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weight to that already described were found l The teeth, unlike the tusks and bones, were | ln a remarkably good state of preservation. The exploration was continued until the en- tire body was laid bare. Beneath the bones I was found bed of sand, upon which the an- | imal had evidently lain down to die. The bones of the body, though greatly decom- posed, we're plainly distinguishable and the position of the animal was ascertained. It was lying with it's head to the northeast, and its legs stretched out at length at right Rn- gles to its body and its head inclined toward its chest. About year ago the remains of B megatherium were found in the msrl-pits of Marlboro, where those of smaller ses crea- lures of that period are numerous. The dis coVery of the remains of the mastodon is important to geological history, ss it has been the general belief among geologists that at the time the mastodon lived the coast of New Jersey was submerged and that 1t had risen from the waters since that time.
 Men Of Genius Before and After Mar
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 The love-makings of men of genius. be- fore and after marriage, with or without it, are tempting subjects of inquiry. and all the information of this sort we can get, if it sometimes does no more than amuse an idle curiosity, may be, and generally is, as in- SbI 4Sb4hC do II IS 6uIcEld4uluR- h1lu information than we have about the private relationships between Socrates and Xantippe we should understand better than He do the IaIlhEA----&-~f etTc -N-$s-v<-v@- -esrv~% philosophy. A flood of light, which would otherwise be wanting, is thrown on the mys- tic scholasticism of Abelard by the extant records of his dealings with Eloise. If as much were known, from their points of view, of Beatrice and Laura as we know of Dante's and Petrarch's written praises of them, per- haps our estimate of the mems manhood would be somewhat different from what it is, though our admiration for the poets poetry might remain the same; and for an anthem tic biography of ADne Hathaway all but the more pedantic Shakespeareans would be viii ling to surrender two three of his less memorable plays. Coming down to our own century, it will suffice to hint at the scientific value of the little that has been disclosed re- specting Clothilde de Vaux in elucidsting the position of Auguste Comte as great teacher. Everywhere and alwaysa mans worth must be gauged to some extent, though only in part, by his domesticity. Some of the best work done in the world has, of course, been done by men of small private worth. A man of genius is not to be judged by ordinary standards. Genius Is eccentricity. The du- ties 1t imposes on its possessors may make 1t their duty to neglect duties imposed b y custom, or something more authoritative than custom, on common folk and their highest virtue may consist of or not be in- harmonious with disregard of conventional virtues. But for all that men are men before they are anything else, whether poets or phi losophers, warriors or statesmen; and among the fundamental conditions of human life the instincts that lead to love making and marrying are hardly less fundamental than those that oblige statesmen, warriors, philos- ophers, poets and all such prodigies to eat and sleep pretty much as ploSboys do. If the common laws or human life are varied from. there must be reason for the variation, and-reverting to men of genius-it is use full to know, not merely what variation there is, if there is any notable variation at all, but yet more how it affects their standing and induence in the world