The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-02-13
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A RICH naptha spring has been discov-
cred in the Province of Caserta, near
Naples, and according to the Society of
Arts Journal, it is now being worked by
a Milanese firm.
NJ. DUPONCHEL ascribes the origin of
auroras to the modification of the Gallo
rife waves to traverse the atmosphere
and become nearly tangential, especially
in the neighborhood of the poles, he
supposss that they produce the well
known effects
Two new mineral species, from the
Province of Los Bordos, in Chill, have
been described by M. Bertrand in re-
cent number of the ''Annales des
Mines" One of these is a double chic
ride of silver and mercury, called bor-
dosite the other is native oxide of
mercury, termed hydrargyrite.
THE q ATLANTIS - OF THE ANoIENTs.-
Plato's tradition of the lost continent
is being verified by leading biologists,
and that the space now occupied by the
Atlantic Ocean was once the continent.
Upon the Rocky Mountains abundant
evidence of the theory that they are
outskirts of it are found in the aquatic
plants and shells strewn over them.
THE London journals state that that
interesting young stranger, the hippo
potamus recently born in the Zoologi-
cal Gardens, is being brought up en-
tirely by hand. Like children general
", he is giving considerable trouble to
his keepers. As an instance of his iu-
venile precocity, it is mentioned that he
can already remain under water twice
as long as his mother.
ACCORDING to DR.. Carpenter, if we go
deep enough in the open sea we shall
find the temperature as low as thirty
two degrees, but inclosed seas, such as
the Mediterranean, the deeper and cold
er water, circulating from the poles,
can not enter therefore the lowest
bottom temperature is determined by
the lowest winter temperature of the
surface. Scarcity of life in the Medit-
erranean he considers to owing to a de-
ficiency of oxygen in the water, due to
its combination with large quantity of
organic matter brought down by the
rivers and empting into it.
BATHING I'm COLD WATER.-Nothing
is more common than custom of many
persons to have cold water-bath i'm
mediately on leaving their beds, as a
daily habit. Delicately organized la
dies not unfrequently have established
the same course, considering it condu-
Give to health. There is an impression
that it invigorates the individual,
hardens the muscles and strengthens
the constitution. The sudden abstrac-
ton of caloric or vital warmth in that
way has hot only injured but destroyed
more than were ever benefited thereby.
A reaction, as it is called, a glow of
warmth that subsequently follows, is a
direct draft upon the system to meet a
sudden loss of vitality, and is by no
means so beneficial as theoretically
imagined. A tepid bath makes no such
injurious demands, and, therefore, is
not injurious or Perilous for those of a
frail structure.
THE BEGDSua OF LIFE.-Specuiative
philosophers are inundating the world
with theoretical speculations about the
probable way life first commenced.
But they have no facts to sustain their
propositions, nor can the most ingenious
of them prove single circumstance to
sustain their best eonjecsures. How
life commenced is q Divine secret which
mans wisdom VIII never unfold. That
it had beginning is morally certain.
That life terminates with each and every
individual, however high or low IN the
organic scale Of existenses admits of no
question. This thenembraces all that is
known Of our origin or our final exit
from the stage Of vital activity. beyond
the revelations Of the Bible These
conclusions refer exclusively 70 physi-
cal existence, wholly disconnected with
those aspirations, revelations or Chris
tian expectations. of conscious. never
, ending, spiritual life, wholly iRdepen-
, dent and disconnected with matter.