Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-05-22
FINDING MONEY IN THE ASHES.

10 the study of what is embraced in the gen
eral term of Natural History has discovered,
no doubt, that they are a singulary simple
minded and happy people. We think We
have discovered the reason for this. They are
always Interested in the pursuit of such things,
big and little, as when found bring on the
ever welcome sensation of astonishment and
qualification. Moreover, the interest evoked
Is of the most healthful and unexcting kind.
The digestive apparatus of a caterpillar. the
habits of rare and curious bird, the color of
the light of far distant star, the nature and
life and death of the molecular atoms which
are or are not related to Spontaneous gener
alton" these are studies whose pursuit brings
no heart burning, no feversh scrambling (as
for office or money!, no disturbance of that
sweet serenity of mind without which content
cannot be had. And content is the soul and
life and actual earthly presence of true hap
piuoss. "And now with some Impotence
asks the reader Of the MORNING APPEAL,
whats the occasion for all thisl Whence
this week day preachment! What, to use the
language of the gods, what are you giving
u.s. - Look at yon head line, oh impetuous
man and listen. Heed the drift and trend of
our preface, oh preclpitate woman, and lend
me your ear. Yesterday being a rainy day,
and the clouds being thick upon the face of
the sky, and the carpenter having finished
some long needed book shelves, Senator
Jones car load of Pub. Docs were husked of
their buff colored wrappimgs and stood up i'll
rows with their backs to the library hunter
There was some doubt about it. The works
which came under the generic head of Patent
Office Reports, grim IN black bombazine, and
oh! SO cheap and 50 COMMONPLACE not the
most seductive things with which to exc out
a library. A good many people do not hes
itate to say Of such that their room is better
than then company. Placing them upon
shelves, III sober earnestness. is like coming
home laden with string of chubbs when You
went a trouting. And if the truth must be
told, those fat, black backed tones with their
gilt titles conveyed in the too familiar words !
oi Message and Documents, Department of |
State, are not Of an inviting character to the
general reader But there are hidden beauties
everywhere, rs the naturalist knows well.
"Fuil many Il flower is born to blush unseen,
Just because people are careless in their in
vestigatious and superficial if not supercilhous
in their forming of cquaintanceship. The
most contemptuous estimate of volume of
Reports cannot but become temporarily ar
rested under the sense of suddenly awakened |
interest caused by such an odd bit of infor
nation as is conveyed in the statement that
THE New Jersey Indian was once pale
olithic man." 1t does not matter what the
context is. There stands the queer averment;
and naturally the question comes, wonder if
che Washoe and the Piute can claim for their
ancestors kinship with these paleolithicalsl'
Don't be too inquisitive; if you are a student
of ethnology you know already what it is to
be paleothic man. If you are not such
student you do not need to know. But there
is one instance of finding money in the ashes
One begins, after discovery like this to have
n faint sense of respect even for Report OF
the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian
Institution. Also one is conscious of a fresh
sense of wonderment for that strange land of
New Jersey. Now, still searching in the un-
promising ashes and not yet relinquishing
this Report, We come to a page headed with
tho words, in capitals, Eulogy on Alexander
Volta, by Arago. In that absolute lstless-
ness which sometimes gives way to a sense of
awakened interest in spite of ITSELF we find
ourselves reading these words of elementary
"When amber is rubbed it i'm {
mediately attracts light bodies, such the
down of feathers, fragments .Of straw, and !
sawdust Theophrastus, the Greek, and
Phny, the Roman, had both noticed this c
but attaching apparently no inter
est to it, treated it simply as an accident OF
form and color" From eiectrOn, the t
Greek for amber, is derived electricity, a
term applied originally to the attractive prop G.
erty of rubbed bodies, but now to the cause
of great variety of effects and to all the de- G
tails of a brilliant science" Now, sweethearts +
and lovers, learned and unlearned, do not
turn ND YOUR noses at this small find IN the
ash box; for it is important enough, albeit 1t a
relates to the primals, to have been translated y
out of Arago's French by no less famous i
hand than that of the late Professor Henry OF
the Smithsonian. Now go, my children and
ask the first telegraph operator you meet to