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Show o j A lph abets of nations contain the folr I lowing number of letters respectively : Ttalian 20; Latin 22: Hebrew 22 "French 23 ; Groek 24 ; English 2( ; German 26 ; Spanish -27; Sclavonic 27 ; Arabic 28 ? Persian 32; Russian 41: Sanscrit 52: Chinese 2L4. ' Legion. A Roman "Legion'' consisted of 6000 Soldiers divided into l,C horts" and each Cohoit into six "Centuries" with a 'TVexi,urn"or Standard guarded by ten men. VVe read of Ancient Israel having Q-ip-t tains ot "Tei s" "Fiftios" and '-Hundreds" and in our day the (Nauvoo Legion" was j organized in a similar manner. Look out for 1880. -'tis said the world is coining to an end then, but the wise know better, the all vent of ad ventists is not new. It 13 a law of nature that every woman should be married, and wheu we know the enormous excess of the female over Ihe male population, all surprise that so many of the fair sex are unmarried, vanishes. The teachings of Christendom would soon, almost destroy the human race. God's ways ate not as man's. In the Cathedral of Aurhus is the epitaph epi-taph of one Drackmber?, a Norwegian, who liv.'d to the aire of 146, under seven different Danish Kings. He married al the ago of 111 . and his wife dying, he at the age of 130 married again a young wife. Who need to be discouraged after th.it? The mixture of one error with much liut;i adulterates the whale, as a drop of carmine would tinge a barrel of water. No matter how slight and inconsiderable al4 error maj appear, wp should beware of it, for one leads to another. One man walks through the world with bis eyes open, another with them shut, and this is the teason one acquires a superiority superior-ity of knowledge over Lhe other. Boys keep your eyes open. |