The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-10-19
BClENTlFLC AND PRACTICAL.

SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL.
And now beef ten has exploded.
| Chambers's Journal prints the opinion
Of various practitioners aud chemists.
who have proved that it contains NO
nourishment. Mixed mixed with solids
it imparts relish and promotes diess.
ton.
j. Begin days work deliberately, re-.
serving strength for the principal task,
and warming up gradually. It is on
! that principle that horse il not put to
gallop at the beginning of a journey, =
that . preacher takes care not to com
mence his sermon on a loud key.
To catch mouse In your bedroom or
kitchen, lay boot Ia new one will
answer Just as welD down in some
corner, or next to the wall. He will be
! sure to run into it, and you have him.
TO dispose Of the mouse, shake him ou'
over tub of water, or build fire in the
boot.
Let a person stung by bee appl!
sour milk as soon IS possible, and if the
pain is not gone in 10 minutes, will con
TESS that it has different effect than i,
has always had upon the writer. The
worst cases OF poison by ivy ever saw,
were cured by very few applications,
and that in very few days by the same
, remedy-sour milk.-M McLane, NJ
d., Dvight, I'LL.
DR.. Hall gives this agreeable rule for
keeping the liver in healthy action ::
walk several hours every day, with
some interesting object in view; for
example, fall in love with some pretty
girl or blooming widow lives five miles
away, without any method of getting
there but footing it, Pleasant advice {:
but unfortunately applicable to few
only of the grea. army of sufferers.
What shall the rest of us do?
The editors Of the american Nat,ra-
list have received from Prof. G. u.
Shepard, Jr., stereocopic view of an
idol made of Mexican lava, presented to
him by NJ Toomer, of Charleston, S.
c. The image is about three and halt
inches high, and is at present deposited
in the collection of Shepard, Sr., at
Amherst College. The image was said
to have been found few inches under
ground, by child, near Charleston
An eminent arch9ologist considers the
image to be undoubtedly that of Mexi
,an idol, and suggests that it may have
been brought by some soldier from
Mexico during the Mexican War
One of the editors of the Country Gen
TENANT. J. Thomas, we believe-says
he never fails of keeping his orchard OF
20 or so plum trees 50 free Of the curculio
that it will produce good crops Of fine
plums. by faithfully Earring trees. The
important feature of his plan is driving
spikes in the trees, which can be struck
with an ak or mallet, causing a more eff
fective jar than the bandaged mallet,
which often bruises the bark. He lays
sheets under the trees-the sheets hav
ing light rods at the sides, for convent
snce in carrying. Last year about 5000
Of the insects were killed, at cost OF
about six or seven cents for each tree.
How life originated on the earth Sir
William Thompson attempts to answer
by suggesting that it was introduced by
germs enclosed in meteoric stones. He
says THE hypothesis that life orig
mated on this earth through moss-grown
fragments from another world may
seem wild and visionary, All | main
tain is that it is not unscientific." Such
a hypothesis may be as capable of proof
as Darwin's theory of pangenesis, OF
the theory of the plurality of inhabited
worlds. He says !:
"When a volcanic island springs uI
from the sea, and after a few years is
found clothed with vegetation, we dc
not hesitate to assume that seed has
been waited to it through the air Oh
floated to it on RATS. Is it not possible
and, if possible, is it not probable, thai
the beginning of vegetable life on the
earth is to be similarly explained
Every year thousands, probably millions
of fragments of solid matter fall upol
the earth. Whence came these frag
ments What is the previous history
of any one of them Was it created
in the beginning of time an amorphou
mass ? This idea is SO unacceptable
that, tacitly or explicitly, all men dis
card it. It is assumed that al, and i
is certain that some meteoric stones art
fragments which have been broken OF
from greater masses and launched fret
into space. Hence and because we al
confidently believe that there are a
present and have been from time i'm
memorial many worlds of life besides
our own we must regard it as probabl,
in the highest degree that there art
countless seedbearing meteoric stones
moving about through space. If a
the present instant no life existed upol
this earth, one such stone falling upol
it might, by what we blindly call nat
ural causes, lead to its becoming GOV
cred with vegetation. From the ear,l
stocked with such vegetation as i
could receive meteorcally to the eartl
tceming with all the endless variety O
plants and animals which now inhabit i
the step is prodigious yet, according
TO the doctrine of continuity, most abb,
laid before the association by prede
cessor in this chair (Mr. Grove), al
creatures now living on earth have pro
ceeded by orderly evolution from som
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