"Curiously enough," returned Longinus, "he too is here, stationed in Jerusalem. He was tired of too much quiet."

"Good!" exclaimed Paulus. each other, and talk of old days."

"We must all often see

13. After a few more words interchanged, they began to descend Mount Olivet together.

"Did you meet any one," says Paulus to Longinus, "as you came up the hill.?'

"I did," said Longinus very gravely; "but I know not who he is."

They proceeded silently in company till, in the valley of Josaphat, at the bottom of the Mount of Olives, not far from the Golden Gate of the Temple, a most beautiful youth, with rich fair locks, worn uncovered (like him whom Paulus had just seen), met them.

14. "Friends," quoth the stranger, "have you seen the Master coming down from the Hill of Olives? "

"I think," said Paulus, after a little reflection, "that I must have seen him whom you mean." And he described the person who had looked at him.

"That is he," said the beautiful youth. way was he going?"

"Pray, which

Paulus told him, and the other, after thanking him, was moving swiftly away when Paulus cried after him :

"Stay one moment," said he. “What is the name of him you call The Master?"

15. "Know you not?" replied the youth, with a smile. "Why, you are, I now observe by your dress, a Roman. His name is Iesous."

"What!" cried Paulus. "Then it is a reality. There is some one of that name who has appeared among men, and appeared at this time, and appeared in this land! I

will, this very day, send off a letter to Dionysius, at Athens. And pray, fair youth, what is your own name?"

"Ah!" returned the other, "I am nobody; but they call me John. Yet," added he, "I ought not lightly to name such a name, for the greatest and holiest of mere men, now a prisoner of Herod's, is likewise called John; I mean John the Baptist, John the Prophet; yea, more than a prophet: John the Angel of God.'"

MILES GERALD KEON in "Dion and the Sibyls."

Miles Gerald Keon, the last male descendant of an old Irish family, was born February 20, 1821, on the banks of the Shannon. As a boy he entered the Jesuit College at Stonyhurst, England, where he won many honors. On quitting college he served for a short time with the French army in Algiers, afterward studied law, and finally turned his attention to literature, and to this profession devoted his life. He became favorably known as a magazine-writer, and was attached, from time to time, to the editorial staff of one or another of the London papers. In 1859 he was appointed Colonial Secretary at Bermuda, which position he held until his death, June 3, 1875. It was while at Bermuda, in 1866, that he published "Dion and the Sibyls," a classic Christian novel, which has been declared by competent judges the equal of "Fabiola" and one of the two or three great English Catholic novels.

LESSON LXXVII.

4. sŭb'sti tūt ĕd ; v. put in the 10. fi' bẽrs; n. fine, slender place of.

5. re pěls'; v. drives back.

8. zĭgʻzăg; a. running this way

and that.

12.

threads or thread-like substances.

ĕd'i fiç eş; n. buildings. 12. shrouds; n. a set of ropes

reaching from the mast-heads to the sides of a vessel to support the masts.

Electricity. Part I.

1. So long ago as the time of the Greeks it was already known that amber, when rubbed, will attract or draw

toward it bits of straw and other light bodies; and it is from the Greek word electron,-amber,-that our word "electricity" is taken.

2. Until the sixteenth century, however, no one had made any careful experiments upon this curious fact; and it was Dr. Gilbert, an English physician, who first discovered that other bodies besides amber will, when rubbed, attract straws, thin shavings of metals, and other substances; and he also proved that the attraction was stronger when the air is dry and cold than when it is warm and moist.

3. You can easily try this for yourself by rubbing the end of a stick of common sealing-wax on a piece of dry flannel, and then holding the rubbed end near to some small pieces of light paper or feathers. You will find that these substances will spring toward the sealing-wax, and cling to it a short time.

4. After Gilbert's time very little notice was taken of these facts, till Guericke invented the first rude electrical machine in 1672. He made a globe of sulphur which turned in a wooden frame, and by pressing a cloth against it with his hand as it went round he caused the sulphur to become charged with electricity. His apparatus was very rough, but it led to better ones being made; and, some years later, a man named Hawksbee substituted a glass globe for the sulphur and a piece of silk for the cloth, and in this way electrical machines were made much like those

we now use.

5. Guericke also discovered that an electrical body attracts one that is not electrified, but repels it again as soon as it has filled it with electricity like its own. He was also the first to notice the spark of fire and crackling sound which are produced by electricity when it passes between two bodies which do not touch each other.