The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19
Odds and Ends of Interesting InfOrma-
tiOn.


still uncertain whether SebastOpol is
to be restored as a military harbor
or conytrted into a harbor of com
merce. The Commander-in-chief of
the fleet and ports OF the Black Sea
had recently visited the place and
had made careful inspection of the
town and It's environs. The railway
which is to connect Sebastopol with
the Odessa Kieff- Moscow line is be-
ing rapidly com pleted, the city be
comes more animated every day, and
the answer to the question, "What is
to be done with Sebastopol ?" is
anxiously expected. The general
opinion seems to be that Se6astopol
will be made both a mill airy and q
commercial port, and that new forti-
fications and new docks will, at the
same time, be constructed.
h THE days when man was every
thing and woman nothing, it was
correct enough to say "a person,
whatever his beliefs may be, can do
so and So But, as woman has
forced her way up, she has rebelled
against the masculine possessive, and
demanded that we should use the
phrase "Whatever his or her be-
liefs may be. That is not only
cum brous, but unmelodius. We are
not, however, prepared to endorse
the remedy proposed by an eccentric
pbilologist. He says that a new
word should be formed, equivalent
to his or her, and suggests "hizer"
as the most suitable one. This hy-
brid is to be declined "Hesh, bizer,
himer." The circular which con-
tains this proposition closes with the
words: Should this addition be ac-
ceptable to persons speaking and
writing the English language, l viii
subsequently propose a number of
new words as analogous improve
ments." Fer the sake of preventing
any analogous improvements" we
trust that all persons speaking and
writing the English language will
hasten to signify how unacceptable
this addition 10 it is Chicago Irib-
une.
THRRE ARE more solid inducements
for wearing the beard than the mere
improvements of mans personal
appearance, and the cultivation of
such an aid to the everyday diplom-
acy of life. The hair of the nous
tache not only absorbs The moisture
and miasma of the fog, but it strains
the air from dust and the SCOT of our
great, smoky cities. It acts also IN
the most scientific manner, by tax
ing heat from the warm b cath as it
leaves the chest, and supplying it to
the cold air taken in. 1t is not only
a respirator, but with a beard entire
we are supplied with comforter as
well, and these are never left at home
like the umbrella and all such apph-
ances when they are wanted. Mofiat
and Livingstone, the explorers, and
other travellers, say that at night no
wrapper can equal the beard. A re-
markable fact Is, too, that the beard,
like the hair of the head, protects
against the heat of the sun-it acts
as the thatch does to the ice-house :;
but, more than this, it become es moist
with perspiration, and then, by evap-
oration, coOls the skin. A man who
accepts this protection of nature,
may face the rudest storm and the
hardest winter. He may go from
the hottest room into the coldest air
without dread and we verify be-
heve he might sleep in morass
mith impunity-at least, his chance
of escaping the terrible lever would
be better than his beardless com
panions.-AneYicdn Artisdn.
FACTS IN RLGARD TO ANIMAL LIFE
Fish have great tenacity of life. The
crab is stated to have reached one
hundred and fifty years. A pike,
which was taken in Halibrun, In
Suabia, in 1470, weighing three hun
dred and fifty pounds, and measur-
ing nineteen feet. had a ring attach
ed to it, bearing an inscription,
which, if genuine, would warrant us
in believing the age of the fish to be
two hundred and sixty-seven years.
The toad lives thirty-six years, the
frog twelve to sixteen years and
tortoises must have seen many years,
if we Judge by the sizes they at an.
Parrots and geese reach an age be-
tween one hundred and one hundred
and twenty years, and falcons and
ravens outliye one hundred and fifty
years but the little wrens live only
two or three years. OF mammals,
the whale and the elephant have the
longest term of existence, living as
they did over one hundred, perhaps
two hundred years. The horses livea
twenty-five, but sometimes reaches
forty years the sheep and goat
twelve years; the lion from twenty
to fifty years. Man, there is no reas-
on to doubt, has lived over one hun
dred years but it is only among
highly civilized nations that satls-
factory data can be obtained regard
ing his longevity. A minute investi-
gation of the conditions that conduce
to length of life goes to support the
theory that the longevity of animals
is influenced by their amount of pro-
creative power, and their ability to
sustain wear and tear
Last Point of Expansion.