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like puff ball, leaving nothing in the hand e1-
eept the shreds Of tire rind and lew dry nores.
II n chiefly filled with air, In the centre sien-
connected by delicate hlaments with the rlnd.
Tue pod contains q small quantity OF hne silk,
with seeds. The Arabs collect the silk and twist
1t into matches for their guns preferring it the
common match because 1t burns freely without
sulphur"
The One Hundred and Fourth Chapter Of the
Koran.
Woe ukSo every slanderer and baekbiter; who
beapeth Up riches and prepareth the same for the
time TO csmeI He thinketh that his riches will
render him immortal. By no means. He shall
surely be cast into Al Rotuma. And who shall
cause thee TO understand what Al Hotuma is? It
n the kfndled IRE OF God, which shall mount
above the hearts Of those who shall be cast there
In Verify, It shall be as An arched vault above
them on columns Of vast extent.
The EinetY-third Chapter Of the Koran.
Inthe name of the most merciful God. By the
brightness of the morning, and by the night when
it groWeth dark; thy Lord hath not forsaken
thee, neither doth he hate thee. Verify, the life
to come shall be better for thee than this present
life and thy Lord shall give thee reward
Wherewith thou shalt be we'll pleased. Did he not
fnd thee an orphan, and hath he not taken care Of
theef And did he not ind thee wandering In er-
ror and hath he not guided thee into the truth
And did he not ind thee needy, and hath he not
enriched thee7 Wherefore Cypress not the orphan,
neither repulse the DeKBar; Dut declare the good
ness of thy Lord.
The Eghty-second Chapter Of the Koran.
When the heaven shall be cloVen in sunder;
and when the stars shall be scattered: and when
the seas shall be suffered to oin their waters and
when the graves shall be turned upside down:
every soul shall know what 1t hath committed
and what 1t hath omitted. o, man, what hath Sc
duced thee against thy gracious Lord, who hath
created thee, and put thee together and rightly
II wknNF 0rpa or,lao sal hokk h
fashioned thee. Assuredly. But ye deny the
last Judgment as falsehood. Verify, there are
appointed over you guardian angels. honorable
your actions; VINO know that Which ye
DO. The just shall surely be in q
surely be in hell; they shall be cast therein, to be
turned on the day Of Judgment, and they shall
not be absent therelrOm forever. What shall
ment is? Again, what shall cause thee to under
stand what the day Of Judgment is? II is day
wbeTeOn one soul shall not be able to obtain any.
thing in behalf Of another, and the command on
that day shall be Gods.
The Rose of Jericho.
Mr.. Carl Ritter, in his Comparative Geo
grapby of the Sinaitic Peninsula gives US this
deeply interesting account Of the Rose Of Jeri-
chou
The celebrated Rose Of Jericho, (AuGstGlicG
hieTO-c4UndicGl-the branching, woody plant,
six or eight inches In height, Indigenous TO the
sand plains of Southern Palestine and Arabia
Petr@a-Is now as little found In the soil which
once nourished IL as the mulberry is. 1t is no
true rose but belongs to the family Of Siitqu0SR.
BelOD, who found 1t at the foot Of Sinai, sought
1t in vain on the plain Of Jericho, and did not
hesitate TO say that the statement that It is
abundant there is q subterfuge Of the monks:
Petite heTbeife, que quelques moi1es frOmpeurs
ont opeAe Rose de JsTicho-et men croist GEcUne-
ment en- Jericho" etc.
The ecclesiasties seem to want to find some
thing corresponding TO the rose in Jes. Sir3ch,
xiv, a or Is, where the palm tree and the rose
hrrCh brnF INIT IN hfC fha hr1
BILE shrub can lay no claim. SeetZen states, also,
that, in spite Of all his efforts, he could find
nothing which correspOnded to the Jericho rose;
and Sheikh Aehmed confirmed him in this result
by asserting that It is not known there. The true
roses the ceDtlpOlia, Of Jericho, are praised very
highly by FRbrI.