Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-22

IL doesn't DrlSnteu ner pale race, Us II
food of sunbeams had been poured
upon it. Try it with your child ard
if you have 10 you the heart of true
man, you will be so pleased with the ef-
feet that you will keep on trying until
you will scarcely recognize your own
household.
VARIETY IN CREATIoN.-There are
$4,000 species Of plants on exhibition
in the Museum Of Natural History in
Paris. The whole number Of species
in earth and sea cannot be less than
from four to five hundred thousand.
These are of all sizes, from the invis-
ible forests in bit of mouldiness, to
the towering trees Ct Malibar-50 feet
in circumference, and the banians
whose shoots cover circumference Of
five acres! Each Of these has COM
plicated system Of vessels for the circu-
latien Of its juices. Some trees have
leaves narrow and short; others--as
the TALBOT Of Ceylon-have leaves so
large that one Of them can shelter fif-
teen or twenty men. Some exuviate
their leaves annually, as whole robe,
leaving the tree nude, its bare stem
towering aloft and its branches spread
ing themselves uncovered in the sky !;
while others drop their leaves one by
one, new ones constantly growing in
place of the dismembered, and the tree
thus retaining a perpetual verdure.
In the animal kingdom about co.
900 different species have actually been
ascertained. There are 600 species of
mammalia-t those that suckle their
young-the most Of which are quadru-
peds. OF birds, there are 1900 spe-
cies; of fishes, 5000; Of reptiles, T.
600; and of insects there are A, 900
species. Besides these there are 5000
species Of shell-fsh, and not less than
100, 900 species of animalcules invisi-
Bile to the naked eye!
Some forms of life require moist
atmosphere, others dry. A blue wa
ter-lily grows in the canals Of Alexan-
dria, Egypt, which, when the water
evaporates from the bed Of the canals,
again grows and blossoms. And some
Of the lowest animals may be complete
ly dried and kept on in this state for a
great length of time, that will, when
Submitted to moisture, resume the func-
tions Of life. Some plants are adapt
ed only to particular climates others
grow in different climates but they do
not flourish equally well in each. A
tree which in the Southern States
attains hight of 100 feet, at Great
Slave Lake, the northern limit at which
it is found, becomes dwar6ng to a
shrub of only five feet high. Life,
both vegetable as we'll as animal, is in
fnitely modified but in all cases its
best development is only under those
conditions to which it is especially
adapted.
Chow manifold are thy works, o
God in wisdom hast thou made them
all. "-Lye Illustrated.
MEMORIES OF EARLY CoURTsH1p.-
Courtship is the sweet and dreamy
threshold Of the reputed Eden, where
half the world has paused in couples,
and talked in whispers under the mel
low moonlight, and then passed on,
and never returned.
One of the saddest and most sug-
gestive sights we ever saw, is the worn
threshold at the end Of grass-grown
path, with neither house nor hearth be-
yond. Nature has done what she could
to make that threshold beautiful she
has persuaded a struggling vine, red
dening with roses along the way, to
garland it, but still it is sad thing to
look upon. There is no shelter beyond;
no nesting place for love and hope !;
the roof had gone down in fierce surges
of red fame, and so, on the one side,
as on the other is there the "wide, wide
world!"
That cid threshold has seemed to us
a dial, upon which human sunshine
came and went until the day when all
grew dark and cloudy. We have
thought of the feet-the little feet in
red shoes-that battered over it like
the summer rain Of the couples that,
perhaps, stood there, when there were
lintels beside the threshold in
the mild moo might, when hand stole
into hand-one broad and strong the
other plump and fair. Have thought
Of the cheerful errands borne over it /;
when the glad feet cleared it with
bound, or just touched it and glided in
to the warm summer-day of home.
And it-that worn threshold-seems
to US like the days Of courtship. At
first a Paradise beyond, and some
time or other desolation.
INTEGR1rY.-Who ever possessed it
and did not derive untold advantages
from it? 1t is better than the gold of
Ophir; it is Of more value than dia-
monds and all precious stones. And
yet every man may possess it. The
poorest may have it, and no power can
wrest it from them. To young men,
we say with earnestness and emphasis,
look at integrity Of character with the
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