Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-10-04
FIFTY YEARS OF SCIENCE

Times, furnished us by friend, is q
three column editorial with the above
caption, which we would publish if
space would allow it. The paper re-
ferred to is the recognized leading
organ of the Church Of England, and is
published in London. Under the head.
ing q Fifty Years of Science" is given
an account of a jubilee held in England
lately, the occasion being the fiftieth
anniversary Of the organization of the
British Association for the Advance
ment of Science. OF this Society
Sir John Lubbock, the greatest scien-
fist of the age, is now President. The
writer claims that in poetry and the
arts the highest attainable excellence is
soon reached, while in science the
triumphs Of the age are arrived at by
steps, one discoverer taking up the ball
where another had laid it down. In the
drama it took less than fifteen years for
Shakespeare to soar from Titus AndrOn-
ICUS IL lJtlIllCCs ACllCllIC AIO'CS SOi1AC-
what slowly, and yet the science Of fifty
years ago, which Bacon would have
thought sublime, appears almost con-
temptible when looked upon from our
present point Of view. The Times
writer, after the manner OF. Hugh Mil
Ter, attempts to reconcile geological
theories with the scriptural story of the
creation, somewhat difficult under
taking, The subject of evolution, ex-
haustively treated by Lubbock, the re-
ligious writer is candid enough to adj
NIT ssrequires another enormous series
of ages for the development of those in
habitants when our globe was ready to
receive Them" He admits that the
Darwinian theory is steadily making
way but in consoling man.
ner says it "cannot be too plainly
stated that it has no bearing whatever
on religion" At this anniversary
gathering a paper was read by one
Hoyle, but why this man with a sug-
gestive name should have attempted |
any of his little games on those scien-
fists is beyond our ken. Hoyle goes
sharply after liquor drinkers and liquor
sellers. showing in staggering way
what vast acres of lands, what countless
blocks of buildings, annually and figur-
atively go down English Threats. Hoyle
showed that the annual loss to England
from liquor drinking was about 81 &c.,
10000. One item of the loss is $780,
100000 for GLOSS arising through the
extra cost of religious, moral, temper
ance, and other social efforts and the ex-
penses needed to counteract the evils of
intemperance."
There is a go-as-you-please style about
those English scientific organizations
that is admirable, and the same may be
said of the editorials on similar subje
In an interview published by the
Denver, Colorado, Tribune, in which he
speaks most favorably of the prospects
in the Comstsck lode, Frank Osbiston
gives the following bit of taffy of the
personnel of the bonanza firm: "Fair
is good fellow-an awful smooth slick
talker, though, and liable to convey, un-
perhaps, a false impress
sion to the minds of any one unac-
quainted with him. He is what you
might call a conundrum. Outside of
his popularity as a conversationalist, he
is very liberal, and does great deal of
good of which nothing is said. AS for
Mackay, / consider him, personally, as
one OF the best and most noble minded
men in the world. He is one of those
Kind of men who wouldn't do any one !
wrong to save his own life. Flood is
equally personally honest and straight"
And now comes the San Francisco
with a column leader on a
. Autumn in California" and starts out
with Bryant's lines on the floral decease:
THE melancholy days have come,"
tic. In the language of Bill Nye,
autumn a man be permitted to do such \