Christian herald and signs of our times . on. The dexterousway in which one of these mothers picks upher child and with a few quick turns of herhand securely swathes it in the garment abouther body, is the wonder of the spectator. It isdone in a moment, yet so securely and safelythat the child can be carried thus any distancewithout falling. The arrangement, however,is not always entirely satisfactory to the of the natives, whose nose was so unusu-ally flat as to excite the curiosity of a traveller,explained its peculiar shape by saying: It wasthe fault of my mother, who when I was y
Christian herald and signs of our times . on. The dexterousway in which one of these mothers picks upher child and with a few quick turns of herhand securely swathes it in the garment abouther body, is the wonder of the spectator. It isdone in a moment, yet so securely and safelythat the child can be carried thus any distancewithout falling. The arrangement, however,is not always entirely satisfactory to the of the natives, whose nose was so unusu-ally flat as to excite the curiosity of a traveller,explained its peculiar shape by saying: It wasthe fault of my mother, who when I was young,bound me too tightly to her back. Mr. Chatelain has strong hopes of these peo-ple. They are more intelligent and quick-wittedthan the average Africans, and his position asthe representative of the United States atLoanda, the capital of Angola, will doubtlessgive him unusual facilities for Christian workamong them. THE BIBLE AND THE NEWSPAPER A Strang* Funeral Ceremony A W in s Heroism An Un-known Mineral A Honeymoon in ? HE Eccentric Obsequies of a well-known citizen ofNew York, have formedthe subject of much com-ment in the city. Thecitizen himself arrangedthe programme beforehis death, and exacted apromise from his friendsthat it should be faith fullyand exactly carried fulfilment of his injunctions, his body wascremated. Then the ashes were divided intofour equal parts, which were placed in thecharge of four of his friends. These accom-panied by the members of a club to which theyand the deceased belonged, crossed the bay tothe Statue of Liberty. There they made merrywith champagne, as the deceased had fortified, the four friends who bore theashes, ascended the staircase inside the the top, each took his place at one of thepoints of the compass and, reciting a formulacomposed by their dead friend, scattered hisashes to the four winds. This done, they de-scended, partook of more wine, and hy the citizen desired to have
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