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STRUGGLES MAKE LIFE.
How few of us there are who make our lives into anything! We accept our limitations, we drift with them, while we indignantly assert the freedom of the will. The best sermon in the world is to hear one who has struggled with life, bent or trained it to his will, plucked of rejected its fruit, but all upon some principle. It matters little what we do; it matters enormously how we do it.
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BURIAL OF MAINE DEAD.
ALBANY, Jan. 18. --Daniel D. Frisbie, Democratic leader of the assembly, has offered a resolution calling upon the members of Congress from this State to use their influence in securing the passage of a bill providing for the removal of the wreckage and the proper interment of the bodies of the American sailors who lie with the wreck of the Main in Havana harbor.
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THE MEMORIES OF THE YESTERDAYS
The silver-haired grandmother and snow-white headed grandfather stroll with The World's Best Poetry through the far-stretching meadows of memory--meadows of gold and emerald, meadows purple and bloodred, where the green grasses wave, where the cowslip and buttercup gleam, where the sweet clover grows and the poppy bushes scarlet. They are transported to the realms of the long ago; they live over again --in yearning and thought -- the many, many yesterdays, and look to the to-morrow with patient resignation and loving faith.
And thus as in memory's bark they shall guide To visit the scenes of their childhood anew. --Moore.
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HALLEY'S COMET IN HISTORY.
Events Which Startled World Followed Close on Its Flight.
From the London Mall.
Halley's great comet, which will be seen in the spring of this year with the naked eye, and is already making its mark on sensitized photograph plates in the observatories of the world, has in the past been held responsible for many strange, interesting and terrifying world events.
History records the return of Halley's comet twenty-eight times during the past 2,000 years. The following events occur0 red during or closely following, the apparition of the comet:
B.C. 240 - Defeat of the Carthaginians by Rome. End of the first Punic war. 163 - Judas Maccabaeus occupied Jerusalem. 87 - Civil war in Rome, the city taken and retaken. 12 - Germany invaded by Drusus.
A.D. 66 - Vespasian began the war which ended in the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus. 296 - Britain recovered by Constantius. 375 - Italy invadede by the Huns. 452 - Gaul and Italy invaded by Attila. 531 - Fifty years of plague began in Persia. 610 - Mohammed began to preach in Mecca. 1066 - Norman invasion of England. 1146 - Second crusade. 1221 - Conquest of Khorassan and Persia by Jenghiz Khan 1378 - Clement VII anti-pope at Avignon; 40 years' schism of the church of Rome begun 1456 - Turks, having taken Constantinople, threatened Europe. Mohammed II defeated at Belgrade by John Hunniades. 1531 - Inundation of Holland. Earthquake at Lisbon. 1607 - Spanish fleet destroyed by the Dutch at Gibraltar. 1758 - Prussia overrun by Russians. Birth of Nelson. 1835 - Political crisis in England.