Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-10-26

The third OF Prof. Cummings geological
lectures was delivered in tho Methodist
Church las, evening. II was by all means
| the finest he has yet given US, and II he
follows the usual system Of reserving the
best for the last, We may expect a rich
treat tonight and tomorrow night. Pre-
yious to the lecture. he gave 4 half hour
sketch Of the sutro Tunnel. describing the
formation Of the different species Of rocks
through which |, has so far passed. Then
he came 10 the real business Of the even
ing. which was an eloquent and exhaustive
discourse on
THE oRioI OF ANNALS.
The speaker began by saying that the
| first a~rticulate cry OF the human mind was
q cry Of wonder. "who and where was
he" cried the ancient Hindoo, tho fellow
| without bones who made the fellow ,ei,A
bone-y'' From the times Of that ancient
Hindoo To our own. the human mind has
bent its powers TO the solution OF the
| problem Of creation. In what manner did
| things come 10 bcy How did the Divine
VIII encrgizo in the creation OF animals
| and mani The speaker showed that
| things do not reproduce cruelty after their
Kind. He noticed q number OF plants and
weeds ON the Pacific coast which have
changed greatly from the same species on
the Atlantic coast. Passing from plants
10 animals, he showed how certain animals
have changed with 4 change OF country.
What are the causes that effect such
changer Tho speaker explained and de-
veloped two leading factors. The one he
called the struggle for life" and the
other a change OF environment. The
earth. he said. IL poor. Mouths are many
anil morsols few. There Is prodigious
fecundity and prodisious destruction. A
goldfish lays In 4 single year 9.OO0,00O
eggs. Suppose that every esq were to
hatch and every codling were to grow into
q eodl Tho speaker imagined that II
space were to furnish matter as the fish
furnished germs, suppose there was but
one cod in the world, and you were TO
drop IL into the sea on your twentieth
birthday. Then fly In n year under
your feet would DO 9,O00.0 900 cod; in two
years. 5000. 900, 600 In five years q PAL
plating sea Of cod would invest the globe
and osertop the dome Of C~himborazo.
Now. ily with the speed Of light, fiy! The
swelling globe of cod is bounding out with
a speed greater Than that Of light. and on
the morning o. your dftio,h birthday. 1t
will oyertake you and engulf you In ORR
on's nebulal The speaker showed what
would result from such feeundity and such
destruction.
Going far back in the globes history TO
q time when Nevada was Just out OF the
SEA. the Professor sketched its characteris-
tic animal. From this no drcw out a
series leading to the horse, another Load
ing To the OF. another leading TO the tiger,
another leading to the ape.
This evening the theme will DO one OF
absorbing interest,"" The Origin OF Man."
: O far a. geology has yet traced IL. The
lecture will begin precisely at half-past I
o'clock, and those who have been present
during the last three will be SURE TO listen
10 this. II il sincerely 30 be hoped that u
full, a crowded. house will assemble to
greet him tonight. This Is IN opportun-
i,y 10 hear the grand truths Of science pro-
pounded in a popular aud entertaining
manner. which may not again be offered 10
the citizens Of Gold Hill for a long time.
They should certainly take advantage OF II.