The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 2, 1889, Page 2

HASITABLE WORLDS. Are There Others Beside This Terrestrial Globe of Ours? He in, we have only conjecture to guide us. With respect to the bodies constituting the solar tem, which from their comparative proxim- ity to the earth might be supposed to furnish a solution to this problem, careful tions have heretofore offered no indication whatever of the existence of fife upon their surfaces. But life in some form or another m notwithstandi exist on these bodies. We must ben mind that the planets are in all probability in vari of development. It nay be reasonably obse: sus stages | presumed that Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus | and Neptune, ia consequence of their enormous bulk, have cooled down | more slowly than t! arth and the other smaller pl: of the solar system, and are therefore less advanced as abodes of animated existence than the latter are. But even in the case of the earth it must be admitted to have revolved millions of years around the gun merely as a fiery orb before life appeared on its surface, and even after it had cooled down and become the abode of animated existence it pro- duced, during countless millions of years more, life only in its lowest forms. The existence of man is but of yest This is an instruct- ive lesson. It teaches us that al- though man exists on the carth’s surface it does not tollow that be of the same order of intelligence < man exist upon all the other plar or even upon any of them. Upon some of the planets life may not have come into existence; upon others life may exist, but in a less advanced stage than upon the earth; and the same remark is obviously applicable to the number- a less bodies of the starry firmament. The state of the question then is this: We can not pronounce positively upon the existence of life anywhere beyond the planet upon which we dwell. But reasoning from analogy, we may sup- pose that certain, if not all, of the other bodies of the planetary system, which in so many respects bear affinity toour planet, are in like manner the abodes of life in some form or another, and that similarly there are countless bodies in the stellar regions which may also be the abodes of life. This is a question, ‘however, upon which the noble science of astronomy, so dis- tinguished for the exactitude of its conclusions, does not venture to pro- nounce a positive opinion, seeing that there exists no sure basis of avail- able for its consideration. In these circumstances it is left for each indi- vidual inquirer to form his own opin- fon independent of any support derived from scientific authority.— Prof. Grant. Oo Manager Coffee of Wells, Fargo & Co. recently said toa reporter: “You would be surprised to see what stacks of gold coin and gold dust remain hera ‘uncalled for. When we have kept it Jong enough we send the gold dust to the mint and get it coined, and then credit it to the unknown. Years ago anold fellow living up onthe John Day river in Oregon sent us a big bag of gold. We stow-d it away until the hag looked like a relic of the middle ages, and would scarcely hold toe -gether. Ther we sent the bag of dust and nuggets over to the mint and | got it transformed into $3.00... Eisht ars afterward an old, bedraggled- iking fellow walkel in, and said he had some moncy here. We asked him his name, and when he gave it we told him yes, he had, and asked him why + hehadn’t called long ago. Well, he “gaid, he had sent it down in advance | of his coming himself? and when he got here he didn't need it, and he went »on to Australia, and fisally around the world, anil had only just got back. We asked him why he hadn't taken it “to the bank, saying that he could | have gota good many thousand dol- -Yars interes! on it by this time. Yes, he said, he knew that, but the blanked banks might break, and he thought he would just leave it where it was.’’— ‘Ban Francisco Chronicle. z _ To —Captain Bassett, the venerable loorkeeper of the Senate, always goes /) through a ceremony at the opening of }{ the sessions which few visitors are }{ fortunate enough to see. Trimly ac- ; ~eoutered, he proceeds at precisely five F{ minutes before the hour of meeting to Fy the room of the Presiding Officer. He halts in the doorway with military ab- _ Tuptness, makes a stiff but deferential bow, and says: “Sir, the hour of the -meeting of the Senate has arrived.” Then he bows again, escorts the Pre siding Officer into the chamber, deliv. ers the gavel head into his hands, and retires to his post at the left of the | President's desk. —— e ————- —Yhere was a man at the Central Market yesterday showing off a new- fF fangled wagon-jack, and a colored man who was there with his horse and “wagon seemed much pleased with it until he found that the price was a j dollar. “Dat settles me,” he said, as # he climbed into his vehicle. “But it’s ‘worth the money,” persisted the agent. ‘a Botacheaper thing, sah.” “What ; iv” “Why, my ole woman kin hold > }to eand of dis Wwagin while I grease sxes, an’ it doan’ cost me a cent ex- »"—Detroit Free Press. ~ Afissure has recently appeared in the earth ia Churchill county, Nev., ich is three feet wide, several long and of unknown depths. URE FOOD FIRST. Some of the Bad Results of Obtaining Toe hh Live-Stoch sous who open most of their shey think that the nd muiti while s und y find at Ars operation iced their a little itters of f food for them. r first y sod corn. pigs, bi them. cows and ste willcome t condition. if they do not they v need oats or n to enable them to work in the g. It seldom pays to purchase corn to feed to hogs. and anew farm is the p of all places to try the exper t with hope of success. If a man h vod build- ings and lives where corn is plenty he may make by buying it and feeding it to hogs. With poor buiid- ings and a se: the pros- pect is good for losing - All kinds of farm animals will de- preciate in value if they have nothing but wild hay to eat. If ti hav: been accustomed to will not be | fail to give m tle will gain v be well fed, es or they will fall proved stock of very quickiy w comfor the ple s will lose flesh rin, and money y of cor f th: breeder te -eof a farmer who has poo ible qt buildings and no stock food but wild hay and a little sod corn, They are accustomed warm barns. good care, and the of food. If deprived of them the once begin to lose flesh and vigor anc in a they begin to look like scrub: No farmer should take fine animals to a piace that is not pre- pared for them. Their superior con- dition when he buys them is partly owing to good blood and careful breed- ing, but more is due to good quarters. careful attention and excellent food. Like their former owners, they have been accustomed to good food. The farmer who has warm shelter for animals, a small field of timothy and clover, a thousand bushels of corn inerib, and an equal amount in oats, is prepared to keep stock to advantage and with a good prospect for making money. He is prepared to bridge over an unfavorable season. He can stand one bad year for crops. He will not be obliged to buy foot, to stint his ani- mals, or to sell them at a sacrifice. He can buy young animals of his neighbors who have not fond to keep them and can purchase improved males to cross with them. A farmer who collects a considerable number of animals and has not a_ sufficient amount of suitable food for them runs a great risk. He is likely to lose financially. He is also likely to in- flict cruelty on his animals. No hu- mane man will be guilty of attempting to keep stock over a winter on insuffi- cient or unsuitable food. A farmer who wishes to raise stock should first provide food and shelter. — Chicago Times. —_e = —_—_ THE PENN STATUE. The Figure That Is to Surmount Philadel- phia‘s City Hall Tower. Mr. Calder’s model of the gigantic statue of William Penn which is te surmount the tower of the new City Hall is at length completed. Mr. Calder’s original sketch model of the figure was made as long back as 1875, and was thus described in the report of a committee of the Historical Soci- ety of Pennsylvania: ‘It represents Penn in the full viger of manhood and in physical proportions which would render possible the traditions of his outdoing the Indians themselves in some of their feats of activity. His face is taken from the original paint- ing presented to the society by his grandson, Granville Penn, and his fig- ure corresponds with Dixon's descrip- tion: ‘Erect in stature, every motion indicating honest pride; in every limb and feature the expression of a serene and manly beauty. His age is about thirty-eight and his costume that in vogue during the last years of the reign of Charles II., the date of his first visit to this country. The figure is in- speaking attitude, and the left hand is represented as holding the original charter of the city of Phila- delphia. The statue being intended to represent him in his relation to our city rather than to our State, this was deemed the more appropriate emblem.” Some modifications have been made inthe figure in working out the full- sized model, but the general design has not been changed. The figure is 36 feet high, and when cast in bronze will weigh about 30 tons. It is to stand upon the summit of the domelike apex of the great tower at an elevation of 500 feet, making the total height to the top of the figure 537 feet 4 inches, thus overtopping the famous spires of Cologne Cathedral. The tower has now risen to a height something like stops, the superstructure being de- signed of iron. Further work on the tower has been suspended for the pres- ent until the interior of the building shall be completed, and there is thus no immediate prospect that the great Penn will emerge from the dark pre- cincts of the modeling rooms where he is now to be seen.—Philadelphia Times. | | H | | | i 300 feet, the point where the masonry | FLYING ¥.i-HOUT WINGS. The Soaring Powers of a Peculiarly-Built "Antipodean Lizard. hat fellow.” sturned from a d his room a small hued | hand sick motion t into the air. a horned toad or one of the common lizards of our western slope would have gone up like a rocket and cume down like a rock, but the lizard was not of this kind. it seemed to grow larger, 1 balloon, and instead of sailed away at an angle and de hted on the top of a plush-cove where it clung, looking abou zement. “Yes,” continued the owner, taking the pet again, “it is a flying Hzard— j a wingless flyer at that, one of the most remarkable of the lizard tribe.” Te g the little creature up again, it seemed to spread, and again flew buoyed by some mysterious y pet in the island of said the It was my intention merely *t skins, but one day I was along through the for when I hat 2d butter- nearer I unding Having I took for a brilliantly ¢ fly coming along. As I dr saw that it was a lizerd, and, perfectly still, it shot by a switch in my hand I struc} v and secured i earl it to camp in my poc Finding that it would live I kept aw that sO it was quite a p n get it to England, shal ne Lon- don Zoological Garden On the wing the bracovolans, as this little creature is called, resembles a richly tinted insect, but when at rest it ean be compared to a lizard, with extraordinary protuberances on either side. These are the so-called wings, which are formed of a cutaneous growth upon either side, wing-like in shape and 1 by series of false ribs. In color the lizard is blue and gray, with tints of various kinds and shades. The tail is long, slender, and beneath the head depends a double pouch, giving the animal rather ferocious appearance. The wing-like organs are used mere- ly as parachutes. When the lizard leaps into the air the upward current brings them out and enables the pos- sessor to soar away at greater or less di the height from which the leap was made. The lizard can change its direction while in the air to either side; hence a casual observer might readily believe them to move the so-called wings and actually fly; but soaring is the limit of their powe and in this way they travel long distances—-several hundred yards from tree to tree.— Fran- etsco Chronicle. suppor a San — -- +e ] —_ A RARE CURIOSITY. Remarkable Specimen of Coral From the hilippine Eslands. Judge E. W. Knott, deputy superin- tendent of the State Insurance Depart- ment, received recently from Alexander R. Webb, United States Consul at Ma- nila, Philippine Islands, a curiosity that is exceedingly rare; a coral for- mation found only in the Philippine Archipelago, und is known to the na- tives as ‘flower baskets,” though why such an appellation should be con- ferred on it is not quite clear. It is quit-: different from any coral that has ever been seen by those who have been fortunate enough to view the speci- men which the Judge values so highly- The specimen is conical in shape. hav- ing a base of nearly two inches in di- ameter and rises to a height of about eight inches, growing smaller towards its top, where it ends in a tolerably sharp point. The base was formed on a smooth ledge of rock, and the archi- tects of its construction had begun by laying cross sections of a formation re- sembling finest spun glass. These are laid very carefully and evenly across both ways, and are seemingly inter- laced and plaited with similar forma- tions—they could hardly be called fibers, running from top to bottom of this novel lilliputian castle. The work rises in most beautiful shape, growing gradually smaller, until within about three inches of the apex, when evi- dently the builders found on their hands more of the longitudinal laces than were needed in their work, and they were dropped out as the work progressed, and stand about the toy, forming a sort of tuft around the whole. These lacings extend about one inch above the top, and contrary to usual formation of coral, they are pliable and when bent assur an upright position on being reletsed. It would be chine work or hands to keep up the symmetry better than these minute animaicule have done. The work resembles the finest ‘ace, the cross bars fashioned as beau- tifully as possible. In looking throug# the cross bars one ean see the remaitts of some small marine animal, probably | 8nd several stories about impossible for ma-_ the work of human | a crawfish, as a tiny claw or feeler, | similar to the ones such animals are adorned with, is plainly discernible. The coral is a pure white and forms a most beautiful ornament, not a spot or blemish on any portion of it.—St Louis Republic A GREAT MAGAZINE. The Century for 1888. y eee A HE question has often been | d, “to what does Tne | Century owe its great circu- | lation!” The Christian Union } once answered this by the ; statement that “it has been | won, not by adver- | i ut by the excellence which | ¥ it in every department.” In | their announcements for the coming year 1 te that it has always been | The Century the one in- periodical of its class, so that ever other publication might be desira- n the family, The Century could not be neglected by those who wish to keep abreast of the times in all matters pertaining to culture. And the unprecedented circula- tion of the magazine would seem to be the response of the publicto this intenti With the November number begins its thirty-seventh me. 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