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TALMAtJK'S SERMON. THE STRONfi SWIMMER LAST > SUNDAY S SUBJECT. _ I From ?«»., 2r.:1I. M Fr.llowd "Ho Mu.ll *prr*<l Forth III* kLanili la Ilia of Thom, h* Ho Thai Nirlmmrlh Hproadoth Forth HI* Hand*." (IflWrlglit ;.s:>n hy Loui* Klopsch.) lu tne summer season, multitudes o‘ people wade into ponds and lakee, and rivers and ‘-fun, to dive or float or swim, in a world the moat of which Is water, all inen and women should learn to swim. Some of you have learned the side stroke, Introduced by George Pewters in 1850, each stroke of Uioi kind carrying the swimmer a dis tance of six feet, and some of you may use the overhand stroke, invented by Gardener, the expert, who by it won the 50(l-yard championship in Manches ter In 186^, the swimmer by that stroke <arrying his arm in the air for a more lengthened stroke, and some of you may tread the water as though you had been born to walk the sea; but most usually take what Is railed the breast stroke, placing the bauds with the backs upward, about five inches apart under the water, tile insides of i the wrists touching the breast, then pushing the arms forward coincident with the stroke of the feet struck out j to the greatest width possible, and you thus unconsciously illustrate the mean ing of my text: "lie r.hui! spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim." The fisherman seeks out unfrequent ed nooks. You siaiiil all day on the ! hank of file river in the limiting sun, aud fling out your lines, and catch nothing, while an expert angler break’s through the Jungle and goes by the shadow of the solitary rock, and, in a : place where no fisherman bus been for ten years, throws out it is line and comes home at night, his face shin ing and his basket full, 1 do not know why we ministers of the gospel need always be fishing In the same stream, j and preaching from the same texis that, other people preach from. I cannot un derstand the policy of the minister ! who, in Blaekfriars, London, England, i every week for thirty years preached from the epistie to the Hebrews. It Is an exhilaration to rne when I come across a theme which I feel no one else has treated; ami my text is oue of that kind. There are paths in God's word that are well beaten by Christian feet. When men want to quote scrip lure, they quote the old passages that every one lias heard. When thry want a chapter read, they read a chapter tha all the other people have been reading, so that the church today is ignorant of three-fourths of the Bible. ro« go into the Louvre at Paris. You confine yourself to one corridor of that opulent gallery of paintings. As you come out, your friend says to you: "Did you see that Rembrandt?” "No." “Did you see that Rubens?” "No." "Did you see that Titian?” "No." "Did you see that Raphael?” "No.” "Well," says your friend, "then you did not see the Louvre.” Now, tny friends, I think we are too much apt to confine our selves to one of the great corridors o' scripture truth, and so much so that there Is not one person out of a mil lion who has ever noticed the all-sug geBtive and powerful picture In the words of my text. This text represents God as a strong swimmer, striking out to push down iniquity and save the souls of men. "He shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as lie that swimmeth k.peradeth forth his hands to swim." The figure is bold and many-sided. Most of you know how to swim. Some of you learned it in the city school, •where this art is taught; some of you iri boyhood, in the river near your father’s bouse; some of you since you came to manhood or womanhood while siimmcrinR on the beach of the sea. It is a good thing to know how to swim, not only for yourself, hut be cause you will, after a while, perhap-, have to help others 1 do not know anything more stir ring or sublime than to see some man like Norman McKenzie leaping from the ship Madras into the sea to save Charles Turner, who had dropped from the royal yard while trying to loosen the sail, bringing him back to the deck amid the huzzas of the passengers and crew, if a man has not enthusiasm enough to cheer in such clrcum- lance*, he deserves himself to drop into the sea and have no one to help him. The Royal Humane society of Knglanrt w.is established in 1774, its object to ap plaud and reward those who should pluck up life from ’he deep. \n> on.* who has performed sue h a deed of dur ing has all the particulars «f that brav ery recorded in a pub:;.* re. ord and on n>H urruai * iuciMi «oiif hi mu'! .tun gold nuiI Urons#. anchor a tui mono gram and ln»*rl,»!lon, tilling to futu*.* Konerulimia ib*> bravery of tb* wan or vimnn who MMSf one (rmn drowning Hot If U la »wll •> a or in thin* m »av« « body from me *1 • i> I axk you If It W no 4 wor u.« r ibiiiK tr» aavc an inMiuota *«nl* IN you a**, tht* how•*. lb* ihi# of fjt»d • t.p forili for th;a wlmW'-il. It* •hall ayr«* »d . irtlt hi* hau l-* <n tn» mldat of lh»n\ a* !»• thut iwttmiMMt ► j>r« uil.it> forth bn ban » o * aim In ord#r u* umt*r»' »o I toe full fa •» ; «if tkl* RiOte, |«i wa) t * re* ' t 't' * iir r»<* la In 4 *i:iksna * < > ion lo •omi'Uin* < hear f«*o|*l* i» »in* of rt* they 1 *ii( iU«i the tootl *.ut‘ful •»"'!* ik uat tana u*gr iiu* tma ,<>« it 1* a**w*“i anoibar wn i* 1 il* word mot hr r*, aiHtiwr *»»* II i» t» nor 4 ’ J*»u. . ho: I i* t * ''I hi » **' m*rn la • I injt* la 1* >u lb* *>• 1 n oat min and bai*'**, th* n»rd i»»‘ a*» mu'* for atl i|r ioaihi * o*a ■»* an 1 II* {rana aa4 IN Nitv *M H* h * taming and tn«i n* *d H *ii+ I ** < •l*llll «iih Hit* lot ars and *■* iho* lira* touaia ir» 1** . «• clm» f» *' . ctiil jiii ree the diameter of everything bad in the universe. Sin is a sibilant word. You cannot pronounce it with out giving the sisa of the ilatne or the hiss of the serpent. Sin! and then if you add three letters to that word, it describes every one of us by nature sinner. \Ye have outraged the law of (led, not occasionally, or now and then, hut perpetually. Tile Bibles declares it. Hark! It thunders two ciaps: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked." “The soul that sinneth. It shall die.” What the Bible says, our own conscience affirms. After Judge Morgan had sentenced Lady Jane Grey to death, his con science troubled him so much for the deed that he became insauo, and all through his insanity he kept saying: "Take her away from me! Lady Jane Grey! Take her away! Lady Jane Grey!" It was the voice of conscience. And no man ever does anything wrong, however great or small, but his con science brings that tnalter before him. and at every step of his misbehavior it says, “Wrong, wrong!" Sin !s a lep rosy; sin is a paralysis; sin is a con sumption; sin Is pollution; tin is death. Give it a fair chance, and it will swamp you and me, body, mind and soul, for ever. In this world it only gives a faint intimation of its virulence. You see a patient in the flr.it stages of ty phoid fever. The check is somewhat. Hushed, the hands somewhat hot, pre ceded by a slight chill, “Why," you say, “typhoid fever does not seem to he much of a di-ease.” But wait until the patient has broil six weeks under it, and all his energies have been wrung out, and he is too weak to lift his little finger, and his intellect gone, then yon see the full havoc of the disease. Now, sin in this world is an ailment which is only In its ttrst stag-s; but let it get under full sway and it is an all-consuming typhoid. Oh, if we could nee our unpardoned sins as Clod >e?s them, our teeth would chat ter and our knees would knock to gether, and our respiration would he choked, and our heart would break. If your sins are unforgiven, they are hearing you down, and you are sink ing sinking away from happiness, sinking away from God, sinking away from everything that is good and blessed. Then what do we want? A swim mer! A strong swimmer! A swift swimmer! And, blessed he God! in my text wo have him announced. “He shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth stretcheth forth his hands to swim.” You have noticed that when a swimmer goes to rescue any one he puts off his heavy apparel. He must not have auy such impediment about him if he is going to do this great deed. And whrn Christ stepped fortli to save us he shook off the sandals of heaven, and his feet were free, and then he stepped down into the wave of our transgres sions, and it came up over liis wounded feet, and it came above the spear stab in his side—aye, it dashed to the lacer ated temple, the high-water mark of his anguish. Then, rising above the flood, "lie stretched forth his hands in the midst of them, as lie that switn meth spreadeth forth his hands to | swim," I have sometimes thought what a spectacle the ocean beil will present when in the last clay the water is all drawn off. It will be a line of wrecks from beach to beach. There is where tj.e harpooners went down. There Is where the line of battleships went clown. There is where the merchant men went down. There is where the steamers went down- a long line of wrecks from beach to beach. What a spectacle in the last day, when the wa ter i3 drawn off! Out oh. how much more solemn if we had an eye to see the spiritual wrecks and the places where they foundered! You would find thousands along our roads and streets. Christ came down in :heir awful catas trophe, putting out for their souls, “spreading forth his hands as a swim mer spreadeth forth his hands to swiiu”; but they thrust him in the pore heart, and they smote his fair cheek and the storm and darknes.-. swallowed them up. 1 ask you to lay hold of this Christ and lay hold of him now. You will sink without him. From horizon to horizon not one sail in sight, only , one strong swimmer, with head hung back and arms outspread. 1 hear many saying, “Well, 1 would like to tie a Christian. I am going to work to become a Christian." My brother, you begin wrong. When a man is drowning, and a strong swim mer conus out to help him, he says to i him: 'Now tie quiet. Put your arm on my arm or on my shouuter, hut j don't struggle, don't try to help your- j self, and I'll take you to the shore. The ; nioro you struggle, ami the more you try to help yourself, the more you im pede me. Now, !> quiet, and I'll take you ashore." When Christ, the strong gw tinnier, comes mil to sate a soul, the sinner say*: “That s right. I am glad to m Christ, and 1 am goiug to help httu in the wo<k of my redemp tioa. I atu going to pray mure, amt lha will help him: and I am going to weep extra, agantly over my sms an i tha' sill help it.Hi No. It Will not !i|ii|i yum doing Christ siil do all or j none. Y>u c.'Uiiot I f an uni, r; you ran no' in "ie art in, a. in this matter o' yuUf redemption. 1 tot* I* tb# ,rt«- il.> *iii. h ihuu*wntt« i { ««mi • otu tit t ii kHmiiom u| tiMi 'ii. It li .1# Hi** l|*y uano' | fOttMttt III l**i • till*' tMrfin tN i i.ii, I. Hr *•» K II* ' li-l' »-•«« 'll. Him Mk> >»i5i »4 ttcn it lh#i-* aajft ft* tar «'*■ ta 4<»*' il»!) iiw »t»in* mil la «i<ii ahJ mi K la liv i ba:«t »f i*hrl.f mil '*i him #< i ••»«* Itf4| Milllii) I ttlil **Uin# it a i I ' 4a M( hum wi>* k*r i nut* lit* mat- ( ti' i><ai * f < <> l* m» y *»«i u» *»'»* >■«** that a a* -.* at oo* Mil , ..Mt mat (It# t.«»•#!»• * H u aI (M < r. i 4o li, **4 • IS «! • >< 11 ttm m Hu. Oit, ft .4 aa; ar tt« «iw*~ ) (he arm of your trust and the arm ot 1 your love—arounil this omnipotent swimmer cf the Cross. Have you ever stood by and seen some oue under profess of resuscitation alter ions submergence? The strong swimmer has put him on the beaeh aft:.* r struggle in the waters. To ex cite breathing In the almost llfeles* body, what manipulation, what friction of the cold limbs, what ariihcial move ment of the lungs, what breath of res cuer blown into the mouth of tbs res cued! And when breathing begins, and af,er a while the sltgnt respiration be comes tlie deep sigh, and the eves opex and the blue lips take on a smile, what rejoicing, what clapping of hands all up and down the beach! What con gratulation for the strong swimmer and for all who helped in the restora tion! What shouting of "He lives! Ho lives!” Like this la the gladness when a soul that has been submerged in sin and sorrow is ‘‘coming to.” What de sire on the part of ali to help, and. when under the breath cf God, and un der the manipulation by the wounded hands of Christ, the life-eternal of the soul begins to show Itself, all through the ranks of spectators, terrestrial and celestial, goes the «r.v, "He lives! lle Joice, for the dead Is alive again!” May the living Christ this moment put out for your rescue, ‘'spreading his hands In the midst of you, as a swim mer Bpreaaetli forth his hands to swim!” I'lnk Siitlii. A pretty anecdote of a revolutionary bride Is related by Ellen 1). Lamed in a recent little volume upon the local deeds and traditions of a Connecticut county. The Incident occurred soon after the first successes of tlie rebel privateers. A beautiful young girl, bn trotbed and shortly to he married, ad mitted one day to the house u 'can dering peddler, who undid ills pack and displayed hi- wares. Hite expected, doubtless, to purchase some pretty trifle to add to her wedding outfit; but times were hard, there was little money to spare, and, moreover. It was many months since all imported linery had bees so frowned upon that no patriotic young woman could venture to buy It, nor any dealer to sell it. What, then was the young woman's amazement and delight when the peddler unrolled a voluminous piece of the most beau tiful pink satin satin, too, quite inno cent and inoffensive to the most ar dently patriotic eye, since he explained that it was a trophy of war, the booty of one of our own privateers! She gazed upon it in fascination. What a wed ding dress it would make! But the cost—she could not, she dared not, ask so much money of her father. Nor did she. But, unrolling the exquisite Sab ric yet further, she draped the rosy folds flowingly about her supple young figure, and, crossing the room to where all the time her father, a stern and si lent man, had sat wrJMng iu his ac^ counts, observing nothing, she sank upon lier knees at his feet. A hand was laid on his knee; he looked down, wondering, and she looked up, pleading — and then be understood. Not a word was spoken on either sifie. but the old man's hand went quietly Into his desk, drew out a puree, opened it, and laid In his daughter's hand forty silver dollars. At the wedding that soon on sued the bride's gown and the bride groom's waistcoat were both of pink satin, and there was one more pretty story to hand down of a real Daughter of the Revolution. Iinuruveinant la Luncheon IHnlien. From the Boston Transcript: t)f course, it ia being trite to say it, but we do eat altogether too much meat. A good many are coining to this con clusion and trying lo reform, so an ob serving person remarks, by eating no meat at luncheon. They aren't think ing of becoming out-and-out vegetar ians, but they ar<. thinking that a j luncheon menu made up of two or three kind of vegetable-, wound up with a fruit salad or with a peach or pear eaten from the hand, is conducive to a physical reuse of well-being that makes life seem worth the living. And have you noticed that the leading res taurateurs nee doing themselves proud iu catering to ibis sensible demand of their customer*? Ten years ago, iT i your memory ran take you back so far, you will rpea 11 the fact that the most comprehensive menu at your favorite lunching place offered you tomatoes in nothing hut Ju*t the most straightfor ward ami unadorned guise, hut today ' it's very different. They are fried and ! broiled and roasted, with or without stutflng, and as a general thing served with a ranee that you are accustomed to having with steaks and chops, whli h. of course, makes them siein so tnu. h more u •dish," What you have noticed in regard to tomatoes is as true of other vegetables, though very few lend themselves to the elaborating process a* they do. And to think that now and thrn you run across a bar barian w ho d,e. lairs he had to learn to like tomatoes'" N.-u •'>*! " Wllml !•« («, !ii ihr U'uiniltt Iur* of r «ood pulp, a voidm* to prwarnt bmmIi oda, u iim i of t|tru« «ih><| la •aiiQitifil to equal Hi In1! uf hoard m«wr«, i«4 <h» iiuuntily of raw material will make half a Ion of - I'phile pulp wr ton of ground wood pulp N'ewn* paper atm k la made up with ;i> per tent of (It* aulphtit* p p and an p*p tent «»f the iruimil * >ml pi'p V * u iliutol l>> iiprrti, t >10 pear of ejiti.e i 4 lid. ait'*.11 a i wth. po- e. , » a land of about Jw '»• to iM«' a-r*. 0*1 twenty two pin. therafnra. of ihi* We«t ifftki I i»i| the i it will > * it|t| } %| ttai feet uf IlmP f. «hi. h an oterire touipon) of lonaere will Hi m about eight nay*. But thu riitlra gHanitty of awiil turned in «t any ww of m* ii*» uiltta, Wit) in a »i•««)*• day t• M.Hi rtnl Into It tout * >*< t.ina of Oik p up »• aiw * u u»k* up n***pop«g • hi l i'il ’til «ii i. t ot p i ^ will 0.4er Ml vifoe* a tight uf pap f, i TI1K SI NKAV SCHOOLj LECCON VII. NOV. 1C NCHE- J MIAH 4: 7-1 B. rnl to Commit In Memory for Life "Hutch aii*t Pray. Miiltlirw -It: 41 — K< iHiildlog the Walls of >lt'tu*alriu''— ItU 1 111 I'1*4 of Nclclf. 7. "Mutrha lb*, t' “who appears to hr the governor of the et;y of Sutiiarbi," Admcy. "He was a native of Horonaltn, beyond Jordan (Nt h. 2: 1 oy, and prtdcibly it Moabite chief." Kitlo. "Tobiah." "A thief of the little tfuns-JoldaliU* tribe to the 'Ammonites.' " and probably \ laier or thief adviser to Sanballat, "Ara bian*." The Wandering Arabs of the des ert. "The Arab Would scent prey In the project of a warlike expedition.” "Ash tlotlilt *.**." From A'hdoU, a I’htllsllne el‘y Hear the Medlirt ralifali roast. "The 1’hlllstlnes were always hostile to Israel j Tims "all the flotsam and jetsam of ha* j inanity, the ranged edges of sot lets stv*|>l I up b the broom of the war god." were upper rt( to the rebuilding of the walls, and "were very wroth." >. "And conspired all of them together." I hreathed together In unison, as In sing ing. whispered seerelly, "to t ome and to tight against Jerusalem." They planned | to take Neheinlah anti the t ity by sur- | prise, capture anti slay the workers, urn! | thus put a stop to tlu* work. Why? tit Hreaure the Jews had slighted them in the past. <21 They were rivals, and ll paint d them to see their rivals nourish >li) For Ills Jews to prosper under <h>d would be a slur upon their religion, and i the higher morality, of the Jews would , disturb their conscience. tli The build ing of the w«lls would prevent them from plundering the Inhabitants In var ious ways. It took away a source of Bam, h' "And Judah said.'' The Jews from outside tin t iiy who had be n la elos r | ioul.n l with the heathen element, and | Were tainted. "The strength of the bearers of burdens Is decayed.’* 12, "The Jews which dwelt by (hem.” Jly Manila lief mid the other adversaries | "Tin y said unto us ten times." Itepcut- | idly, , gala and again. The; cither guv* friendly notice to Nehetnluh of the iao )io>i d atliick, or tried to persuade then' fellows tnnn the surrounding towns to hasten home In order to escape the threatened danger. U. "And I looked." He saw the enemy eonilng. "Itose up," to take t otnttiand anil give orders. "And said." He spoke a few words to encourage his men. tell ing them to remember whom they loughl under.- namely, the Lord; and what they had to light Tor—namely, their homes, and all they held dear.”—Professor Herein r. V. 15. The attack was not made, how ever. Perhaps the attacking party re celved wold from their allies Within the walls; perhaps they raw for tlP'ins' lv. s that the surprise had fulled, and the Jews were prepared. This was not the In i nor the last time when thorough prep aration for lighting removed the neces sity of lighting. Professor lh et her. ,’.ti. "Half of my servants." His person al retainers, n allied men, who guarded lilm on his Journey . They were divided into two companies, who alter nately worked and acted as guard. They could not work In IhMr armor. "Ilub-r geons." <Mil Kugllsli for coat-of-tnall, from "halo" (neck) and "bergon Ho pro test). "The rulers," rather captain*, "were behind," with the warriors, ami In tl c best position to direct the work anil Ieitil iiie soldiers. 17. "They that bare burden*." Toe far riers who could steady their load v.iih one hand and holt! their weapon in the other. is. "The builders" required both hands In laying the wall, so that they carried their’swords by their side, ready n> l» grasped at a moment’s warning. Prac tical. Faith and works went together. Watching and praying, weal; when apart, me a Hlbrultar of strength when united. Praying is not a substitute for the use of means, but the power that .nsplres zeal and activity, quickens the Invention, sharpens the Intellect. And on the other hand, us Hr. t'rosby says. "All the nat ural means, whether of mind or limiter, form channels through which Bod con veys bis grace In answer to prayer. To Stop these channels Is to cancel player." The work was completed in .the brief time of llfty-two days -on the 25th of Klul 11he lust of September). The welts must 1 have been three or four mile* long. Kiffiii* Wiu willing. I HiRm's wife was a tartar, ami alio ! had been giving it to him hot one day. 1 She had railed him a good-for-nothing, trilling, lazy, chicken-hearted, knack kneed snipe, and had snatched the morning i. ,icr out of his hand, struck him twice with the carpet stretcher and scalded his pet dog. After supper she sent him into town for some hair pins, and lllfllns got on tin* street ear with hard feelings against the world in general and the female sex in par ticular. Soon n vinegary-looking woman got into the car. When paying her fare she chose to fancy herself of fended by something the conductor said. "Are there any gentlemen in this lar," he called out. "who will stand ®y and see a woman Insulted?” "Mad im.' said lliihns, rising eagerly. "1 will!" minor'* Itlaiol In Hr it Colour. '1 hr Island of Juan Kernaudex, on which every boy has wandered with Hobiusoii rruaoe, in to In colonlied by the Chilean government Slnee Alexander Sclkiik died, the Island has tiern Inhabited by only a fev. down people. .Now t'hlle la to tend out at once a colony of 1,'iti adults 'I hi fruit trees which were planted by Selkirk have reproduced thenu»e|vea, and l»e< Itts, quinces, pears Mid gritiies are now plentiful. 'I be Island also abounds in w:ld cattle goats and pin* The adjutant i“a swarm* with <od and other edible ll»h. The rullage w Ut< It Helklik built, and which I?«>** de scribe* still exists us w broken down rum ’Ihe t‘t»lir«n goreriiiio M pm posew to rktbtni the colony "('niiiei Island." |I<IM llm.o I MIO. How ■ Hotair you* l.itle Ih.J mas U la stilt you a tlu« page let* l»r " Iri; It la all aistdt a billy nun! |re wants Is bring boon. tie* iron rr#e I*«m» Will you have * Bu* uf the ii|rr i n «4 fejre "** ashtd til* land tiiy It ltd sts It tu.el of’ a* b«nl th> ntw k>-cdi, i in os.Miy d nat u Eat SCIENTIFIC TOPICS. CURRENT NOTESOF DISCOVERY AND INVENTION. Protection from I.ljtlilniiij; — Mutton tflllhiiU Tlirmii — A llnotly I'lrlui; Trough (ir.phitr'i Mu; I'tn Mental lJITrct. of llio Wemln'r. Mrnl.ll Effect. of the tTrullior. Everybody probably feels that his ot her men ia| condition depends, to some extent, upon the character of the w«a*her. in gloomy weather we are apt to be depressed, and In fair wpath er exhilarated. When the atmosphere is stimulating, the mental and physical energies are enhanced. Starting front ihtso generally recognized faets. Mr. Edwin (5. Dexter has made a study of the effects of She weather on human conduct, the results of which are rather surprising. He shows, by a sys tem of tabulation, that misdemeanors Involving violence, such as assaults, are moie common In bright weather, nml that the same is true of suicides. On the other hand, menial errors, such is mistakes In bank figures, are more romtnon In damp, rainy weather. Ills Inference Is that the excess of energy produced by a bracing condition of the nil- is responsible for more violence than is the "ugly temper" caused by bad weather, because the latter, while lowering the spirits, diminishes the ac ‘ivity of men. Mutton it it 4i it I IliriHil. A detachable button, which can lie fastened in an instant, without needle or cotton, and which has every appear ance of a sewed one, and which will stand a great deal more /strain, is a thing which will appeal to Use man who lives in single blessedness. This button has as an attaching de vice a metal hook, which, after bring thrust through the material, is held firmly by u locking bar folding over the point of the hook, and held in this position by a spring. I'rolecl Ion from f.iielitnlaisr* A monograph on "Eightniug and tha Electricity of the Air," recently is sued by the United States Weather bureau, affords some interesting in formation upon the question of pro tecting buildings from lightning. To what extent is it practicable to pro tect a building and to what extent is it profitable to attempt such protection when it is practicable? Before an swering these questions it Is ueccssary to convey a clear idea of the nature of the lightning flash. The old idea is that the flash, like the moderate cur rent of electricity with which we are familiar, follows the line of least re sistance, and can be diverted by a con ductor of a certain size. In this view the lightning rod is like a channel made to convey a flow of water, and a small channel will empty a large reser voir if given time enough. But the Weather Bureau likens the lightning flash rather to an avalanche, u land slide down the side of a mountain or tiie breaking of a dam—the whole force Is exerted in one Instant and there is no after current. The flashes, however, vary greatly In volume, some of them being mild affairs. Ami it Is always true that a well-constructed and well-arranged lightning-rod will, if given time, silently convey away a vast deal of electricity, thus lessoning greatly. If not preventing, the ultimate flash. It Is on this account that light ning strokes are comparatively infrt quent In large cities, where lofty spirc3 and roofs drain overcharged clouds be fore the stratum of air between the cloud and the bouns is strained to the breaking point. It follows from the avalanche-like nature of lightning that absolute protection of a building la Impracticable unless the building it self as being a steel structure Is itself a good conductor. But a very large measure of protection Is within our reach. A italruney or church spire well provided with rods is almost per fectly protected and rods distributed to exposed points will reduce the risks of a wide roof area a* much as seventy live per cent. There Is no definite "area of protection.” The old mle was that a rod protects a radius equal to Its height, and the rule may stand for want of a lift ter, but as n matter of fact It hold.o good only with electrical tibchargr* of moderate volume Whether It pays In a particular case to invest money In lightning rods lie pends upon circumstances domeiuitr* the risk Is so slight as to be neglected the to t of the rods may tie ta h a* to render fire insurant e preferable. |tut where the rl*lt of tieiiig struck is very great as in ia-e of church spires and Mich url V chunm >» the t.il ir i f the prt petty threatened renders the light ning rod a nectesiijr, |t may be said lii M* Hi 14**141 $ nl‘* • I'^rc ih# flail li It**, ni fur viMr.ipIr fur btiUUlug* tfen' tiiMaltt i f h tJ it timber **f i m kil fi)Bittft#F Urge htlliil 9«4 * n il t ftp*lift!V* fill ttr iiiitM'ti*- A vt fy ttinfly f Ip* ft ih)» < tat| tu * ftUf|l4' ft*!, fruni ligtl'ptpp If prufe* tiufi 14(1 Ur #»;!*•** Tift rtftfc i>n f.nm itailU tM(i li 1r thitt un -APV uUcr * f ItttiiilAf I*vi! (Nlf iiltf# U II If ttftfcll'Y ^Nfftlfllft lit Fft|jf on iMaffiMf for iruitfiuin A tu id* « t»f III# M*if |l i* rUt«i| f ||e|t •Mllff Mill Ilf rUppfrf Mlf Mi 44#t), ||4 <11 It ii gi d Aft iu| ^tr4 prutkIM th> Bcctlon of the iron rod bo enough larger to compensate for its inferior conductivity. A red cf iron weighing thirty-fire ounces per foot is held to be equivalent to a copper rod weighing six ounces per foot. A flat conductor is recommended, on the ground that surface counts for more than section. Glass insulators are useless. The rod may be fastened directly to the build ing to be protected. The matter of greatest importance Is the condition of the two extremities of the rod—a matter often neglected with disastrous results. A rod is perfectly useless— In fact, n source of danger- if its lower end Is not carried down Into tho ground far enough to reach wet earth. It should be connected with a good sised piece of Iron buried at the lowest, depth reached by the rod. The top of the rod should be pointed and plated for protection from rust. “It is lu dicrous." says the Engineering News, "to run n rod down the side of a build ing and neglect the grounding, as is s° often done, just as if the lightning were a dangerous bug which could lie safely disposed of by being induced to crawl down to the bottom of the roil, and which might then be left to Jump off as and where he pleased. The correct way of looking at it is to con sider tlie tod as a channel down a mountain side to guide a posslblo avalanche. The larger the channel (or the less the total electrical resist ance of the whole rod) -the more sure ly will (lie avalanche lie confined and led through the channel provided fur It." Wtioderful llltiitilnit.on. Niagara Kails 1b to bn Illuminati il tiy electricity during the coming Uuf falo ICxponltinn. Tills will be the oc casion of what will doubtless bn a most brilliant end startling illumination. Tim idea in to erect a aerie' of tall tow ers on both the American anil Cana dian sides of the river. On tho lop ot these lofty spires huge electric search lights will lie placed in such manner that they may be played on any part of the Kails. The Imagination may pic ture (he dazzling effect that will be produced when a score of those power ful Instruments of Illumination are brought to bear upon the rushing wa ters as liny tumble Irresistibly over the rocky ledge into the depths be neath. A constant change of colors w ill ho used in the manipulation of tin* searchlights, so that now the Kails will he like molten silver, again a Hood of crimson, again ns green as old ocean Itself, and so pn through the whole gamut of colors of the painter’s palette. The astonishing effect will he stiil further heightened by the use of elec tric arc lights In the Cave of the Winds, which will give to the water an it falls in front of it a weird, phos phorescent glow. The power of this record-making illumination will he all within easy reach, as Niagara will it self he made to do ull the necessary work. tira|ililts’* Mt»nv i;*s*. One of the Most familiar substantia j now named in industrial connections : Is graphite, and its differentiated nsen j and applications arc really phenome 1 rial. Not a single iron casting, says a writer in Bradstreet, Is taken from its sand mold without the sand being first faced by graphite; not a gun projectile is cast but the steel is melted in a graphite crucible; not a tool, not a saw is made hut from graphite crueibio steel; every pound of nickel, of copper, of composition metni. of brass, is cast ; in some way tbe metal being reduced in a graphite crucible. Every printing house, for the perfection of its electro types, is absolutely dependent on graphite; every electrician and every department of electrical work comes under the same tribute. Graphite lu bricates friction ways, and it is not ably the most enduring paint pigment; the electric light, too, would Rhine much less easily but for graphite, the production of steel rails has an equal ly intimate relation to this mineral. Among its peculiar characteristics aro itr immunity from any effect by heat and cold, the highest and lowest “X trcines of eitb r failing to influenco it. A lisuilv riling Trough. Here is a new, convenient and use ful appllunct recently invented tor the room It I* it porvtialu Ajitg tfwili tu wkitb it> ii'utr* mu lie me* <uiunuMlHtMt dt the •«(*»•> time Any M ol" <*n •»’ Kite,I n it 4li.l I'lrolKd l<j lr*n«ni|tl«-4t l Arolml I «!,* »ilh •Hit the RugefA «r WlttioOt any <l«n*' ut <lr..pp(io< Sttd ii.i^ikmc the 1 he »u are >e!lulu<4 anil me ihi ijm.ii.-i |- i:-» m*» t -,aM %■» aw.1 Winn u *t|>»o i**;» "Him aif. 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