The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-11-24

Science ehunerates oSS species of
organic forms IN the air we breathe"
Just think Of it Every time you draw
IN breath whole geological garden
slips down your windpipe.
Consoling: Poor author to his wife
"Oh ! OH what pain there is in nv
headP His wife" Complaining of that
You Dug hit to be thankful there is any,
thing in it.
Mrs. Anna Cady Stanton and Miss Su-
san Anthony went to the polls in New
Jersey last week, 'and Mrs. Stanton at
tempted to vote on general principles.
VI course, her vote was excluded. She
protested, and the lad es retired.
And now the newspapers are complain
ing that bad boys are punished at school
by being kept in while the others are
let out to play. Would it not be we'll to
abolish all punishment, and try candy
and cakes?
The Burlington, HaaOheye man says:
There seems to be great anxiety and
Impotence on the part of the people to
see the revised edition of the Bible, that
they may see what changes. have been
made. The trouble with most people
will be that they don't know enough
about the old Bible to recognize The
change when they see it. We heard
man say that he considered this un-
authorized meddling with and changing
OF the sacred book little less than BIAS
phemy. And at the time of making the
remark he was hunting all through the
book of job to find the quotation, Make
hay while the sun shines"
The popular belief as to the comparative
shallowness OF the Pacific ocean may have
to be modified by recent soundings made
with what is known as Sir William Thorn
sons steel wire, and which show that
along the entire coast of California
depth of 1900 fathoms or more is reach
ed within distance of from twenty to
seventy miles westward from the shores,
the greater part Of this sudden fall oc-
curing in the last ten to fifty miles. At
one hundred miles west of San Francisco
the bottom is found to be $500 fathoms
deep. The bed of the ocean continues of
a uniform depth greater than l 800 faith
oms until the Sandwich Islands are reach
ed, the greatest depth 5000 fathoms, at
a distance of about four hundred miles
east of Honolulu. That great depth is
maintained until within ninety miles of
Honolulu; at fifty miles from that place
the depth is 1900 fathoms.
1t shows how American ingenuity and
skill are entering into the mechanic and
other arts that diamond cutting has been
so admirably developed here that dia-
mords cuti Amsterdam are sent to New
ork for re- cutting Hitherto Amsterdam
has monopolized the work of diamond
cutting; and the aim there has been to
remove in cutting the least possible
weight of the gem. The American plan
is to cut automatically, according to
recognized laws of light, so as to secure
the utmost brilliancy for the finished
stone. The greater loss in weight, as
compared with the Amsterdam cutting.
is thus more than made good by the
superior brilliancy of the product It
appears that the average increase of val
ue given to diamonds by the New York
cutting Is $4,000 for each person en-
ployed for twelve months also, that
our dealers are receiving the best
Amsterdam-cut gems from abroad to be
re-cut here and returned.
Pope Leo, much to the surprise of
his friends, the Italian government has
declared that there can be no peace. con-
citation or compromise with them until
the temporal power which his prede-
cessors exercised over the wretchedly
misgoverned states of the church, is re-
stored to him, The speech in which his
sentiments were uttered was delivered
on the occasion of visit from six hun
dred pensioners, who having refused to
take the oath of allegiance to the Ital-
ian crown, are supported by the pope
out of the Peters pence and other con
trlbutions of the faithful. Tt will not
help the contributions in America or
Ireland to have it known that these six
hundred heightened Italian beppars are
the beneficiaries of sacred charity. The
pope set forth his grievances. He SAYS
ne was insulted only few weeks ago
by the celebration under his very ewes"
OF the anniversary of Italian unity. The
"olamorous rejoicing" was exceedingly Of
fensive to him. The government has
dispersed the religious families" on
whose labors he much depended
ring to the monasteries which had grown
to be harbors for immense numbers Of idle