New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-14

nests too more like those of ree-wasps az hoo,
hang from the trees In the woods ANS nests c hnc
sometimes from the stronger houghs, lookns no ,nud
hard Jumps of clay And, once at least we nay many
silken nests NJ butterflies moths, containing many
chry sads each. Meanwhile, dismiss from YOU In , ~,
the stories OF insect plaques u go3u e ao abont the
house not nearly rs tronbesohe W. W. o have
seen none cenpedes are certainly apt TO get INTO the
bath, but be fshed out dead, anu lnTo"h 70 ,ns
wise interfere with comfort save by building on ts
books The only ants who come nC tne RoGst are .e
run up and down wildly all day. III they find some eat
able firing an Of bread or disabled coekroach, or
which last by the by we have hardly any here
They then prove themselves In their SOUND senses by
tnr With STEADY combination of effort which pats to
shame an negro crew. And these are all We
which il is not the fashion here to kin as they
Aes. SO comfort yourself with the thought that as re-
cards insect pests quite comfortable as I'm an
English country house, and infinitely more comfortable
than in a Scotch shooting lodge let alone an Alpine
chalet.
Another member of the home circle is thus de-
scribed:
The queen of all the pets s a black and gray spider
monkey from Guinea-consistng OF tail which has de-
four arms tca them not leg Of which the 'front.' ones
have no thumbs nor Tudments OF thumbs ana mean
greedy sad face, with its wide, suspcions, beseechng
eyes ana mouth Which as IN al te1e not
even that Of sensuality because 1t has no lips otnerS
tied In knot in the middle; the tail ia, without
doubt, the most important of the 1--WE limbs
ingpOnt rather hanging point IL takes one turn az
least round something or Other hs az" m
ether limb hangs I'm the most ridiculous repoSe S or
@ sGn9 S SnTSS 81 SMes or i've Kitten Sometimes
IL is cuTed round the neck, or carried over te e ~
she hands out of harms way; or when she comes 81
eny up behind you puts her cold hand In yours ana h
walks by your side like child she steaces ne.SeAi u y
taking half-turn of her tail round your wrist. ier
relative Jack, OF whom hereafter walks ABOUT h
his chain to his nes IN CSP X ' and in raR
Ming also. strangely, upright IKE human t pI
Won save a series photographs, and those instant
ones they change every moment not uy s'a
thing less horribly ugly into pastures such as Cao OF
mented ST. Anthony All absurd efforts of agility which
you ever at seance OF the HylODates Lar tuO at
cambridge are quiet and clumsy compared to the rope
dancing which goes in the bOughs of the Poui tree, or
their great deTiment of the BougalnYilea ana me
gentlest most obedent, and most domestic of beasts
Her creed is that yellow bananas are the Summnm
6onura and that she must not come into the dining
even into the verandah whittier, nevertheless
she slips. in fear and trembling every morning. to steal
baby's milk, fruit off the side-board IN which case
she makes her appearance suddenly and silently sitting
on the threshold like distorted nend; ana ocglhs
scratching herself looking at everything except the
fruit, and pretending total absence of mind, tiil the
proper moment comes for unwndhg nor iehslhy ugii-
ness and making a snatch at the table. Poor weak
headed thing fan OF foolish cunning always GoIng
to resist temptations aud then proiuse in futile eNPana
tiOl gestcuations mOuthings of an Oh oh ON -
SO pItldbiy human, tlat you can only PUNISH ner Nv
laughing her which she does not at all like one can
resist while watching cltnef tLAJ sue
one But at present, she has more than one habit to
society the dog or the cat. Her friends are, every
human being who will take notice Of her aud Deaut
full little Guazuuita, native deer little larger than
roe with great black melting eyes ana heart a. SOFT as
bs he Tges N p ms The MONKEY and when She can get
hand 10 lick icts the hairy monkey for mere loves
it get again and take aliturn OF its tail round
her neck, and throttle her with IT'S arms, ana pun hgT
out Of the way when biiha Is oon'is ,'i az
ont of pure love for the two have never oeen miro
duced to each other by man and me intimacy between cen
hen, is of Natures own making up.
Here is something about the religious bearings of
Mr. Darwin's theory of patural selection:
So we rode on and mp the hills by green and fowery
paths with here ana there a cottage and garden, and
rToHns of enormous Faimistes towering over the tree
tops in every glen. talking over tlat WChdIons Weeu
whose head still lar below For weed u IA, ara
nothing more The wood is soft and almost useless save
firing; and the tree ITSELF bctansts tell u.s. Is neither
Of the milky garden weeds with which boys burn away
their warts But IL the MODE theory 9e f tbe r r
tiousips OF plants. we use no metaphor Dt sa,o an
arrange them indicate not merely similarity Of type but
community of descent-tLen how wonderful Is the KIN
all the members OF the EuphorbaceOds group SO fan
tastcally various in outward form so abundant often
huge I'm the Tropics while in our remote northern Island
their only representatives are lew Weeiy SpuTges,
two Dogs Acknowledgements lkewisc-and the Box.
Wonderful it is if only these last have had the same
parentages more II they have had the same parent
too with forms so utterly different nom them as
the pTichy-stcmmcd scarlctiOwered Euphorbl1 COM
Euphorbia of the Canary Islands as the ealeke Phyl
lanhus the nyformed CrOtons which in the West
Indies alone comprise according To Glesbac at least
twelve genera ana thirty species the hemp-ike Mani
ocs Piysic-nuts Castor oils; the scarlet Poinsetia
which adOrns dEnerables IN Winter; tine pretty little
pink and yellow Dacchanpla, now common in hot.
houses; tie Manchineci with its glossy poparlike
leaves; and this very Uura, with leaves still more like
poplar, and fruit which differs from most of its family
in having three bat many divisions usually multi
pie OF thee, up fifteen fruit which it is difficult
obtain even Where the tree Is plentiful for hanging at
the end Of long branches 1t bursts when ripe with
crack IKE pistol, scattering is seeds far and Wue
from whence ts name of HuTa crepitdns.
But what If ID these forms are the descendants OF
original form I would that he whit moro wonder
1uI more eHphcaDie thah te theory tat they were
each ana al, with their minute and often imaginary
But II II be-whlch cannot aHQ~-"h1t can the theO-
Logan say, save that Gods works won
derul than always believed them to be As for the
theory being mpOSsipl VINO are we, that should
limit ire poWeTo Goii Is anything too hard for the
to ask il a. long time shall last. If it be said that
natural selection Is too simple to produce such
very simple or seemingly simple, means that the uni
verse, far We could discern it, one organization
maze tba grass grow and that the 49, 81 II snoun
flesh and the flesh food for the thinking brain of man IL
was Cor ought 70 have bcen yet more wonderful
butterfly resemble if not always, stil usually its
parents likewise Ought God TO appear less or more
august in our eyes we discover that His arc even
simpler than suppOscd Wehcld Him to he alm yhtv
and awse. Are Him less or more If we
we had ever droamed We believed 0t lbs caT, wan nan
all His works. that His providence watched per.
petualy over the universe. We were taught some of US
at least, by Holy Scripture 10 believe thai the whole his
tory OF me universe vas madg up OF special proydences
II, then, that should he true which Mr. Darwin says-It
may be mcaphOrcally said that natural selection a.
daily and hourly scrqtinzing, throughout Che world
every VARIATION ven the slightest; rejecting lat which
is bad, preserving and adding all that Is good silently
and lnsensDly working, Whenever aud wherever Oppcr
tunity offers at the improvement OF each organic being
in relation To ITS organic and inorganic conditions of life
If this, proved TO be true, ought Gods care
GOos 10 seem les OF more magnificent in
our vi old II was said by Him without whom