Daily globe., 1879-01-19
TOPICS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Be silent when a fool talks.

It. apt to be with your religion as it
is with your friendship-the more YOU
profess the less you have.
To know thing is right, and not to
do it is weakness. When you know q
thing, maintain that you know it. admit
the fact: that is wisdom Fear not
poverty, but fear missing of the truth.
The mere outward reformation of mo-
rality, differs as much from regeneration
by the Holy Spirit, as whitewashing an
old rotten house differs from taking il
down, and building new one in lis room.
-IopzadY.
The Scientific AmerScgn announces that
half the vinegar now sold is rank poison.
and a Massachusetts chemist states that
out Of twelve jars Of pickles, put up by
different wholesale dealers, he found con-
per in ten of them.
AS the Dead Sea drinks in the river
Jordan and is never the sweeter, and the
ocean all other rivers and is never the
fresher so we are apt to receive daily
mercies from God and still remain insen.
sible to them, unthankful for them.
A French physician asserts that he has
discovered a soporofc whose effects can
be exactly limited to the time required.
This will, he says, enable travellers to
to sleep comfortably and confidently dur
ing journey. Hemeasures his doses by
miles. Thus you can take a fifty-mile
dose before starting on railroad journey
and open your eyes, pleasantly refreshed,
at your proper station.
Your enemy is at yenr feet, and it is
| IN your power to crush him DON'T do 1t!
Better is an ounce Of forgiveness than
thousand tons of vengence! If hardness
ano bitterness still iinger in your heart
| It actual and deep wrongs have been in
t1lcted upon you--go and look in the
nearest open grave--you will not have to
go tar-and see what is the end for YOUR
enemy and for you. Go and think for a
moment beside the nearest gravestone
| how little worthy it is fer an immortal soul
to be cherrlshing the passions of wolf or
tiger, and then forgive your emenv
even as you need to be forgiven!
"In all directions our Investigations
BRING us face to face with an insoIuable
enigma, and we even more clearly per-
cclve 1t to be an inso1uable enigma. We
learn at once the greatness and i:tleness
OF the human intellect---its power in deal
ing with all that comes within the range
OF experience, its Importance in dealing
with all that transcends experience. We
realize with a special vividness the utter
lncomprehensiblenes of the simplest fact
considered in itself The scientific man.
more truly than any other, k,sovs that
IN Its essense nothing can be Known
Herbert Spencer.
Do not think for a moment that Won
can sin in some corner. and no one will
know anything about it. There is no
concealment tor wrong doing anywhere.
Even as the phonograph gathers up the
very intonation of your voice, and laws it
away tor thousand years to come. so
are our hghtest words-our thoughts
even-rcgistered in the great book of
life above and beyond us! Even as in
every spot in the visible creation there is
life actual or life possible, just so is there
possibly in every space under the broad
canopy OF heaven a witness of any evil
you may accomplish. Be pure and good
therefore, and walk henceforth as in the
light Of eternity.
The Yellowstone Geyser is the most re-
markable In the world. There are more
than 10000 vents. The Grand Gevser
throws column of water six feet in di-
ameter 200 feet high, while the stream
| ascends 1000 feet. Its eruptions occur
every twentv-fcur hours, and continue
twenty minutes. The Grantees throws
stream twenty feet in diameter sixty feet
high, and through this five or SIX smaller
jets ESQ feet high. plays twenty min
utes once in eleven hours The Giant
sends up five-foot column 40 feet high
tor three hours. The Beehive projects q
column three feet in diameter to the enor
nous height of 219 feet for about fifteen
minutes. Old Faithful very regular for
hfteen minutes, once an hour, sends up lis
massive column 6 feet in diameter 100 to
$50 feet high.
Humboldt saws that he saw the
slope of the Cerrs Drida shirt
trees so feet high. The Indians cut off
cylindrical pieces 2 feet in diameter.
from which they peal the red and fibrous
park. without making any longitudinal
lncision. This bark affords them a sort
OF garment which resembles a sack of
very coarse texture, and without seam.
The upper opening serves for head, and
two lateral holes are cut to admit the
! arms. The natives wear these shirts of
marina IN the ralay season; trey have the
| form OF the ponchos and manos of cotton
which are so common In New Grenada.
! at Quito, and in Peru AS in this climate
the riches and benifcence of nature are
regarded as the primary causes of the in
dolence OF the Inhabitants, the missiona-
res do not fail to say, in showing the
shirts OF Marina, ''in the forests of Orino-
co, garments are found ready made upon
the trees"
Dr. j. II. Gladstone has examined some
candles which are stated to have been re-
covered from the wreck OF Dutcl vessel
sunk IN Vigo Bay during the war in the
year l102. The wick has rotted away. leay-
ing scarcely any trace of its existence.
while the fatty portion has become a fri
aole heavy substance, of dull white color.
Inc canc!es bore evidence of having been
made by dipping, tor the concentric LAYERS
were easily separated from one another.
and this facilitated examination of the
outer aua inner portions of the same
piece. The most interesting point is.
that whereas the fats have been il, contact
with practically unlimited amount of
sea-water for 173 years, and chemical
change between them has been possible.
the double decomposition has proceeded
SO extremely slowly that the reaction is
only about half completed at the present
time.
How grand and glorious Creation must
appear from beyond the gravel Aud es-
pecially how grand and glorious must
appear the Creator. To find itself the
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