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CAPITAL Ll'IY CUURlliR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, iSy: A VIEW OF JIKAVEN. OR. TALMAQE TELLS OF A THIRTY MINUTES' OLIMPSE OF PARADISE. A Sxriwon on tlir llvitiillhil hut Oft Nc Irrlo.l Text from llrielultnii 111 I, "Tliern Wita.s Ileum In Hem mi A limit III Hpnrn nt Half nit Hour." nitooKt.VN, .Inn. ni, Dr. Tnliungo ha at UteJH-cn preaching ou text of Scripture thnt'sccm lo huw been neglected, nud hero U n sermon nun beautiful text which prob ably win never before selected for a ill conr-e Ucvehitlun vlll, I. "There m silence In lifjk en ulsml the space of half Mi hour." The busiest place In tin1 universe la hmvon. It U tho center from which nil good Inllitcuccs start. It It thn mm I at which all good results arrive. Thu Hlble rrnnvHoutn It at actle with wheels anil wing ami orchestras ami processions mounted or charioted. Mm my text de scribe a space when the wheels censed to roll, utnl the trumpet to sound, ami tho voices to chant. The riders on the whlto lint-Hex reined In their chargers. The dox ologles were hushed and the procession halted, The hand of arrest wan put Ukii nil the splendors. "Stop, henvcnl" cried an omnipotent voice, ami It Mopped, For thirty minutes ever thing celestial stois till "There ui silence In heaven for half nu hour." From all wo can learn It Is the only time heaven over Mnpied, It docs not stop in other cities for the night, for there Im no night there. It does not Mop for a plague, for the liihalillaut never says, "I am Nick." It does not stop for liaukruptclcN, for It Inhabitant never fall. It does not Ntop Cor Impassable streets, for there are no fallen snows nor sweeping freshets. What, then, Mopped It for thirty luliu-uesf Urotlui and Professor Stuart think It wan at t!t time of tho destruction of Jerusalem. Mr. Lord thlnkH It wan In the year Hit, between the close of the Diocletian persecution and the beginning of the wars by which Con stant I ne Knitted the throne. Hut that win all a guess, though a learned and brilliant Sucks 1 do not know when It wan and I o not care when It was, but of the fact that Mich an Interregnum of sound took place, I hiii certain. "There was silence ill Avon for half an hour." IKINOItKII RILKNCK. And Hrstof all we may leant that God and all heavun honored silence Tho long at mid widest dominion that ever existed Is that over which stillness wan itiecn. For an eternity there had notliccn n sound. World making wan a later day occupation. For unimaginable ages It wan a mute unl varsc. Uod was the only being, and iw then was no one to speak to there win no Utterance. Hut that hllenee has been nil broken up Into worlds, and It has become a noisy universe. Worlds In upheaval, worlds In connotation, worlds In conflagra tion, worlds In revolution. If geologlsti are right and I believe they nre theru ban not been n moment of Mlcuce since thh world began Its travels, and the crashing, and the splittings, and the uproar, and tho hubbub nre ever In progress. Hut when among the supurnnls a volco cried, "Iltuhl" and for half auhourhcuven whh still, silence wits honored. The full power of silence many of us have yet to lenru. We are told that when Christ win arraigned "llu answered not n word." That alienee was louder than any thunder thai Tcr shook the world. Oftentimes, when wo are assailed mid mlsrcprcscutd, the might teat thing to say Is to say nothing, and the mightiest thing to do Is to do nothing. Those people who arc n I ways rushing Into print to get themselves not right accom plish nothing but their own chagrin. Si lence! Do right and leave tho results with God. Among the grandest lessons thu world has ever learned are the lessons of patience taught by those, who endured un complainingly personal or domestic or so cial or political Injustice. Stronger than any bitter or sarcastic o. revengeful answer was the patient silence. The famous Dr. Morrison, of Chelsea, ac complished us much by his silent patience as by his pen and tongue. Ho had asthma Chat for twenty-live years brought him out of his couch at two o'clock each morning. HI four sons and daughters dead. Tim remaining child by sunstroke made In sane. The afflicted man said, "At this Moment there Is not an Inch of my liody that is not tilled with agony," Yet, ho was choerful, triumphant, silent. Those who were In Ills presence said they felt ua though they were In thu gajca of heaven. Ob, the power of patient sllencol Kschv ius, the Immortal poet, was condemned to death for writing something that offended the people. All the ideas in his behalf were of uo avail, until his brother uncov ered the arm of the prisoner and showed that his band had been shot off at Salamls. That silent plea liberated him. Thu loud est thing on earth Is silence If It be of thu right kind and at thu right time. There was a quaint old hymn, spelled In the old atyle, and once sung In thu churches: The race Is not forever trot lly ulin who fastest rum. Nor the lUtlul by thcno iioopoll That shoot with I ho longest gnus. My friends, the tossing Sea of Galileo eeintsl most to otTend Christ by thu Amount of noise It made, for he said to It, "Be stllll" Heaven has been crowning ktugs und iiieeus unto God for many cen turies, yet heaven never Mopped a moment for any such occurrence, but it stopped thirty ml nut'. for the coronation of Si lence. "There was silence In heaven for half nu hour." IIKAVKS AN ACTIVK PLACK. Ia'Mix also from my text that heaven must be nu eventful mid active place, from the fact that It could atTord only thirty minutes of recess. There have been eventii on earth and in heaven that hcemed to de mand n whole day or whole week or whole; jreurfurcelotlal consideration. If Grotiun was right and this silence occurred at the time of the desf-uction of Jerusalem, that acene was so awful and so prolonged thu the Inhabitants of heaven could not have done justice to it In many weeks. After fearful iH-xlegcmcnt of the two fortresses of Jerusalem Antonio and Hip plcus had been going on for a long while, a Itomnn soldier mounted on theshouldo? of nnothurholdler hurled Into the window of the temple a firebrand, and the temple was all aflame, and after covering many saerlll cea to the holiness of God, the building It self became a sacrifice to the rage of man. The hunger of the cople In that city dur ing the besiegemeut was so great that ai wiiti outlaws were passing a dooi way and Inhaled the odors of food, they burst open the door, threatening the mother of tho household with death unless she gavo them some food, and she took them asidu aad showed them It was her own child she was cooking for the ghastly repast. ftlx hundred priests were destroyed ou Mouat Zlon because the temple MnKgoua there was not b lug for them to do. Slit thousaud people in one cloister were coa attBMMl. There were one million one Ifun Ircd iliousand dead, acconllng to Joaephiu. tlrotlus thiuks that this waa the caiua if sl.-n. In heaven for half an hour If Mr I onl wits right and this silence ',i k hiring the Diocletian persecutions, br which eight hiindrisl ami forty-four thou sand Christians suircrcd death from sword and Mix' and batilshmeul and exposure, why d'l not heaven llrtcn througheitl at least one or those awful )i-arsf .Vol Thirty minutes! Thu fact is that thoc-clcsihil pro gramme Is so crowded with spectacle t tint it ean afford only one recess In all eternity nnil that for a short spin -. Willie then' in e great choruses In hlch nil henvrii can Join, ench soul there has a story of divine meroy peculiar to Itself and It must be a solo. How can heaven get through with all Its tecllatlves, with all Its cantos, with nil Its grand maiches, with nil Its victories? Ktcrully Is too horl to titter all the praise In my text heaven spaied thirty minutes, but It will uevet iignlti spare one niiuuto In worship In eatthly churches, when there are many to take part, v have to counsel brevity, but how vi III heaven gel on rapidly enough tc let the one bundled anil foity-fotir thou sand get through each with his own story, and then the nun hundred and forty foul million, und then the one hundred und forty-four billion, anil then the one bun drediiml foity four tilllion TlttllMI'IIB 01' All it mi: to iik commcmo HAITI) Not only are all the ttliimplis of the past to be commeuioiated, but nil the trluuipht to come, Not only what we now know ol God, but what we will know of him aftci everlasting study of the Del llu. If my tusl had said there was silence In heaven foi thlity days, I would not have been startled nt the nunouuu-mciit, but It Indicate! thirty minutes. Why, there will lie nt many friends to hunt up, so tiiiuiy of tin greatly good and useful that wu will want to see; so many of the Inscrutable tlilugt of earth we will need explained; so man) exciting earthly exneilenees we will want to talk over, and all the other spirits ami nil thu ages will want tho samu, that thet will lie no more opKirtunlty for cessation. How busy we will be kept In bavins pointed out to us thu heroes and herolnct that the world never fully appreclated the yellow fever ami cholera doctors whe died, not Hying from their posts; thu female nurses who faced pestilence in the lazaret tos, the rn 1 1 road engineers who staid m their places In order to savu the train though they themselves perished. Hubert Golllu, thu master miner, who, lauding from tho bucket at thu bottom ot thu mine, just as ho heard thu waters rush In, and when one jork of thuTope would have lifted bint Into safety, put n blind miner who wanted to go to his sick child In the bucket ami jerked thu ropu for him to be pulled up, crying, "Tell them tl:t water has burst In and wu are probablj lost, but we will seek refuge at the othci end of the right gallery;" and then giving the command to thu other miners till the; digged themselves so near out that the people from thu outsldu could come to t hell rescue. The multitudes of men and women who got no crown on earth we will wain to see when they get their crown In heaven. 1 tell you heaven will have uo more bull hours to spare. Hesldes that, heaven Is full of children. They nru in the vast majority, No child on earth that amounts to anything can be kept quiet half an hour, and how nre you golnp to keep live hundred million of them (piiet half un hour. Vou know' heaven Is much mure of a place than It was when that re cess of thirty minutes occurred. Its popu lation has quadrupled, sextupled, cen tupled. Heaven has more on hand, mote of rapture, more of knowledge, moru of In tercommunication, more of worship. There Is not so much dtlTereiicu between Brooklyn seventy-live years ago, when there were a few houses down ou the Kast river and thu village reached up only tc Sands street, as computed with what th!t great city Is now yea, not so much differ ence between New York when Canal street was far up town and now when Canal street Is far down town, than theru Is a dif ference between what heaven was when my text was written and what heaven la now. Tho most thrilling place we have ever been In Is stupid compared with that, und if wu now have no time to spare we will then have uo eternity to spare. Si lence In heaven only half nu hourl A II.U.K IIOlMt'8 IMMOIITAMTY. My subject also Impresses mo with the Immortality of it half hour. That hall hour mentioned In my text Is moru widely known than any other period In the calen dar of heaven. None of tho whole hours o. heaven are measured off, none of thu yearn, none of the centuries. Of the millions ol ngos past nud the millions of ages to come not one is especially measured otf in the Uible. Thu half hour of my text Is made immortal. Thu only part of eternity tlint was ever measured by earthly timepiece was measured by the minute hand of my text. Oh, thn half hours! They decide every thing. I am not asking what you will do with the years or mouths or days of yom life, but what of the half hours. Tell mc the history of your half hours and I will tell you the story of your whole life on earth and the story of your whole life It eternity. Thu right or wrong things you caii think in thirty minutes, the right ci wrong things you can say In thirty mln utcs, the right or wrong things you can do In thirty minutes are glorious or Imlcfu., Inspiring or desperate. Look out for th! fragments of time. They are pieces l eternity. It was the halt hours between shoeing horses that made Kllhti Uurrltttho learned blacksmith; the half hours between pro fessional calls as a physician that made AtiercrombK' the Christian philo-ophur; the half hours between hUdutiesasschool master that made Salmon l Chase chic ( justice; tho half hours between shoo lasts that mndu Henry Wilson vice president ct thu United States; tho half hours between canal boats that made James A. Garfield president. The half hour a day for good books or bad books, tho half hour a day for prayer or Indolence, the half hour a (lay for help ing others or blasting others, thu half hour before you go to business nud tho half hour after your return from business that makes the (inference between tho scholar und tho Ignoramus, between tho Christian ami the Infidel, between tho balnt and tho demon, between triumph nud catastrophe, between heaven and hull. Thu lno.it tre mendous things of. your life nud mine were certain half hours. Thu half hour when In the pnrsoungu of a country minister I resolved to liecomo a Christian then und theru; the half hour when I decided to become u preacher of the Gospel; the half hour when I first realised that my son was dead; the half hour when I stood on the top of my house In Oxford street and saw our church bum; tho half hour In which I entered Jerusalem; the half hour In which I ascended Mount Cal vary: the half hour In which I stood on Mars hill; the half hour in which tho dedi catory prayer of this temple was made, and about ten or fifteen other half hours are thechlef times of my life. Vou may forget the name of the exact years or most of the itnortaut events of your existence, but those half hours, like the half hour of mf text, will Iw Immortal. ! do tot iptery uliujou will do with the Twi-uti'lh tinliiry. I do not query what yim will ilnwlth IV.i-.Mmh what will you do wltli the next half liourf Upon that hinges jour destiny And during that some of )ou will receive the Gospel unit make complete siirreiider, nud dm lug thai others of you will make final und final re lecthui of the full and free and urgent and Impassioned olfer of life eternal Oh. that the next half hour might Is' thu most gl'y riotts t filrty minutes of your earthly ex Istcme, l-'ur buck In history a great gcngoipluT stood w Ith a sailor looking nt a globe that represented our planet, nnil he pointed ton place ou the globe where he thought there was an undlscoveied continent. The ill) discovered continent was America. The geogiapher who pointed where he thought there was a new woild was Mai tin Ho halm, and the sailor to whom lie showed It was Columbus This last wnsuotsntlsllod till he hud picked that gem out of the sen and set it in the crown of the world's geog raphy Oh, jewho have been sailing up and down the rough seas of sorrow and sin, let me point out to you another conti nent, j ca, another world, that you may yourselves Hud a rapturous world, -mtl that Is the world u half hour of which wu now study Oh, set sail for Itl llcrulstlie ship and heie me the compasses. In other words, make this half hour, bu glniilug at twenty minutes of twelve by my watch, the grandest half hour of ynui life and Income a Christian. Pray for n regenerated spirit, houis XIV, while walking In the ganleii at Versailles met Mausaid, the great architect, and thu architect took nlT his hat lieforu the kiuv;. "Put on your hat," said the king, "for thu evening is damp und cold." And -Mansard, thu architect, tho rest of tho ovenlng kept ou bis hat. The dukes nud uinriuisc& standing with bare heads beforu thu klnu expressed their surprise nt Mansard, hut the king said, "I can make a duku or n marquis, hut God only can make a Man sard." And I say to you, my hearers, Gol only by Ids convicting ami converting gracu can make a Christian, but ho Is ready this very half hour to accomplish It, A WAV (IK STUIIVIMl lll'.AVKN. Again, my text suggests a way of study ing heaven so that wu can better under stand It. The word "eternity" that wo handle so much Is an Immeasurable word. Knowing that we could not understand that word tho lllblu uses it only once, Wu say, "Forever and uvur;" but bow long Is "forever and uvcrf" 1 am glad that my text puts under our eye heaven for thirty minutes. As when you would seu a great picture you put it sheet of paperilitoascroll nud look through It, or join your forelluger to your thumb and look through thu circle between, and the picture becomes moro intense, so this masterpiece of heaven by St. John is moru Impressive when wu take only thirty minutes of it at a time. Now we have something that wu can comu near er to grasping, ami it is a quiet heaven. When wu discourse about the multitudes of heaven It must be almost a nervous shock to those who have all their lives been crowded by many people and who want a quiet heaven. For thu hut thirty-live years I havu lieon much of the time in crowds and under public scrutiny and amid excitements, and I havu sometimes thought for a few weeks nfter I reach heaven I would like to go down In some quiet part of the realm with a fuw friends and for a little while try comparative solitude. Then there are those whose hearing Is so delicate that they got uo satisfaction when you describe the crash of thu eternal orchestra, and they feel like saying, us a good woman in Hud son, N. Y., said, after hearing me speak ot tho mighty chorus of heaven, "That must Ik) a great heaven, but what will become of my poor head f" Yes, this half hour ci my tuxt is a still experience. "Theru was silence In heaven for half an hour." You will Und the Inhabitants nil at home. Knter the King's Palace and take only 11 glimpse, for wo have only thirty minutes for all heaven. "Is that Jesus V "Yes." Just under thu hair along his forehead Is thu mark of a wound mndu by a bunch of twisted brambles, and his foot on the throne has on tho round of his Instep another mark of a wound made by a spike, ami a scar ou the palm of the right hand, and a scar on the palm of tho left hand. Hut what a countenance! What a smllol What a grandeur! What a love liness! What un overwhelming look at kindness and gracu! Why, he looks as If he had redeemed u worhll Hut come ou, for our time is short. Doyouseothntrowaf palaces? That is the Austolic. row. Do you seu that long reach of architectural glories? That Is Martyr row. Do you see that immense structure? That Is the big gest house In heaven; that is "the House of Many Mansions." Do you seu that wall? shade your eyes against its burning splen dor, for that Is the-wall of heaven, Jasper at the bottom and amethyst at the top. See this river rolling through tho heart ot the great metropolis? That is the river concerning which those who onco lived ou the banks of the Hudson, or thu Ala bama, or the Ithlue, or the Shanno-j say, "We never saw the like of this for clarity and sheen." That is the chief river of heaven so bright, so wide, so deep. Hut you ask, "Where are the asylums for the old?" I answer, "Tht Inhabitants are all young." "Whcicnre the hospitals for the lame?" "They are all agile." "W'liery are tho Infirmaries for the blind ami deaf?" "They all see and hear." "Where are the almshouses for thu poor?" "They are all multimillion aires." "Where are the Inebriate asy lums?" "Why, there are no saloons." "Where are the graveyards?" "Why, they tieyer die." Pass down thoso boulo vards of gold und amber and sapphire, nud bcu tliaso interminable streets built by the Architect of tho universe Into homes, over tho threshold of which sorrow uuver steps, and out of whoso win dows faces, onco pale with earthly sick ness, now look rubicund with immortal health. "Oh, let mu go In and seu them?" you say. iso, you cannot go in. 1 ucru are those theru who would nover consent to let you comu up. You say, "Let mu stay hero lu this place where they novor sin, where tiiey never sufler, where they never part." No, no! Our tl.nu Is short; our thirty min utes ,iru almost gone. Come on! Wumiist get back to the euitli beforu this half hour of heuveuly slh-nce breaks up, for In your mortal state you cannot endure thu pom.) und splendor at.d resonance when this half hour of sileucu Is ended. Tho day will come when you can suj heaven iu full blast, but not now. I am now only showing you heaven at thu dull est half hour of all tho eternities. Come on! Theru is something In tho celestial ap pearance which makes mo think that the half hour of silence will soon le over. Yonder nre thn white horses ls.-ing hitched to chariots, nud yonder ure seraphs linger lug harps as If about to strike them Into symphony, and yonder are conquerors tak ing down from the blue halls of heaven tin trumpets of victory, Itemember, we nre mortal yet, and can not endure the full roll of heavenly hai monies and cannot endure even the silent heaven for more than half an hour. Hark! the clock In the tower of heaven begins to (dike nud Hie lit hour Is ended. I)e ii'i'ii.ll Cuiiu' lu"!i' Come down till your uork Is done' Shoulder a little longer tour Illinium' Fight a little longer )our battles! Weep ii little longer your griefs! And then take heaven not In Its dullest half hour, but In Its mightiest i-otuii. und Instead of taking it foi thirl) minutes take It world without cud miuii nitsT n.M.t inn n is m:viA Hut how will .Mill -pen the llt-st half hour of your hcuvcul) citizenship after jon have gone lu to stay After your prostration In-fore the throne In worship of Ii I in who made It possible for jou to get thete at all, I think the rest of jour first half hour In heaven ii-lll be passed iu re ceiving j our rewind If )oti have been faith ful I have a strangely beautiful hool. containing the pictures of the medal I sttuck by the Kngllsh government lu honor of great battles, these medals pinned over the heait of the relumed heroes of tho army on great occasions, the royal family pieseut; the Crimean medal, thu Victoria cross, thu Waterloo medal In your first half hour iu heaven In some way you will Ih? houoied for thu earthly struggles In which you won the day. Stand up Is-fore nil the royal house of heaven und receive thu Insignia while you ate announced as victor over the droughts ami freshets of the farm Held, victor over the temptations of the Stock exchange, victor over professional allurements, victor over domestic Infelicities, victor over me chanic's shop, victor over tho storehouse, victor over home worrlinents, victor over physical distresses, victor over hereditary depressions, victor over sin and death and hell. Take the badgo that celebrates thos-j victories through our l.onl Jesus Christ. Taku It In thepivsencuof all tho galleries saintly, angelic ami illviucl Tliy saints In nil this glorious wnr Htm 1 1 (iiuipier tlinnuli they die. They see Ihu triumph from nfnr. And selu It w itli their ej o. Tho Yiiiiug Woman of Today. Now, woman can do anything she tries, even to singing bass lu her own quartut of girls, so that weak man is u superfluity in the choir. She lias harnessed hergraco hnops tandem und made a bicycle of them, she rows, she llshes, she shoots, Insomuch that all men, and It may bo that soma game, fear her shouting (joku); she wear eth her brother's hat and his outing cap; his shirt front, his fuur-iii-hand tlo, and many things that are her brother's. Slu is stronger than her mother, and can stand a great deal moru rest; she Is quite as hap py, and far more Independent. She.hang.t on to the strap in the street car, when bur mother had a seat iu the omnibus If every man rode outside in thu rain. Shu gets jostled ami pushed nlwiit in thu crowd, when some bareheaded man, bowing low, used to make way for her grand mot Iter. With weary putlciicu sho stands in Hue at the ticket ofiico; woe is sho If she presume on the privilege of sex to step lu ahead of a man. she gets hustled back to lior place. Much she hath gained by freedom; some what also hath shu lost. Shu cannot eat her cake and keep It. Still, if she didn't eat It, It would U-comu fearfully stale, or somclxsly else would get It. And cake is only good to eat anyhow. Scarcely would shu exchange tier Independence for defer euco und helplessness. Her loss Is more In form than fact Men are moru unselllshly chivalrous towanl her tjian ever their fa thers were; but this hurrying ago of gallop and gull) 'ms trampled upon thu deliberate grace ami studied elegance of n lazier day, when men bowed lower and did less; when men abandoned looting and went to work they quit wearing lacu at their wrists and rapiers at their sides; they censed to talk in blank verse and conversed lu plain proso; they cut off their long ringlets and the curling tongs were dethroned byth; clippers. Hobert J. Hunlettu In IadicV Home Journal. Welril Old Criinipii on Deck. Kngllsh visitors to thu Austrian capital just In-fore Christmas must taku away with them a funny notion of tho customs of thu city when they leave It. St. Nich olas is approaching ami trado is taking Into its hands the old, quaint peculluritles which are dilTereiit iu every Continental town, lu Vienna Crampus has always reigned suprome a welnl, horrlblu pet-soul-llcntlon of the evil one, with broken chains hanging from his wrists, horns on Ills black face, a long, red tongue ami fright ful glass eyes. He Is armed with a rod and a bag from which generally emerge a couple of babies. Tho dress of Crampus varies from scarlet to black. Ho is some times composed of French plums nud geu erally dressed lu fur. Thu saintly Hlshop Nicholas, who ought to be thu hero of thu day, has to stand Ih. lilud Crampus now. It is Impossible to es timate the number of cMglcs of this liogey shown iu every market, street, shop anil ground lloor window. At the confec tioners' there are Crampuses si.x feet high, dressed lu the height of fashion, with only horns to betray their infernal antecedents. Every luxury lu the way of sweets is of fered iu this tempting form, and tluaJittb ones wander from shop to shop, never tired of galug ou the wonders of thu sea son. Cor. London News. They Don't Mind the Cold. It Is not nutihiial to see a half dnion half grown boys skylarking in Thlity-tlilnl street, hat less, coat less, barefooted and barelegged, though the mercury may ht fooling around zero. They work in a bin wnllMer factory near by and the play hour Is between Yi and 1. When you are hustling along with a heavy ulster but toned to your chin and thinking of some thing hot Inside and then suddenly come across theso strapping barefooted lads rac ing over tho frozen streets, dodging among tho trucks ami shouting, it makes tha cold chills run up und down your spine. Tho cheeks of these boys nre fairly aglow with ruddy health, and tho frosty paving stones seem to maku no more impression ou their bare feet than ou the iron shod horses. Such u grand thing Is youth! Clothing and warmth are but relative terms after nil. New York Herald. Women CromlliiK Two I.luei of Work. Mrs. T. M. Wheeler, piesldent of the Society of Associated Aitists, says that judging from her correspondence and ob servation all thu girls that ambition or ne cessity compels to bo self supporting go lntojo' rnalisui or designing. Having been taught art iu the schools or studied It In special schools, and having failed to paint thu great picture for which thu world waits, they write from all parts of the country for .advice concerning the best methods of taking up the business of de signing. It is remarkable how. this hat taken the place of other Industries open to woiueu. New York Sun. Humeri Kith. Somo fishes havu horns which are actual ly outgrow tin of bones ou their headr. The boxllsh, which Inhabits the wmm waters of tho globe a little follow six ar eight Inches long has bonis an inch ill leuifth. Washington Star. 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