Tcoplp, 6iiv3 a dentist, wonder Tvliy
gold is used for stopping', and are apt
to credit the dentist with employing
it for his owa ends, ou the ground
that ho can chargo more and get cor
respondingly larger profits that would
be the case if he used any baser and
few txpeusive metal; but, he says in
explanation, a little reflection would
convince the suspicious ones that there
is no ground whatever for such ideas,
uud that the real reason for using gold
is that it uill weld while cold, and will
vmcecssfully resist the action of the
Mcids aa 1 fluids of tha mouth, hence
it is uneq xiiled as a preservative for
the teeth. Scientific American.
8100 Reward. 9100.
X,n rrftdrrH of this paper will be pieced' to
''urn t.l ttiere is at, )et one dreaded disease
hn r icnro tmp Iwenable to Oire 1h all ita
Me-H, and that is catarrh. HhII'r Catarrh
';ire isthe only prltive euro now known to
the nu-diral fraternity. Catarrh being aton
nitutional riiwae, requires a constitiitiunal
treatment. Hall's ('atari It Cure is taken In
ternr.!! arting directly upon the blood and
tnucins mrfatee of the fcybteni. thereby de
Hr"in(T the foundation of the 'disease, and
Kivini,' thfl patient strength by building up the
eorif-tituiiouand a-.lHt.iuK nature in fining its
work. 'J'he proprietors hnve bo much faith in
its rurntive lowers that they offer One Hun
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5
REV. DR.TALM.VGE
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S
SUNDAY SERMON.
e Text: "As we have therefore opportuni
ty, let us do good." Gaiatians vL, 10.
At Denver vears aj?o nn a"altence had as
sembled for divine worship. Th-i pastor of
the ehnrch for whom I was to -pre.vh that
hijrht, interested in the Beatin of the fex;
ple, stood in the pulpit looking from side to
eide, and when no more people could be
crowded within the walls he turned to me
and said, with startling emphasis, "What an
opportunity:"' Immediately thatword Kkch
to enlarge, and while a hymn &s being suntr
nt every ptatlza the word 'opportunity"
Rwiftly and mightily unfolded, and while thp
Opening prayer was iing made the word
piled up into Alps and Himalayas of mean
ing and spread out into other latitudes and
longitudes of Hitrninennee until it becfitno
hemispheric, and it still grew in altitude and
eireumfen'nee tintil it eiieireleil other words
And swept out ftnd on and around until it
Wa as big as eternity. Never sinee have I
i-ead or heard that word without heincr
thrilled with its magnitude and momentum.
Opportunity! Although in the text to some
it may seem a mild and ipltei note, in th"
great gospel harmony it is a staeeato pas
atre It is one of the loveliest and awfulest
words in our langurge of more than 100.000
words of English vocabulary. "As we have
opportunity, let us do good."
What is an opportunity? The lexicographer
would coolly tell you it is a conjunction of
favorable circumstances for aocomplishing ft
purpose, but words cannot tell what it is.
Take 1000 years to manufacture a definition,
ftnd you could not successfully deserilx it.
Opportunity! The measuring rod with which
the angel of the Apocalypse masurfwl heaven
could not measure this pivotal Word of my
text. Stand on the edge of the precipice of
fill time and let down tho fathoming line
hand under hand and lower down and lower
down and for a rpiintillion of years let it
Fink, and the load will not strike bottom. Op
porttiDity! Hut while I do not attempt to
measure or define the word I will, tlod help
ing me, take the responsibility of telling you
Something about opportunity.
First, it is very swift in its motions. Some
times within one minute it starts from the
throne of God. sweeps around the earth and
reaseends the throne from which it started.
Within leps than sixty seconds it fulfilled its
mission.
In the second place, opportunity never
Mmes back. Perhaps an opportunity very
much like it may nrrive. but that one never.
Naturalists tell us of insects which are born,
fulfill their mission and expire in an hour,
but many opportunities die so soon after
thv are born that their brevity of lifo is in
calculable. What most amazes me is that op
portunities do such overshadowing, far
reaching and tremendous work in such short
eart hly allowance. You are u business man
Of large experience. The pat eighteen
months have been hard on business men. A
young merchant at his wits' end came into
your office or your house, and you said:
"Times are hard now. but hotter "days will
come. I have seen things as bad or worse,
but we got out. and we will get out of this.
The brightest days that this country oversaw
lire yet to come." The young man to whom
you said that was ready for suicide or some
thing worse namely, a fraudulent turn to
get out of his despairful position. Your
hoiefulness inspired him for all time, and
thirty years nfter you are dead he will be
reaping the advantage of your optimism.
Your opportunity to do that one thing for
that young man was not half as long as the
time I have taken to rehearse it.
Iu yonder third gallery you sit, a man of
the world, but you wish everybody well.
While the clerks are standing round in your
store, or the men in your factory are taking
their noon spell, some one rays: "Have you
heard that one of our men has lieen con
verted nt the revival meeting in the
Methodist f'h inch?" While it is being talked
over you say: "Well. I do not believe in re
vivals. Those things do not last. Feople
get excited nud join the church and are no
better than they were before. I wish our
men would keep away from those meetings."
lv you know, O man, what you did in that
minute of depreciation? There were two
young men in that group who that night
would have gone to those meetings and
been saved for this world and the next, but
you decided them not to go. They are
Focial natures. They already drink more
than is good for them and are disposed to be
wild. Frm the time they heard you say
that they accelerated theirsteps on the down
ward rond. In ten years they will be through
with their dissipations and pass into the
great beyond. That little talk of yours de
cided their destiny for this world and the
next. You had an opportunity that you mis
improved, mid how will you feel when you
confront those two immortals in the lat
judgment and they tell you of that unfortu
nate talk of yours that flung them over the
precipice? O man of the world, why did you
not say in that noon spell of conversation:
ftood! I am glad that man has got re
ligion. I wish I had it myself. Let us all go
to-night. Come on. I will meet you at the
church door at 8 o'clock?" You see, you
would have taken them all to heaven, and
you would have got there yourself. Oppor
tunity lost!
The day I left our country home to look
after mvself we rode across the countrv, and
my father was driving. Of course I said
nothing that implied how 1 felt. But there
are hundreds of men here who from their
own experience know how I felt. At such a
time a young man must le hopeful and even
impatient to get into the battle of life for
himself, but to leave the homestead where
everything has been done for yon, your father
or older brothers taking your part when you
were imposed on by larger boys, and your
mother always around when you got the cold
with mustard applications for tho chest or
herb tea to make you sweat off the fever and
weet mixtures in the cup by the bed to stop
the cough, taking sometimes too mnch of it
because it was pleasant to take, and then to
go out. with no one to stand between you
and the world, gives one a choking sensation
at the throat and a hme sickness before you
hnve got three miles away from the old folks.
There was on the day I spoke of a silence for
a long while, aud then my father began to
tell how good the I,onl had been to him in
sickness and in health, and when times of
hardship came how Providence had always
provided the means of livelihood for the
large household, and he wound up by say
ing. ;,Pe Witt. I have always found it safe to
trust the Lord." My father ha.s lieen dead
thirty years, but in all the crises of my life?
and there hnve leen many of them I have
felt the mighty boost of that lesson In the
farm wagon, "De Witt. I have always found
it safe to trust the Lord." The fact was my
father saw that was his opportunity, and he
improved it.
This is one reason why I am an enthusias
tic friend of all Young Men's Christian As
sociations. They get hold of so many young
men just arriving in the city and while they
are very impressionable, and it is the best op
portunity. Why. how big the houses looked
to us as we first entered the great city, and so
many people ! It seemed some meeting must
have just closed to fill the streets in that way.
and then the big placards announcing all
styles of amusements and so manv of them on
the same night and every night, after our toy
hood had lieen spent in regions where only
once or twice in a whole year there had been
an entertainment in school-house or church.
Taat is the opportunity. Start that innocent
young man in the right direction. Six weeks
after will be too late. Tell me what such a
young man doc with his first six weeks in the
great city, and I will tell you what he will be
throughout his life on earth and where he
will spend the ages of eternity. Oppor
tunity! We all recognize that commercial and liter
ary and political successes depend upon tak
ing advantage of eiportunitv. The great
surgeons of England feared to touch the
tumor of King Oeorge IV. Sir Astley Cooper
looked nt It and said to th king. ' I will cut
your majesty as though you were a plow
man, lnat was Mr Astley s opportunity,
Lord Clive was his father's dismav. climbing
church steeples and doing reckless things.
His father sent him to Madras. India, a a
clerk in the service of an English officer.
Clive watched his time, and when war broke
out came to be the chief of the host that
saved India for England. That was Lord
Clive's opportunity. Tauline Lucca, the
almost matchless singer, was but little recog
nized until in the absence of the soloist in
the German choir she took her place and be
gan me eacnanimeni or tne world. 1'hat dav
was Lucca's opportunity. John Scott, who
afterward became Lord Eldon. had stumbled
his way along in the practice of law until the
case of Ackroyd versus Smithson was to le
tried, and his speech that day opened all ave
nues of success. That was Lord Eldon's op
portunity.
William H. Seward was given bvhis father
51000 to get a collegiate education. That
money soon gone, his father said. "Now you
must fight your own way." and he did. un
til gubernatorial chair and United Statee
Senatorial chair were his; with a right to the
Presidential chair if th! meanness of Ameri
-an politics had not swindled him out of it.
jThe day when his father told him to fight his
own way was William H. Seward's oppor
tuuity. John Henry Newman, becalmed a
whole week in an orange boat in the Strait of
Bonifacio, wrote his immortal hymn. "Lead,
Kindly Light." That was Jotm Henry New
man's opportunity. You know Kirk White's
immortal hymn. "When Jlarshaled on the
Sightly l'laia.1' He wrote it in a boat by a
lantern on a stormy night as he was sailing
along a rocky coast. That was Kirk White'i
opportumty.
I he importance of making the most of op
portunities as they present themselves is ac
knowledged in ail other direction?. Whv
hot in the matter of usefuiese? The differ'
ence of usefulness of good men and women
is not so much the difference in brain or so
cial position or wealth, but in equipment of
Christian common sense to know just the
time when to say the right word or do the
right thing. There are good people who can
always be depended on to say the right
thing nt the wrong time. A merchant selling
goods over the couner to a wily customer
who would like to get them at less than cost,
the railroad conductor while taking up the
ticket? from passengers who want to work off
last year's free pass or get through at half
rate a child fully grown a housekeeper try
ing to get the table ready in time for guests,
although the oven has neglected to fulfill the
order given him those are not opportuni
ties for religious address. Do not rush up w
a man in the busiest pint of the day and when
a half dozen people are waiting for him and
ask. "How is your soul?"
But th"ro ore plenty of fit occasions. It is
interesting to see the sportsman, gun in
hand and pouch at side and accompanied by
the hounds yelping down the road, off on
hunting expedition, but the best hunters in
this world are those who hunt for oppor
tunities to do good, and the game is some
thing to gladden earth and heaven. I will
point out some of the opportunities. When
a soul is in bereavement is the best time to
fiilk of gospel consolation and heavenly re
union. Wjhcn a man has lost his property is
the best time to talk to him of heavenly in
heritance that can never be levied on. When
one is sick is the best time to talk to him
about tho supernatural latitude in which un
health is on impossibility. When the Holy
Spirit is moving on a community is the beat
time to ten a man he ought to be saved. By
a word, by a smile, by a look, by a prayer,
the work may be thoroughly done that all
eternity cannot undo it. As the harp was
invented from hearing the twang of a bow
string, as the Jaw of gravitation was sug
gested by the fall of an apple, as the order
in India for the uso of a greased cartridge
started the mutiny of 1857, which appalled
the Nations, so something insignificant may
open the door for great results. Be on the
watch. It may be a gladness, it may be a
horror, but it will lie an opportunity.
A city missionary in the lower parts of tho
city found a young woman in wretchedness
and sin. He said. "Why do you not go
home?" She said. "They would not receive
me at home." He paid, "What is your
father's name, and where does he live?"
Having obtained the address and written to
the father, the city missionary got a reply,
on the outside of the Utter the word "imme
diate" underscored. It was tho heartiest
possible invitation for the wanderer to come
home. That was the city missionary's op
portunity. And there are opportunities all
about you, and on them, written by the hand
of the tied who will bless you and bless
those whom you help, in capitals of light the
word "Immediate."
A military oflieer very profane in his hab
its was going down into a mine at Cornwall,
England, with a Christian miner, for many
of those miners are Christians. The officer
used profane language whilo in the cage go
ing down. As they were coming up out of
the mine tho profane officer said. "If it be so
far down to your work, how much farther
would it bo to the bottomless pit?" The
Cftristian miner responded, "I do not know
how far it is down to that place, but if this
rope should break you would be there in a
minute." it was the Christian miner's op
portunity. Many years ago a clergyman wa.s
on a sloop on our Hudson River, and hearing
a man utter a blasphemy the clergyman said,
"You have spoken against my best friend,
Jesus Christ." Seven years after this same
clergyman was on his way to the general as
sembly of the rresbyterian Church at Phila
delphia when a young minister addressed
him and asked him if he was not cm a sloop
on the Hudson River seven years before?
The upply was in the affirmative. "Well."
paid the young minister. "I was tiie man
whom you corrected for uttering that oath.
It led me to think and repent, and I am try
ing to atone somewhat for my early behavior.
I am a preacher of the gospel and a delegate
to the general assembly." Seven years be
fore on that Hudson River sloop was the
clergyman's opportunity.
I stand this minute in the presence of many
heads of families. I wonder if they all real
ize that the opportunity for influencing the
household for Christ and heaven is very brief
and will soon be gone? Forawhilethe house
is full of the voices and footsteps of children.
You sometimes feel that you can hardly stand
the racket. You say: "Do be quiet! It seems
as if my head would split with all this noise."
And things get broken and ruined, and it is..
"Where's my hat !" "Who took my books?"
"Who has been busy with mv playthings?"
And it is a-rushing this way. and a-rushlng
that, until father and mother are well nigh
beside themselves. y
It is astonishing how much noise five orsix
children can make and not half try. But the
years glide swiftly away. After awhile the
voices are not so ninny, and those which stay
are more sedate. First this room gets auiet.
uni then tnat room. Death takes some,
and marriage tako others, until after awhile
the house is awfully still. That man yonder
would give all he "is worth to have that boy
who is gone away forever rush into the room
once more with the shout that was once
thought too boisterous.
That mother who was once tried lecaus
her little girl, now gone forever, with care
less scissors cut up something really valuable
would like to have the child come back,
willing to put in her hands the most valu
able wardrobe to o:t ns she plea-op. Yet. yes.
The house noisy now will soon be still
enough. I warrant you. and as when you be
gan housekeeping there were just two of you.
there will be just two again. Oh. the alarm
ing brevity of infancy and childhood! The
opportunity is glorious, but it soon pases.
Parents may say at the close of life, "What a
pity we did nr't do more for the religious
welfareof ourchildren while we had them with
us!" But the lamentation will be of no avail.
The opportunity had wings, and it vanished.
When your child gets out of the cradle, let it
climb into the outstretched arms of the beau
tiful Christ. "Come thou and all thy house
into the ark."
But then1 is one opportunity so much
brighter than any other, so much more invit
ing, and so superior to all others that there
are innumerable fingers pointing to it. and it
is haloed with a glory all its own. It is yours!
It is mine! It is the present hour. It is the
now. We shall never have it again. While
I speak and you listen the opportunity is rest
less an ii" to be gone. You cannot chain it
down. Y'ou cannot imprison it. You cannot
make it s-tay. All its pulses are throbbing
with a haste that cannot he hindred or con
trolled. It is the opportunity of invitation
on my part and acceptance on your part. The
door of the pahi'-o of God's mercy is wid
open. Go in. S t down and be kings and
queens unto Gc-d forever. Well." you say,
"I am not ready." You are ready. "Are
you a sinner:" -Yes." "Do you want to
le saved now and forever?" Yes."
"Do yen believe that Christ is able and will
ing to do the work?" "Yes." Then you are
saved. You are inside the palace door of
God's mercy already. You look changed.
You are changed. "Hallelujah, 'tis done!"
Did you ever see anything done so quickly?
Invitation ottered and accepted in less than
a minute by my watch or that clock. Sir
Edward Creasy wrote a hook called "The
Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World. From
Marathon to Waterloo." But th most de
cisive baitle that you will ever fight, and the
greatest victory you will ever gain, is this
moment when you conquer tlrst yourself and
then all the hindering myrmidous of perdi
tion by saying. "Lord Jesus, here I am. un
done and "helpless, to be saved by Thee and
Thee alone." That makes a panic in hell.
That makeu celebration in heaveD. Oppor
tunity! On the 11th of January. is6. a collier brig
ran into the rocks near Walmer Beach. Eng
land. Simon rritehar'. standing on the
beach, threw off his coat and said. "Who will
help me save that crew?" Twenty men
shouted, "I will," though only seven were
nee.h-d. Through the awful i-urf the boat
dashed, and in fifteen minutes from the time
Pritehard threw off his coat all the ship
1 wrecked crew wero sate oa tha land.
Quicker work to-day. UalX that time mor
tnan necessary to get All this asseniblage Into
the lifeboat of tho gospel and ashore, stand
ing both feet on the Rock of Ages. By the
two strong oars of faith and prayer first pull
for the wreck and then pull for the shore.
Opportunity!
Over the city went the cry,
Jesus of Nazareth passeth by!
Let the world go. it has abused you
enough, and cheated you enough, and slan
dered you enough, and damaged you enough.
Even thos from whom you expected better
things turned out your assaiUmts. aa when
Napoleon in his last will and testament left
5CO0 francs to the man who shot at Welling
ton in the streets of PrL-. Oh. it is a mean
world! Tako the glorious Lord for your
Companionship. I like what the good man
said to the one Who ha i everything but re
ligion. The affluent mail boasted of what he
owneu anu oi ms spienaors oi surroundings,
putting into insignificance, as he thought.'
the Christian's possessions. "Ah," said the
Christian. "Man. I have something you have
not" "Whit is that?" said the worldling.
The answer was, "Peace!' And you may all
have it iea.-e with trod, peace with the
pat. peace with the future, a peace that all
the assaults of the world and all the bom
bardment? Satanic cannot interfere with.
A Scotch shepherd was dying and had the
pastor ca'ied iD. The dying shepherd said to
his wife. "Mary, please go into the next
room, for I want to see the minister alone."
When the two were alone the dying shepherd
said. "I have known the Bible all my life,
but I am going, and I am 'afeered to dee.' "
Then the pastor quoted the psalm: "The
Lord is my Shepherd. I shall not want."
"leg, mon." said the shepherd, "I was fa
miliar with that before you were born, but I
am a-goin . and I am afeered to dee.' Then
said the pastor; "Y'ou know that the psalm
says. 'Though I walk through the valley of
the shadow of death. I will fear no evil.'"
"Yes." said the oying shipherd. "I knew
that oefore you were bom. but it does not
help me." Then s .id the pastor. "Don't you
know that sometimes when you were driving
the sheep down through the valleys and
ravines there would be shadows all about
you, while there was plenty of sunshine on
the hills above? You are in the shadows now,
but it is sunshine higher up." Then said the
dying shepherd: "Ah! that is good. I
never saw it that way before. All is well.
'Though I pass through the valley of the
shadow of death, Thou art with me.'
Shadows here, but sunshine above." So the
dying shepherd got "peace. Living and dy
ing, may we have the same peace!
Opportunity ! Under the arch of that splen
did word let this multitude of my bearers
pass into the pardon and hope and triumph
of the gospel. Go by companies of a hundred
each. Go by regiments of a thousand each,
the aged leaning on the staff, the middle
aged throwing off their burdens as they pass
and tho young to have their present joys
augmented by more glorious satisfaction.
Forward into the kingdom ! As soon as you
pass the dividing line there will lie shouting
all up and down the heavens. The crowned
immortals will look down and cheer. Jesus
of the many scars will rejoice at the result
of His earthly sacrifices. Departed saints
will be gladdened that their prayers are
answered. An order will bo given for the
spreading of a banquet at which you
will bo the honored guest. From the im
perial gardens the wreaths will be twist
ed for your brow, and from the hall of
eternal music the iiarner will brine' their
harps and the trumpeters their trumpets, and
all up and down the amethystine stairways of
the castles and in all the rooms of the house
of many mansions it will be talked over with
holy glee that this day. while one plain man
stood on the platform of this vast building,
giving the gospel call, an asemblage made up
from all parts of the earth and piled up in
these galleries chose Christ as their portion
and started for heaven as their everlasting
home. Ring all tho bells of heaven at the
tidings! Strike all the cymbals at the joy!
Wave all the palm branches at the triumph!
Victory! Victory!
The Man That Women Like.
The Washington Women's Literary
Society recently offered a prize for
the lest answer tc the qnestioD,
"What kind of a man does woman
most admire?"
Hero is the winning answer : "Tha
man must interest by uucommonness,
either in appearauca or mauner, or
he must have that indescribable qual
ity called charm. He must know his
own mind and steadily work thereto,
even to masterfulness.
"He disregards 'they Bay,' and is
not one of a herd. His friends are
mennot vfomen. He is only once
deceived by the same person. Hit
nerlians hftetv temner never rung to
unkindness. He needs sympathy and
solace in a sometimes divine discon
tent. He abides under no failure,
but goes stendily on. His occasional
want of success only attaches and
rivets his determination." Detroit
Free Press.
The bones ot all flying birds are hol
low and filled with air, thua combin
ing the greatest 6trength with tho
greatest possible lightness.
Tn 1783 the Dutch lost the vessel
Antoinetta, an Indiaman, and with
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of great value.
A BRIGHT STAB.
A SKETCH OK THE MAX WHO LED
MARY AXDEKSOX TO FAME.
Alio Played l.radinz Kolen With Booth.
Ifnrrrlt nnd Thorne.
(From the St. Ixniis Chronicle.)
One of tho most conspicuous figures in the
Stageland of Aneric i to-day is John W. Nor
ton. Born in the sv- ntli wird of New York
City forty-s'x years a .-, the friends'of bis
youth were Thomas V. Keene an 1 Frank
Chanfrau. We find Keene a star at the age
of 25 and Norton in the flower of early man
hood the leading man for E Iwin Booth at
the famous Winter Garden Theatre. He
was starred with Lawrence Barrett early in
the 70s, and alternate 1 the lending roles
with Charles Thorne at tho Variety Theatre
in New Orleans. Early In the Centennial
year, in Louisville, Norton met oar Mary
Anderson, then a fa'r yo.unggirl whoaspired
for stage fame, took her under his guidance
and, as everybody knows, led her to fame.
Mr. Norton is now the proprietor of the
Grand Opera nonse in Sr. Louis, tho Du
Quesae Theatre, Tittsburg. an 1 one of the
stockholders in the American Extravaganzn
Company.
One afternoon eirlv in June he hobbled
into his New Y'ork OfTlci1 on Broad wiy and
encountered his busin- ss manager, George
McSIanus, who had also been a rheumatic suf
ferer for two vears. Norton w.is surprised
that McManus had discarded his cine. Who
cured you? he asked. "I enred myself." re
plied McManus, "ffith Dr. Williams' Tint
Tills."
"I was encouraged by Mr. McManus' cure
and as a last resort tried the Fink Tills my
self," said Mr. Norton to a Chronicle re
porter. "Y'ou have known me Jor five years
and know how I have suffered. Why, dur
ing tho simmer of 1933 I was on my back at
the Mullanpby Hospital, in thi city, four
weeks. I was put on the old system of diet
ing, with a view to clearing those acidulous
properties in my blood that medical theorists
say is the cause of my rheumatism. I left
the Hospital fading ttron:er. but the first
damp weather brought with it those excru
ciating pains in the legs and back. It was
the same old trouble. A'ter sitting down
for a streteh of five minutes the pains
screwed my legs into a knot when I arose,
and I nobbled a9 painfully as ever. After I
had taken my first box of Pink Pil's it struck
me that the pains wi re less troublesome. I
tried another box, and I began almost un
consciously to have faith in tlw Tink Tills.
I improved to rapidly teat I could ris alter
sitting at my desk for an hour and the
twinges of rheumatism that accompanied my
rising were so mild that I scarcely noticed
them. During the past two weeks wa have
had much rainy weather in St. Iouls. Put
the dampness has not had the slightest effect
in bringing back the rheumatism, which 1
consider a sufficient and reliable test of the
f fflcacy of Tinfc Tills. I may also say that
the Pink Pills have acted as a tonic on my
stomach, which I thought was well nigh de
stroyed by tho thousand aul one alleged
rsmtdles I co&nmed la tho put fir rwrf."
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Ilathlnsr in the Dead Sea.
The Dead Sea, or more properly,
the Salt Sea, is also called in Scripture
the Sea of Arabah ; in the Apocrypa,
the Sodomitish Sea ; in the Talmudio
book, Sea of Salt and Sea of Sodom.
The name Dead Sea seems to hare
been first need in Greek, and the Ara
bic name is Bahr Lut, or the Sea of
Lot. It has a length varying from for
ty to forty-eix milep, and is only abont
three miles across at its widest part.
From the analysis of the United States
expedition, says the Brooklyn Eagle,
it appears that each gallon of the water,
weighing twelve and one-quarter
pounds, contains nearly three and
one-third pounds (3.319) of matter in
solution, an immense quantity in view
of the fact that sea water, weighing
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lon, contains less than one-half pound.
Of this three and one-half pounds
nearly one pound ' is common salt
(chloride of sodium), about two pounds
chloride of magnesium and less than
one-half pound chloride of calcium
(muriate of lime). There does not
appear to be anything about it inimi
cal to life, and the story of a recent
tourist confirms this. lie says: "As
for the Dead Sea, it will, in contra
diction of the name, forever preserve
a green and living memory in my
mind. No fish can survive in it, we
all know, but for a place for a swim,
or, above all for afloat, commit me to
it beyond all the Winnepesaukees in
the world. How it bears you up in
its arms ! How it annihilates the tire
some ponderosity and dignity of tha
laws of gravitation ! How it intro
duces you into the inner consciousness
of dainty Ariel and thistledom and all
other airy, fairy creatures I The more
you weigh the less you weigh ; there ia
the real hydrostaotic paradox. An
elephant v in the Dead Sea would feel
himself a gazelle. Then what a mir
ror its steely surface was that morning,
and how beautiful its reflexions of the
mountains of Palestine on the one
hand and Moab on the other."
Coral Church on an Eastern Island.
The church built of coral is one ol
the curiosities of the Isle of Mahe.one
of the Soytchelles Islands in the In
dian Ocean. The Scyschelles Islands,
which are supposed by many to be the
site of the Eden of the Old Testament,
form an archipelago of 114 islands and
are situated about 1400 miles east ol
Aden and ,1000 miles from Zanzibar.
They rise steeply out of the sea, cul
minating in the Isle of Mahe, which is
about 3000 feet above Che level of the
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growth. The houses are built of a
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square blocks, which glisten likjo white
marble and show themselves to the ut
most advantage in tho various tinted
green of the thick tropioal palms,
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pleasant and much ncoded shade.
These palms grow as high as 100 feet
and more, overtopping both the houses
and tho coral built churoh. Tlicy lino
the sea shore aud cover the mountains,
forming in many places 4xtensivo for
ests. Brooklyn Eagle.
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