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TAL31 AGE’S SERMON. “SPLENDORS TO BE UNROLLED" LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. From the "Pest; 1. Corinthians, Chapter Mil.. Vrr.e IS. u< I olluwa; “For .Now We '.*■*. Through a (Hash, Darkly; Hut Then Fuce to Fare. The Bible is the most forceful and pungent of books. While It lias the sweetness of a mother s hush for hu man trouble, it has all the keenness of a scimitar, and the crushing power of a lightning-holt. It portrays with more than a painter’s power, at, one stroke picturing a heavenly throne and a Judgment conflagration. The strings of this great harp are fingered by all the splendors of the future, now sound ing with the crackle of consuming worlds, now thrilling with the Joy of the everlasting emancipated. It tells how one forbidden tree In the garden blasted the earth with slekness and death; and how another tree, though Icafhs* and bare, yet, planted on Cal vary. shall yield a fruit which shall more than antidote the poison of the other It. tells how the red-ripe clust ers of God’s wrath were brought to th" wfne-press, and Jesus trod them out; , and how. at last, all the golden chal ices of heaven shall glow with the wine of that awful vintage. It dazzles the eye with an Ezekiel’s vision of wheel, and wing, and fire, and whirl wind; and stoops down so low that It can put Its lips to the ear of a dying child and say, "come up higher.” An'i yet raui, in my responsibility of saying that ii is only an indistinct mirror, and that Its mis sion shall he suspended. I think then1 may be one Blldc in heaven, fastened to tl.e throne. Just as now, in a mu seum. v/e have a lamp exhumed from Herculaneum or Nineveh, and we look at it with great interest and say, "How poor a light it must have given com pared with our modern lamps!” So I think that this Bible, which was a lamp to our feet In this world, may lie near the throne of God. exciting our Interest to all eternity by the contrast between Its comparatively feeble light and the illumination of heaven. The Bible, now, is the scaffolding to the rising temple, but when the building Is done, there will be no use for the scaffolding. The idea I shall develop today Is. that In this world our knowledge Is comparatively dim and unsatisfactory, but nevertheless is introductory to grander and more complete vision. This Is eminently true in regard to our view of God. We hear so much about God that we conclude that we under stand him. He Is represented as hav ing the tenderness of a father, the firmness of a judge, the majesty ot a king and the love of a mother. Wc hear about him, talk about him. write about him. We lisp his name In in fancy. and it trembles on the tongue of ’he dying octogenarian. We think that we know very much about him. Take the attribute of mercy. Do we understand it? The Bible blossoms all over with that word—mercy. It speaks again and again of the tender mercies of God; of the sure mercies; of the great mercies; of the mercy that er.dureth forever; of the multitude of his mercies. And yet I know that the • views we have of tills great Being are most, indefinite, one-sided and incom plete. When, at death, '.he gates shall fly open, anti we shall look directly upon him. how new and surprising! Wc see upon canvas a picturp of the morning. We study the cloud In the sky the dew upon the grass, and the husbandman on the way to the field. Beautiful picture of the morning! But we rise at daybreak, and go up on a hill to see for ourselves that which ... ..a U'lilin «•« Is^sO 'he mountains are transfigured. The burnished gates of heaven swing open and hut, to let past a host, of fiery splendors. The clouds are all abloom, and hang pendent from arbors of ala baster and amethyst. The waters make pathway of Inlaid pearl for the light to walk upon; and there Is morning on the sea. The crags uncover their s irred visage; ami there is morning am ng the mountains. Now you go home, and how tame your picture of tin- mcrnlng seems In contrast! (irp.a: cr than that shall be the contrast be tween 'his Scriptural view cf Cod and that which wo shall have when stand ing face to face. This is a picture of the morning, that will he the morning itself Again; m.v text Is true of the Sa vp ir’s excellency. By image, and sweet rlivthm of expression, and Mart ling antithesis. Christ is set forth his love, his compassion, his work, his life, his death, hi* resurrection. We ure challenged to measure It. to compute it, to weigh It- In 'he hour of our broken enthrallment, we mount up Into high experience of his love, and shout until the countenance glows, and the blood tmonda. and the whole nature I* exhll araied. ' I have found him"' And yet It I* through a glass darkly. We see not half of that rompa»»iouate face. We feel got half the warmth of that loving heart We watt for dentil to let us rush into HU outspread arm# Then we 'bail lx* face to face Not ahad<>« then ho! substance Not hope then hut the fulfilling of alt prefigur-iuen' That will he a m-iginfbem unfolding Th» rushing out in view of nil hidden n «Henry, the coming again of a long absent Jesus, to meet us not In rags, and In penury, and death, bn: .mild*’ a light, and pomp and out burnt ing toy si». h none hot a gttw t Aed Intel! a- It .< onM etperten<e **h' to gate full op >tt the brow that we* lacerated upon the side that as# pierced upon the hat that were mailed to stand t * se op tn the ptaeeheo of him who | 'ii* I for ne oh the nxoontetn end thought d ha hr tha <« and agonised hi# on in *hn gar lea md died for os lh hi 10 Nfl ■»# to embrace him. to take his hand, to kiss his feet, to run our Angers along the scars of ancient suffering; to say. "This is my Jesus: He gave himself for me. I shall never leave his presence. I shall forever behold his glory. I shall eternally hear his voice. Lori Jesus, now I see thee: I behold where the blood started, where the lean coursed, where the fare was distorted I have waited for this hour. 1 shall never turn my back on thee. No more looking through Imperfect glasses. No more studying thee In the darkness But, as long as this throne stands, and this everlasting river flows, and those garlands bloom, and these arches of victory remain to greet home heaven's conquerors, so long l shall see then Jesus of my choice; Jesus of my song; Jesus of my triumph-forever and for ever fare to fare!” The Idea of the text Is Just as irue when applied to God's providence. Who has not come to some pass in life thor oughly Inexplicable? You say. "What does this mean? What Is God going to do with me- now? He tells me that all things work together for good. This does not look like' It.” You continue to study the dispensation, and after awhile guess about what God means, "lie means to tearh me this. 1 think he means to teach me that. Perhaps it Is to humble my pride. Perhaps it Is to make me feel more dependent. Perhaps to tench me the uncertainty of life*." Hut after all. It is only a guess a looking through the glass, darkly. The Hlble assures us there shall lie a satisfactory unfolding. "What I do thou knowest not now; but thou sliait know hereafter." You will know why God took to himself that onlv child. Next door there was a house hold of seven children. Why not take one from that irrotin instead of your only one? YVhy single out. the dwell ing in which there was only one heart heating responsive to yours? Why did God give you a child at all. If he meant to take it away? Why fill the cup of your gladness brimming, if he meant to dash it down? Why allow all th" tpndrlls of your heart to wind around that object, and then, when every flbr° of your own life seemed to he Inter locked with the child's life, with strong hand to tear you apart, until you fall bleeding and crushed, your dwelling desolate, your hopes blasted, your heart broken? Do you suppose that God will explain that? Yea He will make it plainer than any matlrematleal problem —as plain as that two and two make four. In the light of the throne yon will see that it was right—all right. Here is a man who can not get on in the world. He always seems to buy at the wrong time and to sell at the worst disadvantage. He trl<B this enterprise, and fails; that business, and Is disap pointed. The man next door to him lias a lucrative trade, but he lacks cus tomers. A new prospect opens; his income is increased. But that year his family are sick, and the profits are ex pended in trying to cure the ailments. He gels a discouraged look. Becomes faithless as to success. Begins to ex pect disasters. Others wait for some thing to turn up; lie waits for it to turn down. Others, with only half as much education and character, get on twice as well. He sometimes guesses as to what it all means. He says, "Perhaps riches would spoil me. Perhaps pover ty Is necessary to Urep me humble. Perhaps I might, if things were other wise, be tempted into dissipations," But there Is no complete solution of the mystery. He sees through a glass darkly, and must wait for a higher un folding. Will there be an explana tion? Yes; Clod will take that man in the light of the throne and say. "Child immortal, hear the explanation! You remember the failing of that great en terprise—your misfortune In 1857; your disaster in 1867. This Is the explana tion.” Anil you will answer, "It is all right.” I see, every day. profound mysteries x>f providence. There is no question IVO iiKlt nftener than VVhv? There a:e hundreds of graves In Oak Hill and Greenwood and Laurel Hill that need to be explained. Hospitals for the blind and lame, asylums for the Idiotic and insane, almshouses for the desti tute, and a world of pain and misfor tune that demand mare than human so lution. Ah! God will clear it all up. in the light that pouts front the thione no dark mystery can live. Things now utterly Inscrutable will he Illumined as plainly us though the answer were written on the jasper wall, or sounded in the temple anthem. Hartlmeiis wilt thank tiod that he was blind; and Laz arus that he was covered with sores; and' Joseph that he was cast Into I he pit; and Daniel that he was denned with lions; and I'aul that he waa hump hacked; and David that lie waa driven from Jerusalem; and that sewing woman that she could get only u few liense for making a garment; and that ! invalid that for twenty yeara lie could not lift hi* head Irom the pillow, and that widow that she had null hard | work to earn bread for her ehlldteii J Von know that tu song different voices I carry different parts. 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I suppose that the few siek people iu the hospital today, as compared with the hundreds of thousands of well people In the city, would not he smaller than the number of those who shall be cast out In suf fering, compared with those who shall have upon them the health ..f heavpn For we are to remember that we are living In comparatively the beginning of the Christian dispensation, and that this world Is to be populated and re deemed, and that ages of light and love are to flow on. If this he so. the mul titudes of the saved will be In vast majority. Take all the congregations that have today assembled for worship. Put them together and they would make hut a small audience compared with the thousands and tens of thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand, and the hundred and forty and four thou sand that shall stand around the throne. Those flashed up to heaven In martyr fires; those tossed for many years upon the Invalid couch; those fought in the armies of liberty, and rose as they fell; those tumbled from high scaffoldings, or slipped from the mast, or were washed off Into the sea They came up from Corinth, from Lao dlcea from the Red Sea hunk and Oennesaret'a wave, from Egyptian brick yards, and Gideon's thrashing floor. Those, thousands of years ago slept the last sleep, and these are this moment having their eye* closed, and their limbs stretched out for the sepul ch re. A general expecting an attack from the enemy stands on a hill and look« through a field glass, and sees, In the great distance, multitudes approaching hut liaH no Idea of their numbers. H« says. “I can not tell anything about them. I merely know that there are a out attempting to count, says; A great multitude that no man ran num ber,” We are told that heaven Is a plate of happiness; hut what do we know about happiness? Happiness in this world is only a half-fledged thing; a tlowery path, with a serpent hissing across It; a broken pitcher, from which the water lias dropped before we could drink it; a thrill of exhilaration, fol lowed by disastrous reactions. To hel| us understand tlie Joy of heaven, the Bible takes us to a river. We stand or the grassy hank. We see the water* flow on with ceaseless wave. But the filth of the cities are emptied into it and the banks are torn; and unhealtii) exhalations spring up from it; and we fail to get an Idea of the River of Life In heaven. We get very Imperfect Ideas of the reunions of heaven. We think of sonu festal day on earth, when father anil mother were yet living, and the cbl! elren came home. A good time that But It had this drawback—all were nol there. That brother went off to sea and never was heard from. That sis ter—did we not lay away In the fresh ness of her young life, never more in this world to look upon her? Ah there was a skeleton at the feast, anti tears mingled with our laughter or that Christmas day. Not so with heaven's reunions. It will be an unin terrupted gladness. Many a cliristlar parent will look around and find all his childien there. "All!” he says, "car It be possible that we are all here— life's perils over? The Jordan passed and not one wanting? Why, even the prodigal is here. 1 almost gave him up. How long he despised my coun sels! but grace hath triumphed. A1 here! all here! Tell the rnlgbly joj through the city. Let the bells ring and the angels mention it In theii song. Wave it from the top of the walls. All here!” No more breaking of heart strings but face to face. The orphans thal were left poor, and in a merclles* world, kicked and cuffed of many hard ships, shall Join their parents, ovet whose graves they so long wept, ant; gaze Into their glorified countenance forever, face to face. VVe may corn* up from different parls of the world one from the land and another from the depths of the sea; from lives af fluent and prosperous, or from seenei of ragged distress; but we shall al meet In rapture and jubilee, faee tc faee. Many of our friends have entered upon (hat Joy. A few days ago they sat with us studying these Ooape themes; but they only saw through it glass, darkly now revelation halt come. Your time will also come, tjoc will not leuve you floundering In tb« darknes*. You stand wonder atrucs and amused. You feel as ir all ihi loveliness of life were dashed out. Yot stand gating luto the open chasm 01 the grave. Walt a lillle. In the pres enee of your departed, and of hltn wbi entries them In Ills bosom, you shall soon stand fate to face. Oh, that out last hour may kindle up with ihti promised joy I May w«. lie able to say like the Christian not long ago, de parting Though a pilgrim, walking through the talley, the mountain topi at* gleaming from p*nk tu peak r* or like my dear friend and brother, Al I te.l Cook man whtt took hi* (light tc in* thfott* of tlod *avtns in bin Inal moment that whhb has nlready goat Into Christian class a* 1 am sweep,n« 'hiotigh the peilly gale, washed la ItM blood uf tb* Unit*" tot «m a 4ms IllStiu I nude ret *n>l »ou had a ttM in iwot library last night Mu<h of - *** I'lson ‘fib no only n few unMual tttUinse* nf »*ooSr Is titles |><» |u|gs "It m *ald that l|eu|i Wash wa* set * bwoh agent C-sa* Then he did lie* d»*a ihwi i «bc>>| list srandnl, sffer nlk 4 A NIGHT’S ADVENTURE BY Y. Z. 1ST! hlrt! are you still here?" "We are, both of ua. Have you seen him?” "Yes, the wretch! I have tried for the last time to obtain from h I m—y o u know what; he re ceived me no better than usual, fi» now, ! extremities have become Indispensable, j let us proceed us agreed upon. Kir tnann, courage, my boy! 'TIs close upon the stroke of twelve; he will then go out; follow, till you see him enter ing a dark und deserted street, then pounce upon him, hand to wrist, and make him deliver up the oblects In question. No pity, my friends! swear I that you will have none." “We swear!” “’TIs well; I shall be near at hand and watch the result!" Three Individuals thus conversing, did not present the ordinary resew- j blanre to malefactors. One of them, he | who would appear to direct the enter prise, seemed to bo a good sort of citi zen, well clothed, healthy, of honest dimensions, and such a one as you may see every day In any frequented street, with a full handkerchief under Ills arm, or an empty one In his hand. Some thing observable In the gait, starched look, and apparently disjointed haunches, would lead you to believe that this man employed himself at some very common trade, which, that we may make no mistake, we shall not yet name. The smaller of the remaining two had one of the most grotesque faces / ' Ull Ilia WJ - •- ■•■rj ■' boscis trussed up between the eyes, might prove that nature had not for gotten to make some noses for the con venience of spectacles; his mouth was I encircled with scanty and large teeth, | and add to all this—he was hump backed. By the unsteady glimmer of a I lamp swinging in the night wind, It was not Impossible to perceive that | the keen sight of the dwarf glanced with delight upon a pistol which he held in his right hand. The third personage, owing to his physical conformation, partook In some manner of a relationship between his two associates. Gaunt, withered, and cadaverous-looking, his left arm raised, as if to point his weapon at the breast of a giant, it gave him no distant re semblance to a gibbet. Ever and anon ho was quaking. Was it from cold or fear? It was midnight. From a house well known in the quar ter of St. Martin, slowly poured out nearly a dozen men; the two suborned "MONEY OR LIFE" individuals, ever on the alert, were is suing at intervals, for the purpose of reconnoitering, from the dark alley, which they had chosen for conceal ment; they were obliged at least twen ty times to go hack and wait anew. At length they espied the being of their search. It was a kind of fashion able animal, frizzed, scented and adopt ing a peculiar tie of the cravat. Me crossed over to the other side of the street, shivering and humming an air. and was coon lost in ope of the nar row cross-streets. Ilo walked on rapid ly, as if to avoid coming In contact with another wayfarer, whose heavy foot steps sounded not far off; but changing nil at once from the disposition of dread to that of holduess, lx suddenly stopped short, and allowed sufficient time for those to come up who were effectually 1 pursulug him. ••Halt!" cries ono of them; "money or life!" • Eh? what? eh?" "Money or life!" Aud the mouths of two pistols were | presented, the one at his hat, (he other | at the lilght of his stomach. "Speak a word aud you are a dead niau." chimed In the two voices. "For heaven's sake, genllemen, I have nothing to give. I possess but ! (Ill* watch, and 'Us a pinchbeck one." "In that case, then, off with your clothes!" •Thy, kind gentlemen, he content with my bet. I have of late made the dear est sacrifices to t lot hr myself My poor, aged mother dented herself her little earnings la pay for my outilt '* "Liar, off with your net, and n<> delay, or visa , Ah, to ueiumeace throw iwiv that swttej '* "There, then genttemeu, them is mr beautiful super Abe block runt ami vel vet roltar. > « can get a hundred and twenty franca for it anywhere, if the tailor has not deceived me ** ' Now y<>nr vent,'* "Would its eend me gwny *a • be mtsef* 1 Now oft with the real" "i*fc, merciful hasten* the sola pair I I pas**** for pit I s mhe, genllemen. for pity!" A peal of laughter answers his j supplication. Anil the same voice con tinued: "Away with you, and beware how you look behind you." The bird bo etrangely plucked of his plumage waited not for a second in junction. He sped on his course, pro pelled forward by the fresh morning breeze, anil a slight crack of a whip which descended on his shoulders, ns he was turning the first corner. He received the following morning by the earliest post a billet, thus penned: “Considering you as much a coward as a swindler, I contrived last night to set my two Journeymen, Paul and Klr mann, across your path, each furnished with a chocolate pistol. You might have supped of them. I had them pre viously attested by my worthy friend, the commissary of pollen. You pre ferred restoring the clothes with which I hud furnished you, and for which you had refused paying me; you have done right, for we arc now quits, Get angry, If you rhoose, and receive the felicita tions of your very humble servant." RECEIVE QUEER REQUESTS. Funny Kipnrlencrs Kntateil uy the Oltt' cl»l> ot the llrltlnh Museum. (From the lamdon Mall.) An American collector has made a singular application to the authorities of the British museum, lip asks: "Will you please get and send me a piece of the ruins out of the great London fire which has lately occurred. 1 wish to put It Into my curio cabinet.” This Is not the first time that requests of an equally humorous nature have been received at the British museum. Sir Bdward Mtunde Thompson, K. B. the principal librarian, recently told a story of a letter containing numerous questions rent him by a German gentle man, WHO, in apologizing ior Mil'll in ordinate number, explained that “we Hermans are a questionable people." Another of the officials remembers the advent of a man who wanted to see "the original Sanscrit" and, on being Interrogated, added, "the original San scrit what, all the languages come from.” On being shown a Sanscrit manuscript he Inquired: “Is this what all the languages come from?" "Well, not quite all; but most of them,” was the reply; whereupon he ejaculated, "Oh!" and walked away, perfeetly sat isfied. On one occasion a man asked the manuscript department to see the “roll of the law which Bsdras found In the temple.” He was promptly re ferred to the keeper of the Oriental an tiquities, with what result is not stated. There is also the anecdote of the In quirer who asked an attendant whether the roll of the Pentateuch exhibited un der a glass case In one of the galleries of the manuscript department was the identical thing "that Moses chucked about.” As he spoke with a Scottish accent It Is still doubtful whether he was intending a Joke or not. Hut the most remarkable instance of the ig norance under which the museum offi cial suffers, and over which he makes merry, Is perhaps that in which a rad ical member of parliament asked at, the center desk In the readlngroom, for a copy of the Bnglish constitution. Conceiving that this important abstrac tion had been grievously Infringed by a tory government, he came to examine It with a view to an Impeachment of the ministers of the crown. NO WONDER BILLY’S RICH. The Way Hr Hum lliolnm* !• Very Lawyer-Like. "You know that he’s rich now," said the pioneer business man of an Inland town while they were sitting about his office stove discussing u former resident who fills a very important public posi tion, says the Detroit Free Press. “Yes, Bill's rich. We used to call him Billy. When he first came here and hung out i his slen as a lawyer ho was so bright : and busy and willing to work that 1 j threw everything his way that l could. | I had a lot of tough old accounts that | I didn't think worth very much, but Hilly was a screamer In the collection line and I concluded to give him a chance at them. .So I made out a sched ule of all these notes and hills and made half their value over to him. 'Now, Hilly', I said, 'half of each one I of there accounts belongs to you. I | call that a liberal percentage. See what i you can do with them.' It wasn't long , until some old customers who hud quit , me began to come hack and 1 made up my mind Hilly must have been tiling ! things up with them. So I drops Into his office one afternoon. Yes. he had been doing very well with the aecmint*. | lustier than lie expected. ‘Then I sup pose you can turn over something to j me. Illlly; I'm a little pressed for ! money Just now.' 'There's nothing to I turn over.' answered Illlly. coolly. 'I've ■ only been collecting my half. There 1 was no use trying to get It all; you know that.' Tint I dou't understand ’ of course, you don't. You're no lawyer. ! I am one. If you care lo pay for an j opinion In the matter I'll give It to | you ' A dreed of being laughed at kept me quiet, and I guess Illlly knew that tt would,” l-rralsr li.« Ibu lb* Mtskep '’Now. Thomas. ' said a certain bish op after lahtng hi# servant to task I i ue mor nine, a bo la it that see* all «i do and hears nil w» say and knows | all wa think and whw regards mss me In my bishop# rube# as but a vile worm of the dust*” And Fhamas re I p'fed "The mu«u*. sir ” t light tooth. Mb hairs I like Ttmmtas' atones j He has such e light touch dimmtae Yea that e on* thing la 11mottos fa i nor. He rarely strikes owe tor mere | then |l a# 11 India tepoim Journal OLD DAMASCUS BLADE, GIVEN BY THE CZAR TO PRr t DENT JOHNSON. It Helped to llillld Kingdoms—The HUS In Mode of Horn Ornamented w Ith Twisted’ Wire The Meahhatd In Mad* of Wood. I P. Farmer, the county surveyor 01 Columbiana eounty, Ohio, who resides at Lisbon, has In his possession one ot the rarest historical specimens In ex istence. It Is an old Damascus blade, which, It Is claimed, Is over two thou sand years old. It Is of crude design and workmanship, and was made en tirely by hand, the Irregularity of Its lines proving more conclusively than anything else Its antiquity. Shortly after the assassination of President Lincoln an unsuccessful attempt was made upon the life of the Cr.ar of Rus sia. A fleet of American war,bins wa* sent on a cruise across the ocean, and Incidentally carried a message of con gratulation to Russia's ruler from President Johnson. Assistant Secre tary of the Navy Fox accompanied the squadron, on board the Mlantonomah, commanded by John J. Cornwell, of Lisbon, Ohio. Secretary Fox was pre sented with the sword by the C/.ar In person, as a token of his high esteem, accompanied by the following speech: "I present to you, sir, as the repre sentative of one of the foremost and mightiest of modern nations, this sabre, as a material appreciation of your nation's high regard for my wel fare and safety. Through ages It haa been 'treasured In the archives of my fathers us a semblance of the mighty races that swayed the destinies of fu ture generations on the shores of tho Mediterranean; It. was carried through upbuilding of the powerful sovereignty of Western Asia and has outlived the kingdoms It helped build." Tbe an cient treasure was accepted by the sec retary, with an appropriate response, and as the fleet steamed out of the Rus sian port he presented the sword to Commander Cornwell. While the fleet was off Toulon, France, Commander Cornwell died suddenly of heart fail ure, The vessels pulled In at the port and a telegram was sent to Paris for a burial casket. A squad of marines, under command of a lieutenant, waa sent on shore to receive the casket from the train and convey It aboard the dead commander's vessel. The casket missed connections, but the sailors, who were unaware of that fact, hustled a casket which urrlved on the train off to the Ironclad. The fact that thp bo* was quite heavy did not excite the suspi cion of the sailors, and after It had been taken to the cabin tbe mate opened the cover. Consternation reigned on board when there was dis closed the body of a beautiful young lady, burled In a wealth of flowers. The lid of thp casket was hurriedly re stored to Its place and preparations were promptly made to return the body to the depot In Toulon. But the story of the alleged seizure bad spread, cre ating intense excitement In tbe French port, and a city official was preparing to board the American warship with a search warrant. ICxplanatlons were made, but tbe mistake came near caus ing an International disruption. The French newspapers characterized the actions of the American sailors in the_ most scathing terms, assuming that the taking of the body of the young lady was a prearranged plan. Com mander Cornwall was burled at Tou? Ion and the old sword was given Into his widow's keeping, and she in turn presented it to her brother-in-law, Mr. Farmer. The blade Is twenty-two and one-half inches long and one inch wide, tapering to a point. The hilt is muuc or noin, ornamented with twisted brass wire, and Is as bard as adamant. The cross pieces are of leather, tipped with sheet brass. The scabbard is as interesting as the blade, being fashioned from wood, with a sheet brass covering. It was orna men ted in crude style by indents of a pointed tool. Near the hilt, on the blade, are a number of odd characters, resembling ancient Hebrew inscrip tions. HI mi A Hulr* fur ||,,. shoes. An Inventor has hit upon a method | of putting stone soles on boots and shoes. He mixes a waterproof glue with u suitable quantity of clean quarts saint anil spreads tt over the leather sole used as a foundation. These quart* soles are said to be very flexi ble and practically indestructible and to give the foot a Arm hold even on the most slippery surface. Iwrwl Uw In W ImihmIu. Kni«t Hrtiift« k*ti. lit* H^ rvtary of th* , forestry commission of Wlsconaiu. 1* j making lesloua efforts to secure the ! reforest tug of the cut over lands of the slat* with pin* tree* He announces | that th* pin* htnga' have promised to j replant their cut-over tends with trees • year old If th» slat* will see that tbs ! Are law pertaining to forests is strictly enforced ItMtitMf t tow |m4I| httHiiMfft. t reeving will not injure a newly pa > tented water pipe which has a yield | mg cor* In tHe i enter, strong enough j to wlihrtaud the force of ike ester uu • der natural pressure hut whl> h t«> lapses as She Ice *»panda, asd prevent* J hutsting the core retarding again an ««u as *h* waist thaws and the prm sure la iamused ~~ .... *H»» Sun Us » iihsesitn. \ Ctttefddu umiihotogtat rompe**# (ha* fat specie* Of Mid* are to he found *n that gtgte i