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He thought. he 'tood on the banks of the river LOOKING TO THE FUTURE The King took the counsel, and appointed Joseph, because of m: in- tegrity and public spiritedness, as the president of the undertaking. The farmers paid one-fifth 0! their income as a premium. In all the towns and cities 0! the land there were branch houses, This great Igyptian life insurance company had millions of dollars as assets. After a while the dark days came, and the whole nation would have starved it it had not been for the provision they had made for the fut- ure. But now these suffering fam- ilies haVe nothing to do but to go up and collect the amount of their life policies. The Bible puts it in distracted him. He thought he .‘tood on the banks of the river Nile, and saw coming up out of the river seven fat, sleek, glossy cows, and they began to browse in the thick grass. Nothing frightful about that. But after them, coming up out of the same river, he saw seven cows that were gaunt and starved, and the worst looking cows that had ever been seen in the land, and in the ferocity of hunger they devoured their seven fat predecessors. Phar- aoh the King, sent for Joseph to de- cipher these midnight hierog'yphics. Joseph made short work of it, and intimated that the seven fat cows that came out of the river were seven years with plenty to eat, the seven emaciated cows that followed them were seven years with nothing to eat. “Now," said Joseph, “let us take one-fifth of the corn crop of the seven prosperous years, and keep it as a provision for the seven years in which there shall be no corn crop}: It is Well to Make Provision for Your Family After Yon Are Gone. A despatch from Washington says: -Rev. Dr. Talmage preached tron) thejollovying text : “Let. him appoint. officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plent- cous years.”-â€"Gen. xli. 34. a short phrase: “In the land 0! Egypt there was bread." I say this was the first lite insurance company. It Was divinely organized. It had in it all the advantages 0! the ”whole life plan,” of the “'l‘ontine plan,” of the "reserved endowment plan," and all the other good plans. But what does the Bible say in regard to this subject? If the lflhle favors the institution I will favor it ; if the Bible denounces it I will (le- nounce it. In addition to the fore- cast of Joseph in the text, I call your attention to I’aul’s comparison. Here is one; man who through neglect fails to sufport his family while he lives or after he dies. Here is an- other man who abhors the Scrip- tures and rejects God. Which of these men is the worse ? Well, you say the latter. Paul says the form- er. Paul says that a man who ne- glects to care for his household is more obnoxious than a man who re- jects the Scriptures. “He that pro- videth not for his own, and especial- ly those of his own household is Worse than an infidel.” When Hezekiah was dying the in- junction came to him: “See thy house in order, for thou shalt die and not live.” 'I‘hat injunction in our day would mean : “Make your will: settle your accounts; make things plain; don’t leave for them notes that have been outlawed, and second mortgages on property that 1 will not pay the first. Set thy‘ house in order.” That is fix things so your going out of the world may ,make as little consternation as pos- sible. See the lean cattle devour- ing the fat cattle, and in the time of plenty prepare for the time of want. The difliculty is, when men think of their death they are apt to think of |it only in connection with their spir- itual weltare, and not of the devasta- tion in the household which will come because of their emigration from it. It is meanly sellish for you to be so absorbed in the heaven ‘0 which you are going that you for- get what is to become of your wife and children after you go. You can go out of this world not leaving them a dollar, and yet die happy it you could not provide for them. You can trust them in the hands- of the God who owns all the harvests and the herds and the flocks ; but it you could pay the premium on a policy and neglected them, it is a mean thing for you to go up to heaven, while they go in the poor house. You. at death, move into am ansion, river front. and they move into two rooms on the fourth story of a tene- ment house in a back street. When they are out at the elbows and the knees the thought of your splendid robe in heaven will not keep them warm. The minister may-preach a splendid sermon over your remains, and the quartette may sing like {our angels, in the organ loft; but your death will be a swindle. You had the means to provide for the wva‘ort ni your household when you left it, and you wickedly neglected it. ‘4 ' Ln‘vn can trust. them in the ha God who owns all the h: the herds and the flocks ; enum pay the premium and neglected them, it thing for you to go up "0h !” says some one, " l have more faith than you; I believe when I go out of this world the Lord will take care 01 my family." Yes. he will provide for them. That is, he provides for them through public charity. As for myself, I would rather have the Lord provide for my family in a private home, and through my own industry, and paternal and conjugal faithfulness. But says some man: “I mean in the next ten or twenty years to make a great fortune. and so I shall leave ---A -1 “.3- bILIOV -\ ‘7- my family, when I go out of this world, very comfortable.” How do you know you are going to live ten or twenty years ? If we could look up the walk of the future we would see it crossed by pneumonias and pleurisies and consumptions and col- lilting rail trains and runaway hors- . and breaking bridges and funeral I have believe But, says some one: “I am a man of small means, and I can’t afford to pay the premium." That is some- times a lawful and a genuine excuse, and there is no answer to it; but in nine cases out of ten when a man says that, he smokes up in cigars, and drinks down in wine, and ex- pends in luxuries enough money to have paid the premium on a life in- surance policy which would have kept his family from beggary when he is dead. CA man ought to put himself down on the strictest econ- omy until he can meet this Christian necessity. You have no right to the luxuries of life until you have made such provision. I admire what was said by Dr. Guthrie, the great Scot- tish preacher. A few years before his death he stood in a public meet- ing and declared: "When I came to Edinburgh the people sometimes laughed at my blue stockings and at ‘my cotton umbrella, and they said ,I looked like a common ploughman. and they derided me because I lived ’in a house for which I paid thirty- ‘five pounds rent a year, and often- times I walked when I would have been very glad to have had a cab; but, entlemen, ‘1 did all that be- cause wanted to pay the premium on a life insurance that would keep my family comfortable if I should die.” That I take to be the right expression of an honest, intelligent Christian man. processions. Are you so certain that you are going to live ten or twenty years that you can warrant your household any comfort after you go far away from them ? Besides that, the vast majority of men die poor ! Twoâ€"only two out of a hundred succeed in business. Are you very certain that you are going to be one of the two '? Rich one dayâ€"poor the next. Besides that. there are men who die solvent who are insolvent before they get under the ground, or before their estate is settled. How soon the auctioneer’s mallet can knock the life out of an estate ! A man thinks the property worth $15,- 000; under a forced sale it brings $7,000. The business man takes ad- vantage of the crisis, and he com- pels the widow of his deceased part- ner to sell out to him at a ruinous price, or lose all. a great fight between the empty bread tray and the tireless hearth, and the black-winged angel shrieked: “Aha! I have won the day!” Says some man: “I believe What yot'i' say, it is right and Christian, and 1 mean sometime to attend to this matter.” My friend, you are going to lose the comfort of your household in the same way the sin- ner loses heaven, by procrastination. I see all around me the destitu‘e‘ and suffering families of parents who meant some day to attend to this Christian duty. During the process of adjournment the man gets his feet wet, then comes a chill and a de- lirium, and the doleful shake of the doctor's head and the obsequies. If there be anything more pitiable than la woman delicately brought up, and ion her marriage day by an indul- lgent father given to a man to whom she is the chief joy and pride of life until the moment of his death, and then that same woman going out with helpless children at her back to struggle for bread in a world where brawny muscle and rugged soul are necessaryâ€"I say, if there be anything more pitiabie than that, I don’t know what it is; and yet there are good women who are indifferent in regard to their husband’s duty in this respect. and there are those pos- itively hostile, as though a life in- surance subjected a man to some fa- tality. There is in this city to-day 'l‘he utter indifference of many peo- ple on this important subject ac- counts for much of the crime and the pauperism of this day. Who are these children sweeping the crossings with broken broom, and begging of you a penny as you go by? Ah, they are the victims of want. In many of the cases the forecast of parents and grand-parents who might have prohibited it. God only knows how they struggled to do right. They prayed until the tears froze on their cheeks, they sewed on the sack until the breaking of the day, but they could not get enough money to pay the rent; they could not get enough money to decently clothe themselves, and one day, in that wretched home, the angel of purity and the angel of crime fought IU- ‘U r""â€".] ed it. She would never have the pouduu 1m“ asnoq on; u; quotunOOp it was possible for her husband ever to die. One day, in the quick revo- lution of machinery his life was in- stantly dashed out. What is the sc- quel‘? She is with annoying tug making the half of a miserable liv- ing. Her two children have been taken away from her in order that they may be clothed and schooled. and her life is to be a prolonged hardship. 0 man, before forty- eight hours have passed away appear at the desk of some of our great life insurance companies, or one of our fraternal societies, have the stetho- scope of the physician put to your heart and lungs, and decree that your children shall not be subjected to the humiliation of financial strug- gle in the dark day of your demise. v‘v-c - a very poor woman keeping a small candy shop, who vehemently opposed the insurance of her husband's life, and when application had been made for a policy of $10,000 she frustrat- __ AL- A curious tram line is that. be- tween Ataini and Yoshihoma, two coast towns in the province of Izie, J apan. The line is seven miles long. the rolling stock consists of a single car, and the motive power is fur; nished by a couple of muscular coo- lies, who actually push the car along wherever power is necessary. When the car comes to a down grade they jump on and ride, “1 can conceive or no human qual- ity more fiendish in its action than jealousy; and of the various kinds of that poisonous power. profession- al jealousy is the crueilest. and mean- Well, perhaps I can give you a yarn. You all know I am a manu- facturer and a merchant in a fair way of business. I was not always so well of! as I am at present. Once I had not a spare ’hali penny to my name, yet I had in my head the idea for the making and putting on the market of the world-famous articles I manufacture now. Only capital was needed for patenting and float- ing the things. Capital was as hard to get in the sixties when I was a young man as it is now. I wanted to marry Lucy here. I was working at that timeâ€"don't laugh! I'm not ashamed of the factlâ€"m a wildâ€"beast show, and my duties were mainly to keep the animals clean, to feed them and to be generally useful. A look of horror was on the speak- er's face and a sort of shuddering spasm seemed to twist his features as he spoke. He was a comfortable merchant, John Jelly by name, and his stout, jolly, good-looking wife was with him. They were in Swit- zerland, enjoying a well-earned holi- day after the rigours of business. Just then they were in company with other holiday-makers on the deck of the steamer that was plying between towns on the Lake of Ge- neva. One of the party, a little, dried-up dark man, already notorious for try- ing to get information on all sub- jegts, scented a. story. One of the lions was Nero, a faâ€" mous trick-beast, clever and intelli- gent, but 01 an uncertam temper. He was never taken on tour as most of the other animals werc in turn. but was always kept at our head- quarters, a well-known sea-side re- sort, where he formed one of the at- tractions of the permanent menager- ie there. His trainer was a dashing fellow, fearless and utterly careless of dan- ger. His name was really Smith, but as Smith does not look very im- posing when billed, he was always known as Signor Arati. Arati was married, and he had a family dependent upon him. His wife was one of the lady riders, and her ways were of the extrava- gant, order, therefore it took all Arati’s really splendid earnings to keep her supplied with all she would have. With a woman of this kind tied to him Arati’s life was not of the ros- iest, and it was a perpetual wonder to me how he contrived to keep such a happy-go-lucky air about him. The danger of his calling was as the zest of life to him, and when, in a! the trickery of gorgeous circus gear, he entered Nero’s cage and put the great beast through his paces, he was as a man intoxicated with a species of strange pleasure. Nero’s tricks took about an hour and a half to go through. He was the star lion. As a rule wild beasts only learn thoroughly one or two tricks, but Nero knew a dozen. Arati had a little play of twenty minutes’ duration in his cage, and the- lion himself was the principal character during this act. That was after his tricks had been duly exhibited. One evening When the lion-room was crowded as usual, and a mass of interested spectators with breath- held lips watched Nero perform his feats, a catastrophe occurred. Nero had been sulky. Arati had been obliged not only to use whips but the hot irons that afternoon at re- bearsel, and the brute had not for- gotten it. The trainer, lithe, grace- ful, gorgeous, full of quips and jokes, entered his cage and delighted the folk as usual, but he had an anxious face upon him before he went in, and I, with another assistant, had in- structions to stand ready behind the scenes with hot iron bars, in case of need. An instinct told me, and told Ar- ati, too, that there would be need, Nero had been so unwilling to Work, so rebellious, so disagreeable in grin, that afternoon, that even careless Arati had said he should be glad when his night turn was done. A cry from the audience, a horri- fied catch of all breaths. then shrieks and screams, gave us the signal sud- denly. We sprang to the cage, and were just in time. Nero, with omin- ous growls, had the tamer down and his great paw was on Rum, just as you may have seen acat's paw on a mouse. A touch of two hot irons on his nose, a bang of another on his face, and, with growls of anger, succeeded by a roar of agony, the fire-stung lion darted from his victim, shaking his head with the pain that had de- feated him. In a second Arati was drawn outside the cage, the door was banged shut and all was safe. The people were dismissed and the lion- tanicr seen to. Arati was hurt, but not so serious- ly as had been feared. When he was fully recovered in body, however, he remained seriously sick in mind. His splendid nerve was utterly gone; there Would nevermore be any quel- ling of wild beasts by Arati. He had no idea of the mischief Nero had wrought until he tried to take up his work again, and found he was quailing in the face of the quietest lion. He was cowed, and the beasts knew it. That made an end of Ar- ati’s work at once. This was a calamity not to him only who had lost. his good liveli- hood, but to the proprietor who could not afford to lose the spectacle of Nero's cleverness in his twenty minute’s play. The lion was quiet again. I, who fed him. could put him through some of his paces read- ily. When Amti’s broken x-erve became evident the proprietor . approached me on the subject of taki 23 his place. I was to have the handsome salary hithcito received by Arnti, and I Was also to take his name. the train. The accompan'nng cut is from the photograph of a watch that was sent home a short time ago from Kimber- ley. South Africa. by Private Peter Flynn, Third K. 0. S. B., to his rc- latives at 19 High Street, Maxwell- town, Dumfries, Scotland. Mr. Flynn bought the watch from a com- rade in Kimberley who was short of money, else he should scarcely have parted with it, {on in all probability it saved his life. During one of his engagements with the Boers the watch was in the breast pocketâ€" wherein it must have been face out- wards at the timeâ€"o! his khaki jack- et when it stopped the flight of a bullet, which firmly cmbeqldcd itsclt in its centre, penetrating right through the works, and making a deep dent in the back. I dreaded the task, but though I was sorry for Arati, I essayed it. I coveted that salary, which would en- able me to realize my heart’s desire. I should be able to patent my inven- tion, and to put it on .the market, if, for a very few months, I could dare this awful task of lion-play and nightly risk my life as Arati had done {or years, in ministering to the morbid fancies of a populace desir- ous of enjoying the spectacle of a life in danger. This was rough on poor Arati, as, from force of habit, we still called him. . The proprietor was a business man and could not alien] to do any- thing else as he pointed out. He in- creased the salary of Arati's wife. however, and ofiered to give the poor fellow more than he had given er to take his own name of Smith and to do my work. So Arati and I changed places and names, for he took mine, or tried to take it, so great was his dislike of his own; yet Jelly was no better. Arati’s manner, hitherto pleasing- ly patronizing, changed towards me from the first night I entered Nero’s cage. His look was murderous, and yet agonized, as I came out and pas- sed him as he stood where mm- a had been used to stand holding the hot bars. I pitied him exceedingly, knowing his bitter cause to feel his degrada- tion, for his wife, now she was de- prived of his salary as it had been, was known to lead him a dii'eful life at home. At last, however, his con- duct grew so bad that I was roused and spoke so plainly that blood was up with both of us, and f1 om words we came to blows. l‘ftC'.‘ that. I never spoke a word to Arati nor did he to me. Each afternoon I put Nero through his act, enticing him by gifts of meat, and using the Whip less than Arati had used it, though I had to lay it upon the animal. sometimes when he was ugly, just to let him feel he had his master. One afternoon as I entered the7 lion-room I heard an unusual turmoil. and roaring going on. Then out. in a great hurry, sprang Arati, with a wild face and terror-tilled eyes. I wondered what he had been up to. and eyed him keenly as he rushed past. As 1 was opening the door I caught sight of his face at the foot of the stone steps, and Was struck by the strange look he had. “Arati will go mad if he keeps on,” I said half aloud to myself as I went into the room where the roar- ing still went on. “I hope he has been up to no tricks with Nero to make the beasts roar so!” I took in the horror at one glanc. and then I lost my nerve. I felt that death was upon me, and losing my head as I saw the beast crouch. I flung the contents of Nero’s meat basket full at her, {oiling her leap. Then I turnedâ€"a fatal thing to do. but I was in a panic brought by the shock and the surpriseâ€"I turned and ran back to the door, reaching it just in time to hear the key turn in the lock. Tricks! Little did I dream of the full devilry of Arati’s deeds. I got half way up the room when a sight met my eyes that absolutely froze me into ice. For the most vicious of the beasts, the most intractable of them all, Maris, the evil-natured lioness, whose cubs had been removed from her only that weekâ€"Maris was out of her cage, the door of which stood wide. I seized the handle, shook the door. and screamed in my terror, calling wildly upon Arati to come and open. Never shall I forget that awful mo- ment! I quiver at the horror of it now! For Arati had lost his reason that day, being wifeâ€"goaded to his mad deed. He had loosed the lion- ess and locked me in with her. Maris was engaged with the meat. Nero's horse-flesh proved my salva- tion. I had but 'one chance of safe- ty, which I seized even as the thought. came that. I was lostâ€"the cage. With a couple of leaps I reached the empty cage and sprang within, drawing the door towards me fever- 151‘1)’. All the cages shut with Springs: caged like a beast, but safe. Then I considered that, should any- one else enter the lion-room, that Person would run a. terrible risk. Though I might shout my hardest. Maris would be upon the intruder like a flash before he would realize where the voice came from. And I was supposed to be a lion-tamer, yet there I was in that ignominious po- sition! I began to boil as I thought of it. Then Maris came up and stood looking at me with low growls with lip-lickings, with tall-lashings, STOPPED A BULLET. I wondered how long it would be before the room was entered. Then I could have howled aloud. For Maris was close to the door and the key was moving in the lock! Some- one was coming in. I got ready for a tremendous shout, but my dry throat seemed ill able to utter it. and it died on my lips as I saw a mad lac? look inâ€"Arati's (ace. He saw the lioness and. with a miracu- lous return of his old power he made straight for her. And, oh! joy, he had repented of his awful deed. He had the red-hot bars. 11? was again the fearless trainer. He applied the bars re- morselessly to Maris. The lioness shrank, whined, retreated. She was cowed. l forgave him on the spot. for his late work as i saw him beâ€" labor the beast and drive her to- wards the cage. She went under, but he pulled the door of the next we to mine open, then drove the lioness from her refuge and beat her into the cage, and I was very glad to be where I But. what. was Arati dcing? He had caged Maris and shut the door. Surely, surely he Was not opening the partition between the cages? There is a partition which can be op- ened between every cage in a lion- row to admit. of cleaning And Ar- ati was now opening the barrtd side that divided me from Maria! It seemed that Arati had been met running out of the building with wild cries of satisfied vengeance. He was secured, and discovered to be quite insane. He was babbling of what he had done. At once his hor- rified listeners rushed to the lion- room to find the beasts settling down to quietness, while Maris, who had been badly burned by the mad- man, sat subdued in a corner of her cage licking her wounded paws and rubbing her injured eyes as she whined with pain; and I was lying in a senseless heap in the next cage open to hers. They flung the par- tition shut and got me out. I never again entered a lion’s cage, nor ever shall.â€"London Tit-Bits. Notes of Interest About Some of the World’s Great People. ”Arati, let. me out! Let me out!" I kept crying, but he went away. with wild, mad laughter, rushing from his lips. And I heard Maris move! Then I knew no more. I came round to find myself in safety out- side the cage. with many of the show people round me. “Ah! brave tamer. look after your lioness now!" he said, with inde- scribable malignity; and then I saw his mad face as it glared in at. the Sir Squire Bancroft has: perhaps, the most. astonishing menory among actors. lie is not only able to re- peat any part he has ever acted, but he can recall exactly when and where he appeared in any of the hundreds of characters he assumed while on the stage. Perhaps the only living explorer who is equally familiar with the dark places of Equatorial Africa and the ”Land of the Midnight Sun,” is M. Paul du Chaillu. The mysterious fascination of the “Dark Continent” lured him from an East African counting-house when he was quite a young man, and he was away four years, returning with a live gorilla as trophy. Then he went far north, and his fascination of manner and kindness of heart won him hundreds of friends. Mr. Henry Richards, Worthenbury, near \Vrexham, England, a retired agriculturist, has attained his 102nd birthday. When over ninety years of age he sang in the Worthenbury‘ choir, and was probably at the time the oldest chorister in the country. In his 100th year he received a con- gratulatory letter from the Queen. His eldest son is about eighty years of age and his youngest descendant is but a few months old. There are 182 descendants of this grand old manâ€"namely, 11 children. 66 grand- children, 97 great-grandchildren, and eight great-greabgrandchildren. Bumptious Lawyerâ€"When I began my profession I had hardly o. penny to call my own. sir! Cynic (quiet- ly)â€"And have you now? Out of an average annual loss to the world's shipping of 2,172 vessels 94 are completely missing and never heard of again. The largest opal in the world weighs 17 02.. worth $300,000 and belongs to the Emperor or Aunts-u: A most exciting career has been that of Sir Rudolf Slatin, better known as Slatin Pasha. He left Vienna, his birthplace, when a lad of seventeen, to become a clerk in a commercial house in Cairo, and six ye eais late1 came under the notice of Gordon, who appointed him (:ove1- nor of Dariur. In this position he became known as “'Ihe Hammer oi the Arabs," owing to his many vic- tories over the tu1bu1cnt tribes, but in 1883 he had to sun render to the Mahdi. 'i‘hen began an imprison- ment that lasted till 1895, when, by secret aid from the authorities at Cairo, Slatin managed to escape. The late Queen had Sir Rudolf at Windsor several times to hear him relate his adventures. Earl Russell, who during the last‘ ten years has had considerable ex-i perienee in legal proceedings. is the grandson of Lord John Russell. the first Victorian Premier upon whom Sir John 'l‘enniel exercised his pent-ll. and great-grandson. therefore. oi the sixth Duke of Bedford. ‘l‘im l-‘ml. who succeeded his grandfather :2: 1878, is unromantic Ill appearance A rather stolid, ruddy Lace is ie deemed by smiling eyes that look. out mildly from the shelter at fiditl‘. rimmed glasses. John Francis Sim. ley possesses none of the m-uturu-ul or literary qualities of his (.mmus' grandfather, though he has spoken' once or twice in a modest way in thci House of Lords. | PERSONAL POINTEBS. THINGS WORTH KN WING. BITS OF INFORMATION WHICH YOU SHOULD READ. Fnscinating Facts About Almost Everything Under tho Sun. One sailor in 256 is lost at sea. England is a creditor to the world (or over £1,5OU,OOU,OOO. The carat used in estimating tho weight of gems is a grain of lndinn wheat. In 1794 the secretary to the 'l‘urk- ish Embassy in London shot. an ar- row against 1h wind the extraor- dinary distance of 415 yards and back with the wind neatly fifty yards further. A North Sea codman carries an outfit. of lines which extends eight miles in length, and has usually {ix- ed upon it the amazing number of 4.680 hooks. every one of which must. be bait/ed. Each year about 850.000 is ex- pended in Band in English big town. to prevent the horses from slipping. The diamond it laid in the sun and then carried into n dark room. shows distinct phosphorescence. It is estimated that the electrical organ of a lively electric fish would give a discharge of about 200 volts. A systematic count by Stato- shows that there were 2.583 lynch- ings in the United States during the past sixteen years. The tip of the tongue is chiefly sensitive to pungent and acid tastes the middle portion to sweets and hitters, while the back is confined entirely to the flavors of roast meats and fatty substances. Probably the most extrwrdlnuy journal in the world is published weekly in Athens. It. is written on- tircly in verse, even the advertiu- meats. It. has been estimated that it win require eighty-five men working ev- ery day until 1947 to uncerth the entire ruins of Pompeii. Although volunteer enrolment has never been extended to Ireland, yet in the days when archery formed a part of the defensive instruction of the manhood of our nation the use of the how was, by law, taught to the men and youth of Erin. Nearly 1,000,000 women in Spain work in the field as day luboreas; 350,000 women are registered as day servantsâ€"that is, they work fur their food and lodging. There is no such class anywhere else. Archery targets are 4ft. in diame- ter, and have a gold spot in the cen- tre, surrounded by rings of red. blue, black and white. with a border of green. Every hit in the gold is counted nine, in the red seven, in the blue five, in the black three, and in the white one. 'l‘lte \‘lSllUl' to the Falkland Is- lands sees it number o! What appear to be “wither-beaten, moss-covered boulders of vnrious sizes scattered here and there. On attempting to turn one over, he is surprised to find that it is anchored to the ground by roots of great strength. These are not bouldersâ€"they are trees! No other place in the world can show such a peculiarity of “for-- est" growm. The Falkland Islands are exposed to a strong Polar wind. which renders it impossible for trees to grow in the proper form; Nature has consequently adapted herself to the prevailing conditions. and pro- duced this strange form of plant life. These "living stones," as they are called, are quite devoid 0! "grain," and it. is next. to impossi- ble to cut. them up and utilize them for fuel. The French military authoritiel are considering the formation of six railway regiments. The Boer war has shown the importance of rail- way operations. and the new regi- ments will be recruited from railway servants, who will be drilled in run~ ning trains, destroying and repair- ing tracks, telegruphing and other duties. This is how dogs outwit their mor- tal toe the alligator in Central lh :- neo. The dogs, it seems, when wish- ing to cross 11 river, have consider- able difllculty in doing so owing to the fact that alligators find them very toothsome morsels. They therefore collect on the bank and make a terrilic noise by barking and yelping as loudly as they can. 'I lie alligators are attracted to the film" by the noise. and the dOfiS. “9 50011 as they see that their bait is suc- cessful. set on up the bank Ptntop The yaknmik. a species of crane. in said to be one of the most. intelli- gent birds known. The bird is used by the natives of Venezuela. South America. in the place of shepherd dogs. {or guarding and herding their flocks of sheep. It is said that. however far the yukiunik may wan- der with the flocks. it never fails to find its way hmue at night. driving helm-e it all the creatures entrusted to its rare. Speed find cross ihighc-r up. A Dor- neu traveller states that he has watched this manoeuvre “mes with- out. A handsomely Illustrated weekly. lame-t at. mutton of any solemn out-nu. 'l‘ermu. u . em four months. 31. d by all mandala". u’uu co. mm». New lgrk Branch Cleo. as F at. Wa‘mnon. D don: strict) i'onodontfd. Handbooi" on F“: gent free. Id Met for ucurma’amnu. Pun-nu m n t blatant: .LO. he.“ 3;. ctal m wit bout Scientific minim. CLICVER DOGS.