Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-12-28
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ANIMALS OF THE DEEP SEA

ANIMALS OF THE DEEP SEA.
Professor z. r. UhIer, of the Peabody
Institute, Baltimore, lectured last evening
at the Maryland Institute upon the above
subject. The audience was large and ap-
peared to take q great interest 10 the
subject. The Professor opened by saving
that corals we're we'll known to the ancieDts.
who observed them in the Red Sea, the Adri-
attic, Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean.
Their real nature was not recog oized until
about the year 1860, when the French Gov.
ernment, who owned the coral fisheries on the
coast OF Algeria, began to see that the species
were becoming exterminated. They desired
to ascertain some means of propaeating them,
and consequently Prof. Lacaze Dutkiers was
sent on mission to the native home of this
coral with instructions to Investigate its life
history. He was to remain there year to
discover some ready means of developing it.
Alter remaining eleven months he had met
with 20 clue to its mode of propagation He
bad placed numerous forms of all ages 10 tanks,
aquarla and small glass jars, containing sea
water; and, by continual watching, either him.
self or assistants about the 1st of Septem.
Der for the first time observed the ami
NAL to be laying eggs. Ho found it de-
Veloped ln three ways: by eXpeing eggs or
larvae; by division of part Of the body, or by
budding. The lecturer noticed the labors of
Prot. Agasslz In the second great group of
oorals,ln which no central axis exists, and whose
internal skeleton is composed of carbooate of
lime. He then spoke OF his trip to Hayti, to
collect animals for Prof Agassiz, and described
somewhat IN detail the way 10 which the small
coral islands 10 the sea adjacent to Coraie we're
built up. 1t is composed of dead coral and
skeletons OF sea animals reaching up to
the surface OF the water, upon which surface
or soil aod debris had accumulated, furnishing
a place OF lodgmeot for maogroves, cocoanuts,
and variety of Towering plants, which grew
IN great uzuriance, and produced scene of
great beauty. He described the coral groves
at the bottom of the shallow ocean, and refer
red to the beautiful fish and other creatures
which effected the caverns between the coral
branches. Prof. Uhler finished by asking the
question: If We could believe that all this variety
IN this plan OF structure, which had begun in
complex type, and bad persisted in that type
to the present time, could have been the result
of mere physical forces, or whether it did not
more distinctly display Intelligence superior to
that OF man. The lecture was beautifully illus
trated by diagrams, specimens of corals, etc.,
which were much admired.
DON'T WORRY ABOUT YOURSELF.
Journal of Health says: To regain or recover
health, persons should be relieved from all an
xiety concerning diseases. The mind has DOW
er over the body. For person to think he
has disease will often produce that disease.
This We see effected when the mind is intense
ly concentrated upon the disease of another. 1t
is found 10 the hospitals that surgeons and
physicians who make a speciality of certain
diseases are liable to die of it themselves; and
the mental power is So great that sometimes
people die Of diseases which they only have in
imagination. We have seen person seasick
III anticipation OF voyage before reaching the
vessel. We have koown o person to die of
cancer in the stomach when be bad no cancer
or any other mortal disease. A blindfold man,
slightly pricked 10 the arm, has tainted and
died from believing that he was bleeding to
death. Therefore, we'll persons, to remain
we'll, should be cheerful and happy and sick
persons should have their attention drawn as
much as possible from themselves 1t is by
their faith men are saved, and it is by their
faith men die. If he wills not to die be can
often live in spite of disease; and if he has lit
tle or no attachment to life he will slip away as
easily as child will fall asleep. Men live by
their souls, apd not by their bodies. Their
bodies have 20 life of themselves; they are on
ly resources of life-tenements of their souls.
The will has much TO do in continuing the ply
scal occupancy or giving it up.
THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER ON THE
DRAMATIC Bishop of Manchester, with an
amount of courage and common sense rebound
ing very much to his credit, has refused to join
the general body of the clergy in a sweeping
denunciation of the drama During the course
of an address delivered 10 the city whose name
be BEARS the Bishop expressed regret that
the theatre and the stage, which he said would
be always used, are not rescued from abuse
and made what they ought to be-instruments
of ihstructiug, refining and improving the
people. The best Way in which ministers of
religion can help to make the stage such On
Instrument is certainly not by refusing to take
any account OF its existence except as an in-
strument ofevil. Outlawry, said the sensible
old Bishop, is occasionally necessary measure,
but it is not supposed generally to have the
effect of improving the character and the
maoners of the outlawed. If such men as the
Rev. Mr.. Talmage, and other tanatical howlers
against an institution which they neither COM
prehend nor have the scholarship or cathol-
city to appreciate as valuable assistant to
their own teachings, would take lesson from
the admirable sentiments of sensible and
= Christian man like the Bishop of Manchester
it were good thing for their parishioners and
the world at large.
According to an old song preserved in the
HarleiaH manuscripts in the British Mu-
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