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Church schisms at Jerusalem.

A letter from Jerusalem il. the A1lgemeine
Zeitung says that the clergy of the three
different religions which are represented in
that city, Greek, Latin, and Armenian, are
just now in state of great excitement and
difficulty. The Latin patriarch, MonsfguOr
Vale ga, who was one of the most eloquent
and Jealous supporters of the dogma of in
fallibility at the Gcumenical Council, and
by his skill and energy had given new i'm
pulse to the Roman Catholic propaganda in
the Holy Land, died few weeks ago, after
short illness. The Armenian patriarch,
too, has narrowly escaped similar fate 1t
is reported that an attempt has been made
to poison him. Finally, the Greek patriarch
Cyrillus. who has been at the head of the
Greek Church at Jerusalem for the last forty
years, and ie now upwards of ninety years
old, has been arrested and sent with an es-
cort to Constantinople. The causes of this
summary measure were that the patriarch
excited the hostility of the sufragan Bishops
by refusing to Join in the accommodation
of the Bulgarians by the Synod of Constan-
tinople, and especially that he declined to
furnish them with an account of the expen-
diture of the revenues accruing to the patri-
Archaic from some Russian estates in Bessa-
rabia. His cond ct in the nd
his relations with tie Russian
suspicion that he was under
ence, and the Turkish Govern
lingly confirmed his dismissal,
ne election of new patriarch
Procopius, of GaEs., has now eaa
to this post, but he is unpopular with the
Greeks in the Holy Land, who have sent
petitions to the Government for the rein
statement of CyrilluS, and manifested such
dissatisfaction at the choice of his successor
that troops had to be sent into Jerusalem to
keep order during the ceremony of his en-
thronization. He was received with insult
ing explanations as he passed through the
streets on his way to the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre, and since then none of the Greeks
have appeared in the churches.
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The Lost Comet.

Just one hundred years ago new comet
was discovered by Montaigne. 1t was sc
faint and difficult of observation that nc
time could be fixed for its return. In. 1926
a comet was found by Won Biela, and on
computing the orbit it proved to be identical
with that of 1772. Further investigation
showed that it was also observed in 1905
out was not then recognized as the same
1t was, therefore, a periodical comet, and
the period of its revolution was found to be
six years, eight months. 1t has since been
known as Blela's comet, from It's discoyerer
of 1926. The next two returns were moi
favorable for its observation, SO that it was
lot again satisfactorily detected till 1915
1t was seen in November and December OF
that year by a number of observers, who
noticed nothing unusual; but in January il
was found to have suffered an accident such
as was never before known to happen to a
heavenly body, and of which no explanation
has ever been given. 1t was split If -
and for some months was observed
comets. In 1852, it appeared agar
now the two comets were nearly two mrs DE-
miles apart. They disappeared from view
about the end of September, and have never
been seen since, although they must have
returned in 1859, and again in 1866, and
1872. Theretu of 1865 was quite favor
able, but although the most powerful tele
scopes searched for it, all was in vain. The
comet had vanished from the heavens.
The earth crossed the orbit of this comet
about the end of November. Professor
Newton was thus led to infer that, though
lost to sight, the fragments Of the comet
would be seen about that time striking the
atmosphere as shooting stars. This predIc.
tion was fully verified by the event. On the
evening of November 9th, between the
hours of six and eight, remarkable shower
of meteors was observed, the astronomers OF
the Naval Observatory counting several hun
dred. And further, the direction of their
motion correspondent, as nearly as could be
Judged, to that of the lost comet. In con-
sequence, the Washington astronomers en-
terrain no serious doubt that the meteoric
shower was really caused by the earth meet
ing the debris of the comet.-Harper's, for
March.
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The voice ceased, and for several minutes
not syllable was spoken. The night nurse
rose from her chair by the fire, and mechan-
cally handed cup of barley-water, favored
with lemon-juice and sugar, to the lips Of
both sufferers.
"Thank you, nurse, said the last speak
er. "They gave him gall for his meat; and
in his thirst they gave him vinegar to drink. "
"She is talking about Jesus Christ, said
the other woman, already beginning to toss
restlessly from side to side. but, added
she, talking about his sufering8 can't mend
Ours--at least, not mine.
But it lightens hers, said the nurse.
81 wonder how
Flush.
And the gentle voice again took up the
strain:
'"Surely He hath borne our griefS, and
carried our sorrows. He was wounded
for our trausgressions, he was bruised fol-
our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace
was upon him, and with his stripes we are
healed. ="
The following day, as some ladies visiting
the hospital passed by the cots, they handed
to each few fragrant flowers.
The gentle voice was heard again: GO II
God so clothe the grass of the field, which
to-day is, and tomorrow is cast into the
oven, shall he not much more clothe you, {
ye of little faith?'
A few days passed slowly away, when, OF
bright Sabbath morning, as the sun Wa
rising, the nurse noticed the lips of the suf
ferer moving, and, leaning over her, sht
heard these words: "Going home! l have
fought good fight. 1 have finished my
course. have kept the faith. HenCefortl
there is laid up for me crown of righteous
ness, which the Lord, the righteous judge
shall give me at that day"
Her eyes closed, and the nurse knew tina
the hand of death was grasping the cords
of life. A moment more and all was over
the soul had gone to dwell in that city wher,
''there is no more death, neither sorrow mol
crying; neither shall there be any more
pain ?''-T1e Stoord and the Tr0,0eU
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Comfort in the Dark Hour.

"There never was such an affection as
mine, said a poor sufferer, restlessly toss,
ing in her bed in one of the wards of city
hospital. Il don't think there ever was
such a racking pain"
"Onee, was family uttered from the next
bed.
The first speaker paused for a moment
and then, in still more impatient tone, re-
sumed her complaint.
Nobody knows what l pass through.
Nobody ever suffered more pain.
"One," was again whispered from the
same direction.
Il take it you mean yourself, poor soul
but"
go, not myself. not me" exclaimed the
other; and her pale face flushed up to the
very temple, as if some wrong had been Of
fered-not to herself, but to another.
She spoke with such earnestness that her
restless companion lay still for several sec,
Onds, and gazed intently on her face. The
cheeks were now wan and sunken, and the
parched lips were drawn back from the
mouth as if in pain. Yet there dwelt an ex-
traOrdinary sweetness in the clear gray eyes,
and refinement on the placid brow, such
as can only be impaired by heart acquain-
lance with Him who is "full of grace and
truth.
80, not myself not me :" she repeated.
There was a short pause; and then the
following words, uttered in the same low
tone, slowly and sOlemnly broke the mid
night silence of the place:
- And when they had plated a crown of
tbOrns, they put it upon his head, and a
reed in his right hand; and they bowed the
knee before him, and Knocked him saying,
Hail, King of the Jews. Aud they spit upon
him, and took the reed and smOte him on
the head. And they crucifed him, and
parted his garments, casting. And sit
ting down, they watched him there. 9.
And they that passed by reviled him, wag
giDg their heads. And about TIE ninth
hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me-
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Tall Men.

As country becomes settled, and espe-
cially in the cities, where great numbers Of
human beings are crowded into compare
lively small place, men degenerate in height,
and the women are not only proverbially
shorter than in the country, but they are
less muscular. As there are thought to be
exceptions to all rules, there are both tall
gentlemen and ladies in old cities. A ma.
jority of them, however. if traced to their
birthplace, will be found to have come from
the country. Kentucky and Tennessee pro
duce the tallest men in this country. A
young boy taken from the city, whose
parents are below the usual height, and
reared in either of those States, would prob
ably quite overtop any of his family. The
material abounds in the grains and meats of
those splendid regions for developing the
bones.
The PatagonianS have long been cele-
brated for being the talleSt race of men in
existence. Magellan's associates give their
average stature at seven feet four inches
Commodore Bryant's officers seldom saw
one below seven feet, and some exceeded
that measure. At the polar circles, espe-
oially North, the EJquemaux rarely tower
four feesxHa a hall As
= whole, the English are E -
tail, and energetic. Ameri
pound of all the nations on
ing in size, strength, height, i
capacity, and energy, according .ae pre-,
dominance of bood from any particular
source. A milk diet, of all food, is most
favorable for large, tall frame in early life.
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Speed on English Railroads.

Some interesting details concerning the
speed of railway trains in England have re.
Gently been published. The average rate OF
speed at which the quickest express trains
travel is 47& miles an hour. But there are
two lines on which this pace is exceeded
The ten o'clock train on the Great Northern
road reaches Peterboro at half past eleven
the distance is 764 miles, and the pace 81
miles an hour. The quarter-to-twelve train
on the Great Western makes the run to
Swindon, ia miles, without stopping, and
does it in one hour and twenty-seven min
utes, or at the rate of 53f miles an hour.
There are a number of other roads which
make runs at the rate of from As to 50
miles an hour; but the journey from Lon
don to Bath by the quarter-to-twelve train,
is the quickest in the world. The distance
is 107 miles, and it is done in two hours and
thirteen minutes, including stoppage of
ten minutes at Swindon. The actual time
in travelling is two hours and three minutes
something over 81 miles an hour.
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Gods Men Wanted in China.

A Mr.. Cooper, an English gentleman of
culture and enterprise, undertook, in 1867,
to go from Shanghai westward through China
to India. But he found the people of Thibet
so hostile that he turned southwark to the
headwaters of the Irrawady, hoping to reach
Prone, eight hundred miles distant At the
first village to which he came on the lrrawa
dy, he was brought to the chief, noble,
athletic, and almost gigantic specimen of the
mountaineers of that region. The chief at
once said: " Y on are white man. Are you
one of Gods men?' Mr.. Cooper, astonished
to hear such question asked in such place,
replied, little evasively, he was not, he &C
knowledged, in any evangelical sense, a
Christian. The chief went on to say: I'll
you are one of Gods men, want you to tel
me and my people about God. Some OF my
people have heard from white men down the
river about the great God, and | want tc
know about him myself, that l may become
one of Gods men. Mr.. Cooper told him
as we'll as he could, the general truths o.
Christianity, though painfully conscious thai
he was not himself familiar with them bu
the chief did not seem fully satisfied, anc
finding that the traveller was DESTROYS Of
scending the river, he sent MIN in boat
delegation of his own people, literally s
plying his needs to Prone, and forwarded al
urgent request, both by Mr.. Cooper and hi'
own people, to our missionaries there, to senC
him teacher who could tell both him anC
his tribe how they might become Gods
men. "-IntelEgeacer.
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The Cow TREE Among the many Gu
rious phenomena which presented themselves
to me in the course of my travels says
Humboldt, Il confess there were few by
which my imagination was so powerfully af-
fected as by the cow-tree. On the parched
side of rock, on the mountain of Venezuela,
grows tree with dry and leathery foliage,
its large woody roots scarcely penetrating
into the ground. For several months in the
year its leaves are not moistened by show
er; its branches look as if they were dead
and withered; but when the trunk is bored,
bland and nourishiDg milk flows from it.
1t is at sunrise that the vegetable fountain
flows most freely. AT that time the blacks
and natives are seen coming from all parts,
provided with large bowls, to receive the
milk, which grows yellow and thickens at its
surface. Some empty their vessels on the
spot, while others carry them to their chill
dren. One imagines he sees the family of
a shepherd who is distributing the milk of
his flock"
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Giving His Own Recommendation.

A gentleman advertised for boy to assist
him in his office, and nearly fifty applicants
presented themselves before him. Out Of
the whole number he selected one and dis
missed the rest. Il should like to know, -
said friend, son what ground you selected
that boy, who had not a single recommends
ton"
"YOu are mistaken" said the gentleman,
she had great many. He wiped his feet
when he came in and closed the door after
him, showing that he was careful; he gave
up his seat Instantly to that lame old man,
showing that he was kind and thoughtful ;
be took off his cap when he came in, and
answered my questions promptly and re-
spectfully, showing he was polite and gen.
tlemanly; he picked up the book which l
had purposely laid upon the floor, and re-
placed it on the table, while all the rest
stepped over it or showed it aside; and he
waited quietly for his turn, instead of push
ing and crowding, showing that he was
honest and orderly. When I talked with
him I noticed that his clothes were carefully
brushed, his hair in nice order and his teeth
as white as milk; and when he wrote his
name 1 noticed that his finger nails were
clean, instead of being tipped with jet, like
that handsome little fellow in the blue jacket.
Don't you call those things letters of recon-
mendation? do, and ! would give more
for what l can tell about boy by using
my eyes ten minutes, than all the fine let
tiers he can bring me.
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Potash for Peach Orchards.

According to the statements of Mr.
Shepards, at meeting of the Cincinnati
Horticultural Society, potash is a cheap and
an excellent manure for peach trees. A
barrel, costing $50, lasted him four years,
for an orchard of twenty-five acres. He dis
solved the potash in water, making it of a
strength just Insufficient to float potato,
and then gave each tree two quarts of this
liquid every spring. From 1000 peach
trees treated thus, he sold 1900 bushels in
1867, $50 bushels in 1868, and last year
Q871 we suppose) 1900 bushels, and pros
poets still good for satisfactory crops in the
future. He claims to have sold $4,000
worth of peaches from this orchard in five
years. This would be an average of 81 20
per tree for each year; a good yield certain
ly. If potash in snch email quantities will
produce such an effect, it must soon come
into general use.
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afuras.
THE LITTLE CLEANER.

May follow your reapers, master,
And CLEAN in your fields to-day?
The siekles are cutting the golden grain,
Let the little cleaner stay.
For my mother is old and feeble,
And she cannot earn our bread;
And Billy is simple, you know, master,
And father has long been dead.
"And saw your fields of waving corn
yellow as shining gold;
And knew you would let the maiden come,
To CLEAN from its wealth untold.
$50 6ll my sack with the scattered grain,
And bind me some pretty sheaves
Of the nOdding stalks, that the reapers leave
Amid the glistening leaves"
So the master said to the maiden young,
$50 CLEAN in my fields to-day,
And gather whatever the reapers leave,
And carry it all away"
And at evening the cleaner maid,
With her sack of golden grain,
And little sheaf on her shoulder laid,
To the master came again;
And she said in her low, sweet accents,
4" May the Lord be kind to thee
In thy day of need, o noble master,
As thy heart has been to me-"
And then in the dewy evening time,
And bearing her burden bright,
The sack of grain and the golden sheaf,
Came the cleaner home that night.
And the mother opened the Bible,
And read her the story true,
OF the beautiful Ruth, the cleaner fair,
The tale that is ever new.
Who cleaned in the fields of Bethlehem,
In the barley harvest time,
And the honor her noble kinsman paid,
All told in the Book Divine.
And from Ruth, and her noble kinsman,
Did David's line descend,
And from thence came our Saviour Jesus Chris
Whose kingdom is without end.
May the Lord bless our cleaner maiden,
And fiji her with heavenly love,
And gather her in at the harvest time,
With his golden sheaves above.
Children's Friend, (LOadoH,)
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A HORSES PErITIoN.-Going up the hill,
whip me not; coming down hill, hurry me
not; on level road, spare me not; of hay anc
corn, rob me not; of clean water, stint me
not; with sponge and brush neglect me not /;
of soft dry bed, deprive me not; tired and
hot, wash me not; if sick or cold, chill me
not; with bit and reins, 0 jerk me not; and
when you are angry, strike me not,
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MEDITATIoN.-It is not the bees touching
on the flowers that gathers honey, but her
abiding for time upon them; and drawing
out the sweet It is not he that reads most,
but he that medtates most on Divine truth,
that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest
Christian.-BiSbop Hall.
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