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SHIPS FOR THE FAIR. \WAR VESSELS WHICH SHOULD BE HONORED AT CHICAGO. U?lie Gallant Record ot tho Consti tution, Bette r Known as \Ol a Ironsides\ — America' s Fou r Big Frigates . Tho old frigate Constitution, now lying at Portsmouth, N. H,, in an honored old age, should not be dis regarded in the great centennial cele bration at Chicago. When in 1848 she had become a mere hulk, and it was proposed to break her up, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote this vigorous protest: Ave, tear ber battered ensign down! Long has it waved on high. And many an oye has danced to seo 'i bat banner in the sky. Dr. Holmes's poem called forth such nn outburst of popular indignation at the proposed destruction of Old Ironsides that in 1850 she was rebuilt at more than her original cost by the son of Hart, her first builder. If the noble old frigate is not present at the World's Fair it should call forth widespread dissatisfaction. The British Navy will be represented there iu raodcls-ol both the old and new types of ships. The Victory will probably float the ensign that never quailed until the Constitution opened her broadsides and leveled its pride. How galling it would be to the old Constitution if the British Naval flag floated at the Fair, while she was lying forgotten and neglected in far-off Ports- ' mouth 1 Of all the ships in tho American Navy there was no other that did so mucli to . level British uaval pride as the Constitu- • tion, and there was no other which the 1 English were so anxious to capture. High rewards and rapid promotion in I ranks awaited the British commander who sailed into Spithead with the | dreaded Constitution as a prize. When she escaped the British squadron in 1812 Captain Byron, of the pursuing squad ron, wrote to a friend in London: I this go lor nomlngl 'Twould break tht heart of every pretty girl in New York.\ A howitzer was loaded with round shot and pointed down the hold so as to blow a hole through her bottom when the rime for boarding the enemy came. But the Endymion, taking advantage o( the President's crippled condition, kept off at long range. The American fire >vns so destructive, however, that she was compelled to drop out of the race, so that the President was captured somo hours later by two other brigades of the squadron. The defence of the ship ha? ever been regarded as equivalent to a victory by the Americans. She would complete tho famous trio of the early American Navy. It would be a handsome act on tht part of Great Britain and a substantial recognition of the general good feeling existing between the two nations if she took this occasiou to return the old ship President to the United States.— New York Tribune. Tlio Hotel Clerk's Memory. \I have traveled pretty extensively during the last fifteen years,\ said Eu gene G. Burton, of Omaha, at the Hotel Cadillic, \and I have made a special study of hotel clerk's memories. You are aware, of course, that a good memory for names and faces is one of the most desirable faculties that a hotel clerk can possess. The majority of men who travel are just vain enough to enjoy being re membered and called by name when they enter a hotel after an absence of several months, or even years, and the man be- hiud the office counter who can always \call the turn' is specially valuablo to his employer. The most marvellously gifted man in this respect that I ever knew was a clerk in the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Not being blessed with a good memory myself, I am unable to recall his name, but that is immaterial. As nn illustration of what this man to whom I refer could do in the line of re membering names and faces, I will relate an experience with him of my own. When the Knights Templars conclave was held in Sau Francisco in 18S3, I \Nothing can exceed my mortification I i ande d in that city early one afternoon * the extraordinary escape of the ; with a party 0 f Eastern knights who POPULAR SCIENCE. from American frigate.\ When in 1815 the I made the jpurney over in a special train. Constitution again almost miraculously I j Iore tnan . 10u of us wcnt to the Pala: escaped a powerful British squadron, •which had followed her from Boston across the Atlantic to the coast of Por- I tugul, the British commander is said to have committed suicide from tht; chagrin over his fnilure l o capture tho hated I Constitution. This noble ship in the War of 1812 captured over 1000 able-bodied prison ers, killed nearly 100 English blue jackets and wounded more than 200, a better record than that made by any American army in that war The four great frigates of the Ameri can Navy in the lirst fifty years of our national existcn-e are the Constitution, i Constellation, I nitcd States and Presi dent. All these ships or their proto types are in existence to-day except tho United States. The Constitution is at Portsmouth, the Constellation at New London, and the President at the West India, South Docks, London, England All these frigates wen; launched within a short time of cut h other, and those still in existence arc approaching their centennial year. They arc the represen tative types of the marine force that made the United States a possibility. The Navy of the Revolution, including privnteers, whith were no less that the militia of the ten, took more than 2-1,000 prisoners of war, or twice as mauy as the Army did in the entire struggle, besides carrying the war into the enemy's country, and nearly annihilating her commerce. In this country's two years' war with France, the work was all done by the marine forces, and nearly 100 ves sels were captured from the French, •while only one American warship was lost, and that one was only recaptured. Again in the war with the -States of Bar- bary the lighting was all done by the Navy, which succeeded where European nations had failed. In the War of 1812 568 vessels were takcu from the enemy. Allowing the moderate estimate of thirty men to each raptured vessel (some of them having over 400 men) you have a tota 1 of over 47,000 able-bodied men taken from I Metropolitan in New the enemy iu that struggle—most of afterwards, them seamen whom England could least afford to lose. Did the American armies capture oue-thirtieth or even one-fortieth part of the number of English soldiers in this war* If Wetland Canal is not too small, the Constitution should by nil means take the place of honor at the naval exhibit of the World's Fair. The fourth ship, the President, was captured by a British squadron after a long chase. Although this frigate mado no important captures in tho war and was regarded as an unlucky ship, yet she always occupied a large place in the affections of the people. This was the frigate which was challenged by the Guerrierc to single combat at tho out break of the war. The challenge was as singularly worded as the events which followed it were strange: \Captain Dacres, commander of His Britannic Majesty's ship Guerriere, presents his Hotel, which can accommodate o small army, you know, and as rapidly as pos sible we tiled up to the register,inscribcd our names thereon and were sent to our respective rooms ur.der the guidance of bell boys. I took a bath, changed my linen, and iu the course of an hour or two strolled down to the office to see if there was auy mail for me. I approached the clerk's desk, but before I had time to utter a word Mr. Clerk nodded pleas antly to me, and with apparent solicitude inquired: \Ho w do you like your room, Mr. Burton, does 3011 suit you?\ Well, sir, I was dumbfounded. This man had never seen me bcfoie in his life, except for the half minute I had stood before him while I wrote my name on tho regis ter, fully -125 persons had passed before i him inside of two hours, and yet he was able without the slightest effort to re member my name and the number of tho ' room he had assigned me to. As you ' see, there is nothing whatsoever out of the ordinary iu my appearance, and for the life of me I couldn't understand why I should be so readily recollected by this 1 mild-mannered clerk. Well, in order to ! satisfy myself that I wasn't the only member of our party who could be thus 1 romembered, I lounged around the clerk's desk for fully an hour, and I hope to be deprived of all my rights as a citizen of ' the United States if I didn't hear that wonderful clerk call fifty of ray acquaint ances, none of whom had ever been in San Francisco before, by name and ask them the same question he had put to 1 me. \George Scgur, who was for many years clerk at the Metropolitan Hotel in New York, was another such man, and had a truly phenomonal memory. Tho . lirst time I ever saw Segur I registered I late one night at the ICennard House, in 1 Cleveland, where he was then chief clerk. I left at daylight the next mora- | ing, SD that he had scarcely an oppor- , tunity of siz ng me up, and yet when I walked up to the clerk's desk in the York, five years Segur, who was there on duty, held out his hand, pushed the register towards me and said: 'Hullo, Burton, old boy, how are all tho folks in Omaha? 1 \— Detroit Fr,e Press. Protecting Buildings From Fire. An interesting method of preventing a building from catching fire when adja cent buildings are burning has been adopted in the offices of a Glasgow (Scotland) paper. There is already in tho building an efficient installation of automatic sprinklers for extinguishing tires which may come from within, but it is considered that there is just as much danger, if not more, from fires originat ing elsewhere. A supply pipa is there fore taken from the water tower which feeds the sprinklers and connected with a system of perforated malleable iron pipes which are carried along tho ridge of the roof, the eaves and all over tho France has a mine 4000 feet deep. Plowing is done by olectricity in b'pain. Electric headlights are used on. the Southern Pacific Railroad. Professor Huxley says that aa oyster is n far more complicated piece of machin ery than the finest Swiss watch. It is estimated that 19,000 electrio lamps, aggregating 10,000,000 candle power, •will be required for the Chicago World's Fair. trair specimens ot wood and seeds were) obtained not long ago 1510 feet below the surfnee at Galveston, Texas, where they were sinking an artesian well. It is not generally known that tho bison still exists i a Europe. The Euro pean variety appears to be identical with tho North American bison in all essential respects and its general appearance. Compressed air delivered from a flexi ble hose with a small nozzle at n pressure of fifty pounds to the square inch is very effective in cleaning plush cushions. It Is so used on tho Union Pacific Com pany's road. Carp are very fond of the larvce ot mosquitoes, and as these fish thrive in the only kind of water in which the larva: of the mosquito can live, it is sug gested that they might be employed to exterminate this pestiferous insect. The steamer Rhynland has taken to Antwerp, from the United States Fish Commission, 500 catfish, consigned to the Belgian Government, which will at tempt to propagate them in tho sluggish waters that abound in that country. A company has been formed iu Ger many to erect works for the production of the new explosive, dahmenito, which is especially adapted for mine use, hav ing more power than dynamite, at the same time'./eing perfectly harmless under ordinary circumstances. A remarkable change is said to be- about to take place iu the manner of giving the warning lights to mariners. In England,electric lights experimentally turned vertically toward the sky have given extraordinary results. Tho light of the Eddystone Lighthouse can be seen seventeen and a half miles on a clear night, but a vertical beam of light of far less power is visible twice as far, and can surmount an ordinary fog. Experiments conducted on shore undei the auspices sometimes of a Government and sometimes of a railway company show that color blindness is extremely common, and that those who are color blind arc often entirely ignorant of tho defect in their vision until the tests are made. The same thing must necessarily be true of sailors, who seldom have any occasion to test their vision by scientific methods, and who arc confident in thi belief, if they think of the matter at all, ' that their vision is normal. i A mollusk, only known hitherto as a j fossil of the Miocene age, has been found i in a living condition, having been dredged in Drake's Bay at a depth of i twenty-five fathoms. Considering the I upheavals and depressions that have oc- \ curred along the Pacific Coast, one I might think that there had been some I change in \environment\ during all the I time since the long, long ago Miocene age, and that the shell and its owner I would have long since chauged its > character if \environment\ had much to I 'saj iu the matter. | WORDS OF WISDOM. Molasses is honey to the contented man. Marrying for money has its draw backs. A million dollars covcreth a multitude of sins. Tale-hearers are just as bad as the tale- makers. There arc no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred. is the peg iu your shoe compliments to Commodore Rodgers, of 1 windows. The pipes are usually kept the United States frigate President, and will be very happy to meet him or any other American frigate of equal force to the President off Sandy Hook, for the purpose of having a social tete-a-tete.\ The Guerriere did not have the satisfac tion of meeting the President, but she met her sister, the Constitu9ion ,and his tory informs us that the tete-a-tete was entirely satisfactory—to the Constitu tion. The President also was endeared to the American people on account of her heroic defence when under the command of Commodore Decatur against the squadron of Captain Hays. This ship left Now York early in January, 1815, in a heavy gale and nttempted to get to eea in spite of a powerful blockading Equadrou. In crossing the bar at Sandy Hook she unfortunately grounded and for two hours thumped on the sand and became \hogged\ or broken-backed,and this seriously impaired her sailing qual ities. As it' was impossible to re gain port, however, she got to sea and was chased for twelve hours by the British ships. About nine o'clock at night when it was seen that the enemy's leading ship, the Endymion, must inevi tably close on her, Captain Decatur ad dressed his crew as follows: \M y lads, that ship is coming up with us. As our ship won't sail we'll go on board them, every man and boy of us, and carry her into New York. All I ask ot you is to follow me. This is the favorite ship of the country. If we allow her to be taken we shall be deserted by our wives and sweethearts. What, let such a ship as absolutely dry, and to prevent their rust ing they are coated with zinc. A pump is provided for forcing the water through the system of pipes, and it can be brought into action almost instantaneously. The exterior of the building receives such a constant flooding when the pump is in ! action that there is absolutely no danger from an adjacent fire.— Courier-Journal. Continental Currency. Along in the latter part of the last century the continental money issued to the extent of $240,000,000 has been sinking out of sight. Just before tho final collapse a desperate effort was mado to hold up the currency, but notwith standing all that the Government, aided by the leading men of tho period could do, a dozen eggs sold for §5 in conti nental paper money and a silk hat of the period, which would bo worth S7, cost $140,000 in continental currency. The word was burned into the language, and then, as now, utter worthlessncss ot a thing was conveyed by the expression, \It is not worth a continental.\— Chi- caijo News. Deerskins. Though deer arc not abundant in tho markets, deerskins may bo bought in New York at from $1.75 to $2.50 each. An unusually handsome skin may cost $5. Taxidermists charge from $3 to $6 for curing them, and furriers charge as high as $25 for the cured hides. The hides of deer shot by pot hunters are of ten damaged with bullet holes, and are, ', therefore, cheap. Cooking For a Commodore. Autonio Doliviera Botheilhle, chief at the Quiney House, Boston, saia the other day. \I think one of the best schools for a man who would please many fastidious tastes in cooking is on board n United States steamship on a cruise to foreign parts. I was born in tho Azores, but I didn't have much expeience until I went around in the United States ship Constellation. I was not cook for the sailors, nor for the officers, but for one man. That was the commodore. My experience is thnt n commodore is usually a hard man to please in the matter of cooking. 1 cooked for several commodores—about half a dozen—in my service of six or seven years. Generally a commodore is a man of good taste in the matter of food, and quite as generally he is a man of decided opinion in regard to certain dishes. He has a great deal of time to devote iu the course of a cruise to the matter of dining and he becomes nn expert after a while. Then, again, he visits many foreign ports, and he becomo acquainted with foreign dishes and foreign methods of cooking. He com municates his knowledge to his cook, and on the return journey tho cook is supposed to give examples of the newly acquired knowledge. The cook in a foreign port learns lor himself the native methods, and if he is a bright man he can do much to make himself indispen sable to his Commodore. My practice wes to learn as much as I could about French and German and Italian and Spanish and other dishes, and very often in the middlo of a dreary return voyage I have suprised tho Commodore with a much admired dish after the most ap proved Italian method. There is noth ing that will dissipate ennui so rapidly and completely as the proper appeal to an enducated and sensitive stomach, and there is no occasion so favorable to such an appeal as in the weary hours un shipboard.— San Francisco Ohronicle. A Tremendous Barley Farm. \We have now socurcd\ 250,000 acre 3 of land in North Dakota for barley farms, and next spring we will send thousands of German emigrants to that State from Ohio, West Virginia and Indiana,\ said Colonel O. M. Towner last evening, as he discussed the future of this great North ern State. Colonel Towner is manager of what is best known as tho Barley Syn dicate of Chicago. During the last two or three months the company has Due- cceded in securing 250,000 acres of land in North Dakota, on which it is proposed to place German farmers to raise barley for malt purposes. These lands have been purchased in Nelson, Norman, Towner, Ramsey, Steele and Bottineau Counties. It is the opinion of the managers of this company that barley can be most success fully grown in that State, and they have the conviction of their belief sufficiently to purchase theso lands und to send out emigrants from other States. The Ger mans are chosen on account of their knowledge cf barley culture for this pur pose. These emigrants will not be ten ants, but owners of the land, it being sold to them on easy terms. The crops will be bought by the company and chipped to oil points where there is a de mand for barley for brewing purposes.— St. Paul Pionur-Freti. Discontent that hurts. Even a sheepskin isn't a yard wide and all wool. Nothing is more difficult than to re turn thanks neatly. A woman's smile is tho little poem wc find in the prose of life. Nothing is more simple than great ness; iudced, to bo simple is to be great. Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. We never read a novel that we don't liken ourselves to some one of the characters. The only vico that cannot bo forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypo- crito is itself hypocrisy. Some men are grasping enough to want to subdivide the clay they are made of and sell it for town lots. Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he be sensible oi this ho would not bo icnoraut. The man who forgets himself in his sacrifices for others is not as great as he who makes the sacrifices remembering himself. Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that con cerns him, unreal, so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic repre sentation. Who ocly is good that others may know it, and that he may be the bette. - esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to meu, is one from whom much service is not to be ex pected. Tho Lund or \Pretty Soon.\ Sun, silence and adobe—that is New Mexico iu three words. If a fourth were to be added, it need be only to clinch the three. It is the Great American Mystery—the National Rip Van Winkle —the United States which is not United States. Here is the land Oi poco tiempc —the home of \Pretty Soon.\ Way hurry with the hurrying world? New Mexico is the anomaly of tht! Republic. It is a century older f Europeuu civilization than the rest, and several centuries older still iu a happier semi-civilization cf its own. It hud its little walled cities of stone before Colum bus hau grandpareuts-to-be, and it has them yet. The must incredible pioneer ing the world has ever seen over ran it with the zeal of a prairie-lire three hun dred and fifty years ago, and the embers of that unparalleled blize of ex ploratiou are not quite dead to-day. Tlr most superhuman niarUici, the mist awful privations, the most devoted hero ism, the most unsleeping vigilance wrested this bare, brown land to the world; nad having wrested it, went to sleep. The winning was the wakefulltst iu history—the after-nap eternal. It never li'is wakened—one docs not know that it ever can. Nature herself does little but sleep here. A few aeaii-'jus- tling American towns wart the Territorial map. It is pockmarked with cattle ranches and mines, where E^perienc; has wielded his costly birea over million aire pupils from the East and the Con tinent. But the virus never reached tho blood—the pits are only skin-deep. The Saxon excrescences are already asleep too. The cowboy is a broken idol, ile no longer \shoots up the town,\ or riddles heels reluctant for the dance. His day is doce, and so is\ that of the argonaut. They both sre with us, but their lids are heavy. And around them is New Spain again, dreamy as ever ufter their rude but short-lived nudging. —Scribncr. (Juccn Victoria's Private Secretary. Sir Henry Ponsonby, Queen Victoria's Private Secretary, writes Edward Wake field to the Pittsburg Dispatch, is a smart, well-preserved military-looking man of sixty-six, always dressed with exquisite taste, though with a good deal of style, and possessed of such polished manners and such a suave and dignified bearing that nobody can help being strongly at tracted to him. Like all the persons most closely attached to the Queeo, he is poorly paid for tho work ho doe3. He receives altogether about $10,000 a year, with a house rent free at St. James's Pal ace, and. of course, free quarters where- cver the Queen is. But he has a considerable income of his own, and his wife has means; and their po sition at court has advantages altogether apart from pecuniary ones. They are in the very inner circles of the best society without any of the burdens of grandeur, and their children have excellent pros pects in life open before them. Their eldest daughter, Alberta Victoria, the Queen's godchild, made a brilliant mar riage quite recently, and the presents that poured in from all quarters, even from several European sovereigns, were al most equal in splendor to those of a royal wedding. The Queen herself made a special journey to London to attend the ceremony—a thing she has seldom done—and the first name witnessing the marriage of tho Private Secretary's daughter in the register of the Guards' Chapel is the bold, stiff signature of \Victoria R. & I.\ Cochineal. Cochineal, the dyestuff of n beautiful crimson color, is prepared from the body of an insect which feeds on various plants of the cactus family, particularly on one of them, which is closely allied to the prickly pear. It is u native of Mexico and other warm parts of America, aud is carefully cultivated lor the sake of the insect, which finds its food in the leaves. It is a tiny little thing, one pound weight of cochineal being calculated to contain 70,000 of the dried insects. It is tedious work to gather them, being ac complished by gently crushing tho branches with the tail of a squirrel. The insects are killed by being placed in ovens, and when onco dried may be kept for any length of time without injury. One insect placed in a glass of water will color the whole liquid a beautiful carmine. Cochineal forms one of the most important exports from Mexico.— Biooklyn Citizen. DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. THE BRIGHT NEW YEAR. Tho Sermon as Delivered B y the Brook* lyn Divine. TEXT: \This year c/iou shalt die.\—Jere miah xxviii., 10. Jeremiah, accustomed to saying bold things, addressed Hananlah in these words. They proved true. In sixty days Hananiah had departed this life. This is tho fii-st Sabbath ot tho year. It is a time tor review and for anticipation. A man must bo a genius at stupidity who doe3 not think now. The old year died in giving birth to the new, as the life ot Jane Sey mour, tho English queen, departed when that ot her son, Edward Vl., dawned Tno old year wns a queen. The new shall be a king. Tho pravo of tho ono and tho oradlo of the other nre side by side. We can t-nrdly guess what the child will be. It is only two days old. but I prophesy for it an eventful future. Year of mirth and ma dues*! Year ot pageoutand conflagration! it will laugh, it will sing; it will groan, it will die. Is it not u time for earnest thought? The congratulations havo beeu given. The I'hnstmas trees havo been takoi down or h.«vo well nigh east th°ir trait. The friends who came for tho holidays are gone in tho ! rail train While wo uro looking forward J to another twelve months of intense activi- I ties the text breaks upon us like a bursting . thunderhead. \Tnis year thou sbult <ho''' The text will probably prove truo of some ' of us. The probability is uugnientod by tbo | fact that ell of u- who are over thirty-flvo ' years of ago huve gon 1 beyond tho averago | of human life. The note ts more than due. It is only hy sufference that it is not col- • lected. \WB are like a debtor who is tak ing tbo \three days' grace'' oc tho banks. Our race started with niuo hundred years for a lifetime. We read of but ono antedi luvian youth whoso early death disappointed tile hopes of his parents by his dying at seven hundred and seventy-seven years of age. Tho world then may havo been ahead of what it is now, for men ha 1 so Ion ^ a time in which to study and invent and plan. If an artist or a philosopher has forty years for work, ho makes great achieve ments, but what must the artists and phil osophers have dono wb.0 had nine hundred yiars before them? In the nearly two thou sand years before tho Hood, considering the longevity of the inhabitants, there, may havo Hake by Jfike, and It is so light that you may holrrit on the tip of the finger without feeling (\auy weight; but tho flakes gather; they compact, until some day a traveler's toot s'Jirts the slide, and it goes down in an ivalanche. crushing to deatn the villagers. Bo toe siusot your youth, aud thefilnsot your fna'nhood, and the sins of your woman hood may have seemed only slight in accuracies or trifling divergences from tho tight—so slight that they are hardly worth mentioning; but they have been piling up and piling up, packing together and packing together, uutll they make a mountain of liu, and one more stop of your foot in tho wrong direction may slide down upon you an avalanche of ruin and condemnation. A man crossing a desolate and Jonely plateau, a hungry wolf took after him. He- brought his gun to bis shoulder and took aim, and the wolf howled with pain, and tho cry woke up a paca ot wolves, and they camo ravening out of tho fore3t from all sido3 and horribly devoured him. Thou art the man. Somo ono sin of your lifo summoning on ail I the rest, they ;urround thy soul and\ mnlco I the nigiitof tty sin terrible w.th tho ass-iult 1 of their bloody muzzle*. Oh, the unpar doned, clamoring, ravening, all devouring sins of thy lifetime! A maniac was found pacing along the road with a torca iu one hand and a pail of water m the other, and some one asked him what he meant to do with them. He an swered, \With this torch X msaa to burn down heaven, and with this water I mean to put out the llr.'s of hell.\ Ho was a maniac. He could do the QUO thing just as well as ho could do tho other Is'o time to loso if you want to escape your sins for \This year thou shalt die. Let me announce that Christ, tho Lord, stands ready to s*ve any mau wno wants to be saved. He waited tor you all last year, and all the year before, and all your life. Ho has waited for you with blooi on His brow and tears in His eye. aud two out stretched, maugled hauds of love. You come home some night and find the mai'K of muddy teet on your front stop. You hasten in and find an excited group around your child. Ho fell into a pond, aud had it not been for a brave lad, who plunged iu and brought hiea out ana carried him homo to be resuscitated, you would have been childless, you feel that you cannot do enough for the rescuer. You throw your arms around him. You offer him any com pensation. You say to him- \Anything that you want shall be yours. I will never ceaso to be grateful.\ But my Lord Jesus sees your soul sinking, and attempts to bring it ashore, and you not only refuse Him thanks, but stand on tho beach and say . - , •, J i \Drop that soul! If I want it saved. I will been ueor.y as many peoplo as there aro I save ft myself \ now. I ho flood wus not a freshet, that ' I wish you mi wasnod a lew people oft a plank, but a dis- ' aster that may have swept away a thousand million. If tba Atlantic Ocean by a lurch of the co.-.h to-night should drown this hcniispheri und the Pacific Ocean by a sud- at Htm you might know what a job Jesus undertook when He carried your case to Calvary. They crowded Him to tho wall, a Atlantic Ocean by a lurch , They struck Him. Thoy spat on Him. They o-:ught should drown this | kicked Him. They cuffeJ Hun. They scoffed - •• - \ Thoy scourged Him. Thoy mur dered Him. \Blooi I blood I As He stoops down to lift you up tho crimson drops upon you from His brow, from His side, from His hands. Do vou not feel tho warm current on vour face? Oh, for theo tho hunger, the thirst, tho thorn sting, the suffocation, tho struggle, tho doath. feet free from tho clods of oarth, I shalt bound the hills with gladnoss and break forth* in a laugh of triumph. Aha! aha I W e weep now, but then we shall lough. \Abraham's- bosom\ means that heaven has open arms to take us in. No ,v we fold our arms over our heart, and tell the world to stand back, as though our bosom was a two barred gate to- keep the world out. Heaven * stands not with folded arms, but with heart open. It is \Abraham's bosom.\ I sas a mother and her child meeting at tho foot of the throne- attor some years' absenco. The child died twenty years ago but it is a child yet. I think the little ones who die will remain children through all eternity. It would bo no heaven without tho littlo darlings. I do not want those that are in heaven to grow up. We need their infant voices in tho great song. And when we walk out in the Ileitis of light, wo want them to run ahead and clap their hands und pick out too brightest of the field flowers. Yes. hero is a child and its mother meeting. Tho child long in glory, the mother just arrived. \How changed you ore, m y darling I\ says tho mother. \••Y tho child, \this is such a happy place, and Jesus has taken such oaro of me, and heaven is so kind, I got right over the fever with which I died. Tho skies nre so fair, mother I Tho flowers are so sweet\ mother 1 The temple is so beautiful, mother! Cotre. tako me up in your urras as you used to.\ Oh, I do not know how wo shall stand the first day in heaven. Do you- not think we will break down iu the song from overdelight? I onco gavo out in church tho hymn There is a lend of pure delight, Where smuts Immortal rolgo, and an aged man standing in front of tbo uulnit sane: heartilv tho lirst verse and then he sat uowa weeping 1 saia to mm atter- ward, \Father Linton, what made you cry over that hymn\\ Ho said, \I could not stand it—the joys that are coming \ When heaven rises ior the dox dogy 1 cannot so© how wo can rise with it if all thase waves oC everlasting deligUt como upon tho soul—bil low of joy after billow of joy Methtnks Jesus would be enough for tho Grst day in heaven, yot here Ho approaches with all heaven at His back' But I must close this sermon. This is tho last January to some who aro present. Yo u have entered tho year, but you will not close it. Within thesa twelve months your oyes will shut for the lost sleep. Other hauds will plant the Christinas treo aud give tho New Year's congratulations. As a procla mation of joy to some and as a warning to others, I leave in your oars these tivo words of one syllablo each, \This year thou shalt die I\ den lurch of the earth should drown the other hemisphere, leaving about us many beingsas com 1 bo gut in ono or two ocean steamer-, it womd give you an idea of what the ancient flood was. At that time Go.l started the rac3 with a shorter allowance of life Tho mno hun- eivd .\nrs wero hewn down until, in the tune ul VesnaMun.a ceusua was taken and only one hundred and twenty-four persons were lounu ono hundred years old and threo or A great plague camo in Marseilles. Tho doctors hehl a consultation and decided that a corpse must be dissected or they would , never know how to stop the plague. A Dr. four persons one hundred and forty years j (.Juyon said, \To-morrow morning I wilt old. Now a man who has come to ono hun proceed to a dissection.\ Ho made his will, • - * . prepared for deuth, went into tho hospital, dissected a body, wrote out tho results of the dissection and died iu twelve hours. Boauti- | ful self sacrificj you say Our Lord Josus 1 looked out from heaven and saw a plaguo stricken race. Sin must be dissected. Ho I mado His will, giving overything to His peo- ! pie. He comes down into tho reeking hos pital of earth. Ho lays His hand to the work. Under our plague He dies—tho healthy for tho sick, tho pure tor the pol luted, the innocent tor tho guilty. Behold -«--'--- • Behold tho sacrifice I Behold the I dreJ yetii-a of age is a curiosity, and we go lmli-'i to see nun. Tho vast majority of the race \> isses off before twenty years, i'o every apple there are live blossoms that never get to bo nppies. In the country church ine se-itju rings tho bell rapidly until almost through and then tolls it. For awhile the bell ol our life rings right merrily, but with some ot you the bell has begun to toll, and the adapteiluess of tho text to you is more and more probable, \1 'his year thou shalt die.' The character of our occupations adds to | \theTovel the probability Those wno are in tho pro- I rescue' lessiuus aro undergoing a sapping of tho brain and nervo foundations Literary men in this country are driven with whip aud spur to their topmost speed. Not one bram worker out of a hundred oosp-rves auy moderation. There is something so stitnu lating m our climate that if John Brown, the essayist of Edinburgh, had lived here, ho would have broken down at thirty-rivo in- stood of llfty five, oud Charles Dickens would havo dropped at forty There is so nething in all our occupations whicn predispo-es to disease Ir we bo stout, to uisoriei'n ranging irom fevers to apoplexy if we be frail, to diseases rang- 3 ., ing ti-jui consumption to paralysis. Printers | an 'a \weut to \buy r.uely reach fifty years Watchmakers, ' in mar!;.iig tho tune for others, shorten their own. Chemists breatho deuth in their laboratories, und potters absorb paralysis Fmuters tali un ier their own brush Foun dryineu tune Ueath in with the llhngs. Shoe makers pound away their own lives on tho last. Overdriven merchants measure off their own lives with th_- yardstick. Millers grind their owu lives with tne grist. Masoui mg their owu graves with the trowel. Anl iu all our occupations and professions there ure t'10 elements ot peril. ltupid climatic changes threaten our live\!. By reason of tho violent llts of the ther mometer, within two days wo live both iu the atvta ana the tropic. The warm south win I finds us with our furs on. The wintry i blast cuts through our thin apparel. The I hoot, the wheel, the lirearui, tho assassin, wuit their chance to put upon us their 'jun-tus. 1 announce it ns an impossibility that tnree hundredondsixty-liveduys should pass and Jeavo us all as we now are. In what direction to snoot tho arrow 1 know not, and so 1 shoot it at a venture. \Tins year thou shalt die \ In view of th.s. 1 adviso that you have vour teinpoial matters a I justed. Do not leuvo your woraly alluirs at tho mercy of administrators. Havo your receipts prop erly pasted, nu.l your letters filed, und your books balance.!. It you have \trust fuuds,\ see that they are ngutly deposited and ac counted for. Let no widow or orphan scratch on your tomastoue, \This mau wrougei me of my mheritauc?.\ Many a man has dio.l leaving a competency, whose property li.os, through his owa carelessness, afterward b;en divided be tween the administrators, the surrogate, the lawyers an 1 the sheriffs. I charge you, before ui-iny nays have gone, as far as pos sible, havo all your worldly matters made straight, tor \This year thou saaltdie.\ I advise, also that you be busy in Christian work. How many Sabbaths in the year! Fifty-two. If the text bo true of you it does not say at what time you may go, and therefore it is unsafo to count on all of the fifty-two Sundays. As you ore as likely to go in the firs: half of the year as in the lass half, I think we had better divide the fifty- two into halves and calculate only twenty- six Sabbaths. Come, Christian men, Chris tian women, what cin you do in twenty-six Sabbaths? Divide tho three hundred and sixty-live days into two parts, what can you '!o in one hundred anu eigaty-two days? What, by tho way of saviug your family, the church aud tho wond? You will not, through all tho nges of oternity in heavon, get over the dishonor and the outrage of go ing into glory, aud having helped uono up to the same place. It will be found that many a Sa'uoath-school teacher has token mto heaven her whole class; that Daniel Baker, the evangelist, took thousands into heaven- that Dod dridge has taken in nunJre.lsof thousands; that Paul took in a hundred millions. How many will you take in* li you get into heaven and\ find none there that you sent and that there nronone to 'o -no through ycur instrumentality, I bog ot you K> crawl under some Eeat in the \back corner ami never come out lest toe redeemed get their eyes on you and somo lane cry out, \That is the man who never lifted hand or voice for the redemption of his fellows. Look at him, all heaven\' Better be busy. Better put the plow iu deep. Better say what you have to say quickly. Better crv the alarm. Better fall on your knee=. Better lay hold with both hands. What you now leave undone for Christ will forever bi indone. \1 'his year thou shalt die 1 \ In view of the probabilities mentioned, I advise all the men and women not ready for eternity to get ready. If the text be true, you have no time to talk about non-essen tial?, asking why God let sin como into the world, or whether the book of Jonah is in spired, or who Melchlsedec was; or what about the eternal decrees. It you aro as near eternity as somo of you seem to be, thero is no time for anything but the question, \What must I do\ to be saved!\ The drown- ir>£ man, when a plank is thrown him, stops not to ask what sawmill made it, or whether It is oak or cedar, or who threw it. The moment It is thrown, he clutches it. If this year you ore to die, there is no time for any thing but immediately laying hold to God. It, & high time to get out of your tins. You fay, \I have committed DO great transgressions.\ '.But are you not aware that your life has been llnful? Tho snow comes down on the Alps Decide on this first Sabbath of tho year whether or not you will have Jesus. He will not stand forever begging for your love. With somo hero His plea ends right speedily. \This year thou shalt die.\ This great salvation of the (Jospol I now offer to every man, woman and child. You turanot buy it. You cannot earn it. A Scotch writer says that a poor woman one I cold winter's day looked through the win- I dow of a king's conservatory and saw a ' bunc i of grapes banging against tho glass. I She said, \Oh. if I only had that bunch of ; grapes for my sick child at homo!\ At her ' spiuaing wheel she earned a few shillings and went to buy tho grapes. Tho king's gardner thrust her out very roughly, and aaid lie had no grapes to sell. Sho went off I and sold a blanket and got somo more sbil- : lings, and came bu:k and tried to buy the grapes. But tho gardener roughly assaulted I ner and told her to bo off. The i king's daughter was walking in the garden | at the time, and sho heard tho excitomont, and seeing tli9 poor woman, satd to her, \My father is not a merchant to sell, but he is a king and gives.\ Then she reached up and plucked the grapes and dropped them in tho poor woman's apron. So Christ is a king, and all tho fruits of His pardon He freely gives. Thoy may not bo bought. Witliout money and without price, tako this sweet cluster from the vineyards of God. I am coming to the close of my sermon. I sought for a text appropriato for tho occa sion. 1 thought of taking one in Job: \My days fly as a weaver's shuttlo;\ of a toxt iu Psalms: \So teach us to number our days that we may upply our hearts unto wis dom;\ of the prayer of the vine dresser- \Lord let it alone this year also;\ butprossed upon my attention first of all. aud lost of all, j and above all, went tho words: \This year j thou shalt die.\ Perhaps it may mean mo. Though in per fect jenlth now, it does not tako God ono week to bringdown the strongest ohysical constitution I do no: want to die this year. Wo have plans and projects on foot that I want tosee completed, but God knows best, and He has n thousand better men than I to do the work yet undone. I have a hope that, notwithstanding nil my sins and wanderings, I shall, through tho in finite mercy of my Saviour, come out at tbo right place. I hove nothing to brag of by way of Chnstiau experience but two things 1 have learned—my utter helplessness before GnJ nnd the all abounding gruco o\ the Lord Jesus. If the text means some of you, my hearers, I do not want you to bo caught unprepared. I would like\ to have you, either through money you had laid up or a \lite insurance,\ be able to leave the world feeling that your family ncel not be como paupers. But if you huve done your best and you leave not one dollar's worth of estate, you may confidently trust tho Lord who hath promised to caro for tho widow and fatherless. I would Hko to have your soul flttsd out for oternity, so that if any morning or noon or evening or night of these three hundrol and sixty-fivo days, death should look in and ask, \Are you ready!\ you might, with an outburst of Christian triumph, answer, \Aye aye I all ready.\ I know not what our last words may be. Lord Chesterfield prided himself on his po liteness, and said in his last moment, \Give Dayrolles a chair.\ Dr. Adam, a dying schoolmaster, said: \It grows dark. The boys may dismiss.\ IxjrJ Tonterdcn, sup posing hlmsoir on tbo tenc.i ot a court-room, said iu his last moment, \Gentlemen of the jurv, you will now consider your verdict.\ A Jying play actor said: \Drop tbo curtain. The farce is played out.\ I would rather have for my dying words those of one greater than Chesterfield or Dr. Adam or Lord Ten- terden: \I am now ready to be offered, and the timo of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, 1 have finished my course. I have kept tho faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteous ness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me.\ The sooner the last hour comes tho better it we are fitted for outrance in tho celestial world. There is no clock In heaven, because It is un everlasting day; yet they keep an account of the passing years, because they are all tho time hearing from our world. The angels flying through heaven report how many times tho earth has turned on Its axis, and In that way tba angels can keep a diary; nnd thoy sayi t is almost tlmo now for father to come up, or for mother to como up. Some day they seo a cohort leaving heaven, and they ray, \Whither bound?\ and tho answer is, \To bring up a soul from earth;\ and tho question is oskod, \What soul?\ And a family circle in heaven find that it is ono of their own number that is to be brought up, and tboy come out to watch, as on the beach we now watch for a ship that is to bring our friends home. After a while the cohort will heave in sight, flying nearer and nearer, until with a great clang the gates hoist, and with an embrace, wild with the ecstacy of heaven, old friends meet again. Away with your stiff, formal ! heaven I I want none of it. Give me a place of infinite and eternal sociality. My ivi-piffon uog <a. \While wc waited at tho head «.f the Long Portage on tlio Nepigon River for our half-breeds to carry up the canoe ' writes a contributor, wicti lied yellow dog crawled out o f Mime alder lnislics and looked at us. 1 lis Ojiliway inastei\s,desee !Kiing with llieir winter\- take of furs, had aban doned him to •starve Poor creature I UN ribs were almost through his mangy coat, hi- face shrunken to a mere skull. In- piteous eyes dreary with sorrow and -tillering •••Ah. wi n did thej I\ave tne' J '-aid that -ad old dog a- pl.iinlj a< it is here written - \Vh\. after I had served tliein - o long, been kicked -o nun h, and loved them so dearly' ••He. crawled from Hie thicket ju-fc to know \\ hel her there wa-.m y mei'y in the tw o white men M> friend -aid, •Poor old dog\—poor fcilow\ and to—eil him a piece of bread The dog -lunk back.hesitated,turned crouched low, crawled back towards the bread. \•Poor fellow' poor old fellow\ we =aid. \Perhaps the tonesencourafred him. He ate not ravenously, for he was too far pme All the while he looked hi- (,'i'at itude, yet fearfullv At last he laj down In our i )ae h <, saying clearly enough. -Let me be your dog anil watch for >ou ' He blinked his; afjed thank- because we did not re- l'ti-e. • Now when Antoine a'rived, h o put down hi- end of the canoe, -eized a paddle, and walloped ih.it woebe gone doj; In fore we coald hinder. Afterward we tempted the creature back out of the bushes to lick up grease poured from a fr. imr-pan upon it ll.it rock. Antoine and Louis were muih di-sru-tetl b\ this. ••At portage after portruf\ wo fount! one or more such forsaken dog-. An toine invarinbh pelted or kicked the- erninhinj.' (feature-, while. Louis looked on with approval. • -Oli de\ s no (jood: de\' s t.io hoi',' said the old man in \reply to our re buke-. \At the Island Portage we found a fine old do«r whose joy at .seeing Louis was jrreat. That stoic looked on un moved, while Antoine kicked the poor brute awa\ In -pite of this treat ment he !o!!ow\d along the ea-tern -lime a- Wt paddled up the uver. Win II we cainpi 1 on t In- we-tern side- he stood howlni!! dismally ••The -un was .far toward overdue. As the lb rteii dnjr thought ol'a nightj. of-tarvat'on alone, he resolved to try the desperate passage Away the icy current swept him. A t a hundred feet out his coiir.tjre faltered, and he turned back He had 1» en ashore- Put a few minutes when his lonjiintr for Louis -cut him in afrain \Down down he went, and the rapids half a mile below yelied for his;- life. It seemed impossible he could escape: but his chin was home up j bravely hy Father IS'epigon, and he manaced to win the point above the- Island Portage. Louis looked on with perfect indifference. •'•He's a brave dop, Louis. \Why don't you keep him?' I asked \ 'He wass a frond dojr.' said Louis, without concern 'He was my brud- der Narcisse dorr dat's dead Den my brudder Francois took him.' •• 'It's a shame to leave him to< starve.' \ -Oh, hec's hoi' now\ said Louis, with surprise. \Late that evening the wretched dofr skulked into camp We kept him in trout during our stay. After that? \Well one fancies him running his- strength away trying t o catch Kcpigon hares, and at last laying his tired old hones down t o molder and bleach far away on the hills.\ xnvin g ror l 'oarlft. One of the largest pearl-fishing grounds in the world is the Gulf of California. The pearls are not gen erally regular In shape or very pure in color, but some arc of large si/.e, and many of the rare black pearls are found. The divers arc Indians, and their equipment is of the simplest, kind, consisting only of a baske/ hung around the neck, in which tt collect the oysters, a knife to .detach- them from the rocks, and a stone •with a cord attached. \When a diver goes down he takes the cord between his toes, the weight of the stone carrying hirn a!t once to the bottom.* He gathers oysters as long as his- breath holds out, then rises t o the surface, to descend again in fifteen, minutes. Some of the divers are wonderfully expert, and can remain under water for as much as two. min utes before rising to the surface. The mortality atuong theni is fearful, - for the Gulf of;'California is infested! with huge Sharks,, , J • f
