| Show TILE THE woly HOLY ciry elre 1 tracing its origin back to the remote biblical period of its first king under its original name of salem we find it conquered in the time of joshua and ever since then its history has been nothing but one continued succession ot 0 saig sieges bg captured by dvid david when he restored 8 or d the fallen glories of israel the great psalmist brought the ark within the gates with much touch pomp and fixed the site alte of the temple tempie on mount moriah oue one of the three hills on which the city stands and the spot on which had aken taken place the offering ot of isaac the the erection of the temple was however left to 10 his still greater son solomon whose reign represented the pinnacle of jewish grandeur and ana who reared for alvine divine worship the most magnificent edifice of marble cedar and gold ever pro dured by man from the hour when in the thunders of the divine presen presence ceon coon on sinal sinai the almighty entered into a direct compact with his chosen people no spot on earth has held a kindred interest while other nations were left to their own in instincts the jews were constantly called to their account like a superior race before the divine tribunal to be punished or rewarded according to their doings thus when solomon in his advanced years fell back into idolatry evil came upon israel davids kingdom was shorn of its strength by the loss of the ten tribes and although judah still retained its royalty for years its independence as a kingdom was lost loia forever when nezzar the babylonian king stormed the city and burned the temple after a captivity of seventy years in babylon the israelites were restored to a degraded vassalage and ruined temple only to fall i again ii a prey to the succeeding conquests of syria egypt and rome until it finally perished as a nation by the roman sword in the year of the christian era for nearly two centuries after this jerusalem was forgotten by the abe world until the time of constantine A D I 1 who repeated repealed the edict against the jew and per perm bitted them once a year to visit and weep over over the ruins of their city and later A D when justinian erected a splendid church on mount moriah to the virgin with other buildings of a public character which infused new lite ilfe into ehe the city but even this temporary respite was not to last in the year A AL D the persians invaded syria and stormed wormed the oho city with great slaughter while still later A D mahomet having ravaged all eg egypt pt arabia and syria omar omac 0 mar the great conqueror besieged and took possession of her rearing ilg on ther the spot once hallowed by the temple tempie the celebrated mosque which still stands and bears beairs his name fon tor two centuries and a half jerusalem now rested utterly prostrate and enslaved until the rii rbt romantic mantle era of the crusaders when a universal belief in the approaching end of the world sent multitudes of pilgrims to the holy land it was in the year A di D 1099 1009 that the warlike godfrey do de bouillion Boull llon lion appeared before jerusalem and after a af siege eg of forty days exterminates exterminated exterminate a the mole moie moslems in who had taken possession of her hor proclaimed himself king and consecrated the mosque of gomaras a christian church but in the twelfth century the sultan saladin an arab hero recaptured the city threw throw down the cross and purified the holy places with rosewater rose water this prince restored the fortifications against richard acour do de lion llon of england who attacked the place in 1192 1191 after saladina Sal adins death eath it fell to the possession of every invader of syria mameluke christian and turk sultan soliman the magnificent rebuilt its walls in the sixteenth century E even vou veu in the present century this doomed city has been subjected to the tha fluctuations of conquest having come coine into possession of mehemet all the pasha of egypt in his bis syrian invasion in 1832 but was again wrested wf ested from him with all hili hig syrian conquests bests in 1811 and once more restored to tze tte the ottoman government under which it rests for the present such is an outline of the history of the vicissitudes of this extraordinary cit city elty which in the language of an eloquent wr writer bof tor of all scenes of the globe to the e eye and heart of the lover of antiquity tho the man of intellectual accomplishment and the man of religious feeling combines the richest recollections the classic memories of the parthenon tho the visions of the imperial power that still haunt the capitol or the monumental pomps of nineveh and babylon all grow pale and perish before the solomn solemn realities and substantial grandeur of ancient jerusalem every stone has there been hallowed every path of her hills has been trodden by hallowed feet every valley has hm heard the prayers or seen the sufferings or given final rest to the remains of those of whom the world was not worthy or whose supernatural energies stamped the character of their age and are still shaping the character of the world newyork new York tork world ilir and maid bald raten rage in the biographical literature of two or three generations baek back we find no personal description complete without some notice of the sit of the hair on the brow and temples look rook at the por of the time they have all hair on their beads men who had achieved fame had bad still hair enough to be regarded as a feature walter scott B s portraits show a shaggy abundance of hair campbeli campbell lanine lafine a nine fine brutus head do de quiney quincy among his points of likeness be ben bes tween wordsworth and milton finds ono one in the way which the hair lay upon the forehead talford speaks of charles lambs black hair curled crisply about an expanded forehead and so remaining for the twenty years he knew know him and of Cole ridges hair silvered all over over haydon surveys purveys bentham the white haired philosopher philos os om from his hw window windows his head the finest and most venerable ever placed on human shoulders he maliciously re rem res cords hazlitt at the glass arranging his hair trying different effects and asking whether he shall shail show his lo forehead more or less what temptations has poet or philosopher to make a fool of himself by asking such sueh a question now nowadays a days itras it has long ago ceased with him to be a possible alternative whether to cover his hla his hia forehead or reveal its magnificent developments time and nature have taken the matter into their the irown own hands in those days to be sure pure men had bad nothing but their hair to exercise fancy upon the beard was an impossible archaism even the ahia whisker frer icer taking the form of the british mutton chop for its model exercised the foppery of the dandy the ladys man rather than of the poet or the thinker whose intellectual credit with the multitude was best sustained by hair on the brow alone hair suggestive of laurels at once shading and setting off the expansive forehead wavy abundant in its proper place but strictly confining its abundance to the seat of the higher faculties have beards added 6 to the number of bald baid baldpate pates son on the principle that you cannot have it in meal and in malt too if they have ilisan it is an argument against a afriat them or are the ther a natural resource ce under a privation peculiar in its degree decree to this generation saturday review jarg larj reds neds of the lobby A merchant whose place of business is not a hundred rods from market markot relates the story of an interview with a singular sin ein gular guiar visitor the other day while reading his morning baber paper in his bis counting room a well weli dressed gentleman came in and inquired if mr was in that is 19 my tny name naine hald haid sald said the merchant laying down bis his paper and motioning his visitor to a chair awaited an announcement of his h Is business 1 I believe 11 said the stranger as aa he be handed the tho merchant his card revealing the name mime of a well known lobbyist It that hayou bayou you are interested ina lna in a measure before ethe the legislature yes was tile the answer 1 I am trying with others to secure the passage of a law which we believe will be for the public good well sir saad the man with an air of a man moan who thinks he is conferring a favor 1 hei bel I have come to see if you want my influence in favor of the bill liow how flow can you help heip heleme me queried the merchant oh ob I 1 have an extensive acquaintance with tle the the members of the legislature and aad I 1 make it my business to work for those who pay me what are your terms that depends upon circumstances answered the stranger with a business like air but I 1 think with the holp heip of three others who work with me this bill can be carried we will go to work for fach each in advance with the understanding that we are to have as much more when the bill becomes a law you will agree to do all the work for 1000 will you inquired the merchant possibly we might be obliged to enlist one more man but 1250 will surely cover all the expenses well said our informant as aa we have no personal interest in the matter we will run the risk of letting the bill stand on its own merits 11 very well coolly responded the lobbyist but you must understand that we shall oppose your bill why do you do that if you are not paid to work against it asked the astonished merchant oh we will defeat the bill this year then you yon will be before the legislature again said the shameless visitor and we shall fight you until you are willing to engage our services or make it an object for us to withdraw oun our tion 11 and he bowed himself out with the air of a man who had been engaged in lil a laudable business busin esq transact transaction loo ioa our oar informant a a that after the light thus obtained and his subsequent experience at the state house he believes that people seeking legislation should first present their petitions to the third house which demands tribute from those who seek justice of the other branches branche of the tho legislature just juat as the brigands brigande bri gands of italy demand tribute from those who would travel unmolested through that country and he with others is unable to draw a distinction between tho the profession of knight of the road and that of knight of the lob iob lobby by dotton boston traveller the tho t shower or worms in lb george W lawson of somerville Somer villo who noticed the singular phenomenon of a shower of worms on the instant sent some specimens to the museum of comparative para tive biology of cambria cambridge 9 e and has received the following interesting reply from mr thomas Q G cary gary of that ins titu tion I 1 have received your letter contains contal con taing ng a specimen of the worms which you yon saw gap lap ap parent patently ly falling with the snow during the storn storm of the instant I 1 have shown the specimen to dr bagent who says hays it is ia the larvia of ota botn a beetle belonging to the family and probably to the species similar extraordinary appearances of insects insect duning during snow storms have been recorded in europe drope the earliest notice was wag given by moller M in hungary in 1673 the description being still extant in a ver very rare pamphlet in these appearances occur in winter when there have been several warm days in suc ade cess cession on followed by a snow storm in sweden sw den germany and in the mountainous parts of france numbers of the garvai of these insects together with other living insects mostly idao idoa have been found and were supposed sup hup posed to have tallen fallen with the snow but the phenomenon has never been satisfactorily explained some think that the insects have been swept up into the upper stra stratum turn of air by violent gales prevailing before the snowstorm snow su ow storm while others suggest that the insects being attracted by warmth to the surface of the earth and then being covered lightly by the snow still endeavored keep koep at the surface As this late appearance has been accompanied by warm weather high winds and then snow either of the above suggestions would hold good chicago post match marca |
