The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-05-31

excitement by artificial means should
be SO general all over the world
Civilization does not overcome it;
laws only hold it slightly in check /;
moral suasion is a feeble instrumen-
tality and the question mooted is
what is the next move to be2
MICROSCOPIC LIFE.
An instrument magnifying four
hundred diameters is not a micro
scopic sufficiently powerful to reveal
the mysteries of life on the smallest
scale. It barely gives a glimpse, but
not a distinct outline of animated
beings that fit about in vast compa-
MES, evidently influenced by a sense
of hunger, and endowed with a pro
pensity to fight their way through
opposing obstacles.
A speck one twenty-ffth part of
an inch in diameter, at ten inches
from the eye, says Mr.. Huxly, has the
same apparent size as an object 1-l0,-
900 of an inch in diameter, when
magnifed four hundred times. Forms
of living matter are numerous be-
yond all computation, the diameter
Of which is not more than lao, 600
OF an inchl
Allow some dry hay to remain two
days IN water, then filter and leave
it two more days, and it will thickly
swarm with active living creatures. A
corpuscle of blood is about the 1-3, =
200 an of inch In diameter, and yet
it is, says the same authority, giant
by the side of hay iufusorial. 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 a
whole. Without muscles, it could
OF move; without digestive appa-
tus, it could not live therefore there
are locomotive muscles, a stomach,
will power, and special senses to
guide in the selection offood. Lastly,
if oviparous, 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
analogous structure and the germ of
the future being.
Who can estimate the resources of
nature? Who dare doubt the exis-
tence of God? Things animate or
inanimate do not make themselves.
A continuance must have a contriver.
We know Of no power on earth su-
perior to ourselves. We could not
construct a lion or a flea, both of
which are complicated, vitalized ma
chimes, but as they are in existence,
there is a Creator somewhere.
USELESS MEMBERS OF THE BODY.
1t is one of the favorite notions 0
the new school of evolutionists-
those who believe the highest forms
of animal development had begin
ming aslow down aslife ever was when
vitality first appeared, in ascending
the upward scale, have gradually lost
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 a biped tail was of no fur
ther use, and being neglected, it re-
ceived less and less nutrition through
circulation, and finally disappeared
entirely. This is the way our ances-
tors got rid of their tails, on the Oar
winian explanation.
By the same law, if birds were not
to fly, they will after while lose
their wings by degeneracy. No doubt
the penguins, becoming indolent and
preferring an easy life without exer-
ton ON the rolling waves. thus lost