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TALMAGE’S SERMON. SAVE THE CITIES. THE SUB JECT OF LAST SUNDAY. From tlie Text: KtckIH. Chapter XXVII. Verne 3, a* Follow*: **U Thou That Art Situate at the Entry of the Sea** Moial Leprosy the Destroyer. HIS Ik a part of an Impassioned apos trophe to the city of Tyre. It was a beau tiful city—a majes tic city. At the east end of the Mediterranean It sat with one hand beckoning the In land trade, and with the other the •commerce of foreign nntions. It swung a monstrous boom across Its harbor to shut out foreign enemies, and then swung back thut boom to let In Its friends. The air of the desert was fragrant with the spices brought by caravans to her fairs, and all sea* were cleft Into foam by the keel of her laden merchantmen. Her markets were rich with horses and mules and camels from Togarmah; with upholstery, and ebony, and Ivory from Dedan; with emeralds, and agate, and coral from 8yria! with wine from Hellion; with finest needlework from Ashur and Chilmad. Talk about the splendid «tate rooms of your Cunard and Inman and White Star lines of International , >atearners--why, the benches of the state rooms In those Tyrian ships were all Ivory, and instead of our coarse canvas on the musts of the shipping, they had the finest linen, quilted together and Inwrought with embroideries almost miraculous for beauty. Its columns •overshadowed all nations. Distant, em pires felt Its heartbeat. Majestic city, “situate at the entry of the sea.” But where now is the gleam of her towers, the roar of her chariots, the masts or ner snipping? l>ct in*’ nsner men who dry their nets on the place where she onct stood; let the sea that rushes upon the barrenness where she ■once challenged the admiration of all nations; let the barbarians who built ■ their huts on the place where her pal -aces glittered, answer the question. Blotted out forever! She forgot God, and God forgot her. And while our modern cities admire her glory, let them take warning of her awful doom. ■ Cain was the founder of the first city, and I suppose It took after him In mor als. It Is a long while before a city can ever get over the character of those who founded it. Were they criminal v, 'exiles, the filth, and the prisons, and the debauchery are the shadows of such founders. New York will not for two or three hundred years escape from \ the good influences of its founders—the pious settlers whose prayers went up from the very streets where now banks discount and brokers shave, and com panies declare dividends, and smugglers awear custom house lies; and above the /'roar of the drays and the crack of the auctioneers' mallets is heard the ascrip tion, “We worship thee, O thou al mighty dollai!" The church that once stood or Wall st. still throws its blessing over all the scene of traffic, and upon the sips that fold their white wings in the harbor. Originally men gathered In cities from necessity. It was to escape the incendiary's torch or the assassin's dagger. Only the very poor lived in the country, those who had nothing that could be stolen, or vagabonds who wanted to be near their place of business; but since civili sation and religion have made it safe * for men to live almost anywhere, men congregate in cities because of the opportunity for rapid gain. Cities are not necessarily evils, as has sometimes been argued. They have been the birthplace of civilization. In them pop ular liberty has lifted up its voice. Wit ness Genoa, and Pisa, and Venice. The entrance of the representatives of the cities in the legislatures of Europe was the death blow to feudal kingdoms. | Cities are the patronizers of art and lit erature—architecture pointing to its British museum in London, its Royal library in Paris, its Vatican in Rome. Cities hold the world's scepter. Afri ca was Carthage, Greece was Athens, ge England is London, France is Paris, Italy is Rome, and the cities In which Clod has cast our lot will yet decide the destiny of the American people. At this season of the year I have thought It might be useful to talk a lit tle while about the moral responsibility resting upon the office bearers of all our cities a theme as appropriate to those who are governed as the governors. Y The moral character of those who rule f a city has much to do with the charac- ] ter of the city Itself. Meu, women and children are alt interested In uatloual politics. When tbs great presidential election comes, every patriot wauta to tie found at ballot box. We are all In- ] ••rested In the discussion of naitoual jQnaurc. national debt, and we read the Saws of congieaa, and we are wonder- j gas who wilt alt next In the presided- { Mist chair. .Now, that may be ail very JStrelt la very well; but It la high time •ha we took Sim of the attention jPffVhlcti we have been devoting to na •h>i.». affairs and brought It to the at It aly of municipal government Thte It pmtti* to me wow le the chief point to Ik taken Make ths cities right, and the Patton will he right. I have sulked •hat gcrurdltg to their opportunities •here has really been more corruption tn municipal governments in this roan Iri than in the elate and national leg |si*'urea Now la there no hope* With the mighttswt agent in our land, •h* glorious gospel of learn fhrtat. j • shall not ail out rttwu ho reformed, and Vmgnhed and »adeemed* I believe the 4s- will roes* I am In full evmpathv ipltk (hues who are ngpnseil to carrying pnii'hew into feligion but our elites will paver bw refurmsd and purlhed ■ B» entry rsiigtem into priiie • I i «•* Biwt MT »It tee and I see that all great ,|a . • - • t« bs tie I.J il« lbs Is ttire, as they have been affected In the past, by the character of those who in the different departments rule over us. and I propose to classify some of those interests: In the first place I remark: Commer cial ethics are always affected by the moral or immoral character of those who have municipal supremacy. Offi cials that wink at fraud, and that have neither censure nor arraignment for glittering dishonesties, always weaken the pulse of commercial honor. Every shop, every store, every bazaar, every factory In the cities feels the moral character of the city hall. If In any city there be a dishonest mayoralty, or an unprincipled common council, or a court susceptible to bribes, In that city there will be unlimited license for all kinds of trickery and sin; while, on the other hand, if officials are faithful to their oath of office, If the laws are promptly executed, if there Is vigilance In regard to the outbranchlngs of ctlme, there Is the highest protection for all bargain making. A merchant may stand In his store and say: “Now, I'll have nothing to do with city politics; I will not soil my hands with the slush;" nevertheless the most Insig nificant trial In the police court will affect that merchant directly or Indi rectly. What style of clerk Issues the writ; what style of constable makes the arrest; what style of attorney Issues the plea; what style of Judge charge the Jury; what style of sheriff executes the sentence—these are questions that Htrlke your counting rooms to the cen ter. You may not throw It off. In the city of New York, Christian merchants for a great while said: "We'll have nothing to do with the man agement of public affairs," and they allowed everything to go at loose ends until there rolled up In the city a debt of nearly $120,000,000. The municipal government became a hissing and a by Christian merchants saw their folly, and they went and took possession of the ballot boxes. I wish all commer cial men to understand that they are not Independent of the moral character of the men who rule over them, but must be thoroughly, mightily affected by them. 80, also, of the educational interests of a city. Do you know that there are in this country about seventy thou sand common schools, and that there are over eight millions of pupils, and that the majority of these schools and the majority of those pupils are in our cities? Now, this great multitude of children will be affected by the Intelli gence or ignorance, the virtue or the vice, of boards of education and boards of control. There are cities where edu cational affairs are settled In the low caucus in the abandoned parts of the cities, by men full of ignorance and rum. It ought not to be so; but in many cities It Is so. I hear the tramp of coming generations. What that great multitude of youth shall be for this world and the next will be affected very much by the character of your public schools. You had better multiply the moral and religious Influences about the common schools rather than abstract from them. Instead of driving the Bible out, you had better drive the Bible further in. May God defend our glorious common school system, and send into rout and confusion all Its sworn enemies. I have also to say that the character of officials in a city affects the domestic circle. In a city where grogshops have their own way, and gambling hells are not Interfered with, and for fear of los ing political influence officials close their eyes to festering abominations— in all those cities the home interests need to make imploration. The family circles of the city must inevitably be affected by the moral character or the immoral character of those who rule over them. I will go further and say that the re ligious Interests of a city are thus af fected. The church today has to con tend with evils that the civil law ought to smite; and while I would not have the civil government in any wise relax its energy In the arrest and punishment of crime, I would have a thousand-fold more energy put forth in the drying up of the fountains of iniquity. The church of God asks no pecuniary aid from political power; but does ask that in addition to all the evils we must necessarily contend against we shall not have to fight also municipal negll gence. Oh. that in all our cities Chris tian people would rise up, and that they would put their hand on the helm before piratical demagogues have swamped the ship. Instead of giving so much time to national politics, give some of your attention to munldpul government. I demand that the Christian people who have been standing aloof from public affairs come hack, and In the might of Clod try to save our cities. If things are or have been bad. It Is be cause good people have let them tie bad. That Christian man who merely goes to the polls and casta his vote does not do hts duty. It ta not the ballot box that deride# the election. It la the po lltbal caucus, and If at the primary meetings of the two political parlies uuflt and bad men are nominated, then the ballot box haa nothing to do save to take tta chutes between two thieves' In our churches, by reformatory or ganisation. in every way let us try to tone up the moral santlmcnt in them cities. The rulers are those whom the people i bcoee and depend upon It that ta ail the cIt lea. as tuag as pure hearted m«n stand aloof from politics because they despise hot partisanship. Just so b>e« la many uf our elite* will rum make the nominaltua* and rum m trot Ike Sal to* but and rum Inaugurate Ike »dkt*lu I taks a step furtke* In Ikla subject, and aak all thus# ska belies# in lbs omnipotence uf prnyer, day by day. and every day pieaaut y« or rtty >*• inks he hr* tk«d tor Maustog If yon Mts to a rtty presided over by a mayor, pray tor ktm The >ktef magtatrtMe of * *ttr ta ta a puatttoa af grant ruapuneiMUty Many uf the king* and gtsaana and ail perors of othc* days have no such do minion. With the scratch of a pen he may advance a beneficent Institution or balk a railway confiscation. By ap pointments he may bless or curse every hearthstone in the city. If in the Epis copal churches, by the authority of the Litany, and In our non-Episcopate churches, we every Sabbath pray for the president of the United States, why not, then, be Just as hearty In our sup plications for the chief magistrates of cities, for their guidance, for their health, for their present and everlast ing morality? My word now is to all who may come to hold any public position of trust In any city. You are God's representa tives. God, the king and rulpr und Judge, gets you In his place. Oh, be faithful In the discharge of all your duties, so that when all our cities are In ashes, and the world Itself Is a red scroll of flame, you may be, In the mercy and grace of ChrlBt,rewarded for your faithfulness. It was that feeling which gave such eminent qualifications for office to Neal Dow, mayor of Port land, and to Judge Mel-ean, of Ohio, and to Benjamin F. Butler, attorney general of New York, and to George Bi iggs, governor of Massachusetts, and to Theodore Frellnghuysen, senator of the United States, and to William Wll berforce, member of the British parlia ment. You may make the rewards of eternity the emoluments of your office. What care you for adverse political criticism If you have God on your side? The one, or the two, or the three years of your public trust will pass away, and all the years of your earthly service, and then the tribunal will be lifted, before which you and I must appear. May God make you so faithful now that the last scene shall be to your exhil aration and rapture. I wish now to exhort all good people, whether they are the governors or the governed, to make one grand effort for the salvation, the purification, the redemption of our American cities. Do you not know that there tire multitudes going down to ruin, temporal and eternal, dropping quicker than words from my lips? Grogshops swallow them up. Gam bling hells devour them. Houses of shame are damning them. Oh, let us toll, and pray, und preach, and voto until all these wrongs are righted. What we do we must do nnlcklv. With our rulers, and on the same plutform, we must at last come before the throne of God to answer for what we have done for the bettering of our great towns. Alas! If on that duy it will be found that your hand has been Idle and my pulpit has been silent. Oh, ye who are pure and honest, and Christian, go to work and help to make the cities pure, and honest, and Christian. Lest It may have been thought that I am addressing only what are called the better classes, my final word Is to some dissolute soul to whom these words may come. Though you may be covered with all crimes, though you may be smitten with all leprosies, though you may have gone through the whole catalogue of Iniquity, and may not have been In church for twenty years, you may have your nature en tirely reconstructed, and upon your brow, hot with Infamous practices and besweated with exhausting Indulgen ce, God will place the flashing coron et of a Savior's forgiveness, "Oh, no!" you say, "If you knew who I am and where I came from, you wouldn't say that to me. I don't believe the Gos pel you are preaching speaks of my case." Yes, It does, my brother. And then when you tell me that, I think of what St. Teresa said when reduced to utter destitution, having only two pieces of money left, she jingled the two pieces of money In her hand and said; “St. Teresa and two pieces of money are nothing; but St. Teresa and two pieces of money and God are all things.” And I tell you now that while a sin and a sinner are nothing, a sin and a s'nner and an all forgiving and all compassionate God are every thing. Who is that that I see coming? I know his step. I know his rags. Who Is it? A prodigal. Come, people of God; let us go out and meet him. Gel the best robe you can find In all the wardrobe. Let the angels of God fill their chalices and drink to his eternal rescue. Come, people of God. let us go out to meet him. The prodigal Is com inir hnmo Tho itrxiil iu alien ■>i •• anil the lost Is found. I'leased with the news, the saint below In songs their tongues employ; Beyond the skies the tidings go. And heavtn Is tilled with Joy. Nor angels <*an Ihelr Joy eontalu. Hut kindle with new tire; "The sinner lost Is found.” they slog. And strike the sounding lyre. •tny Vmttft Normw, No huntait being can come Into the world without Increasing or diminish ing the sum total of human happiness, not only of the present, but of every subsequent age of humanity. No ona can detach himself from this connec tion There la no sequestered spot In the universe, no dark niche stung the disk ut nun-estate me to whUh he can ■ street ft urn his relrtS.u to others where he rail withdraw hi* Itul.i of- of hta vllslsltc* tpon the nturel .tint cf the world, everywhere he will hare •timpani' ns woo will be better «.r u-irwe fur hte I Rue a e Sst I* niSISK ”Vuti know you think more of a rich nan than a psu one, said the mi spoken friend “I can l deny It1 sent the siatentwa sadly " Hut how sen I help It? Itvery you man I meet waste me to help him pet a poverty* manl Jots ' l»-IUaat«i**s Juureal I ufRM M*« itft. A ataat of • sorest saved the life of Mis IhiU M Kians. at Wlthee lima recently M«i haaknnd dies harped a ptatol at h*f and the holler struck hen iisraa t at eel te* stated the teak and tajj to the Ruin. DECLINE OF EMPIRE. 8PAIN’S POSSESSIONS IN AM ERICA NOW FEW. A Hundred Year* llan Krllfvfd Spain From Every One of Her New World I'oaaemdons — Little Cuba tlie Last to Go* HEN the great Charlpg V mount ed the throne of Spain In 1516 as King Charles I., Cabot, Columbus and Vespuclus had discovered the New World. Not long after Charles’ ac cession to the Spanish throne, Fernando Cortes marched at the head of his army from the Gulf of Mexico upon the city of that name, and, after furious struggles, dethroned the na tive sovereign and reigned In his stead as the viceroy of King Charles. Cor tes discovered the Pacific and Cali fornia. Before the death of Charles the Spaniards had pushed northwards, and as early as the year 1640, Spanish set tlements were made In what Is now the State of New Mexico. Southwards, Charles’ lieutenants established a reg ular line of communication from ocean to ocean across the Isthmus of Pana ma. This line of communication waH made for no less a purpose than to transport the Ingots of silver from the rich mines of Peru to Charles’ coffers In Spain, and from the Atlantic aide on their way to Atlantic to carry the stores for the arsenals and garrisons whlrh were being established on the Pacific. In the meantime Francesco Plzaro had completed the conquest of Peru, while the Islands of the West Indies peacefully became provinces of Spain, as entirely under her control as were Valencia anil Andalusia. Before the death of the great Emperor, Spain had taken possession of Florida, and her flag floated proudly over Mexico, New Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Chill, Para guay and Buenos Ayres upon the con tinent, and over every Important Is land in the Carribbean Sea. And on the map Spain claimed even wider do minion In America. Thus stood the condition of affairs In the middle of the sixteenth century. By the beginning of the present cen tury a vast change had taken place. Spain found herself deprived of a great part of the rich colonial posses sions over which she had once held such Imperial sway. The entire eust sura grounds In 1848. Spain lost heav ily by this war. Texas still was Spanish territory. But by act of United States congress In 1845 Texas was purchased from Spain. It had a debt of seven million dollars, which It seemed as if It could never pay off, and Spain allowed the United States to take Texas if It would assume the debt. There was vigorous opposition at the time, as the country was In a state of financial distress. But congress Insisted, and with what good rosults the subsequent history of Texas shows. Spain by this act lost a territory of 818,000 square miles, and twice as large as Ohio, New York and Pennsyl vania all three put together. Florida meanwhile had been purchased by the United States for five million dollars. Its possession dates back to 1821, when the United States received It from Spain according to the treaty of purchase made two years before. There were 87,000 square miles and the whole country was rich In vegetation and minerals. It was called the floral region of the New World and was named for the Spanish Faster, upon which day It was discovered. So rapidly did the land pass out of the hands of the Spanish crown that within a generation the lower half of North America, from being a Spanish country, became part of the United States. California was added to the United Statea In 18*8, after the Mexi can struggle. It embraced the Im mense tract that Is now divided up Into six statea, and In 18*9 It became tbe territory of California. FOUNDER OF TOMBSTONE. Remarkable Career of a St. I.nul* Boy Who llecama a Miner, ICdward Schcffleln, who was found dead the other day In his miner's shack In Orego.i, had an eventful life, rciys the St. Louis Republic. "I remem ber well," said William H. Boothe, an old-time mine promoter, to a reporter, "when he opined up the Contention mine at Tombctone and gave the plan1 its queer name. I ought to remember It, for It was I who grub-staked Scheffteln on that prospecting tour. Hi bunkoed me out of all but a few hun dreds. The stories that have been told about Sdeffleln’s daring In penetrat ing Into the Apache country and par tlcularly Into the Cochise mountains, where he found the Contention lode, are not much exaggerated. It was n pretty ticklish thing to go down there. Old Cochise had been ‘pacified,’ It Is true, but he had a lively son, Natchez and a valiant nephew, (Jeronimo, and they were the active young leaders of about as ‘plzen’ a set of Indiana a* THE BLACK PORTIONS SHOW SPAIN S POSSESSIONS IN 1800 AND TODAY. ern coast was gone, both in North anil South America, and there were alarm ing Inroads In the center. But Spain still owned California, Florida. Cen tral America and all the western part of South America. Today she owns nothing. Cuba is in rebellion, and practlcilly gone from her. She does not govern it, neither does she get its products. The rest of North America has passed away bv conquest, by grant or by purchase. South America, it Ib true, is lurgely Spanish iu blood and language, but the Spaniards there have formed In dependent countries, and are known as Chilians. Bolivians, Peruvians. Colombians, etc. Her great colonial possessions gone and no more worlds being left to conquer, Spain must now withdraw to her own portion of the Iberian Peninsula, and content herself with that territory and the few rich little Islanda In the Pactgc still left to her. Spain'a ftrst loss In the early part of the a-intury was the great district call ing Itself Uiulalaaa Spain had got latulalana la ITU from the French, who originally discovered II. But when .Napoleon became cmsul he got I. lulatana bach, and the btg ' New < Means territory," and held them es rore. This embraced all the southern *u4 middle purlloas of the I'nltad states, and was the largest gad richest piece of land then known The l ulled Stales got It from the French In Ihd. by paying about gf leen milium guitar*, and it la said that the gpaauh have never ceased In mourn that tb»» amid not hava held II until this pnrwhaee which would hava Atsfchad lheir lboa diminishing suf fer* greatly gpatg's neVi bias w*« Mevtco by von t«m In till on that gate M*vhn» g» »t«rng herself Ires ini than bngnn n tang certee uf wars in • hiah nil asm trtna turned but which resulted In tirtiru ladspwngsncs on hard and , ever swung a Winchester. So when Ed gcheffleln struck the Contention lode and called the place 'Tombstone' we thought It a happy play of Ed’s mind. The Contention proved to be a greut mine, it was enormously rich in silver, but it was discovered Just about the time every condition arose to put down the price of that metal. However, it yielded an amount away Into the millions. The Scheldem* sold half of the mine to Walter Dean of San Francisco, Dick Gird of Isms Angeles, F. A Trltte, then governor of the ter ritory, ami otners In San Francisco (or $?>00,000. Of course the Schefflelns lost most of their fortune. They couldn't help it. Ed was a reatlesa fellow. He wasn't dissipated, nor did he gamble ot have other expensive vices, hut he was generous and a plunger on his luck. He wouldn't settle down and d« business on business principles.'' A Men's l.a«al stems. That SO august a tribunal sa the supreme court of the I'nltstl Mutee should tie called upuu to delta < the le gs! status of a dog seems singular; but a decision bearing upon that point ha* lust been rendered The rase was a suit brought by n cHisen of latnuiana to recover damagve from n railroad company fur having run over hi* dog, and the gueetloa was. whethsr lha stale law recognising dugs as personal property only when placed on the ** eeesmem rulte was raaatliuiluaab The tout decided that l« waa Incidentally the eourt ruled that property m do** is of an tmper<wt and gualihed nature, and that they stand between wild ani mals. In whtsh. till I hay are subdued there la no property, and dumeatle ani mate, la whtsh the tight of property ta complete Gerald Wallop, Keg la the name af the see retail of the Krtiteh NsGennl doc let y Par the Fresealtea af I'unNf t« Children i SEDAN CHAIRS COME AGAIN. London** F»*htonublu Women Will Try to Make The.u Popular. While New York Is trying to accus tom itself to the novelty of the horse less carriage there ha9 commenced Ui London a demand for the sedan chair as a vehicle of fashionable travel, says the New York Herald. One firm, ac cording to a newspaper paragraph, la busy In the manufacture of these rel ics, which of recent years have proved useful only as ornaments or on the stage. The new chairs are not to be decorated as of old, with paintings or gilded moldings, but the colors popu lar for the decoration of ordinary ve hicles will be used. They will be painted black, dark green, blue or ma roon, with light yellow, green and red for trimmings. The chairs will be very light and the promoters of the scheme are said to expect their profit from the use of the vehicles for evening parties, dinners or other gatherings where the distance to be traveled 1s not far. Other passengers will not be carried and the Interior of the chairs will this way be kept perfectly clean and wraps or dresses of light colors are not likely to be soiled. Sedan chairs are said to have got their name from the town of Sedan, where they w<fh first used. They were used In London about the beginning of the seventeenth cintury, but the first person of note to use one was the duke of Bucking ham, tht favorite of King James I., and his son Charles. Prince Charles, on his return from hls adventurous Jour ney to Spain, Is saild to have brought hack three curiously carved sedan chairs. The palmy days of the sedan chain In England were the earlier de cades of the last century. In 1710 there were 200 In London and the number remained much the same until the reign of George III. Resides these pub lic chairs there were very many which belonged to private owners and wern elaborately carved and luxuriously fit ted. As the eighteenth century near ed Its end the number of chairs began to decrease, while the number of hack ney coaches was largely Increased. The use of sedan chairs, however, died bird. In many country towns they re mained in use until a period well with in the memory of men still compara tively young. At Newcastle one was still extant In 1885 and at Uury St. Edmund's In 1890. They are still In use In some places abroad. Mention Is made of such conveyances at Geneva in 1882; In 1888 the archbishop of Se ville was carried forth In one. In the streets of Rahla, In Brazil, sedan chairs borne by stalwart negroes may be seen In use at the present day. •Inrr Laws. So much difficulty Is experienced In getting twelve men In a Jury box to look at a casw from the same point of view that several states, Utah among •hem, have passed laws permitting ver dicts to be rendered In civil cases by a majority vote of jurors. The supreme court of the United States haH just set aside a verdict; but as the case was one that arose while Utah was a ter ritory, the decision does not touch the validity of a majority verdict under a7 state form of government. Tho court grounded Its objection on the seventh amendment to the constitution, which guarantees the right of trial by Jury, and on the general law which confirms the statutes of territories “so far as they authorise a uniform course of pro ceeding In all cases.” The court held that uniformity is a prerequisite In alt territorial cases. The Vllljrnn. “Papa, are we descended from mon keys?” asked a small boy, who had heard some one expounding certain scientific opinions. “No, my son, not on this side of the house,” was the father's very improper answer.—Ex change. _ MISCELLANY. Twelve thousand feet of lumber was unloaded from a railroad car and piled up in iwtuiiy iiuuuittn tu uuiuiuer, snv., the other (lay. One slxty-four-year-old resident of Pettis, Mo., says that he has never worn a pair of overshoes, a watch, »r a paper collar. A meeting of 2,000 persons over sev enty years of age Is annm.-lly held In Leicester, England, and of these 400 die before the next anniversary. In times of scarcity the South African natives sometime rob the nests of the termites, and as much us five bushelr of grain have l>e«u taken from a single nest. Mary Does it ever occur to you that Mr. Smlthers is acting a part? Har riet—No. Smtthers always seemed tu me to think himself the whole thing.— Truth The towns of Woudsdate, Moscow, Springfield and Kargo, la Kansas, which had a population of eleven hun dred in ISM. have now only a popula tion of eighteen. Kites are lafeeted with parasite* which prey upon them and destroy them, and these, la turn, aa haa been shown by the microscope, are killed by still smaller parasites Nlbbe What a perfeet poem the count s rich wife la, Dtbba Yea; the euaat Is the only men I know of who eea mah« poetry pay htm thirty that* sand a year, TH< Bite Utile Horsham (relating his Alpine adventures* there I stood, the sbyee yeaning *1 mv feet - Cropper tyawa lag portentous'y* 'Ikane me, B, hat the thing's infections. Household Words When a ass realises that ha cant pay ala Yehta. and has gat to ash Bir sa s*tension «4 tints. Ike tret thing for him mi do la to go *» a taah tenable itilor sad get htm a new salt af *|>H has Cnditen era seldom tew teat aith a se wly atna gamers die J*mr> aal
