REV DR. TALMAGE. * THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUNDAY SERMON. Text: “H7*o maketh the clouds His 'Chariot.*— l'-alm civ., .‘t Hrutcijnro constructed so as to look down. Thos* eirth.lv creatures that have when they n.se from the earth still look down, and the eagle searches for mice in the grass and the raven for carcasses in the Held. Sian alone is made to look up. To induce him to 100 t up God makes tho sky a picture f;a!!ery. a Dusseldorf, a Louvre, a Luxem >our'*'. a Vatican that eclipses all that Ger man. « r French, or Italian art ever accom plished. Hut God has failed so far to attract tho attention of most of us by the scenery of tho sky. We go into raptures flover owers In the soil, but have little or no appreciation of the “morning glories” that bloom on the wall of the sky at sunrise or tho dahlias in tho clouds at sunset. We are in ecstasies over a gobelin tapestry or a bridal veil of rare fabric, or u snowbank of exquisite curve, but see not at all, or see without emotion, the bridal veil or mist that covers the face of tho Catskills, or the swaying upholstery around the couch of the dying day, or the mow banks of vapor piled up in the heavens. My text bids us lift our chin three or four inches and open the two telescop s which under the forehead ure put on swivel easily turned upward, and see that the clouds are not merely uninteresting signs of wet or dry weather, but that they are embroidered canopies of shade, that they are the con servatories of the sky, that they are thrones •of pomp, that they are crystalline bars, that they are paintings in water color, teat they are tho angels of the mist, that they are great < alheurals of light with broad aisles for angelic feet to walk through and bow at altars of amber and alabaster, that they are the mothers of tbfe dew, that they are ladders for ascending and descending glories, Cotopaxis of belching flame. Niagaras of color, that thev are the masterpieces of the Lord God Al mighty. 'lhe clouds are a fa\orito Bible simile and tho sacred writers have made much use of them. After the deluge God hung on a cloud in concentric bands the colors of the spectrum, saying: “I do set my bow in the clouds.” As a mountain is some times entirely hidden by vapors, so, says God, "I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions.” David measured the divine goodness and found it so high he apostrophized: “Tby faith fulness roaches unto the clouds. * As sometimes there are thou sands of fleeces of vapor scurrying across the heavens, so, says Isaiah, will be the converts in the millcniuin, “as clouds and as doves.” As in the wet season no sooner does the sky clear than there comes another obscuration, so, saj*s Solomon, ono ‘ache or ailment of old folks has no more than gone than another pain comes “as clouds return in the rain.” A column of illumined cloud led tho Israelites across tho wilderness. In tho book of Job. Elihu, watch ing the clouds, could not understand why they did not fall or why they did not all roll together, tho laws of evaporation and con densation then not being understood, and he cries out: ‘Dost thou know the balancing of the clouds'i” When I read my text it sug gests to mo that the clouds are tho Creators equipage, and their whirling masses are the w heels, and the tongue of tiie cloud is the pole of the celestial vehicle, and the winds are the harnessed steeds, and God is lhe Royal occupant and driver “who maketh tho clouds His chariot” To understand the psalmist's moaning in the text you must know that the chariot of old was sometimes a sculptured brilliancy ■made out of ivory, sometimes of solid silver, and rolled on two wheels which wore fastened to the axle by stout pais, and the awful defeat of Oeuornaus by Pelops was caused by tho fact that a traitorous charioteer had inserted a lim b pin of wax instead of a I inch pin of iron. All of the six hundred chariots of Pharaoh lost their linch pins in the ped Sea, for the Bible says: “The Lord took ofT their wheels.” Look at the long flash of Solomons fourteen hundred chario s, and the thirty thousand chariots of the Philistines. If you have ever visited the buildings where a king or queen keeps the coaches of state, as I have, you know that king-! and queens have great varieties of turnout. The keeper tells you: “This is the state carriage, and used only on great occasions.” “This is the coronation carriage, and in it the king rode on the day he took tlie throne.” “In this the Gueen went to open Parliament.” “This is tlr 1 coach in which tho Czar and the Sultan rode on the occasion of their visit.” All costly and tesselated and enriched and em blazoned are they, and when the driver takes the reins of the ten white horses in his hands, and amid mounted troops and bands in full force sounding the national air. the splendor starts ami rolls on under arches entwined with banners, and amid tlio huzza of hun dreds of thousands of spectators the sc* na is memorab'e. But my text puts all such oc casions into insi/nificance. as it represents the King of the Universe coming to the door of his palace, and the gilded vapors of the heavens rolling up to His feet, and He stop ping in and taking tho reins of tho galloping winds in II s ban 1 starts in triumphal ride under the arch s o': twnplrre. and over the atmospheric high w ays of opal and chrysolite, tho clouds Ills chariot. My hearers, do no 1 think that God belit tles Hims df when he takes r.icii conveyance. Do you know that the clouds are among the most wondrous and rnunstic things in the whole universe? Do you know that they are flying lakes and rivers and oceans? God waved His hand over them and said: “Come tip higher!” and they obeyed the mandate. Thn* flood iesfead of being, as it seems, a small gathering ot vapor a few yards wide and high is ready seven or eight miles across, and is a mountain, from its base to its top, 15,000 feet, 18,000 feet, 20.000 feet, and cut through with ravines 5000 feet deep. No. David did not make a fragile or unworthy representation of God in the text when ho epoke of the clouds os His chariot. But as I suggested in the caso of an earthly king. He has His morning cloud chariot and evening cloud chariot—the cloud chariot in which He rode down to Kinai to oj ton the jaw, and the cloud chariot in w hich he rode down to Tabor to honor the gospel, ami the cloud chariot in which He will come to ju Igment. When He rides out in His morning chariot at th n aiy«i( s * oY‘o ■«, h« put; go'- den oronet*on th** dome of ci'i.-s. and sil vers the rivers, and out of tho dew makes a diamond ring for th<* finger of every irraHs blade, and bids good cheer to invalids who in the night said: “IVoiiM Go lit were morn ing.” From this morning cloud chariot He distributes light, light tor toe earth and light for the heaven#, light for the land an I light for the w»a. great bars of it. great wreathes of it. treat columns of it. a world full of it. Hail Him in worship as every moraing He drives out *n Hu chariot of morning cloud, and ftj‘ with David: “My voice s ialt. Thou hear in tho morning: in the morning will 1 direct mv prayer unto Th»e end look up ’ I rejo’co in these Hcrip turo ejaculations: “Joy coitHdli in the morn ing.” “My wml w iitoth for Th w more than they that watch forth • n.ornhi “If I take the «:ug of th** morning.* “The eyelid *of the morning.” “The morning cometh/’ “Who is die tint loo’*»e!h forth hn the mom ng ” • !ii- - ''.jit f fli is ire | trad as thaino.n log. “A* »be morning spread on the mount j :*,»ii V 11( h ini .htv thing the King throw * iron) lint chariot when He t a rows ut ; tbemoning! j Y*-n H * las his evening cloud "hariot. It is ui i.i • owt of Ua tilTnin and the gold and the fm* pV an i the ora nze mil the v. million and up hot flame of the suns L Tout is tli* j place wher-j the splendors that have marched j through the day. Having ended the proces **on, throw down the torches and set the he *x m i or» Are. That i« the only hour of the day when the atmosphere is* clear enough to let in mu the wall of the heavenly city with It* twe vo manner of prec.ous stones, from foundation of jasper to middle strata j of sardius and on up to the co ping of arosthy«t At that honr with* out any of Eiiehns supernatural vis on ■wc is« ur-St of flr? on ! vliarok of Ore an i banners of fire and ships of lire and cities of fire, seas of fire, and it seems as if the last conflagration had begun and there is a world on fire. When God makes these clouds His chariot let us all kneel. Another day past, what have we done with it? Another day dead and this is its gorgeous catafalque. Now is the tim* for what David called the “evening sacrifice,” or Daniel called the “evening oblation.” Oh! oh! what a chariot made out of evening cloud! Have you hung over the tafFrail on the ocean »nd seen this cloudy vehicle roll over the pavements of a calm summer tea, tho wheels dripping with the magnifi cence? Have you from th6 top of Ben Lomond or the Cordilleras or the Berkshire hills seen the day pillowed for the night, and yet had no aspiration of praise and homage? Uh, what a rich God we have that He can put on ono evening sky pictures that excel Michael Angelo's “Last Judg ment” and Ghiilandjo's “Adoration of the Magi” and whole galleries of Madonnas, and for only an hour, and then away, arid the next evening put on tho same sky something that excels all that the Raphaels and the Titans and the Rembrandts and the Corregios ami the Leonardo da Vincis ever executed, and then draw a curtain of mist over them never again to be exhibited! How rich God must be to have a new chariot of clouds every evening! But the Bible tells us that our King also has a black chariot. “Clouds and darkness. *' wo are told, “are round about him.” That chariot is cloven out of night, and that night is trouble. When He rides forth in that black chariot pestilence and earthquake and famine and hurricane ami woe attend Him. Then let the earth tremble. Then let ga llons pray. Again and aga : n Ho has ridden forth in that char ot of black clouds, across England. France, Italy. Russia, and America, and over all nations. That which men took for the sound of cannonading at He has top 01, it Sedan, at Gettysburg, at Tel-el-Kebir. at Bunker Hill, were only the rumblings of the slack chariot of the* Almighty. Ave, it is ;he chariot of stormcloud armed with tliun derbolts. and neither man nor angel nor devil nor eirth nor hell nor heaven can resist Him. bn those boulewards of blue this chariot sever turns out for anything. Aye. no one ilse drives there Under one who* l ! of /wit chariot Babylon was crush°d and Baal oeek fell dead and the Roman Empire was prostrated and Atlantis, a who’e continent ;hat once connected Europe with America, tank clear out of sight so that the longest mehor of ocean steamer cannot touch the top >f its highest mountains. The throne of tne ”a*sars was less than a pebble under the ughfc wheel of this chariot, an l the Austrian lesnntism less than a snowflake under the left wheel. And over destroyed worlds on worlds ihat chariot has rolled without a jar or jolt. This black chariot of war clou la rolled up o the northwest of Europe in 1*1 ! and four iundred thousand men marched to take Mos cow, but that chariot of clouds rolled back, ind only twenty-five thousand out of the four iundred thousand troops lived to return. No rival snow storm like that had ever before or ias ever since visited Russia. Ave, the chariot if the Lord is irresistible. There is inly one thing that can halt or turn any of Ris chariots, ami that is prayer. Again and igain it has stopped it. wheeled it around, ind the chariot of black clouds under that lanetifie 1 human breath has blossomed into tuch brightness and color that men and ingels had to veil their faces from its bright* less. Mark vou. the ancient chariot which David uses as a svmbol in my text had only :wo wheels.and that was that they might turn luickly, two wheels taking less than hal. the time to turn that four wheels would have taken. And our Lord’s chariot has only two wheels, and that means instant re versal, and instant help, and instant deliver ance. While the combined forces of the universe in battle array could not stop his black chariot a second or diverge it an inch, the driver of that chariot says: “(.‘all upon Me in the day of trouble and I will de liver thee,” “While they are yet speaking I will hear.” Two wheeled chariot, one wheel justice and the other wheel mercy. Aye. they are swift wheels. A cloud, whether it belongs to the cirrhus, tho clouds that float the highest; or belongs to the stratus, the central ranges; or to the cumulus, the lowest ranges, seems to move slowly along the sky if it moves at all. But many clouds go at a speed that would make a vestibule limited lightning express train seem lethargic, so swift is the chariot of our God; yea. swifter than the storm, swifter than the light. Yet a child ten yearn old has been known to reach up, and with the hand of prayer take the courser of that chariot by the bit and slow it up, or stop it, or turn it aside, or turn it back. The boy Samuel stopped it. Elijah stopped it Hezekiah ! stopped it Daniel stopped it. Joshua stopped it. Esther stopped it. Ruth stopped it. Hannah stopped it. Mary stopped it. My father stopped it My mother stopped it 11 y s’ster stoppe lit He have in our Kab vath-aciioois children who again ami again ind again have stopped it. Notice that, these old time chariots, which ny text uses for symbol, h id what we would •all a high dash board at the front’, but were /pen behind. Ami the king would stand at -he dash-board and drive with his own hands, And I am glad that He, whose chariot tlie ;!ouds are, dnves Himielf. He does not let aatural law drive, for natural law is deaf. He loes not let fate drive, for late is merciless. But our Father King drives Himself, ind He puts His loving hand on the reins of die flying courser*, and He lias a loving ear /pen to the cry ot all who want to catch His ittcution. Oh, lam so glad that my Father lrives ami never drives too fast, and never 1 rives t>» slow, and never drives off the jrecipic?, and that He controls,by a bit that saver breaks, the wildest and most raging .-ironinstances. I heard of a ship captain who put out with bis vessel with a large cumber of passengers from Buffalo on Luke Erie, very early in the season and while ihcre was much ice. When they were we 1 out the captain saw to hi* horror that the ice was closing in on him from all sides, and he saw no way out from destruction an i death, lie ealied into the cabin tlie passengers and *!1 the crew that could lie spare 1 from thrir posts, and told (hem that th .-sli pmust I-e lost Unless Gol interposel, and although he was not a Ghr.stian nun lie said: “tat us pray.” and they all knelt asking God to come for Iheir deliverance. They went back to the deck, and th • man at tho wheel shouted: “All right, capo. it’s blowing nor by nor’ west 1.0 . v.” Wh ie tho prayer was going on in the cabin the wind chang •d and blew tho ice out of th'i wav. '1 he mate asked:‘Shall I put on m >r«# sail, cap’ll?* ••No!’* responded the captain. ”DonMouc!i her. Kern-oneelse is managing this ship ’ Oh. men ond worn *n.shut in on all sides , by icy I rouble* a*.d misfortunes, m earnest j | raver put all your affairs in tho hands of IGo 1. You wiil come out all right. Rome ono j»•se is managing the ship! It did not merely j happen so that when Leyden was lieselgen, j nud the Duke of Alva felt sure of his tri- I umph, suddenly the wind turned, and the swollen waters compelled him to Mop | tho tioge. and tlie City was save:. I God that night drove along the I coast of the Netherlands in n black chariot of st*irrn cloud. Itdid not merely happen *0 that Luther ros? from the place wh/re he was silting in t nr* to k -ep from lieing rrisahe 1 by a st lie that the instant alter leit on the very np.it. Had lie not us was waved from drowniug by an oar that was floating on the waters. Other wise. who won d have unvei tri America? It d»il not vne«vlv hnp;»en so t'uit w‘i 11 Geor. e Wntninglou was »n RruokHti agrciit fog ho tied down overall the place where Imw < hufeu klanos, nud over ad thix end ot' Long I#mu l. and that under that fog he and h<>» army escaped from the dutche-i of Generals liowe and Clinton, in a chariot of mist and cloud the God of Ameri'-ari Independent** roeitn, wondering whether Russia or Germany wiil launch a war that will incarnadine a con tinent. I fail Iwk on the faith that my Father drives. Yes. 1 cast this a< an no* hor, Xul E .V. ’d iki A) 4 ;o.u.ai ol sei lift this as a telescops, and build this os a fortress, and propose without any perturba tion to launch upon an unknown future trium phant in the fact that my Father drives. Yes. Ho drives very near. I know that many of the clouds that you see in summer are far off, the bases of some of them five miles above tho earth. High on the highest peaks of the Andos travelers have seen clouds far higher than where they were standing. Gay Lussac. after he had risen in a balloon twenty-three thousand ieet, still saw clouds above him. But there are clouds that touch the earth and discharge their rain, and, though the clouds out of which God's chariot is made may sometimes be far away, otten they are close by, and they touch our shoulders, and they touch our homes, and they touch as all over. 1 have read of two rides that the Ijord took in two different chariots of clouds, and of another that He will take. Une day, in a chariot of clouds that were a mingling of fog and smoko and fire. God drove down to the top of a terrible crag fifteen hundred feet high, now called Jebel-Musa, then called Mount Kinai, and He stepped out of His chariot among the split sbelvings of rock. Tho mountai) s shook a« with an ague, and there were ten volleys of thunder, each of tho ten emphasizing a tremendous “Thou shait.” or “‘Thou shaic not.” 'Then the Lord resumed His chariot of cloud and drove up the hilLs of heaven. Tlioy were dark and portentou-. clouds that nmdo that chariot at the giving of the law. But one day He took another ride, and tais t mo down to Mount Tabor, the clouds out of which His chariot was made.were bright clouds, roseate clouds, illumined clouds, and music rained from all of them, and the music was a ming ling of carol ami chant and triumphal march: “This i.s My helo.ed Hon. in whom I am well pleased.” Transfiguration chariot! “Oh, * say hundreds of you, “I wish I could have se/n those chariots —the black one that brought the Lord to Jebel-Musa ut the giving of the law, and the white one that brought Him down to Tabor.” Never mind, you will see something grander than that, and it will l»e a mightier mingling of th sombre and the radiant, and the pomp of it will be such that the chariots in which Trajan, and Diocletian, and Zenobia, and Caesar, and Alexander, and all the conquerors of all the ages rode will be unworthy of mention; and what stirs me the most is that when he corues in that chariot of clou i and goes back, He will ask vou and me to ride with Him both ways, idow do 1 know that tue judgment chariot will be mado out of clouds? Revelation L, 7: “Beho.d He comoth with clouds.” Oh, He will not then ride through the heavens alone as He does now. He is going to bring along with Him escort of ten full regiments. Inspiration says: “Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints.” But these figures simply mean that there will boa great throng. And as we shall probably through the atonement of Christ ne in heaven before that, I hope that we can come down in that es cort of chariots. Christ in the centre chariot, but churiots before Him to clear the way, and chariots behind Him, and chariots on either side of Him. Perhaps the proph ets and patriarchs lof the old dispensation may ride ahead each one charioted—Abraham and Moses and Ezekiel and Day id and Joshua, who foretold his first coming. On either side of the central chariot apostles and martyrs who in the same or approximate centuries suffered for Hun—Paul, Stephen, and Igna tius, and Polycarp, and Justiu Martyr, and multitudes who went up in chariot of fire now coining in chariot of cloud, whiie in the rear of the central chariot shall be the multi tudes of latter days and of our own time who have tried to serve the Lord, ourselves I hope among them. “B**hold the Jx/rd cometh with ten thousand of His saints.” Ye?, although all unworthy of such companionship we want to come with Him on that day to see the last of this old world which was our resi dence. Coming through tho skies myriads of chariots rolling on and rolling down. By that time how changed this world will be. Its deserts all flowers, its rocks ail mossed and lichened, its poor houses all places, its sorrows all joys, its sins all virtues, and in the same pasture field lion and calf, and on the same perch hawk and dove. Now the chariots of cloud strike the earth, filling all the valleys, and covering all the mount ain s.’des, and halting in all the cemeteries and graveyards and over tho waters deep where the dead sleep in coral sarcophagus. A loud blast of the resurrection trumpet is given and the bodies of the dead rise and join the spirits from which they havo long been separated. Then Christ, our King, rising in the center chariot of cloud, with his scarred hands waves the signal, and the chariots wheel and come into line for glor ous ascent. Drive on! Drive up l Chariots of cloud ahead of the King, chariots of cloud on either side of the King, chariots of cloud following the King. Up ward and apast starry hosts, and through immensities, and across infinitudes, higher, higher, higher, unto the gates, the shining gates. Lift up your heads, ye Everlasting 1 Gates, for Him who maketh the clouds HU chariot, and who through condescending an 1 unl.fting grace invites us to mount and ride with Him! Under Full Sail. :|k — Bcuar. Strained Relation-. Brown (to Robinson) —“Why, I :I»«»i gbtyosi knew I)omley, that gentle* man J vii*t bowed to ” i.obiuson —known him for years, but he never speaks to ine now as we pans by.” Brown—“ Had a quarrel?” Robinson —“No; he owes* me a little borrowed money.”— ltyntch, ll**r Estimate. Mrs. Hard. —“Do ha e some more cream, Mias Hweettooth f” Miss Sweettootb (hesitating).—‘‘Well, list a little, Mrs. Hard. Only u mouth ful ” Mrs. Hard.—“ Bridget, fill Miss Sweet tooth's plate up agaiu."— lSuur. A CITY WITHIN A CITY. INTERESTING TREASURES AND FEATURES OF MOSCOW. The* Krcmlin’a Throe Cathedral*— Peculiar Pictures—A Hussion's Fondness for Horses nml Boots. Moscow, says a writer in the Detroit Free Pres*, is a lively, bustling city of nearly 1,000,000 of people, and one charm of it consists in the commingling of tho new and the old. It is a city within a city, and this latter is sur rounded by a city greater still. Fdr there is the Kremlin, with its moat and its wall, and its many towers and gates. At some distance outside of this stands another wall, pierced by gates here and there, while further out still is the greater part of the businc-s and residence portion of the city. Like Rome, it is built upon seven hills, but here the likeness j ends. To an American, of course, the greatest interest centers in the Kremlin, and doubtless to the Russian, too, for everything connected with it to him is of the most sacred character. One of the main approaches is through the “Redeemer’s Gate,” so called because, Napoleon endeavored to destroy it in vain, and the Russians believe that it was the direct interposition of Christ himself that drove him back and saved the citadel. From that day to this no cne, Czar or peasant, Asiatic, European or Americau, goes through without uncovering his head. Inside the Kremlin are three cathe drals; the Cathedral of the Annuncia tion, where ali the Czars are baptized, the Cathedral of the Assumption, where all arc crowned, and the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael, where all the Emperors were buried up to the time of Peter the Great. These are all, an are most ot the churches in Moscow, built in the Moorish style of architecture and most elaborate y decorated. Recently, in the Church of the Assumption, which was being renovated, several very ancient pictures were brought to 1 ght on the walls, and these have been carefully pre served. One of them represents several scenes from the life of Jonah, and is very unique in its way. On one side the prophet is being thrown overboard from an exceedingly rickety-looking ship. Then a creature with big eyes and a big mouth and a tail (in all about Jonah’s size) is doing his best to “take him in.” But the crowning masterpiece of the whole picture is where Jonah—now safe on land—is bidding the whale good-bye in the most elaborate and polite Russian manner. Near by these churches is the Tower Oi Ivan the Great, very lofty and con taining some fifty-two bells, many of them of very large size. At the foot of the tower i.s the “Tsar Kolokoi,” or the; “King Bell,” “the great bell of Moscow,”) of which we have heard all our lives. It| is immense, there is no doubt of that! It is twenty feet high and sixty feet in cir cumference, and is about two feet through in the th'ckest part. Bc'tdfes these cathedrals and towers and this bell, there are also the palace, the treasury, where are many valuable c;owns and jewels and other articles of interest, the ar.-enal and other buildings, all inside the Kremlin, end forming a part of its wall. But the finest modern church in all Russia, and. it is claimed, in Europe, is the Church of St. Hav our,? or “the New Church,” as they call it. It was built to commemorate the defeat of the French in Tri”, and has only* recently been completed. Every archi-i tect, every builder, every workman and every artist employed upon it was a Russian. More than forty year."’ con tinuous labor, aud over 40,00t’.U0i) of roubles, they say. were spent upon it. and the result is magnificent. It is well worth a journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow to ?ec this one building alone. The frescoes are by Russia's two most celebrated painter-, and will not suffer by comparison with any, be they ancient or modern. Near by is the Cathedral of St. Basil, which was built iu l.Vri by Ivan the Terrible. It is a very unique, mosque like looking structure, and the story , goes that Ivan was so anxious that no other should over be erected like it. that. as soon as it was completed, he destroyed the plans and put out the eves—a little pleasantry which, it seems, he often indulged in with his"7ricnds,' k and wh ch is certainly in keeping with his character. But he need have had no fears that anyone would have copied* his old church, for it is hideous in the extreme. In Moscow, as well as everywhere in Russia, the horses are very tine and very fast. They have the build of racehortC9, with their slim legs and far reaching necks. Even some of the droskics have full blooded horses, and their drivers are able toobtaiu a fancy price for their use.. Horses and boots are the two thingaj that Russians seem to pride themselveij upon. They rimy not have any stock ings—and few of the lower classes wear them at all—but boots ihey m«»it aud will have* Roots with high morocco tops, and worn with the pantnlooim lucke l into the top*, so that every inch shows; and then, like the Mexican with his spurs, they arc dressed. They arc a very jiolite people, even down to the children. 1 saw one little fellow in Mos - cow, not over six or eight years old. tuket ofT hu hat to another hoy of about the same age and then shake hands with bin*. Tha “Punnet" of Old England. The word “punnet” is given in Eng lish markets to various si cs of what wo would call small measures or baskets. For instance, a radish punnet, if in tended to hold “six hands,” is eight inches in diameter aud one inch deep, and a twelve hand punnet is nine inches by one inch, un«i a sea kale punnet is eight inches diameter at the top, and seven and a half at tho bottom, and two inches deep. Fruits and vegetable! A e sold by the sieve, hand, bunch, bundle, bushel and pottle; the latter i* used for straw tarries, and is a long tapering bas ket, supposed to hold half a gallon, but rarely holding more than one quart. The system of measuring, practised in our markets is most absurd and unsatisfac tory to purchasers, but that in general use in the English market* is no bettor. —A'.* IVrl &.'*• Log Cabin Y^ogic. Brawn and Brain! . Thu powerful engine, with its wonaerfu propelling power, coupled to the trail lull freighted with the richest fabrics o the inte.iectual looms of the centuries—wn» obstacles can stay tho progress of this mighty force, when once under full steam along life’s highway? _ . . , The American with brawn and brain aoei not sue tho necessity for titles of nobility, does not care for elevation by descent, he can reach out and pluck the stars. But with brawn or brain impaired, a man is badly handicapped in the mad race for suc cess which is tho marked characteristic of the present a je. Tuo physical system < a most intricate piece ot machinery. ight to be kept well regulated, so thee ft * ■ work harmoniously in all it? pa .is capable of an immense am** . , , It is sai i •..’ •-4 i. If expected to keep perfect ti daily. It will not kea» a ‘t “runs regular. More 1 o a because they don t “run reg or any ottier ren* >n. It is c •« b> physicians that few men arc killo.i by hard work. It is to the ir regularities of modern social life that the high death rate is due. Men burn their candle at both ends, then wonder why it burns out so quickly. The main tiling in keeping the human ma -iiino in good order is to keep the regulator all right. “The bloo lis the life, and sound heilth is assured so long ns the blood flows through the veins a limpid stream I?egulate the regulator with Warner’s Log Cabin sarsaparilla, the old-fashioned blood purifier, prepared alter the best formula in use by our ancestors in good old Log Cabin days, and with the vigor of brawn ami brain which must ensue, in your lifu’s lexicon you will find no such word as fail. A Fleet Mim-ot-War. The fastest armed cruiser in the world is said to be the German vessel Greif, which has a displacement of 2000 tons, and is fitted with engines of 5400 indi cated horse power. On the voyage from Kiel t) Wilhelmshafen a speed of twen ty-three knots, or almost twenty-sevoa miles, an hour was obtained. For Rickets. VlnraNiniiw, nnil \Va«iine Ills orrfcrN oi’ children. Scott’s Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites is uncqualed. The rapidity with which children gain flesh and strength upon it is very wonderful. Read the follow ing: “1 hove used Scott’s Emulsion in casts of Rickets ami Marasmus of long standing, and have been more thin pleased with the re sults, as in every case the improvement was marked.”—J. M. Main, M. IX. New York. President Carnot, of France, has sent over 2000 portraits of him-elf to the Mayors whom he recently entertained in the Champ de Mars. Bronchitis i.s cured by frequent small doses of Piso’s Cure for Consumption. n f the hop. A Drenni ot Fair Women. Tennyson in his exquisite poem, dreams of a long procession of lovely women of ages past. This is all very well, but the ’aureate would have done the wo* Id a greater service if he had only told tlie women of tin* present how thev could improve their health and en hance their charms. This he might easily have done by recommendin'? the use of Dr. Pierces Favorite Prescription. Health is the best friend of beauty, and the innumera ble ills to which women are peculiarly sub ject, its worst enemies. Long experience has proven that the health of womankind and the “Favorite Prescription’ walk hand in hand, ami are inseparable. It is the only medicine for women, sold by druggist*, under a positive guarantee from the manufactur ers, that it will give satisfaction iu everv case, or ironey will Ik* ref un led. This guar antee has been printed on tne bottle-wrapper, and faithfullv carried out. for many yt*ai>. Dante is the only foreigner who Ins a statue in Paris. Shakespeare is to havo one. though. Leave ti«nniituinve>•. Sanitarium or Homs Treatment. Trial Kr*-»- \o< i,n . *.o I’ay. The Uuwiwne lit itinly ( «>., I.a Km sur, Ind. Blair’s Oral !*•*, J i j reuudt 14 Fills. j l < A «w . Au|u.L4, Uuu . 1 J flfclP J*TI*IIY. Book J'»iKine«nForma, U*Yik> Penmanship, Arithmetic, Short-hand, etc. In thoroughly ttumut by MAIL. 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