The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-01-06
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'By right of your ofiices What
do you mean7'
sRead and see"
Here Jack presented Mr.. Mason
with Whitley brown paper, With
seal big enough for four pound
weight
"What in the name of heaven is
thisa"
"My commission as Marshal, I
received in 1850. when I assisted IN
taking the census in Frankfort.
:. s'You don't mean to say that you
travel on this2"
81 don't mean anything else
That makes me a Marshal of the
Republic, and intend to have the
Office duly honored
Mr.. Mason allowed that Jack
was doing a very large business on
very small capital Cincinnati Star.
The expedition to the Black
Hills for fossil bones, which Prof.
Marsh, of Yale College, has so gal
lantly led graphically described by
correspondent of the New York
Tribune, must have been read
with nearly as much interest as the
letters written in the Custer expe.
dition by the special correspondent
of the Inter Ocean. It is an extra,
ordinary record of dangers an OBJ
stacles met and overcome by this
plucky scientist. who proved him.
self a diplomatist as well. He
conciliated the Indian by feasts and
presents, and in turn courageously
suffered himself TO be entertained
upon mule steaks and grasshopper
pie by the mighty chiefs The
suspicious of the red men, which
had not been unreasonable aroused
by their past experience with white
visitors, and their rather one sided
knowledge of white human nature,
were met by carefully studied di-
plomatic addresses. He used
firmness when he could afford it,
and strategy when he could not,
crossing the ice bound White
River at night in the teeth OF
savage hostilities and elemental
dangers, and pursued his labors
some of the times when men were
thrown upon their individual re
sources more than now for success
and protection could hardly furnish
instances of reader invention than
were shown by the distinguished
paleontologist.
Of the value of the Professor,
discoveries it would be impossible
: to speak too highly. The ancient
fosils are of a character which will
: enable him to introduce to the
world greater marvels of extinct
developement than any yet discov
cred. They indicate a gigantic
: tropical fauna, SO that a vast change
of the earth's structure and con
ditions will have to be explained as
supplement to the wondrous
museum of pre- historic anatomy
that comparative science In the
Professors hand will be able to
build up. One of his most impor
tant discoveries is the skull of what
he calls a brontotherium, first
. brought to his notice by an Indian
who carried about it's molar tooth,
and sail it had belonged to "a big
horse struck by lightning" SO that
some new light upon the ''oroIip~
pos may be in store for science
from this source Perhaps, could
the doubling Indian Thomases who
could not be convinced that nobler
motives than greed for gold could
inspire a man, but see the subter
ranean treasure that Professor
! Marsh's enterprise has brought to
the surface, they might part with
some of their mistrust, but consider
the pale faces q queerer set than
. ever. At the same time we doubt
whether even the most susceptible
of the noble savages would be
much impressed by learning that
the horse he was bestriding is an
animal whose progenitors in ar
other arrangement of atoms had
successfully been the shipparion"
and ''orohippos-