Litchfield enquirer., 1879-03-13

i; Saturdays Courant has an extremly interest
 ing scientific article upon the coming delupe
 announcd by Belgian scientist It seems ! that the south pole is growing top-heavy with undue accmulations of ice. By and by the earth will flop over, aud all the water now &C., cumulated in that quarter will rush toward the
 north pole, covering most of the land of this hem isphere. The Belgian philosopher rightly con- 1 jectures that such a performance would net only have depressing effect upon real estate,
 hereabeuts, but that the human species will l find subsistence difficult under three or four thousand feet of water. The Courant naturally gets gloomy in prospect of movement that promises worse for Hartford than even another insurance investigation, but thinks it might settle the Chinese question:
 Evidently there is no method of preventing the cataclysm unless modern science can stop the undue accumulation of ice at the south pole. The interests at stake are so large that possibly South Pole steam heating associa- tlon might do profitable business. But prob | ably the carless world will wag along as it did in the days of Noah, and find itself when the crlsls comes not even equipped with life -preser- CTS or Boynton's swimming suits. It is doubt ful whether modern Noah could get subscrip- tons to the stock for new ark, or secure as many followers as the former. And yet there will be people who win worry over this new danger, just as if there were not enough wor- rles already. What with earthquakes, tidal waves volcanoes, and the possib ilty of collis- lon With some stray comet, the world is becom- ing very undesirable and unsafe dwelling place, and It Is no wonder that rents have de- cllned. And to make matters worse there are some lunatics who insist tbat the moon is grad ually approaching the earth and is liable to come Jumping down in an exceedingly disagreeable manner. Ii this sort of thing continues the Chinese will want to go without urging
 Bismark's gag law is beaten in the German Reichstag i. but Bismark is as automatically inclined as ever. Socialism is now the great conservative bugbear of which he takes advantage to strengthen the govern ment against the people. In fact limited monarchy on the Continent is aqueer anomaly It IS despotism in transition state, like that of the kingly power in England in the time of the Stuarts. Bismark has about as much re- spect for parliaments as Strafford, and the friends of popular government in Germany are at this great disadvantage compared with the Long Parliament, that their overbearing enemy has an immense standing army at his back. If it was an army where the "bayonets think, "as has been so often the case in France. there would be less to fear. German standing armies, officered by a bigotted Junker aristoc- racy, have unfortunately none of these demo- cratic instincts that have so often ruined -tha plans of dcspotisln in France.
 The World replies to Chandler's rousing speech against pensioning Jeff. Davis (reprint- ed on our last page) with the following pungent fable:
 THE LION AND THE STALWART ZACKAL.- A Lion, having his Enemy in his Power, was debating whether to slay him or to set him at liberty, when a Stalwart Zackal advised him to do neither but to keep him on Ice and when the Mexican Pension Bill came up point the slow, unmoving Claw of Scorn at him and de- ] nounce him as an Unrepentant Traitor 'But," protested the King of Beasts, isn't that Illog- ical and pretty small Business for such Great Beast as a Lion? ?'' ''Mebbe it is," responded the Stalwart Zackal, ''but you'll find it is bet ter than roaring on an empty stomach"
 Morul-An Unrepentant Traitor in Pen sion Bill is worth Two Dozen on the Gallows