The Portland daily press., 1872-02-22
h REF Jottinus.

The various Grammar Schools and the West
School examinations will take place to-day.
The heaviest snowfall of last season occurred
on the 9th of March.
About 500 persons derive support from the
Forest City Sugar Refinery.
Large quantities of water-pails are now
brought into town from the factor at Duck
Pond.
The city offices will not be open for business
to-day.
Rev. George w. Pepper of Ohio, will deliver
lecture before the Wolf Tone Association
next Tuesday evening.
The new boiler for the steamer Lewiston was
put on board yesterday. 1t was made by Quinn
& Co.
The banks will be closed to-day
In Boston they have dances for the benefit of
burial grounds; and the connection of subjects
may be closer than at first appears.
The Post-ofice, except at the usual holiday
hours, and the Custom House will be closed to-
day.
The Municipal Court was without business
yesterday.
Bishop Nicely will preach in Cambridge, Mass,
Sunday evening next, before the st. Paul's So
cl6ty OF darVaru university.
Steamship st. Patrick, Capt. Stephen, from
Glasgow arrived at this port yesterday afternoon
She is one of the extra freight steamers. There
are now four English steamships in port-the
Prussian, Hibernian, -Corinthian and St. Pat
rick.
REV. Mr.. BoLLEs' SECOND LECTURE.-The
second lecture of Rev. Mr.. Bolles' course last
III,
study of inorganic substances. After proper
introduction, the magnetic lights were put in
requisition and the peculiar formation of GER
tain minerals shown to the understandable,
sienite chalk and limestone the last two being
composed of the fossils of animal life. The
limestone of which the Pyramids was built was
described as if a similar nature, the fossils of
life or of the lentils which were used SO abund-
antly as an article of food in the earlier ages
The silurian limestones ofEngland also are made
up almost exclusively of fossil shells and reveal
previous existence of life. The power by
which substances are built up into regular
forms was the next division of the lecture; the
plan of crystalline forms was explained, and
from these illustrations was deduced the fact
that different materials have distinct forms of
tails were shown, and the method of discovering
the presence of poisons in the human stomach
and the detection of authorizations by the use of
the microscope calculated. A large number of
snow crystal forms was presented at this stage,
as showing the beauty and regularity with
which nature performs her processes. The pro-
gress of capitalization was also explained by
some beautiful moving figures Mr. Bolles
then went on to show some of the lowest forms
in which life is developed. Plants and animals
start from the same point, and radiate further
and further apart; still in the lover forms it is
difficult for the naturalist to decide to which
kingdom they belong. The use of the micro
scope as means of determining the sanitary
condition of human beings was next spoken of,
and drawing of peculiar fungi found upon the
lungs of an individual after death was shown up
on the screen. The lecture closed with some draw
ings of remarkably brilliant class of aquatic
vegetable life known to naturalsts as Desmyds,
an infnitissional growth found floating upon
the surface of lake and sea-water; and an expo
sition of the method of procreation and perpet-
Mating by some of these lower forms of life
The audience was very much larger than on
the former evening and an increasing interest
is shown in these instructive and entertaining
lectures 1t is impossible to give anything like
report of them, for much is due to the use of
the screen and the drawings and these cannot
be reproduced in words. The third lecture will
be given next Wednesday evening.