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FORCE OF CONVECTION .-Conviction is
in itself a power. The man who is sure of
what he says, gives assurance to those who
hear. With the world as it is, most men
do not know what to believe, nor do they
care to be at the trouble to find out for
themselves what they ought to believe.
When, therefore, a man comes before
others with conviction of his own, and
asserts it with postiveness akin to in
spiration, those of his hearers who are
hesitating, or who are unconcerned, are
likely to be swept along by his in
tensity, and to believe what he believes
because he more than believes it.
A man may have wrong conviction and
may do harm by his power Of impressing
it upon others; but if man has no strong
convictions, either right or wrong, he
must not expect to inspire others to be-
lief any stronger than his own. The ele-
mental power of preacher is an over
powering conviction. Unless a man
believes truth so firmly that he is willing
to live or die for it, he has no fitness to be
preacher
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WHAT IS CITY?-Electricity is
another substance concerning the nature of
which we know absolutely nothing. To
the question: What is electricity? there is
but one answer. We do not know. We
do know what it will do, and can make it
serve US in an infinite variety of ways
but the most learned electrician is only in
who can move the lever which controls
great engine, but knows nothing of its
construction, or how the motion is pro-
duced. .-POpuLar Science Ne,cs,
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MORALITY IN LITTLE THINGS.-A rail-
way conductor, passing through his train,
recently remarked, "If all were like that
gentleman yonder, would have far less
trouble in my work. Every day, almost
every hour, some one tries to ride on my
train without paying for it," The gentle
man to whom he referred was uncertain as
to the value of an excursion ticket, think
ing the time for using it under the regula-
tions of the corporation had possibly gone
by. He, therefore, submitted the ticket
to the conductor, calling his special atten-
tion to it, and expressing desire to fulfill
the exact conditions under which he had
purchased it. He not only wished to re-
lieve faithful employee of possible en-
barrassment in his report to the company,
but also to be strictly honest, doing every
thing openly.
This incident points a moral. 1t is
wrong to allege that corporations defraud,
and, therefore, they may be innocently
defrauded. The moral sense of an indi-
vidual ought not to be stultified by any
known wrong, however trit1ing it may
seem, or however successfully concealed
from view. We are not sure but that
here is just the cause for close self-eXami-
nation by many a one, who fancies him
self occupying secure moral standing.
Christian morals have to do with funda-
mental truth with the smallest, as we'll
as the greatest volitions. And the way
to reach integrity of character is lot so
much to regard the conspicuous acts of
fidelity to the right, as to be sure that we
are really true in reference to those in
Vulnerable matters which make up our
daily life. 1t is we'll to cultivate tender
conscience in every thing; we'll for the in
dividual himself; we'll for his influence
over others. In the end Of life, it shall be
we'll with them. Peace will adjust the
pillow in life's latest hour of that man
who acted in all things with a conscien-
tous regard to even-handed justice to-
ward others, with strict sense of duty to
his God.
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SLANDER.


No serpent distills such fatal poison as
that which drips from the tongue of the
slanderer.
The former may be counteracted, and at
the worst, only brings a temporal death
which ends sensation, the latter fingers to
the end of existence and is living and
continued torture.
How easy to start SANDER! How little
we think of the hurtful hints and damag-
ing inuendoes which come out during an
ordinary conversation How little do we
reflect on the dimensions to which they
will be magnified by repetition.
Our hearts bleed at the sufferings of
those whose bodies are destitute Of cover
during the cold winter nights, but we
deliberately uncover reputation which is
incalculably more sensitive, and uncover
it to colder, bleaker night than any
which glooms over the desolatiOn ofWinter.
The sutferings endured through the long,
dark night may pass away as the sun rises
to warm and gladden. another day; but the
freezing power ofevil words is thawed out
by no morning beams, and the chilblain of
a blighted character sends its victim Grip
pied and limping to the end of his journey.
The charity which protects the body is
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na-A pastor who notices the children,
addresses them by name, speaks kindly to
them and shows a real interest in them,
will secure their confidence and love, and
will be able to influence them for good.
Children have quick discernment, are
good judges of character, and are not long
in forming an opinion of those with whom
they are brought in contact. Half minis
ter's success depends upon gaining the
good will of the children. Ifhe succeeds
in doing this, they will speak many
kind word for him, and will influence
their parents and others to think we'll Of
him. We once heard little girl, almost
a child, say: "I don't like Mr.. So and
So." She was asked the reason why.
Her answer was: "He don't like little
girls; he never speaks to me-" Pastors
should not only feed the sheep, but also the
lambs; they should not only care for the
old, but also the young. Even the little
children can be favorably impressed by
proper attention to them. The Master
took the little children into His arms and
blessed them, and so should those who go
forth in His name to gather men into His
fold.-Methodist Recorder.
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BENEFITS OE THE MOON.

The moon ministers to human wants in
several ways that are not so apparent as
its light-giving function, although some Of
them are much more important. 1t is by
observing the position of the moon with
reference to the fixed stars that the navi-
gator determines his longitude. Upon the
revolution of the moon about the earth is
based convenient division of time, the
month, intermediate between that fur
nished by the earth's daily rotation and
its revolution through its orbit. Doubtful
points in ancient chronology have been
frequently settled by means of eclipses of
the moon, the dates of which could be
accurately determined. The intervention
of the moon in eclipsing the sun gave
astronomers the opportunities for obtain
ing their first knowledge in regard to the
solar envelope. But the largest effects on
human welfare are procured by the moon
through the agency of the tides. Twice a
day the decomposing organic matter
brought down to the seashore by rivers, or
deposited along the waters edge by human
agency, is swept away by the tidal wave
in its course around the globe. This sani-
tary service which the moon performs is
of inconceivable value. In many hafbors,
large ships and heavily-loaded RATS and
barges are moved from the entrance to
their Wharves, miles above, by that slow
but powerful tug, the food-tide. An
amount of work is thus done which, if it
had to be provided by artificial means,
would cost for such port as London thou
sands, perhaps millions, of pounds yearly.
Popular Science NetoS.
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aas~ I take Christianity as I take bread
because feel and know that it supplies
want of my nature, the deepest want of
all
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MEDICINAL QUALITIES OF FRUITS.

The following is from the Journal Of
Health: "Of all the fruits with which
we are blessed, the peach is the most de-
licious and digestible. There is nothing
more palatable, wholesome and medicinal
than good ripe peaches. 1t is a mistaken
idea that no fruit should be eaten at
breakfast. It would be far better if our
people would eat less bacon and grease at
breakfast and more fruit In the morning
there is an acrid state of thesecretions, and
nothing is so we'll calculated to correct this
as cooling sub-acid fruits, such as peaches,
apples, etc. The apple is one of the best
of fruits. Baked or steWed apples will
generally agree with the most delicate
stomach, and are excellent medicine fn
many cases. Green or half ripe apples
stewed and sWeetened are pleasant to the
taste, cooling, nourshing, laxative, far
superior in many cases to the abomina-
BILE doses of salts and oil usually given
in fever and other disease. Raw apples
stewed are better for constipation than
some. pills. Oranges are very accepta-
BILE to most stomachs, having all the ad-
vantages of the acid alluded to; but the
orange Juice alone should be taken, re-
jecting the pulp. The same may be said
of lemons, pomegranates, and all that class.
Lemonade is the best drink in fevers,
and when thickened with sugar it is bet
ter than syrup of squills and other nause-
ants in many cases of cough. Tomatoes
act on the liver and bowels, and are much
more pleasant and safe than blue mass.
The juice should be used alone, rejecting
the skin. The small seeded fruits, such as
black berries, figs, currants, may be classed
among the best foods and medicines. The
sugar in them is nutritious, the acid is
cool and purifying, and the seeds are laxa-
tive. We would be much the gamers if
we would look more to our orchards and
gardens for our medicines and less to
drug stores. TO cure fever or act on the
kidneys, no febrifuge or diuretic is supe-
rior to watermelon, which may, with very
few exceptions, be taken in sickness and
in health in almost unlimited quantities,
with positive benefit. But in using them,
juice should be taken, excluding the pulp ;
and then the melon should be fresh and
ripe"
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FABLED HISTORY OF THE RIDDLE
The ancients believed that the monster
Sphynx was the inventor of riddles. The
one she proposed for solution is this:
"What animal is it that goes upon four legs
in the morning, upon two at noon, and
upon three at night?" Many persons
strove to explain it, but failed and were
torn to pieces by her. At length Gdipus
solved it by saying that the animal was
man, who, in infancy, or in the morning
of his life, creeps upon all fours; in the
noon of his life walks on two feet, and in
the night of old age requires stick and
so totters upon three legs.
The Sphynx, enraged at the discovery
of her riddle, threw herself upon rock
and died.
Such is the fabled history of the first rid
die; the true history is not known, as rid
dies are of remote antiquity. But we find
from Plutarch that in his days the Greek
girls often amused themselves with pro-
posing them for their companions to un-
ravel.
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How Soon WE ARE FoRGoT!-A pict-
ure of handsome young man is slowed
away in neglected corner of portrait
painters studio. The artist was asked
whom it belonged to. "Just before start
ing on trip across the water / received
an order for that picture from the young
lady to whom the original was betrothed.
AS there was apparently no hurry about
the work suggested that it should be
done at my leisure while abroad. This
being agreed upon, had no further COM
munication with the parties until my re-
turn year and half later.
When called upon the lady and in
formed her that the picture was ready she
seemed slightly embarrassed, but promised
to call at the studio and see it. A few
days later she came, and, after gazing
steadily at the canvas for some time, she
sighed and said:
"Poor Phil he's dead and gone!"
Then, with sudden look of relief and
inspiration, she added:
"But think if you could change the
expression slightly and alter the mouth it
would be a good likeness IF Mr.. c., the
gentleman am now engaged to-"
l kept the picture, as you see. To have
allowed that cold-blooded, heartless wom-
an to take possession of it would have
seemed an insult to the dead mans memo
ry. So there it always hangs, sort of il
lustration of poor old Rips words: "How
soon we are forgotn'
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HOW TO GUESS THE SPEED OF TRAINS.


There is not one person in one hundred
of the millions who travel on railroads in
the course of year who has any idea of
the speed of a train. a large per cent. Of
even the regular trainmen of the country
cannot tell with any degree of accura-
cy how fast train is running. Frequent
ly engineers are dispatched on trip over
line of railroad with instructions to run
at speed of a certain number of miles an
hour. The engineers do not carry speed
indicator, but have learned by various
methods to gauge their engines so as to
make only the slightest variation from
their orders. Many engineers use their
driving wheels as 4 gauge. They know
its circumference, and by counting its rev.
olutions with certain time can tell very
accurately the speed at which they are
running. Another method is to time the
run between mile posts, and still another
is to make calculations from the number
of telegraph poles passed in certain time.
These poles, in level country and where
four or five wires are used, are spaced so
that they are thirty to the mile. If only
a single wire is used they are spaced from
twenty-five to twenty-eight to the mile.
The most accurate method, and the one
most in use by experienced railroad men,
is to count the number of rail joints the
train passes over in twenty seconds. The
rails in nearly all cases are thirty feet in
length, and the number passed over in
twenty seconds is the speed per hour a
train is running. For instance, if pas
senger sitting in sleeper can count thir-
ty clicks of the wheel on rail joint in
twenty seconds the train is running at
the speed of thirty miles an hour.-k6ua-
saS city Times.
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the English sparrow in America occupied
the area ola single tree or tree-box. Now
he disports himself over an area of 1885,
900 square miles in the United States, and
of $50. 900 in Canada,

The EARTH'S SUPPORT.-In the early
groupings of the human mind probably no
problem was more perplexing than that of
the earth's foundations. One of the most
primitive ideas represented the earth as
vast flat island, surrounded by an intermi-
nable ocean; and this view was subse-
quently modified by giving the ocean
circular boundary, with endless roots
stretching downward beneath the whole.
The priests Of Veda asserted that the earth
was supported on twelve columns, between
which the sun passed. Anaximander re-
garded the earth as cylinder floating in
compressed air. The idea that the earth
foated long prevailed, even the early
Hindoos, who supposed the hemispherical
earth to rest on the heads Of four elephants
standing on the back of a tortoise, main
tanning that the tortoise rested on the
universal ocean. Aristotle and Strabo con-
ceived the sphericity of the earthJ but
what supported it as the n1otionless centre
of their universe puzzled them. Cosmas,
A. d., 535, propounded the system of a
square earth, resting on nothing, and sup
porting the heavens on solid walls. The
venerable Bede, who lived in the eighth
century, regarded the earth as floating
egg, and this notion lasted many centuries.
These crude theories have come down to
surprisingly recent period-so much a
thing of TODAY is our modern science.
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AN OLD HIGHLAND SToRY.-A curious
discovery, which recalls tragic story in
the history of the Macintosh Of Borlum
family, has just been made at Drummond
Hill, near Iverness, the residence of Mr..
William Burns, solicitor. While work.
men were engaged in laying out a tennis
court they came upon the remains Of q
skull and the shoulder and thigh bones of
man. At first the remains were sup
posed to be those of a soldier of one of the
early Highland regiments which were en-
camped in the vicinity, butthe discovery
of several buttons of a chequer pattern
without figures, and resembling those worn
or the dress-coats of Highland gentlemen
about century ago, leads to the belief that
the remains are those of Alistair Mackin-
tosh, foster-son Of the Macintosh Of
Borlum, who was convicted Of robbery
and executed at Muirfield in 1773, and was
condemned to be hung in chains. His
clansmen, who believed him to be inno-
cent, succeeded in removing the body and
burying it near Aultnaskiah, but it was
discovered, and they secretly moved it
and had it inferred at Campfeld, which
forms part of the land now owned by Mr..
Burns. The remains were found about
three feet below the surface in easily turned
sand which seems to indicate that they
had been hastily inferred. It is worthy
of note that the last laird Of the Borlum
family, Edward Macintosh, who was
said to have been concerned in the rob-
berry for which his foster brother had suf-
fered the last penalty of the law, was pro-
prietor of the estate Of RAFT, near kingus-
sic, which afterwards passed into the
hands of "Ossian" Macpherson, and is now
known as Bellevlle.
How SHOES WEAR OUT.-There are a
number of small cobblers in Easements and
hallway stands off the main thoroughfares
who make a speciality of Preparing while
you wait" and who derive a profitable
custom from the passers by who need Il
heel tipped or sole renovated to put their
foot goar in good condition, whom the
torres or more pretentious shoemakers
would compel to wait at least day. There
are few men who do not wear off the right
heel sooner than the left, because the ma
iority put more force on the right foot
when walking. Women walk much more
evenly than men, especially in the high
heeled shoes in vogue, and, not walking as
much, do not need so often the atten-
ton of the cobbler., Women wear their
shoes out sooner in the sole of the foot,
where the position in their even walking
is greater, and the work in their shoes is
finer than these cobblers can perform, and
so they are seldom customers. The preva-
lent style of the men to walk with toes
outward is very severe on the heels, and
good sole will outWear at least two
heelings.
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MRS. STOVES .YARBS."
An Amusing Anecdote OF the AuthOress OK
Uncle Toms Cabin.


Mrs Stoves daily life is much the
same as that of any other old lady of her
quiet tastes. She isvery fond of taking
long walks when the weather is fine in
the fields and byways on the outskirts
of the city. She wanders around alone
and her slight figure is familiar one
to most of the old residents of Hartford.
A rather funny incident happened as
she was strolling the fields one day last
summer picking flowers. On one of the
low hills lying in the vicinity of Hart
ford's famous cemetery has lived for
over sixty years man by the name of
Dix Mr.. Dix is now approaching his
eightieth year, but is a hearty, we'll
preserved old gentleman, and is ex-
tremely proud of the fact that he is the
father of several generations of chill
dren and grandchildren. Old Mr.. Dix
was picking ''yarbs, as he calls them,
one afternoon in a field near his house.
[ will let him tell the rest in his own
words:
Il was picking some YARDS in the
IGlu Wucu oil VI a SllQQltlG Il uGdIu SOlilO
one say: ''Old man, what reyou pick
ing them YARDS forp' l looked up, and
list over the stun wall see the funniest
looking little woman | ever laid eyes
on, kinder simple looking, too. | told
her I was getting the YARDS for rheuma-
tiz. Then she asked me my name. I
told her my name, and said had lived
in the little house on the hill for nigh
on to sixty years. Then said:
"'What may your name be, marin"
60 she said my name is Harriet
Beecher Stowe
"Wall you could have knocked me
down with a feather. ! was never
more dumfounded in my life There
I'd been taking that woman for err
fool. y Hartford Letter IN Brooklyn
Eagle.
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VATICAN ETIQUETTE.
How the Pope Entertains Princes and
other Important Personages.

How the Pope Entertains Princes and
Other Important Personages.
The etiquette of the Vatican requires
that the Pope shall dine alone, and
while eating he reads the newspapers.
to foreign Prince or to any parsonage
Of Importance. he invites him to take
cup of coffee with him after the morn
ing mass. On such occasions the guest
is expected to attend the first mass and
to receive the communion from the
Pope's hands The visitor. however,
does not sit at the same table with his
Holiness, but a smaller one alongside
of him. Among those recently honored
in this way were Don Carlos. the Span
ish pretender, on the occasion of his
sons confirmation. the Grand Duchess
of Tuscany, the Prince Borghesa Aldo
brandini, Altievi and Pombino. while
the same favor is often shown to the
Pope's nephews. Cardinal Pecci used
to live in the Vatican and he frequently
visited his brother while the latter was
eating dinner.
Dinner is served at one O. clock, the
usual hour in Rome for that meal.
This repast consists of soup, dish of
roast meat and vegetables, fruit and
some old Bordeaux wine. No boiled
meats or pork in any form or cheese is
ever seen on the table.
The meal ended, his Holiness in
lulges in nap of an hours length
while seated in a large armchair; then,
weather permitting, he goes for walk
N the gardens, accompanied by one of
ais private chamberlans and a Lieu
tenant of the Papal Guards His car
"iage is also in attendance, so that he
can ride when overfatigued by walking.
His Holiness still considers himself
prisoner and never leaves the precincts
IF the Vatican; but the gardens of that
palace are very extensive, the main
lrive measuring quite mile in length.
At one end of the park is vineyard,
cultivated by the children of an agri-
cultural orphanage that was founded
oy Plus TX, and namel after him the
Vinga Pia. Leo Kill often visits the
vineyard, and whenever he notices one
IF the boys doing his work intelligently
le stops to have chat He takes
much interest in agricultural matters,
and is well posted in botany. Rome
Letter.
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RsWSEg - Rev ss'dets are those who read thi
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