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In 4 recent work on crtmlnolOgy.
the learned investigator says that out
Of ninety-eight young men criminals
A per cent. did not blush when eX.
amined. OF one hundred and twenty
two female criminals, 81 per cent
did not blush. If our novels are to
keep up with scienre. they must
change their indicia Of emotion. 1t
must be the men who blush, and the
other sex whose sensitiveness must
not be regular feature Leander
bushes as he declares himself or is
suddenly brought up against senti-
mental outcrop. But Hero takes it
calmly. The scientist also notices
that women blush about tie ears
rather than on the cheek. This,
also, requires a change in the novels.
1t Is a pointer, too, for the ladies'
man who is watching for signs that
he is making an impression. II he
fastens his gaze upon the left ear he
may see something that will tell him
be may consider himself happy.
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w-0 PAYS THE ellis.

Who pays the bills? Who feeds the
erunkard's children? Who provides for the
drunkards wife? Who supports the beg.
carly tramps, who having wasted their
money in drink, wander about the country:
Who repairs the losses caused by the failure
OF incorporate merchants and reckless and
hali-intoxicated business men? Who makes
good the damages caused by the blunders Of
drunken workmen, and the hindrances OF
business caused by the sprees OF Incorporate
employees? Who pay, for the railroad
wrecks caused by drunken conductors and
engineers2 Who builds the asylums where
crazy drunkards are kept? Who supports
the idiotic children Of drunken men? Who
pays the attorneys and juries and judges who
try drunken criminals? Who pays the ex-
penses OF trials and commitments and
executions occasioned by the crimes OF
drunken men? Who pays for the property
destroyed and burned by drunken men?
Who builds. and supports almshouses,
which but for drink might remain un-
occupied? Who Andures the suffering and
losses and brutalIy, which are due to the
recklessness and insanity Of drunSen hus-
bands and fathers! Who pays for the in
quests held on drunG9rds found dead by the
wayside2 Who pay: for pauper's coffin,
and for digging q drunkaris gravo in
potter's field, when the last glass has been
drunk
Who pays the bills? The drunkard can
not, for he has wasted his substance in his
cup. Will the rumseller pay them? The
fact is. you and I. and the sober and indus
trlous tolllng portion OF the community must
meet all these bills. The drunken rowdy,
wounded in the street fight, is cared for in
the city hospital at our expense ;the drunken
beggar Is fed from our table; his hungry
children come to our doors for bread and We
cannot refuse assistance to his suffering wife
and when ut last having wasted his SUBJ
stance in riotous living he comes 10 the
almshouse, the asylum, the hospital, or the
prison, honest, sober, temperate men pay
the bills for supporting him there. There is
no escaping it. We may protest, we may
grumtle at the taxes and lind fault with beg
CARS, but ultimately and Inevitably we must
foot the bills.-New England Evangelist.
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YOUNG MAN, AHOY!

"Wine in. wit out. "-Angelica Every Week.
And yet that old saying Is only true after q
certain stage OF the game has been passed.
Many men, and even most men are more
witty and facetious after drink or two Of
wine than before. II doesn't take young
man long to find out that he can say more
funny things, and raise more laughs at his
witticisms when he is tri1e cooked than
when he is his own natural self. When he
finds himself in company with others, and oil
are trying to be cute, it is perfectly natural
that he should avail himself OF every means
within his reach, to "keep his end up" as the
saying is. So he hoists in few drinks. and
in his revised shape he finds no difficulty in
raising laugh ut will. In fact, he Is more Of
fellow drunk than he is sober, and he knows
it. But he goes on and forces the machinery
too hard, until instead OF being funny, he gets
either idiotic or ugly, and then the very fell
lows who admired and applauded him call
him hog, and want the bar tender to fire
him. This sort OF thing goes on night after
night, until the fellow grows to be a regular
drunken bum, and don't amount to anything
drunk or sober. Young man look the matter
over, and see if this doesn't hit your case.
See II you don't take more drinks to make
you funny than for any other reason.-Dan-
vile (N. Y. Breeze.
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STRONG MEDICAL EVIDENCE.

Among those who have given testimony
before the Canadian Royal Commission now
engaged in investigating the iquo. prob
lem is F. w. Campbell, M. D., Dean Of the
Faculty Of Lenox College, attending physi-
clan Of Western Hospital, and Medical Ref
cree for the Canadian Life and New York
Insurance Companies. He testified that
"A great proportion OF the cases he had to
deal with in his hospital practice was caused
by drink. He would say at least seventy per
cent. directly and from ten to fifteen per
cent. indirectly. Closely questioned by the
Chairman, he repeated his statement that
fully eishty-fiye per cent. OF the hospital
cases were the result OF drink. He further
volunteered the statement that after nine
years experience OF dealing with 12O SOL
diers In st. Johns Infantry School, he was
prepared to state that ninety-nine per cent.
Of all the trouble with the men in that insti-
tuition was caused by liquor. Some trouble
came from the canteen In the school but
more from liquor facilities outside"
None have better opportunities than medi-
cal men to know the evil effects OF alcohol
upon the human body and brain. Such tes-
timony as the above ought to have much
weight with intelligent, thoughtful people.
In the light OF it total abstinence becomes
the only wise and safe rule OF conduct
National Temperance Advocate.
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STIR UPTHE GIFT.

The apostle exhorts his son Timothy to
s'stir up the gilt of God" which is in him.
There are msny precious gifts which are
unused. They are like fires which are banked
or buried in ashes. There are gifts which II
stirred up would make flaming torches of
men who now are only smoking fax. There
are multtudes of men who stand for little
more than ciphers in the worlds great sum,
who, if their gifts were stirred up and
aroused, might be mighty factors to mould
the worlds destiny.
A gift that is not stirred up becomes dor
mant, and comparatively useless. There
may be the gift of speech, which if neglected
is almost lost; or the gift of discernment.
which may become obscured and du!led by
the stupefying influences OF sin and neglect.
So various gifts, left alone and neglected. are
like the talent buried in the ground. They
gather mold and rust, instead of increasing
and multiplying.
Stir up the gift that is in you. If God has
given you a gift 1t is for use, for exercise,
for employment; and be would have 1t used
for his glory and the good of your fellow
men. What is q sword good for..if it rests in
the scabbard? What Is o lamp worth II it IS
never lighted? WHAT is seed worth II It
lies stored away and is never cast into the
groundo What is wealth good for II it be
clutched and boarded! So any gift which
God bestows on man. If allowed to remain
unused, largely loses its value, and at last
seems to fade out of eXistance.
The gifts Of the painter, the poet; the mu-
sician, the artist. The student all must be
exercised and stirred up. or they will soon
become of little worth. So the gift OF
Goi," the power which the Most High be-
slows upon men, is for service, fer exercise,
for use, for blessing; and the Christian must
stir up the gift of God which is within him.
and 80 Use that gift that it shall bring good
to others and benedctlon from the LORD
TAlmory.
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The interval between this. peculiar
courtship and engagement and the
marriage to which it leads, may be for
longer or shorter time, according to
circumstances, varying from a few
months to number of years. An as
trologer is consulted-sstrology pays
as a profession in Chins-a lucky day
is fixed upon, and the family of the
bridegroom make few presents to the
bride, presents that it requires Chi
nese bride to fully appreciate, consist
ing of the left fore-foot of black pig
and the left hind-foot of he-goat, a
cock and hen, six large red candles,
a small, dried hop-tosd, eight small
cakes of bread, and several boxes of
frecrackers, together with an assorted
lot of other rubbish apparently chosen
fo7 it's utter incongruity and useless
ness.
After large number OF intricate
ceremonies in addition to those de-
tailed, the bride is shut up in sedan
chair and carried to her intended hus-
bands house. He is waiting, and TAX
ing the key of the sedan chair from
the nearest relative of his intended
bride, he opens the door of the vehi-
Gle, and husband and wife see each
other for the first time. If he does not
like her looks, he slams the door, locks
her in, hands back the key, and there
is an end of the whole matter; If, on
the contrary, he likes her appearance,
he leads her into his house.
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Chinese Marriage Customs.

Ths god of love, the cupid of the
Chinese, is no less a person than the
man in the moon. They call him Yue-
laou. He receives the DEGREES of des-
tiny from heaven, and sliding down to
earth on moonbeam, fastens the cue
of the predestined husband to the nose
of the future wife by special, mAgi-
cal, invisible silken knot, "after which
nothing can prevent the union"
Cards of about the same size, and
much the same appearance as pack
of frecrackers, but which contain
minute particulars with regard to the
year, month, day, hour and minute of
the birth of the senders, are exchanged
between the contracting parties. AS
trologers are consulted, and papers are
burned before hideous wooden or
porcelain josses. If the joss, by the
mouth of the sstrologer, says, "Al
right, go ahead-bless you, my chill
dren," and if for three days, afterward
nothing occurs to mar the harmony of
the occasion, such as losing cash at
playing fsn-tsn, spilling soup down
the front of garment, or the break
ing of any article of household use,
getting bean fastened in the nose or
ear, or mote in the eye, the betrothsl
takes place.
This, however, is not binding until
a still larger piece of pasteboard, as
large as the lid of small tea-chest, is
exchanged between the families of the
bride and bridegroom. The family of
the bridegroom furnishes these cards.
One is embellished with famboysnt
dragon in gold leaf, and the other with
a peculiarly Chinesy-looking monde
scrip that is perhaps meant for a fe-
male dragon: There are also provided
four large darning-needles and two
long strands of red silken yarn. Two
of the needles are threaded upon one
of the silken strands, one at each of its
ends, and the needles are fastened in o
peculiar manner upon the gilded drag
on card. The other card, with needles
and silken strands unattached, is sent,
together with the former, to the house
of the bride, where card No. 2 is ar
ranged to match card No. l, and sent
back again to the bridegroom, card
No. l being retained by the bride.
Thereafter the respective parties keep
these cards as sent them, in evidence OF
their respective engagements.
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POPULAR SCIENCE.

The diamond, in sufficient heat,
will burn like charcoal. '- ~ -
The will-o'- -the-wisp is caused by de-
cay of the vegetable matter.
A Frenchman is experimenting with
a phonograph upon the language OF
hens.
A speck of gold weighing the mill
lionth part of grain may be easily
seen by the naked eye. ...... #
On clear night an ordinary human,
eye can discover about 1000 stars in
the northern hemisphere. ...
No fewer than $4,000 peach-shape
jelly fish were counted in q cubic foot
of phosphorescent water taken from
the sea on the English coast.
One heat unit equals 772 pounds, and
the heat that must be extracted from
one pound of water to convert it into
ice equals 1O9, 624 foot pounds.
The crab when living near the oceans
surface has well developed eyes, in
deeper water only eyestslks are pres
ent-no eyes, while in specimens from
still deeper water, the eyestalks have
joined, forming pointed beak.
There is gun in the British navy, o
twenty-two-ton Armstrong, which hurls
solid shot distance Of twelve miles, :.
the highest point in the arc described !
by the shot being II, 900 feet above the
earth's surface. The discharge OF. the
gun cannot be heard at the place whers
the ball strikes.
Recent catalogues show that ento-
mologists have found 1853 species ofI
spiders in the upper Cayuga IN. "
Lake basin, $40 in the District. of Co
lumbia and $40 in New England. Doc
tor George Marx has compiled list OF
202 species which have been found m
the polar regions of the globe. - '''r'' : :
If pound of coal is subject to q dry
distillstion, and the products and resi-
dusls treated chemically by the pro-
cesses for obtaining the well-known
coal tar colors, the one pound so treat
ed will yield enough magenta to color
500 yards of flannel, vermillion for
$500 yards, aurine for 120 yards, and
alizarine sufficient for 1855 yards of red
cloth. Or. ... .a.G., ~ ;,l;.
Kedamath Basu has observed that
under the influence of enlarged eduoa-
ton and refinement, tattooing and tha
use of red paint on the forehead and
crown are diminishing among the wo-
men of Bengal These fashions still
persist in the Northwest. Provinces
along with the insertion of thick and
heavy wooden plugs in the lower lobes
Of their ears. : ss.."'' 'lr-i".'
Electric currents were proved many
years ago to exist in plants; and Kun
kel was led to think, by his expert
ments, that they were caused by the
mechanical process of water-motion,
set up on application of the moist cleo
trode. A new investigation of the sub
ject has been made by Herr Hasske.
and he concludes that it is unquestion-
able that changes of matter of various
kinds are concerned in the production
of the electric currents, especially oxJ-
gen-respiration and carbonic-acid as
similation; and that while water move
ments may possibly share in their pro-
duction, their share is certainly only .
small one. ..f' =,
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German Artillery.

So destructive in its effects is tho
new German artillery that it is asserted
once the range was found q battery
would annihilste an entire division In
q very short time. Prims facie, this
seems rather to border on the impos-
sible, but when the results of the e1-
periments which were recently made
in the presence of the Emperor with
the new weapons are considered the
task does not seem to be 80 impracti'
cable, after all. .Hs 49,. ..rsr 3D..
The first shot fred in the course OF
these experiments was at target
placed fifty PAGES from a wood. Tho
missile missed the target, but plowed
its way for 500 yards through the
wood. Shortly afterward large area
of the wood was discovered to be on
fire. This was due TO the shell being
charged with certain kind of powder,
the composition of which is 3 secret
known only to tho German Govern
ment. 49,.
The splinters from shells burst by
this powder and fred by the new gun
cover circuit of 900 feet. This is .
great Improvement on the limited area
of ground that was covered by splinters
from shells fred by the artillery
weapon of twenty years ago. Then It
was considered effective shooting II
splinters from shell were thrown
within circuit of forty or fifty PAGES
and seven or eight men wounded, but
the new gun has far more destructive
power than this. Another shell fired
Ut an enormous target, constructed by
the Emperor's orders, filled it with
thousands of holes. London Court
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Where the Telegraph il Least Used.

The four countries in the world
which possess the smallest telegraph
facilities are Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay
and Persia. In the first named there
are only thirty-six telegraph Offices In
the whole country and but 1900 miles
of wire. In the territory of Paraguay
there are only SO miles Of wire in op-
Grafton, and the entire telegraph SER
vice of that country requires the SER
vices of but twenty-eight persons. ONO
line of $50 miles, owned and operated
by the Government, runs from Asuncion
to Paso de Patris, the limit of Para
guayan territory, and the other lou
miles by the railroad from Asuncion to
Pirapo. Owing to high water and
csmpfrss in that country the line ls
often interrupted for days ut time.
At Paso de Patria the line breaks, there
being 10 cable over the Alto carana
River, which is three miles wide. Com
muniea.ion is therefore BY canoe,
which takes messages over in the morn
ing to the Argentine side and returns
to the Paraguayau side at night. An
Important telegrsm is often delayed
ten or fifteen hours. Hartford Cou-
rant
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A CESsoRIoUs SPIRIT.

The Religious Herald remarks:
DR.. J. B. Jeter disliked nothing so much
as 4 carping. ccnsorious spirit. He said Of
it: Ills bitter fruits are alienation, strifes,
the disgrace of the church, the curse Of
souls, tie encouragement of good men. and
the triumph of the ungodly. These fault
finders wrll-nigh reverse the apostolic in
junction. Speak evil of no man., and speak
evil IF all men, One day brother came
to him finding fault of the American Baptist
Publication Society. DR.. Jeter heard him
patiently and replied as follows: Il have
no fault to find of that Society. I have
known it from its beginning, and l have
r"""r known a society more wisely man.
eyed. w
A.. YOU are not willing to cooperate with
ANYTHING which does not IN oil respect meet
your apTi oval, there is no man and no So.
ciety with which you can cooperate. And
YOU cOu'd not, on that basis. cooperate with
yourself. for you know that often you
fail to measure up to your duty" Then,
warming up, DR.. Jrter added: If you mean
to be consistent snd 10. ical, there ls nothing
left you but to 80 out and dig hole in the
ground and put yourself into it and have
nothing to do with any one on earth. for all
of us fail OF. reaching even our own poor
id,a OF what we ought to be and to do"
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TIE pest or men appear some
times to be j strange compound OF
contradictory qualities; and were
the accidental oversights and folly OF
the wisest man, the failings and i'm
uerfections Of a religious man, tie
hasty acts and passionate words OF a
meek man-were they to rise up in
Judgment against them, and an i'll.
natured Judge to be suffered to mark
in this manner what has been done
aniss, what character so unexcep-
tionable as to be able to stand be.
fore him.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NoTEc.

TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOT2..
Pomona, CAL. charges $1,000 for liquor
license.
In the world there are $1,000 breweries.
nearly 26, 900 OF them being in Germany.
Pittsburg liquor dealers must promise on
oath that they will not serve free lunch III
order to get license.
II the drinking mans love for his family
was rs strong Us his breath there would be
more domestic happiness in the world.
In 1892 New York City paid FOR its school
bill, "a ,0OO, 900 for its amusement bill, st.
OO0. 900, and for its drink bill, T60, ,O0O,0 900.
Baron Liebig, the German chemist, says
that us much Hour Is will lie on the point oi
4 table knife contains rs much nutritiye con-
stituants us eight pints Of the best beer made
A Catholic paper in Philadelphia prophnses
that the time will come when paper with 4
rum advertisement in it will be excluded
from the mails just rs lottery advertisements
are.
Ls Petit Journal, OF raris, latefy began a
ieadin. article with the ;lss 5rtiQn that. III
IL! tho dangers mcnac.ng orc a5rieutuc!'
population 1t tho present day, the S.t'cst
and most difficult to fight is alcoholism.
It il said 50. 900 persons die prema!uscly in
Great Britain every year by the Indirect in
fuence oi Intoxicating drinks. from destltu.
ton, accident, violence or disease, anu that
40. 900 are killed annually by tho irect III
fuen.e Of intemperLncr.
The Tageblatt, OF Leipzig. Germany, as
serts that it will no. be possible to produce
any law adapted 70 reilly put stop TO tn'
rrpat evil OF drunkenness without rel!nlush
ing some Of our popular National conceptions
about interference with individual liberty
The London Vegetarian says tine ovtriaying
Of infants furnishes material oi the utmost
value to those engaged IN opposing the sale
Of alcoholic stimulantS. Ous Of 10Oo deaths
so attributed, $50 occur on Saturday, nlght
I7O on MonIay anl then gradually de-
creas;ng number until Saturday is again
rparhad
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A QUAINT SERMON.

Mr.. Tadd was minister who lived manV
wears ago few miles from Cambridge, and
having several times been preaching against
drunkenness, some of the Cambridge scholars
conscience, which is sharper than ten thou
sand witnesses, being their monitor) were
very much offended, and thought he made
reflection on them. Some little time after,
Mr.. Dodd was walking toward Cambridge
and met some of the gownsmen, who, as
soon as they saw him ut distance, resolved
to make some ridicule of him.
As soon as he came up they
accosted him with. "Your servants. sirl'
He replied: Your servant, gentlemen"
They asked him if he had not been preach
ing very much against drunkeness OF late.
He answered in the affirmative. They then
told him they had favor to beg Of him, and
it Was that he would preach sermon 10
them there from q text they should choose.
He argued that it was az imposition, for a
man ought TO have some consideration be-
fore preaching. They said they would not
put up with denial. and insisted upon his
preaching Immediately I'm hollow tree
which stood by the side OF the road from
the word MALT.
He then began: "Belovcd, let me crave
your attention. am little man-come at
short notice-to preach short sermon
from short text-to 4 thin cOrporatlon-ln
an unworthy pulpit. :.
beloved, my text is Malt. I cannot d.
vide it into sentences, there being none; nor
into words, there being but one; l mus,
therefore, of necessity divide it. into letters,
which I find in my text to be these four
Malt, M is moral, A is allegorical, l. is
literal, T is theological.
The moral is to teach you rustics good
manners; therefore M-my masters, A-all
of you, L-leave off, T-tippling.
The allegorical is when one thing: is
spoken Of and another 10 meant. The thing
spoken of is Malt. The thing meant is the
spirit OF Malt, which you rustics make: M
your meat A-your appeal, L-your liberty,
T-your trust.
THE literal Is according to the letters.
M-much, A-ale. Little, TRUST.
"The theological is according TO the effects
it works. In some, M-murder; in others.
A-audacity; in all, L-looseness Of life, and
in man, T-treachery."