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.
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grown boys skylarking in Thlity-tlilnl
street, hat less, coat less, barefooted and
barelegged, though the mercury may ht
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wnllMer factory near by and the play
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thing hot Inside and then suddenly come
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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.
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woiueu. New York Sun.
Humeri Kith.
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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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