saloon round the corner. Dark shades on one side of the street, the other side illuminated by the pale spectral light of the full moon, which stood high over the steeple of the old Gothic church. Here I stood on a Miocene formation, surrounded by playful trilobites, on the very spot where the highway of wandering nations is crossed by some meridian. I sank into deep revery. I saw the eagle on the helmet of the Gothic chief. I saw the dark, heavy Burgundian on his way to Barbary Coast. At this moment my revery was interrupted by the harmonic sound of broken windows. The free and independent descendants of the same Goths and Vandals manifested their political antipathies by breaking the windows of the resident officer of the Government, and they broke the windows of all the inhabitants of the town. By this delicate and judicious proceeding they promoted at the same time political progress and domestic happiness.

The glass also fosters temperance; for,

if we had no glasses, we would drink out of the bottle.

Now, after having discussed how much humanity has been benefited by brass and glass, the component parts of the microscope, you may judge for yourself how deeply mankind is indebted to the microscope itself.

IN THE NAME OF THE PROPHET.

THE text of our present contemplation is found in our sacred book, the Koran, where it is contained in the impressive words, "Kullu meskirin haram." As I have observed that some of you have become rather rusty in your Arabic, I will translate it for you. It means, All intoxicating things are forbidden. There are some heretics who read "hammam" instead of "haram," so that the passage would be "Kullu meskirin hammam," which would mean, All intoxicating drinks must be hot. May the hereafter of such heretics be hot!

Now, let us inquire why our holy prophet Mohammed-blessed be his name!-pronounced these hard and apparently cruel words. On former occasions I have incul

cated into your minds the important tru that a symmetrical development in vi leads to a blessed life in the terrestrial e istence as well as in our hereafter. I kno by my own experience how difficult it to practice several vices successfully at th same time. Our great prophet, thereforeblessed be his name!-has arranged matte in a way that we derive almost the sam spiritual benefit by practicing them on after the other. As I have done on forme occasions, I will give you the benefit of m own experience.

I began my moral career by stealin apples. Then I practiced polygamy-o rather tried to practice it. Then I culti vated friendship in an alcoholic solution and here I place myself before you and ask What next? Now, you will recollect tha the rights of individuals are limited by the rights of the nation, and, vice versa, the rights of the nation begin where the privi leges of the individual end. This is ex actly the case in regard to the order in which