The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-05-30

BRAIN STlMULANr5.

LtlilSp NlO wv N-'t,' '''N' |
that crave and contract love for
stimulants 1t is hardly possible to
make any animal take spirit Of any |
kind. Ii compelled to do so, a NOR
bid appetite for it is not developed
as in man. Howeyor thirsty, the
will resist the finest artificial drinky
Water is the only fluid which they
demand, and fond as some Of them
may be of milk, water is with them
positive necessity.
Brain excitement-somcthlng that
ouickens the nervous systom---has al
WAYS been found with every race Of
people. If they have no ingenuity
in any way that bettcrs their condi-
ton physically, they have way OF
exhilarating themselves, They fer
mont the juice of fruits, tho sop of
plants, make teas Of an Intoxicating
quality, or lastly like the T"rtNrs on
the borders of the Caspian Sea, who
have no vegetables that meet that
morbid demand, make themselves
mere savages by acidiiicd mares
milk
1t is marvel in the constitution
of humanity that his propensity Tor
excitement by artificial means Should
be SO general all over the world.
Civilization does not overcome 1t;
laws only hold it slightly in check;
moral suasion is Il feeble insJrumen-
tality and the question mooted is
what is the Gext move to be?
MICROSCOPIC LIFE.
An instrument magnifylng tour
hundred diameters is not micro
scopic sufficiently powerful to roye'
e the mysteries of life on the smallea
, scale. 1t barely givesa glimpse, bu
l not q distinct outline OF Nnlmate(
= beings that fit about in vast compa
+ MES, evidently influenced by a sens'
: of hunger, and endowed with pro
+, pensity to fight their way throu6I
" opposing Obstacles o,,
:, A speck one twenty-hith part 0
q an inch in diameter, at ten niche
6 from the eye, says Mr.. Huxly, has tn
Il same apparent size as IN object l-lO'
n 600 of IN inch in diameter, whe
IS magnifed four hundred times. Form
l. of living matter are numerous DC
a yond all computation, the dlametc
lo of which is not more than l-iO,OO
., OF an inch!
OF Allow some dry hay to remain t"
dc dsys IN water, then filter and lea'
n it two more days, and it will thick
IN swarm withactive living creatures,
ne corpuscle of blood is about the II
g. 200 an of inch in diameter, and y
Is it is, says the same authority, GA
ns BY the side of II hay ilfusolial,
y score of them might shade thei
~ selves under it's casting shadow!
ne Here comes in the wonder. EHt
or one of these have an orsanizaho
VI no doubt, quite as complicated as
la whole. Without muscles, 1t cou
wv wv not move; without digestive app
IN tus, it could not live therefore the
nc are locom otivc muscles, a stomach,
en- will power, and special senses
I'd Guide in the selection of food. Last
''o if oviparous, which is probable, inc
ur eggs, bearing the same proporIlo
'er to their bodies that q birds egg do
pt- to the bird from which it was {
ne truded must internally have
ter analogous structure and the germ
,M' IN, the future being.
ch Who can estimate the resources
eh nature? Who dare doubt the OK
pc tence of God? Things animate
'ok ;nanimate do not make themsely
'S A contrivance must have contr4V
y, aco We know Of no power on earth
tho W perior to ourselves. we couid
Jso construct u lion or IL flea, both
ur' which are complicated, vltallzed Il
OF chimes, but as they are III eAlsten
~ ~ there is a Creator somewhere
,or USELESS MEMBERS OF THE BODY.
'st m II il one of the favorite notions
not m the new school cf evolu'ionist
M ';vc those who believe the highest iol
mos NOS of animal development had beg
rod ming as low down aslife ever was WI
w .wo vitality first appeared, in ascend
~, nen n the upward scale, have gradually
''' some of their organs, while new o o
have appeared, according to IL
e.. demands in the sphere they are to
0 Oh On this theory, as soon as II
'.hs .h became biped a tail was OF no
VI Ihe ther use, and being neglected, 1t
,nio m ceiyed less and less nutrition thro'
MIC circulation, and finally disappea
a. a.. entirely. This is the way our an,
oas- a,s- tors got rid Of their tails, ON the l
eu sp', winian explanation.
SUI SUI By the same law, ii birds were
anu 40 to dy, they will after while
1~h 5%,la their wings by degeneracy. No &c
in9 ,n1 the penguins, becoming Indoient
'ne,, s.ea preforring an easy life without c
'foP tion on the rolling waves, thus
! an their once broad pinions, on 81
oaes :. the first penguins hoated in the
,los ~ y as their degenerate proSoncy sal
an the sea. 49,. -,
sP, The moral, therefore, is tpls-1A
itTn I all our members actively 'mPlo,
et,y' NY If we relax, we lose our hands
'Ie I feet, or both, and to our surprise
In ourselves once more TUNED INTO i
pu:s S:. or an ourang outang with tall
n ig- If that marvellous mlcrocos
,ater man, with all the costly cargo Oh
,anic faculties and powers, were indee
rich argosy, fitted out and freigl
,a;nt only for shipwreck and destruc'
ench ," who, amongst us that tolerate
- o the present only from hope OF the
;n;u. @ ture who that have any aspirini