STRANGE FREAK Or NATURE
Hofl a Caterpillar's Body Becomes the
; the llopt of a Bulrush
From some of the newer countries,
so-called on account of the lack oi
definite knowledge regarding them,
reports of strange freaks and curiosi
ties constantly appear, and, as a rule,
they are laughed at, hut once in a
while they 'turn out to be the truth.
It is this way with the strange freak
of nature called the bulrush cater
pillar, which is indigenous to Now
Zealand. This report, which stated
that, al certain seasons a large black
caterpillar ' would bury itself in the"
ground, and be converted into 'the. root
of a bulrush,! war-. "laughed at, like the
rest, but now- ;ni English scientist,,
who . recently gavo ah . exhaustive in
vestigation .of the strange phenotnKcn,
"st:it."d that 'in many rejects' the state-.
nu::t:; a re-, stricter.' true. I'-rom this re
port it lias been learned - that the cater
pillar grows jto about tli;ve and one
half." inches lung and when ' about . to
assume -the chrysalis state buries ft
self in the ground, and. in doing so it
is 1'reor.ently infected by the snored of
some fungus,' which becomes involved
in the scales in-its neck. These the
larvae is unable to expel, and the vege
tation thus . set up rapidly ".exten 13
throughout the entire body, reilaei":
'i-i.eh animal cell thus destroyed by
vegetable matter, and finally convert
ing it into a comparatively dense vege
table struct lire, .which: retains every
detail of the body, even to the " legs,
mandibles . and minutest claw. From
the neck, the portion- tirst infected,
there then shoots up a single stem,
which -grows to the height of eight or
ten inches, resembling very closely the
clubheaded bulrush ia, miniature. It
has no leaves, and i- the tirst stein be
broken oft' another rises in its place,
though two steins never grow simul
taneously from the same "caterpillar.".
BETTER DAYSi
Better to smell the violets cool than to
sip the glowing wine.
Better to hark a hidden brook than to
watch a diamond shine.
Bettor the love of " gentle ' hearts than
beauty's favors proud;
Better the roses' living seed than roses
in-a crowdi
Better to lofc in loneliness than basic
in love all day;
Better the feuntain in the heart than
the fountain by the way.
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Better Ik? fed by mother's hand than
eat alone at will; ,
..Better to trust in (-led than fay. My
goods my storehouse fill.
Better to be a little wise
"knowledge to abound;
Better to teach a child to dove than fill
perfectkn's round.
Better sit at a master's feet than thrill
a listening state:
suspect that thou art proud
than be sure that thou art great.
WELDON
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Better to walk in the realm ..unseen
than watch the hour's event;
Better the "Well done" at
than the air with shouting rent
Better
to have a quiet prrief than
hurrying delight:
Better the. twilight 'of the .dawn than
the noonday burning bright
Better a- death when work is
than earth's - most favored birth;
Better a child in God's crreat house
than a king of all the earth.
George Macdonald.
INFLUENCE OF THE BIBLE.
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A Queer torj-.
The Wetternsee, in Sweden, like sc
many other lakes, has long enjoyed the
local reputation of being a bottomless
pit. The Swedish scientists have now
destroyed the venerable legend, for in
the measurements taken a few days
ago they have successfully demon
strated that the greatest depth of the
lake is onljj- 119 meters. There stil re
mains, however, a series of mysteries
which science must be content to leave
unsolved at least, for a time. It is
not only a legendary belief, but there
is a quasi-scientific ground for the
queer supposition that living creatures,
animal and vegetable, can and do make
Sins.1 Passusres That Have Transformed
Men's Ililves artl Nde History.
As Geikie wisely observes, the story
of separate chapters of the Bible, or
even verses, if it could be known,
would be a record of surpassing inter
est. In the experience of everyone
some texts shine like stars, as we think
of personal trials they brightened, or
death-beds of friends they -cheered.
Every religious life borrows thus its
own secret illumination from year to
year, its own galaxies and bright par
ticular stars, which have soothed dis
appointments, tempered calamities,
and filled the mind with a calm and
steadfast serenity In the darkest mo
ments. Human compositions catch
its power as they embody its spirit
and repeat its words. .Kings and peas
ants, philosophers and the illiterate,
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northern lake of Wetten and the !
by lts wondfous words. It has crea
ted the loftiest poetry and the snb
limest art the world ever knew .and a
literature unique fn its power and dig
nity. ;
There Is hardly a chapter that has
not, perhaps, in some of its verses kin
dled sentiments unknown to antiquity.
There is a transcendent vigor and life
in every page. A single verse made
Anthony sell all that he had, and in-
South German lake of Constance.
This bold conclusion has been partly
justified by the appearance of exactly
the- same fauna and even the same
animal life in the Swedish and the
Swabian inland seas. It is even as
serted that whenever there is a storm
on the Lake of Constance the Lake of
Wettern begins sympathetically to roll
and swell, an- that the southern lake
is similarly moved by any agitation in
the distant northern lake. The Kleine ! troduced through his doing so, a new
Zeitung soberl declares this sympa-
tnetic phenomenon to be a known fact,
but considerately adds that we have
to wait some time for the rational ex
planation of It.
A Coininuntiy of Marksmen.
The little commune of Attinghausen,
in Canton Uri.' has been' made famous
throughout the world by the pen of
Schiller in his "William Tell. The
commune at present has a population
of about 500 souls, including the ba
bies. Like all its neighbor communes,
it holds its yearly "Schutzenfest." It
appears from5 the report of the con
test in the! Urner Zeitunz mat no fewer
than 184 out o- its 500 inhabitants are
capable markesrren or markeswomen,
for out of the 184 who took part in
the contest at the communal butts 43
were women. Not only did some of
the women prove to be better shots
than their husbands, to the great de
light of the sex, but the highest honors
of this year's festival were won y fe
male hands. Tne Jungfrau Katharina
Wirsch, who is only in her fifteenth
year, made 50 points at the "Zweck
schuss," and so carried off the first
prize. She is the daughter of Matthias
Wirsch, who, with seven of his sons
and three of his daughters, appeared
at the Attinghausen schutzenfest, and
the whole family were so dexterous
with their rifles that they gained nine
prizes dtfring the day.
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era in ecclesiastical history. At-a-sin
gle warning of the epistles, Augus
tine's hard heart was melted under
the fig-tree at Milan. A single chapter
of Isaiah made a penitent belieyer of
the profligate Rochester. A word to St
Paul lias become the stronghold of
Luther. . .
Cromwell charged at Dunbar, to the
cry, "Arise. O God ,and let thine ene
mies be scattered r And Anthony
drove away his temptations by the
same appeal. Thomas Arnold mur
mured in dying: "If ye be without
chastisement, whereof all are partak
ers, then are ye bastards and not
sons," and "Blessed are they who have
not seen, and yet have believed." Se
lina. Countess of Huntingdon, died
quoting Christ's words, "I go to my
! Father." Lady Jane Grey wrote in the
book of the Lieutenant of the Tower
before her execution: "The day of
death is better than the day of birth."
Latimer, at the stake, roused his soul
by the remembrance that "God Is
faithful, and will not suffer us to be
tempted above what we are able."
Luther died crying ' 'Into thy hands
I commit my spirit."
The Psalter alone, by its manifold
applications, and uses in after times
Is a vast palimpsest written over and
over again, illuminated, illustrated by
every conceivable Incident and emo
tion of men and of nations :battles,
wanderings, escapes, death-beds, ob
sequies of many ages and countries,
rise, or may rise, to our view, as we
read it. What shall we say of a book
so many-tongued, so Intensely human,
so authoritatively divine"? Let critics
and theorists stumble at words or
phrases; let some things remain to the
end "hard to be understood:" whose
voice can it be but God's, which rises
still and holy over the turmoil of life,
In a thousand persuasions, commands
and promises, to warn us of danger,
to guide us aright, and to soothe our
Infinite cares and sorrows? It is a no
ble passage in which Augustine con
trasts antiquity and Scripture, and
gives his fealty as a Christian man
must: "In Cicero and in Plato, and
such writers I meet many things fine
ly said, .'things' that move the spirit;
but in none of them do I find these
words: "Come unto me all ye that la
bor and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest.' "
Christian Herald.
Times Had Improved-
Said an exasperated father at the
dinner table: "You (ildreji turn up
your noses at everything on the table.
When I was a boy, I was glad to get
enough ary bread to eatT
- "I say, pa, you are having a much
better time of it now you are living
wKh us, ain't ywrJ jarksd little
Tommy. f-w-v-'r -
Tommy Grandpa, are kings and
queens always good?
uranopa Not arways, my boy; not
when there are acrs oscrt against them.
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