Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-04-25


animals would demand but portion OF the amount
of miracle absolutely necessary for the preservation
in the circumstances Of the entire fauna OF the gooe
The fresh water fishes, moluscs, crustacea, and 20
ophytes could be kept alive in universal deuse
only by a miraculous means. 1t has been urged
that, though the living individuals were to perish,
their SPAWN might be preserved by natural means
II must be remembered howtver that, even OF some
fishes whose proper habitat is the sea, 'ch as the
salmon it is essential for the maintenance OF the spc-
cies that the spawn should be deposited IN ifesn
water, nay, in running fresh water; for in still
water, however pure, the eggs, in few weeks, ad'
die and die. The eggs of the common trout, also
require to be deposited in running fresh waite; while
other fresh water fishes such as the tcnch and carp,
a, e reared most successfully in STILL reedy ponds
The fresh water fishes spawn, too, at very different
seasons, and the young remain for very different Pc
RODS in the egg. The perch and graylins spawn IN
the end of April or the beginning Of May; the
tench and roach about the middle of June; the COM
mon trout and powan in October and Novemoer-
And while some fishes, such as salmon. remain from
ninety to hundred days in tho egg, others, such as
the trout, arc extrnded in five weeks
Without such miracle the spawn OF all the fresh
water fishes could not be in existence as such at one
and the time without special miracle it could
not maintain its vitality in universal dcuge; and
without special miracle, did it maintain its Vi
tality could not remain in the egg state through
out an entire twevemonth, but would be developed
into fishes of the several species to which it belong
ed at very different periods. Further, in universal
deuge without special miracle vast numbers OF even
the salt water animals could not fail to be extirpa-
ted; in particular almost all the mouscs of the lit
toral and laminaran zones Nor would the vegeta-
BILE kingdom fare greatly better than the animal one.
OF the one hundred thousand species Of known
plants, few indeed would survive submersion tor
twevemonth; nor would the seeds Of most of the
others fare better than the plants themselves.
There are certain hardy seeds that in favorable
thnS
there are others, strongly ehcased in water-tight
sheels or Skins that have foated across oceans to
terminate in distant islands but such, every flor
list knows, is the general character of seeds and
not until after many unsuccessful attempts, ana
many expedients had been resorted to, have the
more delicate kinds been brought uninjured, even
shipboard from distant countries to our own. 1t
is not TOO much to hold that, without special mira
Gle at least threefourths of the terrestrial vegetation
of the globe would have persisted in universal de
ugc that covered over the dry land for year. As
suredy the various vegetable centres regions
estimated by Schcuw at twenty five-bear witness
TO such catastrophe. Still distinct and unbroken as
of DID, either ctfacing flood has passed over them,
they shielded from its effects at an expense
of miracle many times more considerable than that
at which the Jews were brought out of Egypt and
preserved amid the nations Christianity itself was
ultimately established
!
terry between the sexes. They have, in their most
educated state at least, very little notion of one an
other. a woman to her dying day never under
stands the man. The man who has most knowledge
of men has least knowledge of women: to under
stand woman needs refined, delicate, inqusitivc
turn, that masculini,y is seldom equal to. What
ludicurOuS women the poets create take MtonS
Eve, for instance! What absurd men have been
sketched on paper by notwithstanding women /: take
Mrs. Cores for instance. Let philosophical people
mention the reason let others be content with the
fact.
Men believe in the patience of women. CompG-
ment the animal on anything else, but not on that,
it is donkeys quality were it her quality we
should not dote her. Her fangs are those of
the higherbred animal. 1t is her want OF patience
which is her charm and curse. Did you ever notice
driving pair of ponies. 1t is very pretty
but very peculiar. She puts the teased things to
their topmost speed. She is always whipping their
lodging tanks. She is always clutching the GAL
vanized reins. She is always looking right and left
twisting and tossing her faEtastcaly covered head
two ways at once. She sees the mighty buses and
avoids them hundreds of yards before they
up She goes ten feet too much side in clear.
ing the rushing cab or whiring chariot. Again, did
you ever woman crossing the road? What IA
tience-that is to say wha: fright! what dashing
forward and driving back and when, at crisis, she
scuds, how recklessly high does she disclose the ex
cited hose! SO in marriage. Doubtless, when we'll
harneSSeO, ana the SrOanng cHafau-uane, cruncnlnS
over the mud is full of children, she pulls steadily
the scorched collar wi,hal. But how She skits, and
scampers, and SHES, and jumps at first!
Thercse had character, not thought she did
didn't think, and was miserable. Very likely,
rage is sometimes chains of flowers. But yol pluck
and pull at the garland ncrvouSy, and it's soon an
affair of stalks; and stalks hurt if you kick against
them. But the regular chains worn by the adept
convict with comfort. The disaster in marriage is,
that the sweet deluson of the coming happiness, to
be caught and fondled, maintains the unsylosisc
soul in unphilosophica state. In the condemned
cell, where affairs realized prisoners always
sleep well. And yet there are some of our states
men complacently chattering about law of d.
vorce. Bah it is the destiny of humanity to mar
ry and regret it; and the law should beware Of the
casualties that to those who step between man
and wife in the assuaging commotion that tempers
domestic bliss.
Life is desert. Profound thought Marriage
and mirage the same thing differently spclt; but
does it do the caravan any harm to believe in water?
When you thirsty the next best thing to hav-
ing water is to believe that you going to have X.
Live the mirage! Live marriage!
But it is washy subject. Next to single life,
marriage is the most ludicrous and the most inspd
of all Ives. From the Friend Of Bohemia
WARNING TO PnoroGRARHIc ARTIsrs.-We read
| in the Madras Spectator -" Our Photographic
friends will do well to take warning from the follow
ing extract taken from Cape paper, in which it is
stated that DR.. Athersone, eminent photographer,
had nearly been poisoned 1T appears that in remov-