It is stated that the supply of anthracite coal in the hands of railroads and dealers will, at the present rate of consumption, probably be exhausted by the middle of September.
The
practical investigation of silk culture by the United States Department of Agriculture began as the result of an agitation of the subject dating from the Centennial Exposition of 1876, and was carried on by virtue of specific appropriations by Congress, continuing, practically, from 1884 to June 30, 1891.
A million
dollars a month is the estimate made by the Bureau of Statistics of the present value of the market which "frozen Alaska" offers the producers and manufacturers of the United States.
Flying
a distance of over five hundred miles at a rate of speed which may be roughly estimated at thirty-two and one half miles an hour was the record made in the recent match of British homing pigeons.
It does not matter what the attitude may be toward the questions which make the foundations of Christian Science, no thoughtful, studious person can thoughtfully read Mrs.
"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," printed from new plates, with lines numbered, and with important revisions by the author, is now ready for distribution.
If we were out on an angry sea at the mercy of the howling winds and surging wave, and sore afraid, we should look for deliverance, not to the mad billows frothing and foaming, and threatening dire destruction every moment; but we should lift our eyes prayerfully, hopefully upward to the sky, and we should be sure that when the light breaks there, the turmoil will cease, the storm will abate, the waves will be stilled, and we shall come safe into harbor.
The following was published in a London paper in reply to a false rumor that Lord Dunmore and his family had seceded from the ranks of Christian Science.
We
search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From graven stone and written scroll, From all the flower-fields of the soul: And, weary seekers of the best, We come back laden from our quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mother read.
Burdened with ill health and a number of equally discordant conditions, I found myself quite in the grasp of despair at a time in life when health and strength were most necessary to enable me to supply the means to support those dependent on me.
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