Fara, which the Germans have excavated in central Babylonia. The city, altho one of the earliest known, was built upon an earlier ruin, and provided with an arched drain constructed of small, plano-convex bricks. It measures about one meter in height, and has an equal width.
While delving among the ruins of the oldest cities of the world, we are thus finding that at the time when we supposed that man was primitive and savage, he provided his home and city with "improvements" which we are inclined to call modern, but which we are only reinventing. (Text.)—Prof. Edgar James Banks, The Scientific American.
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Ancient Human Remains—See Prehistoric Women.
Ancient Masters—See Compliment.
Anesthetics—See Benefaction of Anesthetics.
Angel Ministers—See Cooperation, Lack
of.
Angel Visitants—See Indifference to
the Good.
Angels—See Friend, The Sympathetic.
Angels Astray—See Rescue.
ANGER
A cobbler at Leyden, who used to attend
the public disputations held at the
Academy, was once asked if he understood
Latin. "No," replied the mechanic, "but I
know who is wrong in the argument."
"How?" replied his friend. "Why, by seeing
who is angry first."
Let not your angry passions rise, if
you would be a full overcomer. (Text.)
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ANGER, FUTILE
The camel has one very bad fault. He
likes to "pay back," and if his driver has injured
him in any way he will not rest till he
has got even.
The Arabs, people who wander about the desert, and so use the camel a great deal, know about this fault of his, and have a queer way of keeping themselves from getting hurt.
When a driver has made his camel angry, he first runs away out of sight. Then, choosing a place where the camel will soon pass, he throws down some of his clothes, and fixes them so that the heap will look like a sleeping man.
Pretty soon, along comes the camel, and sees the heap. Thinking to himself, "Now I've got him," he pounces on the clothes, shakes them around, and tramples all over them. After he tires of this and has turned away, the driver can appear and ride him away without harm.
Poor, silly camel! He has been in what we call a "blind rage," so angry that he can't tell the difference between a man and a heap of clothes.
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Angle, At the Right—See Place, in the
Right.
Anguish—See Suffering Transformed.
ANIMAL ANCESTRY
A simple-minded Irish priest I have
been told of, having heard that we were descended
from monkeys, yet not quite grasping
the chronology of the business, recently
visited a menagerie, and gave particular and
patient attention to a large cage of our alleged
poor relations on exhibition there. He
stood for a long time intently scrutinizing
their human-like motions, gestures, and expressions.
By and by he fancied that the
largest of them, an individual of a singularly
grave demeanor, seated at the front of the
cage, gave him a glance of intelligence. The
glance was returned. A palpable wink followed,
which also was returned, as were
other like signals; and so it went on until
his reverence, having cast an eye around to
see that nobody was observing him, leaned
forward and said, in a low, confidential tone:
"Av ye'll spake one w-u-r-r-d, I'll baptize ye,
begorra!"—Joseph H. Twichell, D.D.
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ANIMAL DOMINION
An English hunter tells the story of a
tigress that was known all over India as the
man-eater, who once had given her whelps
a live man to play with. She carried off
the man from an open hut in the forest
where some wood-cutters were sleeping. His
companions took refuge in trees, and from
their place of safety saw her take the man
alive to where the whelps were waiting close
by, and lay him down before them. As the
man attempted to crawl away the whelps
would cling to his legs with teeth and claws,
the tigress looking on and purring with
pleasure. (Text.)—Louis Albert Banks.
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