The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-11-18

naturalized in America with far more facility
than ours are naturalized there, and even
crowd out the insects indigenous to us. Thus
we have native currant worm very mucn IKE
that imported twelve years ago from Europe,
but it has never done any damage, while al
ready the latter has in some places almost put
q stop to the cultivation of the currant. Our
onion fly does scarce any hurt, while the I'M
ported fly, which is closely allied, does great
damage It is the same with the imported bark
louse OF the apple-tree and the meal worm
beetle. Among other pests OF European origin
are the Hessian fly, introduced ninety years
ago; wheat midse, forty years ago; the bee
cockroach, carpet and clothes moths; and,
among weeds, Canada thistle, mayweed, oxeye
daisy, burdock, smartweed, shepherds purse,
buttercups, puslane, and chess. In tact, the
weeds that a gardener has to contend against
are nearly all European. On the other hand,
scarce an American nOxi0us plant or insect
has been successfully introduced into Europe,
except that the minute ant, when mles.s
houses, is found in England, and our common
waterweed, Anachavis Canadensis, is troubling
the streams there.
In the same way the Norway rat of
Europe has utterly driven out and de-
stroyed the black rat, native to Ameri-
ca and the white man of Europe suppress
es or destroys every race with which II
comes in contact.
There must be some great natural Law
at the bottom of these differences.
Shakespeare speaks of the ''skyey inau-
ences" to which we are all subject. Who
shall tell how far the vital power Of ami
mails and vegetables are influenced by
the con6guration Of continents and the
consequent difference. iE the degree OF
earth magnetism.
1t would even seem as if at different
periods of time there were influences
which affected the character OF those
born at that time. For nearly one
thousand years, during 1.-The dark ages,
Europe scarcely produced man above
mediocrity, and the whole people slum-
bered in stagnant unprogressiveness
On the other hand, the era OF Elizabeth
was one most prolific of great men in
every department of thought. In the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the
whole world seemed to have awakened
ut once to boundless activity. We arr
living in similar era OF mental effer
vescence.
Tice, of St. Louis. has discovered tina
the storms and tempests of this our eartl
depend upon the relative positions o
the planets to each other; and he hal
proved the truth of his doctrine by an
tlcipating and foretelling the destructive
cyclones and hurricanes Of the pas
twelve months. A young friend Of ours
who thinks deeply upon such subjects
suggested the other day that Tees theo
ry was simply rediscovery of portion
of the ancient astronomical science o
Egypt, of which the "astrology" of tn
middle ages was simply reminiscence
For If it be true that the relative posi-
tion of a planet to the earth and sun Cal
produce such perturbations of the cleo
trio and magnetic powers Of the earth a
to create hurricanes and earthquakes
may it not have been argued by the. wis
astronomers of Egypt. that the same in
fiuences affected the character Of anims
and vegetable life created at the sam
time? And who shall say it does not2