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Obituary.
In respect of Weymouth , it should be mentioned that there is a service of steamers run in connection with this Railway between this port on the one hand , and the Channel Islands and the Western Railway . of France viA Cherbourg on the other . The sea passage to the Channel Islands is shorter by three hours than any other route , while the time occupied between Weymouth and Cherbourg is only six hours . These are points of very great consideration in the
case of travellers who cannot bear a sea-voyage lasting even a'few hours and made under the most favourable conditions as regards the weather , and it is not surprising that numbers of visitors to Paris , or who are desirous of exploring the beauties of Brittany and Normandy , should avail themselves of the facilities offered by our Great Western . One other . Railway Company deserves to be mentioned
in this category , THE GREAT EASTERN RALIWAY COMPANY , partly because its system embraces a part of England which is entirely outside , though not inaccessible from , the Great Western and London andNorth Western systems , but chiefly on account of the very admirable service it offers to tourists who may be desirous of visiting the Continent , but particularly the States situated to the North . The Railway and Packet -Service between the Liverpool-street
terminus and Rotterdam or Antwerp , via Harwich , is ad-. mirably conducted while , the scale of charges leave nothing to be desired . It is probably our easiest and most direct mode of communication with Northern Europe , and the sea passage b & tween Harwich and the aforesaid Dutch and •Belgian ports occupies only a few hours . Moreover it provides access to countries which are most , interesting , whether we have regard to the character of thier scenery or
their historical associations with this country . A twelve hours' journey from Liverpool-street will suffice to land an Englishman in the midst of scenery as unlike as possible to anything he has seen at home . Indeed , we have often wondered why it is that Holland in particular , though so close to our shores , does not prove more generally attractive to the English tourist . There is a strong commercial intercourse between the two countries , but somehow people
. fancy they will learn more of continental Europe by a hurried visit to Paris , or , at the furthest , to Switzerland . But there are strange sights to be seen in the principal Dutch cities and towns that can hardly be dreamt of in our philosophy . Even the Hague , which , from being the seat of Government , if not the capital , of the Netherlands , approaches more nearly to our idea of . a modern European city than any other place in Holland ,
has many strange attractions of its own , while , in Rotterdam , Amsterdam , Leyden , Haarlem , Alkmaar , Utrecht , etc ., the contrast they offer with our own historical , commercial , and industrial centres is such that the visitor may easily imagine himself in some remote country at the other end of the world , or more likely still , perhaps that this . is not the nineteenth , but the sixteenth or seventeenth century , so strange is everything he meets about him .
Over The Sunshine Of Existence Hangs A Black Cloud.
OVER THE SUNSHINE OF EXISTENCE HANGS A BLACK CLOUD .
WITH the uncertainty of Life is mingled the dark mystery of Death 1 While , on the one hand , we catch the welcome sound of a new breath of life that tells of aji addition to our species , on the other we shudder as we hear the rushing wings of the Destroying Angel ! The mighty voice of the Great Influence which rules the Universe has pronounced
our fate ; the dread fiat has gone forth , and every mortal man is doomed to die ! But though we cannot prevent , can we postpone Death ? The question is momentous , even if it concern the prolongation of Life but by a single hour , inasmuch as every instinct prompts us to fight the boldest battle we can for this glorious boon of Existence . The promptings of Instinct are but the spontaneous voice ot Nature , and it is our duty to obey . But there still remains
the question , can Death be postponed by a single hour ? Yes , for the world works in obedience to certain laws , and a study of these proves that those who have the judgment and the will to buckje on the shield , which Nature places ready to their grasp , may ward off the insidious attacks of the implacable enemy to Life , until , in-a ripe . old age , the vital faculties gradually decay , and the Angel of Peace glides softly into our presence , leading us , as it were , in a
" gentle slumber to the regions beyond the shadow of the Tomb . The Fell Destroyer makes his first approaches in many forms , but none are more favoured by him than that of a deadly foe now preying upon , the very vitals of Modern Society . What is this foe ? There are few among us who have not been , or are not now to some extent , its victims . Would the reader know if he , too , is under the ban of this
frightful scourge ! Let him ask himself whether he experiences any of the following symptoms : There are pains about the chest and sides , and sometimes in the back . The mouth has a bad taste , especially in the morning j and there are feelings of dulnessand drowsiness . The appetite is poor , a sort of sticky slime collects about the teeth , there is a feeling as of a heavy load on the stomach , and sometimes a faint all-gone sensation at the
pit of the stomach , which food does not satisfy . The eyes are sunken , the hands and feet become cold and feel clammy .. After a while a cough sets in , at first dry , but attended in the course of a few months with expectoration of a greenish colour . The sufferer feels constantly tired , and sleep seems to afford him no rest . Nervousness , irritability , and evil forebodings follow . When rising suddenly there is a ( riddiness , a sort of whirling sensation in the head .
The bowels become costive ; the skin is dry and hot at times ; the blood becomes thick and stagnant ; the whites of the eyes are tinged with yellow ; the urine is scanty and high coloured , depositing a sediment after standing . There is frequently a spitting up of the food—at times with a sour taste , and at others with a sweetish taste . This is often attended with palpitation ot the heart , or impaired vision with spots before the eyes , accompanied by great prostration and weakness . All of these symptoms are in turn
present . It is thought that nearly one-third of our population has this disease in some of its varied forms . Medical men have mistaken the nature of the malady . Its true name is Dyspepsia or Indigestion ; for which a s certain remedy is to be found in Mother Seigel ' s Curative Syrup , a medicine which has won in both hemispheres a confidence founded only on its great virtues . The Syrup can be obtained from any chemist or medicine vendor , or from the proprietors , A . j . White , Limited , 17 , Farrington Roadj London , E . C .
Masonic And General Tidings.
MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS .
A portrait of Bro . Alderman Evans appears in the current number of Society . Bro . Horace Jones , the City Architect , has an article in the Building and Engineering Times on sug gestions respecting doors and fire-resisting construction . Bro . H . H . Crawford , who has been appointed by Bro . Alderman and Sheriff-Elect Whitehead to act as his Under-Sheriff , has returned to town after an absence of a month on professional business .
. The annual festival of the Prov . Grand Lodge of Essex will be held at the Public Hall , Maldon , on Wednesday next , at two o'clock . A banquet will afterwards take place at the Blue Boar Hotel . We stated in our last that Bro . Gen . Reilly , C . B ., would be installed as first W . M . of the Army and Navy Lodge , No . 1971 , at Aldershot , on Wednesday , the 13 th inst . It should have been Wednesday , the 20 th :
The Provincial Grand Lodge of . Cornwall will be held at Penzance on Monday next . There is a large agenda paper , including the voting for annuitants and making grants from the funds of the Cornwall Masonic Annuity Fund .
The sale of Sir Michael Costa ' s library takes place at Messrs . Sotheby ' s rooms next Monday . It contains , besides some MS . music in the autograph of Sir Michael Costa , not a few works , in the choicer and rarer states , by the great masters of the Euterpean muse . Bro . the Lord Mayor , M . P ., Sir Thomas Chambers , M . P ., and Bro . Jabez Hogg , are amongst
others who are prompting a testimonial to Dr . S . Kinns . They hope thus " to enable him to give a series of free lectures in the chief towns of England , Wales , and Scotland , upon 'The Harmony of the Bible with Science and History . '" The " Canada , " Captain Durrant , with Prince George of Wales on board , has arrived at Cowes . She
was commissioned at Portsmouth on May 1 st ., last year , and left England on the 13 th of the following month Prince George will be granted two months' leave of absence , in order to accompany the Prince and Princess of Wales to Scotland .
Captain Markham , of the " Vernon , " who commanded the party who , in ' 1876 , got nearer to the North Pole than any other Englishmen have yet been , telegraphed to Lieutenant Greely , on the arrival of that officer in America a few days since , congratulating him on his success in having reached a latitude oeyond . any which had been previously attained .
Bro . William Stephens , Grand Pursuivant , is about to make a voyage to Australia for the benefit of his health . During the last two years Bro . Stephens has been suffering from a troublesome illness , and a voyage to Australia by sailing vessel has been recommended for his improvement . He has the warm sympathy and best wishes of the Craft , and we trust Bro . Stephens will return to his Masonic and other duties with renewed health and vigour .
Our attention has been called to some inaccuracies in a report of the installation meeting of the High Cross Mark Lodge last week . The officers should have been as follows : Bros . Major Penrose J . Dunbar , W . M . ; J . D . Burkin , S . W . j A . G . Fidler , J . W . ; Percy Gilling , M . O . ;
Rev . C . H . Roberts , B . A ., S . O . ; F . VV . S . Wheelhouse , J . O . ; H . Dance , Reg . Mks .: E . Holt , Sec . ; A . H . Little , Treas . ; Rev . C . H . Roberts , B . A ., Chap . ; J . Webb , S . D . and Org . ; C Handley , J . D . ; J . Handley , D . C . j J . Black , I . G . ; and J . Verry , Tyler .
Bro . Capt . Sylvanus Hatch , of Port Lavacca , Texas , celebrated the ninety-sixth anniversary of his birth on June i , 1 S 84 . He has a certificate of membership in Solomon Lodge , No . 1 , Savannah , Georgia , issued June 6 , 1 S 09 , thus making him a Mason of seventy-five years standing . He is in fine health , never having been confined to his bed for one day from sickness since he was a man ; talks fluently of scenes transpiring in those early
days ; also of the war of 1 S 12 ; and was an adjutant under General Jackson at the battle of New Orleans . He went to Texas in 1828 , where he has resided since . He speaks in glowing terms of the Texas war for independence , and the many lively incidents connected therewith . Though his hearing is a little defective , and his sight rather dim , yet he talks well and enjoys a joke as well as his juniors . — Masonic Token .
The Great Priory of Canada at its meeting of the Sth July , and at the proposal of the Great Prior , Colonel McLeod Moore , decided to confer the rank of Provincial Prior on Prince Rhodocanakis , Grand Master of Greece , and Bro . A . M . Broadley , P . D . D . G . M . of Malta . In moving these appointments the Grand Prior made the following observations : —Although fully impressed how necessary it is that honorary rank and membership in
Great Priory should be restricted and judiciously conferred , to make the honor appreciated by Fratres of foreign jurisdictions , who stand prominent in the Order , I would now ask Great Priory to confer the Honorary rank of Provincial Priors , and membership , upon two distinguished Templars , viz . : —His Imperial Highness , the Prince Rhodocanakis of Scio , Athens , Greece , Grand Master Mason of that
kingdom , and a Grand Cross ofthe Scotish Templar Order , whose friendship I have long possessed . His Imperial Highness is a naturalized British subject , and was initiated into all the degrees and rites of Freemasonry in Edinburgh , Scotland , where he was principally educated . The honor will also be most gratifying to Frater Alex .-M . Broadley , Barrister-at-law , of Lincoln ' s-inn , London , one of the
preceptors of the " Melita" Prcceptory of the Island of Malta , who a quarter of a century after I had established the first Prcceptory ( Encampment ) there , succeeded as Presiding Preceptor ( or Commander ) . Our Frater is the author of the history of Masonry in Malta , and the wellknown legal adviser of " Arab ! Pasha , " of Egypt , on his recent trial .
Masonic And General Tidings.
Wednesday being the 40 th anniversary of thebirth of his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh , it was celebrated at Windsor with the usual honours . At the meetingof the North Metropolitan Tramvtays Company on Wednesday the Chairman stated that ' since the opening of the line in May , 1 S 70 , the Company had carried 351 , 975 , 833 passengers . . .
FREEMASONRY IN THE UNITED STATES . — According to Drummond ' s statistics for 1 S 84 there are 55 . Grand Lodges in America with a total membership of 587 , 321 . Last year . the membership was 579 , 826 , showingan increase of 7495 , or IO J per cent . Messrs . Cassell and Company intend to offer during the coming winter season , books to the amount of . £ 100 as prizes for the encouragement of classes organised for the higher education Of working men and women .
The committee of the Church of England Young Men's Society have received a letter from SirH . F . Ponsonby , stating that " Her Majesty will be happy togive the name of * the Leopold Church of England Young Men ' s Rooms ' to the institution about to be formed as a centre for the society . "
A copy of Messrs . Field and Tuer ' s bibliographical curiosity , Quads Within Quads , has been accepted by the Prince of Wales . The book is a collection of printers' jokes , and it is printed and bound at " Ye Leadenhalle Presse . " . Inside the . book is a tiny volume of "quads , " printed in " midget folio , " and not much larger than a postage stamp .
The centenary of Dr . Johnson , as well as the quin-centenary of Wyclif , fall within December of the present year , Johnson having died on December 13 th , 1784 ^ and Wyclif on December , 31 st 1384 . ' The occasion is to be commemorated by a new volume in Mr . T . Fisher Unwin ' s " Centenary Series , " written by Dr . Macaulay , editor of- the Leisure Hour . It will be called " Dr . Johnson : His Life , Works , and Table Talk . "
Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Germany ( Princess Royal of England ) , with the Royal Princesses , Victoria , Margaret , and Sophie , accompanied by Cpuntand Countess Marie Miinster , havepaid a visit to Mr . William Bull ' s Orchid Exhibition 31 53 6 , King ' s-road , Chelsea . The Crown Princess was presented ; with a handsome bouquet of orchids by Mr . Bull , and three
of his young . daughters had the honour of presenting each , of the Royal Princesses with a bouquet of choice orchids . Bro . Lieut . A ' . W . Greely , recently rescued , with five companions , in the Arctic region , is a Freemason and Knight Templar . In September ,-1 .-83 , the party abandoned their boats , and were adrift for thirty days on an ice floe in Smith's Sound . When their provisions were consumed ' ¦
they were forced to live upon boiled sealskin strips cut from their sealskin clothing , lichens , and shrimps . Bro . Lieut . Greely had the satisfaction of penetrating farther North than any Englishman or American in three centuries past . He was . rescued when thought to be dying , with his companions , on June 23 , 1 SS 4 , near the mouth of Smith ' s Sound . They were starving , and Bro . Greely had just
been reading prayers for the dying when the rescuers arrived . His experience has been a most eventful one , and he barely escaped with his life . Queen Victoria has congratulated President Arthur upon the happy rescue . Whois the next candidate for Polar honours ?—Keystone . Hieroglyphics were used before the discovery of the art of writing , and through paintings of natural or
scientific objects , were represented invisible things and ideas , which could not otherwise have been delineated . On account of its importance , and the difficulty of reading it ,, it was considered sacred . The real meaning of the hieroglyphics was a mystery of the ' ancient Egyptian priests , and ' could only be explained in the greater mysteries . Thekey to the most of these hieroglyphics has been lost ,
especially because that in the third and fourth centuries of the Christian era they were applied to theurgic , magic , alchemy and astrology . _ Ever since the discovery of the alphabet , new hieroglyphics and symbols have been invented . The picture of a lamb represents patience ; a dog , fidelity , & c . Hieroglyphics must always be understood to be nictorial
representations , and a symbol can be both a pictorial representation and an action ; for example—the chain whichunites us as Masons and of which every Mason is a link , the journey , & c From what is here said , the Freemason will be able to perceive which of the Masonic objects he has to consider as hieroglyphics and which . as symbols . — Hebrew Leader .
It is hard enough that , as we approach our own railway stations , our eyes should be annoyed by thereiterated yellow and blue advertisements of mustard and laundry-blue manufacturers , but mercifully we are not yet given oyer to the hands of barbarians who paint their own horrible names in gigantic characters on the face of-crags which we would fain have deemed inaccessible , but which
to these indomitable advertisers of the States offer only a desirable field for obtaining cheap notoriety . If only these Goths would abstain from desecrating beautiful nature , we could better forgive them for elaborating their really ingenious devices on the railway fences and such-like tempting spots . For instance , we could ' scarcely withhold ' some admiration from a draper near San Francisco , who
attracted our attention by a long disjointed sentence which compelled us to read it while slowly moving across the great sea-bridge— "IF YOU SHOULD MEET WITH A RAILWAY ACCIDENT AND BE KILLED you could not then , onreaching the City of | San Francisco , visit the store of the world-famed Elijah Thompson , and buy the best linen shirts at twelve dollars the dozen . " —C . F . Gordon , Cumminif , in " Cassell ' s Family Magazine " for August .
£ SO to £ SOO . —Tobacconists commencing . —A pamphlet ,. How to open a shop respectably for . ^ Jo ; post free . H . Myers & . Co ., 109 , IDuston-rd ., London . Wholesale only . —t _ Aovr . HOLLOWJCVS PI LIS . —Dysentery , Diarrhira and Disordered Howels . —These maladies are ever present , and if left unattended frequently terminate fatally .. It should be everywhere known that all these complaints originate in the presence of some irritating , substance in the stomach or howels , . or of some deleterious
matter in the blood , and that Holloway ' s Pills can eliminate either with ease and expedition . They combine in a surprising degree , purifying , alterative , regulating , and strengthening qualities , and thus cx < : rt over every internal organ the . wholesimely controlling influence so necessary for subduing excessive action' in the human frame . Holloway ' s medicine may be advantageously taken as a means of keeping the blood pure and the body coolthe only practical plan of maintaining health in youth , in manhood , and in old age , .
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Obituary.
In respect of Weymouth , it should be mentioned that there is a service of steamers run in connection with this Railway between this port on the one hand , and the Channel Islands and the Western Railway . of France viA Cherbourg on the other . The sea passage to the Channel Islands is shorter by three hours than any other route , while the time occupied between Weymouth and Cherbourg is only six hours . These are points of very great consideration in the
case of travellers who cannot bear a sea-voyage lasting even a'few hours and made under the most favourable conditions as regards the weather , and it is not surprising that numbers of visitors to Paris , or who are desirous of exploring the beauties of Brittany and Normandy , should avail themselves of the facilities offered by our Great Western . One other . Railway Company deserves to be mentioned
in this category , THE GREAT EASTERN RALIWAY COMPANY , partly because its system embraces a part of England which is entirely outside , though not inaccessible from , the Great Western and London andNorth Western systems , but chiefly on account of the very admirable service it offers to tourists who may be desirous of visiting the Continent , but particularly the States situated to the North . The Railway and Packet -Service between the Liverpool-street
terminus and Rotterdam or Antwerp , via Harwich , is ad-. mirably conducted while , the scale of charges leave nothing to be desired . It is probably our easiest and most direct mode of communication with Northern Europe , and the sea passage b & tween Harwich and the aforesaid Dutch and •Belgian ports occupies only a few hours . Moreover it provides access to countries which are most , interesting , whether we have regard to the character of thier scenery or
their historical associations with this country . A twelve hours' journey from Liverpool-street will suffice to land an Englishman in the midst of scenery as unlike as possible to anything he has seen at home . Indeed , we have often wondered why it is that Holland in particular , though so close to our shores , does not prove more generally attractive to the English tourist . There is a strong commercial intercourse between the two countries , but somehow people
. fancy they will learn more of continental Europe by a hurried visit to Paris , or , at the furthest , to Switzerland . But there are strange sights to be seen in the principal Dutch cities and towns that can hardly be dreamt of in our philosophy . Even the Hague , which , from being the seat of Government , if not the capital , of the Netherlands , approaches more nearly to our idea of . a modern European city than any other place in Holland ,
has many strange attractions of its own , while , in Rotterdam , Amsterdam , Leyden , Haarlem , Alkmaar , Utrecht , etc ., the contrast they offer with our own historical , commercial , and industrial centres is such that the visitor may easily imagine himself in some remote country at the other end of the world , or more likely still , perhaps that this . is not the nineteenth , but the sixteenth or seventeenth century , so strange is everything he meets about him .
Over The Sunshine Of Existence Hangs A Black Cloud.
OVER THE SUNSHINE OF EXISTENCE HANGS A BLACK CLOUD .
WITH the uncertainty of Life is mingled the dark mystery of Death 1 While , on the one hand , we catch the welcome sound of a new breath of life that tells of aji addition to our species , on the other we shudder as we hear the rushing wings of the Destroying Angel ! The mighty voice of the Great Influence which rules the Universe has pronounced
our fate ; the dread fiat has gone forth , and every mortal man is doomed to die ! But though we cannot prevent , can we postpone Death ? The question is momentous , even if it concern the prolongation of Life but by a single hour , inasmuch as every instinct prompts us to fight the boldest battle we can for this glorious boon of Existence . The promptings of Instinct are but the spontaneous voice ot Nature , and it is our duty to obey . But there still remains
the question , can Death be postponed by a single hour ? Yes , for the world works in obedience to certain laws , and a study of these proves that those who have the judgment and the will to buckje on the shield , which Nature places ready to their grasp , may ward off the insidious attacks of the implacable enemy to Life , until , in-a ripe . old age , the vital faculties gradually decay , and the Angel of Peace glides softly into our presence , leading us , as it were , in a
" gentle slumber to the regions beyond the shadow of the Tomb . The Fell Destroyer makes his first approaches in many forms , but none are more favoured by him than that of a deadly foe now preying upon , the very vitals of Modern Society . What is this foe ? There are few among us who have not been , or are not now to some extent , its victims . Would the reader know if he , too , is under the ban of this
frightful scourge ! Let him ask himself whether he experiences any of the following symptoms : There are pains about the chest and sides , and sometimes in the back . The mouth has a bad taste , especially in the morning j and there are feelings of dulnessand drowsiness . The appetite is poor , a sort of sticky slime collects about the teeth , there is a feeling as of a heavy load on the stomach , and sometimes a faint all-gone sensation at the
pit of the stomach , which food does not satisfy . The eyes are sunken , the hands and feet become cold and feel clammy .. After a while a cough sets in , at first dry , but attended in the course of a few months with expectoration of a greenish colour . The sufferer feels constantly tired , and sleep seems to afford him no rest . Nervousness , irritability , and evil forebodings follow . When rising suddenly there is a ( riddiness , a sort of whirling sensation in the head .
The bowels become costive ; the skin is dry and hot at times ; the blood becomes thick and stagnant ; the whites of the eyes are tinged with yellow ; the urine is scanty and high coloured , depositing a sediment after standing . There is frequently a spitting up of the food—at times with a sour taste , and at others with a sweetish taste . This is often attended with palpitation ot the heart , or impaired vision with spots before the eyes , accompanied by great prostration and weakness . All of these symptoms are in turn
present . It is thought that nearly one-third of our population has this disease in some of its varied forms . Medical men have mistaken the nature of the malady . Its true name is Dyspepsia or Indigestion ; for which a s certain remedy is to be found in Mother Seigel ' s Curative Syrup , a medicine which has won in both hemispheres a confidence founded only on its great virtues . The Syrup can be obtained from any chemist or medicine vendor , or from the proprietors , A . j . White , Limited , 17 , Farrington Roadj London , E . C .
Masonic And General Tidings.
MASONIC AND GENERAL TIDINGS .
A portrait of Bro . Alderman Evans appears in the current number of Society . Bro . Horace Jones , the City Architect , has an article in the Building and Engineering Times on sug gestions respecting doors and fire-resisting construction . Bro . H . H . Crawford , who has been appointed by Bro . Alderman and Sheriff-Elect Whitehead to act as his Under-Sheriff , has returned to town after an absence of a month on professional business .
. The annual festival of the Prov . Grand Lodge of Essex will be held at the Public Hall , Maldon , on Wednesday next , at two o'clock . A banquet will afterwards take place at the Blue Boar Hotel . We stated in our last that Bro . Gen . Reilly , C . B ., would be installed as first W . M . of the Army and Navy Lodge , No . 1971 , at Aldershot , on Wednesday , the 13 th inst . It should have been Wednesday , the 20 th :
The Provincial Grand Lodge of . Cornwall will be held at Penzance on Monday next . There is a large agenda paper , including the voting for annuitants and making grants from the funds of the Cornwall Masonic Annuity Fund .
The sale of Sir Michael Costa ' s library takes place at Messrs . Sotheby ' s rooms next Monday . It contains , besides some MS . music in the autograph of Sir Michael Costa , not a few works , in the choicer and rarer states , by the great masters of the Euterpean muse . Bro . the Lord Mayor , M . P ., Sir Thomas Chambers , M . P ., and Bro . Jabez Hogg , are amongst
others who are prompting a testimonial to Dr . S . Kinns . They hope thus " to enable him to give a series of free lectures in the chief towns of England , Wales , and Scotland , upon 'The Harmony of the Bible with Science and History . '" The " Canada , " Captain Durrant , with Prince George of Wales on board , has arrived at Cowes . She
was commissioned at Portsmouth on May 1 st ., last year , and left England on the 13 th of the following month Prince George will be granted two months' leave of absence , in order to accompany the Prince and Princess of Wales to Scotland .
Captain Markham , of the " Vernon , " who commanded the party who , in ' 1876 , got nearer to the North Pole than any other Englishmen have yet been , telegraphed to Lieutenant Greely , on the arrival of that officer in America a few days since , congratulating him on his success in having reached a latitude oeyond . any which had been previously attained .
Bro . William Stephens , Grand Pursuivant , is about to make a voyage to Australia for the benefit of his health . During the last two years Bro . Stephens has been suffering from a troublesome illness , and a voyage to Australia by sailing vessel has been recommended for his improvement . He has the warm sympathy and best wishes of the Craft , and we trust Bro . Stephens will return to his Masonic and other duties with renewed health and vigour .
Our attention has been called to some inaccuracies in a report of the installation meeting of the High Cross Mark Lodge last week . The officers should have been as follows : Bros . Major Penrose J . Dunbar , W . M . ; J . D . Burkin , S . W . j A . G . Fidler , J . W . ; Percy Gilling , M . O . ;
Rev . C . H . Roberts , B . A ., S . O . ; F . VV . S . Wheelhouse , J . O . ; H . Dance , Reg . Mks .: E . Holt , Sec . ; A . H . Little , Treas . ; Rev . C . H . Roberts , B . A ., Chap . ; J . Webb , S . D . and Org . ; C Handley , J . D . ; J . Handley , D . C . j J . Black , I . G . ; and J . Verry , Tyler .
Bro . Capt . Sylvanus Hatch , of Port Lavacca , Texas , celebrated the ninety-sixth anniversary of his birth on June i , 1 S 84 . He has a certificate of membership in Solomon Lodge , No . 1 , Savannah , Georgia , issued June 6 , 1 S 09 , thus making him a Mason of seventy-five years standing . He is in fine health , never having been confined to his bed for one day from sickness since he was a man ; talks fluently of scenes transpiring in those early
days ; also of the war of 1 S 12 ; and was an adjutant under General Jackson at the battle of New Orleans . He went to Texas in 1828 , where he has resided since . He speaks in glowing terms of the Texas war for independence , and the many lively incidents connected therewith . Though his hearing is a little defective , and his sight rather dim , yet he talks well and enjoys a joke as well as his juniors . — Masonic Token .
The Great Priory of Canada at its meeting of the Sth July , and at the proposal of the Great Prior , Colonel McLeod Moore , decided to confer the rank of Provincial Prior on Prince Rhodocanakis , Grand Master of Greece , and Bro . A . M . Broadley , P . D . D . G . M . of Malta . In moving these appointments the Grand Prior made the following observations : —Although fully impressed how necessary it is that honorary rank and membership in
Great Priory should be restricted and judiciously conferred , to make the honor appreciated by Fratres of foreign jurisdictions , who stand prominent in the Order , I would now ask Great Priory to confer the Honorary rank of Provincial Priors , and membership , upon two distinguished Templars , viz . : —His Imperial Highness , the Prince Rhodocanakis of Scio , Athens , Greece , Grand Master Mason of that
kingdom , and a Grand Cross ofthe Scotish Templar Order , whose friendship I have long possessed . His Imperial Highness is a naturalized British subject , and was initiated into all the degrees and rites of Freemasonry in Edinburgh , Scotland , where he was principally educated . The honor will also be most gratifying to Frater Alex .-M . Broadley , Barrister-at-law , of Lincoln ' s-inn , London , one of the
preceptors of the " Melita" Prcceptory of the Island of Malta , who a quarter of a century after I had established the first Prcceptory ( Encampment ) there , succeeded as Presiding Preceptor ( or Commander ) . Our Frater is the author of the history of Masonry in Malta , and the wellknown legal adviser of " Arab ! Pasha , " of Egypt , on his recent trial .
Masonic And General Tidings.
Wednesday being the 40 th anniversary of thebirth of his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh , it was celebrated at Windsor with the usual honours . At the meetingof the North Metropolitan Tramvtays Company on Wednesday the Chairman stated that ' since the opening of the line in May , 1 S 70 , the Company had carried 351 , 975 , 833 passengers . . .
FREEMASONRY IN THE UNITED STATES . — According to Drummond ' s statistics for 1 S 84 there are 55 . Grand Lodges in America with a total membership of 587 , 321 . Last year . the membership was 579 , 826 , showingan increase of 7495 , or IO J per cent . Messrs . Cassell and Company intend to offer during the coming winter season , books to the amount of . £ 100 as prizes for the encouragement of classes organised for the higher education Of working men and women .
The committee of the Church of England Young Men's Society have received a letter from SirH . F . Ponsonby , stating that " Her Majesty will be happy togive the name of * the Leopold Church of England Young Men ' s Rooms ' to the institution about to be formed as a centre for the society . "
A copy of Messrs . Field and Tuer ' s bibliographical curiosity , Quads Within Quads , has been accepted by the Prince of Wales . The book is a collection of printers' jokes , and it is printed and bound at " Ye Leadenhalle Presse . " . Inside the . book is a tiny volume of "quads , " printed in " midget folio , " and not much larger than a postage stamp .
The centenary of Dr . Johnson , as well as the quin-centenary of Wyclif , fall within December of the present year , Johnson having died on December 13 th , 1784 ^ and Wyclif on December , 31 st 1384 . ' The occasion is to be commemorated by a new volume in Mr . T . Fisher Unwin ' s " Centenary Series , " written by Dr . Macaulay , editor of- the Leisure Hour . It will be called " Dr . Johnson : His Life , Works , and Table Talk . "
Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Germany ( Princess Royal of England ) , with the Royal Princesses , Victoria , Margaret , and Sophie , accompanied by Cpuntand Countess Marie Miinster , havepaid a visit to Mr . William Bull ' s Orchid Exhibition 31 53 6 , King ' s-road , Chelsea . The Crown Princess was presented ; with a handsome bouquet of orchids by Mr . Bull , and three
of his young . daughters had the honour of presenting each , of the Royal Princesses with a bouquet of choice orchids . Bro . Lieut . A ' . W . Greely , recently rescued , with five companions , in the Arctic region , is a Freemason and Knight Templar . In September ,-1 .-83 , the party abandoned their boats , and were adrift for thirty days on an ice floe in Smith's Sound . When their provisions were consumed ' ¦
they were forced to live upon boiled sealskin strips cut from their sealskin clothing , lichens , and shrimps . Bro . Lieut . Greely had the satisfaction of penetrating farther North than any Englishman or American in three centuries past . He was . rescued when thought to be dying , with his companions , on June 23 , 1 SS 4 , near the mouth of Smith ' s Sound . They were starving , and Bro . Greely had just
been reading prayers for the dying when the rescuers arrived . His experience has been a most eventful one , and he barely escaped with his life . Queen Victoria has congratulated President Arthur upon the happy rescue . Whois the next candidate for Polar honours ?—Keystone . Hieroglyphics were used before the discovery of the art of writing , and through paintings of natural or
scientific objects , were represented invisible things and ideas , which could not otherwise have been delineated . On account of its importance , and the difficulty of reading it ,, it was considered sacred . The real meaning of the hieroglyphics was a mystery of the ' ancient Egyptian priests , and ' could only be explained in the greater mysteries . Thekey to the most of these hieroglyphics has been lost ,
especially because that in the third and fourth centuries of the Christian era they were applied to theurgic , magic , alchemy and astrology . _ Ever since the discovery of the alphabet , new hieroglyphics and symbols have been invented . The picture of a lamb represents patience ; a dog , fidelity , & c . Hieroglyphics must always be understood to be nictorial
representations , and a symbol can be both a pictorial representation and an action ; for example—the chain whichunites us as Masons and of which every Mason is a link , the journey , & c From what is here said , the Freemason will be able to perceive which of the Masonic objects he has to consider as hieroglyphics and which . as symbols . — Hebrew Leader .
It is hard enough that , as we approach our own railway stations , our eyes should be annoyed by thereiterated yellow and blue advertisements of mustard and laundry-blue manufacturers , but mercifully we are not yet given oyer to the hands of barbarians who paint their own horrible names in gigantic characters on the face of-crags which we would fain have deemed inaccessible , but which
to these indomitable advertisers of the States offer only a desirable field for obtaining cheap notoriety . If only these Goths would abstain from desecrating beautiful nature , we could better forgive them for elaborating their really ingenious devices on the railway fences and such-like tempting spots . For instance , we could ' scarcely withhold ' some admiration from a draper near San Francisco , who
attracted our attention by a long disjointed sentence which compelled us to read it while slowly moving across the great sea-bridge— "IF YOU SHOULD MEET WITH A RAILWAY ACCIDENT AND BE KILLED you could not then , onreaching the City of | San Francisco , visit the store of the world-famed Elijah Thompson , and buy the best linen shirts at twelve dollars the dozen . " —C . F . Gordon , Cumminif , in " Cassell ' s Family Magazine " for August .
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