Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-11-15

erbocker gathered around il the best
writers of the day and its pages proved
the doorways to fame for many of its
contributors. Washington Irving was
one of the writers i'm the magazine, Isl
Indeed were most of the leading Hterafy
men of thesiay, but in all prob4billE
nothing cohtribafed more to the suceess
of this smagazinethan the ''Ollapod Pa
pea fNilliss sGaylord CLARK. and the
bright, genial, AMI gossipy "Table-
Talk of his brother. the editor. But a
new generation of writers and readers
grew up, and after twenty-five years of
edftorship, during which he had, it is
said, never made an enemy, Mr.. Clarke
resigned his connestion with the Eaiek-
srboc..es, which had become ulfEenfuneE-
ative. 1t passed under the editorship of
Mr.. Gilmore Edmund Kirke, who soon
dispatched it to that bourne from which
no magazine returns. Before that time
the leading Amerfcail contributors ito
the magazine ~b6oiedo ARTICLES for
volume called the .sKnickerbocker Gal
derry, ,iazRiti.. whieasz ztises seossageEests1eHees
at Piermont was purchased and given to
M Clark A place inlflse Newa York
Custom Hease was afterwards giren him
and he twas in -theg enjoyment of both
when struch down by death.
The late John Stuart Mill had a wide
circle of admirers and followers in this
country, to most of whoa the grevela-.
tions in his Autobiography, soon to be
published, will give, painful shock
Mr.. Mill was an advanced thinker on
social, moral. and political subjects, and
was one of the most acute intellects of
the age. His religious. views. were not
generally known, but were popularity
supposed, to be also OF the advanced
type; something perhaps of the Unita-
rian kind. A direct question on the
subject put to him when candidate to
represent Westminster in Parliament
was eyaded, and the constituency left in
the dark. In his Autobiography he
| boldly avows his utter disbelief, or rath-
er absence of belief, in religion. of any
kind. He was trained by his father to
reject not onlysali screeds and forms of
religion but even the foundation of what
is commonly called Natural Religion
| OF the origin of things and the condi-
| tion after death he held that nothing
| was known or could be known, and
| therefore nothing relating to either con-
l SCl hCu fliu1s soy 9 nv WV vi
| 'sthe very few examples ia this country
ssof one who has not thrown off relig-
| .'ious belief, but never had it. / grew
i"up in a negative state with regard to it.
| 'I looked upon the modern exactly as
''did upon the ancient reiiglons-as
something which in no way concerned
me.'' These views he refrained from
expressing publicly during his life, in
accordance with the advice of his father
but in his Autobiography he laments his
| reticence, and thinks the time has come
| when it is ssthe. duty of all who, being
Qualified in point of knowledge, have
| son mature consideration satisfied them
| 'Eselves that the current opinions are
| 'shurrful, to make dissent known. Such
| san avowal would put an end, at once
| land forever, to the vulgar prejudice
'sthat what is called, very improperly !,
| "unbelief is connected with any bad
| qualities either of mind or heart"
The love of oysters is the root of all
evil. Who can doubt when he reads
the opinions of a German saoant on, the
subject. This wise man from the east
protests against the cultivation of the
| oyster on the German coast, giving as
a reason that the use OF the bivalve as
an article of diet tends to produce emo
tional insanity. Then he refers to the
United States, and instances the misery
and shame which has been brought upon
this country by that, peculiar disease.
He refers to the statement of Professor
| Agassiz, that a fish diet is beneficial to
those persons who have a great deal of
brain work to do, owing to the phos-
phorous contained in the relatives of
the whale that swallowed Jonah, and
says that oysters contain a greater quan.:
tity of phosphorous than any other kind
of fish, she'll On otherwise. But while
not denying Agassiz' statement,, he
boldly maintains his own theory, that
oysters produce emotional insanity.
more especially in the cases of persons
whose labor Is physical rather than
intellectual. 1t is u iwell-known fact
that when Agassiz promulgated his
theory, the editors of the New York
Herald at once invested heavily in fish,
oysters, &C., to recruit their intellectual
department. The theory of the learned
German throws light upon the sub
sequent actions at once. They carried
the matter too far. Connecticut shad,
clam bakes and oysters produced in
them emotional insanity! Thus is ex-
planned the extraordinary vagaries of
1.-THE greatest paper i'll the WORLD" and
thus are its '.tishy" stories accounted for.
And Stokes. Now, that emotional
mui derer is verv fond of oysters. It
| would be difficult for him TO enumerate
how many he has disposed of on the
half-shell. And not long before shoot
ing Fisk he had been devouring a anan-
tity of the delicious bivalves. Result
emotional insanity and death of James
Fisk. Let us judge Stokes oysterely yet
mercifully. His crime was clearly the
fault of the oysters, and not of mate
deviltry. Let us therefore have Stokes
released, and all oysters banished to
France and Spain, where they could
not make the natives any crazier than
| they are at present. -