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LING UP THE NILE.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
AND HOUSEHOLD.
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God who can pardon, a God. who. can a*, though laying down
si.ve. Called up,as we are for a little. /quivnlent te dymg. . live
while to give testimony, again the by consecrating the wftote lif
sands of the desert will bury us. Ashes tar greater love As Christ
to ashes dust to. dust!” And as these '»«* ®»1Y h“ earthly life, but
This
the house,
than
NOTES, FACTS AND ACTS.
ravelled
and well
on several
Obedience
of disciples
L The Allegory of the Vine and its
Branches.—Verse 1-3. Some think this al-
egory was suggested by the “fruit of the
vine” they had used in “the last supper” ;
ethers, by the great golden vine over the
{olden gate of the temple which Josephus
lays was so large that it “had clusters as
long as a man.” 1. “I am the true vine.”
Se is the one who can fulfil to them the
perfect relations of a vine to its branches
n distinction from the natural vine. “My
father is the busbandman. ” Not the hired
aborer, but the owner of the vineyard,
;he original planter, possessor and cultiva-
that
in a
help
that
claimed to bo the best substitute for
rags yet obtained.
A substance having all the essential
qualities of silk has huen made from
wild hemp by Nayemura Sakutaburo,
of Hikono, Japan. The plant grt”**
on moors and hillsides, and could be
readily cultivated. The fibre is!lr®“J
and glossy, and several gii^ factories
are said to have found it to be in 00
way inferibr to silk.
^,-The belief that chimney-sweep's
There are 5,000 Japanese in San Fran-
cisco.
A Dslawaran has contracted to furnish
100 tons of cat-tails to a firm in St. Louis.
Owing to the immense number of re-
cruits wanted in the French army, ths
standard of height has constantly been re-
duced. It is at present little more than
five feet.
A lad of sixteen years in Frostburg,
Md.t is said to have been growing at the
rate of half an inch a month for two
years. Ha is now six feet four, and
' weighs 186 pounds. _ ______
to ashes, dust to. dust!” And as these
voices of porphyry and granite ceased,
all the sarcophagi under the hills re-
sponded, “Ashes to ashes:” and the
capital of a lofty eolwmn fell grinding
itself to powder among the rocks, one
responding. “Dust to dust!” ....___....
Gol-fen Text: Herein Is My Father Glori-
fied, That Ye Bear Much Fruit.—
John IS: 1-16.
lilmant on the great organ of the
ooklyn Taternaele this morning, by
TALMAGE PREACHES A
life to us—Abbott
14. “Ye are my friends.”
is the tree test of friendship <
toward their Lord and Teacher.
15. “Henceforth I call you not ser-
vants.” They are indeed to serve him
out not in a blind and servile way. “For
a servant knoweth not wbat his lord
doeth. ”, A servant does not know hie
master’s will. “But I have called you
friends.” I take you into my counsels, I
reveal to you my plans, and you serve me
because you love me.
16. “Ye have not chosen me, but I have
chosen you.” Their appointment to this
high office was purely of grace. “Go and
bring forth fruit. ” This it is to which he
appointed them. “And that your fruit
should remain.” Your work shall endure.
The kingdom you found shall never end.
“That whatsoever ye shall ask of the
Father in my name he shall give it yon.”
Whatsoever they may need in this service
let them go tr ;he Father and he will
{rant it to them.
Mscrlwlnstlsg Can Should be Observed
Feed I u* Konos, Sheep and Cattle Li
Winter—Fara and Stork hole*
— Ireful Household Hint,.
countries. Our
ABLE SUGGESTIONS IN
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY.
and Osiris
LESSCfN V.—NO’/. 1.—CHRIST
THE TRUE VINE.
us: Witness Menes.
CCIEXTIFIC MTBCTT.T.syy
The fibre of the hop vine—n0W
used in France for paper—has great
could exchange two years study of
Latin, Greek und philosophy for the
Instruction that is usually given in a
real agricultural college.
One serious fpult of agriculture Is
the slight attention p .id to root crops
—most valuable uids; in fucL all but
absolute necessities, in the economical
production of tbo best, and therefore
the most profitable meats. Our Eng-
lish brethren are ahead of us in this
' matter, and they have discovered for
one thing that a crop sown in early
summer has available not only all the
nitrates available to wheat or oats or
barley or rye. but also the large sup-
ply of nitrates formed in the soil dur-
ing summer and oiiNy /autumn. The
1 autumn and winter rnins wash the
soil rather bare of nitrates before the
cereals begin growth in the spring, A
' large part of the nitrates which would
be lost were a cereal crop grown is
assimilated and retained by a root1
crop; and when the roots are fed on
the land, we may return the nitrogen
to the soil in the manure of tho ani-
mals und thus enrich the land for a
cereal crop. _____
Mock uud Uslry Bute*.
When a man complains that his fin-
gers get to cold while he is milking,
we are ready to hear him complain
that for some reason his cows do not
give big messes. A temperature
makes fingers uncomfortably cold
few minutes is not calcinated to
the milk production of an animal
must enduro it twenty-four hours per
day. Cold fingers at milking means
less milk.
Don’t adopt the idea that a good
beef animal must be a poor milker. It
is erroneous. Good calves to grow
into beef animals cun not be raised-
without plenty of milk, although It
may just us wyll bo skimmed milk if
something is used to repluee the creuin;
and wo cannot huve plenty of milk
without good milkers for dams. The
best beef animal, because the most
profitable, comes from u breed of cows
thsf will raise a good
milt and butter pay for their keep
besides.
The milk and butler
subsided. The tests became generally
discredited, and at the best they had
little practical value. Stuffing a cow
with all the milk producing food she
can handle has little practical interest
to tho dairyman, and is of little value
as evidence in favor of a breed. But
every dairyman should test the animals
of his herd, not to see how much milk
they can give when force-fed, but to
determine which animals pay the most
or the least for thoir food—which are
the most and which are the least profit-
able when full fed and wisely fed. The
test must take account of the quality
of the milk as well us of its quantity.
Unless the dairyman makes these tests,
how can he know what animals he
should keep and what, he should sell?
' stoiuetaold Hints.
To take out spots from wash goods,
rub them with yolk of egg before
washing.
1 he favorite linen for embroidery is
one of the “old bleach” manufacture.
Ihis linen is woven with a firm round
thread of a superior quality of flax,
and is
The best way to fry apples is to
halve them, remove core, put some
butter in frying-pan and put in the
halves the cut side down, then add a
little water and let boil dry; then fry.
To clean hair brushes, put a table-
spoonful of ammonia into tepid water,
dip them up and down until clean,
then dry with the bristles down. In
place of the ammonia, they may be
cleaned by using a teaspoonful of soda.
The fashion of sewing tiny sachets
of fragrant powders in the corsage of
dresses is not now, and is certainly
a very agreeable one. There also the
perfume used must be no stronger
than violet or euu d’Espagne, amber
or orris-root.
Ivory may be bleached by placing it
for an hour in a solution of alum;
then polish it with a piece of woollen
and wrap it in linen to dry. Another
method is to take peroxide of hydro-
gen. and toque pint nf it. vulu-pno
ounce of aqua-mammonia. Warm it
and soak tho ivory in it for twenty-
four hours; then dry and polish with
chalk.
When any part of a dress skirt or
drapery has been torn or soiled, it
can often bo successfully covered by
changing the arrangement of
draperies, or by an ingenious disposi-
tion of trimming, in harmony with
what is already in use. A rent should
always be darned with
threads of the material,
pressed ou tho wrong side,
thicknesses of heavy cloth.
For small articles about
such as book covers, blotting-cases,
| wall pockets und the like, a revival of
j the darned backgrounds, once so pop-
| ular. has taken place. The design
is merely outlined and lightly filled in,
and hence is doubly effective against
the darker and artistically irregular
stlchus of the foundation. The work
is easy, the worker’s- attention being
mainly required to keep the lines of
stitches quite straight. It is advisa-
ble that one who has not tried the
work before should run a few straight
lines of darning across the material,
at intervals of ..bout three-quarters of
an inch. These will serve as guides
to the other lines. For linen, fine
crewel wool will be found more effect-
ive than silk; but flax threads will
work in better for such small ar-
ticles as postcard cases or letter pock-
ets.
HOW THEY ARE MADE
Why Lead Pencils ire Not UM
Pencils.
Do you see this fine black powder?
It costs twenty-flR)
This white substiM
It is brought as bdjl
rivers witn any rapture or aamiranoa.
It fortunately had but little speed, for
twice we ran aground and the
sailors jumped into the water ana an
their shoulders pushed her out. But
what yacht of gayest sportsman, what
deck of swiftest ocean queen should
give such thrill of rapture as a sail on
the Nile? The Pyramids in sight, the
remains of cities that are now only a
name, the villages thronged with pop-
ulation. Both banks crowded with
historical deeds of forty or sixty cen-
turies. Oh, wbat a book the bible ia
when read on the Nile!
While sailing on thia river or stop-
ping at one of the Tillages we see neo-
nle on the banks who verify the bible
description ior they are now as they
were in bible times. Shoes are now
taken off in reverence to sacred places.
Children carried astride the mother’s
shoulder as in Hagar a time.
Women with profusion of jewelry
t s when Rebecca waa affianced. Len-
ails shelled into the pottage, as when
Esau sold his birthright to get such a
dish. The same habits of salutation
as when Joseph and his brethren fell
on each other’s necks. Courts of law
held under big trees as in olden times.
People making bricks without straw,
compelled by circumstances to use
stubble instead of straw. Flying over,
or standing on the banks as in Scrip-
ture days, are flamingoes, ospreys,
eagles, pelicans, herons, cuckoos and
bullfishes. On all sides of this
river sepulchres. Villages of
sepulchres. Cities of sepulchres.
Nations of sepulchres. And
one is tempted to call it an empire of
tombs. I never saw such a place as
Egypt is for graves. And now we un-
derstand the complaining sarcasm of
the Israelites when they were on the
way from Egypt to Canaan: “ Because
there are no graves in Egypt hast thou
taken us away to die in the wilder-
ness?” Down the river bank come the
buffalo and the cattle or kine to drink.
And it was the ancestors of these
cattle that inspired Pharaoh's dream
of the lean kine and the fat kine.
Here we disembark a little while ior
Memphis, off from the Nile to the
right. Memphis founded by the first
King of Egypt and for a long while
the capital. A city of marble and gold.
Home of the Pharaohs. City nineteen
miles in circumference. Vast
colonnades through which imposing
processions marched. Here stood the
Temple of the Swn., itself in brillancy
a sun shone on by another sun. Thebes
in power over a thousand one hun-
dred years, or nearly ten times as long
as the United States have existed.
Here is a recumbent statue seventy-
five feet long. Bronzed gateways. A
necropolis culled “the haven of the
blessed." Here Joseph was Prime
Minister. Here Pharaoh received
Jacob. All possble splendors were
built up into the royal city. Hosea,
Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Isaiah speak of
it as something wonderful. Never did
I visit a city with such exalted an-
ticipations an 1 never did my anticipa-
tions drop so fiat. Not a pillar stands.
Not a wall is unbroken. Not a foun-
tain tosses iu tne sun. Even the ruins
have been ruined and all that remains
are chips of marble, small pieces of
fractured sculpture and splintered hu-
man bones. Here and Jthere a letter
of some elaborate inscription- a toe or
ear of a statue that once stood in niche
of palace wall. Ezekiel prophesied its
blotting out and the prophecy has been
fulfilled. “Ride on,” 1 said to our party
“and don’t wait for me.” And as I
stood there alone, the city of Memphis
in the glory of past centuries returned.
And I heard the rush of her chariots
and the dash of her fountains and the
conviviality of har palaces and saw the
drunken nobles roil on the floors of
mosaic, while in startling contrast
ant'd all the regalities' of the place I
saw Pharaoh look up into the lace of
aged rustic Jacob, the shepherd, say-
ing: “How old art thou?”
I notice the voice of those ancient
cities is hearse from the exposure of
forty centuries, and they accentual e
slowly witn lips that were palsied for
ages, 'but altogether these cities along
the Nile intone these words, “Hear us,
for we are very old, and it is hard rar
us to speak. We were wise long before
Athens learned her first lesson. We
sailed our ships while yet navigation
was unborn. These obelisks, these pyr-
amids, these pillars, these wrecked
temples, these colossi of black granite,
these wrecked sarcophagi under the
brow of the hills, tell you of what I
was in grandeur, and of what I am
coming down to be. We sinned and
fell. Our learnings could not save us:
See those half obliterated hierogly-
phics on yonder wall. Our architec-
ture could not save us: See the painted
columns of 1’hilie, and the shattered
temple of Esneh. Our heroes could
not save “
Diodorbus, Eameses, and . Ptolemy
Our gods Ammon
could not save us: See their fallen
temples all along the four thousand
miles of Nile. O, ye modern cities, get
some other God; a God who can help, a
Timber lands in Berks and Lehigh
counties, Pa.. commands a higher price
than farm lands.
A Calhoun. Ga., man has a chair
which be claims is one hundred and fif-
teen years old, and has its original bot-
tom.
Cranberries flourish In Oregon, and
there is a probability that the succulent
berry will become a staple production
there.
An association of Philadelphia house-
wives will abolish kitchens in their
homes and start a co-operative central
cooking house.
Babies are now. very scarce In France.
One may pass a hundred houses with-
finding a single cradle in It. Such a
country is doomed.
Relic-sellers at Gettysburg are said
to iiiVport wagon loads of junk from
southern battle fields and sell them for
Gettsburg battle relics.
Grosvenor Hood Graeme, a young
Englishman who, during the BirchiiH
trial, was mentioned by the Toronto
Globe us possibly implicated in Ben-
well’s murder, has sued that paper for
$50,000 damages. He is the son of one
baronet and brother of another, but
drives a delivery wim
Feeding Hnreee.
Nearly every farmer has hie
Ideas in reference to feeding horses,
and especially those who look after
their stock carefully and seek to de-
rive from each the largest profit
Horses must be kept on the farm all
of the time, and to more or less ex-
tent at least, they must nearly always
be ready for service, and this Implies
keeping them tn a good, thrifty condl-
The small amount of feed that
be saved by stinting the feed
when the teams are at rest, is usually
more than made up by the extra feed
requied to get them iu tho proper con-
dition for work. In order to get the
most work at the least cost with the
teams it is very essential that they
should be in a thrifty, vigorous condi-
tion, and this is fully as important
during the winter ns in the summer.
Horses ns well as any other class of
•tock not only relish a variety of food,
but need an occasional change. To
. feed corn and hay or corn and fodder
as Is so often done during tho winter,
will not keep them in tho best condi-
tion ut the lowest cost. This is a
good ration, but when fed for any
length of time, the horses tire of ft
and need a change. Unthreshed outs
run through a cutting box and a small
quantity of bran added, is nnothr*
good ration, and oftentimes a verp
economical one; but it should not b>i
used exclusively too long. Strut
clover hay and bran with a little oil
meal is another good ration. Whetfi
ft is raised a ration of part oats an*
barley with hay or fodder cun bo giver..
On tho average farm there ought di'I
to be any difficulty in securing a got'-l
variety, and to make suffleiott
changes to keep in good appetite if a
little pains are taken.
Glv* a Variety of FoocL
The policy of feeding any ani-
mal only one kind of feed Is a great
mistake. It is not possible for
to thrive thus, nor is this their natural
way of feeding. Observe a cow or
horse at pasture. If there is any
variety In the succulent herbage they
avail themselves of iL Even weeds
are not disdained batreen mouthfuls
Of elover and grass. In the' barnyard
In winter a littlo bright straw will bo
greedily eaten by animr-ls whose usual
diet is hay. People In cities who keep
-• horse or cow, and have to buy every-,
thing they feed, are most apt to re-
strict animals and with least excuse.
By using a littlo forethought they can
the case where only one kind at a time
*• given. Appetite fails from lack of
variety in horses end cows, as it does
In men.
Shrinkage of Corn*
Old corn is worth more than new,
because it contains the concentrated
nutriment of the grain after its water
has evaporated. This moisture in
new corn is injurious, as it leads to
fermentation rather than digestion in
Stomachs of weak digestion. Besides,
this corn shrinks greatly in bulk while
thoroughly drying, the Western or
Horsetooth corn more especially. If
• man puts 100 bushels of this corn in
his crib, he does well to take out
•ighty-five in the spring after loss by
shrinkage and depredations of vermin.
Salting Stock In Winter.
Our impression is that stock, and
especially milch cows, are not gener-
ally supplied with salt so regularly in
winter as they are at pasture in sum-
mer. There seems to many less need
of salt with their dry feed than with
the green herbage they got at pasture.
Yet the stock are no less eager for it,
and it probably is as necessary to
their well-being. The only caution
about giving it in winter is not to al-
low the saltto mix with snow. This
produces intense cold.
Cow* Loalng Their Cad.
There is no such disease as cows
losing the cud, and the various
nostrums intended to supply it are use-
less. When the cow does not remasti-
cate her food it is a sign that she is
not well, probably from too much dry
and innutritions feed. A bran mash
fed slightly Wurm, with a little linseed
meal in iL will, in most cases, correct
the evil, and give the cow after an
hour or two, something to chew,
• better than any medicine.
Agricultural Atom:.
The farmer is a bigger factor
the farm. Moving does not cure the
ill-fortune resulting from ignorance or
extravagance.
Broad wheels draw easier on grass
and mud roads, and do not cut the
fields so badly or wear the roads so
rapidly. Thon why are not farm
wagons built with wide tiros? Can
anybody tell why they should be built
with narrow tires?
It is not the agricultural college that
weans the boy from the farm, but tho
dude literary college that gives a
smattering of science, the languages
(dead) and literature. It is reliably
stated that in Ontariy, where they
rnaae a business of sending children
to agricultural schools, more than
eighty-five per cent of them go back
to the farm. And President Chamber*
late says he has often wished that he
2. “Every branch in me that beareth
lot fruit.” These are the external profee-
»rs, the merely baptised members who
lave no life and never had__Jacobus. “He
taketh away." Because their presence in-
ures the other branches; “And every
iranch that beareth fruit,” Every disciple
s a branch; every church is a branch;
;hdre are many branches, but there is one
ife running through them all. “He purg-
»th.” Every thing is removed from the
iranch which tends to divert the vital
xiwer from the production of fruit.
8. “Now ye are clean.” Cleansed as de-
'cribed in the previous verse. ••Tiirougn”
in account of, - tho word,” which I have
ipoken unto you.
II. The Blessed Effects of Abiding with
he True Vine.—Vers. 4-16. 4. “Abide in
ne and I in you.” Abide in me; see to it
hat I abide in you. He thus recognizes the
noral freedom of his disciples. “As the
iranch, ’ ’ etc. The union between the
iranch and the main stem is the closest
hat can be conceived.
5. “He that abideth in me . . . bringeth
'orth much fruit.” Teach Christ, live
Christ, abide so Christ, and the fruit is
lure. ‘ ‘For without me, ” as a branch cut
iff is separated from the vine. “Ye can
lo nothing.” There will be no true good
works, no true success.
6. “He is cast forth as a branch.”
that is cast off and thrown into the brush
leaps for burning. “And is withered.”
ix>ses its power of bearing fruit; in time-
oses even the appearance of life. “And
hey are burned.” As dead branches of a<
fine are burned; destroyed;; no longer
a part of the vineyard. The branch that
s withered and fruitless may know that it
io longer abides in the vine.
7. “If ye abide in me, and my words
ibide in you.” We are to hold his word
dose to our living, loving heart; absorb
heir living force; breathe their spirit;
conform our activities forevermore to their
iemands—Cowles. “Ye shall ask what
re will, and it shall be done unto yob.’j
Ho promise could be more adapted to the
vants of this little band going out like
heep among wolves, amid unknown dan-
gers, to bring in the greatest kingdom ever
mown.
8. “Herein is my Father glorified, that
fe bear much fruit.” Christians are
Sod’s representatives on earth, therefore
he more good they do, the more is God
lonored. “So shall ye be my disciples. ”
uearners in the school of Christ; follow-
ers of his teaching.
H. “As the Father bath loved me, so
eave I loved you.” This is a marvelous
Itatement of the measure and quality of
Christ's love for us. It is true, warm,
>ersonal, seeking our best good, unfailing.
-Continue.” Abide; the same Greek
vord used so often in these verses. “In
ny love. ” Live aud labor under a con-
stant sense of iL being persuaded that
lotbing shall separate us froiu'the love of
Jhrist.—G. W. Clark.
10. “If ye keep my commandments.”
rhe natural effect of abiding in his love.
“Even as 1 have kept my Father s nom-
nandments.” Jesus’ example prove*
here is no other way for them.
11. “These things have I spoken; ” The
rerse forms a conclusion to the allegory
>f the vine. “That my joy might remain,
n you.” The joy which he experiencee-
n feeling himself the object of his Father’s-
ove. “And that yoar joy might be-full.”
;)r fulfilled; grow more perfect; have
ivery quality of true joy; increase in.
quality and abundance until you are full
'if joy, having all that your nature can.
:oatain.
I 12. “This is my commandment.”’ The
;jreat universal law of hia kingdom. “That
ye love one another.” Being all branches
:>f one vine the same-life-flows through- ail.
i“As I have loved, you. ” With the same-
warm, unselfish, personal, devoted- love.
|How had Christ loved them! Verse 13 is
jche answer. “Greater Hove hath M-tnan
(than this.”’ No maa,can,show gveater-Ibve
Jor his friends, “That a :na» lay down his
;dfe to his friends. ” Beware of reading
'xhisae-though laying down of life were
- for a friend,
life to him is
; consecrates
; his. eternal
It is graphite,
cents a pound,
is German clay.
J^t In sailing yesaala. We mir- 4
clay with the powder, and grind th«i
in a mill, adding moisture, till th<
mixture becomes a paste-like putty. ]
This paste is pressed into diesoi
the size of a pencil lead, but font
times as long. G<t into progir
lengths, the leads are baked at a hlfh
temperature. The degree of haii-
ness is determined by the proportM
of clay—the more clay the harder th«
lead.
Tho wood of the pencil is cedar.
This is brought mostly from Florid
and is obtained from fallen trees. Il
is delivered in blocks sawed to pend:
lengths. Half of these are thick U
receive the lead, and half are think
bo glued upon the others when the
lead has been inserted.
The blocks are wide enough for font
pencils each. They are grooved fw
the leads by a saw. The leads a«
taken f tom hot glue and laid in th<
groover Thon the thin piece is glued
to tho thick ono. After the block!
are dry the four pencils of each block
are cut apart. Another machiM
shapes them, making/ them ei^M-
sided, three-sided, round, or flat N
may oe desired. They are burnish^
by machinery, and are then ready fc
be tied up in bunches.
The higher grades of pencils are
made by finor manipulation of tM
graphite and tho use of better mate!*
al. The average pencil costs abdfl
one-quarter of a cent to make. #
thle grade of pencil fcn operator n
tut-n out twonty-five hundred a da.v.4
Now Krric Sun. 1
with improvement in methods °1
sweeping does not seem to be *«ll
founded. Dr. Butlln shows from I*19
registrar-general’s statistics thst the
liability of tho sweeps to maligi.’n*
disease is about eight times as
us tho average liability of nil m ile*
An electric target is mado by "
English company. When a bullet
strikes tho target, which is built uj i“
sections, the particular section bit *s
pushed against tho spring of a le»9r>
closing an electric circuit and causing
tho section to be indicated on the
isteriog apparatus at tho firing esd
the range. An electric boll is gimuP
taneousiy rung.
A London merchant rejoices bscauw
he tried music ns a medicine. Hii
boy, six years old, was dying with
typhoid, and was quiet insensible *‘th
no appearance of being able Co li”
through the nighL Knowing hii son’:
fondness for music, the father p -ocur
ed a largo xsvaio box, and causa itw
play, with the result that the hila''
attention was nt4x.*s*i ar.d n i lib
saved by the rcm’iion.
A Timely Discovery—A new isult
ting material, having all the j >op«
ties of gutta peroha, but with a : igbe
dielectric resistance, is claimed iy ft
Purcell Taylor of London. It ii etob
called “purcellite," and is said to >
exceedingly tough and elastic, oapab
ef being given any color, and of beif
made either flexible or rigid, and»
be only one-fortieth^as expensive!
gutta percha. '
The Range Finder.—Tho electrH
range-finder is designed for usei
naval warfare, but if it proves succet*
ful, it should be of great value i
times of peace as an instrument k
readily and accurately finding the d'-
tan ce' of inaccessible objects. To
telescopes are used at a known d-
tance apart, and the operation is bad
upon a fact that by a simple electrid
arrangement no current will ps
unless the two telescopes are exacy
parallel. The observer notes on <e
of the telescopes the angle requiredo
prevent a current from passing throth
the instrumenL and thus measureor
electrically weighs the differonce.n
angle of the two.
The Most Offensive Odor.—Somao-
searches by two German
have been brought to a close lifa
somewhat ludicrous manner. Anwng
several products obtained by them
from the reaction of’sulphurated hy-
drogen on acqtone was a small quant-
ity of an extremely volatile body which
seemed to be monosulphureted acetone,
or thioketone. It was impossible,
however, to obtain the substance pure
on account of its odor, which makes
all other foul smells sweet by compar-
ison, and entitles this compound—
whatever it is—to rank as the worst
smelling substance known. In the
attempts made to purify the producL
with every precaution to prevent its
escape, the atmosphere about the
laboratory was so infected to a distance
of at least a quarter of a mile that iS
storm of complaint from the citizeM
of the town made it necessary to abafe
don the investigation.
iooKT.YN. N. Y., Oct. 25.—The rond-
f of the first sonata in D minor by
nant on the great organ of the
klyn Taternaele this morning, by
Henry Eyre Browne, the organ-
ield the vast congregation spell-
fl with profound emotion. Dr.
isge preuebed on “Sailing Up the
” the second sermon of the series,
entitled “Jfrom the Pyramids of the
Acropolis, or Wbat 1 Saw in Egypt and
Greece Confirmatory of the Scriptures.”
His text was Ezekiel 29:9: “The river
i» mine and I have made iL”
-Aha! This is the river Nile. A
brown, or yellow, or silver cord on
which are hung more jewels of thrill-
ing interest than on any river that was
ever twisted in the sunshine. It rip-
ples through the Book of Ezekje), and
flashes in the Books of DeuterBnomy,
and Isaiah, and Zechariah, and Na-
hum, and on its banks stood tho
inighties of many ages. It was the
crystal cradle of Moses, and on its
banks Mary, the refugee, carried the
infant Jesus. To find the birth-
place of this river was the fascination
and defeat of expeditions without num-
ber. Not many years ago, Bayard
Taylor, our great American traveler,
wrote: “Since Columbus first looked
upon San Salvador, the earth has but
one emoliou of triumph left for her
bestowal, and that she reserves for
him who shall first eft-ink from the
fountain of the White Nile under tho
snow fields of Kilimanjaro.” But the
discovery of the sources of the Nil®.by
most people was considered an im-
possibility. The malarias, the wild
beasts, the savages, the unelimable
steeps, the vast distances, stopped all
the expeditions for ages. An intelli-
gent native said to Sir Samuel W.
Baker and wife as they were on their
way to accomplish that in which
others had failed: “Give up the mad
scheme of the Nile sowce. How
would it be possible for a lady ydung
and delicate to endure what would
kill the strongest man? Give it up,”
But the work went on until Speke, and
Grant, and Baker found the two
lakes which are the source of what
was called the White Nile, and bap-
tised these two lakes with the names
of Victoria and Albert. These two
lakes, filled by great rainfalls and by
accumulated snows from the moun-
tains, pour their waters, laden with
agricultural wealth such as blesses no
other river.on down over the cataracts,
on between frowning mountains, on
between cities living and cities dead,
ou for four thousand miles and
through a continent. But the White
Nite would do little for Egypt if this
were all. It would keep its banks ana
Egypt would remain a desert. But
from Abyssinia-there comes what is
called the Blue Nile, which, though
dry or nearly dry half the year, under
tremendous rains about the middle of
June rises to great momentum, and
this Blue Nile dashes with sudden
influx into the White Nile, which
in—consequence rises -thirty feet,
end their combined waters inundate .
Egypt with a rich soil that drops on
all the fields and gardens as it is con-
ducted by ditches, and sluices, and can-
als every whither.The greatest damage
that ever came to Egypt came by the
drying up of the river Nile, and the
greatest blessing by its healthful and
abundant flow. The famine in
Joseph’s time came from the
lack of sufficient inundation from
the Nile. Not enough Nile is
irouth, too much Nile is ft-eshet and
plague. The rivers of the earth are the
mothers of its prosperity. If by some
convulsion of nature the Mississippi
ihould be taken from North America,
»r the Amazon from South America,
»r the Danube from Europe, or
;he Yenesei from Asia—what hemis-
pheric calamity! Still There are
ether rivers that could fertilize
tnd save these
>wn continent is gulciied, is ribboned,
A glorified by innumerable water-
courses. But Egypt has only one great
river, and that is harnessed to draw all
the prosperities of realms In acreage
lemi-infinite. What happens to the
Nile, happens to Egypt. The nilo-
oaeter was to me very suggestive as
we went up and down its damp stone
iteps, and saw the pillar
marked with notches telling just how
high or low are the waters of the
Nile. When the Nile is rising, four
criers every morning run through the
-ity announcing how many feet the
river has risen—ten feet, fifteen feet,
twenty feet, twenty-four feet—aud
when the right height of water ■!»
reacned the gates of the canals are
Bung open and the liquid and refresh-
ing benediction ia pronounced on all
the land.
As we start where the Nile empties
into the Mediterrannean sea we be-
ho'd a wonderful fulfillment of the
prophecy. The Nile in very ancient
times used to have >even mouths. As
the great river approached the sea it
entered the sea at the seven different
□laces Isaisn prophesied: “The Lord
ihall utterly destroy the tongue of tho
Egyptian sea and shall smite it in the
ie«en streams!.* The fact is they are
all destroyed but two and Herodotus
»uia these two remaining are artificial.
Thieride along tho Nile is one of the
most solemn and impressive rides of all
tn .' lifetime, und our emotions deepen
is the curtains of the night f 11 upon
all surroundings.' But we shall not be
satisfied until we can take a ship and
pass right out upon these wondrous
waters aw! between the banks crowded
with the story of empires. -
According to the lead pencil mark in
mv bible it was Thanksgiving day
tnorniuir« November *’8, 1889, that with
my family and friends we stepped
aboard tho steamer on the Nile. The
Mohammedan call te pravers had
been sounded by the priests of that
religion, the Muezzins, from the four
hundred mosques of Cairo as the cry
went out: “God is great. I bear wit-
ness that there is no God but God. I
bear witness that Mohammed is the
apostle of God. Come to prayers,
tome to salvation. God is great
There is no other but God. Prayers’are
better thun sleep. * -The sky and city
and pai n groves and river shipping
were bathed in the light. It was not
much of a craft that we boarded. It
would not be balled on any of our
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