Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1872-06-01

udNt ~ Vegetables InuL meet lUdt
morbid demand, make themselves
mere sayages by acidifed mares
milk,
1t is a marvel in the constitution
Of humanity that his propensity for
excitement by artificial means should
be- SO general all over the world.
Civilization does not overcome it;
laws ouly hold it slightly in check
moral suasion is feeble instrumcn-
tality and the question mooted is
what is the next move to be?
MICROSCOPIC LIFE,
An instrument magnifying four
hundred diameters is not a micro
scopic sufficiently powerful to rcvc4
the mysteries Of life on the smallest
scale. 1t barely gives glimpse, but
not a distinct outline Of animated
beings that fl about in vast compa-
MES, evidently influenced by sense
Of hunger, and endowed with a pro
pcnsity to fight their way through
opposing obstacles.
A specll one twenty-ffth part Of
an inch IN diameter, at ten inches
rom the eye, says Mr. Huxly, has the
same apparent size asan object l-lO,-
600 Of an inch in diameter, when
magnifcd four hundred times. Forms
Of living matter are numerous be-
yond all computations, the diameter
Of which is not more than lao, 600
o an inch.
Allow some dry hay to remain two
days III water, then filter and leave
il Two more days and it will thickIy
sYarm withactiye living creatures A
oorpuscle of blood is about the l-3, j..
200 an Of inch in diameter, and yet
it is, says the same authority, Il giant
by the side Of a hay ilfusorial. A
score Of them might shade them
selves under its casting shadow
Here comes in the wonder Each
one OF these have an organization,
no doubt, quite as complicated as q
whole. Without muscles, it could
not move; without a digestive appa-
tus, it could not live therefore there
are locomotive muscles, a stomach, a
will power, and special senses to
in the selection Of food. Lastly,
if ovipar5us, which is probable, their
eggs, bearing the same proportions
to their bodies that birds egg does
to the bird from which it was ex-
truded, must internally have an
structure and the germ Of
the future being.
Who can estimate the resources OF
Who dare doubt the exis-
tence of God? Things animate or
do not make themselves.
contrivUnce must have a contriyer.
We know of no power on earth su-
perior to ourselves. We could not
construct lion or a flea, both Of
which are complicated, vitalized ma
chimes, but as they are in existence,
there is n Creator somewhere.
USELESS MEMBERS OF THE BODY.
1t is one of the favoritc notions o
the new school Cf gyolutionists-
those who believe the highest forms
Of animal development had a begin
ming aslow downaslife ever was when
vitality first appeared, in ascending
the upward scale, have graduallylos
some of their organs, while new ones
have appeared, according TO their
demands in the sphere they are to act
On this theory, as soon as man
became biped a tail was of no fur
ther use, and being neglected, it re-
csiyed less and less nutrition through
circulation, and finally disappeared
This is the way our ances-
tors got rid of their tails, on the Dar-
winian explanation.
BY tho same law, ii birds were not
to fly, they will after a while lose
their wings by degeneracy. No doubt
the ponguins, becoming lndolent and
preferring an easy life without exer-
tjon on the rolling waves, thus lost
their once broad pinions, on which
the first penguins hoated in the air
as their degenerate progency sail on
the sea,
TIE moral, therefore, is tbis--keep
all our members actively employed.
If we relax, we lose our hands, our
feet, or botn, and to our surprise find
once more TUNED into seals
or an ourang outang with a tail,