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EYcoUNrER wxrn 4 GORILLA.


He was about twenty yards off when Wa
first saw him. We at once gathered together
and was about to take aim and bring him
down where he stood, when Malouen stop.
ped me, saying. in a whisper, Not time
yet"
wo stood, therefore, III silence. gun In
hand. The gorilla looked at us for minute
or SO out of his evil eyes, then beat his breast
with his gigantic arms--and what arms lie
had then he gave another howl of defiance,
and advanced upon US. How terrible he
looked ! shall never forget 1t.
Again he stopped, not more than fifteen
yards away. Still Malouen said, .Not YETI
Good gracious! what is to become Of us if our
guns miss fire, or if we only wound the huge
beast? Again the gorilla made an advance upon
us. Now he was not twelve yards off. l
could see plainly his ferocious face. 1t was
distorted with rage; his huge teeth were
ground against each other, so that we could
hear the sound the skin of his forehead was
drawn forward and back rapidly, which made
his hair move up and down, and gave truly
devilish expression to the hideous face
Once more he gave out roar which seemed
to shake the woods like thunder. I could
really feel the earth tremble beneath my feet
Tile gorilla, looking usi n the eyes and beating
his breast, advanced again.
"Don't fire too soon," said Malouen; eff
you do not kill him, he will kill you" This
time he came within eight yards of us before
he stopped. | was breathing fast with ex-
element as watched the huge beast.
Malouen said only Steady, as the gorilla
came up. Then he stopped. Malouen said
"Now! |" and before he could inter the roar
for which lie was opening his mouth, three
musket balls were in his body. He fell dead
almost without a struggle.
He was a m0nstrous beast indeed, though
not among the tallcst. His height was five
feet six inches. HIS arms had q spread Of
seven feet two inches. His broad, brawny chest
measured fifty inches round. The big toe of
his foot measured five inches and three-qu
tiers in circumference. His arms seemed like
immense punches of muscles only and his
legs and claw-feet were so well fitted for grab
bling and holding, that could see how easy
it was for the negroes to believe that these
animals, when they conceal themselves in trees
and watch for prey, can seize and pull up
with their feet any living thing, leopard, OK,
or man, that passes beneath.
The face of this gorilla was intensely black.
The vast chest which proved his great pow,
err, was bare, and covered with parchment
like skin. His body was covered with gra,
hair. While the animal approached in 1T
fierce way, walking on its hind legs, and facing
us as few animals dare face man, it reall
seemed to me to be terrible likeness of man
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AeAssIz's BELIEF IN THE IMMORTALITY
OF AN1MALs.--It would be idle to multiply
instances of the thorough humanity and ge-
niality Of Agassiz. Everybody who knew him
can tell hundreds CT anecdotes illustrative of
his sympathy with all form Of life, whether
in the ielly-fsii, the human child, the develop
ing boy or girl, the mature man or woman
Still his Conviction of the immateriality and
personality of mind was something wonderful
in SO austefe naturalist. We happened once
to please him by defining a jelly-fish as organ
lied water. aNow, look at 1t through the
microscope" he said. But, Agassiz, the
play of organization is SO wonderful that 1t
seems to me that nothing but mind can ac-
couut for it," aYou are right" was his
repIv sin some incomprehensible manner
God Almighty has created these beings, and
r cannot doubt their Immortality any more
than doubt my own" His fealty to the
rights of animals exceeded that of any great
naturalist who ever proceeded him. Incom-
uetent as we are to give him his due rank
among the naturalists Of the world, we think
he excelled every one who has gone before
him in striking at the soul and individuality
Of all animals below man. 1t is impossible to
convey in words tie peculiar feeling which
Aoassiz had on this matter. Doubtless this
large and genial genius Is now satisfied. We
cannot penetrate beyond the veil. Boston
0Io5s.
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A CHEMICAL CnAnMEh.-Burleigh write

A CLERICAL CHARMEk.-Burleigh writes
from New York to the Boston journal:
"ODe of our city pastors is a most excellent
singer. He has sympathetic voice. He
frequently supplements his sermons with a
song, and the music is quite as efficient as the
appeal. He visited mad-house the other
day; and was shown cell in which a mad
man was confined. He had to be chained to
the floor to keep him from dashing out his
brains against the sides of his cell. 1t was
much as ones life was worth to approach him.
He tore his clothes into ribbons, and his bed
was mass Of rags. As the minister looked
through the grating, the prisoner made 70
him, and with such violence as to jerk himself
back on the floor. He rose foaming with
rage. "I'l kill you.'' "I'll beat your brains
OUT "Clear out" Instead of moving, the
preacher began to sing. The hymn lie selec-
ted was sour home in Heaven First the
mailman listened then he stretched himself
otit the full length of his chain. First one arm
relaxed and then the other. Tears moistened
his eyes. Then he coiled up On his bed Of
rags as quiet as a child. And when the hymn
was ended he looked up saying, "More,
mofe.n The preacher sang till his strength
gave way and when he left tho mailman
seemed hushed in slumbef. The keeper said
he had no doubt bit it would have been Per-
fectly safe for the minister to have gene and
sat down by his side in the cell. 1t was the
old cajS Of Saul and David"
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lLondon Correspondence New York Times."l
The third aud concluding volume Of Mr..
Fosters Lilo Of Dickens" has just been
published. II presents melancholy picture
Of tiecaying poweSs, morbid unrest and cor
rodea discomfort. II may be doubted whether
Dickens, who Is supposed BY many Of his
readers to have been one Of the most genial
and jovial Of men, was ever happy man but
1t would certainly appear that In his later
years hc was supremacy wretched A. .
younger man, his animal spirits and vanity
helped to take him out Of himself. He was
satisfied only when he had an admiring COM
pany around him. He was in fact, essentially
an actor, and miserable without an audience,
and his gayety was forced and hstrionic.--
There was no repose about his character. He
could never endure to be plain and simple
and natural he wanted to be always fire.
works. At home he was seen at his worst,
suffering from the reaction of excitement in
company, and weary with his elaborate efforts
to amuse and startle. Mr.. Forster passes as
gently as he can over the domestic misadven-
lures of his hero. 1t is not pleasant page
and one is glad to turn it. Dickens was always
fond of the hustle and Change of travelling,
and after 1860 his restlessness seemed to have
become mania almost. He had notions of
burying himself for whole six months in
some of the recesses of the Pyrenees, or of
spending winter in some elevated and seclud-
ed convent in the Alps. His work had evil
IDENTIFY begun to tell on him. His invention
was less fertile, his composition less sponta-
neous. 1t had become an effort for him to
write, and he was haunted by the fear, which
was partly true, that he never again would be
what he had been. lie had, in fact, lost his
elasticity of mind. All this necessarily gives
rather bad tone to this concluding volume
but Dickens, though he confessed himself to
his friend, was the more resolute in showing
bold face to the world and his letters were
full of dash and humor. He went about a
good deal, and used himself merclessly. The
fit of paralysis which finally killed him had
apparently been impending for some years be
fore his death. The railway accident from
which he SO narrowly escaped with his life
must also have shaken him more than wa
suspected at the time.
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Take plenty of exercise, and you win not
complain Of sleeplessness. The best anodyne
is liberal amount of muscuiar activity out
of doors every day. Persons who sit around
the fire and lounge on the sofa. or sew great
part of the day, need not expect sound sleep
only the laboring man can taste it in all its
sweetness. Many fail to sleep at night be-
cause they will persist in sleeping in the day
time. 1t is just as impossible to beautifully
force more sleep on the system than the pro
portion of exercise requires as to force the
stomach to digest more food than the body re-
quires.
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Inc Bengal tiger compared with the hon'
Is thinner and lighter and mas the head round
er it does not much exceed eleven ieet IN
length nom UP 90 taii whiie young, ana
exclusively inhaoiting the recesses OF the
iorests ana jungle, tne 1'ger 1eeds cnieny on
Deer ana WIN seldom as1acS man, unless pro-
vokeo OF forced ny nungef' prcierring rather
TO ny tnan 70 ngns ~ s'ieaK'hg through the
tan grass, IN winch ne co'n"on'y nes con-
ceaieo. "hen once, however, sne tiger mas
tasted human nesn' ne prefers IL 70 any otner'
ana thenceiortn olten leaves ms secluded lar,
ana nxes ms quarters IN tue neighoornood OF
some Vihage' proving ABOUT 70 seize upon
every unsuspecting vic''m "nom ne can seize
upon. such tigers acquire the name OF man
eatefs. Ai.noush more cunning ana oiood-
tnirsty imam formerly, tney are said also to be
more cowardiy ana u Is thouSht tnat human
i.esi' Is no. q sn'sao'e a''heh' ior them, as
'hey soon become NANCY aiter eating IT,
Inc 'iseIS "a ou'na'Ia are very large ana
s'rons' iney are sa'u 70 break 'ne reg Oh
morse OF ouuaio Win a stroke Oh the fore
paw ana eae largest prey they XIII is with
OUT uiincui'y' draggcu ny them INTO the WOODS.
ms .hey usuaiiy perform on the second
nignt' Deing disposed on the nrst to Crafty
themselves WIN sucking the olooa only. AT
s"ch Times d vessel Oh water poisoned Win ar
senic is placed near the carcass, and the tiger
perishes after drinking it.
The lion OF India, though not SO large and
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4 A DEAF EDIToR.-The editor of tho Santa
Clara (Cal.) Echo thus interprets his own mis-
cries; We thought everybody in the State
knew that VIC are deaf, but once in q while
we find one who is not aware of the fact A
female book -peddler came to the Office the
other day. She wished to dispose of a book.
She was alone in this world, and had no one
to whom she could turn for sympathy or as
sistance hence we should buy her book. She
which she could pour her sufferings, therefore
we ought tot invest in her book. She had received
liberal education, and could talk French
like a native; we could not, in consequence,
pay her less than two dollars for her book -
We had listened attentivcly, and here broke
in with "What did you sayp We're deaf"
She started in a loud voice, and went through
with her rigmarole. When she had finished
we went and got roll of paper, and made it
into speaking trumpet, placed one end to our
ear, and told her to proceed. She nearly
broke blood vessel in her effort to make her.
self heard. She commenced 81 am alone
in the world-." at doesn't make the |
slightest difference to MS. We are husband
and father. Bigamy is not allowed in this
State. We are not eligible to proposals. y"
"Oh, what fool that man is - she said in q
low tone then at the top Of her voice, II
don't want to marry you ; want to sell
book" This last sentence was howled.--
awe don't want a cook, we remarked bland
ly; sour wife does the cooking, and she
wouldn't allow as good-looking woman as
you to stay in the house five minutes. Spe
is very jealous" She looked at us in despair.
Gathering her robes about her, giving MS
glance of contempt, she exclaimed Il do
believe that if a three hundred-pounder were
let off alongside that deaf fools head he'd
think somebody was knocking at the door"
You should have heard her slam the door
when she went out. We heard that.
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4 coUrIE or ANECDOTES.
The passing away Of ext President Fillmore
recalls n mir of unnuhlished anecdotes.

| The passing away Of exp President Fillmore
recalls pair of unpublished anecdotes.
Weed supported Seward, whose interest
clashed with Fillmore's therefore no love
was lost between the former and the latter -
Especially was Weed indignant when Fill
moro would not sail the ship Of State with
the Albany Journal las its pilot. Inpower, Fill
more kept Weed back out of power, Weed
put Fillmore high on the political shelf aud
kept him there. Love--there was none hate
was cordial, and like cheese and mankind,
gained strength with years.
During the wat, Weed went abroad. At
Nice, in France, he was taken i'll. A physician
called, who, after patching up the old man, !"
opened his batteries Of conversation. After
speaking of many of the distinguish
ed men of America, and receiving brief
crusty replies from his patient, the doctor
said: "Do you personally know Willard Fill
more ?" Weeds face assumed look of
scorn as he blurted out with cathedral
weight, the words" Kno,o him ! INVENTED
him." And the conversation closed.
Years ago, when the railroads were young,
accidents frequent, and connections unreli-
able, the proposition was made to consolidate
the railroad companies doing business between
Albany and Buffalo. Five companies were
legislated into one, to be known as the New
York Central. Mr.. Wced-then sort Of
&C third house y at Albany, for services rem
dered as counsel, engineer, political switch
tender, and possibly, money-came into po-
session of $4,000 worth of consolidated stock.
For convenience sake, the looks of the thing,
or for some other reason, this stock was put
down in the name of Mr.. McDonald-a bosom
friend of Weeds. Years passed on--the div
idends were regularly drawn and handed over
to Weed On each dividend day Weed would
promise himself to have the stock transferred
to his own name, but he did not do it, One
day, sudden as the stroke Of doom, Mcdonald
fell dead upon the pavement. Among his as
sets were found $4,000 in stock, now his
widows. Very soon thereafter the stock was
quadrupled, and little later, ex-President
Fillmore married the widow Mcdonald. On
hearing this latter news, it is said, Weed was
simply silent profanity in his vernaeular was
inadequate. He glared, glowed and thought.
The current of his wrath was turned upon
himself
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MISCELLANY.
THE DISCIPLINE OF SORROW


The test of a mans better nature is sorrow.
1t is bitter, it is the acid which tries the gold.
1t is the measure for the calbre of mind and
heart. The tendency of sorrow is to make
us hard and bitter and faithless +; and through
this phase nearly all men must pass. Yet
after this comes the softening mood, when
we shall feel tender, and our hearts turn in
stinctively to good, and to the strong desire
of soothing pain and trouble in others. Sor-
row should make us helpful, tender, gracious
Each naturally believes his early expert
ence to be the most painful and pitiful. Yet
after awhile comes the magnetic conscious
ness that about him everywhere better men
are suffering deeper things. Each thinks his
own nature to be the most keenly sensitive,
and his own capacity for suffering greater than
that of any about him. Men murmur and
curse and clank the chains of misery that bind
them, and the sound seems the death-wail of
hope and light and good. Yet, what man,
looking back at the impotent despairs of
youth, and the not more real but the greater
sorrows of manhood, can fail to see that it
was through these he reached higher plane
of life. and broader knowledge of and
svmpatby with his kindp The mystery of
sorrow The mystery of our common
heritage. None exempted. Externals may
multiply. Riches and ease and pleasure last
for the day, but the night shineth alike on
all. From palace to hovel the stars shine for
weary ewes looking Through dim msts of tears,
and longing for the peace and calm that seems
ALWAYS above
Blighted ambitions aud hopes and loves.
The shadow Of DEATH The little troubles OF
every day that seem to sap all sweetness
shut the light of God and heaven away.
What are they? Whence? Why? Is fate
following our steps? Do the Erinnyes pursue
viii, remorseless vengeance? Nay, it is the
divine angel of sorrow, the minister of Gods
good. How are the eyes-grown blind with
pride Of life and strength--touehed to tears
that wash away the film and leave us to be-
hold the realities and solemn purposes of
existence !; face to face with death and the
mystical future hand to hand with our broth
ers in the long strife heart to heart in
sympathy. True sorrow ennobles, refines,
purifies. That passion of rebellious grief and
anger which incases men in cold pride and
scorn is not real. The one who, born to be
dreamer, vet farced into the active struggle OF
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We all know it is religious duty to help
the poor, visit the sick but too often we for
get that kindness to strangers was, ranked
with these other duties by Jesus. 81 was a
stranger, and ye took me in" TOOK me in =
expresses 30 much. A stranger always feels
forlcrn, and on the outside Of things. If we
have ever been thus lonely, and have known
what it was to be "taken in " to the warmth
of Kind hearts, we shall perhaps remember,
when we are at home, where we know every
one, and on the inside Of everything, to talk
at party and socfable, NOT solely with the
friends we know and like, the people agreea-
BILE to our tastes but also to the strangers
sitting forlornly in the corners, and against
wslls wishing thcy bad not cows.-P. Taorns
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Mr.. BEEcHER's RoMANcE-THE LOVE
STORY THAT He TOLD IN HIS SERMoN.-Tom
was healthy, strapping boy, with great
appetite. He lived up in the mountains
among the charcoal burners untilhe was nine
teen. Then he went down into the valley and
hired out to farmer. Tom was q scullion
and drudge, and first along the farmer hest
tsted to trust even the hogs to his care. But
there was q glimmering of something in him
that showed just little through his uncouth-
ness. After a year or two he became full
farm laborer--a broad-shouldered, deep
chested, powerful fellow, who made himself
clumsily useful Well, about that time the
farmers daughter came home from school.
What a revelation she was to Tom. He
never knew until then what it was to worship
anything, nor how awkward and coarse he
was. He would have given all he had, which
wasn't much, to learn how to sit down right.
He began to change his clothes for better
ones when he came in from the days work,
and there was about him dawning of i'm
provement. Finally the great day came. He
stood trembling before the farmers daughter,
the hard word was spoken, and she didn't re-
pulse him. think there is nothing in the
life of man which so rouses and stirs him as
love. Tom went to the wrestling matches, and
what vim there was in him. He read, he
went to church, he wanted to see how peo-
pie acted. And when after good life he
grew to be an old man, and talked in a tremb-
ling voice to his grandchildren, he used to say.
80 what wife she was to me. Whatever
became she made me-" The world is full of
Just such instances of blessed influence"
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zach and Handel were contemporaries but,
though living within easy reach of each other;
never met. Bach died III 17e0 and Handel in
1855. Mozart, Beethoven. Chuck. Haydn and
Hummel were all living at the same time. OF
these, Gluck died first, in 1918; Mozart soon
followed 1902, next Haydn, IN 1910; Beetho-
ven, in 1897, and lastly; Hnmmel ten yexts
later, in 1887. Schumann and Mendelssohn
were contemporaries The latter, died in
1s47. schumann sarvived nine years.
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A Clergyman in a strange parish wishing to
know what the people thought of his preach
ing, interviewed the sexton, and asked
him what the people said of Mr.. johnson, his
predecessor "Oh," replied Che sexton,
They say he isn't sound" swell what do
they say Of the new minister ~ "Oh, they
say he's I'LL souiid.''
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The Louisville Ledger has bcen puzzled for
a long time to know WHY tho women of Mas
sachusetts make more noise than their sisters
in other States. Archbishop Wlxtely once
propounded similar conundrum Why do
white sheep cat more than black onesp aud
answered it with the inevitable reply Be-
cause there are more white sheep than black
ones,
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A READY EEftY.--one of the readiest re-
plies we have heard lately was made by an
Irish laborer gentleman travelling on
horseback, Down East, came upon an Irish
man, who was fencing in a most bAissen and
desolate piece Of land. What are you fem.
cling in that lot for, Patp said lie herd
of cattle would starse to death on that land
And sure, yer honor, wasn't feAciir' ii in to-
keep the poor bastes out of ftp"
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The art of cheese making was known long
before butter-making, md is spoken Of in our
earliest history Heroshtus Is the earliest his
torian who speaks of butter. The Spartans
and Greeks knew of it. Tho Bible speaks Of
it, and it was probably known to exist from q
much earlier date than we have any record Of.
1t was long used rs an ointment and for 9TH
er medical purposes before it became an artiele
of diet and commerce, and although cheese
was known and manufactured centuries ago,
still it is within the last score of years chat
the greatest perfection in the arts has been at
tanned through the system of factories, by sci
entifc and skilled workmen.
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A story is related of a Chicago physician.
who is also an extensive real estate operator.
that recently he prescribed some pills for
lady, at time when lie was very mich sb-
sorbed in one OF his land transactions She
asked how they were to be taken g quart
er down." said the doctor, and the balance
in one, two, and three years.
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A wide awake minister who found his con-
gresation going to sleep before he had fairly
commenced, suddenly stopped and exclaimed :
" Brethren, this isn't fair it isn't giving q
man half chance. Wait until get warm
cd up, and then il amt worth listening to.
go to sleep. Give man fair chance. -
They did.
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LEMON FOR CoUem.- Roast The lemon
very carefully without burning it /; when it is
hot, cut and squeeze into a cup upon three
ounces of sugar nicely powdered Take
spoonful whenever your cough troubles you-
It is good and agreeable to taste. Rarely has
It been known to fail of giving relief.
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1t is somewhat remarkable that the seal,
which requires sometimes to remain for a con-
siderable time under water, is furnished with
a sort of valve under its nose, to prevent the
entrance of the water into the nasal passage,
tile only other animal with similar provision
being the camel, which sometimes, in crossing
the desert, has to encddnter tremendous sand
storms.
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Brother Beecher," says the venerable DR..
Bacon, laying his hand on the great preach-
er's shoulder, "Brbther Beecher, fear the
devil whispered in your ear just now, that
this was very fine lecture" 20, no." 10.
piled Mr.. Beecher sshe left that for you to
do.''