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other polluted places , as an indication that their souls would be subjected to eternal punishment , when the world , and all that is therein shall be burnt up ; for it was a prevalent doctrine amongst the Egyptians that the present state of things shall be

destroyed by fire , and the doctrine was transferred from them to the Greeks and Romans . Seneca affirms that "the stars shall run upon each other ; and everything being on a flame , that which now shines regularly , shall be finall extinguished b burning

y y a fire . " And Ovid , in his Metamorphoses ' , adds ; " it is decreed b y fate that sea , and earth and heaven shall burn , and the vast frame of nature perish by fire . " Numerous evidences of this fact mi ght easily be produced .

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NOTES ON LITERTURE , SCIENCE AND ART .

BY BBO . GEORGE MARKHAM TWEDDELL , Author of "Shahspere , his Times , and Contemporaries , " "The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham , " " The People ' s History of Cleveland and its Vicinage , " " The Visitors ' Handbook to Redcar , Coatham , and Saltbumby-the-Sea , " " The History of the Stockton and

Darlington Railway , " & c , & c . MR . GARNIER ' remarks on the building of King Solomon ' s Temple I will give in another Note ; but I trust I have already quoted sufficient to show that the author of The Parish Church has attentivel y studied Church Symbolism ; and , if he at times rides his hobby-horse rather hard , I feel inclined to say with Sterne : — "So

long as a man rides his hobby-horse peaceably and quietly along the king ' s highway , and neither compels you or me to get up behind him , pray , Sir , what have you or I to do with it ? " Nevertheless , in great or in little things , the pursuit of Truth is always a sacred dutand however

y , one may differ in opinion on some points with Mr . Gamier , it is impossible not to be pleased by his able little book . THE editor of The Freemason , who does his spiriting gently enough to please even Prospero himselfexpresses a hope " that

, the generation which will succeed us will be as famous for their love of Masonic literature as their punctual attendance at a o-0 od dinner , and that while they do not neglect

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the wants of the body , they will also U in mind the as important needs of the mim |» To this every true Freemason will say i mote it be ! But why not for the fu ' fcu ' fearlessly blackball , not only every sensual but even every merely sensuous man

, ^ seeks for admission to the mysteries and privileges of the Craft 1 It is fearful ' to think of the many men who , on their hutia . tion among us , unabashed , make promises which they never mean to keep , and console their consciences with the too true but

, still very unsatisfactory excuse , that they are as good as many others who push themselves into notice on all Masonic occasions , except those when anything is likely to be clone for the good of humanit y , Dr . Rabutea- advocates the makin" of

bread with sea-water , as being not onl y excellent in flavour , but beneficial to health , on account of the chlorides it contains .

I am glad to see that Mr . Joseph Pone , a retired army staff surgeon , in a paper read at the Domestic Economy Congress in Birmingham , stated that the notion that is still held of the possibility of hardenin " children by exposure and cold bathing could

not too soon be abandoned . I have all my life seen the folly of stupid mothers sending their poor spindle-legged children without any covering from the ancles up to the thighs , in the coldest winter months , under the pretence of hardening themand then

, putting them into trousers just when they have got used to the exposure , if they did not die of cold-engendered disease before it was done . If they were Hi ghlanders , intended to wear kilts , I could understand it . But we shall never have a better world

until our women are more truly educated . Of the beauty of the autumnal tints on the leaves of the American forests , Mrs . 3 . Leith Adams remarks : — " Can any one imagine what they are until their delig hted eyes have rested on a scene that seems like

a bit of fairy-land ? The exquisite masses of colour ; the maples , gold and rose , and mottled in both colours ; the soft amber moose-wood ; the deep glowing crimson of one towering monarch of the woods , the flame-coloured ile of anotherthe tender

p , pale cinnamon shade of the beech , the vivid roseof the Virginian creeper and the common briar ; who can describe all this , the g lory and magnificence of the garb in which the