I hear the bolt of the wild
heust's door shove back, and the whole
audience rise to their feet as the tierce
brute springs for the arena and toward
its smull occupant. I think the
first plunge that was made by the wild
beust at the apostle was made on the
point of a sharp blade, and the snarl
ing monster with a howl of pain and
n ek ng with gore, turns buck, liut
now the little misiioaarv has his turn
of making attack, and with a few well
directed thrusts the monster lies dead
in the dust of the arena, and the apos
tle puts his right foot on tno lion and
shakes him, and then puts his left foot
on him and shakes him—a scene which
I’anl afterwards uses for an illustra
tion when he wants to show how Christ
will triumph over death—"He must
reign till he hath put all enemies un
der his feet;’’ yes, under his feet l’aul
told the literal truth when he said:
"I have fought with beusta at Ephe
sus," and us the plnrul is used, I think
he had more than one sueh fight or
several beasts were let loose upon him
at one time. As we stood that dny in
the middle of the Ktndium and looked
around the great structure, the whole '
scene cam hack upon us.
In the midst of this city of Ephesus
once floated an artificial lake, brilliant
with painted boats, and through the
lliver Cayster it was connected with
the sea, and ships from all parts of the
known earth floated in and out carry
ing on a commerce which made Ephe
sus the envy of the world (Ireut was
Ephesus! Its gymnasia. Its hippo
drome, its odeon, its athenaeum, its
forum, its aqueducts (whose skeletons
are still strewn along the city,) its
towers, its castle of Hadrian, its monu
ment of Androclus, its quarries, which
were the granite cradle of cities, its
temples, built to Apollo, to Minerva,
to Neptune, to Mercury, to ltacchus, to
Hercules, to Cnisar, to Fortune, to Ju
pitor Olympus. What history and po
etry and chisel and canvas have not
presented has come up at the call of
archaeologists' powder-blast and crow
bar.
Hat I have now to nnveil the chief
wonder of this chiefest of cities. In
1803, under the patronage of the Eng
lish government, Mr. Wood, the ex
plorer, began at Ephesns to feel along
under the ground at grant depths for
roads, for walls, for towers, and here
it is—that for which Ephesus was more
celebrated than all else beside—the
temple of the goddess Diana, called
the sixth wonder of the world, and in
1889 wo stood amid the ruins of that
temple, measuring its pillars, trans
fixed by its sculpture, and confounded
at what was the greatest temple of
idolatry in all time. As I sat on a
piece of ono of its fallen columns, 1
said, “what earthquake rocked it
down, or what hurricane pushed it to
the earth, or under what strong wine
of centuries did the giant stagger and
fall?” There have been seven temples
of Diana, the ruins of each contribut
ing something for the splendor of all
its architectural successors. Two hun
dred and twenty years was this last
temple in construction. Twice asking
os the United States have stood was
that temple in building. It was nearly
twice os large as St. l'aul’s cathedral,
London. Lest it should bo disturbed
by earthquakes, which have always
been fond of making those regions
their playground, the temple was built
on a marsh, which was made firm by
layers of charcoal covered by fleeces of
wool. The stone came from the quarry
near by. After it was decreed to build
the temple, it was thought it would be
necessary to bring the ’build
ing stone from other lands, but
one day a shepherd by the
name of Pixodorous, while watch
ing his flocks, saw two rams fighting,
and as they missed the interlocking of
their horns and ono fell, his horn
knocked a splinter from the rock and
showed by that splinter the lustrous
whiteness i f the rock. The shepherd
ran to the city with a piece of that
stone, which revealed a quarrv from
which place the temnle was built, and
every month in all ages since, the
mayor of Ephesus goes to that quarry
to offer sacrifices to the memory of that
shepherd who discovered this source of
splendor and wealth for the cities of
Asia Minor. In removing the great
stones from the quarry to their des
tined places in the temple, it was nec
essary, in order to keep the wheels,
which were twelve feet in diameter,
from sinking deep into the earth under
the unparalleled heft, that a frnme of
limbers be arranged over which the
wheels rolled. To put the immense
block of marble in its place over the
doorway of one of these temples was
so vast and difficult an undertaking
that the architect at one time gave it
up. and in his chagrin intended suicide,
but one night in liis sleep he dreamed
that the stone had settled to the right
place, and the next day he found that
the great block of marble hud by its
own weight settled to the right place.
The temple of Diana was 425 long by
220 feet wide. All Asia was taxed to
pay for it It hail 127 pillars, each
sixty feet high, and each the gift of a
king, and inscribed with the name of
the donor.
in audition to those pillars that I
climbed over while amid the ruins of
Diana's temple, 1 saw afterwards eight
of th se pillars at Constantinople, to
which city they had been removed, and
are now a part of the mosque of St
Sophia. Those eight columns are all
green jasper, but some of thoso which
stood in Diana’ temple at Ephesus were
fairly drenched with brilliunt colors,
t ostly metals stood up in various parts
of the temple, where they could catch
the fullest flush of the sun. A flight
of stairs was carved out of one grape
vine. Doors of cypress wood, which
had been kept in glue for years and
l(ordered with bronze in bas-relief,
swung against pillars of brass, and re
sounded with echo upon eeho. caught
up, and sent on, and hurled back
through the corridors. In that build
ing stood an image of Diana, the god
dess The impression was abroad as
the Ilible records, that that image had
dropped plumb out of heaven into that
temple, and the sculptors who really
made the statue or image were put to
death, so that they could not testify of
its human manufacture and so deny its
celestial origin. It was thought by
intelligent poople that the material
,from which this Idol was formed might
have dropped out of heaven M an
aerolite. We have aoen In the British
Museum, and in universities of our own
west, blocks of stone hurled off from
other worlds. These aerolites were
seen to fall, and witnesses have gone
to the landing places, and scientists
have pronounced them to be the pro
duct of other worlds. liut the ma
terial out of which the imago of Diana
was fashioned contradicts that notion,
j This image was carved out of ebony
l Rud punctured here and there with
I openings kept full of Rpikenurd so us
| to hinder the statue from decaying and
make it aromatic, but this ebony was
covered witli bronze and alabaster. A
necklace of acorns coiled gracefully
around her. There were four lions on
each arm, typical of strength. Her
head was coronettod. Around this
figuru stood statues which by wonder
ful invention ffited tours. The air by
strange, machinery was damp with de
scending perfumes. The walls multi
plied the scene by concaved mirrors.
Fountains tossed in sheaves of light
and fell in showers of diamonds.
Praxiteles, the sculptor, and Apelles,
the painter, filled the place with their
triumphs. Crussus, the wealthiest of
the ancients, put hero and there in
the temple golden heifers. The
paintings were so vivid and lifelike
that Alexander, who was moved at
nothing of terror, shnddered at one
battle scene on these walls, and so true
to life was a painting of a horse that
when Alexander's horse wub led up to
it, he began to neigh, as one horse is
accustomed to greet another.
In this city the mother of Jesus was
said to have been buried. Here dwelt
Aquilla and Priscilla of Bible mention,
who were professors in an extempor
ized theological seminary, and they
taught the eloquent Apollos how to hie
eloquent for Christ. Here John
preached, and from here because of his
fidelity he was exiled to Patmos. Here
Paul warred against the magical arts
for which Ephesus was famous. The
sorcerers of this city pretended that
they could cure diseases, and perform
almost any miracle, by pronouncing
these senseless words: “Aski Cataski
Lix Tetrax Damnameneus Alston.”
Paul having performed a miracle iu
the name of Jesus, there was a lying
family of seven brothers who imitated
the apostle, and instead of their usual
words of incantation, used the word
Jesus over a man who was po sessed of
a devil, and the man possessed flew at
them in great fierceness and nearly
tore these frauds to pieces, and in con
sequence all up and down the Btreets
of Ephesus there was indignation ex
cited against the magical arts, and a
great bonfire of magical books was
kindled in the streets, and the people
stirred the blaze until $35,000 worth of
black art literature had burned to
ashes.
Jiut, all the (flory of Ephesus I have
described has gone now. At some sea
sons of the year awful malarias sweep
over the place and put upon raattrass
or in graves a large portion of the pop
ulation. In the approximate marshes
soorpions, oentipedes and all forms of
reptilian life crawl and hiss and sting,
while hyenas and jackals at night
slink in and out of the ruins of build
ings which once startled the nations
with their almost supernatural gran
deur.
ltut here is a lesson which lias never
yet been drawn out. Do you not see
in that temple of Diana an expression
of what the world needs? It wants a
God who can provide food. Diana was
a huntress, in pictures on many of
the coins she held a stag by the horn
with one hand and a bundle of arrows
in the other. Oh, this is a hungry
world! Diana could not give one pound
of meat, or one mouthful of food to the
millions of her worshippers. blie was
a dead divinity, an imaginary God,and
so in idolatrous lands the vast majority
of people never have enough to eat. It
is only in the country where the God
of heaven and earth is worshipped that
the vast majority have enough to eat.
l.et Diana have her uno.vs and her
hounds; our God has the sunshine and
the showers and the harvests and in
proportion as he is worshipped does
plenty reign.
ho also in the Temple of Diana the
world expressed its need of a refuge.
To it from all parts of the land came
debtors who could not pay their debts
and the offenders of the law that they
might escape incarceration. Hat, she
sheltered them only a little while, and
while she kept them from arrest she
could not change their hearts and the
guilty remained guilty. But o ur Gpd
in Jesus Christ is a refuge into which
we may fly from all oursins and all our
pursuers, and not only bo safe for time
but safe for eternity, and the guilt is
pardoned and the nature is trans
formed. What Diana could not do for
her worshippers our Christ accom
plishes for us.
Rock of npres cleft for me.
Let me hide myself iu thee.
Then in that temple were deposited
treasures from all the earth for sale
keeping. Chrysostom says it was the
Ucasure-house of nations, they brought
gold and silver and precious stones and
coronets from across the sea, and put
them under the care of Diuna of the
Ephesians. But, again and again
were those treasures ransacked,
captured or destroyed. Eero
robbed them, the Scythians scat
tered them, the Goths burned them.
Dian'a failed those who trusted her
with treasures, but our God, to Him
we may entrust all our treasures for
this world and the next, and fail any
one who puts confidence in liiin he
never will. After the last jasper col
umn has fallen and the last temple on
earth has gone into ruins and the world
itself has suffered demolition, tho Lord
will keep for us our best treasure.
Rut notice what killed Ephesus, and
what has killed most of the cities that
lie buried in the cemetery of nations.
Luxury! The costly baths, which had
been the moans of health to the city
became its ruin. Instead of t ie cold
baths that had been the invigoration
of the people, tho hot baths, which are
only intended for the infirm cr the in
valid, were substituted. In these hot
baths many lay most of the time. Au
thors wrote books while in these baths.
Business was neglected and a hot bath
taken four or live times a day. When
the keeper of the bath was reprimanded
for not having them warm enough one
of the rulers said: “You blame him for
not making the bath warm enough ; I
blame you because you have it warm
at alL” But that warm bath Which
enervated Ephesus, and which is al
ways enervating except when followed
bv cold baths (no reference, of course,
to delicate constitutions) was only a
type of what went on in all depart
ments of Ephesian life, and in luxuri
ous indulgence Ephesus fell, and the
last triangle of mnsie was tinkled in
Diana’s temple, and the last wrestler
disappeared from her gymnasiums, and
the last racer took his garland in the
stadium, and the Inst plea was heard
in her forum, and, even the sea, as if
to withdraw the last commercial op
portunity from that me r >polis, re-1
treated down the beach, leaving her
without the harbor in which had I
floated a thousand ships, lirooklyn,
New York, London and all modern |
cities, eis-Atlantie and trans-Atlantic!
take warning. What luxury un
guarded did for Ephesus, luxury un-1
guarded may do for alL Opulence and I
splendor Ood grant to all the people, to
all the cities, to all the lands, but at
the same time, may he grant the right
eous use of them.
As our train pulled out from the sta
tion at Ephesus, the cars surrounded
by the worst looking group of villains
I ever gazed on, all of them seeming in
a wrangle with each other and trying
to get into a wrangle with us, and we
moved along the columns of ancient
aqueducts, eaoh column crowned with
storks, having built their nests there,
and we rolled on down towards
Smyrna, and that night in a Sailor’s
Bethel, we spoke of the Christ whom
the world must know or perish, we
felt that between cradle and grave
there could not be anything much more
enthralling for body, mind and soul,
than our visit to Ephesus.
A HIDEOUS REPTILE.
Despised kr Kvsrjr On*, the Tnad U Still
a Very VmIiI Animal.
It was Shakspenro who wrote, near
ly three hundred years ago:
Sweet aro the uses of adversity:
W hloh like Uie toad, ual> uu i venomous.
Wears yet a previous Jewel lu lilstau.nl.
Even the bard t»f Avon, with his
great loving heart, seemingly ignored
the virtues of this much-maligued rep
tile, and the grentor part of mankind,
with characteristic obluseness, lias ac
cepted his verdict as decisive. Bat it
seems to me the prejudice is absolute
Iv without a rational fouudution, says
Kate FiehVs Washington. In the tirst
place, it is only to tlio careless eyu
that the toad is ugly. In reality, with
his somew hat humorous mouth—which
looks at times as if he were poking sly
mental jokes at you and laughing in
his skin for a lack of convenient sleeve
—his mottled coat.of wood broivu and
gray, with here and there a touch of
yellow, nnd his weird, sphiux-like
eyes, lie possesses a fascination as pe
culiar ns it is delightful.
Sir Bufo is a gentleman of regular
although rather dissipated habits, pre
ferring the night to the day; but he
caU'Ofieu be found squatting under a
projecting leaf or bower of grass, half
napping while the noonday heat lasts.
At dusk his fun begins, when he
emerges from the shadow of his retreat
and Imps about iu search of a supper.
His appetite is guucrully good but ho
likes to bo a bi^of an epicure when lie
has Si chance. lie will cat worms,
which lie crams into his mouth with
his queer, bony hands and swallows
whole, hut he loves a By or moth much
better. Ho will sit quietly watcldug
while a pertinacious By buzzes around.
Apparently he is doziiig, for his eyes
are half closed and his sides rise and
fall to the regular beating of his heart;
but suddenly—you cannot exactly un
derstand how, fur the operatiou is so
rapid—the fly has disappeared, aud a
scarcely perceptible motion of our
small friemlss throat is tlio only proof
ive can obtain that ho lias already made
his .-upper.
Toads are ralnable acquisitions to a
greenhouse, for'tliey are always ready
and pleased to dispose of a bug <>r a
beetle, aud their sudden darts invari
ably bring down their prey. Xney
can easily ho tamed, and. wltcu once
they liml out that no harm is nieuut
them, their friendliness is extreme.
There are few things more amusing
than to watch a toad submitting to thu
operation of a back-scratching. Ho
will at tirst look somewhat suspicious
ly at Hie twig which you are advanc
ing toward him. But after two or
three passes down his back his man
ner undergoes a marked change: his
eyes close witli an expression of in
finite rapture, he plants Ids feet wider
npnrt nnd his body swells out to ob
tain by these means more room for en
joyment. Thus tic will remain until
you make some sudden movongmt
which startles him, or until lie has had
ns much petting us lie wants, when
with a ptilf of regretful delight, ho
will reduee himself to his usual
dimensions ami hop away, bent
once more ou the pleasures of the
chase.
Not His Kissing Time*
Perhaps no man in tho theatrical
profession likes to appear dignilied on
the streot more than lines actor Scan
Inn. Whenever he walks up Broad
way. which ho dbes every afternoon,
he wraps himself in a big. thick coat
of dignity and rireumsneotness, and
none of tho frivolities of life move him.
Now wlion on tho stage Mr. Scanlan
plays parts of quite nn opposite nature.
He is particularly at houiuwliuu romp
ing aud dancing with the children,
nml. of course, kissing them all in
turn. Whenever he comes up from
his dressing room the little ones all
rush at him, clitnh over him and in
sist on being kissed.
It so happened tiie other afternoon
that he met some of the children of
Ids company on Broadway. It was
the lirst time. They all made a rush
at him. and very much to his discom
fiture insisted on being each and every
one kissed right then and there.
"I felt like a fool.” said Mr. Sean
lan. “and I knew that I was making a
laughing stock of myself.”
Since then he has not encouraged
the familiarity of the children to quite
such im extent as before.—N. Y.
herald.
The Pursuit of Knowledge.
There are over 12 500.000 pupils in
the public schools of the Uuited
Slates.
Wild dogs never bark—they simply
whine and howl. Wise men say that
barking is but nn effort to speak on
the part of the animal
The townhonse in Scltnale. maaa.,
erected 1654, waa burued recently.
MISSING LINKS.
Salvador has a telephone acbool.
Russia has twenty-two iron-clads and
monitors building.
Tuekerlon, Pa.. is to have a vinegar
vat tliut will hold 1,000 barrels.
Men of science say that the chemist
will dominate coming inventions.
A syndicate lias olTered to buy the
Washington Monumeut for a shot
tower.
Michelson has calculated the veloci
ty of light to be 180,360 miles per
second.
The actnal length of the new St.
Clair tunnel is 6.026 feet. It cost $1.
460.000.
A swarm of flies cannot travel at
any greater pace than eleven miles an
hour.
In the year 1635 a tulip bulb was sold
io Holland for $2,200; it weighed but
200 grains.
The waters of Lake Erie are to be
piped into Cincinnati, taking in other
cities eu touts.
Thirty barrels of inaeuse were burned
during'a three days* ceremonial in
Siam recently.
Easldonable men in Paris and Lon
don are now using electricity as a cure
for excessive tippling.
There are 700 Americans residing ia
the City of Mexico, some of whom ewo
the houses they occupy.
An American contractor is to build
a railroad from the Amasoti to the
Madeira, connecting Brasil with Boli
via.
A temperature of 330 degrees below
lero line lieea produced by a bath of
carbon bisulphide and liquid nitrous
acid.
The lire states of Iowa, Kansas, 111*
Inois, Nebraska and Missouri produce
fully oun-hnlf of the corn crop of the
United Slates.
The largest steer in Illinois, and
probuh'y in the world, weighs 4 000
pounds and belongs to a Macoupin
County farmer.
Clear summer sunlight is said to
penetrate the Mediterranean Sea to a
depth of 1.200 feet; winter sunlight to
only COO feet.
In a certain portion of the Ural dis
trict camels are the only working cattle
used. some large farms possessing a
hundred camels.
The constitution of the United States
has been published in New York in the
Hebrew language, with explanatory
notes in Hebrew.
A cubic foot of newly fallen snow
weighs live and one-half pounds and
has twelve times the balk of nu equal
weight of water.
A female clerk at Washington has a
hot-hnuso and last year sold 100.000
violets. Sno thinks of resigning and
becoming a florist.
A fuueral party in Kenuelt Square,
Pa., were attacked at the grave by
boos, and for a time not a little ex
citeiueut prevailed.
A wild goose killed in California had
a grain of wheat in its drop, which,
when plauted, produced a variety
hitherto uiiknowu.
Engiuo No 63. on the Panhandle
Road, rau 060,000 miles in three years'
time, and was still in good condition
at tlie end of her service.
A colored preaoher in Keutucky has
made a big sensation by declaring that
the “forbidden fruit” spoken of in the
Bible is meant for watermelons.
A farmer in Jelfersou County, Wis
cousin, dislodged a huge rock at the
bottom of his ivell when it sank out of
sight revealing a subterranean lake.
The bicycle has bacoiue almost as
popular in Germany as it is in Ihe
United Slates. The German Union of
Bicyclists now has over 1.400 members.
Waves exert a foreo of one ton por
square iuuli whoa they tire only twenty
feet high. At Cassis. France. granite
blocks of fiftecu cubic meters have
bceu moved by wave force.
A man at Hazelton, Pa., is reported
to. have been taken up by a gust of
wind during a heavy storm" to a height
of 100 feet and landed 160 feet from
where ho started without being hurl
And now cottonwood comes to the
front ns a sugar factor. A southern
grower says its saccharine qualities
are lifteeu times greater than sugar
cane aud twenty times strouger than
beets.
The chief caterer of fashionable
society iu Washington is a woman who
occupies a most unpretentious little
shop. Sho has served every President
since the days of Harrisou's grand*
father. b
In the village of Rio Grande, sis
miles uortli of Cape May, N. J., there
are two woeping trees, from the limbs
of whieh rain falls to the ground daily,
and the hotter the day the heavier the
fall of uioisluro.
Rattlesnakes are said to have a
natural antipathy to whi e ash leaves.
Some uaturalists assert Uiat a rattle
snake placed in a circle of half ash
IfSMVi*-* Mini If*If hot rn*U will cro«*q thn
A Warning Word
Buiif-r iruui eftittrru, wueiner is
ui& l or great degree •
Do not allow this treacherous disease to
continue its course unheede^and unchecked.
It is liable to develop into bronchitis, or con
sumption, that most dreaded destroyer of
human life.
Catarrh is a disease of the system, and not
simply of the nose and throat. The blood
reaches every part of the system. Therefore
the proper wav to cure catarrh is to take a
remedy which will reach the disease through
the blood. This is Just what Hood's Sarsapa
ril.a ooes, and this is the secret of its success
in curing cata rh. It expels the scrofulous
taint which causes and sustains catarrh, and
gives that healthy tone to the whole sys.em
before which disease cannot maintain its
hold. If you suffer from catarrh, try
u avo suffered with ©atarrn in “
for years, and paid out hundreds #f dollars
for medicines, but have hcretofole received
only temporary relief. Hood's Sorsaparrtln
helped me so much that my catarrh is nearly
cured, the weakness of my body is all gone*
my appetite is good—in fact, I feel like ftn'
other person. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the
boat medicine I have over taken.” Mas. A.
Cunningham, Providence, It. I.
••For several years I have ket troubled
with that terribly disagreeable disease,
catarrh. I took Hood’s Sarsaparil.a with the
very best results. It cared me ef that eon
tinual dropping in my turoat and stuffed up
feeliug. It has al « helped my mother, w
has taken it for run-down state o4 health an
kidney trouble.” Mes. S. D. Hjjath, Putnam.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
<111 urunniH*. VI , elX IOT *1. ITCptrCil OlHy
C. I. HOOD ft CO., Apothecaries, Lowe.l, Mui.
100 Doses One Do^Sar
Sola by nil druggist*, r; *ix lor v*. * - - '
by C. I. HOOD * CO., Apothecaries. Lowell. »»■*
lOO Doses One Dollar
cuaia miner »uau auuuuuiar ibal^gl
It is stated that at the lower .
the Sal ton Lake the stream is not tv£
twenty-live feet wnio and not Z*
than two feet in the middle and ti’1*
the water is subsiding One of u
largest mud volcanoes, or cevsers. h
ceased activity. * *
A seemingly miraculous cure of
malignant caucer has been made *
Chattanooga. Tenn., the victim haviuv
been pointed out iu a dream to a cer
tain herb, which ho gathered and atlT
and is now welL The story is vouched
for by men of veracity.
French ingenuity has contrived an
improved sluuecutting saw of remark
able efficiency, a circular saw havinv
its edge set with black diamonds in
the same way as the straight blades
but as the strain on tbe diamond is aii
in one direction tho setting cun iJ
much firmer.
During the year 1890 182 386 man
were recruited for the German am.v
Out of these 6.916 were not permitted
to enter.*as tney were in excess of the
number provided for by the arniv
budgot. They numbered 12.666, malt
iug tho total of 196 502. of whom 4,121
are destiued for the fleet
“Convent hair” is an article well
known to the trade and highly prised.
When a young woman takes tho veil
in the Roman Catbolio ohurcb her hair
is cut off. and tiie tresses are sold for
the benefit of tbe convent As the
hair is out pretty close to the bead the
tresses are usually long, aud thus
“convent hair” has a special value.
Maid servants have their whims, like
other people. A capable girl who left
the service of one family of the “four
hundred” in New York to enter that of
another was asked why she made the
change. “Yes, they are nice people,"
the girl admitted, “but I had to leave
them. I never could stay with people
who put their elbows on ths table at
dinner.”
A Hannibal, M.o., man bought tap
pills anil put them in his Tost pocket
lie also bought a small pearl button
anil put in the same pocket. When it
came time to take a pill he opened bis
mouth, shut his eves and gulped one
down. He was relieved of bis head
ache and went on his way rejoicing.
Afterward, having use for the collar
button, lie felt in his pooket and found
two pills but no button.
At Monterey. Mexico, some Phila
delphia capitalists, and not very large
capitalists either, started a knitting
factory about a year ago. They got a
concession from the governor of the
state providing that they should be the
only knitting factory in it for twenty*
five years, and they are now turning
out 200 dojseu pairs of stockings per
day. The duty ou stockings is so
great that they can soli at a high
profit. They use Mexican girls to
work their machines and they are mak
ing lots of money._
HERBERT SPENCER HORRIFIED.
A Fmh Yoancr Woman Mistook Him lor
m Writer or Novels.
I was told a good story about Her
bert Spencer a few days ago. the truth
fulness of which is vouchsafed, says a
Loudon letter. It seems that Mr.
Spencer was at a West-end reception
last spring. There were many notables
present, as it happened, and Mr Spen
cer was being lionized more than
usual. During the afternoon a young
woman, superbly gowned, entered the
parlors. She was presented to the em
inent Englishtnau.'her host telling her.
snito voce, that "Mr. Spencer is the
famous author of whom you have
doubtless heard." The girl was an
American.
"jjear me, Mr. opencor, 1 am so
glad to see you. I just love authors
aud poets; they’re so jolly, you know.”
Mr. Spencer is a modest Englishman
of gentle voice anti feminine grace. He
was unprepared for this onslaught of
the young woman's. But she took
him by the arm and hastened off to a
corner with her prey. It was only for
a moment, however. The conversa
tion was brief, but it was interesting.
••Oh, Mr. Spencer. I must tell you,”
went on the young lady, ‘Tve read all
your books; 1 know them by heart. It
•nakes me laugh so muoli to read them.
Your situations are so funny aud your
climaxes so dramatic; then you are not
like our authors. Your heroines aro
not all alike. atfti the meu are so
charming. They make love so well;
and oh, Mr. Spencer, do you know
your dialogue is very funny. Yotir
name ib like a household word iu our
home. Don’t you ever get tired of
writing?”
The young woman stopped. Sho
had to. She was short of breath. Mrr
Silencer looked at her in amazement.
His face Hushed. He could not find
his voico, but be arose all of a tremble,
bowed politely, turned to the hostess,
and hoarsely gasped: ‘‘She’s mad!
Mad as a March hare! Don't let her
coine near me again!" Aud the young
lady didn't know, until her hostess in
formed her of the fact, that Herbert
Spencer was not that kiud of an au
thor.
The story Is really true, and hap
pened at a bouse where I was stopping
a few days ago, the host narrating the
inei<!tttit to ni«.
