The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-02-06

ed. Parliament pronounced decree ON the
18th of June, 1893, which reinhabiltated the
memory Of d 'Anglade, justified the wife, and
rescinded her sentence, condemned the count
de Montgommeri to MAKE restitution OF the
money that had been adjudged TO him as a re-
paraton Of the robbery, and opay all the ex-
pences besides. A collection was made in the
court for the benefit Of the daughter OF NJ. and
Madame d'Anglade, which amounted to above
a hundred thousanc liTres. $.
But all this did not bring back poor d. ''Ang-
lade to life again. ssEe3; sEl9 a1@al za&s
THE CTcLE OF ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE LIFE.
In a recent lecture upon astronomy, professor
Loomis expressed the opinion that every mem
Der Of the solar system had originally a very
high temperature, which is constantly under
going the process Of cooling off by radiation
From an abstract of the lecture we cut the fol
lowing: s2tf Aa Ss3ksy 500 soc ss95sSi fs7 e@#
IF this were to proceed, as evidently it does,
without interruption, it will descend to point at
which all vitality is impossible and must Of ne
cessity cease. 5-=gz t..5-.,z.z.
Ia# The era of life, then is that Of temperature
adapted to animal existence, and is necessarily
short and bounded. It is the history Of an era
oftemperature between certain limits. fssa axa
The lecturer applied this postulate to Nep-
tune and showed, what nobody denies, that no
being like man can now exist upon that planet
He passed on successfully to Jupiter, Mars,
Venus and Mercury, assuming that the temper
ature Of the planets exterior to the earth is too
low, and that of the interior planets too high tor
vegetable and animal life. 5z,.
The earth occupies the temperature zone of
our system. As to the moon the changes
which our earth s surface, charged with atmos-
pheric clouds, weuld continually presentto the
lunarian, are never correspondingly observed
by us, who gaze upon the moon. The moon
has neither atmosphere such as we, nor twi-
light. The equatorial temperature ofthc moon
must therefore be lower than that of the earth.
The length Of her day and night, too, are other
added conditions equally unfayorable either to
animal or vegetable life. -. ~.
The surface of the most distant planet may,
possibly, once have been the theatre of active
life-that is at period, and during such pc
riod as was determined by hercoolng down and
remaining at temperature suitable for such
circumstances. The gradual process of cooling
from radiation, which is going on even now, in
time will stop the wheels Of vital existence. In
course of time our own familiar earth becomes
sufficiently cool; first for the lower forms of an.
imal and vegetable life, and lastly for man, the
image Of his maker, and the depository of in
tellect and feeling. !.
The fate Of other planets win ultimately be.
come our own. Life extinct here may proba
bly, be afterwards observed on Venus, and or
Mercury, to subside even there into the chill Q
death. In time even the body Of the sun sub
4 sides into frigdy. Plants are constituted chiefly
!. of carbon; this they extract from the air, ant
chiefly when the sun is shining on them
T With his feebler radiancy follows the death o
vegetables. zzsz ssrr szsssere ssr .s.c as5a
The analogy of the physical history Of ou
own earth would lead us to form such a judg
ment in reference to the other bodies of GU
system. IF it be said water may be something
other than water there, we must invent ney
5 chemistry. .5.ss.4 --rst7gss.g gz,gn 1880.
: On each ofthe planets the life period is brief
and it matters little in reference to the ques
ton ofinhabitancy at what date in the histor,
of the universe it has commenced, endured ant
become extinguished upon EACH In that mos
distant from the sun, evidently, it would com
mence first. -.s ..aan- >-..~..
A SHRouD OF GoLD.-Hon. Thom Ew bank
of Washington, late commissioner of patents
communicates to the National Intelligence
some interesting information in regard to recen
discoveries in the excavation of Peruvian tn
null. The information was received by Mr.
Ewbank by w. W. Evans, esq. engineer the
! africa and Tacua railroad in Peru. Mr.. Evan!
states that in making excavations for the rail
road at africa hundreds of graves are demolish
ed, in which are numerous Indian relics. The
excavations are seventy feet deep, and as the
4 soil is loose sand, as the work proceeds, every
thing from the top comes sliding down-dead
Indians, pots, kettles, arrow heads, &c
4 Among other interesting mortuary relics an In
dian was started out of his resting place rolled
up in a shroud of gold. Mr. Evans notices as
a remarkable fact that in hundreds of Indian
\ skulls which he has examined not one has con,
i tanned decayed TOOTH Mr. Ewbank thinks
j the weight of the entire shroud must have beer
eight or nine pounds, and had it been preserv.
| ed, would have been the finest specimen O
sheet gold that we have heard of since the times
of the Spanish conquest. In some eloquent re
marks upon the preservation Of souvenirs Of the
departed, and the futlity of attempting to Sc.
cure the great dead from contact with their ma
tive earth, Mr.. Ewbank says, it is the form O,
features, and not the body or substance of the
4 dead, that should be preserved, ana adds:
The mummies Of Egypt are quarried forfuel,
and, whether those Of the Pharaohs. their
wives, their priests their slaves are split open
and chopped up with the same indifference as
50 many pine logs. The gums and balsams
used in balming them have made them a good
substitute for bituminous coal; and thus, the
very means employed to preserve them, have
become the active agents of their dissipation.
So it is when the materials of coffins have a
high marked value, they are then seized as con
cealed treasure, and their contents cast out as
rubbish. Like heroes in the eastern hemis
pherc, the descendants Of Nance Capec were
sometimes, if not always, entombed in such,
and with considerable treasure besides III yes
sells gold and silver; hence we learn how the
Spanish conquerors sought for, often found, and
as often plundered rich Indian sepulchres
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We have to record most melancholy in
stance Of hallucinaton over the mind and the
health of a highly respectable and intelligent
young lady of Undertook, who some two or