Show from doctor drapers human physiology what the have done ili in eu europe ope tile the career of improvement is inthe in tha the society ili in asia it is in the duhl dual the unknown starving illiterate but strong willed soldier of today to day is s the tile pasha if tiie I 1 a emperor the caliph tomorrow to morrow forroi the tile cases of india form but a trifling exception to the tho fact that in the midst of a universal despotism ilia tile printest inest niest democratic element is concealed for the career is 0 open an to talent through this asia lias has asserted iier fler her len FU au peri perio 0 rity again ald aid ald bogani europe lias has never pro produce d uce uee 1 a g great reat lawgiver asia has produced ina lna many n Y geli generations orations erat ions lons of three hundred millions of me men have followed follow edthe the maxims of confucius for more than two thousand years three hundred millions inis imis are ar the followers of mohammed the faiths which govern the ilia daily life of two thirds of the human race may well ba be on an awful spectacle to us the more morg awful because wo know that they anre a delusion it if the talent for comma command fia fid and tile the capacity of a stateman state man tire sire to he lye measured by the giouse giau deur of under their success s instill remains bior lor E europe drope to produce a soldier the equal of jenghis khan and a king like tamerlane these thess great captains held almost all asia in iii iti heir their iron 1 gra grasp s 1 T the h a hold respecting respects these illusto ious lous men mail have corn come to us through perverted channels such prodigious successes as theirs imply tile the highest intellectual powers their true character appears A hen ve compare them with willi their european contemporaries aries arles at the ilia same time that charles diaries VII 1111 0 ot france was mystifying ruy tuy stif ing his people with the im imposture P of joah joau of arc are and bud henry VI of or england englund was engaged in tile tiie burning of necromancers wh wit had llad attempted bis his I 1 is life by melting an enchanted wax image before the fire fireplug mug beg the grandson of tamerlane was determining with precision the latitude tude of samarcand Sam arcand his capital with a mural qu quadrant ad rant of feet radius and making a catalogue of I 1 the stars from his own observations which in more ore than two hundred undred Ii years subsequently was printed at the university of oxford if the european wishes to ihnow how much he lie owes to tile the asiatic lie has only to cast a glance at an in hour of his daily life the clock which summons him film from his bed in the morning was th invention of the east eist as were also clepsydras and sundials sun dials the prayer for his daily bread which lie he lias has said from his id infancy railey first roe robe from the ilia side of a syrian mountain tae tao linens and c cotton cotlon with wl wilch ieh leh lie he clothes himself though they may be fine are inferior to those which have been made from th time ne in ili the looms of india the ellk silk ith ilk was stolen by soine roine missionaries for his belle belie benefit fit from gina cilta lie he could buy a bet er razor than that with which he shaves himself in ilia tile old city of damascus the tile coffee lie expects st at breakfast was first grown by tila the arabians and the hie natives of upper india prepared tile tiie sugar with which lie he sweetens it A school boy can cili tell the meaning of tile the Sans sanse sanskrit crit rit words 11 sac acci fac acel chara lara iara canda if liis his tastes are I 1 glit and he lie prefers tea the tile virtues of that leaf wee we e first pointed on ont out by the industrious chinese they also taught liim him how to make and use the cup and sau cerin which winch to serve it his breakfast tray was lacquered it in japan there is a tradition that leavened bread was first made of the waters of the gal Gai ganges iZes the gg he lie i in breaking was laid by the fowl wh se ancestors by ilia tile Malac cans eins unless she may have uve been though that will not alter he ilia case caso a modern shanghai jf there are preserves and frai fral frais s s on his board let bim him le te member with thankfulness that P arsia first gave him the llie cherry the peael peach the llie plum if it in any of flipse deli deil delicate de licile cite preparations ho lie detects the flavor of the alcohol let it remind him film that that substance was first di tilled by the arabians who have set him tile tiie praiseworthy example which it will be for tot fe r his benefit to foky foly of abstaining from its uise itse tyse iise when he talks about 0 u t coffee and alcohol hp lie is using arabic words A thousand 3 ears before it had occurred to him bim to enact laws bof pf restriction on llie ilia use of intoxicating drinI drinks hs the prophet of mecca had accomplished plis pils lied the tile same game object and what is more mora to the purpose purne has compelled to this tilis day 11 all ail ll asla asia and africa to obey it we gratify our for personal ornament ili in the tile way tile the orientals oriental Orient ais als have taught us w with ith pearls rubies sapphires sapp hires dibilio ds of public amusements belits it is tile the s me me the most magnificent fireworks are ure at this day to be seen jn in india and china amt awl as regards the pastimes of private life europe has produced no invention which can rival the tiie game of chesi chess we bave have no hydraulic constructions as great as the tha chinese canal no fortar fortifications le allot as efte extensive as the chinese wall we have no artesian wells that can at all approach ili in depth r some ome of theirs we yet resorted to the practice of obtaining coal gas flom hoin the interior of the lle ile lie earth th thy thy chy y have hake borl bori bolings borings for that purpose more thru m feet leet deep similar absi observation may be made if we examine thal the asiatic contributions to science while thie the learnel of europe were forbidding as a heresy tile llie doctrine of the globular figure of I 1 he ie earth the calaph al maimon malmon was measuring the loii ledith th of a degree along the shore of the tile red sea he and his liis successors repeatedly aeter determined mined the ilia obliquity of th ih ecliptic A saracen constructed the faist table tabla of signs another explained the nature of twilight and showed the importance of allowing for atmospheric refraction in it astronomical observations algebra itself was iiii invented anted a d brought into europe by the Mahome dans who gave it the name it bears the same may be said sald of chemistry it is needless needless to fo pursue these statements fon foi whoever will take the trouble to look into the history of any branch of or science existing in m tile the century will fini find how deep are its obligations to asia I 1 snail shall therefore add but ohe one act fad more the invention of the figures of or arithmetic which in la reality gave birth to that science science and aud anc ano laid knowledge and arid commerce qually n fda r 0 obligations bl I 1 9 gat rit ions lons F for or its simplicity be beauty an t Y PI and ana u arty lity this invention alone is enough to the tile gratitude of the human race raibe tie the manner iii til inner of using the cipher aud end policing the tile figure is oie of the tiie happiest suggestions of the genius of ipa ina man p WARD wand BEECHER beechen ON ff e enow not says sas tile the christl christian dili enquirer where to find a belter better protest against the tile abuse abu je rf herred jerred to than the tile following which uve ive we ic copy T prom from air exchange paper there thera is nothing ili in tile the statement blit bilt aliat tile the creed power is beginning 10 0 aible aa as really reilly as nomo romo did though un lin a su subtler tle way during durin darin the whole counse course 0 seven fars jars years study tile the protestant candidate for tiie tile sees before him an titi authorized unauthorized st sta sia ment spiked dov down dos ii and stereotyped lit inmost findon the tha bible bilile or he be martyred marty red androes And alid does 0 acquainted q quain u 11 anted ted with willi human nature ei gepty gerty ed to tobe tote a told d hut illat hat lie lle lucies s ofin ve Is that of in tiie tile I 1 a li liberty 1 with wilh christ frea rome woud ad hava have giyen given that lial hv every ry an rie ri gie e 0 0 of f her clergy might have havo stud studied leil tile bible IS J edth the creed oil on tile tiie pain of death kwis ewis was that liberty hence liberty of opinion in our theological thep logical seminaries isa ka mere lorm to say nothing of the ilia thumbscrew of critic criticism ise iso by cileli every onh ohn I 1 inal inai mind is tortured into negative propriety tiie the whole boated jlii lili liberty alty pity of tile tiie student I 1 consists in a choice of clairs a choice clinice of band handa I 1 cuffs c whether libil a u i I 1 wear ear the tile presbyterian I 1 handcuffs hand cufis baeth J t methodist episcopal orphier evangelical evangelic dl I 1 i hence it has naw now come coma a to pass lle ile lie the hiis try themselves dare not study alitt bible lre large I 1 portions thereof are seldom touched it liesure less lumber or if they do study and search sear cli cil they cannot show ghow their people what 1 they find ibee thee there here is something crimi criminal liu I iii in s saying ayring anything fifi I 1 new it is sli sil sho aking deking to utter words t tiiu lia ifa have not the mold of age aged upon them 1 t RIFLE SHELLS 1 I mentioned ili in my iny las Colonel rifle shooting at and hid fid ins ili lil biow blow biow ing u ammunition wagons at 1200 yards ilie llie the ille feats I 1 I 1 then I 1 lave since been surpassed the colonel was desirous of trying his ilia ride shells sheils at a greater dit dis distance lance lunce ile lie a and accordingly 1800 1600 yards were marked off from the tha object upon which t their power was to la be tested i J that object was a box 1 11 feet square quare it itwara was wab r double throughout a space of one inch iteli liebing being left between tile the outer and each of which was an ail i inch and a quarter thick this intervening was filled with gunpowder and was found to contain a charge of more liau llau than lian lle ile tiie tile lie box placed against the butt well will tarred over and the shooting began all shots were fired from the should derno errio rests of any ki kind d being used four rifles were at one a guage two and a 16 that filat used by the colonel was one of the after the practice had llad kolle gone on oli for some time tune ad steadily eily improving col jacobs gist shell shelf struck the box and blew blow it up with a violent explosion tre morning was at first dark and cloudy but buts after artery the kiriu it grew olearer clearer and ultimately ulli vry vary favora ble as is regarded the tiia light though a fresh breeze breeza ili ill blew ew steadily across crois the range f fliegler letter from bombly THE ANCESTORS or THE BRIT BRITISH Isit aristocracy the tile normans came out of france into eug land worse men mon than when they went into info it one otie ilu lit indred hundred and sixty years before they harlost had lost their own language and ani learned the alloi komlance ance or bai bal barbarous barous latin litin of the bauls and had bad acquired will the language all nil the ilia vices it lied names for the conquest has obtained ii i 1 i i the chronicle Chro nicla the nann nany of the llie diel alei memory ory of sorrow twenty tho thousand usand thieves landed lauded at if stings slings M these liese ilese founders of the house of lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons sons of greedy and arid ferocious pirates they were all alike they took everything everyl liing they could carry they burned hab hai harried ried violated tortured and killed until everything 1 ln aln glish was brought brou glit gilt to the verge of ruin such inch however is the illusion of antiquity and arid nye NYc alth aith that decent and dignified men now no w existing eXi Stilli boast bloat their descent from these filthy thieves who showed a far juster conviction cf their own rne ine merits rits by ray assuming for their types the ilia swine goat jackal leopard wolf and snake which they severally resembled emerson Cm erson properties or GUTTA PERCHA in some experiments peri ments made recently at the united states naval laboratory upon gutta percha vista vestments e ills lils very interesting and valuable facts were adduced in in regard to ali the of that material for instance pea jackets made of gutta guiu percha fabric were baled iu the same manner as the 1116 cloth cioth clothing cl othin for tile the navy under a pres pressure siire of thirty tons tors they were then placed over a steam biller bilier in ili the yard and remained for sixteen days subject to an ail average temperature of deor degrees it rees at times as high as 21 decrees degrees on exa examination ini nation tiie tile garments were found in the same state as when ellien packed there m basno as no adhesion of the folds nor any decomposition of the gutta gutti percha perelia one jacket was dipped in water rolled tolled up and sewed I 1 in t tiie llie lie lle corners but not pressed and subjected to the be same heat for three consecutive days on being examined it was found ia in a state stale wholly free from injury GERMAN GAMING hoesr s evidence of a rother rather corrupt social system appears in in a statement made by the journal do ja pran Fran francfort efort the tile paragraph is headed the german gaming houses and gives the information that the gaming at wiesbaden Wies baden and ems have passed from the hands of two individuals to a company for the con consideration side of florans florins flor ins that the company is to pay tile the state florans florins in ff addition to the price of the annual lease which is flor floring ins insi to give to the theatre of hade bade neach each year 10 florans florins flor ins aud and pay about florans florins to the support of the chapel |