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Ollie. hours from Intro: mo'l 3093x3103. Legal Directory. GIIAIITEB SMITH, “banning a apooldty. Miscellaneous. DENTIST. .~, Toronto. It ., my 7 Mini“ etc. McIntyrea Collection and PO'OI'J, A d'cspatch from “'ashington says: â€"Rev. Dr Talmage preached from the following text: “The spider tak- eth hold with her hands and is in kings' palaces."â€"Proverbs xxx. 28. It is not very certain what was the particular species of insect spoken of in the text; but I shall proceed to learn from it in the first place the exquisiteness of the divine mechan- ism. The kings’ chamberlain comes into the palace and looks around and sees the spider on the wall, and says: “Away with that intruder," and the servant of Solomon's palace comes with his broom and dashes down the insect, saying, “What a loathsome thing it is." But under microscOpic inspection I find it more wondrous of construction than the embroideries on the palace walls and the uphols- tery about the windows. All the. machinery on the earth could not. make anything so delicate and beautiful as the prehensile with which that spider clutches its prey. or as any of its eight eyes. We. do not have to goso far up to see the power of God. in the tapestry hang- ing around the windows of heaven. or in the horses and chariots of fire with which the «tying day departs, or to look at the mountain swinging out its sword arm from under the mantle of darkness until it can strike with its scimiter of the lightning. I love tcttcr to study God in the shape of a fly's wing. in the tormation of a fish’s scale, in the snowy white- ness of a pond lily. I love to track his footsteps in the mountain moss, and to hear his voice in the hum of the rye fields, and discover the rus- tle of his robe of light in the south wind. Oh. this wonder of divine power that can build a habitation for God in an apple blossom, and tune. a bee’s voice until it is fit for the eter- nal orchestra. and can say to a fire- fly: “Let there be light," and from holding an ocean in the hollow of his hand goes forth to find heights and depths and lengths and breadths of omnipotency in a dew drop. and dis~ mounts from the chariot of midnight hurricane to cross over on the susâ€" pension bridge of a spider’s web. You may take your telesCOpe and sweep it across the heavens in order to behold the glory of God. but I shall take the leaf holding the spider and the spider's web, and I shall ibring the microscope to my eye. and ’ while I gaze and look and study and am confounded. I will kneel down in the grass and cry; “Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty !” Again: my text teaches me that in- significance is no excuse for inactjon. This spider that Solomon saw on the wall might have said: “T mm't weave a great army to marshal, if you; only had a constitution to write, if there was some tremendous thing in the world for you to doâ€"then you would show us. Yes, you'would show us! What if the Levite in the ancient tem- ple had refused to snuff the candle because he could not be ahighpriestl What if the humming bird should re- fuse to sing its song into the ear of the honey Buckle because it cannot, like the eagle, dash its wing into the sun 1‘. What if the rain-drop should refuse to descend because it is not a Niagara ? What if the spider of the text - should refuse to move its shuttle because it cannot weave a Solomon’s robe? Away with such folly? If you are lazy with the one talent you would be lazy with the ten talents. If Milo cannot lift the calf he never will have strength to lift the ox. In the Lord’s army there is order for promotion, but you cannot be a general until you have been a lieutenant, a captain, or acol- one]. It is step by step, it is inch by inch, it is stroke by stroke, that our Christian character is builded. There- fore be content to do what God com- mands you to do. God is not ashamed to do small things. He is not asham- ed to be found chiseling a grain of sand, or helping a honey bee to con- struct its cell with mathematical ac- curacy, or tingeing a shell in the surf, shaping the bill of a chaffinch. What God does he does well. What you do do well, be it a great work or a small work. If ten talents, employ all the ten. If five talents, employ all the five. If one talent, employ the one. If only the thousandth part of a tal- ent employ that. “ Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life.” I tell you, if you are not faithfulto God in a small sphene, a web worthy of thm great palace. \Vhat can I do amid all this gold and embroidery? I am not able to make anything (it for so grand a place. and and so I will not work an spinning jenny." Not 30 said the spider. “The spider taketh hold with her hands." what a lesson that is .for you and me. You say it you had some great ser- mon to preach, it you only had a gr; at audience to talk to, if 'you_ only mid yo; $631.5}; iBIIBIéBt" aâ€"nd insignifi- cant in a large aphorg. A _ _ Again: my text teaches me that re- pulsiveness and loatheomeness Wlu sometimes climb up into very elevated places. You, perhaps, would have tried to kill the spider that Solomon saw. You would have said: “This 18 no place (or it. If that spider is de- termined to weave a web let it do so down in the cellar of this palace,? or in some dark dungeon.” Ah! The} spider of the text could not be dis- couraged. It clambered on, and climbed up higher and higher and higher, until after a while it reached thee king’s vision. and he said, “The spider taketh hold with her hands and is in kinge’ palaces." And so it often Is now that things that are loathsome and repulsive get up into very elevat- ed places. 'l'he Church of Christ, for instance. is a palace. The King of hear. and earth lives in it» Accord- " to-the Bible he: heaqx'ere o! COMPAN ION SHIP IN HEAVEN. May All Become Residents and Be Princes and Kings. cedar and her rafters 0! fire, and her windows at agate. and the fountains of salvation dash a rain of light. It is a glorious palace. the church of God is. And yet sometimes unseem- ly and loathsome things creep up into itâ€"evil speaking and rancor and slan- iler and back-biting and abuse, crawl- ing up 0n the walls of the church, spinning a web from arch to arch, and from the top of one communion tankard to another. Glorious palace in which there ought only to be light and love and pardon and grace. Yet a spider is in the palace AKain; my text teaches me that perseverance will mount into the king's palace. It must have seemed a long distance for that spider to climb in Solomon’s splendid residence but it started at the very foot of the wall and went up over the panels of Lebanon cedar. higher and higher. until it stood higher than the highest throne in all the nations-the throne of Solomon. And no God has de- creed it that many of those who are down in the dust of sin and dishonor shall gradually arrive in the king’s palace. And God hath decided that though you may be weak of arm and slow of tongue. and be struck through with a great many mental and moral deficits, that by his almighty grace you shall yet arrive in the King's Palace. Not such an one as is spoken of in the text rnot one of marble, not one adorned with pillars of alabaster and thronu of ivory and 'flagons 0‘ burnished gold. but a palace in which God is the King and the angels of heaven are the cup-bearers. The spider crawling up the wall of Solo- men's palace. was not worth looking after or considering as compared with the fact that we who are Worm-1 of the dust may at last ascend into the palace of the King immortal. By the grace of God may We all reach it. Oh! heaven is not a dull place. It is not a worn-out mansion with faded curtains and outlandish chairs and cracked ware. No, it isa fresh and fair and beautiful as though it were. completed but yesterday. The kings of the earth shall bring their honor and glory into it. A palace means splendor of apartments. New, I do not know where heaven is. and 1 do not know how it' looks. but if our bodies are to be resurrected in the last day. I think heaven must have a ma- terial Splendor as well as a spiritual grandeur. What will be. the use of a resurrected foot if there be nothing to tread on? or of a resurrected hand if there be no harp to strike. and no place to take hold in the king’s palace? Oh! what grandeur of apartments when that divine hand which alunges the sea into blue and the foliage into green. and sets the sunset on‘fire. shall gather all the beautiful colors of earth around his throne, and when that arm which lifted the pillars of Alpine rock and bent the arch of the sky. shall raise before our soul the eternal architecture. and that hand ‘ which hung with loops of fire the cur- tains of morning shall prepare the up- holstery of our kingly residence. A 3 palace also means splendor of associao itioon. The poor. man. the outcast. ’cannot get into the Tuilleries or Windsor Castle. The Sentinel of the king or the queen stands there land cries. "Halt!" as he tries to enter. ' But in that palace we may all become residents. and we shall all be princes and kings. We may have been beg- {gars, we may have been outcasts. we imay have been wandering and lost as we all have been. but there we shall take on regal power. Hark! the chariot is rumbling in the distance. I really believe the guests are coming now. The. gates swing open. the guests dismount, the palace is filling. and all the chalices flashing with pearl and with jet and carbuncle. are lifted to the lips of the myriad banqueters, while stand- ing in robes of snowy white they drink to the honour of our glorious King! “Oh." you say, "that is too grand a place for you and for me." No, it is not. If a spider, according to the text, could crawl up on the wall of Solomon’s palace, shall not our poor souls through the blood of Christ mount up from the depths 0! its sin and shame. and finally reach the palace of the eternal King? “Where sin abounded grace doth much more abound. that whereas sin reigned unto death, even so may grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.” In the far east there is a bird called the Huma, about which is the beautiful superstition that upon whatever head the shadow of that bird rests. upon that head there shall he a crown. O thou Dove of the Spirit floating above us. let the shadow of thy wing {all upon this congregation, that each at last in heaven may wear upon his head a crown! a crown! and hold in his right hand a star! a start United' States dié when they are children. The total value of gifts made to Harvard University last year was ’531519. - “Work has been begun on a new railroad to connect Chicago and Toledo._ The sea cncroached less upon the land at Coney Island last winter than ever before. Kansas law characterizes a piace where liquor is sold contrary to law as a common nuisance. Texas has been regarded for some years as one of the coming states in the petroleum industry. In 1890 the mineral products of the United States amounted to $619,000.- 000, and in 1899 to $976,000,000. Pensacola has a harbour worthy to tank with that of Naples tor all the purposes valuable to a nation. The death of Benjamin Harrison leaves the nation with onlynne liv- ing ex-Presldentâ€"Grov'er Cleveland. Nearly one-half _thc persoqs in the It filtered in, through the closed door of the dreary office to the man crouched over his desk. He started up at last. shivering. As he rose he looked round. It was a large roomâ€"a lawyer’s office. The carpet was thick underfoot, and a warm rug was stretched in front of the fire. A heavy bookshelf and a safe occupied one side of the room, and in every direction were chairs and tables strewn with papers, and, in a corner, Andrew Fytton’s own desk. It was getting late. Outside the ot- tice’ the noisy street had grown silent and instead of the rush of ’bus and waggon there was now only the shut- tling sound of footsteps on the pave- ment and laughter in the clear. cold There are some. men who become criminals through weakness, and An- drew Fytton was one. All who knew him knew him as a kind-heartedâ€"al- most foolishly kind-heartedâ€"man. He was generous to a degree, lenient to a fault. His friends honoured him, his family worshipped him. Yet now he was on the verge of bankruptcyâ€"â€" and worse! All!!!“ HIIOII'S DEW“. He turned and slowly drew down the long American top. It shut out the hideous papers from his sight, but not from his memory. Only forty-two and his life was ruined and hopeless, and dishonour stared him in the face! It had begun, as those things of- ten begin, in a small way. A client had failed. Andrew Fytton, with his usual kind-heurtedness, did not ("It in his claim, and waited for the man to pay. It was a big sumâ€"something like £600â€"but he could afford to lose it just then, and probably would not have felt the loss of it. if he had hard- ened his heart and kept the rest of his money in his own pocket. But he did not. An old friend came to borrow £1,000, in order to take a theatre and produce a play. Andrew Fytton could ill-afford to lend it, but he did so, and three months after- wards found that every penny of it had been hopelessly lost. His friend disappeared, and he tried to pull round, but he never did. For acou- ple of years he struggled. then came a chance, he thought, to make it back. and not having enough of his own, he appropriated a client‘s money. After that the road downhill was easy. He took another client’s to re- place the first, and another to make good that, and so on and on down the ugly road that is so hard to climb. He reached the bottom at last. The time came when he could go no farther, and then brought face to face with the consequences, of his sin, he had done the only thing left .to him to do. It required some cour- age, but he did it bravely. He wrote to his clients a confession of what he had done, giving them a statement of his affairs, and agreeing to hand over to them everything that could realize money. Toâ€"day those letters had reached their destination, and to-mor- row he would have to face the men he had ruined! To-morrow there would be no respite for him. Tonight was his last night of freedom. Even amid this overwhelming con- viction he could still think charitably of the one who had been indirectly responsible for his min. After all, John Gillan had not intended to rob him of his £1,000. He had believed in his play, and evidently he had felt the loss keenly, for Andrew Fytton had neither seen nor heard of him since. Poor old Gillan! He and been his best friend once. He turned out the gas and walked alowly through to the out- er office. It was. getting dusk. A clock struck eight as be shut the door. and he started nervously. His wife would be anxious and the children would be [gone to bed! The chil- dren l The thought of them made him stand, staring wildly at the lighted street and the moving figures under the lamps. His children! He had not only ruined his own life. but theirs tool He reached home at last. and stared dazedly, as he pushed open the gate, at the well-kept garden. and the white steps. " Why. dear, how late you are.” she stopped at the eight of his haggard eyes and put her hand suddenly on his shoulder. “Andrew, Andrew ; what is it 8" she cried. quick-1y. “Nothing-nothing, dear," he said. “ I've been working late, and I'm tired â€"that’s all, wife. I suppose the chil- dren are in bed I" He sank into a chair. He was tired. He was so worn. out that she put his soup and chicken in front of him in vain. He gulped down some brandy and then asked to see the children. There was nothing unusual in thisâ€" he always went to look at the two curly heads upon the pillows when they were in bed; but the strange- ness of ‘his face frightened his wife to-night. She followed him up and stood at the door while he went in. She saw him bend first over the girl, then over the boy; she saw his tace as he turned, and She went in quickly towards him. 1113 wife met him at the door, and looked up anxiously into this face: He turned awayw a liftle. and his usual weakness prevented him telling her now. “Andrew, darling. tell me what is the matter!" He beat and kissed her in silence. . “ Not now. not now," he said hoarse- 1!- "I- want to 30 outâ€"to walk. When I come back-7103. I’ll tell you - ”w ‘ U" :m'. 'The (mid air on his face steadied him a little at giret. He walked along the broad gravel'road into the open country with sudden confidence. There must be some way out. he told himself. It could not be true that the sins of the father were waited on the childrenâ€"it could not-be true that hie children would have to utter for him! He ‘walked on Quickly. LLAâ€"A unn- 44;»: 444444444: uw I “U "prV‘ -â€" ‘_- v A: (at as he could see there was no way out of his difficulties. For an- hon: orJaoruho walked and rack- 0.4 M brain. 'but just u it had tail- He started as he looked. They shone clear through the frosty nightâ€"clear- er and kindlier than the stars, he thought. They were nearer. The stars were far away, and Heavenâ€"a hoarse cry broke from him as he bared his hot headâ€"Heaven was very far away from him just then! He listened. In the night nothing sceni- ed to move. He was alone with him- self and with his own maddened thoughts. He took out his .watch and peered at its white face in the dark- ness. It was nearly ten o'clock. In a few minutes the London express would ,go thundering along the rail and across the viaduct. It was near- lyidue, and if he ranâ€"7 . Ah, if he onlv could! If only he could save his children from the shame and horror. He lifted his be ad and ed hetero [t tolled now. I! he could have borrowed £84!!!) or so he ought have struggled round in n year or two. for his practice was good; but who would lend him £8,000! The one or two rich friends he had he had tried, but not one of them would lend him so_n_1ucl_x. And Was it likely. when it The result was that Andrew Fyt- ton’s letters of the day before were attributed to his illness. Brain fever was, responsible for many delusions, and poor old Fytton must haw. been deluded when he wrote, they thought. Big Jim! His little May! He lifted his haggard face to the sky. It was cold and still with frost, and one or two stars gleame-d out from the dark blue. They seemed pitiless. There was no help for him anywhere, and he deserved none. There is aweak- ncss Which is criminal, and his had been that weakness. He ought to have remembered that he could not suf- fer alone. He drew himself up abruptly. \Vbat was be thinking? \Vhat was he do- ing? He was maul. He must go back â€"-go back to his WlfO. Once more there rushed to him the thought of what the morrow would bring for the chil- dren. He would be arrested, sent to prison, and all their lives through they would suffer. He plunged forward. Hi3 brain was on fire. His head whirled and his un- steady feet slipped under him as he plunged down the dark lane leading to the viaduct. At the bottom ofthe hill the lane branched off, and to reach the railway he would have to cross a meadow. He mounted the stile quickly and jumped over. As he did soâ€"as his feet touched the grassâ€" he started and lifted his head to listen. His face grew gray. His breath seem- ed to stop. for through the frosty night air there came. clear and dis- tinct, the Quick rumble of the com- ing train. Before he could cross the meadow it would be on the bridge! wâ€"vâ€"vâ€" ww“- ur‘ on him. Prison, dishonour, shame. humiliation, degradation! His wife would be an outcast-’pennilessl llis children would hear the burden of their father’s guilt! They would be known as the offspring of acriminal â€"branded and handicapped at the very outset of their young lives! But, supposing, instead, he was found face downward on the railway line yonder, would it not save them? The truth would leak out, of course. People would know why he had dono it, but they would forget. and after all the great world outside would not know. His children would be uaved the disgrace of prison. His heart failed him as he thought. The hopeless horror of his lite and the years before him _rushed back up- so. much. And Was it likely, when it might be years before it back! he could give IIis hand clutching the stile behind him trembled. He leant back. The train came on with a rush over the line of rail. across the viaduct. and into the darkness again. It went past him with a flash, and as it vanished he tore off his hat. If he had been a minute earlierâ€" “Thank- Ileaven! fl‘bank Heaven !" he cried. “I was too late!" He stood for a moment. The sound‘ of the train died slowlyâ€"more «slow-1 ly than usual, he thoughtâ€"even as it died it seemed to grow louder again. It arrested his thoughts. It startled himâ€"that second nound. It seemed to stop the beat of his heart, and trem- bling in every limb he leant heavily against the atile. Was he mad? Was be dreaming? What was the meaning of another train at that hour of the nightl He stood, and through the darkness he saw the same train pass again- over the viaduct and into the dark- nessâ€"just as it had done halt a min- ute ago! He stood bewildered. Could there be two trainsâ€"two expresses rushing up from London within thir- ty seconds of each other? Or would there be another. and another, and another, visible only to himself? His brain was giving wayâ€"he must be going madâ€"and (yet there was the shriek of the whistle, and then quick- ly and surely the rumble ceased. He looked round like a man in adream. He was savedâ€"saved from his own folly. This first train had prevent- ed him from crossing the meadow. A hand from. Heaven had stretched out to help himâ€"that was it. God had vouchsafed a signâ€"had sent him a vision. He had interfered and he was meant to live! “ I." he (said slowly. "I've come back at hatâ€"at last. After an these years I thought I-should'ncver get here. It’s herd work to be suocmtut, but “ Oh, Johnâ€"John Gillan." ac cried. " You f” He clasped his trembling hands to- gether and raised his eyes. Then sud- denly blindness seemed to rush upon him. Something gave way with a snap in his brain and he tell forward in the darkness. As he tell a figure ran towards him and mounted the stile. A minute later 'he thought he was dreaming when his wife pillow- ed his head on her lan. She got him home at last, and a con- ple of policemen carried him in and put him on the couch in the drawing- room. She sent them for a doctor,and then she suddenly became aware that a figure had risen from a corner and was watching her with curious in- tereit. She looked up. AAtfirst ehe thou'ght she was dreaming. Then and- denly the figure held out its hand. and ahe ran forward. It wae a long time before she was able to move him. She had to fetch a policeman and a stretcher from the town. and she hesitated to leave him at first. But no one was about in the fields at that hour of ."the night. and there was nothing else to be done. I don't know why. He wouldn't tell me. Toâ€"night he came in looking- awful. He went up and kissed the children and then went out. [[0 fright- ened me. and 1 followed him. I was afraidâ€"" him, Nell. Icame on as soon as [could to see what was up. I caught the London express and have been wait- ing here for you ever since. And if that doctor doesn‘t come in a minute, I’ll go and hurry him up. I've got on. thing to tell you, Nellâ€"I’ve made my fortune at last. I've got aplay in Amarica that is a huge success, and I've come back to pay Andrew the £1,000 I owe him. So that it there is anything up-â€"-" No” started forward. "Oh, there isâ€"thcre is something,” she cried. "I don’t understand him. Something is the matter. He. has been worried to death. but whyâ€"0h, She broke off with a sudden sob. Gillan put his hand on her shoul- der. And he did. He went to the oftice with all the dignity of an old hand at the profession, although he had never looked inside a law-book in his life. And the utartled creditors who came up expecting to find a fraudu- lent bankrupt found instead a big, square-shouldered man with a grey beard who met them with one reply to their questionsâ€"Mr. Fytton was seriously ill and (flute unable to at- tend to his business. As for his in- solvency, it was a mistake, and if any- one doubted it, he, John Gillan, was prepared to give them his own per- sonal security for anything from £10 to £10,000. looked round. He was in open coun- try. The road ran high to that point and stretching before him more long fields and meadows, with the thick white frost upon them, and beyond. the bright lights of the railway. And as far as they ever knew it was the brain fever. John Gillan saved his friend. \Vhile Andrew Fytton was raving of his bankruptcy and dishon- our John Gillan had calmly paid £10,- 000 to his credit at the bank, and when Andrew came back to life it was to find, not the police awaiting him, but a new and honourable life. And he made it honourable too. \Vhen he rose from his sick bed there came to him a new strengthâ€"a new belief in the power of right. He took the money Gillan offered him, but he insisted on paying it back, pound by pound, and never rested until he had done so. I've managed it now. But tell me. Nell. it isn't true! Itâ€"itâ€"he's illâ€" wmderingâ€"imagining things. He did~ n't mean the letters he wrote." Nel- 118.13ng up a little wildly. “Why. he's been writing lettersâ€" and letters," he said. " By a curious chance I saw one of them this morn- ing. I only reached London yester- day. I’ve come straight from New York. and to-day I wont to see a banker I know. It seems the oddest thing that I shbuld have gone just then. While I was there he received a curious letter from Andrew. He knew that he was a friend of mine years ago, and he handed it to me. He could not understand it. I could- n’t either. I can only tell you that. it was mad. 11:» was pvidnntlv ill “ \Vell never mind," he said. "Nov- er mind! It will be all right now, and I'll attend to his business tu-mor- row." 'l‘o-day it he has any weakness at. all it is a certain foolishness with regard to the London express. He insists up- on it that he saw a vision that night-â€" that God meant it for a sign to him. Perhaps it wasâ€"who knows! For the first train he saw was unreal, and the second was bringing to him his best triend.â€"-â€"London Tit-Bits. it was mad. Hz! was evidently ill when he wrote it. Yes, poor old chap! He must have been illâ€"deluded. Look at him now. But. don't worry about A Here In the 1!qu of London Where The] "II Re Bought. There in an old man in the North of London who follows the eomewhat strange calling of a dealer in odd buttons. The front nerves as aehrp, and a card in the window informs all whom it may concern that any kind of button can be matched within at moderate prices. stood. button. but grateful customers oxu-n payh more. *- A MARVELOUS INVENTION. The spectacular effect of modern warfare will be increased immensely by this unique innovation. The illuminating median is based upon such novel lines that it is a marvel ranking with wireless tele- graphy. the emission of the light be- ing made in the shape of wavesâ€"a point: which prevents the possibility of premature eoncusston. Espertments made at Toulon have resulted en- tirely satisfactorily. The rockets at present in use by the Government now are serviceable at sdistsnee of eight miles. and are made merely for signalling purposes; therefore the extraordinary value of the new combination will be under- Thirty-eight in evvry 1.00) English- men wna marry at. our 5) years of Ho buys up the buttons from marine store dealers, drossmakers and oth- ers. and oorto them into little boxes which are properly labelled. You can obtain every kind of button from his stock, whether of pearl. bone. buss, jot. glass, cloth, sh_eH_or horn._ JUL. 8“". ('IUlu, ”HUll Vt ”VIII. It not infrequently happens that an odd button is required and cannot be obtained of drapers; the particular pattern in not made now. or the tradesman has sold out all his stock, This is where the dealer in odd but- tons comes in. and those u ho are a button short can get what they want in his parlour. It is cheaper to do this, 2:: many cases. than to buy a dozen of anoth- er pattern, and sew them on; and matched. He does not reckon to matched. He does not reckon charge charge more than {our cents fur a ._ -â€"â€" --"-_ ODD BUTTONS. :ed In her proposed campaign against E‘W'ilnd. France proposes to use these shells in such a way as will enable her to make short work of her heredi- tary foe. The shell is made adaptable for navel guns and will permit the French fleet to bombard British portl with positive impunity. SHAPED LIKE A BOLT. The. properties of the lyddite eliell and the rocket are combined in thil latest and moat remarkable evolution. The shell is about 12 inchen in length and shaped like a bolt. [to exterior in formed of steel and so finely wrought: that at egiven distance it will ex- plode. The interior «section will still continue on its fatal mission until it has reached the point eoucm by the gunner. The shell bu been made so unall in its minimum crude that it can he need in all the small-calibre ra- pid-tiring gune. and it is made upon the repeating principle,which renders it extremely deadly. «en-rum The French Government is having manufactured in vast quantities a new illuminating shell. It almost will revolutionize modern warfare. and is by far the most important invention in projectiles of the present decade. .vrites a Paris correspondent. The active preparations being made for a war with England have been stimulated by the belief that this new. shell will give France an cnormoul advantage in the struggle which she proposes to precipitate. Although the secret of the construction of the shell has been guardedin the most careful manner possible under the circum- stances. enough has leaked out to give a pretty accurate idea of what it is. It will combine the properties of illumination and dost ructiveneu. This will enable an army commanding a supply of the hhells to continue. tight- ing all night. it necessary. and will greatly shorten the duration of tu'ure battles. AN ILLUMINATING SHELL IT WILL ALMOST REVOLUTIONIZI IODERN WARFARE. The illuminating effects are pro- duced by s combination at certain gases. which when released create cer- tain waves. lssting from five to (it- tcon minutes, regulated as desired. by the gunner. The shell can be pro- jected to any point within the range of an ordinary mortar or rapid-tiring gun. giving probably an sccessibility to n distance of at least ten milcl The point of bridging the channel by means of projectiles therefore has not been quite reached by France. even yet, end the devoutly wished con- ‘summation remains unfulfilled. [t was hoped that the shell might be so made that it would be possible for the balloon (‘Ol‘pu to utilise it. but its exploding depends upon long range resistsnee to the air. Such utilization is st present impossible. The composition which constitutes tbs explosive force far out-distances the destructive power of the contents oi _ the lyddite shell. The Pmbytcry 01 Chicago has pledged incl! to raise 0100.0“) during the next five years. to he used in‘ the erection of new churches in that city and in suburbs. The total prison population of Now York State is 10.701. 3 decrease in five years of 1.900. The state pris- ons contain 3.8) and the peniten- tinrien 9.187 convicts. Oklahoma in a very fertile section of country. and its products are each u to make it certain tint thvro will be a large immigration in the tuturc. Gifts to educational institution- churcbt-I. “hurt: 5. art musvums and chariti~s in the United States last year reached the total of .80.26t.080. Militarism is now costing the Unit- ed States $400,000,000 a year -â€"morc than Great Britain. Italy and Ana- tria. or France and Germany com- bined. It was on the day of tho Queen'l birth. May 2tth, 1819, that the first trans-Atlantic steamer started from Savannah for Liverpool. The reduction of tuna goes into effect on July 181. but pun-halos ol stumps will deer-one pal‘cvptibly at least a month earlier. Five Chinese girls were sold at pub- lic auction in San Francisco tin-other day. the prim-s realized ranging from .1.700 to 62,500. The report of the New York Bulld- in; Department (or 1900 shows a de- crease of 50 per cent. as compared with 1899. Additions to Gracv church. St-w York. are so extensive that the plan: which have [men drawn call {or an expenditure of 0118.000. There were 2.50790 miles of street: in New York ciu- on September am last. : m6" Mountable. Contamination std . momma. Oldest agency for securing pat In Amount. We hue u Wublm on“. Fauna taken through lull t Co. nod. would notice In the magma memo“. bountiful! Illustrated. m uciom 0c manual. weekly. ”w: l all mm! in. 6.001.103 1 £500; 03: tun-M's out (no. M Inoh amount Influx non In. 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